Word: creeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Jackson Barnett was a simple-minded Creek who got 160 acres in Eastern Oklahoma from the Government in Benjamin Harrison's time and lived to see his land produce 12,000 bbls. of oil a day. So dim-witted that he used to parrot back "Hello. Jack" when he was addressed, Indian Barnett had a guardian to invest his $60,000 monthly income. He lived on $50 a month until Anna Laura Lowe, a white widow, entered his life, began fighting with the Government over his money...
...wires, leaving all but one car behind in a washout. A capsized naval training ship started a fire in New London that consumed an entire city block. Mrs. Helen E. Lewis, Republican nominee for Connecticut Secretary of State, was drowned with her husband when their island cottage at Stony Creek was swept away...
...their own carrying to market. When Farmer Hand, trucking strawberries, gets stuck in the mud and his strawberries spoil, Centerville's people decide to build a concrete road. Crotchety old Farmer Banks (who is unpopular among Centerville's children because he chases swimmers from his creek) stalls progress by refusing to let his barn be moved out of the way, but finally gives in to avoid accidents at a sharp turn in the road near his farm. He becomes the village's traffic policeman. The plot ends with a surprise staged by Farmer Banks at a Community...
Randolph Laughlin Marshall, Walnut Creek, California--Mt. Diablo Union High School, Concord, California...
Since Sitting Bull ambushed Custer by the Little Big Horn in 1876, Montana has had few major disturbances. But this year Montana's jutting peaks and high, scarred badlands, from Custer Creek to Hell Gate Canyon, have been acting up. Last January a Northwest Airlines Lockheed Zephyr shook off part of its tail structure, plummeted into Bridger Canyon, bringing ten persons to death. Last month the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific's Olympian dived through a trestle into Custer Creek during a cloudburst, killing and drowning 47. Following week the Olympian ran through orders near Roundup...