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...help fill out the squad, the "Mighty mite" aka Wiley McCarthy from Decatur, Georgia, will back back in a Crimson uniform. At 4-ft., 10-in., McCarthy has both endurance and speed which allows her to clock a two-mile race outdoors in under 11 minutes...
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...contrast, is expanding its network of gasohol pumps, from 600 to 1,100 this spring, and is studying a joint project with CPC International, the former Corn Products Refining Company, to make ethanol. The largest manufacturer of the additive, Archer Daniels Midland, has increased annual output at its Decatur, Ill., plant from 5 million to 55 million gal. in less than two years...
...Minnesota, farmers sometimes stack bales of straw or garbage bags full of leaves against the outside of drafty house foundations. Cora Lee McKnight, 68, a Decatur, Mich., grandmother tells of Depression-era schemes to beat the cold: smearing a paste of flour and water into cracks, stuffing thickly folded newspapers between window and screen. "And we usually put hot-water bottles into our beds to keep our feet warm," she says. Other sug gestions: wrapping water heaters in blankets, insulating windows with corrugated cardboard and placing old carpets under new ones...
...steal your clothes and wallets?" The solution, according to the leaflet, is to join the Klan Youth Corps. At a K.K.K. summer camp in Jefferson County, Ala., robed counselors teach girls and boys ages ten to 18 the fundamentals of race supremacy and how to use guns. Near Decatur, Ala., a group of children, all outfitted in Klan T shirts, burned an old school bus last summer to protest school desegregation while several hundred adults cheered...