Word: deckers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first order of business. But they never could bring themselves to close one down. In the last 30 years, thousands of farm families have moved to the cities, but the folks who stayed behind still stubbornly refuse to give up their schools. Last week State Superintendent Freeman B. Decker announced the result: the number of farm kids has dropped 50%, the number of rural schools only 5%. Of the 6,400 rural school districts left, 2,106 have ten pupils or less. And 200 schools have no pupils...
Superintendent Decker pleaded with the state legislature to consolidate Nebraska's inefficient hodgepodge of 6,466 school districts, but he doubted that the legislature would succeed. As far back as 1902, school officials tried to get a redistricting bill passed; they tried again in 1919, again in 1949. Each time the powerful farm bloc refused to budge. Its main objections: larger schools, taking in larger districts and more pupils, may, in some cases...
Many a motorist has lived through the experience and awakened in his bed to find it was only a bad dream. Last week London Bus Driver Albert Gunter, 46, knew that it was no dream. With 20 passengers in his double-decker bus, Albert was just starting across the draw in London's Tower Bridge, as he had hundreds of times before. Suddenly, he said later, "it seemed as though the roadway in front of me was falling away." Albert started to jam on his brakes. Then he changed his mind...
...Rescue. Minutes after the storm, Johannesburg's Bronx-born mayor, 45-year-old Hymie Miller, sounded an appeal for help. Ambulances and double-decker city buses raced down the veld roads carrying white doctors and nurses; enough shoes, clothing and blankets poured in to supply twice the number of homeless. When Mayor Miller appealed for emergency blood donors, thousands of Johannesburgers streamed out of movie theaters and cocktail lounges to line up, some all night long, at the blood-bank centers...
...give its passengers a full dose of scenery on runs between Chicago, Minneapolis and Seattle, the Milwaukee Road will put into service ten 68-passenger Super Dome lounge cars on Jan. 1. The double-decker coaches, which were displayed this week, were built by Pullman-Standard Car Mfg. Co. for $3,200,000. Each has more than three times as much glass-top viewing area (625 sq. ft.) as the older dome cars. On the lower level of each car there is a 28-person dining and lounge section...