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Despite last week's shock, longtime residents of Parachute retained a dogged optimism. They hope that a Union Oil Co. shale project in the area will stay on track and doubt that they have seen the last of Exxon. Said Cecil Gardner, 54, a Parachute native who operates the town's Conoco gas station: "There'll be a boom again. You just wait till gasoline goes up a few more cents a gallon. Oh hell yes, they'll be back." Local people still hope that Parachute and Battlement Mesa will not become ghost towns like Silver...
...barely holding, and Faulkner is sluggish. On the other hand, Wallace Stevens' rare first volume, Harmonium, $2 when published in 1923, can bring $800. The far more recent works of John Updike, John Cheever and Saul Bellow have done nearly as well. Some sharp collectors bought John Gardner's first novel, The Resurrection (1972), for cut-rate prices on bookshop remainder tables after the author's Grendel gained a national reputation. Current worth for a mint copy...
...campaign, which has already attracted $300,000, will need $1 million before the November confrontation. Page Gardner, the campaign's financial director, said. They expected roughly $7000 from this event...
Amish customs, Gardner argues, constitute a "built-in form of Social Security." Forcing the Amish to pay Social Security cuts at the heart of their religion, he maintains. And it will affect others besides Ed Lee. According to Gardner, at least 30 additional Amish employers in the area could find themselves in the same predicament if the IRS decided to press them...
...emotionally drained from his three-year fight, and his earnings have fallen from $6,500 a year to $4,000. But the battle has brought him closer to his "English" neighbors. "They are truly brothers," he says of Caiazza and Gardner. "I can't say enough of what's in my heart about them." His faith in his country remains steadfast, even though a bit shaken. "I still love America," he says. "I won't betray her. But sometimes it is difficult for a man to know what is right and what is wrong...