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...this newspaper, which gained an exclusive interview. The who-what-when-where continued: Whitmore had been on a fishing trip with his wife and two teenage sons in Canada, and no, he hadn't stopped by Rhinelander for any particular reason, only that it was on the highway, but yes, it looked a fine community, and there sure were some great muskies, he'd heard, in Canada, but he hadn't been able to reel any in. Then two Kodakolor snapshots of Whitmore trudging across the campground puffing on a pipe, wearing sneakers. Picture courtesy of Mrs. Ellen Scholl, Sheboygan...
...first, demonstrators defied Gordon's order. For four hours on Sunday night, several thousand unruly whites, blaring their cars' horns and shouting bitter epithets ("In God we trust, in Gordon we don't!" and "Keep the niggers out!"), clogged four-lane Preston Highway. Gradually, however, some 400 disciplined state troopers cleared the highway, sometimes smashing windshields or subduing demonstrators with 3-ft. riot sticks...
...Exam Needed. While some CB owners exchange aimless chitchat or jokes, the primary use for the sets, which have a range of about 15 miles, is to apprise other drivers of road hazards, weather conditions and emergencies. On the nation's highways this summer, auto-borne vacationers with CBs could get all this information-and a lot more. A family returning from Maine took a tip from a driver who called himself Thermidor and lucked into an exceptional lobster restaurant. Some of the CB messages are unembarrassedly commercial. A group of CB-assisted hookers plies one of the main...
Seat Covers. Though initially leary of CB, many state police now agree that it is an ally. As an experiment the Missouri Highway Patrol allowed 140 troopers to install CB units at their own expense in September 1974. In the following six months, CB-equipped state patrol cars logged 667 calls from private drivers, not including requests for road conditions and directions. The calls resulted in 221 arrests, most of them for such offenses as drunken driving and speeding; among those nabbed were 21 wanted criminals...
...Kansas, where a quarter of the state force has installed CB sets at its own expense, troopers are reaching the scene of serious accidents in one-third the time it took two years ago. "If you want to travel safely, the only way to go is CB," says Kansas Highway Patrol Sergeant Oscar Becker. He adds dryly: "And there's a lot more wit on CB than you'll get on TV." Perhaps. From the elevated perch in a truck cab, drivers are ever alert to the virtues of attractive legs in passing cars. Reported...