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...tins; another suggested that the apple growers of Yakima be invited to move to Cripple Creek. A pie-testing task force was dispatched to various restaurants; other remedies will be taken to ensure travelers passing through this town that apple pies are worthy of the name of Yakima. JESS LINDEMAN President
...Coast and Nigeria are driving hard toward independence. In Accra, the Gold Coast capital, he attended a debate in the Legislative Assembly and found it "far above the usual level of the House of Representatives." Gunther considers that the British rule Africa best. Though on the whole they provide jess economic opportunity than the Belgians, less racial equality than the French, they give the African "copious access" to education, justice, and, above all, self-government...
Marksman. In Boise, Idaho. Jess Arnold, 35, was fined $60 for reckless driving after he tried to back his car over his mother-in-law, missed, ran into a utility-pole guy wire, disrupted traffic signals on a nearby corner...
Farther north, on the Mojave Desert, Rancher Stoddard Jess has built one of the desert's tidiest agricultural arrangements. His chief crop is turkeys, 55,000 birds or more each year, and better than 100,000 poults. In a complex of freshwater ponds, he raises a million rainbow trout from fingerlings. The trout fatten on entrails from the dressed turkeys and on worms grown as a crop on the ranch. Water from the ponds irrigates fields of corn, and the turkeys are turned loose to fatten on the corn...
...California Father Jess Knight made a comfortable living as a street and grading contractor who built miles of Los Angeles County's roads. During World War I, he lost his business and nearly $250,000 in a disastrous municipal-bond investment, but later recouped and became a successful mining speculator...