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Cincinnatians read him with affectionate respect, and when he points out a flaw in the city, they hurry to patch it up. When he wrote that Cincinnati's Longview Hospital was short of wheelchairs, 18 were quickly provided. Another time, he told about the hard time a family was having after the breadwinner was sent to prison for stealing a factory payroll. Reading "Cincinnatus," the factory owner called the holdup man's wife, hired her at $20 a week, and told her to earn it by staying home to care for her children...
...years the Northwest will need up to 9,000,000 kw. more, costing from $3.5 to $7 billion. But because of wrangling and bitter competition between public and private powermen, only three big dams are currently under construction, and no new dams have been started since 1952. The Longview, Wash. News put it bluntly: "The Northwest power situation is in a chaotic state. Almost anything would be better than what we are trying to get along with...
...Texans not knowing how to ride horses, well, that isn't exactly true, but why should a rancher with excess cash ride one anyway when he can ride in a Cadillac? . . . BILL F. BROWN Longview...
Back home at Longview Farm in Lee's Summit, Mo., Horsewoman Combs spends much of her time in her stable, spoiling her horses and making pets of them. A devout member of the Disciples of Christ (she has her own chapel at Longview as well as a half-mile training track), she refuses to compete in a horse event on Sunday. At the National last week, Loula Combs was getting a special dispensation to befit her royal station: "The Garden has been so nice. They haven't scheduled any event of my class on Sunday...
...rigged a sparkplug in his exhaust pipe and made a profound discovery-that waste gases, thus ignited, produce a spectacular "hoosh" of flame. Last week the Portland, Ore. city council was taking steps to make hot-rod flame-throwing illegal. But the fad was moving faster than the lawmakers ; Longview, Wash, reported with nervous pride that a local rodder was regularly getting a six-foot "hoosh...