Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still King Cotton here," says William Place, mayor of Wilmot, Ark., as he drives the short distance from his house to the aging Deyampert Gin. Most of the cotton trailers that are used to haul the bolls to the local gins sit idle in the fields, their fenced wire walls speckled with tufts of white. Route 165, running north-south through this part of the cotton belt, is littered with cottontail puffs left over from the fall picking season...
...kitchen items to help the new doctors and their families get started. Johnson helped them obtain temporary medical licenses. The town applied for funding from the National Health Service Corps, which provides needed health care in underserved areas of the country. "The first day the clinic opened again," recalls Mayor Place, "people were standing in line...
...televised live. During the same period, twelve whites were randomly shot by Black Muslim gunmen in the "Zebra" killings. Lynette ("Squeaky") Fromme, a former Manson family member, and Sara Jane Moore both tried to kill President Ford in 1975. The home of San Francisco Supervisor Dianne Feinstein, now acting mayor, was the target of a bomb in 1976. District Attorney Joseph Freitas' car was bombed the following year...
...Government had not yet decided what to do with the remains. Residents of Dover feared that unidentified or unclaimed bodies might be buried near their small town (pop. 28,500) in massive numbers and become a macabre shrine of sorts. Predicted Dover Mayor Charles A. Legates: "You could expect martyrdom, hordes of people making an annual pilgrimage on the anniversary of Jonestown. We just couldn't handle that...
DIED. George Moscone, 49, mayor of San Francisco; of bullet wounds, after allegedly being shot by a disgruntled former member of the city's board of supervisors who is also accused of shooting and killing Supervisor Harvey Milk, San Francisco's first acknowledged homosexual official; in his city hall office (see NATION...