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Died. John Daniel Rust, 61, onetime migrant worker who, with his brother Mack, devised the first successful mechanical cotton picker (1927); of a heart attack; in Pine Bluff, Ark. When Inventor Rust demonstrated his machine (which did the work of 50 to 100 field hands) in 1936, depression-weary Southerners feared it would cause unemployment, refused to use it on a large scale. Undaunted, Rust kept improving his machine, in 1949 put it into mass production, soon harvested a long-awaited fortune...
...California's Monterey Peninsula, the meadows of golden poppies and blue lupine beckoned. It was Easter Sunday, and in the spirit of the day Jerry Edgmon, n, and his kid brother David, 9, left the tent where they lived with their migrant family, and started to pick some flowers for their mother. With their mongrel dog, Rocky, frisking beside them, the boys wandered across some dunes and crossed under a sagging, rusted barbed-wire fence...
...plants and the birds (many a migrant didn't even bother to go south this year) were not alone in their response to earth's premature warmth. College and high-school basketball tournaments were just beginning-in Indiana, no fewer than 755 high-school teams were playing off for the state championship-but youth was acting as though winter was already gone. In Omaha, for instance, high-school girls were strapping dog collars around their ankles-the right ankle if they were "slaves to love," the left if they were merely hopeful...
Accordingly, the 1952 platform contains clauses offering something to: ¶ Farmers, consumers, taxpayers, civil servants, investors, organized labor, doctors, advocates of socialized medicine, hunters, fishermen, conservationists, small businessmen, migrant workers, airline operators, automobile owners, shipowners, miners, veterans, students, immigrants, the crippled, the blind, the aged, the sick, the unemployed, and widows & orphans. ¶ East Germans & West Germans (the hope of unity), Poles, Czechs, Hungarians, Rumanians, Bulgars, Albanians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Latvians (the hope of liberty), Indians, Pakistanis, Japanese, Filipinos, Australians, New Zealanders, Israelis (continued aid), Arabs ("measures for the relief and reintegration of the Palestine refugees"), Latin Americans, Puerto Ricans, Alaskans...
...missing Mexicans turned out to be the children of migrant Mexican workers who had been in the district the year before, had since moved away. The man behind the mystery was Litchfield's Superintendent Hubert A. Bearss, who thought his schools and teachers could well use a bit more state money. Because the state figures $147 a year for each pupil on the rolls, Bearss had told his teachers to keep listing their missing Mexican pupils as present & accounted...