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...country, Mount Vernon is too poor to be a traditionally quaint New England town. At the start of the century, it had a flourishing sawmill, gristmill, tannery and barrel factory. By 1940, the industries were gone. Now the townsmen cut lumber or work in neighboring communities in shoe factories, mills or government offices. The average family income runs between $3,000 and $4,000 a year. "Downtown" is a cluster of frame buildings, including the abandoned log mill, a general store and a pizza joint. It was in Mount Vernon, where his mother lives, that Erskine Caldwell wrote Tobacco Road...
...Monday, most Tufts students boy-cotted classes and several hundred mill??in at Ballou Hall, the school's administration building, to protest the ralds. In ?? late afternoon, to prevent a confrontation between administraters and students who intended to occupy ?re building for the night, the deans agreed that they would not take disciplinary action against the arresied students. The administrators also promised to upgrade the school's therapentic program for students with drug problems...
...incentives used in Cuba are moral ones. People understand and speak to you all the time about how their work in the current ten million ton harvest will speed the day when the cutting of cane will be completely mechanized. Workers in all the different sections of a sugar mill we visited (which was owned by Hershey Co. before the Revolution and now is named after Camilo Cienfuegos, a leader of the R?bel Army in the war against Batista) put up big red banners in English for us stating how proud they were to be a part...
...cents. Now the entire economic organization is incomparably better, and there are grappling machines to pick up the cane and trucks with huge carts attached to them to carry the cane instead of the ancient little horse-drawn, wooden-wheeled carts to take the cane to the mill...
Wyche took office as Tallulah's police chief last June 26, the only black to head the police department of any sizable biracial town (pop. 10,000) in the South. A down-at-the-heels mill and farming center near the Mississippi River, Tallulah has a reputation for brutality toward blacks; Wyche himself once saw a black man standing beside him gunned down by a white policeman -for little reason...