Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago at the incredible chauvinism and parochialism of Easterners. You pride yourselves on your amazing intellectual prowess, yet you have displayed a lack of knowledge of fourth-grade geography. In your article concerning election results you state that Carter won "without winning a single state west of the Mississippi River with the exception of Texas." Please, before the 1980 election, check the map for the location of the state of Missouri. Charlie Baum...
Briggs, a no-nonsense administrator from Mississippi, decreed last June that no students in his district would be admitted to high school unless they could read at the sixth-grade level. To help Grant students achieve that proficiency, he created Operation Higher Achievement. Basically, it is a program of determined cooperation among teachers, pupils and parents. Last fall nearly all parents of Grant's 1,350 students-75% of whom come from single-parent households-signed "contracts" pledging, among other things, to encourage their children to read to them and "to provide ... a quiet, well-lighted area for regular...
Whenever he can, Herman Murrah, 41, a wiry Mississippi conservation officer, climbs into his four-wheel-drive truck and follows the raised sand road that runs westward from the small community of Buzzard's Roost into the Pascagoula Tract, a 32,000-acre expanse of hardwood forest and bottom land straddling a 35-mile stretch of Mississippi's Pascagoula River. There he enjoys basking in the primeval beauty of one of the state's last unspoiled areas. White-tailed deer, black bears and game birds abound in the forested region, fish thrive in its sandy-shored oxbow...
...thousands of Mississippians who use the Pascagoula Tract to fish, hunt, camp or just escape with their families for a weekend had been concerned about how much longer the wilderness oasis could survive the state's increasing industrialization. Now they need worry no longer. In a unique effort, Mississippi has not only preserved the Pascagoula, but set an example that other states could follow in safeguarding their own unspoiled areas...
...urging of environmentalists and the state's newly created Natural Heritage Program, the Mississippi state legislature in 1975 appropriated $15 million to buy the land from its owner, the Pascagoula Hardwood Co. But the company's stockholders were unwilling to sell. Undaunted, the state joined with the Nature Conservancy, a national environmental group, in another approach. The Conservancy made a tender offer for 75% of the company's stock. This time stockholders in the inactive company accepted, selling their shares for some $13 million. The Conservancy, now in control, promptly liquidated the company, took title...