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...Owensboro...
That is how a young Rio Grande riverboat captain named Richard King braced a stranger in Brownsville, Texas in 1850. "Back in Owensboro, Kentucky, sir," replied the stranger, "I was treasurer of the Methodist Church. I raised the money to build a new church house. Well-that church was never built-and here I am in Texas. Now, Captain King, which category do you come under...
...Louisville area was loaded with surplus scrap that could be used to make steel. In the awakening Ohio Valley there were plenty of potential customers. With an $8,500,000 loan from the Government and the rest from private sources. Green River's $13 million plant rose near Owensboro, one of the few new U.S. steel companies in decades...
...featured speaker of the day, the junior Senator from Kentucky, arrived late, after a chartered flight across the state and a hard drive up the mountainside. The day before, after a busy week in Washington, John Sherman Cooper had flown to Owensboro on the Ohio River for a busier day at the state VFW encampment. That night Republican Cooper and the Democrat who is running against him, grizzled old Alben Barkley, had spoken at a sweltering, shirtsleeve banquet (the 106-degree temperature, said a native, was not as hot as hell; it was as hot as hackydam -four miles below...
...play nearly as well as we are capable." How good is Rupp's team? In preseason polls, U.S. basketball coaches ranked Kentucky No. 2, after Indiana, last season's N.C.A.A. champion. Main reasons for the high ranking: 1) Coach Rupp himself, 2) Spring-legged Cliff Hagan of Owensboro, Ky., one of the shortest major college (6 ft. 4 in.) centers and one of the game's most prolific scorers (21.6 points average), and 3) Co-Captain Frank Ramsey of Madisonville, Ky., a 6 ft. 3 in. guard and floor leader who specializes in intercepting passes and scoring...