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...Phoenix: Papago Freeway. Just 26 blocks of roadway downtown is needed to complete the 2,484-mile Interstate 10 from Jacksonville, Fla., to Los Angeles. Price: $182 million. Federal share in the bill: $28 million...
...spindly jojoba thrives on the arid conditions of the Southwest. Indians of the region, including the Pima and Papago tribes, once used the bean's oily wax as a hair conditioner to protect against the drying effects of sun and wind...
...Shriver announced that of the $784.2 million appropriated last October to fight the war, $35 million was being ticketed for 120 projects in 32 states. Among them: $15 million to build or renovate 41 Job Corps sites, and $12 million for community-action programs ranging from English lessons for Papago Indian children in Arizona to retirement communities in southwestern Louisiana...
What nature finds successful, man does well to copy. So thought Dr. Lytle S. Adams of San Diego, who likes to think up new jobs for airplanes. This month, backed by U.S. Government funds, he is flying back & forth across the denuded pasture lands of the Papago Indian Reservation in Arizona. From his Bellanca Pacemaker drops a stream of pellets...
...this new seeding method makes the Papago Reservation lush with Lovegrass, Dr. Adams intends to try it on other denuded regions in the dry Southwest. He looks forward to the time when his man-made bird-pellets will be used to reseed all Western rangelands every ten years...