Word: ringgold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...farmers. The Government provides no subsidy for grocers and drygoods merchants. Publisher Alan Smith, of Mount Ayr, Iowa, (pop. 1,900) used to run two-thirds of a page of delinquent taxes in his Record-News every year. Now he runs six or eight pages. How long before his Ringgold County must yield on the quality of its schools and public services? Not yet, he insists. Adversity brought determination, and Mount Ayr shows a better spirit now than a year ago. Yet half of the county's people could now be below the Government's poverty line...
...custodian of his only child's memorabilia and his own memories. The "fundamentals" he preached to the boy were learned in the Navy, where Joe Sr. played all the games. He had filled out slowly and had been too spare to make any of the teams at Ringgold High, where Joey would star in three sports...
...time young Joe was a Ringgold High Ram, he had asked backyard waivers on his first receiver, and drafted a neighbor who liked to pretend he was Jim Seymour; Montana was Terry Hanratty. Those were Notre Dame's stars at the time. The setting of most of Joe's dreams began to be South Lend...