Word: secaucus
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...Horses Smell Better? Secaucus, at the heart of a vast trash-filled marsh known, euphemistically, as the Meadows, is bounded by the ever dirty Hackensack River and two sloughy creeks. Most of its small, bedraggled residential section is huddled on a hill, which rises, like a precarious reef from a mounting sea, above a tide of pigs. The citizens of Secaucus on their hill rarely sniff the full exhalation of the piggeries; but the town's neighbors do, and so do millions of travelers who pass through by rail or over the New Jersey Turnpike. For years the authorities...
...olfactible has made social outcasts of millions who are, in the language of the ads, not dainty, including Li'l Abner's Moonbeam McSwine. The latest victim is a town-probably at the moment the most deeply disgraced town in the U.S. For, like Moonbeam McSwine, Secaucus, N.J. (pop. 9,750 people and 75,000 pigs...
Last week New Jersey's Governor Alfred Driscoll struck a bitter blow at Secaucus. The town, he said, was not a good advertisement for New Jersey-not good at all. The pig farms would have to be cleaned up, "or else." He knew, he added, that it was quite feasible to raise pigs without "an accompanying stench...
Massive (6 ft., 240 Ibs.) Henry B. Krajewski of Secaucus, N.J. has a five-acre farm with 4,000 pigs, a flourishing saloon ("Tammany Hall Tavern") and political ambitions. Last week Krajewski, a black & white pig under one arm, a petition with 1,136 signatures under the other, strode into, the New Jersey Statehouse and filed as the "poor man's candidate" for President...
Hogs get their trichinellae almost entirely from uncooked garbage containing infested meat scraps. "We maintain in the Jersey Meadows near Secaucus," says Dr. Stoll, "a malodorous demonstration of how it is done." Prohibiting this practice would break the chain of transmission, eliminate "garbage worms," and trichinosis...