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...easygoing town of Valdosta on the edge of Georgia's great Okefenokee swamp one day last week went some 2,000 uneasy turpentiners & friends for the annual gathering of the American Turpentine Farmers Association Cooperative. Munching barbecued chicken carefully nurtured for the occasion, they saw Mary Newton, 17, a redheaded, brown-eyed Georgia Peach, crowned Miss Turpentine of 1940, stood by for the cutting of a virgin pine-symbol that a new turpentine year...
...Pearl River, La., Station Agent R. H. Alexander accepted 288 crated rabbits ordered by a Texas oilman to populate a swamp on a 10,000-acre preserve. They were delivered, but next day came 120 more which the addressee refused. Awaiting instructions for their disposal, Station Agent Alexander got 204 more bunnies...
Furiously he and his daughter labored to feed the living, bury the dead, nurse newborn. Came 170 more and Station Agent Alexander turned them all loose in the swamp. Next day he heard that 1,000 squirrels, 1,000 raccoons, 1,000 opossums were on their...
Scarcely a tropical island paradise, Bougainville is ringed by a three-mile coastal belt of swamp, and rises to rugged mountain chains 10,000 feet in altitude, with two active volcanoes, Oliver said. The climate is equatorial, with extremely humid weather and heavy rains...
...forty-five piece orchestra for the past few years?--Shaw used to work of him, and it would seem to me that the boss man is still topside when it comes to color effects. Very few bands has surpassed the sort of thing Kostclanetz does on discs like "Swamp Fire," when it comes to sheer color effect. Shaw belongs in the publicity game, not music...