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Last fall the law came to Buffalo Gap. Unwary townsfolk voted to incorporate so they could get a better school and a municipal water system. What they also got, as soon as their aldermen began to exercise their new powers, was a part-time city marshal. And as soon as he pinned on his star, the marshal began to enforce a 3O-m.p.h. speed limit. From hot-rodding teen-agers to throttle-tromp-ing adults, Buffalo Gap was outraged. The marshal got no cooperation; he could not make his summonses stick in court. And since his only salary consisted...
Expecting to take in some $5,000,000, Oberammergau's humble townsfolk are selling everything from machine-carved angels to toilet privileges. Life-sized wooden saints go for $1,000. Beggars, who used to count on the Crucifixion scene to cause spectators to empty their pockets in compassion, have long since been driven away by green-coated police, as if to ensure that every pfennig spent in Oberammergau stays in town. Charges have been established with great ingenuity for nearly every action a visitor makes while he is there, with one exception: no way has been devised to shake...
Still Waters. In Sherwood, Tenn., townsfolk found their drinking water had been given a kick from waste flowing into the reservoir from a nearby moonshining operation...
...heaven to be with mother" and left her in the British West Indies without "anybody but the Ladies Aid" and her Aunt Polly (Wyman), a middle-aged puckerpuss who lives all alone in a vast Victorian mansion somewhere east of the Mississippi and does good to her fellow townsfolk whether they like it or not. When Aunt Polly hears of her brother-in-law's death, she sets her thin lips and grimly agrees to take the girl in. "I know my duty . . . disagreeable as the task [will...
...sepia-toned photo come to life. In the background was "Old Abilene Town"-opera house, livery stable, chapel, railroad depot-all restored to preserve the flavor of the cattle-trail days of early Kansas. In the foreground on the lawn of the Eisenhower Museum were dignitaries, schoolchildren, townsfolk-10,000 people in all. Across the way, where soon would come the slam and crunch of bulldozers, was the site of the Eisenhower Presidential library; near by. the white clapboard house where Ike Eisenhower was reared...