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...deep depression that is gripping America's farm belt, but Don Lacy, president of Contract Freighters in Joplin, Mo., wants to help out in a small way and do his company a favor at the same time. Lacy plans to fill about 500 full-time openings for truck drivers this year by hiring financially strapped farmers. The new recruits will receive twelve weeks of training and then take to the highways for an average salary of $24,000 a year. Says Lacy: "I don't want to hold this out as a miracle that will save these people...
...call for Detroit-only shopping is expected to have limited success, even among blacks who have been insulted by Dearborn's racial attitudes. Fred Morgan, 39, a Detroit truck driver, long ago dropped the idea of buying a house in Dearborn, in part because he felt unwelcome. But he still will shop there. "I was out last night looking for an air compressor," he said. "Where am I going to get one in Detroit for the kind of price I can find in the suburbs...
According to witnesses, the worker was standing on the truck's back ledge when he lost his balance and fell head first onto the pavement...
...trying to reach down and put something that was caught on the side into the back of the truck, when he lost his balance, missed with his hand and careened off the back, landing right down on his skull," said Canaday resident Joseph Howard '89, who reported the accident to Harvard University Police...
Before the campus daily came off the presses, however, 12 students took matters into their own hands. The Dartmouth Committee to Beautify the Green Before Winter Carnival (DCBGBWC), equipped with four sledgehammers and a flatbed truck, attempted to tear down the shanties. Calling themselves "environmentalists" and "trash collectors," the anti-shanty dozen planned to donate the debris to local charities "to help provide fuel for heating stoves," according to a statement they handed to policemen arriving on the scene five minutes after demolition began...