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...inland waterways. Such proud East Coast seaports as New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore are losing cargo tonnage, but river and canal ports steadily gain. Brownsville, Texas, in 1961 handled an astounding 4,100,000 tons of cotton, chemicals, citrus fruit and coffee. Columbia River towns like Pasco and Umatilla have become blossoming grain ports. Biggest winner of all is bustling New Orleans, which in 1961 boosted its cargo business 8% to a record 61.3 million tons. Serving as the connecting point between the Mississippi River complex and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, New Orleans boasts that at least a thousand barges...
...cotton sped through gins and balers. Midwestern farmers sweated in fields of hay and ripe, yellow oats. Across the nation, the yearly harvest was under way, and despite drought in the Northeast, the worst in 35 years or more, many a U.S. farmer could agree with Fred Hill of Umatilla County, Ore. Pushing back his Stetson, lanky Farmer Hill, 44, cast an admiring eye over a field of ripened wheat and said with a grin: "The Lord's been good to us again. She's gonna be a hon ey." The Agriculture Department agreed...
Absentee Ballots. In Umatilla, Ore., city fathers pondered the necessity of holding another mayoralty election after the official canvass showed that 361 votes had been cast-19 more than the total number of registered voters...
Crawling & Walking. For the next few years, M-K crawled, and after that, says Morrison, "it walked." In 1914, M-K made $14,000 on a $120,000 contract for Three-Mile Falls Dam on Oregon's Umatilla River. "Up to then," says Morrison, "I really had no idea that you could make money on a dam. But when we came out with more than 10%-what a lift!" The other great event of that year was his marriage to Anna Daly, who lived next door to Morrison's sister in Boise...
Midnight Drums. In Pendleton, Ore., Chief Jim Kanine of the Umatilla, Cayuse and Wallawalla tribes, ordered that during the cafe curfew tom-toms at tribal dances must be silenced at midnight...