Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Waterville Valley--5-18, granular, thin spots, good...
...plan got going, Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission Director Edward J. Cleary, ex-editor of an engineering magazine, set up headquarters in Cincinnati. With his tiny staff (now eight) he set out to persuade about 1,000 basin towns and cities to build sewage-treatment plants that cost up to $150 per capita. Junior chambers of commerce, boy scouts, newspapers and other civic-minded organizations moved behind local bond-issue campaigns. Cincinnati invested $60 million; Pittsburgh's $100 million plant opened last year. With smaller cities often taking the lead, the total outlay mounted past $500 million. Today...
Retreat from Slime. Sanitation commissioners, fortified by readings from 44 river-testing stations and airborne inspection teams, also won active cooperation from industry. By last week 80% of the 1,442 plants in the Ohio Valley-among them atomic energy installations scattered from Shippingport, Pa. to Paducah, Ky., and an electric-power plant at Indiana's Clifty Creek, which use more water than all New York City-had established controls on the waste they discharge into the river...
Schaeffer and his wife were told by the cantonal government that they must move out of the canton. At last they found a new headquarters 15 miles away: a 13-room chalet halfway up the winding mountain road above the Rhone Valley leading to the ski resort of Villars. Since their move, the Schaeffers have made the chalet one of the most unusual missions in the Western world...
...escort him 125 miles to family burial grounds at Franklin. Texas. Soon the police-escorted procession was a mile long. Texans with heads uncovered stood by the roadside. Finally, at the Mount Pleasant Baptist cemetery, after three rifle volleys and Taps by a single bugler had echoed across the valley, the casket was lowered into the grave. Williams left 42 grandchildren, 74 great-grandchildren, 64 great-great-grandchildren and 59 great-great-great-grandchildren. He also left a cherished legend: last week Houston Mayor Lewis Cutrer proclaimed the day of his death as Walter Williams Civil War Memorial...