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...City Hall, he quipped: "I didn't look any better then than I do now." Once, a farmer who had known him for years edged up, called out: "Hello, Billy. How the hell are you?" The P.M. grinned and said he was fine. At a picnic in Waterloo Park, a crowd of 4,000 passed before his canopied stand while a local functionary kept intoning: "If you've had a look, kindly move along and let someone else have a look...
...have a strong throwing arm." He remembered that his second home was on Margaret Street. Said Mr. King: "I understand there is some kind of holy tabernacle there now-that may have been the influence of my early days." To some of the schoolchildren of Kitchener and neighboring Waterloo, he presented citizenship certificates. When eleven-year-old Marie Good came forward in a plaid skirt and jacket, the Prime Minister asked: "How about a kiss...
...Foot, Ford & Horseback. Teacher McKinney's four years at Waterloo had been pleasant, but never easy. Every morning she got up with the sun, drove her 1938 Ford over dirt roads to the schoolhouse and lit a fire in the old stove. When her 15 pupils arrived-some on foot, some on horseback and some, in muddy weather, on tractors-the room was warm and clean; by that time Miss McKinney had swept and dusted the oiled pine floor...
...school's what held the community together," said Mrs. Floyd Jordan, whose husband is director of the school board. "There are two churches. Half goes one way; half goes the other. But everybody meets at the schoolhouse." The Jordans pay about $100 a year in school taxes (Waterloo gets no state support). They expect that their school taxes will be doubled now, but that wasn't what most worried parents: it was the thought of the long journey their children would have to make every day. "They're too little to wait in the dark...
...Waterloo was one of 300 tiny Oklahoma communities that had appealed to the state school board for exemption from the law. The board has already turned down Waterloo's appeal. Last week the Oklahoma supreme court upheld the new law and the people of Waterloo lost their last hope. Whether they liked it or not, progress was upon them...