Word: winks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...west Texas town of Wink (pop. 1,863) enjoyed temporary oil booms and momentary prosperity in 1928 and again in 1936. But since the last riggers and roustabouts moved out. Wink has experienced nothing except silent decay and slow death. Wink's housewives watch warily for rattlesnakes slithering through the mesquite and catclaw bushes in their yards. Because the town lies 23 miles from the Fort Worth El Paso highway, only an occasional tourist passes through. There is no train service beyond an occasional Texas-New Mexico freight clattering over a weed-sprinkled spur line...
...Hendrick Boulevard, the town's main street. There are only about six sturdy downtown buildings; most of the others are empty, or sagging so dangerously that pedestrians step out into the street to avoid them. There seems, in fact, no reason whatever for the continued existence of Wink-except for the surprising fact that the U.S. is forking out more than $1.000,000 to rebuild the town...
Three years ago. a desperate group of Wink's citizens determined to seek federal funds to keep the town alive. Driving to Fort Worth, they approached regional representatives of the Housing and Home Finance Agency about urban renewal funds. Government officials not only encouraged them, but also enthusiastically suggested that Wink could become a pilot project for rundown small towns across the U.S. The Wink businessmen returned home, passed zoning laws to comply with federal requirements, held the necessary referendum. Overjoyed at the prospect of reviving Wink with federal money, the town voted overwhelmingly (187-51) accept aid. Said...
...Worth a Thousand." Last month the Federal Government, true to its word, advanced $1,034,758 in urban renewal funds for Wink. Don McBee. 28. the town's ecstatic urban renewal director, promptly set about spending the money. McBee has mapped a 75-block area that includes practically all of Wink. In that space, 192 buildings will be torn down, ancient automobiles long rusting on vacant lots will be hauled away, tin shacks thrown up by the vanished oilfield riggers will be demolished. McBee has already bought eleven pieces of property, has options on 92 more. When the land...
...amounts to $25 million a year. Though the price has soared to $20, prostitution is still so common that bartenders seldom go through the formality of selling a customer a drink, merely shrug: "The girls are upstairs." A man can still lose his wad in the gambling joints that wink with neon along York and Monmouth Streets and glow softly in the bottom land down by the river. And though three whorehouses Lave recently flourished within a block of the station house, Newport's police still look on their town with innocent eyes. "I never seen gambling...