Word: yankeetown
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...Orleans, then howled toward Florida's Gulf Coast, then veered off abruptly. The hurricane lunged and snarled at about 500 miles of waterfront in four states like a vicious dog on a leash. Many in its projected path began to feel like Service Station Attendant Johnny Leland in Yankeetown, Fla., who said, "I can't stand this. I just wish the s.o.b. would come in, hit us and get it over with...
...these problems are currently overshadowed by two pressing issues. One is the Cross-Florida Barge Canal, which is inching across the northern part of the state. Long a dream of the Army Corps of Engineers, the 107-mile waterway will link Jacksonville on the Atlantic with Yankeetown on the Gulf of Mexico. The $177 million project is being heralded by the Army as a major economic asset for the state...
...candidates . . . narrow and the choice not easy." but concluded: "With Nixon and Lodge in charge of U.S. world policy we shall feel both safer and more hopeful." ¶ Another magazine for Nixon: Farm Journal; for Kennedy, Harper's. ¶The residents of rival Crackertown (pop. 463) and Yankeetown (pop. 700), Fla., two miles apart in northwest Florida's Levy County, whooped up their own straw vote for President. Although the combined voter registration is 97% Democratic, Crackertown (51% native-born Floridians) went 52 to 47 for Kennedy, while Yankeetown (80% transplanted) voted 104 to 87 for Nixon...
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