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...Greyhound bus to Atlanta. As the storm headed more westerly, some decided to chance yet another storm. Ronald Mills, a 49-year-old New Orleans truck driver who rescued about 200 people by flat boat, said he plans to stick out Rita. He was staying at a hotel in Brenham, Texas, and had applied for a job at the Bluebell Ice Cream Factory. "I think I'm safe." It's a calculation a lot of people are making today...
...scarcely been heard from since. There is Harry Diehl, a Democrat, who took a leave of absence from his job as a clerk in a Houston supermarket and filed as "Harry Republican Diehl." There is a woman named Jonnie Mae Eckman, pastor of the House of Prayer in Brenham ("I do declare, now catch your breath, that I am the Christ prophesied of to come"); and one Delbert E. Grandstaff, whose chief distinction is that he is the father of Kathy Grant, in private life Mrs. Bing Crosby...
...Buchanan arrived from his home at Brenham, Tex. a day ahead of time, went out to the Little White House for Sunday dinner, then unburdened himself to newshawks. If he and his committee were to get any credit for a budget cut, he, not the President, must spring the surprise on the public. Not yet having seen the President's figures, he announced that he was going to aim to cut the deficit for fiscal 1937 to not over $500,000,000, which would entail a budget cut of $3,000,000,000, or six times as much...