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Forty mules and Georgia's Lieutenant Governor Lester Maddox turned up for "Mule Day" at Gold Hills amusement park in Dahlonega, Ga. Maddox headed up a panel of four judges to pick the prettiest, ugliest and orneriest mules -with Ida, Bullwinkle, and a six-week-old youngster named Tom respectively getting the nod. While Maddox declined invitations to enter the hog-calling contest and greased-pig chase, he did accept a challenge to mount a mule. His first effort ended in a disastrous sprawl on the ground, and on the second try Maddox somehow wound up mounted backward...
Sample: about dawn one day last month 47 newly commissioned West Point second lieutenants streamed into the Ranger school dugout on a mountain near Dahlonega in the rugged forest of North Georgia. For 72 hours they had dodged and fought blank-firing Aggressor troops (Russian-like insignia and uniforms) across 50 miles of tangled underbrush. By map and compass they traveled at night, kept on alert all day (about two hours' sleep each), set off live explosive near TVA's Blue Ridge Dam. For food they had one C-ration can, a share in a live chicken...
...Reflection. In Dahlonega, Ga., Charlie Elrod explained to police why he smashed the dresser mirror: he did not like the looks of the drunk staring...
Married. Major Graham Christopher Dugas, unearther of a $40,000,000 gold lode in abandoned Calhoun mine, Dahlonega, Ga., subsequent quick-purchaser of a new gold-trimmed, custom-built car; and Mrs. Bessie Brady Bellinger; in Atlanta...
...Dahlonega, Ga., one Mr. Miller was reputed to have observed that the hands of the clock on his mantelpiece had stopped going round. Mr. Miller pulled out his watch so that he might set the stopped clock. In doing so he pulled out $120 which fell to the hearth and began to burn. Mr. Miller dropped his clock key thereby breaking his clock spring in his haste to get water to extinguish his burning money. When he got the water and poured it on the fire, the steam which arose scalded Mr. Miller's child. Mr. Miller...