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...Staunton, Va., City Manager W. Guy Ancell hoped that, by raising the water level in the city's North River dam, he could save the $300,000 it would cost to build a new reservoir. So he tried bombing cumulus clouds with dry ice. But no rain fell. All that happened was that citizens started calling him "Old Rain-in-the Face" and an elderly constituent sternly advised him to "leave God's work alone and straighten out the traffic mess...
...Altus (pop. 8,593), the seat of Jackson County, there were three days of festivities-a banquet, parades, fireworks. The big event was dedication of a new 100-ft. dam across the North Fork of the famed Red River...
...short-grass farmers, enduring the heat and two hours of speechmaking was no great price to pay for the spectacle before their eyes. Above the dam lay a turquoise lake. Below it, through a creek-bed ordinarily dry at this time of year, tumbled a stream of water, enough to feed 340 miles of irrigation canals and ditches...
...next day it was Boulder Dam (nobody called it Hoover Dam) and that night it was the high spots in Las Vegas. Jake Goeltz nicked the dollar slot machines for two jackpots. He walked out of there with $308. Then in Hollywood there was a tour out to see the movie stars' homes, and a big free-drink party by the Los Angeles Teamsters' Joint Council, and a nightclub jaunt to Earl Carroll's place, and the Biltmore Bowl. Some of the boys had to borrow coats and ties from the waiters before they...
...watched Franklin Roosevelt's funeral cortege in Washington. Mainly the screen is occupied by mfovie portraits of the late President, from the earliest to the last that were made. Several digressions describe the big depression, the distastrous dust storms of the middle '303, the building of Norris Dam, etc. The most striking digression traces the U.S. campaign in Europe, from the invasion of Normandy to the German surrender, while the President's voice quietly speaks the long prayer he composed for the invasion...