Word: kingsland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bitter Beginnings. Times were not always so good for Johnny, fourth of the seven children born to Ray and Carrie Cash. From a three-room shack in Kingsland, Ark., the hard-pressed Cash family moved to Dyess, Ark., in 1935, when a New Deal colony opened up there. Like the other landless farmers who gathered in search of their American dream, they ended up with 20 acres, a house, barn, chicken coop, a mule, a cow and a plow. The work was hard, the income meager. But, insists Johnny, "I was never hungry a day in my life. Aw, sometimes...
...water reserves to a quarter-million gallons, was assisted by a federal matching grant after Johnson Citians had voted a $217,000 revenue bond issue to finance their half. Still, Lyndon Johnson gets the credit for most improvements: there is a Lake Lyndon B. Johnson in nearby Kingsland, a Lyndon B. Johnson High School, a Lyndon Baines Johnson State Park, and several roads bearing the presidential name. In the Texas state capital of Austin-an hour's drive from Johnson City-there will be the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library at the University of Texas. About the only local institution...