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Five years ago a chunky, stoop-shouldered Texan named Raymond Huff, superintendent of schools in Clayton, N. Mex. (pop. 3,171), stood musing at a window of the town's dilapidated high school. Clayton was a dispiriting sight. Along its dusty, sun-baked main street lounged sullen, idle men. Out of sight, but probably up to no good, were Clayton's tattered small fry, some of them without enough clothes to go to school. Raymond Huff squared his shoulders and went to WPA and NYA with a scheme. He got WPA to agree to help him build school...
Abiquiu, N. Mex...
...from Dowagiac, Mich., Webster Miller got a job on the American's police beat. He cut his first name for euphony, soon hid his timidity. When in 1916 Pershing went into Mexico after Villa, Webb Miller went along. United Press hired him, sent him to Columbus, N. Mex., Mexico City, then to Washington. One July day in Washington (1917) he got a telephone call: "Catch the 4 o'clock train to New York. You'll get here at 9 and will sail at midnight [for London]." He covered the Irish Rebellion, flew over the German lines immediately...
...having lived 10,000 to 20,000 years ago. But even this modest antiquity has been denied by the Smithsonian Institution's doughty Ales Hrdlicka. Until recently the earliest known American "culture" was that of mysterious Folsom Man, whose first tools and campsites were encountered near Folsom, N. Mex. No remains of the man himself were found...
Longtime missionary for purity in politics is Carl Atwood Hatch of Clovis, N. Mex. But Mr. Hatch believes in gradual, rather than total immersion. Last year he converted a dazed Senate to his bill barring all Federal jobholders* from pernicious political activity. This year he wanted more: to extend this ban to all State jobholders whose salaries are paid, even in part, from Federal funds. For next year he has bigger ideas still, including a revival of Theodore Roosevelt's radical proposal (1907) to let the U. S. Government finance Presidential campaigns...