Word: ranches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Omaha's Ranch Bowl lends its meeting room to a Roman Catholic parish for Sunday Mass, provides pancakes for parishioners afterward. On Monday nights, the Ranch Bowl turns the room over to the 60-piece Omaha Symphony Orchestra for rehearsals...
...Chicago suburb of Markham looks like any of the thousands of bedroom communities that rim the cities of the nation: its lawns are well trimmed, its homes are split level or ranch, its streets neat and winding. To the 40O-home subdivision of Park Terrace in Markham last week drove a young, house-hunting couple. They cruised for a while, stopped off at the sales office, asked Sales Manager Milton Lewis to take them through the model homes. "Certainly," said Lewis. "Of course, you folks are aware that Park Terrace is a Negro development...
...took out a $20 bill and handed it to the salesman and said, 'This is to show that I mean business.' We started to save for the down payment on the budget plan and finally got a G.I. mortgage." The Derricks now have a brick, three-bedroom ranch house with two TV sets, an air conditioner, piano, dog, two birds, a 1953 Chrysler, and a Zoysia grass lawn that is the envy of their neighbors. "You know, a lot of Negroes never think too much about their homes and their lawns in the city," says Mrs. Derrick...
...specify. His remarks only served as reminders that Bing, too, had talked freely and foolishly about himself and his boys a few months before. He had failed as a father, Bing confessed to a Hollywood columnist. Somehow the strict discipline, the skimpy allowances, and long hours of hard ranch work to which he subjected his boys had not had the desired effect. They were forever getting into scrapes; even the Army had not made disciplined men of them. "They won't listen to me," Bing complained, "and it burns me up." Even his sons' attitude toward money, said...
Lommel found the ancient pictures in the hills surrounding a vast ranch far out in the bush. In the outback country he found a shifting population of aborigines. The old people led him along circuitous trails to their usual Wondjina pictures, and "touched" them for him (Lommel swears the rain came each time). But forging farther afield himself, Lommel came to other rock drawings the natives themselves had never seen, and knew nothing about...