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FOURTH OF JULY 1-1-1 1
Thousands of persons in the Fort Worth-Dallas
area flock to the water as the British did
185 years ago. Only the British had nothing
to celebrate. They were losing a colony.
went by sea to out-off the Minutemen, but a fella,
named Paul Revere tipped off the men who became
the nation's first heroes. Since then, Americans
have been observing the nation's first move
toward Independence by getting away from it all.MED. TWO MEN PAN TO HAMBURGERS COOKING
The temperature barely tops the ninety mark as
the outdoor cooks tend the hamburgers, while
others take it easy in the shade, and still
others head for the sunny beach and the water.
While the nation's holiday death toll approachesthe worst in
itmost
history, find that gettingaway from it all doesn't mean you have to become
a statistic.
KID KICKING BALL
Foil the kids, the Fourth of July is always a ball.I~ 4e-p I '
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Fourth of July], item, July 4, 1961; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc976846/m1/1/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.