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The Abilene Reporter-News
Abilene, Texas
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HI Small Office Sets
W Watch on Barbudos
i In Cuban Capital
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — A
small office packed with electron-
fl ic equipment and manned around,
st the-clock by Associated Press
1 € " staff members has been a major
I source of Cuban news since Fidel
Castro forced American newsmen
to flee the island after the abor-
Se tive invasion of April 17.
The office, one of the newest in
T a worldwide network of AP bu-
1 reaus. has been assigned the task
J of keeping track of the happen
ings in the land of the "barbudos "
a —Castros bearded revolutionar-
5 ies. It does so by maintaining a
constant watch on Cuban radio
F and television broadcasts.
• The AP Key West bureau is
located on the second floor of a
■ small clapboard building, a
■ stones throw from the Florida
■ Straits and only 90 miles from
■ Havana The staff of four-two
E newsmen and two translators—
performs a 24-hour-a-day, seven-
days-a-week job.
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FLOOD PREVENTION PROJECT—29 YEARS LATE — A do-it-yourself flood
prevention project was started in Chicago on a west side block this week as resi-
dents, including Mrs. Katherine Saduck. 84. left, manned shovels to build a dike.
Residents claim they have been trying to get the city to do the job since 1932
when a WPA work crew did street work leaving it eight inches higher than the
sidewalks and covered curbs in the process. Mrs. Mary Slovinski helps the elder-
ly woman. (AP Wirephoto)
The "listening post" is equipped
with four powerful short-wave ra- PpINiTE Jpg can mnE
dios, tape recorders, a television PAINT N SOLIDS
receiver and a teletype wire IN arIGum can abe
which permits the instantanous IN BNIOHT COLOR*,
transmission of news.
Warehouse-Office Jet Boom Breaks
Relayed by other AP bureaus, a
story originating in Key West can
be in the hands of editors all over
the world in a matter of minutes
—sometimes seconds.
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Permit Is Issued
9 Breck Windows
Lots of Scots
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FREWSBURG, N. Y (Put wipne • ,
BRECKENRIDGE (RNS) - A Melvin Heedan, a high school art WARDS swings back to school
supersonic jet plane ripped teacher, has a collection of more with a sparkling collection of
garage through the skies over Brecken- than 1,000 lead-east toy soldiers
representing every Scottish regi-
A $22,000 building permit for for a home with double
construction of an office and at 2302 Minter Lane * tnrougn the skies over Brecken- represaimeeaRCaSt COY solders new cottons with fascinating
warehouse on E Highway 80 bv George Yonge for four homes ridge about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday represser every Se ttish regi- s . u
V. B Likins and Associates was ran^ from to $9 homes and unleashed a sonic blast that ment in the British army of 1890. details c. and they are all
the largest of 22 permits issued be built at 2625, 2633. 2641 ada shattered nine show windows in ” sastatbe, arnidetailed true- washable, of course. Come, see!
Wednesday by the City Build- 2649 N. 6th st.4 and the downtown area, the last is Seal during
ing Inspection Dept. Nathan Morris for five homes It was not certain what kind of states, France, England and Hong J
Permits totalled $151,403. Other ranging from $8,532 to $8,763 at jet plane it was. . it didn t stay Kong. 6
applicants were: 2317, 2325, 2333, 2341, and 2349 around long enough-to be identi-
Elveta Estates Inc., $18,088 for Glendale Dr, fied.
a home with double garage at G. M- Keils. $1,800 to enlarge A 72 by 90 window in Ewing-
1637 Glendale Dr a home at 441 E. S. 25th St. Christian Hardware Co. was total-
John R. Nail. $16,071 for a home Mrs. Lida M. Barrett, $1,500 ly shattered as was a 94 by 102
with double garage at 3001 Glen to enlarge a home at 334 Saxon window in the adjoining Brecken-
dale Dr. St. ridge Television Distributing Co.
Robert C. Willingham, $11,405 George H Nichols, $800 for a In another building owned by
•-----------------------------storm cellar at 1217 Portland Ave Ewing-Christian in the same
re , = R. J. Boyce, $800 to build a block, the 300 block of West
1 • LOVE detached garage at 3033 Ben Walker, a 54 by 104 window was
nett Dr. broken. In the 600 block of West
E Walter C. Coers. $500 for an Walker, four windows 74 by 80
attached storage shed at 901 E were broken in the Highway
IN. 13th St Grocery, as were two six by six
Billy Joe Toombs. $400 to en- windows a‘ the Nap Thomas Drug
large an office and television re- Store next door._________!
pair shop at 2608-2610 S. 14th St. •
Evangelical Methodist Church, -
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