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Help is always close at hand
      Don't tell the people of Southwest Alabama they don't help out. After the deadly tornado struck Miller's Ferry, the call went out for help, and help surely came. There were so many volunteer responders, some had to be turned away for fear of overwhelming the scene.
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From the Editor's Desk
Strange feeling after storm
Arthur McLean
      There is perhaps, nothing so bizarre as the detritus of a tornado or hurricane. The places where stately old trees stood, a testament to the wonder of nature, are turned into broken mementos of one of the great contradictions: nature's fragility and fury.
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Alabama Scene
Politics as usual in Montgomery
Bob Ingram
      You have all known couples who you knew when they married that it wouldn't work…that they simply were not made for each other. The union of Dr. Thomas Corts with the State Board of Education was such a marriage. It was doomed from the start.
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Ramblin' Roses and Flyin' Bricks
I learned a lot from TV
The late Earl Tucker
      March 6, 1957 About five years ago, I reckon it was, I saw an advertisement in the papers which said that television was educational as well as entertaining and everybody should have one. That sounded pretty good and I figured if I could be entertained and educated all at one time, I had sure bett...
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