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The Main Herald
Sunday, November 11, 1967

By PETER LAINE
Of Our Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — A lot of Dade County residents who never figured to get in the Congressional Record helped fill four pages of it this week during the debate on the embattled poverty program.

Excerpts from their letters were read by Rep Dante Fascell, who told the House there were hundreds more.

Some of the hard-to-read ones were the most eloquent.

A Florida City woman, Lillie Mae Reid, wrote:

"For the first time in history, that I now a adult can go to school to help get them some education."

"I have a son who has been working in the beanfields for two year and he is only 15 years old," said E. Varn Moody, of Homestead.  "He has signed up for the Neighborhood Youth Corps.  Please don't take his hopes away."

Lonnie Williams, 84, of South Miami appealed:  "Have no one to see about me ... Please keep the poverty center."

"I could not work before to help support my nine children but now I am able to work with someone keeping my baby," Perrine's Mrs. Merriam Miller wrote.

A South Miami woman wrote: "When I didn't have no about papers that had to be filled out or sign by me I could always get help from the center."

Non-beneficiaries also asked Fascell's support for the program.

Eight University of Miami chaplains warned that, "Bitter disillusionment" would follow its curtailment.


'There are only two kinds who aren't a little scared of flying: fools and madmen'
-- Blanche Stuart Scott

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[[caption]] Mrs. Blanche Stuart Scott Signals Thumbs Up From Cockpit ... and who would ever know she was the first American woman to solo [[/caption]]

'Earlybird' Grannies [[?ocred]] Before Flying Went 'Soft'
By DAVE BEHRENS
Herald Staff Writer

She was such a nice little old lady, sitting there with that dreamy smile, the safety belt secure across her skirt, the purr of power from the Boeing-727 all around her.

That little smile — was it for the six grandchildren or the 11 great-grandchildren sprinkled about the nation, a smile for the years that added up to a happy 78, a smile that little old ladies smile when they are lost in though a mile above the earth?

Probably not.

Not for Georgia "Tiny" Broadwick, who was not always a nice little old lady and who in fact was a nice young lady of 15 when she became the first women to drop out of the sky with a parachute in 

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[[caption]] 'Tiny' Broadwick Waves ... before Early Bird reunion [[/caption]]


"Tiny looked down at 


BLANCHE STUART SCOTT sat a few seats away, a girl who went to a good school then became the first American woman to solo.  It was in a Curtiss "Pusher," the [[?]] with an open "undertaker's chair" for its pilot, a few feet in front of the exposed engine.

Friday's Boeing Whisperjet was cruising at a low 1,500 feet, holding itself in at a mere 250 miles an hour to give the old fliers a look at the landscape.  "We flew at 50 miles an hour," Banche recalled, "but you could get up 50 feet or so for at least a quarter of an hour."

That, she said, was her 1910 solo.

There was the lure of big money in those pre-World War I days when the [[?]]

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