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"A disease of es which caused big losses to the growers occurred last June in Texas, and in August and September in Nebraska. The disease is first noticed in green full-grown tomatoes, but it is hard to detect at this stage unless close attention is given to the stems. When the fruits are green they show a little brown spot or a dark ring around and under the stem. As the fruit is shipped green, the packers may overlook this condition very easily. When the tomatoes reach their destination they have become a pink color, the disease has advanced and shows more plainly, for the stem end has then become a dark brown. The inspector notices this and, although there is not much external evidence of disease, he breaks the fruit open and finds a hard brown center. The rot is usually down the center and may extend from stem end to blossom end but sometimes it takes an oblique course and includes a portion of the seeds, darkening them also. There is no slime or ooze. Bacteria occur in great numbers in the tissues. The same organism was isolated from both the Texas and Nebraska material and the disease was reproduced in green and ripening fruits in the greenhouse, using pure cultures."

"A bacterial leafspot disease of the occurs widespread in the Eastern States. It is mostly a disease but occurs occasionally on plants grown out of doors. The organism was isolated from diseased plants received from different sources and the disease reproduced on the leaves of healthy plants. Warm, moist conditions with poor ventilation are necessary for the organism to infect the leaves extensively. Care in regulating the temperature, air, and moisture conditions of the greenhouse and in giving plenty of space to plants grown out of doors will go far toward preventing the appearance of the disease and toward curing it when it is present. All spotted leaves should be removed and destroyed. Very sensitive varieties should be discarded. The name Bacterium pelargoni is suggested for the organism causing the disease."

"The South Carolina outbreak of lettuce-rot occurred in , the second largest lettuce-growing district on the eastern coast of the United States, with a reputation of growing the finest quality of on the entire eastern coast. The South Carolina disease may be either a stem or a leaf infection ... In an early stage the plants are a lighter green color than the healthy ones; later the head may show rot through the center or only on the top. A general wilting of the head may occur with or without visible spots or rot. In some cases rotting is rapid; in others the heart remains sound, while the outer encircling leaves are in a bad state of decay. The diseased plants are not firm in the soil, the stem is brittle, and can be easily broken off at the surface or a little below the surface of the soil. In an early stage of disease the stem when cut across shows a blue-green color; in a later stage it is brown."

"The way has been prepared: the Navajos are well-disposed toward the Catholic missionaries and give founded hopes for an abundant harvest of souls."

"There are a number of ways in which archeology may relate to , but in any given area it may not be possible to trace such connections fully. Ideally, of course, the archeology of a people should enable the to trace the record of the culture back into the stages temporally prior to those which can be explored through ethnological techniques or historical records. Admittedly the archeological data, even under conditions of maximum preservation and most skillful excavation, will never give the complete outline of a culture. At best the picture would be equivalent to that which the ethnologist might see if he visited a village from which the inhabitants had precipitately fled, abandoning all their possessions. But such a complete inventory of material items, in associations reflecting technological processes, economic activities, social organization and other nonmaterial aspects of life, is something to which the archeologist may aspire in vain."

"is a in a plain of partly indurated sands and clays of age, known as the ."

"The ground was thawed to a depth of thirty centimeters. For the rough work of clearing the ground the men used spades and a pickaxe, but as soon as the real excavation began produced the geological spades with little blades, which were better for the more delicate work."

"While in we made four camping trips with and outboard motor, visiting Alaganik on the and sites in the Sound from to . The gave us several lifts, and in August the took us for a ten-day cruise around the Sound, stopping at , , , and other villages where we had an opportunity to talk to the natives, and also touching at a few of the ancient village sites on our route."

"I saw several dogskins hung up to dry. On account of the scarcity of and s, the have to use dogskins for their winter furs. The dogs have fine thick fur, but nothing to compare with that of bears and caribou."

"As far as directing actors, he was very respectful, quiet, and never impatient. Actors really responded to Wes. He really was an actor's director. I remember when he was directing Drew in the opening sequence, they had spent a lot of time in prep, and Wes knew how much Drew loved animals, as she's an advocate for animal safety. He said something really graphic and terrifying to her about, I'm sure you've heard this, an article about a puppy who was mistreated because he had seen what an emotional response this caused her, just talking about it, and that was one part of how he got the performance out of Drew. I remember that night, shooting the exteriors of that home, and I remember the night he did that. I didn't know at the time what he had said until an hour later. It really worked! Obviously, we know that scene is so heart-wrenching, so he knew what to say. He really got to know the actors and figured out how to get the right performances. It can be a manipulative job, being a director, and he would figure it out."

"It was just natural. It wasn't even a discussion. He was attracted to telling stories from a female POV, I think because of me and his daughter, he was very interested in stories about strong powerful women getting through difficult situations."

"Absolutely, I mean, don't forget we had just done New Nightmare, and that was very much about Heather Langenkamp's personal journey, and it very much mirrored her personal life. She obviously was, and is, a very strong woman, and with Kevin's script, it was everything we wanted. We loved the story of Sidney, and it had every element that we were attracted to in general."

"A couple of weeks went by, and we still couldn't come up with anything everyone could agree on, and we were getting very close to shooting – it was getting very tense. So I said, ‘why don't we call that lady and see if she's thrown away the mask or still has it and at least see it again?' I thought, who knows, maybe she cleaned the house and threw it away! Bruce Miller sent the location manager over there, and sure enough, he came back with it and I got Wes to take another look at it, and he said, ‘let's go with it,' and we finally made a decision! Of course, we had to call and get the rights from Fun World. It was a mass-produced Halloween mask, and the rights cost some money. Cary Granant negotiated the deal with Fun World, and we got the rights. Even at this point Wes still really wanted to make his own version so he said ‘okay I like it, but I want to change the shape just a bit', so we did and KNB did make their own sculpture of it with a few alterations. We started shooting the opening sequence with it and realized very quickly that the original mask was perfect so then we went back to the original mask."

"Yes, he was very much involved, and in fact, we had actually been developing The Haunting with Richard and Bob Weinstein, and I don't really know what happened with that… I think Wes finally just passed on it and said to Richard, ‘look, I really want to work with you, but I don't think The Haunting is the one.' So, of course, Richard then kept Wes in mind, and when Scream came along, we all still wanted to work together, and eventually, Wes accepted the job. But, yes, Richard was a huge part of it creatively and really pushed Bob Weinstein to option the script and lit his hair on fire to get everyone to read it very quickly at Dimension. Sometimes you have a studio executive that you don't want anything to do with and don't want to have them on set, but we loved Richard, and he was so helpful and respectful to Wes and had such good ideas. We were lucky to have him with us."

"Wes was very prepared. He always came up with a shot list and was very meticulous. Wes, in his own life, loved to write manuals for everything in his house. So he was very mechanical in this way, and he made really great shot lists. I mean, when you're working fifty, sixty days straight, you don't always have time, and of course, if the director comes in without a shot list, the AD, the cinematographer, the line producer, and everybody else freaks out. But he usually came prepared with his shot list, and of course, we'd look at it and freak out if it was more than about twenty-three shots. It could, at times, be a little too ambitious."

"We were working with KNB Effects Group on the mask design in LA before we flew up to Santa Rosa to prep and shoot. As the script described the killer as only wearing a ‘ghost mask' with no description of the mask or costume, we had to come up with it. KNB had a lot of design sketches and sculptures, but we had not found the look, and it was getting late. We were scouting a house for Tatum, and I went up to this little bedroom upstairs, and I saw the mask. It was the mask, but it had a white shroud. I took it, and I ran downstairs and showed it to, I think, Bruce Miller, the production designer, Wes, and probably Nick Mastandrea, our first AD. I said ‘oh my god, you guys, look at this mask! How about this?', and they said, no, we don't like it. We don't like this mask – We want to create our own mask'. Wes was very much into owning it and creating whatever we were going to use, so I just felt like, ‘seriously, you don't like this?' ‘You're not even going to consider it?' And he said, ‘no, no, no, not at all.' I don't like it.' So, I begrudgingly put it back in the bedroom."

"Yes, he did, and originally the larger windows didn't have the stained glass, but he found a few doors in the house that had small panes of stained glass above them, I think, and decided to bring and expand that element to add more character to the interior and exterior scenes of the house."

"I was working in Hollywood with the goal of being a producer. A friend of mine was producing a movie called Deadly Friend, and told me that Wes Craven was directing and needed an assistant. He asked if I would be interested in the job. I said, of course, I would love to come in and meet Wes. So, we set the appointment, and I went to Warner Brothers to meet him. He was very funny, and we clicked. The wonderful thing was that having said that I wanted to be a producer, Wes took it upon himself to include me in every aspect of filmmaking. He took me into casting sessions, to the horror of Marion Dougherty, the casting director, who was a huge casting director at the time. Assistants didn't normally get to be in the room for casting sessions. I was included at the scoring sessions, locations scouts, and he mentored me through the whole movie. We did Deadly Friend and then went on to The Serpent and the Rainbow. While filming on location in Haiti, we had so many emergencies and horrible production problems, and we got through them well together, and I think Wes just felt I had the right stuff. Then he gave me my first producing gig on Shocker."

"Some came for sheer love of adventure and wanted no reward beyond that; some wanted fame or its counterfeit, publicity; some were mercenary and thought primarily in terms of what they were going to get out of it; and lastly there was that small group, the like of which gives character to any expedition of merit — not necessarily scientists at all, but men who could understand the lure, if not the love, of knowledge for its own sake; men who came not for position or money but who found full reward for their effort in the pursuit of an ideal."

"I dislike hearing people talk about the scientific method. Science is simply the art of understanding nature, including man, of course, using all rational methods. There are a thousand scientific methods, and their only common thread is that they are all rational."

"I do not believe the greatest threat to our future is from bombs or guided missiles. I don’t think our civilization will die that way. I think it will die when we no longer care — when the spiritual forces that make us wish to be right and noble die in the hearts of men. Arnold Toynbee has pointed out that 19 or 21 notable civilizations have died from within and not by conquest from without. There were no bands playing and no flags waving when these civilizations decayed; it happened slowly, in the quiet and the dark when no one was aware. ... "If America is to grow great, we must stop gagging at the word spiritual!" Our task is to rediscover and reassert our faith in the spiritual, nonutilitarian values on which American life has really rested from its beginning."

"Science is not a form of black magic. A thousand blind alleys must often be explored before a right road is found; a thousand amateurs must have their fling before a Darwin or an Einstein comes along."

"For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty in action against enemy aggressor forces during the early morning hours. Participating in a fierce encounter with a cleverly concealed and well-entrenched enemy force occupying positions on a vital and bitterly contested outpost far in advance of the main line of resistance, HC3c. Charette repeatedly and unhesitatingly moved about through a murderous barrage of hostile small-arms and mortar fire to render assistance to his wounded comrades. When an enemy grenade landed within a few feet of a marine he was attending, he immediately threw himself upon the stricken man and absorbed the entire concussion of the deadly missile with his body. Although sustaining painful facial wounds and undergoing shock from the intensity of the blast which ripped the helmet and medical aid kit from his person, HC3c. Charette resourcefully improvised emergency bandages by tearing off part of his clothing, and gallantly continued to administer medical aid to the wounded in his own unit and to those in adjacent platoon areas as well. Observing a seriously wounded comrade whose armored vest had been torn from his body by the blast from an exploding shell, he selflessly removed his own battle vest and placed it upon the helpless man although fully aware of the added jeopardy to himself. Moving to the side of another casualty who was suffering excruciating pain from a serious leg wound, HC3c. Charette stood upright in the trench line and exposed himself to a deadly hail of enemy fire in order to lend more effective aid to the victim and to alleviate his anguish while being removed to a position of safety. By his indomitable courage and inspiring efforts in behalf of his wounded comrades, HC3c. Charette was directly responsible for saving many lives. His great personal valor reflects the highest credit upon himself and enhances the finest traditions of the U.S. Naval Service."

"If you're a commanding officer and you have a Medal of Honor recipient who comes to work with you... Of course they kind of view you a little different. They think, 'What am I going to do if he's a real foul ball?' But after they found out I'm not different, and that I'm a good corpsman, and fairly dedicated, I should say, I never had any problems. None."

"They had a big thing about World War One, World War Two, and then they skipped right over to Vietnam... I don't understand that, because 54,000 Americans lost their lives in Korea... So your odds of getting killed in Korea are a hell of a lot greater [than in Vietnam]... And there's still eight thousand missing from the Korean War."

"To Charette, it was never a matter of whether he was brave or not, heroic or not. It always ended up being a matter of degree. "Each man has a breaking point," he remarked. In the hospital, on the submarine, in Korea, he had seen men past their breaking points. He's just someone whose breaking point has never been reached."

"The next thing you know I was called to another area and platoon... I don't know what happened to their corpsman, but I was in amongst them and it was decided they were going to be the frontal assault unit... When they told us to start going forward I thought, "I'll wait until my platoon catches up." But the sergeant stood up. He had a machine gun and his words were very encouraging: "Okay men, move out, because if they don't kill you I will." So with those words of encouragement I moved forward with his platoon."

"When we got to the rear, there must have been five acres of dead people. And I think I read somewhere that you feel guilty to be alive when you are among the dead. It struck me that that is very true."

"[Regarding his Medal of Honor citation] It says I removed my bulletproof vest and put it on somebody... I did not take off a bulletproof vest. I had a jacket, and I was treating the guy for shock, and what I did was put my jacket on him. And somehow that got misinterpreted and whatever."

"My wife hates this, but it's a fact. I was originally written up for the Navy Cross... I was thinking it would get pushed down, maybe to a Silver Star. But instead of getting pushed down, it got pushed up. And I've often wondered why. You've got four dead corpsmen, and if I don't get the medal, there'd be no live corpsmen out of the Korean War... I don't know. It's just a thought."

"I once said you can tell they're doing good because you can point to their signs: 'American go home.' In other words they're pretty free to do what they wanted to do politically. I have a cousin who was killed over there. And he was my aunt's only son. So when you think about that for a bit, you think well, was it worth it? And after many years I've come to the conclusion: yes it was."

"For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a gunner in a machine-gun platoon of Company E, in action against enemy aggressor forces. When an enemy grenade landed close to his position while he and his assistant gunner were receiving medical attention for their wounds during a fierce night attack by numerically superior hostile forces, Cpl. Dewey, although suffering intense pain, immediately pulled the corpsman to the ground and, shouting a warning to the other marines around him, bravely smothered the deadly missile with his body, personally absorbing the full force of the explosion to save his comrades from possible injury or death. His indomitable courage, outstanding initiative, and valiant efforts in behalf of others in the face of almost certain death reflect the highest credit upon Cpl. Dewey and enhance the finest traditions of the U.S. Naval Service."

"Once again, I take my gunner's .45 to see if I can scrounge up some more ammo. No luck. I get back to my position and I'm still upright when a grenade goes off behind my left heel. I get shrapnel in my leg and left buttocks. It puts me down. "Take over the squad," I holler to the gunner. "I've been hit." A hospital corpsman arrives and asks where I've been hit. I tell him, and as he's getting my britches undone to examine the injury, a second grenade rolls beside me. I grab it and I'm going to throw it. First impulse to get rid of it, right? But I'm lying flat on my back and I'm thinking I can't get this out of reach of my own men. So I scoop the grenade under my right hip and grab the corpsman. As I pull him down on top of me, I say, "Hit the dirt, doc. I've got it in my hip pocket." The grenade goes off. Takes us both off the ground. My body aborbs the full force of the explosion."

"Dad rarely feels comfortable talking about his time in Korea or his Medal of Honor until 2010, when he's invited to Gainesville, Texas- aka "The Medal of Honor Host City." Medal of Honor recipients are invited there to attend various celebrations, where they are introduced to and speak with city residents and are also taken to several local schools to meet students. The students go above and beyond in welcoming the recipients with personal escorts, patriotic decorations throughout the schools, and one-on-one interactions. The recipients sit in front of the auditorium or gymnasium and answer student questions or go in groups of two or three to visit different classrooms and briefly share their stories. Forty years after I asked him to come speak to my history class, Dad's finally in a place where he's willing to talk about his time in Korea and the Medal of Honor. From then until his health starts to fail, he returns to the event in Texas every year and also begins attending annual "Lest We Forget" gatherings in Benton Harbor, Michigan, to share his story with groups of adults. He also agrees to engage in multiple interviews and recordings about his experiences, as well as making several appearances with different military associations."

"The Medal of Honor means a lot to me, but every time I put it on, I think about other Marines who deserve the award and didn't get it. I didn't do anything that somebody else in my position wouldn't have done."

"My sons and I are often asked what it was like growing up with my dad, their granddad. To me, he is just a normal dad. To my boys, he is just their granddad. We are very proud of him, and it is wonderful to attend celebrations where he is recognized. We try to answer any questions asked if they arise. But, just like Dad, we're not the ones starting any conversations about his medal or what he has done. We are on a first-name basis with many of the Medal of Honor recipients. When you're with them, they're just ordinary people. It's easy to forget how special they are to the rest of the world, but I try my best to never let that happen. I know they are all special. I know they each did something phenomenal."

"My next words are, "Get me the hell out of here, I can't take much more of this." The corpsmen and the gunnery sergeat drag me to a bunker full of wounded men. As I'm given a shot of morphine, I think, "Okay, this is it. We're going to bleed to death, or the Chinese troops are going to come in here and finish us off. I'm looking Old Man Death right in the face." I don't pray for myself. I spend the rest of the night praying for my wife, Bertha, and my infant daughter, Arline. She was born right after I left for Korea. I pray that Bertha will find a good father for our daughter and a good husband for herself. Near daybreak, someone pokes their head inside and tells us the Chinese have pulled out. I'm sent to a field hospital, where I'm told I've also taken a bullet to the stomach. The blast put a good-size hole in my hip, but it missed my spine. I know how lucky I am to be alive."

"Recognized and respected for her listening and speaking skills."

"Connie loved her family, both immediate and extended. She enjoyed nothing more than welcoming all into the home she and John shared on beautiful Glen Lake. Kids and grandkids were always coming and going, with swimming and boating, and many conversations and meals together."

"She could be forceful and passionate on issues of special concern to her."

"She was a mentor and dear friend who has left an enduring legacy."

"All of Connie Binsfeld’s life was devoted to children and families, particularly children in need."

"Connie worked tirelessly in all corners of the state, always taking time to listen to constituents and to help them find solutions to their different problems."

"Children are our joy, our hope, our promise, our assurance of a better tomorrow. Tomorrow, society will reflect how we treat children today."

"It came down to wanting somebody that would truly be a partner who I could work with. I knew she was a very effective campaigner. She was also somebody who believed we could win."

"Connie lived an unbelievable, full life and was successful at everything she did. She was a thoughtful, kind, generous person who just happened to make a lot of history in a rather remarkable career."

"That’s another thing about history: It endures. History is, by its very definition, the story of the past. But the fact that we continue to wrestle with, reinterpret and retell those stories means they’re important. History is not simply names and dates on a page. It is the context of modern life. History explains, for better or worse, how we became what we are today."

"These events and my classes changed me forever and helped mold my political philosophy and values."

"History, though, does not simply reside in museum buildings full of objects and artifacts. It is not simply the tenant of attics, basements and garages. History is all around us."

"When I began to really feel frightened at work was when it became evident no entity was going to intervene. The judicial system does not seem equipped to handle really bad behavior, so it inadvertently rewards bullying."