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Lyndon B. Johnson is president, Beatlemania is in overdrive, and gasoline costs 30 cents a gallon when Ned Parker retires as constable in Center Springs, Texas. But his plan to live a quiet life as a cotton farmer is torpedoed. A phone call leads Ned to a body in the Red River and into the urgent investigation headed by his nephew, the newly elected constable Cody Parker. Together they work to head off a multistate killing spree that sets northeast Texas on fire.
As the weeks pass, Ned's grandchildren, ten-year-old Top and his tomboy cousin Pepper, struggle with personal issues resulting from their traumatic experiences at the Rock Hole only months before. They now find themselves in the middle of a nightmare for which no one can be prepared.
Cody and Deputy John Washington, the law south of the tracks, follow a lead from their small community to the long-abandoned Cotton Exchange warehouse in Chisum, which they are stunned to find packed full of the town's cast-off garbage and riddled with booby-trapped passageways and dark burrows. Despite Ned's warnings, Cody enters the building and finds himself relying on his recent military experiences to save both himself and Big John. Unfortunately, the trail doesn't end there, and the killing spree continues.
Reavis Z. Wortham is an author, humor editor, and frequent contributor to Texas Fish & Game magazine. His work has also appeared in American Cowboy, Texas Sporting Journal, and other magazines. He is the author The Rock Hole, named one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Mystery Books of 2011.
"Outstanding…Wortham combines the gonzo sensibility of Joe R. Lansdale and the elegiac mood of To Kill a Mockingbird to strike just the right balance between childhood innocence and adult horror." (Publishers Weekly)
"With atmosphere so thick you can breathe it, and characters so real you can touch them, Reavis Z. Wortham's Burrows is a book worth putting all others aside to read. Clear a space on your bookshelves, folks, because the real deal has arrived." (John Gilstrap, author of Threat Warning and Damage Control)
"In Burrows, Reavis Wortham juxtaposes gruesome crimes with a bucolic '60s landscape. It's a surprisingly intense combination that kept me awake nights after not being able to put the book down. Wortham's writing makes scenes and characters come to life." (Charlotte Rains Dixon, author of Emma Jean's Bad Behavior and director emeritus of the Writer's Loft)
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A potato grower and two of his employees from Orwell Cove, P.E.I. are banking on a new piece of equipment they've designed to stop the food from bruising.
Randy Visser said he hopes the "EZ Down" will be a hit at the potato expo in Charlottetown this weekend. It will be the first time the $15,000 machine will be seen in public.
The partners were looking for a way to get potatoes from high conveyor belts to storage boxes below while preventing the potatoes from bouncing around and getting bruised.
The machine they invented loads potatoes from above and as the potatoes are released below more are loaded. The spuds never fall. Instead, they buffer each other.
Visser's farm had been using it in their warehouse for a few years and thought other farmers might be interested, so the team made a prototype.
"We just thought, it worked great so we started tweaking it and improving it and whatever," he said.
Visser said farmers can get more money for their crop with less bruising.
"Anytime you do something better it's a good thing, right? It should pay off," he said.
Visser said the machine could work for other crops too.
"Onions, carrots, beets, a lot of produce, fruits, vegetables. I mean there'd be all kinds of industries that probably could use something like this. And who knows what else, I mean, manufacturing, there could very well be some opportunity there too," he said.
The partners have put $60,000 of their own money into the project.
"If your butt is on the line you're going to do what it takes to make it work," he said.
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