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Next time you’re driving down route 290 between Austin and El Paso, be sure and visit Ozona, the richest town in the world. It’s only a couple hours north of the Mexican border and it has the only good all-night truckstop en route, the M&M Cafe.

April 1, 1973
Tom Miller

THE BEAT GOES ON

lost in Ozona Again

Next time you’re driving down route 290 between Austin and El Paso, be sure and visit Ozona, the richest town in the world. It’s only a couple hours north of the Mexican border and it has the only good all-night truckstop en route, the M&M Cafe. But the biggest reason you should visit — nay, settle — in Ozona is that the wind currents are such that scientists say it is the only place in the country where nuclear fallout won’t land after the atomic bomb goes off. This is important. According to meteorologists and others who have studied the prevailing air flow at Ozona, all nuclear fallout will be swept away and not affect the air in the town; supposedly, it will land elsewhere in Crockett County. Not only will you live longer, come the Bomb, but you can save money meanwhile by not having to build a fallout shelter in your home. '

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