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...special deputy sheriff in Las Vegas, Nev.). Although Gugel got back his job as police chief after he was acquitted on the nonfeasance charge, he still faced a federal indictment for his attack on Photographer Bailey. Last week in a U.S. District Court in Covington, Ky., a federal jury found that Policeman Gugel had exceeded his powers, convicted him of violating Photographer Bailey's civil rights and fined him $1,000 plus court costs. Said District judge MacSwinford: "Bailey was performing his duties and had a right to take pictures [and] the right to his liberty. [He] took...
...Newport, Ky. (pop. 31,044), just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, gambling houses and brothels have often caused trouble, so newsmen are ever on the alert for stories there. One night last summer, the Louisville Courier-Journal got a solid telephone tip about Newport, and sent Photographer George Bailey hustling to the scene. The tip: Glenn Schmidt's Playtorium, a plush dining-drinking-gambling-bowling club, was about to be raided. The leader of the raid was Newport's Detective Jack Thiem, who had hired 16 private detectives in Louisville, 106 miles from Newport, to help...
Busy Week. In Summit, Ky., Harold Murphy decided he needed a rest after a week in which 1) he lost his job, 2) his house burned down, 3) his car stalled at a railroad crossing and was smashed by a train, 4) his seven children were put to bed with chicken...
...Last week TVA Chairman Gordon R. Clapp, in a University of Chicago lecture, answered with a flat no. As evidence, he pointed to the "race" between TVA and Electric Energy, Inc., a combine of five privately owned utility firms, to supply power for Atomic Energy Commission installations at Paducah, Ky. In 1950 AEC contracted with TVA to build a power plant at nearby Shawnee, Ky., and with Electric Energy, Inc. to build a similar plant at Joppa, Ill., just across the Ohio River...
From Lexington, Ky., came disappointing news for the admirers of Tom Fool, 1953's Horse of the Year. Retired to stud last fall, he had so far failed to show any interest in mares...