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Floyd County, Ky., whose 55,000 poor, proud and clannish hill folk are mostly descended straight from early English settlers, is such a political museum. Last week 144 Floyd County citizens were running for local office and campaigning (at funerals, churches and front doors) for the August primary. The following pieces of political advertising, run in the Floyd County Times, reflected the old-fashioned tone of the contests...
Infiltration. In Hazard, Ky., police ended an eight-year search for Elhanon Napier, charged with horse stealing, when they found him employed as a cook at the city jail...
...target of the uproar was Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose investigating committee three weeks ago hired J. B. Matthews as its executive director. Few Americans have held a Red hunting license longer or beat the bushes harder than J. B. Matthews. After getting an A.B. degree from Asbury College, Wilmore, Ky., he was a Methodist lay missionary in Java, translated a hymnal into Malay, later studied at Union Theological Seminary, taught Oriental languages and current events at Fisk and Howard Universities for Negroes. He became a Socialist, and, unlike most U.S. Socialists, an active fellow traveler of the Communists, belonging...
Leave-Taking. In Pikeville, Ky., Jack Clements, arrested for possession of burglary tools, escaped from the county jail, left behind a note: "I hate to cause any excitement, but I am leaving town...
...expanding the number of his products. RCA, once known only for phonographs and radio-TV appliances, this year is selling air-conditioners and electric ranges. Crosley Division of Avco Manufacturing Corp. will begin marketing washing machines. General Electric is building the world's biggest appliance center at Louisville, Ky., on which it will spend $200 million...