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...state legislature waded through routine business in the closing hours of its 1957 session last March, a tough-talking, cigar-worrying statehouse reporter for the Santa Fe New Mexican (circ.11,710) scented a far-from-routine story. What awoke the newsman's curiosity in Reporter Neil Addington, during a discussion of a $221,000 appropriation bill for the National Guard of New Mexico (4,000 officers and men), was the evasiveness with which officials who had drawn up the budget answered lawmakers' questions about such standout items as a $14,000-a-year telephone bill. Though the legislature...
...Neil Addington, 32, a Marine Corps machine gunner in World War II, promptly trained his sights on the National Guard and, by a well-aimed series of disclosures in the New Mexican, blew up a statewide scandal involving the highhanded misuse of thousands of dollars in state funds, compounded by unbelievably lax state auditing procedures. Last week, after a week's airing before a legislative committee, the Guard's Adjutant General Charles Gurdon Sage, 62, a veteran of Bataan.† Japanese prison camps and 38 years as a guardsman, resigned under fire. The Guard's shenanigans were...
Power-Mower Play. On his own investigation. Neil Addington, a stocky (5 ft. 7 in.), Kansas-born reporter whose close-to-the-skull haircuts have earned him the nickname "Bones," at first drew little sympathy and considerable skepticism from lawmakers or state officials. In eleven years as state adjutant general-under Republican and Democratic governors-respected General Sage, an old newspaperman himself (publisher of the weekly Deming Graphic), had fortified his post by appointing relatives of many potent political figures to his staff. When Addington started digging into the operations of Sage's elite, several of his key informants...
...first hints of the Guard's financial maneuverings were printed in a blustery political column in the New Mexican that is traditionally bylined El Chivo (The Goat). The goat-writer: Bones Addington. Columnist Addington used his anonymous goat-butts to rout out productive leads for Reporter Addington. Example: in the midst of his disclosures, half a dozen calls told of nighttime removals of state-owned power mowers and home freezers from Guard officers' homes; Sage later admitted that he himself had returned a freezer. Addington also uncovered many state vouchers that had been falsified to permit unallowable purchases...
...Fund for the Republic," says Fund President Robert Maynard Hutchins, "is a kind of fund for the American Dream. The essence of the dream is and always has been freedom." The Fund for the Republic, said American Legion National Commander J. Addington Wagner last week, "is giving comfort to the enemies of America . . . We are convinced that the fund is doing evil work." Neither Hutchins nor Wagner stands alone in his opinion; Hutchins has the cheers of many citizens who fear that the U.S. is seeking security at the cost of civil liberty; Wagner speaks for those who fear that...