Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stopping just short of atomic attack, Governor Howard Pyle declared war last July upon Arizona's only center of accepted polygamy. The Governor started by withdrawing $50,000 in emergency funds from the State Treasury declaring that the community of Short Creek was engaging in "insurrection" against the state. Pyle was incensed by the multiple marriages and directed the state attorney-general to charge the polygamists with "Bigamy, Adultery, Open and Notorious Cohabitation, Statutory Rape, Contributing to the Delinquency of Minors, Income-Tax Evasion, Misuse of School Funds, Falsifying Public Records, and Conspiracy to Violate State Laws...
...happy. When informed that they were to live with only their legal husbands, seventy-five of them fled to Utah. Apparently they hoped that Governor Bracken Lee would refuse extradition, but Utah is no longer a haven for polygamy, and the women were turned over to the State of Arizona...
...Arizona's form of justice last week crushed Short Creek for good. The Arizona Supreme Court ordered the men to live only with their legal wives, but most of the women have dispersed throughout the state since the Governor overturned the Short Creek variety of paradise. Now 162 children are left with unwed mothers to grow up in orphan homes with an ugly stigma. With only a lone bachelor and a monogamous couple left, Short Creek's fields of hay and barley will parch under the hot Arizona...
...Governor's shocked indignation impressed voters at first, perhaps, but the brutal conduct of the raid quickly disillusioned most and invited swarms of anti-Pyle editorials in Arizona's newspapers. One must wonder whether the satisfaction of moral absolutists in Phoenix is worth the problem caused in a hamlet two hundred miles from the nearest "civilized" metropolis of ten thousand people...
Douglas bought the paintings not for himself but to embellish the new Tucson headquarters of the Southern Arizona Bank & Trust Co., of which he is chairman of the board of directors. For the same purpose, he has also picked up two small bronzes by Charles Russell and one by Frederic Remington. Douglas believes that the collection will pay for itself by attracting and pleasing customers and visitors. Says Douglas: "It seemed to me respectable for a three-ball joint like ours to have a good collection...