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Married. Orville Enoch Hodge, 60, former Illinois state auditor and gubernatorial hopeful who in 1956 went to jail for embezzling $1,450,000 in public funds, was paroled in 1963 to make a new life as an Oldsmobile salesman; and Viola Coombs, 61, a home-town secretary; both for the second time; in Granite City...
Webb & Knapp is so short of cash that it could not even afford to hire an auditor and issue its annual report, an omission that caused the Securities and Exchange Commission to ban trading in its stock. Fearful that the company would go broke before bondholders could be paid off, Manhattan's Marine Midland Trust Co., trustee for $4,298,200 in Webb & Knapp debenture bonds, petitioned the courts for reorganization of the company under the Bankruptcy Act. Besieged by a growing army of creditors and unable for once to raise the money to pay them off, Bill Zeckendorf...
...Deanna Hanbey, 28, of South Bend, Ind., wife of a traveling auditor, had grown despondent over her husband's absences and over the task of caring for her four children-two-year-old twin boys, a girl, 6, and a boy, 7. A woman friend found Mrs. Hanbey and the children in the bedrooms: the youngsters had been strangled to death with nylon stockings and a necktie; Mrs. Hanbey had tried to strangle herself, to cut her wrists and ankles, and to set fire to the house. She was hospitalized, whimpering that she had murdered her children and crying...
...translation, as Mary Scranton, 46, wife of Pennsylvania's Republican Governor, found to her sorrow when she submitted a $1,554 bill to the state for some rust-patterned draperies made for her husband's reception room by a Harrisburg decorator. "Absolutely illegal," sniffed the auditor general, a Democrat, refusing to pay on grounds that she hadn't asked for sealed bids. "A bargain is a bargain, and politics is politics," retorted Mary in a note posted in the capitol pressroom. How right you both are, Governor Bill tactfully concluded and, since he may have to ante...
...that he was chairman of the committee, cleared his throat and began: "Er, Mr. Chairman ..." A further example of general ineptness came when the committee tried to pursue the charge that Democratic Wheelhorse Matt McCloskey had indirectly made a $35,000 payoff to Baker. They put McCloskey's auditor on the stand, only to discover that they had the wrong auditor...