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...bingo, raffles and bazaars preferable to digging down for regular church contributions? Many Roman Catholics seem to think so. Last week Father John P. Weigand of St. Joseph's of the Palisades Church in West New York, N.J. was being given a hard time by his parishioners, for he had had the temerity to call off the "carnivals" and substitute the oldest form of fund raising Christianity knows: tithing...
Wisconsin. One of the disappointed hopefuls in the vice-presidential bingo game at the Democratic Convention, Governor Gaylord Anton Nelson, 44, may still look forward to a political future beyond the shores of Lake Michigan. A smooth public speaker (and a smoother raconteur in informal moments), the darling of organized labor and an unabashed liberal, he brought a program of sweeping social reforms and a crew-cut crew of intellectuals to Madison in 1958, will give Wisconsin a second chorus of the same music in his second term...
...Orleans, resigned Republicans were saying: "We had eight years of piano playing, eight years of golf, and now we'll have four years of bingo...
...staff to Hawaii's Congressman Daniel K. Inouye. To pay Hoshin's entire expenses for the next four years, the McCain has already installed an ice cream machine with proceeds ($120 a month) earmarked for his education, along with a big chunk of the ship's bingo profits. Says Hoshin: "It is much too wonderful to explain...
...Alaska's Democratic legislature was somewhat preoccupied with a superficial study of the three Bs principally because it is a fledgling state facing real frontier problems. The "bingo" dealt with a lottery bill (passed) designed to legalize the beloved Alaska tradition of betting on the exact day, hour and minute of the ice breakup on the Tanana and certain other rivers. The booze bill (soon to become law) requires saloons to close down each day between 5 a.m. and 8 a.m.. instead of 3 a.m. to 5 a.m. weekdays. The boudoir bit was altogether something different. Passed last...