Word: calcasieu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...torrent, snapping and striking in their fury (Mrs. Stephen Broussard lost three children to the tidal wave-and a fourth died of snakebite). In Cameron, a fisherman stumbled sobbing through the streets. His father, his pregnant wife and two children were gone. He was swept into the Calcasieu River-and was rescued to continue his grieving. On the courthouse steps sat a towheaded lad in hand-me-down overalls. "My brothers are dead," he said quietly. "We don't know where daddy is." Haggard Dr. Cevil Clark, Cameron's only physician, trudged doggedly along muddy streets, giving shots...
Defamed. All U.S. newsmen had taken such rights for granted. Dixon and his men learned otherwise when they began printing the facts about corruption in Calcasieu Parish. They stirred a citizens' committee into gathering evidence against 33 gambling house proprietors. But in court the gamblers got off with light fines and suspended jail sentences, although usually such treatment is given only to first offenders...
...gamblers' records; the evidence indicated that he had done just that. As the judge read on, the startled sheriff and district attorney stalked angrily out of court. Editor Ken Dixon had not only won his battle in court. Since the case started, gambling has been closed tight in Calcasieu Parish...
...which sent secret "flying squads" iato gaming rooms after evidence. For months they roamed the bars, collecting affidavits of betting in 35 of them, turned the affidavits over to District Attorney Hawkins. Last month, P.A.G. asked a grand jury to charge Ham Reid (the fourth generation Reid to be Calcasieu Parish sheriff) with malfeasance. Gambling suddenly stopped. Hawkins used the affidavits to take 33 barkeeps before Judge Pickrel on gambling charges. The gamblers got off with light fines and suspended jail sentences, and the American Press pointed out that suspended sentences are usually given only to first offenders. It spread...
...staff of "legal double-talk," for failing to back the crusade. Apparently, the charges of "defamation" of other officials had an equally flimsy basis. Said P.A.G. President George Buchanan, a welder: "This is a fight to see whether the racketeers or the law-abiding citizens will run Calcasieu Parish...