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Tommy's Oasis, many another neon-lit saloon along Highway 90. Somehow, the political powers who ran Calcasieu Parish -longtime Judge Mark Pickrel, Sheriff Henry ("Ham") Reid, District Attorney Griffin Hawkins-did not seem to notice what was going on. But Editor Dixon, 36, onetime AP war correspondent and roving INS columnist, is no newsman to let bad enough alone. With the backing of Publisher Thomas Shearman, he ripped in after gambling...
...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...