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Herbert Yemon Cartwright Jr. used to run a diaper laundry service. Eight years ago he was elected mayor of Galveston, and set out to prove that cleanliness is for diapers, not for Galveston...
Texas law, as it happens, prohibits pros titution, gambling and sale of liquor by the drink. In Galveston* (pop. 65,000) all three flourish. When a state crime committee investigated the situation, Herbie Cartwright told the legislators frankly that the laws of Texas are vio lated in Galveston because Galvestonians think the laws are wrong...
...FRANK T. CARTWRIGHT...
Vane Effect. In Wilmington, N.C., charged with drunkenness the day after he had been convicted of drunkenness and ordered to leave town, John Cartwright, 50, explained: "Every time I raised my good leg off the ground, the wind would come and spin me around; I had to take a drink to steady myself...
Music Appreciation. In San Marino, Calif., Eakle Wesley Cartwright Jr., 22, who was charged with setting fire to his family's house three times in a single week, surprised firemen on each occasion by calmly sitting in the living room playing classical records, explained to police: "Beethoven thrills...