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...York Central tracks go through Clayton, Mich. (pop. 467), but there is no station, and the trains seldom stop. U.S. Highway 223 bypasses Clayton, and except for nearby farmers, few people stop there, either. It is a poor little place: half a dozen old red brick buildings, two gasoline stations, a few blocks of houses, a few sheds. Clayton is a dull, insular village, not friendly to outsiders...
...young hoodlums of the village started hanging out at McFall's, but otherwise life in Clayton droned on exactly as before. Then the town experienced an incomprehensible act of violence. Russell Simpson, a 19-year-old local ne'er-do-well, walked into Hathaway's market and lunch counter at closing time, pulled out a pistol and cried, "I want your money!" The 71-year-old grocer grabbed a butcher knife and hacked at the youth's face and arm. Simpson began shooting. His pistol fired, clicked twice, and fired again. The grocer fell dead...
...last fortnight, shocked and startled, Clayton learned more about the holdup-and about itself. After nearly two months of silent brooding in the red brick jail at Adrian, young Simpson talked. Floyd McFall, full of dull anger at being ostracized and in fear of going broke, had put him up to the robbery, he said, and had agreed to hide him and help him get away afterward. McFall was jailed. Police said that he confessed, but at Simpson's trial McFall denied any part in the holdup...
...case shook Clayton to the core. "I feel scared," said white-haired Widow Hathaway. "I'm all tight inside, like nervous tension." Then, looking out of the window at McFall's restaurant, she cried, "Oh, how can they just sit over there looking...
...bolster the battered Democratic National Committee, Chairman Stephen A. Mitchell named as his deputy ex-Newsman Clayton A. Fritchey, White House administrative assistant who served as adviser to Stevenson headquarters during the campaign. Fritchey's main job: to organize Democratic research and publicity for a unified opposition to the new Administration...