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Died. Tom Creighton, 75, co-discoverer of the fabulously rich Canadian Flin Flon mine; after long illness; in Flin Flon, Man. Creighton (and five others) stumbled on the Manitoba lode in 1915, named it after a fictional explorer in a British pulp-magazine thriller. The partners sold out (Creighton got $100,000) and the new owners began digging in 1925, spent $27 million before Flin Flon started paying off ($250 million worth) in gold, copper, silver and zinc...
...remained staunchly Democratic after Congressman Charles Creighton Carlin Sr., of Alexandria, who had worked briefly as a reporter on the Gazette, bought it in 1911 from the Snowden heirs. Now Editor C. C. Carlin Jr., 49, the courtly, conservative son of the late Congressman, runs the Gazette in the same unreconstructed way. He proudly displays the Stars & Bars alongside an autographed photograph of Robert E. Lee in his tiny, cluttered office, just as proudly boasts that the Gazette was the first and northernmost newspaper to raise a rebel yell in the Dixiecrats' cause...
Lowell played the crucial contest hard and fast, but Eliot's Bob Creighton, who scored 22 points, haunted the desperate Bellboys throughout the game...