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...appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy from the late Republican Senator Homer Capehart. Poindexter's mother Ellen recalls that the Senator once sat in the family's living room on a Sunday afternoon and told John that "he hadn't had very good luck with boys from Daviess County." That statement, she believes, was "part of the reason why John wanted to do so well" at Annapolis...
...Vote for Less? Everywhere, the farmers' reasons for voting yes were basically the same: a yes vote meant a support price of $2.20 a bushel with quotas; a no vote meant $1.20 without them. In Washington, Ind., where Daviess County farmers marked ballots in the stone courthouse, windburned Norman Lawyer (who has 136 acres of wheat) asked a basic question: "Why should any farmer vote to cut the wheat price support in half?" Said Tom Graham, who plants 600 acres of wheat on his 3,000-acre farm north of Washington: "If wheat price supports fell...
Self-Conscious. In Washington, Ind., the county poor farm made $1,386 profit from the first month's production of its nine oil wells, changed its name to the Daviess County Home...
...electric chair. For rapists the penalty is hanging in the county where the crime was committed. Last year 1,500 sightseers packed Smithland to see William Thomas De Boe become the State's first white man hanged for rape (TIME, April 29, 1935). Last week in Daviess County, which has not had a hanging since a private one in 1905, a Negro outdrew white William De Boe nearly 7-to-1 as a gallows performer...
...Daviess County, Hunter Clouse heard that Jeff Rowland was going to "cut his heart out." When Hunter Clouse discovered Jeff Rowland sharpening a long knife his suspicions became conviction. He shot and killed Jeff Rowland...