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After his off-the-record chat with State Representative Steve Dolley one day last week, Reporter Paul Crooke of North Carolina's daily Gastonia Gazette (circ. 20,491) tossed a memo on the crowded desk of Managing Editor Bob Hallman. Gist of the memo: Dolley, a onetime Gazette staffer, was only pleasing officials of nearby Bessemer City when he introduced a bill to reorganize their courts, had "no desire that the bill pass," was convinced that "it has no chance whatever"-and wanted the Gazette to kill any stories about it. Somehow, in the deadline shuffle, the memo...
...Milton E. Pharr was found by Nessfeness in a segregated high school in Gastonia, N.C., where his father is a janitor, his mother a cleaning woman. After a poor start at DePauw University (one B, two Ds, an F), Milton raised his marks to four As, a B, a C, made the varsity baseball team and became president of the literary magazine...
...After a campaign whipped up by the local press and an outfit calling itself the "Fluoridation Education Society of the Carolinas," Mayor Leon Schneider of Gastonia, N.C. ordered a halt to fluoridation of the city's water. Symptoms falsely attributed to the tooth-saving fluoridation process: "excessive thirst, spine becomes stiff, nausea, mental alertness deteriorates, nails become brittle and peel, vision becomes blurred." One hysterical woman phoned the mayor: "People are dying like flies." In contrast, the U.S. Public Health Service reported soberly and scientifically on the tenth year of fluoridation in Grand Rapids, Mich.: it has reduced children...
Small Talk. In Gastonia, N.C., stopped by police for wrong-way driving on a oneway street, J. C. Crump protested that he had not had a drink all day, was arrested and fined $100 when his four-year-old son piped from the back seat: "Why daddy, you just took a drink when you let mamma out at the employment office...
Valuable Loss. Last September, attracted by a tax loss of $11 million, Sonnabend bought control of Botany Mills, an oldtime worsted manufacturer hard hit by the textile depression. To make use of its tax loss, Botany bought money-making Gastonia Combed Yarn Corp., Jewel Cotton Mills and Gurney Mfg. for $14 million. By writing its losses off against the mills' profits, the purchase was made largely an intracompany, bookkeeping operation, cost Botany little in cash...