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Three days before Christmas, Melvin Hass, 28, an ex-major of infantry now an oil company employee, did what thousands of Kansans were doing to fortify themselves for the holidays. He drove to Missouri, bought two bottles of bourbon for himself and seven bottles for some friends and toted them in his car back to bone-dry Kansas...
When they found the whiskey they explained, a little sheepishly, that they had mistaken Hass's 1940 Lincoln coupe for the car of an out-of-state bootlegger. They were sorry for Hass, they said, but they hauled him before a county judge, who confiscated his car, his liquor and fined...
...last week the strange case of Melvin Hass had become a statewide story. Kansans who had laughed for years over flouting the law, but had done little to get it off the books, growled at the severity of Hass's penalty and at the hypocrisy of other citizens who vote dry and drink wet. In Wichita, a group of businessmen started a fund to buy a new car for Scapegoat Hass. By this week they had raised more than $800 and formed a club called: "It Could Happen to Me." They hoped that the incident would help Kansas overthrow...
...Hass, who spent the five-year gap in his college career in Mexico, as the only candidate for the office. No other executive changes were made...
Many a crash victim, said Captain Hass, has been picked up with a few broken bones and no obviously dangerous injury. Later he has sickened and died from internal damage of which his doctors were unaware. Lethal internal blows may also be dealt not by the impact of internal organs themselves, but by food in the stomach, urine in the bladder, blood in a chamber of a man's heart. Captain Hass said that if doctors had known of these crash effects in the past, many victims could have been diagnosed in time to save their lives by simple...