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Last week, with help from the Tribune, the committee put on the record some facts that the Tribune had long wanted to print but dared not, because of the danger of a libel suit. One witness testified that Sheriff Hugh Culbreath of Hillsborough County (which includes Tampa) had received campaign contributions from one of the city's most notorious underworld hoodlums. In its coverage of the hearings (30 columns the first day), the Tribune pulled no punches, despite the fact that Sheriff Culbreath's son had been married to the daughter of Tribune Publisher J. C. Council only...
Over the protests of the neighbors, Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke, 37, got the go-ahead signal from Hillsborough Township to build a perfumed piggery housing some 3,000 corn-fed porkers on her 2,300-acre New Jersey estate...
...Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke petitioned the township of Hillsborough, NJ. for the right to build a piggery in which even hogs could eat high on the hog. She proposed to construct quarters for 2,500 pigs, provide the establishment with a high pressure pen-flushing system, air-conditioning units, and atomizers to keep the flies off each and every porker. Snorted a neighboring farmer: "If she grows hogs that smell good they won't be hogs...
Died. Charles S. Howard, 73, California Buick distributor and race horse owner-in Hillsborough, Calif. In 1935 Howard paid $7,500 for a homely, wobbly-kneed three-year-old bay named Seabiscuit; at the ripe old age of seven, Seabiscuit came out of retirement to win the "Hundred Grand Santa Anita Handicap...
Josephine Connor, librarian in Hillsborough County General Hospital where Mrs. Borroto died, testified that she had waited almost two weeks before finally reporting Dr. Sander's final notation in the case because "it kind of slipped my mind." She recalled that the county medical referee had asked Dr. Sander if he didn't realize he had broken the law. Said Miss Connor: Dr. Sander replied that he did but that he had broken the law before, "he had been through stop signs and nothing ever came of it." This was more serious, the medical referee told him, this...