Word: kirks
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...meter hurdles--1. Danville (BU) 50.6:2. Ward (BU) 51.5:3. Kirk (BC) 53.3. 800 meters--1. Neves (MIT) 1:50.8:2. Bunny (H) 1:51.4:3. Sergeant (NU) 1:52.2. 200 meters--1. Smith (BU) 20.8.2.8: 2. Garrick (BU) 21.2;3. Jones (H) 21.2. Polevault--1. Heyburn (NU) 16 ft. 0 in.: 2. Hutchinson (NU) 14-6:3. Yates (NU) 14-6. 5000 meters--1. Vona (BU) 14:50.3;2. Flynn (NU) 14:51.0;3. Conner (B) 15:02. 4 x 400-meterrelay--1. BU (Birigwa, Witcner, Ward. Danville...
...power of the later clan--known to some County residents as the "Housing Agency family"--was shaken somewhat in 1967 when its patriarch, then Judge-Executive Willie Kirk, was convicted of embezzling federal funds and sentenced to 20 years in prison. But five months after his conviction Kirk was pardoned by President Nixon and a few years later regained his former post. In the meantime, his wife held the position...
Although a recent election and substantially reshaped county government, in 1978 Kirk and his children, cousins and in-laws held the posts of judge-executive, county planner, treasurer, school board member, executive director of the housing agency (which distributes federal housing funds) and several other smaller posts throughout the county...
...playing this role has not always proved easy. Marcum started to rival the Martin Mercury, which was owned and operated by John Kirk, a local attorney. The Mercury eventually folded, to be replaced a week later by the Martin County Times which was published out of the same offices. ("It didn't miss a beat. It was an attempt to try new faces and new places and win back the credibility that the Mercury had lost," Marcum says...
...Times also lasted only one year, but Kirk has proved a determined opponent. So far the Countian has been sued nine times--four times by John Kirk, five times by his clients, relatives or friends. Although the Countian has yet to lose a case, the situation has been trying for Marcum and his few reporters. Countian reporters have been stonewalled and physically attacked by county officials, and once, when word got out that the next issue would captain names of all voters who had entered the voting booth in pairs, the Times ran a banner headline proclaiming "Homer Marcum Buys...