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...years as a teacher in little (pop. 2,500) Lakeland, Ga., Mrs. Armstrong B. Baskin, 64, never aroused anything but praise in the community. A farmer's wife, she worked hard for her $3,300 a year, was well liked both by her elementary-school pupils and by their parents. Last week Minnie Lee Baskin was out of a job. Reason: she had outraged the sensibilities of Lakeland's whites...
Last week she reconsidered, insisted that her resignation "is illegal because it was under duress." But no one around town really thinks that Schoolmistress Baskin will ever teach in Lakeland again. "What is my crime?" she once demanded of a school-board member. "Not a thing," said that worthy, "except you put a white boy on a nigger bus, and a lot of folks don't like...
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Hutcheson will leave his 803,000 carpenters with an antiquated $15-a-month pension system and a treasury worth $15 million. He also leaves his pet project, a luxurious $4,000,000 home for retired carpenters at Lakeland, Fla. The home was finished in 1928 on Big Bill's private whim, cost each carpenter an assessment of $6, now houses only 350 retired members, who are too feeble to play much golf on the adjoining Hutcheson golf links. Near by is Big Bill's own private residence where, in fitting surroundings, he plans to spend the winters...
...Bill") Hutcheson, 75, beefy boss of the powerful (737,514 members) carpenters and joiners union, A.F.L. bigwig (first vice president), twice chairman of the Republican National Committee's labor division; and Madeline Wilson, 57, superintendent of his union's hospital; both for the second time; in Lakeland...