Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission has sent to the Cambridge Liscensing Board evidence of sale of liquor to minors in four local restaurants, William H. Hearn, secretary of the ABC, disclosed yesterday...
...local licensing board is expected to receive the commission's evidence some time this morning. The ABC did not make any recommendations as to the course of action, nor will it take any action itself...
...spot-check of the local resturants last night indicated that most of them were either unaware of or unimpressed by the possibility of board action, and did not ask for identification even in questionable cases...
However, the added that "Local authorities have not eliminated that violent opposition and, under the law, I yesterday issued a proclamation calling upon the mob to disperse...
When a group of townspeople asked Pacific Power & Light, which had recently bought out local Wyoming electric utility interests, to build a coal-fired steam electric plant at Glenrock, the company had no more idea of complying, said one company official, "than we had of flying to the moon." But, for the sake of public relations, the company agreed to send geologists. Their reports were eye-popping. Within 15 miles of an ideal plant site were 50 million tons of coal in fat seams, close enough to the surface to be mined by power shovels. Last year Pacific Power broke...