Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last month of 1985, McNeely's office collected $1,820.65 in fines, double or triple the amount his predecessors usually brought in. Wearing a leather vest, a .357 in a holster and silver conches on his belt, the marshal was going over his ledgers when an elderly woman stuck her head in the door. "This is a $10 fine," she said. "I just don't think this is fair to the tourist. I was only there a little while...
Returning to his paperwork, the marshal pulled out the fruits of his labor thus far, and in the doing made the point that he inherited a bureaucratic mess. The files are tidy now, and thorough, as is personnel. McNeely replaced the old crew with six new deputies. "Look here," he said, going back to the early entries in one journal. "Now look here," he said, flipping to recent jottings covering a like period of time. "Four pages of tickets rather than that one little dinky one. We had officers start doing their jobs. That's what happened...
...lead to bigger things. One example: a bicycle obscured an auto license plate. The car was stopped, and it yielded eleven bags of a "brown mushroom substance I can't pronounce (psilocybin), although I know it's a dangerous drug," some marijuana and pills. Large cases or little, the marshal said, you have to be on your toes. Mothers used to come down to the saloons and leave their children outside on the benches until all hours. McNeely now enforces a 10 p.m. curfew for everyone under...
...woman shopkeeper in Tombstone said one afternoon, "I wouldn't mind the marshal if he weren't so damned Goody Two-Shoes...
...movies in which they take the Lord's name in vain? So what if Sunset Carson is his hero? So what if he drinks sarsaparilla at the Crystal Palace? "The people are beginning to realize they're either gonna have law enforcement," the marshal said,"or they're gonna let the riffraff take over the town." For his part, no matter whether he is reappointed for two more years this fall, the man is stuck on Tombstone. The other day, he traded his Winnebago and a 1948 diamond- studded, flat-top Gibson guitar for a 65-ft. mobile home...