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Ever since some unspeakably degraded character stole his hunting dog, Arkansas' 81-year-old State Senator William Abington has conducted a vociferous and indignant legislative crusade-to make dog theft a felony (instead of a mere misdemeanor) within the borders of the "wonder state." When Senator Abington's "houn'-dawg bill" was put to a vote last week, his fellow legislators were ready...
...loyalty oath controversy. During the Spring of 1949 Tenney had submitted five loyalty oath bills to the California legislature. These and twelve other pieces of similar legislation were the products of Senator Tenney's state committee on un-American activities. Among other things, they would have made it a misdemeanor "to teach any system or plan of government except the American system upon any state school property or to inculcate preference in the mind of any pupil for any such system...
...major headache, book pilfering, has plagued the Lamont open stack system in its infancy. McNiff groups three offenses under pilfering: book hiding, book hoarding, and book theft. Officials spotted an instance of the last misdemeanor the week before Christmas vacation, and the Dean's Office severed the connections of the two students apprehended...
...State of Alabama last week set out to prove that the cross-burning, sheeted hoodlums of the Ku Klux Klan, though they might get the headlines, did not speak for Alabama. By an 84-to-4 vote, the state legislature made it a misdemeanor ($500 fine, or a year in jail) to appear in public wearing a mask. The bill, quickly signed and put into effect by Governor Jim Folsom, was the first anti-masking law enacted in the deep South since reconstruction days...
...California legislature is considering five "loyalty oath" bills, and a measure to make it a misdemeanor "to teach any system or plan of government except the American system upon any state school property or to inculcate preference in the mind of any pupil for any such system...