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Bobby Hackett on the cornet, Fraukile Newton on the trumpet, Vic Dickenson and J. C. Higgenbothan and their trombones, Geno Sedric on the clarinet, and the Crimson Stompers have donated their services for the program...
...Newton: Six to eight packed powder. Good skiing. Afternoon and evening tow at Commonwealth Country Club...
Campaign Funds. Sparkplug of the Tribune's anticrime campaign is redheaded Managing Editor V. M. (for Virgil Miller) Newton, 46, a Tribune staffer for 21 years. "Red" Newton started his crusade in 1947, when almost all of Tampa's municipal offices were taken over by a slate of candidates supported by Tampa's underworld. Newton sent out a squad of his staffers to find out how the election had been swung. Led by Reporter Jock Murray, a well-groomed, Nova Scotia-born Scot who looks more like a Wall Street banker than a crusading newsman, the Tribune...
...Jock Murray and Paul Wilder persuaded his angry relatives to tell all they knew. Result: a new series of stories telling how the syndicate worked, who ran it, and how payoffs were made to unnamed local officials. (The evidence was later turned over to the committee.) Then Managing Editor Newton broadened his crusade to the rest of the state...
...Tribune does not plan to ease up in its crusade until it finishes what it started out to do-clean up Tampa. Managing Editor Newton takes the long view on the duty of a newspaper. Said he: "Today's scoop is in tomorrow's ashcan, but a job done for public betterment lives long...