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Although newspapers are exempted from the law, editors protested that it was an infringement of freedom of the press. The law, said Odom Fanning, president of the Atlanta chapter of the journalism fraternity, Sigma Delta Chi, "could be used to bring about 'thought control,' the odious practice [of] all dictatorships...
...Without Indians. Confronted with the election results, the school board felt it no longer had the authority to run the schools. Its last official act was to close them down. With that, the rest of the town began to wake up. "We just went to sleep," cried Pastor Randall Odom of the First Baptist Church. "We didn't think it could happen...
Flying the same Beechcraft Bonanza used by the late Bill Odom for his 1949 record hop from Honolulu to Teterboro, N.J., Illinois Congressman Peter F. Mack Jr., 34, left Springfield on the first lap of his round-the-world "Abraham Lincoln Good Will Tour." The purpose: to visit the people of some 30 nations and convince them that "Americans don't want war any more than they do." He expects to be home by January with some results to report...
Died. William P. Odom, 30, globe-girdling veteran flyer; in an airplane crash (his F51 Mustang went out of control at Cleveland's National Air Races); in Berea, Ohio. Odom's round-the-world flight in April 1947 (78 hrs. 55 min.) broke Howard Hughes's record; his solo global trip four months later in a converted A26 bomber (73 hrs. 5 min.) shattered Wiley Post's old solo mark; his 5,000-odd-mi. hop in 36 hours from Honolulu to Teterboro, N.J. last March set a new light-plane record...
That was the way Odom and his employer, Wichita's Beech Aircraft Corp., wanted him to look. They wanted to impress U.S. executives with the reliability, range, and low operating costs of personal planes. Odom's fuel bill for the trip...