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...movement's communications network is often more sophisticated than its judgment, which means that any mysterious incident gets blown into a conspiracy epic. Take, for instance, the "invasion" of Okanogan County in northwest Washington State. It began last September when a local cattle rancher stumbled across a backwoods military camp teeming with men in fatigues. Word quickly spread that the invasion of U.N. troops had finally begun. When concerned citizens showed up at Sheriff Jim Weed's office, Weed grabbed the telephone and soon learned that the men in cammies were actually border-patrol officials conducting a joint operation with...
...case was being tried in the small town of Okanogan, Wash. (pop. 2,001), but it had a big-city price tag: the plaintiffs asked $225,000 damages for libel and conspiracy. The cast of characters read like the line-up for a movie: an admitted ex-Communist, an organizer for the John Birch Society, two former state legislators (one a Democrat, the other Republican) and a dapper weekly newspaper publisher. Bit parts were to be played by a Hollywood star and an ex-U.S. Senator...
...lead was played by John Goldmark, 46, a Harvard law graduate with a prosperous Okanogan Valley wheat, beef and quarter-horse ranch he bought after getting out of the Navy in 1945. He had been handily elected three times to the state legislature in Olympia, where he rose to chairman of the house ways and means committee. His wife Sally had been a Communist Party member from 1935 until a year after their marriage in 1942, a fact that became public during Goldmark's 1962 re-election campaign...
...federal amusement tax on movie tickets has been a burden to exhibitors ever since it was instituted as a wartime measure (10% in 1917, 20% in 1944). It became a bigger pain in the box office when television caught on. Last month Loris Gillespie, a theater owner in Okanogan, Wash. (pop. 2,000), decided to fight back. He advertised "Honor or Donation Night," invited patrons to pay what they pleased to a girl in the lobby instead of paying the box-office rate...
...Chamber of Commerce of Omak, Wash. (pop. 3,000), refused to sponsor the Okanogan County preliminaries for this gear's Miss America beauty contest when it learned that, under the terms of the franchise, only white girls could compete. One-third of Omak lies in the Colville Indian reservation...