Word: pickrel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tommy's Oasis, many another neon-lit saloon along Highway 90. Somehow, the political powers who ran Calcasieu Parish -longtime Judge Mark Pickrel, Sheriff Henry ("Ham") Reid, District Attorney Griffin Hawkins-did not seem to notice what was going on. But Editor Dixon, 36, onetime AP war correspondent and roving INS columnist, is no newsman to let bad enough alone. With the backing of Publisher Thomas Shearman, he ripped in after gambling...
...betting in 35 of them, turned the affidavits over to District Attorney Hawkins. Last month, P.A.G. asked a grand jury to charge Ham Reid (the fourth generation Reid to be Calcasieu Parish sheriff) with malfeasance. Gambling suddenly stopped. Hawkins used the affidavits to take 33 barkeeps before Judge Pickrel on gambling charges. The gamblers got off with light fines and suspended jail sentences, and the American Press pointed out that suspended sentences are usually given only to first offenders. It spread over six columns of its front page the police records of 15 men whose names were the same...
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