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...free, we're incorporated, and we're the eleventh largest city in the state of Washington," shouted the master of ceremonies one evening last week, as 2,000 residents of Richland (pop. 23,000) gathered to watch a simulated atomic explosion and a bonfire lit by an atomic fuse. Cause for celebration: after 15 years as a company town servicing the big-secret plutonium works known as the Hanford Atomic Project, Richland had voted itself out from under the paternalistic wings of the Atomic Energy Commission and General Electric, prime AEC contractor. And the vote had carried...
...Reason No. 1 was a rocking farm revolt that, in 16 predominantly farming counties, cut Republican strength 14% below the Kohler vote against Proxmire for governor in 1954. In dairy-rich Richland County, dogged Candidate Proxmire increased his percentage of the vote from 23% in 1952 to 40% in 1954 to 50% last week-to carry the county by 90 votes. The Wisconsin State Journal's farm editor reported that farmers were for Proxmire because their costs are up and their prices down and because the Democrats were promising more relief...
...first and only lady banker in Richland, Kans. (pop. 200), Democrat Georgia Neese Clark Gray, whose signature graced the nation's folding money when she was Treasurer of the U.S. (1949-1953) organized a weekly whistling contest, limited to kids under 16. Reasons: obscure. Prizes: two shiny silver dollars. "I just love to hear the sound of whistling," burbled Mrs. Gray. "Why be gloomy when you can be cheerful...
ATOMIC TOWNS built by the U.S. Government will be opened to private ownership. The AEC has decided to sell 10,000 houses, hundreds of commercial buildings and vacant lots in Oak Ridge, Tenn. and Richland, Wash., will give present residents priority, but will also sell to other homeowners and business interests. Assessed value: $89.5 million...
Inside Job. In Richland Center, Wis., haled into court for stealing his brother-in-law's car, Melvin Vest, 21, got a one-to-five-year sentence, explained to the judge: "I thought my sister deserved to have a new car, and I figured if I stole the old one, they could buy a new one with the insurance money." One-Way Traffic. In Nanaimo, B.C., after he was fined $10 for drunkenness when police found him carrying on a one-sided conversation with a shapely store-window mannequin, Logger Lome Curtis explained that he was not trying...