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Louis L. PERKINS Rector The Church of the Good Shepherd Shelton, Conn...
Horse. In Redmond, Ore., Mechanic Roy Shelton and his small son whisked down the highway in a vintage buckboard behind the most remarkable horse since Pegasus (see cut). It averaged 15 miles an hour, and a gallon of gas was feed enough for a day. Though he never had to shoe his horse, Inventor Shelton confessed it was occasionally necessary to change a tire...
...North American about $6,000,000 a year. Across the street from Union Electric on Twelfth Boulevard stands the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the great Pulitzer newspaper whose mission is policing the community. P-D's public-utility reporter, a thin-haired A. E. F. sergeant named Sam Shelton, had long been convinced that Union Electric was buying politicians. Two years ago he got a break when Union Electric's moose-tall aristocratic president Louis H. Egan eased out a vice president named Oscar Funk. Funk, who had handled Union Electric's expense accounts, knew where more...
...began a secret investigation, and Sam Shelton began a series of exclusive stories that kept P-D readers in a state of mixed rage and amusement. From testimony in trials that resulted it appeared that: In eight years Union Electric's Lobbyist Albert Laun and his friends had developed a slush fund of at least $525,000 which never appeared on Union Electric's books. One company lawyer had kicked back $111,000 in excess fees; another $42,000; a Kansas City equipment salesman had kicked back $70,000; insurance companies had refunded $80,000. This money then...
Meanwhile Dave progressed to $25 a week as editor and business manager of the Shelton Independent. One day the Tacoma News-Tribune phoned, asked how he would like to go to work there. Stunned, Dave James managed to gulp: "Yes." News-Tribune condition: Dave must write at least one Rochester tale a week...