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Despite the space-age image that Houston seeks to convey, a group of businessmen has hired shotgun squads to protect their retail establishments from the holdup men-called hijackers in Texas-who have been terrorizing the town. The need was obvious. There was an average of 190 armed robberies a month last year. During the first four months of 1967, the figure leaped to 290. The police department, starved for funds by a penurious local government, has been of little help. Other cities of 1,000,000 or more have an average police-citizenry ratio of about...
Long-Standing Pleas. Short's ban on police participation in the shotgun squads forced the detective agency to hire retired cops, and the private security force that started at 70 now numbers fewer than 50 men. Nonetheless, the vigilantes have already earned their keep. Their presence has forced the city government to reconsider long-standing pleas to increase the size of the regular police force. And in the first three weeks after the guards had been hired, the three dry-cleaning chains suffered not a single robbery...
Soon it was full combat between police and snipers in the hall. Some 500 police stormed the dormitory, pouring more than 3,000 rounds of shotgun and carbine fire into the building. Officer Dale Dugger, 32, took a bullet wound in the cheek. Patrolman Louis Kuba, 25, was hit in the forehead and died six hours later. "It looked like the Alamo," said one policeman. Somehow, only one student was wounded. After the cops had raged through the dormitory, virtually all of its 144 rooms were wrecked-TV sets kicked in, clothes destroyed and even the housemother's sewing...
...Shotgun Marriage...
Susskind's response was to brand their words "utter nonsense." "Commercial television," he said, "is a shotgun marriage between big business and show business. If a piece of art eventuates, it is a gorgeous coincidence...