Word: tonasket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During his 1962 re-election campaign, Washington Democratic State Representative John Goldmark and his ex-Communist wife Sally were loudly labeled subversives by the weekly Tonasket Tribune and some local John Birchers. When Goldmark lost, he and his wife slapped a $225,000 libel suit on five of their critics. Last winter the trial jury denied recovery to Sally, but awarded $40,000 to Goldmark on the grounds that he was beaten by criticism that overreached the limits of fair comment (TIME...
...Grounds. That's where the case began. Ashley E. Holden, 69, publisher of the weekly Tonasket Tribune (circ. 1,013), ran a news story pointing up Goldmark's membership in the American Civil Liberties Union, which he said was "closely affiliated with the Communist movement in the United States." A Holden editorial called Goldmark "a tool of a monstrous conspiracy to remake America into a totalitarian state...
...charge right through, and when I put him in an arena with a six-foot fence, he'd jump right over it." Now Kelsey tethers Aught to a stake in the ground, far away from the bull corral, and there Aught benignly holds court for the youngsters of Tonasket, Wash. He lets them pet him, pull his ears and tail, feed him hay, clamber all over his broad back. "I'm never afraid of Aught getting mean with people," says Owner Kelsey. "Heck, he's our family...
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