Word: townships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Operating Surplus. In Camden, N.J., the Courier reported that "the value of stolen property in the township [Pennsauken] during the year [1950] was $35,348, while Pennsauken police recovered...
...Long. In Merion township, Pa., John Dopp McGhee explained to cops how he happened to be in a parked car on a lonely road at night with a trumpet, a pistol, a rifle and cartridges: the firearms were to ward off anyone who might molest him while he played his trumpet...
Money Isn't Everything. In Alexandria, Va., someone broke into the New Majestic Cafe, fried himself a steak, left $100 in the cash register untouched. In Providence Township, Pa., an armed thug visited Mrs. Doris Walton, ordered scrambled eggs, sat down with her to watch television-at gunpoint-for three hours...
Over the protests of the neighbors, Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke, 37, got the go-ahead signal from Hillsborough Township to build a perfumed piggery housing some 3,000 corn-fed porkers on her 2,300-acre New Jersey estate...
...Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke petitioned the township of Hillsborough, NJ. for the right to build a piggery in which even hogs could eat high on the hog. She proposed to construct quarters for 2,500 pigs, provide the establishment with a high pressure pen-flushing system, air-conditioning units, and atomizers to keep the flies off each and every porker. Snorted a neighboring farmer: "If she grows hogs that smell good they won't be hogs...