Word: tulsa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tulsa Tribune's Nolen Bulloch is a canny, cool-headed reporter whose skill at unearthing stories of bootlegging, gambling and political corruption has earned him the title of "The Little Scorpion" among Oklahoma hoodlums. Last week Reporter Bulloch was indicted by a federal grand jury in Tulsa on the very charge that has jailed more than a dozen mobsters he has exposed in the Tribune. The charge: conspiracy to import liquor into bone-dry Oklahoma...
Thus newspaper ads last week announced the debut of subscription- television this summer in the growing Oklahoma oil town of Bartlesville (pop: 28,000), 60 miles north of Tulsa. Starting in June, Bartlesville TV families will be able to watch 13 first-run Hollywood films a month on their home sets, free of commercials, at a cost of $9.50, or 73? a movie...
...year later. Explains Jackson: "I was in Lubbock, Texas, and got into a conversation with a lease man in the coffee shop and told him about my Wise County deal. He mentioned the deal to a Denver friend who then mentioned it in a conversation with an associate in Tulsa on the phone the next day, and the man in Tulsa got in touch with a Chicago bookie, who had put money into oil, and happened to be in Houston. It all didn't take over three days, and the bookie called me in Dallas...
...million each year-in tax revenues, industries refuse to locate in Oklahoma because they think employees will be discontented, and small wars are erupting between bootleggers, e.g., three Oklahoma City boots were arrested last week, charged with a badly botched conspiracy to kill four competitors. Surveying the situation, Tulsa Tribune Editor Jenkin Lloyd Jones concluded: "What we have is a system of gigantic hypocrisy...
...pint pitcher without cause and finds whisky, the case can be tossed out of court for lack of a search warrant. But if he goes after a warrant, the pint pitcher disappears. As fast as he raids and closes one package store, another opens. Police liquor details are inadequate; Tulsa attempts to stem a 30,000-case-per-month consumption with a three-man detail. As it was during national Prohibition, Oklahoma public opinion is more with the bootlegger than with the police...