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Long Arm of the Law. In Muscatine, Iowa, the chief of police suspended Officer Danny Honts for conduct unbecoming an officer, charged that "Honts, on duty, in a Muscatine restaurant did lean over the counter and strike the buttocks of the waitress with a receipt book three times...
Alvina Page, 33, a waitress, was in the Julius Marks Sanatorium at Lexington, Ky. when a tough new state law went into effect, making it a crime to expose others to communicable tuberculosis. This did not stop Alvina Page. Though she had been under streptomycin treatment for communicable TB in both lungs, she walked out of the institution against the doctors' advice, went home to her husband and two children...
Last week, Police Judge Thomas Reedy made an example of Waitress Page, the first TB victim taken to court under the law: a $500 fine and six months' imprisonment, to be served under medical treatment at the sanatorium. If her disease is still rated as communicable at the end of the six months, she can be legally compelled to stay until doctors discharge...
Triple Threat. In St. Louis, in three robbery attempts in one month, John Wisdom Wallace 1) tried to hold up a grill with a toy pistol, fled empty-handed when a waitress threw a glass of water at him; 2) tried to rob a confectionery, fled empty-handed when the proprietor shot at him; 3) tried to hold up another confectionery, was tackled by 74-year-old Owner Arnold Barnes, who sat on Wallace until the police arrived...
...fairness," many a Southern newspaper has stopped identifying Negroes as such, especially when the description is not really relevant to the story (TIME, Oct. 9, 1950). Last week Southern newspapers learned that dropping the race tag can be prudent as well as fair. In Mississippi Mrs. Mary Dunigan, a waitress, sued the Natchez Times (circ. 5,438) for mistakenly identifying her as a Negro. Although the paper printed an apologetic correction, the State Supreme Court at Jackson last week awarded her $5,000 damages. Ruled the court: "In this state, to assert in print that a white woman...