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...since the law dealt a heavy blow to the house-to-house selling of $1.4 billion in consumer goods each year, including some 10,000,000 magazine subscriptions. They wanted to test the constitutionality of the "Green River" ordinance which over 400 U.S. communities have adopted since Green River, Wyo. passed the first one in 1931 to slam the door on solicitors. Breard's lawyers charged that his arrest violated both freedom of the press and free speech. Last week, by 6-to-3, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled otherwise, affirmed the right of any community to restrict door...
When J. C. (for James Cash) Penney started out in 1902 in the small mining town of Kemmerer, Wyo., he had one store, a $2,000 stake in it (most of it borrowed), and high hopes for his new, cash-on-the-barrelhead business. Last week 75-year-old Jim Penney, founder of the 1,612-store J. C. Penney Co. chain (TIME, June 20, 1949), third largest general merchandise retail business in the U.S., made a sentimental journey back to Wyoming for his first store's 49th anniversary...
Practical Politics. In Cheyenne, Wyo., Dan Rees, elected county commissioner after a campaign in which he promised to be "reasonably honest," gave fair warning to the electorate in a newspaper ad: "All promises made in the heat of the campaign are hereby retracted; they are null and void and of no further value...
Died. The Rev. Dr. William Barrow Pugh, 61, since 1938 Stated Clerk of the Northern Presbyterians' General Assembly; in a truck-automobile collision; near Thermopolis, Wyo. For his wartime services as chairman of the General Commission on Army and Navy Chaplains, Dr. Pugh was awarded the U.S. Medal for Merit...
...Season. In Sheridan, Wyo., residents who turned up at the municipal swimming pool on the hottest day of the year (100° at midday) were greeted by a notice reading "Closed for the Winter...