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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1977
Page
2
Reading material from U S Department of HEW offers a free booklet Questions and Answers About Drug Abuse with a quiz on sedatives alcohol stimulants tobacco marijuana hallucinogens and narcotics Answers list drug categories and depen dence risks and notes historical waves of usage including Civil War 1950s 1960s.
In this installment professor Francis A J IIanni argues that organized crime is embedded in American economic and political life. He traces public attitudes, Kefauver and Johnson task force findings, and shifts from frontier gangs to a modern city system with Mafia influence and corruption at many government levels.
Analysis traces organized crime to urban history, showing how minority groups, politicians, and rackets intertwined. It discusses Prohibition, economic inequality, and government corruption as sustaining factors, with examples from Irish, Jewish, Italian groups and ongoing city graft.
The issue lists prices at Favorite Dry Goods Co and Crescent Hotel room rates, local marriages, a strong wind and sand storm, saloon relocation, and an 1901 ordinance on mayor and city officials salaries. It also notes church cornerstone blessings in 1927, Cameron School opening, and a knife wound incident in Cameron Hospital.
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