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Newspaper
Petal Paper
Location
Petal, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1956
Page
2
A Denver Post opinion piece mocks English fondness for boiled eggs and imagines square egg cups transforming tea time. It contrasts British and American habits, hints at a shift to plastic, and ends with the adage America giveth and taketh away.
A hard hitting report details how extortion schemes by union officials and mob linked figures spread across the nation. Evan Dale led a vast system threatening laborers, with a one percent kickback on a $100 million atomic plant in Joppa. Other figures like Paul Halahan Orell Soubie and George J Walters faced indictments and prison terms for schemes that raised costs for the government and consumers.
A report details racketeering by labor officials and mobsters targeting businesses in Portland Oklahoma and New England textiles. Union toughs reportedly extract payments from contractors in Long Island communities while racketeers in pipe pipelines and jukebox and pinball sectors imply broad extortion.
The report alleges widespread union related violence from Miami to Las Vegas to Granite City with murders, extortion, and mob tactics. It describes a mob in Granite City halting a levee project, mob influence reaching Scranton and midtown Manhattan, and shop owners in small cities pressured by former mob affiliates running rival unions.
A stark report outlines how organized crime operates bookie ventures in auto plants across New Jersey, warning that unions are manipulated by mob influence. Details claim families earn up to 107 a week from rackets while prices rise for manufacturers and consumers, with children not spared.
Three-man AFL-CIO board confirms chartering of a carnival union as racket ridden and reports the fouselerand influenced unions reaching into small hamlets. Town Journal notes dog odor tips and pet care sprays as unrelated feature in the issue.
A recorded exchange shows a man from East Side resisting dictation and weasel words while asserting solidarity with the underprivileged. He emphasizes education in a one room schoolhouse and vows to fight for the people, inviting orderly, candid discussion with interviewers.
Public notice that substitute trustee will auction the real estate secured by a 1954 deed of trust in Forrest County. The sale, set for the first Monday of October 1958, will take place at the east front door of the Forrest County Courthouse in Hattiesburg, to satisfy the secured indebtedness. The deed names Kaiser C Runnels as beneficiary and B H Baker as original trustee, with the trust recorded in Book 169. The description references property in Forrest County and the mortgage default.
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