Americana

Notes on U.S. customs, habits, manners & morals:

P: In Audubon, N J., Mrs. Myrtle S. Lewis defied a notice from her landlord to vacate a six-room house. Landlord David C. Lang then removed the roof. But the First Presbyterian Church Men's Club started building Mrs. Lewis a new roof. Despite a risk of prosecution for trespassing, the Men's Club remained firm in its "belief that all people should have roofs over their heads."

P: In Schuylkill Haven, Pa., voters were disconcerted to learn that they had elected to their borough council a John McHarty, Republican, who did not exist.

P: In Dublin, N.H., the 156th annual edition of the Old Farmer's Almanac predicted that 1948 would be a year of bitter winter, fleeting summer, sun spots and crop failures.

P: At Cheyenne, famed Train Robber William ("Wild Bill") Carlisle, 57, was granted a full pardon by the State of Wyoming. In his prime, Wild Bill bedeviled the U.P. line as it has never been bedeviled since. Always sending the road a taunting advance notice, he successfully robbed three U.P. trains in 1916, had a price of $11,500 on his head and 1,000 men hunting him before he was captured and sent to prison for life. Paroled in 1932, he went straight, now runs a tourist camp near Laramie.

P: Alcoholics Anonymous reported that A.A. membership had jumped from 7,000 to 50,000 in four years.

P: At Garden City, Kans., a state W.C.T.U. convention adopted a resolution opposing universal military training because "it will take our boys away from the Christian atmosphere of their homes and put them in a liquor-infested Army."

P: In Camden, N.J., two tomcats, Pitty Sing and Budgie, were formally adjudged the beneficiaries of the $36,000 estate of Sarah Y. Furber, a retired schoolmarm;

P: The high cost of living put the Federal Government's H.C.L. expert out of business. Lester S. Kellogg, who was making $8,500 a year as chief of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' prices-cost-of-living branch, resigned, accepted an executive job with a farm-machinery manufacturer.

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