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determined that most of the damage was to the windshields of older cars. In cases were auto lots were involved, brand new cars were unpitted; used cars were. The damage had been there all along, it had just gone unnoticed. Sergeant Max
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to the city in 1962. Pomeroy had to bring in community and business leaders, as well as a petition campaign, to convince the city council to approve an $ 8.5 million bond issue to build the opera house and sports center needed to attract
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neighborhood. As a result, a program was started to improve police relations with the black community. Several police officers participated in intercultural workshops sponsored by the
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being pitted. Close to 3,000 windshields had been reported as being pitted, and no one knew what to do. Under pressure, Pomeroy first wired
Washington Governor
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all the damage reports were "5 percent hoodlum-ism, and 95 percent public hysteria." Area residents had become participants in a
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fraternity chapter. He earned his law degree from the
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and others were enrolled in race relations classes at
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431:"Sigma Pi In The News: Mayor of Seattle"
192:(1907-July 7, 1966) was the forty-third
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609:. Seattle, Washington
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