Veterans Exploiters Target Veterans Housing Programs
DOUGLAS LARSEN reports that many veterans harmed by unscrupulous contractors find their homes built in a legal gap. Federal probes aim to expose flaws in early postwar veterans housing, with 390 investigators reviewing over 30,000 complaints and actions against hundreds of sellers who overcharged or engaged in illicit practices.
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Washington
NEA
H. Graham Morison
U. S
Baltimore
John Doe
Congress
Federal Housing Agency
Asst
Gen. Morison
Town Meeting House Changes Faith Again
In Marshfield Massachusetts the old meeting house has shifted faiths several times. Once a Congregational church it housed combined Congregational Baptist and Unitarian services and then a Baptist church. Now it is Trinity Church within the Massachusetts Episcopal diocese.
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Town Meeting House
Marshfield
Mass
South Shore
Mreeting House
Massachusetts Episcopal Diocese
Trinity Church
Ancient oil pits in Pennsylvania unearthed by prehistoric people
Remains of timber lined oil pits are found in Pennsylvania dating back centuries before Native Indian arrival. The excavation suggests a long history of petroleum use long before documented colonial activity.
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Pennsylvania
North America
Investigation Aims to Clean Builders From Market
The speaker hopes the inquiry will weed out unscrupulous builders and protect future home buyers, noting that wrongdoing can occur in any new house construction. The goal is to remove bad actors and restore trust in the industry.
Nudists Switch States For More Sunshine
Omaha based nudist leader H P Ferree, 73, leaves his Valley camp to establish a new Garden of Eden at Golden Colorado. He says Nebraska isn’t close enough to the sun, and the Colorado colony will live naked and unashamed with a fruitarian vegetarian code and no smoking or drinking. About 30 Omaha area couples visited his Valley camp last year.
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Omaha
Neb
H. P. Ferree
Nebraska
Valley
Golden
Colo
Ferce
Colorado
New “Garden of Eden
Feree
State Photographers Image Oregon for Tax Value Index
Aerial photographers have photographed nearly 60 percent of Oregon’s landscape for a master picture index used to appraise property for taxation. State Tax Commissioner Wallace Wharton said the program covers broad areas to aid tax assessments.
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Salem
Ore
Oregon
Wallace Wharton
Cartographic Taste Index aids assessors since 1836
Wharton notes the index helps county assessors and field appraisers judge property value. Photographs cover forest and farm areas with high accuracy and reveal improvements made on the land, aiding in valuation. Better fence post device patented by Harold Strauss and Albert Simon saves labor on farms by allowing tool free electric fence insulator attachment in a slotted post.
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Wharton
Falls City
Neb
Harold EB. Strauss
Albert Simon
Oregon Coast Sea Lion Rookery Near Florence
The only mainland sea lion rookery in the world is located on the Oregon coast near Florence. Sea lions inhabit large caves carved into the rocky shoreline by the sea ages ago.
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Oregon Coast
Florence
Oregon Forest Lands Feature Vast Acreage And Alpine Lakes
Oregon contains over 29 million acres of forest lands with scores of Alpine lakes and hundreds of miles of mountain streams, dominated by high mountain peaks.
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Oregon
No Counties in Louisiana Parishes Replace Counties
A reader notes Louisiana uses parishes instead of counties and mentions Nebraska soil value lies in grass crops like hay alfalfa and clover with a remark on sparing waxing of shoes.
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Louisiana
Nebraska
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