Young Michigan boy buys repossessed house to rent
Freddie Simmons 13 buys a HUD listed repossessed home with odd job earnings and plans to rent it next month for 130 to 140 dollars a month. His father and grandfather support his plumbing carpentry and painting efforts while his mother notes a minor cannot legally buy. The family questions the eventual value of the property after repairs.
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Pontiac
Mich
Freddie Simmons
Michigan
Fred Simmons Jr
Freddie
Simmons
al Branch
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Clarice
Pipeline Break Ignites Giant Blaze in Alabama
Transcontinental Pipeline Co reports a 30 inch line rupture caused a fire seen 75 miles away with no injuries. The blaze began near 11 p.m. Friday from a weld joint rupture, isolated by midnight and dying out around 3 a.m. Saturday. Officials say scarce gas escaped and service remained uninterrupted.
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Uniontown
Ala
Transcontinental Pipeline Co
Perry County
John A. Hughes
Houston
Tex
Alabama
Texas
Newark
Saroyan Urges Faith Behind Writers’ Ideas
William Saroyan tells high school students in Madera that writers do not exhaust ideas but faith and energy. He notes only inexperienced writers run out of ideas, a problem born from insecurity and fault-finding. The 68 year old Pulitzer winner remains prolific with 44 books and a mysterious current project.
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Madera
Calif
William Saroyan
Saroyan
Three-Year-Old Driver Disastrous Parking Lot Rampage
In Bordentown New Jersey a 3 year old girl Kimberly Hall caused a parking lot spree rambling into four cars as her mother and aunt watched. She was uninjured. In London actor Michael Wilding 64 is recovering from pneumonia at the National Hospital after the previous year’s death of his third wife actress Margaret Leighton. He was married to Elizabeth Taylor from 1952 to 1957.
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Bordentown
Kimberly Hall
Kimberly
London
Michael Wilding
National Hospital
Wilding
Margaret Leighton
Elizabeth Taylor
Weather pattern puzzles defy simple cause says scientists
A San Diego youth proposes unplugging East Coast refrigerators to save energy as ERDA officials note no impact on gas shortages. Meteorologists explain Arctic air has shifted south, causing a multi month severe winter from the Rockies to the East with limited reliable forecasts.
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San Diego
Energy Research and Development Administration
Jeff Lake
ERDA
Archie Kelley
Kelley
Washington
Pacific
Alaska
Gilman
Rockies
Robert Dickson
Enthusiasts Defy Cold in January Festivities
Subzero Midwest weather failed to deter activity as a few dozen enthusiasts staged ice golf and tennis on Mirror Lake during the July in January event. Reporters chased winter hardships from Charleston to Baltimore where a girl sold Girl Scout cookies and florists fear losses from freezing in greenhouses.
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Midwest
Lake Placid
N.Y
Chamber of Commerce
Mirror Lake
Charleston
W.va
Chuck Landon
Charleston Daily Mail
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