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...township in Gallia County, Ohio, Rio Grande College's Clarence ("Bevo") Francis, a towering (6 ft. 9 in.) athlete who was the highest scorer (1,954 points) in U.S. collegiate basketball last season, got a reward for his sharpshooting: he was elected to the office of constable on 15 write-in votes...
...been eleven weeks since the great tornado ripped through the suburbs of Flint, Mich., killing 113, injuring 547, and destroying $12 million worth of property (TIME, June 22). The residents of Beecher Township, hardest hit by the storm, had been struggling to rebuild their homes. But only foundations and a few frames stood among the ugly scars of destruction. Then, in less than 48 hours last weekend, Beecher Township rose from the ruins...
...idea was supplied by the Rev. Henry W. Berkemeier, pastor of the township's St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church. Most of the residents had insurance or could get loans to cover the cost of building materials, the priest reasoned, but would the citizens of Flint volunteer a weekend of their labor to do the rebuilding? The people of Flint responded with a spirit that seemed to match the force of the tornado...
Sunday night the volunteers brought in an orchestra and danced in the Beecher school gymnasium, roofless since the tornado. The night was furnace-hot. Everyone had worked for two days in near-100° temperatures, and tomorrow was Monday. But no one seemed to mind. The rebuilders of Beecher Township felt just fine dancing under the stars...
...Hungry Township. For all her strange whims and strange fears and her long life in big cities, Mrs. Frazier never forgot Perryopolis, "where I was born and lived, where my father and mother . . . and my grandfather and grandmother lived ..." She asked to be buried there, and when she died five years ago, she left the town $1,500,000-roughly $1,000 for every man, woman & child who lived there. For years there were doubts that Perryopolis would be able to get it. First, six of Mrs. Frazier's cousins contested the will, and the contest failed. Secondly, Perryopolis...