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There are people who buy and sell tattered Superman comics and old telephones, but the citizens of Grafton, Iowa (pop. 254), are learning that fortunes can be made out of empty beer cans. The town fathers celebrated Grafton's centennial last month by ordering up 48,000 cans of "Hundertjahriges Jubilaum Beer" (the town has a lot of German descendants) from a Minnesota brewer. They ordered another 12,000 empty cans as souvenirs. The beer has done a brisk business at $1 per can, but the empties, at the same price, have done even better, thanks to ads placed...
...added the school will also encompass a large new veterinary facility scheduled for completion in 1981 in Grafton. The 600-acre site, formerly the grounds of Grafton State Hospital, was donated by the state of Massachusetts...
...proposal involves setting up the first two years of a veterinary program at Tufts's medical center in Boston and building a large-animal facility in Grafton, Mass. for later clinical work...
...week. His suits were uncharacteristically rumpled, his shoes unshined, his waistline bulging more than it did a few months ago. But he was tan, handsomely graying and in top political form. Meeting high school students, he did not lecture them but sounded out their opinions on national policy. At Grafton, a local policeman mumbled about Chappaquiddick and complained that Kennedy had swiped his Bic pen to sign autographs. But when he caught sight of the Senator, the cop shook his hand enthusiastically and said...
...GRAFTON M. COMEGYS