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Bloomington, Ind...
...were more cosmetic than effective, but they were almost always imaginative. In Milwaukee, the public safety committee of the city's common council last week began meeting by candlelight. The Geauga Times Leader of Chardon, Ohio, was offering free advertising space for commuters organizing car pools. In Rensselaer, Ind., Mayor Emmett W. Eger turned off all of the city's 425 street lights - until after four burglaries, citizens demanded that the lights come on again. "People thought I was a son of a b. for dousing the lights, but what do I care?" he said. "If everyone...
MICHAEL MAREENA Terre Haute, Ind...
...West Hartford, Conn., are working on plans to close for a month during December and January. To guarantee heat for their houses, consumers rushed out to buy wood-burning stoves and electric saws. One farmer who will not be touched by scarcities is Dick Shuttleworth, who lives near Muncie, Ind. He has put together a Rube Goldberg contraption that transforms his plentiful supply of manure into methane gas, which powers his lights, refrigerator and even his Ford pickup...
...change booth has gone home for the night. On particularly bad nights, the iron monster will swallow your quarter and not allow you on the platform. But there is nothing in Boston that quite compares with the view from the 59th Street platform of the IND line in New York when the D train slides in, marked "PEPE 125" in six-foot letters, three cars wide...