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...summer of 1935 a Pontiac, Mich. factory mechanic named Hildred Gumarsol drove his trailer to Orchard Lake, removed the wheels, jacked it onto blocks, built a front porch, settled down for the summer. Several other trailers followed suit, paying the owner of the land the usual small parking fee. Most of them drove away at summer's end, but Gumarsol left his trailer there all winter, returned last summer to live in it again. Last month, angry owners of nearby real estate brought suit, charging that he was violating a village ordinance by living in a dwelling with less...
...Pope-Hartford, Theodore MacManus has been famed as an automotive adman. Born in Buffalo 60-odd years ago ("I have never bothered to look it up"), he has at one time or another written copy for practically every existent make of automobile, many a defunct one. Cadillac and Pontiac are now the chief accounts of MacManus, John & Adams Inc. "T. F." MacManus has never learned to drive...
...Pontiac, Mich., 24-year-old Jerold E. Oaks obtained a marriage license, paid for it with a silver dollar-first money he ever earned. Said he: "It was my pay for a day's work on a golf course when I was only ten. I prized it so much that I kept it until I could find the most that a dollar could...
Michigan and other states investigating the Legion found its odor distinctly unpleasant. Outraged Pontiac. Mich, citizens, hearing that many of their city officials were connected with Legion activities, began an inquiry of their own. The appearance of Wayne County Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea's name on a Legion membership blank caused a fine furor in Detroit. To Washington went frantic wires from the Midwest begging the G-Men to step in. Introduced in the U. S. House and Senate was a joint resolution demanding a Congressional investigation...
...Born in Pontiac, Ill., 58 years ago, Metalman Marsh began fiddling with chemistry in a woodshed. Quitting the University of Illinois after an argument with his chemistry professor, he worked with the State Water Survey Office testing Illinois River water, later with Chicago Storage Battery Co., where he became interested in the heat resistant qualities of metal conductors. William Hoskins, a consulting chemist, let Marsh use his lab oratory after work to tinker with alloys, later took him into the firm of Mariner & Hoskins. That is where Chromel was born. Hoskins Co. was incorporated in 1908, marketing an electric furnace...