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...average length of stay for residents of the house is two years, Randy H. Britton, a tenant of the building, said yesterday...
...East 14th Avenue in Spokane, Wash., had been held near 40°-not to save energy but to save money. 1908 East 14th is a drab four-room frame house in a blue-collar neighborhood. It cost $4,000 eight years ago, but at the time, as the present tenant explains, "they were having some trouble keeping the paint on it. Great strips would peel off. They were flopping all over the place...
...present tenant is the Most Rev. Bernard J. Topel, 75, for the past 22 years the Roman Catholic Bishop of Spokane and thus the spiritual leader of a diocese numbering 74,000 souls. People who worry about the worldly dignity of the church militant will be pleased to know that the bishop's residence was finally painted by volunteers four years ago. But going to lunch with his excellency might give them pause. These days, when the bishop brings home a guest, he tends to grin and confess, "Lost the front door key. We'll have...
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Pat and Edwin kept reinvesting their profits and borrowing to acquire more land. Today the family owns 1,900 acres and rents another 1,600?underscoring a surprising point about modern U.S. farm economics. Tenant farmers these days are no longer the classic Southern sharecroppers, who have almost disappeared, but are often expanding agriculturists like Benedict who own land too. As it grew, Pat's farm absorbed four others; in three cases, he razed and burned the houses, uprooted graceful shade trees and returned all the land to crops. Says he: "Those farms had lived...
Typical of them is Jos?., 33, who as a tenant farmer in an isolated area of Mexico's Jalisco state could earn no more than $500 in a good year. Now he works in a metals factory near Los Angeles and brings home $160 a week, counting overtime pay. In six years he has saved $2,000. Says Jos?"I love Mexico. It is very beautiful, but you can't live there. Coming to the U.S. was a question of economics...