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Sunday, April 26, 1998 — North Shore News — 14

| Thanks for the gumball

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CORPUS Christi, Texas —
Police rerort they plan to
charge a 34-year-old man ina

spree of gumball machine
thefts.

Officers were tinped by
the suspect's landlord, who
said the man paid his weekly
rent’ in quarters and chat
when he went to collect one
week, he saw a huge pile of
Jawbreakers on the floor.

And. Charles James

| Haraing,.31, was arrested in
Bountiful, Urah, and charged
; With. stealing as much as
’.§250,000 a year from vend-
ing machines (including
some in the lobbies of police

'- departments).

Police had gone to a
house seeking another man
on -a drug charge, but

’ Harding was there, too,
along with a large box of
~ quarters whose existence nei-

_ ther man ‘could adequately
explain.

The ‘town’ of Morris,
Alabama, came within a few
days of having the IRS com-
mandcer its assets to satisfy a
$60,000. back-tax bill, but it
came up with the moncy by

* mortgaging City Hall.

To solve a similar prob-
lem, Mayor Zenon Chica of
El] Palme, Peru, proposed to

auction off City Hall alto-
gether and had lined up four
bidders willing to start at
about $350,000.

Uregon State University
physics -professor — John
Gardner had a federal grant
application rejected, appar-
ently solely because it was not
typed double-space:f.
(Gardner, himself, is blind;
he was applying to work on
technology for the disabled.)

The Georgia Court - of.

Appeals has turned down,
irrevocably, an appeal by the
state in a §2.7 million per-
sonal-injury case because the
state’s paperwork was sub-
mitted in New Times Reman
typeface instead of the
required Courier.

Palm Beach Gardens,
Florida — The new pet nui-
sance code adopred by city
council permits a. maximum
of four pets, except that five
is permissible if none weighs
more than 10 pounds, and 10
is permissible if none weighs
more than one pound, and
25 is permissible (no more) if
they are all fish.

The latest man to shock
mourners by walking in to his
own funeral, according ro a
recent Reuters report from
Bahia Blanca, Argentina, was
Robinson Gonzalez, 21. (His
mother had mistakenly iden-
tified a shooting victim as her
son.)

Unlike in at least one of
the previous instances, in
which the mother of the
“deceased” died of shock
upon seeing that her off-

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