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Show IS TV Salt Lake Trfbtme, Samday, April 9. 1978 Buried Bordello Bills? A Little Task for Mutilated Money Agency been defaced floods, fires, etc Jan D Klunder Los Angeles Times By Writer - In WASHINGTON the early 1900s, the madame of a brothel in Charlottesville, Va , dis- termites, After examining the money found under the old bordello, the bureaus experts determined that $15,000 was redeemable. trusting hanks, buried her business revenues in containers under the house Three years ago workers tore down the old bordello and city residents, who had suspected that money was hidden there, uncovered hundreds of mason jars filled with the hoarded wages the happy finders. We perform a humanistic service that many people arent aware of, Melvin an agency official, Weve had all said. sorts of odd cases in Gab-roue- l, agency, said the largest claim ever filed with the bureau involved an armored car company. One of its guards had dropped a cigarette into a vault as he was locking it and 35 bags of money in the vault were set on fire. currency and determine how much is redeemable. To declare a damaged bill redeemable, the examiners must be able to identify at least half the their ovens Time after time weve received letters from people who turned the oven on, we've replaced money. One person claimed a cow swallowed his money, so he sent us the cow's stomach and we replaced what we could verify. More people than you can imagine hide money in which and that sum was sent to by time, forgetting the money was there. Specially trained examiners use morticians' knives to separate the note Dons Hanford, assistant manager of the Because the vault had a time lock, it could not Iw opened until the next morning; and by that time, the company said, $375,000 had been destroyed . We were able to iden-tifand replace all but y Mrs Hanford said. Every spring, when farmers are planting their crops, they find wallets full of money they lost last year, Treasury official O H. Tomkinson said. $20 (Ml, SOUTH EAST PRESENTS DECORATIVE DINING from DE SOTO of sm There was one drawback. The money was in a state of disrepair rivaling that of the madams old employees. Time had so weathered the green- These beautiful pieces of De Soto furniture have been created by one of Americas foremost designers. 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A year ago I would have looked at it very he said, seriously, noting it would have improved considerably his federal retirement benefits. One reason was that it would have required altime service and I would have had a problem in winding down my law practice," he said But more important. I had already recommended to the White House a candidate for the commission. His candidate was identified by the senator only as a Utahn The same congressional source said he had heard that Mrs Due was the Moss candidate and this was confirmed by Mrs. Due who is now administrative assistant to Sen. Howard M V (S2E3ID Frink and most immediate , WATERBEDS represented Utah in the Senate for 18 years until unseated 16 months ago by Republican Orrin G. Hatch, is now a member of the Washington law firm of Moss, AQUANAUT - The Model Hi J587W teatures AMFM-Stere- o with AFC and FM Tuner-Am- p Record AutomaticManual Filter, Changer and $349 Tape Playar Rag 4 278 |