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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1985
Page
2
Americans now consume about 54 pounds of chicken this year up from 42.8 pounds in 1976, while beef remains higher at 78.6 pounds projected this year. Chicken is cheaper, higher in protein, and lower in fat with $14 billion in expected spending and over 4.2 billion birds. The industry now offers wide forms including whole parts boneless skinless hot dogs loaf McNugget and pastrami products.
The Commerce Department reports the fourth quarter 1984 GNP grew 4.9 percent, revised up from 2.8 percent, with full year growth at 6.9 percent. Inflation remained steady at 3.8 percent, driven by surging consumer spending despite prior weakness in mid year.
A naked man walked through a token booth gate and boarded the No 6 southbound train at East 77th Street in New York. Witnesses recall the incident including a violinist and a dancer who kept performing as the man moved past the station.
New York AP reports Zoo Doo manure from Bronx Zoo animals is composted and sterilized and sold as organic fertilizer. Bronx Frontier Development Corp. packs and ships tons of Zoo Doo nationwide, with Kring noting a four acre site and a packaging warehouse.
A sticky white powder blanketed an 8,000 square mile region in Southern California, pitting car finishes and reducing pilots' visibility. Officials remained baffled as the gritty dust, mineral deposits from the desert, swirled many miles into the air and lacked any chemical taste.
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher spoke to a joint session of Congress becoming the first U.K. premier to do so since Winston Churchill in 1952 as Vice President George Bush watched.
In Columbia, Senator David Thomas argues a Sunday opening expansion to 7 p.m. is acceptable, but fully scrapping blue laws for tourism firms is excessive. He filibustered the tourism amendment, calling it organized chaos and a back-door repeal, declaring the issue an ambiguous mess.
Budget Director David Stockman was hospitalized at Georgetown University Hospital after arriving at 1 a.m. complaining of faintness. He is listed in stable condition, accompanied by his wife, with details of his condition not disclosed pending doctor and family discussions. Stockman has faced controversy over remarks on military pensions and farm aid during fiscal 1986 budget debates.
The South Carolina House approved by 3 to 1 a bill to raise the beer and wine drinking age from 20 to 21 with a fallback if federal rules are unconstitutional. It could take effect Sept 1986 unless voided by court rulings or federal funding conditions.
Clarence Ducky Nash, longtime voice of Donald Duck, died in Burbank at 80 from leukemia. A Watonga Oklahoma native, Nash joined Disney in 1933 and became the studio’s famed quack. He later appeared personally during retirement, remembered for turning imitations into a career.
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