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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1985
Page
3
In Albright West Virginia a fire hall converted into a Red Cross relief center feeds flood victims with Thanksgiving meals. Scott Richards an Ohio antique dealer and over 200 volunteers cook serve and console families displaced by the November flood disaster.
The American Farm Bureau Federation says a home prepared Thanksgiving dinner for eight costs 15.91 dollars, up 85 cents from last year, with per person about 1.98 dollars. Turkey prices rose slightly, while cranberries eggs and pie fillings also edged higher amid widespread flood relief efforts.
In Owensboro Kentucky farmers display burley tobacco at the eight state auction with Melissa Edwards earning 4 cents above the going price for 312 pounds amid mold concerns. Across the country in Santa Barbara a widow accuses R J Reynolds in a 1 million wrongful death suit tied to smoking. The piece recalls barley as Kentucky's top cash crop and notes market dynamics and buyer behavior.
CBS and WBBM-TV anchor Walter Jacobson plan to appeal a federal jury ruling that he libeled Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corp. in a 1981 Perspective commentary alleging cigarette ads lured youth by equating smoking with adult pleasures.
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