Food price controls show little effect on Anderson households
A Herald survey finds grocery bills for a four-person family near June totals despite price controls. Across four markets, 32 items ranged 22.75 to 26.59 dollars this week, while earlier months showed fluctuations from 22 to 26.08 dollars. Beef and meat prices varied, tomatoes dropped, and overall purchasing power ebbed then stabilized as controls shifted.
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Anderson
Cates
Herald
Anderson House
Downtown Merchants Outline Central District Improvement Plan
Downtown merchants and city officials met to discuss creating a central business district improvement taxing district to fund downtown enhancements. Dennis Matthews, executive director of the Anderson Redevelopment Department, presented the plan as a starting point to kick off planning and start work on an enclosed downtown area.
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Lee Lortz
Herald City
Dennis Matthews
Anderson Revelopment Department
Lambert Indicted in beating death case
A Madison County grand jury indicted 26 year old James Roger Lambert on second degree murder for the Aug 21 beating death of John H. Mattingly in his Tower Building apartment. Lambert, of 1224 Maple St., is held on 50 000 bond. Also noted were an indictment of Merle E. Jones and planning details for a downtown mall financing district with shared funding, frontage based payments, and traffic changes impacting Main Street and surrounding streets. Frontage totals and projected fund amounts were outlined to support the project.
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James Roger Lambert
John H. Mattingly
Madison County
Lambert
Maple St
Mattingly
Tower
11Th
Jackson Streets
Anderson
Ralph Mattingly
Anderson City
Merle E. Jones
Charles Smith
Jones
West Eighth Street
St. John’s Hospital
I M Threatens City Blackout Over 38 Percent Rate Hike
The U S Circuit Court of Appeals enjoined I M from terminating service to Anderson and Richmond after a May ruling upheld contract extensions delaying a 38% rate hike. A city news conference was set for 9:30 a m to explain the latest action, with a disputed 500000 retroactive charge and Sept 17 payment deadline cited by I M.
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Indiana & Michigan Electric Company
Anderson
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Herald
Robert L. Rock
Trical
Appeals Court
Federal Power Commission
Richmond
Wallace Duncan
Washington
Duncan & Brown
New Fire Station Next Fall In City Plans
Mayor Rock announces a central fire department headquarters project moving forward with National Board of Fire Underwriters approval. A six bay facility is planned on a block bounded by Jackson Meridian Fourth and Fifth streets, with $600000 in revenue sharing funds toward a $1 million total, targeting contract in January 1974 and completion in about a year. The old No 1 station block will be redeveloped and a 38th Street Park project proceeds with design by Daniel B Young & Associates and a spring 1974 construction outlook.
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Rock
National Board of Fire Underwriters
Jackson, Meridian
Fourth and Fifth Streets
No. 1
Central Fire
38Th Street
Columbus Avenue
Ind. 109
Daniel B. Young & Associates
Muncie
United Way Street Fair Kickoff for Madison County 1973
The United Way launches its 1973 Madison County campaign with a Saturday Street Fair on Historic Eighth Street in Anderson. The event runs 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. with booths, demonstrations, and activities to educate the public about United Way services and agencies.
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Madison County
United Way
Eighth Street
Anderson
Brown
Lincoln Streets
Anderson Fine Arts Center
YMCA
Carl W. Dobos
United Ways
Dobos
Pinochet Leads Chile Junta as Nation Breaks Ties With Cuba
General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte emerges as Chile's four man junta leader while the military regime breaks relations with Cuba. The article notes Nixon weighing a temporary 10 percent income tax surcharge to fight inflation per Melvin R. Laird. Page references indicate multiple related items and continuing coverage.
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Augusto Pinochet Ugarte
Chile
Cuba
Nixon
Melvin R. Laird
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