Santa Claus House rings up North Pole postal for bills
Santa Claus House owner Don Miller says his North Pole Alaska number receives about 5 000 calls a year. Parents worry over $97 bills from calls to Santa including a four minute Miami to North Pole call costing about 6 30. He notes some calls come from as far as Japan Bermuda and San Diego and many are crank calls in bars at 3 am.
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Watergate Activity Seen Increasing in New Year
Washington AP reports courtroom action in the Watergate saga to accelerate in January and February. Prosecutor Jaworski says grand juries are ready to consider indictments in a substantial number of major involvements, including the Mitchell Vesco case and related probes into White House aides.
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Watergate
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Vesco
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Egil Krogh Jr
Jaworski
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H.R. Haldeman
John D. Ehrlichman
Herbert W. Kalmbach
Charles W. Colson
Ehrlichman
David R. Young
G. Gordon Liddy
Los Angeles
Lewis Fielding
Ellsberg
Marketbasket Costs Edge Down Across Ohio Stores
Prices for milk butter and sugar showed modest shifts across 13 Ohio cities from November to December with Cincinnati posting the largest basket drop while Massillon led gains. The average market basket across cities was $10.44, down from $10.61, as pork chops and eggs remained near current costs and individual items varied by city.
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Columbus
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Dayton
Lima
Toledo
van Wert
Youngstown
Grocery Bill Up In Nation
The AP market basket survey shows December raised the family grocery bill with prices higher than a year earlier. Early 1974 looks not much better, with market basket totals averaging 13 percent higher at the start of the year than March 1, 1973.
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Louise Cook
Associated Press
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