Caveat Vendor Warns Consumers About Rising Retail Costs
Editorial argues buyers and sellers share blame for high prices. It cites shoplifting costing about 3.5 billion yearly and outlines consumer practices such as label switching, returning used items, handling produce, opening samples, and misplacing or stealing shopping carts.
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University of Wisconsin Extension
Miss Henderson
Gas shortage fuels shadow market for fuel
A nascent moonlight gasoline market has independent chains paying premiums to distributors for supply. Major oil firms limit allocations to jobbers, drying up regular supplies. Officials say the practice is not illegal but reflects a seller's market with prices driven by scarcity.
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New York
R.W. Reynolds
Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America
Federal revenue sharing reshape Minnesota budgets in 1970s
Minnesota local and state officials allocated federal revenue sharing funds to property tax relief and capital projects. The St Paul council earmarked most of its 7.4 million for tax relief, while Hennepin County funded jail renovation and social services, and Minneapolis used funds for storm drains and operations. Other counties and towns funneled money into court houses, roads, and libraries amid federal cutbacks in social programs.
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Minnesota
Associated Press
Dflers
St. Paul
Lawrence Cohen
Cohen
Hennepin County
Stanley Cowle
OEO
Minneapolis
Einar Olson
Olmsted County
Rochester
Rochester-Olmsted County
A.J. Eichten
Wadena
Springfield
Phil Solyntjes
Fergus Falls
Otter Tail County
Faribault
Gary Kindseth
Rice County
Worthington
Nobles County
Crookston
Northfield
Blue Earth
Faribault County
Nixon shifts to Phase 4 wage price controls
President Nixon announced a new price freeze lasting up to 60 days and signaled a mandatory wage price control regime to follow. He defended Phase 3 as a transition to a free market but conceded its failure amid 9.2 percent inflation and 25.4 percent food price rises. Treasury Secretary Shultz cautioned about a larger federal bureaucracy, while Connally urged strong action to curb inflation.
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Washington
Nixon
U.S
Treasury
George P. Shultz
Shultz
Minnesota Waterways Plan Doubles Trout Production In Lakes
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources explains the managed stream trout lake program boosting annual catch by replacing traditional fish in suitable lakes with stream trout. The substitution raises per acre harvest from about 30 small fish to roughly 70 larger trout, improving angler hours.
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Merle W. Johnson
Minnesota
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Dee
Carolina River
Fishing program improves trout in Minnesota lakes
The article reviews long term trout stocking insights in Minnesota. It notes success depends on avoiding warm water species, public support for removal actions, and challenges from trout lakes becoming overused. It mentions Strawberry Lake opening weekend fishing and ongoing research into faster growing warm-tolerant rainbow strains.
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Minnesota
Strawberry Lake
Brainerd
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