Care with toys for a safer holiday by Dianne Hall
Homemaking notes advise wise toy selection for Christmas emphasizing age appropriate toys with clear labels and warnings. It covers safety checks for small parts sharp edges and fragile components, plus parental supervision and storage to prevent accidents and rust. It notes the 1970 Child Protection and Toy Safety Act and urges contacting the U S Consumer Product Safety Commission for unsafe toys.
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Stel
Consumer Product Safety Commission
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Washington, D.C
County Youth Notes Pressure builds on land use
William C. Snow reports on Vermont outdoor recreation conflict citing a 1973 study showing 40 percent of residents and landowners faced disputes over reuse. Discourtesy trespassing littering and safety concerns dominate. Solutions include courtesy law enforcement education and more facilities to ease pressure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermont
Yankee Milk protests over Class I price proposal
Harold G. Helmboldt general manager of Yankee Milk protested the latest recommended decision on Class I prices filed with the Secretary of Agriculture. He urged a $7.50 basic price floor to keep New England city plant prices at $10.48 through March and to stabilize the Federal Order pricing system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newington
Conn
Harold G. Helmboldt
Yankee Milk
Secretary of Agriculture
Helmboldt
New England
Use less sugar to fight price
UVM Extension nutritionist urges reducing sugar intake to curb rising costs. Cut pre sweetened items, skip thick icing and glazed donuts, and use fresh fruit. Replace white sugar with alternatives like brown sugar or molasses for added minerals. Consider applesauce or carrot cakes and desserts with fruit and optional confectioners sugar.
National effort mounts to save vanishing tracts of woods farms
A national push to preserve cropland and woodland argues that urban sprawl threatens farms from California’s San Joaquin Valley to New Jersey. Officials acknowledge finite land, while water, fuel, and fertilizer costs loom, with debates over land taxes and development leases shaping policy.
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San Joaquin
New Jersey
United States
U.S
California
Sacramento
U.S. Department of Agriculture
O.J. Burger
California State University
Fresno
USDA to drop on farm inspection for Canadian sheep bound for slaughter
The APHIS proposal would end the requirement that Canadian sheep and goats for immediate slaughter be inspected by a veterinarian before shipment from origin. Animals for slaughter would still need Canadian veterinary certification free of disease. those imported without on farm inspection would be slaughtered within two weeks. Sheep and goats imported for other purposes would continue to be inspected and certified free of disease at origin to prevent spread of illness such as scrapie.
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Washington
United States
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
APHIS
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Alice Wright
Burlington
Bennington County
F.W. Beers
Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc
Addison County
Washington County
Rutland County
Chittenden County
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N.B.C
Swift's
Brookfield
Hotpoint
Griffin Electric Co., Inc
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Loin
Howard Johnson Macaroni & Cheese
Jenos Pizza
Pepperidge Farms
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