Scattered Price Changes Reported During Boycott
The week-long meat boycott ends with leaders split on future plans yet meat prices stay steady. AP checks show scattered price changes on eight items as protests continue to curb meat trading and layoffs rise in packing plants. FIT members urge constituents to contact congressmen supporting a price rollback to January 10 levels.
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Associated Press
Washington
Fight For Inflation
FIT
House Banking and Currency Committee
Ethel Rosen
Women’s
Chicago
Louisville
Patty Twyman
Linda Akulian
Consumer Federation of California
San Francisco
CFC
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Maine
Woburn
Mass
Barbara Shuttleworth
Vernon
Western Kansas Packer
National Beef Packing Co
Liberal
Meat Cutters Union
Boise
Idaho
Wichita
Kansas City
Flood Victims Evacuated as Mississippi Flood Deepens
Widespread rainfall drenches the lower Mississippi Valley forcing evacuations across the Delta including 2000 Louisiana prisoners. Mississippi issues flash flood warnings as damages mount, with 6200 homes evacuated and seven million acres underwater. Damages reach 140 million across Illinois Missouri and Missouri stakes rise while Ohio and Yazoo backwaters threaten towns.
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New Orleans
Mississippi River
Louisiana
Mississippi
State Penitentiary
Angola
Arkansas
St. Louis
Missouri
Illinois
Ohio River
Cairo
Memphis
Vicksburg
Yazoo
U.S. 61
Holly Bluff
Thornton Students Attend Regional Social Studies Conference
Two teachers and four students from Thornton Academy joined Saco participants at the fourth annual Northeast Regional Conference in Boston. William Farrington led a workshop on teaching state government using legislative documents, with students testifying on bills and sharing classroom experiences from Augusta.
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Thornton Academy
Saco
Massachusetts Council For the Social Studies
Boston
William F. Farrington
Thornton History-Government Department
Farrington
Thornton
Mark Delekto
Debbie Hjort
Mary Hobbins
Jay Nathanson
Augusta
Hiort
Lloyd Hunt
Hunt
National Council For the Social Studies
Social Studies Councils
New England States
Massachusetts
Statler Milton Hotel
Debbie
Fire Chief Praises Biddeford Crew After Bacon Street Laundromat Fire
Fire at a Bacon Street laundromat was controlled quickly due to rapid mutual aid from Biddeford Saco and Old Orchard Beach. Chief Emile Bergeron praised crews and highlighted the Plectron system and a new conditions code with color based alerts to speed decisions.
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Emile Bergeron
Biddeford
Bacon Street
Saco
Old Orchard Beach
Bergeron
Bush touts GOP record and offense stance at Maine luncheon
George Bush told Maine Republicans in Augusta that the party should be on the offense and highlighted a record of peace in Vietnam, POWs returning, lower crime, strong anti narcotics efforts, revenue sharing, and no tax increase, urging support for 1974 victories and candidate success.
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Augusta
George Bush
Republican National Committee
Maine
Watergate
Vietnam
Congress
Washington
Seven die in St George house fire on Maine coast
A two story dwelling off Maine 151 in St George burned early today killing seven people including five children. Adelbert L Newbert his wife and three other children escaped after the upstairs window was broken open. Police say asphyxiation is likely the cause.
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ST. George
Adelbert L. Newbert
Maine 151
Harbor
Thomason
Lawrence Newbert
Gloria
Wiliam Newbert
Alice Newbert
Angela
Georgia Larrabee
Sammie Newbert
Walter
Roger
Knox County
Carlton V. Thurston
Charlies Hopper
Lawrence
Alice
William
Adelbert Newbert
Missing U S Choppers Reported in Vietnam
Two Ameri can piloted helicopters carrying 11 International Commission of Control and Supervision members went missing over Quang Tri Province near Lao Bao during a recon over the Laotian border. One downed by ground fire, possibly a heat seeking missile, while contact with the other was lost.
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Saigon
International Commission of Control and Supervision
Quang Tri
Commission
Canada
Hungary
Indonesia
Poland
Hue
South Vietnam
Lao Bao
Inside The Journal Chuckle on Honest TV Commercials
The Journal notes that TV demands for honest ads could boost Brand X, framing the change as a win for clearer advertising and consumer trust.
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Brand X
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Hijort
William Farrington
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Linda Blais
Goldie
Maryline White
Bush
U.S
Inside the Journal
Abby
Larc and
Curtis
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