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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1970
Page
9
BALTIMORE AP The police department is unhappy with its motor scooter patrol experiment begun in June 1969. Each scooter cost 489 dollars with annual maintenance averaging 319 dollars per scooter, limiting mobility gains and straining budgets.
Newsage items discuss cabinet reshuffles and speculation on John Mitchell’s future role amid Nixon era timing questions. The report notes observers’ expectations, the Justice Department denial, and mentions past political ties and advisors shaping plans.
San Diego AP reports UCLA anthropologist R. D. McCracken warned at an American Anthropological meeting that modern starch heavy diets may cause conditions like diabetes heart disease stroke schizophrenia alcoholism and certain cancers. He noted humans evolved as meat and fruit eaters and that farming grains about 10 000 years ago may have introduced these ailments by increasing carbohydrate conversion to sugars and disturbing body processes.
The labor department reports white collar workers saw wage gains averaging 6.21 percent for the year ending in June, the highest in a decade. Manufacturing production workers earned 6.3 percent in straight-time hourly pay over the same period.
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