Beef Sales and Sugar Prices Lift AP Market Basket
The Associated Press reports December 1974 saw a 0.7 percent dip in the market basket across 13 cities, led by lower beef prices amid record cattle supplies. Sugar costs eased in some cities, yet a five pound sugar bag rose on average 25.8 percent year over year, as retailers chased higher wholesale prices.
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Beware Misleading Carpet Ads and a Very Old Knitter
A Pittsburgh area consumer alert warns homeowners about deceptive carpet advertising and suggests checking the sales slip for style numbers fiber content padding and installation charges. The report notes that ten year guarantees are often worthless if firms go out of business and highlights care issues for velvet plush and cutpile carpets. In a separate note, Rista Koprivica of Yugoslavia at 103 years old reportedly has 116 offspring and knits without glasses after marrying at 17 and birth to 14 children.
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Allegheny County Hoared of Consumer Affairs
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Yugoslavia
Rista Koprivica
Gornja Meka Gruda
Bosnia- Herzegovina
Evacuation plan amid Phuoc Binh assault amid Saigon siege
Heavy North Vietnamese and Viet Cong attack surrounds Phuoc Binh City in Phuoc Long province as Saigon seeks evacuation for 9 000 civilians. Viet Cong reject the offer calling it a false humanitarian trick. Government forces hold the city amid shortages and airlift limits. In Cambodia Khmer Rouge fighters push near Phnom Penh with clashes and riverfront advances.
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Phuoc Long Province
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Phnom Penh
IRA Extends Christmas Cease-Fire in Northern Ireland
The IRA today extended its Christmas ceasefire by 14 days but warned it will end January 16 unless Britain delivers progress toward a lasting settlement. Dublin announced possible longer extension earlier, while statements by Northern Ireland Secretary Ilyn Rees and political leaders sparked Protestant backlash amid ongoing violence, with 1,143 deaths since 1969 and 215 killed last year.
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Rees
John Laird
Unionist
Ian Paisley
Harold Wilson
London
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Killing Suspect Found God Stalls Extradition Hearing
In Erie County a murder suspect who confessed to the 1999 Snyder case and a separate New York triple slaying says he has found God and will fight extradition back to Pennsylvania. Harold E. Gormley, 26, formerly of Titusville, faces three consecutive life sentences in Attica for the Snyder murder. Pennsylvania sought return under the Uniform Detainer Act, with a January 15 extradition hearing planned in New York.
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Melanie Ann Snyder
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Newark
Harold E. Gormley
Titusville
Miss Snyder
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Gormley
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New York State
Temple Dentists Promote Nutrition To Prevent Tooth Decay
Philadelphia AP Temple's School of Dentistry colors a preventive diet program with a full time nutritionist to educate children and parents. The goal is to curb decay from birth through adolescence by teaching fiber rich foods minerals and vitamins while stressing reduced sugar and gum health as key to lifelong dental care. About 800 children and parents have joined the program, learning how teeth grow and which nutrients support strong teeth.
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Temple
School of Dentistry
Dentistry
Robert L. Pollack
Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition
Paula Engelhart
Temple Dental
Body Found After Missing From Dec 15 in Johnstown
Police say Barbara Ann Magnus, 21, of Johnstown, vanished December 15 and was strangled with a belt returning home from a Christmas party. Her body was located Tuesday by a hunter off a dirt road near Hinckston Run Dam. Grand National stock car drivers Pearson Baker Yarborough Allison Waltrip plan to record a country music album next month tentatively titled NASCAR Goes Country. It will be released by February at the latest with the five performing solo and as a group.
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Hinckston Run Dam
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David Pearson
Buddy Baker
Cale Yarborough
Bobby Allison
Darrell Waltrip
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