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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1979
Page
9
A Census Bureau report shows the 6.5 percent rise in prices from 1976 to 1977 nearly wipes out the 7 percent income gain, leaving an effective buying power rise of only about 70 dollars. The median household income reached 13 570 in 1977, with shifts in household types and shrinking average household size.
The Santa Fe Trail Council will honor 50 Scoutmasters for leadership as the ninth edition of the Official Boy Scout Handbook debuts. The book by William Hillcourt features 576 pages and over 1,000 color drawings, with a first printing of 600,000 copies. John McLoughlin aims to boost Spanish Peaks Scout Ranch attendance from 437 to over 500 this year at a February dinner across three districts.
A virus, not poison, may have caused illness among 58 people at Parkwood High School in Joplin Missouri. Tests by the Missouri Division of Health found nothing in an orange and grape drink served in the cafeteria to explain the nausea and vomiting among 53 students and five teachers.
Health officials reviewed the campus drink incident on Monday with chemist Richard Caadinger stating analyses for several metals found no abnormalities. One student remained hospitalized, another was observed and released. Joplin health director J C Hounschell attributed the illness to a possible virus.
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