Two Firms Dominate Lids By B. 4. Williams
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader urged the FTC to explain why two firms Ball Co. and Kerro Co. control over 90 percent of home canning products. The FTC began a probe into the lid shortage with focus on regions most affected and access to records across multiple cities. Nader warned the shortage reflects a clash of economic interests and could involve anticompetitive activity or market phenomena like panic buying and hoarding.
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Elvis Considers North Carolina Estate Beaumont Purchase
Elvis Presley reportedly weighs buying Beaumont, a 205 acre pre Civil War estate in the Blue Ridge near Flat Rock in Hendersonville area. Rumors say Presley and Colonel Tom Parker visited with owner Jack Livingood. no contract exists. Beaumont lies near Connemara, Carl Sandburg’s former antebellum site.
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Birthright of the Born Liars in A Noted Claim
A concise literary remark discusses deceit as inherent to birth, contrasting with other forms of falsehood and asserting that the only successful liar is born, not made.
NC Corrections Secretary unaware of Wachovia offer
Raleigh AP David Jones NC Secretary of Corrections says he knows of no Wachovia Bank proposals to pay interest on a million dollar inmate account and notes the department planned to move funds to an Asheville bank for interest. Wachovia has held over 44 million in inmate earnings since 1957 in a checking account.
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