Christmas trees to cost more this year in Michigan
EAST LANSING Mich AP plan varies costs up 8 to 10 percent from last year for holiday evergreens. Michigan State University forestry professor Melvin Koelling notes ample supply with about four million trees and most crops—about 90 percent Scotch pines—already cut. Price ranges cited and emphasis on choose and cut trend plus export impact and market strength described.
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LR newsman buried today
Eugene Camp Fretz, 53, longtime Arkansas Gazette copy editor and advertising man, was buried today in Little Rock after dying Saturday at his home. He started at the Gazette in 1949, later edited the Sunday magazine, and returned as copy editor in August 1973, with prior stints at Knoxville News-Sentinel, Knoxville Journal, Portland Oregonian, and Tulsa Daily World. In 1959 he aided a moderates’ campaign against segregationist attempts to purge teachers.
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Nepal appoints Tulsi Giri as new Prime Minister
In Katmandu the Royal Palace announced the resignation of Prime Minister Nagendra Prasad Rijal and King Birendra named his political adviser Dr Tulsi Giri to succeed him. Rijal said he resigned to facilitate constitutional reforms by the king.
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Mississippi Thanksgiving weekend deaths toll rises to six
The Associated Press reports four traffic deaths and two fire fatalities in Mississippi over the Thanksgiving weekend. Victims include Jerry Lyons, 4, of Laurel. Sybil Wright, 39, of Greenwood. Calvin Holland, 42, of Port Hueneme, California. Martha Ellen Lann, 27, of Pearl. Walter G. Carlisle of Durham, North Carolina. and Marjorie Edwards, 57, of Jackson.
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Laurel
Jones County
Sybil Wright
Greenwood
Jackson
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Port Hueneme
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Pearl
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Durham
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Marjorie Edwards
Jackson House
Pom-pom Girl Mary Murray Plans New Film The Maharajah
Hollywood producer Mary Murray, long a pioneer among liberated women, plans The Maharajah a modern comedy set in India with a jet setting prince and an intrepid American girlfriend. She recruited screenwriter T E B Clark and aims to cast Peter Sellers and Goldie Hawn with shoots likely in India. Murray recalls a lifelong career from University of Alabama to Republic Pictures to producing, insisting good scripts win over gender.
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Jim Brown
University of Alabama
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First Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to Behring
Emil A von Behring, a German scientist, receives the first Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his work on diphtheria antitoxin and its lifesaving impact.
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Food prices edged up in November market basket survey
The Associated Press market basket across 13 cities shows mixed November changes with an average rise of 3.7 percent in seven cities and a 2.6 percent drop in six. Eggs and coffee rose in several stores while pork chops and sugar edged lower. Overall December prices were 0.8 percent higher than November, with October up 0.3 percent.
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Associated Press
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Cuban general aids Red-backed forces in Angola war
U S intelligence says Brig Gen Julio Casas a close Castro aide is in Angola directing Cuban weapons shipments to Soviet backed MPLA forces. As many as 400 Russian pilots advisers and crews are alleged to be in Angola while Cuba rebuts Western claims of heavy involvement.
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