Christmas sales hit record highs in tough year
New York AP report shows holiday spending reaching record levels despite high prices and harsh winter. Retailers cite strong demand for warm items such as sweaters heaters and robes with limited impact from oil shortages and a possible recession.
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Associated Press
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Tiche’s
Dallas
East Coast
Richard G. Shapiro
Gimble Bros
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Pittsburgh
Saks
Gimbles
S.S. Kresge
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Morley Church Fire Cause Blamed on Carelessness
State Fire Marshal cites careless actions after a fire destroyed the First Baptist Church at Morley in Missouri. Cause traced to smoking in the old building during razing, with the new structure also lost. Loss estimated at 100 thousand dollars. three juveniles admitted to smoking and a cigarette being dropped in a floor hole.
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Robert L. Morrison
First Baptist
Morley
Missouri
Morrison
Louis Gray
Gray
Truckers near nationwide strike on January thirtieth one
Los Angeles AP reports Jim Drinkhall of Overdrive says a nationwide truckers strike on January 31 is 95 percent certain if three of four demands are unmet. About 300,000 would abandon rigs, with 100,000 independent operators expected to shut down. Tensions rise with possible blockades and violence.
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Los Angeles
Jim Drinkhall
Overdrive
Newsmen
Farmers to receive scaled-down funding
Washington announces reduced conservation aid for next year. The Agriculture Department says 390 million will fund a Rural Environmental Conservation Program to support approved farm projects, while Congress had appropriated 175 million. White House officials have impounded about half the funds to curb federal outlays. A 10 million water bank program for wetlands and migratory waterfowl will run at the level Congress set.
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Washington
Congress
White House
Conventions in Vienna Palace Exhibit Blend of History and Modern
The Hofburg Congress Center in Vienna uses former winter palace rooms like the Ceremonial Hall and Knights Hall for conferences blending Baroque grandeur with modern facilities. Meanwhile the RECP aims at long term conservation and tree planting, succeeding REAP which was terminated. The 1973 REAP funding was cut from 225.5 million to 140 million and halted in 1972, with RECP tracing back to 1936 as ACP. The government pays up to half the cost of approved conservation work on farms, a cap repeatedly overridden by Congress.
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Vienna
Congress Center
Hofburg
Winter Palace
Maria Theresia
Austria-Hungary
Congress
Department
Traffic patterns waste fuel, reform saves up to 20 percent
Washington AP reports that inefficient road layouts like poor left turns and cattle chute backups raise fuel use. The Road Information Program finds improvements such as turn lanes and acceleration lanes can cut individual gas consumption by about twenty percent.
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Washington
Road Information Program
Chiricahua Mountains Rise From Ancient Volcanic Eruptions
The Chiricahua Mountains in southeastern Arizona formed millions of years ago through a sequence of volcanic eruptions, creating green highland pockets amid semi arid grasslands.
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Chiricahua Mountains
Arizona
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