Funerals Renamed Status Symbols in High Cost Debate
An editor’s note argues that rising funeral costs reflect both consumer choice and emotional distress. Morticians say funerals are a status symbol while critics cite price gouging, with examples from a 1947 coal mine disaster and lavish practices at Forest Lawn. The piece previews a guide to avoiding high costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles H. Wilson Jr
United Press International
United States
National Funeral Directors Association
Byron D. Sher
Stanford Law Review
Brownlee Shirek
Bay Area Funeral Society
Berkeley
Calif
Centralia
Ill
Shirek
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Los Angeles
Hawaii
Forest Lawn
Jessica Mitford
Weather snapshot reports cold and warm extremes
The U S Weather Bureau lists Ely New as the coldest reporting station with 15 degrees, excluding Alaska and Hawaii. Childress Texas reached a high of 90, with a 24 hour period ending 4 am PST captured in the San Francisco bureau release.
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New York
UPI
U. S. Weather Bureau
Alaska
Hawaii
Ely
New
Childress
Tex
United Press International
San Francisco
Albuquerque
Anchorage
Atlanta
Setee
Bakersfield
Bismarck
Boise
Honolulu
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Miami
Milwaukee
I Minneapolis
New Orleans
Oakland
Omaha
Paso Robles
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland
Oss
Red Bluff
Reno
Sacramento St. Louis
Salinas
Salt Lake City
Crea
San Diego
Santa Barbara
Red Star blasts China as nuclear war mongers in polemic
The Soviet military paper Red Star denounces Communist China as nuclear war mongers despite Khrushchev calling for a truce. It accuses Chinese theoreticians of a deadly law linking revolution to killing and warns a thermonuclear war would kill millions. Khrushchev hosted Phouma of Laos as war tensions persist.
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Moscow
UPI
Red Star
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Peking
Khrushchev
P. Trifonenko
Soviet Union
Kremlin
Chao Kuo- Chiang
All- China Federation of Trade Unions
China
Peking Theoretical
Trifonenko
Phouma
Laos
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National Funeral Service Journal
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Third & Ogden
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Beckman Furs
Beverly Hills
Mannis Furs
Nateral
Goat
Peihesidl
Blue Fox
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Amazien
Hollywood
Vegas
L.V
Texaco
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