California consumer education project links laws to action
Sacramento report details Jan Agee leading a consumer action school curriculum using The Compleat California Consumer Catalogue. The program stresses practical steps for students to access regulatory hearings, understand rights, and judge service quality, funded by a Health, Education and Welfare grant.
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Sacramento
UPI
California
Jan Agee
Nader
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Energy Diet tips cut heating costs this winter
Save on heat with insulation and drape use and by lowering furnace settings to 65 at night. Each degree under 72 saves about five percent on heating costs. Free booklet The Waste Watchers Energy Diet available from PG&E offices or via toll free 800 792 8000.
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Mother tosses 3 month old from window in Chicago death
Airlana Lawrence, 26, is charged with murder after throwing her 3 month old daughter Wendy from a closed three story apartment window onto a freezing street. Homicide investigator John Herman said Lawrence and her common law husband Jerry Campbell 26 were awakened and she declared she no longer wanted the baby. Campbell found the infant on the curb and Lawrence was arrested at the apartment.
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Chicago
UPI
Airlana Lawrence
Wendy
St. Bernard Hospital
John Herman
Herman
Lawrence
London Los Angeles Skytrain plan announced by Laker
Freddie Laker unveiled a London to Los Angeles Skytrain proposal with no-reservation walk-on service planned for September 1978. Tickets would cost about 206 to 250 dollars, far cheaper than current return fares around 970 dollars. Approval from both governments is required before launch.
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UPI
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Laker
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U.S
TWA
British Airways
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Pan Am
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