Religious quackery preys on hospital patients
A DC General Hospital patient was visited by a Miracle Merchant who pressed for $500 to "save" her, a scam echoed nationwide. Hospitals report outside and even inside staff promoting fake cures, exploiting fear and illness to extract money from desperate patients.
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Tom Tiede
Washington
D.C. General Hospital
D.C. General
U.S
Bellevue Hospital
New York
Chicago
St. Luke’s Hospital
Joe Robertson
Harper's Hospital
Detroit
Obertson
Unen
D.C
J. Richard Griffin
Robertson
Fr. Griffin
Moses
Energy shortage slows mineral wool insulation supply
Toward 1974 demand for blow-in mineral wool rises while supply lags, trapping contractors like Walter Shipe of Hyattsville Maryland between rising orders and limited weekly shipments. Major suppliers Johns Manville Owens Corning and Certain-Feed Products push output with two new plants but shortages persist across the United States due to strikes and material limits.
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William Hargrove
NEW York
NEA
Walter Shipe
Shipe
Hyattsville
National Mineral Wool Insulation Assn
Johns-Manville Corp
Denver
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp
Toledo
Ohio
Certain-feed Products Corp
Valley Forge
Berry Smith
Johns Manville
Certain-feed
Owens- Corning
Maryland
Detroit
Michigan Consolidated Gas Co
Sones
Smith
Johns-Manville
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Letter Complains Over Lompoc Record Clipping
A Lompoc reader E L Savage protests a March 11 clipping about Allan Hancock streakers, calling the content trash and unsuitable for children. He demands better news value and threatens to cancel his subscription over perceived gratuitous pictures and free advertising.
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Lompoc
E. L. Savage
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