Big Year for Home Gardeners Driven by Food Prices
AP reports soaring food costs spur millions to plant and nurture gardens at home this spring. weather woes slow progress but interest grows, with seed sales up and government guides freely available. experts note 85 million home gardeners, mini plots rising in popularity, and officials promote practical how-to resources.
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Don Kendall
Washington ( AP
Victory Gardens
Associated Press
Department of Agriculture
Congress
Clint Turnquist
University of Minnesota
Turnquist
Silvio
Conte
Rmass
Albert Bijou
Dallas
Tex
Bijou
Nicholson Seed Stores
Texas
John Lawson
Lawson
Agriculture Department
Office of Information
Washington, D.C
Home and Garden
Curators Say Censure Is Unjust
ST. LOUIS AP The American Association of University Professors voted to censure the University of Missouri for suspensions and pay cuts of eight faculty involved in 1970 campus protests. SIU Carbondale and eight others were censured for conditions violative of academic freedom. The AAUP also urged Nixon to grant amnesty for youths resisting the Vietnam War.
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ST. Louis
American Association of University Professors
University of Missouri
AAUP
Southern Ilinois University- Carbondale
Missouri School
Columbia
U.S
Cambodia
Kent State University
Jackson State College
Irvan Fane
Fane
Siu
McKendree College
Lebanon, Ill
Cornell University
Ithaca
N.J
Colorado School of Mines
Golden
Colo
Marshall University
Huntington
W.va
Ohio State University
Columbus
Rider College
Trenton
Queensborough Community College
New York City
East Tennessee State University
Johnston City
West Chester State College
West Chester
Richard Nixon
Victor Gardner To Be Honored For 1972 Safety Record
Victor B. Gardner of Mexico heads a list of 27 Missouri Highway Department maintenance area supervisors honored in Jefferson City for crews operating in 1972 without a lost-time accident. Gardner oversees sub-areas in Mexico Centralia and Farber and will attend an awards dinner May 9 at the Governor Hotel, with Jack Curtis and Robert N. Hunter presenting.
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Victor B. Gardner
Mexico
Highway Department
Jefferson City
Gardner
Hannibal
Centralia
Farber
Libya closes borders to non Arabs in travel crackdown
Rome AP reported Libya effectively bars foreigners not from Arab countries. Only passports printed entirely in Arabic will permit entry. Dozens of Americans, oil workers and families, were turned back from Tripoli after arriving from Athens. The move, tied to Khadafy's cultural revolution, aims to unite Arabs under Islam and language to confront Israel.
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Rome
U.S
Oil Company
Libya
Tripoli
Athens
Muammar Khadafy
Khadafy
Israel
SSA Dates Set for Social Security Outreach in Several Cities
A Social Security representative from the Columbia branch will visit the city auditorium in Centralia from 9 a.m. to noon on Wednesday May 9. Additional sessions at the Mexico courthouse community room will run 9 a.m. to noon on May 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29. In Vandalia at the union hall the hours are 9:30 a.m. to noon on May 2. The team will assist residents with retirement, disability, survivor, and health insurance benefits and answer Medicare questions.
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Columbia
City Auditorium
Centralia
Mexico
Vandalia
Union Hall
Terrorized couple to decide on charging raid officers
In Collinsville Illinois a man and wife say they will decide today whether to file criminal charges against narcotics squad members who admit raiding the wrong address. The Giglottos describe being handcuffed pressed to the bed as 15 agents searched their home and other rooms. FBI apologized and an investigation is under way. another couple filed a 100000 damage suit in Springfield.
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Collinsville, Ill
Herbert Giglotto
Collinsville
Louise
St. Louis
U.S. District Court
Springfield
Donald Askew
Virginia
Federal Drug Abuse Enforcement Program
Myles J. Ambrose
Chevy Chase
Ambrose
Giglotto
Gas Plan Urged by Former FPC Chairman Lee White
DETROIT AP A former chairman of the Federal Power Commission says the nation should prepare a standby gasol ine rationing plan for potential acute shortages this summer. Lee White told newsmen in Detroit that planning must begin now and not wait until June or July. White chaired the commission during the Johnson administration.
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Detroit
Federal Power Commission
Lee White
White
Commission
Johnson
Gasoline Rationing Predicted by U S Congressman
Rep William Gunter of Florida told about 400 members of Missouri 6th District Club that gasoline rationing could come this year as major oil firms plan to limit gallons sold per customer at a time. He warned US oil production may peak and decline, urging conservation, smaller cars, mass transit, and increased research into alternatives.
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Kansas City
William Gunter
D-Fla
House
Subcommittee On
Energy
Gunter
Missouri
6Th District
Congress
Orlando
Hep
Jerry Litton
D-Mo
Continental
United States
Florida Democrat
Mayor Proclaims May as Senior Citizens Month in Mexico
Mayor Harold Enslen proclaims May as Senior Citizens Month urging Mexico officials, volunteer and private groups, and all residents to recognize older Americans. The note calls for more than government efforts, stressing stronger human bonds for active, honored roles in families, communities, and the nation.
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Harold Enslen
Mexico
America
Lowe State Sponsor For Radio Free Europe
William Lowe, chairman and CEO of AP Green Refractories, named Missouri State Sponsor for the Radio Free Europe Fund. He will direct state fundraising for RFE, the nonprofit network broadcasting 540 hours weekly to 85 million people in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria from Munich.
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New York
N.W
William 5. Lowe
Ap, Green Refractories Co
Missouri
Radio Free Europe Fund
Stewart 8. Cort
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
RFE Fund
Lowe
Radio Free Europe
American Radio Network
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Rumania
Bulgaria
Munich
West Germany
RFE
East Europe
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FBI
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Nevada
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