Fresh Foods Still Dominate Purchases
Americans still spend the largest share of their food dollars on fresh unprocessed items, a USDA study based on 1965 and 1975 surveys shows. In 1975 fresh foods accounted for 45.75 dollars of every hundred, with other categories including readytoeat mixes and processed items rising.
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Louise Cook
Associated Press
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Supermarketing
USDA
Andrew Weiser
Economic Research Service
U.S
Hijacked Jetliner Explodes In Mid-Air
An airliner hijacked by suspected Japanese Red Army terrorists exploded over Johore Bahru Malaysia, killing all 100 aboard. Witnesses described a struggle on board and a wide debris field. Investigators review hijacker access, security lapses, and ransom-linked ties to prior attacks.
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India
Algeria
Anita Bryant backs voluntary prayers in public schools
In Kansas City Anita Bryant urged a grassroots drive to permit voluntary Bible reading and prayer in schools. She said formal announcement would follow after the new year and acknowledged possible court tests of the policy. The event drew about 3,000 attendees and a Gay Coalition group expressed mixed views as protesters left.
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Anita Bryant
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Oklahoma
Gay Coalition
Cecil Todd
Joplin
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Birth of Kelly Marie Rahmeyer in Audrain County
Mr and Mrs Gary W Rahmeyer of Montgomery City welcomed a daughter born Sunday at 9 22 am at Audrain Medical Center She weighed eight pounds and was named Kelly Marie Rahmeyer This is their first child Grandparents are Charles Rahmeyer and Norman Kossmann of Mexico Great grandparents H D Kossmann Pearl Jones and Laura Rahmeyer all of Mexico The father is a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper at Montgomery City and the mother is employed by Greenco Credit Union in Mexico.
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Gary W. Rahmeyer
Montgomery City
Audrain Medical Center
Kelly Marie Rahmeyer
Charles Rahmeyer
Norman Kossmann
Mexico
H. D. Kossmann
Pearl Jones
Hannibal Man Released In Miramar Shooting Case
SAN DIEGO Robbery… no. A Marine sentry involved in the Miramar shooting death of Simon Esparza 18 of Greeley Colorado was released from confinement while a military investigation proceeds. Lance Cpl Paul DePriest 20 Hannibal Missouri was taken into custody and later assigned to administrative duties at North Island Miramar.
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Greeley
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Miramar
British Troops Arrive In Bermuda Amid Rioting Calm Reported
British troops arrived in Bermuda from Belize and England to back 900 police and Bermuda Regiment after rioting over the execution of two black men for political murders. Three fire bombs exploded with no serious injuries. a dusk-to-dawn curfew remained. A hotel fire claimed three lives, including two Americans, with unclear linkage to the unrest.
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Bermuda
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Central America
England
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Allan Lister
Southampton Princess Hotel
Lois Brown Evans
Labor Party
David Gibbons
Peter Ramsbotham
Mother and Children Die in London Fire Tragedy
A London area fire kills a mother and her three children in Cambridgeshire as Britain endures a strike by full time firefighters over pay. Home Office data show daily fire deaths at 2.8, despite the walkout and use of soldiers and part time crews.
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Cambridgeshire
Britain
Home Office
Wisbech
Motion Seeks Delay in Bolles Slaying Sentencing
In Phoenix a Superior Court judge was asked to delay the presentence hearing for two men convicted in the June 1976 car bomb killing of Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles. Max Dunlap a Phoenix contractor and James Robison a Chandler plumber face first degree murder and conspiracy verdicts with sentencing set for Tuesday and the state seeking the death penalty. Defense attorney Larry Debus claims the state withheld witness names from the presentence hearing.
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Dunlap
Mobison
Bolles
Thompson
Larry Debus
Mayors Clash Over Urban Aid Policy At National League Meet
At the National League of Cities meeting in San Francisco, four new mayors including Houston’s James McConn, Cleveland’s Dennis Kucinich, Seattle’s and New Orleans’ leaders debated Carter’s distressed cities plan. They warned the policy could hinder funding for growth and aging infrastructure, while some urged targeting aid to the most distressed areas.
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Congress of Cities
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Congress
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Houston
James McConn
Cleveland
Seattle
New Orleans
McConn
Dennis Kucinich
McCann
Ernest Morial
Flynt Plans Cincinnati Return to Sell Magazine on Streets
Hustler founder Larry Flynt says he will return to Cincinnati to sell his magazine and provoke another arrest. He is appealing a 7 to 25 year obscenity and conspiracy conviction, with the ban on sale in Hamilton County upheld. He noted a Cleveland judge struck down Ohio’s organized crime statute used in his case.
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Hustler
Larry Flynt
Flynt
Hamilton County
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The
Speech Communication Association
Cleveland
Ohio
Female Santa Loses Her Job At Tulsa Center
In Tulsa, 77 year old Mildred Plaster says she was told Santa Claus is not a woman after portraying Santa at Woodland Hills Mall. She calls it discrimination and notes she did a good job last year with few children questioning her gender. Mall employees say parents complained once children realized Santa was a woman.
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Okla
Mildred Plaster
Santa Claus
Santa
Woodland Hills Mall
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