Meat Boycott Plans Stirring National Talk
Consumers coast to coast rally behind a proposed nationwide meat boycott in the first week of April. Housewives forego pricier cuts, switch to meatless menus, and join pickets at supermarkets while groups like FIT Fight Inflation Together push for Tuesday and Thursday meat-free days.
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Associated Press
Salt Lake City
Rosalie Whiting
Save Our Sanity
California
Sandy Winslow
Charlotte
N.C
Portsmouth
Ohio
Texas
Dallas
Garland
Grand Prairie
Euless
John Schwegmann
New Orleans
John Guertze
Glenmont
N.Y
50 Mile Speed Law Proposed To Save Gas
A federal official proposed lowering highway speed limits to 50 mph to conserve gasoline in potential shortages this summer. Darrell M. Trent of the Office of Emergency Preparedness warned that states would need to act, noting mileage efficiency drops at higher speeds and possible 15 to 20 percent per car savings.
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New York
Darrell M. Trent
Office of Emergency Preparedness
Trent
Seatrade
Runyon's Book Wins Missouri Guild Award As Best Of 1972
Former Mexico resident Charles W. Runyon, now of Farmington Route 1, receives the Missouri Writers Guild Best Book of 1972 award for Power Kill a novel about political espionage. He will accept April 2 during Journalism Week at the University and address the guild April 1 at Columbia's Tiger Hotel. Runyon’s Dream Patrol appears in The Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction anthology, and Pigworld is a paperback from Lancer Books.
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Missouri Guild Award
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Missouri Writer’s Guild
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Farmington
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George W. Phillips
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Columbia
Tiger Hotel
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Mercury Press
Lancer Books
Fawcett Books
Spoonbill Run in Miami Faces High Water Challenge
Miami Oklahoma spoonbill run, an annual event with cash prizes for largest fish, suffers from high water as spoonbills of the sturgeon family migrate from Grand Lake up the Neosho River toward Kansas to spawn each spring, drawing hundreds to fish from a low water dam in Riverton.
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Miami
Okla
Grand Lake
Neosho River
Kansas
Riv
Spoonbill Contest Affected by High Park Waters
Businessmen offer cash prizes for the largest spoonbill caught in adult and child divisions as crowds gather. High water covers a wide park area and dam access is limited. Spoonbills have been caught upstream from Miami but none yet in this event.
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Erview Park
Miami
Indians Get Order To Let Food Through
Militant Indians occupying Wounded Knee have won a temporary court order permitting six carloads of supplies to enter daily through federal road blocks. Russell Means of AIM hinted at a possible breakthrough today, calling it a major development. The order, issued by Judge Andrew Bogue, lasts until noon Saturday and AIM plans further legal action to ease movement into and out of Wounded Knee as they demand reaffirmation of the 1868 treaty with the Sioux.
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Russell Means
Pine Ridge Reservation
Means
American Indian Movement
AIM
Pine Ridge
Interior Department
James Harpster
U.S. District Court
Andrew Bogue
Ramon Roubideaux
Rapid City
Chinese Headache Cure and Other Remedies
AP science report from Shanghai highlights a back of the hand massage for headaches and toothaches as a home remedy. It notes exotic Chinese treatments including ante lope horn for colds, turtle shell tonics, and herbal syrups for insomnia, plus acupuncture and acupressure practices.
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Hatton
China
Alton Blakeslee
Shanghai, China
Hsu Chia-Yu
United States
Hsu
Horsemanship Clinic Attended by Hatton 4H Club Members
Members Dori Hill Patty Cathcart and Elaine Linnenbringer joined the horsemanship clinic at William Woods College arena on Fulton Sunday afternoon. Others from here included Wilfred HUl and Hadley EK Linnenbringer. MR. AND MRS. Walter Lowry attended a Mexico sports banquet with grandson Randy Ezell earning a wrestling plaque. Additional social visits included Lowrys hosting in Memphis and Cen tralia trips with friends and relatives despite a busy weekend of gatherings and celebrations.
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Dori Hill
Patty Cathcart
Elaine Linnenbringer
William Woods College
Fulton
Wilfred Hul
Hadley EK. Linnenbringer
Walter Lowry
Mexico
Randy Ezell
Hugh Lowry
Memphis
Tenn
Lowry
Charles Newbrough
Don Ezell
Joe and
Randy
Brenda Erdel
Elmer
Percy
Orville
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