Beating the dollar decline on $9,000 a year in Portland
Betty Eldridge describes a frugal, home centered life with husband Norman, a construction machinery mechanic, and two children Kathy and Timothy. Living on about $9,000 yearly, they cut costs through meticulous budgeting, home cooking, homemade preserves, and shopping sales while avoiding steaks and snacks. Federal cost of living for Portland mirrors national levels.
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Portland, Maine
Norman Eldridge
Ing
Nationwide meat boycott shifts into April
Consumers coast to coast press for a nationwide meat boycott the first week in April led by Save Our Sanity and FIT Fight Inflation Together. Housewives drop higher priced cuts and cook vegetarian meals as protests spread from Ohio to Texas and New Orleans.
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Kris Liljeholm
Associated Press
Salt Lake City
Rosalie Whiting
Save Our Sanity
California
Cheaper than steak and the Sclafani savings plan
A New Orleans couple, the Eldridges, live frugally to beat rising meat costs. Betty hunts sales, buys house brands in bulk, cans and freezes produce, and shops weekly with a tight budget, saving on oranges, detergents, potatoes, eggs, and cheaper fish while prioritizing chicken meals and homemade goods. Their self-reliant, do it yourself life centers on thrift and family time.
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Betty
Portland
Norman
Kathy
Glen Miller
Mario Lanza
Powell Rap Session Saturday in Oxford
Congressman Walter E. Powell sponsors a rap session for 8th District youth in Oxford. Students from area high schools will question debate and offer solutions on community district and national issues with the congressman and participating peers. Carlisle Hamlyn Alexander. Franklin Schaffer Fout. Lakota Keith Evers. Lebanon Gabbard Little. Madison Brown Orth. Middletown Buckles Stephenson. Lemon Monroe Foreman Platt. Preble Shawnee Bia Webb.
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8Th Congressional District
Walter E. Powell
Oxford
Powell
America
Carlisle
Greg Hamlyn
Rick Alexander
Franklin
Ted Schaffer
John Fout
Lakota
Carl Keith
Bob Evers
Lebanon
Randy Gabbard
Jeri Little
Madison
Blake Brown
Steve Orth
Middletown
Jenny Buckles
Elaine Stephenson
Lemon Monroe
Patti Foreman
Mary Ann Platt
Preble-Shawnee
Ed Bia
Jim Webb
B T tablets promise relief from daily jitters
If you suffer from simple everyday nervous tension you should take E T tablets for relief. Call the druggist at the drug store listed and ask about B T tablets. They are safe non habit for raing with a guarantee you will lose your jitters or get your money back. Do not accept a substitute.
Nixon invites freed POWs to White House lawn party
Washington AP President and Mrs. Nixon invite all freed American prisoners of war to a May 24 party on the White House lawn. The men will receive a briefing on foreign policy from the President Secretary of State William Rogers and Henry Kissinger while Mrs. Nixon hosts a reception and mansion tour for their wives. The dinner on the south lawn is being planned with an entertainment program arranged.
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Washington
Nixon
White House Lawn
William P. Rogers
Henry A. Kissinger
White House
Asian leader Lee Kuan Yew begins 18 day U.S. tour
Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore arrived in New York to start an 18 day visit to the United States. He will meet President Nixon and Henry Kissinger in Washington on April 10 to discuss Southeast Asia policy.
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New York
Lee Kuanyew
Singapore
United States
Nixon
Henry A. Kissinger
Washington
U.S
Southeast Asia
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Pete Sclafani
Louisiana
Sclafani
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N. Verity Parkway
Middletown, Ohio
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Crawford Street
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Limy
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Sun Garden
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Wrights
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