Forty four legged food tasters face factory shutdown
In Tualatin Oregon forty dogs and twenty cats at Hervin Co. who tested Blue Mountain pet foods face unemployment or reassignment as Alpo Pet Food Co. buys Hervin and ceases pet food production. About 130 human workers will also lose or transfer jobs. Some animals already secured adoptive homes with their handlers.
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Hervin Co
Blue Mountain
Alpo Pet Food Co
Hervin
Portland
Tom Mayberry
David L. Schultz
Soroptimists honor Brown induct three new members
Freder ick County Soroptimists held a Christmas dinner at Dutch’s Daughter with Lucinda Mandarin as induction officer. New members Lori Kirk Cynthia Walker Tracy Mosser joined Connections Travel Co and Manpower, with Norra Bertetina noted as a new member. Ida Lee Brown was honored as Distinguished Contributor to Human Rights for 3,000 volunteer hours with Hospice of Frederick County.
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St Ioternatiaal
Frederick County
Lucinda Mandarin
Upper Montgomery Club
South Atlantic
Lori Kirk
Connections Travel Co
Cynthia Walker
Tracy Mosser
Pencidant Norra Bertetina
Capital Area
United Nations Association of the USA
Brown
Federal Hall
Washington Plaza Hotel
Hospice
Soroptimist International
Swedish polluters pay to restore Lake Vanern fish
Swedish authorities require polluters to replenish fish killed by pollution as part of a broad cleanup of Lake Vanern. The program aims to restore salmon yields to about 70 tons annually, from a century ago, through hatcheries and penalties on hydroelectric plants.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Lake
Vanera
Uddeheim Co
Europe
Uddeholm
United States
Lake Michigan
Lake Ontario
Lesley Wedge
Vanern
Salmon Fund
Wedne
Department of Environmental Conservation
Cortland
N.Y
Michigan
Ontario
Tage Ros
Ros
Lars Breitling
Great Lakes
Nader enlists celebrities to promote car air bags
Washington AP Ralph Nader says he will push automakers to offer air bags by enlisting nine celebrity endorsers ready to buy cars from the first maker offering widespread dual front air bag protection. The list includes Dustin Hoffman Paul Newman Burt Reynolds Dear Abby and Phil Donahue among others.
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Washington
Ralph Nader
Nader
Dustin Hoffman
Burt Reynolds
Paul Newman
Bill Peacock
Ford Motor Co
Auto Industy
General Motors Corp
Bill Noack
Chrysler Corp
Mercedes Benz
Ford
Chrysler
Maryland to Hatch Disease Resistant Oysters in Piney Point
Maryland plans a 740000 hatchery at Piney Point in St Marys County to breed a disease resistant oyster strain to combat MSX linked mortality. The 4 acre site will raise up to 50 million larvae for Chesapeake Bay beds and could yield 100 acres of oysters annually.
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Baltimore
St. Mary's
State Department of Public Works
Piney Point
Chesapeake Bay
George Krantz
Department of Natural Resources Fisheries
Rutgers
University of Delaware
Krantz
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C. Mert Helter
Sotoptimist International
Norma Redstone
Tracy Masser
Dutch’s Daughters
Ida Lee Brown
Sunbird
Pontiac
GMC
Merkur
Eastor
Ron Sedo
Saupe
Lincoln
Montgomery Village
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