Food Price Breakdown Shows 8.2 Percent Rise Last Year
Indiana University economist Morton J. Marcus analyzes last year’s 8.2 percent rise in food and beverage prices. Tomatoes up 17.7 percent lettuce 27.4 percent eggs down 21.1 percent butter up 10.1 percent bacon up 14.2 percent oranges up 35.6 percent and apples and bananas about 10 percent. Cigarettes and wine rose modestly. Inflation hit smaller urban areas harder than larger cities with 7.4 percent versus 5.9 percent in the biggest areas.
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Morton J. Marcus
Indiana University School of Business
Marcus
Indiana Business Review
Investigators Cite Possible Korean Influence Payments in Congress
Washington sources say a for mer Korean ambassador Kim Dong Jo may have paid influence to as many as ten current members of Congress. The claim surfaced after an ethics panel warned that aid to South Korea could be cut unless Kim testifies. In Ohio, a crash on the Turnpike near Berea killed four and injured two, with identities withheld pending relatives notification.
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House
Washington
Kim Dong Jo
Congress
Kim
UPI
Toledo, Ohio
Ohio Highway Patrol
OHP
Berea
Ohio Farm Bureau Eyes Foreign Buyer Rules On Farmland Near Marysville
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation plans legislation to identify and disclose foreign ownership of farmland in Ohio including a large poultry operation near Marysville. Executive VP C William Swank says registration or disclosure may be pursued to determine German Arab or other ownership sources. Two foreign investments are reported near Marysville and the Wapakoneta area.
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Columbus
UPI
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation
Ohio
Marysville
C. William Swank
Farm Bureau
Swank
Wapakoneta
Chaplin Reburied In Corsier To Thwart Theft
Charlie Chaplin was reburied in Corsier Switzerland inside a concrete vault to deter further body theft. A simple ceremony saw the coffin lowered back into the same grave from which it was stolen on March 2 after police recovered the body on May 17 and arrested two political refugees, a Bulgarian and a Pole, on ransom theft charges.
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Corsier
Switzerland
UPI
Charlie Chaplin
Weather Looks Cloudy with Showers Tonight and Wednesday
Weather forecast calls for cloudy skies with possible showers or thundershowers tonight and again Wednesday. Lows in the mid 50s tonight, mid 70s Wednesday, with 60 percent and 40 percent chances of rain respectively. Winds south to southwest 10 to 15 mph. Also lists marriages, births, and deaths: Bouck Harris. Price McClain. VanMeter Felter. deaths Lena Miller and Cynthia Stark.
Los Angeles Man Bouts Hiccups Eight Years
United Press International reports Los Angeles resident Jack O Leary endured a hiccup spell from June 13 1948 to June 1 1956 totaling about eight years with an estimated 160 million hiccups.
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United Press International
Los Angeles
Jack O'Leary
Edison Field to Get GE Lit For 100th Anniversary
General Electric offers to light Edison High School football field as part of a 100th Anniversary promotion. Principal Carroll Sanders says GE would provide fixtures lamps and engineering but funding for installation must be raised. Plans call for four 80 to 100 foot towers with 84 1000 watt lamps and 20 power spots.
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Edison High School
Carroll Sanders
General Electric Lighting Systems Division
Hendersonville
N.C
Sanders
Boosters Club
Neale Orrok
Lucalox
Cleveland, Nela Park
Orrok
Edison
William O’connor
Edison-Wellington
Thomas A. Edison
Milan
Three-year-old shoots two-year-old in car incident
A three-year-old Norwalk boy shot a two-year-old rural Norwalk child in the back seat of a car at the Huron County Drive-In Bank. The wounded child was taken to Fisher-Titus Memorial Hospital and listed in satisfactory condition. Police Captain Donald Daugherty said both youngsters were in the rear seat. the shooter pulled a small caliber gun from beneath the driver seat. The grandmother, driving, did not know the weapon was there. Investigation continues.
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Norwalk
Huron County
Daugherty
Jerry Emmons Named Teacher Of Year
Jerry Emmons a Norwalk High School veteran was named Teacher Of The Year by the Norwalk Teachers Association at a banquet in Monroeville. The 36 year old geometry and computer programming teacher has 12 years in teaching, ten at Norwalk. He praised peer recognition and stressed fairness and consistency in the classroom. Emmons spoke on discipline backing the district’s tougher rules and noted support for former colleague Barbara Hart who was dismissed. He and his family reside on Rosedale Boulevard.
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Jerry Emmons
Norwalk High School
Emmons
Norwalk Teachers’ Association
Vanson
Monroeville
NTA
Christie Patton
Truckers
Norwalk
Wooster College
Ohio State University
Western Michigan University
Russia China trade accusations over African war
The Soviet Union and China exchanged blame over the Zaire war. Moscow accused the United States of masterminding the rebels' rout while Beijing charged the rebels as Soviet Cuban hired mercenaries in a Moscow commentary.
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Russia
China
Soviet Union
Moscow
United State
Peking
Communist Party
Pravda
Africa
Zaire
Boris Orekhov
Kolwezi
United States
Alexander) Haig
NATO
Europe
Carter
Brown Awarded 2500 Prize For Mall Series
Jack Brown, Reflector managing editor, won second prize in the 1977 Media Awards for the Advancement of Economic Understanding. He receives 2500 dollars for a series on Will Norwalk Survive the Mall, the second best entry among papers under 10,000 in circulation. Brown accepted the award in New York at a luncheon with Irving S. Shapiro as speaker.
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New York
Jack Brown
the Reflector
Brown
Perkins Sheriff Cited After Donair Drive Collision
Erie County Sheriff Harold Gladwell was cited for failing to drive on the right half of the roadway after a Saturday night crash on Donair Drive in Perkins Township. The pickup struck a mailbox and a parked car, then backed into a yard before residents halted the vehicle. He faces Sandusky Municipal Court on a date to be announced. Witnesses questioned whether he had been drinking and residents urged police to investigate the incident.
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Perkins
Erie County
Harold Gladwell
Donair Drive
Perkins Township
Sheriff's Department
Sandusky Municipal Court
Gladwell
Douglas Drive
Gerald L. Barnswell
Donair Dr
Wayne Myers
Perkins Police
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Corinne E. Harris
Jay H. Price
Carol A. McClain
Robert W. VanMeter
Rebecca S. Felter
Lena A. Miller
Ft. Myers
Fla
Cynthia E. Stark
Sandusky
General Electric
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Annie
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