Consumer Protection Tops $500000 in 1975 Recoveries
Topeka attorney general Curtis Schneider announced the consumer protection division reached $539,957 in 1975 recoveries for Kansas consumers, up 123 percent from 1974. The year saw 3,836 complaints, 2,123 resolved, and 1,713 pending, plus 101 public appearances to inform citizens.
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Topeka
Kan
Curt Schneider
Kansas
Schneider
Atty
Vern Miller
Harold Trayer
Cottonwood Falls
Tennessee
Trayer
Consumer Protection
Federal Trade Commission
Spain weighs steps toward democracy after Franco
In Madrid AP reports Spain undertakes reforms six weeks after Franco's death. Premier Arias Navarro's government considers widened popular participation, with gradual changes and no flood of reform. Interior Minister Fraga vows action against extremists while permitting protests and elections for local officials.
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Madrid
Spain
Francisco Franco
Franco
Carlos Arias Navarro
Manuel Fraga Iribarne
Archy
Juan Carlos
Fraga
Cortes
Parliament
Council of Political Forces of
Catalonia
Catholic Church
Kennedy Letter Quietly Pleads for Healing Vietnam Wounds
Hanoi Radio reports Sen. Edward M. Kennedy wrote North Vietnam's deputy prime minister offering hope that the United States would contribute to healing the wounds of war in Vietnam. The Dec 1975 letter thanked Hanoi for repatriation efforts and suggested visits by U.S. experts to assist in Vietnam’s recovery. The reply from Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh welcomed Kennedy’s intent and noted progress on locating burial sites for two missing Marines.
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Bangkok
Thailand
Hanoi
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
North Vietnam
United States
Vietnam
U.S
Kennedy
North
South Vietnam
Saigon
Hanoi Radio
Nguyen Duy Trinh
Trinh
Washington
Woburn
Mass
Lance
Darwin L
Marshalltown
Iowa
Tan Son Nhut
Miracle baby born after Elk River rescue
In Charleston West Virginia a mother and her newborn son survived a car plunge into the Elk River. Janet Keaton went into labor during the rescue as George Keaton, Olen Myers, and bus passenger Dennis Tawney helped pull them from the water. The baby weighed six pounds two ounces and both mother and child are reported fine.
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Charleston
W. Va
George Keaton
Glendenin
Janet
Elk River
Dennis Tawney
Keaton
Tawney
Olen Myers
Elkview
Curtis White
The Box Finally Is Opened
Ezekah Williamson Hoopes of Philadelphia cursed a pine box with a centennial era pledge to last until 1976. On New Year’s Day 1876 he sealed it with nails and two wax seals. Grandchildren opened it in St Louis finding sewing machine brochures, scales, harvest gear, magazines, a silk hat and a centennial doll baby.
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ST. Louis
Ezekah Williamson Hoopes
Philadelphia
Hoopes
Ezekah
Alban Williamson Hoopes
Oneonta
N.Y
Thomas T. Hoopes
Thomas Hoopes
St. Louis Art Museum
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Singer
New York
the Singer Co
Xerox Corp
RCA Corp
Business Machines
Commerce Department
Ottawa Herald
Ois
Tul Mond
LUX
New Beacon
Glo
Klean
N’ Shine
Ottawa
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