Organ grinder Pasquale Pietro endures lean economy at Texas State Fair
Pasquale Pietro 62, a veteran organ grinder, laments fewer coins and tougher hustle as he travels with his wife Shirley and a monkey troupe. Two monkeys stand guard on the ride while Mario and Sam work and Josephine and Chico rest. The pair tour races across the country in a varnished wooden organ with living quarters for the capuchin monkeys. The craft, once common, survives with a handful of performers mainly on the West Coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Godfrey Anderson
Associated Press
Dallas
Pasquale
Pat
Pietro
Texas
Momma
America
West Coast
New York
Campobasso
Italy
Denver
Colo
Shirley
Grinder
Mario
Sam
Josephine
Chico
Treasure hunters find metal ingots in Oklahoma cave
Two Lubbock treasure hunters say they found several palm sized metal ingots with a cross and crown symbol buried two feet deep in a cave in the Wichita Mountains near Meers Oklahoma. The ingots may be ancient or Mexican in origin and are being tested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul McClung
Lawton
Okla
Lubbock
Tex
Wichita Mountains
Bill Ferrell
Don Cagle
Panion
Wichita
Steve Wilson
Museum of the Great Plains
Ferrell
California law requires price tags on caskets at funerals
Sacramento AP reports a new California law orders funeral directors to display conspicuous prices on caskets and bans casket requirements for cremations. Lt. Gov. Ed Reinecke’s spokesman announced the bill signing as Reagan’s tour continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
Calif
California
Ed Reinecke
Reinecke
Ronald Reagan
Fair East
Record Grain Output Raises Market Price Pressure
A forecast 5.4 billion bushels of corn for 1971-72 by the Agriculture Department signals a bumper crop and ample feed supplies for meat dairy and poultry. Surplus potential and export uncertainties drive expected high carryover, complicating 1972 feed grain policy amid budget pressures and evolving livestock demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Kendall
Washington
Agriculture Department
Nixon
White House
Office of Management and Budget
Swedish panel backs broader abortion access nationwide
A parliamentary commission in Stockholm has recommended widening Swedish abortion law to allow all women who request it to obtain an abortion. The proposal follows a six year study by the commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockholm
Jobless teachers seek jail and other jobs in Bay Area
Walter Adams reports on the Organization of Unemployed Teachers OUT and allies forming to place thousands of unemployed San Francisco Bay Area teachers in unconventional roles such as teaching in city and county jails and developing in jail schools while exploring new educational projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Adams
Associated Press
San Mateo
Calif
Robert Dwan
Dwan
San Francisco Bay Area
Schools of
Ucation
Linda Williams
Nexus
Menlo Park
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Unemployed Workers Union Forms in Rhode Island
Arthur Hazard, Vietnam veteran and former computer programmer, helped form the Unemployed Workers Union to unite jobless Rhode Islanders. The six-week-old group, with about 200 members, aims to sign up 28 000. It won a federal court order allowing leaflets at the Employment Security Office and met Gov Licht to seek more benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ambrose B
Dudley
Associated Press
Providence, R. I
Arthur Hazard
State Department of Employment Security
Hazard
Unemployed Workers Union
U.S
Frank Licht
Mary C. Hackett
No one wants block of Florida land for sale
AP reports Peter Hilton seeks buyers for 2.5 million acres of Florida real estate in a single block. The parcels exceed Delaware and Rhode Island combined, totaling about 3,900 square miles with extensive water frontage, highways, and a large golf course, held by 250 legatees in trust with a senior holder claiming 60 percent.
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John Cunniff
New York
Florida
Delaware
Rhode Island
Los Angeles County
Yellowstone National Park
Peter Hilton
Corporate Diversification, Ltd
Hilton
Legattee
Court upholds opposite sex marriage ban in Minnesota
Minnesota Supreme Court ruled unanimously that marriage is a male female institution. It rejected Baker and McConnell's bid for a same sex license, saying the institution is as old as Genesis and not violated by state law. Baker, McConnell, both 29, were involved after a Hennepin County clerk refused a 1970 license. Baker led the University of Minnesota student association. McConnell was a librarian.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St, Paul, Minn
Minnesota Supreme Court
Richard John Baker
James Michael McConnell
Mankato
Minn
Supreme Court
Hennepin
Baker
University of Minnesota
McConnell
High Court
U.S
Tolerances Shape Food Inspections and Costs
A AP report explains tolerances in federal food grading, where slight deviations like 1 percent water in poultry or 4 substandard eggs per lot are allowed. Regulators rely on guidelines to balance perfection and practicality, with costs to consumers—GAO cites a $32 million yearly impact from 1 percent extra water.
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G. David Wallace
Associated Press
Washington
General Accounting Office
Thomas Brown
Food and Drug Administration
Bureau of Foods
FDA
Brown
Agriculture Department
Department
Department of Agriculture
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Zortman
Malta
High Plains
Albany
N. Y
State Health Department
Atlanta
Jimmy Carter
Carter
Prince Edward
Britain
Queen Elizabeth
Buckingham Palace
London
Kensington
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