Furs Back in Fashion as Industry Rebounds in 1978
The Washington Star notes a 1978 fur boom with record sales around 725 million dollars and a surge in trapping driven by demand for sport and wild furs. Industry groups promote fur as renewable and controllable, while environmentalists critique humane trapping and push for bans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Star
Washington
Bernie Groger
Groger
Fur Conservation Institute of America
Pursley
Fund For Animals
Animal Humane
Ohio
New Jersey
Congress
Scouts babysit Christmas shoppers at First United Methodist Church
Girl Scout Cadette Troop 34 offers free Saturday babysitting for children at least one year old from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 200 N. Pennsylvania Ave with adult supervision and a lunch sack if left during noon hour.
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Girl Scout Cadette
First United Methodist Church
Pennsylvania Ave
Supreme Court rules statue fragment belongs to swamp owner
The Connecticut Supreme Court says part of a King George III statue defiled by patriots and dumped in a Wilton swamp belongs to the swamp’s owner Fred S. Favorite. Louis Miller sold the fragment to the Museum of the City of New York after finding it six years ago and the trial court ruled it mislaid, not abandoned or lost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
New York City
Litchfield
Conn
Wilton
Louis Miller
Museum of the City of New York
Fred S. Favorite
Bridgeport
Superior Court
Robert J. Testo
Favorite
Testo
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Duane Pursley
Maryland Wildlife Administration
Fur Resources Committee
International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies
Pennsylvania
Angie Rodriguez
Tobosa Development and Training Center
Ernestine Pleasant
Tobosa School
Roswell Industrial Air Center
del Norte
Wilshire
Girl Scout
East College Boulevard
Cathy Kerr
W. Hendricks St
Kerr
Four Staters Club
la Leche
Roswell
Vickie Suarez
E. Tilden St
Roswell Inn
Bilo Furniture
Virginia
LEVIS
Levi
Levi's Saddleman
So. Main and McGaffey
Swamp
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