Expert Kitchen Remodeling Advice and Home Decor Help
The reader seeks kitchen redesign guidance and interior styling tips. Suggestions include hiring a kitchen planning specialist, consulting design groups, appliance outlets, and local classes, plus color and fabric options for living room draperies and coordinating upholstery.
Key controlled lock praised for home security by expert
AP News features writer Vivian Brown presents Robert J. McDermott of New York advising women living alone to harden doors and windows with pick resistant locks peepholes chained doors nail locks and bedside phones. He outlines practical steps from window sash nail holes to drop bolts and proper use of keys for safe escape.
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Vivian Brown
AP News
Robert J. McDermott
New York
McDermott
New York Police
Emhart
Holmes Protection
Pistachio Trees Rise in Popularity for Drier Gardens
The article explains rising water costs push gardeners toward low water shrubs and dual purpose trees like pistachio. It notes Pistacia vera as a shrub producing edible nuts, commercial plantings in Arizona and California, dioecious trees requiring both sexes, grafting for uniform yields, and Kerman as a leading commercial variety.
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United States
Arizona
Cochise
Maricopa
Pinal
Pima
California
University of Arizona
Tucson
Kerman
Phoenix
Iran
Scottsdale Daily Progress Item From April First
A brief item from the Scottsdale daily paper dated Thursday April 1 reports local news and notices for the community. The brief highlights a city event and reads with concise civic tone.
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Scottsdale (At
Daily Progress
Florida house plants surge as leading farm crop
In Apopka Florida, potted house plants drive a growth surge with 82 percent of U.S. production and wholesale sales rising to 87.3 million in 1975. Large firms like Green Thumb top 25 to 41 million yearly while small family nurseries expand via local retail channels and home parties.
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G. Michael Harmon
Associated Press
Florida
Charles Dunn
Florida Nurserymen and Growers Association
Dallas
Cecil Rogers
Nursery Association
Apopka
Wall Street
Green Thumb
Bob Stutzman
Stretching meals as inflation bites meat budgets
The piece notes that rising prices are changing how families buy and eat. UA extension nutrition specialist Peggy Putnam offers tips to stretch dollars: use smaller meat portions, choose less tender cuts, buy large cuts and portion them, substitute beans eggs cheese peanut butter fish or poultry, reuse leftovers, and compare costs per serving to find best buys.
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Peggy Putnam
UA Extension
Putnam
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