Potato Lovers' Month remembered in quirky list
In a playful chronicle from Little Rock, readers are reminded February is Potato Lovers' Month with trivia about the potato’s nutrition and cost, anecdotes on French Fry Day, Van Gogh still lifes, and a 1969 Bris bane University chips record. The piece playfully critiques potato-related myths and indulgences.
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Little Rock
Ark
UPI
Vincent van Gogh
Playboy
Europe
Hugh
Bo Derek
Brisbane University
Australia
Paul G Tully
Sohio cuts gasoline prices amid profit spike in 1979
Sohio announces a three cent per gallon cut across all grades at company stations and wholesalers, citing lower crude costs and better refinery efficiency. Regular at self serve 1.01, unleaded 1.05, premium 1.08. full service 1.02, 1.07, 1.10. The move follows Sohio's record 1979 profit aided by Prudhoe Bay investment and the Trans Alaska Pipeline.
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Clevelane
UPE
Standard Oil of Ohio
Cleveland
Sohin
Sohio
Robert Griffin
Griffin
Ohio
Prudhoe Bay
Trans-Alaska
Paul D. Phillips
Subio
British Petroleum Ltd
Ish Kabibble and Merwyn Reilly coauthor memoir ask publishers
Columbus AP reports Ish Kabibble, real name Merwyn Bogue, a Big Band era trumpeter and comedian, is the subject of a forthcoming autobiography coauthored with his sister Gladys Bogue Reilly. Reilly, 80, hopes the project will attract publishers for her own book on her late husband.
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Columbus
Ish Kabibble
Gladys Bogue Reilly
Merwyn Bogue
Buster Brown
Reilly
William J. Reilly
The
National Institute For Straight Thinking
Leading indicators fall for fourth straight month
Washington reports the Commerce Department index of leading indicators fell 9.7 percent in January, the fourth monthly drop. December declined 0.2 percent, November 1.9 percent, and October 1.1 percent. Officials warn revisions affect recession signals while administration eyes spending cuts to curb inflation amid possible credit controls. The index stood at 135.1 versus 136 in December and 143.2 a year earlier.
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UPI
Commerce Department
Capitol Hill
Wall Street
Carter
Nne
Nyse
Grunda probes Lorain CETA pay audit findings
Grunda names Rybka to probe Lorain CETA amid nepotism concerns. The audit lists Kenneth Koscho former assistant CETA director paid 40106 in nonallowable wages and Arlene Kokinda 3571 in nonallowable wages. Donnie Barden earned 17315 with inadequate time sheets. Twenty four other staff also charged with improper wages and fringe benefits.
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Kenneth Koscho
Lorain
CETA
Council
Koscho
Arlene Kokinda
Donnie Barden
Iran says coup plot against Khomeini uncovered
Iran reports foiled coup attempt by Islamic revolutionaries aimed at seizing Tehran radio and television, the general staff building, and the hospital where Khomeini recovers, with plans to march on the hospital. Public prosecutor Ali Qaddoos cites group details and promises full disclosure later. Militants also claim documents linking Navy head Rear Adm. Alavi to U.S. imperialism.
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Iran
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
Khomeini
Tehran
Ali Qaddoos
Qaddoos
Adm
Alavi
Ohio News In Brief Highlights Lottery and Desegregation Buses
Ohio lottery results list daily number 037 and prize totals across multiple draws with detailed codes. Separately in Cleveland, Deputy Superintendent Dr. Margaret Fleming cites a desegregation bus fleet surpassing regional transit size, planning to exceed 400 buses in Phase II beginning March 17. Cincinnati reports a St. Louis man indicted for kidnapping and murder aboard a Greyhound bus. Columbus covers a Franklin County jurors deliberating an $80 million suit against Larry Flynt, plus Gov Rhodes ordering Lima State Hospital probe into patient abuse, with three attendants dismissed for scalding a patient’s feet.
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Cleveland
UPY
Margaret Fleming
Cleveland Board of Education
Greater
Fleming
RTA
Cleveland Regional Transit Authority
Cincinnati
UPI
St. Louis
Hamilton County
Walter C. Atkins
Atkins
Mattie Atkins
Columbus
Franklin County Common Pleas Court
Hustler Magazine
Larry Flynt
Penthouse
Robert C. Guccione
Norman Roy Grutman
Ohio
Supreme Court
Rhodes signs energy bills in Ohio measures
Gov James A Rhodes signed two bills to speed Ohio energy policy actions. One creates a 13 member Alcohol Fuels Advisory Council to study alcohol fuels, replacing a prior task force. The second ends new tax exemptions for converting industrial equipment to fuel oil, effective May 29, while existing exemptions stay.
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Columbus
UPI
James A. Rhodes
Ohio
Alcohol Fuels Advisory Council
Rhodes
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California
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Sarasota, Fla
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Grunda
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U.N. Panel
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Ohio News
Bonanza
Cincy
Flynt
Lima Hospital
Parma
Martin J. Rosenberg
Case Western Reserve University
CBI
Robert B. Krupansky
Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co
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