Clearance Sales Gather Steam as Exchanges Continue
AP reports crowded stores as customers exchange or return gifts. Merchants plan larger clearance sales with deeper discounts and stricter exchange rules. Weather and postholiday demand drive impulse buys, with luxury items selling briskly. Nepal enters world carpet market as Tibetan refugees produce wool carpets for Swiss aid program.
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Pall Bearers convention backs scholarships and home fund
In Miami Beach at the 37th annual Grand United Order of Pall Bearers of America convention, the 8,000 member all Negro group, once a burial society, now runs as a service club. Treasurer Joseph Parris notes a $100,000 fundraising drive to build an old folks home at Fort Pierce, Florida, and ongoing scholarship programs.
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