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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1970
Page
3
In 56 cities 240 workers sample prices in 18 000 stores to feed the Consumer Price Index. The index shows how costs for food clothing housing and other goods rise, guiding family budgets and highlighting inflation trends.
The push for standby wage and price controls grows as Nixon opposes new control legislation while Democrats push for a House vote. Treasury hints at possible tax hikes, inflation press persists, with partisan divides ahead of midterm elections.
Draft officials plan a three step lottery using both man and computer to randomize birth dates for the July 1 draft of men turning 19. The National Bureau of Standards would computer scramble 366 possible dates, place them in envelopes, and mix them for a public draw to set induction order.
In Hollywood the Superior Court ordered singer Eddie Fisher to pay $92,975 to Susan and Martin Stayden after they testified he agreed to buy their Woodland Hills home for $215,000 in 1967 but backed out two weeks later. The ruling came Tuesday.
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