Aerial spraying of the pesticide Endrin against cutworms in south-central Kansas has resulted in illness among some local residents, and the deaths of cattle, horses, dogs, and more than two million fish in area lakes, ponds, and streams. Failure to turn spray machines off at critical times—and “drift” of the compound due to application on windy days—were cited as “probable causes”. One dairy farmer in the region was forced to dump his herd’s milk production for five consecutive days due to contamination, and others are now concerned that pasture and forage may be tainted by the man-made poison,
Did you know that a nationwide returnable-bottle system would save 115,000 barrels of oil a day … that 73% of the people in this country favor such a plan … and that as much as 56% of what you pay when you buy a beer or soft drink is for the container? These facts and more on energy, solid waste, materials, litter, employment, and consumer issues related to the throwaway-bottle controversy are presented in Bottles and Sense, a 20-page publication by the Environmental Action Foundation. Copies are available from EAF (724 Dupont Circle Building, Washington, D.C. 20036) for $1.00 each.
The U.S. government has hidden four billion dollars in new currency in a vault inside Pony Mountain near Culpeper, Virginia, The seven-million-dollar facility—which is also designed to accommodate 400 people, and costs approximately $1.8 million a year to guard and maintain—holds the “cache of cash” as a hedge against any nuclear attack that might wipe out the nation’s money supply. But, as Senator William Proxmire has wryly pointed out, a more probable end to the doomsday plan might be that “we would have money and no people except for a few lonely radioactive government officials”.
Federal Trade Commission administrative judge Lewis Parker has ruled that Seattle-area manufacturers do not have to label the “native” Alaskan curios they sell as “machine made in Seattle”. According to that city’s Post-Intelligencer , the judge commented that “many products which the consumer purchases are not what they appear to be” and that ‘revealing the whole truth would do away with unfounded assumptions which consumers might have”.
Just back out of hospital in early March for home recovery. Therapist coming today.
Sales fell 5.9% from September and 28.4% from one year ago.
Housing starts decreased 4.2% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.43 million units in…
OneKey MLS reported a regional closed median sale price of $585,000, representing a 2.50% decrease…
The prices of building materials decreased 0.2% in October
Mortgage rates went from 7.37% yesterday to 6.67% as of this writing.
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