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Show TRe Salt 1 ake Tribune, Thursday, Man h 40 1Q7X . mv-v- - .j.. , j Gallup Poll Cosls for Groceries Sec Increase; Median Averages 850 a Week Arf By Dr George Gallup PRINt 'ETON, N.I if you're spending more mnnev to feed your family now than you did last year, you ba e a lot of company The latest Gallup Toll sur-'of the public's weekly evjienditiires for food reveals the median average amount to lie $50 per week an increase of $2 over lad year 'more than lion per year) The latest figure, based on non farm families, is the high est amount ever recorded since the Gallup Poll liegan charting family food expemh tures in 1937 At that time, the median figure mentioned hi survey respondents was $11 per week The amount rose at a reditu eh moderate pace throughout the l'Mds and the ensuing 20 years However, during the current decade the increase has tieen dramatic from $.14 m 1970 to tlie $00 figure a 47 per cent increase reported today The sharpest contrasts in reported spending for food each week are apparent by geographic region and city size of the respondent As has been the case in the past, residents of Kastem states report spending a significant higher amount per week i$58 than do those in the other three major regions '$48 or $49i Also lollowing the trend in years past, inhabitants of the nation's largest cities mne million or more residents say they spend much more per week ($79) than do those living in smaller cities Another interesting comparison emerges from the findings by sie of household The question was asked to determine the median average food exendilure ier week across the I'nited States On the average. amut how much does vour lamilv spend on food in hiding milk, each week1" follow in:: is the tiend since P47 and the latest findings In the demofti aptnc groups mentioned e Corn ell lion Ailnienl Remains a Mvslery ATLANTA tAP) 'lhe origin of Legionnaires disease and how it is transmitted continue to puzzle scientists, a researchct Irom the national Center I'm Disease Control said Wednesday Dr Brenda Politi of the ('DCs Legionnaires disease task lone described tile investigation to a session of the C S lnhlir Health Serv n i Professional ssix don's annual meet me She said there hav e liven eirdit known outbreaks of the pneumonia like H.'.easc in the Visited States and more than 2,Vt additional spmadlt' rases hive been confirmed The ailment got its name when it stru k several persons attending a state American Legion convention in Philadelphia m luJv 197ti Only in a IPfW outbreak m Pontiac, Mich , were researchers able to determine how the disease was transmitted Dr Arnold Kaufman of the CDC said the air conditioning system of a health department budding apparently was responsible foi spreading the disease in Pontiac More than 300 persons became dl in the Michigan ease, but none of them died In other outbreaks approximately 15 percent of those who caught Legionnaires disease died Dr IMdi sajd 0 HEHia i AG (MKHMGia 1978 National East Midwest Sooth West City size: One Million and more 500.000-999,99- 9 999 50. 000-49- 9, 9 Single-oerso- household household household household household n n Three-perso- n Four-perso- n Five-perso- n Lost Son Asks Parents for Help against him were untrue and that he and Miss Shepherd were framed because of the yoga societys opposition to the Indian government The Ananda Marga is pressing for the release of its founder, P R. Sarkar, imprisoned in India's Bihar State on a murder conviction Both defendants have pleaded innocent to the attempted murder charge. On Friday, their trial is to resume with Judge Onofre Villaluz of Pasig, a Manila suburb, hearing more testimony. The judge said the defendants have been released bail ea 'h. Col Fortunato Tarre. Rizal on provincial warden, said the younger Dwyer at first refused bad because "he wanted to stay in prison so he could preach to the prisoners." But after about a week. he posted bond and was released. The younger Dwyer said in the letter to his father that a guard may have been bribed by the Indian paid vacation trip to Embassy with an implicate him and Miss Shepherd The Dwyers have not heard from their son since that letter, but the elder Dwyer said he has no regret about sending thp mnnev A Wichita man who WICHITA, Kan (APi moved to India six years ago and tixik a religious vow to break all ties with his past has to tell them he faces trial contact with his parents for attempted murder ' even under these I'm almost glad il hnp etied circumstances." William Dwyer, father ot Steven Michael Dwyer, said of the news his son had been arrested "Over the period nt years, frankly we didn't think we'd hear from him again " Steven Dwyer, 28. and Victoria Shepherd. 31, of Maryland, both members of the Ananda Marga yoga society, were charged with attempted murder in the stabbing of Jyoto Sarup Vaid. an aide to an Indian Embassy official, in front of his embassy in a Manila, Philippines, suburb in early February. On Feb 8, the Dwyers learned about their son s arrest from a local newspaper reporter A week later, the U S State Department relayed a cable from their son asking for $1,500 to help pay his bond and legal fees for his trial m Manila Dwyer sent the money . Early this month the Dwyers received an eight page letter from their son, saying the charges (MSftlll 1D&SDIrIII mm tnanusnoKfe an n fieaiifla !0I RUifeiTgiHniy:KE& (ISHWiiMBsiRl ClTTi mStflR CfiBGRiGIfllHifil RNISHINGS ms EDENZAS Then' are I h.t ip out there. Straight". 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