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The Akron Beacon Journal from Akron, Ohio • Page 12

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Akron, Ohio
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12
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Friday, April 22, 1977 112 Akron Beacon loornal II No throwaways? I 1 I nit )ffl6 rip! a I -SLA If linun inmn i.n iiinnj About town IV almost horse show time in Bath JJ2RaKWB iii'Mujni m. peey i mi IllCLlal .11111 cation, also outlined some other proposed legislation, including Rep. Bob Eckhardfs (D-Texas) bill that would allow the Federal Trade Commission and the Food and Drug Administration to make regulations that would eliminate overpackag-ing. While such legislation initially probably would increase prices slightly (proposed taxes in Hart's bill range from half a cent to 1.3 cents a container after a 10-year introductory sliding scale), their real thrust is to change American packaging habits by encouraging industry to recycle and cut down on multiple wrappings. From Beacon Journal Wirt Services The concern over disposable containers has gone far beyond the beverage industry.

Now Congress is looking at all throwaway packaging to see how it can be recycled or reduced in quantity. One possible solution is a tax on all packages that would reflect their use of raw materials and the cost of disposal. The tax, as detailed in a bill proposed by Sen. Gary Hart would be levied against container manufacturers, who could control the amount of tax levied by using recycled materials in the packaging. Product Marketing, a trade publi LAiLJ Ml 1 1 ii aa Banner iAfwvii By BETTY JAYCOX Beacon Journal LrteSryte Editor From May 6 through May 22 members of Bath Volunteers will be selling tickets for the annual Bath Horse Show sponsored by the Bath Fire Department.

The show will be July 9 and 10 with Ernest J. Morgan as chairman and Rick Williams, co-chairman. Mrs. James Hower and Mrs. Robert Fickes Jr.

are co-chairmen for the Ladies Auxiliary of the Bath Fire Department and Mrs. Robert Setter is chairman for the Bath Volunteers. Bath Volunteers will celebrate spring with a luncheon May 13 at 11:30 at Woman's City Club. The program will If you want good landscaping Call Us! CAVAMl A complete three-unit wall system, 90" long, for only $169? Right! Each ready-to-assemMe unit stands is and Also available: secretary unit (not shown). Fine vinyl-clad finishes in WHITE, IICHT or DARK BUTCHER-BLOCK and WALNUT.

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Seller feature Linda Nager Brandt, concert pianist, who is a Bath resident. Her program will have something for everyone, including classical selections, jazz, ragtime and pop music. Officers will be Installed, including Mrs. Z. C.

Oseland, president; Mrs. Raleigh Drennon, vice president; Mrs. William E. Vantrease and Mrs. Jerome Lavanish, secretaries, and Mrs.

Kenneth Thompson, treasurer. Music in the air WESTERN Reserve Academy's Spring Music Festival will fill the air with music in Hudson Thursday through May 1. The concerts are under the direction of William Appling, head of the academy music department. An Honors Recital featuring outstanding students of the music department will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Hayden Hall.

Next Friday at 8:15 p.m. there will be a dedicatory concert in Hayden Hall when the Kulas recital room and piano, gift of the Kulas Foundation, will be dedicated at a recital by John McDonald, son of Mr. and Mrs. John G. McDonald, who will continue his music studies at Yale University next fall.

Last event, on Sunday, May 1, will be a glee club concert in the school chapel. A reception for guests, musicians and their families will follow in Hayden Hall. All of the programs are free, and are open to the public. For Founders Day BOTH THE alums and the actives of Theta Phi Alpha will celebrate Founders Day Tuesday evening at 7:30 at the University Club. Honored will be Dorothy Laubacher, associate professor of Home Economics at the University of Akron, who has been the sorority's faculty advisor for many years and who will be 4 v.

retiring utter mm yvxi National president of the sorority, Sue Greene, is coming from Pittsburgh for the celebration. Hattie Larlham, who received Theta Phi Alpha's Siena Medal at the group's national convention in Akron last summer, also will be a guest. Dorothy Laubacher Just in passing Florence Kay Shlnn of Silver Lake always gets the urge to travel In the springtime, and recently decided to go to Australia in June. She plans to stay as long as the spirit moves her. While she is gone, her daughter and son-in-law, Marlene and the Rev.

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