Betty Johnston: Tell Me About It

35 YEARS AGO: Food prices were going up as July morphed into August

By BETTY JOHNSTON - Staff Writer

Look at the front page of the Enterprise edition of Aug. 9, 1973, and you'll see it in the lower right-hand corner ---- a four-column article about the difficulty of coping with "skyrocketing food prices." Evidently, what goes around is still coming around ---- 35 years later.

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