Bemidji Pioneer (Newspaper) - December 4, 1972, Bemidji, Minnesota Serving and Hubbord 7Mh YEAR NUMBER 195 MINNESOTA DECEMBER 4, 1972 Final agreement Peace sessions near PARIS Henry A. Kissinger met twice today with top North Vietnamese negotiators as they sought a final agreement to end the Vietnam After a restricted morning session in a villa near North Vietnamese headquarters in the southern suburb of Choisy le a larger afternoon meeting was held in the village of Sainte Gemme to the west of The morning session lasted The afternoon talks started at 4 p.m. The Florida White House announced that the conversations will con- As his car pulled up to the Kissinger said with a grin for the reporters and photographers gathered thought this was supposed to be a secret The house had been used for some of the previous Kissinger and Tho met for 2V2 then broke at 1 p.m. for There was no immediate in- dication whether they would resume the talks in the City remap PROPOSED WARD BOUNDARIES in the city are shown by the heavy black lines in VOtC t m j 4.L. J n tfl A resolution reapportioning the city wards will be voted upon when the council meets tonight at 8 p.m. in the council chambers at City Public hearings will be held on proposed assessments for 1972 improvements to man the alley east of Bixby and Park Second reading will be Xuan the chief of Hanoi's delegation at the Paris peace companied Tho to the President Nixon's top foreign affairs adviser arrived Strike threat night from He gave no in- dication of what he would propose to the Hanoi Politburo member Kissinger has been meeting with secretly during the past They held their last meeting Nov. 25 and recessed their talks until In the a special em- from President Nguyen Van Thieu of South Nguyen Phu visited Washington for President and Reports circulated in the U.S. capital that they told Due North Vietnam would make no more Apollo A-okay r CAPE Fla. A strike threat out of the preparations for the last Apollo flight to the moon proceeded on a clockwork schedule encountering only the usual number of minor A proposed walkout by 60 aerospace workers had threatened to delay day's but shortly before the Sunday midnight strike union at- torney Bernard Mamet an- very happy to report that there will be no Astronauts Eugene A. Ronald E. Evans and Harrison N. sleeping later each day to adjust for an afternoon wakeup for the p.m. EST were to run Mr MJ TT the above A resolution to change the ward boundaries has been drawn up and will be voted upon by the city council when they meet tonight at 8 p.m. Four drownings Thin ice takes its toll By The Press Lake Marion while spear Four persons drowned when Dakota County the ice on authorities as Raymond 49. His son 16, told authorities he was unable to pull his father from the A Wisconsin man also died late night when his snowmobile sank in Shawano Lake near Wis. The victim was identified as Roger 45, Wis. Three girls who were snowmobiling on Little Rock Lake near went through thin ice about 5 p.m. Sunday but were Lindy Jenkins and Sharon both of rural plunged into the water when the ice gave Barbara also of rural Rice and operating another sought to rescue the pair and she also went into the Lakeshore residents rescued the They put three extension ladders on the bridging the area of the Then they crawled along the threw ropes on thin ice. One person drowned and two others were hospitalized Sunday when three snowmobiles broke through thin ice on Cedar Lake near The Aitkin County sheriff's office was not releasing the names of the persons involved in the accident until relatives had been Two young Minneapolis men drowned Saturday night when the snowmobile they were ing on crashed through the ice on Lake Fanny near The Isanti County sheriff's office said the bodies of Kent A. and Michael R. were recovered Sunday by divers from about 25 feet of A Lakeville man drowned Sunday when he plunged head first into a hole in the ice in The only girl hospitalization for exposure was Miss 14, she was reported in fair condition today in a St. Cloud Hubbard taxpayers to meet Hubbard County taxpayers will have a chance to have their on taxes an- swered .at a special in- formational meeting Dec. 7. County Assessor Percy Park will be on hand for the which will begin at 8 p.m. in the Lake Hattie Town Bliss will explain some of the new procedures in assessing and collecting taxes and will also answer any questions members of the audience may p during snow Two special use permits and a variance request will be acted the special use permits are for the armory on the 80-acre site and the alcoholic unit and Teen Center at 722 The city manager will request authorization to prepare specs and call for bids on an aerial lift through procedures for an emergency abort on the launch pad Later in the Cernan and Schmitt were to rehearse in a mock lunar while Evans worked in a module simulator and on orbital Cernan and Schmitt will land the craft named Challenger on the moon next Evans will remain aboard the command conducting ex- from 60 miles overhead during the three days his comrades are on the apparently opted out that discretion was the better part of and they took our final said attorney for the In- Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Em- ployes which represented the 60 nonunion The strike threat came from documentation workers who do such tasks as photography and technical writing under a Boeing Co. Their work is not essential to launch but there was the danger of more critical personnel honoring their picket in employes of a contractor at the Manned Spacecraft Center voted to strike Sunday and form picket lines which could idle another 400 space space agency said the strike would have on the Apollo 17 The contract talks at Cape Kennedy did not hold up flight They occurred mostly during a scheduled 30- hour hold in the computerized checkout of thousands of tems on the 36-story Saturn 5 the command ship that tops it and the lunar lander that nestles At as the count re- crews began loading fuels into the service module of the com- mand The Sunday reviewing flight and making final corrections on their time charts and check Then they flew for a while in jet trainers both for relaxation and for maneuvers designed condition their bodies to high with millions of other American they were in front of the television set watching Sunday i ST. LOUIS The Democratic governors have made their first move toward reclaiming their former prominence in party affairs by asking party chairman Jean Westwood to resign and endorsing Texan Robert Strauss as her But Westwood said she wouldn't step down voluntarily if Strauss were the and Strauss said he wouldn't withdraw in favor of a Ariz. GOP National Chairman Robert Dole told the semiannual meeting of Republican governors today that President Nixon's landslide victory a harbinger of good fortune for the Republican that could lead to its restoration as the nation's majority But Gov. William G. Milliken of chairman of the Republican Governors said the GOP can't attain majority status it concerns itself deeply and urgently with the needs of the poor and SANTA CRUZ DE Canary Islands y for European tourists ended in disaster n their jetliner crashed killing all 155 persons Most of passengers were SAIGON American warplanes made heavy bombing attacks against enemy communication lines in an attempt to curb the of North Vietnamese fighting a government the demilitarised U.S. Command reported Will Rogers Jr. here tonight Will will deliver a cultural arts lecture at the Student Union BSC this evening at which is open to the Tickets are available at the varied career has included newspaper radio and television He played the part of his famous father in the Rogers and will do his act on the humor of his father at this evening's U.S. llew JlS tactical air Com- hi than half of them hi Trl the U.S. Command In more than BSZ bomben hi tmt The weather Fair variable cloudiness with chance of occasional light snow south through Continued High today Low tonight M below north to S below High Tuesday Chance of precipitation north to M per cent today ani it per cent Harpings I'm getting so bald that from behind it looks like my shirt collar is blowing bubble Fisheries bonus set In a monthly meeting held Dec. 2, the board of directors of the Red Lake Fisheries Association set a 20 per cent bonus which will be distributed among the members on Dec. 6. The bonus plus previous 1972 purchases will total which represents the amount that will have been paid to members for the 1972 fishing Gross sales for the 1972 fishing season totaled 5 die in Mizpah fire Minn. A mother and her four children perished in a fire that de- their northern home early Dead are Mrs. Ronald 26, three 7, 5, and 3, and a 1. Vernlund and Ms leaped to safety from an upstairs window of the two- story frame authorities Fire departments from pah and Northome answered the alarm in the 20-degree be- low zero but the fire was out of control and the house Mizpah is about southwest of International Apollo 17 gives signal to crew at Patrick Air Force Base as he prepared to start his jet Eugene Cernan and Ronald Evans are set to Blast off for the moon on Dec. 6. Schmitt will be the first professional geologist ever to visit the Commissioners start 3-a-month meetings prevent shoplifting In the first meeting to be held under a new the Beltrami County Board of Commissioners Tuesday will consider several items of new business and some items held over from previous Tomorrow's meeting marks a change from the previous schedule of one regular meeting each month to the new one of three sessions Regular meetings are now scheduled for the first and second Tuesdays of each to be followed by an abbreviated meeting to coincide with the regular meeting of the County Welfare In addition to several which have been made by individuals in keeping with the new the board will consider the following agenda Approval of a request for a mobile home permit by Bernard and William Nielsen on County Road 15. Involved would be about 15 or 20 Approval of bonds for Deputy County Auditor John J. administrative assistant Ted County Treasurer Doris and the welfare petty cash A dance permit for the Frontier Appropriations for the of- fices of register of deeds and the sheriff's A involving two clerks formerly under jurisdiction of the Probate Court and with the office of the clerk of County Veterans claims for reimbursement for clearing of Repairs to a Judicial Transfer of funds from the Beltrami Nursing Home to the Nursing Home Building fund to pay bonds due Feb. Appointments for in- with the board have been requested by the following Lennard Land to discuss work of his Charles who requests a land exchange hearing on behalf of the Bemidji Development Cor- Doyle regional executive director of the Governor's Commission on Crime Prevention and Con- The county commission must authorize and coordinate activities of the CCPC in the County Surveyor William who will present an overview for the past year of operations of his local in- surance who will discuss with the board the county's insurance Elmer recently as county agricultural He will give an annual Under the new schedule the during the first will consider any county business that demands with the exception of road and bridge which will be con- during the second The board will use the or abbreviated session as a meeting and will consider such other business as cannot be delayed until the next regular The general public has been invited to use the first regular meeting of each month as a forum in which to air com- requests and The auditor's office will assign to accomodate the petitioner as as in 15-minute periods beginning alt 10 a.m. No appointments will be assigned for the hours of 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. to p.m. of the first those hours being reserved for discussion of internal Anyone wishing to appear before the appointment will be heard from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Those wishing to bridge matters will receive appointments for second Tuesday By Frank Bain Pioneer reporter of a There's an old Latin ex- pression as everyone knows means the Buyer About this time of every store managers everywhere have their own expression without the is simply the Seller Beware of that is. And anyone who thinks shoplifting comes under the heading of small-time kid stuff should look at some Among other things they show that this crime is growing steadily at a rate of about 20 per cent annually and may run as high as two to three billion that's dollars a year At the local several merchants have promised to furnish details on how they have attempted to defend themselves during past Christmas rush seasons and what they are doing about it this Police Chief James Dowell says his will have a patrolman on duty to make the rounds of stores to help combat the growing menace which causes chants to install detection and otherwise try to down losses from Although each state has its own laws governing they all seem to realize that stuffing a pair of pan- into a purse sneaking a piece of into a pocket just can't be ignored or dealt with as a minor are by no means the only and the offense isn't necessarily treated as a It can con- a In a future article the Pioneer will publish excerpts from Minnesota statutes on shoplifting and present ther details in the hope that is NFL is top With her pads in place and her passing Dotty NFL Vikings stormed out Friday to garner 58 points in the Bemidji membership drive to help lift her league to top place by a 22 point The Vikings covered the field to garner United Farm Fritz Lanita James Larson 71 Orvis Capp and Wilma Earl Vera James Sharp and Palmer For the NFL Bears signed Cabinet City Body Shop and Jo Lyn Apparel for a total of 15 points and Bob Packers signed Harold Freutel for two points to help the NFL Putting up a battle that kept the title in contention until the last John AFL Saints romped for It points in signing Haugen Wes Robert Les Charles Kern Robert Fulton Gallagher ami Myrtle Bob Jets signed Clinton Braaten white Jansen's Falcons ran to sign Paul Gulf Mark Hurd Aerial Survey and La Verne Haugen for total of 11. signed Designed Pat Stapleton ami Elmo Share a la. The total the NFL the contest 147 But Chamber officials sail m me chamber the week after as ire
