Mobil Travel Guides inspectors keep quiet on good jobs
AP sifts through Mobil Travel Guides inspectors who rate 25,000 hotels and restaurants. About 72 inspectors roam the country rating facilities for next year’s guides. Inspectors work six to eight weeks, often 10 inspections daily, earning about $125 a week after expenses. They pay own costs and rely on travel perks, with low turnover and steady demand for curious, sociable testers.
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Mobil Travel Guides
Moule
Marion Stevens
Minnesota crime rate falls in early 1969 report
Atty Gen Douglas Head said crime rates dropped in Minnesota during January through May 1969 from the same period in 1968. Rural areas fell 16.3 percent, St Paul down 11.9 percent, Duluth 9.6 percent, Minneapolis 5.8 percent, while suburbs and small to mid-sized cities held near 1968 levels.
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ST. Paul
Minnesota
Douglas Head
State Crime Bureau
Duluth
Minneapolis
Memo on 50 percent arrest goal sparks highway patrol row
Minnesota Highway Patrol chief John Harbinson disputes a memo aimed at discrediting him. The document, dated January 31 1969, proposed a statewide objective to raise arrest rates in accident cases to 50 percent from the current 35 percent, a goal he calls reasonable but not absolute.
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ST. Paul
John Harbinson
Minnesota Highway Patrol
Highway Patrol
Harbinson
Wisconsin youth drowns helping inner tube caller
PELICAN RAPIDS Minn AP a Wisconsin youth drowned Saturday evening in Little Pelican Lake while attempting to assist someone on an inner tube calling for help. Victor Joseph Ericksen 15 jumped from a boat and disappeared. his body was recovered about an hour later in nine feet of water by Pelican Rapids firemen and county officers. Denmark's Limfjord in Jutland is noted as a separate water body of 660 square miles.
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Pelican Rapids
Minn
Wisconsin
Little Pelican Lake
Here
Ottertail County
Victor Joseph Ericksen
Linda Ericksen
Beloit
Wis
Ericksen
Record Betting at La Mesa Park Sets NM High
Raton New Mexico AP reports La Mesa Park in Sept. 1 wagering reached a record $267,857 handle for the track's 23 year history, reflecting an all time high for Northern New Mexico racing fans.
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John Cunniff
New York
Austin
Austin Bootery
Dorothy’s
Earl’s
Earl White Music Fantles
Gildner’s
Hirsh
Jupiter
Mier Wolf
MR. V
Nemitz’s
J. C. Penney Quality
ST. Paul Clothing
Wallace’s
Woolworth
E.T
Wrights
Bush
Oxfords
Denmark
Limfjord
Jutland
Austin (Minn
Herald
Warners
N. Main ST
Austin Savings & Loan
Austin Savings
Austin and
Stewartville, Minn
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