Composting Tips and 4-H News From County Extension
Minnesota county agent highlights compost heap construction and fertilizer steps for home gardens. He notes three to four months for decomposition and urges moist piles with rotation. Also celebrates Mower County 4-H Horse Judging Team win and Keystone International Livestock Exposition plans in Harrisburg, with Tommy Ticklers cookbook restock timing and shelterbelt seedling orders for spring delivery.
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Minnesota
Mower County
Sandy Voss
Scott Cassidy
Pam Schammel
Terri Hovda
Harrisburg
Penn
Izaak Walton League Urges Halting BWCA Logging
The Izaak Walton League in Minnesota adopts guidelines calling for logging to cease in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area as soon as possible. The group backs phasing out current Forest Service contracts, opposing administrative cutting and mechanized use, and seeks road obliteration to restore wilderness character. The Sierra Club joins in opposing continued commercial logging.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Minnesta
Izaak Walton League
Boundary Waters Canoe Area
BWCA
Minnesota
League
U. S. Forest Service
Forest Service
Sierra Club
The
Onald Eng
Superior National Forest
Minneapolis cabbie to install 400 dollar bullet shield
A Minneapolis taxi driver says he will order a 400 dollar bulletproof shield for installation between the front and back seats. John Remick spoke to about 350 drivers amid rising assaults and robberies, proposing a shield with a money drawer and steel bottom. He noted that attackers could still reach from outside. The meeting discussed other ideas including bank drops and a hotline linking dispatchers for faster help, prompted by recent cab-driver shootings and woundings.
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Minneapolis, Minn
Minneapolis
John Remick
Remick
Minnesota
Jerry Abrams
Partial alert still reaches 400 000 GIs
The United States held a precautionary alert for about 400,000 servicemen amid Middle East tensions. President Nixon ordered 2.2 million in the armed forces on alert before dawn to signal to the Soviet Union no unilateral action. The alert remained in effect for those in Europe and Atlantic command.
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Washington
U.S
Middle East
Pentagon
Nixon
Soviet Union
Mideast
Europe
Atlantic Command
Congress Faces Watergate Calendar With Cox Hearings
Congress enters a week focused on Watergate issues. hearings on the firing of special prosecutor Archibald Cox begin with Cox as the first witness, while Elliott Richardson and William Ruckelshaus may also testify. The House considers impeachment but no action expected this week. The Senate may hold Ford nomination hearings.
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Washington
Congress
Senate Judiciary Committee
Archibald Cox
Cox
Senate
House
James C. Eastland
D-Miss
Atty
Elliot L. Richardson
Richardson
William D. Ruckelshaus
Nixon
House Judiciary Committee
Gerald R. Ford
Spiro T. Agnew
Senate Rules Committee
Ford
U.S. Information Agency
U.S
Psychologist links Vietnam guilt to Watergate uproar
Marshall Minnesota AP psychologist Robert J Lifton says residual guilt about Vietnam helps explain public outrage over Watergate. He spoke to about 125 at Southwest State College during a Minnesota Association of Student Veterans convention. Lifton discusses veterans seeking honest lessons from the war and facing society's images of veterans.
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Minneapolis
Marshall, Minn
Robert J. Lifton
Minnesota Association of Student Veterans
Southwest State College
Marshall
Lifton
Vietnam
America
New York DCA Proposes Rules for Hansom Cabs
An AP write up notes the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs mails notice of proposed regulations intended to make hansom cab rides safer for horses and riders. The article remarks there are no hansom cabs left in the city.
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New York
Margaret Mead
Department of Consumer Affairs
New York City
Tourists flock to Alcatraz on opening day visit
More than 700 tourists toured Alcatraz Island on opening day. The former prison famed for Al Capone and Birdman of Alcatraz, Robert Stroud, drew visitors by ferry from Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco Bay.
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San Francisco
al Capone
Robert Stroud
Alcatraz Island
San Francisco Bay
Fisherman's Wharf
Austin Herald item compacted for Oct 29 1973
Local newspaper brief notes events and notices from Austin Minnesota with community items and upcoming deadlines. No specific names or events clearly readable in the fragment.
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Austin
Minn
Herald Monday
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Seath
Soil Conservation Office
Mill City Cabbie
Watergate
Proctor
PTSA
North American
L. Young & Sons
4Th Ave
Mower House, Inc
North Main St. Austin
First United Methodist
Grandma’s
1St Ave. NW
Sterling Twin Theater
Nonour
Oakland
Town House Restaurant
N. Mein St
Lexie
Holiday Inn Lounge
Holiday Inn
N. Main
Austin, Minn
Paramount
Deliverance On Wheels
Jack’s
Brownsdale
Aprilaire
Jack
Darwin
GLO Cleaners
Oakland Ave
Bill & Ruby's
St. NW
Hallswoon
Ferris TV & Records
Craig Recorder
Jerris
Magnavox
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