Reduced price meals and breakfasts added by district
School District 31 will offer reduced price lunches and breakfast for eligible students. About 25 percent of meals may be free based on income and family size. Breakfast targets long bus routes. cost 15 cents with free lunch eligibility likely for breakfast as well. The board discussed salaries, paving bills, and Johnson O Malley funds. Two stock buses will be purchased for $10,145 and $9,527.26, with $1,383.65 in donated goods received for vocational use.
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Elizabeth Moore
Thorson
Stewart and
Walker
International
Chevrolet Carpenter
Nu-Ply Corporation
District 31 seeks Title II funds for moral judgment curriculum
The District 31 school board voted to apply for Title II funds to develop a pilot curriculum on moral judgment for grades 7 to 9. The plan aims to create field test materials and explore ways to examine moral problems without prescribing fixed values, with debate over philosophy versus other disciplines and concerns over timing and oversight.
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District 31
Nancy Ertresvaag
Bombardment Intensifies as U S Strikes Hanoi Haiphong Area
In Saigon the United States pressed the heaviest bombardment of the Hanoi Haiphong region with seven more fighters reported down and 15 missing. Pope Paul VI voiced doleful upset over the renewed bombing while Denmark prepared an official protest against the action.
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Saigon
United States
Hanoi-Haiphong
Breught
Paul VI
U.S
Travelers Advised As Light Snow, Freezing Rain Fall
A weather advisory warns of occasional light snow and local freezing rain causing hazardous driving in some areas. Clouds drift to mostly cloudy tonight and Thursday with highs 18 to 23 and lows 5 to 12. Precipitation chances 46 percent today, 16 percent tonight and on Thursday.
Truman Condition Worsens As Poison Enters Bloodstream
Kansas City AP report says former President Harry S. Truman, 88, remains in very serious condition with kidneys failing and poison entering the bloodstream despite higher urine output. Doctors note plateauing kidney function and aging complications. Bess Truman visits briefly.
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Kansas City
Harry S. Truman
Truman
Wallace Graham
Research Hospital and Medical Center
John Dreves
Moonmen Return Home After Apollo 17 Mission Ends
Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt return aboard the USS Ticonderoga celebrating a 13 day flight. They land safely after fiery entry coast to a cake filled welcome and undergo medical checks before heading to Pago Pago and Ellington Air Force Base to reunite with families.
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USS
Ticonderoga
Thade
Eugene A. Cernan
Ronald E. Evans
Harrison H. Schmitt
America
Heliopter
Earth
Space Agency
Navy
Pago Pago
American Samoa
Ellington Air Force Base
Manned Spacecraft Center
Houston
Tex
Beltrami County awards bid for CS AH 12 project
Thorson Inc of Bemidji was the low bidder at 315 800 12 for bituminous sub grade wearing course and shoulders on County State Aid Highway 12 from west of CSAH 39 to near Pennington. Other bids ranged from 320 725 03 to 344 238 56. The board also backed a proposal to study the Bemidji to Blackduck Highway 71 relocation and arranged county insurance with Baumgartner Inc guaranteeing rates.
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Thorson
Pennington
William Collins and Sons, Inc
Fargo
W Hodgeman and Sons, Inc
Fairmount
Mark Sand and Gravel Co
Fergus Falls
Bemidji
Blackduck
State Highway Department
Baumgartner, Inc Insurance
Harpings Quote Clever Card Decks Christmas Mail
Harpings mocks the postal strain with a wry line about Christmas cards failing to reach recipients if the mail service cannot handle them. The remark reflects seasonal humor and public frustration with holiday correspondence delays.
UHF payments fall short of goal for HTTV drive
Headwaters Translator Television Corporation reports only 325 payments received toward an 850 minimum to keep three channel UHF service operating in Bemidji Blackduck area. If the goal isn’t met by year end, the system may shut down Jan 1. Rural residents rely on HTTV for networks. annual maintenance is 10 dollars. Payments accepted at local banks or by mail.
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Headwaters Translator Television Corporation
Headwaters
Duluth
Bemidji Blackduck
Fargo
Bemidji
HTTV
Blackduck
Box 98
Spannaus Eyes Appeal for Bigger Minnesota Phone Rate Cut
Atty. Gen. Warren Spannaus said he is inclined to appeal a Ramsey District Court ruling trimming 2.9 percent from Northwestern Bell’s January rate increase in Minnesota. The ruling could save customers about 1 million dollars a year and sends the case back to the PSC for refunds decision.
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ST Paul, Minn
Warren Spannaus
Northwestern Bell Telephone Co
Minnesota
Spannaus
Ramsey District Court
David E. Marsden
Marsden
PSC
Mardsen
Dfler
Karl Rolvaag
P K. Peterson
Bruce G. Schwartz
Northwestern Bell
Two killed in airport shooting at Kennedy field
A young man was spotted with a questionable object in a briefcase at Kennedy Airport. He shot a sky marshal and a customs officer after grabbing a gun, then fled onto the field before being captured. The sky marshal Anthony Petrucci Jr. and customs officer Gerald T. McCarthy were hospitalized in satisfactory condition. The suspect was tentatively identified as Robert J. Dobbelaer.
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New York
Kennedy Airport
Peninsula General Hospital
Queens
Anthony Petrucci Jr
Bloomfield, NJ
Gerald T. McCarthy
Commack, N.Y
Robert J. Dobbelaer
Welfare board reviews possible state welfare legislation
The Beltrami County Board of Welfare met Tuesday at the welfare office to discuss legislation for the coming state session. Attending were Rep. Doug St Onge Bemidji and Sen. Jerry Willet Park Rapids. Ray Boyer, chairman, said decisions will be announced later. Also reviewed were funding for Poor counties and welfare issues at Red Lake.
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Beltrami County
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Jack Fairbanks
Judie Lausche
Johnson-O’malley
Thorson International
Horace May School
Bemidji Jaycees
Jaycees
Jerry Pickett
Jim Humeniuk
Jean
Pioneer
Charles Austad
Raymond Carlson
Bemidj
State College
Ertresvaag
Austad
Supt Wangberg
Bess Truman
Charles K. LaPinta
Mrs. Jaycees
Beltrami
Fairview
Bewind T Hospital
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