Snowmobile safety urged by Minnesota DPS this Christmas
The Minnesota Department of Public Safety warns snowmobilers to ride with care near roadways this season. Last winter 235 snowmobile related crashes occurred in traffic or roadway settings, causing 14 deaths and 169 injuries among 139 crashes. Property damage reached 86 incidents while a pedestrian and a train collision each caused fatalities. Snowmobiles cannot be operated on trunk or county highways under state law, with limited local exceptions.
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Minnesota Department of Public Safety
Minnesota
Snowmobile Use Rules On Roadways And Highway Crossings
The article outlines that snowmobiles may not operate in freeway or interstate rights of way. Stay off roadways unless allowed, ditch or outside banks are safer. At night travel must follow road traffic, and crossings require a complete stop, yield right of way, cross at 90 degrees with no hazards, and divided highways only at intersecting roads.
Dear Virginia Santa Replies From Officials and Agencies
A humorous pastiche imagines modern replies to the Dear Virginia Santa question. Entries from a senator FBI NOW HEW Britannica and the Post Office parody official tones, noting hearings FOIA limits forms and postage rules while keeping a Christmas spirit. The piece imitates period voices for satirical effect.
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Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Virginia
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Post Office
New York Sun
Postmaster General
Los Angeles Times
Christmas Spirit Dents Bemidji Vehicle in Holiday Notation
Reader letter from Albert Lokken of Tenstrike describes a Bemidji Christmas Day scene with a damaged bumper, an intoxicated party apparently unaware of the act, pedestrians walking long blocks, a urinating offender, and a sympathetic parking officer who chose not to issue a ticket, prompting the writer to leave town and return after the season.
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Bemidji
Minnesota Ave
Getting moving again still has meaning
The piece reflects on 1976 as a bicentennial and political year, noting recovery from the 1975 recession and slow improvements. It argues institutions faced scrutiny and must realign with their missions, emphasizing productivity, government spending implications, and business responsibility along with lessons for the automotive sector and ethical practices.
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New York
America
Retirement savings plans lure with huge returns
AP note flags misleading retirement ads promising multi‑million or six figure nest eggs built on current high rates. Experts warn rates guaranteed for seven years only may drop, altering outcomes. FDIC cautions against guaranteed results, SEC not governing savings projections.
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FDIC
Ford caves in on spending curb tax cut battle
John Lofton Jr argues President Ford surrendered after two months of White House hardball over cutting federal spending. The bill signed features a vague nonbinding pledge to control spending and a loophole allowing Congress to adjust expenditures if conditions warrant. Critics label Ford lacking courage of convictions and the shell game wording.
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Washington
Ford
Congress
Treasury
William Simon
Office of Management and Budget
Jim Lynn
President Ford
White House
Mr. Ford
Carl Albert
Seventh Fleet
Len Wendell Ford
D-Ky
Edmund Muskie
Maine Democrat
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Squirrels Foil Walnut Seed Planting Efforts Across Farms
Forest Service researchers in Carbondale and New York state explore growing black walnut plantations from seed while battling pilferage by squirrels. Experiments with cleaned and stored walnuts show squirrels ignore cleaning methods, leaving nurseries to supply planting stock as weather pests and nut processors compete for nuts.
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U.S. Forest Service
Forester Sciences Laboratory
Carbondale
Illinois
David Funk
Usda Forest Service
Robert Williams
Forset
The
Forest Service
New York State
Department of Environmental Conservation
Indiana
New York
Williams
Georgia
New Hampshire
Minnesota
Texas
Forestry Sciences Lab
Funk
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
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