Bemidji Chamber forms Project Pride committee
The Retail Trade Committee of the Bemidji Chamber of Commerce met at the Sands Cafe on Feb. 2 to plan city beautification and appoint personnel. Lead by Vern Schanilec, the group named John Glas and Charles Naylor as representatives and set a two tier plan with short term improvements this spring and a five year long range goal, calling for further involvement by local businesses and organizations.
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Bemidji
John Glas
College
Charles Naylor
Bemidji Development Corporation
Planning Commission
Vern Schanilee
Sands Cafe
Jerry Moen
Baumgartner
Charlie Naylor
Chet Swedmark
Todd Jensen
Roger
Viet Cong Demands Thieu Ouster and Coalition Plan
The Viet Cong urged immediate resignation of President Thieu as a first step toward a coalition government in South Vietnam including Communists and called for a specific date to withdraw all U.S. troops and war materiel. They outlined a three segment government and general elections for a constitutional assembly once Thieu steps down.
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Paris
Viet Cong
Nguyen van Thieu
South Vietnam
United Sates
Saigon
Vietnam
Liberation Radio
Thieu
United States
le Duc Tho
Hanoi
Peking
Nixon
Henry Kissinger
Laos
Tho
Kissinger
Nguyen van Tien
Tien
South
Bemidji Green Thumbs Complete Library Interior Paint Job
Bemidji Green Thumb Project volunteers recently finished painting the Public Library interior. Lila Braun praised their teamwork and effort noting seniors accomplished a tall ceiling task. Parks chief James Cameron called them conscientious and hardworking, with many prior city projects completed under supervision.
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Green Thumb
Bemidji
Lila Braun
Braun
Ruben Lunde
Myron Connell
Charles Harrell
Foreman
Jim Jenson
John Adams
Nick Snnstad
Jess Dorr
Eric Boe
Gerry Vuchetich
Parks and _ Recreation
James
Cameron
Lake Boulevard
City
Debt ceiling trimmed as Ways and Means backs $20 billion rise
The House Ways and Means Committee approved a debt ceiling increase of 20 billion dollars, 30 billion less than Nixon requested, with a requirement that borrowing authority be revisited before Congress. The ceiling expires June 30, forcing another extension by then. The Treasury warned borrowing near the 450 billion ceiling by March 1 amid deficits of 38.8 and 25.5 billion for current and next year.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Nixon
Congress
Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
John B. Connally
Vietnam War Flights Hit Laos and Highlands Tanks
U S and South Vietnamese warplanes struck North Vietnamese supply routes in eastern Laos today. South Vietnamese bombers reported destroying four tanks and two armored vehicles in the central highlands, while a separate air force communique claimed six Soviet PT76 light tanks and four trucks were destroyed with 15 enemy troops killed. The reports showed a second discrepancy in tank losses in the central highlands, echoing a similar split a week earlier.
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Saigon
U.S
Laos
Central Highlands
Irish youth celebrate British Embassy burned in Dublin
Gangs of youths roamed Dublin all night taunting police and singing after the British Embassy was set ablaze in retaliation for a Londonderry civilian killings. Sir John Peck planned talks on compensation for the four story building. Police broke up further attacks at the British Passport Office as Northern Ireland violence continued with a deadly tavern bombing in Stewartstown.
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Dublin
John Peck
London
Londonderry
Northern Ireland
Edward Heath
Civil Rights Association
Newry
Stewartstown
Belfast
Irish Republican Army
Republic
Ulster
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Fredrickson
Bill Schwartz
Dick Baumgartner
Roger Fredrickson
Stan Pechaver
Vern Schanilec
George Williams
Cass Lake
Valerie J. Simon
St. Cloud
U.S. 10
Minnesota
Round Lake
Minn
Windom
Lydia Groth
Minnesota Highway Patrol
Cottonwood County Sheriff’s Department
Groth
Montevideo
Melvin Skogen
Darrell Benson
Rogers Fredrickson
North Vietnam
The
Hwys 2
71 West
Bemidji Women’s Garden Club
Kathy Jones
Rick Studer
Bemidji High School
Jon Stevens
Gene Drachenberg
William Gibson
Peris
Edmund S. Muskie
Indochina
GOP
Gerald R. Ford
Sapporo
Japan
Emperor Hirohito
Makomanai Skating Stadium
Karl Schranz
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