Bemidji area highway by pass plan advances
A proposed Bemidji by pass for Trunk Highways 71 and 2 moves forward with a 1969 location hearing and route establishment. Plans call for one initial roadway with future four lane expansion, right of way purchase, bridges at railroad crossings, a diamond interchange at 71 south of Bemidji, and a trade crossing on West Fourth Street. Environmental studies and city approval needed before 1976 contracts.
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Bemidji
West Fourth Street
Mock flood drills recall the 1927 Mississippi surge
New Orleans report on a modern mock flood drill from St Louis to New Orleans notes the river is higher now in places than since 1902 and spring melt will increase flow. Col Richard Hunt says the exercise tests readiness with new methods like plastic tubing for sandbags and rapid emergency labor by helicopter.
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New Orleans
Mississippi
St. Louis
U. S. Corps of Engineers
Missisippi River
Richard Hunt
Charles Caldwell
Vicksburg
Vidalia
Caldwell
Study Indicates Alcoholism Might Be Inherited
Five American and Danish psychiatrists studied 55 Danish men adopted early in life from alcoholic parents and 78 adoptees with nonalcoholic biological parents. The first group showed higher drinking problems and psychiatric treatment, and their offspring had a divorce rate about three times higher than the control group.
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Chicago
Archives of General Psychiatry
American Medical Association
Donald W. Goodwin
Samuel B. Guze
Washington University
St. Louis
Finn Schulsinger
Leif Her
Husband divorces wife for welfare amid medical bills
In St. Petersburg a 49-year-old steelworker divorced his 45-year-old wife, gravely ill with multiple sclerosis, so she could qualify for welfare to cover medical costs. The 10 minute proceeding left the wife unaware as officials review processing of her aid and Medicaid eligibility.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Howard Thomas
Ruth
Thomas
Circuit Court
C. Richard Leavengood
Jack ‘Youngblood
Florida Division of Family Services
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15Th Street
Highway 2
Bemidji State Collge Arena
Monica Niskanen
Kelly Rossiter
Sally Syverson
Jackie Braaten
Penny Dreyer
Denise Johnson
Patti Jo McClellan
Mansen
Kommunehospitalet
Copenhagen
George Winokur
University of Iowa
Denmark
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