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Newspaper
Bemidji Pioneer
Location
Bemidji, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1975
Page
1
The DFL leads 2 to 1 in tax check off funds, with $252,932 for Democrats and $124,507 for Republicans. The program caps spending for statewide offices and starts distribution after primaries, shaping four years of campaign financing and potential influence on candidates.
Washington AP reports the Army launches an affirmative action plan after a decade of slow progress to double the number of Black officers and expand minority opportunities while trimming Black representation in infantry and other combat assignments, a move critics say shifts burdens to minorities.
An Agriculture Department memorandum from nearly three years ago warned that Melvin L. Hibbets, then manager of Bayside Elevator Co. in Reserve Louisiana, was linked to alleged irregularities in grain exports. Hibbets is now vice president of Bayside Elevator Division, a Cook Industries subsidiary in Memphis Tennessee.
In Mexico City the International Women's Conference starts talks on a 10 year plan to promote equality, covering bans on forced child marriages and shared domestic duties. The plan passed committee with only Vatican and China voicing concerns.
Diplomats report that Iraq Algeria and Oman, three oil producers short of cash, have bypassed wealthier Arab governments to seek loans in the United States and Western Europe. Iraq produced about 680 million barrels in 1973, Algeria 357 million, and Oman about 103 million.
President Ford, addressing the NAACP 66th annual convention, said the economic decline is ending but warned recovery must be based on sound economics or risk higher inflation and unemployment. AFL-CIO chief Meany called the administration’s recovery plan cruel and fraudulent and urged a united protest.
Partly to occasionally cloudy with a 20 percent precipitation chance through Wednesday. Severe thunderstorms with hail and damaging winds possible today tonight. Highs in the mid 80s to low 90s, lows in the upper 50s to lower 60s. Economy improving with a 2.2 percent May retail rise and inflation falling from 12 percent in 1974 to under 6 percent today. Ford cautions some indicators stay weak for months while Meany blasts administration policies as harming black workers with 9.2 percent May unemployment and ongoing joblessness for teens.
Washington report says the Federal Energy Administration expects a 3 to 5 cent per gallon rise in summer prices with a peak during the vacation season. Officials cite seasonal factors and refinery output, and anticipate no shortage despite higher use. Four major oil companies raised wholesale prices today.
Headwaters Regional Development Commission plans a July 1 mailed questionnaire to about 600 Northern Township homes and businesses to gauge interest in a local sewer collection system feeding into Bemidji’s interceptor and treatment plant. Costs would be borne by property owners. grants apply to the main lines, not individual hookups. Results due by July 31 with HRDC to report to the Northern Township Board.
Robert Herbst head of the Minnesota DNR told Bemidji Audubon members that copper and nickel mining in northern Minnesota will wait for a three year environmental study funded by a 3 million dollar state and federal grant. The study will assess long range effects on the iron range BWCA and northwestern Minnesota. Herbst cited potential deposits exceeding 100 billion dollars and outlined land purchases and a proposed six year 100 million dollar land acquisition push. He noted state ownership of 8.5 million acres plus 5.2 million acres held in trust and 2.9 million under county jurisdiction, with ongoing acquisition plans following a 19.7 million appropriation and a 300000 acre target. He favored the Colvin site for taconite disposal and discussed a land classification system and in lieu of taxes concept.
Premier Rashid Karami assembles a reconciliation cabinet representing Lebanon's sects. President Suleiman Franjieh approves the lineup, with three posts for each minister. Casualties exceed 210 dead and 1,000 wounded as fighting rages in Beirut and surrounding areas.
Ugandan President Idi Amin announced a pardon for Denis Hills 61 who faced execution for calling Amin a village tyrant in an unpublished manuscript Hills was to be executed Friday but Mobutu Sese Seko mediated an intervention and the decision was disclosed after talks in Kinshasa Amin urged British officials to negotiate while Queen Elizabeth II sent officers as Britain resisted travel under duress and Amin warned of potential hostage actions for Britons in Uganda
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