City grant to improve Bemidji curling club diamonds
Readers’ questions about the aging baseball and softball diamonds near the curling club receive a reply: a $12 000 grant will fund improvements within a month and a city council mandate backs the project to enhance the playing fields. The Bemidji Belle boat situation is also addressed with plans to revive it next year if help and funds allow.
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Bemidji
C.M
Lake Bemidji
W.E. Bemidji
Lake
Federal Coast Guard
Donald Holmes
Ball Club plans wild rice festival
Ball Club hosts the ninth Mi Gwitchi Mah Nomen wild rice festival July 17 18 at the Ball Club community center with ceremonial dances songs handicrafts and an Indian princess selection. Dancers from seven states join local performers in a free two day event open to the public with prizes including a buckskin jacket vest and moccasins.
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Ball Club
Ball Club Indian Council
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
North
South Dakota
Arizona
Oklahoma
Mansfield Calls 7th Army Strained by Drugs and Dependents
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield warns the 7th Army in Europe is weakened by drugs race issues and too many dependents. He backs phased U S troop cuts likely to reduce forces to two divisions by mid-1970s and possibly one division later.
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Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Europe
Montana
U.S
Mansfield
7Th Army
Rhine
Eisenhower
Pioneer expands press to boost Bemidji paper capacity
The Pioneer marks 75 years serving Bemidji with a nearly $50,000 upgrade adding two Fairchild News King units to its three unit offset press. The move lifts page capacity to 20 from 12 and increases color output while centralizing printing for other Northern Minnesota papers.
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Burnie Erickson
News King
Marshall Berg
Pioneer
ATF
Bemidji
Fairchild ‘‘News King
The
International Falls
Bill Reeves
Fairchild
Reeves
Central Plant
Pioneer Publishing
Minnesota
Daily
Heartland
Beltrami Electric
Northern Lights
Bemidji State College
Northern
Nashwauk
Itascan
Fosston
Blackduck American
Kelliher Independent
Hartz
Highway 71
American aids the homeless in Da Nang youth hostel
In Da Nang Vietnam 26 year old American Jim Trullinger runs a youth hostel for 50 boys formed after discovering 15 homeless youths in an abandoned house. He works with local Vietnamese and a fellow American Richard Hughes to expand the effort under Shoeshine Boys Foundation Inc into Da Nang and Saigon hostels.
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New York
da Nang
South Vietnam
Jim Trullinger
Trullinger
Agency For International Development
Richard Hughes
Saigon
Hanoi says no secrets revealed on Pentagon study
North Vietnam radio said the publication of the Pentagon papers proves the deep split between the American people and government. It claimed the study reveals no secrets to Hanoi and emphasized the act itself.
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North Vietnam
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U.S
Radio
Hanoi
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