Bemidji High School Class of May Graduation Ceremony
Graduation day for Bemidji High School marked by over 350 seniors receiving diplomas at John Glas Field House. Students adjusted tassels before the Processional as the Board of Education conferred diplomas, with Pioneer photographer Jonathan Eng documenting the event.
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Bemidji High School
John Glas
BHS
Board of Education
Jonathan E
Bemidji
Greenwood Cemetery
American Legion
Bemidji honors slain Bemidji High student Stephanie Fullmer
Intensive investigation continues into the murder of 15 year old Stephanie Marie Fullmer found dead near Bemidji Town and Country Club after an apparent beating and stabbing. Authorities await crime bureau lab results while cooperation between Beltrami County Sheriff’s Office and State Crime Bureau continues. Funeral services set for Wednesday at First Lutheran Church Bemidji with burial at Solway Cemetery. Memorial scholarship fund established for her twin Leslie Fullmer.
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Bemidji High School
Stephanie Marie Fullmer
Bemidji Town and Country Club
Olson- Schwartz
Leslie Fullmer
G.W. Smith
Palm Springs
California
John Hubert
Jerry Smith
Eugene
Oregon
James Smith
Laguna Beach
Calif
Lawrence Fullmer
Stephanie Fullmer
Syrians Cross Into Lebanon to Break Christian Siege
Beirut reports say four thousand Syrian troops with 85 tanks entered Lebanon to lift sieges on Qibyat and Andket in Akkar and to break a Moslem blockade around Zahleh in the eastern Bekaa. A regiment of 2,000 with 60 Soviet tanks moved Monday night, another unit with 25 tanks advanced to Zahleh.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Akkar
Qibyat
Andket
Bekaa
Zahleh
World population to double in 30 years warns UN head
United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim told Habitat 77 in Vancouver that the world’s population will double in 30 years and that at least one third of urban dwellers in developing countries now live in slums. He warned of increasing poverty unemployment housing shortages sanitation pollution and municipal financing pressures.
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Vancouver
Canada
United Nations
Kurt Waldheim
Waldheim
Habitat
U.N. World Conference On Human Settlements
Senate cites housing loan anti bias rule gaps
The Senate Banking Committee says three of four federal mortgage regulators have not issued antidiscrimination rules despite a mandate. It cites widespread evidence of discrimination yet finds no institution fined. Chairman Proxmire calls eight years of inaction a disgrace. only the Home Loan Bank Board had such rules.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Home Loan Bank Board
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
Comptroller of the Currency
Home Loan Board
Primary contests heat up as Carter faces GOP duel
South Dakota Rhode Island and Montana held primaries as Carter fights to slow his Democratic nomination climb. Ford and Reagan battled with 56 Democratic delegates and 59 Republican delegates at stake, while major figures Church Brown and Udall pressed to halt Carter ahead of California Ohio and New Jersey contests.
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Associated Press
Rhode Island
South Dakota
Montana
Jimmy Carter
Ford
Ronald Reagan
California
Ohio
New Jersey
Reagan
Frank Church
Idaho
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Morris K. Udall
Arizona
Carter
Udall
Church
Brown
George McGovern
James Abourezk
Senate
Mississippi
John C. Stennis
E. Michael Marks
McGovern
Massachusetts
Wisconsin
Michigan
Thomas B. Curtis
Federal Election Commission
Curtis
Missouri
Congress
Alan Cranston
D-Calif
Berkeley
Calif
Edward Kennedy
Kennedy
Hubert H. Humphrey
Tom Steed
D-Okla
House
Carl Albert
Albert
Washington
Filing completed for school board election recount
The defeated candidate Ruth Lehmann filed the official petition for a recount of the May 18 school board election results with the district Clerk of Court. The case moves to a District Court hearing within 30 days of canvassing, with Thorson the winner by 18 votes.
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Ruth Lehmann
Ted Thorson
Buiford Qualle
John Schuiling
Schuiling
Acton
Lehmann
Thorson
Memorial Day Weekend Traffic Death Toll 416
The National Safety Council reports 416 fatalities from Memorial Day weekend traffic over 78 hours from Friday 6 p m to Monday midnight. Officials had projected 340 to 400 deaths. last year’s count was 425, with higher tolls noted in earlier years such as 597 in 1969.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
U.S. mercenaries face trial in Angola
Daniel Gearhart and Gary Acker, captured while fighting for the FNLA near the Zaire border, are slated for a June 8 trial before an Angolan tribunal. The State Department says the U.S. government can do nothing to help, citing anti mercenary laws and lack of diplomatic ties with the communist backed Angolan government.
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Kensington, Md
Daniel Gearhart
Angola
Gearhart
Gary Acker
Sacramento
Calif
People’s Revolutionary Tribunal
State Department
Acker
Zaire
National Front For the Liberation of Angola
FNLA
Kensington
Washington, D.C
Sheila Gearhart
International Free Jury
U.S
International Red Cross
Red Cross
Central Intelligence Agency
United States
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Minneapolis
Beltrami County
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Crime Bureau
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Fullmer
Long Lake
Sugar Bush Township
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Bonivan Fullmer
St. Paul
Carlton
Leslie
Laurie
Lawrence, Jr
A.O. Gordon
Lancaster
Dora Fullmer
Blackduck
Lutheran Church of
Stephen Knudsen
Solway Cemetery
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