Senate probes grain export corruption and dock inspections
The Senate opens a foreign agriculture probe into bribery among licensed grain inspectors with Agriculture Department witnesses expected. The inquiry, beginning in New Orleans, examines grading standards and dock handling as investigators seek to determine the scope of adulteration amid indictments in New Orleans and Houston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Senate
Senate Subcommittee On
Foreign Agriculture Policy
U.S
J. Phil Campbell
Campbell
Agriculture
Earl L. Butz
South America
Departments of Justice and Agriculture
Internal Revenue Service
New Orleans
New
Orleans
Houston
Butz
Department of the Grain
Boards of Trade
Federation of European Feed Compounders
Ford administration vows action to avert railroad strike
The Ford administration says everything must be done to prevent a nationwide strike threatened to begin at midnight Sunday. With legal delays exhausted, only emergency congressional legislation could block the walkout, as unions push back on wage talks and cooling-off period expires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
C.L. Dennis
Dennis
Ford
Penn Central
Rock Island
W.J. Usery Jr
Federal Mediation Service
Usery
City plans six million sewer loop around Lake Bemidji
Beltrami County Board heard Beltrami and Bemidji townships outline a six million dollar project including a new sewage treatment plant and a looped sewer line around the lake. City officials proposed hooking surrounding homes to a central point for pumping into the main line and discussed forming a sanitary sewer district with bonding and assessments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Bemidji
Beltrami County Board of Commissioners
Northern
Bemidji
Jim Walker
Arund the Lake
Bill Parnaude
Minnesota
Walt Fenske
Walker
Ralph Moberg
Baltimore's Bicentennial Ads Mistakenly Cite 1812 War
The Baltimore Promotion Council spent 20000 dollars on bicentennial ads praising the bombardment of Fort McHenry that inspired the Star Spangled Banner but cited 1812 instead of 1814. Ken Mayhorne of Van Sant Dugdale said the error stemmed from Baltimore's belief it was two years behind, with the copy unseen by about 10 local staff before distribution to seven national magazines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Baltimore Promotion Council
Fr. McHenry
Ken Mayhorne
van Sant Dugdale
School Board approves daily half day kindergarten plan
Independent School District 31 adopts all day kindergarten schedule to half day each day this fall after a unanimous vote. The board also approves adding staff positions costing 121,890 with 46,010 new district costs and funds from federal sources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independent School District
Mike Devich
Devich
Community Education Advisory Council
Nancy Ertresvaag
Special meeting set for Lincoln concerns
A special school board meeting was scheduled for July 16 at Lincoln Elementary to address parents concerns about curriculum discipline and testing in the Lincoln program. About 50 people attended with two speakers supporting the current program and school leaders prepared to answer questions on IGE implementation and disciplinary policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln Elementary
Lincoln
Independent School District 31 Board of Education
Lincoln School
Darrell
Patty) Lorsing
Lorsung
Iowa
Lorsing
James Lahti
Central School
IGE
Central
Solway
Lahti
Nancy Ertresvaag
Dust storms gnaw highways as winds ease in Southern California
The most severe winds in decades churned dust across Southern California. A traffic death and about a dozen injuries were blamed in the Bakersfield area as highways filled with sand dunes. Desert routes toward Las Vegas were reopened as winds subsided near Banning and Palm Springs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
California
Bakersfield
Las Vegas
Nev
Banning Palm Springs
Debt ceiling rises to 577 billion through Nov 15
House Ways and Means Committee votes 22 to 12 to lift the federal debt limit by 46 billion to 577 billion through November 15. Six Democrats and six Republicans dissent. Chairman Ullman directed to draft legislation by a 25 to 9 vote for House action early next week. The current 531 billion limit expires this month, lowering to 40 billion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
al Ullman
D-Ore
Ullman
Treasury
Portugal's leftists clash over Republica newspaper access
In Lisbon the government granted Communist printers access to the Republica plant while barring Socialist editors. Troops expelled Communists at night after Socialist threats. By morning talks resumed and both sides agreed to let printers in with editorial staff kept out during negotiations. About 40 typographers entered.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Republica
Vasco Goncalves
Goncalves
Socialist Party
Mario Soares
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Rich Nelson
Gene Ouradnik
Jim Thoreen
L. M. Wangberg
Ertresvaag
Solway School
St. Cloud Window Company
General Paper Company
Employer’s Insurance of
Wausau
Adren
D. Mann
Bemidji Regional Interdistrict Council
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