Pioneer Question Mart answers tax charges and city road queries
The column explains when finance charges on revolving store accounts are tax deductible and guides readers to IRS Publication 545. It then outlines how a city hearing and petition process precede street surfacing projects like Delton Avenue. It also notes a 1977 deadline for lakeshore sewer conformance under county ordinance and clarifies municipal jurisdiction.
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K.J
Bemidji
IRS
Internal Revenue Service
Delton Avenue
15Th Street
Beltrami Nursing Home
Carl Degerman
John Lloyd
Lake Bemidji
B.P
Bill Parnaude
Season's first waterbug slips into Lake Bemidji
A Volkswagen driver slid on a Lake Bemidji turn and fell into open water as thin ice and warm rain created dangerous spots. Friends helped pull the car out but a tow truck was needed after a flat tire and bent wheel rim left the vehicle needing tow home.
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Volkswagen
Lake Bemidji
Paul Bunyan
Snow grounds guest speaker at Beltrami County GOP meeting
The 1973 Beltrami County Republican convention in Walnut Hall Bemidji State College opened without guest speaker State Sen. Robert Stassen whose plane was grounded by snow in St. Cloud. County chairman Chet Oman announced abbreviated proceedings, re elected officers and listed county committee members and delegates.
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Beltrami County
Walnut Hall
Bemidji State College
Robert Stassen
South St. Paul
St. Cloud
Chet Oman
Nixon
People of America
Bob Irish
Phyllis Griffin
Oman
Donna Kunz
Don Harmon
Donna Houser
Ron Batchelder
Willys Nord
Mem
Washington hopes rise for Wounded Knee talks progress
Federal negotiator Harrington Wood heads to Washington as AIM leaders and Interior officials back a path to settlement. White House scrutiny grows while confrontation at Wounded Knee continues with 200 holdouts, roadblocks, and calls for negotiations and supplies.
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Wounded Knee
Harrington Wood
Washington, D.C
Justice and Interior Departments
White House
Rogers C.B. Morton
Morton
U.S
American Indian Movement
AIM
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
FBI
John Adams
United Methodist
Washington
Adams
National Council of Churches
NCC
Ramon Roubideaux
Rapid City
Wood
Roubideaux
Russell Means
Jack Murphy
Interior Department
Murphy
Justice Department
Bureau of Indian Affairs
BIA
Justice
Carter Camp
Minnesota House advances bills on health centers and courts
A bill to create about 20 venereal disease control centers in Minnesota would cost roughly 300000 and rely less on restrictive federal funds. The Legislature also sent a benefits bill for workers displaced by strikes to the governor and considered expanding the state Supreme Court to nine justices.
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ST. Paul
Minn
Minnesota
Robert Vanasek
Dfl-New Prague
Vanasek
Wendell Anderson
Northwest Airlines
House
State Supreme Court
Ray Fariey
Dfl-St. Paul
High Court
Julian Hook
Golden Valley
Supreme Court
Hook
State Departments Division
House Appropriations Committee
John Boland
DFL
Maplewood
Dakota County
St. Cloud State College
Delbert Anderson
Starbuck
Bruce to Head U S Liaison Office in Peking Opening
The United States will send an advance team to Peking in two to three weeks to prepare for the May 1 opening of a liaison office led by David E. Bruce. President Nixon praised Bruce as a man of great stature and announced his latest appointment at a news conference.
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Washington
United States
Peking
David E.E. Bruce
Nixon
Bruce
Britain
Germany
France
Vietnam
Paris
Agreement Reached to End International Money Crisis
Paris AP reports broad US alignment with Western nations on cooperation to support the dollar and resolve the ongoing international monetary crisis. Details on the extent and nature of the support were not specified.
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Paris
United States
Harpings Fair Weather Preview and Dollar Market Note
Harpings Fair brings a cold night with lows from 10 to 18 and a warmer Saturday with highs in the 40s. Precipitation chances are near zero tonight and Saturday. The dollar shows no need for special support in early European trading with gains in Frankfurt Zurich and Milan and steadying in Paris. France’s Finance Minister Giscard D Estaing said views converge with Treasury Secretary Shultz on possible swap use to prop the dollar. About 11.75 billion in foreign currencies remain available via Fed swap lines to defend the rate if needed.
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Frankfurt
Zurich
Milan
Paris
Valery Giscard D'Estaing
France
Treasury
George P. Shultz
Shultz
United States
U.S. Federal Reserve System
AIM members plan peaceful Mount Rushmore demonstration
Bemidji Chapter of the American Indian Movement sends six to eight cars from Cass Lake to Rapid City South Dakota for a peaceful protest at Mount Rushmore in support of Wounded Knee Indians with participants from Leech Lake Reservation.
Pioneer's Create an Act entrants urged to report
Entrants must report to The Pioneer on Friday March 16 between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. or Saturday March 17 from 10 a.m. to noon at Highway 71 South to receive assignments. Those who do not report will be ineligible to participate.
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Pioneer
Snow Grounds
County Gop
Bers
Leonard Dickinson
C. W. Fredrickson
Dolores Harmon
Paul Henrikson
Henry Kelm
Alden Kittleson
Marianna Lindberg
Martin Lovik
Doug Mattson
Winston Naylor
Leonard Peterson
Lynn Schnell
Dianne Seeley
Irene Strong
Vern Tollefson
K.E
Red) Wilson
Francis Brun
Red Lake
Adolph Lussier
Redby
Christine Solt
Kunz
Brun
Dickinson
Griffin
Harmon
Nord
Slindee
Donna _ Houser
A. C. Gilmer
K. E._ Wilson
Hazel Shimmin
Bernard Williams
Louise Lindberg
Boy Scouts
Troop 23
Republican Committee
GOP
Frank Bain
Clark Air Base
Philippines
Hanoi
Haiphong
Air Force
Theodore W. Guy
Tucson
Ariz
North Vietnam
U.S. Air Force
Guy
Harpings
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