Question Mart answers on taxes and Bemidji flowers
The Pioneer-Question Mart explains tax refunds take four to six weeks after filing and suggests waiting ten weeks before IRS contact if delayed. It also notes Bemidji garden clubs plant downtown, with courthouse and library floral work by the Bemidji Area Women’s Garden Club and Sunny Hour Garden Club, plus Men's Garden Club coordinating pole baskets.
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F.J
Bemidji
IRS
Internal Revenue Service
Ladies Garden Club
W.F
Les Hoganson
Bemidji Area
Women’s Garden Club
State vehicles and pet policy at Bemidji offices
Bemidji State College administrator Jim Mc Mahon says pets are not allowed in offices classrooms or vehicles used by state personnel. Building manager Louis Larson adds no pets are allowed in the Federal Building and strays are promptly shooed from the lobby.
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Bemidji
Bemidji State College
Rolling Gophers challenge Bemidji hoop stars
The Rolling Gophers wheelchair basketball team Faces Bemidji Jaycees BSC Girls and other local squads in Bemidji Apr 1–7 for Cripple Children's Week. The April 7 game at 7 pm features 15 players in wheelchairs with proceeds to Camp Courage North. Tickets on sale at local outlets and the gym door.
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Bemidji Jaycees
Rolling Gophers
Bemidji Hoop Stars
Bemidji
Twin Cities
Nesota Society For Crippled Children and Adults, Inc
Miscca
Camp Courage North
Lake George
Alpha Phi Omega Fraternity
Bemidji State College
Glass Block Drug Store
Northern National Bank
Ken K. Thompson Jewelers
Kroll’s Sporting Goods
Bookcraft
Nixon imposes meat price ceiling amid inflation fight
President Nixon declared a temporary ceiling on beef pork and lamb prices effective now to curb soaring costs. The order targets retailers wholesalers and processors with price rules set by 30 day sales and faces IRS enforcement while farm prices remain unchanged.
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Washington
Nixon
U.S
Vietnam
Hanoi
Congress
House Agriculture Committee
W. R Poage
Cost of Living Council
Treasury
George Shultz
Showboat ready for Saturday night Mississippi trip
Captain Roy Berg lifts the gang plank for the Sweet Adelines performance at Bemidji High School Auditorium at 8 p.m. Guests board the Showboat for an era of songs, candy treats, and performer appearances including Bev Sande and her candy children, the Buzzin Cuzzins quartet, Mary Poppins medley by For Ever Mars, and Judy Wilson with Summertime. The voyage ends with Captain Berg singing Old Man River as the Sweet Adeline Chorus provides background.
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Roy Berg
Old Mississippi
Bemidji High School
Sweet Adeline
Dick Larson
Bev Sande
Candy
Bryan
Susanne Hickerson
Laurel
Todd Linde
Carol Ghostley
Jackie Drury
Janet Dickinson
Candy Odegard
Diane
Suzanne
Janet
Karen Dickinson
Mary Poppins
Fargo- Moorhead
Bemidjis
Judy Wilson
Adeline
Last American POWs Leave Philippines After Vietnam War
The last American captured in the Vietnam war and 31 other U S POWs departed the Philippines for home after being freed by the Viet Cong in Hanoi. Earlier, 107 Americans freed by North Vietnam and nine handed over by the Pathet Lao were to follow this weekend.
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Clark Air Base
Philippines
U.S
Hanoi
Pathet Lao
Progress Seen for Ending Siege at Wounded Knee
The 31 day occupation of Wounded Knee nears resolution as American Indian Movement members meet with Dennis Ickes from the Justice Department Civil Rights Task Force. Assistant Attorney General Kent Frizzell note that Ickes spent hours listening to grievances in the village.
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Wounded Knee
American Indian Task Force
U.S. Justice Department
Asst
U.S. Atty
Kent Frizzell
Dennis Ickes
Weather and reconciliation talks at Wounded Knee
Sunny in the village today with increasing clouds by nightfall and a small chance of rain later. Frizzell reports the task force may extend beyond April 15 while discussions with Washington and AIM leaders continue, including potential direct links and a planned meeting in the DMZ or teepee chapel as negotiators pursue a cease-fire and talks on civil rights complaints.
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Frizzell
Washington
Ickes
Banks
Wounded Knee
AIM
Dmz
Traffic toll rises in Minnesota early 1973 deaths
A Motley man, Ernest F. Gerdes 25, dies when his car leaves Minn 210 east of Brainerd and hits an approach. Two passengers, Russell Gerdes 18 and James Smith 18, Brainerd, are hospitalized in serious and fair condition. A separate three car crash near Deer River kills Edward F. Horner 75, Ball Club, as a grain truck is struck. The toll for 1973 Minnesota roads reaches 160.
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Associated Press
Brainerd
Minnesota
Highway Patrol
Ernest F. Gerdes
Minn. 210
Gerdes
Russell Gerdes
James Smith
U.S. 2
Deer River
Edward F. Horner
Hubert Wakanoba
Ball Club
Horner
Harpings Note Recessions Hit During Depression
The comment argues that economic downturns worsen during depression periods, highlighting the compounding strain on markets and households. It frames recession as more severe when occurring amid prolonged economic hardship.
Bemidji Housewives Plan Meat Substitution Protest
Local protesters outline a plan to stage a 3 to 5 p.m. demonstration outside Bemidji stores to distribute recipes promoting meat substitutes. Spokeswoman Linda Knudson says April 1 to April 8 will be a meatless week and urges residents to pressure political representatives to push price relief for farmers and consumers.
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Bemidji
Linda Knudson
National Food Store
IGA Foodliner
Super John’s
Lueken’s
Housewives Today
Twin-trailer bill advances in Minnesota Senate
Minnesota Senate moves a twin-trailer bill with a 48 to 18 vote to extend legal truck length from 55 to 65 feet and allow tractors to pull two trailers. The measure includes public hearings for route designation, highway restrictions, and local truck-route authority, with final action expected next week alongside related dairy and apartment campaign bills.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Minnesota Senate
Highway Department
House Agriculture Committee
House Government Operations Committee
Dairy Products Stabilization Board
Vern Ingvalson
Minnesota Farm Bureau
Bernard Brinkman
Dfl-Richmond
Senate
Allen Spear
Phyllis Kahn
Minneapolis
Dflers
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Minnesota Vikings
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Los Angeles
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
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Dwis
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James W. McCord Jr
H. R. Haldeman
Baltimore Sun
Haldeman
Congressional
McCord
Watergate Building
Serge
Pine Ridge
Pine Ridge Reservation
Dennis Banks
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