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Newspaper
Bemidji Pioneer
Location
Bemidji, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1973
Page
4
A hilltop meditation contrasts peaceful landscapes with the reality of wars and memory of the fallen. Memorial Day honors those who sacrificed, with Taps and the flag, while urging strength of spirit and moral resolve to prevent further bloodshed. The speaker notes world turmoil and the duty of leadership despite challenges ahead.
University of Chicago economist B Gale Johnson calls for ending costly crop payments and controls to fit free world trade. The American Enterprise Institute published the study praising alignment with Nixon administration aims. Johnson argues subsidies mainly aid higher costs and not low income farmers, and that exports could rise with market oriented reforms. He urges a transition period to phase out income supplements as controls end.
Johnson argues that the bulk of farm program gains have increased land values rather than payments to workers, with most benefits going to higher income farm families. He says benefits to low income farm workers are minimal and that reforms are needed due to taxpayer and consumer costs, not because prosperity has arrived.
A federal study finds opening the Mississippi to year round barge traffic to Minneapolis-St. Paul would be too costly compared with benefits. The preferred plan would extend the navigation season from Keokuk to Burlington, Iowa, and require gate replacements and a bubbler system.
A narrator recalls a midnight confrontation with his 18 pound tom cat Big Sam who leaps from a dresser to land on his stomach. The comic tale details a playful feud with his wife over pets and reveals the cat’s surprising impact on household life and a stubborn commitment to keeping the cats.
In a light column a New York AP excerpt notes that many Americans envy better jobs yet overlook their own value. Examples include a revolving door tester and a cod liver oil tester. other vivid roles range from a CIA contact man to a bomb hole repairer in Vietnam.
A crossword style list of clues with Across and Down entries including biblical terms plant parts and natural elements. Includes clues such as The Creator Theological virtue and Saintly figures alongside arithmetic and measurement hints.
A critique of abstract modern sculpture by John Chamberlain in Chicago ends with the mural missing and a jab at junkyard art. The piece questions whether a collision of junk and paint can resemble museum works and mocks chimpanzee produced canvases versus Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
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