Question Mart answers: smoking near school grounds is a joint issue
The Christian Youth Center owns only 12 feet of the lot. the rest belongs to the school system. The center limits access during school hours. The school notes students are responsible for attendance by law, with parents largely at fault for skipping classes. Schools seek cooperation to curb smoking and truancy.
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Christian Youth Center
J. B
Bemidji
John Kerth
Kerth
Phillip L. Tenney
Slippery Highway 371 tests raise winter driving concerns
Minnesota tests skid resistance of road surfaces including Trunk Highway 371 between Cass Lake and Walker. The de slicking approach and wet weather standards are evaluated. Drivers are advised to reduce speed in rain and hydroplaning risks exist at 45 mph or more.
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Cass Lake
Walker
S.C
Minnesota
Michigan
Minnesota Highway Department
Bemidji
Bemidji Barbershoppers stage After Glow show
A second Barbershop event called the After Glow joins the Bemidji main show on Saturday Oct 20 at St Philip s Auditorium. Ten quartets perform two hours of chorus and jokes with refreshments included. Tickets are sold by members or at the main feature window. An After After Glow is teased as for insomniacs.
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Bemidji
St. Philip’s
Seventh Street
Beltrami Avenue
Bank seizing ends in Beirut shootout and hostage deaths
Gunmen seized Bank of America in Beirut prompting a police and army raid. Two attackers were killed and 34 hostages freed as an American hostage died in a final gunbattle. Lebanese, Japanese and American hostages were held for a $10 million ransom.
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Lebanon
Bank of America
John Crawford Maxwell
Douglas Aircraft Corp
Long Beach
Calif
Bank
Bahir Takieddin
Maxwell
Aly Shaib
Lebanese Socialist Revolutionary Movement
Israel
Algeria
South Yemen
Moen heads area firemen
Bemidji's Fire Chief Jerry Moen was elected president of the Northern Region Fireman's Association at the fall meeting at the Moose Club. Dewey Noel and Richard Stallmo were named vice president and secretary respectively, with over 100 firefighters attending from northern Minnesota as Wes Werner spoke on behalf of the state fire marshal.
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Bemidji
Jerry Moen
Northern Region Fireman's Association
Moose Club
Dewey Noel
Thief River
Richard Stallmo
East Grand Forks
Minnesota
Wes Werner
Charles ‘‘Harpo
Dexter
The
Pioneer
Tropical Storm Gilda Eyes Miami as Fury Grows
Tropical Storm Gilda strengthens crossing the Atlantic barrier toward South Florida and the Bahamas with forecasters predicting it could become the season’s fifth hurricane and approach Miami tonight. Bahama capital Nassau and nearby islands are warned of 75 mph winds.
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Miami
Gilda
South Florida
Bahama Islands
National Hurricane Center
Bahama
Nassau
Veterans Day Office Closures And Postal Service Update
Federal state and city offices banks and Bemidji Post Office close Monday Oct 22 for Veterans Day. District No 31 schools and Bemidji State College cancel classes. Post Office lobby hours normal with stamp window 8:30 10 am. no mail delivery. mail will be worked and posted to boxes. dispatch follows regular Monday schedule.
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Bemidji
Dean pleads guilty in Watergate obstruction case
John W. Dean III, former White House counsel, pleads guilty to conspiring to obstruct the Watergate investigation and agrees to cooperate with prosecutors. He faces potential perjury charges if his future testimony proves false, ending months of bargaining and signaling a shift in the probe.
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Washington
White House
John W. Dean
IIT
Dean
Special
Watergate
Charles N. Shaffer
Archibald Cox
Maureen
U.S. District Court
John J. Sirica
Senate Watergate Committee
Democratic National Committee
Bemidji City Council Holds Special Session
The Bemidji City Council meets in special session at 3:30 p m in city hall council chambers to discuss two items: the Pollution Control Agency Stipulation signed Tuesday and a conflict of interest by elected city officials.
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Bemidji
Midwest Cable
South Lake Irving
A.P.L
Elmer Langout
Mid-West Cable Communications, Inc
Pioneer Editorial Department
PCA
Grain Truck Traffic Dominates Bemidji Highway Hearing
A Bemidji public hearing by a state senate subcommittee heard that heavy grain truck traffic on Trunk Highway 2 creates hazards. Officials cited insufficient road upgrades and funds, with calls to engineer safer driving conditions and possible double lanes.
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State Senate
Bemidji
State Highway District
Cellent
Gerald Willet
Park Rapids
Baldy” Hanson
Austin
Joe Josephson
Minnesota
Elk’s Club
Joe Plummer
Cass Lake
Clarence Purfeerst
Pioneer
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Lake
Atlanta
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Aflcio
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C.M. Larson
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Larson
Oak Lake
Plummer
Beltrami County
Tom Tolman
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