Fires In West Under Control
Fires across six Western states from California to Washington were mostly contained after 11 days with 52 major blazes burning 195 000 acres in California Montana Idaho Oregon Nevada and Washington The Freezeout fire in Hells Canyon Oregon remained out of control burning 16 000 acres Officials anticipated control before Sunday Idaho used 75 850 federal dollars to fund fire teams Governor Cecil Andrus warned of ongoing fire danger Weather remained hot and dry with public land closures and bans on smoking fires across federal lands Officials cited arson as a factor in early fires and noted massive timber losses in California defining the worst blaze in two decades and prompting a large firefighting effort involving thousands.
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Associated Press
California
Montana
Idaho
Oregon
Nevada
Washington
Boise
Hells Canyon
Ore
Cecil Andrus
Andrus
State Forestry Department
Bureau of Land Management
Brian Barrette
State Division of Forestry
Nebraska family travels to Seattle by boxcar to settle West
A Nebraska family arrived in Seattle riding in a boxcar with six horses a colt and a mongrel named Riffles while their three children rode a passenger train. The trip aimed to settle the West under a 19th century policy allowing free boxcar travel for livestock shipments. Total cost reached 947 dollars for the boxcar and 250 dollars for the children. The family plans to settle in Auburn where relatives live.
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Seattle
Nebraska
Charlie Vyskocil
Lincoln
Neb
Diane
Riffles
Rogue and Jar cuts prices for women then switches to equality
In Washington a local pub reduced drink prices for women by half on weekday evenings for a year to attract after work customers. On Friday the liquor board warned of a formal federal complaint over the policy. The establishment then decided to charge all patrons the same, ending special female pricing.
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Washington
Rogue and Jar
Liquor Board
MIRV Advances Push U.S. to Consider Hard-Target Warheads
The Pentagon weighs precise hard-target warheads and mobile missiles as a response to Soviet MIRV tests. Officials consider refitting Minuteman III missiles with more warheads, and deploying mobile long range systems, while seeking funding to keep the Minuteman line open despite no new production.
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Fred 8. Hoffman
Washington
Pentagon
United States
Congress
Americans Remain World’s Richest on OECD Living Standards
A Paris report from OECD shows the United States leading in per capita private spending in 1971 at 3230 dollars, with Canada and Sweden next. It notes the U.S. has the most telephones, TV sets, and private cars per capita, while Austria and Italy have more doctors per 1000 inhabitants.
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Hubert Haye
Agence
France-Presse
Paris
United States
Austria
Italy
Organization For Economic Cooperation and Development
OECD
U.S
West Germany
France
Iceland
Belgium
Sweden
Switzerland
Canada
Denmark
Luxembourg
Australia
Norway
Britain
Japan
Ireland
Europe
Greece
Ice Cream Social Brings History to Life at Hixon House
La Crosse County Historical Society hosts its Fourth Annual Ice Cream Social on Saturday with Barbershop quartet performances by Muriel Gardner Thurm Slack Bill O Connell and Charles Kowalke, tours of Hixon House and museum, Juanita Beck on the calliope, a brass band playing Gay Nineties airs, and arts and crafts displays.
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la Crosse
Hixon House
Juanita Beck
Calliope
Tribune
Head On Crash in Mauston Area Kills 3
Three people died in a head on collision on Juneau County Highway Q near Mauston at about 9 20 a m on Saturday. Victims were Clyde Bourgard 19 of Necedah Raymond Anderson 46 and Patricia Johnson 32 both of New Berlin. Roland Provenzano 19 also of Necedah was in serious condition in a Madison hospital. Bourgard and Anderson were the drivers in the two cars. The Juneau County Sheriff's Department investigated. The fatalities raised the 1973 state total to 709.
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Mauston
Wis
Juneau County
Clyde Bourgard
Necedah
Raymond Anderson
Patricia Johnson
New Berlin
Bourgord
Roland Provenzano
Madison
Anderson
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Sunday Digest
America
Fema
Onde
Baerte
Ann Landers
la Crosse Tribune
N. 3Rd St
Mirvs
Netherlands
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