Wilderness Experience Is Not for Everyone
Ely Minnesota AP report contrasts BWCA popularity with a 17 percent drop in 1977 due to fire danger and permit reservations. It notes outfitters, costs around 20 dollars a day, and emphasizes self reliance, maps, and bear precautions as essential to a true wilderness trip.
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Ely
Minn
Boundary Waters
Minnesota
Northwoods
U.S
Canada
U.S. Forest Service
Forest Service
BWCA
Jon Waters
Dan
Senate Approves Expensive Hart Office Building Plan
The Senate moves ahead with a new $135 million Hart Senate Office Building after critics decry the price as excessive and wasteful. Senators call it a senatorial palace while urging restraint and questioning the project’s necessity amid extravagance allegations.
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Washington
Senate
Philip A. Hart
Sen
John C. Danforth
His Meter Ran Out: San Francisco Classic Cab Co Folds
The Classic Cab Co in San Francisco shut down after a year of operation. Ken Van Houten, 37, reported average earnings of $1.75 an hour and estimated annual costs of $13,000 to $15,000. He blamed high overhead and misperceptions about the costly 1937 Plymouth taxi.
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San Francisco
Classic Cab Co
Ken van Houten
van Houten
Yellow Cab. Co
National Football League Opens Record 55 Game Preseason
Clarke County faces threats to its great oaks as highway medians are sprayed with 2-4D to deter thistle. The note recalls the National Football League starting its record 55 game preseason schedule.
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National Football League
Clarke County
SPCA Adoption Listing Dogs and Cats Available
The SPCA notes no spay or neuter service. a veterinarian must be called. Available dogs include Queenie a female border collie about 1 2 years with rabies shot, Pt. Poodle puppies and an older German shepherd named Drona. Cats include Morris a male Persian housebroken, a Siamese female kitten, a black female spayed, and free kittens 6 weeks to 34 months. Country home only animals listed.
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SPCA
Dior ends corsets and skirts shorten in Paris fashion shift
In 1953 the fashion house of Christian Dior in Paris dropped corsets and introduced shorter skirts to the surprise of fashion circles. More than 250 people attended the Open House at Winchester Post 2123 as Veterans of Foreign Wars prepared a new home on East Piccadilly Street.
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Christian Dior
Paris
Diro
Winchester Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
East Piccadilly St
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