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Floods are no stranger to Minot, N. Dak., a city of 35,000 on the Souris River. The community has been flooded three times this century. Last week residents prepared for yet another inundation...
Delayed Dam. Many residents of Minot took the evacuation with equanimity. A few families joked about their annual "spring cleaning" as they watched moving vans load up their possessions for the trip to higher ground. Said Mrs. Doris Christensen: "We've got the cleanest houses in North Dakota." Others, especially those who own property in the flood plain, are less excited about the emergency. "If you sell your house in the valley, you're not going to make enough to buy one on the hill," said Mrs. Verna Hammer, who has taken up residence in a local school...
...unusually high water levels could not be contained. Construction of a dam that could help hold back flood waters has been delayed by government red tape and is opposed by environmentalists and by farmers whose land might be flooded. Even if the project were to be approved, residents of Minot are likely to spend several more years warily watching the water. The earliest the dam could be completed...
...Carrie Minot led Radcliffe, tallying three times (the only shots she took), and team captain Carlene Rhodes scored the other goal...
Next door to the tennis courts is the women's lacrosse field, where behind the potent offensive punch of Barb Matson, Anne Johnson, and Carrin Minot the Radcliffe laxwomen finished with an emminently respectable record. Lack of consistancy plagued the women as second half fades seemed to be part of its game plan...