Mothersingers and Apollo Club team for Easter cantata Calvary
The Mothersingers present an Easter cantata Calvary by Henry Wessell in their 10th anniversary concert with Apollo Club as guest. Concert at Columbus Senior High Auditorium Sunday April 6 at 7:30 p.m. free to the public. Featured soloists include Robert V. Larsen and several listed vocalists. The program spans seven last words, dawn imagery, and hymns leading to Weep O Willow Tree and He Sees It All.
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Columbus Pta
Mothersingers
Henry Wessell
Columbus Senior High
Columbus
Apollo Club
Jerry Joseph
Clyde Oppliger
Christ
Paradise
Jesus Christ
Larry Beerbohm
Brother Will
Brother John
Colorado Trail
David
Robert Raitt
Elmer Gattermeyer
Schmit settles ice jam lawsuit in Platte County
State Senator Loran Schmit of Bellwood reaches an out-of-court settlement with Platte County over damages for breaking up a Platte River ice jam. Schmit, operator of Mid-American Helicopter Service, sought 88,800 for 29.6 hours of dynamite flights in 1971, but the settlement pays 26,640 at 900 per hour.
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Loran Schmit
Bellwood
Platte County
Platte River
Schmit
Mid-American Helicopter Service
C. T. White
Columbus
Names of Platte County towns spark Columbus Telegram series
Keith Bryan announces a Columbus Telegram column exploring the origins of Platte County town and post office names from 1856 onward. The feature invites reader contributions, photos, and information on places like Springville, Okay, Matson, Norwich, Metz, and Oldenbusch, noting several vanished communities and Eldorado as a hopeful thread.
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Keith Bryan
Columbus Telegram
Platte County
Polk County
Colfax County
Leigh
Marion
Buchanan
Rogers
Eldorado
Eldorados
Springville
Matson
Norwich
Metz
Oldenbusch
Fire disaster claims mother and four children in Huron
A mother Mrs. Floyd Kittinger and her four children Troy 15 Curtis 13 Brian 12 Jenifer 5 died when a three story home fire swept through near Huron downtown. Floyd Kittinger and Mrs. Christina Anderson were injured and hospitalized. Kittinger was an instructor at Huron High School.
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Huron, SD
UPI
Huron
Floyd Kittinger
Troy
Curtis
Brian
Jenifer
Floyd
Kittinger
Christina Anderson
Dick Stamp
March Weather Dull in Columbus With Below Normal Snow
March brought cloudy chilly conditions in Columbus with below normal snowfall and cooler days. Average highs 39.3, lows 23.1, mean 31.2 against a 48 and 26.3 norm. snowfall 2.5 inches, winter total 32 inches vs 27.5 normal. moisture 0.83 inch. First quarter 1975 at 2.59 inches, under 2.92.
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Columbus
Lolume
Loup Power District Adopts PCA Increase on Bills
Effective today the average 700 KWH monthly residential bill rises by 1.66 with a 2.375 mills PCA added to each kilowatt hour. General Manager Max Kiburz cites fuel cost surges since 1972 and ongoing conservation as factors, noting small consumers bear more impact while large users see little change. The PCA, tied to NPPD, follows district approval in 1974 for uniform application. Loup maintains low rates within Nebraska and nationally.
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Loup
Nebraska Public Power District
NPPD
Max Kiburz
Kiburz
PCA
U.S. Bureau of Labor
Threat to Saigon Mounts as North Vietnamese Overrun Cities
North Vietnamese tanks and infantry overran Qui Nhon Tuy Hoa and Nha Trang as Saigon faced escalating danger. Rumors of a coup swirled around President Thieu who cancelled a US meeting, while Ky urged Thieu to resign. Hanoi Radio called for Thieu's overthrow and peace talks. Foreign aid and a US airlift arrived amid panicked retreat and jail breaks.
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Saigon
UPI
Qui Nhon
Tuy Hoa
Nha Trang
Nguyen van Thien
U.S
Frederick Weyand
Ford
United States
Vu van Mau
Ngo Dinh Diem
Nguyen Cao Ky
O Day
Thien
Hanoi Radio
Thieu
Tokyo
Vietnam
Hanoi
City Council Sets Wednesday Meeting Agenda
The Columbus City Council will convene at 8 p.m. Wednesday for a regular meeting. On the agenda is a hearing for a house moving by Joe Bonk and Carriage House Estates seeks to extend its mobile home park. Plans cover water and sewer lines at Gerrard Park and paving at the 7th Street and 24th Avenue parking lot, the former Teich property.
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Columbus City
Joe Bonk
Carriage House Estates
Gerrard Park
7Th Street
24Th Avenue
Teich
Board approves Platte County soil survey photos plan
The Year of Supervisors okayed a survey of Platte County soil maps with NERD partners. Photos cost up to 8670 dollars, with Platte County contributing 1667.50, and work will take 3 1 2 to 4 years. Election polling places for three new precincts in Columbus were approved. A 61 vote denied a 2500 request for district probation office costs. Nielsen Chevrolet won a police cruiser bid at 18560 and Rogers Riley bid 21764.47 for a hall of justice project.
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Platte County
Smith
Lower Platte
Shirley Wilken
Cowmbus
St. Mary Hospital
Redeemer Baptist Church
North Park School
District Probation Office
Nielsen Chevrolet
Sheriff's Department
Rogers-Riley Motor Co
Hall of Justice
Winter storm brings heavy snow to Nebraska Panhandle
A spring winter storm moved through Nebraska dumping up to 10 inches of snow in the Panhandle and prompting stockmen's advisories and a heavy snow warning. A winter storm watch covered much of the state with a wet, cold system from southwest Colorado expected to shift into eastern Oklahoma by Wednesday. Local reports at midday show 10 inches in O'Neill, five in Atkinson, six in Scottsbluff as temperatures range from the teens to mid 30s across regions.
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Panhandle
United Press Internationa
Nebraska
Weather Service
Colorado
Oklahoma
O'Neill
Atkinson
Scottsbluff
Beatrice
Mullen
Connally Goes On Trial For Bribery In UPI Report
John B. Connally Jr. began a bribery trial in Washington as prosecutors said they would play a 1971 tape. The recording reportedly captures him advising President Nixon to raise milk price supports.
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Washington
UPI
John B. Connally Jr
Treasury
Richard M. Nixon
Lon Nol flees Cambodia amid rebel rocket fire and exile
President Lon Nol leaves Phnom Penh in tears as three rebel rockets strike near his plane. Cambodian forces tighten defense as insurgents reach four miles from the capital. He travels to Thailand then Indonesia with family and staff, while U S envoy Dean condemns leadership but doubts peace talks will proceed.
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Phnom Penh
Lon Nol
Khmer Rouge
U.S
Utapao
Thailand
Indonesia
Adam Malik
United States
USS
John Gunther Dean
Pochentong
Dean
Norodom Sihanouk
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U.S. Congress
City Council
Connally
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