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Newspaper
Columbus Telegram
Location
Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1975
Page
10
The Columbus Telegram lists stock prices for AlldChem through Copr Intl including Am Can and IBM with mixed gains and losses. It also reports Omaha Livestock figures for Monday with hog, cattle, and sheep trade results and Tuesday estimates for cattle, hogs, and sheep.
The Columbus Telegram lists subscription rates for carrier 2.50 monthly and mail at 16.00 yearly for Platte Boone Butler Colfax Merrick Nance Polk counties and 25.00 elsewhere. It includes change of address guidance and a series of stock quotes from major companies plus Dow Jones indices at 1 p.m. CDT with notable gains across industrials transports utilities and stocks.
The National Municipal League named Norfolk Nebraska and 11 other cities All-America City winners for citizen and government efforts to improve communities. Winners include Allen Town Pennsylvania Excelsior Springs Missouri Fall River Massachusetts Gardner Massachusetts Grand Prairie Texas Pontiac Michigan Raleigh North Carolina South El Monte California Spencer West Virginia Spokane Washington and Wooster Ohio. Nine other communities received honorable mention. The awards were announced by Wilson W Wyatt William Scranton and George Gallup.
The Columbus Mayor's Commission on the Status of Women will host Doris Capps to discuss Women's Credit Problems Solutions and Legislation at 8 p.m. April 17 in City Council Chambers. The talk covers the Equal Credit Opportunity Act prohibiting credit discrimination by sex or marital status and outlines remedies.
Wayne State College awarded 197 degrees at spring commencement Sunday with 57 students earning honors. Eight graduates were summa cum laude led by Linda Johnson Osceola and Michael Freudenberg Madison. two from Columbus, plus manga cum laude Sally Olnes Albion and cum laude recipients Frederick Spale Schuyler and Janette Shaver Albion. Local graduates listed include Mary Jo Botsch Madison Tamara Conyers Columbus Janice Hader Howells Sally Olnes Albion Frederick Spale Schuyler and others in education business and related fields. Mrs Hilda Neihardt Petri of Columbia addressed the class.
Rose Marie Eschliman an 18 year old senior from Spalding Academy won the Mid State Pork Queen contest at Ord over Cynthia Shafer of Ord and Lana Streumpler of Berwyn. Eschliman will represent the four county area of Greeley Valley Custer and Sherman in the Nebraska Park Queen contest.
Square dancers from the Midwest gather in Columbus on Sunday April 20 1975 for the 19th Mid-State Square Dance Festival at the Columbus Family Y. Harold's Squares Dance Club sponsors. admission 3 dollars per couple in advance or 350 at the door. Activities run 2 to 3 30 pm with Ted and Eleanor Vogt, followed by a Callers Jamboree until 5 pm hosted by Joe Stavas. Evening program at 730 features Bill Speidel and Ken McCartney, noted callers since 1955. They head clubs in Lincoln Beatrice Crete and guest for others. Next June Speidel McCartney and Wes Mohling plan a square and round dance weekend at Nebraska National Forest in Halsey.
Nebraska Young Democrats announce Genene Bruns of Columbus as first vice chairperson for a State Democratic Central Committee gathering later this month. The meeting set for 7 p.m. Saturday April 26 at Kings Inn on 72nd Street follows a Columbus convention where resolutions backed new investigations into assassinations and attempted assassinations and policy aims on health care, marijuana use, and defense expenditures.
Nebraska health officials report a 10 percent decline in infant deaths over the past three years, crediting a 1969 program that identifies high risk pregnancies and directs mothers and newborns to six intensive care centers for care up to 28 days after birth. The department notes improved staff training in smaller hospitals and cites infant mortality at 17.9 per 1000 in 1971 and 16.2 in 1973, with 1974 figures unavailable.
Harold E Joiner announces Clayton Bowe retirement as Behlen Manufacturing Company controller and names Douglas Hofeldt as new controller. Bowe joined in 1960, has held secretary treasurer roles, and leads Nebraska accounting groups. Hofeldt, 29, a 1967 University of Nebraska graduate, previously worked as an auditor and with Farmaster Products Company.
Lady Bird Johnson the Rev. Billy Graham and two former cabinet members testified as character witnesses in the trial of former Treasury Secretary John B. Connally on charges he accepted a $10,000 bribe.
Albion Fire Chief Robert F. Spiegel reports the benefit dance at the Vets Club was a success. Funds will buy life saving gear including portable generators pumps smoke ejectors protective suits oxygen masks and resuscitators for the Albion Volunteer Fire Department.
Lincoln Nebraska April 16 meeting will feature Mayor Sam Schwartzkopf and challenger Helen Boosalis as guest speakers. The event highlights a political forum at the University of Republicans with two prominent figures from local politics.
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