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Newspaper
Columbus Telegram
Location
Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1976
Page
2
The Columbus Telegram presents a brief on today’s stock market activity in Columbus Nebraska. Investors monitor gains losses across major indices and local market movers amid regional trading trends.
Livestock prices show hogs and cattle in Omaha with varying weights and gains noted. At Columbus Telegram, local circulation details include subscription rates and daily publication notes, plus New York stock averages from Dow Jones.
Mrs Ramona Livingston was received into membership at the Albion VFW Auxiliary meeting at the Albion Vets Club Monday. New officers include Shirley Matousek and Lois Thayer with Ramona Coakes as chaplain and Ella Mae Dozier as guard. Maude Forney and Lois Sherbourne were elected trustees. Planning underway for a Bicentennial dance and buffet and two girls softball teams sponsored by the Auxiliary and VFW Post.
The Civic Club and Chamber of Commerce will hold an annual newcomers coffee on Wednesday at 10 a.m. at the Legion Club in downtown Schuyler. Officials say anyone not contacted is welcome, and local residents are urged to attend.
Police report a 1970 Oldsmobile stolen Tuesday afternoon around 4 15 from 30th Avenue and 14th Street. Owner Donald Laudenklos of 2852 34th Avenue left keys in the car while at a doctor's office. Investigation ongoing.
Six separate traffic incidents listed with locations on 13th Street 24th Avenue 19th Avenue 28th Avenue 22nd Street and 11th Street. Victims include Mark Lucke Lana Kay Godel David Mullin Daniel McNair Ivan Schmid and Steve Classen with damages ranging from 150 to 440 dollars. Priority details show hit and run and parked car events and a driverless car noted at 11th Street.
Jan Patton daughter of Mr and Mrs Elmer Patton is chosen by the Fullerton American Legion Auxiliary to represent Girls State. She is a junior at Fullerton High School active in swing choir mixed chorus vocal music secretary treasurer cast in the school play and varsity cheerleader. She previously was a 4H club member.
Disney comedy from Walt Disney Productions plays a week at the Columbus Theater starring David Niven Darren McGavin Don Knotts Hershel Bernardi Barbara Feldon and John Williams. A widowed mother in Hong Kong sends the children to visit a reluctant grandfather in Los Angeles as the adventure unfolds.
Two Omaha residents died in a head on collision 3.4 miles south of Papillion in Sarpy County Nebraska State Patrol said. Killed were Roger S She pard 29 and Elizabeth A Smith 25, a passenger in a car driven by Arthur C McLean 39 of rural Plattsmouth. The driver of the other car was treated and released from a hospital.
Environmentalists claim victory after a 12 year fight against the 3.5 billion Kaiparowits coal plant proposed along the Utah Arizona line. Two utilities withdraw. a third seeks new partners to build a smaller version as Interior Secretary Kleppe suspends ruling. The project faced opposition over air pollution near Grand Canyon Zion Bryce Capitol Reef Canyonlands and Glen Canyon NRA.
Police investigated multiple weekend accidents in Schuyler. A Speicher car hit a parked Century Farms vehicle on 12th and B streets causing 150 in damage plus 100 to the other. A Highways 15 and 30 collision damaged both Pokorny and Hansen cars totaling 350. A motorcycle crash near 9th and Colfax injured Scott Marco. he was treated and released with no bike damage.
Foreign Minister Yeshwan Trao Chavan announced India's step to improve ties by elevating the envoy in Beijing to ambassadorial level. He named K R Narayanan, 56, a senior Foreign Ministry official, as India's ambassador. In a separate note, Albion St Michael Church schedules Mass for first communicants at 9:30 a.m. with the grade school choir performing.
In a bridge deal West opens with a strong hand and earns a double. After the bids West North East South reach a contract where West leads Q. The declarer claims the balance of tricks while defenders discard. The match turns on the double discard sequence and the expected three defense tricks.
Readers ask about the negativ double invented by Alvin Roth about two decades ago. It is a takeout double of an overcall. Example: South opens one diamond, West bids one spade, North holds 132YK 1076 132a K 1085, and he doubles to ask partner to bid.
Oswald and James Jacoby recount Oldman Z’s play in an auction bridge hand once noted by R F Foster around 1922. The hand features dummy’s king of hearts, ruffing and discard methods, and a sequence where West ends up under pressure as Z protects suits and ruffs in his own hand.
Joyce Porter a 23-year-old reformed alcoholic spoke to junior and senior high students at both Humphrey schools on Thursday. The speech was sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary Foltz Zuerlein Unit 80 and the Humphrey Public School PTA. Catholic Grade School Field Day is set for May 7 followed by a picnic at Fuller Park.
Interim general manager Clinton C. Johannes said power should be back for all farmsteads and irrigation pumps in the York County area by May 17. He praised contractors and rural districts for rapid restoration and singled out Nebraska Electric G T for aiding calls to other districts.
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