Postmasters Gather for 67th Nebraska Convention in Columbus
Nebraska Branch of the National League of Postmasters holds its 67th annual convention April 17 to 20 at the Columbus Holiday Inn with about 200 postmasters. State president Carson Williams of Stamford and Nebraska Auxiliary head Delores Williams. Host Vern Zimmerman of Columbus. Dignitaries include Jim Harrison of Morrill and National Auxiliary leaders Earl Meredith and Leona Falk. Events run from golf and registration to formal sessions, memorial service, auxiliaries luncheon, and a banquet with Milton Healy speaking. Carlson Kruse chairs, Cathy Hassler co chair.
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Nebraska
National Leauge of Postmasters
Columbus Holiday Inn
Carson Williams
Stamford
Delores
Vern Zimmerman
Columbus
Postal Service
Jim Harrison
Nebraska farmers plan record corn plantings in 1953
Nebraska Crop and Livestock Reporting Service says farmers intend to plant 7.2 million acres of corn in 1953, the largest since 1953, with sorghum at 2.4 million acres and soybeans near 1.1 million. Oat plantings would reach 830 000 acres, barley 40 000, sugar beets 86 000, and dry beans 126 000 as intentions unchanged from 1976. All hay is set for 4 million acres and winter wheat seedings total 3.3 million acres, down 3 percent from last year.
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Lincoln, Neb
Round of Showers Hits Southwest Nebraska
Moist Gulf air sparked thundershowers across southwest Nebraska with scattered rain totals reported from North Platte to Norfolk. A slow moving cold front stretched from Valentine to Sidney, pushing rain southeast of McCook and raising the North Loup River toward flood stage near St Paul as Howard County residents prepared for possible flooding.
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Gulf
Nebraska
Scottsbluff
Valentine
Sidney
Colorado
Nebraska-Kansas
McCook
North Platte
Norfolk
Cotesfield
Howard County
North Loup River
North Loup
St. Paul
Ron Bryer
Nebraska Panhandle
Omaha
Beatrice
Chadron
Carter Sees No Reason to Change Arms Reduction Stance
President Carter said he sees no reason to back down from sharp strategic arms cut backs despite renewed Soviet rejection. He discussed a possible meeting with Leonid Brezhnev in Washington later this year and informal talks with Soviet envoy Dobrynin. He warned Congress against a permanent income tax cut and outlined energy conservation measures to curb inflation while pursuing oil and food price stabilization.
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Washington
UPI
Carter
U.S
Communist
Leonid Brezhnev
Anatoly Dobrynin
Vladivostok
Pravda
Congress
CIA
Brezhnev
Carter anti inflation plan summary
President Carter outlined fiscal discipline to balance the budget by 1981 and wage and price analysis to foresee shortages. The package includes hospital cost restraint, job training and matching, productivity boosts, farm price stabilization, and strategic stockpile readiness. It also calls for regulatory cost analysis, red tape reduction, IMF cooperation, and antitrust enforcement.
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Washington
UPI
Carter
ERA expected to win acceptance by March 1979 deadline
White House aide Mark Siegel said ERA will barely meet the March 1979 ratification deadline as Carter will press state legislators. He noted Florida’s latest defeat is ERA’s third loss this year but predicts ratification by the remaining three states at the wire in 1979.
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Washington
UPI
White House
Mark Siegel
Carter
ERA
Florida
Senate
Siegel
Photo license measure clears final approval in legislature
LB90 would mandate color photos on driver licenses and raise the four year fee from six to seven dollars to cover photo costs. The bill passed 25 to 13 while its companion funding failed by five votes 30 needed. The three day reconsideration window begins as opponents call for privacy protections and question lobbying by photo firms.
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Lincoln, Neb
UPI
Omaha
Glenn Goodrich
Ernest Chambers
Assassination Panel to Hold Open Hearing Next Week
The House Assassinations Committee plans an open hearing drawing on three interviews with James Earl Ray, the convicted King slayer, while investigators at Brushy Mountain State Prison report on progress. Ray serves a 99 year sentence after pleading guilty to Kings murder in 1968 in Memphis.
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Washington
UPI
House
Martin Luther King Jr
James Earl Ray
Brushy Mountain
Tennessee
Ray
King
Memphis
John F. Kennedy
Alvin Lewis Jr
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B. M. McClanahan
Milton Healy
Carl Kruse
Tekamah
Cathy Hassler
Arapahoe
Billy McClanahan
United Press International
Bob Mielak
Darrell Johnson
PTA
VFW
Telegram
Becky Moore
Council On Wage and Price Stability
Wage and Price Council
International Monetary Fund
Serge Neeereeree
Arne Buhl
Northeast Nebraska Association of County Officials
Henry Purdie
Pierce County
Leon Meyer
Wayne County
Kenneth Eddie
Wayne
Buhl
Platte County Board of Supervisors
Dick Howe
Chambers
John DeCamp
Neligh
Terry Carpenter
Wally Barnett
Lincoln
Judiciary Committee
Barnett
DeCamp
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