Good time to be in auto business
Detroit auto makers show renewed optimism as first quarter sales near 2.25 million and forecasts rise beyond 10 million for the year. Henry Ford II and Lee Iacocca project 15 million plus by 1980 with improved consumer demand and industry recovery after a lengthy slump.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward S. Lechtzin
UPI
Detroit
Thomas A. Murphy
General Motors Corp
Ford
Lee A. Iacocca
U.S
Iacocca
Chrysler Corp
Chrysler
John Riccardo
Tornadoes devastate trailer parks in Louisiana and Illinois
Tornadoes struck the midwest and south slamming Natchitoches Louisiana where a trailer park was wiped out and one woman died with 30 hurt while another twister near Zion Illinois caused minor injuries. Strong winds across Texas Oklahoma and the Plains accompanied by hail and rain as a cool front chased a heat wave.
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United Press International
Midlands
Natchitoches
Natchitoches Parish Hospital
Bob Anderson
Texas
Oklahoma
Plains
Midwest
National Weather Service
Minot
N.D
Souris River
North Korea’s Kim Il Sung Dominates a Personalist State
Tokyo dispatch notes Kim Il Sung’s total control as president party chief and commander in chief. It highlights a growing cult, a planned dynastic succession for Kim Chung Il, and an aging top leadership era near retirement.
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Robert Crabbe
Tokyo
UPI
Kim Il Sung
Korean Workers Party
Communist Party
Mao Tse-tung
China
Mao
Kim Chung Il
Kim
South Korea
Korea
Aenion
South
Algeria
Romania
Mauritania
Pyongyang
Korean
Kcna News
Choi Yong Kun
Chiang Kaishek
Choi
Kang Ryang UK
Kang
North Korea
Choe Hyon
Korean Peoples Army
O Jin U
Kim Il
Kim Dong Gyu
Soviet Union
Leonid Brezhnev
Last of the soft tops marks end of era for GM Cadillac Eldorados
April 21 1976 in Detroit marked the last mass produced U S convertible, the Cadillac Eldorado. Thomas Murphy reflects on nostalgic wrench while Ed Kennard notes potential extra tops. Cadillac produced 200 final Eldorados with special plaques, dealers paying premiums for the last models as the era ends.
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Edwards
Lechtzin Detroit
UPI
U.S
General Motors Corp
Thomas A. Murphy
Murphy
Cadillac
Detroit
Kennard
Board grants 11 paroles in Nebraska cases
The Nebraska Parole Board approved 11 paroles and denied Fred P. Karnes of Valley. Inmates released include Max Gross of Norfolk with 1-3 year term for insufficient funds check and related offenses. Kenneth Phill of Lincoln for burglary with a 24 year sentence. and Walter Woods of Alliance for uttering forged instruments, among others.
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Lincoln
Neb
UPI
Nebraska Parole Board
Fred P. Karnes
Valley
Douglas County District Court
Norfolk
Max Gross
Custer
Box Butte
Scotts Bluff
Harlan
Kenneth Phill
Lancaster
Omaha
Walter Woods
Alliance
Cecil Bradshaw
Douglas
Dale Freeman Reese
Kansas City
Michael Hodglin
Grand Island
Hall
James Tindell
Sedalia
Dawes
Richard Arthur Ward
Fremont
Dodge
James Clarke
Yankton
S.D
Gothenburg
Gerald Douglas Arnold Jr
Otoe
Resident returns to Platte Center after winter away
Mrs Lena Langan came home to Platte Center from the Good Samaritan Home in Osceola where she spent the winter. Easter weekend guests included Gerry Carstensen of Grand Island and numerous others from Omaha Linwood Columbus and local towns at several homes.
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Bruce Schmidt
Jessica
Lene Langan
Arno Mark Home
Ray Fugger
Omaha
Marie Fugger
Albert Miksch
Margie
Joseph Miksch
Mary Viola John Mi
John A. Miksch
UNL Professors Join U S Wheat Tour of China
Two University of Nebraska Lincoln agronomy professors part of a 10 member delegation touring Chinese wheat regions from mid May to mid June. Dr. Virgil Johnson and Prof. Robert Olson will visit research stations universities and communes. The trip is sponsored by the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China.
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Lincoln, Neb
Navy Seaman Apprentice Ear nest E Starkil graduates
Navy Seaman Apprentice Ear nest E Starkil completes recruit training at the Naval Training Center in San Diego. The 1972 Red Oak High School graduate from Red Oak Iowa joined the Navy in December 1975 after instruction in seamanship regulations firefighting drill first aid and Navy history.
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Navy
Earnest E. Starkil
Judith
Reynold L. Bitter
Columbus
Naval Training Center
San Diego
Red Oak Community High School
Red Oak
Iowa
Head of Omaha firm enters innocent plea
R. Bruce Widstrom, president of R. Bruce Widstrom Associates Inc., pleaded innocent to 27 counts of failing to deposit about $5,000 in employee withheld taxes into a trust fund. Trial was set for June 1 before Judge Robert V. Denney. he had pleaded guilty to similar charges last year.
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Omaha
UPI
Bruce Widstrom
R. Bruce
U.S
Richard C. Peck
Bee Mountain Lone Banjo Player In Remote West Virginia Cabin
Bee Mountain resident Jim Seaver spends most of the year alone in a weathered cabin. His banjo and two cats keep him company as harsh winters loom over his isolated world.
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Hernshaw
W.va
UPI
Jim Seaver
Bee Mountain
Buck Knob
Lincoln County
Seaver
Department of Natural Resources
Bellwood Easter Visit Roundup Across Towns
Bellwood residents recount Easter visits with relatives in Agenda Kansas and surrounding towns. Guests include Schuyler Norfolk Yankton and Columbus residents staying with local families. The piece notes graduation at Wayne State College and a lookout’s forest fire duty amid a severe fire season.
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Bellwood
Charles Oborny
Agenda
Kan
Henry Baxa
Merrill Sylvester
Myrtle Weyand
Carol Scanlon
Schuyler
Columbus
Ed Reha
Frank Stemper
Bill Klamm
Lincoln
Wayne State College
Nancy
George
Luella Konieg
Lila Hiller
Grand Island
Virgil Anderson
Anna Francis
Otto Selzer
Jack Selzer
Marlin Scholz
Greg
Bill McCafferty
Omaha
Neal Neal
Shelby
Purcell Picked for 1976 Girls State Program
Albion High School junior Kim Purcell named by the American Legion Auxiliary to attend Girls State 1976. She excels in National Honor Society Student Council Pep Club Future Homemakers of America Safeteens and Band and participates in the Methodist Youth Group Senior choir and United Methodist Church. Brenda Sue Labenz is named alternate.
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Albion
Kim Purcell
Nona Purcell
American Legion Auxiliary
Purcell
Albion High School
National Honor Society
Future Homemakers of America
United Methodist Church
Order of Rainbow
Brenda Sue Labenz
Raymond Labenz
Easter Visits Include Schroeders and Friends in Creston
Creston residents hosted Easter visits with relatives including Rodney Schroeder and family from Lincoln. They visited Leonard Krings Alan Schroeder and Rickus Rosendahl in Leigh. Amelia Scheffler was admitted to Clarkson Hospital in room 616 Thursday. Wayne Moran joined a dinner hosted by E A Dietz on Sunday.
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Creston
Rodney Schroeder
Lincoln
Leonard Krings
Alan Schroeder
Rickus Rosendahl
Leigh
Amelia Scheffler
Clarkson Hospital
Wayne Moran
E.A. Dietz
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Henry Ford II
Guymon
Okla
Gage
Boston
New York City
Bethlehem
New England
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
America
Board
Platte Center
Columbus, Néuaska
Columbus Telegram—a
Beauty
Wie
Exterio
Swenwin Williams
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Sherwin. Williams Company
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