Best of Show at Platte College Fine Arts Festival
Sondi Wetgen won Best of Show for a scratchboard titled Vase and Plant at Platte College Fine Arts Festival. The sixteenth annual event concluded with a Strategic Air Command Concert Band performance and drew an estimated 800 to 1,000 attendees across art shows theatre and films.
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Sondi Wetgen
Platte College
Strategic Air Command
Larry Oeamneet
Kearney State College
Dick Abraham
Platte
John Schmidt
Sandi Wetgen
Carol Kobza
Jane Blevins
Peg Slusarski
LuAnn Abraham
Regina Mlinar
Sheryl Jenny
Miriam Korte
Liz Jensen
Lisa Jones
Eula Pearson
Joan Widhalm
Dick Farnham
Nadine Donoghue
Orchestral Concert Set by Columbus City Schools
The Orchestra department of Columbus City Schools presents a 7 30 p m concert Thursday in the high school auditorium. Miss Jane Zumpfe directs the elementary string ensemble and the junior senior high orchestra performing four selections. The program carries a Bicentennial theme and admission is free.
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Columbus City
Jane Zumpfe
Platte County primary registration deadline set for Friday
The May 11 primary registration in Platte County ends Friday at 6 p.m. with Thursday office hours extended to 9 p.m. Dorothy Kyriss notes about 650 more Democrats than Republicans, 7 637 to 6 937, Independents 843 and one American party registrant. total 15 462, well below 1974 and 1972 levels due to stricter old-registration purging.
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Platte County
Dorothy Kyriss
American Party
American Airlines jet crash kills 36 in Virgin Islands
An American Airlines Boeing 727 overshot a Caribbeans island runway, crashed into a gas station and caught fire killing at least 36 people. Officials said 15 of the injured were hospitalized in fair condition, with some victims believed to be from the New York City area.
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Charlotte Amalie
St. Thomas, Virgin Islands
UPI
American Airlines
Caribbean
Helen Banfield
Bernard Rumsch
Territorial
Knud Hansen Hospital
San Juan Medical Center
Puerto Rico
Bluebeard’s Castle
Dee Ann Divis Named JA Achiever of the Year
Dee Ann Divis, a Columbus High sophomore, won the Junior Achievement Achiever of the Year at the annual JA banquet on Tuesday night. Tim Munson earned the alternate award with potential NaJAC travel. other honors went to Dennis Durkop Theresa Kiuntke Tim Munson Dee Ann Davis Renee Hellbusch and Allen Kopetzky of Radio Rock along with Company of the Year Radio Rock and master of ceremonies Jerry Engdahl.
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Dee Ann Divis
Bloomington
Ind
Tim Munson
Divis
Columbus High
A.J. Divis
Radio Rock JA
Radio Kttt
Munson
Duane Munson
Columbus
Eastside Industries
JA Company
Becton Dickinson
Dennis Durkop
Radio Rock
Theresa Kiuntke
Dee Ann Davis
Renee Hellbusch
Rainbow Productions
Allen Kopetzky
Jerry Engdahl
Chamber of
Jim Jaworski
Osceola Man Dies After Ladder Fall
Emil Munson, 84, died in Osceola after a fall from a ladder while repairing his garage roof. He slipped on concrete and succumbed to injuries shortly after the incident, authorities reported.
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Osceola, Neb
UPI
Emil Munson
Carter's Pennsylvania Win Shifts Democratic Primary Race
Jimmy Carter crushed rivals in Pennsylvania with 37 percent of the vote, forcing renewed questions about Henry Jackson Morris Udall and Hubert Humphrey. With 99 percent counted Carter led Jackson and Udall in both popular vote and delegates, signaling a pivotal, money-influenced clash toward July.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Jimmy Carter
Deep South
Pennsylvania
Henry Jackson
Morris Udall
Huberty
Gettysburg
Georgia
Carter
Jackson
Udall
White House
Washington
Humphrey
Minnesota
Milton Shapp
Wallace
McCormack
Shapp
Bayh
Harris
Udair
Madison Square Garden
NLFA group to Washington pushes for livestock payment bill
An NLFA delegation of 186 members traveled to Washington to urge House passage of bill 8410. The measure aims to guarantee livestock payments if packers fail, arising from the American Beef Packers bankruptcy in Omaha and industry financial troubles. Also joining were representatives from the American National Cattlemen's Association, the American Farm Bureau Federation and the Independent Bankers Association of America.
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Omaha
UPI
National Livestock Feeders Association
Washington
American Beef Packers, Inc
NLFA
American National Cattlemen's Association
American Farm Bureau Federation
Independent Bankers Association of America
Unseasonably Cool Nebraska Weather With Light Rain
Nebraska sees further cool conditions with a stationary front over Oklahoma bringing light rain across western and central areas. Tonight mid 30s to mid 40s with Thursday highs in 40s west to upper 50s east. Moisture totals were light, traces to .77 inch, with overnight lows from 30 at Alliance to 46 at Lincoln.
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United Press International
Alliance
Lincoln
Omaha
Madrid referendum set for October and elections in 1977
Spanish Prime Minister Carlos Arias Navarro announced a referendum on the monarchy and democratic reform for October and general elections early in 1977.
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Madrid
Spain
UPI
Carlos Arias Navarro
Congresswoman Virginia Smith to Speak at Platte Commencement
Nebraska Third District Congresswoman Virginia Smith will deliver the commencement address at Platte College on May 1 at 8 p.m. in the Physical Education Center. About 36 graduates are listed for diplomas and degrees. born in Randolph Iowa she earned a Nebraska B A and with her husband Haven operates a wheat ranch. She was elected to the 94th Congress on Nov 8 1974 and has chaired Farm Bureau Women and served on state and national education and labor and interior affairs panels.
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Virginia Smith
Nebraska
Platte College
Platte
Randolph
Iowa
American Farm Bureau Women
Sta
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