Platte Center dump operator keeps town busy with thrift and wit
81 year old WWI veteran Stanlinhorst profiles Kuhn who runs Platte Center’s town dump twice weekly. He greets customers, collects fees from outside residents, and narrates finds from the pile from old rims to brass pipes. He jokes about empty trash becoming usable items and keeps flies away with a swatter.
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Stanlinhorst
Platte Center
Gottlieb Kuhn
Kuhn
Omaha
Columbus City Schools Board Preparations for Monday Meetings
The Columbus City Schools Board of Education schedules two meetings at 8 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Monday with a budget hearing at 8 p.m. Items include resignations and hires, a Lakeview High School construction plan proposal, a former student request, a board member questionnaire, student and principal concerns, and 1976-77 milk bids.
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Columbus City Schools Board of Education
Fred Bellum
Lakeview High School Board of Education
Steudent
Conencens
Armyworms Invade East Platte Corn Fields
Area Extension Agronomist Duane Kantor reports heavy armyworm invasion across the East Platte area with extensive leaf damage in several corn fields. University expert Bob Roselle notes damage rises when worms strip leaves below the ears before dent stage and mentions insecticides Sevin Dylox and Toxaphene plus parathion in areas with spider mites.
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East Platte
Duane Kantor
Columbus
Columbus Races Open With Expanded Schedule and New Bets
Races begin Tuesday at Agricultural Park with improved facilities and a shift from $6 and $15 to $4 and $10 wagers. Columbus will host 25 days of racing Aug 24–Sept 25, with 4 p.m. weekday and 2 p.m. Saturday post times, plus a Labor Day program. The track renovation in Lincoln prompts Nebraska State Fair racing at Columbus through Aug 21. Specialty stakes include the Inaugural Purse, Husker Handicap, Columbus Special, and many others as Platte County Agricultural Society sponsors Columbus Day at the Races Sept 10 with free admission tickets for participants.
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Ag Park
Agricultural Park
Columbus
Fairgrounds
Lincoln
Platte County Agricultural Society
The
Agricultural Society
Agricultural Park Track
Chamber
Nebraska State Board to Raise Sales Tax to 3 Percent
An emergency session of Nebraska's State Board of Equalization and Assessment will meet next Thursday to set the sales tax at 3 percent, up from 2.5 percent, per an administration official. The panel may also consider raising the individual income tax rate, following a legal opinion on timing and authority for rate changes.
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Lincoln, Neb
UPI
State Board of Equalization and Assessment
Nebraska
William Hoppner
J. J. Exon
Hoppner
Equalization Board
Columbus Dedicates New Waste Compactor and Council Praise
About 50 people attended a jovial dedication of Columbus Nebraska’s new $400000 solid waste compactor. Dan Drain of the Nebraska Department of Environmental Control praised Columbus for leadership and regionalization efforts to reduce costs and enable recycling. The unit, completed January after a June 1975 target, can handle 66 trucks per eight hours and currently moves three to four semi loads daily to the Duncan area landfill. State council members present included Larry Donegan and Mrs. Margaret Sutherland.
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Ofumbus
Dan Drain
Nebraska
Duncan
State Environmental Control Council
Larry Donegan
Margaret Sutherland
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Stan Linhorst
Bob Roselle
University of Nebraska- Lincoln
Warren Albert
Albert
Platte
Fred Gerber
Columbus Heights
Norfolk
Dale Sampson
Department of Environmental Control
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