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Newspaper
Columbus Telegram
Location
Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1976
Page
2
Columbus Telegram reports today on market activity in Columbus Nebraska with local stocks and index movements. Data includes price changes for key listings and brief market context for readers.
Live cattle and frozen pork bellies futures shown with opening highs and lows. Contracts listed for Aug Oct Dec and Feb across live cattle frozen bellies and live hogs with indicative last prices and daily volume.
New York stocks show mixed action at 1 PM CDT with the Dow Jones industrial average at 988.03, up 0.91 points, the transport average at 222.36, down 1.02, utilities at 93.08, and the 65-stock index at 309.97, down 0.22.
Hogs at Omaha sold with varied gains up to 50 cents while butchers showed steady to 25 higher, weights from 200 to 290 pounds. Sows weakened with 38 to 39 dollars for lighter ranges. Cattle and calves totaled 2000 with feeders dominating and slaughter sales weak. Monday's estimates projected 6000 cattle and calves, 4000 hogs, 600 sheep.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld had a two hour operation to remove part of his thyroid and a benign growth. A biopsy indicated the nodule was not cancerous and he is in satisfactory condition at Bethesda Naval Hospital. In West Virginia, UMW President Arnold Miller said the coal miners strike appears near end as miners return to work in Appalachia after a month long revolt.
President Ford says he is not ruling out debates with Democrat Jimmy Carter. Carter remains undecided on engaging the President in a public autumn debate as pressure grows from voters and the League of Women Voters.
In Platte County Nebraska Estate No 4689 of Fritz Klaentschi deceased a petition for probate of the Last Will and Testament and for appointment of executrices Kathi Klaentschi and Barbara A Koenig has been set for hearing August 30 1976 at 9 30 A M before Associate County Judge Josephine Merrill.
An anti burn vaccine developed at the Burns Research Unit in Birmingham England stimulates resistance to bacteria within 24 hours before infection sets in.
Lakeview High School sets a half day opening on August 25 1976 with 8 30 a m start and 11 45 a m dismissal. Regular sessions begin August 26 at 8 25 a m hot lunch returns. New staff include Dan Davis Don Schmidt and Darrell Fenton with prior teaching credits and coaching roles.
Michael Soles, 19, of Sand Springs Oklahoma, appeared in a hospital room arraigned on three murder charges after a downtown Wichita sniper attack from the Holiday Inn balcony left three dead and seven wounded. Bail set at 1 million, the highest in Kansas.
Lincoln Nebraska UPI reports Senate Revenue and Appropriations chairmen Cal Carsten and Richard Marvel said the 1977 Legislature must hold the line on spending. They criticized revenue estimate errors that prompted a 0.5 percent sales tax and 2 percent income tax rise and urged a tighter revenue protection system while noting they would not replicate last year’s budget.
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