19 Aug 1971
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Newspaper
Columbus Telegram
Location
Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1971
Page
1
Washington columnist Dick West jokes about an ominous swarm of butterflies crossing Texas highways near San Antonio and LBJ country. He likens the spread to a covert cabal and recalls Seven Days in May as a cautionary mental image while urging readers to watch for treachery.
Ron Field, a 25 year old researcher, claims a lab success sterilizing 100 percent of male Norway rats with an experimental chemical U-5896. He plans field tests this fall at Howard University after joining its zoology faculty, aiming to determine how much sterilization can reduce wild rat populations without affecting females.
Published each evening except Sunday in Columbus Nebraska the Telegram lists subscription rates delivered by carrier in Columbus two dollars per year by mail in nearby counties eleven dollars per year and elsewhere one dollar per year Subscribers should notify the postmaster and Telegram office of address changes in care of the Telegram Missing telephone hours stated for calls and inquiries.
Lincoln, UP I reporting that the State Game Commission finds a new method to raise pheasant chicks in nest ing- cover deficient areas may be feasible but limited. An experiment with tempor ary flightless farm hens in one acre alfalfa plots enclosed by five foot fences produced 23 broods from 140 hens.
The method assigns the age of a horse based on January as the annual turning point, regardless of the actual birth date. This practice simplifies age calculation for registrations and racing records, aligning all horses to a common yearly age bracket.
PHIL NEWSOM analyzes deteriorating relations as Pearl Harbor references surface in U S Japan dialogue. Nixon’s economic plan sparks debate, with a projected 2.5 billion trade deficit with Japan.
Two inmates fled Santa Marta Acallila prison when a blue helicopter landed inside the facility. David Kaplan 41 from New York and Carlos Antonio Contreras Castro, a Venezuelan, boarded the craft and vanished. A manhunt followed as security heads were jailed pending investigation.
The statement notes that Uncle Sam personifies the United States as male while Columbia is personified as female, reflecting historic national imagery used in American culture and political iconography.
Louis Rosen, head of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory’s meson physics facility, argues that science faces emotional and safety related criticism while defending the practical benefits of particle accelerators. He notes about 1,000 accelerators in the U.S., with a third used for industry and medicine, and highlights $2 billion in annual output from these machines. He sees a bright future for accelerators despite challenges to motherhood.
A garbled ad like message promotes a supposed diet aid named Mowa Dex claiming to curb excess food desire. It mentions no strenuous exercise and hints at drug content and added charges. The text references a misbranded product and includes disjointed, unsafe health claims.
The speaker outlines that many countries prosecute drugs more severely than the United States. Lebanon imposes 3 to 5 years in a mental hospital for possession. Drug arrests of Americans abroad have risen 70 percent since last year, with over 700 U.S. citizens imprisoned overseas on drug charges.
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