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Newspaper
Columbus Telegram
Location
Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1977
Page
3
Lincoln Nebraska UPI reports that on Friday the 90th day after adjournment of the 197 legislature will activate 157 enacted measures. Bills without emergency clauses take effect 90 days after final adjournment. 76 further laws with clause are already in force. A notable law, LB30, raises the food sales tax refund from 18 to 20 dollars annually, appearing on 1977 state income tax returns.
Victor Wolken retires as Leigh rural mail carrier after 2 years 5 months in service and 24 years on Route 11. He recalls 43 mile beginnings, mud and snow battles, and a grateful community. He plans travel and time with grandchildren.
Senator Edward Zorinsky of Nebraska will appear as a read-in for ABC’s six part drama Washington Behind Closed Doors airing Sept 6 through Sept 11. The program blends real life and fiction and taps interviews with lawmakers amid a busy political week in Omaha and statehouse news.
A legislative report by the Appropriations Committee’s staff faults the diagnostic reception cottage at the Nebraska Center for Women in York as an inferior product. It cites leaky roofs and insecure quarters as evidence, following concerns raised by Sen. Douglas Bereuter about the facility’s condition.
Stan Sroka 24 of Springfield Mass ends his 5000 mile canoe journey on the Columbia River at Portland claiming he will not attempt another cross country paddle. He plans an overland return to Massachusetts, saying the trip changed him but he will not repeat it.
Washington reports on Robert H. Dick head of the Tea Examiner's Office in Brooklyn who, at 63, faced budget cuts that axed the Tea Board of Experts and 479 advisory panels. Nixon and Carter cited waste saving $15 million. Dick, a 38 year government veteran, explains the Tea Act of 1897 and how importers test teas against standards.
An eight county Nebraska group called WAR Welfare Advocates and Recipients plans a Lincoln meeting on September 12 led by organizer Joann Wooten. The group seeks to defend individual rights, educate members on welfare law and connect them to social services, with a focus on welfare food stamp Social Security and SSI issues. It draws members from Lancaster Butler Saunders Seward Saline Gage Otoe and Johnson counties and will prepare testimony for a September 16 state welfare hearing.
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