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Newspaper
Columbus Telegram
Location
Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1976
Page
2
Market activity in Columbus described with brief notes on price movements. Investors watched key indices and blue chip movers as trading remained cautious amid mixed earnings reports.
Dow Jones indexes show gains at 1 p.m. CDT with the 30 industrials up 7.06 points to 975.98, the 20 transf stock average rising 1.59 to 218.32, the 15 utilities improving 0.29 to 92.70, and the 65 stocks index up 2.04 to 306.06 in New York based market report.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange updates show live cattle and frozen pork bellies with bid and last sale figures across Oct through Apr contracts. The Columbus Telegram outlines daily publication schedule and subscription rates for Columbus, Nebraska readers.
UPI reports Omaha market activity with hogs 3,200 headed and firm to 25 higher on some loads, cattle and calves 4,700 with steers and heifers up to 50, cows mixed, and sheep 300 with spring lambs firm to 25 higher. Wednesday estimates project 4,500 cattle and calves, 3,500 hogs, 300 sheep.
A special Bicentennial exhibits booth highlighted entries at the Colfax County Fair. Bernadine Jedlicka of Schuyler won for her picture and Mrs. Alice Trostra of Clarkson Colonial Manor won for her crewel picture.
A USDA official urged farmers and shoppers to pressure grocers to narrow the gap between farm and retail beef and pork prices. A supermarket spokesman countered that government figures misstate spreads and that retailers are not profiteering, citing rising labor costs as the main cause of price inflation.
The House approved a bill boosting federal payments to the needy blind elderly and disabled by over 32 million dollars annually and extending the Supplemental Security Income program to Puerto Rico Guam and the Virgin Islands. It also narrows income and gift exclusions and allows continued benefits for hospitalized patients abroad. Federal cost of living increases would go directly to recipients in addition to their own increases.
The Monsons a family gospel group will appear at 8 p.m. Thursday at Shell Creek Baptist Church nine miles north of Columbus on Mason Road. The trio of brothers and sisters have toured the Midwest and Northwest singing in churches schools and camps and have appeared on radio and television stations nationwide.
Radio City Music Hall in New York has secured tentative contracts with two unions representing the Rockettes and stagehands and aims to finalize with the musicians by tonight deadline to avoid a Sept. 8 closing. State Mediation Board official Kent McDonnell reports no details yet as 45 musicians await a pact to help stop losses totaling $1.3 million last year.
The Pentagon investigates a collision between a nuclear powered Soviet submarine and the U S frigate Voge in the Ionian Sea near Greece. The Voge suffered a broken arm to a sailor and propeller damage while the submarine remained on the surface. No exercise was in progress.
Daily blessings for Aries through Pisces with advice on relationships luck and social conduct. The reader is urged to stay calm in leadership roles and use wit charm and gentle reminders to advance goals while embracing new changes for opportunities ahead.
The 102nd annual WCTU convention in Richmond adopts 13 resolutions condemning alcohol and drugs and urging a 0.05 blood alcohol limit, tighter liquor advertising rules, and ads on beverage venues. It denounces transcendental meditation and Moon movements, and supports TV content limits on sex violence and homosexual portrayals. Mrs. Herman Stanley is re elected president.
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