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Newspaper
Columbus Telegram
Location
Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1975
Page
2
New York Dow Jones industrial average stands at 825.25, down 0.24 points at 1 p.m. CST. The transport average is 164.41, off 0.82. utilities 80.46, down 0.60. and the general 65 issue at 252.09, down 0.62.
UPI reports cattle and pork futures with mixed prices as trade slows. Open high low and latest quotes show December cattle around 48.05, hogs near 55.60, and frozen pork bellies around 77.15 to 78.12, with weekly sales totals noted and limited late activity. The piece also notes historical statehood events for North and South Dakota on Nov 2, 1889.
Two Nebraska men, Clinton L. Kimsey, 54, Bellevue, the presumed pilot, and Lavern Leroy Johnson, 54, Omaha, were in critical condition after a single engine plane crashed in a Lafayette County farm field south of Higginsville. The plane took off from Higginsville airport, lost power, and plunged into Hugo Sandkers farm. FAA agents were sent to investigate the Rockwell Aero Commander crash.
In Las Vegas Nevada District Court Judge Dell Guy jailed Richard Famous 46 for one week for eight months of missed child support. Famous claimed he was robbed 15 times daily after cashing checks and that a court summons was taken during a robbery but offered no police report.
Richland police investigated a burglary at the Richland Elevator reported Monday morning. The break-in occurred between Saturday night and Monday morning, with a small safe containing several hundred dollars and leather gloves missing. Investigation continues.
Sheriff Richard Kruse spent Monday in Leigh handling property damage from a vandalism incident. Damage totaled about 500 dollars affecting items including a police car, a school bus, a teacher's car, and a HillTop Repair customer car. Juvenile charges were expected to be filed in county court against several boys.
The Supreme Soviet approved the 1976 economic plan and budget as industrial output is set to rise 4.3 percent. Analysts cite a disastrous 1975 harvest of about 139 million tons, with light industry growth at 2.7 percent and little improvement in living standards expected.
At Behlen Hospital a new Auxiliary project gifts handmade teddy bears to children five and under upon discharge. Mrs. Robert Crooks conceived the program with Elsie Norton as general chair. Bears are sewn from scrap fabric and hosiery, with material donations requested from the community.
Dr. Robert Sparks, chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, will ask the Board of Regents for a 1.6 million deficit appropriation from the 1976 Unicameral. 1.2 million covers federal cuts, 400 thousand covers missing state funds.
The Aquinas Booster Club Board schedules its regular meeting for 8 p.m. December 8 in the school cafeteria and a second regular meeting for 8 p.m. December 17.
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