09 Dec 1972
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Newspaper
Columbus Telegram
Location
Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1972
Page
1
Vermont became the first state to enact an absentee voting law in 1896 allowing voting anywhere in the state with a voting certificate. The majority of absentee ballots come from armed forces personnel students hospital patients and travelers.
The Columbus Telegram lists subscription rates for daily and Sunday delivery. Carrier delivery costs 2 dollars and 6 cents per month, mail rates vary by state with 19.00 per year for some regions and 41.70 per year elsewhere. Change of address procedures are included.
A federal appeals court upheld findings of racial discrimination in Detroit area schools while ordering all 62 suburban districts to have hearings before a desegregation plan proceeds. It also vacated a lower court order requiring Michigan to buy 295 buses, sending the plan back to Judge Roth for further proceedings.
The United Nations General Assembly passed a hard line Middle East resolution by 66 votes to 7 with 31 abstentions urging Israel to withdraw from territories occupied since 1967. Israel warned it would ignore the measure calling it one sided while the United States abstained on the vote.
Life magazine will cease publication by year’s end after 36 years as a weekly pictorial journal. An announcement to 670 staff cited television competition and postal rate hikes as factors. Time Inc. stock rose on the news while chairman Andrew Heiskell criticized the Nixon administration. Life staff writer Tommy Thompson called the end sad and described Life as “the last dinosaur.”
AP reports the first half of 1972 revenue-sharing payments to area cities. St. Louis receives 6,251,132 dollars, Kansas City Missouri 4,003,544, Wichita 1,208,873, Omaha 2,036,844, Oklahoma City 2,731,487, Tulsa 2,129,932, Kansas City Kansas 1,100,113, Des Moines 1,112,087, and Lincoln 846,927 dollars.
A dense horoscope page covers all signs from Aries to Pisces with cautions about listening to friends, managing finances, following orthodox methods, avoiding risks, and pursuing practical goals. It notes personal relationships, work plans, and future promises, with children’s potential destinies and advice on discipline, training, and ethics.
Cheyenne AP report says Old West Trail Foundation directors advanced joint travel promotions across five states with private industry. Plans include Curtiss Candy Co advertisements and give away contests in Wyoming Nebraska North Dakota and South Dakota, Conoco mailing campaigns and glasses distribution, plus a 26 minute film shown on 40 stations over two years overseas Canada and across the United States.
In Scottsbluff Neb AP报道 explosives were ordered from the National Guard to potentially demolish the Steward McLean Potato Co warehouse burning since early Friday. Firefighters fought since 2:35 a.m. using about 750000 gallons of water. estimated losses top 105000 dollars, with up to two million pounds of potatoes and chemicals inside.
The Viet Cong accused the Nixon administration of psychological warfare tactics as Saigon signals a political campaign to prepare South Vietnam for a ceasefire. Both sides move to shape the postwar landscape, amid efforts toward a peace agreement and a likely ceasefire.
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