Anniversary recalls busy Business and Professional Women's Club
A feature on Mable Swift recalls the 1922 founding of the Business and Professional Woman's Club by Swift Dorothea Reece and the late Mrs. Oliver Smith. The club boosted civic effort sponsoring Red Cross drives Girl Scouts and scholarships, with Swift as first president.
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Business and Professional Woman's Club
Mable Swift
Dorothea Reece
Oliver Smith
Mabel Swift
B.P.W
Swift
Columbus Commercial College
Red Cross
Columbus-Genoa
Columbus Daily Telegram
B.P.W. Club
Wheat crop hits new record in 1976
The Agriculture Department reports 1976 wheat output at 2.147 billion bushels, up from prior forecasts and last year, with winter wheat at 1.566 billion and durum 134.9 million bushels. The rise signals surplus likely to lift carryover near 1 billion bushels as 1977 harvest nears.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
VA pays out 1.7 million in Platte County 1976
The Veterans Administration disbursed 1,681,522 dollars in Platte County during fiscal year 1976. The largest portion 925,700 dollars went to disability compensation and pension checks for veterans dependents and survivors.
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Veterans Administration
Platte County
Nebraska
Boone
Butler
Colfax
Madison
Merrick
Nance
Polk
James C. Smith
Lincoln
Three machinist union members arrested in truck arson
FBI announced the arrest of three union members on charges of interstate transportation in aid of racketeering arson and conspiracy. The suspects Don L. Reidner Charles Counts and Bob J Crupper were taken in Fort Madison Iowa by local and federal officers. A fourth suspect G Sam Nichol has arranged to surrender later. The case stems from a February 4 firebombing of two Wilcoxon Transport Inc tractor trailer units in Kahoka Missouri during a strike at the Ortho plant in Fort Madison.
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Omaha
FBI
Nebraska
Iowa
G. Sam Nichol
Navco
Ill
Krupinsky
St. Louis
Kahoka
Wilcoxon Transport Inc
International Association of Machinists Union Local 1043
Ortho
Fort Madison
Carter prioritizes jobs over tax cuts in stimulus plan
President elect Carter says first priority is creating jobs, with possible tax cuts only to cover any shortfall. He notes staff suggested a 15 billion dollar tax cut among options as industrial leaders propose 23 billion in stimulus. He spoke after Pentagon briefings and meetings with Congress and business leaders.
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Washington
UPI
Jimmy Carter
Carter
Pentagon
Plains
Congress
Defense
Donald
Joint Chiefs
Ford Administration
Fireman and sidekick found guilty of extorting 2.3 million
In Westchester County a jury convicted Mel Patrick Lynch and Dominic Byrne of extorting a 2.3 million ransom from Seagram heir Samuel Bronfman II’s father, Edgar Bronfman. Bronfman II was acquitted of kidnapping charges and sentencing is set for January.
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White Plains
N.Y
UPI
New York City
Seagram
Samuel Bronfman II
Bronfman
Mel Patrick Lynch
Dominic Byrne
Mrs. Dricot
Westchester County
Carl Vergari
Young Bronfman
Sam Bronfman
State Supreme Court
George Beisheim
Lynch
Bryne
Brooklyn
Byrne
Seagram Co
Edgar Bronfman
Seagram Estate
School boards set meetings for Columbus and Lakeview
Columbus City Schools Board of Education will meet at 7 30 p m Monday in the administration building with items including snow day procedures surplus bus and drill press, admin team evaluation, and North Park portable classrooms. Lakeview High School Board of Education meets at 4 p m Monday to review band instrument rental policy add activity period discuss football playoff participation and sports proposals.
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Columbus City Schools Board of Education
North Park
Lakeview High School Board of Education
Local Readings Show Weekend Temperature Shifts
The report notes a midnight reading for Friday with a 32 high, 20 low, and compares to year-ago figures of 29 high and 7:48 sunrise. Sundays show sunrise at 4:59 and sunset at 7:49, with Monday sunrise again at 4:59 and sunset continuing.
Nebraska Posse Comitatus members ordered to explain tax nonfiling
U.S. District Judges Robert V. Dewey Albert G Schatz require Keith Welling Gary Potts and Harold Ofe to tell the IRS why they did not file income taxes last year The judges said the Internal Revenue Code is the law of the land and may hold in chambers hearings if needed The men claim IRS laws unconstitutional and may invoke the 5th Amendment in response to income questions
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Posse Comitatus
Panhandle
Potts
Ore
IRS
Denney
Welling
Scottsbluff
U.S
Michael Schleich
Schleich
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Bobby J. Bernhardt
Hay Springs
Bernhardt
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Sebastopol
Calif
Mark Goldes
Goldes
Pawnee Park
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