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Newspaper
Columbus Telegram
Location
Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1969
Page
3
Columbus area notices list open houses for anniversaries and baptisms, local lounge events, college recitals, family visits to Nebraska, and Christmas specials. Names include Unger, Montano, Grahay, Liebig, Risk, Sokal, Heiser, and Lannan among many others with multiple local venues and happenings through December.
Loup Power District receives an American Public Power Association award in San Antonio Texas for excellence in presenting editorial statistical and graphic material in its annual report. The report champions public power, low rates, and future all electric service while detailing Platte Nance Beone and Dallas counties development. Copies of the award edition are available at law offices in Platte Nanve Bou Colfax counties.
New York dispatched weather data showing extreme cold across the region. In North Dakota, Grand Forks posted a temperature of ten degrees below zero, as the day’s low. The Weather Bureau noted frigid conditions coast to coast, excluding Hawaii and Alaska.
Mrs. Mathilde Siller 64 died Thursday afternoon at 3312 16th Street. Pastor A H Guettler to lead Monday 10 am service at Gass Funeral Chapel and 30:40 am at Immanuel Lutheran. Interment in North Shore Garden of Memories Waukegan. Survived by three sisters and one brother.
Funeral services for William T Young 87 of Madison and Columbus were conducted Thursday at Trinity United Methodist Church. Rev Raymond Sandsted led the service with pallbearers G D Lang Jack McVittle George Scheer Joseph Bunik John Stephen and Paul Robertson. He was born March 18 1987 in Rugby Virginia to Calvin H and Mary Kilby Young. Surviving are his widow Mary of Columbus and several children including Max Ivan Cole Dennis Alla Ann Pierce Lyla Penhollow and Phil Ross with 23 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by one son William of Colorado this year.
The Columbus Theater hosts The Evil of Frankenstein starring Peter Cushing with Peter Woodthorpe Duncan Lamont and Sandor Ells in top roles. The film, a spine chilling tale of a famed inhuman monster, headlines a Saturday night bill. Companion feature is Kiss of the Vampire.
County Judge issues marriage license to Michael G Breuer and Lorena J Lavell. They plan to wed Saturday at Evangelical Free Church. Lions Club to hear Don Fowler, school media director, Monday at Louie's Restaurant. program chairs Dr. James Hekkens and H W Steinmeyer. Burglary at Midwest Glass yields $145 in loss. entry via back door window. radio tape player and rifle stolen from Albert Wells trailer. Narcotics case: Michael Dustin Mooney and Daniel Lee Arriage of California to appear Wednesday in County Court. possession charges. appearance bond set. Harold Squares to host Christmas dance Sunday at City Auditorium 30 p.m.. bring pie, table service, and gifts. Funeral for Mrs Marie E Johnson, 71, held at First United Methodist Church. burial at Hope Cemetery, Newman Grove. pallbearers listed. St Bonaventure Elementary to present Christmas program Sunday Dec 14 at Scotus Memorial Hall. donations accepted. Br Anthony Holy Name Society to receive Corporate Communion at 9 a.m. Mass. special meeting 7 p.m. at St Anthony Social Hall. officers to be elected. Funeral for Mrs Jacob Widhalm, 87, Humphrey, 9:45 a.m. Monday at St Francis Catholic Church. burial parish cemetery. body lies in state at Duesman Mortuary Sunday 3-9 p.m.. Rosary 7:30 p.m. Sunday.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica notes that 19th century Scottish merchant John McAdam improved road quality by devising a system of ground-up stones over a raised surface to ensure drainage, inspiring today’s road building.
Republican Women Platt County will hold a Dec 18 4 pm covered dish luncheon and gift exchange at Mrs. Arthur Kummers home with cookbooks for sale. Also listed are traffic mishaps at 14th Street alley and 25th Avenue, a Hawaii film screening at Columbus City Auditorium, funeral rites for Alice Brandenburgh, and multiple court fines ranging from 6 to 36 dollars in Columbus police court.
Cape Columbia in Grand Land and Cape Morris Jesup in Peary Land lie 4560 miles from the North Pole while Cape Horn at Tierra del Fuego sits 2450 miles from the South Pole. The report emphasizes these measured distances as America’s proximities to the poles.
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