14 Dec 1972
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Newspaper
Columbus Telegram
Location
Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1972
Page
1
A six member Bellevue team of students teachers and residents blamed the community for apathy toward drug abuse and urged reorganization of the mayor’s drug commission after a two week training at the University of Minnesota.
The Columbus Telegram lists address and publication details for its daily newspaper. It outlines subscription rates: $2.60 per month in Columbus, $13.00 per year by mail in Platte Boone Butler Calfax Merrick Nante Park counties, and $17.00 per year elsewhere in Nebraska and other states. It requests subscribers to notify changes of address and provides a contact number for telegrams missing.
Livestock quotations from Omaha show hogs 50 to 1.00 lower with various weight ranges listed, cattle receipts and price shifts include steers and heifers down 50, high quality loads reaching around 38.25 for prime steers, and cows at 24 to 26.25. Sheep trading mostly steady with some prime woolies and lambs noted. Estimated Friday receipts project cattle and calves to 600, hogs to 5,000, sheep to 100. PEN NAME Nelly Bly noted as the World reporter who circled the globe in 72 days 6 hours and 11 minutes starting November 14, 1889.
At the December meeting Loup Power District directors and several former board members met at Ellis Country Club for lunch. Ex directors Edd Kelly Don Keating Phil Hockenberger Walt Behlen August Ewert and former president Charles Fricke attended. The group discussed treating the monthly stipend as wages for social security withholding and noted $3600 due from Loup and the directors since January 1, 1969. They also considered redrawing the district to remove two small jogs into Greeley and Wheeler Counties and to balance represented populations.
Forty members of the Folts Zuerlein American Legion Auxiliary held a covered dish dinner and Christmas party with guests. Mrs. Gene Denkinger presided and committee members assisted. Gifts were delivered to the Beatice State Home and the Veterans Hospital in Omaha as part of the Gifts for the Yanks who Gave drive.
Bob and Bernetha Basney are the last residents of a small Lake St. Clair island. They survive trapping muskrat for pelts and meat, minnows for bait, and guiding fishermen, amidst isolation, storms, and icebound winters. They rely on a citizens band radio for contact with the mainland and live just six inches above water, facing occasional near-starvation winters.
Aries to Pisces provide a broad weekly forecast with city, planet, and career hints. It urges careful listening, seeking expert advice, and practical steps to improve finances, work relations, and daily routines. A child born today may be quick to act, risking hasty leaps without checking details.
Lincoln Neb Firestone Rubber Co program for employees tackles alcoholism and other problems reporting a 95 percent success rate in its first year. Seminar on employee programs held Wednesday notes the rate may not be sustainable. Md Johnson of Akron Ohio cites almost half the cases involved drinking and 13 percent involved prescription drug abuse. The firm expects a $5 return for every $1 of the $1.5 million budget as one third of cases were self referred, a figure likely to rise with credibility.
Columbus Junior High students present an 8 pm Christmas program in the gym featuring eighth grade vocal group numbers like The Christmas Song and Still Still Still, ninth grade pieces, and performances by the honor band, orchestra, and seventh grade band under their respective directors. The one hour event is free and open to the public.
A claimant for the world’s narrowest street cites John’s Lane in Rome as the record holder with a width of 19 meters. The assertion highlights contention over the true narrowest passage and the measurements used to define width.
William S Nelson listed with C L A and two phone numbers 504 016 office and 564 2915 home for business and personal contact.
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