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Newspaper
Columbus Telegram
Location
Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1977
Page
4
Unidentified gunmen abducted Achilleas Kyprianou, 21, son of Cyprus President Spyros Kyprianou. They demanded an amnesty for prisoners in exchange for his release, according to a presidential palace statement. The kidnapping occurred Wednesday night by unknown assailants.
Francis Scott Calardo could not pay the parking meter with cash so he wrote a 10 cent check to City of Cincinnati and filed it in the meter. Police link the incident to EOKA B activity in Cyprus amid a wave of bombings and a kidnapping near the National Guard camp. Authorities state the president’s son was involved and emergency cabinet sessions were held to discuss the budget.
State Tax Commissioner William Peters announced the 1977 individual income tax return form 1040N will be printed and mailed in early January. Changes include use of add back tables, two expanded food sales tax credit categories, and an 18 percent rate of federal liability. Taxpayer assistance will be offered in Lincoln, Scottsbluff, North Platte, Grand Island, Norfolk and Omaha.
UPI reports three federal judges issued an order allowing access to grand jury testimony about eight public officials including a judge who may have engaged in criminal or professionally unethical bookmaking. The order directs secrecy and involves AG Douglas city attorney and state bar access to the testimony.
The Rev. Nathan Houfek of Grace Lutheran Church in Lincoln has been extended a call by St. Peter Lutheran Church in Creston and St. Paul rural church in Leigh to serve as their pastor. He preached at both churches Sunday. Houfek is married with a young son. The Leigh and Creston churches have lacked a regular pastor since Rev. Thomas Chamberlain resigned last July to become chaplain at Immanuel Lutheran Hospital in Omaha. Chamberlain arrived in Creston from Hurt Texas on January 1 1976.
Tim Foley of the Miami Dolphins scored no touchdowns on blocked punts in a November 1, 1974 game against the Baltimore Colts. The performance earned a new NFL subhead in the record books: Misc. TDs, Zin game.
Dr Dianne B Seale of Penn State warns the U S frog population may have fallen by half in the last decade signaling a national frog crisis. Frogs eat up to 10000 insects in three months and at least 16 percent of this may be the cutworm, a devastating pest.
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