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Newspaper
Columbus Telegram
Location
Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1971
Page
10
A cluttered column lists a mix of appointments, social notices, names, and sales. It mentions a college honor, family announcements, a drivein, a beauty salon ad, and Valentine gift ideas, with several personal names and local business references scattered through the text.
In Wilmington Delaware the three block area of the black ghetto around Gregory Congregational Church was cordoned off as police and National Guardsmen moved through to quell weekend racial violence. Two people were killed, with a white man shot near the church and a black youth killed by a police officer days earlier. Curfew was imposed after Gov Beck ordered troops and officers reported continued threats including an attempted firebombing.
Officials in Jerusalem press for specifics on Egypt’s call for a partial Israeli pullback from the Suez Canal and the reopening of the waterway. They want to know what territory would be ceded, how ships would pass, and how long dredging would take, ahead of Prime Minister Golda Meir’s response.
President Nixon proposes a stringent national air and water pollution control plan plus a policy to guide land use. He seeks gasoline tax measures, $1.5 billion water standards, stronger pesticide rules, recycling incentives, and expanded open space. The aim is a national commitment to curb pollution with costs acknowledged.
Lincoln reports quote Republican State Chairman Corraine Orr denouncing Gov. Exon's budget plan as political expediency aimed at tamping Nebraska expenditures. She criticizes proposed 1972 tax changes, university budget prep, and cuts to personnel planning offices, calling the approach politically oriented and harmful to fiscal equity. Orr accuses Exon of sugarcoating retrogression and warns it paves the way for patronage and biased administration.
Doane College in Crete unveiled a United Church of Christ Centennial Scholarship program offering a $1 scholarship payable at $230 per year to a nominee from each of Nebraska's 136 ULKS congregations. Admissions Director Willard L. Gammel outlined the plan at a Doane College Church Council meeting, urging congregations to nominate graduating seniors and encourage attendance. The college, founded in 1872 by Congregationalists, aims to aid middle income families seeking a private church-related college education.
The svorl’s greatest beer drinkers on a per capita basis include Velalium with 34 gallons Luxembourg 33 Germany 27 Unitari Kingdim 22 Denmark 12 and the United States 18 gallons per person.
Neighborhood briefs list church and school events, boy scout and PTA activities, garden club, radio club, and poison civic notices. Includes deaths, marriages, police court fines, traffic accidents, and postponed meetings with dates and locations across Columbus area institutions.
Venice police report the theft of at least 15 works from Peguy Guggenheim's nearly 178 million dollar private collection on the Grand Canal. Missing pieces include Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Max Ernst, and Leonor Fini works. Guggenheim, 72, residing in Venice since 1947, was away in London when the theft occurred.
During World War I the Comanche language, never written, served to transmit telephone messages. The curious code baffled German signals as soldiers used it to conceal communications.
UPI reports Senator Frank Church calls the Laos operation an opening of the third front while the State Department defends it as a limited action. Lawmakers stress restrictions on US troops and aim to halt supplies along the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
Robert M. Fee, Scout executive of the Woomly Mid- America Contest, will be the Week speaker at the Columbus Rotary Wednesday noon at Lovie's Restaurant. An open house reception for Fee will be held at the Carhusker Power District office Tuesday morning from 10:30 to 11:90, with Robert MacFarland and Keith Norrington as hosts. Tuesday evening Fee will speak at a District Sustaining Membership Enrollment meeting at the Husker House. Fee has been employed in this position since November 15, 1970, and previously served as Scout executive in Newark, N J, Wayne N J, Rochester N Y, and began his career in Easton Pa. He is a veteran, married with seven children, and active in Rotary and United Fund.
Columbus Jaycees represented their chapter at the Thorea Outstanding Young Men convention. Speakers included John Sullivan, Gov. Exon's aide, with a focus on the governor's ideas and mental retardation program. Saturday honors went to Omaha and Bellevue leaders, marking a record turnout among 25 candidates.
Admissions list includes Maurice Spitz St Paul Ervie Shaffer Joseph Sawyer Mrs Phil Whitney Mrs Fae Throm Melvern Hoff all of Columbus and Steve Will St Edward Keanan Shatkoski Genoa Mrs Lyle Prang Floyd Wiedhalski Mrs Joe Badstelley 3rd all of Columbus Dismissals include Mrs Kenneth Miller Mrs Loren Weljen Mrs Melinda Luchsinger Mrs Dale Brinkman and son all of Columbus St Mary Hospital births report a son to Mr and Ates Jerry Weinhoff Mt 3 eight pounds and tree ounces Feb 1 and a daughter to Mr and Mrs David i Krula Rt 1 Schuler six pounds 10 ounces Feb.
Mr and Mrs Kenneth Mack of Papillion welcome a son weighing seven pounds and 12 ounces at Boon County Hospital. The birth adds a new member to the Mack family.
The North Platte River Project Engineer's Office states it has been directed by the Senate Committee on Public Works to investigate flood and water problems on the North Platte River and its tributaries in the Casper, Wyoming area. The corps will hold a public meeting in Casper on March 1.
Hastings report states 14 year old Terry Goebel was killed and his father seriously injured in a Sunday accident at a Hastings truck stop on Highway. Terry, a Hastings Junior High student, died from burns. his father Thomas Goebel, 38, suffered over 80 percent burns. Authorities identified Terry and said the elder Goebel was welding with an acetylene torch when a can of paint ignited. Services were pending at Butler Volland Funeral Home. Survivors include parents, a brother Vidmyy, a sister Mary Kay, and grandparents.
By United Pros. intérnatione! As the Apollo 14 crew prepare to splash down in the Pacific Ocean Tuesday afternoon they will have traveled about 1,151,086 miles since launch.
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