Panel warns many OTC cold remedies unsafe or ineffective
A seven member medical panel for the FDA reports 13 ingredients in about 50 000 OTC cold products are unsafe or ineffective 45 need more testing and only 24 cleared for continued use Vitamin C claims are unproven turpentine oil in some remedies should be banned labeling is often vague and misleading Belladonna alkaloids in Contac and similar products carry abuse and toxicity risks
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Washington
UPI
Food and Drug Administration
Francis Lowell
Massachusetts General Hospital
Post secondary education hearing dates set across Nebraska
Sen Jerome Warner announced a three city public hearing plan by the legislature study committee on post secondary education. Sessions are 7 10 p m at Platte College lower level resource center and earlier at Wayne State College and Northeast Community College Nor folk Sea. The hearings, held on Washingtons Birthday holiday, aim to gather input from students faculty and taxpayers to shape future institutional roles and coordination of Nebraskas higher education system.
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Jerome Warner
Platte College
Wayne State College
Northeast Community College
Norfolk Sea
Warner
Nebraska
NGIA elects Schuyler man to presidency
Del Dagley of Lincoln was elected president of the Nebraska Grain Improvement Association. He succeeds Robert Scheve of Omaha as president. New officers include Gerald RK. Ehernberger of Schuyler and Wayne Deaver of Alliance as vice presidents, Duane Hufford of Omaha as vice president, Roger Cunningham of Lincoln as treasurer, and Duane Foote of Lincoln as executive secretary. Incumbent Arne Buhl of Lindsay seeks reelection to Platte County Board of Supervisors District 4 as a Republican.
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Lincoln
Neb
UPI
del Dagley
Nebraska Grain Improvement Association
Robert Scheve
Omaha
Gerald RK. Ehernberger
Schuyler
Wayne Deaver
Alliance
Duane Hufford
Roger Cunningham
Duane Foote
Arne Buhl
Lindsay
Platte County
Hearst bank robbery trial may end before nightfall
Prosecutor Browning said eight more witnesses will testified including arresting officers FBI agents and gun and fingerprint experts. The jury may hear Hearst taped statements made as Tania plus bank camera footage of her taking part in the San Francisco heist. The judge denied suppressing post robbery statements and Bailey may reflag Hearst to testify about her 19 months in captivity.
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San Francisco
UPI
Patricia Hearst
James Browning
Miss Hearst
FBI
U.S
Oliver J. Carter
Los Angeles
Carter
Browning
Hibernia
Thomas Matthews
Anthony Shepard
Matthews
SLA
William
Emily Harris
Hearst
Harris
Nebraska Weather Rises Toward Unseasonably Mild Day
Readings in Nebraska show dry warm westerly air lifting temperatures toward the upper 60s to low 70s. The National Weather Service forecasts peak readings late day as a low pressures over Minnesota and high over Colorado steer mild air. a cold front from North Dakota and Montana moves into the state late tonight.
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United Press International
Nebraska
National Weather Service
Minnesota
Colorado
North Dakota
Montana
Dirt lot pig operation touts space age sheds at expo
Frank Murphy of Nebraska describes a 400 litters per year hog system at Platte County. six 1000 by 50 foot pens with dirt lots and quonset shelters, 150 sows per cycle, fogged summer cooling, common feeder to build disease immunity, and labor savings. SPF adviser T E Socha outlines disease prevention and biosecurity steps for swine farms.
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Frank Murphy
Nebraska
Platte County Agricultural Park
Murphy
Platte Agricultural Park
T.E. Socha
Nebraska Spf Swine Accrediting Agency, Inc
Socha
Fremont fire hearing continues on gas main work
Virgil Priestly, a Nebraska Natural Gas Co. foreman, testified at an NTSB hearing that downtown gas main construction in June 1974 near the Pathfinder Hotel had no link to the January 10 explosion. He described a plastic sewer line and a six to eight foot bypass loop placed 250 feet from the leak to route the gas main beneath the sewer line and insisted the loop did not stress or loosen the coupling.
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Fremont
Neb
UPI
Nebraska Natural Gas Co
Pathfinder
Virgil Priestly
National Transportation Safety Board
Priestly
Division of two issues rejected on ballot split vote
The Unicameral narrowly rejected a plan to split two questions from LB666 for separate voter decisions. Supporters argued public schools could contract with private schools for handicapped education while maintaining a private college aid provision, but critics warned the move risked creating a dangerous precedent by fusing two issues into one.
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Lincoln, Neb
UPI
Nebraska
Frank Lewis
Bellevue
Sponsoring Education Committee
Dvorak
Heart Fund Jamboree in Columbus Feb 29
Country music benefit at Columbus Senior High School auditorium on Sunday February 29 from 2 to 4 30 p m to support the Heart Fund. Tickets at the door 150 for adults 75 cents for children. Acts include Del and Doris Schultz Country Troubadors Carol Lees Shuckin n Jivin Don Spikes Westernaires Larry Harris Country Wind Leff Corders All Knights Jerry Schmidt Midnight Flyers with special guests Tom and John Johnson Roscoe Thayer Leon Sharkey Cynova and Kathy Corder. Ralph Wayne hosts.
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Columbus
Heart Fund
Platte County Heart Fund
Ralph Wayne
del and
Doris Schultz
Country Troubadors
David City
Carol Lee
Shuckin
Silver Creek
Larry Harris
Country Wind
Madison
Leff Corder
All Knights
Jerry Schmidt
Midnight Flyers
Tom and John Johnson
Roscoe Thayer
Leon “Sharkey
Cynova
Kathy Corder
Wayne
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Queen Marie Wilkie
King John Reiter
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Telegram
Stan Linhorst
NGIA
Buhl
Nebraska Supreme Court
Donald Dworak
New York
General Motors
Stewart Mott
David Specter
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