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Newspaper
Columbus Telegram
Location
Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1976
Page
8
The piece describes 18th century settlements relying on neighbors for house raisings and harvests. It notes cooperative work as economic necessity and social occasions after projects. It references Brotherly Love and asks about Philadelphia while answering New England states in a quiz.
University of Texas at San Antonio researcher Dr. Maria Luisa Urdaneta notes many folk practices persist where healthcare is scarce. She cites egg rubs and herbal tea for fevers, salt and fish for goiter, clay or spider webs for bleeding, goose grease for colds, and epsom salts for high blood pressure, arguing fluids and iodine content often matter more than superstition.
Aries may gain through a beneficial contact today. Taurus can win a new ally who may prove valuable. Gemini should think creatively at work to please the boss. Cancer may see sudden good luck. Leo could surprise family with a treat or gathering. Virgo will think fast with good first ideas. Libra profits may come unusually. Scorpio enjoys spontaneous fun over plans.
Albion chamber will sponsor an appreciation dinner for Elmer Bruhn Sunday at 7 p.m. at Albion Country Club. Bruhn has worked for Clark Brothers Transfer and Trucking in the Albion area about 20 years. The chamber entertainment committee will meet Monday Feb 23 at 7 30 p.m. to plan the quarterly dinner and officers set a 1976 budget across several committees.
Melvin Levander funeral director spoke at the Albion Kiwanis dinner Monday. He urged clearer public communication about funeral details, noting many people are misinformed about arrangements.
After 15 years as a missionary in Latin America, Rev. Fred J. Wolff promotes GAP God's Acre in Peru in Nebraska. The plan sponsors a technical advisor to raise Peruvians' living standard, avoiding giveaway aid, with people to people contact.
In Daly City California Randy Desha, a patrolman, defeated longtime clam eating rival Al Nicolini in the first Daly City Steamed Clam Eating Contest. Desha ate 162 clams in 43 minutes 20 seconds while Nicolini managed 113 after chewing each clam.
A federal grand jury indicted 15 people in one of the region’s largest drug arrests since 1972. The operation allegedly moved amphetamines cocaine marijuana and LSD from Los Angeles to Omaha for distribution with sales linked to residences in Omaha and Council Bluffs Iowa. Names include Steven Baker Debra Bell James Bell and others with some aliases. The probe covered February 1974 to June of last year and involved at least $1 million in drug proceeds.
State Senator Loran Schmit of Bellwood proposed a plan to place unemployment benefit seekers into public service jobs with a 1 million general fund appropriation. Supporters praised it as a work incentive while critics likened it to indentured servitude. He said the measure targets quitters and aims to push people into better jobs, arguing work is foundational to society.
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