Featherbedding bill remains blocked in Senate committee
Legislation to bar featherbedding as an unfair labor practice stays bottled up in the Senate Labor Committee until adjournment. Introduced by Sen. Paul J. Fannin in March 1969, the bill would curb unions from forcing employers to pay for unwanted or standby services. No hearings or cosponsors are reported. action on the bill is unlikely before the Senate session ends.
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House
France’s Mirage Sale Spurs U.S. Skepticism in Mideast
Foreign News Analyst Phil Newsom notes Paris’ plan to sell 50 Mirage fighters to Libya could be seen as meddling in a fragile MidEast context. France cites contract clauses and anti Soviet aims, while critics question readiness and purpose amid Libya Egypt Sudan alignments and concern over who would pilot the jets.
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UPI
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Georges Pompidou
Nixon
Washington
Libya
France
Soviet Union
Record total of emergency calls
Stromsburg ambulance crew chief Verlin Gronlund reports December brought a record for all trips to hospitals Thirty one persons were taken there mainly to Osceola but also York and Lincoln facilities There were 134 calls answered in 1969 and the unit logged several thousand miles Additional equipment has been ordered for better first aid service in 1970. Seven people die in Bergen fire in the Netherlands Fire officials say seven residents died and 200 others were evacuated before the home collapsed
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Lincoln
State accepts letters for funds to run retardation programs
Lincoln based report says the State Office of Mental Retardation has begun accepting letters of intent to apply for funds to operate community programs for the retarded. Funds for local community based programs were approved by the 1989 Legislature and became available December.
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Altar Society meets Thursday at St Peter hall
The St Peter Altar Society met Thursday with 28 members and Father G Messman present. Mrs Ruth Cookson chaired the group, which planned a February car party and entertaining duties for a community event in David City. Several members received prizes at cards. Two local couples visited, and university scholar Kenneth Delezal earned an 82M agriculture scholarship. James Proskovec and Joe Meysenberg were hospitalized.
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St Peter Altar Society
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David City
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Ray Hough
Ben Kobya
Marguerite Hiller
Milton Scholle
Dick Brandenburgh
Fremont
J. J. Brandenburgh
Orsie Adams
Kenneth Delezal
Adolph Dalezal
Gbekwood
University of Nebraska
Kenneth
James Proskovec
Lincoln General Hospital
Joe Meysenberg
Longest federal highway stretches coast to coast
The longest federal highway in the United States is U S Route 6 running from Provincetawn Massachusetts at the Cape Cod tip to near Long Beach California. It snakes through fourteen states covering about three thousand five hundred seventeen miles.
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Provincetawn
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Cape Cod
Long Beach
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