Platte College winter classes offer broad community education
Platte College and Columbus Public Schools present a winter calendar starting Jan 17 offering courses from Plumbing Fundamentals to Advanced Sewing. New offerings include Poetry of cooking and ballroom dancing plus languages Polish German Spanish and ESL. Special programs for seniors and a law enforcement seminar accompany diverse trades arts and health classes.
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Columbus
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American Association of Retired Persons
State board approves multi-district voc ed concept
The Nebraska State Board of Education approves a cooperative vocational education concept allowing two or more districts to offer programs together. Critics warn about funding, transport and lapsed mill levies, while officials discuss federal approval and impact on local control.
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State Board of Education
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Lexington
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Carter names seven top White House aides from Georgia
President-elect Jimmy Carter on Friday announced seven top aides to the president designating six men from Georgia for his inner circle. The group includes Jody Powell and Hamilton Jordan with Lipshutz as counsel and adds Eizenstat Watson Kraft King Mitchell Aragon MacBean Bourne among others to key posts with diverse regional representation.
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Stuart Eizenstat
Jack Watson
Tim Kraft
Jim King
Bunny Mitchell
Joe Aragon
Madeline MacBean
Peter Bourne
Rivers May Dry Up In Northeast Nebraska
Nebraska Game and Parks Commission warned that major rivers in the northeast could dry up due to overuse not drought. Lee Rupp said 8,000 river pumping permits and 56,000 water well permits are in force, with growth rising 12 percent annually, threatening streams in a few years.
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Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
Nebraska
Lee Rupp
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Water pumping threatens Nebraska rivers and wildlife
Local readings show rising water issues as more than 100000 permits could be granted by 1990. Rupp warns Loup and Beaver rivers face possible drying within a year or two due to pumping. He cites Willow Creek, Clear Creek, and Prairie Creek as already pumped dry and laments lack of legal protections for aquatic life.
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Nosery
Wilow Creek
Pierce County
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Nebraska
West pleads guilty in ABP bribery conspiracy case
Frank R. West founder of American Beef Packers Inc pleads guilty to a reduced conspiracy count and agrees to cooperate with the Justice Department in an ongoing investigation. He faced over 175 charges related to the 1975 ABP bankruptcy that left creditors with more than 31 million dollars.
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American Beef Packers Inc
Justice Department
ABP
U.S
Robert V. Denney
Denney
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