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Newspaper
Columbus Telegram
Location
Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1970
Page
5
Glowing Candles IT and Kloverettes clubs won purple ribbons at Platte County Fair judging. Gouin Gardles IT earned top purple with Earth Day-Every Day-Keep America Beautiful. Roverettes earned purple with 4s High Time You Joined theme featuring a giant chick and Pendulum clock.
Paris dispatch reports Premier Chou Enlai on French TV saying there are one or two powers not dominating others and urging withdrawal of US troops from Indochina South Korea and Taiwan. He asserts giants no longer decide world fate and calls for liberation of Taiwan.
UPI reports a Russian electronic spy trawler approached within 26 yards of a destroyer off Cape Kennedy as the James Madison submarine prepared to test the Poseidon multi warhead missile. The vessel lingered for days, prompting the Navy to postpone the launch and reschedule for next Monday.
UPI reports the day's low temperature reached 42 degrees at Redmond Oregon and Gre. The high for the nation excluding Hawaii and Alaska hit 111 degrees at Blythe and Imperial California.
New York stocks showed a quiet session with prices holding steady as traders waited for signals on peace prospects or corporate results for the quarter ending last month. AT&T reports record earnings for Q2 and the half-year with profits of 3 cents per share, while Hartford Fire's results boosted the sector. Dow edged down 0.14 to 790.08, volume at 746 million shares, and GE fell by $1 to 15.0.
Flags flew at half staff and bars restau rants and nightclubs were shuttered today in mourning for former Portuguese Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar who died Monday without knowing he had been removed from power. The government decreed four days of national mourning and the body was moved to St Jeronimo Monastery to lie in state for two days. Burial will be Thursday in Vimieiro Cemetery near his hometown. President Americo Thomaz learned of Salazar's death while visiting Sao Tome and cut short his tour, expected back in Lisbon tonight. Salazar took power in 1932, leaving Franco as the only surviving statesman from the 1930s in Western Europe.
Only about five point four percent of the original forest remains from the era of the first settlers. Most of the remaining forest is now part of the National Park System.
A Columbus Savings offer describes a college loan with no payments due until 12 months after graduation. Principal and interest are repaid in easy monthly installments within a year after leaving school, during deferment or while still in school as authorized. All borrowers pay the full interest during the repayment period. Q who must approve my loan.
A free rock concert sponsored by Chicago Park District in the Loop deteriorated into gunfire and vandalism as crowds clashed with police. About 50 injured and at least three shot. two seriously. Dozens arrested as chaos spread along the lakefront.
Dennis P Marley of Council Bluffs said he picked up a hitchhiker at the Holiday Inn parking lot who claimed to need to reach Eppley Airfield in Omaha. The man brandished a gun, forced Marley to stop on a side road, and drove away with the motel car containing a sack of receipts worth 8075.77 in cash and checks.
During the Civil War the Confederate army levied a ransom on Frederics Maryland. The final payment of funds borrowed to meet the ransom was made on October 1 1951.
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