Parish Hall Dance and Local Notices Highlight Community Life
A collage of items from Coffey College honors to weddings, visits, and local events. Parla Gable makes the dean’s list at Coffey College in Nevada Mo. A Sunday smorgasbord is advertised at Aunt Emma’s Cafe and a church confirmation event at Immanuel Lutheran is noted. Family gatherings include multiple Coffey relatives and friends. The notice also lists housing needs for Platte College students, a graduation trip to Chicago, a wedding dance at Humphrey Park, and an open house for a 50th anniversary. Additional items mention a Marine corporal promotion, church delegates to a Lutheran assembly, and a Navy electrician’s mate completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Jasper
25 Sun
Platte Center Auditorian
FLEA MARKET AND OPEN HOUSE NOTES IN LOCAL GAZETTE
Cheryl Wieser of Columbus joins Briar Cliff College list as 1H student at Sioux City Iowa. The Kopetzky children host an open house for their z1th wedding anniversary at SS Anthony’s Social Hall on Sunday June 5 from 6 30 to 9 00 pm. Telegram invites vacation news and out of town guests. Eutectic Welding School conducts June 7 and 8 at L P Machine near Columbus on west side of road backed by Castolin Institute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheryl Wieser
James P. Wieser
Columbus
Telegram
Entectic Welding School
Eutectle Plus
Castolin Institute
L & P Machine
LeRoy Poellet
Uden earns 100 scholarship for Nebraska study
Janice Uden receives a $100 scholarship from the Ladies Auxiliary of the Columbus Chapter of the Professional Engineers of Nebraska to enter the University of Nebraska for chemical engineering this fall. She is daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Uden and studied at Platte Technical Community College on the President's honor roll. The committee also announced a contribution to the National Society of Professional Engineers Scholarship Fund for women entering engineering. Nearby items note hospital visiting hours, dismissals, and local club activities. Randy Jones, Shelby, completes Marine recruit training at San Diego, after graduating in 1973 from Shelby High School and enlisting in January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies Auxiliary
Columbus
The
Professional Engineers of Nebraska
Janice Uden
University of Nebraska
Janice
Marvin Uden
Platte Technical Community College
Anita Hahn
Lois Failick
Evelyn Wrenn
National Society of Professional Engineers
Pyt
Randy Jones
Robert Jones
Shelby
Maine Corps Recruit Depot
San Diego
Corps
Shelby High School
Marines
Gas leak forces Benson area evacuation in Omaha
Metropolitan Utilities District workers sealed a 1.25 inch gas service line leak after a bulldozer struck the line. The Benson neighborhood block was evacuated as a precaution. Fire crews stood by. no fire or sewer gas issues were reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
UPI Metropolitan Utilities District
Benson
Dave Barber
MUD Public Information
Tom Davis
Davis
Barber
Folger cuts back coffee prices to 3.98 per pound
Folger Coffee Co announces a wholesale price cut from 4.18 to 0.98 a pound, with declines in imported green coffee prices cited. The move follows earlier reductions but other major roasters have not matched it. Retail effects uncertain as stores adjust. Safeway trims Folger to 4.09 a pound, while others hold prices amid ongoing market volatility from Brazil crop damage and past frost losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roz Liston
United Press
Folger Coffee Co
Polger
Folger
Brazil
Procter & Gamble Co
White Plains
N.Y
General Foods Corp
General Foods
Maxwell
U.S
Safeway Stores Inc
Oakland
Calif
Theme ideas sought for Columbus Days contest prize offered
City briefs note the Chamber of Commerce seeks theme suggestions for the 1977 Columbus Days with a savings bond as the prize for the best entry. Newcomers Club hosts four coffee gatherings at the west Pawnee Pack shelter on June 7 at 10 a.m. All members and interested persons invited. Harmony Chapter Eastern Star will hold a stated meeting Tuesday at the Masonic Temple. Ladies Gol-Invitational is Tuesday at Elks Country Club with registration and coffee at 8:30 a.m., shotgun start at 9 a.m., lunch at 12:45 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Pawnee
Eastern Star—Harmony
Masonic Temple
Elks Country Club
Community Calendar June Events and Meetings
A cluttered calendar of June daytime and evening gatherings lists groups such as Lions Club Rotary Club Kiwanis and Chamber of Commerce at venues including Holiday Inn Downtowner Inn Elks Country Club and Equilsite Meeting Room. Mentions potluck suppers and committee meetings with varied times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce Industries, Inc
Holiday Inn
Lions Club
Izaak Walton
Aim
Chamber of Commerce
National
Rotary Club
Elks Country Club
Chamber of Commerce Discover Columbus Committee
Loup Valley Gem & Mineral Society
Equilsite
Sectama
P.m
Equitable Savings & Toan
Kiwanis
Elky Country Club
China’s cultural renaissance amid gang of four purge ends
In Hong Kong and Peking, cultural life revives after Mao era purges. Officials highlight new Western music, modern drama, and revived operas while criticizing the Gang of Four for past censorship. Directors stage tours and artists produce works on political themes, with Chopin to Shakespeare being publicly showcased and foreign classics planned for translation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Youngblood
Hong Kong
UPI
China
Mao Tse-tung
Chiang Ching
New China News Agency
Communist Party
Peking People’s Daily
Gang of Four
People's Daily
Chou En-tai
Hue Kuofeng
Peking
Taching
NCNA
Pekin
Gorky
Ostrovsky
and Mayakovski
Jong
Lenin
Georg Weerth
Shakespeare
Cervantes
Heinrich Heine
Sone
Chengtu Szechwan Opera Company
Gang
Opera and Ballad Troupe Struggles in Central China
NCNA reports that most ballad performers in Kiangsu Province failed to survive the slump as only three troupes out of two in southern Kiangsu remained. More than 200 ballad singers tour villages and industries while Hunan Opera pockets audiences anew amid a surge of street performances. A revived Mao slogan backs cultural zeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pang
Kiangsu
NCNA
Hunan Opera
China
L Cnding
Mao
Great Wall Vodka Diplomacy Rivalry Reaches New Suit
New China Liquor in New York files $5 million damages suit against Pepsico and Monsieur Henri Wines for false and deceptive advertising claiming Stolichnaya is the most expensive vodka in America. The case threads through Cold War history, with Great Wall's pricing at 0.99 per fifth versus Stolichnaya at 7.99, and features remarks from Charles Abrams of the China Trade Corp about importing Great Wall in 1971 and renaming it to sound more Chinese.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerald Nadler
York
UPL
China
Russia
Siberian
Peking
Moscow
Great Wall
Stolichnaya
New China Liquor and Spirits Corp
New York State
Monsieur Hend
New China Liquor
Damansky Island
Ussuri
Charles Abrams
China Trade Corp
Abrams
United States
Pepsica, Inc
Pepsi Cola
Monsieur Henri
Liquor Sures
Stolichnayast
Neva
Leningrad
Tsingtao
Federal Register
Platte Center Alumni Banquet Set for June 26
Platte Center alumni announce a June 26 banquet at 6 30 pm in the auditorium with a social hour at 9 30 pm. Dinner will be followed by a Blue Max dance. Honors include the classes of 1927 and 1952. Reservation contact Mrs Jim Christensen, Box 12, 264721. deadline June 18.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Platte Center
P.C
St. Joseph Catholic School
Jim Christensen
Foreman Joins Major NATO Exercise Dawn Patrol 77
Navy Aviation Structural Mechanic Second Class Bradford J. Foreman participated in the two week NATO exercise Dawn Patrol 77 in the Mediterranean aboard USS John Kennedy. His Attack Squadron 45 unit, based in Jacksonville, tested rapid reinforcement of southern Europe with forces from the Sixth Fleet and allied navies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Bradford J. Foreman
Janet Keller
Columbus
Mediterranean Sea
John Kennedy
Jacksonville
Fla
U.S
Sardinia
Sixth Fleet
Italy
Turkey
United Kingdom
Dawn Patrol
Netherlands
Belgium
West Germany
Foreman
Denver Technical College
Calo
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Coffey College
Nevada
Parla Gable
Fred Gable
Aunt Emma's
Osceola
Robert Coffey
Janice Lee
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Louis Krumland
Lydia Coffey
Lorene Mueller
John Caffey
Duane Horak
Timmy
Robert Seely
Brian
Prosser
Richard Coffey
Wayne Coffey
Doug
Verlyn Krumland
Christine
Corrine
Carla
Elmer Egger
Richard Bell
Tracy
Trista
Fred Coffey
Greeley
Cole
Robert Cheloba
Becky Nlukolite
Sute
Duncan Parish Hall
Harmony Boys
Platte College
College Counseling Center
PTC
Nebraska
Milo Kincaid
David
Inois College of Optometry
Chicago
Carslyn Jaworski
Lorna Weinbolf
Iumphrey Park Ballroom
Polonalas Orchestra
Knights OF Columbus
KC Hall
Marine Corps
Thomas L. Weik
Arthur Weik
Humphrey
First
Marine Aircraft Wing
Marine Corps Air Station
Futema
Japan
Prewee
Louie
Frank Sobota
Micer's
Doris Johngen
Albion
Lutheran World Federation
Dar-es-Salaam
Tanzania
American Lutheran Church
Jeffery D. Morris
Great Lakes
Naval Training Center
Donald L. Morris
Gibson's
Lunes & 5
Uden
Columbus Hospital
Brian Lichenberg
Jerome Jakub
Joseph Burrows
Agnes Rolene
Stella Spies
Robert Wanders
Connie, King
Marie Fugger
Alex Unguh
Veterans’ Hospital
Grand Island
Merry Mixers
Don Fowler
Shelly Fowler
Cornhusker Helles
Linda Nelson
Susan Jensen
Tracy Mattison
Tesa Wyler
Linda Koch
Circle H Mobile Home Park
Dwight Bignell
Carol
Columbus, Nebraska
Lawrence Gronenthal
Fort Collins
Cola
Jane Gronenthal
Lena Langan
Good Samaritan
Carl Webster
Ad. Lansberg
Fleming
Louis Gronenthal
Leonard Weiland
Oruaha
Evelyn
Sga
Chuck Norris
Ain George Murdock
Terry O'Connor
Vytnyl
Bamuel Schulman
Bernard Tarakih
Avaragon Films
Equitable General
Floyd Campbell
Clu
29Th Ave
Equitable Ganibal Tasuranel Company
Pescara Sicaony Sith
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