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Newspaper
Columbus Telegram
Location
Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1975
Page
6
Mrs. George J. Helein, wife of the South Side National Bank president, was captured by two men posing as delivery workers. They boxed her in a large carton and tried to ransom $200,000. After getting away, she freed herself and alerted authorities as FBI hunted the abductors.
Grinnell Iowa officials ruled The Godfather Summer of 42 and The Exorcist not obscene and to stay on Grinnell-Newburg High School shelves despite a minister's challenge. Superintendent Dr Richard Ploeger said the board followed a review panel. See planned to appeal to the state education department. A Girl Scout council visits Prairie Hills of Nebraska for evaluation with national volunteers and staff.
Leigh leads the scrapbook committee of the community improvement program at her bank with Mrs. Kenneth Eisenmann presiding. Norman Osten Carroll Lane Mrs. Richard Reininger and others set a theme and tentative size and assigned responsibilities. Next meeting is August 4 at the bank. residents with suitable photos urged to contribute.
Washington columnist Dick West humorously reflects on Senate hearings about drugs and violence in public schools and a parent’s surprise upon discovering his 13 year old son has taken up guitar. The piece satirizes parental fears and peer pressure affecting teens and their music tastes.
On Saturday June 21 1975 the horoscope notes Aries should devote time to enjoyable outdoor pursuits while leaving work worries behind Taurus gains come from others sharing with you Gemini is lucky in dealings with partners and associates Cancer weekend contacts may aid career Leo popularity peaks Virgo seek family help for material needs Libra sparks of inspiration should be jotted down Scorpio good deeds reap payoff Sagittarius keen perception and hunches Capricorn confidential discussions may arise Aquarius personal power surprises others Pisces days ahead bring favorable goals and a beneficial alliance through events Finally a California Fish and Game study notes urban owls hawks eagles and vultures can survive with protective laws in place
Gene Tipps, a 28-year-old former Cisco Junior College student from Columbus, Nebraska, awoke from a coma after a car crash in 1967 and later from gall bladder surgery eight years later. Doctors offered no clear explanation. Tipps misreads the era, thinking it 1907, while his family calls it a miracle and a medical anomaly.
Sunday guests at the Norman Bruckner home included Mr and Mrs Max Bruckner and their sons James and Mike from Fayett eville NC, Jerome Bruckner, and Mr and Mrs Larry Gehring. The Max Bruckners visited Columbus with Art Richards and Dr Harold Kreski in Omaha. Mrs Ralph Furby joined Mrs Walt Starostka of Columbus to Omaha to see Walt Starostka at Bergan Mercy Hospital. Mrs Joe Rosenthal returned from a four month California visit with daughters in Huntington Beach, San Gabriel and Oceanside. Dorothy Rosen thal, who came back with her, leaves Sunday for Oceanside. Mrs Alice Buresh with Geraldine Buresh and Mrs Margaret Steiner of Clarkson returned Saturday from a two week Los Angeles vacation visiting Dave Weaver.
Richard Lebo 38 and Gary Gillespie 21 were rescued after 13 days adrift in a 48 foot cabin cruiser lifeboat in the Gulf of Mexico. They drank urine, Lebo offered to die to let Gillespie live, and both survived largely intact with one crewman missing. Gillespie weighed 138 pounds on rescue scales. The men praised their rescue by a Petroleum Helicopters helicopter crew south of Galveston.
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