Former area teacher shares guidance on aiding the blind
Retired Leigh High School instructor Gerald Johnson, now blind, describes practical help for visually impaired people. He urges sighted companions to announce themselves, guide with touch, and use a white cane while navigating doors, chairs, and meals. Johnson demonstrates self care, Braille literacy, and independent living learned since his 1970 loss of sight.
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Leigh
Gerald Johnson
Otto Nelson
Johnson
Lincoln
Nelson
Otto
Nelsons
Leigh High School
Howells
Yellow Kid Weil Turns 100 in Chicago with Birthday Tribute
Chicago police present veteran con man Joseph Weil with a birthday memento on his 100th. Weil, famed for schemes from fake talking dogs to mining frauds, lives at Lake Front Convalescent Home. Mayor Daley sends congratulations as a party marks the milestone. The report also notes a separate Cotton Birthday Club gathering in Shelby with birthday honorees and prize winners.
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Chicago
UPI
Joseph
Yellow Kid
Weil
van Dyke
Theowner
Decatur Copper Mining Co
Lake Front
Swere
Richard J. Daley
DeMolay Install Officers Led by Ak-Sar-Ben Priory
William R. Simpson Chapter of DeMolay held an installation Sunday night with Leach named tech advisor, Lemis Ferguson senior councilor, and John Burdine junior councilor. Ak-Sar-Ben Priory conducted the ceremony as DeMolay Mothers provided refreshments.
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William R. Simpson
Order of DeMolay
Ry Leach
Lemis Ferguson
John Burdine
Ak-Sar-Ben Priory
Central Nebraska TCC Area budget hearing set July 28
The CNTCC Area Board of Governors approved an 8 to 1 vote for a 5,287,746 budget for 1975 76 with a 1 68 mill levy and a 026 mill capital levy to retire bonds for the Platte Technical Community College campus in Columbus A public hearing is set for July 28 Dr Chester Gausman said the budget aligns with 1974 75 funding and avoids new programs or major construction The lone dissenter argued for higher funding and discretionary reserves also approved were estate proceeds about 36000 to fund student scholarships and a resolution naming the Central Nebraska Education Association as negotiating agent for full time instructional staff A drainage issue at Platte Technical Columbus prompted instructions to seek solutions and two retirees were recognized for pending June 30 retirement
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Grand Island
Central Nebraska Technical Community College Area Board of Governors
Platte Technical Community College
Columbus
CNTCC
Ralph Kissinger Jr
Kissinger
Ms Tenance
Board of Governors
Cntcc Area Board
Kenneth Burke
Burke
Hastings
Central Technical Community College
Gausman
Central Nebraska Education
Pork production to drop in fall
Washington reports a USDA projection that the 1975 fall pig crop will be 34.1 million head, 12 percent below last year, with the smallest fall crop since 1954. Spring pig births from December to May total 35.3 million, 22 percent below 1974, signaling tight pork supplies into 1976. Lincoln Nebraska Highway Commission to meet Friday in Lincoln open to public.
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Washington
UPI
Lincoln, Neb
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Shelby
Cotton Birthday Club
Mary Kumpf
Mary Glatterlow
Belle Miller
Magdalen Gabel
Mary Glatter
Ann Scholz
Arlen Heibel
Ilee Rafert
Kate Johansen
California
Central
Nebraska
TCC
Stephen O. Gaines
Henry Wendt
Uesday, J
Towa
Park State
Ilinois
Maico
Glassman
By Forrest
Mose
Columbus * Music Co
Cassia
Columbus Music CO
D1313th Street
Pearl Rocket
LMA
A&w
Jack & Jill
33Rd Ave
10Th St
23Rd Ave
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