NPPD board approves long transmission line project
The Nebraska Public Power District board approved a 345000 volt line across western and central Nebraska with an estimated $60.8 million for the 30 mile transmission line and substation additions. Bids totaling $1.1 million were approved for various transmission facilities including steel structures and equipment from multiple suppliers.
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Nebraska Public Power District Board
Nebraska
Sidney
Gerald Gentleman
Sutherland
Gentleman
Sweetwater
Buffalo Sherman County
Loup City
McCook
Riverdale
Kearney
Nppd Board
Commonwealth Associates, Inc
Jackson, Mich
Columbus Steel Supply
Columbus
Lehigh Structural Steel Co
Allentown
Hughes Brothers, Inc
Seward
Canaday
Lexington
Crooked Creek
Grant
Enders
Hughes Brothers
North Hebron
Carleton
Wahoo
Autocon Industries, Inc
Plymouth
Mann
USCO
Birmingham
Ala
Southern States, Inc
Hampton, Ga
ITE Imperial Corp
Greensburg
Kriz-Davis Co
Sangamo
Fremont
High court rules on funds for church-related schools
The Supreme Court ruled that a state may provide funds for textbooks and certain health and related services to church related schools while barring funds for instructional aids and field trips. Justice Blackmun led the decision with four justices in disagreement on parts. The Ohio law, passed in 1975, and upheld by a federal court, drew criticism from the ACLU as an end run around prior rulings. The decision endorses diagnostic services and remedial programs via public employees on nonpublic sites, but rejects loans for instructional materials to schools as having a primary sectarian aim. A separate note describes Brownies crafting at Girl Scout camp.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
Ohio
Harry Blackmun
Columbus
American Civil Liberties Union
High Court
Blackmun
Scattered rainstorms, variable Nebraska temperatures forecast
Weather digest notes a front over eastern Nebraska becoming stationary, triggering scattered thunderstorms tonight and Saturday across the state. Thursday's central and southeast Nebraska rain totals ranged from a half to one and a half inches, with highs in the 80s and 90s and early overnight lows.
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United Press International
Accid
Nebraska
National Weather Service
Beatrice
North Flatte
Norfolk
Grand Island
Sidney
Levitsblufe
City sewer and road work advance with detours planned
City engineer Merlin Lindahl says the Rystrom Engineering crew will move sewer lines across 8th Street to 10th Street, with a detour from 31st Avenue to 6th Street returning at 29th Avenue. Projects include a water transmission line from a reservoir near Lake Babcock and underdrain work to support a future tank, plus paving on 12th Avenue and a storm sewer project planned in two to three weeks that will close 27th Street temporarily.
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Merlin Lindahl
Rystrom
8Th Street
10Th Street
31St Avenue
6Th Street
Lindahl
Sord Avenue
Lake Babcock
33Rd Avenue
22Th Street
Lindah
27Th Street
Locust Grove manhunt for accused slayer Hart in scout slayings
A 650 man posse and 450 volunteers hunted in rough northeast Oklahoma terrain for Gene Leroy Hart, an escaped convict charged with the murder and rape of three Girl Scouts Lori Farmer, Doris Milner, and Michelle Guse. The search followed reports of a man fleeing a cave as authorities tied photos from a Granite facility wedding to the case.
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Locust Grove
Okla
UPI
Highway Patrol
Don Mentzer
Pete Weaver
Gene Leroy Hart
Lori Fee Farmer
Doris Denise Milner
Tulsa
Michelle Guse
Broken Arrow
Hart
Lupe
Marl
McAlester
Mayes County
Granite Refummatory
Violence flares again in Soweto as riots spread
In Soweto, police found a second shooting victim this Thursday amid the year’s worst antigovernment violence. Riot police fired tear gas to disperse black youths as disorders continued, with a 16 year old student shot by police among the reported deaths.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
UPI
Soweto
Dawid Kriel
Klipspruit
Radio South Africa
Orlando East
Orlando West
Sanctuary for bald eagles purchased in Illinois
The National Wildlife Association bought 200 acres near the Mississippi River in Rock Island County Illinois to establish a sanctuary. The site will be used exclusively as a winter roosting place for bald eagles, officials announced Thursday.
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East Moline, Ill
Dutch Elm disease hits Columbus as 300 trees tagged for removal
Street commissioner Larry Byrnes says about 300 elm trees in Columbus are tagged for removal due to Dutch Elm disease. Crews target arterial roads and disease concentrations, work to finish by fall, while notifying landowners of required removal timelines. No current cure exists for the disease.
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Columbus
Larry Byres
Byrnes
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NPPD
Rnstitution
Girl Scout Neighborhood
Lynn Drozd
Michelle Miller
Rachel Luchsinger
Jennifer Lassek
Deb Gandringer
New York
30Th Avenue
Deb Gondringer
12Th Avenue
1St
South African Broadcasting System
14Th Street
Bymes
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