Legislature Rejects Move to Transfer Tourism Division
Lincoln Nebraska UPI reports the Agriculture and Recreation Committee voted 5 to 2 to kill LB518 moving the tourism division from the State Game Commission to the Department of Economic Development. Sen J James Waldron argued shared duties could save costs. Exon Administration supported. The panel also advanced LBYLL protecting homing pigeons and LB383 adding the state agriculture director to the water pollution council, while killing LB012 to protect the bobcat and LB7363 legalizing falconry.
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Waverly
Jerome Warner
Robert L. Tomlinson
Omaha
Cites
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Nebraska
State Agriculture Department
Winter storm lashes Northeast with heavy snow and closures
A powerful late winter storm battered the Northeast forcing highway closures across New York and Rhode Island. Amid 27 inches in Sherman New York and 70 mph winds, roads froze and state Thruway sections closed while Rochester and Newport faced travel bans and a damaged bridge scene.
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United Press International
Newport
R.I
Albany
Trochester
N.Y
Wort Jain Ugh
Trudeau Marries Margaret Sinclair In Secret Vancouver Wedding
Prime Minister Pieyre Elfioll Trudeau wed Margaret Sinclair aged 22 in a surprise ceremony. The couple left for a skiing honeymoon at Alta Lake near Whistler after the quiet nuptials. Sinclair is described as daughter of James Sinclair a businessman and former Fisheries Minister. Trudeau, 51, has a famed reputation as a playboy and has dated Barbra Streisand and Louise Marleau.
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James Sinclair
Liberal
Gerard Pelletier
Ottawa
Trudeaus
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Whistler Mountain
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Louise Marleau
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Low bidder on Methodist church project in Kearney
Roehder Brothers Construction of Kearney submitted the low bid for general construction of the First United Methodist Church here after the old church burned on Christmas Eve 1969. Anderson Brothers of Kearney won the mechanical bid and Walters and Helliger of Kearney submitted the electrical bid. Total bids neared $50,000 with groundbreaking planned for March 3 and the structure slated for completion in the summer of 1972.
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Roehder Brothers Construction of
United Methodist
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Walters
Rail commission amends rules for weekly railroad service
The State Railway Commission in Lincoln said it amended rules to require Nebraska railroads to provide train service to every station at least once a week. An exception applies when no cars are scheduled. additional service can be required if proof shows public convenience and necessity demand it.
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Lincoln
UPI
State Railway Commission
Nebraska
Lindsay proposes payroll tax plan to balance city budget
Mayor John V Lindsey unveiled a broad tax package aimed at raising 876.4 million dollars with a payroll tax replacing income and commuter taxes. The plan faces a rough road in the City Council and state legislature.
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Lindsay
NEW York
UPI
John V. Lindsay
Atate
Matthew Troy Jr
Ittelln
Cher
Over Manhattan
Auctioned stuffed great auk sells for 21600 dollars
A 4 stuffed great auk, an extinct bird since the mid 1700s, sold at Sotheby's for 21600 dollars. The artifact was purchased by Teeland's Museum of Natural History.
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London
Sotheby's
Teeland
Museum of Natural History
Kellogg retires after 44 years in Nebraska power industry
Harry P. Kellogg aged 65 retires from the Nebraska Public Power District after nearly 44 years in electric utilities. He served in Columbus, held budgeting and statistics roles, and contributed to community groups including Masons, American Legion, and Rotary. Kellogg and his wife Michel were married in 1930 and plan golf and fishing in retirement.
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Nebraska Public Power District
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Wid. Lutt
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Ellis Country Lab
Dallas County
Consumer Public Power District
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Army Corps of Engineers
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Meeting on Legal draft counseling slated March 8
Nebraskans for Peace will sponsor a discussion titled The Draft and Draft Counseling Whats It All About at 7 20 pm March 8 in the Cengus Auditorium Two members of the Lincoln Draft Information Service will lead the discussion and answer questions They will explain counselors legal role in presenting registrants with information on the draft and military service registrants may decide their course of action
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Selective Service
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Nebraskans For Peace
Cengus
Lincoln Draft Information Service
Nixon Sets 1972 as Key Year for Vietnam Withdrawal
President Nixon said 1972 would be crucial for winding down U S ground forces in South Vietnam. He outlined continuing withdrawals at about 12 000 monthly, aiming to cut troops from 545 000 to 244 000 by May 1. He pledged an April announcement on future rates and stressed Laos actions could shape 1972 timing while avoiding expectations of a halt to withdrawals or new offensives.
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UPI
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Republican Party
Army intelligence spying exposed in Minnesota university records
Senator Sam Ervin revealed pervasive Army surveillance in Minnesota during hearings. A campus file contained 3 to 5 index cards listing students and teachers from the University of leaders and organizations kept 18 months until January 1970 amid civil disorder responses. Malcolm Moos criticized the practice as choking learning and free speech.
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St. Paul
Minn
Kiving
Army Intelligence Unit
Minnesota
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Malcolm Moos
Davis
Ily
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Urvin
Nixon Defends Rogers as Top Foreign Policy Adviser
President Nixon rebutted Sen. Stuart Symington’s charge that Secretary of State William P. Rogers is not the top adviser, calling the accusation a cheap shot. Nixon stated Rogers is and has always been the administration’s chief foreign policy adviser and spokesperson, while Kissinger acts as national security adviser and counselor.
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Nixon
William P. Rogers
Stuart Symington
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Two Columbus Men Arrested By Butler County Sheriff
Butler County Sheriff Leo Meister reports the arrest of Richard Blahak and Donald DeLarm of Columbus on malicious destruction of property charges. They allegedly broke into an unoccupied farm house near David City during a January blizzard, used furniture as firewood, admitted cooking a pheasant, and caused substantial damage to the structure and contents. DeLarm was released on $1000 bond. Blahak remains jailed.
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Butler County
Leo Meister
Columbus
Richard Blahak
Donald DeLarm
David City
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DeLarm
Blahak
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David City youth sentenced in theft case in Kearney
A David City youth aged A is sentenced Thursday in Baller County Court to the Boys Training Tome in Kearney on a juvenile complaint alleging theft of rifles from a pickup truck downtown. The offense was filed Jan 22, per County Attorney John Tomek.
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Tome
Kearney
John Tomek
Jimmy Stewart Honored by Harvard Drama Group
Honored Cambridge ceremony saw actor James Stewart named Man of the Year by Harvard University's Vastly Pudding drama group in a Thursday night event in Cambridge Massachusetts. The presentation highlighted Stewart’s career and contributions to film and theater.
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Cambridge, Mass
UPI
Jimmy Stewart
Harvard University
Birth in Albion A son born to Mr and Mrs Merrill Matehell
Albion residents Mr and Mrs Merrill Matehell are the parents of a baby boy born March 2 at Boone County Community Hospital. The announcement notes the new arrival in Albion.
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Merrill Matehell
Bor
Boone County Community Hospital
Retired colonel recalls preventing Vietnamese base brothel plan
Retired Col. Edmond Castre testified to Senate investigators about ordering inner doors removed from a massage parlor on Long Binh Base in 1968 to stop a plan by a Vietnamese operator nicknamed the dragon lady to run a large spa with hundreds of masseuses. He criticized former Brig. Gen. Bar F. Cole for permitting the operation and noted the broader corruption tied to club managers and suppliers at the base.
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UPI
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Senate Investigations
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Long Binh
Vietnam
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Lon
Bink
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Decacuarra
Cole
Viquor
Long Hinh
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