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Newspaper
Columbus Telegram
Location
Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1977
Page
2
A compact column of stock market notices from the Columbus Telegram includes daily quotes, price moves, and brief investment tips. Ads highlight brokerages and instruments available to readers with short market updates and promotional offers.
Dow Jones averages show gains at 1 PM with the industrials up 7.81 to 966.17, transports at 227.21 up 1.85, utilities at 106.66 up 0.10, and the total stock index at 314.00 rising 2.16. Columns list percentages for several companies in Columbus and New York markets.
UPI dispatch notes cattle at 5 000 head hogs four thousand and sheep three hundred with price shifts. Hogs mainly 75 to 1.00 lower for various weight classes while sows fall 25 to 50 cents. Cattle show gains with loads of steers and prime cattle around 38 25 to 38 50 per hundredweight and cows unevenly firm to 1.00 higher. Sheep offerings scarce with small lambs around 52 25 for 100 lb wooled lambs and 45 00 for 120 lb shorn lambs. Wednesday estimates list cattle five thousand hogs four thousand sheep three hundred.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange futures show live cattle and frozen pork bellies with mixed openings. Highlights include Apr live cattle at 39.40, Jun 41.90, Oct 43.12, and Mar pork bellies at 51.00 with March volume 16. Hogs trade around 35.60 to 39.80 across contracts varying by delivery month.
Francis M. Dischner details a 1720 massacre near the Platte and Loup rivers during Spanish exploration. Villasur’s 45 soldiers and 60 Indian guides were ambushed by unnamed enemies, with 13 survivors fleeing to Santa Fe. Controversy over French involvement persisted after a 1721 nonaggression treaty.
Bellwood community theater members met at Erma Hosher's home and chose the production False Fronts to be staged June 17. A booth is planned at Platte County Agricultural Park on March 19. Tryouts are set for 7 p.m. March 28 at Bellwood grade school, and all are welcome.
A compilation of real estate transfers recorded at the Platte County Register of Deeds shows numerous deeds from Walter R. Wurdeman to Donald and Anna Mae Hamling and many other conveyances. Properties span sections and townships across Columbus and Osborne additions, including Prairie Lane and Indian Hills subdivisions, with transfers involving individuals, families, and firms such as Dallas Construction Co Inc, Community Housing Inc, and Person Sport Shop Inc.
An 18 year old Daytona Beach youth faces 195 days in jail after refusing to quiet a portable radio on a Pensacola bus. He pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace and received escalating contempt sentences from Escambia County Judge Billy Ward until the total reached 195 days.
Memorials received for Effie Nielsen Burchess and Charles Korb of Norfolk. Memorials honor Elvira Benne and the Wednesday Afternoon Bridge Club adds a memorial book. New books include Fred Bear’s Field Notes, Hostages to Fortune, Walt Disney An American Original, and Twister.
Lincoln Nebraska six Nebraskans were recommended to Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland for ASCS committeemen. The slate includes Mike Eason North Bend Ervain Friede McCook Ralph Lubeck Stamford Ralph O Connor Grafton Robert Rauner Sidney and Dale Sampson Jr Utica. Leonard Hanks was endorsed for Farmers Home Administration director. Final action expected within weeks.
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