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Newspaper
Columbus Telegram
Location
Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1973
Page
1
USDA quotations show hogs with steady to higher bids, sow prices up, steers and heifers active with several loads of prime and high choice beef. Cattle and calves receipts estimated 5,000. hogs 6,000. sheep 500. Nebraska egg and poultry prices steady with current receipts and clean receipts noted.
Mayor Sam Massell announced Atlanta will ship 40 percent of its garbage out of town by rail starting mid 1974. Southern Railway will haul the waste to Twiggs County in central Georgia, with a $1.2 million shredding and heating facility compacting the trash before dumping it in mining pits leased to the railroad.
Fragmented OCR text shows a small city newspaper item listing mailing options and subscription rates for a Columbus Nebraska publication. The readable pieces mention the Telegram partnership, address, daily and Sunday issues, carrier rates, mail subscriptions, and reference to Columbian stationery.
An underground cable containing about 200 pairs of wires was crushed at a downtown Lincoln construction site, disrupting telephone service briefly. The damage occurred near the Douglas Theater at 11th and P Streets.
Horoscope text in a garbled style with multiple signs. Taurus and Virgo entries appear with dates and advice about duties, promises, finances, and social conduct. Mentions of Capricorn Aquarius Pisces and Sagittarius offer caution on spending, appearance, and family plans. Child born today guidance appears amid confusing lines.
Gov J James Exon vetoed LB453 seeking to let second class towns buy or erect municipal buildings without a public vote. He warned the measure would bypass voters and raise local budgets and taxes statewide. The bill, backed by Ashland, passed 27 to 4 earlier in the session.
Five guards were seized by rioting inmates at West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville while state police moved to secure the maximum security facility. Shouts were heard from outside the grey walls as tension rose.
Washington AP reports President Nixon faces resistance in Congress over a proposal to transfer federal school aid control to local districts. House Education Chair Carl Perkins cites loopholes and inequities. Weinberger argues the plan shifts power to districts, concentrating most aid on disadvantaged students and expanding local spending flexibility.
The Columbus Camera Club presents a Sunday program at Platte College Fine Arts Theater with two showings at 2:30 pm and 7:30 pm. The event features member photographs and a two screen motion picture sound slide narrated by club members, plus a Bob Ellies produced overview of scenic Nebraska. The Faces segment highlights Platte Valley roads government education agriculture recreation a Niobrara canoe trip rivers and water resources weather flora and people. Club officers include Don Fowler president Bob Bilis vice president Wag Senutz treasurer Elizabeth Frantz secretary.
Lincoln Nebraska AP reports the state through director William C Peters announced a $51367 grant from a regional U S Civil Service Commission office to modernize personnel practices. six projects will improve practices including in Lincoln and Omaha with targeted reforms.
Hydrologists state they can detect concentrations as small as one part per ten million parts of water, enabling ultra sensitive water quality assessments and safer public supply monitoring.
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