23 Mar 1970
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Newspaper
Columbus Telegram
Location
Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1970
Page
1
Washington columnist Dick West muses on aging memory as brain wrinkles fill with useless data. He humorously notes how new facts erase older ones and laments losing a wedding anniversary to remember a hotel ad jingle and its constant phone number.
Moscow readers flock to Ivan Shevtsov's Life in a Moscow Metallurgical Plant, a controversial book denouncing Zionism and praising Stalin era purges. The fiction labels Picasso pornographic and Trotsky a Zionist agent, while critiquing Yevtushenko and Glazunov and linking Zionism to American imperialism. Trotsky, deported 1929 and killed 1940, is framed as a Zionist figure.
South Dakota State University won top honors at the Ak-Sar-Ben meat evaluation contest in Omaha, edging the University of Wisconsin as teams from 14 universities scored. SDSU led on correct-plat score while Michigan State had won the previous two years, with 124 student judges participating. Purdue, Kansas State, Iowa State, Illinois, Nebraska, Minnesota, Michigan, and Florida among top 19 teams.
UPL American Beef Packers Inc has signed a three year pact with the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen Union covering 160 production employees at the Harlan Iowa plant. Frank R West chair and president says the sow contract yields a 26 percent wage rise over the period.
The Columbus Telegram records its late 19th or early 20th century masthead details with publication timing and subscription rates. It notes delivery by carrier in Columbus at 1.00 per month and mail rates for surrounding counties at 11.00 per year, with out-of-state mail at 15.00 per year, plus a change of address instruction to notify the postmaster with old and new addresses.
Virginia Republicans push a center strategy as Governor Holton signals a bid to challenge Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr. Byrd runs as an independent after bypassing the Democratic primary. Republicans aim to expand in the South, seeking a credible statewide candidate to carry a race for the Byrd seat. Clarence Townes cites potential Negro votes while noting Holton’s limited statewide name recognition.
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