Community personals and local gatherings recap
Sunday guests of Mr and Mrs Don Meays included Harold Keil and family for pre Easter dinner. Mrs Ray Gattermeyer visited relatives in southeast Nebraska and attended Paul's 10th birthday with Bob Goracke family in Beatrice. George Home hosted a birthday dinner for Mrs Wemhoff with Wemhoff family present. Easter plant ads and local event notices accompany.
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Don Meays
Harold Keil
Kathy
Jay
Ray Gattermeyer
Nebraska
Bob Goracke
Beatrice
Paul
George
Joe Wemhoff
Humphrey
Paul Wemhoff
Brad
Jenny
Coleridge
Loren Wemhoff
Omaha
Jerry Wemhoff
Rob
Traci
Stay Wemhoff
Eddie
Charles Vai Velkinburg
Lloyd Kohler
Jerry Lewis
Ak-Sar-Ben
Kohler
Albert Stecher
Weekend collisions injure several in Columbus area
Multiple weekend mishaps left several people injured in the Columbus region. A one car crash three miles north of Schuyler on Highway 15 sent Marvin Barr to Schuyler Memorial Hospital with unknown back injuries while passenger Jerry Cech was treated and released for neck and back injuries. Snowy, slick conditions caused Barr to lose control and drive down a steep embankment. In Columbus a Platte County crash on 15th Street and 10th Avenue left Michael Mullen with a chin cut. Larry Berg was the other driver, and damage totaled about 2000 dollars. City police logged six additional mishaps, including: 33rd Avenue viaduct incident involving Karen Sullivan and James Reder. 11th Avenue incident with John Brandt and Clifford Stopak. Henry Leoni’s parked car incident at Pawnee Motel. and a Sunday 13th Street and Bist Avenue parked car case involving Kevin Perry and Paul Koch, plus a hit and run at 5th Street and 18th Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marvin Barr
Barr
Jerry Cech
B.A. Motley
Platte County Sheriff's Office
John Brandt
Clifford Stopak
South Roseland
Frederick Sutton
15Th Street
33Rd Avenue
Jerald Vanderlich
10Th Avenue
William Joy
25Th Avenue
Pawnee
Henry Leoni
Manitoba
Canada
Ivan Falk
Wagner Lakes
13Th Street
Bist Avenue
Local teachers join Nebraska ESEA Title IV advisory group
Nebraska education leaders select 24 members for the State Advisory Council on ESEA Title IV. Patricia Bechenhauer of Columbus City Schools is named among educators and parents serving as the new advisory panel. the program consolidates several federal education programs effective July 1. Meanwhile, a Shelby Cemetery Protestant section records among volunteers names and dates for Polk County Biographical Book. inquiries directed to Bernie Gissler.
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Nebraska
State Board of Education
ESEA
Anne Campbell
Patricia Bechenhauer
Columbus City
Shelby
Shelby Cemetery
Polk County
Bernie Gissler
Palmer-Verdiano Palmer dies in Los Angeles area
Death notices list Verdiano Palmer 43 of Los Angeles and George Kroeger 74 of Schuyler among several obituaries. Details cover survivors including spouses and children, church and funeral rites, and burial plans in Inglewood Schuyler Fullerton Leigh and Columbus area Catholic and Lutheran services with dates in March.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palmer — Verdiano (Romanek) Palmer
Los Angeles
Columbus
John Romanek
Erie Street
Inglewood
Calif
Don
Elaine Coxsey
Linda Sand
Christopher Coxsey
Tulsa
Okla
St. John Chrysostom Catholic Church
Hero award presented to Schuyler man
Leo Hespen of Schuyler receives the Nebraska Funeral Directors Association Hero’s Award for saving a boy tangled in live electrical wires. With Marius Kruger he boosted onto a garage roof, cut a ground wire with pliers, and freed Duane Kracl. City workers arrived to help, the boy was unburned and released after a hospital check.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo Hespen
Schuyler
Nebraska Funeral Directors Association
Hespen
Marius Kruger
Duane Kracl
Kruger
Duane
City Lght Department
Nebraska
Hilding Pearson
NFO Holds Annual Supper At Platte Center Auditorium
Platte County NFO held its annual supper Thursday at the Platte Center Auditorium. Entertainment by Hi-Binders barbershop quartet with humor. County and state officers attended. Allen Skroch, NFO national director from Independence Wis, urged collective bargaining to keep young people farming and noted the farm’s decline since 1962.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CED
Community For Economic Development
City Briefs and Court Actions Highlight Local Report
Community notices list Eagles Auxiliary practice, Retired Citizens meeting, and multiple driving while intoxicated charges with fines, probation, and trial dates. Also reports arrests for marijuana possession, Lakeview conferences, club meetings, public auctions, animal shelter arrivals, and local hospital update.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eagles
Platte County Association of Retired Citizens
Equitable Savings and Loan Community Room
Blair named to State Investment Council by governor
Lincoln Neb July - Gov Exon appointed Charles E Blair of Hastings to the State Investment Council. The move, announced today, comes from the office of the governor. Blair joins a council overseeing state investment decisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln, Neb
UPI
D. d. Exon
Charles E. Blair
Hastings
State Investment Council
Junior High band concert set Tuesday
Junior High bands will present their spring concert at 7:40 p.m. Tuesday in the Senior High Auditorium. Seventh graders, directed by Kent Phillips, will perform Shenandoah, Rainy Days and Mondays, and Song from M A S H. Eighth and ninth graders close the program with Deep River Rhapsody Beatlemania and Carnival for Trombones featuring Dee Davis Bob Shively Jay Keefauver and Matt Person. Public invited with no admission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Kent Phillips
The
Dee Davis
Bob Shively
Jay Keefauver
Matt Person
WSC Sponsors Two Schuyler Workshops at Johnnie's Steak House
Wayne State College plans two education and business workshops in Schuyler and Stanton. Dr. Gene Bigelow will teach Individual Instruction for the Classroom Teacher with two grad credits, registration due March 27. Dr. Darrell Weiner will lead Problems of Teaching Skid Courses in Business for one credit, registration due April 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wayne State College
Schuyler
Gene Bigelow
WSC Education Department
Stanton
Darrell Weiner
WSC Business Department
Leigh Appreciation Day Highlights March Leigh
Leigh plans Appreciation Day sponsored by the Leigh Commercial Club on March 29 at the Legion Hall from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Merchants offer special prices, with a prize drawing, barbecue lunch, and various committee chairs handling drawings food and advertising.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leigh
Leigh Comercial Club
Legion Hall
Norman Asten
Don Franzen
Paul Millard
Harold Conrad
Hospital Report for Behlen Community and County Hospitals
Admissions list includes Frank Korth Humphrey Mrs Mary Sin delar Cedar Rapids Mrs Robert Shaw Michael Hilger Mrs Clarence Diederich Mrs John Broderick. Dismissals name Baby Shannon Harney Craig Mrs James Hastreiter and son Madison Mrs Robert Irish and son. Birth: Son to Mr and Mrs Charles Long St Edward seven pounds ten ounces on March 14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Behlen Community Hospital
Frank Korth
Humphrey
Mary Sindelar
Cedar Rapids
Robert Shaw
Michael Hilger
Clarence Diederich
John Broderick
Columbus
Shannon Harney
Craig
James
Hastreiter
Madison
Robert Irish
Boone County Hospital
Charles Long
St. Edward
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28Th Avenue
Robert. Wopat
Marion
Ohio
Herbert Clark
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Aquinas
Richard Polak
David City
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Schuyler Memorial Hospital
Citizen Smith
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Martin Morris
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Don Morris
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U.S. Navy
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George Kroeger
St. John Lutheran Church
Bruce Berggren
Svoboda Funeral
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Colfax County
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Lenora Folken
Laura) Dunker
Gusta Hoff
Dudek
Joseph S. Dudek
Fullerton
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Richard. Chures
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Genoa
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Marie Bermel
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Cheir
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Platte County
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Alfred
Laura) Brock
Trene Mohnsen
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Petersburg
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Rose Hill
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Levander
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Neb
Louis Moss
Orchard
Alice Pittenger
Neligh
Charles
Fairfield
Harold
Kathryn) Voss
Grant Island
Helen) Schilousky
Ewing
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Kansas
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Boise
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Gresham
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Wesley Miltner
York
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Leslie
Ames
Wendell
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Opal) Nickell
Hayward
Gordon
Neva
NFO
Ews
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Columbus Telegram
City Briefs
Johnnie C. Barlean
Sharon Napier
Francis Rutten
Eddie Prososki
Leo Borowiak
Elvin Penny
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Platte Center
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Janet Christiansen
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Monroe
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Norfolk
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William T. Saalfeld
Lincoln
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John Eischeld
Lakeview
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Suzy
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Al-Anon
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Firemen’s Auxiliary
Yarc
the Beauty College
Xi Beta Kappa
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Pawnee Club
Hazel Martys
Rebekah Lanige
Rive Call
3Rh Avenue
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Pensacola
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Dickinson
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Alco
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