Mailbox Improvement Week Set for May 17 22 in Columbus
Columbus Nebraska marks Mailbox Improvement Week May 17 to 22 led by Marvin Capoun Columbus Post Office officer in charge. The campaign seeks repairs repainting and better appearance for about 24 million mailboxes nationwide including 2628 served locally along rural curb lines and star routes. Capoun notes growing rural mail use and offers guidance on approved designs and custom mailboxes meeting postal rules.
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Marvin Capoun
Columbus Post Office
Columbus Post
Capoun
Postal Service
Bolivia envoy Zenteno shot in Paris ambush
On a May day in Paris the Bolivian ambassador to France Joaquin Zenteno Anaya was shot twice in the back by a bearded man wearing a beret. Witnesses say the attack followed the hunt for Che Guevara and the anonymous callers claimed the International Che Guevara Brigade responsibility. Police vow tighter security around foreign missions.
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Anaya
8Th Army
Che’ Guevara
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Ernesto
Che
Guevara de la Serna
Ave
John F. Kennedy
Zenteno
Bolivia
France
Guevara
Mal As- Sailant
Che Guevara
Santa Cruz
Girl With Rare Disorder Gets Smile-Changing Surgery
Gail Surges, 18, with Möbius syndrome, undergoes plastic surgery at the University of Missouri Medical Center. Dr. Charles Puckett grafts muscle from her temple and thigh to her mouth area to enable a smile. Recovery will take months. outcome uncertain but hopeful. Gail aims to become an emergency medical technician.
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Columbia, Mo
UPI
Gail
University of Missouri Medical Center
Charles Puckett
Puckett
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Columbia
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Rain and Thunder Showers Hit Plains and Coast
Showers and thundershowers dampened the Plains and Atlantic Coast states early today. Rainfall varied from over 1.5 inches in Burlington Vermont to minor totals in New York and Nebraska. Dense fog in southwest Alabama prompted a National Weather Service travelers advisory as temperatures cooled into the 30s in the Great Lakes region.
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Texas Panhandle
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Virginia
Georgia
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Albany
Utica
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Pickstown
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Montana
Alabama
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Great Lakes
Chaplin Great Dictator Opens in Madrid After Ban
In Madrid four cinemas show an uncut Spanish dubbed version of Chaplin's Great Dictator after a 40 year ban. Censors eased during Franco's rule, drawing packed houses and strong praise from critics while some rightwing groups suspend protests. Audiences cite personal and historical resonances.
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Spain
UPI
Charlie Chaplin
Europe
Francisco Franco
Adolf Hitler
Chaplin
Franco
Hitler
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GAO finds weak protection for 9000 federal computers
The GAO study of 28 federal data processing facilities finds minimal safeguards and high vulnerability to terrorism vandalism and natural disasters. Officials warned that millions of elderly Social Security recipients could be harmed if systems are destroyed and noted gaps in contingency planning and security controls.
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UPI
General Accounting Office
GAO
Social Security
Internal Revenue Service
Conn
Comsystems
Columbus Camera Club awards honor at annual dinner
The Columbus Camera Club held its Awards Dinner with Peter Amberg of Omaha as guest. Elizabeth Frants won best color slide for Winter Morning and Mike Krzycki took best color print Sunset at Richland. Multiple category winners across slide print and color divisions listed with honorary mentions.
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Columbus Camera Club
Peter Amberg
Omaha Camera Club
Amberg
Elizabeth Frants
Mike Krzycki
Richland
Elizabeth Frantz
Tnd
Wyoming Rails
Bonnie Blair
Larry Pokorny
Schuyler
Pat Fowler
Ellen Cahill
Edna Bo
Pat Folwer
Alan Blair
Profile Echo
Naomi Lane
Women’s societies host 75 Day event at St Paul church
The Ladies Aid of St Paul rural church sponsored a 75 Day gathering with Women’s societies from St John Shell Creek Leigh Zion Platte Center St Peter Creston in attendance. Pastors Mortensen and Chamberlain spoke while the Keynoters performed pioneer songs. A skit Our Modern Mothers was presented by several members and decorations highlighted pioneer era items. Door prize went to Mrs Hugo Lueschen and oldest guest to Mrs Lela Larson Creston.
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Ladies Aid of
Women's Societies
St. John
Shell Creek
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Zion Lutheran
Platte Center
St. Peter Lutheran
Creston
L. E. Mortensen
Thomas Chamberlain
Darwin Franzen
Clifford Hunteman
Dennis Kuhr
Harold Neemeyer
John Sander
Lela Larson
Hugo Lueschen
Werner Sander
Walter Feye
Arnold Wendt
Beverly Hills Scientist Rejects Ford Offer for Personal Reasons
Industry sources say 63 year old Beverly Hills scientist, businessman and author rejected President Ford's offer of a position due to other personal commitments. The post was created shortly before Tuesday and had been abolished three years earlier during the Nixon administration.
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Chaplin
Beverly Hills
Ford
Ramo
Nixon
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