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Newspaper
Columbus Telegram
Location
Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1975
Page
4
The dreidel game marks the Jewish Feast of Lights beginning at sundown. Children spin a four sided top inscribed with Nun Gimel Hay Shin, recalling a miracle of oil lasting eight days in Jerusalem.
UPI religion writer notes Georgi Vins in Soviet prison as emblem of broader church oppression. Publication of Testament from Prison, translated and edited in England, parallels Dietrich Bonhoeffer, with Bourdeaux arguing state control over religion fuels religious education as a provocation. He estimates 60 million Christians in the USSR, minority Baptists and Orthodox among persecuted groups. Detente is useless without human rights, he says, and the younger educated generation challenges Marxist orthodoxy.
The National Flood Insurance Association announced two Nebraska communities, Ithica in Saunders County and Lynch in Boyd County, have become eligible for subsidized flood insurance. Hoyal Globe Insurance Co. of Kansas City will act as the insuring agent for residences and businesses.
Platte College in Columbus is conducting a survey of Prairie Hills Girl Scout Council troop leaders for 1974 75 to assess satisfaction and improve services. A five student team under Dr Ron Hutkin designs and mails a 250 person questionnaire and will analyze results next semester to report findings and recommendations. Churchill victory noted in brief.
The Society of Professional Journalists and Sigma Delta Chi attacked Justice Blackmun’s ruling permitting limited coverage of the Erwin Simants murder case while restricting confessions and statements. Nebraska press groups press full Supreme Court reversal, arguing a dangerous First Amendment precedent and urging sequestering the jury to balance Sixth and First Amendment rights. The Nebraska Supreme Court weighed a bid to lift a reporting limit on a preliminary hearing as the Jan. 5 trial date approaches.
Villagers in Voni staged a daylong protest outside Archbishop Eugenios palace accusing two Agia Marina monastery nuns of wearing perfume listening to rock music and hitchhiking. Church officials agreed to investigate the complaints and review conduct of the custodians.
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