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Newspaper
Columbus Telegram
Location
Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1972
Page
12
Market prices are represented as variable and unclear with references to wheat soybeans and corn. The passage notes failures or distortions in the price listing and clarifies that no president is deceased nor has a Cabinet officer succeeded to the presidency due to death within the same administration.
Notices detail hearings for final accounts and estates in Platte County Nebraska, including the Neemeyer, Hinck, Bisson, and Stach estates. Public sale schedules list property in Columbus and Schuyler area auctions with dates in October 1972 and details on sale terms and residency.
Nebraska four year colleges report fall enrollment about 4 percent lower than a year ago with 87 813 students across state institutions compared with 60 209 nine years earlier. University of Nebraska system gains about 2 percent while four state colleges drop around 13 percent. Private colleges list current versus prior year figures for Bellevue Concordia Creighton Dana Deane Hastings Kennedy Midland Nebraska Wesleyan St Marys Unig and others.
Hawaii braces for a potential disruption as the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union Local 142 threatens a strike by 700 longshoremen and 250 allied workers unless a contract for the allied staff is settled. Talks with four stevedoring companies continued with no comment on progress. Gov Burns previously intervened to avert a walkout last July.
A group of Nixon Democrats released a report attacking George McGovern s defense plan as full of factual errors and dubious assumptions The document led by James B D Theberge former State Department official argues McGovern would slash 30 billion in military spending imperil 2 1 million defense jobs and ignore political fallout The report notes potential U S Soviet imbalance risks in Europe and the Middle East while criticizing McGovern s Israel support stance and implied peacetime defense job creation failures The authors say Connally allies are reviewing but have not endorsed the report
In Manila AP report, President Marcos via Francisco Tatad threatens to close and punish school administrators who do not expel subversive elements as martial law enters its sixth week. Marcos orders expropriation of a private housing estate and land distribution to residents. Acting Education Secretary Manuel shut down permanently all institutions whose officials do not comply.
Reports claim Chinese freighters floated 1.8 million bags of rice to Da Nang and Hue, with coastal villagers and local authorities seizing much of it. U.S. informants note bags marked People’s Republic of China were rigged with floats and argue some rice reached North Vietnam or was diverted to other regions. Separate Philippine impacts and Philippine martial law context are also described, including housing estate seizures in Quezon City.
Saigon's presidential palace denied a published report of a new allied peace proposal. The plan allegedly suggested Thieu would resign and a total U S withdrawal in exchange for ending North Vietnamese infiltration. A palace statement called the report pure fabrication and criticized UPI for the story.
The Foreign Ministry said Seoul is studying revising a trade law to establish relations with nonhostile Communist nations. It plans to consider North Korea and North Vietnam hostile, and to open a diplomatic mission in Eastern Europe to foster relations and trade with Communist patrons.
Centennial committee met Tuesday to review plans through 1973 including a sign market April 8 at the city auditorium, a barbecue April 3 by Knights of Columbus, teen dance and princess coronation in February, a June 1 square dance with Harold Bausch as caller, and a June 2 children's parade with a water fight. A high school marching band competition will award trophies but David City High and Aquinas High School bands are excluded. Entries for the centennial seal contest are open with a $23 prize. deadline November 8. The next committee meeting is October 37.
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