Nebraska Grants Revise Water Aid for Drought Areas
Farmers Home Administration expands grant eligibility and revises the funding formula for rural water systems in drought zones. Colfax Nance and Platte counties qualify for emergency loans and grants, with retroactive application to May 6, 1977. Deadline for project approval is September 23, 1977, and completion by April 30, 1978.
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Nebraska
Farmers Home Administration
FHHA
Leonard T. Hanks
Colfax
Nance
Platte
Fmha
President Carter
Hanks
FHA
William ‘. McCubbin
Colfax, Nance and Platte County
25Th Street
Columbus
Disputes Erupt Over Democratic Nominating Reform
The Democratic rules reform commission, led by Morley Winograd, wrangled over proposals to tighten primary and caucus timing, with plans for a 13 week window from March to mid June and new thresholds for delegate eligibility. Debates split on enforcing the window, exemptions for New Hampshire, and a sliding 10 to 25 percent cutoff, pitting White House aides against liberal members.
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Arnold Sawislak
Detroit
UPI
Michigan
Morley Winograd
New Hampshire
House
Commission
Democratic Party
White House
Mark Siegel
Siegel
Carter
California
Edmund G. Brown
Suit filed against bootleggers over Elvis rights
Los Angeles UPI The firm Factors Etc Inc seeks damages over a million dollars against each defendant and court injunctions to halt unauthorized marketing of Elvis Presley images and likenesses. Attorney Dan Litman says the industry needs cleaning up and aims to strike major bootlegging operations worldwide.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Elvis Predlay
Dan Litman
Factors Etc. Inc
Bear
Delaware
Elvis
Litman
Astrograph Horoscope and Sugar Vibration Message
The page blends a Virgo to Pisces daily zodiac forecast with a call to obtain Astro-Graph letters and a note on sugar crystals being piezoelectric. It lists signs, brief advice, and a stray astronomy themed pitch, closing with a science tidbit about sugar generating tiny voltages.
Inflow Into Six Missouri River Reservoirs Down
The U S Army Corps of Engineers reports inflow into the six main stem Missouri River reservoirs this year is just under 60 percent of normal, a condition that occurs about once in 10 to 20 years. Lower basin flows rose briefly last month while upper basin remains dry, and system storage ended August at 55.3 million acre-feet with little carryover draw. Navigation shipments through Aug 30 exceed 2 million tons, and power production reached 908 million kilowatt hours, near long term August norms.
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Omaha
UPI
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Missouri River
Corps
Missouri
Hilo
Neb
Camel Lady Crosses Australian Desert Solo Trek
Sydney based model Robin Davidson aged 28 became the first woman to travel alone by camel across Australia's Gibson Desert. After a five month 900 mile journey with four camels and a sheepdog she reached Wiluna on Sunday and aims for Carnarvon. She survived on lizards berries and canned food and has sold her story to National Geographic.
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Sydney
Australia
API
Robin Davidson
Gibson Desert
Miss Davidson
Wiluna
Desert
Gibson
Dawn Priddis
Carnarvon
National Geographic Magazine
Test Alive Springs
Five indicted for fraud in Thunderbird Valley case
A Federal Grand Jury charged five people with 24 counts each of mail fraud in a $3. million scheme tied to Thunderbird Valley Inc. of Tucson. Defendants include Lowell F. Johnson, W. Whelley Richey, Joseph S. Agers, John E. Holgate, and Bayard W. Shellum. The previous Johnson trial linked about 1,200 investors from Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa and Manitoba to roughly $7 million in losses.
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Phoenix, Ariz
UPI
Thunderbird Valley, Inc
Tucson
Lowell F. Johnson
W. Whelley Richey
Joseph S. Agers
John E. Holgate
Phoenix
Bayard W. Shellum
Minnesota
Johnson
Douglas
Salford
Nebraska
Iowa
Manitoba
Nolgate
Oklahoma Funding Corp
Ned Warrel Sr
Bell to decide later on changing 10 cent calls
Northwestern Bell Telephone Co will wait for the Nebraska Public Service Commission to rule on a 15.8 percent rate increase before deciding whether to raise the 10 cent pay phone charge. The company has operated at a loss with the 1 cent fee since the 1952 increase to a dime. A hearing on the proposal is unlikely before early next year.
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Omaha
UPI
Northwestern Bell Telephone Co
Nebraska
Bell
Nebraska Public Service Commission
Presser
Value of efficient service and adaptable communications
The text touts fast service and constant availability of Communications Consultants to analyze and meet changing needs. It claims business rates outpace the Consumer Price Index over 15 years, presenting the service as more than a value, a miracle in cost effectiveness.
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General Telephone
Kelly
Smire
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Pirates
Bernice Bede Osol
VIRGO
Astra-Graph
P.O
Radio City Station
N.Y
LIBRA
Scorpio
Bagittarius
Gapricorn
Aguarius
Pisces
Aries
Taurus
Gemini
Leo
Columbus Way
Columbus Days
Novelty Division Band
Australian Desert
Tooleys
Terry
Yee
Photoland
Pershing
Thin Sige
al Jun Balk Iga
Héstre
Pascal Hana de Fiers
General Telephone the Complete Comminanications Company
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