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Newspaper
Columbus Telegram
Location
Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1977
Page
2
Oswald and Jim Jacoby play a grand slam tough bid in the Life Master Pairs finals. North uses a five clubs cue showing zero or four aces, South shows diamond losers then bids six diamonds, leading to a successful grand slam through inquiry and overbidding. Two top players are noted as great contract players of the era.
A Texas reader questions relative skill levels of Ely Culbertson and Hal Sims in bridge. The note asserts Sims was among the greatest players, inviting analysis of styles, achievements, and influence within the era.
The Senate voted 87 to 7 to delay for 18 months the proposed saccharin ban and permit ads for saccharin products without cancer warnings during the pause. The bill aims to halt FDA plans to pull saccharin after Canadian studies linked it to cancer, with House action pending.
More than two hundred people attended a Public Health and Welfare Committee hearing in Lincoln to discuss Nebraska nursing home care. Testimony focused on conditions at facilities like Medicenter in Omaha, with residents and advocates urging unannounced inspections and stricter action against deficient homes.
Defense Secretary Harold Brown said the Soviet Union is working on four new long range missile types to bolster a fifth generation of intercontinental nuclear weapons. He noted the United States must raise defense spending to maintain credible fighting capability, referencing a Carter directive aiming for about 3 percent real increases annually.
In a fiery eight hour session the House approved a minimum wage raise from 2.30 to 2.85 with a single vote deciding the youth wage issue. The vote against a 85 percent youth wage during six months failed 211 to 210, ONeill casting the tie-breaker.
A newly hatched crocodile stands three times the size of its egg at emergence, illustrating rapid early growth in this first developmental stage observed by scientists.
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