Rubber workers plan protest over police tire buys in Lincoln
United Rubber Workers Local 286 schedules a Monday afternoon picket at the County City Building to challenge Goodyear and city purchases of Michelin and Bridgestone tires for police cruisers. President Gilbert Laws cites local economic impact and questions in-house buying decisions.
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United Rubber Workers Union
Gilbert Laws
Goodyear
Lincoln
Asst
Gary Kitt
Japan
Laws
PSC May Await Lincoln Input On Taxi Service
The Public Service Commission may delay a decision on allowing a new taxi firm in Lincoln until city officials offer a recommendation on whether a third cab company is in the public convenience and necessity. At a Monday hearing, commissioner Harold Simpson required Grieger to supply missing financial data and answer five of six questions in writing.
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Public Service Commission
Lincoln City
Mike Grieger
Harold Simpson
Pardons Board Denies Omaha Man Pardon
The State Board of Pardons denied a full pardon to Harry J. Holmes, 50, of Omaha, for a 1948 forgery and larceny as bailee prison sentence. He had served five years on each count concurrently and, despite a clean record since, was denied due to a missing earlier federal conviction on his application.
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State Board of Pardons
Omaha
Harry J. Holmes
Five Nebraska Photographers Chosen for MAAA Exhibition
Five Nebraska photographers represented by Hastings and Lincoln artists will join the Mid America Arts Alliance documentary show. Coordinating curator is Jim Alinder, associate professor of art at the University of Nebraska Lincoln.
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Nebraska
Mid- America Arts Alliance
MAAA
Larry Ferguson
Hastings
Robert
Nebraska cities share 1.5 million HUD block grants
HUD awards total 1.5 million dollars to three Nebraska cities. North Platte gets 763000 for neighborhood development, conversion of abandoned schools to centers, and rehab. Nebraska City receives 399650 for public works, and Blair gets 365000 for low income apartment rehab, per Sen. Edward Zorinsky.
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Omaha
UPI
US Department of Housing and Urban Development
Nebraska
Edward Zorinsky
Dneb
North Platte
Nebraska City
Blair
Zorinsky
YWCA Board Won’t Appeal United Way Budget Decision
The YWCA board decided not to appeal the United Way committee’s recommandation to keep the 1978 budget at 1977 level. Officials had asked for over $45,500 more, but revised to $134,000, still above this year by $25,000. The United Way Agency Relations division urged $109,700. the full board will act Thursday. Cecily North called further appeals futile and said each YWCA committee must reassess its request.
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Ywca Board of Directors
United Way
YWCA
United Way Board
Cecily North
Carteresque farm policy under fire in Nebraska comments
Nuckolls County Republican Chairman Wendall Headrick ridicules President Carter on farm policy saying he understands peanuts but not grains or livestock. Headrick blames the White House for agricultural problems and urges Nebraskans to press Democratic leaders to block a weak farm bill amid pressure from the White House and lobbyists. Francis Ohmstede’s call for letter writing to Congress prompts Headrick to defend interceding Democrats like Gov. Exon and Mrs. Ohmstede.
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Jimmy Carter
Nuckolls County
Wendall Headrick
White House
Headrick
Democratic National
Democratic House
Senate
Equalization board set for revaluation meeting in Nebraska
Tax Commissioner Bill Peters outlines expectations for the upcoming Board of Equalization session to ratify revaluations of real property in Nebraska. He notes limited action likely, cites attorney general ruling on penalties, and mentions modest updates in Johnson and Colfax counties while Gosper County faces a $37 million rollback.
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Bill Peters
Board of Equalization
Nebraska
Peters
Adams
Hall
Gosper County
State Revenue Dept
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Alpha Health Spa
Vicki Truby
Johnson and
Colfax Counties
Johnson County
Colfax County
King Lincoln Mattress CO
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First City Savings & Loan
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