The Cross Country Hero of Morningside College
A reminiscence recalls Paul Ellis, a scrawny sophomore who finished a brutal cross country race from campus to the Floyd Monument and back despite a fall at the start. Ellis did not win but earned quiet respect as memory highlights his grit while noting his faded record and uncertain fate.
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Paul Ellis
Morningside
Floyd Monument
Ellis
Cow College
Sears Roebuck
Gordon Metcalf
Floyd
City Conflict of Interest Hearing Set for Aug 16
The Conflict of Interest Committee schedules public hearing at 7 p.m. on August 16 in the City Council chambers of the County City Building to take input on conflict of interest and public disclosure matters involving city officials and other elected or appointed officials.
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City Council
County City
Different roads to socialism in Soviet policy stance
The Kremlin narrowed its open feud with Euro Communist parties and gave Pravda space to Luigi Longo, veteran Italian Communist leader, to advocate that each party should chart its own course. Longo, while visiting the Soviet Union, publicly supported the right of each party to pursue its own path to socialism.
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Pravda
Luigi Longo
Communist Party
Soviet Union
Funeral Row: Newsmen Beaten Outside Chicago Gangster’s Service
Chicago reporters covering the funeral of Sam Annerino were assaulted and a TV camera damaged as mourners clashed with news crews. Police said Annerino’s death followed a previous gun attack, part of a string of gangstyle slayings in four days.
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Chicago
UPI
Sam Annerino
Annerino
Chicago-area Man To Be Slain In Gangstyle Fashion In Four Days. Rich Samuels
Wmaq-Tv
St. Terence Roman Catholic Church
Alsip
Samuels
Amnerino
Train Derails Twice Near Beemer and Nickerson
A Chicago and North Western freight train derailed twice on its Norfolk to Fremont run near Beemer and Nickerson, Nebraska, in two incidents about 40 miles apart. About 20 cars were derailed near Beemer with roughly half on the ground, then 16 more cars derailed near Nickerson after a snag as the train continued to Fremont. The first derailment cut the line’s phone communications. investigators work to determine the causes.
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Norfolk
Chicago and North Western Transportation Co
Fremont
Beemer
Cording
Nickerson
Jail gets federal grant for city exercise facility
The city jail will receive 65,000 from the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration to cover about 90 percent of the all weather exercise facility, with 100 percent local matching funds approved. Corrections Administrator Pat Rackers says final plans must be updated and approved, and the 1,400 square foot plexiglass roof facility near the County City Building will accommodate 10 to 15 people at a time.
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Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
Pat Rackers
Rackers
Immanuel Center Bypasses Computerized X Ray Body Scan
Immanuel Medical Center does not seek a scanner. A private radiology group, Midwest Medical Imaging Center, operates nearby through a tunnel connection. The facility bought a $700,000 scanner in May.
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Omaha
Immanuel Medical Center
Midwest Medical Imaging Center
Immanuel
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Bradfield Drug
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Pella Products of
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Jack Irwin
Nebraska Typewriter Company
John L. Beau
Olympia Typewriters
Good Foods, Inc
Wetcalf Funeral Home
Bob & Ross Metcalf & Associates
Weaver Potato Chip Company
Lincoln Memorial Park Cemetery
Assoc
the Garden Mauser
Forest Furnace & Air Conditioning
Forest Boyum & Employees
Walt Bullock
Commercial Federal Savings and Loan Asse
Whitehead Oil Co
Phillipps
Valentino’s Pizza de Messineos & Staff
Olson Construction Company
Car Olson & Employees
Biason & Knuth Drywall Co
Nels Eliason
Wilber Knuth
First National Bank & Trust Company
Havelock Bank
Cornhusker Bank
Tony & Luigi
Tony Alesio
T&m Construction Co
Glenn Manske
Don Davis
City Clock Co., Inc
Wayne M. Burkey
Wanek’s of
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Bob Wanek & Employees
Isaiah
Job
God
David Hedegard
Christ
Christ Jesus
P. O. Box
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