Nebraska Officials Press Immediate Action on Water Crisis
Hastings AP Water Specialist Don Searcy and State Sen. Maurice Kremer warned of tight water supply and warned federal takeover if inaction continues. Kremer projected world shortages and urged rapid policy shifts including trans-basin diversions and water reserves. Searcy noted Nebraska ranks high in irrigated acres and anticipates irrigation growth stressing the economy.
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Hastings
Don Searcy
Maurice Kremer
Nebraska
Kramer
Searcy
California
Texas
Wheat plot meetings set across Nebraska in June
The University of Nebraska Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources announces 10 wheat plot meetings statewide from June 13 to 30. Duane Foote says sessions will share fertilizer treatment results on wheat varieties along with discussions on fertilizer and diseases. Each county event includes wheat variety tests.
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University of Nebraska Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Duane Foote
Foote
Nemaha
Death of Omaha boy ruled accidental strangulation
Acting Douglas County Coroner James Keenan listed 12 year old Robert Costanzo’s death as accidental strangulation. The boy, son of Mr and Mrs Ralph Costanzo, was found by his sister before noon Friday hanging by a belt in a basement bedroom closet.
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Omaha
Douglas County
James Keenan
Robert Costanzo
Ralph Costanzo
Grand Island man awarded for hero rescue at dam
Alan Kuszak received the Nebraska Funeral Directors Association hero award for saving James Milburn after Milburn fell from a boat near the Harlan Reservoir Dam. Kuszak and his wife spotted the accident and pulled Milburn from rough water after three attempts, performing mouth to mouth resuscitation until help arrived. Milburn was treated for exposure and a fish hook in Hastings.
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Milburn
Jack Newtan
Hastings
Harlan County Hospital
Alma Rescue
UNO professor to publish book on Romanian Soviet negotiations
UNO professor Walter Bacon of the University of Nebraska Omaha says his forthcoming book titled Documents on Romanian Soviet Negotiations for a Treaty of Non Aggression 1931 32 will be published next fall. He does not expect it to become a best seller. Bacon acquired secret Romanian documents from an unnamed former Romanian official who leaked them for a price and he interprets the Romanian Russian differences and their significance.
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Omaha
Walter Bacon
University of Nebraska-Omaha
Europe
United States
Bacon
Two more charged in Liberty bank robbery
Two more suspects appeared in Gage County Court in connection with the Thursday robbery of the State Bank of Liberty. Cynthia S. Rowe and Harold Lee Hansen face charges of receiving stolen goods and auto theft respectively, with a preliminary hearing set for Lance W Rowe, husband of Mrs Rowe, on robbery auto theft and firearm use. Rowe held on 35000 bond. Bangkok Siam UPIs report notes Siamese twins origin and Chinese heritage of Bunker.
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Gage County
State Bank of Liberty
Cynthia S. Rowe
Blue Springs
Harold Lee Hansen
Liberty
Fred Steinkamp Jr
No interruption in VA checks for vet students
Nebraska veterans using the GI Bill who attend summer school and continue into fall with less than a month between terms should face no interruption in Veterans Administration checks. James C. Smith of the Lincoln VA Regional Office stated the condition is continuous enrollment or preregistration to allow processing.
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Nebraska
Veterans Administration
James C. Smith
Lincoln
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