LES delays budget action as 1977 plan grows
Lincoln Electric System directors pushed back a week on approving a 1977 budget and asked for more detail on customer service and legal costs. The plan calls for 108.5 million in expenditures, with 60.7 million for construction, largely for power supply and the Laramie River Station, and expects a 6 percent rate hike next January to support borrowing.
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Lincoln Electric System
LES
Vincent Geeres
Burnham Yates
Wyoming
Walter Canney
Canney
Wyo
LES Board Urges End to In Lieu Tax Payments
Lincoln Electric System votes unanimously to push city and county officials to eliminate in lieu of tax payments. LES paid about 1.7 million in 1976 with roughly 475000 to Lincoln. voters rejected ending the payments last year.
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Les
Richard Paxson
Lincoln Electric System
City Charter Review Committee
Lincoln
Norman Krivosha
SES
Wind erosion damages surge in Great Plains through April
Soil loss in 10 plains states reaches 7.04 million acres since last November with April damage of about 700 000 acres. Colorado Texas North Dakota New Mexico and South Dakota show large year over year increases while Kansas Nebraska Montana Oklahoma and Wyoming report smaller losses. Despite the erosion, the 1977 winter wheat crop is forecast at 1.477 billion bushels, down 6 percent from last year but up 3 percent from December forecasts.
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Washington
UPI
Great Plains
Agriculture Dept
Soil Conservation Service
Plains
Nebraska
Kansas
Montana
Oklahoma
Wyoming
Colorado
Texas
North Dakota
New Mexico
South Dakota
Council backs hospital lease for welfare building purchase
The City Council voted 4 to 1 to pursue a lease purchase for the county welfare building at 2200 St Marys Ave to house physicians offices. Only Bob Jeambey opposed the motion noting a feasibility study.
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Lincoln General Hospital
LGH
County Health and Welfare
St. Marys Ave
Bob Jeambey
Hospital
Attorneys Seek Stays for Nebraska Condemned Murderers
Public defender Stan Krieger asked for a stay of execution for Richard Dean Holton and John Rust, who are set to die in Nebraska in late June. Krieger plans to pursue a U S Supreme Court review. Lincoln County official Keith Bystrom said a stay motion for Erwin Charles Simants will be filed soon.
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Les
iBy
Associated Press
Stan Krieger
Douglas County
U.S. Supreme Court
Krieger
Nebraska
State High Court
Richard Dean Holton
John Rust
Lincoln County
Keith Bystrom
Erwin Charles Simants
Nebraska TB cases fall 30 percent in latest report
State Health Dept reports a 30 percent drop in active communicable tuberculosis cases in Nebraska. After an 18 case rise from 1975 to 1976, the current average patient age is 55, with 77 percent over 46 last year. The program employs seven TB consultants across Omaha Lincoln Kearney Scottsbluff and Hemingford to bolster care and follow up.
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United Press International
State Health Dept
Nebraska
Omaha
Lincoln
Kearney
Scottsbluff
Hemingford
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van Dorn Plaza
48Th ST. Lincoln
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Hastings, Neb
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