NPPD board approves plan to avert predicted 1980s power shortage
The Nebraska Public Power District board unanimously backs a $3.4 billion four-project plan to boost capacity in the 1980s. Projects include a new nuclear plant, a coal-fired plant, a pumped storage facility, and a Canada power line. Major sites include Decatur Burt County and Brownville with operation targets in 1984 to 1988.
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Manitoba Hydro
Midwest
Decatur
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Midway
Sioux City
Omaha
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Lynch
American National Bank
Chicago
Trail Receives National Recreation Trail Designation
A ceremony at Wilderness Park marked its designation as a National Recreation Trail by Interior Secretary Cecil D. Andrus. Landscape designer Larry Enerson traced the park’s 1960s origins to save trees along Salt Creek, sparked by a phone call from Joe R. Seacrest. The 1,000 acre park was built with government and citizen support, with commemorations for Bruce Hamilton and Lincoln Mayor Helen Bousalis and a Burr oak grove dating to Adams and Jefferson eras.
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Park Lodge
Larry Enerson
Joe R. Seacrest
The
Journal-Star
Prin
Bruce Hamilton
Lincoln
Helen Bousalis
Don Bock
U.S. Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
Denver
Lincoln Bicentennial Committee
John Quincy Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Nebraska Rains Record Totals Across State
Heavy rain drenched Nebraska with 4.86 inches in Lincoln this May surpassing the normal 3.25. Measurements across towns ranged from 1.34 to 2.61 inches with widespread showers and dense fog in the northeast. The outlook calls for fair skies but possible isolated storms over the holiday weekend.
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Nebraska
National Weather Service
NWS
Norfolk
Howells
Clarkson
Hadar
Beaver Crossing
Amherst
Winslow
Dorchester
Madison
Hebron
Polk
Friend
Nicker
North Platte
Lincoln
Bates Reflects on Unsolved Bombings Before Retirement
FBI agent Charles Bates, famed for leading the Patricia Hearst case search, says his main regret in retirement is not investigating unsolved terrorist bombings. Age 57, he plans to retire June 17 and join a private security firm once linked to Hearst.
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San Francisco
FBI
Charles Bates
Patricia Hearst
Bates
Miss Hearst
Escapee Massey may face extradition to Nebraska for fatal Omaha robbery
Wesley Massey, 34, an escaped Colorado inmate, was arrested in Colorado Springs on a Nebraska request. He is accused in Omaha of killing Gary Damron during a Ramada Inn robbery and of kidnapping Richard Gilliam, with Gilliam identifying Massey from a photo. Authorities weigh extradition while Massey is held in El Paso County jail amid a broader Canon City escape probe.
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Omaha
Wesley Massey
Colorado
Nebraska
Iowa
Massey
Colorado Springs
Colo
Gary Damron
Urbandale
Ramada Inn Central
Eugene Stack
Stack
el Paso
Colorado State Penitentiary
Pollution fine sought against paper mill
The Iowa DEQ filed suit in Polk County District Court seeking a penalty of 5000 dollars per day against Consolidated Packaging Corp of Michigan for discharging excessive waste into the Mississippi River through a Fort Madison wastewater plant. The suit says the discharges violate state permit terms and should be halted. Assistant Iowa AG James C. Davis noted state permits cap pollutants in Iowa waters.
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Mississippi River
Iowa Department of Environmental Quality
DEQ
Polk County District Court
Consolidated Packaging Corp. of
Michigan
Iowa
James C. Davis
American airman discharged over Klan cross on base
An American Air Force serviceman at USAF Lakenheath in Suffolk is discharged after admitting involvement in placing a 12 by 7 foot Ku Klux Klan cross on the base football field at midnight in February. He is among six airmen facing court martial charges over the incident.
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London Telegraph
Cambridge
Air Force
Suffolk
England
NATO
Utica Opera House Sidelined At Centennial Party
Utica’s aging Opera House remains a relic as centennial celebrations unfold. Bank president George Liggett Jr guides visitors through a dusty relic space once buzzing with dancing, wrestling, and drama, while the building acts as a storage room amid memories of its 1884 roots and past glories.
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Utica Opera House
Utica
Bank
George Liggett Jr
Opera House
Suit filed against Nebraska City police for damage claim
The Nebraska Civil Liberties Union filed a 1.2 million damage suit on behalf of Michael J. Thorne of New Market Iowa. He alleges the Nebraska City Police Department violated his constitutional rights by distributing his burglary conviction from 1969 and hindering his police career in several states. He seeks damages and destruction of his Nebraska City Police records with a court hearing set on a temporary restraining order.
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UPI
Nebraska Civil Liberties Union Friday
Nebraska City
Michael J. Thorne
New Market
Iowa
City of
Clarence Iverson
Missouri
Thorne
Otoe County
U.S. District Court
Albert G. Schatz
Fair trial possible for Steinmark in Buffalo County says Atty
Buffalo County Attorney Gary Hogg reports a telephone survey of 44 residents outside Kearney shows fair trial prospects for Donald Steinmark on drug charges. The survey parallels a defense survey, with 24 saying they heard of Steinmark, 19 unaware, and 1 unsure. Judge DeWayne Wolf will decide on the change of venue by Tuesday.
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Kearney
Buffalo County
Gary Hogg
Donald Steinmark
Steinmark
Hogg
Buffalo County District Court
DeWayne Wolf
Lincoln
Stein
Mark
Kirk Naylor
Naylor
Wolf
Governor John H. Mickey House Listed on National Register
The Gov John H Mickey House in Osceola has been entered in the National Register of Historic Places. John H Mickey Nebraska governor 1902 to 1906 was Osceola founder, Civil War veteran, town founder and bank founder who built the two and a half story frame house in the early 1880s.
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Associated Press
John Hopwood Mickey
Osceola
Martin F. Kivett
National Park Service
John H. Mickey
Nebraska
Burlington
Iowa
Polk County
Mickey
William F. Kimmel
State Bank of
NBC Partners Buy Kansas Bank in Junction City Deal
Three Junction City businessmen sell controlling stock of the First National Bank of Junction City to buyers tied to the National Bank of Commerce in Lincoln Nebraska. Buyers include J D Schiermeyer and Phillip J Zeller and Jim Norris. Sellers Bramlage Fegan and Montgomery to remain as bank directors.
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Junction City
First National Bank of
National Bank of Commerce
Lincoln
Neb
Fred Bramlage
Kansas City
Robert J. Fegan
Junction City Telephone Co
United Telephone of Kansas
John D. Montgomery
Junction City Daily Union
NBC Co
Phillip J. Zeller
Overland National Bank of
Grand Island
NBC
Jim Norris
Norris
Schiermeyer
Bradford Investment Co. Inc
Zeller
The
Security National Bank of
Bramlage
Fegan
Montgomery
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