Aid delay strains districts awaiting state school funds
Local officials warn they must borrow or tap reserves as the first state aid payment for the new school year is delayed. The hold up stems from suspending LB33 and awaiting an attorney general opinion on distribution, delaying about 1,100 districts and affecting cash flow and investment income.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Paxson
State Education Dept
M. L. Christensen
Christensen
Dean Curtis
Emerson-Hubbard
Thurston County
Curtis
Alliance
Martin Petersen
Robert den Hartog
Lincoln
den Hartog
Attorney General's Office
Patrick O’brien
Lincoln Tel and Telegraph, CWA Reach Wage-Benefit Pact
After a 22 hour session ending at 7 a.m. Friday, Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Co. and CWA secure a 36 month contract covering about 1,500 union members. Wages rise weekly $5 to $25.50 with 3 percent increases in Oct 1978 and 1979, plus potential cost of living increases and expanded fringe benefits. Negotiators for the company and union are named, and the taped message calls the package the best obtained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Co. and Communication Workers of America
CWA
Ash expands Lincoln real estate holdings on O Street
Pat Ash, former city council member turned investor, quietly expands downtown Lincoln footprint. He purchased 1023 O Street for 110000 dollars and is negotiating with New York Life Insurance to buy the 1005 O Street Grant building. No tenants named. an architect is engaged for planned redevelopment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gene Kelly
Pat Ash
Lincoln Real Estate
Ash
Lincoln
New York Life Insurance
O St
Goal Post
St. George and the Dragon
Grant Silver Women
Samuel H. Nefsky
Old Continental Bank
Pioneer Insurance Co
Pat Ash Inc
P St
Hertz
Q St
High court urged to uphold Nebraska robbery case sentences
The Nebraska Attorney General asks the state Supreme Court to affirm Douglas County District Court convictions of Steve Auger and James Uitts for robbery, assault, and auto theft stemming from a 1976 Omaha incident. Sentences include 5 to 10 years for robbery, 5 to 10 years for assault, and one year for auto theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press International
State Justice Dept
Nebraska Supreme Court
Omaha
Steve Auger
James Witts
Douglas County
Richard Greves
Auger
Uitts
High Court
Anhydrous Ammonia Car Derails in Crete
Eight Burlington Northern freight cars derailed on the west edge of Crete early Friday. The car carrying anhydrous ammonia did not leak and was cooled by firefighters. No injuries reported and no evacuations planned as investigators work on the cause. Police diverting traffic to county roads as the scene is secured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crete
UPI
Burlington Northern
Neb
Connie Brown
Brown
Former First National officer H C Carl dies at 72
Harold C. Carl retired assistant vice president of the First National Bank and Trust Co. He died Friday at age 72. He previously led the investment and loan department at Continental National Bank in Lincoln. A charter member of the Lincoln Homebuilders Assn he is survived by his wife Dorothy a son Robert E. of Stockton California a daughter Mrs Edwin Carman of Colorado Springs and four grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold C. Carl
First, National Bank and Trust Co
Continental National Bank
Lincoln
Carl
Lincoln Homebuilders Assn
Dorothy
Robert E
Stockton
Calif
Edwin
H. Joyce) Carman
Colorado Springs
Colo
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