Former senator warns SB 33 would raise school costs statewide
Nebraska lawmakers debate SB 33 state aid to schools with plans to raise state sales and income taxes by 20 million yearly until 40 percent of school operating costs are funded. The Bellevue district would top aid per pupil, while many western districts would see modest relief, triggering shifts in property taxes and salaries.
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Ramey C. Whitney
Nebraska
Sen Gerald Koch
Bellevue
Cheyenne County
Lincoln
Omaha
North Platte
Scottsbluff
Garden County
Kimball
Banner
Devel
Garden
Morrill
Sidney
Exon urges Carter on wheat loan deadline extension
Gov James Exon announced after a Washington meeting with President Carter and Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland that Carter backed a two month extension of the wheat loan signup period which expired today. Exon also said Carter favored raising loan limits to $50 000 per farm operator and lowering the downpayment from 30 to 15 percent to accelerate storage facility construction.
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Lincoln
UPTI
James Exon
Carter
Exon
Agriculture
Bob Bergland
Washington
Unemployment Rate Drops to 73 Percent in March
The Labor Department reported unemployment at 73 percent in March, a post recession low. The 0.2 percent decrease came as many workers recalled from layoffs caused by a severe winter, with the decline occurring entirely among adult men previously laid off by the weather.
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Washington
Labor Department
Belief vs Fact Features in Odd Claims
A quirky piece touts that Dear Abby mail is answered by a computer rather than Abigail Van Buren. It claims the same computer predicted the Dewey Truman election and argues Halley's Comet is imagined. The text also reports alleged unicorn sightings near Chappell.
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Dear Abby
van Buren
Dewey Truman
Three farms win South Platte NRD Honor Farm Award
Three farms in the southern Panhandle received the Honor Farm Award from the South Platte NRD for 1950s conservation work. Leo Larkin of Kimball, Wilfred Nelson of Potter, and Robert Robb of Big Springs were cited for terraces, windbreaks, diversions, and soil conservation programs.
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Southern Panhandle
South
Radio tests in Sidney for novice amateur licenses
Fourteen people wrote written tests Monday and Tuesday at the Community Education Center in Sidney hoping to earn novice amateur radio licenses. The sessions followed 10 weeks of training sponsored by Western Nebraska Technical College Amateur Radio Club and the American Radio Relay League, with two Sidney courses and one in Kimball. To qualify, examinees must send at least five code words per minute. results will be announced in four to six weeks.
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Community Education Center
Sidney
Western Nebraska Technical College Amateur Radio Club
American Radio Relay League
Kimball
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Leo Larkin
Wilfred Nelson
Robert Robb
Vincent Wright
Photus
Carter Bdici
Chappell
StakHand
Hesston StakHand
StakHands and
StakMovers
Hesston Farm
Couipment
Foland
Forrest
Nelsons
Cheyenne County Soil Conservation District
Potter
Ed Block
The
South Platte Nrd
Robbs
Big Springs
Jones Center
Waelm Mya
American National Bank
Sidney Neb
F.d.ic
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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