Nebraska Coalition for Life meets in Sidney on Saturday
About 30 Nebraskans attended the Nebraska Coalition for Life monthly meeting in Sidney where president Ann Bowen of Omaha announced plans for a delegate and candidate abortion survey in Nebraska. Surveys completed or outstanding will be mailed, compiled, and published before elections. The group discussed a pro life amendment before Congress and viewed films, with the next meeting scheduled for Grand Island next month.
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Nebraska
Nebraska Coalition For Life
Sidney
Ann Bowen
Omaha
Congress
Coalition
Grand Island
Church urges elderly champion in White House in Lincoln visit
AP reports Sen Frank Church campaigned at the Tabitha Home for the Elderly saying seniors need a defender in the White House and that national health insurance should wait for Medicare gains. He urged strengthening Social Security with a six month escalator and dismissed dire warnings about Social Security’s fate as unfounded.
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Lincoln
Frank Church
White House
Tabitha
Idaho Democrat
Church
Senate
Select Committee On
Nebraska and Sterling beet growers reject Great Western offer
Nebraska Non-Stock Beet Growers Association members voted 797 to three to reject individual contracts with Great Western Sugar Co at an emergency meeting in Scottsbluff. Sterling area growers also rejected the offer, while concerns about an extraction-based payment and planting delays threaten sugar beet production and profits.
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Great Western
Sterling
Henry Schaffer
Mountain States Beet Growers Association
Schaffer
Denver
Bredenback
School Board Meets Tonight In Sidney For 1976 77 Talks
The Sidney school board will meet at 7 45 pm in the junior high library to discuss teachers contracts for 1976 77 and other items. Elections will replace certain teachers, contract extensions for Anse Lewis, and the continuation of Norm Fletchall and Marie Runge in their posts. Bids for the junior high cyclorama and lathe will be opened as part of the agenda.
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Sidney Junior High
Carol Mason
Bernice Narjes
Denise Hutton
Mary Winn
Anse Lewis
Sidney High
Norm Fletchall
Marie Runge
Chappell Leads At Chadron State College Scholastic Contest
Chappell won the Class III championship with 33 points at the 16th Inter-High Scholastic Contest held at Chadron State College. Potter tied for second with 14 points, while nine Chappell students earned top-three medals. Rapid City Stevens claimed the grand championship. Alliance High took Class I and Julesburg repeated as Class champion. A record 2,108 students participated.
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Gurley
Jeremy Spencer
Bridgeport
Karen Sundin
Harrisburg
Rapid City Stevens
Alliance High
Julesburg
UP Lineman Killed By Train Near Sidney
William L. Riedel a 38 year old Union Pacific Railroad lineman from Burns Wyoming was killed instantly this morning six miles west of Sidney Cheyenne County when he failed to hear a freight train whistle and was struck while working on a track section at about 820 a.m He was operating an air hammer with another man at the time and no other injuries were reported.
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Union Pacific Railroad
Sidney
Cheyenne County
William L. Riedel
Burns
Wyo
Riedel
Wheat Belt crews back from York after power line rebuild
A 12 man Wheat Belt Public Power District crew returned to Sidney after about 10 days restoring roughly 20 miles of downed lines in York McCool Junction and Henderson Nebraska after an ice and snow storm knocked out power across 10 000 square miles. Nebraska Public Power District warns large scale preventive measures are impractical due to cost and rates.
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Wheat Belt
Nebraska
Ron Bogus
Bogus
NPPL
Visitation marks ESU self-evaluation program starts
Educational Service Unit No 14 begins the second phase of a three part self evaluation with a 21 member external visitation team. The plan includes site visits to Dix Potter St Patrick High Sidney Oshkosh Garden County High Lewellen Garden and Big Springs with final sessions at 3 pm and exit interviews.
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Cheyenne
Devcl
Garden
Kimball
Dix
Potter
St Patrick
Sidney
Oshkosh
Garden County
Lewellen
Big Springs
ESU
State Department of
Gurley
William G Kelley
Udell Hughes
Scottsbluff
Rosalie Farley
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Charles Martin
Kearney State College
Jack Campbell
KSC
Robert Crosier
State Department of Education
Lincoln
Dale Williams
ESU 10
Kearney
Heman Stuthell
Margaret Lockwood
Fred Beick
David Abelow
Morehouse
Kimball Schools
Randall Lambert
Gunnison Valley
Residents urge study of Sidney trash rail plan
A Sidney leading group presents up to 15 petitions to the city council asking for an extensive study of the proposed one man trash rail system. They seek no firm commitments until hearings and full public discussion are held before any change. The council meets at 7 30 p m at City Hall with agenda including downtown improvements paving bids a liquor license hearing and county court system remarks.
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Sidney
Maynard Dils
Community of Alliance
City Hall
Mary Merck
Cheyenne County
Fraternal
Order of Eagles
Lowell D Shaske
Eagle's Club
Jim Deaver
Council
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Coalition For Life
Louise Dietz
Telegraph
Jimmy Carter
Nebraska, Sterling
MISS
Miss Hughes
Kerk
Lehn
Miss Christensen
Chappell
Beth Hughes
Lance Routh
Debbie Lehn
Carter Kerk
Susan Christensen
Laurie Herboldsheimer
Pat Marshall
York
Kelley
Visitation
Phyllis Brumbaugh
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