Five die in Nebraska weekend highway crashes
Nebraska traffic toll rises with five fatalities across the weekend. Robert Jesperson, 17, and Greg Fagan, 13, died in a Hooper area motorcycle collision with a car driven by Emil Winnekamp, 78. Sidney resident Joseph Miner, 25, died in a one car crash on Highway 30 near Sidney. Ethel Rothotham, 86, died in a Lincoln two vehicle crash, and 5 year old Bobby Maidlow was fatally struck by a truck in Kimball.
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Nebraska
State Patrol
Hooper
Dodge
Robert Jesperson
Fremont
Greg Fagan
Scribner
Emil Winnekamp
Craig
Sidney
Cheyenne County
Joseph B Miner
Lincoln
Ethel Rothotham
Anne V Stall
Jack Wiltfang
Bobby Maidlow
Kimball
Rodney Koester
Sidney City Council considers paving districts and equipment
The Sidney City Council meets at 7 30 p m in City Hall to hear proposals on Paving District 115 and a new West Summit Drive district. They will discuss funding a sanitation department garage and a pickup truck, review bids for a street sweeper, and hear J W Vaughn present a plan to develop a new interstate interchange south of Sidney on Nebraska Highway 19 overpass.
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Sidney
City Hall
West Summit Drive
Sanitation
J.W. Vaughn
Council
One and six year plan NRD to review guidelines
The South Platte Natural Resources District plans a Wednesday 730 PM review of a one and six year plan outlining land treatment flood control water supply groundwater management surface water pollution control solid waste disposal drainage wildlife habitat parks recreation forestry range management and education The document drafted by three committees includes a one year work plan and highlights such as outdoor classrooms scholarships watershed management and public hearings on the Groundwater Management Act The NRD offices in Sidney host the hearing with district manager Bob Hahn noting the plan remains flexible and reviewable.
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South Platte
NRD Board
Mem
Lodgepole Creek
NRD
Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
Soil Conservation Service
Extension Service
Sidney and Kimball
Halsey
SCS
Oliver Dam
Sidney
South Platte Nrd
Cheyenne
Devel
Kimball
Resource Development Fund
Land and Water Conservation Fund
Butz Defends Grain Sales To Russia Amid Price Debate
Agriculture Secretary Earl L Butz told a Milwaukee White House conference that inflation, not grain sales to the Soviet Union, drives higher food prices. He called the U S the world granary and urged using food as a foreign diplomacy tool while noting a potential 15 percent home price rise over 16 months due to Soviet purchases.
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Milwaukee
Earl L Butz
Russia
Butz
America
White House
Federal Reserve Board
Arthur Burns
Soviet Union
Burns
Busy year at Sidney Flight Service Station records
The Sidney Flight Service Station reports a record year ending July 31 with almost 24,000 flight services. Davis notes a 10 percent rise from 1974, covering Kimball to Julesburg and north to Oshkosh, with July the busiest month. The peak day was July 31 with 156 services as landings and takeoffs rise 3 percent to 9,455.
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Sidney
Jerry Davis Davis
Kimball
Julesburg
Colo
Oshkosh Air
Davis
Ford Calls for Tax Incentives to Cut Federal Regulation
President Ford urged Congress to cut government red tape and boost capital investment with tax incentives for industry. He warned excessive regulation costs consumers billions, endorsed greater investment credits and dividend tax relief, and aimed to expand jobs and growth amid inflation and high unemployment.
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Chicago
America
Ford
U.S
American Hardware Manufacturers Assn
Congress
Forest Fire Threatens Chadron Area in Nebraska National Forest
Firefighters and National Forest Service crews battled a fire three miles southeast of Chadron Nebraska National Forest burning 600 acres of grass and trees. Volunteers from Chadron Hay Springs Hemingford Rushville and Crawford joined slurry planes from Cody Wyoming and Rapid City South Dakota as guardsmen stood by awaiting containment.
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Chadron
Nebraska National Forest
Here
Hay Springs
Wemmingford
Rushville
Crawford
National Forest Service
Chet Williams
The
Forest Service
National Guard
Cody
Wyo
Rapid City
Williams
National
Moms prepare 180 lunches as Sidney schools begin
On the first day of Sidney Public Schools Lucile Fisher and Evelyn Jacobsen helped prepare sandwiches for the first of 180 lunches to feed students, continuing daily until May 27.
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Sidney Public School
Lucile Fisher
Evelyn Jacobsen
Power plant seeks delay for sulfur dioxide controls
The Missouri Basin Power Project has filed with the Wyoming Environmental Quality Council for a variance of sulfur dioxide standards and a compliance schedule for the Laramie River Station near Wheatland. Lloyd Ernest said the request allows lead time to develop a more efficient SO2 removal technology. The coal-fired station will have three units located five miles northeast of Wheatland.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Wyoming Environmental Quality Council
Missouri Basin Power Project
Laramie River
Wheatland
Wye
Lloyd Ernest
Missouri Basin
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Ron Nessen
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