Bergland backs 100 percent parity but doubts an outright success
Bitter Midlands cold greets nationwide farmers rallying for 100 percent parity pricing. Agriculture Secretary Bergland backs the goal but warns guaranteed production costs would spark land inflation. Farmers march on state capitals, pledging a Wednesday boycott to push for fair prices while some farm bureaus oppose government participation.
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Charles J. Cannon
United Press International
America
Bob Bergland
National Farmers Organization
Omaha
Bergland
Brown
Fred Heringer
California Farm Bureau
Heringer
Bitter cold blankets county and state with record lows
Bitter cold temperatures sweep across the region with lows near 12 below zero in Sidney and up to 15 below in Dalton and Lodgepole. Snow and light moisture fall, wind chills reach 40 to 50 below, and officials warn of a potential hard winter ahead as arctic air persists across Nebraska.
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Sidney
Dalton
Lodgepole
Lloyd Dykman
Dykman
Don Dey Ermand
Dalton Thursay
Dey Ermand
Nebraska
Yukon
Gulf of Mexico
Nebraska Panhandle
Valentine
Grand Island
Eppley Field
Omaha
Scottsbluff
Legion Park Pond Open For Night Ice Skating
Sidney officials announce Legion Park pond will be open and lighted tonight from dark until 11 p.m. It will remain open as long as the ice remains safe and good for skating.
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Legion Park
Sidney
Fire damages trailer home near Sidney
A late night blaze caused extensive damage to the Dale Christofferson family trailer home about a mile east of Sidney. The family was away. cause suspected from a furnace motor short. Fire marshal and chief Benzel planned investigations. 23 firemen battled the fire at 10:20 p.m. in 10 degree cold.
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Dale Christofferson Family
Dale Christofferson
Sidney
Christofferson
Dan Benzel
Boston arrests in gay person vice ring probe
United Press International reports five unlikely suspects among 17 charged in a Boston area operation involving boys ages 8 to 13. The Suffolk County DA said 15 were arrested by Thursday night with seven more sought who were charged Wednesday but not involved in the ring.
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United Press International Boston
UPI
Boston
Suffolk County District Attorney's Office
Santa letter drive routed through Sidney Telegraph
Santa Claus designates the Sidney Telegraph as his agent for the Southern Panhandle and Northeastern Colorado area. Children should address letters to Santa in care of the Sidney Telegraph Box 219 Sidney Nebraska 69162 with deadlines through December 23.
Bergland pledges no foreclosures for drought hit farmers
Agriculture Secretary Bergland said federal farm loans won’t be foreclosed on families with a viable future. FMHA plans to propose rules to defer principal and interest on loans, and an interim report cites management issues rather than drought as the main cause of pending foreclosures.
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Omaha
Neb
UPI
Bob Bergland
Bergland
National Farmers Organization
Agriculture Department
Washington
Department
Farmers Home
Thornton
County ASC to Convene Thursday in Cheyenne County
County ASC plans a public convention at the Cheyenne County ASCS office starting 1 30 p m next Thursday. Delegates will elect a chairman vice chairman and two alternates. Dolan Larson seeks reelection to a three year term as county committeeman.
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ASC
Cheyenne County
ASCS
Lawrence Thompson
Thompson
Dolan Larson
Thompson Robert Rexroth
Elwood Lostroh
Summit meeting on education aid draws criticism and plans
Lincoln state Senator John DeCamp backed a Dec 15 summit on state education aid that he now proposes be open to the public. Gov Exon and Senator Chambers criticized a closed format, while DeCamp invited five lawmakers from both sides to discuss the aid controversy and formula fluctuations after the 20 million annual increase was suspended pending 1978 voter decision. The invited include Lens Donald Dvorak Gerald Koch Frank Lewis Loran Schmit and Cal Carsten.
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Lincoln
Neb
UPI
Neligh State
John DeCamp
DeCamp
James Exon
Omaha
Ernest Chambers
Exon
Chambers
Nebraska
Lens Donald
Dvorak
Columbus
Gerald Koch
Ralston
Frank Lewis
Bellevue
Loran Schmit
Bellwood
Cal Carsten
Avoca
Clinic helps students adjust to role playing perception
About 15 high school students acted out scenes in a Minuteman Activities Conference drama clinic directed by Bill Roundey. He urged viewing theater as a growth process through playful exercises and teacher-supported exposure to beginning, middle, and final stages of a production.
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Tobin Beck
Bill Roundey
St Pat's
Minuteman
Roundey
Concordia Teachers College
Seward
Ile
Nebraska
Lincoln
State Arts Council
ESU-10
Kearney
ESU-6
Milford
Lexington
Roundes
MAC Clinic
Computers not better at predicting weather in Japan
Tokyo reports veteran forecaster Tsuneyuki Kikuchi says despite satellites and computers, 1976 bureau forecasts were only 80.6 percent accurate, compared with 7.8 percent accuracy in 1889. The Meterological Agency official notes little overall gain from technology.
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Tokyo
UPI
Tsuneyuki Kikuchi
Meterological Agency
Kikuchi
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