Sterling Police Dept Reorganized With Pay Increases
Sterling City Council approved updating the police department including a chief two sergeants two detectives and an extra patrolman effective January 1 1972 The plan raises starting salaries to 525 575 monthly and tops at 650 with five new pay steps and sergeants promotion tests five current officers would gain a 5 percent raise education duties include yearly schooling and the department will grant promotions as staffing rises to 21 total officers with one vacancy.
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Sterling Police Department
Council
Chappell Chief Honored at Deuel County Meeting
Deuel County Commissioners elected to adopt a precinct reapportionment at their Monday session to divide three precincts into areas with equal voter numbers. An independent census found Deuel County has 3,021 residents.
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Chappell-Devel County
Deuel County
Devel County
Kimball Soldier Among 34 Killed in Vietnam Helicopter Crash
CWO Jaroth W Carter 25 of Kimball and 32 other men died in a Vietnam helicopter crash described as the war's worst aircraft accident to date. He served since October 1969 and worked for Batman Drilling Co. Survivors include his widow Judy and sons John and James, both of Fort Morgan, his mother Dorothy and father Jack, with services set for Friday at 10 a.m. Canary Baptist Church Fort Morgan and burial at Riverside Cemetery.
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Kimball
CWO
Jaroth W Carter
Vietnam
Batman Drilling Co
Judy
John
James
Fort Morgan
Dorothy
Jack
Brush
Colo
Canary Baptist Church
Riverside Cemetery
Oshkosh Chamber Elects New Officers
Oshkosh Chamber of Commerce elected Delbert Namath as president at Johnson's Cafe on Thursday night. Namath succeeds Glenn McCormac and had served as first vice president. Dick Haddix was named first vice president and Charlie Brown as second vice president.
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Oshkosh
Kimball Voice of Democracy Winners Named in Kimball County
Holly Killham of Dix won first place and Tom Anderson of Kimball placed second in the Kimball County Voice of Democracy contest sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Auxiliary. The 2th year event featured the theme My Responsibility to Freedom. Killham’s taped speech advances to the district contest in Scottsbluff.
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Kimball
Kimball County
Holly Killham
Dix
Tom Anderson
Veterans of Foreign Wars and Auxiliary
Miss Killham
Scottsbluff
Solution For Dock Strikes Is Sought
Lincoln officials from Great Plains Wheat warn dock strikes threaten exports and long term markets. GPW leaders Dean Parsons and Joseph Halow cite potential 50 million bushel export losses and delayed purchases by Japan and other Far Eastern buyers.
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Lincoln
Nebraska Wheat
Joseph Halow
Great Plains Wheat, Inc
Halow
GPW
Dean Parsons
Wall, S.C
Nebraska Department of Agriculture
Nebraska Wheat Growers Association
Foreign Market Development Organization
Halon
U.S
Europe
Arlee Phillips
Hemingford
Nebraska Wheat Advisory Committee
Nebraska
Phillips
New Style Tires Offer No Ice Advantage Says NSC
CHICAGO The National Safety Council reports no clear edge for radial bias belted or conventional tires on ice in tests. Studded tires and chains offered limited gains, with front wheels studded plus rear chains yielding 39 percent speed increases, but storage limits hinder widespread use amid U.S. labor issues.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Donald Chotka
Council
Shotka
Lhotka
New Home Agent Appointed in Scotts Bluff County
Mrs Barbara Smith is named the Scotts Bluff County home extension agent succeeding Helen Reiber who resigned last August. Smith will train in January and return around February 1 to assist 4-H girls and home extension clubs, addressing homemaking issues with her husband Gene Smith a Hartford Insurance Co agent. They reside at 1424 Fifth Avenue Scottsbluff with four children, and Smith holds a Kansas State University B S in home economics with prior extension work in Kansas and experience with power companies and the Colorado Wheat Administrative Committee.
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Scottsbluff
Barbara Smith
Scotts Bluff County
Helen Reiber
Greg
Nikki
Angie
Jeri Anne
Medicine Lodge
Kan
Smith
Kansas State University
Kansas
Virginia
Washington, DC
Colorado Wheat Administrative Committee
Fire Chief Honored for 25 Years of Service in Chappell
Fire Chief Leonard Handley received a trophy at a Monday dinner meeting at the Chappell Fire Hall as about eighty attendees recognized his twenty five years of service. Presentation was by City officials and Rural Fire District leaders. Handley joined the department in 1934 except for 1942 to 1946 when he lived in Lyman Nebraska.
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Chappell
Leonard Handley
Handley
City Fire Department
Rural Fire Dist No 1
E O Richards
Dale Bruns
Rural Fire Dist
Gilbert Carlson
Wayne Munson
Darrell Clark
Ray Cenny
Department
Lyman
Nebr
New York City Opera Announces Kennedy Center Visit
The New York City Opera will perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington from May 3 to May 14, offering 15 shows across five operas. In New York, new productions include Donizetti Maria Stuarda and Lee Hoiby Summer and Smoke. Future seasons glimpse Offenbach The Tales of Hoffmann, Henze The Young Lord, and Donizetti Anna Bolena, completing a Donizetti cycle begun last year with Roberto Devereux.
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New York
Lincoln Center
Hoyt Ammidon
Metropolitan Opera
New York Philharmonic
Juilliard School
New York City Ballet
New York City Opera
Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Chamber Music Society
City Opera Plans
Kennedy Center
Washington
Donizetti
Maria Stuarda
Lee Hoiby
Offenbach
Henze
the Young Lord
Anna Bolena
Roberto Devereux
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Sterling
Police Dept
Cozad Hunter
Carl Gustafson
Cozad
Jimmy Johnson
Lewellen
North Platte
Gustafson
Jimmy Johnson Johnson
Eugene Santoro
Garden County Hospital
A.B Albee
St Mary’s Hospital
of Lincoln Center
Sterling Truck & Equipment CO
Sterling, Cole
Devel
Sidney Jaycees
Sidney High School Band
F Hahler
FORD
Washington, D.C
Sidney Ford
Mercury
Miinis St
Sidney, Near
Santa
Bhs
Donksy
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