Area businessmen attend OSHA program at local college
Nearly 100 southern Panhandle businessmen joined a full day OSHA workshop at Western Nebraska Technical College led by George Nothhelfer of the Omaha Safety Council. He explained inspection steps, penalties, and the act’s aim to improve safety rather than close businesses.
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Southern Panhandle
Western Nebraska Technical College
George Nothhelfer
Omaha Safety Council
Nothhelfer
OSHA
United States
Williams-Steiger
OHSA
Telegraph
Wheatbelt PPM delays rate rise after Tri-State hike
Wheatbelt Public Power District will not raise electric rates before fall 1975 after reviewing operations. A 45 percent price increase from Tri-State last July is being absorbed, with another Tri-State rise likely in 1975. Ca Corcoran notes the delay serves public interest and avoids discouraging productive consumption. Wheatbelt serves farms, industries, and some municipal systems in south-central Panhandle.
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Wheatbelt
Tri-State
South-Central
Panhandle
Hawse named to group studying local control
Albert Crites, Neil Colerick and Dr. John Hawse were appointed by the Western Nebraska Technical Community College Area board to draft a bill on local control of the college area. The draft will be presented in January after discussions with western Nebraska legislators and area leaders.
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Scottsbluff
Albert Crites
Western Nebraska Technical Community College Area Board
Neil Colerick
John Hawse
Western Nebraska Technical College At
Sidney
Wntcca
Scottsbluff Star-Herald
Western Nebraska
Leslie Stull
Alliance
Robert Clark
Jack Mills
Big Springs
Terry Carpenter
Bill Nichol
College
William Ptacek
Mickey Stewart
Ptacek
State Board of Technical Community Colleges
James Exon
Senators favor updating of state pen reformatory
A survey by the Associated Press shows a majority of 25 Nebraska Unicameral members would back replacing the reformatory and remodeling the penitentiary over several years. Debates touched on fiscal constraints, treatment of alcoholics, and broader penal reform while some senators urged blueprints beyond buildings.
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Nebraska
Eric Kramer
Associated Press
Herb Duis
Gothenburg
John Cavanaugh
Omaha
Walter George
Blair
James Dickinson
Millard
John Savage
Wally Barnett
Lincoln
Glenn Goodrich
Eugene Mahoney
Richard Maresh
Milligan
John DeCamp
Neligh
Douglas Bereuter
Ataca
Ernest Chambers
Chambers
Otho Kime
Valentine
William Nichol
Scottsbluff
Roland Luedtke
Harold Simpson
Autumn weekend forecast from The Associated Press
Partly cloudy to cloudy skies marked the start of the last autumn weekend in Nebraska. Winter arrives at 11 57 p m Saturday. Light scattered snow showers were reported in central and eastern parts as the day opened and clearing followed.
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Associated Press
Nebraska
Prospect
Montana
South Dakota
Imperial
Grand Island
Belly dancing takes root in Potter as exercise and art
Potter residents join belly dancing lessons taught by Kelly Nelson with classes in the American Legion basement. The six lesson course costs 12 dollars and aims for a spring recital as participants learn isolated body movements and improvised dances.
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Kelly Nelson
California
Lincoln
Omaha
Potter
Kelly
Kimball
Sidney
Telegraph
Overmeyer to Speak at WMCC Annual Meeting in Alliance
Col Robert Overmeyer the astronaut who highlighted the Golden Link ceremony in Sidney in October will speak at the Western Nebraska United Chambers of Commerce annual meeting in Alliance on January 8. Kemper of Alliance says Overmeyer has accepted the invitation after returning from a U S S R space joint project where the Soyez crews worked with Russian teams in space linking efforts.
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Robert Overmeyer
Sidney
Panhandle
Keith Kemper
Alliance
Western
Nebraska United Chambers of Commerce
Overmeyer
WMCC
Soviet Union
U.S
Rockefeller begins term as vice president with quiet pledge
Nelson A. Rockefeller starts as vice president by presiding over the Senate and promising to be quiet and helpful to President Ford. He plans a White House meeting with Ford on Saturday to discuss assignments and said he was pleased with the four month confirmation margin of 287 to 128, larger than his New York governorship wins.
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Lawrence L. Knutson
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Senate
Ford
Capitol
New York
Rockefeller
White House
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HW. C. Q. Nelson
David Hendee
Kimball, Potter
Rocky
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