Christmas 1973 Brings Anxiety and Hope Across Regions
Christmas 1973 carried both anxiety and optimism as fuel shortages inflation and security fears weighed on celebrations. Bethlehem expected smaller pilgrim crowds than last year while Tokyo Paris and Berlin shoppers faced higher prices and cautious spending.
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Tokyo
Paris
Berlin
Europe
United States
Rockefeller Center
New York
City Hall
Copenhagen
Stockings Hung With Care
Sean Dickes 4 and sister Nicole 3 along with other children await Santa’s visit as a snow storm eases. Forecasts say weather may not hinder Santa’s rounds and wind and snow should diminish by late tonight. They are children of Mr and Mrs Mick Dickes.
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Sean Dickes
Nicole
Santa Claus
Santa
Sean and
Mick Dickes
Kelley Urges Graduates to Prepare for Change
Bill Kelley, Nebraska Western Technical College board member and Education Service Unit 14 administrator, told 21 winter graduates that education will become competency based from birth to grave. He warned of rapid retraining and shifts in the teacher role as learning becomes self driven.
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Nebraska Western Technical College
Community College Area Board
Bill Kelley
Kelley
Education Service Unit 14
Merle Rudebusch
WNTC
Auto Mechanics Technology
Jay Alberts
McCook
Kris Forden
Sutherland
Gary Hundley
Land Renters Prepare Challenge to Higher School Land Rates
Rex S. Haberman reports about 650 leaseholders across 12 western Nebraska counties objecting to the Board of Educational Lands and Funds plus a 300 percent rent increase in some cases. They allege the board used a uniform reappraisal formula that ignored fair price and crop factors and seek hearings, potentially heading to the legislature or courts if rates aren’t reduced. They have lined up an independent appraisal firm and several attorneys to aid in appeals.
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Japan
America
Rex S. Haberman
Imperial
Nebraska
Cheyenne
Board of Educational Lands and Funds
Haberman
Red Willow
Lincoln
Keith
Dundy
Hayes
Perkins
Deuel
Box Butte
Scottsbluff
Christmas Edition Highlights Joys Of Holidays In Midlands
The Sidney Telegraph notes a 20 page Christmas supplement from Western Outlook Magazine. It features articles on the Joy of the Holidays in the Midlands and a special feature on Minden, Nebraska called Christmas City. Editor Ed Sykes writes a Washington DC version of Christmas carols in The Maverick on page 10.
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Sidney Telegraph
Midlands
Minden
Nebraska
Ed Sykes
Washington DC
Maverick
Easy Flying Set For Santa If Snow Wind End Tonight
Snow and wind in Nebraska thin but lingering as a storm moves northwest from the Texas Panhandle. Roads from Kimball to Sidney show varying conditions with seven inches reported west of Kimball and several stranded motorists on Highway 71. Authorities warn of ice and low visibility as a major storm centers in Kansas and Oklahoma, with a white Christmas forecast for Nebraskans.
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Santa Claus
Cheyenne County
Santa
Sidney
Nebraska State Patrol
Gary Hawkins
Kimball
Nebraska Highway 71
State Patrol
Nebraska Panhandle
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas Panhandle
Associated Press
Weather Bureau
Nebraska Guard Chief Objects to Pentagon Flight Grounding Rule
Nebraska Adjutant General Francis Winner protests a Pentagon directive that grounded Air National Guard training flights. He warns it will impair readiness, with 33 helicopters, 19 F4 Phantom jets and 3 prop planes affected and about 1,500 guardsmen limited in training.
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Nebraska
Francis Winner
Pentagon
Air National Guard
Nebraska Guard
Winner
Energy
William Simon
Associated Press
Army
Winner Winner
Increase Predicted In Wheat Output
Nebraska's 1974 winter wheat crop is forecast at 996 million bushels, up from 94 million this year, with planted acreage at a six year high and a yield of 34 bushels per acre. Rainy fall weather delayed planting, some fields flooded or reseeded, and winter kill risk looms amid reduced growth.
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Nebraska
Murfield
Associated Press
USDA
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Church of the Nativity
Rome
Athens
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East Berlin
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St Peters Basilica
Sistine Chapel
Holy See
United Nations
Suez
John Byrne
Ireland
Mitchell
Gene Pfahl
Papillion
Dwight Deaver
Vetal. SD
Steven Scoggan
Crawford
Dale Sharp
Sidney Jay-Dee Nemechek
WaKeeney
Kan
Electronics Technology
Diane Carlson
Potter
Valerie Trueblood
Maberman
Keith, Dundy
Hayes, Perkins, Deuel
Scotts Bluff
Chase
Dawes Counties
Joys of
Department of Roads
Nile
Department of Agriculture
Douglas Murfield
Division of Agricultural Statistics
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