Soaring costs push Sidney to raise utility rates
City of Sidney officials say inflation and rising operating costs force proposed increases in electric, sewer, and water charges. If approved, electricity would rise about 25 percent, water about 40 percent, and sewer about 53 percent, with computer-verified figures showing decades of revenue growth lagging higher expenses in all departments.
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Sidney
Maynard Dils
Gordon Tobin
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Water Department
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Dils
Panhandle
Trails West National Historical Park proposed in NebWyoming
Rep. Virginia Smith introduces legislation to create a Trails West National Historical Park from Ash Hollow near Ogallala Nebraska to Ft. Laramie Wyoming. The four Nebraskas sites Ash Hollow Mud Springs Courthouse and Jail Rocks Chimney Rock and Wyoming Ft Laramie would be preserved, with tourism expected to rise and $2 million in annual revenue. A feasibility study will be done by the National Park Service as the bill goes to the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee.
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Trails West National Historical Park
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Wyoming
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Nedd
Ash Hollow
Garden County
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Courthouse
Jail Rocks
Chimney Rock
Morrill County
Ft Laramie
Nebraska Department of Revenue
National Park Service
Interior and Insular Affairs Committee
Cold weekend ahead as Nebraska braces for chill
The Associated Press reports seasonable sunny weather may give way to continued cold in Nebraska over the weekend. A central high pressure system sits over Nebraska with northerly winds five to 15 mph. Early temperatures ranged from about five below zero in the northwest to ten above in the southeast. Tonight should be clearer and less cold, with lows near zero in the northeast and zero to ten above elsewhere. Saturday looks warmer with clear to partly cloudy skies and highs in the mid 20s to low 30s. The National Weather Service recorded a 19 degree high in Omaha on Thursday and an overnight low of 15 below zero at Valentine.
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Omaha
Valentine
Young wins 500 meter Olympic gold in Innsbruck
Sheila Young, 25, of Detroit, claimed the United States first gold with a 42.76 sec 500 meters, breaking the Olympic record. She also held a world record for 500 meters and eyed the 1,000 meter event as the U.S. struggled in Innsbruck with the Soviet Union and East Germany leading in medals.
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Austria
Sheila
Z Young
United States
Miss Young
Detroit
Sapporo
Japan
Anne Henning
U.S
Nixon and wife invited to visit China in 1976
Former President Richard Nixon and Pat Nixon were invited to return to China on February 21 1976 the fourth anniversary of their 1972 visit China aims to fly them from California to Beijing NBC News Barbara Walters cited Washington sources. The trip would mark a continuation of Sino U S relations begun after Nixon opened formal ties.
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Richard M Nixon
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Richard Nixon
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People’s Republic of China
Barbara Walters
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California
United States
White House
Ford
Watergate Judge Sirica Showing Satisfactory Progress
U S District Judge John J Sirica recovering after a heart attack that stopped his heart for 15 minutes. Doctors say there is every conceivable chance he will resume a normal life.
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Washington
U.S
John J. Sirica
Joel Garfinkel
Hearst robbery film shown in Hearst trial
Patricia Hearst listened as a witness described seeing a carbine pointed at bank customers and the fear of looking down its barrel. A two minute FBI assembled film of the 1974 Hibernia Bank holdup highlighted the first day of testimony, with Hearst described as leading the raid and exchanging threats before fleeing the bank.
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San Francisco
Patricia Hearst
James Norton
Mise Hearst
Norton
U.S. Atty
James L. Browning Jr
F. Lee Bailey
Miss Hearst
FBI
Donald
Bailey
Edward Shea
Shea
SLA
Nancy Ling Perry
Los Angeles
William
Emily Karris
Nebraska Republicans vote against natural gas price decontrol
In Washington, Nebraska Republican lawmakers John McCollister Virginia Smith and Charles Thone opposed the motion to decontrol natural gas prices. The measure failed as the House rejected it by 205 to 201.
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John McCollister
Virginia Smith
Charles Thone
Duo-pianists Whittemore and Lowe to perform in Sidney
Arthur Whittemore from Vermillion South Dakota and Jack Lowe from Denver will headline the second of three community concerts this year in the Sidney High School auditorium at 8 p.m. Tickets are available to new Sidney residents at a prorated rate. The duo is famed as a two piano team with White House appearances and broad TV exposure.
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Jack Lowe
Sidney
Sidney High School
Whittemore
Lowe
White House
Vermillion, S.D
Denver
Eastman School of Music
Rochester
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