Western Nebraska Tech hosts Word Week with new campus look
WNITC greets Word Week with a refreshed campus appearance at Western Nebraska Technical College in Sidney. President Merle Rudebusch invites prospective students and the public to tour as renovations unfold and a carbon arc cutting system is demonstrated by Les Rhodes of Sterling to Rudebusch amid about 200 students enrolled.
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Sidney
Western Nebraska Technical College
Merle Rudebusch
Auto Mechanics Technology
Rudebusch
Les Rhodes
Sterling
Supreme Court Hearing Possible in Pope Double Jeopardy Case
Nebraska officials anticipate a possible U S Supreme Court review of Duane Pope's first degree murder convictions from the 1965 Big Springs bank robbery. Pope claims double jeopardy after federal and state trials. the incident left three dead and one wounded.
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Nebraska
C Sheldon
U.S Supreme Court
Big Springs
Duane Pope
Pope
Sheldon
Associated Press
Nebraska Attorney General's Office
US Supreme Court
Attorney General's Office
Fritz Taken In Kansas After Eight Day Manhunt
Fritz the escaped convict wanted for a rape and robbery in Garden County Nebraska and a shooting robbery near Auburn was arrested by Mitchell County sheriff's deputies in Kansas after an eight day search. He held a farm couple hostage earlier, then fled in their car. authorities planned Nebraska extradition.
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Reloit
Kan
Robert Ear] Fritz
Nebraska
Mitchell County Sheriff's Deputies
Fritz
Iowa
Kansas
Missouri
Associated Press
Garden County
Neb
Auburn
Nebraska State Patrol
Richardson County
John Rutz
Rutz
Clark Defends Hearing With Nixon On Truckers Crisis
Sen Robert L Clark of Sidney says transporting the Nebraska Legislature to Washington to meet President Nixon is a foolish idea unless no other option exists. He supports meeting the President but would pay his own way. He criticizes Governor Exon for leadership and weighs speed limit and state control of education issues amid broader fiscal debates.
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Robert L Clark
Sidney
Nebraska
Washington
Nixon
Clark
Marvel
White House
Richard Proud
Exon
ICI Production Start Set for Late March in Sidney Plant
Independent Cable Inc expects to begin production at its new Sidney plant in late March. Plant manager Roger Price cites delays in truck shipments as the reason for no firm start date yet. Two officials, Roger Willmarth and Chick Menco, are to relocate to Sidney in coming weeks to assume key posts.
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Independent Cable Inc
Sidney
Roger Price
Price
Roger Willmarth
Eltra Corp
Scottsbluff
Baking Executive Buys In Impossible Market
Campbell Taggart Inc chairman Bill Mead told stockholders in a December Washington visit that ABA forecasts of flour shortages misstate the industry. Mead said his firm had a record 1973 and bought flour in advance to weather tight supplies, while USDA and bakers faced ongoing market pressures.
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Associated Press
Campbell Taggart Inc
Delegates File for County Democratic Convention
Delegates Donald Bremer of the Gurley precinct and Madeline Auf dengarten of Sidney 1B precinct have filed to represent the Democratic party at the county convention. The filing signals competition for the two delegate slots and indicates ongoing party organizing in early campaigns.
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Donald Bremer
Gurley
Madeline Aufdengarten
Sidney 1B
Nelson Seeks Election To Vo-Tech Area Board
Dr. H C Q Nelson, first chairman of the Western Nebraska Technical Community College Area board, files for a four year term. He argues for local boards to govern and opposes state takeover aimed by Senators Clark and Carpenter, advocating local control with state support.
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Nelson
Vo-Tech Area Board
H C. Q. Nelson
Western Nebraska
Sidney Dental Surgeon
College
Robert L Clark
Terry Carpenter
Clark
Carpenter
Western Nebraska Technical College
Local Merchants Await End Of Truck Strike In Nationwide Standstill
Sidney merchants monitor the national truck strike as some drivers return while many resist the Washington settlement. Independent truckers protest fuel limits and energy rules, threatening fresh produce, frozen foods, and canned goods shipments. Local firms report mixed deliveries with vacancy in Denver stock and several Sidney operations noting delayed shipments but no major shortages yet.
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Gail Bergstad
Sidney
Associated Press
Washington
Pat Pattison
Town and Country Market
Bob Decker
Decker's Market
Jack Headley
Jack & Jill
Decker
Denver
Hipp Wholesale
Russ Fisher
Fisher
Egging
Ted Egging
Safe-Play Manufacturing Co
Cabela's Inc
Garvin Gregory
Safe-Play
Ep-Ro Manufacturing Co
Jerry Epstein
Plains Manufacturing
Robert Perkins
Perkins
Canada
Sidney’s Handi-Bus to offer free elderly transport Mon
The City of Sidney launches a 14 passenger Handi-Bus funded by federal aid through the Nebraska Commission on Aging. Service runs Tuesday through Saturday with Monday calls to Dalton Gurley Lodgepole Potter and Sundl. Priority goes to medical appointments then shopping and errands.
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Nebraska Commission On Aging
Dalton
Gurley
Lodgepole
Potter and Sundl
Prince
Box Butte County Vo Tech Funds Granted After Delay
Box Butte County Community College area won a small victory in a two year dispute over the Technical Community College Act funding. Nine counties had withheld funds pending a settlement. Box Butte agreed to forward the required one mill levy. The college board plans further legal action to resolve the constitutionality of the levy.
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Western Nebraska Technical Community College
Panhandle
Technical Community College
Box Butte
Russell Lovell
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