Farmers Share of Food Costs Narrow in 1971 Report
USDA analysis shows consumers paid 21 dollars more for a 1000 dollar market basket but farmers received only 1 dollar of the increase. Farmers earned 38 cents per dollar spent on food in 1971, down from 39 cents in 1970, while middlemen captured most of the gain. The report notes possible 1972 shifts if marketing spreads widen and prices rise about 3.5 to 4 percent.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
USDA
U.S
Funeral Services for Mrs Draper Tuesday at First United Methodist
Mrs Ruie E Draper aged 75 died Saturday at Memorial Rest Home after years of ill health. Survived by daughter Mrs Alfred Pelster and sons Arnold Harold LaVern. extended family includes seven sisters and twelve grandchildren. Funeral at 10 a.m. Tuesday at First United Methodist Church with interment in Greenwood Cemetery. Memorials to Heart Fund and church.
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Ruie E Draper
Memorial Rest Home
Arthur H
Gurley
Dalton
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Sidney
Draper
John L
Bertha H Walker
First United Methodist Church
Stanley Ganzel
Greenwood Cemetery
Holewick Funeral Home
Alfred Pelster
Arnold E
Harold A
LaVern
Leonard Walker
Peetz
Colo
Robert
Kenneth
Missouri Valley
Hazel Ward
Sadie Welborne
Josie Thomas
Lottie Barritt
Henry
Leonar) Scott
Marjorie Johnson
Omaha
Leonary (Berniece) Crispen
Heart Fund
Officials Plan Early Stored Water Release
Wyoming and Nebraska water agencies will start releasing water from North Platte River reservoirs in mid February to avert repeat of last spring's high runoff. The plan covers Wyoming reservoirs Seminar Pathfinder Glenda and Guernsey and Nebraska's Lake McConaughy, with releases based on snowpack forecasts and river ice conditions. Authorities will reconvene March 14 to adjust plans while protecting irrigation water rights.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Wyoming
Nebraska
North Platte River
James Exon
Floyd Bishop
Gow
Stan Hathaway
Seminar
Pathfinder
Glenda
Guernsey
ARC Meeting Date Changed
The February meeting of the Tri County Association of Retarded Children is moved to Thursday at 7 30 p m at the Environmental Cottage to avoid conflict with PTA in public schools. Dues are due at this meeting and forms for preferred regular dates are available from Mrs Gladys Hume. Ron Holsinger unit 13 family resources representative will be the featured speaker.
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Tri-County Association of Retarded Children
Environmental
P.T.A
Gladys Hume
Ron Holsinger
Unit 13
Christ Church Plans Annual Shrove Tuesday Pancake Feed
The men of Christ Episcopal Church will host their annual Shrove Tuesday Pancake Feed at the Parish Hall on 10th and Linden. Pancakes and trimmings will be served from 5 to 7 p.m. The public is invited to attend this parish event.
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Parish of
Christ Episcopal Church
10Th and Linden
Head Start Councils To Meet Here
The Sidney Head Start Center seeks kitchen pots and pans and other utensils. Donations may be dropped at the Center or picked up by calling 254-3880. Ed Matthews, Head Start teacher, requests volunteers to help with the children for one or two hours weekly.
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Sidney Head Start
Ed Matthews
Sidney Public Schools Menu Highlights Week
School lunch menu lists daily fare from February 15 to February 21. Items include hot dogs, spaghetti with meat sauce, creamed turkey, egg salad and peanut butter sandwiches, with milk, fruits, vegetables, breads, and desserts noted for each day.
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Fes
Navy Seaman Apprentice Boltz Completes Training
Navy Seaman Apprentice Thomas M. Boltz, son of Mr and Mrs Robert R Boltz of Big Springs, finished recruit training at the Naval Training Center San Diego. He is a 1971 graduate of Big Springs High School.
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San Diego
Navy
Thomas M. Boltz
Robert R. Boltz
Big Springs
Naval Training Center
Big Springs High School
Nebraska Western College reports spring enrollment at 825
Spring total for college credit students is 825, including 668 in county, 128 out of county in state, and 29 out of state. The drop from fall is 41, and from spring 1971 is 36. County towns listed include Scottsbluff Gering Morrill Sunflower Mitchell Minitare Melbeta Lyman. Out of state leads Wyoming Indiana Colorado with eight and five respectively.
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Nebraska Western College
Pat Lee
Lee
Scottsbluff
Gering
Morrill
Sunflower
Mitchell
Minitare
Melbeta
Lyman
Wyoming
Indiana
Colorado
Payroll Savings Plan Turns Paychecks Into Bonds
The Payroll Savings Plan lets workers sign up at work and have a chosen amount set aside from each paycheck to buy U.S. Savings Bonds. It is described as an easy, painless way to build a nest egg with most bonds purchased through this plan.
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U.S
Dalton Ladies Learn Of Mothers' Council
A Dalton group met at Mrs LeMoyne Meyers home on Monday night January 31 to hear Mrs Clinton B Dorwart discuss the Young Mother's Council. Sidney council members Mrs John Gott schalk Mrs Ron Holly and Mrs Tom Dorwart described their association. Mrs Meyers served a dessert lunch.
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LeMoyne Meyers
Dalton
Clinton B. Dorwart
Young Mother’s Council
Sidney Young Mother's Council
Nebraska
John Gottschalk
Ron Holly
Tom Dorwart
Sidney Council
Meyers
Baseball banned for children under 12 at Columbia playgrounds
Columbia Association trustees vote 2 to 1 that baseball is a contact sport and falls with football soccer and karate in the six city owned playgrounds under the suburb of Baltimore Washington. In Pikesville Maryland State Police plan a women only small arms training course after 15 women invaded the local headquarters.
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Columbia
Baltimore-Washington
Columbia Association
Pikesville, Md
Maryland
Pikesville
Jack Marsh
Bich names Elvstrom skipper for 1974 America's Cup
Bruno Bich of New York says his father Baron Marcel Bich has chosen Paul Elvstrom of Copenhagen as skipper of a new aluminum 12 meter yacht for the 1974 America's Cup challenge. Elvstrom, a four time Olympic gold medalist, will lead the entry designed by Andrew Mauric. Baron Bich plans to ship two 12 meter yachts, France and Constellation, to Copenhagen in the spring.
New York Homicide Records Set in 1971
1 625 people were killed in New York City homicides in 1971, a yearly high. December saw a record 172 slayings, attributed by police to gun-law gaps, surpassing 1970’s 1 250 and August 1971’s 158 deaths.
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New York
New York City
Milton Helpern
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Broken Bow
Dean
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Waterloo
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