Clark backs Bridgeport site over NPPD plant
State Sen. Robert L. Clark pledges support to move the proposed $180 million NPPD plant to Bridgeport, arguing the valley would gain jobs and tax receipts. He questions environmental objections and says he will press NPPD for reasons to reject Bridgeport.
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Nebraska Public Power District
NPPD
Sutherland Reservoir
Bridgeport-Bayard Area Panhandle
Sutherland
Robert L. Clark
Sidney
North Platte Valley
Clark
Morrill County
Bridgeport
North Platte
Game and Parks Commission
Wheat Heading Rainfall Softens Farmers Worry
Cheyenne County farmers welcomed weekend rain with over two inches in Potter and more elsewhere easing drought fears. Wheat is heading though yields may not reach last year’s 40 bushels per acre due to prior heat and frost. Pathologists warn of possible Wheat streak mosaic reducing yields. lightly infected fields seen in Sunol. Farmers expect about 30 bushels per acre on average as hail damage was localized to Sidney and Potter.
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Potter
Sidney
University of Nebraska
Sunol
Dalton
Gurley
Lorenzo
High Plaines
HPAL
Local Wheat To Get Check From State
A mobile laboratory to test wheat quality will visit the Sidney area during harvest. Marx Koeinke of the Nebraska Department of Agriculture notes the lab will check protein content and report results quickly to help growers plan future varieties and fertilization. Stops include Fairbury Ayr McCook Grant and Hemingford with samples from elevators or farmer submissions. The equipment can process about 125 samples per day.
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Sidney
Marx Koeinke
Wheat Division
Nebraska Department of Agriculture
University of Nebraska College of Agriculture
Koeinke
Fairbury
Ayr
McCook
Grant
Hemingford
Minuteman modernization to proceed despite new treaty
Warren Air Force Base spokesman says the Minuteman modernization project remains on schedule despite a new US-Soviet treaty. Boeing leads the $145 million effort to upgrade missiles and silos across western Nebraska eastern Colorado and eastern Wyoming with Kimball chosen as a dispatch station and crews arriving next summer.
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Warren Afb
Boeing
Minuteman
Nebraska
Colorado
Wyoming
Kimball
Cattle Life and Legacy on Lenzen Ranch Near I-80
Peter Lenzen, an 86 year old cattleman, traces his Longevity in ranching from homesteading 1885 to modern Hereford stock. He was honored at the Pioneer Patrons Banquet in Omaha for 50 years of patronage at the Omaha Livestock Market. The Lenzen ranch near Lodgepole and Kimball faces I-80 expansion with water well efforts amid drilling for an interstate livestock crossing.
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Peter Lenzen
Lenzen
Omaha
Agribusiness Livestock Committee
Omaha Chamber of Commerce
Peter Adam
Rinelint
Germany
Eva Treinen Lenzen
Old Country
Marysville
Kan
Lenzens
Kimball
Jerome
Lezen
Red Meat Slaughter Falls in Nebraska in April
Nebraska April commercial red meat output drops 11 percent from March and 5 percent from April last year, the Division of Agricultural Statistics reports. For January through April, production is 2 percent below last year, with cattle slaughter in April at 355000 head versus 364000 a year earlier.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
State
Federal Division of Agricultural Statistics
DAV Hears Protest Against Amnesty at Nebraska DAV convention
The Nebraska Disabled American Veterans held a Sidney convention with 80 veterans and wives, electing new state officers and hearing Jack Hicks condemn amnesty for draft evaders amid calls to boost lobbying and membership. Delegates from 23 chapters reappointed him as national DAV commander candidate. new state officers and auxiliary leaders were installed.
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Sidney
Nebraska Dav
Jack Hicks
DAV
Veterans and Auxiliary
Hicks
LaRue
Robert Taft
Vietnam
Delates
Bob Longley
Lincoln
Department of Nebraska
John McDonald
Omaha
George Schumm
Hastings
Armando Tata
Vince Murphy
Orville Williams
Chadron
National Service
Henry E Smith
Margaret Andersen
Beatrice
Auxiliary
Myrel Abbey
Eli Longley
Bernice Schumm
Rose Fritz
Maxine Villant
Kathleen Williams
Lee Moore
Telegraph
Moore
The
Disabled American Veterans
State's NCCC Debt Inquiry Targets DAS Audit
Sen. Robert Clark and the interim study committee criticized the Department of Administrative Services for unclear financial details after Del Maier and Gene Birdsall reported a $260,000 unpaid debt to Nebraska Consolidated Communications Corp. The committee may seek a full DAS audit as it questions the 1971-72 lump-sum appropriation and DAS housekeeping operations over 15 months.
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NCCC
del Maier
Gene Birdsall
Nebraska Consolidated Communications Corp
Robert Clark
Sidney
Department of Administrative Services
DAS
Clark
Telecommunications Committee
Councilmen Swear-In Scheduled for Tuesday
Edward Bauman Vincent Maliszewski and Robert Wait will be sworn in at a special City Council meeting Tuesday at 7 30 p m The new councilmen will sit after the current council meets They replace Del Koch Stanley Larabee and Daniel J Garcia Holdover members Edward Haupt and John Gottschalk remain Two-year terms lie ahead The agenda includes possible action on Continental Trailways bus service cuts bids for city office carpeting a Noxious Weed District land purchase and a sewer district creation in the Dorwart Addition The new council holds its first regular meeting June 12
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Edward Bauman
Vincent Maliszewski
Robert Wait
del Koch
Stanley Larabee
Daniel J. Garcia
Edward Haupt
John Gottschalk
Continental Trailways
Sidney
Sterling
Colo
Sidney-Denver
Planning Commission
Dorwart
City schedules summer recreation program events
City Recreation signup begins with a schedule from City Manager John Baudek. Programs include dancing and baton lessons for girls on MWF 10 am to noon, roller skating for all on Tue Thu 10 to noon, fitness and athletics 8 to 10 am, and tennis 10 to noon, at Sidney High School tennis courts this year.
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John Baudek
Baudek
Sidney High School
Butz To Speak At Chadron Stock Growers Convention
Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz will address the joint Nebraska Stock Growers Association and Sandhills Cattle Association convention at Chadron. The meeting begins Wednesday and continues into Thursday with the keynote address set for Thursday.
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Earl L. Butz
Nebraska Stock Growers Association
Sandhills Cattle Association
Chadron
Nebraska Education Heads Back Coordination Effort
Nebraska's three public higher education systems pledged cooperation with a legislative study committee on coordinating state colleges universities and vocational technical schools. They will prepare questionnaires to gather answers as the study moves forward.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
James Todd
State College System
University of Nebraska
D.B. Warner
Robert Schleiger
Board of Vocational-Technical
Duke Snyder
Omaha
Snyder
Omaha University
Warner
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