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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1975
Page
1
The Associated Press reports most major highways are open as snow melts. Temperatures rise to the upper 30s in the east and near 50 in the west under sunny skies. Chambers records four inches of new snow, the state’s heaviest amount.
Gov. J. J. Exon backs a bill to raise Nebraska personal income tax from 10 to 13 percent of federal liability retroactive to Jan 1 1975. The plan would also lift corporate tax from 25 to 30 percent, while state sales tax stays at 25 percent with a 1 percent city tax in Omaha Lincoln and Bellevue.
A federally funded Foster Grandparents Program begins Monday in Sidney with 13 elderly residents helping children at the Day Care Center Head Start and Educational Service. Grandparents will work about four hours daily earning stipends and benefits while providing attention when regular teachers are unavailable. The group includes Roy Gish the region's oldest foster grandparent at 94 and participants from Alice Blair to Elizabeth Wacklerla.
The Sidney Board of Education approved a second quarter payment over 11 000 to Educational Service Unit 14 amid state funds released to rescue handicapped education programs. They preserved valedictorian and salutatorian awards and reviewed contracts for 1975 76, extending retirements and accepting resignations while tabling Western Nebraska Tech college course enrollment and shortening the 180 day school year to 178 for a state tournament trip. The board also endorsed Project HELP and cosponsored an American Legion baseball bus program.
Parkland Development, a limited partnership led by Orville Filsinger John Peetz Jr and 8 EF Stewart bought a 76 acre tract from Upland Industries via Arla Jones Agency The site two miles south of Lodgepole Valley Youth Camp on State Highway 1 will be developed for commercial and residential use with buffers of green belts and an access road proposed from Highway 19 The sale ends months of talks with Leonard Burke of Upland Omaha and negotiations with Leo Eisenberg Co over a possible shopping center continue pending approvals by the City Planning Commission and City Council
The Agriculture Department reports a drop in the nation’s winter wheat condition last month due to cold, wet, or dry conditions and wind erosion. Snow cover protected some areas but many fields remained exposed as precipitation stayed above normal east of the Mississippi and in Texas and the Pacific Northwest. Harvest begins in the south in May and could yield a record 16 billion bushels if planting intentions hold, with spring varieties approaching 2.8 billion.
American Beef Packers completes sale of its Minatare Nebraska feedlot to Premier Corp of Fowlerville Michigan for about 8 million, with horses and cattle feed payment disputed. Ownership of 17 horses to be decided by April, binding arbitration if needed. American Beef to receive 1,054,032 placed in a certificate of deposit amid equity liens from local farmers.
New Jersey native Marc Wempel joined the Sidney firm Peete & Dorwart as an associate. He holds bachelor and law degrees from Creighton University and earned his law degree in 1973. Wempel is a 1st lieutenant in the reserves and recently moved with his wife Mary Chesenne Wo to Sidney amid rising regional legal activity.
Sidney officials stepped back from backing CPTA efforts to bar obscene magazines for youths and referred the issue to County Attorney Don Tedesco. The meeting heard state law flux and a new Legislature test to let a local jury judge obscenity, with the council offering only moral support.
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