Natural gas rate to be reviewed for Sidney plant
The City Council will review a new interruptible rate schedule proposed by Kansas Nebraska Natural Gas Co for the Sidney electrical power plant. The plan could pause service when gas is short, raising Sidney customers about 29000 dollars next year.
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Council
Department of Environmental Control
Department
Frontier Airlines
Frontier
Sidney Municipal
City council bill moves up in Lincoln legislature
The legislature approved a bill LB118 to cut city council quorum in first class cities from two thirds to a simple majority. First class cities, population 5,000 to 40,000, would only need a majority to transact business. The bill advanced 26 to 1.
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Lincoln
Nebraska bill to standardize mobile home parks fails
Lincoln Nebraska AP reports that LB91 to create a uniform standard code for mobile home parks failed to win first round approval in the unicameral. Senator Harold Simpson faced opposition as critics warned the measure could raise living costs, with rural lawmakers among the strongest critics. The bill would have set state park standards but did not advance with 20 votes, five short of the needed total.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Harold Simpson
Strong winds topple windows and signs in Nebraska towns
Strong winds Sunday shattered plate glass at Sidney Auto Supply and Decker's Market and toppled a 50 foot Ramada Inn sign in Scottsbluff, with gusts near 70 mph. Winds disrupted roads, prompted school closures, and a spring storm spread snow across Ord Burwell Sargent and Taylor as Nebraska faced hazardous travel and blizzard-like conditions through the day.
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Sidney
Sidney Auto Supply
Decker’s
Sidney Flight
High Plains Agricultural Lab
Scottsbluff
Ramada Inn
Nebraska
Towa
Valentine
Ord Mullen
Ord
Burwell
Sargent
Taylor
State Patrol
Thone opposes federal land use bill in letter
Nebraskas Rep Charles Thone says he will continue to oppose a federal land use bill. He argues it would raise energy costs for oil gas coal and other sources and create areas of environmental concern that deny development rights without compensation.
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Washington
Charles Thone
Nebraska
Thone
Congress
Sidney Immunization Rates Compared In Panhandle
State Health report shows Sidney Public Schools with 96.5 percent of kindergarteners immunized for rubella, measles and polio as of Dec 20 1974, but several Panhandle towns exceed Sidney in one or more categories. Across Alliance Chadron Kimball and Ogallala, rubella measles and polio rates vary. measles first year rates in Sidney listed at 92.2 percent, with other towns near 99 percent. Nebraska’s overall kindergarten immunization level rises above 9 percent for rubella measles polio and DTP TD with new state guidance urging parents to confirm missing immunizations before fall entry.
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State Department Health
Panhandle
Alliance
Chadron
Kimball
Ogallala
Alliance MX
Nebraska
William Pack
Health Department
Pack
Nebraska lawmaker advances no tax tech schools bill floor
Lincoln AP reports Education Committee moves Kremer's no tech levy bill to the floor after an attorney general opinion. The measure would let local boards levy up to 22 mills for tech community colleges while abolishing the state Board in favor of a council. Debate focuses on constitutionality and state aid levels.
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Lincoln
Supreme Court
Maurice Kremer
Aurora
Kremer
State Board of Technical Community Colleges
Waiter George
Blair
Ralston
Gerald Koch
Koch
Tech
State Board of Education
George
Frank Lewis
Bellevue
Lewis
Nebraska
Robert Clark
Sidney Clark
State College Board
Clark
Girl's death ruled accidental in Ogallala shooting
Keith County Attorney Pat Hayes ruled the death of 11 year old Janice Olson an accident. Janice died in a hospital Saturday from a rifle wound suffered Friday night. Her 10 year old brother Duane said he was handling a rifle taken from a basement gun cabinet when the incident occurred.
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Ogallala
Keith County
Pat Hayes
Janice Olson
Duane
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