WTCCA delays search for president at meeting
The Western Technical Community College Area Board of Governors in Scottsbluff did not place a search committee for a new president on the agenda. Ted Kadlecek urged reviewing the college’s operations amid funding and program concerns as Dr Charles D Michael and instructor Michael Holley resigned.
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Liz Watts
Western Technical Community College Area Board of Governors
Scottsbluff
WNTC
Ted Egging
Gurley
Charles D Michael
Michael Holley
Gary Powell
Sidney
Powell
Alliance- Hemingford
Burlington Northern
Ted Kalecek
John N Harms
Tarly
Albert Crites
Kadlecek
Harms
Central Technical Community College At
Hastings
Michael Paradise
Harrs
Cary Warner
Gering
Duane Worley
Alliance
Doug Gilbaugh
Chadron
Ike Gregory
NWC
William Nichol
Stephen Funk
Corn harvest nears completion across the area
Survey of area elevators reports an 80 percent completion and generally strong yields. Elmer Wilkening at Kimball County Grain Coop in Dix notes best corn crop yet with 111 to 160 bushels per acre and test weights around 59 to 60 pounds.
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Elmer Wilkening
Kimball County
Dix
Lodgepole
Bart Bondegard
Farmers Coop
Ray Woten
Juelfs
Potter
Chappell
Jim Ledbetter
Sunol
John DeMersy
DeMers & Son
Sidney
Don Hoffman
Farmers Coop Grain
Lorenzo
Chet Phelps
Farmers Union Coop
Peetz, Cole
Farmers Elevator
Lynette Rolle
Wray
Colo
WIFE Convention Opens at State Meeting in Nebraska
About 115 Nebraska WIFE members from 19 chapters attend the first state convention with greetings from US Rep Charles Thone and Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Carol Tucker Foreman. Officers are elected, bylaws adopted, and talks focus on gasohol and farmer challenges. Local farmer Bob Rauner to speak at the banquet on gasohol.
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Nebraska
Charles Thone
Carol Tucker Foreman
Tucker
Marilyn Spiker
WIFE
Bill Harris
Bob Rauner
Gasphol’’ Rauner
ASCS
WIFE convention features Rep Virginia Smith and Howard Hjort
Featured speakers for the national Women Involved in Farm Economics convention include Rep Virginia Smith of Nebraska and USDA economist chief Howard Hjort. The event follows the banquet, with entertainment by Phil White Hawk supported by Rainbow Touraine and the Nebraska Arts Council.
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Mrs. Smith
Hjort
Virginia Smith
Howard Hjort
Smith
Nebraska
Haven
Chappell
University of Nebraska
Committee On Appropriations
Republican Policy Committee
House of
USDA
Ford Foundation
New Delhi
India
Schnittker Associates
Washington DC
Phil White Hawk
America
Rainbow Touraine
White Hawk
Philospher
Nebraska Arts Council
Potter wins playoff spot in state tourney
Potter clinches a playoff berth in the state tournament as coverage notes the result and upcoming games. The item appears amid pages detailing local events and school sports updates.
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Potter
Outdoor burning ban issued by Sidney fire chief
Sidney fire chief Dan Benzel announced a total outdoor burning ban in the Sidney fire district due to dry conditions. The ban, authorized indefinitely by the State Fire Marshal, follows a brush fire at Thelma Cox residence sparked Wednesday night by clearing vegetation.
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Sidney
Dan Benzel
Benzel
Thelma Cox
Hastings college president elected head of regional two year council
Dr Michael Paradise president of Central Technical Community College in Hastings was chosen to lead the Council of North Central Community Junior College for a one year term at the Flint Michigan conference. The council includes about 300 two year colleges across 19 states. In Hastings a nursing home project advances with Cedarborough Nursing Home near Hastings under a lease plan by Hageman of Lincoln awaiting state health department approval. James Earl Ray was found guilty of breaking out of the Tennessee prison where he serves a 99 year term for MLK death.
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Hastings
Neb
UPI
Michael Paradise
Central Technical Community College
North Central Community Junior College
Paradise
Flint
Mich
Couns
Arizona
Ohio
Scottsbil FF
Greater Nebraska Health Systems Agency
Cedarborough
Hageman of
Lincoln
Adams County
Cedar Borough
State Health Department
Wartburg, Tenn
James Earl Ray
Tennessee
Martin Luther King Jr
End of Daylight Saving Time Ends This Sunday
The piece notes daylight saving time ends Sunday marking six months of shift. Clocks should be turned back one hour to standard time at 2 a.m. Sunday morning, with a reminder that arriving an hour early is possible if clocks aren’t reset.
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Dorothy
Teachers wind up 2 day convention in Panhandle
More than 270 teachers from the Panhandle attended the District 6 NSEA convention in Sidney. President Dennis Katus said attendance was good and noted 125 pre-registered for today’s Make It Take It art workshop led by Lynn Chidley.
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Panhandle
NSEA
Dennis Katus
Sidney Educator's Association
Katus
Lynn Chidley
Education Consulting Associates of
Chicago
Paul Belz
Nebraska
Two die in I 80 crashes near Nebraska Potter
Walter Brandon 52 of Pittsburg California died at the scene after a head on collision with a westbound truck on I 80 in Kimball County 36 miles west of Potter. Dianne Lynn McCaughtry 32 of Poway California died Wednesday night in Denver after a rear end crash that sent her vehicle into a ditch. Her twin boys 8 were treated and later moved to Denver hospital in good condition. Brandon had reported threats earlier that morning and was found dead after a high speed crash into a bridge pillar.
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California
Nebraska State Patrol
Walter Brandon
Pittsburgh
Calif
Dianne Lynn McCaughtry
Poway
Denver
McCaughtry
David
Daniel
Memorial Hospital
Sidney
St Anthony's Hospital
St Anthony's
James W McCaughtry
Brandon
McCouguuy
Dwight Tritt
Paul Heideman
Western Nebraska Technical College
Tritt
Consolidated Freightways
Potter I- 80
Kimball County
Jim Taylor
Coronner
Taylor
Routour
Rotutaur
Routaur
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Michael
Telegraph
Lix Watts
US Department of Agriculture
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Economic Research Service
Farmer Cooperative Service Statistical Reporting Service
Office of Budget Planning and Evaluation
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Medicine Lake
Mont
Montana State University
The
Department of Agriculture
Dave Vogler
Japan
Taiwan
Hawaii
Unicef
Telegraph Digest
Don Shaw
Jefferson County
Cole
Ron Welch
Sidney High
Kearney
Wayne
Omaha
Lide
Tobin Beck
U.S.S
Heideman
John Routaur
North Platte
Dolly
Potter, Brandon
State Patrol
Pittsburg
Alda
Post Dispatch
Marvin Jensen
Michael Robinson
Jensen
Grand Island
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