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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1970
Page
8
The Sidney Telegraph editorial argues the Big Three offer the UAW a three year wage package totaling 214 billion dollars in wage hikes and benefits, a sum likely passed to consumers. It warns a Sept. 14 strike could disrupt 1971 model unveilings, then urges farmers to unite like the UAW to wield power through collective action.
The Sidney Telegraph reports a survey showing substantial payrolls in Sidney and Cheyenne County, emphasizing the need to protect existing payrolls while seeking new industries. It notes education as big business, valued teachers, and a shift toward home grown industries like The Egging Co. at Gurney, with optimism for a solid, expanding community in the 1970s.
The piece opposes public boards dictating private business hours days and prices. It argues such controls infringe free enterprise and praises Sidney city council for repealing a six day grocery ordinance deemed unconstitutional, comparing it to constraints on printing newspapers.
Good Health Care Alliance surveys hospital service needs as Bridgeport and Kimball County face aging infrastructure and potential county takeovers. Nursing home profitability declines prompt private operation and new Lodgepole Plaza Nursing Home. Rising costs and bed shortages threaten medical indigence, yet communities like Sidney assert Memorial Hospital and Home remain self supporting.
The editorial warns that a combination of corn leaf blight and dry weather risks a major cut in feed grain this year. It argues Congress must pass a national agriculture policy and establish a federally supported grain reserve to insure the food supply, urging priority for the pending farm bill led by Sen. Roman Hruska and House leaders.
Colorado wheat growers see profit in others’ crop failures yet worry about bumper Soviet harvests. A damp Midwest blight and global supply dynamics threaten orderly markets and price stability. The push to curb dumping via the International Grains Arrangement faces expiry next June as farmers seek steadier, independent pricing.
A Casper Star-Tribune opinion column defends fair coverage of youth actions amid vandalism at Kelly Walsh High School. It argues media overemphasis is unfounded and urges accountability for culprits and parents, urging restraint from sensationalism and a halt to senseless destruction.
Representatives from Hewitt and Royer of Kansas City begin a medical feasibility survey in Alliance led by Dr. Raymond Olson of the Box Butte Better Health Facilities Committee. The survey aims to year end to support forming a hospital district and a possible one mill levy if approved.
Ash Hollow State Park at Lewellen reports a rise in camper guest nights from June through August with 581 camper units and 1,912 campers, up from 526 units and 1,778 people last year. July shows the peak with 232 overnight units, while August dips slightly. Overall 2,300 camper guest nights are logged, versus 1,987 last year.
Nebraska remains hopeful about the future with better education industrial growth and tourism prospects. However memories are short and progress faces frustration and setbacks as the 1970s approach. distrust and sourness risk becoming permanent. A Lewellen accident burned a girl and her father while a Kimball Lions Club 50th anniversary celebration is planned with Tris Coffin as speaker.
Thirteen maximum security inmates seized two guards and held them for about 20 hours in a Lincoln state penitentiary. A rescue by Capt. John Phillips and Robert Parratt freed Schrader and Siemens without bloodshed. Warden Maurice Sigler refused to negotiate, citing safety and policy, while Gov. Norbert T. Tiemann supported the rescue plan.
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