Farm Bureau Writer Warns Minimum Wage Hikes Cost Jobs
M. M. Van Kirk argues two federal bills raising agricultural minimum wage to 2.00 or 2.25 per hour will raise unemployment, push more work to mechanization, and increase welfare costs. He cites USDA data from 1970, notes migrant workers decline, and warns small Nebraska farmers may fail while large producers gain.
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Congress
Harrison Williams
Dem.n.j
USDA
Nebraska High School
California
Cesar Chavez
United Farm Workers Organizing Committee
Afl-Cio
Mexico
U.S
Nebraska
4 H Interns Relate Their State Fair Experiences
Nebraska fair week saw four 4 H news interns cover the state fair working with papers magazines radio and the Department of Information. They gained photo and interview experience, learned deadlines and press operations, and earned praise from Dominick Costello Omaha World Herald Tom Allen and others for their contributions.
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Lincoln
4-H
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Information
Interm
Dominick Coatello
The
Lincoln Journal and Star
Omaha World Herald
Tom Allen
Mona Kujath
Fairbury
Jeanette Tenopir
Crete
Susan
Bob
Cowsills
Bette Klingman
Grand Island
Cheryl Burkhart
Nebraska City
Warren Bantz
Kfor Radio
Jerome Shaw
Hayes ‘Center
Lois Kment
Stanton
Bob Bishop
Nebraska
Lois
Joyce Monson
Hastings
Connie Nunn
Harrison
Jan Poley
Dan Lutz
Department of Information
Bell Earnings Rise 106 Percent in Nebraska Operations
Northwestern Bell Telephone Co reports a 106 percent rise in net earnings per telephone in Nebraska over 14 years as it seeks a $14.5 million rate increase. The State Railway Commission hearing into the request continued at the Courthouse, with statistician F. L. Landis testifying on earnings growth from 1957 to 1970 and per-line investment rising from 340 to 561 dollars.
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Northwestern Bell Telephone Co
Nebraska
State Railway Commission
Northwestern
Commission
Herbert Sherdon
F. L. Landis
Landis
Sheldon
Funeral rites held for Mrs. Otto Raddatz at Holy Trinity
Funeral services were conducted Thursday morning at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church for Mrs. Otto Raddatz 57 of Peetz Colorado who died Sunday Rev Harlan Brei officiated Interment followed at Greenwood Cemetery pallbearers included Gordon Headley Melvin Nelson Frank Fehringer Francis Roelle Dean Bules and Edgar Meier Holeciek Funeral Home managed arrangements A continuous caster machine can emit a red hot metal ribbon over 1200 tons in five hours.
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Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
Otto Raddatz
Peetz
Colo
Harlan Brei
Greenwood Cemetery
Gordon Headley
Melvin Nelson
Frank Fehringer
Francis Roelle
Dean Bules
Edgar Meier
Holeciek
Peetz Beahms Visit Hospitalized Mrs. Arford
Community extends sympathy to Ott Raddatz family after Mrs. Raddatz dies in Denver Sunday. Brief notes list visits, hospitalizations, new birth Celeste Christene Trevins in Denver, and multiple local social calls and gatherings in Peetz area.
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Ott Raddatz
Raddatz
Denver
Delmer
Robert Trevins
Loren Miller
Christene Andersen
Shirley
Mechelle Trevino
Millers
Ray Sanders
Orley Beahm
Greeley
Colo
Arford
Lavern Arford
Eaton
Dean DuBois
Chris Brachtenback
Littleton
Arley Beacm
Bob Hartley
Vic Fehringer
John Fehringer
Joe Fehringer
Alanis Davis
Sidney
Keneth Boelle
Steve Schaefer
Idaho
Dale Hall
Marvin Schnell
Dick Segelke
Lary Nelson
Giils
Lavern Nelson
Texas parolees largely reform, few reoffend says official
In Dallas a parole staff supervisor reported that most criminals released on parole lead constructive lives. George Young of the Board of Pardons and Paroles cited figures showing about 10 percent violate parole and only three percent commit new crimes. In Israel, WHO opened an immunology training center at the Weizmann Institute, the first outside Switzerland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Texas
George Young
Board of Pardons and Paroles
WHO
Israel
Rehovot
World Health Organization
Weizmann Institute of Science
Switzerland
Taxation Hearing Planned by Legislative Council Committee
The Interim Study Committee on Taxation will hold public hearings in Alliance North Platte and Grand Island on Sept 13 14 and 15. Hearings start at 9 00 or 9 30 a m. Public groups may testify on mobile home taxation local government issues property tax equalization aviation fuels tax and distribution to local airports.
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Legislative Council Interim Study Committee
Alliance
City Auditorium
North Platte
Pawnee
Grand Island
City Council
Schooners Help Light Up Lodgepole Old Settlers Day
Prairie Schooners Square Dance Club joined Lodgepole Old Settlers Day with a float and an afternoon exhibition. Couples danced on the float to Mal Minshall’s call, and six couples of Swingin Schooners performed in the afternoon. The event ended with a covered dish dinner at the Hornicek home attended by 20 adults and 16 children. Minshall and Ron Sauers of Big Springs led callers at the Saturday 4-H Building dance with guests including Sauer family and Dale Skeels.
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Prairie Schooners Square Dance Club
Mal Minshall
Loyal Hornicek
Jim Crabb
George Hare
Dale Dickinson
Vick Reker
Lodgepole
Mr Minshall
Hornicek Sund
Minshall
Ron Sauers
Big Springs
Sauer
Debbie
Dale Skeels
Ogallala
Augie Stainz
Milford
Dave Reader
Prairie Schooners
Lexington
Hornice
Army Commendation Medals Awarded to Chu Lai Crew
Specialist Gilbert J. Hulslander, 21, son of Sterling couple, earned his fourth Army Commendation Medal in Vietnam for meritorious service as an automotive mechanic with Headquarters and Company A, 723rd Maintenance Battalion, 23rd Infantry Division near Chu Lai. Private Richard J. Doyle Jr of Morrill begins eight weeks of basic training at Fort Lewis. Private Jamers R Naugle, 19, of Sterling, completed a nine week chemical equipment repair course at Fort McClellan Alabama, training on masks and chemical corps gear.
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Chu Lai
Vietnam
Gilbert J. Hulslander
Merritte Hulslander
Sterling. Cole
Spec Halslander
23Rd Infantry
FT Lewis
Wash
Richard J. Doyle Jr
Morrill
US Army Infantry Training Center
Doyle
Pamela
1641
Jackson
FT Mcclellan
Ala
Jamers R Naugle
Richard E. Naugle
Sterling, Cole
US Army Chemical Center
Chemical Corps
Chappell Man Reappointed to Nebraska Oil Board
Ray Smith of Chappell has been reappointed by Gov. Exon to the Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. A original member since the 1950s, Smith continues on the panel alongside Doug Knapp and Reid Gilmore of Kimball.
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Ray Smith
Chappell
Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
J. J. Exon
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Farm Bureau
M. M. van Kirk
Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation
Bell
Nick Burr
Delmer Nelson
Jolene Nelson
Logan
Arley Beahm
Sylvan Tadolini
Leonard Wallies
Beverly Roelle
Don Lock
Holyoke
Jim Roelle
Larry Nelson
Larry Tramp
Laura Jensen
Colorado Springs
Ivan Gillham
Penny
Sterling
June Parsons
Shirley Hawkins
Elizabeth Gillham
Pernie Nelson
Dale Nelson
Sindy
Kara Fish
Francis Hull
Carrie Ruhter
Lonnie Kuhns
Co-Op Oil
Jerry
Sinclair
Jerry’s Sinclair
Illinois
West Germany
Oil Group
New York
Irving Cohen
Cohen
Feather-Lite
Minum
Apache Aluminum
S.A. Foster Lumber CO
Bob Horner
Quince Sidney
Karen Black
Johnny Cash
Paramount Pictures
Kirk Douglas
Cash
Jane Alexander
Raf Vallone
Alvarez
Ic.b.dorwart, M.D
Jones Center
Toledo Street
Stahla
Discount Mobile Homes
Hiway
Kimball, Nb
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