Columbus High School - Discoverer Yearbook (Columbus, NE)

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Columbus had a busy year Governor Kerrey takes time out of his schedule to visit Columbus during his campaign. A Gerhold concrete truck overturned on Nov. 1. 1984. On Feb. 18, 1985, a broken axle caused a train to derail in the center of Columbus. Hy-Vec, the first store to open up in the new shopping mall, opened its doors on Feb. 12, 1985. 10 Student Life

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Two Lebanese Shiite Moslem “National Resistance fighters, armed with Russian made AK-47 assault rifles and a U.S.-made light anti-tank weapon (LAW), move along a hillside near the southern Lebanese city of Tyre which is under Israeli occupation. The fighters agreed to show themselves and to be photographed for the first time only if their faces were covered. Mollie Wilmont smiles as she gets her first clear view of the ocean beyond the Mercedes 1, a grounded Venezuelan freighter that is gradually being dragged away from her sea wall. The ship had been stranded behind her posh Palm Beach mansion since Thanksgiving. World Evenrs 9 U5. Defense Minister Casper Weinberger and his West German counterpart Manfred Wocrncr take a close look at a U.S.-,‘Patriot ' surface-to-air-missile recently introduced for the U.S. troops in Germany. Firefighters pour water on the smoldering wreckage of a light airplane that crashed and burned, killing six people, including tamed balloonist Ben Abruzzo.

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Columbus police and other authorities searched Wagner’s Lake during the summer for the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Behrens. An investigation revealed that Mr. Behrens had murdered his wife and committed suicide. Columbus didn’t get much snow this year, but that didn't stop the river from freezing up. There were several ice jams that caused problems in January. Also, a lot of people helped to get the streets cleared off. Columbus Evencs 11