Jones Center Grand Opening in Sidney
The Jones Center, Sidney's new retail and professional services hub, opens Thursday to Saturday on a block between Spruce and Toledo Streets and 10th to 11th Avenue. A special section highlights the center, its tenants, and organizer Arlo Jones with door prizes and registration to mark the regional expansion.
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Jones Center
Sidney
Sidney Telegraph
South
Spruce
Toledo Streets
10Th
11Th Avenue
Nebraska
Colorado
Arlo Jones
88 Per Cent Sign-Up For 65 Feed Grain Plan Reported
Eighty eight percent of Cheyenne County farms eligible for the 1965 feed grain program have signed up, the county ASC office disclosed. A new state-wide record shows 77 percent of Nebraska farms enrolled, up from 72 percent in 1964, with 83 307 farms participating and 3 117 009 acres diverted across all feed grain crops.
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Cheyenne
ASC
Nebraska
State Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Services
ASCS
Sidney school board approves bus purchase and tuition hike
The Sidney School Board accepted Elwell Motors bids totaling 579?16 for a new bus, raising tuition to 12 dollars weekly for elementary and 15 for junior high. They named new auditors, rehired staff, filled two vacancies, and discussed boiler, bus building, and safety glass recommendations.
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Sidney
Elwell Motors
Dodge
Superior
Fennimore
Gerke and Schaffer
Scottsbluff
Neb
Darrell Hunt
Norman Fletchall
Art Wright
Judy White
Gayleen Woodburn
Gothenburg
Kearney State College
Pedersen
Home Economic Department
Wayne Ayers
Ronald Engelbright
Robert Jay
Board of Education of
Public Schools
City of
Glen Ackerson
Dilling Named New Office Manager at Sidney City Offices
Darrell J. Dilling becomes office manager at Sidney City Offices. formerly with Young Electric and Manufacturing Co of Denver. native of Salina Kansas. holds an accounting degree from the University of Chicago. Navy veteran.
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Sidney City
Darrell J. Dilling
Young Electric & Manufacturing Co
Denver
Dilling
Salina
Kan
University of Chicago
U.S. Navy
Vergal Winn Named Ak-Sar-Ben Neighbor of the Year
Vergal Winn of Sidney is cited by Ak-Sar-Ben as one of forty Nebraskans honored for community service. A schoolteacher by trade, he has guided Boy Scouts and contributed to youth programs in the Nebraska Panhandle, earning regional and statewide recognition. His work in Sidney spans teaching and numerous service roles.
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Vergal Winn
Sidney
Ak-Sar- Ben
Winn
Ak-Sar-Ben
Nebraska Panhandle
Ogallala Repeals Liquor by the Drink on Tuesday Vote
Voters in Ogallala repealed liquor by the drink on Tuesday by a 829 to 584 margin. The result follows a December election that also narrowly favored liquor by the drink by 10 votes.
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Ogallala
Fire Crews Quell Straw Stack Blaze and Golf Course Brush
Sidney volunteers responded to two calls this week. An evening blaze at Carl Olson farm west of Sidney destroyed a straw stack. Near noon, brush along ditches at Hillside Golf Course caught fire but caused no damage.
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Sidney
Carl Olson
Dalton Lions Talent Show Winners Stir Excitement at District Meet
In Dalton last Saturday junior Julie McRoberts won first in piano solo while Betty Jean Weed captured senior vocal solo. Second place went to Judy Schinzel and Paul Schinzel in junior vocal duet and Mary Ellen Adams in senior vocal solo. First place advance to District 38N contest on April 25 at Dalton. numerous entrants performed piano solos duets and pantomimes across junior intermediate and senior divisions.
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Dalton Lions Club
Julie McRoberts
Curt Warren
Kyle Warren
Jim Gillespie
Randy Linton
Mary Alice Gillespie
Betty Jean Weed
Judy Schinzel
Paul Schinzel
Mary Peterson
Wilma Peterson
Mary Ellen Adams
Dalton
Ann Schinzel
Deanna Smith
Suzanne Heizer
Virginia Gillespie
Char
Trade School Bills Talked One Is Axed
Nebraska Legislature Education Committee reviews multiple bills to create state supported trade schools. A first proposal to set up a vocational education division at Chadron State College was defeated. Other bills push for regional and area trade schools in Sidney ONeill North Platte Norfolk Ogallala and Broken Bow with tax financing options.
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Chadron State College
Sidney
Oneill
North Platte
Norfolk
Ogallala
Broken Bow
Second Beet Payment Set
Denver The Great Western Sugar Co will pay beet growers 8 182 500 April 14 as second payment on the 1964 beet crop. Frank A Kemp president said the payment will average 1 70 per ton in Colorado and Kansas 1 77 in Nebraska and southern Wyoming and 1 85 in Montana and northern Wyoming. On receipt of this payment the largest second disbursement ever paid by Great Western growers will have received 53 322 000 from the company to date for 1964 beets with final accounting to be made Sept 30 1965. Mr Kemp said planting the 1965 crop is now in progress with favorable outlook for irrigation water.
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Denver
Great Western Sugar Co
Frank A. Kemp
Colorado
Kansas
Nebraska
Wyoming
Montana
Great Western
Kemp
Stray Bullet Hits House
Mrs. Tom Coffey and guests heard a noise and found a bullet hole in a kitchen window. Police traced the path to two boys shooting rabbits a half mile east beyond Highway 19. Chief Sol Willis warned shooters this near the city limits could have caused harm and that authorities are watching for them.
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Tom Coffey
Monterey Drive
Coffey
Sol Willis
Reelected Secretary of Camera Craftsmen of America
Alvin Duis, master photographer, was reelected secretary of the Camera Craftsmen of America at the annual meeting held last week in Dallas, Texas. He returned Tuesday after attending the four day session. The organization limits membership to 40 photographers nationwide, and Duis has been a member for seven years.
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Alvin Duis
Camera Craftsemen of America
Daleas
Tex
Duis
Five day forecast warms with frequent changes ahead
The five day forecast shows temperatures 3 to 10 degrees above normal through next Monday. Highs reach the 60s with overnight lows in the 30s. Scattered showers are expected at the start and again over the weekend.
Fort Sidney Days names George Coulter Sr 1965 Colonel
George F. Coulter Sr., a longtime Potter resident and county civic leader, was named the 1965 Colonel for Fort Sidney Days, to reign during August with Miss Fort Sidney Days to be chosen May 1. Coulter, 69, will turn 79 in June, arrived in Cheyenne County in 1917, farmed near Potter, and retired in 1963 to live in Potter. He and his wife Margaret Jensen, m. 1920, have four children and he previously served as county commissioner from the third district.
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Potter
George F. Coulter Sr
Fort Sidney
Cheyenne County
Coulter
Margaret Jensen
Kenneth Rose
James
Delores Cogan
George Jr
William Smith
Governor to keynote District Five Youth Conference in Ogallala
Gov Frank B Morrison will present the keynote address at the District Five meeting of the Nebraska Conference of Youth in Ogallala. About 200 high school juniors and seniors from western Nebraska are expected April 9 and 10 with sessions at Ogallala High School and meals in local churches.
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Frank B. Morrison
Ogallala
Nebraska Conference of Youth
Jamie Spearow
Nancy Knicely
St. Patrick’s Academy
Mike Janda
Phil Schlaman
Cindy Peetz
Janice Treinen
Ogallala High School
Morrison
Nebraska
Robert Manley
University of Nebraska History Department
Julie Thalken
District Five Conference of Youth
Gov
Robert Quade
Autograph Party for Francis Kroll in Wauneta Neb
Author Francis Kroll promotes his new book Top Hand with an autograph party at Alpha Enterprises in Wauneta on April 17. He recently held a signing at The Book Keepers in Sidney.
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Francis Kroll
Wauneta
Neb
Alpha Enterprises
Sidney
Peterson Attends Bankers Meeting in Hollywood Florida
A C Andy Peterson president of The First State Bank Lodgepole and Mrs Peterson will attend the 31st annual convention of The Independent Bankers Association in Hollywood Florida April 8 9 and 10. Speakers include Senator Everett M Dirksen and FDIC Chairman Joseph W Barr among others. Leisures include golf deep sea fishing cruises and a Polynesian luau. More than 1100 pre registered. association has over 6200 member banks in 40 states east of the Rockies.
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A. C
Andy) Peterson
First State Bank
Lodgepole
Peterson
Independent Bankers Association
Hollywood
Florida
Diplomat Hotel
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Joseph W. Barr
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Morris Fishbein
Brooks Keogh
Keene
North Dakota
Bill House
Cedar Vale
Kan
National Associations of Cattlemen
van Vechten Shaffer
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Gulf Stream Park
Diplomat’s Cabana Pool
Howard Bell
Rocky Mountains
Sidney Council Considers W & M Inc Liquor License
In a special meeting, Sidney City Council reviewed the W and M Inc application for a Class C liquor license now held by Porter McGuiver Post 610, VFW. A decision was continued to the regular meeting on April 12, when the VFW license renewal will also be heard. The council authorized adverting for a new street department truck.
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Sidney
W & M Inc
Richard Peetz
Theresa Peetz
Fred Johnston
Porter McGuver
Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW
Tom Coffey
Band Broom Sale To Be Saturday
Sidney High School band members will sell brooms and household items all day Saturday to raise funds for future trips. House to house selling will run from 7 to 8 AM, with supplies handed out by N W Bell Telephone Co, per Band Auxiliary member Benny Hochman.
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Sidney High School
N. W. Bell Telephone Co
Benny Hochman
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American Legion Auxiliary
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Pat Schinzel
Debbie Smith
Brian Lojek
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Don Twarling
Ted Watchorn
Randy Winkelman
Gail Michal
Cornelia Thompson
Steve Antheny
Susan Hiner
Janet Stahl
Sheila Schuler
Peggy Aurich
Leilani Eddy
June Kurth
Terry van An
Marlene Ernest
Carolyn Burdick
Rex Prather
Ann Borges
Lina Bayne
Connie Flora
Laurie Miller
Susan Eddy
Jean Kruger
Susan Allen
Steve Ankeny
Ernie Davison
John Marrin
Alien Mintken
Joan Lessman
Shirley Mika
Nebr
George Coulter Sr
Bankers Meeting
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