Drastic Cut In Mail Service Hits Sidney Saturday
Post office operations to shrink with Saturday closure of offices and no mail delivery on Saturdays. Windows to open 6 30 am to 5 pm next week. five substitute workers laid off. April 29 further restrictions include no money orders and no third class mail except medical supplies. Local reaction shows irritation and calls to congress.
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Sidney
Weldon Stewart
Poetal
Stewart
Arthur Summerfield
Summerfield
Congress
Postmaj
General
House
Postall
Mmerfield
Otter
Gray
D-Va
Cheyenne County
Postal Service
Lagging Business Inventory Lists Prompt Assessor Warnings
Cheyenne County business owners have filed few 1957 property schedules. Deadline for business and personal property listings is April 20. Roy Gish warns that incomplete returns will be returned or business owners summoned for audits. The Justin Haynes Co. of Denver will audit all schedules, with on site checks as needed.
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Cheyenne County
Roy
Gish
Justin Haynes Co
Denver
Our Horse and Buggy Mails Call for a Modern Post Office
Reader's Digest summarizes Wolfgang W. Wiesche Lange’s article urging a streamlined postal system with mechanization, new building designs, and higher investment in research. It notes the Post Office lags Europe, spends heavily on wages, and relies on hand sorting, proposing helicopters and conveyor belts to speed mail, reduce costs, and modernize the nation’s mail network.
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Wolfgang Langewiesche
Washington
Reader's Digest
Congress
Europe
Holland
First National Bank
Man Who Started Sioux Depot Gets Grand Forks Job
Lt Col Sidney Stern, who began Sioux Ordnance Depot work in 1942, is named area engineer in charge of building Grand Forks Air Base North Dakota. He will serve about three months while a permanent Army Engineer officer is assigned to oversee 22 million dollars in contracts this year. Stern, veteran of 26 years, previously headed Rapid City work at Ellsworth AFB the Black Hills Ordnance Depot and the Sioux Ordnance Depot in Sidney.
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Sidney
Sioux Ordnance Depot
Army Engineers
Grand Forks N. D. Air Base
Sidney Stern
Army
Colonel Stern
Rapid City
Ellsworth Air Force Base
Black Hills
South Dakota
Decrease Seen in County Motor Vehicle Tax Income
Cheyenne County treasurer M. M. Inhelder reports motor vehicle tax receipts for the first quarter total $225,709.74, down from $247,747.70 for the same period in 1956. The drop of almost 10 percent is blamed on state valuation cuts, fewer vehicles, and fewer new autos.
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M. M
Jack’’ Inhelder
Pre-Campaign Music Group Seeks Public Help in Sidney
Officers of the Sidney Civic Music Assn push a pre campaign appeal to invite public inquiry about aims and objects. The 1957 58 drive targets community support with memberships set at 6 dollars for adults and 3 dollars for students.
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Sidney Civic Music Assn
Sidney
Robert Clark
Fritz Nagel
C .B. Dorwart
Roy Oliverius
Joseph Hahler
Oliverius
Nagel
J. H. McNish
George Hinn
Willian Fankhauser
Greeks to tour Nebraska wheat regions next week
Six key Greek officials and industry leaders will visit Nebraska’s largest wheat area as part of a ten day state tour. The delegation aims to see high protein hard red winter wheat, meet Cheyenne County and Panhandle growers, and view mills and grain facilities from McCook to Ogallala with stops in Imperial Venango and Chapell.
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Nebraska
Panayotis Katsoulis
Hippocrates Pappaioannou
P. Petropoulous
Sidney
Cheyenne County
Panhandle
Nebraska Wheat Commission
Greece
Foreign Agricultural Service
United States
Sidney at Work special edition portraits Sidne y businessmen
The Telegraph prepares a 90th Anniversary Sidney Days edition with a Get Acquainted caricature series. Salah features Sidney on the job with portraits of local businessmen employees and professionals. Hut Hutson of Amarillo Texas handles the caricature work promising a large production. The edition appears in the week of June 21 22 during Sidney Days.
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Sidney
The
Telegraph
Ft. Sidney
H. H
Hutson
Amarillo
Texas
Hut
Funeral held today for Broadwater man Carroll Sawyers
Funeral services were held at Broadwater Presbyterian Church for Carroll Dean Sawyers 54 who died Friday The Rev Marvin Miller officiated with burial in Rosehill Cemetery Sawyers a native of Iowa moved to Broadwater in 1924 He married in Cheyenne on November 1 1924 Survivors include a daughter Arda Rae Bass a grandson a sister Ftta Shacklett and his step mother Florence Sawyers of Denver.
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Broadwater Presbyterian Church
Carroll Dean Sawyers
Marvin Miller
Broadwaters
Rosehill
Iowa
Sawyers
Broadwater
Cheyenne
Broadwaye Presbyterian Church
Arda Rae B.ss
Ftta Shacklett
Denver
Florence Sawyers
Red Cross Drive Extended Through April in Nebraska
The national Red Cross fund drive is extended through April cutting a $1,100 gap in a $4,000 goal. Sidney Lions Club and Cheyenne County Red Cross leaders report strong school support and slow other canvassing due to weather. Donations may be sent to Mrs. LaVern Anthony, 2420 Park View Road, checks to American Red Cross. Blizzards aided relief with trains and autos aided and food drops by air to snow blocked areas across western Nebraska.
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Red Cross
LaVern Anthony
Cheyennne County Red Cross
Faundz Dive
Sidney Lions Club
Gall
Anthony
Park View Road
American Red Cross
Midwest
Nebraska
Grain markets show higher wheat prices today
Local elevators quote No 1 Wheat at 200 dollars per bushel and No 2 Wheat at 199 dollars per bushel, reflecting strong demand. The figures provide a snapshot of current grain pricing in the region.
Rain and Snow End Drought In Sidney Region
More than two and a half inches of moisture have fallen across Sidney and surrounding Cheyenne County, easing a drought reminiscent of the 1930s. Soil moisture improves pasture growth and wheat outlook, with insects and hail named as remaining crop threats.
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Sidney
Cheyenne County
Nebraska Panhandle
Great Western Sugar Co
Nebraska
Plains Oil Mills Inc
Telegraph
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Grand Forks
Cheyennne County
North Ward School
Jean Davis
John Deir
Leslie Landmesser
Larry Wolf
Linda Downing
Dorothy Banes
Thompson
Sidney Youngsters
Tom Harbek
Linda Hirsch
Judy Houser
17Th and
Cedar St
Nis
Hut Htson
HUT Hutson
Rabbi Morris Adler
Detroit
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