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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1958
Page
8
Ten candidates compete for the 1958 Miss Fort Sidney title at an 8 p.m. pageant in the Sidney high school auditorium after an afternoon tea with judges at the Ft. Sidney Motor Hotel. The winner earns a $100 scholarship and a Lincoln trip for the Miss Nebraska Pageant, with royalties and bracelets for all contestants.
Five judges and ten Miss Ft Sidney pageant contestants met at a tea in the Fort Sidney Motor Hotel banquet room. Guests discussed education plans and current events while contestants wore varied outfits from chemises to tailored dresses. Judges include Bixler, McGinley, Bruns, Grimm, and Hammond. event led by Mrs Joel Babcock with KSID representative Mrs Ham and reporter Judy Bush present.
Kenneth, a partially paralyzed boy who uses a cane, learns to adapt after illness. Financed by his parents and friends, with support from the Cheyenne County chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, he pursues a first class education. Returning home after hospital dismissal, he continues studies with his mother and seventh grade teacher Miss Mary Hemmer, aided by encyclopedic reading as a lifelong interest.
Kenneth graduated Potter s High School in 1953 after winning a Regent´s scholarship to the University of Nebraska. He then studied at Nebraska Wesleyan University majoring in physics with a mathematics minor and completed senior work in January this year. He joined Theta Chi, the Academy of Science and Barbs, helped by his brother LeRoy and his parents, with tuition aid from the Nebraska Department of Vocational Rehabilitation. He began work in New Mexico on March 11 after taking a civil service exam, and is now enrolled in an auto electronics course at the ordnance base, proving a disability can be a motivation not a handicap.
Col Hans J. Holtorf of Gering visited Company K, 134th Infantry in Sidney for an inspection amid concerns over federal recognition due to weakness. He noted an intensive recruiting effort and welcomed new recruit Jimmy Rosales, a SOD worker and Korean veteran, praising Sidney’s support.
Two civil actions were filed in District Court per Clerk Ruby Spindler. One case asks permission to negotiate an oil and gas lease on property owned by the Pauline Thimgahn estate. The other seeks court approval to alter a lease and pooling agreement for Kathleen Ann Spearow.
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