Lisco rancher Nellie Hannah paints life on canvas and cattle
Nellie Hannah of Morrill County runs a 12,600 acre ranch with foreman John McMullen while building a noted art career. Her oil paintings of nature scenes and wildlife have won state and regional prizes, with works selling coast to coast. She learned drawing from nature, never taking formal lessons, and continues to manage cattle and paint daily.
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Con Marshall Lisco
Nellie Hannah
Morrill County
Miss Hannah
John
Buster) McMullen
Charles
North Platte
Lisco Presbyterian Church
Hannah
Scottsbluff
Ogallala
Irrigation meters tested in Sidney Draw fields this spring
The South Platte NRD launches a five-well pilot in Sidney Draw to meter flow and cumulative water use. Electrical resistance blocks gauge soil moisture while AGNET software, weather data from Scottsbluff and rain gauges guide irrigation timing to conserve water and sustain crops.
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South Platte Natural Resources District
Sidney Draw
AGNET
University of Nebraska
Panhandle
Scottsbilli
NU professor forecasts cooler, wetter Nebraska in coming month
Lincoln weather expert Dr Arthur Douglas of the University of Nebraska Lincoln predicts temperatures two to four degrees below normal and precipitation 150 percent above normal for the next month and a half. He cites Pacific sea-surface conditions and a pattern of storms from Alaska through the Rockies.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Arthur Douglas
Pacific Coast
Central Pacific
Douglas
Pacific Ocean
Rotary Inter national District Conference Opens This Week
Rotary International District 563 conference runs Thursday through Saturday April 14 to 16 with Rotarians and Rotary Anns from Nebraska west of Grand Island attending. Highlights include talks by Rep Virginia Smith Ben Hormel and Lester E Ginkel plus a banquet and luncheon. Officials say over 200 Rotarians and wives are expected at Fort Sidney Motor Hotel and Elks Lodge barring weather issues.
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Rotary Anns
District 563
Nebraska
Grand Island
Virginia Smith
Chappell
Ben Hormel
McCook
Lester E Ginkel
Winter Park
Fla
Ference
Sidney
Elmer Hartmann
Rotary
Bills Marshall
Oliver Dam board to discuss land ownership near lake
The South Platte NRD Board meets at 7 pm Tuesday at Fort Sidney Motor Hotel to decide if the Oliver Dam area should be public or private land. Hoskins Western Sonderegger will report on land purchase needs with an economic evaluation and possible apraiser appointment. A Point of Rocks recreation area near Potter and new bylaws may also be on the agenda.
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Centrol
Kimball
Lincoln
Southern Panhandle
Point of Rocks
Potter
NRD
Bob Hahn
Plant location item on Sidney council agenda tonight
The Sidney City Council meets at 730 tonight at City Offices to again discuss the proposed wastewater facility location about one half mile east of Highway 19 along Lodgepole Creek, hear residents objections from March 28, and decide on extending the plant at its current site. Other actions include Codified Ordinances plates, support for the Consumer Communications Reform Act of 1977, a Class C license hearing for John R. Fahey Stag Tavern, and a Housing Authority session at 715 p.m.
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Sidney
Lodgepole Creek
John R. Fahey
Stag Tavern
Housing Authority
Tom Coffey former city manager dies in Fort Collins
Tom Coffey a longtime city administrator and former Nebraska state senator died Saturday night at Poudre Valley Memorial Hospital Fort Collins He served as Sidney city manager from 1959 to 1965 and later led Fort Collins from 1965 until his 65th birthday He battled Jimmy Hoffa over a trucking firm winning a 61000 lawsuit in 1963 Funeral services are set for 230 p m Tuesday at First United Presbyterian Church in Fort Collins with burial in Alma Nebraska He is survived by his wife Zelma three daughters and five grandsons.
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Tom Coffey
Sidney
Poudre Valley Memorial Hospital
Fort Collins
First United Presbyterian Church
Alma
Neb
Russell
Coffey
Nebraska
Victor Anderson
Nebraska Board of Education Land and Funds
Jimmy Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Hoffa
Oxford
Zelma Kemper
Zelma
Margaret Dent
Lander, Wye
Marilyn Coffey
New York City
Margery Wetmore
Stratford
WIFE group aims for Montana county chapters
Plans to form a statewide WIFE organization in all 56 Montana counties were outlined after a Chester meeting attended by about 400 people. Three Sidney, Peetz, and Potter women reported cattle and wheat concerns. Washington state members also attended as chapters expand. A planning meeting is set for April 22 in Lewistown with the next general meeting slated for April 19 at 1:30 PM at the Fort Sidney Hotel.
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Montana
Chester
Mont
Sidney
Lewistown
Marian Lenzen
Donna Fuehrer
Peetz
Carol Spencer
Potter
Washington State
WIFE
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Lisco
William
Nellie
Margaret Ann Ware
Illinois
Gurley
North Platte River
Grace Ware
David Hannah
Scotland
Lodgepole
Rush Creek
Garden County
Telegraph
Scott Welk
Rollie Biggs
Elmer Ladine
Phyllis Baird
Dinklage Feed Yards
Harold Steele
Dan Benzel
South Platte
NU Prof
Alaska
Rocky Mountains
Rotary Conference
Ginkel
Rotary International
Robert A Manchester
Youngstown
Ohio
Lowry Lindell
Aaron Harman
Fort Sidney Motor Hotel
Elks Lodge
Oliver Dam
Limelight
Hoskins-Western-Sonderegger, Inc
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