Former Sidneyites Lead Ohio Oil Global Market Move
Former Sidney District officials helped Ohio Oil decide on a 25 000 barrel per day refinery in Spain. Spain grants permission. Ohio will own 28 percent, with 16 percent to Spanish associates and 52 percent to the Spanish government via a holding group. Crude supply from Oasis Oil Co. in Libya, led by Robert McMillen, and construction oversight by Ohio Oil. The project includes a marine terminal and a 300 000 barrel per day Sidrah pipeline from Dahra field to the Mediterranean.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney District
Ohio Oil Co
Spain
Ohio
Libya
Oasis Oil Co
Oasis
Robert
Bob) McMillen
Sidney
Ohio Oil
Spanish Associates
Compania Iberica de Petroleos, S.A
Fierro
North Atlantic
Cartagena
Tenerife
Canary Islands
Dahra
Gulf of Sirte
Mediterranean
Oasis Oil Company of Libya, Inc
Two Associates
el Sider
Cheyenne County Opposes Aged Medical Aid Bill SB 642
A Cheyenne County hospital official and welfare board oppose SB 642 proposing medical aid for the aged. Hearing was set for the Legislature's Labor and Public Welfare Committee. Opponents warn the program would raise county costs and burden taxpayers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney Hospital
Cheyenne County Welfare Board
Committee On Labor and Public Welfare
Cheyenne County Welfare Office
County Welfare Board
Joan Hart
Carl Olson
Lincoln
Senate ‘Committee
State Welfare Department
Cheyenne County
Leo Bolin
Memorial Hospital
Inisofar
Blue Cross
Unemployed Extra Claims Open At Sidney Office
The Sidney office of the Division of Employment Security began taking TEC claims on the first working day after the act. TEC provides temporary extended unemployment benefits funded by the federal government for those who exhausted regular state benefits since June 30, 1960. Eligible claimants may receive up to half their original weekly benefit and must file between April 8, 1961 and June 30, 1962. It also covers ex servicemen and former federal employees who exhausted benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney
Division of Employment Security
TEC
Cancer Porchlight Parade Cancelled
The porchlight parade for the Cancer Crusade is cancelled. Co chairmen Frank Mattoon and Jim Teets replace it with a neighbor to neighbor campaign in the Sidney residential area starting the first week in May. An instruction meeting is set for Wednesday April 26 at 8 p.m. in the Ft. Sidney Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Mattoon
Jim Teets
Cochairmen
Sidney
Ft. Sidney
American Legion
Louis Johnson
Floyd Lanks
Henry Geu
Lions District Talent Contest at Dalton Sunday
The Dalton Lions Club hosts a district talent contest on Sunday April 16 starting at 2 p m in the Dalton School auditorium. Twenty six clubs enter with junior intermediate and senior divisions. first and second place winners will be chosen in each division.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lions Club
Dalton School Auditoriorm
Married Student Policy Endorsed by Sidney School Board
Sidney Public Schools adopted a policy restricting married students from elected or appointive offices and subjecting socially married students to a one quarter probationary period before school representation. The policy aims to curb rising marriages among high school students. The board also set a 1961-62 start date, approved two new teachers, and re-elected the lunch program manager.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney
Board of Education
Parents Advisory Council
Alice Virtanen
F. Kent Holten
A. E. Wright
Yanney Named to Nebraska Board of Normal Schools
Lincoln Gov Morrison announced the appointment of E K Yanney a Lodgepole banker to the Nebraska Board of Education of State Normal Schools He replaces Mrs Haven Smith who resigned in January Yanney a State College of Education at Kearney graduate has done post graduate work at Harvard Business School and other colleges His term expires in 1963 and he also has banking interests
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
E. K Yanney
Nebraska Board of Education
State Normal Schools
Frank B. Morrison
Yanney
State College of Education
Kearney
Haven Smith
Chappell
Morrison
Harvard School of Business Administration
Inch Of Moisture Assures Perfect Spring For Crops
The Sidney area collected an inch of moisture since last Friday, with .23 inch from Monday night snow. Total moisture neared 1 inch after .76 inch last weekend as portions of the southern Panhandle saw more, while Sidney and Cheyenne County stayed near the storm center. Dalton reported .63 inch from six to seven inches of snow per Don Dey Ermand, government weather observer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney
Panhandle
Cheyenne County
Dalton
Don Dey Ermand
New Harlan Discovery Potters Well Pumping At 4 BOPH
The Ohio Oil Company reported No. 1 Nielsen in CSE NE 814N 52 south of Potter pumped 4 barrels of formation oil and 5 barrels of water per hour from J sand perforations. Independent Francis O. Hawn recovered 1730 feet of oil with no water at No. 1 Kauk in Lan sing-Kansas City. drillstem test cited as best in Harlan County history. Additional frontier wells listed across Nebraska and Kansas with various sands and test depths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio Oil Company
Potter
Francis O. Hawn
McPherson
Kansas
Lansing-Kansas City
Kauk
Harlan County
Nebraskan Basin
Hawn
South Alma
Frontier Refining Company
Hofman D
Ackman Field
Red Willow County
Juniper Oil and Mining Company
Robinson
Kimball County
Wildcat
Juniper Oil and Mining
Farmer
Dow and McHugh
HLM Drilling Company
Winslow Oil Company
Kosch
Schmoeller
Kimbark Exploration Company
van Pelt
Stauffer Field
Banner County
Banner Oil Company, Inc
Knutson
Furnas County
Granite
Wilsonville
Dalton's Men Shop bankruptcy hearing set for April
A bankruptcy hearing for Charles A. Dalton doing business as Dalton's Men Shop in Sidney is set for April 20 at 9 30 am in the United States Post Office Building court room in North Platte creditors and other interested parties are invited to attend and file claims or conduct related business
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles A. Dalton
Dalton's Men Shop
Sidney
North Platte
United States Postoffice
Sidney and Garber weigh NIL league invite
Sidney officials face a Friday deadline to decide on joining the Nebraska Independent League’s revitalized two-division loop. Bill Garber, Sidney Athletics manager in 1960, says NIL plans rapid progress with eastern teams including North Platte, Lexington, Kearney, Holdrege, and Broken Bow. McCook possible for the west division.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sy Hank Meysenburg
Sidney
Creen
Nebraska Independent League
Bill Garber
Sidney Athletics
NIL
Garber
North Platte
Lexington
Kearney
Holdrege
Broken Bow
McCook
Ogallala
Grant
Ven
Page Six
Water Park Creek Study okayed to save old trees
City officials study a plan to reroute water from Legion Park Creek to keep the park lagoon flowing and preserve the Oberfelder Cottonwood and other ancient trees. A low dam near Toledo Street would feed city water into the creek bed, requiring about 24 million gallons annually, with costs estimated midrange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Legion Park
Lodgepole Creek
Tom Coffey
Coffey
Toledo St
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bob McMillen
Fred Aldrich
Normal
Harlan
Gage Oil and Gas, Ltd
Brauer
Love-Miller
Haug
Faster Town
O. K
Sidney Nursery
Oberfelder
Col. Robt. S. Oberfelder
Sidney Merchant
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!