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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1957
Page
6
The National Republican Chairman calls for brutal frankness about party goals and reforms. He warns the modern administration over foreign aid, post office funding, and disconnect from farmers, urging revival of contact with the forgotten man on the farm.
Citizens face higher land values as Cheyenne County tax reappraisal takes effect. Some reductions occur in improvements, but overall increases loom. Property owners may appeal individually. commissioners aim for fair, uniform assessments despite past inequities.
A TV managing editor pressures an ace reporter to chase a sensational parole story. The convict, jailed thirty five years, seems unlikely to be freed while the ME seeks page one dirt. In the end the reporter files the tale and the editor is satisfied, leaving the inmate trapped.
Nebraska Republicans urge National Committee Chairman Meade Alcorn to bolster the flagging GOP in the agricultural Midwest. The piece stresses the need for deeds over talk, urging parity for Nebraska, tax relief, and a return to old power doctrines to win votes and restore party credibility.
The American Press reports results from 794 country editors across the nation, showing strong support for presidential use of force in the Middle East and for eliminating double taxation on distributed dividends, while nearly equal splits appear on budget taxes, school construction aid, and other issues. The piece notes vigorous, opinionated responses and lively debate on many topics.
A writer mocks a Lincoln bill to end daylight saving while railing against overregulation. He favors fewer laws, more night for sleep, and questions the purpose of clock changes and government bureaucracy.
18 year old Jean Seberg after filming Saint Joan abroad returns to the United States. She emphasizes hard work behind her success, notes her luck in getting her break, and describes balancing college, photos, interviews, and future projects like Bonjour Tristesse while growing into a public figure and navigating press reactions.
Health Hints outlines chronic disease as a major, solvable problem requiring cooperation among individuals, medical professionals, and public officials. It cites high bed occupancy, economic loss, aging trends, and early detection as key prevention strategies, noting that personal attitude heavily influences disability management. Boxer Rory Calhoun has 10 brothers and sisters.
Traveling east of North Platte on Highway 30 a Maxwell sign points south to Fort McPherson National Cemetery. The post, central to Platte valley history, bore names Cantonment McKean Fort Cottonwood and Fort McPherson. Reasons for its site included water from Cottonwood Canyon timber for telegraph poles and strategic control of Indian routes. No attack ever occurred, though tensions rose in 1865.
An appeal urges donations to Cancer Society citing cancer mortality and need for research. The text also touches Fort McPherson history with clashes with Indians, 1864 Sioux and Cheyenne talks, buffalo hunts, and abandonment in 1880.
Postal authorities sent a dead letter from Bergenfield New Jersey addressed to George Washington Mount Vernon Virginia. The sender is named Thomas Jefferson Monticello Virginia. The case highlights historical figures and old mail routing.
A quirky collage from small towns and cities features a Marshall Texas girl calling police over a spanking, a Duke Oklahoma pastor asked for announcements, Kay five asking about a lost kitten, five year old Milwaukee boy complaint about his dream, a Dallas manse garage door opening on a car signal but also at 5 p.m. from Love Field, a Knuckle Ohio train collision near Adrian Michigan, a Dennis Dowling injured by a hooded auto in Adrian, a Virden Manitoba postman breathing easier after Second Avenue renamed First Avenue, noting Virden’s long two seconds and no first.
A crossword clue list with across and down entries including definitions for short words such as recoil, sun related terms, languages, and various objects plus down clues referencing animals, geology, and history. The grid references and exact answers are not provided in the readable text.
Purdue University professors J Carroll Bottem and J O Dunbar authored a Farm Equipment Institute report predicting a new era of farm mechanization. They say improved equipment raises per acre income and that labor requirements have fallen relative to equipment costs, with wages rising faster than prices making machines profitable.
A rural economy shift is driving poultry toward large flocks as small farm houses disappear. Pennsylvania State University research shows tripling laying hens per house via solar design and efficient mechanization. Libbey Owens Ford's W Everett Eakin notes flocks of 1 000 to 10 000 birds replace smaller groups, using solar heated winter and shaded summer housing.
The article notes a solar poultry house that traps winter sun with large Thermopane insulated windows to heat the shed and shade layers from summer sun. It also mentions the Syracuse Colgate basketball rivalry dating to 1902 and Seattle University coach Johnny Castellani from New Britain Connecticut.
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