Lost Tots Found: Chicago Ride Ends Mix Up
Two children Earl and Sandra, placed on a bus by their sister to travel to Lexington, caused a Chicago scare after arriving. Officials traced them to Dix Nebraska, contacted welfare director Joan Hart, and reunited them with their aunt and sister. The kids were hospitalized for colds. mother is under treatment for a nervous breakdown.
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Lexington
Chicago
tEarl Prather
Shirdra
Robert Bailey
Bailey
Dix
Wayne Alley
Sidney
Joan Hart
Hart
W.W. Schulz
Paul Robinson
Tots
Earl Prather
Sandra
Katherine Struck
Farmers Co-Op to Add More Storage and Elevator Expansion
Farmers Co-op approves a $23,000 metal storage building 40 by 160 feet to be erected east of the existing elevator. Wilmac Construction Co. of Grant, Nebraska, awarded the contract for immediate construction, with completion targeted by June 15. The new facility will hold about 70,000 bushels of grain and house loading machinery, part of a long-range plan to relocate the feed department and modernize the operation. Frank Morey serves as president with officers and directors including Robert McKay, Art Brauer, Robert Anderson, and Harry Stately. Warren Mettlin is elevator manager.
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Farmer's Union Cooperative Co
Wilmac Construction Company of
Grant, Neb
Farmer's Co-op
12Th
Aves
Hickory St
Frank Morey
Robert McKay
Art Brauer
Robert Anderson
Harry Stately
Warren Mettlin
Kennedy Named City Manager in Dalhart Texas
Stanley Kennedy of Sidney has accepted the Dalhart Texas city manager post with a population around 8,000. He will begin May 1 after two years as assistant city manager in Ottumwa Iowa. His wife Marilyn Lehr taught English at Sidney senior high before marriage.
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Stanley Kennedy
Cecelia Kennedy
Sidney
Dalhart
Tex
Kennedy
Ottumwa
Iowa
Marilyn Lehr
Sidney Senior High School
Salesman Is Jailed Non Support Charged
Wallace Cochran an insurance salesman was committed to jail by County Judge C W Smith on charges of non support Bond set at 300 and Cochran ordered to pay costs of 64 50 He is to appear before the district court now in session Judge John N Kuns presiding Cochran had not been living up to a court order to make monthly payments for the support of his three children it was charged.
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Wallace Cochran
C. W. Smith
Cochran
John N. Kuns
Man Pleads Guilty in Cheyenne County Case
Sidney resident Lewis Melvin Evenson pleaded guilty to in toxication charges and was sentenced by Cheyenne County Judge C. W. Smith to ten days in the county jail and five dollars in costs.
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Lewis Melvin Evenson
Sidney
Cheyenne
C. W. Smith
Missile base planned for Nebraska between Omaha and Lincoln
The Defense Department announced a missile launching base will be located in the area between Omaha and Lincoln. No further details were provided. It is believed to be similar to the installation under construction near Cheyenne.
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Omaha
Lincoln
Defense Department
Cheyenne
Hersey Mangels Attends Lutheran Student Seminar
Hersey Mangels of Sidney and six Concordia students joined peers from Concordia Colleges for the annual Lutheran Student Seminar in Washington D C during Easter recess. The event, sponsored by the National Lutheran Council and Lutheran Church Missouri Synod public relations departments, aimed to teach Christians government responsibilities and federal mechanics through discussions with government voices. Speakers included Congressman Walter Judd NBC White House correspondent Ray Screr and State Department official Dr Erwin Krt temann.
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Hersey Mangels
Sidney
Concordia Teachers College
Seward
Concordia
Washington, D. C
National Lutheran Council
Lutheran Church- Missouri Synod
Walter H Judd
Minnesota
Ray Screrer
NBC
White House
Edwin Krttemann
State Department
Sale Here Draws 250 as Stock Cattle Demand Surges
About 250 people attended the second Sidney Livestock Pavilion sale. Top prices included Angus steer calves at 33.30 per hundred, fat steers 25.80, Angus heifers first calves 191 per head, fat hogs 28.80, and feeder pigs 16.75 to 20 per head. Other notable bids: heifer calves 29.50, fat cows 19.35, ewes and lambs 22 per pair, small Angus heifers 33 per hundred. Emer ald Pete Rapp said it was a good sale with brisk bidding and strong demand for stock cattle for pasture.
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Joe Rudolph
Emerald
Pete’ Rapp
Safflower Sign-Up Surges Ahead For 1958 Planting Drive
Pacific Vegetable Oil Corp official Ken Woodward reports strong safflower signup and favorable planting conditions in Sidney. With good subsoil moisture and a guaranteed minimum price of 66 dollars per ton, growers are urged to contract now to secure 1959 acreage preference. Seed is cleaned and treated for pests, supporting high germination and purity.
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Ken Woodward
Pacific Vegetable Oil Corp
Sidney
Woodward
PVC
Mr Woodward
Great Plains
PVO
Sidney Pvo
Town
Route 30
Two cars collide in Sidney at Elm and Fifteenth
Sidney police investigated a two car crash at the intersection of 15th Ave and Elm St on late Wednesday afternoon. Carentine FE Root, 51, was driving a car struck on the right rear fender by Frank A. Trowbridge, 73, both residents of Sidney. No damage report was issued after the inquiry.
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Sidney
15Th Ave
Elm St
Carentine FE Root
Frank A. Trowbridge
Basin's Biggest Well In Kimball County Flowing 720 BPD
British American’s No. 1 Allchin discovery near Kimball, 15 miles south and 1 mile west, is flowing over 720 barrels per day through a 4/8 to 6/4 inch choke. Initial tests showed 84 BPD through 5.5 inch casing. The well sits two miles southwest of Mintken Field and one mile northeast of Ansel State Field, potentially linking producing areas and signaling a large basin development.
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Kimball County
Denver- Julesburg
Kimball
J Sand
Mintken
Ansel State Field
Nebraska
Challenger Back For Summer Rail Service From Chicago
Union Pacific resumes the Challenger Streamliner with a nightly Chicago to Los Angeles run from June 1 to mid September. It leaves Chicago at 9 15 a m and reaches Los Angeles 10 45 p m next day, with return times and a lounge car, diner, and reclining coach seats. An Omaha Portland Domeliner sleeper also to begin June 1.
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Union Pacific Railroad
Chicago
Los Angeles
Portland
Hope To Call For Kids By September 1
The Memorial Hospital board signed a formal contract with architect Frank N. McNett of Grand Island to design the Memorial Rest Home addition. The signing enables faster planning though no work will start until after a Wednesday board meeting with State Hospital Advisory Board and Federal Public Health Service for plans approval. Steering committee members witnessed the signing and outlined a timetable aiming for bids around September 1. Financials show $75,000 pledged by the Doran Foundation, $10,000 from A J Jorgenson, about $55,000 raised publicly, and $20,000 from the Ford Foundation, with further matching expectations.
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Memorial Hospital
Frank N. McNett
Grand Island
Mémorial Rest Home
McNett
State Hospital
Federal Public Health Service
A. J Jorgenson
Elizabeth Schwasnick
Ira Steward
E. A. Winter
Jack H. Lowe
Leo Bolin
Carl Cornelius
Steward
Lowe
Winter
Guy V. Doran
Phoenix
Hospital Board
Doran Foundation
A. J. Jorgenson
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Legion Park
Thompson
Chicago Ride
Texas
Lutheran Seminar
Rapp
Basin's
Braden Drilling Co
Challenger
Weather Bureau
United States Weather Bureau
U. S
The
Ford Foundation
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