Fire Prevention Is Subject Of All Day Meeting
The State Fire Prevention Association will send experts to Sidney Thursday for an all day inspection of downtown business buildings. Fire prevention will be the main theme with emphasis on removing fire hazards to improve insurance rates. Inspectors include fire insurance company officers, the inspection bureau, and the state fire marshal's office. Talks and demonstrations for school children feature National speakers, with State Fire Marshall Horace Davis giving several talks. Fox theatre will show educational fire protection films for students, and five students with top essays or home inspections win cash prizes and attend the banquet. J Bwr Taylor of the Western Actuarial Bureau will address a public meeting at the City Auditorium banquet.
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State Fire Prevention Association
Sidney
Inspection Bureau
State Fire Marshall
Horace Davis
Fox Theatre
Fire Prevention Bureau
J. Bwr Taylor
Western Actuarial Bureau
Chicago
City
Taylor
Central West
Sev
GWTW Ticket Sale Perking Up For Fox Theatre Run
Mail orders for reserved seats for Gone With The Wind at the Fox Theatre poured in over the weekend. The film plays four days with reserved seats for each evening show and Sunday matinee, while Saturday Tuesday matinees are unreserved. First show at 10 a.m. Saturday. manager Starcup noted railroad workers can attend before shifts.
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Fox
A. GC. Starcup
Stalcup
Morrill Soil District Approved by Voters
In Morrill county more than nine percent of landowners voted on the soil conservation district proposal. Officials reported 187 ballots in favor and nine against, confirming approval of the district's organization.
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Morrill
Morrill County
Change Fort Sidney Day Date Considered By Committee
Agitation to move Fort Sidney Day from Saturday to a weekday gains support from merchants and attending farmers. Merchants in nearby towns want a weekday to allow store closings, while Sidney merchants seek earlier closing to join evening festivities. Committee weighing convenience for all as goodwill objective.
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Fort Sidney
Sidney
Sidney Scores Well At District Music Contest
Western Nebraska hosts 1595 students from 25 schools for the district music festival. Sidney performers earned superior and excellent ratings in piano, voice, strings, woodwinds, brass, and ensembles with participants from Scottsbluff Alliance Dalton Bayard and others.
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Sidney
Scottsbluff
Nebraska
Johnson
Margaret Cobb
Alliance
Doris LeSueur
Kathryn Toof
Dalton
Carter Kokjer
Jay McAllister
Bill Neal
Richard Agnew
Mitchell
Shirley Keith
Delores Coulter
Potter
Erma Jane Roth
Gering
Marjorie Rubado
Lodgepole
Juanita Moore
Bayard
June Deal
Wanda King Lodgepole
Lucille Peterson
Lenore Haney
Hyannis
Marjorie Heizer
Donald McNertney
Melbeta
Norman Hanich
Barbara Johnson Lodgepole
Gerti Ja Schafer
Merrill
Barbara Linn
Kimball
Lela Mae Jacobsen
Garden County
LaVerne Anthony
Patsy Bergan
Chappell
Mary Pechin
Minatare
James Shaw
June Follett
Kenneth Bergner
Glen Gillman
Donald Tompkins
Keith Yates
Lewellen
Wendell Arndt
Bridgeport
Girls
Garden
Seven Hurt In Two Car Wreck Near Dix
Seven Kimball residents were injured in a rear end collision on the Lincoln highway about 1:30 a.m. Saturday, three and a half miles east of Dix. Among the injured are Anna Ades a 25 year old waitress in critical condition with multiple fractures and possible skull injury, Warl Ewing 26 a ranch employee with chest injuries, Edwin Nagel with cuts and bruises, his wife Eleanor with minor injuries, Evelyn Christensen 25 with possible skull fracture and facial injuries, and Oscar Kelley with chest injuries. Deputy Tebrinke said Christensen, Kelley and Watson were riding in one car which struck the Nagel vehicle from behind. the Nagel car was crushed and both cars demolished. The driver of the second car was not identified.
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Kimball
Dix
Lincoln Highway
Anna Ades
Harold's Cafe
Warl Ewing
C. B. Ewing
Mitchell
Edwin Nagel
Bay Oil Company
Nagel
Eleanor
McGinnis Cafe
Evelyn Christensen
Kimball Laundry
Oscar Kelley
Union Pacific
Don Tebrinke
County enrolls 24 in P F L program in Cheyenne County
Spring work opens as 24 farmers fill balance sheets for the Pasture-Forage-Livestock program. County agents note plans for pasture and forage needs, feed requirements, and temporary pastures. Cooperators urged to build feed reserves with grain and forage sorghums, trench silos, and balanced records.
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Cheyenne County
PFL
Omaha
George Coulter
Kenneth Rose
Fred Elmquist
Larson
Winter Wheat Abandonment Runs High in Nebraska
Nebraska faces heavy winter wheat abandonment across districts with central Nebraska showing the highest rate at 63.6 percent, a level near last year. Moisture improves conditions in the southwest but further moisture is needed to sustain the crop into summer. some lands have been reseeded to spring grains.
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Nebraska
Cheyenne
Kimball
Devel
Guy Shaw joins Sidney Rotary Club in new member role
Moving pictures of South and Central America were shown to the Sidney Rotary Club Friday night by Roy Greenlee who returned from a three month trip. Honor students from Sidney high school and junior high school and St. Patrick academy attended as guests including Ethelyn Swanson Patricia Martin Robert McKay Jane Ladegard LaVerne Couch Josephine Hajek and Kevin Cortney. Guy Shaw was introduced as a newly admitted Rotarian.
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South
Central America
Rotary Club
Roy Greenlee
Sidney High School
Ethelyn Swanson
Patricia Martin
Robert McKay
Jane Ladegard
LaVerne Couch
St. Patrick Academy
Josephine Hajek
Kevin Cortney
Guy Shaw
WPA Dismissals Protested by County Officials
The executive committee of the State Association of County Officials urged Nebraska WPA administrator D. F. Felton to base reductions on worker dependents. They contend workers with several dependents have lost WPA support.
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State Association of County Officials
D. F. Felton
Nebraska
WPA
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GWTW
J. Burr Taylor
O. R. Robinson
Bureau of the Census
North Platte, Nebraska
Co. L. Nelson
Arnold Westerhoff
C. B. Toof
C. H. Thomas
Earl Leger
C. D. Webster
M. W. Mayer
R. Se. Fraass
E. R. Waite
Ernest Meyer
John Meyer
E. F. Mohart
O. A. Olson
Joe C. Oliverius
George Deaver
John B. Kurz
L. T. Rezinina
Martin Osterloh
Arnold Sunderman
Northwest
Southwest
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