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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1960
Page
10
Garden county delegates at an Ogallala meeting reported Highway 27 surfacing from the end of pavement south of Oshkosh to Highway 30 is on the 1961 63 road program. The gravel 13 mile gap remains to be surfaced with bids not let until 1961.
Crawford High School's 1960 graduating class will include 31 members. Baccalaureate exercises are scheduled for Sunday May 15 and commencement on Wednesday May 18. Superintendent Orwin White announced the plan. Dr John Dalton of Chadron State Teachers College will deliver the commencement address.
Seven paving petitions have been received by the City Council with two more possible by the May first session. To be accepted, property owner payments must reach City Treasurer Bill Empson, at 50 cents per foot for survey and forms, 1.00 per foot for paving, and about 1.00 per foot for cement curb and gutter. Total cost to owners runs about 2.50 dollars per foot.
Sioux County High School teachers have renewed contracts for next year. Superintendent Bob Brown notes this is the second consecutive year with no staff turnover. Roster includes Jim Bloom principal and science instructor, Dean Sunday vocational agriculture, Ruth Hall music English and mathematics, Joan Stark home economics world history and library, Jane Bish commercial subjects and English, and Brown social studies teacher.
Bayard reports increased complaints about transient salesmen and peddlers. Officer Hom er Lovell urges residents to notify police immediately so officials can check clearance through the city clerk before the salespeople leave town.
Kimball County real property owners show slow payment of 1959 taxes. First half taxes delinquent May 1 with seven percent penalty if unpaid. Second half remains due until September 1. County Treasurer Clarabelle Parrish warns delinquencies and interest accrual.
Oshkosh VFW Post gains permanent possession of the Veterans of Foreign Wars District membership plaque after achieving near perfect quota by January 31. Alfred Piva serves as post president as District Commander Cliff Polk presents the engraved award. The post has won the plaque three times in six years, with prior holders including Ogallala Avon Chappell North Platte.
Patrons in School District No 39 approved construction of a new school in Berea announcing plans for two classrooms a full basement and modern facilities. The old school has served since 1923 and a building committee was named including Paul Morrison Don Franklin Bill Riis and Gerald Panwitz.
City Council gives preliminary approval to Summit Park Addition in Kimball, platted by Farmers Lumber Co. The subdivision lies west of Dowd Court, north of Crestview Addition, and east of Kimball Irrigation Ditch with a planned 39 residential lots.
The Oshkosh Country Club sets up its first permanent clubhouse a 12 by 18 foot structure moved from the Hartman Motor Co site. Foundation work is done this week with OCC members volunteering. The building will serve lunch during tournaments and provide shade on the south porch. The annual Open Tournament is planned for Sunday May 15 with a possible club or Scotch ball event early next month.
Two experimental horticulture lots were planted in Box Butte County on an afternoon supported by the College of Agriculture in cooperation with the Box Butte County Extension Service. Harold Ehrhart, president of the Alliance Development Corporation, and Dick Miyoski led the effort on the Frank Scudder farm and the Alliance Industrial Site.
Maj Gen Lyle A Welch Nebraska Adjutant General urged preserving idle storage huts at World War II depots near Sidney Hastings Grand Island and Mead as shelters for hundreds of thousands of people in a nuclear attack He opposed selling decommissioned blockhouses and noted their proximity to large cities aids evacuation and could protect livestock if not people
Sixteen onion varieties were planted at the Scudder farm. An observation plot at the Industrial Site includes 30 varieties of onions with two carrot and two beet varieties. Miyoshi noted that snap green beans and field beans may also be added to the Industrial Site.
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