Sidney Telegraph Editorial Page History and info
The Sidney Telegraph, Western Nebraska’s oldest newspaper founded in 1873, is published every Monday Wednesday and Friday by The Telegraph Printing Co Inc at 831th Ave Sidney Nebraska. It is an associate member of The Associated Press and a Nebraska Press Association winner of General Excellence. It serves as Cheyenne County’s official newspaper.
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Sidney Telegraph
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Telegraph Printing Go., Inc
1Lth Ave
Sidney
Nea
Western
Nebraska
Associated Pressi
Nebraska Press Asen
Cheyenne County
Protecting Kids From Polio With Salk Vaccine
A National Health Council appeal urges communities to boost polio protection. Many adults remain unvaccinated while 4.5 million children under five have received no shots, risking needless paralysis, iron lungs, and braces. Ensure full vaccination for all, especially kids.
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National Health Council
Jonas Salk
Ruml Plan Triumphs in Pay As You Go Tax System
The article notes Beardsley Ruml’s pay as you go income tax plan, adopted in 1943, and argues it raises citizen awareness but eases immediate cash needs. It defends ongoing government funding while criticizing annual lump sum taxation. Ruml’s plan has endured 17 years and is expected to continue.
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Beardsley Ruml
National Defense
Lodgepole group forms county industrial fund for Cheyenne County
The Telegraph congratulates Lodgepole men who started an industrial fund aimed at creating new payrolls across Cheyenne County. They partnered with Sidney Chamber of Commerce to form a broader county industrial group, urging neighborly cooperation and healthy competition to boost the region’s economy.
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Telegraph
Cheyenne County
Lodgepole
Sidney
Sidney students sweep district music contest in Chadron
The Sidney schools dominated the district music contest at Chadron with a strong showing by their participants. Local patrons praise the music department and its administrators instructors and students for maintaining a top position among comparable schools. The report highlights continued regional leadership in the arts.
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Chadron
Sidney
Labor unions push for law allowing secondary boycotts in construction
Editors note union lobbyists seek congressional passage of a bill to permit secondary boycotts in construction. The proposal would let plumbers halt a project via pickets to pressure construction firms to organize nonunion workers, undoing Landrum Griffin protections.
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Congress
House Labor Subcommittee
Richard Gray
Building and Construction Trades Dept
Afl-Cio
Gray
Landrum-Griffin
Robbing Paul To Pay Paul Economic Intelligence
The piece notes how urban mayors meeting in Denver plead poverty and seek more federal aid for education transportation water sewers and housing. It argues cities will lose to Washington’s revenue collection and rule making while claiming the urban centers will gain funds at the rural area’s expense.
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American Municipal Association
Denver
Washington
Paul
Postage protests and postal cost concerns
The Lexington Clipper argues against raising postage rates for newspapers and magazines while criticizing the Postal Department for overpaying for printing envelopes. The paper asserts the department should cut waste and have Congress and Senators cover political mail costs, justifying bellsie balances with printed envelope costs.
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Post Office Department
Department
Local and Federal Taxes in Narrow View
A Nebraska county journal critiques tax policy noting local boards keep taxes in check while federal rates rose over 30 years. It argues public letter writing to Washington is key to curbing federal spending and services.
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Nance County Journal
Washington
Crossword Puzzle Across and Down Items
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Son
Sidney Prepares Mutual Phone System and Local News
A fifty to sixty five year plan forms a company to erect a mutual telephone exchange with ten instruments for Sidney and Fort Sidney subscribers. The Telegraph for Sidney readers is in the post office each Saturday morning. A cargo of Omaha girls arrives to fill waiter positions at the Pacific hotel.
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Sidney
Fort Sidney
Omaha
Pacific Hotel
Parish to build stone rectory on church site
Officers of the Episcopal church plan a stone rectory with seven or eight rooms at an estimated cost of 1200 to 1500 dollars. Funds on hand nearly cover the project and extra subscriptions will complete the total amount. Arbor Day trees planted by Judge Pease and local residents noted.
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Episcopal Church
Judge Pease
Andy Britton
A D Gorham
Percy Perkins
Salt Lake City
J J McIntosh
Chas. Peterson
B. Rrson
Fred Dawson
Wallace Oosterhoudt
Maki
Board of Vilage Trustees
Nct
Engne
Pease
A. K. Greenlee
A. A Ricker
Electric light service disrupted by engine rod break
The electric light company halted service Monday night after a rod broke on the engine. Repairs were completed by Tuesday evening and power was restored. Col Wisner visited town Sunday and plans to start his Oshkosh paper next month. Dan Crow resigned from the UP railroad as brakeman and moved with his family to Kansas to settle.
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Electric Light Company
Col Wisner
Oshkosh
Dan Crow
UP Railroad
Kansas
Lincoln Highway Graveling Plans For City And County
The April 16 meeting of the Village Trustees approved graveling the Lincoln Highway through the city from the Union Pacific y to town limits and Rose Street to the Post Office. The Chamber of Commerce kept summer plans alive, appointing a committee to mark the Deadwood to Denver highway via Broadwater Alliance Peetz and Sterling, with markers ordered for Haskell Hill and a hill south of town.
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Lincoln
City
Union Pacific “Y
Union Pacific
Chamber of Commerce
Deadwood
Denver
Broadwater
Alliance South
Peetz
Overland
A. H Clemns
Charlton Ranch
E. W. Rummelhart
Front Street
Harper
T. F. Thornburg
Harry Selch
Rummelhart
Frank Williams
Essig
A_ Stover
M Ahrens
Barker
C E. Couch
Sidney Country Club opens grand clubhouse in style
The Sidney Country Club dedicated a new $15,000 clubhouse with a Thursday evening gala attended by 200 plus locals and out of town guests from Sterling and Scotts Bluff. J. W. Johnson missing work after an injury. Bill improving and crutchless. A big red barn near the UP deer was moved to a Burlington area lot. Fishing at Crystal Lake, 43 speckled beauties reported. Smallpox cases in the Hutchison household led to quarantine. Otto Hink now bookkeeper for Sidney Ice and Storage. photographer E. R. Moore returned from vacation.
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Sidney Country Club
Sterling
Scottsbluff
J. W. Johnson
Bill
J. R- Brown
John Green
Sara
Joe Hahler
Frank Schroeder
Pat Patrowsky
Crystal Lake
Wyo
C H. Hutchisan
Mrs. Hutchison
Helen Kirk
Otto Hink
Sidney Ice and Storage Company
E. R. Moore
Mild spring blizzard hits Panhandle towns
Twenty five years ago a mild spring blizzard blocked roads and stranded motorists in the Panhandle. It interrupted telephone and power service and halted business activity while bringing needed moisture for farmers. The storm dumped almost a half inch of rain before the weather turned milder.
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Panhandle
Immanuel Lutheran welcomes Rev. A. C. Huth as pastor
Rev A C Huth formerly of Lincoln becomes pastor at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Weyerts north of Lodge Pole succeeding Rev B C Weibke. Also noted are Sidney high school students traveling to Kearney for the state commercial contest Wilma Schulz Lucille Hardy Jean Liebendorfer Jean Edwards Bernice Babcock Clyde Heng. R B Hamilton injured when a garage door slammed on his index finger during high wind. William George confined with measles at home. Fred Parks of Rapid City visits en route to Lincoln for his mother in law's funeral. Hickman Killham wounded by an accidental rifle shot while rabbit hunting.
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A. C. Huth
Lincoln
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Weyerts
Lodge Pole
Rev. Huth
B. C. Weibke
Sidney High School
Kearney
Wilma Schulz
Lucille Hardy
Jean Liebendorfer
Jean Edwards
Bernice Babcock
Clyde Heng
R. B. Hamilton
Public Utilities Payoff and Local Kites News
A check of 79050 was issued to discharge utility obligations from the county power take over with 20000 for bonds and 8550 interest plus 500 penalty for prepayment on callable bonds funded by a government account. The Cub Scout kite derby resumed after snow with winners Jimmy Ziegler and Robert Christner leading in ordinary and kite categories. Dr Leo J. Thomas leaves Sidney to serve as Field Director for the American Red Cross in the China India Burma theater. Charles Overman and family to mark their fiftieth wedding anniversary with a home reception. Mary Burbank named Cheyenne County Home Demonstration Agent starting May 1.
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Sidney Public Utilities
Vern Livingston
Jimmy Ziegler
Robert Christner
Robert Cloud
Billy Nissen
Jerry Connelly
Charles Bagby
Ronald Lee Karnick
Leo J. Thomas
Sidney
American Red Cross
Washington, DC
Charles Overman
Mary Burbank
Cheyenne County
Five Years Ago Colonel to Lead Fort Sidney Days
Items note Gilbert Sorge of Gurley named 1955 Fort Sidney Days Colonel. Nels Thurstonson to celebrate his 95th birthday in August and plans his third trip to birthplace Norway. Other notes report on accidents, wind storms, and notable facts about world libraries and diplomacy.
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Fort Sidney
Gilbert Sorge
Gurley
Nels Thurstonson
Norway
Gordon Cooke
Irvin's St
Leo Case
Sidney
Dale Sparks
Drillers Butane Co
Colorado
Jerry Foland
Surey
Peetz
Foland
Panhandle
CAA
iT Bunker Silo Compared With Tower Silo For Grass Storage
USDA researchers tested first-cutting grass in a well sealed bunker with preservative against similar silage in a tower. Over two years bunker silage retained more feed matter than tower silage, and high-moisture bunker silage equaled wilted tower silage.
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USDA
Agricultural Research Center
Experimenta
Bunker Silos Match Tower Silo For Grass Storage
A study finds bunker silos can store grass as efficiently as tower silos. Losses were minimized with plastic covers weighed at the edges and 2 to 3 inches of sawdust. Dry matter saved ranged from 85.2 to 96.3 percent across bunkers and towers with varying wilting.
Oregon's Pear Man Goes Into Retirement
Henry Hartman, famed for turning Oregon pears into a $20 million business, retires after 40 years at Oregon State College. He developed Hartman wrap and copperized oil wrap to prevent scald and mold, plus paraffin liners reducing shipping bruises, with much work done in New York City.
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Oregon
Henry Hartman
Oregon State College
Hartman
New York City
Anjou
Connecticut Governor Ribicoff Chooses Local Practice Over TVA
After graduating from the University of Chicago Law School Abraham A Ribicoff of Connecticut was offered a top post with the Tennessee Valley Authority. He declined the opportunity saying I am a small town lawyer at heart and returned home to Connecticut.
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University of Chicago Law School
Abraham A. Ribicoff
Connecticut
The
Tennessee Valley Authority
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