New Found Sisters Will Be Missed By Exchange Student
Silvia Mazal the Rotary Exchange student from Posadas Argentina spent nearly a year in Sidney as a senior at Sidney High School. She formed close friendships with local families, met Vice President Humphrey during a trip to Omaha, and reflected on adapting to U S culture and schooling before returning home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liz Cunningham
Rotary
Finland
Silvia Mazal
Sidney
Argentina
Gail Goodwin
Silvia
Sidney High School
Legion Park
United States
Posadas
America
Leonard Beyer
Russell Pedersen
Jim Thayer
Chic Cunningham
LaVern Goodwin
John Underdown
Humphrey
Omaha
Leonard Beyers
Telegraph Phote
Young travelers return from America with tales of nights
Silvia describes late evenings in America ending around 4 a.m. She notes teens drink little, discipline among students keeps behavior in check. She left New York for the final leg home with many treasures from a year abroad, worried about airline limits.
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Tor
Argentina
Silvia
Onen
New York
America
Firemen Name Benzel Chief
The Sidney Volunteer Fire Department elected Dan Benzel as fire chief Thursday night. Benzel will take over from Harvey Vizina, who led the department for 15 years and remains rural district fire chief. New officers include Jim Brooks president Dan Frerichs vice president Darwin Glassburn treasurer and Phil Frerichs secretary. Board members are Roy Reed Loyd Bauer and Charles Hawkins. Vizina joined the department in 1945 and had served on the police force since 1937.
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Sidney
Dan Benzel
Benzel
Harvey Vizina
Jim Brooks
Dan Frerichs
Darwin Glassburn
Phil Frerichs
Roy Reed
Loyd Bauer
Charles Hawkins
Vizina
Chamber of Commerce Moves to Countywide Status
Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce members attend a semi annual meeting to ratify board actions and amend articles to read Cheyenne County instead of Sidney. Cold weather reduced attendance. The chamber will promote the entire county and a representative from each town now serves on the board.
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Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Cheyenne County
Sidney
Practices Set Director Calls Band Members to Next Week
George Hinnis sues an urgent appeal to last year marching band members to attend practices next week for the 101 Stampede and County Fair. Eighth and ninth graders meet at 9 a.m. in the band room on Monday August 5. Sidney High School band practices at 7 a.m. Monday August 4.
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George Hinnis
Sharp
Sidney High School
Weather Panhandle forecast for fair conditions
It will be generally fair this afternoon tonight and Saturday with highs 80 to 90 and lows 55 to 65. Rain chances are under 5 percent. The five day outlook calls for near normal temperatures through Wednesday with highs near 90 and lows near 60. Widely scattered thundershowers are expected through the period.
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Panhandle
Property Tax Values Stand in Cheyenne County 1968 Levy
The State Board of Equalization accepted valuations for Nebraska counties with minimal change. Cheyenne County and Sidney expect small levy shifts, while Sidney School District missing estimates may mirror last year. County Clerk Englert is in Washington at a national convention and will return next week. The board’s ruling suggests no summer hearings this year.
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Cheyenne County
State Board of Equalization
Nebraska
Sidney
Ralph Englert
Washington D.C
State Supreme Court
Kearney
Murrell B. McNeill
Supreme Court
Two Sidney men fined for illegal deer killing
Two men from Sidney were fined in county court for the killing and unlawful possession of a deer shot on a southwest farm Thursday night. Max Ibach of the Nebraska State Patrol said Francis Runge reported the incident, leading to police stopping the suspects as they drove through Sidney. Cochran paid 100 dollars plus 300 dollars in liquidated damages, Michke 100 dollars and 8.50 dollars in costs. Michke remained in jail pending a bad check warrant in Keith County.
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Sidney
Max Ibach
Nebraska State Patrol
Francis Runge
Runge
Thach
Mark C. Cochran
Nile L. Michke
Michke
Keith
Three Sidney Youths to GOP Convention
Three Sidney college students join about 100 midwest Republicans leaving Omaha on a United Airlines charter jet at 6 a.m. Saturday to attend the Republican National Convention in Miami. Lynn Gottschalk and David Schobert will serve as pages, Jim Johnson also travels with them, and Johnson attends as an observer. About 65 passengers board in Omaha and 35 in Des Moines.
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Sidney College
Omasa Ha
Miami
Florida
Lynn Gottschalk
Mary Jane Gottschalk
David Schobert
Lenhart Schobert
Jim Johnson
Sidney
Carl Johnson
Johnson
Omaha
Des Moines
United Airlines
Marathon Oil official retires after 38 years at Casper division
Rolland W. McCanne, manager of Marathon Oil Company's Casper Wyoming production division, will retire September 1 after more than 38 years with the company. He is credited with the discovery of the Mary Egging No 1 oil well southwest of Gurley, whose 1949 find spurred development in the Denver-Julesburg Basin. He will be succeeded jointly by Cole Sylvester and Lloyd Traupe.
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Cole Sylvester
Lloyd D. Taupe
McCanne
Marathon
Casper
Findlay
Fort Lupton
Colorado
University of Colorado
University of Chicago
Columbia University
Harvard University
Wyoming
Rocky Mountain
Wyoming Oil Industry Committee
Wyoming Oil & Gas Association
Wyoming State Council On Economic Education
Wyoming Taxpayers Association
Oil and Gas Industry
Wyoming Industrial Development Corporation
Wyoming Advisory Council
Public Land Law Review Commission
Sylvester
Kyle
Casada
Oklahoma
Society of Petroleum Engineers of
AIME
American Petroleum Institute
Rocky Mountain and
North Dakota Oil & Gas Associations
Oklahoma University
Traupe
Houston
Texas
Storm Outbreak At Sidney Studied By CSU Researchers
CSU researchers and National Center for Atmospheric Research track a Sunday hail storm in the Sidney area with radar. The joint study asks residents with heavy hail to save stones and call the centers in Boulder or New Raymer. Robert Fischer and Richard Barbury commented on the storm as among the most intense in radar surveys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney
National Center of Atmospheric Research
Colorado State University At
Fort Collins
Boulder
Colo
di Goyer
New Raymer
Robert Fischer
CSU
Richard Barbury
N.C.A.R
Fischer
Frank Raddatz Dies At 74 In Sidney Nebraska
Frank Frederick Raddatz aged 74 and a 53 year resident of Cheyenne County died Friday morning at Memorial Hospital after a heart attack. Funeral services will be Tuesday at 10 in Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, with interment in Greenwood Cemetery. Gehrig and Son Funeral Home handled arrangements. Raddatz, born May 14 1894 in Seward, Neb, moved to Sidney area in 1915, married Hannah Miller in 1921, and was an auto mechanic before retirement. Surviving are his widow, a son Col Virgil Raddatz of Washington DC, a daughter Una Peterson of Sidney, sister Mabel Snyder of Lincoln, brothers Charles and William of Lincoln and Fred of Wahoo, and four grandchildren.
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Cheyenne County
Frank Raddatz
Memorial Hospital
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
Paul Reimers
Potter
Greenwood Cemetery
Gehrig and Son Funeral Home
Frank Frederick Martin Raddatz
Seward
Neb
Frederick Raddatz
Sidney
Hannah Miller
Holy Trinity Church
Greenlees, Inc
Col
Virgil Raddatz
Washington, D.C
Bill
Una) Peterson
Bel Snyder
Lincoln
Charles
William
Fred
Wahoo
Fire call at Walter French home ends with no damage
Sidney volunteer firefighters were dispatched Monday July 29 at 5 30 pm to 2435 Coronado Court to a stove fire in beans. The beans overheated but caused no damage and no injuries were reported.
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Sidney
Walter French
Coronado Court
Egging Co Open House Dedicates New Factory
The Egging Company of Gurley will hold an open house on Wednesday August 7 from noon to 9 p.m. at its plant four and a half miles east of Highway 385 between Sidney and Gurley. Dedication around 2 30 p.m. Ed Cole of the Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce will MC. Tours feature acoustic measurement displays and plant souvenirs.
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Cheyenne County Fair
Ed Cole
Chamber of Commerce
Sidney
Telegraph
Photo Center
Egging Co
Gurley
Highway 385
Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce
Egging Company
Ege Gings
CAP Search Is Launched
A CAP search begins for a missing pilot Earl R. Jameson who flew from Sidney to Wyoming with three children aboard. He refueled at Cheyenne at 9 44 a m then failed to report at Medicine Bow while the Wyoming CAP and ground units search and air patrols operate. A second report notes a New Jersey pilot Nagley with one passenger missing on a Jackson to Denver flight.
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Cheyenne
Sidney
Wyoming
Medicine Bow
Civil Air Patrol
Earl R. Jameson
Medicine Row
Jameson
Las Vegas
al Fields
Colorado Cap
Rangely
Colo
Rawlins
Wyo
CAP
Wyoming Cap
New Jersey
Jackson
Denver
Hopper Problem May Exist For Several Weeks
County Extension Agent Ivan Liljegren warns hopper trouble likely to continue for weeks as harvest wraps up. He recommends malathion or sevin sprayed per label directions, with possible use near areas showing signs of slug feeding. Liljegren notes Huff leaves show stripped, lacy damage and expects the issue to linger into September with potential lighter border treatments to curb infestation.
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Ivan Liljegren
Liljegren
Stolen Tools Reported In Sidney Vandalized Theater Glass
Stewart Brown reported theft of a gray toolbox and tools valued at 75 dollars from his pickup in Sidney. The Fox Theatre also reported broken glass on a front advertising sign.
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Sidney
Stewart Brown
el Rancho
Fox Theatre
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Discovery
Littleton
Casper Division
American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Geological Society of America
Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists
The
Wyoming Geological Association
Wyoming Association of Petroleum Landmen
Mr. Traupe
CAP Search
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