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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1966
Page
5
A vintage guide describes grapefruit granita as a refreshing frozen dessert using frozen concentrated grapefruit juice, sugar, water, and ginger ale. The method yields a snowlike texture with syrupy pockets, served in parfait glasses with mint garnish and ice cream on the side.
Six employees of Sioux Army Depot relocate to Ellsworth AFB in South Dakota, Offutt AFB in Nebraska, Pueblo Army Depot in Colorado, and Fort Campbell Kentucky. Families accompany them, including wives and children, with prior service at SAD and involvement in Scouts, PTA, church, and civic groups.
A Texas congressman argues in his weekly newsletter that the Military Construction Act funds no housing for military families while approving $10 million for a San Antonio Hemis Fair to celebrate the city’s 250th anniversary. He cites Secretary McNamara’s Viet Nam war costs as the reason. Fireflies and gooseberries appear in unrelated notes about biology and New Zealand exports.
The Nebraska Wheat Growers will hold a monthly meeting at Ogallala on August 15. President Ray Davis of Potter announced discussions will cover the wheat outlook and current Washington policy actions. The group cooperates with the University of Nebraska on a cost of production study to guide future farm adjustments and policy work. The Wheat Hearts will meet at the same place and date.
A 1955 Chevrolet driven by Milo Yount, 21, Rosenburg Ore., overturned in a ditch after losing control on wet pavement on Highway 30 three miles east of Sidney at 7:45 am Thursday. Yount escaped unharmed and was alone in the vehicle. Trooper Dan Reece of the Nebraska Safety Patrol investigated.
A teenage writer protests vandalism by youths who paint the water tower and vandalize the pool. The letter condemns the act as vulgar and urges constructive youth activity while noting political references about Senator Curtis and rural-urban voting dynamics. The piece also mentions a desire for accountability through publishing names of the offenders.
Leon A. Lafler writes that Louisiana is not a wheat state, notes Senator Ellender now pushes for fairer conditions and more allotted acres for wheat farmers, sees momentum from national wheat situation, and mocks opponents in a spirited plea about political memory and elections.
Stanimir Petrovic, a Yugoslavian farmer from Misar in Serbia, married 32 women over his life and died unmarried at 75 while preparing for his 33rd wedding. The brides ranged from 16 to 28, with four Desankas and three Marijas among them.
In Albuquerque Peter Weber, 10, believed his horned toad named Batman was a female after observing it lay 25 eggs. He remarked it would be odd to call a horned toad Batwoman.
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