Panhandle wheat output to top 25 million bushels this year
County figures show Cheyenne County harvesting 6.1 to 7.0 million bushels of winter wheat this year with the Panhandle near 25 million, driven by rains boosting production across the western state. Irrigation wells rose from 139 to 147, acres under irrigation from 12 040 to 12 820. County corn and oats yields also shifted, signaling broader farm activity.
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Panhandle
Nebraska
Cheyenne
Cheyenne County
Panhandle Area Wet Except In Box Butte
Nebraska July monthly weather review shows a 66 degree spread with highs near 109 in Ashland and 43 in Northwest Nebraska. Moisture totals exceeded normal across most Panhandle areas except Box Butte and extended into the north-central extreme northeast and southwest regions.
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Panhandle Area
Box Butte
Nebraska
Ashland
Lincoln Weather Bureau
Panhandle
Box Butte County
Big Blue
Sidney approves crossing at 15th Avenue and new traffic controls
City council ordered a Chicago Burlington and Quincy grade crossing at 15th Avenue and designated Country Club Drive and 23rd Avenue as yield streets. A traffic light at Tenth Avenue and Jackson Street is to be installed, with yield signs replacing some stops. City may reuse existing light fixtures from Ninth Avenue and Illinois Street.
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Sidney
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
15Th Avenue
Country Club Drive
23Rd Avenue
Tenth Avenue
Jackson Street
Burlington
Tenth
13Th
15Th Avenues
Ance
Sixth
13Th Avenues
el Rancho Road
Lodgepole Creek
Forrest Street
Tenth and
Jackson
Murrey Fuller
Ninth Avenue
Illinois Street
State Highway Department
Mrs Kenfield 72 Dies In Denver Rites At Dalton
Grace H. Kenfield 72 died Saturday evening in a Denver hospital after surgery. Funeral at Dalton Presbyterian Church with Rev. Leroy Nelson officiating. Burial in Dalton Cemetery. Survivors include three daughters Berniece Munshaw Eunice Woolsey Elma McBean and two sons Harold Charles Woolsey plus ten grandchildren.
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Presbyterian Church
Dalton
Grace H. Kenfield
Denver
Leroy Nelson
Dalton Cemetery
Craig Mortuary
Gerald Pitman
Allan Stikker
Clarence Melburg
Gilbert Meyers
Charles Munshaw
Kenneth Larson
Grace Payton
Greenridge
James Payton
Sidney
Telephone Company
W. S. Woolsey
Woolsey
Harold Renfield
Kenfield
Methodist Church
Berniece Munshaw
Eunice Woolsey
Elma McBean
San Francisco
Harold and
Charles Woolsey
Plane makes sudden landing at Kimball airport
A one motor plane piloted by an unnamed flyer landed safely at Kimball airport near Minneapolis after reporting an oil line break that filled the cabin with smoke. The pilot, who was between Cheyenne and Sidney, followed CAA instructions and touched down without further incident.
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Minneapolis
Monn
Kimball
Sidney
Permit Authorized For New House Here
A permit for 13 000 dollars for construction of a new two family dwelling near Jackson Street and 18th Avenue has been approved by the Sidney city inspector's office. Permit was sought by Joe Cizek. The total amount of new construction allowed by permits in Sidney so far this year stands at 633 149 dollars.
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Jackson Street
18Th Avenue
Sidney
Joe Cizek
Former Sidneyite Pleads Guilty to Check Charge
Dale Justice 28 of Sidney entered a guilty plea to writing and passing an insufficient funds check for 65 dollars dated November 11 1956. He was bound over to district court by Cheyenne County Judge C Smith held on a 35 dollar bond with 18.70 in court costs. The arrest occurred in Springfield Missouri upon a Cheyenne County warrant.
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Kimball
Sidney
Justice
Springfield
Cheyenne County
4 H Judging Variety Show Highlight Cheyenne County Fair
Exhibitors prepare displays at Cheyenne County fairgrounds as 4-H judging and a grand variety show kick off a busy schedule. Hermines Midgets perform Thursday night while 4-H judging, a style revue, song and identification contests follow. Les Winger’s rodeo closes Friday and Saturday with a fat calf sale Saturday afternoon.
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Cheyenne County
David Peetz
Burgett Peetz
Just Us 4-H Club
Thompson
Cheyenne County Fairgrounds
Fairgrounds
4-H Club Project
Hermines Midgets
Sidney
Hereford
Les Winger
Rites Today for Former Sidney Resident Mrs Knapp
Funeral services for Mrs. Kenneth K. Knapp Sr., a former Sidney resident, were held today at 2 p.m. from George Lewis Funeral Home in Houston. She died recently at her LaSalle Apartments home in Houston. Survivors include three sons Dr. Robert Knapp and Paul Knapp of Houston and Kenneth Knapp of Abilene.
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Kenneth K. Knapp Sr
Sidney
George Lewis
Houston
Tex
Knapp
LaSalle
Ginther
Warren
Light Memorial Presbyterian Church
Robert Knapp
Paul Knapp
Kenneth Knapp
Abilene
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Ted Jones
Beverly Road
Wendell Jones
Custer County
Antelope County
Council
Louis Piva
Delores Smith
Anna Smith
M. M. Smith
Sidneyite
George Schnell
Jim Adams
Bill Schnell
Adams
Iowa
Sidney Chamber of Commerce
Cheyenne County Soil Conservation District
W. E. Ames Irrigation Co
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