Top Cowboy Larry Mahan to perform at local rodeo
1966 world champion Larry Mahan will compete for top prize money at the Cheyenne County RCA Rodeo in three shows August 20 21 and 22. Mahan has already earned over 30000 this season and will perform with Beutler Brothers providing championship stock. Tickets are on sale at the Chamber of Commerce offices with general admission options for adults and children.
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Larry Mahan
Cheyenne County
RCA
Loring Tobler
Mr. Mahan
Jim Shoulders
Buck Rutherford
Oregon
Mahan
Tobler
Sidney
Iowa
Canby
Ore
Phoenix
Ariz
Darlene
Rodeo Cowboy Association
Beutler Brothers
Elk City
Oklahoma
Chamber of Commerce
Illinois
Air Course To Bolster Enrollment At Sidney School
Western Nebraska Vocational Technical School prepares an air frame and powerplant mechanics program opening Oct 3 in Sidney. Maynard Mayers will direct instruction with aviation staff and a new runway, aiming to enroll up to 160 annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Nebraska Vocational Technical School
Sidney School
Merle Rudebusch
Air Force
Davis-Monthan Air Base
Arizona
Maynard Mayers
Salt Lake City
Vincent Ha=vorka
Federal Aviation Agency
Rudebusch
Bob Heilig
Evelyn Sedivy
State Aeronautics Dept
State Department of Education
Sidney
U. S
Nebraska City
John Ottens
Steer Calves Bring $30.25 At Sidney Livestock Sale
Sidney Livestock Pavilion saw strong cattle demand Saturday with a 717 lb black steer selling to an Illinois buyer for 27 dollars. Calves and heifers ranged with top steer calves at 30.25, light yearlings 25.30 to 25.90, cann ers 15.10 to 16.40, and hogs peaking at 20.60 with lighter weights 17 to 19. Overall market showed recent weakness for hogs.
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Sidney Livestock Sales
Hospital Costs Will Go Higher
The American Hospital Assn reports rising hospital operating costs with 1967 about 15 percent above 1966 and increases of 15 percent in 1968, 10 percent in 1969, and 6 percent in 1970, after which the trend should level. Memorial Hospital administrator Darold Hendee has referred the report to the finance committee. Congress is expected to extend Medicare coverage from 90 days to 120 days.
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American Hospital Assn
Darold Hendee
Memorial Hospital
Home
Association
Hendee
Congress
Deadwood C of C Invites Merle Bobo to Speak
Merle Bobo Centennial Celebration Committee chairman has been asked to speak at a noon luncheon in Deadwood South Dakota August 15. The event is the biannual Deadwood Chamber of Commerce meeting with Bobo discussing Cheyenne County Centennial ties to the region. He is sales manager for Kokjer Motor Company in Sidney and a former Jaycees president.
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Merle Bobo
Deadwood
S. Dak
Bobo
Jaycees
Elks
Free Stage Coach Rides In Sidney After Trek
On Monday August 21 residents of Sidney can ride a free stage coach after the 280 mile Deadwood-Sidney trek. Sponsored by the New Car Dealers Association, the event may showcase modern travel comforts and will run along 10th Street between Illinois and Jackson near the melon feed at 1 p.m.
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Sidney
New Car Dealers Association of
Mdlinois
Jackson
Wastermelon
Panhandle Weather Forecast Outlook
Fair conditions continue tonight and Tuesday with a low around 50 to 60 and a high near 90. Rain chances stay under five percent. Five day outlook shows temperatures 2 to 5 degrees above normal, highs near 90, lows around 60, and isolated afternoon and evening thundershowers.
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Panhandle
Wheat Okayed For Barley Base Acres
Announcement from Agricultural Stabilization Conservation Service states wheat producers may substitute barley base acreage for wheat on barley bases for the 1968 crop. Barley will not be in the feed grain diversion program next season, allowing flexibility for winter wheat cropping plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence H. Thompson
Agricultural Stabilization Conservation Service
U.S
Captain Wickman Assigned To Aerospace Force
Captain Clarence P. Wickman son of Mr and Mrs Henry Wickman of Sidney has graduated from the Air University Squadron Officer School at Maxwell AFB Alabama. He was among 365 students completing a 14 week course August 4 and was selected for leadership potential in the aerospace force. He will be reassigned to Sheppard AFB Texas as an aircraft maintenance officer for the Air Training Command. Wickman was commissioned in 1963 after Officer Training School at Lackland AFB Texas and is a 195 graduate of St Patrick's Academy with a 1963 BA from Western Washington State College.
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Wickman
Lackland Afb
Tex
St. Patrick’s Academy
Western Washington State College
West Dalton Oil Venture drills wildcat near Dalton
Stuarco Oil Co Inc operates No 1 Nelson wildcat about six miles west of Dalton in Cheyenne County, using its own drilling tools. In the past week the Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission approved additional wildcat sites in Morrill, Kimball and Banner counties.
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Stuarco Oil Co., Inc
Cheyenne County
Dalton
Nelson
Stuarco
Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
Morrill County
John B. Ashby
John Gables
Kimball County
Sundance Oil Co
Bertramson
Allison Drilling Co
Banner County
King Resources No
Mead GW SE
Allison
Decline in Available Workers, July Nebraska Labor Report
A Nebraska Labor Department July report shows shrinking available workers as summer passes and unemployment claims rise slightly. Oshkosh electronic plant layoffs are cited. local office covers four counties with 196 available workers. July new applications totaled 77 led by Francis R. Hiner, 33 under 22, 72 currently seeking employment are women. Nonagricultural placements were 68, similar to June and a year ago. 25 percent female, 55 percent under 22. Clerical, sales and service jobs dominate placements. 75 workers were referred to farm jobs, down from July 1966. Late harvest blamed.
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Nebraska Labor Department
Oshkosh Electronic
Francis R. Hiner
Labor Department
Last Summer Concert by High School Band Tomorrow Evening
The High School Summer Band led by Duane Johnson performs a free concert at 8 p m in the park band shell for the Centennial celebration kickoff. The Beginning Band opens with pieces by Belwin and Morrissey selections, then the Regular Summer Band presents a popular program including Soliloquy for Band, Dixieland, Mary Poppins, South Pacific, The Sound of Music, Cool Room Blues, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, and ends with the Star Spangled Banner.
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Duane Johnson
the Park
Johnson
Jom Morrissey
Tom Atkins
D. Warrington
Mary Poppins
Alfred Reed
South Pacific
Philip J, Lang
R Bennett S
Cool Room
Clement Wiedinmyer
Molly Brown
Sidney Council of Youth wins statewide Outstanding Youth Community award
A Cheyenne County group known as the Sidney Council of Youth is hailed as the Outstanding Youth Community of the Year after a Nebraska Conference of Youth award banquet. The program, run by local youths, established a teen center, hosted district events, wrote to potential industries, and organized the Fourth of July Centennial Celebration while planning cemetery restoration. The Sidney group is self supporting and active in community projects, with Seward Youth Council named runner up.
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Sidney Council of Youth
Chamber of Progress
Cheyenne County
Nebraska Conference of Youth
Sidney Young People
Sidney
Jeanette Jones
Two Thefts And Hit Run Reported To Sidney Police
Over the weekend two thefts and a hit and run were reported to Sidney police. A car owner reported four hub caps missing from a 1963 model car parked at home. A vandal damaged a radio antenna on another parked car. A driver reported a side swipe in the 1900 block on Illinois with the other vehicle license number given to police. A collision occurred when a driver hit a parked car after failing to see it.
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Sidney
Gene Lichty
Jackson
Roy Barnhart
Quince
Carol Gregg
Osage
Illionois
Frank Gregg
Helen M. Hines
Germain M. Wieser
Mary A. Prester
Judy Benzel
Benzel
Miss Prester
Berea Lutheran Church Marks Eightieth Anniversary
Berea Lutheran Church on Highway 27 between Chappell and Oshkosh celebrates 80 years with a Sunday program starting 9 15 a m including a Sunday school session and an anniversary message by Pastor Arthur L Peterson of Funk Nebraska Former Berea pastor Dr Reuben L Swanson of Omaha Nebraska Conference president delivers the 10 30 service with Holy Communion A noon dinner follows An anniversary history service at 2 pm features former Berea pastor Pastor Kenneth L Engstrom of St Luke's Lutheran Church Buffalo Wyoming delivering the address Open house at the parsonage at 3 30 A memorial service at 4 30 ends the day with a church basement lunch
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Berea
Kenneth L. Engstrom
St. Luke’s Lutheran Church
Buffalo
Wyo
Two Men Rescued From Sewer Ditch Collapse
CHAPPELL Morris Hernbloom and Bryan Price of Chappell were rescued from a sewer ditch cave-in last week. Price suffered a fractured knee and broken ribs while Hernbloom had a wrenched back. The ditch was about ten feet deep and Price was buried by dirt before aid arrived.
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Chappell
Morris Hernbloom
Lodgepole
Bryan Price
Mr. Price
Mr. Hernbloom
Wheat Board Reorganizes Advisory Committee Chairman Named
John L. Sullivan, a Wallace wheat farmer, was elected chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Wheat Division by the committee at its Lincoln quarterly meeting. Robert Rosener of Fairbury was elected vice-chairman, with Ed Ashton Nebraska City Carl Bruns Chapman Ronald Cutler Elsie Ed Narjes Sidney and Robert Rau ner Sidney as other members.
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Lincoln
John L. Sullivan
Wallace
State Department of Agriculture
Sullivan
Robert Rosener
Fairbury
Ed Ashton
Nebraska City
Carl Bruns
Ronald Cutler
Elsie
Ed Narjes
Sidney
Robert Rauner
Frontier Resumes Service With Two Flights
Frontier Airlines restarted limited service with two DC-3 flights daily from Denver to Alliance, Scottsbluff, and Rapid City destinations. The airport had been closed for runway work, with further upgrades planned including a Convair 580 turbojet service set for September 1 to Sidney and a Chadron stop when it reopens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frontier Airlines
Denver
Rapid City
Alliance
Scottsbluff
Frontier
Sidney
Chadron
Bus Schedule Announced for Sidney by Panhandle Company
The Sidney Telegraph prints complete city bus routes starting at 8:31 a.m. 3:01 p.m. 5:31 p.m. and 6:31 p.m. Monday through Saturday with no Sunday runs. The Sidney Alliance line departs daily at 9:45 a.m. and returns at 2:45 p.m. For details call 254-4714.
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Sidney Telegraph
Panhandle Bus Company
Guy’s Sinclair
Sidney Alliance
Sidney
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Deadwood C of C
Aerospace Force
Vernon Goransen
Angela Mohatt
Peggy Duncan
Kathy Jacobson
Connie Goransen
Debbie Rankin
Linda Christensen
Gigi Hahler
Gayle Rice
Debbie Dorwart
Cathy Chaffee
Coleen Mintken
Ric Beese
Nancy Knicely
Karen Johnson
Beth Grant
Beth Edwards
Kathy Grant
West Dalton Oil Venture
Belwin
The
Nebraska Council of Youth
Nebraska
Fort Sidney Co
Sid
Berea Lutheran Church
Wheat Board
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