4-H Livestock Sale Shows Higher Total at Fair Grounds
Monday's 24th annual 4-H Livestock Sale at the fair grounds topped $54,000 in total receipts up from last year while fewer animals sold. Top price was $99 per hundred for Mark Christensen's grand champion steer bought by Decker's Tru Valu Family Center. Receipts reached $54,784.68 with market calves averaging $58.42 per hundred and progress cattle averaging $47.46. market lambs and swine also posted notable totals and averages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fair Grounds
American National Bank
Decker
Tru Valu
Mark Christensen
Harry Farmer
Coop
Grain of Sidney
Joe Hruska
Doug Thomas
Marci Ernest
Sidney Safeway
Gregg Sander
Harry
Bob Decker
Decker’s Family Center
Ford invites wheat growers to pursue world market access
President Ford met for about 30 minutes at the Vail Holiday Inn with Ray Davis of Potter and other wheat groups and urged producers to keep markets open. He pledged to push unrestricted access to world markets and to lower tensions over the longshoremen strike, saying negotiations could solve issues without action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Hendee
Ford
Vail
Colo
Ray Davis
Potter
Davis
National Association of Wheat Growers
Vail Holiday Inn
United States
International Longshoremen’s Association
George Meany
Aflcio
Fairbury battles over Pershing College campus sale
Battle lines form in Fairbury as Southeast Tech considers acquiring the Pershing College site. More than 200 people packed the Scott Hall basement as the Southeast Tech Board met to discuss the possible purchase amid local controversy. The University of Nebraska Foundation involvement was noted from the prior year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott Hall
University of Nebraska Foundation
Pershing
Beatrice
Southeast Tech
Fairbury
Pershing College
C.B. Schwab
Millet Sorghum Field Day at High Plains Ag Lab
Field Day set for Thursday at the High Plains Agricultural Lab north of Sidney. Ken Sakurada will MC and guide a half day tour beginning at 9 a.m. Experts from University of Nebraska Lincoln and Panhandle Station will lead discussions on millet sorghum and wheatgrass topics and related agronomy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne County
Ken Sakurada
High Plains Agricultural Lab
Sidney
Ag Lab
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Panhandle
Scottsbluff
Ken Barton
Don Hanway
Hearing Set on Rural Water District Near College
A public hearing will be held Thursday night at Western Nebraska Technical College to discuss creating a rural water district for property east of the college. The South Platte NRD sponsors the hearing to explore the need for an improvement project area and a water supply system East of the college. Representatives from the college and Sidney Warehousing and Industrial Sites asked the NRD to take over the system under NRD powers. The board scheduled the hearing before deciding on the request. a decision will not be made at the hearing. The current system serves Sioux Army Depot area and campus users. The hearing begins 8 pm in room 11 of the business building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bosanka
Houston
U.S
U.S. District Court
James Noel
West Gulf Maritime Shippers Association
Ford
America
Galveston
Noel
ILA
Russia
Western Nebraska Technical College
South Platte Natural Resources District
South Platte Nrc
Bob Hahn
Technical College
The
College
Sidney Warehousing and Industrial Sites, Inc
NRD Board
NRD
Sioux
SWIS
Hahn
WNTC
School House
Heat and storm risk loom across Nebraska and South Dakota
An east west front over southern South Dakota drifts toward eastern Nebraska by early Thursday. Extreme western Nebraska faces widely scattered thundershowers this afternoon and evening. Omaha reports danger level for livestock heat stress as temperatures reach the mid 90s with high humidity. Similar heat and storm risk continues Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
South Dakota
North Central
West
Nebraska
National Weather Service
Omaha
Livestock Weather Safety Index
Thompson to head county zoning office
Cheyenne County appoints F B Tommy Thompson as county zoning administrator to issue building permits under the recently approved development plan. He notes permit paperwork will take about 30 days to implement. Commissioners cite his local reach as key to serving outlying areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne County
F.B
Tommy” Thompson
Thompson
Ed Narjes
Also Mentioned on This Page
Jim Martin
Chappell
Bob Campbell
Hruska
GPW
Kmgh-Tv
Channel 7
Denver
Cole
Howard Benedict
Tex
Soviet Union
Community College
Gurney Coop
Lee Foster
Lewis Nelson
Wally Moline
Paul Nordquist
Nelson
Louis Daigger
C. R. Fenster
Jim Stubbendieck
State Highway Department
John Speath
North
M.G . Nissen
Nienhaeser Construction Co
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!