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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1977
Page
5
The bulletin board notes a chance of showers and thundershowers tonight and Tuesday with highs in the upper 70s to low 80s and lows in the mid 50s to around 60. It lists local incidents including alarms, security checks, vandalism, a stolen vehicle, several accidents with damages, and obituaries for Philip Eugene Stegemen and Donald A Shipman, plus funeral pallbearers for Michael Mack Peetz.
Admission records list Teresa Schmidt Mrs. Duane Talich in Sidney and Louise Carlson Victor Dutton in Chappel plus Delores Warren in Dalton and Thelma Hinton in Kimball. Discharges include Glenna Kreager Teresa Schmidt Randy Stettner Raymond Miller Gurley Adalaide Swanson in Sidney and Eileen Evertson in Kimball. George Hillman in Lodgepole and Chris Johnson in Sedgwick, Colo.
A series of events listed for August includes new student registrations at Sidney High School on Monday 22 from 1 to 3 PM in the principal's office, Weight Watchers at Christ Episcopal Parish Hall, BPO Does Drove 9% meeting at Ellis Lodge, Wheatgrowers and Wheat Hearts meetings on Tuesday 23 at 8 PM in the wheatvelt building, and Bowling League organizational meeting at Cedar Lanes at 2 PM. Also Ice Cream Social at First United Methodist Church on Wednesday 24 from 7 to 8:30 PM with desserts, Sidney Women's Volleyball Association organizational meeting at 6:30 PM at the Shelter House, and the Sidney Ellis Lodge 184 annual picnic at Legion Park on Sunday 28 with paid members admitted.
Lincoln UNL ruling by the State Supreme Court could curb the University of Nebraska Board of Regents authority and complicate the work of the Unicameral and the Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education. Commission chairman Sam Jensen warns a new law may be needed to require the university to share data for the commission's uniform data system and to clarify legislative power over role and mission statements. Legislators say no major changes in university relations are anticipated.
Publication info appears for Sidney Telegraph with editor names, office address in Sieney Ne, change of address to The Sidney Telegraph box 717 Stoney Me, 69162, 1977 rates and rights statements, membership lines with NPA ANR NNA UPI credits and reproduction notice.
UPI reports Senator Frank Lewis of Bellevue urged Nebraska educators to roll up their sleeves and slug it out to win the November 1978 election on state school aid. He hopes enough signatures will place the school aid question on the next general ballot and allow voters to decide. Lewis labeled Senator Donald Dworak as inconsequential and called Gov. James Exon and S H Brauer of the Nebraska School Improvement Association part of “The Three Musketeers” in opposition to the aid measure.
Four Hers earned trophies rosettes ribbons and trips to the Nebraska State Fair. Awards went to champions and reserves across horse judging livestock and home economics divisions with donors including B and B Sales Federal Land Bank Sidney Federal Savings and Loan and Lodgepole Saddle Club. Farmers daughters won a state fair song contest.
Lincoln UPI report notes The Omaha Republican magazine labels Gov J James Exon as Gov Spend-On in its August issue. The four page analysis uses charts and commentary to paint his seven year tenure as a period of free spending, while GOP chair Anne Batchelder says an aggressive bid to attack Exon's administration is timely rather than a gimmick.
A 940 lb yearling calf sold for 43 per hundredweight at a 4 H auction in Sidney. Corey Frans of Lodgepole donated the sale to Panhandle Community Action Agency to fund emergency services seniors and Head Start programs with meat proceeds.
Nebraska farmers who complete pesticide applicator training may buy restricted pesticides as the EPA plans a Lincoln office to administer pesticide regulations. The plan was rejected by the ERA, prompting debate among state lawmakers about state versus federal control and cooperation with the EPA.
Rep. Virginia Smith of Nebraska called for at least a one year postponement of Carter administration changes to federal water resources policy. She cited wide scope and local impact urging state and local governments and the public have time to study, comment, and propose alternatives before any rush to action.
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