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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1968
Page
6
Sidney High junior high players must pick up equipment for the football season at the Junior High School tomorrow from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m. Students must have completed physicals through school or family insurance and pay locker fees before school starts. Contact coach Toi Ernst at 2355 Newton to obtain pink cards for the physical records.
Services were held Wednesday afternoon at the First United Methodist Church for Mrs. W. B. Swenson 71 who died at Cheyenne Hospital Sunday morning The Rev John Stayton officiated Burial was in Greenwood Cemetery with The Gehrig and Son Funeral Home in charge Pallbearers were Robert J Wait Edward Madden John Mc Henry Marion Whitaker Harry Marsh and Steve Lewis Cleo Vivian Tobler was born at Arlington May 22 1897 to Mr and Mrs Albert L Tobler The family lived at Fulton S D and in Lodgepole before coming to Sidney 45 years ago She was married to W B Swenson at Alexandria S D July 16 1915 She is survived by the widow er one daughter Mrs H C Fair of Cheyenne Wyo two brothers and three sisters one grandson and one great grandson
Rites were held Wednesday morning for Arnold A. Braasch 64 prominent farmer and former deputy sheriff of Cheyenne County who died unexpectedly at his home Saturday evening. Services were at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church with Rev Harlan Brei officiating interment Greenwood Cemetery. Pallbearers were Alfred Siemers Harold Kettler Eugene Winston Walter Grunwald Chet Frame and W W Schulz. Born May 20 1903 in Jansen Nebraska he came to the area in 1914 with his parents. Surviving are his widow the former Letha Segelke married March 15 1928 one son Larry of Phoenix Arizona four grandchildren one brother and two sisters.
Clayton J. Walker, a Scottsbluff area man on probation from the Cheyenne County District Court, is jailed in Tavares Florida on a possible violation. He says he had permission to leave Nebraska, but the investigation continues. A decision on return to Sidney is expected early next week.
Two minor traffic accidents produced light damage and no injuries last Wednesday. Charles C Colling of Sidney was hit while eastbound on Newton by a vehicle backing from a driveway at 1825 Newton driven by Vernon Shoopman. Damages totaled 276 to Colling and 75 to Shoopman. Later Clare M Sutton of Sidney stopped at 19th and Illinois when rear ended by Colling, who blamed loose gravel for his car not stopping.
A satellite parked 22,300 miles above Earth can locate a speeding automobile to within 1,000 feet, showing high precision in aerial tracking technology and potential law enforcement applications.
North Carolina captured the Junior Jaycee National Golf Tournament team title at Shamrock Country Club in Tulsa. Nebraska, led by Ron Bohensky, Joe Harshbarger, Randy Borg, and Mike Wilson, finished 24th with a 689 total. Bohensky remains in finals with 163 after rounds of 82 and 81.
Frank Mattoon, Cheyenne County Republican Chairman, announces a meeting of the County Central Committee and all interested parties to discuss future finances and organizational matters. The session is set for noon, August 27 at the Fort Sidney Motor Hotel.
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