Statewide school bus system to begin operation soon
Nebraska plans its largest transport system with about 2100 buses carrying roughly 60,000 pupils daily. The program covers 472 districts and aims to travel about 20 million miles next year with an estimated 5 million dollars spent on transportation. Emphasis on safety includes stop requirements, flashing lights, and strict rider rules for loading, travel, and exits.
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Lincoln
Jerry McCall
State Department of Education
McCall
Nebraska
National Safety Council
Industry To Rushville Plant Opens For Hand Sewn Shoes
R UsHVisus The R. Allen Snoe Corp will open a Rushville plant to manufacture women's hand sewn casual shoes. Thomas Allen says forty workers start with plans for 200 to 300 employees in three years. A existing facility will be used until a 15 000 square foot building is ready by Nov 15. The Rushville Industry and Improvement Corp and the Nebraska Department of Economic Development aided the site search.
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Rushvisus
R. Allen Snoe Corp
Rushville
Thomas Allen
Rushville Rurbia Industry and Improvement Corp
Nebraska Department of Economic Development
Lewellen Garden County Fair Opens With Big Weekend Plans
Lewellen hosts a three day Garden County fair with Friday entry day and a Friday 9 30 dance by Kansas City Classmen. Saturday features Stringbean of the Grand Ole Opry while events include calf judging at 9 kid show 12 30 horse pulling 2 30 and an 8 p m stage show with Dean Mathis band. Sunday offers a 5 p m barbecue, free concert by the GCHS band, a 2 30 parade, 4 H sale and a 7 30 home talent show.
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Lewellen
Kansas City
Kirk
Stringbean
Grand Ole Opry
Dean Mathis
GCHS
Nakamura Family Plans Chappell Home and Practice
Dr. Nakamura and family arrived in Chappell to establish residence and start his medical practice on Monday August 26. They reside currently at Haven Smiths country home two miles northeast of Chappell with a special telephone service set up at their home. He came from Iowa where he worked at a Veterans Hospital and was previously based in Crawford.
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Haven Smith
Chappell
Nakamura
Iowa
Veteran’s Hospital
Crawford
Calf Brings $50 at Kimball County Fair Livestock Sale
Kimball Banner County Fair sold the grand and reserve champion steers for 50 and 35.50 dollars per hundredweight. Jill Shaw's grand champion weighed 1,117 pounds and Debby Shaw's reserve weighed 1,090 pounds. The average beef sale price was 34.29 cwt. Banner County Bank paid 50 per cwt for the grand steer and 35.50 per cwt for the reserve. Safeway Stores of Kimball bought the sale cattle.
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Kimball
American National Bank of Kimball
Kimball Banner County Fair
Jill Shaw
Debby Shaw
Banner County Bank
Harrisburg
Mark McKinnon
Randy Margart
Roger Cedarburg
Mark Downer
Gambles of Kimball
First State Bank
Kirk Dudney
Safeway Stores of
Former Publisher Dies at 84 in Cheyenne Rest Home
Kimball native Vert B. Cargill died at 84 ending more than 50 years in Kimball County. He published the Western Nebraska Observer in Kimball from 1913 to 1947. Funeral services were held Wednesday. burial followed at Dix Cemetery. Cargill, born in Creston Iowa, started printing in Gravity before moving to Corning and owning the Afton Star Enterprise. He came to Kimball in 1913, married July 28 1912 in Afton, and served as Dix mayor, Republican district chairman, Ak-Sar-Ben count, Kimball High School Board member, and a baseball team manager. He was a past master of Masonic Lodge 294 and past patron of Eastern Star.
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Kimball
B. Cargill
Kimball County
Western Nebraska Observer
Dix
Mr. Cargill
Creston
Iowa
High Schoool
Gravity
Corning
Afton
Married Sixty Years CHAPPELL Vogt observe anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur NX Vogt of Chappell mark sixty years of marriage with a family celebration this Saturday August 24. They were wed August 24 1908 at Grand Island Nebraska and moved to Oshkosh in 1917 before settling in Chappell in 1931. The couple’s nine children 30 grandchildren and 37 great grandchildren will attend along with friends and neighbors sending cards.
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Chappell
Arthur NX
Vogt of
Chadron Water System Bids Lead by Dobson Brothers
Dobson Brothers Construction Co of Lincoln submitted the apparent low bids on three of four phases of Chadron water project totaling 588,871 for the transmission line 269,250 for the control system and 55,200 for two reservoirs. Layne Western Co of Denver held the low bid for the water supply well field at 43,230.
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Chadron
Dobson Brothers Construction Co
Lincoln
Layne Western Co
Denver
Colo
Bridgeport Marine to Begin Vietnam Service in September
Bridgeport native and 1965 Minatare High School graduate Weitzel will start another Marine tour in Vietnam in September after serving from 1966 to 1967 and again from 1967 onward. He says he fights there because he believes he is needed and hopes to return to Vietnam to help agriculture reach year round production.
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Bridgeport
Minatare High School
Weitzel
Vietnam
Wartorn Nation
United States
Bridgeport News-Blade
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