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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1963
Page
7
Church services and programs listed for Community Church and Catholic services. Girl and Brownie Scouts announce handbook sale, troop meeting notes include safety posters and activities. Family news covers birthday party, baby shower, kinney family travels, and visits with former pastor in Colorado.
Airline traffic in Sidney for August runs about 25 below the five daily goal. Frontier Airlines reports 100 boardings by Sunday night and only four or five farm reservations on record. The Civil Aeronautics Board has received briefs urging continuation of service to Sidney and four Nebraska cities, with Alliance and Chadron showing solid August activity.
Safflower in the four state area served by the Sidney safflower plant faces a bad growing season with below average yields. Hot dry weather sped harvest ahead of normal while winter and spring drought reduced acreage. Weeds proliferated mid summer complicating fields. Plant officials expect short processing runs though contract crops may keep plants busy with soybeans.
Merrill A. Johnson 54 of Gurley died Thursday morning from a stroke after a life in western Nebraska. Funeral services were at Gurley Methodist Church with Rev. George Wheat officiating. burial at Greenwood Cemetery. He served in the Army in 1941 and was active in education and church work. survived by his wife Marie and relatives.
The Sidney City Council plans a brief session at 7 30 pm with routine business including bids for police air conditioning building applications and licenses an appropriation ordinance and possible bids for mobile radios and a water department pickup. Dr Dorwart to be sworn in later pending surgery in Rochester Minnesota and resignation from the planning commission may be acted on.
Classified notice urges readers to use Telegraph Want-Ads to buy sell and trade items and services. Includes call to action and brief encouragement.
The Nebraska Council on Alcohol Education files for Attorney General opinion questioning LB 21 the bottle club law. It seeks clarity on excluding liquor-by-the-drink from public vote and whether state law supersedes local ordinances over bottle club control amid ongoing safflower studies and early results.
Three Sidney youths joined a Lincoln planning session for the 1963 Nebraska Conference of Youth set for Sept. 18 19 at the Nebraska Center for Continuing Education in Lincoln. Jim Knitely Kathy Keating and Arlys Beese attended with Mrs Ray Keating to represent Sidney and area youths.
About 150 young men and women will train in Nebraska schools this fall under the War Orphans Education Program now in its seventh year. A H Duxbury, VA Regional Office Manager in Lincoln, says nearly 500 have trained in Nebraska since 1956. The coming year should see over 300 enrollments monthly. The program supports children of service members killed or disabled in active duty, including those with extra hazardous duty not classified as wartime.
Eligible young adults ages 18 to 23 may qualify for the VA education program without losing eligibility if they have a living parent. They can pursue college or university studies or approved trade schools, with up to 36 months of schooling and monthly allowances up to 110 dollars. Vocational counseling is offered before training to help choose goals and courses. Contact the VA regional office in Lincoln or a County or Post Service Officer for details.
Time is nearly gone for about 1,300 Korean veterans in Nebraska to qualify for a special cash dividend by exchanging RS term policies for W term coverage or converting to low cost permanent insurance. The offer expires September 13, 1963, per VA Regional Office Manager A. H. Duxbury in Lincoln. Eligibility requires RS policies to be converted or exchanged before the deadline.
The notice states policyholders will receive a special dividend averaging about $100 based on policy age and duration. Eligible recipients must act by September 13 1963 or the dividend cannot be paid as explained by Duxbury.
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