Labor Day Picnic At Lodgepole Launches 42nd Old Settlers Reunion
The 42nd annual Old Settlers Reunion Labor Day events in Lodgepole start at 10 a.m. with a big parade of eight bands, antique cars, floats and the Old Settlers King and Queen Mr and Mrs R Q Bond. Barbecue from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. served by Lions Club and Potter Barbecue Club. afternoon and evening programs include music by Lodgepole High School band Count Downs from Sidney and a talk by Sidney attorney Frank Mattoon. Activities include children’s races horse racing tournament museum exhibits art show and a flower show in new locations with plans for a large crowd.
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Old Settlers
Lodgepole
Legion
R. Q. Bond
Lions Club
Potter Barbecue Club
Lodgepole High School
Sidney
King and Queen
Frank Mattoon
Wheat Mites Found in Lorenzo Area Fields
Cheyenne County Agent Ivan Liljecren reports three samples from the Lorenzo area show heavy and light infestations of wheat mites, with one sample negative. The hail damage week of June 20 created risk to fall-planted wheat nearby. Farmers are urged to inspect hailed fields and bring samples to the extension office for testing.
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Lorenzo
Cheyenne County
Ivan Liljecren
Six Homes Urgently Needed for BIS Students
Six BIS students face urgent housing shortage as the Sid ney Business Institute opens its Fall Term on September 19. Six more homes are needed for out of town students. interested parties should call Mr. Helt at 254-5808 between 8 and 2.
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BIS
The
Business Institute of Sidney
Mr. Helt
Bond and Ham Named To REA Meeting Roles
Wayne Bond of Lodgepole and Charles Ham of Wheatbelt will attend the Nebraska Rural Electric Assn semi annual meeting in Lincoln. Bond joins the Resolutions Committee to draft reforms on rural electrification while Ham serves on the Sergeants-At-Arms Committee.
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Wayne Bond
Lodgepole
Wheatbelt Public Power District
Sidney
Charles Ham
Wheatbelt
Nebraska Rural Electric Assn
Lincoln
Bond
NREA
Ham
Rural Electric
Warren Fairchild
State Water Conservation Commission
E. P. Schroeder
Nebraska Safety Patrol
George King Jr
Rural Electrification Administration
REA
Frank Morrison
Tom Carroll
Weston Webb
Grand Island
Robert Partridge
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
NRECA
Washington, D. S. C
A. Blatchford
Nebraska Electric Generation and Transmission Cooperative
G and T
Columbus
Paul Ogier
Wallace
William Norton
Osceola
Nebraska Power Review Board
Raymond Mesner
Central City
Nebraska Electric G and T
Wendell Garwood
Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association of
Denver
Willard Hoyt
Culbertson
Association
Cathi Hunt
Wanda Tripplett
Maytag Company
Newton
Iowa
Ric Boese Leads District V Youth Council Role
Ric Boese of Sidney acts as president of the Sidney Youth Council and is now chairman of District V Nebraska Youth Council while serving on the state youth council. He was selected for these positions at the recent state youth conference.
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Ric Boese
Sidney
Nebraska
Nebraska ETV tests expand to North Platte and Alliance
Nebraska Educational Television Network moves toward western Nebraska rollout with tests at North Platte KPNE TV channel 9 and Alliance KTNE TV channel 13 expected to begin full programming next week. Cable viewers may await new facilities as Ron Tighe notes varying dial placements and Denver channels 2 and 6 will join the lineup once installation completes. Weather and materials could affect completion before the World Series and major football games.
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Nebraska Educational Television Network
Ron Tighe
Sidney Community TV Co
Tighe
Sidney Cable
Mr. Tighe
Nebraska
Denver
Write-In Bid Planned By County Treasurer Jorgensen
Mrs. Jorgensen announces intent to seek reelection as a write-in candidate in the November 8 general election. She notes prior primary loss to John Underdown and says resignation would be tragic while praising staff, office integrity, and public service. she urges Democrats Independents and Republicans to write her name.
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Mable Jorgensen
Jorgensen
John Underdown
Milt Nissen
Cheyenne County
Fair Board Thanks Public For Cooperation At Cheyenne County Fair
The Fair Board expresses sincere thanks to all who participated worked and competed at one of the best fairs in Cheyenne County history. Improved local economy was reflected in exhibits prices paid for 4 H livestock attendance at grandstand attractions and carnival business.
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Cheyenne County
Fair Board
Field Man For PVO In Region
Hugh Maxwell formerly of Culbertson Mont has joined Pacific Vegetable Oils Corp Sidney plant as field representative replacing Ken Woodward. Maxwell and his family live at 1110 Parkview with six children ages two to twelve. He oversees field work for the Sidney plant handling safflower and other farm products for a four state area.
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PVO
Hugh Maxwell
Culbertson, Mont
Pacific Vegetable Oils Corp
Sidney
Ken Woodward
Utah
Maxwell
Parkview
Maxwells
Soybeans To Be Processed Here By PVO
Pacific Vegetable Oils Corp of Sidney will focus on processing soybeans for a second year. Ned Robinson says last year’s soybean run lasted seven months with solid demand in central and eastern Nebraska especially in North Platte and South Platte valleys. The plant expects sizable soybean purchases this fall as safflower crops decline due to humid July weather. A new wheat processing development is being studied for future export potential, with possible plant adaptation if viable.
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Pacific Vegetable Oils Corp
Sidney
Ned Robinson
Nebraska
Robinson
North Platte
South Platte
Mr. Robinson
PVO
Rites Will Be On Tuesday For Mary Tilghman
Funeral services for 82 year old Mary Tilghman will be held Tuesday at 10 a.m. from Gehrig and Son Funeral Home in Crook Colorado. She died Friday after a month in Memorial Hospital. Born September 28 1883 in Wilber Nebraska she married William J Tilghman in 1913. Survived by five sons Sidney Lloyd Kenneth Raymond William and 17 grandchildren. Burial in South Sunol Cemetery officiated by Rev Bernard Nelson.
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Gehrig and Son
Mary Tilghman
North Crook, Colo
Memorial Hospital
Wilber
Neb
John
Anna Wolf Sukovaty
William J. Tilghman
Fort Morgan
Colo
Tilghman
Steve J
Lloyd S
Sidney
Kenneth L
Raymond A
Crook
William J
Casper
Wyo
Bernard Nelson
South Sunol Cemetery
Dresser Dies. Sidney Native Passes in California
Floyd Dresser 62, longtime Sidney resident until the 1920s, moved to California with his family and died early in July in Berkeley. He leaves his wife and two daughters.
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Floyd Dresser
Sidney
California
Berkeley
FAA About Face Trims Sidney Airport Bid Hours Left
With bids due in twenty four hours the FAA informed Sidney that part of the airport improvement project has been deleted. The plan had included an extended runway extra taxiing space and a helicopter landing pad. The $220000 city project was approved recently by FAA and local officials. The cause of the change and whether bids can proceed remains unclear. The total project was near 400000 and includes land and some road work.
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Sidney
Federal Aviation Agency
FAA
Carl T. Curtis
Dave Martin
Frank Morrison
George Felsch
Nebraska Department of Aeronautics
Felsch
Sidney Airport
Washington D.C
Nebraska
Kansas City
Washington
Messrs
Curtis
Martin
Morrison
More I-80 Opening Eases Panhandle Travel
Nebraska reports announce 39 miles of Interstate 80 opening Tuesday from York east to Milford interchanges, easing trips from the Panhandle to Lincoln and Omaha. Westbound traffic will use Milford interchange, with York segment not yet finished. Construction remains to finish shoulders and barriers, and the North Platte to Maxwell westbound segment is planned for Sept. 22.
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Nebraska Panhandle
Nebraska
John Hossack
Hossack
York
Milford
Lincoln
Beaver Crossing
Waco
Highway 81
North Platte
Maxwell
Panhandle
Omaha
Mrs Wunenberg of Chappell Dies
Elizabeth Unger Wunenberg 81 died August 27 after five years of illness. Funeral Tuesday at Grace Lutheran Church Chappell with Rev. Lew Meissner. burial in Chappell cemetery. Born Sept 6 1885 in Neustadt Ontario Canada. came to U S at 18. Married Jacob Wunenberg Jan 17 1904. Survived by three daughters, four grandchildren, one great grandchild. husband and several siblings preceded her.
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Chappell
Grace Lutheran Church
Elizabeth Unger Wunenberg
Osakosh Hospital
Lew Meissner
Chappell Cemetery
Neustadt
Ontario
Canada
Absolom
Elizabeth Unger
United States
Jacob Wunenberg
Nebraska
Plymouth
DeWitt
Wunenberg
Herbert Statler
Edward Kieselhorst
Adeline Wunenberg
Denver
Sideney
Elmer Reinwald
Heavy Damage In Two Vehicle Collision East Of Potter
Two cars collided on Highway 30 one seventh of a mile east of Potter at 1 pm Saturday. Vehicles were a 1966 Ford driven by Katherine Schultz and a 1962 Chevrolet driven by Michael Policky. Schultz passengers Louis Schultz and Barbara Pearson also injured minor and treated at Memorial Hospital. Schultz car about 1300 dollars damage and Policky vehicle about 500 dollars.
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Potter
Katherine Schultz
Round Lake
Ill
Dan Reece
Michael Policky
Route 1
Sidney
Schultz
Policky
Policky Farm
Louis
Barbara Pearson
Memorial Hospital
Reece
Wendel Mathewson
Dalton Lions Get Busy On Parade Float
Dalton Lions Club planned completion of the parade float for the Dalton Fall Festival with queen and attendants. Two parades are scheduled Tuesday September 20. Seven guests attended the August meeting. John Davison urged collecting discarded eyeglasses to aid those unable to afford fittings, with a receptacle in the Dalton bank. Gary Kruger entertained with Viet Nam slide images from his yearlong tour of duty.
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Dalton
Dalton Lions Club
Lions
John Davison
Dalton Bank
Death of Ruth Bills at 88 in Lodgepole Funeral Thursday
Mrs C O Bills 88 a Lodgepole resident for over 50 years died at Memorial Hospital after a three week stay. Funeral services set for 2 pm Thursday at the Lodgepole Methodist Church with Rev Gary Aten officiating. Burial at Pleasant View Cemetery under Craig Mortuary direction. Survived by husband Charles O Bills four daughters three sons 16 grandchildren 21 great grandchildren one great great grandchild and two sisters and two brothers.
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C. O
Ruth) Bills
Lodgepole
Memorial Hospital
Methodist Church of
Gary Aten
Pleasant View Cemetery
Craig Mortuary
Ruth Werhan
Iowa
Jewe and
Adele Gelson Werhan
Fairbury
Neb
Cheyenne County
Bills
Methodist Church
WSCS
RN. Huff
Morris Hernbloom
Volney Wise
Walter Kerker
Portland
Ore
Clarence
Sidney
Roy
Roscoe
Alliance
Grace Porter
Macksburg
Florence Rohrbaugh
Norman
Okla
Mack Werhan
Salina
Kan
Council Hill
Dedication Set For Oct 19th For Nebraska Substation
Tri-Station Generation and Transmission Assn. of Denver announces dedication of a million dollar electrical sub-station just north of Sidney on Oct 19. Denver manager Wendell Garvey and John G. Mankin visited to arrange details with Wheatbelt Public Power District staff Charles Ham and Gene Lienemann. Mankin will lead the arrangements as program details are finalized for a project boosting Nebraska’s electrical energy.
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Tri-Station Generation and Transmission Assn., Inc
Denver
Sidney
Wendell Garvey
John G. Mankin
Mankin
Charles Ham
Gene Lienemann
Wheatbelt Public
Staggered Terms For ASC Heads
Cheyenne County ASC changes aim to stabilize policy and improve farm program administration. At the August 31 convention, regular and alternate committeemen terms transition to three year staggered terms with a three term limit.
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ASC
Raymond L. Davis
Cheyenne County Committee
Robert Rexroth
Earl Gell
Harry Lee
Davis
Panhandle forecast shows fair run through Tuesday
The Panhandle weather outlook calls for fair conditions this afternoon tonight and Tuesday with lows in the 50s and highs on Tuesday of 85 to 95. The five day outlook expects temperatures to average slightly above normal with minor day to day changes and zero precipitation probability.
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Panhandle
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Dresser
Dalton Lions
Gary Kruger
Viet Nam
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