73 Football Issue Expands With Features and Color Photo
The Sidney Telegraph issues its 1973 football edition expanded to 14 pages. It covers Southern Panhandle teams along with volleyball cross country and football and includes schedules rosters and messages from hometown merchants. It features Chappell High School reports and a colored photo of new head coaches.
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Sidney Telegraph
Sidney High Red Raiders
St. Patrick's Irish
Dalton Tigers
Gurley Pirates
Potter Coyotes
Lodgepole Panthers
Peetz Bulldogs
Southern
Panhandle
Telegraph
Dennis Berry
Milk Subsidy Halted and Lunch Prices May Rise
Sidney School Superintendent Russ Pedersen reports federal milk subsidies end due to funding gaps. Students who brown bag or buy extra milk will pay full price. Milk cost rises to eight cents. lunch prices likely up with higher bread and meat costs and a 25 percent minimum wage increase. Elementary meals are 35 cents, secondary 40 cents.
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Pedersen
Sidney
Scottsbluff
Brenda Eich Found After Desertion From Home
Sixteen year old Brenda Eich of 1809 4th Sioux Villa was found today after disappearing August 17. She contacted a girlfriend from Colby Kansas and was taken into custody by Colby Police at 8 a.m. Her parents, who had feared kidnapping, were notified and drove to Colby. She had failed to return from her job at the Daisy Queen and was last seen walking toward her home.
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Brenda Eich
Miss Eich
Colby
Kaw
The
Daisy Queen
Commissioners to Discuss Area Zoning with State Official
Ron Melby of the Nebraska State Office of Planning and Programming will meet Cheyenne County Commissioners Tuesday to discuss zoning and land use. The group plans an area zoning board as Interstate 80 spurs development while the county updates a Panhandle land use map.
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Ron Melby
Nebraska State Office of Planning and Programming
Cheyenne
Cheyenne Coon
Rcd&pc
Panhandle
Robert Simmons
Nebraska
Parity ratio tops 100 for first time in 21 years
The Agriculture Department reports a 20 percent jump in the prices farmers receive boosting the parity ratio to 102 percent in mid August. Cattle hogs corn wheat soybeans cotton rice and poultry prices hit record highs while some declines for cattle and hogs are expected in the next report.
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Agriculture Department
Department
USDA
Draper Plans Renovation of Downtown Building in Citywide Project
Sidney businessmen push a Chamber of Commerce renovation plan as LaVerne Draper awaits contractor start on his downtown building housing The Photo Center and John’s A-1 Printing. Doran Investment Co began two renovations in June. others perform maintenance or follow Nelson’s master design restoring storefronts to turn of century appearance.
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Sidney Merchant
LaVerne Draper
Photo Center
John’s
A-1
Draper
Chamber of Commerce
Doran Investment Co
Doran Company
Stag
Fines
Western Auto
Draper's
Ray Josten
Duane Namath
Mor-Valu
Art
Jack Knicely
Bill Peterson
Greenlees
Peterson
al Nelson
Iowa
Chamber
Nelson
Red Oak
Iewa
Ed Cole
10Th Ave
Sth Ave
Illinois St
Exon Receives Warm Welcome At Nebraska Safety Meeting
Governor Exon visited Sidney for a safety conference drawing about 80 Panhandle officials to discuss reducing highway deaths. The event featured his traffic safety campaign updates, jokes with Mayor Gottschalk, and questions on reelection plans and staff roles within the party.
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Nebraska
Exon
Sidney
Panhandle
State Motor Vehicle Department
John L. Sullivan
Sidney Ellis
Sullivan
Nebraska Highway Patrol
Col. J.E. Kruger
Department of Roads
Tom Doyle
Lloyd Anderson
Panhandle Experiment Station
Doyle
Tom
Douglas County
William Barrett
Barrett
Loren Belker
Citizens For Exon Committee
John Gottschalk
Gottschalk
Here
Hiram Scott
Exon tours Panhandle as highway aims discussed
Governor Exon visits Sidney to tout Panhandle highway work and defend funding. He deflects Exon Barrett criticism over campaign funds while urging full disclosure. Exon notes I 60 progress and plans a return to western Nebraska to inspect roads and facilities.
Northwestern Bell asks Nebraska for rate hike approval
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company filed with the Nebraska Public Service Commission seeking about 9 million in extra revenue, an about eight percent overall rate increase. CEO Ben Morris says the rise funds intended service quality, with residence monthly increases from .15 to .40 and business line rises from .50 to 1.15, plus other charges. A hearing will be set by the PSC.
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Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
Nebraska Public Service Commission
Nebraska
Comny
Ben R. Morris
Northwestern Bell
Morris
No Paper Monday Labor Day Notice
The Sidney Telegraph will not publish on Labor Day. Publication resumes Wednesday as usual.
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The
Telegraph
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