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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1951
Page
12
North Central Gas Company explains higher November bills by unusually cold weather. November 1951 ran 16 percent colder than average, with the heating period 20 percent colder. Calculations use inside mean temperatures and degree days. wind worsens heating but is not counted by the formula.
Vance A. Houston was reelected president of the Wye Braska Area Council at the Mitchell meeting. Officers named include Bruce Hagemeister Dr H A Blackstone and Lewis Colyer as vice presidents with Walter Reed and others as district commissioners. Scout executive R V Haverkamp reported strong camping progress and a goal of about 3000 boys registered in 1952.
Mineral rights holders on the Dorman oil lease near Sidney face pro rata tax bills after Ginther Warren and Ginther of Houston, not a corporation, challenge billing. County Assessor Roy Gish says taxes are split among about fifty mineral holders, with five acre deeds paying roughly 2.73 dollars each, larger shares scaled to ownership. Corporation leases differ as the company pays taxes and deducts from royalty payments to holders.
The Rev. Michael A. Feeney aged 70, longtime pastor of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Greeley, Nebr., died Monday at his home. Born in Ireland, he was ordained June 24, 1908, and served in Sidney, Omaha area churches, Wisner, Cedar Rapids, and O’Connor before becoming pastor at Greeley.
East Sidney residents and visitors are recorded through a sequence of calls and visits. Names include Pat Seidel, Robert Kurz, Bill Spicknell, Bertha Mitchell, Frank Kurz, Anna Olson, Nels Olson, Kenneth Mitchell, Norma Schnell, Henry Schnell, Charles Grearey, Everett Mohart, Effie Hatcher, Janeda Van Aelstyn, Joe Kennedy, Max Mathewson, Andy Oskavarek, Henry Haupt, Lyle Bergner, and others as they stopped by homes and attended events such as an Achievement Day program and a Lutheran church bazaar.
Typing paper mimeograph paper and typewriter or pencil carbon stock is complete at The Telegraph.
March of Dimes committee representatives from Kimball and Cheyenne County met Wednesday night with Robert Day of Grand Island the state representative for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis A dinner was held at the Yendis Party room to plan a concentrated Dimes drive for January Day urged greater year end fundraising due to polio and research costs He praised local leaders including Mrs Dewey Lovell Potter March of Dimes chairperson for her record setting per capita drive and John W Martinosky Cheyenne County drive chair introduced Day to the group.
William G. Murphy 51 former director of public relations at Union Pacific died in Omaha after a stroke. Klippel named general passenger traffic manager with headquarters in Omaha, succeeding the late C. J. Collins who died in Chicago. Murphy was born in Council Bluffs and began journalism at The Nonpareil in 1917 before stints in Pocatello and Omaha.
The Institute of Life Insurance reports near record low outstanding loans to loanable funds at year end 1950 as American families borrowed half a billion dollars on their life policies, continuing a four year pattern of low ratios.
William Koehn of Sidney fined 10 dollars and costs for disturbance. Salvador Salazar and Elmer Clark of Hastings, Neb for intoxication ordered out of town. Anna Mae Clark, Vern Bowman, and others in Sidney cited for intoxication with fines of 10 dollars and costs. Albert Coyle fined 65 dollars with 30 day license suspension for driving while intoxicated. George Hunt and James Meyers Jr for speeding with 10 and 15 dollars respectively. Rumaldo Salas, Lewis Washington, Melvin Hurn, Robert Stinson, Donald Kahl, and Henry Knous cited for intoxication or speeding with small fines.
Wilbur H. Breckman appears in county court charged with intoxication. He is fined $25 and warned on recovery as the Carbon paper for typewriter or pencil error is noted in the record.
Alloys containing 429% nickel and sharing glass like thermal expansion serve in read in wires sealed beam headlights television tubes and similar uses.
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