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Newspaper

Sidney Telegraph

Location

Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America

Date

Dec 07, 1955

Page

14

Oil drilling activity fills Preble Field and beyond

Petroleum Inc reports the Egging No 1 test at 4 457 71 ft with a strong blow. Spear ow No 1 outpost abandoned at 4 725 ft with no shows. Maxey Drilling at Folkerts Block No 1 2 865 ft. Tremain No 1 D Sand 4 460 ft. Banner Olsen Field wells show oil in 75 min test. Johnson 231 temporarily abandoned as dry hole. Potter Don Soester No 1 shows excellent oil and plans to reach 5700 ft. Superior Oil reports Olsen 46 19 producing, 48 19 spudded. several dry wells noted in Morrill and Kimball counties. Various other wildcats drilled with mixed results across Box Butte Morrill and Kimball counties.

Maxey Drilling Co Folkerts Ohio Oil Tremain Franzen Miracle & Fifer Spearow No Spearow Don M. Rounds Drilling Co Ohio Dorman Banner Oil Co Olsen Field Banner-Weigand Morrill County Northern Potter Drilling Co C. L. Brown Potter Wildcat Belmont Dawes County Pennsylvania Brown Superior Oil Olsen Superior Kimball County Cizek Duster String Calvert Drilling Co Box Butte Morrill Calvert Feldman & Engle Redfern Peterson Watkins Oil Mass Cheyenne County

Potter Trailer Ordinance Now In Effect In Potter

The Potter board of trustees passed a new trailer house parking ordinance. The notice is posted at The Potter State Bank The Postoffice and The Rose Hardware. Residents are urged to read the ordinance.

Board of Trustees Potter State Bank Postoffice Rose Hardware Potter Fairs and Squares Dix School Potter American Legion Hall Marty MacAdam Rawlins Wyo Roderick MacAdam Ida Erlewine Sidney Dale Erlewine Chas. Herboldsheimer Idaho Wyoming Montana Washington Oregon California Arizona Clifford Herboldsheimer Dale Herboldsheimer Bushnell Herboldsheimer Bennie Herboldsheimer Hubert Herboldsheimer Francis Willoughby Marjorie Wesley Herboldsheimer Chas. Smith Cheyenne County Women’s Society of Christian Service Fellowship Hall Mmes Ernest Anderson Emil Nelson Edgar Anderson D. F. Enevoldsen Charles Smith Willard Wills Doyle Easton Lloyd Juelfs Guy Hite Ralph Mershheim Woman’s Society of Christian Service Mary Jane Gadway Betty Herboldsheimer Potter Beta Sigma Phi Ferne Olsen Jacqueline Stines Pat Weikhorst Ella Enevoldsen Noma Warren Beta Zeta Velma Larson Guylyn Glahn Cynthia Hammond Charlotte’ Erievoldsen Ferne Genevieve ‘Olsen Gertrude Laura Nelson Social Neighbors Club Harriet Johnson Fred Vaughan Ladies Bridge Club Rudy Dedic Dewey Larson

Sidney Schools Board 1955 December Meeting Minutes

The Sidney City Schools board met in December 1955 with standard agenda items including call to order minutes patrons hearings and treasurer's report. A long list of bills was read for utilities supplies services and expenditures to various local and regional firms and vendors.

Sidney City Schools Board City of Sidney Utilities, Electric & Water North Central Gas Co North Western Bell Telephone Co C. H. Hutchison Sid Moore Panhandler Drug Service Sidney Telegraph C. J. Weymouth Doris Wittrock Blue Cross-Blue Shield Sidney Iron Works Humphrey’s Rudy’s Inc Star Market Prebles Genevieve Fitch Petersen & Petersen, Inc W. D. Powell Hardware the Farmers Union Co-op Gas & Oil Co Bagby’s Texaco Service Vergal A. Winn McGowan’s Market Guy Weaver Sidney Glass & Paint Co Thomas Lumber Co Filsinger Excavating Wamsley’s Plumbing & Heating & Appliances Gamble Authorized Dealer Wes Sidney Office Supply Laurene Simmerman Lee’s Store, Inc W. P. Ackerman the Continental Press, Inc Prentice-Hall, Inc How, Peterson & Company the National Education Association Harper Brothers Bureau of Publications Arthur Croft Publications Philosophical Library Children’s Activities Cadmus Books The University of Nebraska Extension Division Bureau of Visual Instruction School Form & Supply Co Majerus Duplicator Co Church Film Service American Education Publications School Specialty Supply American School Supply Dakota Microfilm Service Jack’s Music Schmoller & Mueller Piano Co Ideal Pictures Association Film Inc State Surplus A, Ws Office Keystone View Company Auntington Laboratories, Inc Corporation Tom’s ‘Sanitary Supply Acme Chemical Co Consolidated , Office Supply Company By Worrel-Consolidated Laboratories J. I. Holcomb Manufacturing Co Acme Sanitary Supply Co Duro-Test Corporation Kelso Chemical Company Sanitary Specialties Co United Chemical Company Capital City Bookbindery Sanitary Plumbing and Heating Co International Business Machine Corp Hathaway Safe & Lock Co Landry’s Typewriter & Equipment Co Lawlor’s Metropolitan Stage Equipment, Inc Edward Don & Company Former Bros.-Midwest Corp Singer Sewing Machine Co Pogler & Company Hoover Brothers, Inc

Farm population declines as US population swells

The farm population in the United States has fallen by 10 million since 1910 while the national population increased from 92 million to over 165 million.

JC’s Begin Sale of Yule Trees in Sidney Today

Sidney Jaycees start Christmas tree sales at 21st and Illinois today with daily sales on the Wheatbelt Public Power District east side. Proceeds support Little League baseball and other youth activities. The meeting also announced Bob Wait’s election to the board and a January 7 deadline to nominate an outstanding young farmer in Cheyenne County. Benny Hochman highlighted the Voice of Democracy finalists Marilyn Portz Lance Barker and Judy Townsend who delivered five minute speeches.

Sidney Jaycees 21St Ilinois Gene Wamsley Wamsley Wheatbelt Public Poweristrict Jaycee Bob Wait Jack Bentley Sidney Wait Cheyenne County Benny Hochman Carl Crouse Marilyn Portz St. Patrick’s Academy Lance

One-Year Terms Set in Nebraska Sentencing

Ralph Osborn, a Sidney insurance man, received a one year sentence for carrying a concealed weapon after pleading guilty following an incident at a local club. Judge I J Nisley also paroled Keith Bancroft, 19, of Dalton, for two years after a guilty plea to statutory rape connected to a 14-year-old Sidney girl assault near Country Club Heights.

Ralph Osborn Sidney Nebraska State Penitentiary I. J. Nisley Osborn Nisley Keith Bancroft Dalton Bancroft Country Club Heights Kearney

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