December Western Outlook in Sidney Telegraph Feature Cover
The Friday Sidney Telegraph will include the December Western Outlook with an unusual cover showing a Christmas theme. Inside are stories and photos about a religious retreat at Bayard in a former POW building, a 1968 cross country cattle drive by a rancher who refused trucks, and a vast underground school in a multi million dollar Atlas missile chamber.
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Sidney Telegraph
Western Outlook
Santa Claus
Three Wise Men
Bayard
Panabaker
Western Outlook expands reach with Hi-Plains Enterprise
The Western Outlook magazine supple ment grows to 40 000 homes with The Hi-Plains Enterprize at Curtis. Participating newspapers include Bridgeport News-Blade Chadron Record Custer County Chief Gering Courier Gothenburg Times and others. Printed at The Telegraph Printing Co. on a high speed web offset press.
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Dalton
Ea Wild Animal
Brule
Pony Express
Gothenburg
Eea
Western Outlook
Curtis
Bridgeport News-Blade
Chadron Record
Custer County Chief
Gering Courter
Gordon Journal
Gothenburg Times
Keith County News
Sidney Telegraph
Valentine Newspaper
Western Nebraska Observer
Torrington Telegram
Sutherland Courier
Julesburg Grit Advocate
Hi-Plains Enterprise
Telegraph Printing Co
Sidney Board Eyes Continuous Progress Plan For Students
The Sidney Board of Education advanced a study on a district wide continuous progress program allowing students to advance at their own pace. They hired Jane Schuman for a trainable mentally retarded class, looked into relighting North and South Ward, and approved 8,052.05 in bills while planning a Title V curriculum study and spring in service workshop.
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Sidney Board of Education
Russ Pedersen
Jane Schuman
Kearney State College
Pedersen
North
South Ward
Nebraska State Department of Education
Mel Olson
Hugh Harlan
Loren Brackenhoff
T. R. Tillotson
Central
Frank Finney
South
Charles Zack
Supt
State Department
Sidney
North Ward
Board of Education
Pershing
Lincoln
Educational Service Unit
East Ward
State Education Association
State School Board Association
Panhandle weather outlook with clouds and cold shift
In the Panhandle the forecast calls for increasing cloudiness with westerly winds 15 to 25 mph this afternoon. Highs will range from 55 to 65 with snow possible tonight and Thursday, lows 15 to 25, and Thursday highs in the 30s. Precipitation near zero this afternoon, 20 percent tonight, 30 percent Thursday. Temperatures through Monday average three to 10 degrees below normal, with colder air at the period's start.
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Panhandle
Sixty Years Observed By Dalton Bank
The Dalton State Bank marks its 60th anniversary with an open house Saturday from 2 to 4 PM. President Thomas H. Olson notes refreshments, door prizes including cash and one year rent for safety deposit boxes, with no attendance required if registration is during the event.
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Dalton State Bank
Thomas H. Olson
Daton State Bank
J.L. Willis
George H. Willis
Fannie M. Willis
Dalton
Cheyenne County
Nebraska
Mr. Olson
Lyle Rabe
Lawrence Marrin
Peggy Brestel
Wilma Gabriel
Rabe
Marrin
Charles Ferguson
Denver
Herb Fecht
Instructor At Vo-Tech School Dies On Monday
Paul R. Thompson, 54, instructor at the Western Nebraska Vocational Technical School, died Monday at Memorial Hospital after five days there and longer illness from influenza. Funeral plans place burial in Lansing, Iowa with Burke Funeral Home handling. Local arrangements by Gehrig and Son Funeral Home. He was born Oct. 18, 1914 in Lansing to Mr. and Mrs. John Thompson. He is survived by his wife Marjorie of Polson, Montana, and his parents.
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Paul R. Thompson
Western Nebraska Vocational Technical School
Memorial Hospital
Lansing
Iowa
Burke Funeral Home
Gehrig and Son Funeral Home
Mr. Thompson
John Thompson
Marjorie
Polson
Mont
Hospital restricts visitors amid flu spread at Memorial
Memorial Hospital and Home will limit visits to immediate family until further notice. Administrator Darold Hendee announced Tuesday morning the precaution aims to stop flu spread as staff and several rest home guests have been affected. Restrictions will be lifted when advised.
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Memorial Hospital
Darold Hendee
Hendee
Controversy Attracts Crowd For City License Hearing
A packed city council hearing debated transferring a liquor license from Boyd's Cigar Store to Decker's Market. After the decision, the chamber emptied, and the next item asked for over $17,000 to buy equipment for the waste, police, and street departments.
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Boyd’s Cigar
Decker’s Market
Sidney council rejects Decker market liquor license
The Sidney City Council unanimously voted against transferring the liquor license from Boyd's Cigar Store to Decker's Market for its supermarket. The hearing featured about an hour of arguments from supporters and opponents, with petitions from opponents totaling roughly four hundred and church leaders urging against the departure from the current packaged liquor system.
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Sidney
Decker
Boyd
Nebraska
John Peetz Jr
Tom Brower
Peetz
Gerald Matzke
Sportsman’s Bar
Bud’s Drive- In
Center Liquor
Branding Iron
Town and
Jack and Jill Market
Star Market
Matzke
Church of the Nazarene
Calvary Baptist Church
First Baptist Church
First Christian Church
Wesleyan Methodist Church
Assembly of God Church
Another Famous Trail Now Open
Ogallala marked the ribbon cutting for more miles of Interstate 80. Eastbound traffic may enter I-80 at Big Springs while westbound traffic can stay on the highway to Brule. By 1972 the freeway aims to run Maine to the west coast. work continues on the Big Springs to Chappell segment, expected ready by late 1969 or early 1970.
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Ogallala
Big Springs
Brule
Maine
West Coast
Chappell
Sidney Police to Begin Radar Use for Speed Control
Sidney police will start radar speed control on Thursday morning. The weekly crop and weather review notes winter wheat in Nebraska mostly good to excellent with dry topsoils in the Panhandle and southwest, some dust, but strong root systems reducing erosion. Corn harvest is 95.8 percent complete. moisture averages around 16 percent though some report 20 percent, delaying safe storage. Livestock conditions are mostly good while range and pasture feed lag in northeast and southwest.
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Nebraska
The
Agricultural Statistics
Panhandle
Southwest
New Gun Law Takes Effect December Sixteen
IRS Nebraska district director Richard P. Vinal says the new federal gun law, effective December 16, requires dealers buyers and collectors to comply. IRS has prepared explanatory material and a local law summary booklet mailed to gun dealers to help check laws before selling. Radar enforcement will begin in Sidney with tests showing many drivers exceed the 25 mph limit. The city budget includes new police cars waste packer equipment street tools and planning changes. Refunds are approved for pension contributions by former Police Chief Sol Willis and Patrolman Harold Tobin and funds are moved to earn interest in bonds. A council letter requests participation in a January 6 meeting of the Sidney Council of Youth and a liquor license transfer for Decker’s Market is noted.
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Omaha
Richard P. Vinal
Internal Revenue Service For
Nebraska
IRS
Fed
Sidney
John Baudek
10Th Ave
Rose St
Baudek
Elwell Motor Co
Highway Equipment Co
Lincoln
Wilson Equipment Co
Cheyenne
Eee
John Egging
City Planning Commission
W.J
Bill’ Robinson
L.M. Clinton
Kansas-Nebraska Natural Gas Co
Sol Willis
Harold Tobin
Willis
Tobin
Clinton
Gordon Tobin
Federal Land Bank
Sidney Council of Youth
Decker’s Market
Boyd’s Cigar Store
Decker’ S
Sidneyites Sweep Golden Gift Days Top Prizes
Matt Treinen Sr. and Mrs Kenneth Benzel won the $200 top prize and $150 second prize respectively in last weekend's Golden Gift Days drawing. Most $10 prizes were awarded by Tuesday afternoon, with several other winners named and remaining prizes available for claim until 5 p.m. Wednesday.
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Matt Treinen Sr
Rose
Kenneth Benzel
Sidney
Treinen
Benzel
George Runge
Jim Loghry
Beverly
Thelma Welton
Flood Study Aids Plans For Sidney Rest Home
City council approved a flood plan study tied to a proposed nursing home at 15th Avenue and Toledo Street. FHA recommended a comprehensive flood risk assessment. Nebraska Water Conservation Committee and Corps of Engineers will conduct it at no cost. The site lies north of Lodgepole Creek on high ground, with existing dam work in the west.
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15Th Avenue
Toledo St
Federal Housing Administration
Lodgepole Creek
FHA
John Baudek
Nebraska Water Conservation Committee
Corps of Engineers
Sidney
Ed Bauman
Sidney Federal Savings and Loan Assn
Sidney Optimist Club Chartered at Special Dinner
The Optimist Club of Sidney was officially chartered at a Saturday night banquet in the Sidney American Legion Clubrooms. Seventy five Optimists from Sidney, Ogallala, Omaha and Norfolk attended the charter presentation.
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Optimist Club OF
Sidney
Sidney American Legion
Ogallala
Omaha
Norfolk
Sidney Club
Bob Balfour
Max Beyersdorf
North Platte
al Fries
Wayne Fickes
Chateau Cafe
Good Neighbor Nominees Sought by Ak-Sar-Ben in Omaha
Ak-Sar-Ben announces its Good Neighbor Awards nominations for Nebraskans showing unselfish, neighborly deeds in the past year. Nominations from newspapers, radio, TV, chambers, ambassadors, extension agents and others are invited and must arrive by February 15. Address to Ak-Sar-Ben Good Neighbor Awards Committee 63rd and Shirley Streets Omaha 68106.
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Ak- Sar-Ben
Nebraska
Chambers of Commerce
Ak-Sar-Ben
63Rd
Shirley Streets
Omaha
Nebr
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Lisa
Robby
Robert Gould
Dalton Bank
Vo-Tech School
Sidneyites
Reun
Sidney Optimist Club Chartered
Good Neighbor
Frank P. Fogarty
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