City museum project gains backing with new committee
Mayor Rudy Munderloh announced that interest is sufficient to form a committee to plan a historical museum. The panel will pick a site and set a financial goal, with options including a fund raising campaign or civic corporation and possibly a future mill levy. Committee appointments start this week.
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Rudy Munderloh
Panhandle
City
Civic Corporation
Fort Sidney Motor Hotel
Munderloh
City sites eyed for historical museum in town
The museum proposal gains momentum with possible sites including City Auditorium, city library, and former First Methodist Church. Mayor Munderloh urges parking, space for expansion, and practical use while civic groups discuss converting the church into a Civic Center with gallery space and auditorium.
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City
Jas
Persans
First Methodist
Minden
Pioneer Village
Front Street
Dodge City
Kansas
First Methodist Church
Sterling Urges Frontier Service Stay in Sterling
Sterling Chamber of Commerce favors maintaining Frontier Airlines service with two daily round trips to Denver and Omaha but will not file a protest. A committee report notes local usage is poor and suggests informing Nebraska's Director of Aeronautics while acknowledging CAB subsidy cutback pressures.
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Sterling
Sterling Chamber of Commerce
Frontier Airlines
Frontier
Chamber
Aviation Committee
E. E. Tennant
Nebraska
Denver
Omaha
Crosson Field
Civil Aeronautics Board
Beet Growers Get Large Pay Day in 1959 Harvest
Denver reports Great Western Sugar Company will pay beet growers 6,833,700 dollars on December 15 as first payment for beets delivered November 5 to 30. A second payment of 26,017,407 dollars is set for November 20 for beets delivered through November 4. Harvesting is 98 percent complete across Colorado Nebraska Wyoming and Montana, with weather causing some delays.
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Denver
Great Western Sugar Comany
Frank A Kemp
Colorado
Nebraska
Wyoming
Monana
Montana
North O
DeMolay Meeting And Election Set Tonight
A DeMolay meeting is called for tonight at 7:30 in the Masonic Temple. Gordon Richards, council president, says officers will be elected. Boys aged 12 to 21 and their parents are urged to attend with signed petitions.
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Hhe Newlv Organ Re
DeMolay Hs
Masonic Temple
Gerdon Richards
coGncil
Chappell Man Bruns Heads Wheat Growers in 1960 Election
Carl Bruns of Chappell Nebraska was elected president of the National Association of Wheat Growers. George Gedes of Alliance Nebraska named state vice president. The group urged a farm program with a broad wheat stabilization plan, marketing quotas, soil bank reserves, and parity based income sharing. The 1960 convention was invited to Oklahoma City by the Oklahoma association.
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Wichita
Kanto
National Assn of
Carl Bruns
Chappell
Neb
George Gedes
Alliance
Nebraska
Association
U. S
Soil Bank Conservation Reserve
SOD Gun Club States Trap Shoot
The Sioux Ordnance Depot gun club will host a turkey and ham shoot on Sunday at 12 30 p m at the trap range weather permitting. The event features a reworked traps, a new trap house, and an orderly shoot under Col Harvey Bower with ample parking and a cafeteria serving hot meals and refreshments. Skeet practice may follow the trap events if enough interest is shown.
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Sioux Ordnance Depot
SOD Gun Club
Harvey Bower
Hazards Of Falling Exhibit Wins SOD Contest
A readable fragment notes an exhibit titled Hazards Of Falling winning a SOD contest. Mentions Nj, Police, and safety themes, with references to stations and departments in a chaotic transcription. Details are sparse but indicate a local event recognition for safety exhibit work.
Seaton Rules Sell Out In Gubernatorial Race
Interior Secretary Fred Seaton narrowed his bid for Nebraska governor. The Associated Press says he told a Nebraskan confidant he will not resign his cabinet post to enter the race, despite encouragement from Nebraska Republican leaders.
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Seaton
Fred Seaton
Nebraska
Associated Press
Former Racing Board Member Schwab Dies at 64
SCOTTSBLUFF Nebraska Harold J Jake Schwab a long time member of the Nebraska Racing Commission died at a Scottsbluff hospital after admission. Death was caused by a heart attack. Schwab served 14 years on the commission and was a director of Scotts Bluff National Bank and a major shareholder in L W Cox Co a lumber firm associated with Cox since 1919.
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Scottsbluff
Harold J
Jake) Schwab
Nebraska Racing Commission
Schwab
Commission
Scottsbluff National Bank
L. W. Cox Co
Cox Concern
Wheat Farmers to Get Rehearing in Nebraska Case
Federal Judge Richard Robinson remanded 33 Keith and Perkins County wheat farmers' cases to county review for rehearing. Fremont attorney Llve B Gill and Asst. US Attorney Willam E Morrow Jr urged returning actions to the Agriculture Department Commodity Stabilization Service review committees. Complaints filed last Oct and Nov allege denied hearings on acreage allotments as required by law.
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Omaha
Richard Robinson
Keith
Perkins County
Fremont Atty Llve
PIE Domestication Boosts Nebraska Ties
Oakland headed Pacific In termountain Express Co, a Nevada firm, is domesticated in Nebraska. A S Ghikbarg, president, notes Nebraska residents gain the same tax exemption on PIE stock as Nebraskaincorporated firms while PIE holds $700000 in real property and pays about $1 95 million in annual Nebraska payroll. The move honors a 50 year Nebraska link and aims to align taxes with local ownership.
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Oakland
Calif
Pacific
Intermountain Express Co
Nevada
Nebraska
A. S Ghikbarg
Interstate Motor Freight Common Carrier
P.i-E
Gilkbarg
Union Transfer Company
P-I-E
Car Stop At Red Light Hit By Second Auto
Mrs Quelle of Sioux City was fined ten dollars and costs for careless driving after ramming the rear of the Patrowsky auto stopped at a red light at 13th and Illinois. The Sidney woman, hospitalized at Sidney Memorial Hospital for neck injuries, suffered after the collision Friday afternoon. Damage to each car was about twenty five dollars.
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Sidney
Sidney Memorial
Vrs
Tom Patrowsky
Maude M Quelle
S Oux Ordnance Repot
Patrowsky
13Th
Ilinois
Quelle
Cos
Vienday
Seal 2nd Opening Falls Short of Quota in 1B Christmas Beals
The second 1B Christmas Beals opening on Friday raised 1347.60 dollars, 140 more than last year but under the 1939 quota of 1370. The county chairman Mrs Elizabeth Sehwasnick urges remaining donors to contribute and notes contact via phone 2991 for updates. The next opening is February 5.
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Elizabeth Sehwaspick
Schwesnick
Safflower acreage expansion planned for 1960 in three-state area
The Safflower mill in Sidney plans a post year end campaign to boost 1960 safflower plantings across three-state area served by Pacific Vegetable Oil Corp. The plan includes entering meetings, reviewing 1959 yields, and offering floor prices of 66 per ton delivered with seed costs of 750 per cwt. Old growers get first chance to contract.
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Sidney
Pacific Vegetable Oil Corp
Sidney Mill
PVO
Ken Woodward
Ned Robinson
Lodgepole Man Fined For Drunken Driving
A 23 year old Lodgenn man, Duane Hernbloom, was fined 100 dollars plus costs and given a six month suspension of his driving privileges on a drunken driving charge. Police said he crossed the Burlington tracks without a crossing and rammed into a barrel of nails. damage to the car was about 170 dollars.
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Lodgenn
Duane Hernbloom
City Police Hold Man For S D Embezzlement Suspect
Sidney police Saturday arrested Charles R Goodwin of Deadwood South Dakota who was wanted by Lawrence County South Dakota. Deadwood authorities later took Goodwin into custody. He is believed to be sought on an embezzlement charge.
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Sidney
Charles R Goodwin
Deadwood
S D
Lawrence County
Goodwin
Post Office Announces Extended Christmas Mailing Hours
The Post Office begins special Christmas hours with windows opening at 8 a.m. and closing at 6 p.m. daily and Saturdays, per Postmaster Leo Gorman. Extra hours stay in effect as needed to handle holiday mail.
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Leo Gorman
Cold Dry November Hits Nebraska Panhandle Hard
November and early December bring cold dry conditions across Nebraska with a record low in Cherry County and wide temperature swings. Highs reached 79 in Pawnee City while Panhandle and central areas saw minimal precipitation and topsoil damage from strong winds.
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Nebraska Panhandle
Cherry County
Pawnee City
Plains
Osmond
Sidney to Host Postal Clerks Convention Next June
Chamber board agreed each Sidney business group supports a 1980 membership drive with group dues. New four color decals featuring farm city imagery replace cards. The Nebraska postal clerks convention will meet June 10 11 with 600 to 700 expected. New directors L A Lindstrom and Warren Ellison were introduced as 1960 vice president nominees.
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Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
Sidney
Wayne Moran
L. A. Lindstrom
Warren Ellison
First Ovid Area Beet Payment Hits 193290
Growers in the Ovid district who harvested between November 5 and November 30 receive 193 250 as their first payment on this year’s beet crop. Total company payments reach over 1 703 000. Harvesting nearly complete with some tonnage left in Hershey North Platte area. This crop is a bumper yield, about 17.9 tons per acre, the best yet. Ovid factory to operate into January at about 2000 tons daily.
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Ovid
Hershey-North Platte
Oil finds at Mary Egging drill near Gurley spark study
Oil recovered from a wildcat at Mary Egging No. 1 near Gurley in Gurley Field prompts Rex Monahan of Sterling to await logs and total-depth data. The 764 feet oil and 1,256 feet water came from a different zone than the original Mary Egging. New wells planned as Cabeen Exploration and others report locations across Nebraska with several wildcat drills and a pending Wednesday report.
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Mary Egging
Gurley
Rex Monahan
Sterling
The
Telegraph
Mary Egging No. 1
Monahan
No. 1
HLM Drilling Co
Wildcat
Cheyenne County
Cabeen Exploration
Brownson
George F. Range
Nebraska
Nebraska Oil & Gas Conservation Commission
Clyde G. Kissinger
Olsen
Banner County
Neddril
Hickerson - McCulloch Oil Coy
Yung
Kimball County
Davy Field
Edward Mike Davis
Shadegg
Northwest Production Corp
Wirth
Cabeen Exploration Corp
Exeter Drilling Co
Glen Perkins Oil, Inc
Mockett
Osborne
Hill Field
Hickerson - McCulloch Oil Co
Stander
B. F. Allison
C S. Jones
Hoffman
Hoffman Field
Carter Oil Co
Maddux
Chase County
Clyde G Kissinger
Fisher
Sunburst Petroleum Co
Evertson
Delater
SD Johnson
Pile
Sinclair Oil & Gas Co
Singleton
Musgrove Drilling Co
Trump
Gage County
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Oklahoma State Association
Oklahoma City
Dee Coffey
Lindstrom
Coffey
Col. Bower
Mahzewsk
Sievers
Racing Board
Sidney High
Mary Kgging Farm
Letter To Growers
Lodgepole Man
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East Central
South Central
Ovid Area
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