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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1954
Page
11
The Sidney Telegraph is an independent weekly aimed at Sidney, Cheyenne County and Western Nebraska. Published at 830 lth Ave, Sidney, it prints every Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoon. Subscriptions are $5.00 per year inside a 50 mile zone and $7.00 per year outside.
Readers condemn the junk mail regulation forcing mail carriers to deliver pieces without addresses. They urge higher rates or policy changes to keep the postal service solvent and prevent overloading carriers. Citizens are advised to contact their congressman ahead of the next session.
Citizens react to proposed next year expansion of Sidney’s municipal power plant with new financing around 602000, pushing debt toward 1.5 million while city equity stands about 700000. Despite concerns, supporters note valuation will top 2,000,000 after improvements and praise electricity as essential to growth and street lighting gains.
An analysis compares real costs in Moscow and New York based on working time needed to buy common goods. It notes state ownership and limited competition in Moscow versus free markets in New York, with substantially lower time requirements for similar items in the American city.
Discussion argues that since a Supreme Court ruling, the Federal Power Commission controls wellhead natural gas prices for interstate commerce. It warns continued federal control undermines state conservation laws and local authority, asserting no monopoly at the wellhead but regulated consumer charges. The writer urges Congressional action to exempt producers from such federal regulation to allow orderly industry development.
Undersecretary W. Randolph Burgess argues that sticking to low taxes and honest money will prevent fear of the public debt and inflation. He cites dollar purchasing power stabilization as the era’s top domestic achievement and warns against unrestricted government spending and dollar cheapening.
The announcement last week that the Department of Agriculture may drop cross compliance on 1955 crop supports favors Great Plains wheat growers. Without cross compliance, farmers could ignore allotments and still seek price supports on chosen crops, potentially shifting planting toward corn and away from wheat in the East.
A humorous critique argues people overload themselves in work and leisure. It satirizes dentists beauty workers barbers and doctors moving between tasks to double duty while urging relaxation and balance before life collapses into haste and worry. The speaker ends with a chaotic rush of personal shopping and a plea for sedatives.
The piecefield describes festive lights across towns like Gurley and Sidney with tall decorations and deer atop buildings. It then shifts to 4-H livestock plans, weighings set for March 5 at multiple locations, top gainers of last year, and research on dwarfism in calves using profilometry and X rays at Nebraska and California stations.
A historical guide explains a simple two toning wall method using masking tape. It emphasizes cleaning the surface, applying tape on unpainted areas, pressing firmly to prevent bleed, painting in sections, wiping dust with varnish treated cheesecloth, and removing tape while paint remains tacky for clean lines.
Instructions describe waiting for the upper paint to dry, applying masking tape over the edge, painting the lower wall with a second color to cover the tape, then removing tape for a clean separation. Striped effects suggested for furniture or basement play floors.
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