Alliance Chamber Elects 1958 Officers in City Meeting
Alliance Melvyn Dahl was elected president with I. H. Peters as vice president and Joe Amen as treasurer. New directors named were J. Lee Klesner Robert M. Howard and Neal Colerick. Paul Harm named chamber manager. Fire department in Hemingford responded to two fires one a cane stack blaze and a prairie fire out of control. Scottsbluff parking lot to get meters Seventeenth Street and Second Avenue lot to hold 66 spaces all day meters up to 25 cents for 10 hours. Brune Garage safe burglary in Oshkosh Garden County sheriff reports. The safe stolen a year ago and recovered was taken again Tuesday with no money left. burglary previously yielded a large cash amount. Back window entry and a 1957 station wagon taken with cash register cash.
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Alliance Chamber
Officers Alliance
Melvyn (Mel) Dahl
Alliance
Alliance Chamber of Commerce
I. H. (Harlow) Peters
Joe Amen
J. Lee Klesner
Robert M. Howard
Neal Colerick
Paul Harm
Chamber
Hemingford
Winton Place
Scottsbluff
Garsten Leikvold
Seventeenth Street
Second Avenue
Elks Club
Oshkosh
Brune
Garden County
O. R. Roberts
Roberts
Thief Abducts Safe From Farm, Abandons It Nearby
A safe was loaded into a station wagon and driven away from a rural Oshkosh area. The vehicle was found undamaged in a ditch about seven miles northeast of Oshkosh. A farmer reported seeing the car parked there, and hours later a second call said a broken safe was found on his property eight miles northeast of Oshkosh. The safe weighed about 200 pounds.
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Oshkosh
Charles Kemplin
Cecil Cotton
Sheriff's Office
Diphtheria Vaccinations Offered at Harrison School
Diphtheria shots have been offered to Harrison residents as authorities vaccinate many pupils after Daryl Atchison, a local schoolboy, was treated in Lusk Wyoming and found to have diphtheria. Families in contact were asked to stay indoors with no quarantine imposed.
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Harrison
Daryl Atchison
Lusk
Wyo
Eight New Directors Elected by Nebraska Beet Growers Assn
The Nebraska Beet Growers Association elected eight new board members: Kenneth Carpenter Lyman, Alex Hoff Mitchell, Harold Ledingham Mitchell, Curtis Action Gering, Bard Moore Bayard, Neal Barbour Scottsbluff, John Hunt Bayard, and Edgar Percell Big Springs.
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Gering
Nebraska Beet Growers Assn
Kenneth Carpenter
Lyman
Alex Hoff
Mitchell
Harold Ledingham
Curtis
Action
B. W. Moore
Bayard
Neal Barbour
Scottsbluff
John Hunt
Edgar Percell
Big Springs
Chadron State Professor Chosen for All American Band
Chadron State Teachers College music director Dr Harry S Holmberg has been chosen for the percussion section of the Third All American Band Masters Band. The group will perform at the Mid-West National Band Clinic December 18 to 21 in Chicago, drawing hundreds of top musicians from 48 states and Canada.
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Chadron
Chadron State Teachers College
Chicago
Harry S. Holmberg
Chadron State
States
Canada
Chappell Plans Bond Retirements Start January
City council votes to retire 27000 optional bonds and 10000 combined electric and water revenue bonds due January 1 a remaining 70000 balance will be paid off within two years per Mayor R L Smith plans aim to clear the debt.
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Chappell
R. L. Smith
Holdrege Misspelling Sparks Postal Stamp Gaffe
Holdrege residents joke about repeated misspellings of their city name with a Holdredge variant on circus posters and a postal cancellation stamp reading Hold redge drawing local amusement and a shrug at errors borne by the mail. A separate report notes a Denver man’s failed hold up in Crawford thwarted by a pool cue and a beer glass as police pursue charges leading to a district-court bindover.
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Holdrege
Holdredge
Crawford Crawford
Denver
Crawford
Marlin Ray Helms
Chadron
Jake Hymer
Helms
Frontier
Edith Geary
Virgil Cortum
Cortum
State Safety Patrol
Arthur Taggart
Wildcat Oil Drilling Notes Across Nebraska Fields
Historic oil and gas records show Braden Drilling Co leading with Gehrke and Nagel wildcats in Banner Kimball and Richardson counties. Operators include Pan American Gehrke Gehrke No 2 Ewel H Stone Nagel and Strain with Stark and Try Them! across Morrill and Richardson counties.
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Braden Drilling Co
Banner County
Wildcat Shell Oil Co
Llama
Cheyenne County
Herboldsheimer Field
Pan American Petroleum Corp
Gehrke
Kimball County
Gehrke Field
Colorado Southern Petroleum Corp
Nagel
Indian Springs
Rocky Mountain Oil & Gas Co & Strain Drilling Co
Stark No 1
Morrill County
Wildcat
Washington Cocktail Circuit Feeds High Society
Elsa Maxwell era queen of parties is debated as top Washington hostesses prefer intimate dinners and receptions. Yet the cocktail circuit remains a social lobby where officials mingle, exchange tips, and craft deals. Buffet spreads rival full dinners with roasts, curries, and diverse delicacies. Hosts note they rarely dine at home, relying on others' entertaining quality.
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Jane Eads
Washington
Elsa Maxwell
Capital
Miss Maxwell
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Sky Harbor Municipal
Phoenix
Arizona
H. Alvin Miller
Miller Implement Co
Sidney
Nebraska
Miller
J. I. Case Farm
Oshkosh Safe
The
Central
America
Ayers-Smith
Illinois
Central Mutual Insurance Company
Chadron College
Newport
R. L
Telegraph
Firestone Toys
Sidney Imalement, Inc
Sidney Community TV CO
Ilinsis
Texaco
Bagby's
Great Western
Great Western Sugar Company
Colorado
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