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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1947
Page
8
The Sidney Junior Chamber of Commerce voted unanimously to sponsor the 1948 March of Dimes campaign in Sidney from January 15 to 30, chaired by Joan Martinosky of Cheyenne county. The drive aims for $6,000, with local and countywide events and past year total of $4,038. funds support both local needs and the national chapter.
John W. Martinosky was named Cheyenne County campaign director for the 1948 March of Dimes with Frances Lathrop as assistant and women's division chair. The Sidney Jaycees named Chet Hickman as general chairman and announced committee heads for dances, coin boxes, auctions, street collections, and contributions. The drive runs January 15 through 30 with county leaders across several towns and ten local school faculty to assist. The goal is to surpass last year’s $4,000, with 50 percent returned to the local chapter and 50 percent to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Funds cover care, research, and public education on polio.
A new deputy collector will join the internal revenue service here effective January 1. W. E. Hunter, previously based in Scottsbluff for a year and a half, will relocate his family and has a Scottsbluff home to trade for a local property. Deputy Collector Myrle Hoffman outlined tax help schedules for 1947 returns in Kimball, Chappell, Big Springs, and Sidney. Nebraska's new property law, effective September 17, will complicate filings, with a nationwide busy period anticipated January 1 to 15. Western Nebraska lawyers meet in Scottsbluff as clinics on the topic proceed.
The first and second graders at St Patrick's Academy presented a Christmas program on Wednesday under Sister Bernard. The show featured The Gingerbread Man with Garrold Sauer and Karen Egging, Santa Claus with Tommy Powell, The Story of Christmas read from St Luke by Jimmy Girardot, and roles for Arlene Kurz St Joseph Jimmy Crowley Angels Bobby McFadden Bill Nolan Billy Robinson Ernest Tafoya. A poem A Little Child at the Crib followed by a Christmas poem by Dennis Loch, then Silent Night and A Christmas Wish by Vera Hare.
A clipped memorial fragment presents James Whitcomb Riley style lines about St LeRoy Price, preferring to say he is away rather than dead, paired with a brief ad teaser about gift telegraph want ads.
Monday morning hearings before Judge Glenn Greenlee addressed multiple intoxication charges. Ray G. Stewart with an FBI history faced 60 days hard labor. Grover Buchanan and Wyvell Arine were fined and jailed or released after hearings. several others including Norman Christofferson John Sosa Eugene Stanley Charles Evans and Fred Steadman faced intoxication disturbance or resisting arrest charges.
Through Cheyenne county law officials, a check artist wanted in at least eleven towns was taken on a tip from Sidney. Investigators coordinated with local authorities to apprehend the suspect and begin pursuing charges.
Louis Bodura a 44 year old man with multiple aliases was jailed at Ogallala Wednesday after an arrest on September 3 1943 for violating the selective service act. He has been employed locally and at Kimball.
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