Year 1956 in Cheyenne County tops news highlights
The Telegraph reviews 1956 with events from Potter to Lodgepole including new street lighting and sewers, a bond issue for a school addition, drought and harvest notes, a Sidney underpass opening, a major city fire, and election results. It notes notable deaths and a band invitation to the inaugural parade.
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Telegraph
Sidney
Cheyennne County
Potter
Gurley
Peetz
Dalton
Lodgepole
Potter High School
Lodgepole Valley Association
Big Springs
The
Broncs
Kimball
Sidney High
Maroons
SHS
Ogallala
Cozada
John Hettrick
Sidney Country Club
13Th Ave
Asihe
Cheyenne County
Dr . H. Grimm
Tom Kokjer
Leon Fine
Bill Ackerman
Herb Stevens
Ed Sayre
Reward In Wilson Case Withdrawn After Long Probe
After two months of fruitless investigation the $500 reward for information on missing Kimball salesman Robert Wilson has been withdrawn. Wilson disappeared October 30 triggering a wide air and ground search. Authorities report no new clues and most locals now believe he is dead, ending concerted efforts in the case.
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Robert Wilson
Kimball Automobile
Wilson
Kimball County
State Highway Patrol
Kimball
1956 Business Year Seen Second Best in Sidney Nebraska
Sidney Nebraska reports 1956 as likely the second best business year in history after 1955. Stores show vacancies from downtown exits and dry weather dipped fall trade, but holiday sales helped. Nebraska economist Edgar Palmer notes 1955 set a record, with 1956 lower by contrast yet not at 1954 levels.
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Sidney
Nebraska
SkMey
Edgar Z. Palmer
Department of Business Research
University of Nebraska
Palmer
McDonald Store Manager Moves to Bozeman
James Luebeck, manager of The J M McDonald Co store in Sidney, moves to Bozeman Montana to lead the Bozeman store. Arnold Ring becomes Sidney manager, stepping up from assistant. Luebeck came from Hastings and has chaired Sidney Chamber of Commerce retailers committee. His family will follow later.
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James Luebeck
J M. McDonald Co
Sidney
Bozeman
Mont
McDonald
Luebeck
Arnold Ring
Hastings
Chamber of Commerce Retailers Committee
Park Lagoon Ice Dreams Hold Until Cold Snap
Sidney city workers have kept Park Lagoon water level high using two 24 inch hoses to help form ice for skaters. The weatherman has not yet delivered temperatures cold enough to create a solid ice cover on the pond.
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Sidney’s
Legion’ Park Lagoon
City Water Department
Park Pond
Sidney Sailor Injured in Wyoming Bus Truck Crash
A 20 year old Sidney sailor returning to San Diego from holiday leave was injured in a bus truck collision east of Rock Springs Wyoming on U S 30. Duane Jarred of Rock Springs is hospitalized with a fractured leg and other injuries. Two women and a girl were killed and several others injured in the crash. Police work to determine the cause as the bus bound Cheyenne to Salt Lake City collided with a loaded semi trailer on a downgrade.
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Sidney Sailor
San Diego
Rock Springs
Wyo
Duane Jarred
Gail Jarred
Maple St
Jarred
Greyhound
Gail Demos
Cheyenne
William Villanova
Adolphine Tonar
Seattle
Wash
Denver
Irene Emperirado
Los Angeles
Gladys Devan
Sweetwater County Memorial Hospital
Emperirado
Devan
Howard Burton
Don Rice
Diana Demos
U. S. 30
Salt Lake City
Ted Boatman
Boatman
John Collins
Columbus
Nebr
Rabbit Hunters Damaging Fields With Night Forays
Cheyenne County sheriff reports a rash of night rabbit hunts by local hunters driving vehicles across wheat fields without landowner permission. Vehicles damage crops while authorities check incidents countywide and vows prosecution of violators.
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Cheyenne County
Sheriff's Office
Bill Schulz
Sioux Ordnance Depot
Sidney High Band may receive inaugural parade trip
Fund raising results show strong support for sending Sidney High School band to Washington for the inaugural parade. With about 12 200 of 13 000 needed, organizers hope to include all 95 band members plus staff. Participants will travel January 17 with stopovers in Chicago and Washington for tours.
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Sidney High School
Persident
Washington, D. C
George Hinn
The
Elks Club
Howard Portz
KSID
Scottsbluff
Cheyenne
Tts
Nebraska
Washington
Sidney’s
Sidney
Hinn
Chicago
Ibbitt
Box 219
Nebr
Daltonite Wins Yale Light Contest
George Winkleman of Dalton wins the first Wheeat belt Public Power District Christmas lighting contest. His display features a nativity, Star of Bethlehem, decorated house and trees. Howard Reimers takes second. Lawrence Marrini and Rev. C L Mueller tie for third. Prizes include an 8 by 10 color transparency for the winner and electric try pans and electric sheets for others.
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George Winkleman
Dalton
Wheeatbelt Public Power District
Winkelman
Star of Bethlehem
Asell
Howard Reimers
Lawrence Marrini
C. L. Mueller
Salem Lutheran Church
Gurley
Winkleman
Probation Directed In Adultery Action
James A. Kautz, 18, received a two year probation in Cheyenne County District Court after pleading guilty to adultery with a 16 year old married girl. The two girls involved were placed in homes while another 17 year old boy from Gering was sent to the Boys Training School at Kearney.
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James A. Kautz
Cheyenne County
Kautz
Gering
Kearney
Panhandle oil announces 1956 record despite slowdown
In 1956 Panhandle oil activity hit 842 wells with 45 oil discoveries and 1 natural gas finding. Kimball County led with 398 completions. production peaked mid year at 44 228 barrels daily then fell due to steel shortages and the 2 percent Nebraska severance tax. Discovery wells and county totals are listed with names of operators and fields throughout the region.
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Panhandle Oi
Telegraph
Panhandle
Nebraska Oil and Gas
Ohio Oil Co
Wildcat strike hits in Panhandle oil field notes
final day of 1956 reports another wildcat discovery the 45th of the year in western Nebraska Miracle-Fifer struck with Snyder No 1 NE NE NE of 27-18-55 a drill stem test yielded 1560 feet oil 60 feet oil mud 260 feet water In Kimball County Bedrock Mineral ran production casing on an Ohio Oil Co farmout at Kimball City Field No 1 NE 14 NE of 6-14-55 Drillers tested J sand at 6367-77 feet recovered 1218 feet light green oil 375 feet heavily oil-cut mud 175 feet oil-cut water Two Kimball wells and another in Scotts Bluff County were plugged dry In Cheyenne County Shell Oil at 5548 feet Madden No 1 wildcat NE NE of 24-13-53 Pubco Petroleum at 3100 feet Wildcat Horst No 1 SE SE NE of 28-15-48 Petroleum Inc at 5270 feet wildcat State K No 1 NE SW NE of 16-16-52
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Banner County
Panhandle
Nebraska
Miracle-Fifer
Snyder
Kimball County
Bedrock Mineral
Ohio Ofl Co
Kimball City
Scotts’ Bluff County
Cheyenne County
Shell Oil
Pubco Petroleum
Petroleum, Inc
Gem Oil Loses In Oil Royalty Case In Supreme Court
The Nebraska Supreme Court partially affirmed and partially reversed a Kimball County case involving Arthur Hafeman Dean Terrill and Gem Oil Co over royalties and leases on oil land. The court held Gem Oil and Terrill responsible for royalties Hafeman was due, fixing royalties at Hafeman five eighths Gem Oil one quarter and Terrill one eighth.
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Supreme Court
Kimball
County District Court
Arthur H. Hafeman
Dean Terrill
The
Gem, ,Oil Co
Kimball County
District Court
Gem Oil
Terrill
Hafeman
High Court
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John Eisenhower
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Four Corners
Rocky Mountain
Banner
Morrill
Garden
Wildcat
Scotts Bluff
Deuel
Box Butte
Sioux
Dawes
Keith
Braden and Stuarco
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Petroleum Inc
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Lowell Williamson
Johnson
Frontier Refining
Burdick
Wytex
Bertramson
Strain Drilling
State
Bass - Vesselis- Brown
Griffith
Muffin
Riggs
Maxey Drilling
Kreizinger
Red Oil
Swish
Love-Miller
Hruska
Evertson
Gibraltar Oil
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Damall
Sun Oil
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Miracle Fifer
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