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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1958
Page
5
The editorial debates Governor Elect Ralph Brooks choosing to keep L. N. Ress as state highway engineer or appointing a replacement. It argues changing officials mid project is costly yet praises Ress for efficiency, courtesy, and economy. It notes no choice will please everyone and sends best wishes regardless of the outcome.
A 1950s analysis shows independent groceries and mixed stores captured 58 percent of national volume last year. Independents joined voluntary and cooperative chains to gain purchasing power, matching corporate chains with a 42 percent market share as chains expand to serve mass distribution and farmers benefits.
NEA reporter Ward Cannel cites Albert C. Lasher warning that boiler room men in the New York financial center will fleece investors with grand guarantees on worthless stocks. Long-distance calls and aggressive sales tactics target professionals and laypeople alike, urging readers to learn how markets work to protect their savings from these schemes.
President Power of the General Telephone Company outlines future telephone services including in home lights and heat control, doorbell two way talk from any room, phone vision, news weather and market summaries, and kid story services via nursery speakers.
An agronomist reports on a program in a low income Italian farming area showing that building roads and supplying mechanized units drastically cut transport costs and field labor. The shift reduced costs by up to 85 percent and raised total income by about 225000 lire as modern equipment and tools improved efficiency and yields.
A team from three affiliates of The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey studies a newly observed oil deposit in eastern Venezuela. The oil is five to ten thousand years old, offering a rare view of nature in the act of forming an oil reservoir.
Years ago reports describe unusually mild Christmas weather in the area with hopes of a white Christmas dashed by a dip in temperatures, a schoolhouse fire at District 39 near Colton, civic events, a large Nativity Scene visitor count, and local notices including a golden wedding anniversary and community activities in Sidney and Lodgepole.
A lively fair was nicely decorated with a dramatic entertainment. Oil merchants had a Saturday of heavy activity as teams and Christmas goods filled the streets. J W Ewing planned to dig a well for W S Woolsey, while Sidney Strator sold city property to Robert Emanuelson and planned a move to Kearney. Samuel Jones and family were storm bound, a ball at the Express office drew praise, emigrant goods were sent to Devel county, Albert Holmes opened a lime stone quarry, and Charles German of Weyerts died of LaGrippe leaving a grieving community behind.
Nebraska 4-H and vocational agriculture scholarship program shows 99 percent of addresses completed for Union Pacific Carl Raymond Gray awards. System wide 4-H and vocational recipients number 1 134 Nebraskans, with over 10 000 dollars in state expenditures and nearly half a million across the program. Applications now open through 11 states and 196 counties.
Daily about 345,900 Nebraska women shop with trading stamps creating a statewide “woman's club.” The message, published by The Sperry and Hutchinson Company, highlights S H Green Stamps as a home and family thrift aid, claimin g wide availability through quality merchants.
A fugitive fleeing in a stolen car tripped on a rope and fell into the Elizabeth River in Norfolk. Police, Coast Guard, Shore Patrol, and Fire Department searched by land and sea without success. He was captured the next day when a taxi driver saw a soaking wet man at the bus station after clinging to the dock underside all night.
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