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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1956
Page
10
A 1955 Sidney High School report details a net football profit of 365.93 under the Maroon program. It highlights declines in attendance and boosters and notes spring sports incur losses with no income to cover expenses. Total income 5659.00 and expenses 5293.07.
A detailed breakdown lists Freight 20.20, Supplies 548.72, Tickets 45.10, Cleaning 407.67, Referees 276, Insurance 78, Bus storage 60, Equipment 2319.82, Guarantees 640, Lodging 140, Transportation 152.76, Meals 544.80, Policing 50 and No fund checks 10. The article notes disappointing attendance during basketball season and mixed results in football with remaining home games against Ogallala and Bridgeport while Scottsbluff looms, weather favorable for home games.
Capua's 35 points against Cole and 211-point average through ten Wyoming games push the 6-1 guard toward all time marks. If he keeps pace, he may top Biz Milo Komenich's 1943 season total and approach Wyoming's single season scoring record of 551 points set in 1943.
Michigan State 17 UCLA 14 in Rose Bowl as Dave Kaiser kicks 41 yard winner. New “TD” leather football with built in grip tested in 1955 games and set for 1956 debut. Paul Christman endorses the nonskid feature.
Telegraph warters promote Sidney trade territory with fast results and a two for one insertion deal offering a free third ad to encourage buying selling trading or renting locally.
Sidney High School faces Bridgeport in a near final home game as the Maroons chase a win after four straight losses. Bridgeport relies on Roy Frickey and Ted Davis to challenge Sidney in a Class 3 matchup with St. Pat’s from North Platte watching.
Sidney Junior High School's all winning basketball team prepares to defend its Northeastern Colorado Invitational Junior High title at Iliff. The Pirates open Thursday against Ovid after a 48 26 win over Alliance seventh and eighth graders. Dick Yonegura led with 15 points. other scorers include Mike Kent Pearson Terry Gilliland Ron Zaleski Mike Rennick and Lynn Casey.
Howard Maley carried Sidney High as the freshmen beat Alliance 37 to 27 on the Maroon court. Maley scored 24 points with 20 by halftime, while Del Hay Ickler Jim White and Gene Printz helped close out the win. Tutt led the AHL Puppies with 18 of 32. Next Wednesday Sidney visits Sterling for a rematch.
Sidney Elks runners up cost them a regional title but produced three boxers headed to Omaha for the Midwest Golden Gloves show Feb 17 18. Arch Hernandez Vic Riva and Johnnie Ruff led the charge with multiple wins as Scottsbluff and Dalton athletes also shone.
Kimball and Gurley joined Sunol and Peetz at 4-1 as the Sidney City Basketball League tightened up. Gurley beat Potter 72-42, Kimball toppled SOD 86-59, Rogers crushed Ohio Oil 59-23, with top scorers Bevers Stines Janicek Fahey and Young contributing key numbers. Wamsley sits 3-1 in fifth as next week features Peetz vs Kimball.
Col John R. Dey reports the Nebraska Military District ranked first in the Fifth Army area for the 1955 Army incentive program. Twenty district suggestions were accepted with four adopted nationally, and Lt Gen William H. Arnold notes over $101,000 in first-year savings from ideas put into operation in the last six months.
A fragment notes Typewrite: carbon capriei ty and legal size tied to a product or brand, mentioning Red Writing Hood and Th Teleoraon in a brief, mostly descriptive line with unclear context.
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