Equipment Installation at Independent Cable Plant Progressing
Equipment installation at Independent Cable Inc. Sidney plant continues this week as management aims to begin production on the first line late next month. Plant manager Roger Price oversees insulation coating and cable assembly processes in the 100,000 square foot facility slated to fully staff by late 1974 or early 1975 with about 150 workers.
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Independent Cable Inc
Sidney
Roger Price
Truckers Extend Nebraskas Strike Through Wednesday
About 40 independent truckers from eastern Nebraska voted in Lincoln to keep the driving strike going until Wednesday. They elected Jim Beetman as chairman and plan county groups while seeking fuel price rollback, nationwide licensing, higher speed limits, and uniform wage laws.
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Nebraska
Lincoln
Jim Beetman
Associated Press
Burbach
Richard Proud
Omaha
Washington
Nixon
Proud
Washington Administration
Midwest
Otto
Sidney Council Meets on Street Program and Public Works
The Sidney City Council schedules a public meeting at 7:30 p.m. to consider a one and six year street improvement program and related resolutions. Other items include sidewalk assessments near the Greyhound depot, a federal industrial site grant application, six street improvement projects, a no truck parking zone on Illinois Avenue, an underground pipeline agreement with Union Pacific, a third reading of a rate increase ordinance, and a second reading of an annexation ordinance for parcels on 11th Avenue.
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Sidney
Greyhound Bus
Illinois Ave
19Th
20Th Ave
Union Pacific Railroad
Eltra
11Th Ave
Wyoming Official Sees Heavy Platte River Flow
The Wyoming Soil Conservation Service chief says soil moisture in most of the state is well above average and the outlook remains favorable as heavy Platte River flow continues.
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Wyoming
Wyoming Soil Conservation Service
North Platte River
Blaine Halliday
Casper
North Platte
Seminoe
Laramie
Associated Press
Halliday
Wind River
Snake River
Salt River Ranges
Housing Survey Meeting Slated In Sidney
Organizational work on Sidney housing survey continues with a 7 p.m. meeting at City Council Chambers led by co chairman Kay Fix. The plan is to brief 2 percent survey captains and collect questionnaires from every inhabited housing unit in the city.
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Sidney
City Council
Kay Fix
Community Improvement Council
Rose Kennedy
Marge Schmitt
Billa Draper
Rosemary Karnik
Dorothy Kruse
Marcel McGee
Pan von Seggern
Maxine Whitaker
Beth Runge
Bev Ringleman
Carol Po
City of
Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce
Building permits rise in Sidney in January 1974
Building permits issued in Sidney totaled more than 107000 in January 1974, up from 39000 a year earlier. Four proposed residences account for most of the January 1974 figure at 2462 Craig 2388 Newton 528 Keller and 1515 Linden.
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Sidney
Craig
Newton
Keller
Linden
Sidney Educators Seek Recognition and Negotiations
The Sidney Educators Association asks the Board of Education to recognize it as negotiator for teachers and to bargain on salary health insurance sick leave sharing and facility needs for 1974-75. The board has 30 days to reply after Jan 31. item appears on tonight’s board meeting agenda at 7:45 p.m. in the Junior High Library.
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Sidney Educators’ Association
Board of Education
Russell Pedersen
Court of Industrial Relations
SEA
Pedersen
Sidney Day Care Center
East Elementary
Parents Advisory Council
Guard Enlistments Rise in Nebraska in January
Nebraska Army National Guard reports January enlistments totaling 84, lifting overall strength to 88.4 percent of authorized. Officials in Lincoln aim for 100 percent to avoid future cutbacks. some units show persistently low strength risking deactivation later in the year. As of January end, 517 vacancies remain statewide.
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Nebraska
Sidney
Marion Gunderson
Francis L. Winner
John R Stephenson
Army
Winner
Hearing Set Tuesday on County Road Improvements
County road program hearings will review an estimated 275 500 in improvements. Projects include grading drainage and box culverts near Potter Lodgepole Gurley and Sidney with several bridges replaced or upgraded. The plan also covers maintenance gravel seeding and erosion control as part of a six year proposal and a new policy to seed shoulders.
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Gail Bergstad
Court House
F. B. Thompson
Potter
Thompson
Sidney
Sund Thompson
Gurley
Lodgepole
Federal Highway Administration
Crete
Toledo Street
11Th Avenue
Alvarado Road
Highway Dept
Means To Contest Vote For Oglala Presidency
American Indian Movement leader Russell Means on trial over the occupation of Wounded Knee argues to contest the legality of Thursday's Oglala Sioux Tribe election in which incumbent Richard Wilson won by about 179 votes. Co-defendant Dennis Banks and Mark Banks report Means plans to file a challenge citing irregularities including a broken ballot box and ineligible voters.
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American Indian Movement
Russell Means
Wounded Knee
S.D
Mark Banks
Means
Dennis Banks
Richard Wilson
AIM
Pine Ridge Reservation
Wilson
Associated Press
Banks
St Paul
Commission of Civil Rights and Community Relations Service
U.S. Department of Justice
Denver
Martin
Wanklee
Potato Creek
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Jules Burbach
Crofton
Norman Otto
J. Exon
Beetman
Sidney Streets
17Th Ave
Hickory
Illinois St
14Th Ave
Osage
Pine St
12Th Ave
Spruce
Toledo St
Elm
Forrest St
15Th Ave
Quince
Newton St
23Rd Ave
Housing Survey
Sidney National Guard
Gary McGee
Donald Stark
Charles Lee
Richard Carman
Stephen Hazlewood
Edward A. Holyoke Jr
Oglala Presidency
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