Bigger, Better County Fair Seen In Panhandle Region
The 1961 Cheyenne County Fair opens August 24 and runs to August 27 with a Sunday program. New officers were elected including Fred Kriesel as president and Burgett Peetz as vice president. Rodeo acts by Summit Rodeo Co. and carnivals by Fitzsimmons Shows are booked, and plans include improved grounds and a possible additional livestock barn to handle more calves on feed.
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Cheyenne County
Cheyenne County Fair Board
Fair Board
Fred Kriesel
Gurley
Burgett Peetz
Sidney
Ralph R
Panhandle Fair Assn
Nebraska
Kimball County
Liljegren
Commission Attacks Lease Tax Bill as Vicious
Nebraska Oil and Gas Commission denounces LB 174 as vicious and unworkable. Commission chair says the bill targets leases, risks dampening wildcat drilling, and could misvalue simple oil and gas leases. He notes Kansas experiences with inequities and warns Nebraska may lose industry and tax revenue.
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Commission
Nebraska Oil and Gas Commission
Lewis Webb
Ogallala
Kansas
Fred Enders
Kimball
Nebraska
Gurley Pool
Ad Valorem
Gas Conservation Commission
Sen
H. N
Dusty Rhodes
Simpson Funeral Held Here Today
Mrs. Dora Blanche Simpson 78 former Sidney resident died Friday at Julesburg. Services were at Craig Mortuary at two o'clock with burial in Greenwood Cemetery beside her late husband Thomas W. Simpson who died in 1947. Survivors include brother William E. Pierce and many nieces and nephews. Pallbearers from Sidney were Danny Brooks Dewayne Pheps Carl Reker Dean Hecker Ewald Brauer and Raymond Laaker.
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Criag
Dora Blanche Simpson
Sidney
Julesburg
Greenwood Cemetery
Thomas W. Simpson
Kansas
Simpson
Willard, Neb
Kearney
Danny Brooks
Dewayne Pheps
Carl Reker
Dean Hecker
Ewald Brauer
Raymond Laaker
Sidney area farmer Ed Narjes tops Nebraska Jaycee contest
Ed Narjes of Sidney won the Nebraska Jaycee Outstanding Young Farmer Rancher title at Red Cloud, first Sidney Jaycee chapter winner to take the state honor. He farms 1,600 acres near Sidney and has expanded livestock, grain storage, and facilities, while active in church and Republican groups. If a national sponsor is found, Narjes may represent Nebraska at the national contest.
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Ed Narjes
Sidney
Hed Cloud
Ed Naties
Jaycee
Red Cloud
Sidney Jaycee
Jaycee National
Narses
Nebraska
Glen H. Strain
Lincoln
Harold Stevens
Dawson County
Lexington
Joseph Potrcky
Narjes
Henry
Baathorn
The
Elks
Sidney High
Milo
Sidney Man
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church
Cheyenne County
Young Republican Club
Republican Central Committee
Republican State Central Committee
Jaycee Heads
Twenty five Bulls Bring $23150 At Chappell Hereford Sale
Twenty five bulls sold for 23150 at the Chappell Hereford Assn sale held at the Chappell Sales Barn. Top prices reached 825 to Kenneth Rudolph of Crook Colorado and 760 to George McGinley Ranch Co Keystone. The sale featured buyers from Colorado Wyoming and Nebraska with McMillen and McGinley consignors dominating the top bids.
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Chappell Hereford Assn
Chappell
Joe McMillen
Sidney
Arthur McMillen
Solis
Kenneth Rudolph
Crook
Colo
Melvin Keckley
George McGinley Ranch Co
Keystone
Tom Allington
Sunol
Laura C. Best
New Raymer
Verlin Livingston
Marie Kramer
Wray
Kramer
George McGinley
Tuesday Rites For Howard Mann 59 Victim Of Stroke
Howard Arville Mann 59 of Sidney died Sunday evening at Memorial Hospital after a stroke two weeks prior. A longtime breeder andraiser of quarter horses he worked as a mechanic at Sioux Ordnance Depot. He belonged to Lodge Pole Valley Saddle Club and had many prize winning horses. Funeral Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Gehrig and Son with Rev. Townsend officiating. Final rites and burial set for Thursday in Ogden Town. Born September 18 1901 in Ransom Illinois, he is survived by his wife Madeline Noble Mann.
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Howard A. Mann
Sidney
Memorial Hospital
Tri-State
Nebraska
Colorado
Wyoming
Sioux Ordnance Depot
Lodge Pole Valley Saddle Club
Gehrig and Son Funeral Home
R. L. Townsend
Ogden
Town
Howard Arville Mann
Ransom, Til
William
Phoebe Strebel Mann
Streater
Mr. Mann
Madeline Noble
Storage payments coming in March for Wheat Program phase
The Ken nedy administration moves ahead with an early March storage payment phase. Cheyenne County will receive about 25 967 dollars on nearly 371 thousand bushels of wheat plus smaller sums for barley corn and sorghum as part of a broader farm program. County ASC offices report 1859 wheat 1958 wheat and other commodities funding under the crash program with expectations of further details on a wheat feed and a new wheat support plan in the coming weeks.
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Cheyenne
ASC
Sidney
The
Wall Street Journal
Journal
Agricultural Department
America
Thewhite House
Nebraska
Newton
Commodity Credit Corp
Services Held For Mrs Wingerson Former Sidney Resident
Funeral services were held at Sterling Cole on Saturday for Mrs Violet Brooks Wingerson 69 wife of Harry Wingerson a former Sidney barber. She died Thursday and was buried at Gothenburg her birthplace.
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Sterling Cole
Sidney
Violet Brooks Wingerson
Harry Wingerson
Sidney Barber
Gothenburg
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Walter
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Joline
Fairgrounds
Ivan Liljegren
H. N. Rhodes
State Oil and Gas Commission
G. H. Doran
Ray Smith
Rhodes
Telegraph
Howard Mann
Congress
Kennedy
White House
Wingerson
Bela
Frontier Airlines
Frontier
Dale Kindred
Stewart Lockwood
Gary Schwartz
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