Adult Education Classes Reach Enrollment of 192
Arven Reynolds announces 192 adults enrolled in Sidney second semester adult education offerings. Courses include bookkeeping 23 shorthand 10 typing 15 photography 8 oil field exploitation 16 basic 54 oil painting 28 business English 5 sewing 14 upholstering 13 and a high school credits course with 5 participants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arven Reynolds
Sidney
Yefréshér
Sidney Community Improvement Project
Education Committee
Wayne Loch
PTA
Reynolds
February to March Nebraska Agricultural Schedule Highlights
A dense calendar lists upcoming events across Nebraska including irrigation clinics in Ord Broken Bow Seward and St Paul as well as recreation schools in Alliance Lexington and March 18 National 4 H Club Week. Major gatherings include the 10th Annual National Pasture Forage Livestock Conference in Omaha and the National Water Resources Institute in Lincoln with multiple crop drying training meetings and regional conferences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curtis
Alliance
Valley County Irrigation Clinic
Ord
District I
Ogallala
Custer County Irrigation Clinic
Broken Bow
Seward
County Irrigation Clinic
Northeast Nebraska Experimental Farm Assn
Wayne Municipal Auditorium
Howard County Irrigation Clinic
St. Paul
Tecumseh
Sherman County Irrigation Clinic
Loup City
Hastings
Omaha
North Platte Experiment Station
Great Plains Recreation Laboratory
Nysted
National Water Resources Institute
Pershing Auditorium
Lincoln
Fremont
Safeway Buy 15 Million Pounds of Valley Potatoes
Safeway announced it purchased 15 million pounds of potatoes in the North Platte Valley during 1957. Scottsbluff manager Jerry Stilley called the move very important to the regional economy as Safeway’s buyers sourced locally grown produce into its distribution system and also bought significant quantities of beans and beef from valley producers. The potato purchases amounted to over 150,000 sacks or more than 415 carloads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scottsbluff
Safeway
North Platte Valley
Jerry Stilley
Verge
Stilley
Farmers Insurance To Erect New Building In Colorado Springs
The Farmers Insurance Group plans a $1 million new building in Colorado Springs, announced by president Thomas E. Leavey at a Denver luncheon. The current building, bought for $750,000, will be replaced with a ranch styled facility over 30 000 square feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Farmers Insurance Group
Colorado Springs
Thomas E. Leavey
Denver
Jorgenson Places In State Grain Project
Stanley Jorgensen of Sidney won third place in the 4-H division of the Ak Sar Ben grain project for the crop year 1957. He also received a special citation for his showing. Jack King of Rushville was the first place winner. Northern fur seals in the Pacific are inexhaustible swimmers and can migrate 5000 miles at sea all winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley Jorgensen
Sidney
Jack King
Rushville
Pacific
Glenn Dickinsons Visit In Colorado
Glenn Dickinson and family spent several days in Aurora Colorado as guests of relatives. The trip included Mrs J W Houser Sr accompanying her daughter to Sidney and various Lodgepole and Denver visits by local residents. Multiple small social visits and appearances at homes and shows are noted among locals from Lodgepole Sunol Minatare and Sidney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenn Dickinson
Aurora
Colo
J. W. Houser
Ron, Krueger
Sidney
Dorthy Brown
Arlene Oliverius
Lodgepole
Delmar Zalesky
Ted Houser
Susan
Harvey Bartel
Denver
Bud Bartling
Marietta
Near Lodgepole
Marvin Bartling
B. J. Barnhart
Joe Zimola
Melvin Kokes
Loomis Booth
Sunol
Douglas
Millard Zalesky
Lucas
Minatare
Philip Kolb
Glen Kokes
Ralph Armstrong
Jack Snook
Fred Schuler
Grandma Schuler
Kate Schuler
Rest Haven
Bridgeport
Marie Gillespie
Dalton
Gillespie
Elsie Ewing
Clara Clough
Laura Mortensen
Grace Eddy
Darrel Ray Kraupie
D.B.R. Bridge Club
Mannie Kreader
DBR. Bridge Club
Mesdames
Gilbert Myers
Donald Kreader
Arthur Pelster
Bob Ankeny
Lawrence Marrn
Gurley
Lodgepole Valley
J. Ernest Finn
H. L. Heizer
Chris Knutzen
Antone Schmitt
Sylvester
J. J
Joe) Heizer
C. Edwin Heizer
Mercy Hospital
Wheat Producers Head To Washington For Farm Legislation
Four Nebraska wheat producers led by Bob Rauner Gurley George Gerdes Alliance Ted Feidler Holyoke and Garrett Dudder departed by plane to attend hearings before the House Agriculture Committee on the Anfuso bill. They will confer with the Nebraska delegation Feb 26 27 on two bills affecting wheat prices one seeking 2.00 per bushel and another calling for a price freeze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bob Raunér
Gurley
George Gerdes
Alliance
Ted Feidler
Holyoke
Colo
Garrett
Dudder
Venfang
Dudden
House Agriculture Committee
Nebraska Legislative
Elm Spraying Not Advised to Fight Dutch Elm Disease
University of Nebraska expert Robert E. Roselle says spraying elm trees is not recommended anywhere in Nebraska. He notes the disease has not been detected in the state and widespread spraying would be impractical due to cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Nebraska
Robert E. Roselle
University of Nebraska Extension
Roselle
Dalton News PTA Officers Named Policy Support Given
The February PTA meeting in the school auditorium approved six Nebraska PTA policies including encouraging education beyond high school four year teacher certification and a juvenile court. Officers for the coming year were voted in: President Robert Cape vice president Louis Hutzenbiler Secretary and treasurer Mrs William Garrison. Funds were set to send a delegate to the state convention in Omaha and the national convention in Lincoln in April. A bake sale February 22 at Heizer’s Store raises funds for curtain rods for new lunchroom drapes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PTA
Dale Flora
Nebraska Pta
Cecil Warren
Robert Cape
Louis Hutzenbiler
William Garrison
Omaha
Lincoln
Heizer
Dalton
Sidney
Billy
Happy Corner Club
Ralph Beavers
John Sylaart, Jr
Bob Cape
J. A Vogt
A. Vogt
Fairview Club
Fairview Extension Club
Clarence Ziegler
Wheat price and engineers use cross hairs noted
Local elevator sources quote wheat at 1.81 dollars per bushel. A U S Army Corps of Engineers detail uses strands of black widow spider silk as cross hairs in telescopic gun sights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U S. Arym Corps of Engineers
Girl Scout Troop 44 Tenderfoot Badges Awarded
Girl Scout Troop 44 met Friday February 7 at the Church of Christ. The group earned Tenderfoot badges during a regular business meeting where parents observed troop government. Posts included Pres Monika DeVeny, Sec Barbara Miller, flag ceremony led by Linda Lauters with Diane Gipfert and Cheryl Plum, and talks on troop history, trail building, flag meaning, fire making, and square knots. The group sang Kee Chee campfire and closed with taps. A lunch followed served by Mrs Lauter and Mrs Gipfert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of Christ
Pres
Monika DeVeny
Barbara Miller
Linda Lauters
Diane Gipfert
Cheryl Plum
Paula Porter
Lynne Senteny
Lauter
Gipfert
Also Mentioned on This Page
Farim
Farmers Insurance
Jorgenson
State Grain
South Sund News
Glenn Dickinsons
Colorado
Uni
Dalton News
Robert Ziegler
Chuck Bode
Jim Devier
Piecemaker Club
Owen Schuler
Rudy Harris
Presbyterian Church
Rupley
Lutheran Church
James Holden
Assembly of God Church
E. L. Nelson, Jr
Bertha Krueger
Gus Krager
Gus Henning
Kenneth Larson
Charles Munshaw
M.C.C. Club
Hanna Hippen
Nebraska Wheat Growers
Washington, DC
Capitol City
Elvin Martin
Pam
Gail Delcamp
Rodney Gillespie
Bertha Wiegers
Arnold Thurow
Jerry Kalihoff
Highes—Josten Lumber Company
Illinois
Rite-Style Optical Company
Telegraph
Halliwell Waves
Supreme
Western Beauty Shop
Over
Western Drug Store
10Th Avenue
Fashion City
Purchase & Toppers
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