Sidney City Council Debates Park Stadium Plan And Public Works
The Sidney City Council discussed a Fort Sidney American Legion baseball and softball park plan with an estimated $25,000 cost and 1100 seat stadium in Legion Park. They asked for cost figures on lights and fencing and considered state tournament bids if built. Other items included liquor license transfer, equipment bids, and a $1000 request for the 101 Stampede and Cheyenne County Fair. The Stars of Tomorrow talent show was announced for March 3 with cash prizes and scholarships, with acts from elementary and senior divisions and tickets set at 50 cents to one dollar.
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Sidney
Fort Sidney
American Legion Baseball Association
al Ladine
Les Couch
Legion Park
Ladine
Couch
Nebraska
American Legion
Ron Holly
Don Hofer
Holly
Hofer
Miller Implement Co
Ed Cole
Chamber of Commerce
Cheyenne County
John Baudek
Pavellinois St
14Th
Gordon Tobin
Kiwanis “Stars of Tomorrow
Sidney Junior High School
Business Institute of Sidney
Janie Wait
Debbie Livingston
Jolaine Kaminski
Theresa Sullivan
Susan Fecht
Jane Pelster
Susanne Heizer
Patty Gregg
the Potter
Debbie Musil
Kay Glassburn
Louis Flessner
Jane Kriesel
Sharon Statley
Connie Palmer
Kiwanian
Residents protest maintenance patrol removal in county
About 40 residents at a road hearing opposed moving a maintenance man from the northwest area to Potter shops citing potential loss of service. The board urged a trial shift, with option to reverse if unsatisfactory, while other groups pushed for road bluffs grading, opening Sidney Draw, oiling segments to reduce dust, and state aid to connect highways 30 and I 80 before interstate plans finalize.
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Cheyenne County
Ivan Walker
Morrill County
Dalton
Potter
Sidney
Tommy Thompson
Bluffs
Colorado
Sidney Draw
Town
John Peetz, Jr
Robert van Cleave
Mara=thon Oil Company
Mara=thon
A. A. Fen=ske
Sunol
Wayne Campbell
Lodgepole
U P. Train Cut Is Forestalled
Union Pacific passenger trains 5 and 6, scheduled for discontinuance Monday, will run at least until June 26. The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered an investigation and required continued operation for at least four months.
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Union Pacific
Interstate Commerce Commission
Latin American Wheat Market Outlined For Nebraska Growers
About 200 people attended the Box Butte County Wheat Growers appreciation dinner as Ron Maas outlined Latin American demand for U S wheat. He noted Latin American countries now buy 15 percent of U S exports and described marketing in Venezuela Brazil Chile and Peru from a USDA trade mission tour.
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United States
Box Butte County
Five Counties Hold Mayoral Caucuses for April Ballot
Five counties held caucuses Tuesday night to place names on the April 2 ballot for town and school boards and local judges. Sidney officials elected James Thompson chair and Gordon Tobin secretary.
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Sidney
Potter
Lodgepole
Dalton
Gurley
James Thompson
Gordon Tobin
Susan van Natter
Linden
W.W. Schulz
Elm
Roy Gish
Charlotte
Schulz
Cheyenne County
Gish
H.C.Q. Nelson
el Rancho
Jack R. Knicely
Newton
King
Ray Sla~ma
Bruce Juelfs
Gordon Reed
Terrell Wickhorst
Merlin Maas
Harold Schuessler
Bud Gaston
Ed Killham
Elvin Phief
Charles Belden
Lloyd Bondegard
Dick Smith
Clarence Kripal
Delmer Zalesky
Loren Block
Dan Markel
Joe Teague
Otto Schlaman
Duane Bondegard
Gene Bond
Lee Foster
Herman Frerichs
Tabor Brandt
Elmer Freudenberg
Clarence Ewert
Foster
Freudenberg
Frerichs
Rollie Larson
Orville Parker
Lyle Mather
Allan Lessman
Robert Spearow
Ernie Deaver
Mather
Well Known Farmer Died Here Tuesday
John Engel 76 a Cheyenne County resident for 54 years died Tuesday at Memorial Hospital after a heart attack. Funeral 10:30 a m Friday at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. Interment Greenwood Cemetery. Survived by widow Emma four daughters four sisters one brother 16 grandchildren five great grandchildren. One son Edwin died in 1952.
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Cheyenne County
John Engel
Memorial Hospital
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
Paul Reimers
Greenwood Cemetery
Gehrig and Son Funeral Home
The
Elks Lodge
Emma
Clarence Beyer
Sidney
Robert Cleary
Findlay
Ohio
Clifford Johnson
Potter
Harold Smith
Pueblo
Colo
Charles Gabriel
Gurley
Emma Clements
Bloomfield
Neb
Ella Luckstorf
Elizabeth Engel
Denver
Fred Engel
Perris
Snow reduces erosion risk and aids fall crops in Nebraska
Last week's snowfall in Nebraska lowered wind erosion potential and offers moisture benefits to fall seeded crops. The NOAA style weekly crop report notes light snow across the northeast, east and parts of the southeast, with weekly totals from Sidney to Lincoln and beyond ranging from 0.05 to 0.51 inches.
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Nebraska
State Federal Division of Agricultural Statistics
Sidney
Scottsbluff
Imperial
Chadron
Valentine
North Platte
Burwell
Grand Island
Lincoln
Norfolk
Panhandle Weather Forecast Update
Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday with northerly winds 15 to 25 mph. Lows around 15 to 25 and highs near 40. Five day outlook shows temperatures 4 to 8 degrees above normal with minor daily changes.
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Panhandle
Vo Tech Plant Head Resigns to Join Nebraska Firm
David Bickford, plant supervisor of the Western Nebraska Vocational Technical School, resigns effective March 1 to become a sales representative for Nebraska Pump and Supply Co. in western Iowa, northern Kansas, and Nebraska.
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Tobin
Council
Office of Economic Opportunity
Western
Nebraska
Vo~Tech
OEO
David Bickford
Western Nebraska Vocational Technical School
Bickford
Nebraska Pump and Supply Co
Lincoln
Iowa
Kansas
Gunshot Death of Loyd Honebein Near Lodgepole
Loyd R. Honebein 34 died from a gunshot on a farm southeast of Lodgepole between 10 30 a m and noon. The body was found beside a farm building on Jim From s property. Coroner John Peetz Jr noted no suicide sign and no note. Survived by wife Bernita two sons Sandy and Douglas a daughter Denise six brothers one sister and grandmother Sophia Honebein. Services pending at Gehrig and Son Funeral Home.
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Chappell
Loyd R. Honebein
Lodgepole
John Peetz, Jr
Honebein
Jim From
Brush
Colorado
Henry Honebein
United States Navy
Bernita
Denise
Sandy
Douglas
Sophia Honebein
Gehrig and Son Funeral
State Wool Producers Meet Here
Nebraska Wool Growers Association holds its annual meeting on Monday March 4 at 9 30 a m at the Fort Sidney Motor Hotel in Sidney. Key speakers include B H Ill Jones Nebraska agriculture official and Ray A Field University of Wyoming. Topics cover wool prices grading marketing and lamb concerns with a free lamb lunch and door prizes.
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Nebraska Wool Growers Association
Fort Sidney Motor Hotel
Sidney
Ivan Hartman, Whitney
Hartman
Injured Sidney Women Return From Laramie Crash
Two Sidney women hurt in a Laramie Wyoming collision Saturday night have returned home. Margaret Highland was admitted to Memorial Hospital Sidney after being a passenger in a car driven by her sister Maxine Thompson. Both suffered cuts bruises and possible broken ribs and were hospitalized in Laramie before returning to Sidney. Highland’s Chrysler was destroyed when a pickup driven by Vernon Wood of Hulett Wyoming struck the car broadside.
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Sidney
Laramie
Wyo
Margaret Highland
Memorial Hospital
Maxine Thompson
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Federal Fund
U.P
Sidney Caucus
Donald Winkelman
Jim Thompson
Earl Munshaw
Ed Schinzel
Larry Schmitt
Charles Geller
Geller
Cletus Semper
Ray Henke
Lloyd Winkelman
Mary Rita Marrin
Dix
Byron Scarborough
Lloyd Haach
Loren Tinsdale
Fred Miller
Paul McKinney
Ursula Stander
Robert Wistrom
Clinton Shaw
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America Linn Olsen
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Vo-Tech
Loyd Honebein
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