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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1947
Page
1
Western Nebraska lawmakers focus on three issues when the unicameral legislature opens January 7. Key topics include open bidding for school land leases, revised farm to market road agreements to cut costs, and locating a mental hospital asylum in the region. Senator R A Babcock is expected to play a central role.
The state railway commission approved an approximate 14 percent rise in intrastate freight rates, effective January 1, aligning state tariffs with the interstate increase. Exceptions were made for milk and cream, motor tariff shipments, sugar beets products, and certain large tonnage moves. Interim 6 percent on general commodities and 3 percent on agricultural products were canceled.
The Office of Temporary Controls reminded housewives that spare ration stamp No. 53 is good for five pounds of sugar. The five-pound ration covers the period ending April 30. Officials predict a bumper sugar crop may allow issuing additional rations.
Five year old Sandra Dillabough, orphaned in a Christmas week crash near Sidney, is recovering from skull and jaw injuries in Denver. Aunts Mrs. Henry Bezley of Oakland and Mrs. Fred Jackson of Spokane arrived to arrange her future care, promising to cover medical bills and move her to California once she leaves hospital in about three weeks.
Paul Gilbert, secretary of the game commission, cautions hunters participating in coyote roundups not to slaughter rabbits or other small game. He says coyotes eat rabbits but will turn to pheasants and farmers’ chickens if rabbits disappear, and urges hunters to let pheasants escape, avoid shooting hawks, and use no shot larger than No 2.
Col. Carl E. Ledbetter of Pasadena California and former Sidney resident has been named State Maintenance Officer of the California National Guard. He will oversee repair and upkeep of all National Guard property in the state. Ledbetter enlisted from Sidney during World War I and later conducted business there and married Helen Burke. The family moved to Pasadena in 1929 with their daughter Margaret.
Howard Whited of Carpenter Wyoming led a New Year traffic arrests list as the first speed violator fined ten dollars and costs by County Judge Robert A Barlow. Other docket items include several speeders at ten dollars and costs each, one brake defect fine of one dollar, and licenses issues. Glenn Thompson faces a no account check charge for a twenty five dollar check to Elkhorn Tavern from The American National Bank of Kimball, with no hearing by yesterday noon.
State federal agricultural statisticians report unusually favorable fall weather and ample subsoil moisture fueling Nebraska winter wheat. December 1946 sowing is 4,419,000 acres, up 11 percent from 1945, with potential a record 92,799,000 bushels if conditions hold through harvest. Nationwide, 56,426,000 acres were sown and December 1 indicated production stands at 946,527,000 bushels, up 8 percent from 1946.
Funeral services for Simon Luther Ross 81 will be held Saturday at 1 30 p m from the Community Church in Peetz. The Rev Glenn McPherson will officiate with interment at Sidney Greenwood cemetery. Gehrig Funeral Home in charge. He lived in Peetz since 1915, farmed, and spent years with his son Leslie H Ross near Peetz. Surviving are Leslie, daughter Mrs Melvin Simpson of Littleton Colo and seven grandchildren. One son preceded him in death.
The Gurley Oil Co of Gurley plans a free all day lunch Monday January 6 to celebrate the completed one stop service station. The event promotes Skelly Oil Co products and tire sales will be featured by owners Joe F. Vogt and Earl V. Lessig in The Telegraph notice.
After a holiday lull Kimball varsity and second stringers host Sidney in the opening game of 1947 Class B competition. St Patrick s Academy faces St Agnes in Alliance. Pot ter meets St Pat s in an LPWAA contest. Nebraska Colorado Basketball League opens next Thursday at the city auditorium with four games. The season runs weekly through February 20.
Esther Harbo of Denver leads six Farmers Union meetings across Potter Sidney Pine Bluffs Crawford Rushville and Alliance from Jan 6 to Jan 11 with group recreation sound pictures singing prize drawings and refreshments About 25 prizes per meeting including a gallon of oysters for one winner All prizes require timely attendance and 1947 Farmers Union membership Alliance hosts Nebraska Wheat Show with Wheat Queen crowning and safflower display Entries for hard red winter wheat must be two quarts from 1946 and mailed to George Neuswanger by Jan 9.
The Telegraph reports January clearance sales returning to normal merchandising as stores offer leftovers from Christmas at cut prices. Store managers say shortages will ease, slackening on tight items appears, and a January trend aims to clear shelves for spring lines. Grocers note prices leveling off with a predicted fifteen percent table-cost decline by late February.
Temperatures linger near zero in Cheyenne County with Sidney reporting three degrees above zero and twelve below for the week. New Year’s Day brought partial moderation after three days of bitter cold as a light snow flurry fell and a cold north wind persisted. Nationally, ice storms hit Vicksburg and snow swirled across New York area while Central Illinois and Indiana faced flurries.
Revelers filled streets in Sidney for New Year’s Eve with mostly orderly crowds and few troubles. Police reported minor ice related accidents, no serious injuries, and no charges by Thursday noon. Sheriff Schulz arrested a husband in Ordville after a family fight and a man with a knife threat in Lodgepole. both in jail with pending charges. State patrols kept traffic slow for icy conditions while local police said the holiday stayed routine with usual arrests for drunkenness.
Western Nebraska anglers will see trout season open April 1 after a February closure. The 1947 fishing laws, explained by Game Warden George R. Weidman, remove the trout size limit and set a daily bag of 10. Other species notes include bass no closed season with 10 inch size limit and 10 daily, crappie and sunfish no limits, pike limits, and various 12 inch or 5 to 15 fish bag rules.
Carnegie Corporation awards $6,000 to the University of Nebraska to fund creative art workshops for rural teachers. Chancellor R G Gustavson announced the grant as support for teacher training and regional arts education.
Funeral services for Mrs. Ada Snodgrass Durnell 74 were held at The Gehrig Funeral Home. The Rev Marcus Lucas officiated. Interment was at Sidney Greenwood Cemetery beside her husband who died in 1934. Born August 27 1872 in Rosehill Iowa she moved to Kansas as a girl and later to Elwood Nebraska where she married in 1889. Five children were born two sons, Clarence of Sidney and Dewey of Hollywood, and a daughter Eva of Oakland Calif survive with four grandchildren three great grandchildren and one sister in Kansas. Mrs Durnell was a Gold Star mother Lennie died after WWI injuries.
Motor vehicle licenses for 1947 went on sale in the county treasurer s office yesterday. No new plates are issued this year. the 1947 license consists of small metal tabs for 1946 plates. Taxes may be paid during purchase, with hours 8 30 to 12 and 1 to 4. Closures at 4 to file registrations. Licenses may be obtained by mail. Car owners have the month of January to obtain new licenses.
In 1946 six Nebraska cities voted to approve sale of liquor by the drink while 19 cities rejected the measure. Major towns Lincoln Scottsbluff Gering Alliance and Grand Island turned it down. The six approving towns were Belgrade Chadron Crawford Greeley Paxton and West Lincoln.
The Panhandle in 1946 saw a bumper winter wheat harvest exceeding thirteen million bushels across Banner Kimball Cheyenne and Devel counties, plus over twenty two thousand tons of Lodgepole Valley sugar beets near Kimball Chappell. Wheat earnings reached about twenty million dollars. beet farming grew as a potential sugar factory target with talks from Great Western Sugar Company.
Nebraska records show 264 traffic deaths in 1946, up 54 from 1945, per state safety patrol. Capt. Carl J. Sanders cites gasoline-control removal boosting highway travel and vehicle age reducing reliability, urging drivers to focus on driving and equipment in 1947 to cut fatalities.
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