Post Office Ends City and Town Simplified Mail Plan
Postmaster General Summerfield announced the end of the city and town simplified address mail experiment effective after March 31. Third class mail will return to addressed routing. rural routes and boxholders remain until further policy. The plan failed to meet objectives, prompting possible rate increases next Congress. Advertising merchants backed the scheme while many households resented mail clutter and unions urged termination.
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Summerfield
Post Office Department
Congress
Rep
Murray
Tenn
House Post Office Committee
Post Office
Senate Post Office Committee
Sen
Carlson
Kan
Greek Grasshoppers Grow in Export Trade
Demetrius Kromidas, a Rhodes shopkeeper, builds a large export trade in live grasshoppers. He advertised that he would supply grasshoppers for medicinal and other uses and ships them to buyers abroad, boosting his business and the local economy.
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Kromidas
Rhodes
Greece
Demetrius Kromidas
Sidney Nebraska approves zoning changes and finance bids
The December 27 1954 Sidney Nebraska city council meeting heard zoning matters with CB&Q Railroad reps and nearby owners. Petitions opposed and supported delayed rezoning to February 14 1955 while a planning study is completed and multiple building permits were approved. A sweeping curbing guttering and paving bid process was authorized with notices in the Sidney Telegraph and a January 10 1955 bid opening. The council also considered water rate ordinance revisions and prepared for a 1955 aviation field bonds election with polling sites.
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Sidney
Nebraska
Thompson
Dorwart
Lowe
Foland
Miller
Fuller
Tobin
Cb&q Railroad
Cb&q RR
Flock
Clarkson
Clarkson Addition
Country Club Heights
James Harris
City OF
City of Sidney
E. Y. Grape
Sec
Cheyenne County
Jerry Martindale Co
Sidney Telegraph
City Auditorium
11Th and
Jackson
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Ing
J. R. Taylor
Hahler Liquor
L. E. Wamsley
Rail’s Cafe
Nienhueser
Fischer
Halliburton Oil Well Cement Co
Cheyenne
Northside School
16Th
Elm
Eastside
Southside
Toledo
Election
McCormick
New Farmall
Hydre-Tewch Independent Pte
Cubti
Vision
New
Farmall
Cub
Harvcesscr
McCormick Farm
Illinois
BY Wayne Ayers
For All
Boyd's NO
Harry Marsh
Mgr
10Th & Elm
Rapp Cash Auction
Bridgeport
Angora
Leonard E. Kloch
Sylvester J. Kloch
McLean-Magdanz Co., Sales
Bridgeport State Bank
Asmus and
Rychecky
Dodge
Pont Porcet
Tao Vet
Ayers - Spearow
Agency
10Th Ave
New Horizon
Dodge Dealers
Danny Thomas
Daddy
Abc-Tv
Bert Parks
Roy Rogers
NBC
Elwell Motors
Illinois St
Sidney, Nebraska
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