Sidney Housing Outlook Sees 1975 Build Surge Possible
Local builders expect 1975 to bring more new homes and apartments than in a decade with about 50 starts predicted in Sidney. Forecaster Arlo Jones cites a housing shortage and strong demand while Bob Cook warns a national slowdown could temper activity. Building permits reached over $900 000 last year as funding and low rates support new construction.
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Sidney
Arlo Jones
Nebraska Enterprises, Inc
Jones
Bob Cook
CA Story Agency
Cook
Safeplay Manufacturing Co
Pizza Hut
Sidney builds 1974 total tops 1963 level on permits
City Inspector Dean Starr reports Sidney’s 1974 building permits reached 918 874 dollars, the highest since 1963. December added 51 776 dollars, including a 33 500 dollar home at 1510 Summit Drive and a 4 500 dollar garage.
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Sidney
Dean Starr
Summit Drive
Garden plots offered to help needy residents in Sidney
A Sidney businessman offers three acres at the city limits for community gardens to aid elderly, welfare recipients, and low income families. Free plowing, fertilizer, and water will be provided. The city may provide bus transport via the Senior Citizens' Bus. Interest should be directed to Ed Cole at Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce. a form will appear in next Wednesday's Sidney Telegraph.
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Sidney
Ed Cole
Cheyenne County
Unemployment Reaches Six Million Amid Deepening Recession
Unemployment tops six million for December, the highest since 1940, with jobless rate possibly over 7 percent from 6.5 percent in November. The report notes layoffs across auto and coal sectors, weak factory orders, and construction declines. President Ford returns from a ski trip to consult advisers as tax-cut aids are considered.
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Robert A. Dobkin
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Labor Department
Ford
Rockies
Commerce Department
Farm prices hit record in 1974 despite higher costs
USDA analysts report all farm prices averaged 183 percent of the 1967 base in 1974, a record driven by high crop prices but with livestock prices lagging. Parity ratios fell from 1973 highs, while feed costs rose with alfalfa hay, corn meal, and blended feeds up, signaling persistent cost pressures into 1975.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
USDA
State patrol to enforce 55 mph limit in Nebraska
Lt. Col. Elmer Kometscher says enforcement continues until the Nebraska Supreme Court or legislature acts after a Buffalo County Court ruling declaring 55 mph unconstitutional. County Judge J Carl Taylor plans an appeal to district court with possible Supreme Court path. The ruling followed a speeding complaint against an Ogallala woman accused of traveling 700 miles per hour.
Accident Kills Miss Goranson in Colorado
Connie Diane Goranson 23 of Gurley died in an auto truck crash Tuesday morning at Granby Colorado. She was born October 14 1951 in Kearney Nebraska and graduated Gurley High School in 1969. Survived by parents Vernon and Ella Goranson Gurley brothers Thomas and David and grandmother Alma Horton. Burial Greenwood Cemetery Sidney. Memorials to donor’s choice.
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Connie Diane Goranson
Kremming
Cole
Vernon A
Ella Mae Horron Goranson
Kearney
Granby
Colo
Gurley High School
Chadron State College
National Park Service
Estes Park
Grand Lake
Mountain Bell Telephone Company
Vernon A Goranson
Thomas
David
Gurley
Alma Horton
Ackerman
Mississippi
Debra
John
Holewick Funeral Home
John Stayton
Greenwood Cemetery
Sidney
Tiny Mike Survives Near-Death Birth At Utah Center
Two year old Mike McFarland, once weighing 2 pounds 2 ounces at birth and thought dead, now thrives in Salt Lake City. His mother Susan was about 52 months pregnant when he was born at University of Utah Medical Center. A doctor announced the baby could not breathe, died, then an orderly found movement under a sheet and saved him.
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Salt Lake City
Mike McFarland
Susan McFarland
Mike
University of Utah Medical Center
Roy McFarland
Hearing on Sioux treaty tests court's jurisdiction
Federal judge heard arguments in a Wounded Knee Sioux land case. Defense urged resignation if the 1868 treaty cannot be upheld, while prosecutors argued sovereignty issues are political, not judicial. If the treaty stands, many convictions could be overturned and land-claim litigation opened.
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Edward W. Howard
Associated Press
Lincoln
Wounded Knee
John Thorne
U.S. District Court
Warren K. Urbom
Urbom
Nelson
Thorne
Urbonn
Urban
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County Club Heights
Jim Payne
Sidney Federal Savings and Loan
Payne
Sidney Federal
Christy Lee Busch
Sidney Telegraph
Christy
Leona Busch
Miss Goranson
United States
Supreme Court
Congress
Executive Branch
Cockeyed
Urbamn
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