Sidney Native John B Kurz Dies At Home At 68
John B Kurz 68 a Sidney native died at his home Monday night of a heart attack He farmed south of Sunol and was born June 17 1887 in Sidney He married Emily Boyer in Denver October 4 1911 Surviving are two sons four daughters and 26 grandchildren Funeral services set for 9 am Saturday at St Patrick s Church with burial in Greenwood Cemetery.
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John B. Kurz
Sidney
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Albert Albel
Greenwood Cemetery
Mr. Kurz
Sidney Draw
Sunol
Denver
Emily Boyer
Harold
Carl
Freda Beyer
Florence Schilz
Dorothy Kettler
Josephine Salmonson
Lansing
Mich
Frank
Otto
Pauline Chambers
Carrie Sparks
Catherine Welker
Anna Parkett
Hooper, Neb
Emma Henderson
Rose
Idaho
Uenrig & Son Funeral Home
Government Crop Loan Deadline Nears for 1955 Crops
The Cheyenne County Agriculture Stabilization office warns farmers there is a Jan 31 deadline to obtain Commodity Credit Corp loans or purchase agreements for 1955 crops including wheat barley oats sorghums rye soybeans flaxseed and dry edible beans. Corn loans close May 31. Eligibility requires compliance with last year’s acreage program.
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Cheyenne County
Cheyenne County District Court Fixes 4 Jury Terms
Judges John Kuns and I J Nisley set four term dates for Cheyenne County District Court this year. Jury sessions begin January 30, April 30, September 4 and November 5, with January and November terms for juries and April and September terms as equity divisions.
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Cheyenne County District Court
John Kuns
I. J. Nisley
Early Settler In Dalton Area Buried Today
Mrs. Caroline Hartman Reinmuth age 92 longtime Dalton resident died Sunday at home. She was born in Muscatine Iowa on September 8 1863 and wed J W Reinmuth April 22 1883. Burial followed at Dalton with services at Dalton Presbyterian Church Canaday Funeral Home Bridgeport in charge Survivors include four sons three daughters many grandchildren and great grandchildren arranged across several towns including Bridgeport Sidney Broadwater and Dalton Per family records her steady settlement began in 1901 and the couple moved to Dalton in 1933.
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Dalton Territory
Caroline Hartman Reinmuth
Dalton
Ralph
Clarence
Bridgeport
Harry
Broadwater
Floyd
Hazel Overman
Sidney
Angie Lindquist
Mamie Burr
Cheyenne Man Robbed of Bonds and Camera
Gerald Mick, a Cheyenne railroader, had his car robbed at Brownson Sunday night. Thieves pried open the glove compartment, taking $650 in government savings bonds and a camera. The sheriff noted the incident likely occurred before 7 p.m.. doors were unlocked but the glove box was locked.
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Gerald Mick
Cheyenne
Mick
Brownson
Yeggs
Cheyenne County
Bill Schulz
Sidney studies expanded air routes with seven state petition
Sidney plans to broaden airline service by joining a seven state petition to the Civil Aeronautics Board for a north south and east west network. Nebraska led efforts with state and city officials, detailing routes from Casper to Omaha and Denver to Omaha with stops, while Sidney keeps its Denver connection.
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Murrey Fuller
Sidney
Denver
Nebraska
Civil Aeronautics Board
Aeronautics Departments
Illinois
Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
South Dakota
North Dakota
CAB
Washington
Capitol
State Aeronautics Commission
The
Telegraph
Casper
Omaha
Nebraksa
Aeronautics Office
Farmers Union Sets Annual Meet Jan. 11
Annual meeting of Cheyenne County Farmers Union is scheduled Wednesday January 11 in the Legion Room Sidney City Auditorium. Incumbents Harry Lee president Harold Brauer secretary Ray Wellner Earl Gell and John Meyer directors Carl Mahr legislative committeeman. Reports of locals and business enterprises will be given with lunch served at noon.
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Cheyenne County Farmers Union
Legion
Sidney City Auditorium
Harry Lee
Harold Brauer
Ray Wellner
Earl Gell
John Meyer
Carl Mahr
Sidney Public Schools See Enrollment Stabilize After Decline
Enrollment in Sidney public and parochial schools has leveled near 2,400 total students, with 1,881 in K-12 and 1,189 in grades seven through six. The grades 7-12 loss totals 35, with 23 new pupils and 58 dropouts since opening.
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Sidney Public
Gerade
Sidney High
Sidney
Three Injured In Car Wrecks In Sidney
Police Chief Sol Willis reports two separate weekend accidents injuring three people. Dollie L. Pierce 28 of Lodgepole suffered extensive head injuries and will face charges after a three vehicle collision on Illinois Street. Another crash near Sidney on Highway 19 left Wilbur O. Bennett and wife Charlotte injured with Charlotte suffering a severely broken leg.
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Sidney
Sol Willis
Dollie L. Pierce
Lodgepole
Memorial Hospital
Illinois St
Miss Pierce
Pierce
Wilbur O. Bennett
Bennett
Charlotte
Nebraska Safety Patrol
Two 1956 Oil Discoveries Open Nebraska Drilling Season
Nebraska oilmen start 1956 with two wildcats showing oil. North of Dalton Ohio Oil Co. tests L No. 1 in Morrill County while Lane swabbed, opening a third Morrill field. Rudolph and Olsen fields in Cheyenne County see producer activity amid multiple dry holes and new locations countywide.
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Nebraska
Dalton
Ohio Oil Co
Morrill County
Hartand
Olsen
Bushnell
Wyoming Line
Kimball County
R. W. McDowell, Jr
Cheyenne County
Shannon Oil Co
Rudolph
Sidney
Novotny and New Drilling Co
Shannon
Gem Oil
Tobin Brothers
Wytex Service
Central
O11
Rixleben, Inc
Reimers
Pelster Field
Dorman
Wildcat
Wytex
Harlan
Maley
British-American Oil
Stoll No
Ohio
Humphrey
Baumgartener Oil Co
Banner County
Williams
Olsen Field
Petsch
Ansel State
Brinkerhoff Drilling
Kiley
Garden County
Elpasgar Oil
U. P. Panhandle Livestock
S. D. Johnson
Bassett
Long Field
E. L. Fundsingland
Scott Neo
Harrisburg
Maxey
Calvert Demping, Inc
Underwood
Artnell Company
Schmidt
Voss Field
Magnolia Petroleum Co
Furst
Cizek
Superior Oil Co
Murfin & Sutton
Baltensperger
Doctor Revives Man After Heart Stoppage in Hospital
Clarence Willis a 55 year old man from Potter survived a dramatic incident at Memorial Hospital. In the emergency room his heart stopped while two men assisted. A local doctor, unnamed in reports, injected adrenalin directly into Willis’ heart and restored the rhythm, with Willis now near ready to leave.
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Potter Area
Memorial Hospital
Clarence Willis
Willis
Ben Franklin Opens Friday in Sidney
Grand opening of the Ben Franklin store at 1026 Illinois in downtown Sidney. Ken Lyddon and son Bill run the store with self service policy and Bill as manager. Store joins 2200 national franchises. gifts include ice cream cones balloons plants and gum.
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Ben Franklin
Illinois
Sidney
Safeway, Inc
Ken Lyddon
Bill
Lyddons
Broken Bow
13Th Ave
John Swick
Holdrege
New Registry For City Postmastership To Be Established
Weldon Stewart will continue as acting postmaster in Sidney until a new civil service registry is set up for a permanent appointment. John Peetz Jr., chairman of the Cheyenne County Republican Central Committee, announced after a call with Rep. A. L. Miller in Washington that no date for establishing the registry is known and thus no qualified list is yet available.
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Weldon Stewart
Sidney
John Peetz, Jr
Cheyenne County Republican Central Committee
A. L. Miller
Washington
Peetz
Mae
Halliburton Opens New Plant in Sterling
Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co. opens a $145 000 plant at Sterling including an office building. The firm will run nine trucks from Sterling to support brisk oil development in northeastern Colorado. Halliburton also operates plants in Sidney Kimball and Port Morgan.
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Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co
Sterling
Colorado
Halliburton
Sidney
Kimball
Port Morgan
Fire at Franzen Pool Treater Causes Insurance Covered Loss
A New Year’s Eve blaze at the Franzen Oil Field treater near Sidney damaged equipment used by four wells. High winds fed flames to natural gas, exploding a doghouse near the theater. Clarence Castner of General Resources, Limited said the loss is fully insured. Firefighters from Sidney, nine miles east and six miles north, battled the blaze for hours. A separate afternoon fire south of Lodgepole Creek damaged a pile of lumber owned by C. S. Radcliffe, possibly started by children playing nearby.
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Franzen
Clarence Castner
General Resources, Limited
Sure, Oil Co
Castner
Sidney
C. S. Radcliffe
Lodgepole Creek
Harvey Vizina
Arapahoe Pipe Plans System Expansion in 3 Acquisitions
Arapahoe Pipe Line Co announces expansion plans effective Jan 31. The company will acquire about 33 miles of 10 inch crude oil pipeline from Adena Field Colorado to Merino with gathering lines from Pawnee Pipe Line Co, a 42 mile 8 inch line from Little Beaver Field to Merino, plus 345 miles of oil field gathering lines in Kansas and Nebraska joining the main trunk from northeastern Colorado and Nebraska to Humboldt Kansas.
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BRUSH
Colo
Arapahoe Pipe Line Company
Arapahoe
Adena Field
Morgan County
Denver
Merno
Adena
Pawnee Pipe Line Co
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Sioux Ordnance Depot
Wayne L. Wood
Lynn DeLosh
Donald DeLosh
Gordon Simmer
Col. Wood
Thompson
Air Service
Farmers Union
Dorothy Dunn
Gordon
Shirley Ladine
Banner Oil Company
Johnson ‘A
Cse
J. M. Huber Corporation
Craig- Johnson
Phillips Field
Stanolind Oil & Gas Co
Herboldsheimer
Sloss Field
Gulf Oil Co
Davis Oi Co
Walker & Wilson Drilling Co
Patrick No. 1
Csw
Anschutz Drilling Co
State No
CNW
Watkins Oil Co
Durland Trust
Torgeson
Doctor
Man
Potter
Beacon
Wyoming
R. W. McCanne
R. E. McMillen
Ohio Oilers
Halliburton Plant
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