Dalton Co-Op Considers 250000 Bushel Storage Addition
Dalton officials call a special meeting for January 17 at 1 PM in the Dalton Legion Hall to decide whether to add 250000 bushels of storage by building a new elevator or by adding concrete bins beside the existing elevator. Elmer Westerhoff will preside as president. The proposal mirrors nearby Farmers Co Op Grain Co. capacity.
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Dalton
Dalton Co-Op
Dalton Legion Hall
Co-Op
Elmer Westerhoff
Farmers Co-Op Grain Co
Sidney
Hospital And Hotel Groups Set Meetings
Two Sidney groups, the Cheyenne County Memorial Hospital Assn and Sidney Community Hotels Corp, plan annual meetings next week. Hospital trustees face a 5 seat board vote with retiring members Renominated. floor nominations allowed. Hotel board to elect 15 directors from 20 nominees as new hotel opens and reports are presented.
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Sidney
Cheyenne County ‘Memorial ‘ “Hospital Assn
Sidney Community Hotels Corp
Hospital Association
City Auditorium
Charles N. Deaver
Dean Hagemeister
Clarence Meyer
Guy V. Doran
A. J. Jorgenson
North Platte First in State to Extend Zoning Beyond City Limits
North Platte this week became the first Nebraska city to use a state law allowing a city to enact zoning control one mile outside its limits. Sidney officials have discussed a similar ordinance, with a draft already prepared. City Manager Murrey Fuller said it must be reviewed by the planning commission before council action, and noted he believes Kearney may have passed a similar measure, though The Associated Press reports North Platte as first.
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North Platte
Sidney
Murrey Fuller
Fuller
City Planning Commission
Kearney
What Price Business Would Farm Retirement Hit Stores
Sidney businessmen fear the farm retirement provision of the Soil Bank could depress local business if farmers retire their land. The Tuesday meeting drew about 600 farmers and others, with two firms showing firm bids to retire, and many contracts still under consideration before the January 31 deadline. The Telegraph provides official USDA details and editor Jack Lowe defends covering the issue for readers.
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Sidney
Soil Bank
Rapp
ASC
Telegraph
United States Department of Agriculture
Jack H. Lowe
The
Lowe
Bank Deposits Hold Steady in Cheyenne County
Cheyenne County banks report a slight year to year dip in deposits at Dec 31, with bankers attributing it to farmers preserving last year’s wheat and investors shifting to bonds. Total county assets top 2 million at Sidney National and Potter State, with Dalton State close behind. The American National Bank holds nearly 8 million in deposits, as other banks show modest increases.
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Cheyenne County
Sidney National
Potter State
Dalton State
American National Bank
Potter State Bank
Lodgepole
Extension Board Meets Jan 17 7:30 PM at City Auditorium
The annual Extension Board meeting will be held in the City Auditorium next Friday night at 7 30 with President Joe Bonkiewicz Jr presiding Mrs Rex German of Cozad will show slides taken in Australia from her Farm Youth Exchange Student time She was there during the last Olympic games Annual reports will be heard and two directors will be elected The meeting will be on the auditorium main floor
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Joe Bonkiewicz, Jr
Rex German
Cozad
Australia
Tree Seedling Program Seeks Applications for Spring Planting
Applications are invited at the Soil Conservation Service office for spring tree plantings. County oil and water conservation districts offer planting service on request. Prices run about four dollars per hundred broadleaf and eight dollars per hundred conifers. ACP cost sharing may be approved at six dollars per hundred for inter planted trees under good forestry practices. Order deadline is March 20.
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Soil Conservation Service Office
County Oil and Water Conservation District
Seed mixture for idle land offered
The Soil Conservation Service presents a seed mixture to cover idle land with grass. The blend includes intermediate tall crested and western wheatgrasses and would cost about $1 per acre above ACP payments. Seed only, not seedbed preparation, is included. substitutions are allowed but with similar cost.
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Soil Conservation Office
SCS
Winter Vacationers: Come On Back Home
Sidney recorded a high of 55 degrees on Thursday afternoon with similar mild readings in several cities. Miami 57, New Orleans 39, Tampa 51, Jacksonville 40, El Paso 59, Birmingham 31, Raleigh 34, Oklahoma. The message invites winter vacationers to return home as all is forgiven.
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Sidney
Miami
New Orleans
Tampa
Jacksonville
el Paso
Birmingham
Raleigh
N.C
Mild Weather For Nebraska Panhandle With Little Change
A forecast expects mostly clear skies with increasing cloudiness in the Nebraska Panhandle on Saturday. Highs reach the 40s, lows 15 to 30, with little or no precipitation. Reports list Sidney at 55 earlier, Imperial at 56, and 11 am readings near 49 in Sidney as a cooler trend may arrive Sunday or Monday. A bright evening star, possibly Saturn, sparked public inquiries alongside Sputnik fears.
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Nebraska Panhandle
Sidney
Miami
Fla
Nebraska
Imperial
CAA
Scottsbluff
Panhandle
Weather Bureau
Telegraph
Sputnik Iti
Sidney Country Club elects Perratt as president
Hollis Peratt of Sidney, a Sidney retailer, was elected president of the Sidney Country Club at the annual stockholders meeting Wednesday night. He succeeds Walter Closman and is noted as one of the club's crack golfers. Dr L S O Halloran was named vice president and new directors include Dr C B Dorwart D W Jorgensqgn Mrs Earle Winter and Mrs Robert Clark Ed Swanson was named secretary treasurer. The addition of Mrs Winter and Mrs Clark marks the first time women have served on the board. Discussions of by law changes were held with no action taken.
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The
Hotel Corporation
Fort Sidney Motor Hotel
Neal Atkins
George Barlow
L. M. Clinton
Walter Cork
Guy Doran
Dr. C. B. Dorwart
Leonard Fine
Chester H. Johnson
Thomas Kokjer
N. W. Ladegard
Jack H. Lowe
Lee Maddox
Frank Mattoon
Glenn Patrick
C. A. Story
George P. Taylor
Gordon Tobin
L. E. Wamsley
Earle Winter
A. E. Wright
Hollis Peratt
Sidney Retailer
Sidney Country Club
Walter Closman
Ohio Oil Starts 1958 Drilling With Ruhter Well At Ruhter No 1
Ohio Oil Co plans to resume drilling in the Sidney area within a week or ten days. A rig will be set for No 1 Ruhter just across the Colorado line, offsetting No 1 Elenz which is producing 70 to 80 barrels daily. Nebraska output holds around 55,500 barrels daily as week averages.
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Ohio Oil Co
Sidney
Colorado Line
Colorado-Nebraska
Ohio
Ruhter
Nebraska
Mrs Henderson 71 Dies. Rites Monday At First Methodist
Mrs Elic Henderson 71 a longtime Sidney resident died at home after a long illness. Funeral services set for Monday at 3 pm at First Methodist Church with Rev. H P Bollinger officiating. burial in Greenwood Cemetery. Gehrig and Son Funeral Home in charge. Survivors include husband Eli, two daughters Gertrude Revell and Frances Wilkins, three sons Roy L Earl D and Victor C, 17 grandchildren and four great grandchildren, two sisters and three brothers. Grace Caroline Green born Feb 26 1886 in Custer County Neb.
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Elic Henderson
Sidney
13Th Ave
First Methodist Church
Henderson
H. P. Bollinger
Greenwood Cemetery
Gehrig and Son Funeral Home
Grace Caroline Green
Custer County
Neb
Joseph K
Cyrena Lloyd Green
Gibbon
Eli C. Henderson
Kearney
Eli
Gertrude Revell
Frances Wilkins
Las Cruces
Roy L
Earl D
Victor C
Dinner Reservations For 75th Civil Service Dinner
Reservations for the 75th anniversary dinner of the Civil Service System must be made by Saturday. Tickets are at the Chamber of Commerce, through Civil Service employees in Sidney and at Sioux Ordnance Depot. The event, led by general chairman Waldo Dearing, will be at Fort Sidney Motor Hotel next Tuesday at 6 30 p m with about 900 local Civil Service employees invited.
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Civil Service
Chamber of Commerce
Sidney
Sioux Ordnance Depot
Fort Sidney Motor Hotel
Four Proxies Named for Sidney Community Hotel Meeting
Stockholders urged to return proxy cards if they will not attend the annual meeting at Fort Sidney Hotel next Wednesday night. Cards mailed earlier name four men who will act as proxies.
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Sidney Community Hotel Corp
Fort Sidney
Debt Ceiling Hike Predicted by Miller
Rep Miller predicted Wednesday that the new Congress will face rising demand to raise the national debt ceiling. He said, without a doubt, the defense program will be the bulk of attention in the upcoming session.
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Miller
Congress
Marginal No. 1 Wilson well signals possible 1958 discovery
Cheyenne County's No. 1 Wilson wildcat near Potter shows 4 to 5 barrels per hour on swabbing tests with a total depth of 5246 feet, indicating a marginal discovery potential. Nearby activity includes Mintken No. 1 venture in Kimball County and multiple Shell and British-American completions across Cheyenne, Kimball, Banner counties as 1957 results show varied oil and gas production and shifting drilling totals in the Denver Jule sburg area.
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Cheyenne County
Potter
Chandler
Wilson
Rabass
Kimball County
Mintken
Lakes Field
Leonard Field
Shell Oil Co
Johnson
Cheyenne-Kimball County
CNE
Shell
Johnson Place
Heider
R. F. Svoboda
Treinen
West Sidney
Black Drilling Co
Howard J. Fisher
CSW SE
Nebraska
Shoreline Petroleum Co
Fredericks No. 1
Kimball
British-American Petroleum Co
Stander No. 1
Sloss State Field
Shell Petroleum Co
Travis No
Travis Or Jacinto
Banner County
Gene McDaniel
McDaniel
Davis O11 Co
Fink
Pan American Petroleum
Logan
Washington
Morgan County
Denver - Julesburg
Washington County
Logan County
Colorado
Rinehart
Accident Scene Near Sidney Ends With Safe Driver
An accident on a county road half a mile west of Sidney Tuesday at 3 30 PM involved Marten D Mathers 62 Rt 1 Sidney who lost control of a pickup. The truck skidded in loose sand and turned over with Mathers pinned by the horn button but unharmed. Damage to the truck was about 400 dollars.
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Sidney
Kermit Brumbaugh
Marten D. Mathers
Rt. 1
Mathers
VA Loan Officer Is Chosen For Area
Thomas M. Mehls aged 48 of 161% South 58th St Omaha has been named loan guaranty officer for the Veterans Administration in Nebraska The announcement came from A H Dubury Lincoln regional manager Mehls has served in VA loan guaranty since April 1946 and was assistant loan guaranty officer for 24% years before this promotion
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Thomas M. Mehls
Oil Industry Leader Speaks at Scottsbluff Meeting
Hoover Cott of the Oil Industry Information Committee based in Kansas City visited Sidney on Tuesday and spoke to regional oil men in Scottsbluff about advertising the oil industry and promoting industry awareness during a brief western Nebraska trip.
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Hoover Cott
Oil Industry Information Committee
Kansas City
Sidney
Nebraska
Scottsbluff
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Extension Board
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Country Club
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Harrisburg
Joe Green
Frank Green
Albert Green
Portland
Ore
Waldo Dearing
Eisenhower
House of Rep
Nixon
Sam Daawhiwen
Rome
Denver
Leafdale
Horn
Bluffs
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