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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1957
Page
1
Cheyenne County ASC seeks 20000 for emergency tillage to cover farmers at one dollar per acre. About 100000 acres face wind erosion risk, with 20000 blowing now and 80000 other acres vulnerable. Rapp notes stubble mulching as effective, while approval rests with state SSC.
Dalton residents will vote in a special bond election January 29 to finance a new water well and related system work. If approved, the village may issue 26,000 in bonds over up to 20 years, with annual levies to pay principal and interest. Voting at the town hall from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. The proposition asks to authorize 26,000 in negotiable water bonds and a yearly tax levy to cover debt service.
Osborn Equipment Co of Dalton has been sold to Sidney Implement Inc. by Cliff Osborn. Dalton Implement will be the future name with policy unchanged and the same employee force retained. Executives E R Jimerson and R F Kalihoff announce ongoing operations and staff continuity.
Notice instructs recipients to call 4939 if a carrier delivered telegraph is not received by 6 p.m. The item is a brief reader notice likely from a local paper. It gives a single action and contact number without additional context.
Len Carl Curtis says no free seating along the parade route for the Presidents inaugural in Washington. Most spectators will stand but some seating may be available after arrival. The band travels January 17 to January 24 with four railroad coaches and a baggage car for instruments. Parade date January 21.
Shell Oil Co plans at least one deep oil test in Kimball County near Kimball this spring with potential for additional wells depending on results. Four deep tests have been drilled in the Panhandle to date, with mixed results including 100 feet of free oil and 4,500 feet of salt water in the Travis No. 18 north of Dix.
The Sidney street department began widening angle parking stalls in the business district. On Jackson Street and 11th Avenue the stalls will grow from eight to twelve and a half feet, reducing up to twelve spaces. Parallel spaces remain unchanged.
Nebraska State Employment Service Sidney office reports area labor conditions roughly level with 1955. Transient traffic fell in 1956 while local traffic rose. Unemployment compensation claims for December 1956 dropped about 40 percent from 1955. Sidney office 1956 activities include 17 186 visits, 1300 nonagricultural referrals, 297 women placed in nonagricultural jobs, 1258 workers placed with farmers, 312 farm placement volunteers, 1054 new applications, and 3241 weeks claimed on unemployment insurance.
A petition asks for the appointment of Mrs Anna Waite as administratrix of the estate of her mother Mrs Anna Jenik who died January 2 in Cheyenne County. Survivors include two daughters Mrs Victoria Kerk of Kimball and Mrs Angeline Schulz of Sedgwick and a son John of Denver.
Two criminal cases are set for Cheyenne County District Court juries next week. On Monday the state vies against Howard L. Hardy for larceny by bailee involving an automobile. Wednesday a jury will hear John Kinnersley charged with third offense driving while under the influence, both defendants pleading not guilty.
Walter Closman was elected president of Sidney Country Club at the annual stockholders meeting held Wednesday night. Thomas Kokjer was named vice-president and Kermit Moore Neal Hughes and Dean Wilson joined the board of directors. Policies and dues will be set by the board at its first meeting. no date has been set.
Nebraska senators consider LB 88 a 2 percent county sales tax replacing the state levy. Report notes county retail sales near 20 million, with 1954 figures showing sales tax would outpace existing taxes, while drought and urban burden shape opposition in metropolitan districts.
The Cheyenne County ASC announces January 31 deadline to secure federal loans or purchase agreements for 1956 farm commodities. Farmers may finalize arrangements to participate and later change plans before April. Rates include Wheat 195 per bushel, Rye 117 per bushel, Barley 95 cents, Grain sorghums 81 per hundred weight.
Wilfred Duling sues the City of Sidney and Officer Sanford Butcher for 10,800 alleging facial injuries after a fall in the Sidney Police Station on June 4. Duling pleaded guilty June 5 to intoxication and disturbing the peace, with a $35 total fine. Police officials deny impropriety and city leaders vow to fight the case.
Longtime western Nebraska official John H. Steuteville 83 died in Bridgeport. Morrill County's first judge, he also served as county attorney and state senator over a half century. He studied law at the University of Nebraska, taught in several towns, married Bessie Wagoner in 1932, and was a 55 year Mason. Survivors include his wife, a brother Earl of Nebraska City, and a sister Jessie Berlin of Brownville.
The Star Dust Hobby Shop reopens tomorrow at the former Self Service Bootery location on Tenth Ave after moving from 1024 Illinois St. Owner Walter Belz notes a special merchandising attraction for tomorrow only to draw customers.
A Cheyenne County oil boom grows as John McKnab drills the Rabbass No 1 near Potter and Odessa, while Ohio Oil Co raises price to 3.08 per barrel. Majors push output in the Julesburg Basin amid rising Texas prices, with several new wells and unitized fields expanding activity across Cheyenne and Kimball counties.
Increasing cloudiness brings a chance of light snow tonight and tomorrow. Colder conditions follow with lows of 5 to 15 degrees and a high around 35 degrees tomorrow.
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