Critical Natural Gas Shortage Threatens It
The Weather Bureau reported a thirty degree below zero cold snap hitting the Sidney area with 13 below by Friday noon. Kansas Nebraska Gas Co urged users to cut thermostats to 60 degrees as gas pressures fall. Sioux Army Depot shifted to alternative fuels to conserve supplies amid a wind driven frost and heavy snows across the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weather Bureau
Sidney
North Potter
Kansas-Nebraska ,Natural Gas. Co
J. E. Keating
K Inv
Sioux Army
Keating
K-N
North Central Gas Co
Laws
Wheatbelt
Kansas-Nebraska Gas Co
Federal Aviation Agency
Dave Elis
Ells
Price support loans set for seven crops with Jan 31 deadline
Herbert Krauter announces January 31 as the deadline for price support loans and purchase agreements on seven crops including wheat barley oats grain sorghum rye dry beans and flax for 1962. Applicants must file at the County Office in Sidney and mail a sample to the grading laboratory to finalize processing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Krauter
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee
Krauter
Sidney
Saawary iI
Pupport
Bertey
ASC
Himsel
Charles Brodersen
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation State Committee
Brodersen
Wegener Named Field Inspector for Nebraska Oil Group
Charles Wegener of Sidney will become a field inspector for the Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, effective January 14. He will be based in McCook and cover eastern Nebraska oil areas, succeeding the late Joe Wright of Chappell. The Wegeners will move to McCook and sell The House of Flowers, after operating it in Sidney for about a year. Wegener brings twenty years of oil industry experience, including fifteen years with British American Oil Producing Corp, largely in Montana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Wegener
Sidney
Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
Wegener
McCook
Commission
Nebraska
Wegeners
House of Flowers
Wildcat drilling sites spark Nebraska oil action
Nebraska oil activity heats up as Scotts Bluff and Red Willow counties report new wildcat locations. No. 1 Stoe ger and No. 1 Nicholson drill plans loom, while Sinclair and Gary Regal gauge continues. Weekly oil output sits at 65,367 barrels with weather delaying progress. Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission meets in Sidney on Jan 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo County
Nebraska
Philip Dixon
Stoeger
Steeplewirth Drilling Co
Red Willow County
Keith F. Walker
Nicholson
CNW NW
Burch Drilling Co
Walker
McKillip
Missouri Ridge
Scotts Bluff County
Sinclair Oil and Refining Co
McClenahan
Sam Gary
Denver
Regal Drilling Co
Gary-Regal
Sinclair
Chief Drilling Co
Chief
Kimball County
Kimball
Banner
Scotts Bluff
Garden
Sioux
Panhandle
Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Conmmission
Sidney
Ft. Sidney
Mrs. Anderson Dies After Long Illness in Potter
Mrs. Edgar Anderson, a Potter resident for nearly five decades, died at Memorial Hospital after a lengthy illness. Funeral services were postponed due to weather. Craig Mortuary to arrange rites. Survivors include her husband Edgar, two sons Earl and Ralph, two daughters Vivian Statson and Dorothy Koudele, 15 grandchildren, and one brother Ray Johnson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Potter
Edgar Anderson
Memorial Hospital
Denver
Craig Mortuary
Fred Reetz
J. Fred Enevoldsen
Jim Bertramson
Herbert Johnson
Carl Larson
Kenneth Rose
Lillian Anderson
Chicago
Ilinois
Herman Johnson
The
Royal Neighbors
Methodist Women’s Society of Christian Service
Earl
Ralph
Vivian Statson
St. Hilaire
Damage suit filed over July 1961 highway crash
Glen W. Broaddus of Valley Falls Kansas sues for about 122000 damages filed with clerk Ruby Henkle naming Western Crude Marketers Inc Denver Wayne A Fleming Denver Ralph W Crossland Sr and Garland R Beck of Grandfield Oklahoma as defendants for injuries from a July 20 1961 crash on Highway 30 east of Potter. He seeks 120124 as general damages and 18275 for medical costs. J L Thorpe represents the plaintiff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruby Henkle
Glen W. Broaddus
Broaddus
Valley Falls
Kan
Western Crude Marketers, Inc
Denver
Wayne A. Fleming
Ralph W Crossland Sr
Garland R. Beck
Grandfield
Oklo
Potter Breaddus
J. L. Thorpe
Fleming
Broaddus Car Was Judged A Total Loss, Mr. Broaddus
Jay
Firemen's Ball Set Feb 16 And Fund Drive Underway
The Sidney Volunteer Fire Department launches its annual fund drive to raise up to 2500 dollars with two weeks of business outreach followed by ticket sales at one dollar for the Firemen's Ball February 16 at the National Guards Armory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney
National Guards Armory
Hadley Barrett
Leon Drake
Rich Schiller
Willis King
Marion Stone
Mert Miller
Jim Paxton
Harold Thompson
Jerry van Netter
Larry Loebe
Jim Brooks
Chapman's Rise to CAP Leader in Sidney
Forrest R. Chapman, new commander of the Sidney Squadron Civil Air Patrol, began private flying in 1954 and has remained an active CAP member. He moved to Sidney in 1950 as a warehouse man at Sioux Army Depot and later served 17 years in Civil Service with the Bureau of Mines in Louisiana, Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney Squadon
Civil Air Patrol
Forrest R. Chapman
Sidney
CAP
Chapmans
Sioux Army Depot
Civil Service
Bureau of Mines
Louisiana
Stanberry
Gas Bills Remitted To Sidney For North Central Gas Customers
Kansas Nebraska Natural Gas Co customers in Dalton Gurley Ordville and Sidney must pay at the Sidney office. Central billing is handled from Phillipsburg Kansas, prompting remittance confusion. J M Keating Sidney K N manager notes North Central Gas Co now fully owned since the start of the year and bills from Sidney office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Nebraska Natural Gas Co
Dalton
Gurley
Ordville
Sidney
K-N
Phillipsburg
Kan
J. M. Keating
North Central Gas Co
North
Patrol Reports Two Accidents During Storm in Sidney Area
Patrol records indicate two snowstorm related crashes near Sidney. Mrs Aston Richardson skidded at the Sioux Army Depot overpass causing minor damage to a Volkswagen and did not proceed into town. A second collision on Highway 325 involved a 1960 Ford driven by Charles Campbell Jr and a 1960 IHC semi driven by George Schrotberger with about $15 damage. Road conditions were noted to worsen with ongoing winds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highway Safety Patrol
Sioux Army Depot
Aston Richardson
Sidney
Paul Mamey
Highway 325
Ford
Charles Campbell Jr
Denver
George Schrotberger
Grant
Campbell
Mel Busekist
Some Firms Close Friday To Save Gas In Sidney
A number of Sidney firms closed their doors Friday afternoon and evening due to the threatened loss of natural gas. Workers who stayed open wore sweaters and boots to cope with a 60 degree thermostat reading requested by the gas company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney
Year End Bank Statements To Be Published In Sidney Tele
Five Cheyenne County banks and the Sidney Federal Savings and Loan Association will publish their year end financial statements in Monday's Sidney Telegraph. The notices detail assets, liabilities, and earnings for the prior year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne County
Sidney Federal Savings and Loan Assa
Sidney Telegraph
Sidney Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting Tickets
Tickets for the Sidney Chamber of Commerce annual meeting must be picked up or reserved by January 15 at noon. Tickets cost one dollar for the smorgasbord dinner on Wednesday January 16 at 6 30 at the Ft Sidney Motor Hotel. Members are urged to bring wives. A 250 ticket limit applies. Agenda includes a 1962 progress review and 1963 plans discussion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney Chamber of Commerce
Board of Directors
C of C
Ft. Sidney Motor Hotel
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U.S. Highway 30
Chappell
Big Springs
MA Achin
Dick” ‘Brown
Sero
State Ys
Carl Olson
Sen ‘Strict
Cheyenne
Board of Commissioners
Cecil Hunt
Sunol
First
William Smith Potter
Oil-Gas News
Forrest Chapman
Focal Cap
Kokjer
Club
Tom Kokjer
Sidney Country Club
LeBaron Goodwin
Carl Schmidt
James Thayer
Elmer Ladine
Dean Wilson
Kermit Moore
Ed Swanson
C. B. Dorwart
David Olinger
Hollis Peratt
L. A. (Whitey) Lindstrom
Telegraph
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