New Heart Monitoring Cart Donated to Memorial Hospital
Memorial Hospital receives a new crash cart funded by a Kiwanis Club campaign offering cardio grams at five dollars. The project raised 3346 of 5489 dollars with gifts honoring numerous local residents and a donation from Mrs Mattie Bryan. Hospital administrator D L Hendee praises community support and thanks the Sidney Telegraph and KSID.
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Memorial Hospital
Sidney Kiwanis Club
R.W. Brown
Ralph Welch
Kiwanis Drive
John Platz
Kiwanis Club
D. L. Hendee
Telegraph
Sidney
Nebraska Nurses’ Association
Cheyenne County
Sidney Telegraph
KSID
Businessmen Plan Big 3 Day U P Centennial Celebration
Representatives from eleven organizations met to finalize a three day Union Pacific Centennial celebration in Sidney. The event features a Friday July 18 train display, a Thursday Friday and Saturday merchandising program, a street parade, dance, fiddlers and historical exhibits. The Prairie Schooners Square Dance Club will invite dancers from Nebraska and surrounding states for a large street dance. The event centers on Tenth Avenue between Illinois Street and the Union Pacific right of way. Kenneth Wickstrom of The Silver Dollar plans ten cent schooners of beer Friday afternoon to evoke bygone days.
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Chamber of Commerce
Union Pacific
U. P
Prairie Schooners
Nebraska
Utah
Sidney
Kenneth Wickstrom
Silver Dollar
Tenth Avenue
Illinois St
Patrol Chief Urges Caution for Fourth of July Weekend
Lincoln Nebraska State Patrol Superintendent James Kruger urges motorists to drive cautiously during the Fourth of July weekend. He notes the annual toll of deaths over the holiday, citing six deaths last year and ten in 1967, and urges people to take it easy stay alert and stay alive to make the holiday worth remembering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Nebraska State Patrol
James Kruger
Kruger
Package Weight Limit Raised for Major City Shipments
Public Law 89-593 enacted September 20, 1966 increases parcel post weights between larger cities to 40 pounds for shipments between first class post offices. Maximum package size stays at 72 inches combined length and width, while smaller and remote offices remain at 70 pounds with a 100 inch length and girth limit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postal Service
State says 3000 migrants idled in Nebraska
Nearly 3000 migrant workers and families are unemployed and stranded in Nebraska, mostly in the western region, as mechanization reduces farmhand jobs. They struggle to find year-round or cross-state harvest work, while relief efforts and legislation pressure shape the situation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
Nebraska
Touring Hours Change At Fort Sidney Commanders Home
The Fort Sidney Commanders Home has new touring hours from 2 to 7 p m daily replacing 1 30 to 4 30 p m. Four high school girls Misses Michelle Mines Cindy Jackson Pat Andersen and Callae Curless staff shifts to serve visitors. New items and original house articles are being added today as tours invite all citizens to visit Sidney heritage sites.
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Fort Sidney
Michelle Mines
Cindy Jackson
Pat Andersen
Callae Curless
Sidney
Ogallala Pilot Joins Sidney Air Service
Virgil Lehmkuhler, long time Ogallala Municipal Airport pilot with Trego Aviation, leaves for Overland Air Service in Sidney. He and wife Karen have two children, Lorna Sue and Ross. Karen is a registered nurse. They attend Berean Fundamental Church and Lehmkuhler has Army Reserve background.
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Ogallala
Virgil Lehmkuhler
Trego Aviation
Overland Air Service
Sidney
Lloyd Carr
Lehmkuhler
Karen
Lorna Sue
Ross
Army Reserve
Ogallala Optimist Service
Two Accidents Reported in Sidney Recently
Sidney Police logged two minor crashes over the past days with no charges. On Monday a car driven by Harry Wiand struck Gertrude Bruckner’s vehicle on 9th Avenue near Jackson and Illinois Streets, totaling about 90 dollars to the Wiand car and 15 to the Bruckner car. On Tuesday Rose Vizina backed from a 14th and Jackson parking place and hit Janis L. Gell’s car on Jackson Street, causing about 50 dollars damage to each vehicle.
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Sidney
Harry Wiand
Osage
9Th Avenue
Gertrude Bruckner
Jackson
Mlinois
Wiand
Bruckner
Aem
Rose Vizina
14Th and
Janis L. Gell
Jackson Street
No Paper Friday in Sidney Telegraph on July 4
This issue notes there will be no Sidney Telegraph published Friday July 4 due to holiday. Church notices and the TV page normally in Friday Paper appear today along with other news. office closes Friday and Saturday July 4 and 5.
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Sidney Telegraph
The
4-H Camp Is Successful Record Attendance 240
Cheyenne County Ki-Ba-Chy-Mo 4-H Camp for youths eight through 13 ended its three day run with a new attendance record of 240 participants. Of these, 200 were campers, 30 junior leaders, and 10 staff and volunteers. The event featured crafts, recreation, swimming, and socializing with youths from six counties. A possible dormitory site east of Legion Park received state health department praise and official approval, with plans for eight dormitories to follow.
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Cheyenne
Ivan Liljegren
Fairgrounds
Garden
Devel
Morrill
Kimball
Banner
Mary Ann Aaron
Otto Aufdengarten
Carl Kurz
Sidney High School
Marie Osborn
Lucille Fisher
Fred Jolly
State Department of Health
John Baudek
Legion Park
Wheat certificate payments boost Cheyenne County total past two million
The Agriculture Department sets 1969 domestic wheat certificates at 1.52 per bushel, 14 cents up from last year. About 800 million dollars will be paid to roughly 980,000 farmers at harvest, with Cheyenne County receipts exceeding 2.33 million dollars and county payments rising by over 200 thousand due to the 14 cent hike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agriculture Department
Cheyenne County
ASC
Panhandle Forecast Shows Warm, Mostly Partly Cloudy Skies
Partly cloudy with isolated thunder showers this afternoon tonight and Thursday. Continued warm with highs 85 to 95 and lows 55 to 65. Precipitation chances about 10 percent. Five day outlook predicts average temperatures 2 to 6 degrees below normal, turning cooler by week’s end with highs 80 to 90 and lows 45 to 55. Courtesy Scottsbluff Weather Bureau.
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Panhandle
Scottsbluff Weather Bureau
Street Work Scheduled in Sidney South of Country Club Drive
Street maintenance will begin next Monday in the Country Club Heights area with an armor coat planned south of Country Club Drive on Tuesday. Residents must park elsewhere Monday and stop watering lawns and dumping leaves during the project.
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Country Club Heights
Sidney
Country Club Drive
Sixteen Oil Sites Await Drilling Rigs in Nebraska
Petroleum Information reports sixteen Nebraska drilling locations as of June, with twelve wildcats. Counties listed include Dawes, Banner, Kimball, and Morrill, reflecting ongoing exploration and new field discoveries like the Wyatt No 1-6 in Banner County yielding 95 barrels per day.
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Nebraska
Petroleum Information
Arthur
Banner
Dawes
Holt
Kimball
Morrill
Red Willow
Scotts Bluff
Sioux
Sioux Counties
Northwest
Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
Tri-County
Sioux-Dawes
Box Butte
30 Day Forecast Says July Fourth Weekend Warm
The United States Weather Bureau maps the Southern Panhandle Nebraska on a weather borderline for the next thirty days. Most expect near normal temperatures and precipitation with hot 80s and 90s possible. The forecast calls for a warm pleasant Fourth of July weekend with possible afternoon or evening showers for outdoor plans.
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Panhandle
Nebraska
United States Weather Bureau
High Plains
ASC Manager Completes Management Development Course
Lawrence H. Thompson, manager of the Cheyenne County ASC Office, completed a management development course held June 2 to 13 at the Nebraska Center for Continuing Education in Lincoln. About 25 ASC personnel attended. University of Nebraska instructors led sessions on management functions, organizational environment, human behavior, and communications to improve ASC management effectiveness.
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Lawrence H. Thompson
Cheyenne County
ASC
Nebraska Center For Continuing Education
Lincoln
ASCS
University of Nebraska
Big Business Yet Farms Remain Nation’s Largest Sector
Despite only five percent of Americans being farmers, agriculture remains the country’s largest industry. The sector employs more people than the combined total of the steel auto utilities and transportation industries.
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U.S
Pope waives jury for Devel County bank murder trial
Convicted bank robber Duane Earl Pope of Roxbury Kansas relinquishes his right to trial by jury in four Devel County cases tied to the June 4 1965 Farmers State Bank robbery in Big Springs. District Judge John H Kins will decide if one or two judges will preside and set a summer trial date. The waiver notes Pope is aware of the jury right and states the decision is final regardless of the number of judges.
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Duane Earl Pope
Devey County
Farmers State Bank of
Big Springs
Devel County
Robert E. Richards
Telegraph
John H. Kins
Pope
Kuns
Mr. Richards
Kansan
Lincoln
U.S. Supreme Court
Devel County District Court
Nebraska
Robert B. Crosby
University of Nebraska Law
Wallace M. Rudolph
U.S
State Fire Marshal Joins Drive Against Illegal Fireworks
Lincoln Nebraska state fire marshal's office partners with federal authorities to curb illegal fireworks. Assistant State Fire Marshal Wallace M Barnett says cases of possession will be reported to allow tracking and prosecution of suppliers. Most illegal fireworks come from Missouri and South Dakota with Nebraska-based suppliers also possible. Federal law bans cherry bombs M-80s and silver salutes. Nebraska fines up to 100 dollars for possession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Nebraska
Wallace M. Barnett
Barnett
Missouri
South Dakota
NFO Meeting Moved Up To July Seventh
The Cheyenne County NFO will hold a regular meeting at the National Guard Armory on Monday July 7 at eight o clock to avoid a conflict with the wheat harvest now getting under way in parts of the Panhandle.
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Cheyenne County
NFO
Panhandle
National Guard
Sidney S&L reports 1969 midyear dividend of 99802
Sidney Federal Savings and Loan Association declared a semiannual dividend of 99802 to 1481 shareholders for the first six months of 1969. Manager James Payne noted 1968 total dividends were 160000, with earnings based on a 4.75 percent rate and a new certificate program. The payment for the last half is typically larger. The association, formed in 1899, has paid a dividend for 70 years straight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney Federal Savings and Loan Assa
James Payne
Payne
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John DeMers
A. J. Jorgenson
Charles Krueger
Walter French
Kenneth Mitchell
Edward Nelson
Morris Challburg
John A. Talich
Ed Brockelsby
James Livingston
Katherine Doran
Frank Morey
Anne Deaver
Lloyd L. Schmidt
Jason Lobb
Ike Pindell
William Mika
Mattie Bryan
U.P
Ft. Sidney Home
Ogallalan
US Weather Bureau
ESSA
S&l
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