Final Approval Set Tenite For Rest Home Add
Final approval of Memorial Hospital addition plans expected at a hospital board meeting. Howard Duncan of Scottsbluff, designer, will review plans with bidders likely to be invited later this month. The project uses about 36000 in Hill Burton funds, with total cost near 90000. Eight rooms add sixteen beds. possible pediatric facilities and restrained patient accommodations may be included.
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Memorial Hospital
Howard Duncan
Scottsbluff
Teo Bolin
Sid
Federal Health Department
Ure
Probry
Bolin
Hospital Building Committee
Duncan
State Harvest Moves Ahead Ten Days Despite Flood Delays
Government crop observers report Nebraska harvest progressing earlier than normal with more than 30 percent of wheat already gathered. Oats turned color for about three-fourths of acreage with 20 percent ripe. only 5 percent harvested. Dryland crops suffer from hot winds. corn rootworm damage widespread and borers serious in some areas. Beets beans potatoes progress well. dryland alfalfa and wild hay short due to low moisture. About 20 percent of the second alfalfa crop cut.
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Nebraska
State
Federal Division of Agriculture
City to Replace Obsolete Police Water and Electric Radios
About 3400 dollars in U S funds will aid Sidney in replacing old radio gear across the police water and electric departments. Total replacement cost runs around 7000 dollars with a hope Civil Defense may cover part. City Manager Tom Coffey and Police Chief Sol Willig traveled to Lincoln to seek funding. their hunch paid off.
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U.S. Civil Defense
Sidney
Civil Defense
Tom Coffey
Sol Willig
Lincoln
Holtorf Heads Western Nebraska Bar Association
Holtorf of Gering named president of the Western Nebraska Bar Association succeeding James A Lane of Ogallala. The 1964 convention will be held at Gering and Scottsbluff.
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Ogallala
Sidney School Board seeks vacating two streets for high school expansion
The Sidney School Board asked for the vacation of portions of King Street and 20th Avenue between Jackson and Linden to avoid legal issues as the high school addition proceeds. The action targets no through streets and the lands belong to the district. Fencing the athletic field awaits bids over the estimate. Superintendent Pedersen seeks a first grade teacher and a bus driver replacement for retirement at 70.
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Sidney
West
King St
20Th Ave
Jackson
Linden Sts
Russell Pedersen
Pedersen
Ralph Robertson
Mrs. Hardy Dies During Heart Surgery in California
Mrs. Arthur Hardy, 47, wife of Dr. Arthur Hardy and sister in law to Mr and Mrs Arthur Hardy Sr of Sidney, died at Menlo Park California Thursday during heart surgery after a period of failing health. Relatives traveled to Menlo Park for the funeral. Mrs. Hardy is survived by her husband a son and a daughter and was well known in Sidney after visiting here many times.
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Arthur Hardy
Arthur Hardy Sr
Sidney
Menlo Park
Calif
Sidney Barber Shop Moves to New Location
The Sidney Barber Shop opens at 943-10s Avenue after relocation. Owner Doug Earnhart plans a complete remodel and expansion including new chairs. Jo Web Fevers is noted as a barber in the new shop.
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Sidney Barber Shop
Sidney
Doug Earnhart
Earnhart
Jow Fevers
Oil Strikes Reported Near Gering and Scottsbluff
White Feather Petroleum reports a major oil strike south of Gering after testing the No 2 Groskopf well. The Banner Oil Co recovered 2285 feet of free oil with no water in a 30 foot pay zone in the J sand. Casing moved and drilling resumed. Samuel Gary reports a find in the No 1 Hickey by Regal Drilling. Drillers await log test results Friday for final report.
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Scottsbluff
White Feather Petroleum Inc
Denver
Gering
Robert_ ‘Thorpe
Banner Oil Co
White Feather Company
Thorpe
Samuel
Gary
Denver Independent
Regal Drilling Co
Zip Code Numbers urged for returning mail
Public notice stresses including ZIP codes on envelopes for frequent correspondents. It lists Sidney 69162 and nearby offices Gurley Dalton Sund Lodgepole Potter Chappell Kimball with their ZIPs. It advises printers to include ZIP codes on printed return addresses to help mail routing.
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Sidney
Gurley
Dalton
Sund
Lodgepole
Potter
Chappell
Kimball
Postofice
Fireworks At Potter and Dalton Light Up the Fourth
The Potter Volunteer Firemen sponsor a Point of Rocks display starting about 8 p.m. lasting an hour with $600 of fireworks. In Dalton, the Lions Club and Volunteer Fire Department present a Fourth of July program with baseball, picnics at 5, lemonade and ice cream, and a fireworks finale.
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Point of Rocks
Dalton
Potter
Daltons Lions Club
Sid ne High Band Faces Rough Start on Mexico Trip
Betty Knicely reports a troubled first day as Sidney High School Band travelers head from Sidney to Amarillo then onward to Mexico City for Independence Day events. Mechanical failures and bus troubles frame the journey, yet morale stays high amid jokes and optimism.
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Sidney
Mexico City
Sidney High School
Mexico
Betty Knicely
Sidney Telegraph News
Amarillo
Texas
Knicely
Telegraph
Eight Vehicle Wreck Injures Only One
A chain collision on U S 30 west of Ogallala involved eight vehicles from seven states with 23 persons aboard. One woman was hospitalized and a 10-year-old boy treated and released. the truck driver from Colorado claimed he could not stop and tried to swerve. Vehicles came from Idaho Pennsylvania Wyoming New York and South Dakota.
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Ogallala
Gene Morissey
U. S. 30
Morrisey
Larry T. Steimbecker
Greeley
Colo
Arline B. Striegel
Anderson
Calif
Bonnie E. Ellis
Empire
Ore
Steven
Ellis
Idaho
Pennsylvania
Wyoming
New York
South Dakota
Beet Growers To Get Money
The Great Western Sugar Co will pay beet growers 5,898,250 on July 8 as the second supplemental payment for the 1962 crop. In Colorado, Nebraska and Wheatland Wyoming the payment averages 1.60 per ton, Montana receives 1.65 and northern Wyoming 1.70 per ton. President Frank A. Kemp says the advance is based on expected favorable sugar sales and final accounting will occur after September 30. By July 8 growers will have received 56,079,000 for their 1962 beets, an average of 15.34 per ton, including Sugar Act payments restored to growers through the company tax.
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Denver
Great Western Sugar Co
Frank A. Kemp
Colorado-Nebraska- Wheatland
Wyo
Montana
Wyoming
Kemp
City Parking Lot Near Jackson Street Set for July Opening
The off street parking lot on Jackson Street between 10th and 11th Avenues will be usable by late month. A 2 inch asphalt surface will be installed with 41 meters offering two and five hour service. Two hour meters cost ten cents and five hour meters twenty five cents and accept nickels dimes or quarters. Delivery of meters is expected around July 20.
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Jackson St
10Th
Lth Aves
Law Officers Urge Caution On Fourth Toll Forecast
Nebraska Highway Safety Patrol warns drivers to be careful over the holiday weekend as troopers radar planes and heavy machinery share the roads. Sgt Mel Busekist urges common sense while national observers predict up to 650 traffic fatalities during the Fourth of July period.
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Mel Busekist
Nebraska Highway Safety Patrol
Busekist
Employment Offices Open Early As Harvest Hits Western Nebraska
Western Nebraska harvest shifts earlier with a rapid wheat cut across Deuel Cheyenne Kimball counties. Francis Hiner notes office openings in Kimball Chappell Sidney to place machines and workers, expecting a quick season despite spotty yields ranging three to forty bushels per acre.
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Great Plains
Nebraska
Francis Hiner
Deuel
Kimball
Banner
Cheyenne
Hiner
Dix
Chappell
Sidney
Cheyenne County
Kimball County
Jaycees To Sponsor Derby Next Year
Sidney Junior Chamber of Commerce members voted unanimously to sponsor the Soap Box Derby again next year. The derby was called a success and will become annual. Jerry Hile presided at the meeting in Yendis Cafe. A summer planning session will be held in South Sioux City in July 1921 with Hile, Jack Rebechek and Ned Swaeby attending. The local Derby winner will be featured in the parade at Scottsbluff this Saturday.
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Sidney
Harvest push runs ahead in West Nebraska despite hail
Harvest moves rapidly across Cheyenne County and nearby areas with 80 percent done in Chappell and about 40 percent in Lodgepole. Reports show yields from 10 to 30 bushels per acre with No 1 quality in early varieties as heat and dryness accelerate gathering before July.
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Cheyenne County
Chappell
Lodgenole
Lorenzo
Chester Phelps
Farmers Co-op Grain
Glenn Taylor
Taylor
Lodgepole
Smith Elevator
Farmers Co-op
SUNOL
John DeMers Jr
DeMers
Colton
Keith Deaver
Colton Grain
Deaver
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U.S
Holtorf
Deuel County Fairgrounds
Chappell Register
Bluffs
L. J. Darnall
Howard Kurs
Devel
Nebraska Panhandle
Southern
Panhandle
Dakotas
Jaycees
US Weather Bureau
U 3
Weather Bureau
U.S. Weather Bureau
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