Harvest Quality Buoys Cheyenne County Wheat Progress
Frigid spell slows harvest in Cheyenne County with clouded fields delaying cutting yet elevator reports praise quality. Dalton and Sidney concentrate activity as crews and machines surge, testing samples amid hail relief and steady moisture. Weights run 50 to 64 pounds, yields projected 10 to 40 bushels per acre, with some fields near 58 to 61 pounds and good quality despite prior damage.
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Cheyenne County
Dalton
Nebraska State Employment Service
Sidney
Chappell
Deuel
Lodgepole
Carl Uhlmschneider
Orville Kastens
Phil Quinn
Jessen
Hot Dry Weather May Have Halted Black Stem Rust
June’s hot dry spell may have spared Nebraska wheat from heavy black stem rust damage. Extension Plant Pathologist John L Weihing notes moisture would have allowed infection, but the winds and heat killed many infected leaves. A few green leaves bore pustules, and officials say losses could have been far worse if conditions persisted.
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Nebraska
John L. Weihing
University of Nebraska
Oklahoma
Kansas
Weshing
Fifty Degrees Swing in Mercury Across Nebraska Panhandle
Western Nebraska saw a fifty degree temperature swing over the weekend with a Saturday high near ninety six and a Monday reading of forty seven. Overcast skies, rain, wind, and sleet were reported across the Nebraska Panhandle as harvest crews awaited better weather and old timers recalled a rare July snow in Sidney.
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Nebraska
Nebraska Panhandle
Sidney
Grain Test Set Friday Open House at Test Plots
Cheyenne County holds an open house Friday July 11 at 2 PM and 6 45 PM to inspect variety and fertilizer plots at the Arnold Westerhoff farm near Dalton and at the Frank Beyer farm near Gurley. The event includes 42 farmer samples and observed rye content and maturity with experts J C Swinbank Bill Ringler and John Weihing from the college assisting.
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Cheyenne County
Cheyenne
Ivan Liljegren
Liljegren
Arnold Westerhoff
Dalton
Frank Beyer
Gurley
Brownson Viaduct
Lee Hawkins
Peetz
J.C. Swinbank
Nebraska Grain Improvement Association
Bill Ringler
College of Agriculture
John Weihing
College
Most Wheat Will Be Placed Under Loans
The western Nebraska wheat crop is likely to go under federal loan this year as farmers expect to secure a higher loan price. Cheyenne County's loan figure is $2.15, while market prices have ranged from $1.84 to $1.87.
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Nebraska
Cheyenne County
Weather Brings Mixed Wheat Prospects in Logan County
A Colorado update notes a sizzling June with scattered July rains. Wheat harvests in Logan County test 55 to 60 pounds per bushel, with 58 to 60 common and moisture under 12 percent. Hail hurts yields in Peetz and surrounding areas, while Willard and Fleming report 10 to 30 bushels per acre and 60+ pound grain. Crook elevator records 20 to 35 bushels per acre, mostly above 60 pounds.
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Logan County
Colo
Peetz
Padroni
Proctor
Fleming
Roy Wisdom
Willard
Crook
School Lease Auctions Set August 5
Twelve more tracts of school land will be auctioned in August as part of a state program to lease lands to the highest bidders. Cheyenne County sales are slated for August 5 and 6 at 9:30 and 1:30 at the County Treasurer’s office, with descriptions, leaseholders, appraised values, and semi annual rents for each tract listed. Finalization requires Board of Educational Lands and Funds approval. past sales drew large crowds moved to the city auditorium.
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Cheyenne County
Board of Educational Lands and Funds
Elmer Fulton
S. F. Irwin
William Gade
John Treinen
Ivan Walker
Susan Brauer
Theodore Brauer
Henry Elsen
Jason Lobb
Herbert Hruska
Verne Ankeny
Court House
City Auditorium
Panhandle Paint and Glass Co. to Open in Sidney
The Panhandle Paint and Glass Co. at 1017 Illinois Street announces its grand opening in The Telegraph. Co-owners Dan Duncan and Glen Liebken say the business has operated since mid June. Door prizes, flowers, cigars, and bubble gum will be given.
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Panhandle Paint and Glass Co
Illinois Street
The
Telegraph
Dan Duncan
Glen Liebken
Sidney
Former Resident Dora Keith Dies in Canby Crash
Dora Keith 45 a former Potter and Ordville resident was killed in an auto train collision near Canby Oregon on June 11. She worked nights at Woodburn Birdseye Cannery and was with two women injured. funeral at Canby Funeral Home, burial Zion Memorial Park. Survived by widower Ora and nine children plus siblings and many grandchildren.
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Dora Keith
Potter
Ordville
Canby
Oregon
Keith
Woodburn Birdseye Cannery
Canby Funeral Home
Zion Memorial Park
D. D. Priest
Arthur Ratzlaff
Dorothy
Salem
Ore
David Funderbugh
Lucille
Molalla
Jasper
Ropeville
Texas
Edward
U. S. Army
Korea
Arthur
Canby High School
Shirley Weber
Grace
Marvin
Church Blaze Messy Fire at Foursquare Church
Fire completely gutted the interior of the Foursquare Church at 16th and Elm on July Fourth after smoldering most of the day. Pastor Donald C. Adams was away in Ogallala. Neighbors spotted the flames around 4:30 p.m. and firefighters prevented collapse, but heavy damage and a burned roof section remained.
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16Th and
Elm
Sidney
I. B. Downs
Donald C. Adams
Downs
Adams
Ogallala
Illinois Street
Missing Gun Case Leaves Questions in Kimball County
Sheriff Bob Sandridge says the Kimball County shooting investigation remains unsettled with little new information. The probe centers on ex California officer T. E. Thomas who says he was fired upon by two men in a car with California plates and claims bullets may have hit the vehicle. Thomas offered to take over the case, while authorities question why he carried a loaded gun without a permit. Thomas resides in Peetz Colorado and runs an oil field excavation business.
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Kimball County
Bob Sandridge
the Telegraph
Sandridge
T. E. Thomas
Ontario
Calif
California
Thomas
West Coast
Telegraph
Scottsbluff Star-Herald
Nebraska Safety Patrol
Leo Knudtson
Peetz
Colo
Fourth of July Safety Noted in Cheyenne County
Cheyenne County reported a safe Fourth with high traffic but no serious injuries or disasters. In Dalton a large celebration drew crowds with no major incidents. Nebraska Patrol logged two July 4 crashes: a Lincoln man and a Sidney woman in a Ford and Chrysler collision causing $1,100 in damage, and Dr. R J Bauman of Laramie’s Mercury rollover with back injuries and heavy car damage.
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Cheyenne County
Sol Willis
Sidney
Dalton
Nebraska Highway Safety Patrol
Cheyenne
Lodgepole
Ford
Ruby P. Gray
Lincoln
Chrysler
Marvin J. Green
Highway
R. J. Bauman
Laramie
Wyo
Borrow Pit
Bauman
Dalton Hospital
Dalton's Clothing Co Storewide Sale Announcement
Dalton's Clothing Co announces a storewide close out sale starting Wednesday. Mr Dalton circulates fifteen thousand advertising bills in the Sidney trade area and plans heavy newspaper lineage and radio time. A fifty five thousand dollar stock is included in the sale and a full page adcartisement in The Telegraph lists values.
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Dalton’s Clothing Co
Mrs. Lundberg Buried Monday
Services were held Monday afternoon for Leona Lundberg 37 who died Friday evening after a 15 month illness. Rev Hy Dorn conducted at St Paul's Lutheran with Greenwood Cemetery burial. She was born January 28 1915 in Ohio wa Nebraska and married Lloyd Lundberg June 17 1935 in Sidney. Survivors include her husband her mother two daughters and three sisters.
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Leona Lundberg
Hy. Dorn
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Greenwood Cemetery
Oregon Trail Days To Welcome Up To 20000 For 31st Reunion
Oregon Trail Days and Rodeo prepare to greet up to 20000 visitors for the 31st annual reunion on July 16 17 and 18. The RCA approved rodeo debuts this year with 2250 prize money and added entry fees. George Stichka Company will bring premier rodeo stock and Cecil Cornish will perform with Smokey six Palomino horses and the Golden Eagles. Clowns Tasker and Silvers Johnson will entertain and aid safety. A large parade Friday at 11 am features nine bands from Wyoming and Nebraska with prizes over 1000.
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Tering
Oregon Trail
Hershel C. Ellis
Oregon Trail Associaation
George Stichka Company
Gering
Cecil Cornish
Waukomis
Okla
Cornish
Smokey
Golden Eagles
Fred H. Walters
Hawk Springs
Wyo
Hemingford
Mitchell
Bayard
Scottsbluff and
Nebr
Police Seek Two Men In Tan Car After Robbery Near Sidney
A 49 year old harvest hand was robbed of 410 and beaten beside a roadside ditch west of Sidney Sunday night. He identified two strangers in a tan 1940 Plymouth with Oklahoma plates as attackers. The man described one as about 35, 5 6, 135 pounds and the other as about 19, 6 feet, 130 pounds. Authorities warn of a possible Oklahoma pair targeting harvest workers.
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Sidney
Dudley A. Marshall
C. H. Babbitt
Marshall
Plymouth
Oklahoma
North Platte
W. W. Schulz
Carl Braasch
Duane Claar
Vern Kalwitz
Ordville
Ordnance Depot
Julesburg
Colo
Springdale
Ark
Mason City
Iowa
Sol Willis
Point of Rocks
Highway No. 30
Schulz
Sterling
Willis
Deer Permit Applications Flow Slower in Lincoln
Lincoln reports shows 1952 deer hunting permit requests coming in at a slower pace than last year. The delay is blamed on the extended submission period. Applications are obtainable at county clerks offices district conservation officers and the Nebraska Game Commission in Lincoln. Applicants must indicate if applying for a doe or buck permit.
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Lincoln
Nebraska Games Commission
District Conservation Officers
Nebraska Game Commission
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United Nations
Panhandle
Mrs. Keith
Potter and Ordville
Foursquare
Genzano
Italy
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