Western Nebraska oil boom expands with new wildcats
Nine new drilling locations announced in western Nebraska initiate three wildcats and two field wells in Cheyenne Banner Kimball and Scotts Bluff counties. Notable finds include Kimball No. 1 Luassen and Banner No. 1 Olsen, with multiple field and sand producers across Keefer and Singleton areas.
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Nebraska
Chéyenne County
Scotts Bluff
Shell Oil
Ewing
Banner County
Enbrook Oil and Gas, Co
Olaon
Kimball County
Wildcat
Glen Perkins, Oil, ‘Inc
South Potter
Love-Miller Drilling Co
Nelson
van Pelt
Cheyenne County
Tomberlin
Beyer
Sioux Ordnance Depot
HLM Drilling ‘Co
Petroleum Inc
Sun Ray-Mid Continent
Cizek
Sidney
Dow
McHigi
Lyngholm
Cheyenne
Scotts’ Bluff
Shell Oil Co
Banker ‘Oil’ Co
Adams
Frakés
Newport 4
Skimball
Kimball
Gene* McDaniel
Luassen
Mike »Davis
J. A. Terteling
Kimball ‘County
Jas. J. Brown
Millard
Nene
Sunburst Petroleum Corp
Forsling
Sene
Keefer
Banner Banner County
Sinclair Oil and Gas
Singleton
Pan American Petroleum
Brinkerhoff
City Works Plan Aims to Boost Local Employment
Sidney considers a broad public works program including repaving districts 92 93 and 91 plus painting two water tanks. The projects hinge on petitions and local support, with some residents split over repaving and officials cautious about pushing the program.
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Sidney
Country Club Heights
Hide
Lodgepole Creek
Spruce Street
10Th
11Th Aves
Rose St
13Th Aves
Allo
Ike Asked to Call Wheat Plan Parley
House Agriculture Committee leaders urged President Eisenhower to convene a White House conference to tackle the wheat surplus problem. Secretary Benson said he would consider the idea but gave no commitment. The vetoed wheat bill would have reduced acreage by 25 percent and raised price support to $2.13 a bushel for 1960 and 1961.
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House Agriculture Committee
Eisenhower
White House
Ezra Taft Benson
Ohio Offers Five Dollar Acre Mineral Lease in Logan
The Ohio Oi Co paid five dollars per acre for an eighty acre mineral lease in Logan County Colorado. It ranked as the second highest bid at the July 1 state land lease sale in Denver. Quentin Mitchell offered five dollars and fifty cents per acre for a Weld County lease. Five tracts in Logan County encompassed twenty eight thousand nine hundred nine point seven three acres offered, with seven thousand four hundred eleven point twenty nine acres leased. The total bids amounted to three thousand eight hundred ten dollars.
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Ohio Oi Co
Logan County
Colo
Colorado State Board of Land Commissioners
Denver
Quentin Mitchell
Weld County
Kimball to Host Newsmen on Oil Field Tours
Kimball Nebraska dubbed the Oil Capital will welcome newspaper men August 8 through 9 for an oil field tour. The Nebraska Petroleum Council and Nebraska Oil and Gas Association organize flights for eastern journalists to view wells in drilling and completion and to learn about exploration and production. Local hosts plan a luncheon at the Kimball Country Club and an evening dinner to showcase the industry and its regional growth.
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Kimball
Nebraska
Nebraska Petroleum Council
Nebraska Oil and Gas Association
Kimball Businessmen
Kimball Country Club
Kimball Petroleum Council
Construction Firm Sues for 1297 in Cheyenne County
The Carl W. Christ Construction Co. sues William H. Davis in Cheyenne County District Court for 1297.48 for labor and materials provided between October 1, 1957 and February 4, 1958.
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Carl W. Christ Construction Co
Cheyenne County
William H. Davis
Austrian student Hermann Kastener visits Nebraska farm
Hermann Kastener a 19 year old Austrian architectural student on Rotary District 563 sponsorship visited Clark Fuller farm in western Nebraska. He observed irrigation and combines for the first time noted that farmers there use machines and cars though Austria lacks automobiles. He plans to tour Alliance Chadron Rushville and Valentine this July and attend inter city meetings with a Philippine guest joined Sidney Rotarians at a Monday meeting.
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Clark Fuller
Nebraska
Hermann Kastener
Technical Engineering University
Venna
Western Nebraska
Rotary District 563
Grand Island
Innsbruck
Austria
Hermann
Sidney
New York City
Fuller
U. S
New Orleans
Technical School
Alliance
Chadron
Rushville
Valentine
Sidney Rotarians
Hermann Kastner
Uller
Rotary Distict
Senate restores funds for Sidney to Pine Bluffs line
The Senate Appropriations Committee approved 277000 for a 60 mile transmission line from Pine Bluffs Wyoming to Sidney Nebraska. Nebraska and Colorado portions had been cut by the House, with senators noting it would ease western load and that Nebraskans should not pay for only part of the system.
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Senate Appropriations Committee
Pine Bluffs
Wyo
Sidney
Wheatbelt
Senate
Wyoming
State Line
Ham
House
Eisenhower
Ainsworth
Nebraska
Salt Creek
Gering
Mitchell Valley
Missouri River
Kenslers Bend
Neb
Sioux City
Iowa
Funeral rites set for Carl J. Hellwig in Sidney
Carl John Hellwig 82 died unexpectedly of a heart attack in Memorial Hospital. Funeral services are scheduled Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Craig Mortuary with Rev. G R Miller officiating. Cremation will follow in Denver and memorials may go to Memorial Hospital rest home addition. He was born March 17 1877 in Mecklen burg Germany and lived in Iowa South Dakota Nebraska and Colorado. Survivors include his wife two stepsons and several siblings.
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Craig Mortuary
Carl John Hellwig
Memorial Hospital
Cheyenne
G R. Miller
York, Neb
Denver
Greenwood Cemetery
Mecklenburg
Germany
Mr. Hellwig
Carl
Wilhelmina Johnke Hellwig
United States
van Horne
Iowa
Maron
S. D
Seneca
Hester Roach
Sidney
Hellwig
Union Pacific Railroad
First Christian Church
Frank Welch
Colorado Advances 45 Mile Route 138 Upgrade In Nebraska Border
Colorado announces a 45.3 mile Route 138 project across Sedgwick Logan Morgan and Washington counties aimed at widening and sealing with asphalt and adding a four foot shoulder. The bid marks the longest single Colorado Highway Commission project to date and targets improved flow for Western Nebraska travelers toward Denver and the mountains.
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Colorado Highway Commission
Sedgwick
Logan
Morgan
Washington
Colorado
Fort Morgan
Wiggins, Hudson
Denver
Gov. Brooks
Nebraska
Missouri River
Omaha
31 On 510 Mile Ride To Visit Sidney
Thirty one persons from the Diamond B C Guest Ranch at Pacific Junction Iowa travel 530 miles by horseback to Cheyenne Wyoming and will spend Wednesday night at the Saddle Club grounds in Sidney. The group is led by Mr and Mrs Bob McGowan ranch directors and includes 25 youths six adults and 27 horses with a chuck wagon pickup in the caravan.
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Pacific Junction
Iowa
Cheyenne
Wyo
Sidney
Saddle Club
Chamber of Commerce
Frontier Deys
Bob McGowan
Weather Forecast Shows Warm Weekend Ahead
The forecast calls for fair weather tonight with a low around 50. Saturday warms to 80 to 90 degrees with sunny skies and light winds.
Barbara Peterson Dies After Surgery in Los Angeles
Barbara Ruth Peterson 33 of Phoenix died yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital after heart surgery. Her parents A C Peterson Lodgepole and sister Mrs E K Yanney Lodgepole were with her. Funeral Monday 2:30 p.m. Lodgepole Methodist Church. Rev Merle Bartlett officiates. Burial Pleasant View Cemetery. Craig Mortuary handles arrangements.
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Barbara Ruth Peterson
Phoenix
A. C. Peterson
Lodgepole
Los Angeles
E. K. Yanney
Lodgepole Methodist Church
Merle Bartlett
Pleasant View Cemetery
Craig
Harvest Outlook Mixed as Grain Flows Slow and Pools Idle
In the Sidney region the harvest lags with many combines idle and little cutting underway. Counts show over 100 combines east of Sidney at dawn and dozens idle in Kimball Potter Dix Lodgepole and Chap pell with many workers awaiting jobs or field conditions. Yield samples range from fair to moderate with moisture high on some loads and early wheat tests around 60 pounds in several elevators.
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Lodgepole
Peetz
Chappell
Potter and Dix
Sidney
Francis R. Hiner
Kimball
Potter
Dix
Bot Castlemen
Rairly
Bob Woolman
Hiner
Warren Mettlen
Donnell
Denver
Smith
Suriol
Colton Grain
Colton
Bob Castleman
Padroni
Castleman
Lorenzo
Marvin Ketteler
Co-Op
Hod Theopelis
Point of Rocks
Kimball County Co- Op
Harvey Darnall
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Dilk Gas News
Panhandle
Ike
Ohio
Sidney-Pine Bluffs
Carl J. Hellwig
Barbara Peterson
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