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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1959
Page
12
The Great Plains itinerant combining season arrives in Sidney causing crowded sidewalks and full parking, boosting business for restaurants, garages, and machinery houses. Visitors bring thousands of dollars in temporary activity as crews contract and move on within a week or so.
KIMB radio and the Western Nebraska Observer sponsor the Ice Melt contest. Ten tons of ice in 400 pound blocks were unloaded downtown Thursday with hundreds of dollars in prizes for guessing when the pile will fully melt. Deadline is 6 p.m. Saturday. entry blanks available at early firms. First prize: a 17 cubic foot home freezer.
City Manager Tom Coffey said Sidney is brighter as new street lighting replaces old blue bulbs. The heavy duty daylight bulbs provide more light, a more natural color, and about two percent longer life than the previous bulbs.
Wheat priced at 1.50 per bushel as reported by local elega o sources in the grain market note. Sidney Telegraph want ads note readers can satisfy their market needs.
A humorous AP feature offers ten tongue in cheek tips for motivating a husband to tackle home projects. It frames the man as a do it yourself expert and suggests rewards, storage, praise, and selective tasks to encourage ongoing home improvement.
Lincoln report says 58 year old Timothy Davis of Sidney had his license suspended today under the new implied consent law after failing to appear at a scheduled hearing. State Motor Vehicle Director A. Scissors suspended the license following Davis’s refusal to take a chemical sobriety test after a June 20 arrest.
A bus carrying seven children from Sioux Ordnance Depot returning from the Sidney swimming pool avoided injuries after a minor crash at the SOD turnoff on US 30. Donald D. Uappard of Sidney drove the bus and collided with Joyce M. Noxon of Sioux Ordnance Depot as she approached a stop sign. Noxon and the bus driver were uninjured. damage was estimated at 250 dollars to the Noxon car and 50 dollars to the bus.
Chappel reports another cut to city debt with $20,000 retired from combined electric and water revenue bonds not due until 1960. Savings on operating costs and faster receipts enabled the early paydown, leaving $10,000 still due in 1961 and 1962 from the original $210,000 loan tied to engine purchase and remodeling in 1950. The United Nations urged a worldwide minimum marriage age of 14 for both sexes.
A 48-year-old North Platte railroad worker named Grady Deen was struck by a light heart attack while in Sidney on Thursday. He was rushed to Memorial Hospital by ambulance and listed in satisfactory condition on Friday.
The administration plans to renew and expand the soil bank conservation reserve by renting land from farmers to curb surplus production. Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Aylean predicted Congress would not approve. The land retirement contracts expire after the 1960 season, and Dirksen introduced a three year extension proposal through 1953 with a $500 million annual ceiling.
Lawrence James Kelly of Scottsbluff, son of C L Kelley and Mrs. C L Kelley, has been awarded a $600 March of Dimes scholarship for rehabilitation studies at Creighton University Omaha. The fellowship aims to spur medical students toward rehabilitation careers. Both parents are former Sidney residents. mother Ida Portrey is noted, and the father was a public service bank employee.
Yale hockey goalie Gerry Jones who has starred for three seasons at Yale University receives the William Neely Mas tery award as the school’s top athlete recognizing his standout play and leadership for the program.
A description notes veal as a fine grade with soft red bones and fat mainly on the outer surface. The flesh is lean with little intramuscular fat and a light color.
A national test shows average monthly heating and cooling costs for a 1230 square foot home range from 8.44 in the South to 14.60 in the North with potential 20 to 50 percent savings over FHA minimums. The piece surveys bronze uses in home products, lawn mower rental during vacations, an automatic insecticide dispenser, do it yourself railings and accessories, portable electric tools, and new home aging myths plus the rise of a five to ten phone intercom system. Michigan hunting laws mention a slingshot license.
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