Confidence in Lodgepole's Future Through $400 000 Building Boom
Lodgepole residents and businessmen push a $400 000 construction surge aimed at stabilizing the town's future. Projects include a $230 000 high school with new classrooms and gym, $73 000 grain storage structures at the co op and Smith elevator, and a $20 000 remodeling of First State Bank. Leaders credit railroad and highway 30 for location, bank loans fueling growth, and community support sustaining civic and youth initiatives.
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U. S
Lodgepole
Lodgepole Farmers Co-Op
Smith Elevator
First State Bank of Lodgepole
A. C. Peterson
First State
Bank of
E. K. Yanney
Hart Duinn
Farmers Co-Op
First State Bank of
A. C
Andy” Peterson
Telegraph
Peru Wheat Tour Group Arrives in Texas
Six Peruvian men arrive in Texas for an agricultural tour of the Great Plains sponsored by the Great Plains Wheat Market Development Assn and partner states. They will visit wheat fields farms port facilities mills bakeries colleges and research centers while touring stops across Kansas Nebraska Wyoming Colorado and beyond. Their aim is to promote hard red winter wheat in foreign markets and strengthen U S Peru agricultural cooperation.
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Petur
Texas
Sweek
Great’ Plains
Great Plains
Colorado
Kansas
Nebraska
Miguel Srasic
Miller
Jorge
Bellido Eapingza
Peruvian “Agriculture Bank
Angel
Hernando
Corveto
The
Bakers' ‘Association Linea
Fernendo
Reyec Peliti
Ato
Bakers Association of Callao
Armando Ca Fanilias Olaechea
Bakers, Labor Union
Alfonso Quevedo
Diaz
la Molina
Wichita
Hutchinson
Salina
Manhattan
Zrays
Kan
Experiment Station
Francis
Kais
Ray
Brush
Cole
Sidney
American Institute of Baking
Washington, D. C
Usda Foreign Agriculture Service
Washington, D.C
Peru
UL .S
Department of “Agriculture
Foreign’ Agriculture.Service
Seeing Is Believing at the Bank
Five year old Bruce Livoni walked into The American National Bank on Saturday morning and asked to see his two dollars in a savings account. Bank President Don Jorgenson asked if he wished to withdraw. the boy replied no, he just wanted to see it. Jorgenson then showed him a vault stack of silver dollars. the lad left with his father and executive vice president George Barlow quipped that the kid sounds like a bank examiner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bruce Livoni
American National Bank
Don Jorgenson
Bruce
Hail Study Stopped Over Funding Shortage
The hail suppression study in northeast Colorado, launched in May by CSU assistant research engineer Dr. Richard A. Schleusener, is halted after about two months due to the Colorado Water Conservation board refusing to provide funds. Assistants at CSU were aiding the project.
Hail and wind devastate east of Dalton and south of Sunol
A severe hail wind storm struck about 10 miles east of Dalton and south of Sunol along the Nebraska Colorado border Sunday evening. It caused extensive wheat destruction with some fields 100 percent ruined. Rain and hail delayed harvesting across the county while elevators reported mixed receipts. Farmers face ongoing cuts as weather cooperates.
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Dalton
Sunol
Nebraska-Colorado
Sidney
Farmers Co-Op
Denver
Melvin Rokes
Mr. Kokes
Frank
John Hornicek
Kokes Place
Colorado
Tice
Harold Bruner
Henry Schuler
Willis Beyer
Bill Warren
Allen Stikker
Harold Bruners
Colorado Line
Lorenzo and
Peetz
Potter
Potter Co-Op Grain Co
Point of Rocks
Oil Leases Fetch Big Sums At Nebraska Auction
Nebraska state lands brought in 37372 dollars from oil and gas leases on 23755 acres sold to seven buyers. Thomas D Christopher paid 3200 dollars for a 640 acre Cheyenne County lease at 5 50 per acre eight miles east and north of Sidney. The largest buyer was Fed A Glassco of Wichita who acquired 10257 acres in Chase Dundy and Hayes Counties for 11678 dollars.
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Thomas D. Christopher
Denver
Nebraska
Sidney
Mr. Christopher
Lincoln
State Board of Educational Lands and Funds
Emlert Mahlin
Cheyenne County
Sioux County
Chase County
Mahlin
Fed A. Glassco
Wichita
Kan
Chase, Dundy
Hayes
Pubco Petroleum Corp
Albuquerque
N M
Chase
Dundy
W. C. McBride, Inc
Hayes County
Tennessee Gas Transmission Co
Houston
Tex
Northern Natural Gas Producing Co
Omaha
Hitchcock
C. S. McGhee
Girl Recovering From Leg Injury
A ten year old Sidney girl is recovering satisfactorily at Memorial Hospital from a severe leg wound sustained in a bicycle mishap Saturday morning. Judy Lea Hartshorn fell turning at a street intersection when the pedal shaft pierced her leg above the knee. The pedal bolt passed through the leg, and rescue workers called a physician and anesthetist to remove it.
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Sidney
Memorial Hospital
Judy Lea Hartshorn
Lavonne D. Hartshorn
Sidney Fire Department
Weather outlook clears tonight into Tuesday with showers
The forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy skies tonight and Tuesday with scattered thunder showers tonight and Tuesday after noon. Lows near 55 to 60 and highs from 85 to 95.
Gary White Earns Eagle Scout Award Second Daltonite
Gary White son of Mr and Mrs Ira White of Dalton became the second Dalton Boy Scout to earn the Eagle Scout Award. He received the badge from Scoutmaster Kenwood Andersen during a court of honor at the high school auditorium. Lloyd Graff of Dalton was the first from the area to reach this rank nine years earlier in 1950.
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Gary White
Ira White
Dalton
Kenwood Andersen
Lloyd Graff
Troop 92
Calvin Delcamp
Gayland Bode
Richard Hutzenbiler
James Delcamp
Tom Lindsey
John Paris
Danny Lopez
Bridgeport
Court of Honor
E. K. Yanney
Lodgepole
Doyle Foland
Sidney
Max Gentry
Gering
Roy Ziegler
Andersen
Japanese Ag Expert To Tour Farms Here
A dinner for Japanese agricultural official Tokoro will be hosted by Cheyenne County Wheat Growers Association directors at Fort Sidney Motor Hotel Wednesday evening. He will tour Cheyenne County farms and farm homes Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Sidney Motor Hotel
Cheyenne County
Elm Creek Driver Fined for Drunken Driving
Carl Q Larson, 39, of Elm Creek Neb was fined 100 and costs in Cheyenne County court on a drunken driving charge. Larson also had his driving license suspended for six months by Judge C W Smith.
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Carl Q Larson
Elm Creek
Neb
Cheyenne
Larson
C. W. Smith
Grain market price for wheat at local elevator
Local elevator sources quoted wheat at 158 dollars per bushel. The report notes the current price level as part of daily market data.
State's 59 Wheat Forecast Trimmed by 11 Million
Nebraska agricultural statistics slashed its July 1 wheat forecast by 11 million bushels to 77.42 million, with 24 percent yield at 27 bushels per acre. Hail and wind boosted losses in several districts after a prior 88 million bushel estimate.
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Nebraska
Federal Division of Agricultural Statistics
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Smith
Paul Smith
Lloyd's
Lodgepole Nebraskan
W. F. Greenlee
Oshkosh
E. K. Yanngy
Art Parrish
Harlan Sleeper
Mason City
Iowa
Hart Quinn
Sidney Area
Barney Barnhart
Dick Kahis
Glenn Dickenson
H. H. Misegadis
Daltonite
Thompson
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