Sidney Council Approves 300000 Storm Sewer Bond
The Sidney city council approved a 300000 bond to fund storm drainage work including downtown and northside basins with bid opening set for August 26. They also authorized contracts for Verde Lane Dam earthwork and a street paving reevaluation, while approving a 24.8 percent gas rate increase and a 2 percent franchise fee for KN Gas.
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Sidney
Charles W Pierson
Forest
Pierson
Tad Dunham
Kirkpatrick Pettis Smith Pohan Inc
Dunham
del Koch
Lot Conservation Service
Verde Lane
Sidney Conservation Contractors
Kansas
Nebraska Natural Gas Co Authority
Nebraska Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Inch
P.O
11Th Avenue
Nebraska
Bell System strike begins by Communication workers
The Strike Begins. Communication workers of America walk out against the Bell System on Wednesday morning. Tom Clark is shown taking his turn as a picket in front of the Sidney Telephone Company.
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Communication Workers of America
Bell System
Tom Clark
Sidney Telephone Company
Heat Eases Slightly as Humidity Drops This Week
The weather remains hot with easing humidity reports from the FAA flight service station. Monday reached 90 degrees at the airport, Sidney and Low reported 60, with Tuesday varying 59 to 81 and 0.5 inch rainfall in the evening. By noon today, readings were 53 low and 74 high with 60 percent humidity.
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Federal Aviation Agency
Sidney
Mercury
Telephone Picketing Begins as CWA Strike Hits City
Sidney workers join 500000 Communications Workers of America on a one day into a multiweek strike. NW Bell uses supervisory staff from Omaha to handle operations as picketers march in front of the telephone building and warehouse on Fitch.
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Sidney Telephone
Communications Workers of America
RR Zich
Bell Telephone
Omaha
Telephone Company
Fitch
Zich
Sidney School Board Sets 1971-72 Budget With Levy Increase
The Sidney public schools approved a 1,353,385 budget for 1971-72, raising the mill levy to 65.5 from 61.6. The board added 13,500 for band uniforms from the cash reserve, and approved new hires, a $975 high school tuition, and roof/window projects with bids to DeVoe Company and Sidney Roofing.
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Sidney Public
Sidney Board of Education
Russell Pedersen
Sidney Superintendent of
St Patrick's
East Ward
Sidney Public School
Kathlen Kelley
University of Nebraska
South Ward
Betty Hardar
Pittsburg State College
Kansas
Lori Kopecky
University of Northern Colorado At
Greeley
Central
John Steinbach
Western Michigan State
Arcadia
Calif
DeVoe Company
Minneapolis
Sidney Roofing
Fire on Union Pacific flatcar in Sidney
Sidney fire crews extinguished a blaze on a lumber pile aboard a Union Pacific flatcar at 8 08 Tuesday evening. The cause of the fire remained under investigation Wednesday morning.
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Sidney
Union Pacific
County Banks See Record Deposits and Rising Loans
The June 30 Comptroller report shows Cheyenne County banks with deposits at a record $23,429,297 and total assets of $26,454,968, up 13.66 percent. Banks report gains in deposits and loans across American National Bank Sidney National Bank Potter State Bank Dalton State Bank and First State Bank Lodgepole, driven by cattle prices, agricultural and commercial growth, and increased savings.
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Cheyenne County
Jorgenson
American National Bank
Sidney
Sidney National Bank
Robert Conrad
The
Telegraph
Fred Enevoldson
Potter State Bank of
Potter
Don W Enevoldson
Potter State Bank
AC Peterson
First State Bank of
Lodgepole
Lyle Rabe
Dalton State Bank
Time Money
Potter State Bank of Potter
First State Bank
Sidney United Fund Budget Meeting Set for August 1
The annual budget meeting of the Sidney United Fund will be held Monday August 1 at 8 p.m. in the Avco Delta Finance Company office. All participating organizations must attend to present requests to the board for the 1971-72 cansl sign budgets. The board may approve all or part of any request.
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Sidney United Fund
Avco Delta Finance Company
Board of Directors
The
United Fund
Harvest Start Is Matter Of Days
Cheyenne County eyes a major winter wheat harvest as heat persists and humidity falls. Elevators report some samples and a Lodgepole load of Weyerts community wheat weighing 61 pounds with 13 percent moisture. 40,000 bushels moved through Chappell elevator amid 62-pound averages and 40 to 60 bushels per acre. protein near average.
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Cheyenne County
Lodgepole
Weyerts
H.W. Quinn
Chappell
Jim Ledbetter
Wheat Queen Suzanne Talich Makes Box Butte Visit
Nebraska Wheat Queen Suzanne Talich 18-year-old daughter of Lloyd and wife visits Box Butte after harvest start delays. She helps harvest near Sidney, photo taken with Vic Haaseld near Hemingford, chosen at Scottsbluff convention, to be crowned Nov 17 19 in Cheyenne.
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Nebraska
Suzanne Talich
Box Butte
Lloyd Talich
Sidney
Cheyenne County
Hemingford
Alliance
Nebraska Wheat Growers Association
Vic Haaseld
Trader Wheat
Scottsbluff
Cheyenne
Hitching Post Inn
Suzanne
National Wheat Growers Convention
Portland
Denver
Cosmopolitan Hotel
Ater
Red Raider
Sidney High School
Nebraska University
Lincoln
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Hansen
Fuenning Raetz
Erb
Jackson Street
13Th Avenue
24Th Avenue
King Street
10Th
1Th Avenues
King
Lee Spreker
Ike
CWA
NW _ Bell
Western Electric
At&t
Sidney School Board
Arnie Kuhn
Hemingford Ledger
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