Banking in Cheyenne County Up Over Year Ago
June 30 totals across five Cheyenne County banks show assets rising 11 percent from a year earlier, with loans up eight percent and deposits down from April. Figures reflect higher feedlot costs and harvest gearing, plus government Wheat payments influencing deposits. Local bank presidents cite inflation, farm income variability, and cattle financing as key factors shaping the year to year and April-to-June changes.
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Cheyenne County
Robert Conrad
Sidney National Bank
Tom Olson
Dalton State Bank
Fred Enevoldsen
Potter State Bank
E K Yanney
First State Bank
Lodgepole
American National Bank
Active Week in Nebraska Drilling Permits Reveals Growth
Nebraska oil activity expands with new production from Sundance Oil Co backed wells at Mintken Kimball County and Eckert Morrill County. The Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission approved 19 drilling permits, the busiest week of the year, including core tests in Furnas County to map the Dakota sand formation for potential large scale exploration.
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Nebraska
Sundance Oil Co
Mintken
Kimball County
Eckert
Morrill County
Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
Petroleum Management
Wichita
Kan
Furnas County
Dakota
Cheyenne County
Exeter Drilling and Exploration Co
Nelson
Larson
W Ferris
Red Willow County
Empire Drilling Co
Sioux County
Banner Drilling Co
Mountain Petroleum Ltd
Ken Nickerson
del Mar Petroleum Co
Banner Drilling
L. M. Grace, Jr
Casper, Wye
Petroleum Information
Grace
Dawes County
Sioux, Box Butte
Sheridan
W C. McBride, Inc
Shenandoah Oil Co
Kansas
Nebraska Natural Gas Co
Hastings
Anschutz Corp
Montana
Saskatchewan
Canada
K-N
P-I
Kansas Nebraska
Anschutz
Nebraska Oil and Gas
Continental Oil Co
Morgan and Weld
Colorado
Laramie
Wyoming
New Mexico
Rocky Mountain
P I
Test Lab Opens Here for Wheat Protein Study in Nebraska
A mobile Wheat Division and University of Nebraska Lincoln lab travels to Sidney and Hemingford for a pilot wheat protein test program. Lab director and technicians collect samples from fields and storage points, with results to farmers this fall and potential premium pricing at elevators.
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University of Nebraska Lincoln Department of Agriculture
George Volkmer
Linda A8
Owe Ee
Farmers Co-Op
Wheat
Nebraska Department of Agriculture
University of Nebraska Lincoln
Sidney
Hemingford
Fairbury
Ayr
McCook
Grant Rollie
Grant Rollie Rexroth, Sidney, Is Cooperating With Marx Koehnke
Nebraska Wheat Division
Paul Mattern
Rexroth
Panhandle
Koehnke
Kansas City
Grain Exchange
Frontier Urged to Expand Small-Plane Nebraska Service
Nebraska Aeronautics department urges Frontier Airlines to broaden Beech 99 service to Alliance Chadron and Sidney. Beech 99 reportedly lowers costs and improves scheduling versus Convair 580 with load factors of 44.3 in April and 51.1 in June. Director Nicolas Smeloff says the smaller planes fit midwest and western towns.
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Nebraska
Frontier
Alliance
Chadron
Sidney
Nicolas N Smeloff
Joe Smith Rides Again at Democratic Convention
Western Nebraskans heard a familiar name at the Democratic Convention early this morning as Joe Smith, the mythical Republican nominee from 1956, received one vote from the Nebraska delegation. Terry Carpenter, who nominated Joe in 1956, used the stunt to protest the Eisenhower Nixon victory. Carpenter later switched parties, but it was unclear if Joe’s Democratic pivot was recent.
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Nixon
Carpenter
Sidney Telegraph
Joe
Special Farm Edition Highlights Agriculture’s Rise in the West
The Sidney Telegraph presents a Western Outlook Special Farm Edition with lead by Jack H. Lowe praising soil preservation water management and thriving farmsteads. It notes farmer labor and examines agricultural mechanization a large Colorado land sale and the Nels Olson family in Cheyenne County irrigation.
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Western Outlook
Sidney Telegraph
Jack H. Lowe
Great American Desert
Colorado
Nels Olson
Cheyenne County
Sidney City Council Sets Special Meeting for District Improvements
The Sidney City Council schedules a Monday 7 30 p m session to discuss special improvement and repaving districts. City Manager John Baudek notes property owners may ask questions and council will authorize bids for districts 105 106 108 118 and 2 and 3 repaving districts and hire an engineer for district plans. Paving work targets 21st Ave Forrest to Elm, 2nd Ave Forrest to Elm, 19th Ave Film to Dodge and Dodge to Cedar, 18th Ave Elm to Dodge and Dodge to Cedar, 17th Ave Elm to Dodge, 7th Deborah to 6th Ave Burlington tracks, and Cedar St from Wit h to 20th Ave.
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John Baudek
21St Ave
Forrest
Elm St
19Th Ave
Film
Dodge St
Dodge
Cedar St
18Th Ave
Elm
7Th Ave
Deborah
6Th Ave
Burlington Tracks
Vith
20Th Ave
WNTC Seeks Registrations for Summer Quarter
Western Nebraska Technical College opens summer quarter registrations on July 24. Openings exist across most departments while heavy equipment technology has already begun, according to college officials.
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Western Nebraska Technical College
Wheat Production Expected To Drop In 1972
The Agriculture Department projects a five percent drop in wheat harvest from 1971 and a ten percent fall in corn acreage in 1972. Total planted crops reach 308 million acres, down three percent. Soybeans and cotton rise while wheat and feed grains face cutbacks.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
USDA
Carroll G Brunthaver
Soviet Union
Brunthaver
U.S
Nebraska crops: wheat near record, sorghum down
Government crop observers report winter wheat at 38 bushels per acre for Nebraska, yielding about 97.2 million bushels, the second highest since records began. Sorghum plantings drop 17 percent to 1.997 million acres while soybeans rise 16 percent to 754,009 acres. corn area also slightly down.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
U.S. Agriculture Department
Norm Bellar
State Federal Division of Agricultural Statistics
Bellar
Panhandle forecast shows cooler weekend with sun and slight rain chances
Partly cloudy and cooler this afternoon and tonight with fair conditions Saturday. Northwesterly winds 5 to 10 mph, highs mid 80s, lows in 50s, Saturday high in low 80s. Chance of precipitation 10 percent this afternoon, 5 percent tonight, near zero Saturday. Extended outlook for Nebraska Sunday to Tuesday: scattered showers, highs near 90, lows mid 50s to mid 60s, southeast Monday, east and west Tuesday.
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Panhandle
Nebraska
Frontier Airlines
Siffring Joins RC&D Office
Don Siffring, extension community resource specialist with the University of Nebraska, begins immediately as a community resource development specialist for Panhandle RC&D. He aids the RC&D Executive Board by fostering interest and leadership among participating groups.
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Panhandle
Rc&d
I W Fobair
Don Siffring
University of Nebraska
Scotts Bluff
Siffring
Exon backs payroll deductions for NAPE
An aide to Governor Exon says the governor supports payroll deductions at four state colleges for workers joining the Nebraska Association of Public Employees. Exon faces criticism from Sen Gerald Stromer, who argues deductions are already permitted for state agency workers.
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Stromer
Exon
Norman Otto Otto
Otto
Warner Re-Drawing School Aid Plans
State Sen Jerome Warner chairs a study panel on state aid to education and aims to unveil a proposal by fall for the 1973 Legislature. He seeks hearings across Nebraska on equal education, property tax relief, and the plan’s funding, with potential multiple bills from the panel.
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Lincoln
Jerome Warner
Waverly
Exon
Norman Otto
Warner
Archbishop Bergan Dies in Omaha Hospital
Retired Archbishop Gerald Bergan died Wednesday evening at Archbishop Bergan Mercy Hospital in Omaha. He was 0 and had been in critical condition since Sunday. Death attributed to arterial sclerotic heart disease and congested heart failure. he retired in 1960.
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Omaha
Gerald Bergan
Archbishop Bergan
Archbishop Bergan-Mercy
A_ hospital
Bergan
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Sidney City Council
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