Panhandle Wheat Harvest Nears Weekend Completion
Elevators report most of Cheyenne County 230000 acre wheat crop in the bin by Monday with weekend work weather permitting. Harvest advances across Devel and Banner counties with yields mostly 25 to 40 bushels per acre and test weights around 60 pounds.
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Cheyenne County
Devel County
Potter
Panhandle
Kimball
Don Hoffman
Farmers Co-op Grain Co
Sidney
Jim Ledbetter
Co-op
Chappell
Dick Smith
Lodgepole
John C DeMers
Sunol
DeMers
Don Moench
Wright-Lorenzo
Banner County
Lorenzo
Tom Birth
Peavy Co
Peetz
Dan Matthews
Kimball County
Chadron
Carl Peterson
Dawes County
South Dakota
Peterson
Gordon
Nebraska Fresh Air In Box Says It Freshens Socks
La Verne Pfeifer of Columbus Neb has refined a box named Nebraska Fresh Air priced at five dollars. The kit includes a blue box farm scene, a rainbow handle, a corked bottle, and a 96 page illustrated manual. Pfeifer plans Omaha shelves within two weeks and aims to sell at least 50 000 kits.
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Omaha
Pet Rocks
Nebraska
la Verne
Pfeifer
Columbus
Neb
Narrows Dam funding boosted by Ford energy bill
President Ford signed a broad energy and public works bill boosting the Narrows Dam near Fort Morgan with 3.995 million of the total 14 million in project funds. The dam would store water for irrigation, flood control and recreation, affecting about 44 000 acres with substantial land acquisition and railroad relocation. Supporters cite multi million dollar annual benefits and decades of study, while opposition includes local landowners and environmentalists.
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Fort Morgan
Narrows
South Platte River
Here
Gerald Ford
Conservancy Districts
Bureau of Reclamation
South Platte
Colorado
Oliver Dam studies continue near Kimball
The Kimball Save-the-Lake fund has grown to over 111 thousand dollars as Lincoln firm Hoskins-Western-Sonderegger drills for lake bed samples. Engineers report no insurmountable design problems yet but warn costs may rise from initial NRC estimates.
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South Platte Natural Resources District
Ae Resources Commission
NRC
Mattoon joins Lincoln law firm after Nebraska law degree
Sidney native Steve Mattoon 24 has joined the firm Martin Mattoon and Matzke in Lincoln. A 1969 Sidney High School and 1973 NU political science graduate, he passed the Nebraska bar. His father Frank is a partner, with Paul Martin and Gerald Matzke. Mattoon is married to Catherine an IRS auditor.
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Sidney
Steve Mattoon
Martin, Mattoon
Carter Returns to Georgia to Map White House Campaign
Democratic nominees Jimmy Carter and Mondale closed the 1976 convention with harmony and a plan to pursue a national campaign from Plains Georgia and Atlanta. Carter outlined goals including jobs for all, universal voter registration, a national health program, and an end to discrimination while Mondale pressed accountability after Watergate.
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New York
Jimmy Carter
Georgia
White House
Carter
Len Walter F Mondale
Minnesota
America
Mondale
Ford
Richard Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Chappell Hopes For Doctor Couple Move
Dr Abbas S Yazdi visited Chappell with his physician wife to discuss locating there. Officials await word on whether the husband and wife team will relocate. Committee member Bob Leopold expects a report over the weekend or early next week.
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Chappell
Abbas S Yazdi
New President Arrives This Saturday at WNTC Sidney
Dr Charles Michael, named president of Western Nebraska Technical College, is due to arrive Saturday in Sidney. He plans to start duties immediately though the contract begins August 1. The Michael family will live on campus with their two teenage children.
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Carter
Jimmy Carter
Ford
Ronald Reagan
Mondale
Martin Luther King
Amenea
Plains
Len Mondale
Western Nebraska Technical College At
Sidney
Charles Michael
Michael
WNTC
Gracie
Nebraska delegate votes Mondale VP nomination
The Nebraska delegation cast the decisive votes for Walter Mondale as the Democratic VP nominee. A lone delegate, Don Geis of Lincoln, cast a protest ballot for Josephine ERA Smith, sister of Joe Smith, mirroring a 1956 GOP gesture by former State Sen Terry Carpenter.
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New York
Nebraska
Minnesota
Walter Mondale
Josephine Era Smith
Don Geis
Lincoln
Joe Smith
Terry Carpenter
Payne to Manage Platte Valley Federal in Gering
James Payne executive vice president of Sidney Federal Savings and Loan says he accepted the Platte Valley Federal Savings and Loan manager post in Gering. He will start July 27 on a consultant basis and later announce full-time duties, replacing Bill Coleman. Payne has led Sidney Federal for 10 years, previously worked at Majestic Savings and Loan in Denver, and holds CPA and insurance licenses.
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James Payne
Sidney Federal Savings and Loan
Platte Valley Federal Savings and Loan
Gering Payne
Sidney
Payne
Platte Valley Federal
Bill Coleman
Sidney Federal
Majestic Savings and Loan
Denver
Cole Payne
Chadron
Gering
Scottsbluff
10Th Ave
King St
Kimball
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Mars
Glenn Geiger
Sidney Telegraph
Gurley
Lee Foster
Farmers Union Coop Elevator
Laurence Miller
Dalton Co-op
ASCS
Milo Sandberg
Lower
Weldona Group
Congress
Richard Lamm
Don Hamil
Sterling
Lower South Platte
Oliver Dam
Thomssen
South Platte Nrd
Oliver Lake
Kimball Irrigation District
South Srate Natural Resources District
U.S, 30
Mattoon
Atlanta
Washington
Democratic National Committee
Chappell Waits
Joe's
Gary
Jimmy Curtis
Allan Curtis
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