Sidney Council approves paving districts for citywide improvements
The Sidney City Council authorized three paving districts and hired Kirkpatrick and Pettis as fiscal agents to plan public improvements including drainage, a Lodgepole Creek bridge, and curb and gutter work. Preliminary engineering by E Y Grupe will cost two thousand dollars, with final voter approval by residents for most projects.
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Pease
Virgil Knowles
Union Pacific
Union Pacific Railroad
Cty
Lodgepole Creek
13Th Avenue
Country Club Heights
Ilfth Avenue
Omaha
Kirkpatrick and Pettis
E. Y. Grupe
Scottsbluff
Knowles
Fvnich
Grape
Twentieth Avenue
Newton Street
Hickory Street
Ninth
Thirteenth Avenues
Twelfth Avenues
Hickory
Illinois
Ninth Avenue
Illinois Streets
Cheyenne County Wheat Yield Seen Between 4.5 and 5 Million Bushels
The 1952 Nebraska Panhandle wheat harvest expands as hot dry weather supports rapid picking. Cheyenne County may yield 4.5 to 5 million bushels at about 18 bushels per acre, despite hail and heat in the southern parts. Some areas report 25 to 53 bushels per acre, while storage and shipping strain increase as box cars are plentiful but elevators fill up.
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Nebraska Panhandle
Nebraska
Panhandle
Cheyenne Co
Telegraph
Cheyenne County
Cheyenne
Dalton
Potter
Colorado
Lodgepole
Lodgepole South
Goodview
Sunol — DeMers & Son
Sunol
Colton
Sidney
City Budget Approved For 1952 53 Tax Levy Details
City Council approves a 20.50 mill levy for 1952 53 totaling 152 540 in tax funds a 0 5 mill reduction from last year. General administration 16 mills 118 540 bonds and interest 4 5 mills 33 750 total operations 563 740 including electric water and sewer. Tax funds by department Airport 3 000 Auditorium 5 290 Cemetery 3 750 Fire Main tenance 7 500 Music and Amusement 2 025 General 53 550 Library 5 925 Park 7 500 Road 22 500 Street Lights 7 500. 1951 52 closed with cash balance and electric utility debt service fund 116 425.
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Wven
General Administration
Remodeling At O P Skaggs Store Brings New Look
Remodeling and rearranging work have been underway at the O P Skaggs store in Sidney this week. New self service coolers show cases frozen food compartments and meat display cases have been installed. A new entrance is being built to improve passage and accessibility. Manager Earl Sharman said the changes will speed shopping and create a more pleasant atmosphere.
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O. P. Skaggs
Sidney
Earl Sharman
Police Crack Down on Noisy Truckers in City
City police ordered to curb loud truck and car traffic through town on Highway No. 30. Targeting trans continental truckers and van drivers who rev engines as they near and pass through Sidney. With truck routes blocked by land issues with Union Pacific, officials seek slower, quieter streets and possible Hickory Street routing.
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Sidney
Hickory Street
Union Pacific Railroad
New House Opens In Sidney Housing Development
Antelope Construction opens a new one unit home in the Country Club Heights area on Highway 19. The model is open for inspection Saturday 1 pm to 10 pm and Sunday 9 am to 10 pm with Ole Olson Mel Adams and Dean Stettner on hand. Features include remote control wiring indirect lighting GE disposal and a kitchen exhaust fan.
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Sidney
Antelope Construction Company
Highway 19
Country Club Heights
Ralph L. “Ole” Olson
Melvin C. “Mel” Adams
Dean Stettner
General Electric
Platte Pipe Line completion hinged on end of steel strike
The Platte Pipe Line project to move 100000 barrels daily from the Rocky Mountain area to Wood River Illinois hinges on the end of the steel strike. Millard Neptune, Platte president, says when finished the line will relieve a bottleneck now limiting production in western Nebraska and northeastern Colorado, but current delays may push completion into November.
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Platte
Rocky Mountain
Sidney Telegraph
Millard K. Neptune
Platte Company
Neptune
Rocky Mountain Territory
Nebraska
Colorado
Wood River
Ill
Stanalind
Platte Line
Mr. Neptune
Worland
Wyo
Wyoming
Scottsbluff
Chey
Neubauer to Leave Sidney Federal Savings and Loan
Leslie Neubauer longtime secretary treasurer of The Sidney Federal Savings and Loan Association resigns effective August 1. He will be succeeded by Marius Christensen, vice president of The American National Bank who has also resigned from the bank.
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Leslie Neubauer
Sidney Federal Savings and Loan Association
Marius Christensen
Christensen
American National Bank
Association
Neubauer
Sidney
John Deere Announces New 2- and 3-Plow Tractors at Show
The Sidney Implement Co. will unveil two heavy-duty John Deere tractors models A and B replacements on Saturday July 19. E R Jimerson touts major engineering improvements and great value. One model will be on display with free coffee and doughnuts, door prize registration all day.
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John Deere
Sidney Implement Co
E. R. Jimerson
Sidney Implement Company
John Deer
Jimerson
Nebraska Wheat Harvest Progress and Panhandle Lag
Nebraska wheat harvest is about 75 percent complete while Cheyenne County trails at 35 percent. Rains delayed picking this week. finish expected next week, including extreme northern Nebraska. The 90 million bushel crop tops 1947 by seven million, with 23 bushels per acre average, harvest area 4.302 million acres, and hail blamed for 305 thousand acre shortfall. Substantial corn rain boosts prospects, with eight percent tasseled and harvest area around 7.08 million acres.
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Nebraska
Federal Division of Agricultural Statistics
Cheyenne
Panhandle
Gurley OKs Water Bonds for Village System
Village of Gurley voters approve 28000 negotiable water bonds in a unanimous election with 48 votes cast. Clerk Goldie Wolcott says bids will be opened July 25 and work on wells and pumps will begin soon after.
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Gurley
Goldie Wolcott
Attend National BPW Convention in Boston
Mrs. Elizabeth Schwasnick president of the Sidney BPW club and her daughter Mrs. Frances Davis joined a BPW train from Chicago to Boston for the National BPW convention. About 3000 women attended at the Statler Hotel with clubs from overseas. They later toured New York City Hyde Park West Point Niagara Falls and other sites.
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Elizabeth Schwasnick
Sidney Business and Professional Women’s Club
East
Boston
Mass
Frances Davis
Price
Utah
BPW Club
Chicago
Statler
Schwasnick
Davis
New York City
Hyde Park
West Point Military Academy
Niagara Falls
Vast Nebraska hailstorms leave crops damaged and roofs dented
Photographer Ralph Thompson captured footage of hailstones as large as hen eggs falling across Kimball County and Sidney Nebraska. The storms caused widespread damage to roofs windows and crops with wind gusts up to fifty two miles per hour and three inch hail in wheat fields.
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Ralph Thompson
Thompson
Sidney
Nebraska
Kimball
Kimball County
Potter
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Sidney Council
Country Club Drive
South Eleventh Avenue
Antelope Company
Ighis
Arrock Vision
Lees Yuody WY Se Eve
Gurley Ok’s Water Bonds
BPW
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