Hotel bids run high for motor hotel in Sidney
Sidney Community Hotel Corporation opened bids for a revamped motor hotel plan. John A Wiebe Co of Omaha bid 293 660 for the hotel plus 2 000 for parking, with McNett Stanage to refine plans to 260 000. Several bidders followed, as the board seeks financing and reductions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Wiebe
Grand Island
McNett & Stanage
Wiche
City Auditorium
Wiebe
Fuller Construction Co
Scottsbluff
Carl W. Christ Construction Co
Sidney
Sidney Police Field Many Calls On Dogs
Five calls about dogs were received by Sidney Police during a two hour morning period. The incidents included two bitings one snapping and two reports of dogs running loose in violation of the city dog law.
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Sidney
Embarrassing Pursuit Ends With Gasoline Request
An East Gurney farmer recounts a Saturday night pursuit by a Nebraska Safety Patrolman that ended with the trooper arresting him in the farm yard and then asking to buy gasoline after running out of fuel. The odd finale left the man red faced but unharmed.
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East Gurney
Nebraska
Parole Violator Sentenced in Cheyenne County Court
Gerald Reinmuth, 23, received a sentence of 18 months to two years in the Nebraska Reformatory for Men after pleading guilty to breaking and entering an automobile and violating his parole by allegedly stealing clothing at the Sioux Ordnance Depot. Judge I. Nisley presided in North Platte.
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Nebraska Reformatory For Men
Gerald Reinmuth
Cheyenne County
Men's Chorus Meeting Tonight at Sidney Junior High
The Men's Chorus for 21 years and older meets this evening at 8 in the band room of Sidney Junior High School. Part of the adult recreation program, the chorus will be led by George Hinn and welcomes all who wish to join, with no singing experience needed.
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Sidney Junior High School
George Hinn
Hinn
Assessor Reports 36 Percent Of Taxpayers Under 200 In Cheyenne County
Cheyenne County Assessor Roy Gish says 2,002 households declare personal property under 200 while 3,575 report over 200. The county total valuation is 1,663,340 with Sidney contributing over half. Average schedule 465. Breakdowns show numerous towns and rural areas with varying totals and averages.
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Cheyenne County
Roy Gish
Gish
Sidney
Lodgepoole
Potter
Dalton
Gurley
Sod
Rural Land Survey Ends November First in Cheyenne County
By November 1 all rural real estate in Cheyenne County will be surveyed under the current reappraisal program. Justen Haynes Co of Denver will then check improvements and, after that, fieldmen will review equipment and inventories of every county business. Four townships have been surveyed and 25 lands reviewed for soil, use and productivity. Some improvements not on tax rolls are being found and some farmers pay taxes on improvements that no longer exist.
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Cheyenne County
Justen Haynes Co
Denver
Justen Haynes
Mrs Ledingham Rites Tomorrow
Funeral services for Helena Bell Ledingham 82 will be held at 10 am from First Methodist Church. Burial will follow in Kimball Cemetery beside husband Adam Ledingham who died in 1936. Survivors include daughter Myrtle son Ray Moore and a grandson and great grandson.
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First Methodist Church
Helena Bell Ledingham
9Th Ave
RL. Townsend
Kimball Cemetery
Adam Ledingham
Craig Mortuary
Helena Bell Moore
Woodstown
Ellis Moore
Ft. Collins
Colo
Fossil Creek
Franklin Moore
Ledinghams
Potter
Kimball
County budget talk and courthouse plans loom this afternoon
Cheyenne County commissioners prepare to discuss the coming fiscal year budget after the clerk failed to present a prepared estimate. A possible 1.4 mill levy could fund a courthouse wing, with options for a bond issue and a voters vote later if needed.
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Cheyenne County
Ike Pindell
Pindell
Hunt
Cecil Hunt
John A Blair Dies at 57 in Memorial Hospital
John A Blair 57 died early yesterday in Memorial Hospital. Services at SOD Community Church at 2 pm with burial in Greenwood Cemetery. Blair born March 8 1899 in North Bend Nebraska. Survived by wife Alice son Richard Milton daughter Wanda Elizabeth three sisters and one brother. Parent deaths prior.
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SOD Community
John A. Blair
Memorial Hospital
C Fred Parks
Greenwood Cemetery
Craig Mortuary
John A Blair
North Bend
Neb
William Blair
Gordon
Gordon High School
Edgemont
S. C
Lusk
Alice Follmer
Chadron
Crawford
Blair
Ft. Robinson
Sidney
Sioux Ordnance Depot
IOOF
Presbyterian Church
Alice
Richard Milton
Wanda Elizabeth
Anna Dibbie
Arlington, Wash
Elsie Ruffing
Phoenix
Ariz
Lola Dun
Weasel Wanders Through Sidney City Offices
Clerks in Sidney city offices were startled yesterday afternoon when a weasel wandered in through the front door, surveyed a few frightened workers, and slipped out the back door.
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Weasel
Sidney
City Bids For Air Carriers
Sidney plans to present its bid for airline service at a Civil Aeronautics Board hearing in Omaha as the Nebraska portion of the Seven States Case opens. The hearing covers cities including Beatrice Hastings Kearney McCook Imperial Sidney Grand Island North Platte Scottsbluff Alliance Chadron Ainsworth Norfolk and others. United opposes suspending Grand Island North Platte and Scotts Bluff service while supporting feeder links to other towns.
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Sidney
Civil Aeronautics Board
Omaha
Nebraska
Seven States
Ainsworth
Alliance
Béatrice
Chadron
Columbus
Scottsbluff
Grand Island
North Platte
Kearney
Imperial McCook
Norfolk
Murrey Fuller
Chamber of Commerce
Ralph Thompson
Denver
Rolland Hart
State Aeronautics Department
Lincoln
Harr
Beatrice
Hastings
McCook
Imperial
Hart
Braniff
United
Western
Examiner
Funeral Friday for Ira G Lund Sr in Sidney
Funeral services for Ira G Lund Sr 69 will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church Sidney with burial at Greenwood Cemetery. Lund a former Union Pacific rail district lineman died Monday in a North Platte hospital. He is survived by his wife Elizabeth and son Ira G Lund Jr. Pallbearers listed.
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Ira G. Lund Sr
North Platte
Henry Monnich
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
Greenwood Cemetery
Gehrig and Son Funeral Home
Ira Gene Lund
Oakland
Neb
Chris
Meta Lauritser Lund
Omaha
Sidney
Mr. Lund
Elizabeth Rose Herrick
Boulder
Colo
Marysville
Kaw
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church of
Elizabeth
Ira G. Lund Jr
Harry Ess
Frank Hengl
J. T. Corder
Frank Baker
John Moseman
Charles Wiecdeburg
Wheat Referendum Friday Shapes Cheyenne County Voting
Cheyenne County wheat farmers decide Friday on marketing controls and price supports in the national wheat growers referendum. Polls open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Sidney Dalton Potter and Lodgepole. A yes votes for quotas would keep a $2 per bushel support. no quotas drop to 50 percent of price and about $1.21 per bushel.
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Potter
Potter T
Cheyenne County
Sidney
Dalton
Lodgepole
Cheyenne
Nebraska
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North Table
Huntsman
Brownson
Federal Division of Agricultural
Panhandle
North Platte Valley
Frank McNett
McNett
Eastern Loan
Thompson
Uptegrove
Carl Olson
University of Nebraska State Museum
Draper
Rural Land Survey
Mrs. Ledingham
Ira Lund
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