New Cancer Project To Include Sidney
Sidney physicians join a National Cancer Institute program to study new diagnosis and treatment methods for acute lymphocytic leukemia Hodgkins disease and non Hodgkins lymphoma. Seven Nebraska towns participate with Children’s Hospital Denver as primary center over a three year project with a $2 million federal contract.
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Sidney
National Cancer Institute
Nebraska
Scottsbluff
Imperial
Ogallala
Hemingford
Henry
Sargent
Robert Hadsell
Children’s Hospital
Denver
Colo
Childrens Hospital
Charlene Houlten
Presbyterian Hospital
Colorado General Hospital
Childrens
Colorado
North Dakota
South Dakota
Idaho
Montana
Guatemala City
Guatemala
Safeplay Sales Rise and Officers Elected at Sidney Meeting
Safeplay Manufacturing reports 1973 sales of 301686 up from 194059 the year before with a forecast of 375000 to 400000 for the year ending June 30. The board elected Dr Carl Cornelius to a three year term and reappointed Cornelius as chairman while Spieker remained president and Mrs Spieker served as secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Safeplay Manufacturing Co
L. F. Spieker
Spieker
Safeplay
Carl Cornelius
Ed Bauman
Bob Decker
Richard Fix
Ruth Spieker
Arlo Jones
Cornelius
Bauman
Jones
Sidney
Police Look Into Two One Vehicle Accidents
Sidney Police investigated two one vehicle accidents over the past three days with no injuries or charges filed. A Case combine driven by Jim Lowe left the road while turning on Minois and struck a tree, no damage estimate reported. A 1968 Buick driven by Lyle Hanson tipped onto its side on Ith Avenue, causing $1,000 damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney
Case Combine
Minois
Jim Lowe
Combine
Lyle Hanson
Lth Avenue
Panhandle Weather Outlook with Showers and Mild Cooling
The forecast calls for Wednesday night increasing cloudiness and cooler conditions with a chance of showers. Lows near 60. Thursday showsward with morning showers and highs in the lower 80s. North to northeast winds 10 to 20 mph. Extended outlook: Friday and Saturday mostly fair, Sunday partly cloudy with west showers. Highs near 90, lows around 60 to mid 60s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle
Sidney Upland sign casings contract for annexation and utilities
City of Sidney and Upland Industries sign an agreement to build water and sewer casings under the I 80 roadbed for the Southeast Interchange. Upland will fund a $46 000 project to install casings preparing the site for utilities and future development including hotels and restaurants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gary Holley
Sidney
Holley
City of
Upland Industries
Upland
Union Pacific Railroad
Sidney Upland
Record Wheat Harvest Signals Strong Prices Ahead
Record harvest underway across Kansas Nebraska and Colorado with yields high and exports likely. Wheat price sits about 1.25 dollars above last year as growers argue two dollar futures are needed to break even amid rising costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Hendee
Ray Davis
Potter
National Association of Wheat Growers
Davis
Kansas
Colorado
Nebraska
United States
China
Russia
Japan
Wheatbelt OKs 449000 Loan for Expansion of Lines
Wheatbelt Public Power District received Rural Electrification Administration approval for a 449000 loan to finance about 49 miles of new distribution lines for 124 new customers, driven by irrigator demand for electricity. The project may also fund transmissions in Broadwater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheatbelt Public Power District
Rural Electrification Administration
Gene Lienemann
Wheatbelt
Nixon
Lienemann
Commissioners Approve Lawsuit Participation and Budget Actions
Cheyenne County Commissioners voted to join a Panhandle lawsuit challenging funding provisions of the Technical Community College Act. They set up a nine member planning panel, discussed juvenile prevention plans, reviewed budgets for the county attorney and bookmobile, and approved hiring a deputy attorney as population growth may raise prosecutions. They also relocated a county road and sold six Gurley lots, with further budget talks slated for Friday.
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Cheyenne County Commissioners
Panhandle
Technical Community College
Scotts Bluff
Jack Jones
Jones
Community Planning Commission
Regional Planning Council
Helen Lien
R W Brown
Don Tedesco
Sidney
West Gurley
Mary Ann Hakonson
Gurley
Emil Weyerts
State moves to dismiss dying vo tech lawsuit
Assistant AG Harold Mosier filed a motion to dismiss the Panhandle county suit from 1972 challenging the Technical Community College Act. Judge Fidler refused to hear it. Judge Kortum assigned. Indefinitely postponed, likely after Aug. 15. Panhandle counties dismissing and starting new suit naming Western Nebraska Technical Community College Board as sole defendant. The board meets at 7:30 p.m. at Sidney Junior High Library to discuss five voting districts and insurance programs.
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Panhandle County
Harold Mosier
Fidler
Kortum
Mosier
Lancaster County
Panhandle
Western Nebraska Technical Community College Board
Nebraska Western College
Western Nebraska Technical College
Alliance School of Nursing
Sidney
WNTC
Nebraskan districts face two conflicting education bills
Nebraskan schools worry over LB403 which makes districts fund or contract special education for ages five through 18 starting Sept 2, while 90 percent state aid for costs would begin next July. LB172 adds $20 million in state aid but caps annual spending increases, risking penalties for districts over the limit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Reclamation
Big Springs
Garden County
North Platte River
Tri-State
Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
Lienemann
Associated Press
Sidney
Russell Pederson
Sidney Telegraph
Educational Service Unit
Pederson
Sidney District
Panhandle
Scottsbluff
Lincoln
John Prasch
Prasch
Special Education
Jack Lamphere
State Education Department
Lamphere
Phase IV Announced by White House
Early details of President Nixon's Phase IV economic controls released at 5 p.m. by the White House appear on Page 5 of the Sidney Telegraph. The Telegraph notes the Associated Press wire adds speed, making readers among the first in the nation to learn of the new measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nixon
White House
Sidney Telegraph
Associated Press News
Telegraph
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City
Cheyenne County
Big Harvest
Department of Agriculture
North Platte
Paxton - Sutherland
Dix, Porter
Alliance
Martin and Pierre
S.C
Nebraska Wheat Harvest Bulletin
Kimball
Pierre
Lodgepole
Bart Bondegard
Bondegard
Broadwater
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