UP Strike Shuts Boxcar Flow Halting Wheat Trade in Panhandle
The Union Pacific strike snarls freight cars across Keith Devel Cheyenne and Kimball counties halting boxcar shipments and forcing farmers to dump grain or depend on scarce trucks. Bellwether farms report 150 000 acres in Cheyenne County planted to winter wheat with a potential six million bushel yield.
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Union Pacific Railroad
Panhandle
U.P
Keith
Devel
Cheyenne
Kimball
Burlington
Dalton
Gurley
Sidney
Lorenzo
Devel County
Chappell
Cheyenne County
Telegraph
Barry Combs
Union Pacific
Omaha
New Air Service May Include Sidney Area
Alliance base operator Don Brown says Trans-Nebraska may add Sidney to its Alliance to Denver route but no invitation or date is set. Brown notes Sidney could receive full service if invited while Frontier's overflows to Denver are used only at Frontier's request. City Manager Baudek warns Frontier may cease Sidney service if Trans-Nebraska gains traction. The note ends with an unrelated line about the first sidewheel steamboat on the Mississippi in 1811.
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Sidney
Trans-Nebraska
Alliance Base
Don Brown
The
Telegraph
Alliance
Denver
Brown
Frontier
Sidney Brown
Trans- Nebraska
John Baudek
Sidney Baudek
City Budget Proposal Published for Sidney
The Sidney budget totals 1,118,807 with a hearing set for the upcoming Monday council meeting. It requests 256,287 in tax funds for fiscal 1972, 1,808 more than last year’s 252,479. The current mill levy is 20.30 mills with 20.50 mills in the operating levy and an extra 0.21 mills proposed for storm sewer bonds.
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Sidney
Panhandle forecast shows warm, mostly fair week
The Panhandle faces a slight chance of isolated thunder showers with rising temperatures through Tuesday. Highs near 80 to 90 today, lows 50 to 60, and highs in the 90s Tuesday. Rain chances about 2 percent. Wednesday and Thursday look generally fair, with Friday bringing scattered showers and storms and a slow warming trend into the 90s. Lows remain in the 50s.
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Panhandle
Warm Weather to Persist Through Week Forecast
The weekend's harvest weather is expected to continue with a five day forecast predicting showers late in the week. The FAA flight service recorded 98 degrees on Saturday as the weekend high. Daily ranges showed 55-96 Friday 56-98 Saturday 59-85 Sunday and 49-76 Monday with humidity at noon around 40 percent.
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Federal Aviation Agency Flight Service
Valley View Power Outage Planned for Sidney Wednesday
Sidney residents face a power outage Wednesday starting at 8 a.m. The affected area runs south of the Burlington railroad to Toledo Street and between 10th Avenue and the city limits, covering the Valley View Addition and areas along 10th Avenue to Legion Park. Memorial Hospital will switch to emergency power during the outage.
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Sidney
Burlington Railroad
Toledo Street
10Th Avenue
City
Valley View
Legion Park
Burlington
Memorial Hospital
I 80 bids announced by Nebraska roads department
The Nebraska Department of Roads names apparent low bidders for I 80 sign work in western Nebraska. Reiman-Wuerth Co of Cheyenne wins 211 miles of sign installation from Kimball to the state line for 63,850 dollars. Century Fence Co will install signs between Sunol and Chappell for 44,667 dollars. L M Construction Co of Odessa MO receives the Chappell rest area and Oshkosh overlook projects for 27,639 dollars. Other panhandle work includes US 26 bridge widening between Scottsbluff and Mitchell and guardrail and asphalt work on US 365 Chadron north and Whitney spur.
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Nebraska Department of Roads
Nebraska
Reiman-Wuerth Co
Cheyenne
Kimball
Century Fence Company
Sunol
Chappell
Waukesha
Wisconsin
L&m Construction Co
Odessa
Oshkosh
L&m
Panhandle
US 26
Scottsbluff and
Mitchell
US 365
Chadron North
Whitney Spur
Sidney Youth Joaquin Lopez Drowns At Lake McConaughy
A 19 year old Sidney youth Joaquin Torres Lopez drowned Saturday at Lake McConaughy while wading with another Sidney teen on the north shore. The companion was rescued. Lopez disappeared and was found at 8 am about 15 feet from the drop-off. Funeral services set for 9:30 am Tuesday at St Patrick's Catholic Church with burial in Greenwood Cemetery. Rosary tonight at 7:30 at St Patrick's. He was born June 26 1952 in Sidney son of Joaquin M and Zenalda Torres Lopez and worked for the Cheyenne County Soil and Water Conservation District. Surviving are his parents and three brothers Valentine in the US Navy Bobby and Louie at home.
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Sidney
Joaquin
Joe) Lopez
Lake McConaughy
North Shore
Lopez
St Patrick's Catholic Church
Edward Flinn
Greenwood Cemetery
St Patrick’s
the Gehrig and Son Funeral Home
Joaquin Torres Lopez
Joaquin M
Zenalda Torres Lopez
Sidney High School
Cheyenne County
Coin Promotion News debuts for coin dealers and investors
Louis Caudill of Chappell launches Coin Promotion News a business paper for the coins trade. He will write and edit all stories and distribute 5 000 copies nationwide with information on coin shows ads and investing guidance. Caudill began collecting 18 years ago and aims to expand beyond an eight page format. The Telegraph Printing Co prints the new publication.
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Coin Promotion News
Louis Caudill
Caudill
Chappell
United States
Telegraph Printing Co
Ine
Pipe dream wins big in New Jersey lottery
Frank DeVito, 47, of Sayerville, a 24 year plumber and father of five, became New Jersey's sixth lottery millionaire. He won one million dollars, receiving an initial $50,000 and will collect $50,000 annually for the next 19 years.
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Fort Lee
Frank DeVito
Sayerville
New Jersey
Firemen Scramble Through Wheat Field Weekend Blaze Spree
Sidney volunteer firefighters battled seven weekend calls mostly to wheat fields. Friday saw a 1966 Chevrolet truck burned at Jim Deaver farm near Colton after a wheat fire spread from a harvest truck. A Union Pacific train delay hindered response. Saturday had one call at Parkway Trailer Court for a box fire. Sunday intensified with fires at Charles Jacobsen Hand's Corner and other farms with losses totaling thousands, including a $1,600 loss on the Deaver truck and wheat, plus damages at Beyer and Hajek farms.
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Din Deaver
Colton
SHO
Sidney
Jim Deaver
Union Pacific
Howard Kurz
Parkway
Charles Jacobsen
Sidnes
Id Narses
Hand's Corner
Leonard Beyer
Nebraska Technical College
Robert Hajek
Syd
Alliance Chamber Rejects Bluff Route Shift
The Alliance Area Chamber of Commerce rejects Bluff’s bid to reroute the north south expressway via Scotts Bluff to connect with I 80 at Kimball. The Alliance board backs the corridor south from Alliance on US 385 to the South Dakota border and the 1969 DoR route through Angora Bridgeport Dalton Gurley and Sidney to I 80.
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Alliance Area Chamber of Commerce
Alliance
Scotts Bluff
Kimball
Don Jacobson
Greater
Scottsbluff Chamber of Commerce
Alliance Group
Kay Mooney
Alliance Chamber
Alliance Board of Directors
Mooney
South Dakota
Chadron
Box Butte
Department of Roads
Angora
Bridgeport
Dalton
Gurley
Sidney
Supply Of Workers Up In The Area
The June workforce report from Sidney employment office manager Francis R Einer shows an increased labor supply in Cheyenne Devel and Kimball counties with many workers arriving from other regions due to pipeline work and West Coast layoffs. Local demand runs about 30 percent below June 1970, but on the spot hiring rises and July job opportunities are expected from highway construction and wheat harvest. Unemployment insurance claims in June 1971 fell 34 percent from June 1970 while continued weeks claimed rose over last year, though seasonal declines from the prior month persist.
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Francis Reiner
Sidney
Cheyenne
Devel
Kimball
Mose
Larsen Arrests Murder Suspect Near Kimball
Nebraska State Patrol investigator Richard Larsen arrested Milton O Neal Humphrey a 22 year old hitchhiker wanted by Philadelphia police for murder and eight other charges including conspiracy aggravated robbery and larceny He was detained near Kimball after providing fictitious ID and waived extradition awaiting Philadelphia authorities.
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Richard Larsen
Nebraska State Patrol
Philadelphia
Larsen
Milton O'Neal Humphrey
Chicago
Kimball
Sidney
Humphrey
Kimball Police Department
Philadelphia Police Department
FBI
New Mexico
Kimball County
Lincoln Neb faces undecided shuttle site selection
NASA space shuttle site group coordinator Jerry Galines said 70 locations remain under review with no screening done yet. Nebraska officials and community representatives from Lincoln Omaha Grand Island Columbus Scottsbluff Broken Bow Alliance and York attended the briefing to spread information.
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Lincoln Space Agency
Nebraska
Jerry Gafiney
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Lincoln
Omaha
Grand Island
Columbus
Scottsbluff
Broken Bow Alliance
York
Galines
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Mississippi River
Valley View Power
McConaughy
Joe Lopez
Bluff
Ins
Jacobson
US 385
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