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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1972
Page
1
Panhandle Mental Health Center wins an 85000 grant to start a Special Children's Program with offices in Scottsbluff Sidney and Chadron. The Sidney office will sit in East Ward School and hire a regional director and two outreach workers before fall opening.
Sidney City Council approved engineering specs for 107 815 dollars to pave about fourteen blocks including 17th Avenue Birch Street 20th Avenue Dodge Street and portions of 8th 16th 17th and Cedar Streets with fall completion planned. Protests halted six proposed blocks and two downtown repaving districts delayed bidding until spring due to underground utility work.
The Sidney Summer Concert Band performs in Legion Park with marches Thunder West Patrol 76 and El Capitan plus Bacharach and David songs Latina Argentango and Uncle Louie. The Star Spangled Banner leads numbers and admission is free to the public.
Washington AP Nebraska would receive 34.5 million in the current fiscal year if the Senate backs the House passed State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972. Cheyenne County share 148,470 includes 39,398 for Sidney. The measure funds state and local governments over five years with initial annual 53 billion to state and 35 billion to local. Local share stays constant. state share could rise to 300 million per year, totaling about 31 billion annually by year five. Nebraska would get 9.7 million state and 248 million local in year one. Kimball 74,151 Deuel 33,217 Morrill 89,282 Garden 44,347 Banner 12,615.
The Cheyenne County Fair runs Aug 18 to 21 with exhibits and a full rodeo lineup. Highlights include the Stonewall Jackson Show at 8 p.m. Friday, RCA Rodeo performances, a Saturday parade, and a free 6:30 p.m. barbecue. City Manager John Baudek announces departure plans affecting Sidney governance.
The Cheyenne County Community Planning and Advisory Council holds its monthly meeting at 8 pm in the courthouse basement. RW Brownie Brown of Sidney will speak on youth needs, with Diane Tobin presenting a youth activities survey. The council, formed in April by Panhandle Community Action Agency, seeks ideas for projects aiding low income residents.
The Nixon administration announces a billion-dollar subsidy program to trim 1973 wheat production amid a large surplus. Farmers will idle up to 25 million acres, with set asides and optional plans, aiming to reduce surplus by about 100 million bushels by mid-1974 and maintain $125 per bushel loan rates.
Classified request to sell items quickly via ad space with a contact phone number 254-8588. Includes no detailed items or context beyond the call to action.
Mostly cloudy and cooler this afternoon with a slight chance of thundershowers. Southerly winds 15 to 24 mph shifting to northerly 10 to 25 mph tonight. Highs in the mid 80s today, lows around 50s tonight. Thursday: highs in the mid 70s with 30 percent precipitation both today and Thursday. Extended: Friday to Sunday occasional showers or thundershowers, cooler than normal then slowly warming with highs upper 70s to lower 80s and lows mid 50s to upper 60s.
The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission finished stocking 109000 rainbow trout fingerlings in the North Platte River drainage above Lake McConaughy. Hatchery fish differ from native lake rainbows, with natural reproduction continuing in the lake and spawners delivering fish to Scotts Bluff Morrill and Keith counties. Fingerlings divided between spring and fall spawners. up to 20000 may reach 8 inches and migrate back to the lake to spawn in the stocked streams Winter Creek Lonergan Creek and the Alliance drain.
Lincoln AP State Agriculture Director Glenn Kreuscher announced a reduced fee schedule for inspecting commercial weighing and measuring devices under LB1418. The $30 inspection fee covers scales 50 000 to 75 000 pounds, $35 for scales over 75 000 pounds, with six to twelve month reviews planned to adjust the rates.
Nebraska retailers reported 36 billion dollars in sales for 1971, a nine percent increase over 1970, with a four year gain since 1968 of 23.5 percent. The study notes inflation, per capita sales growth, and a modest population rise, with 1971 starting strong as trends indicate continued improvement.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that more than half of the 2.8 million students who graduated high school in 1970 enrolled in college by October that year, signaling a rapid rise in higher education participation.
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