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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1973
Page
3
Mr and Mrs Albert Jelinek celebrated sixty years of marriage Monday at their Sidney home with a reception arranged by daughter Mrs Louis Johnson. Visitors included friends who shared cake ice cream and coffee.
Mr and Mrs Ray Barber of Clinton Mississippi announce the birth of a son, Matthew Garrett, on July 12. He is welcomed by sister Amy Kathryn. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Raymond Weed of Dalton. Great grandparents are Mr and Mrs George Randall of Bridgeport. Mrs Barber is the former Mary Lynn Weed of Dalton.
Jean Andrew a UW Menomonie freshman majoring in business administration and daughter of Paul Aude Sidney has been named to receive the Chancellor's Award for academic excellence for the second semester The award honors a 3.5 GPA or higher and replaces the Dean's List. A new area home agent Shirley Tisdale will begin work in several Nebraska counties on Aug 6 and pursue training in Lincoln.
Summer orientation at Kearney State College continues with sessions for incoming students and parents. Each day features faculty meetings, advisor registration, campus tours, activities tales, and a local businessman guest. Recent attendees include families from Sidney and Kimball towns.
July schedule lists dartball meetings county budget review and club gatherings at Senior Citizen Center including Kiwanis Weight Watchers 4-H Club Clovers and Lions events with dates July 20 to August 12 featuring dances socials and meetings at churches halls and town buildings in Dalton Potter Fort Morgan and Sidney with multiple weekly recurring activities and a pre-fair 4-H showing announced for August 12.
Former Sidney resident Walt Griffiths married Lana Anderson in a Bellevue ceremony on June 9 at 5 am. The couple, graduates of Kearney State College and Bellevue High teachers, were wed by Rev. William French at Fontenelle Hills Country Club with attendants Loree Henricksen Don Seim and others.
The Sunflower Gals 4-H Club held two practice sessions on July 11 at Connie Twarling’s home and July 16 at Jennifer Geller’s home. They later helped clean up the town as their year’s community project. A July 3 meeting at Mrs. George Winkelman’s home at 2 PM will focus on Song Contest practice.
About 240 girls and 100 or so young men from the Salt Lake City area travel to Palmyra New York for the Hill Cumorah Pageant. The annual Mormon spectacle is directed by Dr. Harold Hansen of Brigham Young University.
Sandy Maestas and Donald Jones of Sidney were joined in a July 7 Nuptial Mass at St Patrick's Catholic Church. The ceremony featured Rev Thomas Ryan, organist Helen Spencer, a white and blue floral decor, and attendants including Rhonda Vorster as maid of honor and Erin Danielson and Denise Havorka as bridesmaids.
As of this morning 33 patients and two newborns occupy Memorial Hospital nursery. Admissions in Sidney include Martha Kassahan Peggy Maddox Mrs Richard Atkins Eloise Stone and Darcy Kruse. Births record a Sidney baby boy to Pat and Kassahan July 18 and a Sidney baby girl to Richard Atkins July 19.
Potter voters will wait until September for the election of officers at the new Senior Citizen Center due to harvest and vacations. The wedding featured groomsmen Raymond and Bobby Maestas and Merle Sickler with a reception in the church basement. The couple, Sidney High School graduates, plan a Scottsbluff honeymoon before settling at 1436 12th Avenue in Sidney.
Curtiss W. Routh of Chappell is a semi finalist with Waiting For Darkness, one of 68 works shown at Northwestern Bell Omaha office from 2100 entries across Iowa Minnesota Nebraska North Dakota and South Dakota. Twelve paintings will be selected for color reproductions on 1974 Appointment Calendar.
The New Member Joint Circle IV met at Mrs. Charles Wiedeberg’s home with 11 members and two guests including Mrs. Irvin Dickens of Austin and Esther Shaw, who will join Circle IV. Miss Shaw becomes a member. a lesson from Timoth y was presented. next meeting August 16 with hostess Mrs. Linton.
About 400 young men are expected at the Nebraska DeMolay Conclave on Chadron State College Aug 3-5. Highlights include William J. Heller of New Jersey addressing the awards banquet Aug 4 and Frank Mattoon of Sidney speaking as Nebraska Masons Grand Master. A state sweetheart is to be crowned with 20 candidates. western Nebraska entrants include Dirlene Steffe, Debbie Chadwick, Cathy Wagner, Julie Edwards, Shaui Larkin, and Deb Rickertsen.
More than 150 Denver area teenagers are in rehearsal under a Sidney Native vocal director, deeply involved in all aspects of presenting a production.
The Sidney Duplicate Bridge Club will not meet for the remainder of the summer. The next gathering is scheduled for Sept 7 at 7 30 p m in Christ Episcopal Parish Hall Oklahoma. The Denver Public Schools fifth summer theater production features Maxine Westfall as vocal director with a large student cast and a 42 piece orchestra.
Mr. and Mrs. P M Kruse of Grand Island announce the engagement of their daughter Georgia May to Bill Lee Davis grandson of Mrs Jens Englert of Dalton. The couple, both 1971 graduates, have attended Kearney State College for two years and plan an August 18 wedding.
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