Man's First Step On Moon Pictured In Telegraph Photo
A Sidney Telegraph photo captures Neil Armstrong stepping from the lunar module ladder onto the Moon with Buzz Aldrin nearby. The astronauts spent over two hours moonwalking before returning to the module and heading back to orbit for Earth.
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Moon
Neil Armstrong
Bob Hinrichs
Sidney Telegraph
Armstrong
Buzz’ Aldrin
Lunar
Aldrin
Earth
Start of Gap Closing on I-80 Marks West Nebraska Work
The Nebraska Department of Roads will open bids August 14 on a multi million dollar highway program led by 6.2 miles of I-80 from the Wyoming line in Kimball County to Bushnell. Total cost 5.4 million with federal funds at 3.6 million and state funds at 1.6 million. The project signals ongoing western Panhandle construction through completion anticipated by 1973.
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Nebraska Department of Roads
Nebraska-Wyoming Line
Kimball County
Bushnell
Nebraska
Southern
Panhandle
Highway Department
Wyoming Line
Kimball I-80
Bushnell Interchange
Kimball
Chappell
Colorado Line
Big Springs
Panhandle Weather Forecast With Showers
Partly cloudy and cooler period ahead with afternoon and evening thunder showers. Highs 85 to 95, lows in the 60s. Rain chances 30 percent this afternoon and tonight, 20 percent Tuesday. Five day outlook: temperatures 2 to 6 degrees below normal, showers likely, highs in the 80s, lows around 60.
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Panhandle
Bond Purchases in Cheyenne County in 1969
The first half of 1969 saw U.S. Savings Bonds and Freedom Shares totalling 142,160 in Cheyenne County. The report is attributed to I Glenn Spearow, the chairman, noting purchases of 14,882 dollars.
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U.S. Savings
Freedom
Cheyenne
I. Glenn Spearow
Elmo A Carlson Named to Federal Crop Insurance Board
Nebraska banker Elmo A Carlson of Chappell, vice president and director of Devel County State Bank, was named by Secretary Clifford Hardin to the five member board of the Federal Crop Insurance Corp. Carlson, a wheat farmer and cattle rancher, joins as one of two private sector appointees to the policy making FCIC board created to insure farmers against loss from uncontrollable causes.
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Chappell
Nebraska
Clifford Hardin
Federal Crop Insurance Corp
Elmo A A. Carlson
Devel County State Bank
Carlson
FCIC
Export Wheat Cut 12 Cents
The United States lowered its export price of wheat by 12 cents a bushel to meet rising world competition. The cut applies to hard red winter wheat at Gulf and East Coast ports and also to higher-protein varieties. Soft red winter wheat and new crop hard spring wheat will see adjustments, with no changes on West Coast prices.
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United States
Agriculture Department
Gulf
East Coast
Department
Great Lakes
East
Gulf Coast
Sidney youth killed in Colorado wreck near Loveland
Virgil Loren Rosenthal, 20, lifelong Cheyenne County resident, died at the scene when his car crossed the center line and hit a concrete bridge abutment on Highway 34 six miles west of Loveland. Three other Sidney youths were injured and taken to Loveland Memorial Hospital. Rosenthal, a Sidney High School graduate and Kearney State College student, was a member of Sigma Tau Gamma. He is survived by his parents and four brothers and one sister. Funeral arrangements are pending.
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Cheyenne County
Virgil L. Rosenthal
Loveland
Colo
Loveland Memorial Hospital
Donn A. Hume
James Kaylor
Joel Zilmer
Sidney
Estes Park
Colorado Highway Patrol
Virgil Loren Rosenthal
Henry and
Amelia Willman Rosenthal
Potter
Sidney High School
Kearney State College
Sigma Tau Gamma
Cheyenne County Faces Record College Costs This Year
Over 600 local youths set to attend college as classes resume in September, with Cheyenne County families facing an estimated 1.764 million dollar burden. National surveys show 7 million Americans will attend college this year, with local enrollments rising from 260 in 1960 to about 630. Public college costs average 1,600, private around 2,700. total outlays for locals reach about 2,200 in public settings or 3,400 in private. The burden reflects tuition, room, board, books, and incidentals, split evenly between public and private institutions. Rising incomes help many families meet the strain.
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Cheyenne County
Institute of Life Insurance
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
United States Chamber of Commerce
Malfunction At Pool Endangers Local Children
Hay Springs officials report a pool mishap when a chlorine release occurred as manager John Heinan changed a bottle. About 30 to 40 children were in the pool. several were hospitalized overnight. Fire crews aided evacuees and first aid, with a Rushville doctor and Chadron or Rushville hospitals involved.
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Hay Springs
Fred Evans
John Heinan
Evans
Rushville
Chadron
Wet Weather Stops Wheat Harvest Here
The winter wheat harvest paused by heavy rains and high humidity over the weekend, delaying cutting in Cheyenne County. In Chappell the 122,000 bushels gathered Friday were followed by rain, with progress around the halfway mark. Lodgepole work began but halted as weekend showers continued. forecasts call for drying, hot weather to resume operations.
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Chappell
Lodgepole
Cheyenne County
Panhandle
Lorenzo
Peetz
Gurley
Earl Lessig
Observer
Dalton
Don Dey Ermand
Panhandle project ranked high for 1970 funding says Martin
Nebraska Panhandle RC&D project, spanning Sioux Scotts Bluff Banner Kimball Dawes Box Butte Morrill Cheyenne Sheridan Garden Devel counties, is top five in Soil Conservation Service funding priority. If approved, planning funds could be provided in fiscal 1970, enabling coordinated regional development through local districts, communities, counties, and state and federal programs. The project already lists 200+ planning programs across soil and water conservation flood control highway land improvements public services education health welfare and cultural facilities.
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Washington, D.C
Dave Martin
Nebraska Panhandle
Nebraska
Department of Agriculture
Panhandle
Soil Conservation Service
Martin
Agriculture Department
House
Senate
Sioux
Scotts- Bluff
Banner
Kimball
Dawes
Box Butte
Morrill
Cheyenne
Sheridan
Garden
Devel
Centennial Railroad Spike Reenactment At Sidney Celebration
A three day event marking Union Pacific’s Centennial featured a Golden Spike reenactment led by E. K. Yanney who received the spike from W. E. Henke. Cheyenne County leaders and Sidney officials joined the ceremony along with a display car and replicas of engines from Promontory Point.
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Union Pacific Railroad
E. K. Yanney
W.E. Henke
Union Pacific
Cheyenne
Utah
Promontory Point
Cottage Training For Retarded Planned Here
William Kelley of Educational Service Unit 19 announces a cottage style program for 10 to 15 trainable mentally retarded youths aged 5 to 21. The plan uses a home at 21st and Linden in Sidney for initial training, with sheltered workshop space in a double garage to teach basic skills and self care. Students will come from Cheyenne Kimball and Deuel counties, with housing support offered by Tri-County Association if needed.
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William Kelley
Educational Service Unit 19
Sidney City
Cliff Davison
21St and
Linden
City Planning Commission
TMR
Nebraska
Kelley
Cheyenne
Kimball
Deuel
Tri- County Association For the
Doug Devies
Jane Shuman
Kimball Office Set For Harvest
A branch of the local employment service opened last Wednesday in Kimball per manager Francis Hiner. The harvest office operates in the weed district office at Kimball County courthouse with Dorothy Evans in charge. Steve Linton runs the office at Chappell.
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Kimball
Francis Hiner
Weed
Kimball County
Dorothy Evans
Steve Linton
Chappell
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Craig-Holechek Funeral Home
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Federal Aviation Agency
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