Better Government Theme At Sidney Civic Club Dinner
The Sidney Chamber of Commerce will host a civic club dinner tonight at the Yendis Cafe with Robert M. Armstrong of the Nebraska Citizens Council as principal speaker. Other council officials may attend, as the group pushes for federal to local tax reductions and fiscal restraint.
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Sidney Chamber of Commerce
Yendis Cafe
Robert M. Armstrong
Nebraska Citizens Council, Inc
A. J. Jorgenson
Sidney Banker
Armstrong
Dwight Griswold
Gering
Leonard D. Browder
F. E
Sheaff
George Koltow
Sidney Civic Club
Ira Steward
Nebraka Farmer
Nebraska Citizens’ Council
Nebraska
Nebraska Citizens Council
Chamber coordinates Sidney events to avoid conflicts
Sidney groups are urged to use the Chamber of Commerce office as a clearing house for meetings and events. George Kolzow and staff will check for conflicts, publish a weekly list of upcoming events, and aim to boost attendance and cooperation.
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Sidney
Chamber of Commerce
George Kolzow
Sidney City Auditorium
Kolzow
Telegraph
Assessments Hiked in 19 Nebraska Counties
Broad assessment hikes ordered in nineteen Nebraska counties affect districts including six in the Panhandle though Cheyenne County is excluded. Grant County faces a 50 percent rise, others 10–20 percent, with the top per acre increase at $5.34 in Phelps County. State tax impact is modest in most areas, about 1 to 1.5 cents per acre in Grant and roughly unchanged overall. A public hearing in Lincoln is set for protests, with board members voting along party lines.
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Nebraska
Panhandle
Cheyenne County
Grant County
Phelps County
Val Peterson
Lincoln
Arthur
Banner
Box Butte
Chase
Deuel
Dundy
Frontier
Garden
Grant
Hayes
Holt
McPherson
Perkins
Phelps
Rock
Sheridan
Sioux
Thomas
James Pittenger
Johnson
Ray Johnson
Frank Heinize
Gurley Native Dies in Stockton Sleepin g Sickness Epidemic
Robert Cary, 35, a Gurley native who had lived in Gering, died in Stockton California amid an endophilitis sleeping sickness epidemic gripping the region. His father is Cash Cary.
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Gurley
Stockton
Calif
Robert Cary
Gering
West Coast
Cash Cary
Injuries and heavy damage from two detour crashes near Gurley
Nebraska Highway Safety Patrol reports two morning crashes on State Highway 18 detour north of Sidney. Verne Wagner of Sidney injured in a head on collision between a 1947 Chevrolet driven by Archie Luxa of Julesburg and a 1950 GMC Ready-Mix truck driven by Wagner. Damages totaling 2,450 dollars. A second crash at 12:45 involved a 1949 Lincoln driven by William G. Smith of Scottsbluff and a 1950 Ford driven by Carlos Yokum of Salt Lake City with 325 dollars in damages. A prior Saturday night crash on Highway 27 near Chappell involved a 1950 Buick and a 1952 Plymouth with minor damages. A separate collision on Highway 30 near Potter involved a 1949 Buick and a 1947 Plymouth. No fatalities reported in these notes.
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Gurley
Nebraska Highway Safety Patrol
Verne Wagner
Sidney
Wagner
Archie Luxa
Julesburg
William G. Smith
Scottsbluff
Carlos Yokum
Salt Lake City
Utah
Highway 27
Chappell
Jack Barnard
Kimball
Walter Jung
Denver
Barnard
Sheriff John Glenn Stricken by Heart Attack
Sheriff John Glenn suffered a heart attack and is hospitalized at Chappell Memorial Hospital. Deputy Arnold Braasch reports he is improving but unlikely to return to active duty soon.
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Deuel County
John Glenn
Chappell Memorial Hospital
Cheyenne County
Arnold Braasch
Glenn
Rapp Defends Auction Firm Over Canceled Sidney Sale
Col A B Rapp defended the Sidney Livestock Commission Co from criticism over scheduling and canceling a National Wholesale sale. He said the auction house provided facilities and that the National company owned the merchandise and lacked necessary licenses, noting the local firm has served Sidney for over twenty years and bore no responsibility for the court order. Many attendees were bitter about the cancellation.
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Sidney Livestock Commission Co
Sidney
Col. Rapp
Ninth Auto Death In Cheyenne County Rises to Nine
Clyde Allen Gentle 36 of Cheyenne died in a one car crash one mile south of Sidney Nebraska while Russell Tipton Jr 1804 House Cheyenne was injured. The car swerved rolled and both men were ejected. Police noted alcohol use and investigated possible intoxication as a factor.
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Cheyenne County
Clyde Allen Gentle
Careyville
Cheyenne
Wyo
Sidney
Nebraska Highway Safety
Mel Busekist
Gentle
Russell Tipton, Jr
House Street
Borrow
Tipton
Gehrig Funeral Home
Jack Knicely
Saurday
Nebraska Panhandle
Safety Patrol
Morton Lambert
Gering
Lambert
Deuel
Scotts Bluff
Banner
Kimball
Sheridan County
Panhandle
Mid-Week Specials Offer Value Event in Sidney
A group of Sidney merchants promotes a Mid- Week Shoppers event on Wednesday featuring practical value merchandise. The Telegraph advertises bargains to over 4 300 subscribers and more than 14 000 readers in Sidney's trade territory.
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Sidney
The
Telegraph
Stephenson Returns to Lead Sidney Creamery
Cliff Stephenson, former foreman at Sidney Creamery, will return about August 8 to manage the local business after serving at Idle-Wild Creamery in Scottsbluff. Roy and Ray Wehde, previous managers, left to join an insurance firm in Greeley, Colorado. The Stephenson family will reside at 1441 Newton.
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Cliff Stephenson
Sidney Creamery
Scottsbluff
Roy
Ray Wehde
Greeley
Colo
Stephensons
Newton
Harvest Labor Needs Fill This Year in Nebraska Region
Nebraska State Employment Service reports wheat harvest in a four county area near Sidney draws workers and machines from Kansas and the Dakotas. Over two weeks the region received about 25 percent more workers and 15 to 20 percent more custom combines than typical, easing feared shortages. Many combiners stayed with farmers from prior years, reducing reported scarcity of labor and equipment.
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Nebraska
Francis Hiner
NSES
Sidney
Kansas
Dakotas
Montana
Broadwater Pioneer Is Buried On Monday
Mrs. Matilda Lindquist 86 of Broadwater died Friday at Dalton hospital. Funeral services were Monday at 2 p.m. at Messiah Lutheran Broadwater, Rev. P. M. Simon officiating. Burial in Rose Hill. Born Matilda Anderson January 11, 1866 in Malmo Sweden she homesteaded near Broadwater in the 1890s. Survived by daughter Mrs Vernon C Nolte and four sons Alvin Julius Emil and Hilding.
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Matilda Lindquist
Broadwater
Dalton Hospital
Messiah Lutheran Church
P. M. Simon
Rose Hill Cemetery
Matilda Anderson
Malmo
Sweden
Nels Lindquist
Vernon C
Nolte
Alvin and
Julius
Emil.s
Wichita
Kan
Hilding
Fort Morgan
Colo
Weather Eases Heat as Nebraska Panhandle Completes Wheat Harvest
A cooler Monday brings relief after a sizzling weekend with temperatures up to 101 in Sidney and 104 top for the season. The 1952 Panhandle harvest shifts into relief, with most wheat already in bins despite hail damage in Cheyenne and Kimball counties and tough conditions from heavy straw.
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Nebraska
Nebraska Panhandle
Sidney
Panhandle
1952 Cheyenne County Fair Sets Open Class Competition
The Cheyenne County Fair aims to reflect modern farming and homemaking trends with open class competition. Howard A Mann oversees horses, Stewart Brown handles beef cattle, Grafton Crabb for swine, Dale Talib for sheep, Louis Neuman for poultry and farm crops, and Walter D Johnson with George Fleming for the wheat show. Homemaking entries welcomed under county residents or extension enrollees. Danish judging system noted.
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Cheyenne County Fair
Howard A.mann
Dale Talib
Hampshire
Shropshire
Corriedale
Louis Neuman
Neuman
Cheyenne County
Local Exhibit Rules Set For Fair Entries
The rules state that ribbons will be awarded based on merit and only worthwhile exhibits receive ribbons. No entry may be made if not finished between August 1950 and August 1952. All entries except baked goods and flowers must be in place by 4 PM Wednesday August 20. Baked goods and flower exhibits must be in place by 11 AM Thursday.
Woods No 1 Gas Well Tests J Sand Near Sidney
A natural gas discovery near Sidney in the Woods No 1 well reports a 2.6 million cu ft daily test from the J sand section. Chicago Corporation and Republic Natural Gas say further tests are planned after penetrating more than 11 feet of sand, with depth near 4,862 feet.
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Sidney
Wildcat Woods
Dakota
Chicago Corporation
Republic Natural Gas Company
Ohio Oil Co
Miracle-Fifer Drilling” Co
Denver
E. B. Stewart
Ohio
Stewart
the Woods
Gee ‘Woods
Oil-Gas Progress Reports Page Three Highlights
The Oil and Gas Journal notes the steel strike impact on the 1952 drilling program. It reveals plans for a new development in Logan County Colorado. It reports a discovered oil and gas well in Olsen field northwest of Sidney.
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The
Oil and Gas Journal
Logan County
Colo
Olsen Field
Sidney
Telegraph
Woods gas discovery boosts West Sidney potential
The Woods well in the Julesburg Basin shows a porous sand interval after a slow drill through hard sandstone. If commercial, it could mark a major gas field in West Sidney with two existing shut in gasers nearby and new drilling planned by Tulsa interests before September 1, plus a possible Union Pacific site.
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Julesburg
The
Woods
West Sidney
the Woods
Anderson No. 7
Tulsa
Telegraph
Denver
Union Pacific
Woods Place
Railroad Company
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McCormick Co
McCormick
IHC
McCormick Farm Equipment
Veep
Washington, D
Richard Nixon
California
GOP
Julie
Nixon
Rapp
Stephenson
Sidney Creamery Co
Stewart Brown
Grafton Crabb Wall
John Ommen
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