Former Resident 3rd Traffic Fatality For 1963 Dies At Potter
A 67 year old Sedgwick County resident formerly of Colton Sund area was Cheyenne County s third traffic victim of 1963 in a two car collision on Highway 30 in front of Bud s Texaco Station Potter. Juan Aguiniga 57 and Miss Gail Hazen 27 were injured with lacerations and a cracked knee. The Aguiniga car a 1948 Chevrolet and the Hazen vehicle a 1963 Valiant were totaled. The crash occurred as the Aguiniga car eastbound prepared to turn into the service station and struck the Hazen car coming westbound. Assisting were Trooper Felix Koenig Sheriff W W Schulz and Deputy Kermit Brumbaugh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sedgwick, Cole
Colton- Sund
Cheyenne County
Bud
Texaco
Potter
Juan Aguiniga
Memorial Hospital
Sidney
Aguiniga
Gail Hazen
Fort Collins
Cole
Sid Simmerman
Felix Koenig
Highway Safety Patrol
Hazen
Pennsylvania
Koenig
W. W Schulz
Kermit Brumbaugh
Colo
Empire Band Story and Mexico City Photos On Display
Copies of the June 16 Empire magazine feature on Sidney High School Band remain available through the Band Parents Auxiliary at 10 cents per copy. Call Mrs. Jack Knicely to order. Photo Center window displays Mexico City band trip pictures taken by Mrs. Knicely. Vern Draper arranges prints. Letters arrive from fans including Mr. and Mrs. Sigler with clippings from Spanish press. they offer to share them.
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Denver Post
Sidney High School
Jack Knicely
Mexico City
Vern Draper
M. R. Sigler
American Legion
Oklahoma Senator Clem McSpadden to Announce Cheyenne County Rodeo
The Cheyenne County Fair Fort Sidney Days will have Oklahoma Senator Clem McSpadden as rodeo announcer. McSpadden has appeared at 250 professional rodeos in 20 sites and on ABC Wide World of Sports. He is a Oklahoma State University graduate and longtime rancher living with his wife Donna on the Tub-Handle Ranch in Oklahoma cow country.
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Cheyenne County Fair
Fort Sidney
Clem McSpadden
Cheleey
Donna
Oklahom
Cow Country
Aguiniga Rites Set In Sidney This Thursday
Funeral services for Juan Aguiniga 67 victim of a Potter County accident will be held Thursday at 9 a.m. in The Gehrig Son Funeral Home Sidney with Rev. Vincent Pelster officiating. Burial follows in Sedgwick Colorado. Rosary is to be recited Wednesday at 8 p.m. The deceased born March 8 1896 in Michacan Mexico came to the United States in 1916 and later farmed Sunol Colton area before moving to Sedgwick and working as a farm laborer. He married Epeminia Mascaranes in 1922 at Las Animas Colorado. Surviving are 12 children 37 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. The children include Aurelia Virgal Paul Salvador Elvera Dominguez David Mary Parra Gurley Vonnie Aguiniga Lyman Dolores Martinez Joe Lupe Caballo Frank and Raymond.
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Sidney
Juan Aguiniga
Potter
Gehrig & Son
Vincent Pelster
Sedgwick
Colo
Michacan
Mexico
Paul
Ovid
Salvador
Elvera Dominguez
Sunol
David
Kimball
Mary Parra
F Gurley
Vonnie Aguiniga
Lyman
Dolores Martenez
Pueblo
Joe
Lupe Caballo
Frank
Raymond
Big Springs
Trade School Visit Planned for Sidney Nebraska
State Trade School group to visit Sidney as Senator Fleming reports on Unicameral committees. Fleming seeks vocational schools support noting student need and labor shortage, with a visit to assess prospects and future statewide schools across four regions.
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George Fleming
Vocational Technical Schools Committee
Iude
Fleming
Fern Orme
Lincoln
Technical Schools
Sidney
Nebraska
Freene T Mahoney
Omaha
Tra
Fic Safety Committee
Flemine
Jeroy Bahensky
St. Paul
MM_ Forrester
Arsenio
Willian R. Skarda Jr
Matt Wylie
Elgin
Jerome Werner
Cecil Craft
North Platte
William B Brandt
Unadilla
Thomas H Damiew
Beatrice
Don McGinney
Ogallala
T C Reeves
Central City
Michael P Russillo
Cheyenne County Wheat Growers Meet July 30
A meeting of the Cheyenne County Wheat Growers is set for Tuesday July 30 at 7 pm in the directors room of the Fort Sidney Motor Hotel.
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Cheyenne County
Fort Sidney Motor Hotel
Proposed Martin bill threatens aid to SAD area pupils
Rep Dave Martins plan to cut federal aid to districts with installations could raise local costs for School District No 1 in the Sidney-Sioux area. Supt Russell Pedersen said the district now receives about 400 students' aid, totaling roughly 570 per pupil, with the SAD and missile workers' families benefiting. If eliminated, local taxpayers would bear the burden to fund education for those students.
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Sidney-Sioux Army Depot
Dave Martin
Russell Pedersen
Martin
Associated Press
House Education Committee
City Council Meets Tonight Agenda for Council Session
City Council gathers for regular session with a call to order petitions visitors and requests budding applications and occupational licenses. Items include discussion of the Kansas Nebraska Natural Gas Co power plant contract retention of the City Attorney in the Lieberman case and salaries for the City Attorney and City Prosecutor.
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Kansas-Nebraska W Natural Gas Co
Lieberman
Dr Rathbun Suffers Eye Injury On Scout Hike Near Lewellen
Dr S R Rathbun of Sidney sustained a non serious eye cut Sunday while guiding Troop 83 Boy Scouts on their historical trail awards hike at Ash Hollow near Lewellen. He is hospitalized at Memorial Hospital and expected to return to work soon.
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S R Rathbun
Sidney
Troop 83
Boy Scouts
Ash Hollow
Lewellen
Rathbun
Memorial Hospital
Car Demolished In One-Vehicle Crash Near Drive-In
A 1956 Ford station wagon driven by Alfred E Mitchell 53 Sidney went out of control on City Route 19 near the Drive-in Theatre. The car left the west shoulder crossed the road and rolled, Myr Mitchell and two daughters Janet 14 Leona 13 were aboard. Leona suffered bad abrasions and was treated at a doctor’s office. The wagon was declared a total loss.
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Tro Ner
Paul Manley
Highway Story Patrol
Alfred E Mitchell
Sidney
Myr Mitchell
Janet
Leona
Time limit urged as 90 day annual unicameral session
State Senator George Fleming returns after the 132 day session urging a 90 day annual unicameral meeting. He notes 815 bills introduced, 545 passed, and cites bills on pickups speed, driver education funding, county judge pensions, police pensions, barber regulation, firemen hours, safflower oil in ice cream and farmers refunds.
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George Fleming
Fleming
Ed Bill
Sidney
Morrison
Cheyenne
Health Department
Nebraska
Slower Oil Drilling Seen in Nebraska Panhandle
Oil activity slows with eight new locations last week none in Cheyenne County. A wildcat near Hendricks field in Cheyenne County was abandoned after reaching 5206 feet with no cores or tests. Notices list several Nebraska wells for the week of July 22, 1963, including Skelly Oil at Red Willow and Banner Oil at Banner County.
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Panhandle
Cheyenne County
Don M Rounds
Ferris
Hendricks Field
Walters
Nebraska
Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
Skelly Oil Co
Edward Sughrone
CSW NW
Red Willow County
Banner Oil Co, Inc
Sam G Harrison
Snook
Banner County
Wildcat
Edward Mike Davis
Tiger Oil Co
Dwight Ewing
Scotts Bluff County
c-Brinkerhoff
Thomas Producing Co
Ina L Kohn
Furnas County
Farm Dams As Control Means Catching Fire
Cheyenne County SWCS reports completion of earthen dams on farms in the Sunol area to control runoff. New dam on Willoughby farm near Potter will be 33 feet high and 667 feet long, holding 57 acre feet with 170 acre feet in emergency spillway. Dams will divert flood water from Ledgepole Creek toward Sidney. SWCS also advances terrace construction on multiple Potter area farms.
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Lodgepole Valley
Cheyenne County Soil and Water Conservation Service
Russell O’daniel
Firth Booth
A A Fenske
Evelyn Christenson
South
Sunol
Lester Willoughby
Potter
George Jung
Willoughby
Willoughby House
Potter Cemetery
Ledgepole Creek
Sidney
SWCS
Roger Plantz
Normand Oberndorfer
Marius Offersen
Wendel Mathewson
Arnold Christofferson
Dalton
Walter
Mr. Jung
George Coulter Sr
Lodgepole Creek
Coulter
Loge Pole
General Rains Boost Crop Prospects Across Panhandle
Late Friday moisture drenched the Southern Panhandle with up to two inches, easing a heat drought. Hail damaged some Lorenzo area properties but most farmers welcomed rain aiding sofflower millet cane and feed crops. Friday highs reached 90s with weekend cool downs and lows around the 50s to 60s.
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Panhandle
Lorenzo
Reast
Potter
George Coulter
Derby Winner Heads to Akron for National Soap Box Derby
239 boy bumder drivers race their coasting cars in Akron for the All-American Soap Box Derby on August 3. Irvin Butts, 12, of Sidney, travels with his parents as the official representative of Sidney Junior Chamber of Commerce. The event offers 30 000 in college scholarships from Chevrolet Motors Division with 229 contestants from 45 states plus international entries. Celebrities including Rock Hudson Arthur Godfrey John Russell Paul Anka and Paul Lynde attend and join a welcoming parade through Akron ahead of the race.
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Akron
Irvin Butts
Sidney
Doyle Butts
Irvin
Sidney Junior Chamber of Commerce
Chevrolet Motors
District of Columbia
Canada
West Germany
Okinawa
Philippines
Puerto Rico
Venezuela
Entertainment World
Rock Hudson
Arthur Godfrey
John Russell
Lawman
Paul Anka
Paul Lynde
Celerities
Break-Ins At Four Points Admitted In Nebraska
Glenn Bray of Gothenburg reportedly admitted breaking into the Potter and Gurley depots the Farmers Elevator at Potter the old elevator at Huntsman and other sites. Kermit Brumbaugh secured Bray’s admission in Trenton. Bray faces three counts locally while on parole from Gothenburg.
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Potter
Gurley
Huntsman
Glenn Bray
Gothenburg
Greeley
Cole
Sher
Kermit Brumbaugh
Trenton
Bray
Antsman
Burlington
Minalare
Harry's
Melhbeta
Sherif W. W Schulz
Gotherourg
Cheyenne County
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County Fair Rodeo
Oklahoma
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Don Dey Ermand
Lodgepele
Henry Jenik
Government
Trace
Melvin Phelps
Federal Aviation Agency
Dave Ells
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