Weeded Fields and Irrigated Crops Shape 1957 Outlook
Cheyenne County farmers report post harvest cleanup of weed fields as they prep for the 1957 wheat crop to be seeded late August to September. Ground moisture and high July rains boosted weed growth while irrigated regions rely on pumps and ditches amid hot 99 degree days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne County
Panhandle
Nebraska
Scottsbluff Star
Herald
Lodgepole Valley
North Platte Valley
Car Stolen From Manston Recovered Near Sidney
Kenneth Arnetvit reported a 1954 model car stolen from his Manston Wisconsin home on July 19. The vehicle was found parked in trees by the Cheyenne County Fairgrounds near Sidney after a Nebraska Safety Patrol tip. It had front-end damage from a prior accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manston
Wis
Sidney
Kenneth Arnetvit
Nebraska Safety Patrol
Mel Busekist
Cheyenne County Fairgrounds
Lincoln Funeral Tuesday For Mrs Roy Huff
Funeral services will be held tomorrow in Lincoln for Mrs Roy Huff 65 who died in Lincoln on Friday Burial will be in Gresham Neb Immediate survivors include a daughter Twila of Lincoln and two sons Arnold of Cheyenne and David of Lincoln
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Lincoln
Mrs
Roy’ Huff
Roy Huff
Gresham
Neb
Twila
Arnold
Cheyenne
David
U S Marking Of Hiway 19 Being Sought
Sidney Chamber of Commerce directors vote to back federal designation for State Highway 19. The plan links a north south route from south Texas to Regina Canada with the International Parks Highway Association. IPHA hires Paul Haynie to lead a publicity drive in Sidney plus memberships at ten dollars each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney Chamber of Commerce
J. H. Peters
Alliance Motel
International Parks Highway Association
Big Bend National Park
Black Hills
Big Parks
Canada
Sidney
IPHA
Paul Haynie
Cheyenne Wells
Colo
Haynie
Chamber
Ralph Thompson
Sidney Shepherds Send Yearling Hampshire Flock to Lincoln Show
Sidney farmer Peters consigns yearling Hampshire sheep to Lincoln for the 20th annual Nebraska Sheep Day Show and Sale Friday. The event features lambs and sheep from multiple breeders competing for prizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Peters
Sidney
Hampshire
Lincoln
Nebraska
Dogs Run Loose and Owners Fined in Sid ney Court
First cases under Sidney’s strengthened dog ordinance appear in the police court. Johnnie Ruff of Sidney pleads innocent to permitting a dog to run loose and harboring a vicious animal. Judge Glen Greenlee fines him 25 dollars and costs and orders 29 nights in jail in lieu of payment. Police are to dispose of the dog if it runs loose again. Harold Kurz also fined 25 dollars and costs for letting a dog run loose.
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Sidney
Johnnie Ruff
Glen Greenlee
Ruff
Harold Kurz
Two Weekend Auto Crashes Hospitalize Two
Two weekend crashes on Highway 30 sent three people to hospital and injured others. Mrs. Minda Caron 62 of Chicago and Joan Buhrdorf 17 of Potter were treated here with fair and good conditions respectively after a collision 11.2 miles west of Sidney around 10 15 am. Involved were Paul Caron 62 and Lila Meyer 16, with the Meyer vehicle a total loss and Caron car damaged. A second crash two miles east of Potter injured Buddy Summers 21 as the car he rode in collided with another driven by Dean Kelley 27 of Omaha. Total damage in the second crash was 700.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minda Caron
Chicago
Joan Buhrdorf
Potter
Caron
Miss Buhrdorf
Sidney
Paul Caron
Lila Meyer
Meyer
Buddy Summers
George Schnell Jr
Dean Kelley
Omaha
Rites set for Benjamin Snyder in Cheyenne
Final rites for Benjamin Snyder 54 will be held Tuesday morning at 10 in Cheyenne. He died yesterday in Cheyenne Memorial Hospital after a heart condition. Burial will be in Denver. Snyder moved to Sidney in 1910 and operated Snyder Clothing Co. since 1938. Surviving: wife Sylvia and three children Jerry Denver Linda and Steven at home, four sisters, four brothers, with a long list of relatives noted.
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Cheyenne
Benjamin Snyder
Wyo.) Memorial Hospital
Schroeder Mortuary
Denver
Snyder
Sidney
Solomon Snyder
Snyder Clothing Company
Sylvia
Jerry
Linda
Steven
Anne Schiffer
Hazel Krantz
Faye Snyder
Eva Diamond
Morris
Israel
Salt Lake City
Rites Friday For Ira Lee Transite 61
Funeral services were held Friday morning at St Patrick's Catholic Church for Ira Lee Transite 61 who died Wednesday evening at Memorial Hospital after a three day illness The Rev Albert Albel officiated and burial was in Greenwood Cemetery Gehrig and Son Funeral Home directed arrangements He had worked as an ammunition handler at Sioux Ordnance Depot for six years Pallbearers were Lloyd Root John Bukovsky Simon Behm Roy Rayl Paul Leibarger and Ben Burges
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Ira Lee
Memorial Hospital
Albert Albel
Greenwood Cemetery
Gehrig and Son Funeral Home
Transute
Sioux Ordnance Depot
Robert Porter
Sidney
Lloyd Root
John Bukovsky
Simon Behm
Roy Rayl
Paul Leibarger
Ben Burges
Sidney road line painting delayed by breakdown
Plans by a state highway department crew to repaint lines on Illinois Street in Sidney last week were set back when the painting machine broke down in Kimball Thursday.
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State Highway Department
Ilinois St
Sidney
Kimball
Tornado Hunters Begin Upper Air Study At SOD
The Sixth Weather Squadron Rawinsonde Team No. 14 arrives at Sioux Ordnance Depot for weather observation duties through Nov 1. The seven man unit from Knoxville will launch a balloon every six hours carrying instruments and a radio to Kansas City for severe weather warnings.
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Air Force
Sioux Ordnance Depot
Rawinsonde Team No. 14
Knoxville
Tenn
Tinker Afb
Oklo
Kansas City
Team 14
Charles E. Lancaster
Midwest City
Terrence Furtmann
Milwaukee
Clarence Hamlet
Ventura
Calif
Richard Newman
Cleveland
Charlie Mabe
Winston Salem
N. C
Atha Elliott
Talihina
Okla
Harold Mcrath
Wichita
Mrs Hart Named Permanent Welfare Director
Mrs Joan Hart announced as permanent director of the Cheyenne County Welfare Office by county commissioners following her provisional appointment after Olga Osborn resignation. Hart completed a state test to qualify for the position.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan Hart
Cheyenne
Hart
Olga Osborn
Dream Turned Real as No. 407 Finds Rest in Sidney Park
The Union Pacific locomotive No. 407 is placed in Legion Park Sidney after a community effort led by the Cheyenne County Historical Association. Volunteers from Rogers Truck Lines, the chambers of commerce, and UP workers assisted in the slow six block move using portable track sections and a dedicated crowd watched as a pedestal was prepared. The project drew donations from Inland Construction Ohio Oil Co Panhandle Distributing and others. City officials plan a fence ladder and daylight access for visitors with safety reminders in place.
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Cheyenne County Historical Association
No. 407
Legion Park
Park
Burlington Railroad
Tenth Ave
Sidney
Rogers Truck Lines
T Lab
Rogers
Chambers of Commerce
the Historical Association
Union Pacific
Rose St
Rogers Citizen
A&w
Panhandle Distributing Co
John J. Trienen
Joe Hahaler
Ohio Oil Co
Inland Construction Co
Inland
Murrey Fuller
Union Pacific Railroad
Dick Herman
The
Historical Association
Cheyenne County
U. P
Henry
Graham
Zepher Drilling Co
Scherer
Kingwood Oil Co
Thompson Field
Ozark Proposes Nine Flights Daily To Sidney Neb
Ozark Air Lines plans nine daily flights in and out of Sidney Nebraska as part of the Seven States Air Case, making Sidney a hub with five eastbound and four westbound departures daily. City officials weigh a rebuttal to the CAB to demand a Casper connection besides Denver and Omaha if service is certified.
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Ozark Air Lines
St. Louis
Sidney
Sidney City
Ozark
Civil Aeronautics Board
Seven States Air
Frontier Air Lines
Denver
Nebraska
Omaha
Lincoln
North Plate
Scottsbluff
Alliance
Sterling
Murrey Fuller
Casper
Wye
Fuller
Washington
Frontier
Seven States
Oil and Gas Unit Chairmen Named in Nebraska Association
Organization of the Nebraska Oil and Gas Association named four committee chairmen led by W F Rogers of Scotts Bluff. James D Conway Hastings heads the Legal Committee. Wesley M Felt Hastings heads Public Lands. Glen Wallare Hastings leads Membership and Collections. S E Torgeson Kimball heads Regulatory. Additional appointments to taxation transportation press relations and depletion committees expected within ten days with Rob TieMlen of Sidney to chair taxation and Simmons Cook Jr. of Rogers Truck Lines to chair transportation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James D. Conway
Hastings
Public Lands
Wesley M. Felt
Ohio Oil Company
Sidney
Glen Wallare
S E Torgeson
Kimball
Rogers
Rob TieMlen
Ohio Oul Co
Simmons Cook Jr
Rogers Truck Lines
Transportation
Cheyenne County to Hear Two Valuation Cases
Cheyenne County commissioners as a board of equalization will review two cases tomorrow. The firms involved will defend their declared valuations with county Assessor Roy Gish noting state tax officials will attend one day. Several hundred thousand dollars in valuation are at stake.
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Cheyenne County
Board of Equalization
Roy Gish
State Tax Commissioners Office
Gish
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Ats
Albert Woolson
St. Luke’s Hospital
Duluth
Minn
U.S
Ben Snyder
H. McGee
Sidney Welder
Thompson Photos
Wildcat
Northwest
Pubco Petroleum
Gurley
Skelly Oil Co
Phillips
Kimball County
O’donnell & Edmondson
Painter
W. Kimball
Sonic Petroleum Co
Richstein
Garden County
McCord
Nebraska Drillers, Inc
Hubbard
Banner County
C-Nw
Wytex Service Corp
Stull
C-Sw
Wildcat. Petroleum, Inc
Ostgren
C-Ne
Vowers Field. Petroleum, Inc
Lovercheck
Petroleum, Inc
Olsen
Benjamin J. Spahn
Leake
C-Se
Allery
Mid-America Drilling Co
Russell No
Burdick
Gulf Oil Corp
Singleton
Baumgartner Oil Co. Et al
Anderson No
Argo Oil Corp. & Lewis Brothers, Inc
Kosch No
Texota Oil Co
Sedgwick County
Stanolind Oil and Gas Co
Balderson Drilling Co
Big Springs
Deuel County
Mark's Butte
Haxtun
Colorado
North Platte
Flight
Grand Island
Flight 16
McCook
Oil and Gas Unit
Nebraska Oil and Gas Association
W. F. Rogers
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