Dry Holes Reported In Cheyenne County Oil Run
Three Cheyenne County oil well attempts ended as dry holes with two wildcats. Abandonments include Ohio Oil Innes No 1 in 27 13 51 NW SE SE, True Oil Bewley No 1 in 3 15 49 SE SE, Wytex Walker No 1 in 27 13 52 SE SE. Ohio and Wytex were wildcats. True Oil’s entry was in Epping Field.
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Cheyenne County
Ohio Oil Co
Innes
Baumgartner Oil Co
Gaylord
Juelfs
Rangers
Vacation Movies Start Wednesday at Fox Theatre
Summer movie program runs twelve weeks starting Wednesday at 1 30 pm at the Fox Theatre in cooperation with the PTA. The first bill features Bill Williams in Blue Grass of Kentucky with cartoons and a slate of a different star each Wednesday. Season tickets sold through schools and available at the Fox box office.
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Fox Theatre
The
Fox
Parent - Teachers Association
PTA
Bill Williams
Blue Grass
Kentucky
Ben Johnson
Dan Dailey
Kid
Clifton Webb
Clark Gable
Edmund Gwenn
Mickey Rooney
Tom Edison
Jack Palance
John Payne
Rex Allen
Two-Car Collision on Ninth Avenue Causes $246 Damage
Police report shows a Friday accident at Ninth Avenue and Illinois Street causing $246 damage. Vehicles driven by Robert Christner, 23, of Sidney, and Henry Pyle, 57, of Colorado City, Texas, were involved. Christner traveled west on Illinois Street while Pyle turned left from Ninth Avenue onto Illinois.
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Ninth Avenue
Illinois Street
Robert Christner
Sidney
Henry Pyle
Colorado City
Tex
Christner
Pyle
Jlnois
Trio Of Accidents Checked By Patrol In A Short Period
Nebraska safety patrolman Bob Cook investigated three crashes in about three and a half hours. At 10 10 am a semitrailer driven by Jack Walton of Oklahoma City turned onto Highway 30 near Sioux Ordnance Depot, forcing an eastbound pickup driven by Neal Freeman of Kimball off the road. Freeman suffered facial injuries and the truck damage was $100. At 12 15 pm two miles east of Sidney on Highway 30 a gasoline Transport driven by Dan Bandt of Sidney turned left into a parking area while a car driven by Mrs Mabel Jensen of Minneapolis passed, the car went under the trailer hitting the spare tire carriage. no injuries, car damage $700, truck $50. The third crash occurred in Lodgepole when Berchie Kinnison of Cheyenne pulled from a parking area and struck a car driven by Byron Bills of Lodgepole, damaging the car about $150.
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Nebraska
Bob Cook
Cook
Cheyenne County
Jack Walton
Oklahoma City
Sioux Ordnance Depot
Minneapolis
Min
Lodgepole
Berchie Kinnison
Cheyenne
Byron Bills
Parental Check On Guns Urged
Cheyenne County Sheriff Bill Schulz urged parents to know where their children are after reports of rural shootings. He noted youths fired at farm buildings signs stock tanks and other objects. Three boys who admitted shooting at a dog yesterday received a stern lecture from the sheriff.
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Cheyenne
Bill Schulz
Schulz
Ogallala Plans Sewage Plant and Bonds Approved
Ogallala City Council ordered plans for a complete sewage disposal system including a treatment plant two sewer trains and a trunk line. The council also authorized $10,000 more fire hall bonds arranged to pay off $19,000 in refunding bonds and approved mayoral appointees to the library board.
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Ogallala
Ogallala City
Ira T. Humphreys
Sidney School Board Expected to Approve 1957 58 Budget
The Sidney School Board likely will adopt Supt. Weymouths proposed 1957-58 budget tonight. The plan calls for a tax take of 424 390, about 1 000 less than current, with total district spending of 615 590. Non tax receipts would cover the difference.
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Sidney
County Board of Commissioners
Supt. O . Weymouth
Weymouth
Telegraph Earns Heart Award For News Coverage
The Sidney Telegraph received a Heart Award from the Nebraska Heart Association for coverage of the Heart Fund Drive and heart disease issues. Willis D Wright M D Association president praised the paper as vital to awareness and fund growth from 5000 in 1949 to over 200000 this year.
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Sidney Telegraph
Nebraska Heart Assn
Willis D Wright
M. D. Association
Wright
Nebraska Heart Fund
Association
Cozad Local
Humphrey Democrat
West Point Democrat
Broken Bow
Fairbury Journal
Ponca Journal Leader
David City
Banner Press
DeWitt Times-News
Palisade Times
Sutton
Clay County News
Barbara Cork to Attend All-State Arts Course
Barbara Cork of Sidney High School will join 238 other high school students from 99 Nebraska and seven Iowa communities at the three week All-State High School Fine Arts Course at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. The program, starting June 11, covers art music and speech.
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Sidney
University of Nebraska
Lincoln
Barbara Cork
Nebraska
Iowa
Big Nebraska Stock Growers Meet Planned at Alliance
The 60th annual Nebraska Stock Growers Association convention gathers June 13 to 15 in Alliance with lodging and meal reservations pouring in. NBC’s Alex Dreier headlines the banquet June 14, and Dr Galen McGee of the University of Wyoming speaks on Inside Russia Lessons for Americans. Panels cover range nutrition minerals meat packing and public relations with breeder recognition Junior of the Year and new member prizes awarded Friday. Don B Reynolds and Gerald J McGinley chair the sessions.
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Alliance
Nebraska Stock Growers Association
Robert Howard
Association
Alex Dreier
NBC News
Russia
Galen McGee
University of Wyoming
Don B Reynolds
North Platte
Gerald J. McGinley
Ogallala
Parade Float Entries Sought for Ft Sidney Days
Parade committee requests more entries for Ft Sidney Days with a June 10 deadline. Four categories exist historical humorous religious and non competitive. Top prizes total 600 dollars across humorous artistic and historical. Parade is June 22 with seven bands from Chadron Gering Dalton Gurley and Sidney high schools.
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Ft. Sidney
Lyle Mather
Benny Hochman
Mather
Mr Hochman
Chadron
Gering Jliff
Dalton
Gurley
Sidney High School
Slight Rise in Farm Prices Between Mid April and May
The Agriculture Department reports farm prices rose about four tenths of one percent from mid April to mid May. Cattle melons apples and cotton boosted values while strawberries milk wheat and eggs fell. Mid May prices were 1.26 percent higher than a year earlier and 2244 percent below the 1951 record. Prices paid for production inputs and family living remained unchanged. Farm prices at mid May stood at 82 percent of parity, same as last month but 2 points below a year ago and far below the October 1946 peak.
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Agriculture Department
Reward Posted For Power Line Vandals
A $500 reward is offered by Pine Bluffs Rural Electric Assn for information on persons who shoot insulators off REA lines or damage REA property. Last Wednesday ten insulators were shot from 34 500 volt lines north and south of Kimball county causing wide area outages while repairs were made. Authorities warn that damaged lines can cause electrocution and service hardship. the standing reward seeks arrests of those responsible.
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Kimball
Pine Bluffs
REA
Reba Kinne earns second in Miss Nebraska pageant
Miss Reba June Kinne of Nebraska University placed second in the Miss Nebraska contest at Lincoln. Kay Nielsen of Council Bluffs won, with Margaret Ann Schwenker of Ogallala taking third. Kinne will later preside as Miss Ft Sidney at Ft Sidney Days.
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Reba June Kinne
Ft Sidney
Ft. Sidney
Nebraska
Lincoln
Miss Kinne
Kay Nielsen
Council Bluffs
Kinne
Nebraska University
Walter Kinne
9Th Ave
Margaret Ann Schwenker
Ogallala
Rites Held For Mrs. Kealy 72 in Sidney
Funeral services for Mrs. Ma bel S. Kealy 72 a Sidney resident since 1945 were held at Gehrig & Son Funeral Home. She died Friday evening of a heart attack. Burial was in Greenwood Cemetery. Survivors include husband George T Kealy six sons six daughters 24 grandchildren and three great grandchildren with pallbearers the six sons.
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Mabel S. Kealy
Gehrig & Son Funeral Home
Nance County
Neb
Albion
George T Kealy
Sidney
Kealy
Nance
Boone Counties
Royal Neighbors
Fern Clarkson
Lawrence
Marvin
Harold
Hayward
Calif
Lester
Kearney
Elwood
Sutherland
Lloyd
Tacoma
Mitts Preble
Nellie Hazel
Boulder, Colo
J. C. Preble
Godfrey Headlining Ak-Sar-Ben World Rodeo Show 1957
Arthur Godfrey signs to headline the Ak-Sar-Ben World Championship Rodeo and Live Stock Show running September 20 to 29. His 80 person troupe will join him for two weeks of telecast from Omaha area venues. no broadcast of the rodeo itself.
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The
Knights of
Ak-Sar-Ben
Arthur Godfrey
Jess Thurmond
Godfrey
Goldie
Omaha
Boys Town
Radeo
Kimball Road Improvements Pushed Toward Paving
Nebraska bids open for 6.8 miles of grading culverts a bridge and armor coat in Kimball Banner county to connect with Highway 29 while Colorado plans paving its segment. Nichols Construction has the Banner county paving contract and the project will cut 7 miles off Kimball Gering travel eliminating 20 sharp curves.
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Kimball County
Banner County
Colorado
Brush-Ft. Morgan
Nebraska
Scottsbluff
Denver
Nichols Construction Company
Banner’ County
Kelley’s
Harrisburg
Kimball
Gering
Jail sentences ordered on disturbance charges
Two persons were sentenced this morning by Sidney Police Judge Glenn Greenlee on disturbance charges. Ervin Wood, 56, of Sunol, pleaded guilty and received a ten day jail term plus a $25 fine and costs. Hazel Bailey was found guilty, fined $25 plus costs, and given a 30 day jail sentence.
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Sidney
Glenn Greenlee
Ervin Wood
Sunol
Pisa
Hazel Bailey
Greenlee
Bauerkemper Motor Clinic Relocates to Forrest Street
Bauerkemper Motor Clinic announces a new address at 1027 Forrest St in the former Foland Farm Machinery building. Owner Wayne Bauerkemper, an auto electrical repair specialist, moves from the Tenth Avenue and Forrest Street site. The shop offers service and overhaul of air cooled engines and will display Indian motorcycles.
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Bauerkemper Motor Clinic
Forrest St
Foland Farm Machinery
Bauerkemper
Tenth Avenue
Forrest Street
Wayne Bauerkemper
Safflower Acreage Surges in Southern Panhandle
Ned Robinson of Plains Oil Mills reports rising local safflower interest and seed sales, with planting possible until June 20. Production is increasing as farmers improve farming practices, and demand for safflower oil grows. Plains Oil Mills guarantees 3.20 per hundredweight and prefers local seed distribution to assure processing supply.
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Panhandle
Ned Robinson
Plains Oil Mills, Inc
Robinson
Job Robinson
Plains Oil Mills
Canada
Plains
National Guard Faces Money Bind After Aug 1
Maj. Gen. Winston P. Wilson warned at the Nebraska Guard Association conference in Lincoln that after August 1 no new entrants may join the six month active duty program unless Congress provides more funds. He said the budget allows 25 000 here but expected enrollments could reach over 20 000 plus 7 500 in a related 11 week phase, prompting potential recruiting limits to older youths and late year enlistments.
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National Guard
Winston P. Wilson
National Guard Bureau
Wilson
Nebraska Guard Association
Lincoln
Army Guard
Department of the Army
Defense Department
Sidney Driver Fined and License Suspended in DUI Case
Orval Reeves, 33, of Sidney, was fined $100 and costs in Sidney Police Court for driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol. He was arrested last night by Sidney police. The judge also suspended his driver's license for six months.
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Orval Reeves
Sidney
Reeves
Glenn Greenle
Lcense
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Stevens
Fink Field
O'Donnell and Edmondson
Pederson
Wildcat
Shell Ol! Co
Hom
Chandler - Musgrove, Inc
Southard
Aue Field
W. F. Roger
Smith No
Pan ‘American Petroleum Corp
Earl Vowers
Sloss Field
Pan American Petroleum Corp
Nelson
Grubbs Field
Sterling Drilling Co. Et al
Craig No. 1
North Field
Skelly Oil Co
Rodman
Skelly
Logan County
Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
Washington County
Denver - Julesburg
Morgan County
Weld County
Wytex Oil Corp
W. C. McBride
W. Hawkins
Center
Sterling
Wytex Oil & Jack
Lader
L. V. Propst
Mérino
Sidney School Board
West German
Civil Defense Agency
Nebraska Cow-Belles
Belles
Anderson
Martin Viersen
John Streiff
Flats
Atomic Energy Commission
Nevada
Reba Kinne
Rocky Hollow
Kimball-Banner Line
Angora
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