Harvest Near Predicted as Labor Demand Rises
The wheat harvest in Cheyenne County should begin around July 10 and finish by August 1 if weather cooperates. Nebraska and Panhandle regions expect early harvesting to start July 1 and complete by August 1. Labor and machine demand is projected to be as heavy as last year, despite a nationwide drop in production. Winter wheat yields and planted acres in Nebraska and Kansas appear robust, with 1959 crops tracking well above ten-year averages. Peak labor needs are forecast for Hastings Holdrege Hastings area July 1–10 and other zones through late July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne County
Department of Labor
Nebraska
Here
Panhandle
Kansas
Hastings-Holdrege
Platte, Grant
Ogadala
Sidney
Alliance
Mother Wins Custody In Cheyenne County Divorce
Helen Jane Coleman was granted a divorce from Virgil Lee Coleman in Cheyenne County District Court. Judge John H. Kuns awarded custody of three minor children and $100 monthly support. The couple had married at Grant, Nebraska, on September 17, 1939.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Jane Coleman
Virgil Lee Coleman
Cheyenne County District Court
John H. Kuns
Kimball
Two Cars Collide Injuring Girl After City Collision
Cars driven by Cliff Thompson and Mrs John Cook collided at 1 pm at 12th and Jackson. Thompson's car struck the Cook vehicle on the side. Both cars damaged. Mrs Cook transported her daughter with a head bump to a local doctor's office. police had no injury extent at 2:15 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cliff G. Thompson
Newton St
John Cook
Parkview Rd
12Th and
Jackson St
Sol Willis
Ervin Smith
Thompson 5
Cook
Paul Weible 74 Dies of Heart Attack in Dalton
Farmer Paul Weible died suddenly Monday at his Dalton home from a heart attack. Funeral set Friday at 2 p.m. from Trinity Lutheran Church Dalton with burial in the family plot at Dalton Cemetery. He was born April 25 1885 in Nebraska City. He married Wilhelmia Klugherz in Johnson Nebraska on May 18 1910. Survivors include his wife two adopted children Paul Weible Jr and Grace Marx seven grandchildren and five sisters and three brothers News notes from Craig Mortuary handled arrangements. Memorials designated to Trinity Lutheran Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Weible
Dalton
Trinity Lutheran Church
J. B Rapley
Craig
Nebraska City
Mr. Weible
Jacob
Katherine Ritter Weible
Wilhelmia Klugherz
Johnson
Neb
Cheyenne County
Paul Weible Jr
Tucson
Ariz
Grace Marx
Adolph
Ashland
Albert
Fred
Oshkosh
Fred Kastens
Lodgepole
Fredericka Schmid
Tecumseh
Herman Bremer
Henry Paggiemeyer
Henry Hohnroth
Margaret Leoia
Six Queen Candidates Top Ranked Cow Hands Billed At Potter Rodeo
Summit Rodeo presents the Potter Rodeo June 6 and 7 with top hands Don Fedderson and Dick Stull. Benny Reynolds and Clark McIntyre among entrants. Queen crowning Sunday after Saturday Legion dance. Five events including bare back bronc, calf roping, saddle bronc, steer wrestling, bull riding. RCA sponsorship. Queen contestants Bonie Donaldson, Georgia Debus, Janice Vowers, Marilyn Olson, Lorraine Onigkeit, Karen Fitzgerald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clark McIntyre
Hugh Posey Jr
Jim Wise
Wheatland
Tommy Jones
Laramie
Summit Rodeo
Bonnie Donaldson
Sterling
Sterling Livestock
Georgia Debus
Scott’s
Janice Vowers
Kimball
Bank of Kimball
Marilyn Olson
Pine Bluffs
Jaycees
Lorraine Onigkeit
Pine Bluffs Roping Club
Karen Fitzgerald
Pine Bluffs Jaycee
RCA
Funeral services set Saturday for tractor victim Ed Sterett
Edwin R Sterett 45 of Potter area killed in a tractor accident on his farm seven miles northeast of Potter. Funeral services Saturday at 2 pm at St Pauls Lutheran Church northeast of Potter. burial in church cemetery. Memorial designated to The Lutheran Hour. Survivors include his wife Amanda daughter Karen and his mother plus three sisters.
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Ed Sterett
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Potter
Edwin Sterett
Sterett
Hawesville
Edwin Ryan Sterett
Boyd
Nancy Sterett
U. S. Armed Forces
Amanda Gemeinhardt
Miami
Fla
Sioux Ordnance Depot
C .G Gemeinhardt
St Paul's Church
Lutheran Laymen’s League
American Legion Post
291
Amanda
Karen Kay
R. Denhard
Ethel Clark
Tampa
O B. Atkins
Valley Station
Halseth Gets Five Years Probation For Forgery
John Halseth of Worland Wyoming was brought back to Cheyenne County to face forgery charges. District Judge John H. Kins placed him on five years probation. The forgery case stems from the same incident that also led to a one to three year sentence for breaking and entering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Halseth
Worland
Wyo
Cheyenne County
State Reformatory
John H. Kins
Halseth
Royalty Queen Betty Derailed By Kimball Police In Transit to Iowa Hoboe Convention
Boxcar Betty, Queen of the Hoboes, rode through Sidney on her way to Britt Iowa for the annual Hobo Convention August 18. The 66 year old former nurse and artist was briefly detained Tuesday night by Kimball police for climbing a boxcar but released after breakfast. She says she will likely retain her title, noting she travels across all 49 states every year and has just returned from Alaska. Betty travels east selling The Bowery News and dismisses being a panhandler asking for 25 cents. She wears a Fort Sidney Days button and plans to promote the celebration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boxcar
Betty
Sidney
Britt
Iowa
Hobo
Kimball
Alaska
Betty Link
Bowery
Voice of Society
Fort Sidney
Telegraph
Parade Deadline Nears For Fort Sidney Days Parade
Parade chairman John Dissmore announced at the Jaycees meeting that nearly two dozen float entries have been received with at least 12 more expected plus individual entries. He noted the entry deadline is June 10, leaving one week to enter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Sidney
John Dissmore
Dissmore
Jaycees
Injury Victim, 5, Still Reported In Serious Condition
Five-year-old Keith Allan Marsh, critically injured after being hit by a car Monday at Tenth and Illinois, was listed as improved but still in serious condition at Sidney Memorial Hospital. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Dale Marshall. Police Chief Sol Willis said the motorist was Joan Schuermann, about 25, who did not see the boy and stopped after the impact. The boy suffered a fractured skull and arm and was walking with his parents when he ran into the street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keith Allan Marshall
Sidney Memorial Hospital
Dale Marshall
Sol Willis
Tenth
Illinois
Joan Schuermann
Miss Schuermann
Wills
Willis
Coyotes Targeted as County Board Extends Program
Cheyenne County Commissioners extended for one year the coyote control program now conducted jointly with Kimball and Morrill Counties. The decision was made at the Tuesday meeting to continue the regional effort and funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne
Kimball, Morrill
First Degree Murder Charge Filed In Sidney Death
A first degree murder charge was filed in Cheyenne County Court against Austin Lanier after Oliver Ivory 31 died from a gunshot wound. Ivory had been shot Friday at a Sidney rooming house and died early Tuesday at Sidney Memorial Hospital. Funeral plans are with Gehrig and Son Funeral Home as Ivory’s mother Lula Mae Matthews of Los Angeles arrives. Ivory’s wife Otha Lee is missing, likely in Texarkana Texas. Ivory’s daughter Mamie Louise 12 and a son are in the care of relatives. No inquest will be held. Lanier, from Tennessee, told police the shooting followed a money dispute. A gun tied to Lanier was found at the scene. Ivory had lived in Sidney about four months while working construction. this is Sidney’s second slaying this year following Roddy Bene’s death.
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Cheyenne County Court
Austin Lanier
Oliver Ivory
Sidney Memorial Hospital
Ivory
Sidney
Gehrig and Son Funeral Home
Lula Mae Matthews
Los Angeles
Otha Lee
Texarkana
Tex
Mamie Louise
Lanier
Oliver
Oklahoma City
Okla
Tennessee
Sidney-Scottsbluff
Roddy J. Bene
59 NU Graduate Named to County Extension Post
Leonard Koertner of Bladen Nebraska was hired as Assistant County Extension Agent for Cheyenne County. He starts June 8, succeeding Charles Stonecipher who resigned for six months active National Guard duty. Koertner graduates Saturday from the University of Nebraska College of Agriculture with an extension major and had training in Keith and Arthur counties last year. He is a 1954 Bladen High School graduate, son of Mr and Mrs Reuben Koertner who farm south of Bladen. The Cheyenne County Extension Sponsoring Board approved the action Monday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Koertner
Bladen
Neb
Cheyenne County
Koertner
Charles Stonecipher
National Guard
Stonecipher
University of Nebraska College of Agriculture
Keith
Arthur
Bladen High School
Reuben Koertner
Cheyenne County Extension Sponsoring Board
Howard Reimers
Dalton
Ralph Spearow
Sidney
Albin Olsen
Short-Time Resident Dies In Hospital Here
Mrs. Ruth Hernandez about 40 died just before noon in Memorial Hospital where she had been taken Monday suffering from a heart condition. Her home was thought to be in St. Francis South Dakota and she had been a resident of Sidney only a short time. Survivors include three children living at Rosebud Reservation South Dakota. Funeral arrangements at Gehrig and Son Funeral Home are pending word from relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Hernandez
Memorial Hospital
St. Francis
S. D
Sidney
Rosebud Reservation
South Dakota
The
Gehrig and Son Funeral Home
Huck Finn Costume Contest Tops IC's Sponsoring Derby
The Sidney Jaycees with KSID sponsor a youth fishing derby for ages five to fourteen at Legion Lake Lagoon on Sunday June 14 at 2 p.m. Stocking details arrive from the Game Commission. Prizes awarded by age groups for first and largest fish, with a grand prize from Read's Army Surplus Store. Homemade tackle required. no reels. bait by parents. free ice cream for contestants.
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The
Sidney Jaycees
KSID
Legion Lake Lagoon
Jaycees
State Game, Forrestation and Parks Commission
Paul Todd
Game Commission
American Legion Park
Becky Thatcher
Fuck Finn
Read
Army Surplus
School Board Names Jones Principal and Hinn As Assistant Principal
Sidney Nebraska school board named E. Thomas C. Jones as principal of the secondary schools and George Hinn as assistant principal and director of the music department. The change follows the resignation of Dr. Mel Everingham who becomes Beatrice superintendent. Hinn will supervise the music program and direct activities, replacing Jones in those roles, with a new band director to be hired.
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Jones
Hinn
E. Thomas C
Tom” Jones
George Hinn
Mel Everingham
Everingham
Beatrice
Mr. Hinn
Sidney
Glenn A. Lundstrom
Lundstrom
Grand Island
Lincoln
State Department of Education
Nelson
Allan
Newport High School
Wayne State Teachers College
University of Nebraska
Exemplification Rites Sunday for 60 Knights in Nebraska
Knights of Columbus Bishop Hunkeler Assembly Fourth Degree to hold one of western Nebraska’s largest exemplifications for a class of sixty at 1 30 p m Sunday including clergy and laymen from Sidney Alliance Scottsbluff Chadron North Platte Lexington and Kimball A banquet for members and spouses follows at 7 p m at Fort Sidney Motor Hotel Monsignor Raymond Miles of Kearney will be principal speaker Dr C B Dorwart of Sidney toastmaster Faithful Navigator Arthur Lenzen of Sidney leads the assembly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hunkeler
Assembly
Knights
St. Patrick's Church
Sidney
Nebraska
Alliance
Scottsbluff
Chadron
North Platte
Lexington
Kimball
Fort Sidney Motor Hotel
Raymond Miles
Kearney
C. B Dorwart
Bishop Hunkeler
Arthur Lenzen
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Legion Dance
Legion
Don Fedderson
Dick Stull
Don
Benny Reynolds
Montana
Lk Karen
Safety Patrol
Richard Brauer
Royalty
New Asst
Huck’ Finn
Ic's
Goon
Wayne, Neb
Madison
Wis
University of Wisconsin
University of Iowa
Springfield
Mass
Portland
Ore
Sidney High School
Chadron State Teachers College
Rushville High School
U. S. Army
Boston
American Transportation Corps
Tom Jones
S.H.S
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