Nebraska Guardsmen head to summer camps in multiple states
Members of the Nebraska National Guard begin two week summer training camps across several states. About 500 guardsmen from western Nebraska stay at Camp Guernsey in Wyoming and return June 15. The Sidney unit left for Guernsey Saturday. The Lincoln Medical Ambulance Company trains at Camp Ripley, Minnesota, returning this weekend. An armored division from southeastern Nebraska travels to Fort Carson, Colorado on July 19. A northeastern battalion heads to Camp Ripley in late August, returning in early September.
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Nebraska National Guard
Nebraska
Camp Guernsey
Wyoming
Sidney
Lincoln
Camp Ripley
Minn
Associated Press
Ft. Carson
Colo
Permits Down During May in Sidney Construction
Building permits in Sidney totaled 51000 for May, down from 81000 a year earlier. Most projects were remodeling and repair, with a 27600 cold storage building at state highway department property making up over half the total. Through May, permits reached 231000 versus 396000 in 1974.
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Sidney
State Highway Dept
County plan sent back to commission
County Commissioners sent Wheatbelt’s proposed County Comprehensive Plan and Zoning and Subdivision district plan back for around 30 changes. Planning Commission must hold a new public hearing on June 16 and the County on June 17, with Bob Britzrman available to answer questions. Additional funding allocations and contracts were approved, and veteran service candidates were interviewed for an upcoming appointment.
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Wheatbelt
Public Power District
Planning Commission
County Commissioners
Cal Corcoran
Bob Britzrman
Colorado
Veterans Service Committee
Orville Castens
Robert Hurst
Delmer Zalesky
Neinhaeser Construction Company
Lodgepole Creek
Clayton Spencer
Parkland Addition Plan Gets Preliminary OK in Sidney
The Sidney Planning Commission reorganized and gave preliminary approval to the Parkland Addition plan south of Legion Park. John Egging was elected chairman with Guy F. Bush as vice chairman. New members Gene Lienemann R C Cunningham Al Lukesh Carl Johnson joined the board, replacing Carl Olson and John Echternach. Parkland Development owns the property, bought from Upland Industries, a Union Pacific subsidiary. A zoning map for the addition with residential and commercial areas is to be proposed later this month.
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Sidney Planning Commission
Legion Park
John Egging
Guy F. Bush
Gene Lienemann
R. C. Cunningham
al Lukesh
Carl Johnson
Carl Olson
John Echternach
Planning Board
Parkland Development
Upland Industries
Union Pacific Railroad
Planning Commission
County land use inventory map presented to officials
Cheyenne County officials are shown a land use inventory map prepared by the USDA Rural Development Board chaired by Ken Sakurada. The map inventories current agricultural, community facility, road, rural housing, and farmstead uses and offers a broad brush appraisal of changes since data collection.
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Cheyenne County
Ken Sakurada
Usda Rural Development Board
Historical group to take renovation bids for Officers Quarters
At the Cheyenne County Historical Society monthly meeting bids for the Officers Quarters renovation were discussed. Formal bids will be submitted next week and the Restoration Committee may accept one not exceeding 4223 dollars. The project must start soon to meet a Nebraska Historical Society grant deadline of July 1.
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Cheyenne County Historical Society
Ifarold J. Kuhns
Ray Nienhueser
Elmer
Hartmann
Loraine Lafler
Lawrence Marrin
Nebraska Historical Society
Lodgepole seeks state grant for town pool complex
Lodgepole Nebraska 410 residents have half the funds for a heated Olympic sized pool and recreation center planned with outdoor courts and winter skating potential. The town seeks a 25 000 state grant matching the 15 000 raised with a 50 000 federal gift contingent on approval within a week.
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Nebraska
Lodgepole
Chappell
Sidney
State Game and Parks Commission
Oktoberfest meeting planned in Cheyenne County
The Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce will host a meeting at 7:45 PM in the City Council Chambers to discuss an October Oktoberfest celebration highlighting Southern Panhandle ethnic heritage with costumes music dancing and ethnic foods. The board also approved backing Ad Color Press Des Moines to create a 24 page color promotional book about Sidney and Cheyenne County printed 5500 copies with 500 for advertisers and 5000 for chamber use.
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Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce
Ed Cole
Board of Directors
Panhandle
Ad- Color Press
Des Moines
Iowa
Sidney
Cheyenne County
Snook
Chamber
Wheat crop outlook improves after rains praise from grain cooperatives
Ervin Wheeler of Potter Co-op Grain Co and Hart Quinn of Lodgepole report rains saved the wheat crop with fields looking good north of town and Gurley showing better than last year. Harvest poised between July 15 and 20 as farmers brace for potential lower prices while cautioning against weed sprays before the soft dough stage.
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Ervin Wheeler
Potter Co-op Grain Co
Hart Quinn
Lodgepole
Lee Foster
Farmers Union Co-op Association of
Dalton
Larry Miller
Dalton Co-op Association
Foster
Quinn
Wheeler
Potter
Ken Sakarada
Cele
Don Hoffman
Farmers Co-op Grain Co
Sidney
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Pam Beisner
Johnna Beisner
Celeste Hull
Jan
Beisner
Don Kinnersley
Scott Sabin
Glenn Morrison
Todd Holliday
Scott Holliday
Ron Noteboom
Egging Heads Planners
Grant
Hemingford and Sutherland
Dale Kastens
John Schneider
Schneider
Sunol
Scheider
Rick Kuhns
Steve Cook
City of Sidney
City Hall
Mary Beth Grange
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