Editorial Page notes Sidney Telegraph legacy and staff
The Sidney Telegraph, Western Nebraska’s oldest newspaper founded in 1873, publishes Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays from 830 Lith Ave Sidney Nebraska. It is an Associated Press associate member and Nebraska Press Association member, with recognition from the Nebraska Press Association for General Excellence.
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Nebraska Press Assn
Sidney Telegraph
the Telegraph Printing Co., Inc
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Sidney
Nebraska
Western Nebraska
The
Associated Press
As Other Editors See It Warns Against LB567 Tax Plan
The editorial attacks LB567 proposing a sales tax on meals and lodging to fund tourism, calling it a mercenary, class tax that would drive away visitors and burden hotel operators. It urges the unicameral to discard the measure and avoid harming Nebraska tourism.
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Revenue Committee
Morrison
Nebraska
Colorado
Wyoming
Unicameras
Let Farmers Propose Wheat Bushel Allotment Plan
Nebraskans and Great Plains growers urge readers to write Senators and Congressmen in support of a farmer drafted bushel allotment plan for wheat. They warn current programs fail, surpluses rise, and say a farmer driven plan could shift authority to the Secretary of Agriculture, hoping public pressure shapes congressional stance.
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Great Plains
Dave Martin
Congress
Secretary of Agriculture
Washington
Compounding the Felony in Castro Tractors for Humans Plan
The piece argues Castro's tractors for humans scheme is felonious and urges the United States to avoid involvement. It condemns the hostage invasion plan as ill advised and demeaning to Americans, noting recruits were not combat troops and warning of potential capitulation to Castro.
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Fidel Castro
Castro
United States
Cuba
Sidneyites honored by Nebraska colleges for service
O. J. Weymouth Sidney superintendent earned a Distinguished Service Award at Chadron. Rev. Henry Krohn received an honorary Doctor of Law from Concordia Lutheran Teachers College Seward. Rev. Robert L. Townsend will receive Doctor of Divinity at Wesleyan University Lincoln. All three are noted leaders in education and church service.
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Wesleyan Univrsity
Lincoln
Methodist Church
New Edison Honors Brighten a Banner Year for Edison
Thomas A. Edison, long dead, gains Hall of Fame recognition. His West Orange mansion opens as a national museum, adding a second Edison shrine alongside the Milan Ohio birthplace museum. His career spans telegraph shortcuts and famed inventions like the carbon transmitter and phonograph.
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Thomas A. Edison
Hall of Fame
West Orange
N. J
Milan
Edison
Dream to Pay National Debt With Monthly Donations
A narrator proposes an audacious monthly fund to reduce the national debt by soliciting voluntary contributions framed as humanitarian crises. He ridicules the plan after a banker calculates that 20 million dollars per month would not even cover interest, let alone principal, ending the day with a rueful note.
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Red China
Uncle Sam Moves In in a Time of Job Loss
In West Virginia and New England thousands of workers lose jobs to automation and changing industries. The piece argues unemployment requires new skills and potential relocation, challenging reliance on government welfare and praising personal initiative and self-reliance.
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West Virginia
New England
America
Detroit
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Uncle Sam
Senator Curtis urges long range sugar act extension
Senator Carl Curtis of Nebraska asks Congress for a long range extension of the sugar act to boost U S sugar production. He argues current sugar imports and diplomacy raise costs and weaken U S standing while producers and refiners fear overproduction and wasted investments without hearings. The unknown factor is how the State Department will use sugar diplomacy in the future.
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Carl Curtis
Congress
Nebraska
United States
General Treasury
Senator Curtis
America
North Platte Valley
Curtis
State Department
Two Pointed Tax Questions for Nebraska Lawmakers
A Nebraska Farmer piece critiques legislators who oppose broadening the tax base. It asks two pointed questions about fairness in farm taxes versus town taxes and what remedies lawmakers propose after voting against tax reforms. The list names many legislators from Omaha to rural towns.
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Nebraska
Adams
Omaha
Adamson
Neazel
Bowen
Red Cloud
Bridenbaugh
Dakota City
Claussen
Leigh
Diers
Panhandle Mother Tackles Pie-In-The-Face Humor Debate
Betty Knicely critiques Dick Ashbaugh's writer guidance and defends women humorists. She argues married women can craft strong humor about frustration, cites writers like Phyllis McGinley, and urges candid portrayals of mother wife housekeeper life. She asserts women possess resilience and warmth, challenging stereotypes.
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Dick Ashbaugh
Writer's Handbook
Mr. Ashbaugh
Jean Kerr
Cornelia Otis Skinner
Emily Kimbrough
Alice Pardee
Phyllis McGinley
Webster
Tr. Ashbaugh
Susie
Lincoln Family Origins and Education Recalled in Letter
A reader from Gering Nebraska reflects on Abraham Lincoln’s parents, arguing they were intelligent and educated, cites family history in Virginia Kentucky and Indiana, and defends Lincoln’s education and heritage with details about Elizabeth Lincoln Chrisman and the Lincoln lineage. The letter asserts Bathsheba Herring Lincoln’s schooling, notes land disputes in early Kentucky, and preserves family artifacts including Elizabeth Lincoln Chrisman’s writings.
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Betty Knicely
Lincoln
Elizabeth Christian
John Lincoln Chrisman
Abraham Lincoln
England
Shenandoah Valley
Linville Creek
Lincoln Burying Ground
Abraham
Jacob Lincoln
Elizabeth
Joseph Chrisman
Bathsheba Herring
Daniel Boone
Kentucky
Hananiah Lincoln
Heen Ng
Bathsheba Herring Lincoln
Tom
Nancy Hanks
Tany
Tom Lincoln
Virginia
Cor
Elizabeth Lincoln
Indiana
Tlllinois
Elizabeth Lincoln Chrisman
Herithd
Gallatin County
Montana
Trousseau
Africanus
Anne
Liberia marks 114 years of independence amid African status legacy
Liberia celebrates 114 years of independence as the only African republic for over a century. The United States public spends more than three million dollars daily on newspapers.
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Liberia
Africa
U. S
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