Two-Day Western Nebraska Wheat Health Tour Finds Disease-Free Crop
Veteran plant pathologists from the University of Nebraska reported winter wheat across western Nebraska shows exceptional disease resistance with no rust or major infections found during a two day field tour led by agronomist Charles Fenster. They cautioned hail remains the top risk while weather or hot humid conditions elsewhere could threaten future yields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Nebraska College of Agriculture
Charles Fenster
Box Butte
Alliance
Lincoln
North Platte West
Fenster
M. G. Boosalis
John Weithing
Nebraska
Panhandle
Mr. Fenster
Texas
Colorado
Kansas
Cheyenne County
Sidney
Dalton Table
Possible Oil Discovery Seen Near Dalton Vocational School
The Western Nebraska Vocational Technical School at Sioux Army Depot plans to open Oct. 3 with five courses and at least 150 students. Tuition is 84 dollars per quarter. a full term runs 18 quarters. The state seeks 1,200 acres of depot property and buildings. Director designate James Roudebush starts today and will confer with Lt. Col Cyril Williams in Sioux Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Nebraska Vocational Technical School
Sioux Army Depot
Cecil Stanley
State Department of Education
Stanley
Sulvey
Mr. Stanley
Army
James Roudebush
Vo-Tech
Sidney
Roudebush
Sioux
Cyril P. Williams
New Cable TV Equipment Being Installed
Work has begun to modernize Sidney's cable TV system. About 25 miles of line will be upgraded and 55 amplifiers replaced. The project aims to add channels 2 and 6 from Denver and an educational channel 13 if feasible, with Channel 3 weather scans moved to avoid Sterling interference. Completion targeted by September 1, with progress of about a mile nine per week and total cost between 50 000 and 60 000 dollars.
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Sidney
Dave Willis
Sidnaey Community TV
Denver
Channel 3
Sterling
Laramie
Wye
Willis
Country Club Heights
Charles Kline
Scottsbluff
Sol Willis Jr
Sol Willis II
Bil Gilgren
Well On Cape Farm May Be Field Opener
An oil discovery may be in the making in northern Cheyenne County as Banner Drilling Corp and Production Cattle and LandCo have run production casing at the No 1 Cape about a mile north of Dalton. The Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission approved permits for ten new Nebraska wells including Enbrook’s No 1 State in Cheyenne County and several wildcat projects across Kimball, Scotts Bluff, Morrill and Chase counties with various contractors and drillers involved. Miles Drilling Co is slated to drill No 1 Peterson in Chase County to about 5000 feet using its own tools.
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Cheyenne County
Banner Drilling Corp
Production Cattle
LandCo
No. 1
Cape
Dalton
Marathon Oil Co
Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
Nebraska
Enbrook Oil and Gas Co
Ring-West
Regal Drilling Co
Tom Wessels
Horst
Cse
Regal
Skelly Oil Co
Floyd Brothers
Fernquist
Kimball County
Toltek Drilling Co
Nelson
Toltek
Bennett CC
Scotts Bluff County
Enbrook
Rodney P. Calvin
John L. Miller
Morrill County
Stuarco Oil Co
Donald C. Winslow
Blake
Banner County
Stuarco Drilling Co
Toltek and
Delta Petroleum, Inc
Whipple
Miles
Civil Air Patrol aids missing Piper Comanche search
The Sidney Wing of the Civil Air Patrol joined CAP flyers across the state to search for a missing Piper Comanche that departed Dillon Montana two days earlier en route to Kentucky. Pilot Luther Gardner, 45, of Decatur Georgia, and passengers Jacline Gardner, 16, and Neil Gardner, his brother, were aboard. Authorities focused on Scottsbluff refueling and Lincoln to Kentucky routes as clues, with CAP units from Ogallala North Platte Trenton and Lincoln assisting from Lewellen to the Wyoming border. weathered mountains raise fears the aircraft is lost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney Wing
Civil Air Patrol
CAP
Dillon
Mont
Kentucky
Luther Gardner
Decatur
Jacqueline
Neil
Gardner
Scottsbluff
Nebraska
Bob Buecker
Alen Karnik
Sidney
Lewellen
Wyoming
Ogallala
North Platte
Trenton
Lincoln
Carnival Rides And Store Bargains In Sidney
Tuesday and Wednesday mark Carnival of Values Days in Sidney with a dozen carnival rides on Jackson Street downtown. Children ride for 15 cents with coupons from Sidney Chamber of Commerce members while parents shop bargains. Sidney High School Band Auxiliary serves homemade ice cream pie coffee and drinks at lith and Jackson near the Northwestern Bell building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney
Jackson St
Sidney Chamber of Commerce
Sidney High School
Anj Dackson St
Northwestern Bell Telephone
Kimball 1 80 Bid Involves 2 6 Mile Job
Lincoln The Missouri Valley Construction Co of Grand Island was named apparent low bidder on more than 3 million dollars of interstate highway work in Kimball and Lincoln counties. The letting totaled 9.66 million versus an advance estimate of 10.5 million, with bids opened Thursday.
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Lincoln
Missouri Valley Construction Co
Grand Island
Kimball
State Department of Roads
Wyoming State Line
Bushnell
Kimball County
Itt
Sutherland and
Hershey
Lincoln County
Mammoth
Sutherland
Missouri Valley
Dugdale Construction Co
Omaha
Irvington
Wheat Growers Meet Set for June 20 in Lincoln
Nebraska Wheat Growers to hold a general meeting at Ogahala on June 20. President Ray Davis announced discussions will cover 1967 farm program changes and marketing plans. He noted results of a recent Washington tour will be covered and warned against over optimism risking program abandonment if 6.2 results prove weak.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Ogahala
Ray Davis
Potter
Washington, D.C
Davis
Vietnamese Visitors to Aid World’s Largest Co op Power Setup
Four Vietnamese visitors who toured Sidney and Cheyenne County last week will join the team supervising and operating the world’s largest electrical cooperative. The delegation studied management, administration and field operation under Wheatbelt Public Power District leaders including Charles Ham. A banquet at Dude’s Steak House honored Mr. Khue Hinh Yen and Su with interpreter Miss Catherine LaFourcade. They thanked Wheatbelt officials and expressed appreciation for U.S. efforts in Vietnam. The group then proceeded to Texas for further study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney
Cheyenne County
United States
Viet Nam
REA
Charles Ham
Dude’s
Wheatbelt Public Power District
Ham
Wheatbelt
Khue
Hinh
Yen
Catherine LaFourcade
Gene Leiie~man
Bill Schulz Day Envelopes Promote April 18 Benefit
Boy Scout Troop 85 has distributed donation envelopes to Sidney business houses for Bill Schulz Day honoring the retiring 36 year sheriff. Contributions may be delivered to Sidney National Bank or mailed via post office to be forwarded to the bank. Banquet tickets remain on sale and due by Wednesday. event at Elks Auditorium starts at seven Saturday with talks by Sheriff supporters.
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Bill Schulz
Sidney Business
Boy Scout
Sidney National Bank
Panhandle forecast predicts fair, warm spell ahead
Panhandle weather outlook calls for fair to tonight and Tuesday with lows near 40 to 50 and highs 70 to 80 with near zero precipitation. Five day outlook shows highs around 75 to 80 and lows 45 to 50, with a mid period cool spell and scattered showers, courtesy Frontier Airlines.
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Panhandle
Frontier Airlines
Photo Center Grand Opening Starts Tuesday
The Photo Center holds a grand opening Tuesday and Wednesday at its new location, 931 Illinois, former Fashion City site. Owners Mr. and Mrs. Vern Draper invite all to visit the larger headquarters and enter for prizes including a Kodak Instamatic 104, a Sony transistor radio, and three photo albums. Free favors for visitors and balloons for children.
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Illinois
Fashion City
Vern Draper
Wheat Acreage Boost Expected for Cheyenne County in 1967
Cheyenne County ASC awaits 1967 wheat acreage figures as Nebraska is set to gain about 15 percent more wheat ground, roughly 21 000 acres if Cheyenne matches the state increase. With 22 bushels per acre, county output could rise by nearly half a million bushels. officials expect the numbers today while Wheat Growers Association president Ray Davis cautions against leaving the federal program too soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne County
ASC
Nebraska
Department of Agriculture
Lawrence Thompson
Thompson
Ray Davis
Potter
Nebraska Wheat Growers Asen
Davis
Wheat price support set at 51.25 per bushel for 1967
Secretary Orville Freeman announced the 1967 wheat crop grower price support will average 51.25 per bushel, unchanged from this year. Farmers urged to raise plantings 15 percent to replenish dwindling supplies. Cooperating growers who stay within acreage allotments will receive 40 percent of the expected production as supplementary payments, about 1.32 per bushel for the 1966 crop and similar for next year. Payments made next year on roughly 520 million bushels. The program aims for a minimum blend price averaging about 1.78 per bushel.
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Washington
Orville L. Freeman
Local Rotarians Set for Denver Rotary Convention
Local Rotarians travel to Denver for the International Rotary Convention expected to draw about 15,000 attendees from around the world. The Denver group includes Jack R Knicely and wife Susan, Bill Vaughn and wife, Elmer Hartmann and wife, Jim Keating and wife, and H C Craig and wife. Entertainment featured the Mormon Tabernacle Choir with Monday talks by Secretary of State Rusk, England’s foreign minister, and an astronaut. The program also includes Metropolitan Opera singers and a president’s ball at Elitch Gardens with free rides for attending children.
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Denver
Jack R
Knicely
Susan
John
Bill Vaughn
Rodney
Elmer Hartmann
Jim Keating
H.C. Craig
Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Dean Rusk
Hearing Set For Farm Power Line
A hearing before the State Railway Commission is set for June 29 on Wheatbelt Public Power Districts plan to build a quarter mile transmission line in Garden County to serve an irrigation well. Union Pacific Railroad and landowner Carroll Reese contest routing, Reese seeking a parallel line along the railroad right of way. Wheatbelt remains passive in the suit awaiting the hearing outcome.
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Garden County
State Railway Commission
Wheatbelt Public Power District
Union Pacific Railroad
Carroll Reese
Reese
Ovallala Clothier
Nebraska Supreme Court Upholds Dismissal in Collision Suit
The Nebraska Supreme Court sustained the Cheyenne County District Court ruling dismissing Pauline Mills suit against Lavern L. Bauer. Mills claimed Bauer’s negligence caused an automobile crash that killed her husband, R. D. Mills, affecting field of damages and liability.
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Nebraska Supreme Court
Cheyenne County
Pauline Mills
Lavern L. Bauer
Bauer
Hospital Ready For Medicare
The Social Security administration says less than a third of the estimated 7 654 hospitals with facilities usable for older persons under Medicare have signed up. As of Thursday 2 107 hospitals had signed, with 2 715 more meeting requirements. Memorial Hospital Sidney reports its Medicare agreement mailed ten days ago and meets all rules, including civil rights provisions.
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Social Security Administration
Welfare
John W. Gardner
Darold Hendee
Memorial Hospital
Sidney
Hendee
Mrs. Sutter 82. longtime Sidney resident dies
Stacy Hajek Sutter, 82, died Saturday night at Memorial Hospital after two days there. Born August 21, 1883, in Czechoslovakia, she came to the United States with her parents at eight, lived in Crook, Colorado, before moving to Sidney in 1907. She married Alfred W. Sutter in 1907. he died in 1949. Funeral 2 p.m. Tuesday at Gehrig & Son Funeral Home. interment Greenwood Cemetery. Survived by daughter Agnes Peters, brother John Hajek, three grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.
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Stacy Sutter
Memorial Hospital
Gehrig & Son
Harold Massie
Greenwood Cemetery
Stazy Hajek
Czechoslovakia
John
Mary Svoboda Hajek
Crook
Colo
Beffore
Sidney
Coleridge, Neb
Alfred W. Sutter
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Cape Farm
Mr. Hinh
Miss LaFourcade
Mr. Khue
Mr. Yen
Elks
Shhulz
Photo Center
Mrs. Sutter
Sutter
1St Methodist Church
WBA Lodge
Fred Peters
Agnes
John Hajek
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