Frontier service at Sidney faces boardings short of CAB quota
Frontier Airlines reports Sidney boardings for mid June run at 59 per day, well below the Civil Aeronautics Board target of five per day. City and Chamber leaders stress June is crucial to save the route, with CAB deadline July 1 to prove viability and avoid cancellation, while noting March and April showed improvement but totals remain below prior years.
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Sidney
Frontier Airlines
Dale Kindgad
Frontier
Pease
Civil Aeronautics Board
Andi
Chamber of Commerce
CAB
O.K. South
Sidney Shows April Gain in Nebraska Retail Report
The June Nebraska Business in Nebraska report notes Sidney’s April business up 6.7 percent from last year as part of a statewide retail rise of 3.5 percent. Liquor stores surged 29.8 percent, farm equipment 11.3 percent, and major cities including Chadron South Sioux City York and Holdrege posted solid gains.
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Sidney
Nebraska
University of Nebraska Bureau of Business Research
Chadron
South Sioux City
York
Hastings
Fills City
Holdrege
Norfek
Lincoln
Columbus
Fremont
Omaha
Kearney
Grand Island
Fair
Driver Bruised In Truck-Pickup Crash Near Sidney
On a Friday afternoon a pickup driven by Richard E Carmen of Sidney rear-ended a Pepsi bottle truck driven by John D Thomson incoming from Bufalo Rent. Carmen suffered serious bruises and was treated. Thomson reported no injuries. Damage to the pickup was about 250 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Molb Parsak
Pepsi- -Cala Bo Tling Co Dever
John D Thomson
Sidney
Richard E Carmen
Richard Carmen
Mr Thompson
Training Camp Set At Halsey For 4-H Clubs
Mrs. Max Childers and Jeanne Miller of Sidney will lead the annual 4-H conservation and leadership training at Camp Halsey through June 2. Attendees from Cheyenne County include Ernestine and Barbara Childers Janice Treinen Milan Lessman Gayland Bode Dan Van Anne and Jim Walsh. Registration is supported by local banks and shops. Topics cover wildlife soil and range conservation career options in conservation. Resource teachers come from the Nebraska National Forest Soil Conservation Service and Agricultural Extension Service. Basic leadership and hands on practice are included along with geology stars study water safety and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Max Childers
Jeanne Miller
Sidney
Camp Halsey
Dalton State Bank
Peterson and Pivonka Insurance Co
Lodgepole
Star Market
Nebraska National Forest
Soil Conservation Service
Agricultural Extension Service
Bud Myhr To Manage Colorado Hardware
Bud Myhr, longtime manager of Cheyenne County Lumber Co in Sidney, will leave July 1 to become manager of Osborn Hardware Co in Fort Collins. He has over a decade with Sterling Lumber and Investment Co and previously ran Estes Park yards, with four children to relocate for college. The Cheyenne County Lumber Co awaits a new manager.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bud) Myhr
Cheyenne County Lumber Co
Ward
Osborn Hardware Co
Fort Collins
Myhr
Sidney
Estes Park
Colo
Sterling Lumber and Investment Co
Sdney
Nebraska
Colorado
Myhrs
Younpeters
Cheyenne Coumty Lumber Co
Lost stock rack found at patrol office in Sidney
The Safety Patrol has a stock rack sideboard for a pickup truck at the patrol office in Sidney and will return it to its owner if identified. Sgt Mel Busekist said the rack was found near Sioux Army Depot and turned in at the office on Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Safety Patrol
Sidney
Mel Busekist
Sioux Army Depot
U. P. Diesels To Be Largest Ever
Alco Products in Schenectady New York to build three diesel electric locomotives for Union Pacific Railroad each rated at 5500 horsepower. Total 16500 horsepower when coupled. Value approximately one million dollars. Union Pacific president Arthur E. Stoddard cites need for high power long haul freight units to meet fast schedules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alco Products, Inc
Schenectady
Union Pacific Railroad
Alco
U.P
Arthur E. Stoddard
Union Pacific
Nebraska Eyes Oil Discovery in Hitchcock and Morrill Counties
The Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission reports a possible oil find at Orvil C. Smith No. 1 Randall in Hitchcock County with two tests in the Lansing formation. A new wildcat well, Edward Mike Davis No. 1 Wright in Morrill County, will be drilled by Love-Coursen Drilling Co. Nebraska’s weekly oil production averaged 62 960 barrels.
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Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
Hitchcock County
Orvil
C. Smith
Randall
Lansing
Panhandle
Morrill County
Edward Mike Davis
Wright
Love-Coursen Drilling Co
Nebraska
90-Year-Old Telegraph To Get New Face
The Sidney Telegraph will upgrade to web-offset printing this summer making its thrice weekly editions faster and capable of limited color. The 90 year old paper will install a Goss Community web-offset press and new plate making gear, moving from hot metal to cold type and adding magazine quality image reproduction.
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Sidney Telegraph
Telegraph
Sidney
Goss
Nebraska
Lincoln
205 Get Jobs In This Area
In May the Sidney employment office placed 205 people in jobs. Nineteen were handicapped, 38 women, 38 war veterans. 32 worked on farms with the rest spread across nine industries. Many students seek summer work as school ends. Missile base employment affects unemployment figures in Banner Kimball Cheyenne counties.
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Sidney
Francis Hiner
Hiner
Nebraska
Banner
Kimball
Cheyenne
Elks Lodge 1894 Plans Regular Meeting Tonight
Elks Lodge No. 1894 holds its regular meeting and initiation this evening. A dinner is served at 6 30 with the meeting beginning afterward.
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Elks Lodge No. 1894
Park water system completion brings Legion Park irrigation closer
Four year effort to lay plastic piping and install sprinklers in Legion Park West section ends. Floyd Sanks, water department superintendent, reports about 25 percent of the park is now served underground. crews Leon Drake and Bill Degaugh aided the project. Future plans include extending automatic irrigation to the entire park and a similar setup at the sewage disposal plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Legion Park
City Water Department
Floyd Sanks
Water Department
Sanks
Mr Sanks
Leon Drake
Bill Degaugh
McMillen Named Oasis President
R. E McMillen executive vice president of Oasis Oil Company of Libya Inc has been elected president of Oasis He succeeds T A Van Griethuysen who moves to Continental 601 Company He joined Marathon in 1941 as a petroleum engineer and has held multiple production posts in Michigan Texas and Oklahoma before becoming Sidney district manager in 1954.
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R. E McMillen
Oasis Oil Company of Libya, Inc
Marathon
Sidney
Neb
Oasis
T. A. van Griethuysen
Continental 601
McMillen
Mt. Pleasant
Mich
Michigan
Texas
Oklahoma
Findlay
Circle of Safety checks 395 vehicles in Sidney
Stan Larabee of the Sidney New Car Dealers Association said 385 cars were checked in the Circle of Safety program on Saturday with 116 found defective mainly turn signals and parking lights. Five non functioning vehicles were repaired and rechecked for a sticker. The oldest car tested was a Model A Ford.
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Glenn Knopp
Si Griffith
Sidney New Car Dealers Assn
10Th Avenue
Stan Larabee
Sidney New Car Dealers Association
The
Telegraph
Circle of Safety
Larabee
Sidney
Tes
Elwells
Sidney Auto Sales Kokirr M
Hahler Motor Co
Gihen Fo-4
Halverson- Larahee
Medtex Professonal Au
Denny Giffert
Orville Krauter
Bill M
Frankie Matthes
Glen Knopp
Explorer
Gary Hawkins
Post 30
Explorer Scouts
Potter Youth Candidate In Boys State Election
Gary Larson of Potter has been named a candidate for Railway Commissioner at the Cornhusker Boys State in Lincoln. Larson, son of Mr and Mrs Leon V Larson, attends the June 15 21 event as one of several Cheyenne County boys with a National Party ticket in the contest.
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Gary Larson
Potter
Lincoln
Young Larson
Leon V. Larson
Cheyenne County
Larson
National Party
14 Man Crew To Work Here For One Year
Glen Curtis of the State Highway Department said a preliminary interstate highway survey will start near Sidney around August 1. The westward survey runs from North Platte to Degallala as Ogallala headquarters move to Sidney for about a year. The crew of fourteen includes seven with families needing housing and two with furniture, as hearings on route and right of way will follow initial line work.
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Glen Curtis
State Highway Department
Sidney
North Platte
Degallala
Ogallala
Curtis
Strey
Chappell
Nebraska
Wyoming
Pine Bluffs
Sidney Municipal Airport
Lenz Takes Over Sidney Glass and Paint Co.
Willis C. Lenz of Sidney becomes owner and manager of Moore's Paint and Glass Co., which began in 1915 as Sidney Glass and Paint Co. The Moores sold the business after a lengthy agreement, with Lenz having joined Sidney in 1953 after ten years with J C Penney and serving as assistant manager there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moore's Paint and Glass Co
Willis C
Bill) Lenz
Sidney
George Moore
Sidney Glass and Paint Co
Moore
Lenz
Moores
Central City
J. C. Penney Co
Phelps Family Mourns Father’s Death After Illness
Sidney High School board director Sid Phelps loses his father after a lengthy illness. The elder Phelps died Saturday at Hot Springs Veterans Hospital in Hot Springs Maryland. Funeral services are set for Tuesday in Hot Springs. Survivors include his widow and Sid Phelps, the couple’s only child. The family planned to travel to Hot Springs for the week.
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Sid Phelps
Sidney High School
Bouid
Hot Springs Veterans Hospital
Hot Springs
M. D
Phelps
Zane Dickinson
Sidney
Mrs. Phelps
Band Concert Tuesday To Be Given As Usual
Tuesday's summer band concert will be presented as usual in the Legion Park bandshell. In Sid Phelps absence the concert will be conducted by Ron Riedler, assistant and junior high concert band director.
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Legion Park
Sid Phelps
Ron Riedler
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Interstate Highway Survey
Dean Wilson
Ed Haupt
Ned Swaeby
Halsey
Bud Myhr
Colorado Hardware
U. P
Elks
South
Enterprises Inc
Arlo Jones
10Th
11Th Ave
Spruce
Toledo Sts
Jones
Howard G. Duncan
Scotsbluff
R. E. McMillen
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