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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1966
Page
15
Oshkosh Jaycees plan a large July 4th festival with a Garden County Centennial Queen on a parade float. Baseball games, free Kiddie rides, a watermelon feed, and a major fireworks display followed by street and square dancing highlight the day.
Alliance City Schools expect a 60 mill levy for the 1966 67 fiscal year, about 1.5 mills more than the current 58.5. Supt. Marven Rosen presented the figures to the Board of Education, with four mills needed for a $48,000 building fund to finish the Vocational Education building project.
Three hundred four lots of registered Hereford bulls heifers and yearlings sold at Furman Ranch dispersal for an average of 449. Buyers from 12 states and Canada attended. Top bull Cruiser Mischief sold for 10100 to Kenyon Herefords of Toledo Iowa bred by Middles warth Herefords Henry. Kenyon also bought the top selling female at 1575 and paid 1400 and 1000 for two other females. Half interest in herd bull Advance Regulator sold to Wyoming Hereford Ranch Cheyenne Wy for 5500. the ranch already owned the other half.
Oshkosh Community Hospital was rejected as a practical hospital under Medicare. Faults in the current building raise concerns about future licensing by the American Medical Association. CHAPPELL Robert Richards says the Nebraska Supreme Court granted leave to docket error proceedings in State v. Faircloth et al, with appeal to be heard in the fall. Defense is led by William Padley of Ogallala.
Bridgeport hosts one luncheon stop as 40 rural elementary teachers join the NDEA History Institute field study. The trek runs from Ogallala starting Sunday, June 26, to Lander, Wyoming, ending Saturday, July 2, with Bridgeport on Monday, June 27 as a luncheon stop.
Loren Boman, farming 4200 acres 71/2 miles northeast of Broadwater, expects a plentiful 1200 acre wheat crop if rains continue and hail stays away. He notes hail historically halves yields in 17 of the last 20 years, though some years escape major damage. His family has held land since 1907, with the historic 480 acre homestead nearby and a stone house still standing.
Scottsbluff Moose Lodge No 459 hosts the 28th Annual Nebraska Wyoming State Moose Association Convention June 24 26 with about 250 members from 13 lodges expected. Gus R Carlson serves as state association president and Fred T Wilson of Denver is regional director. Ray Seymour represents Moose Heart Ill Don Grant governs the local lodge Russell Brown chairs the convention and the Legion of the Moose No 99 meets Friday afternoon. Women of the Moose meet under deputy grand regent Mrs George Lacey with Mrs Russell Brown as convention chair for the women.
Bridgeport will offer Educational Television in the public schools starting next September. Superintendent Bernard Scheer said the board approved the Nebraska Council for Educational Television plan at the June 6 meeting. ETV will supplement regular courses and add new ones including high school French, developmental speech, kindergarten to second grade, elementary art, Challenge for rapid learners, literature for primary grades, and physical education for kindergarten to fourth grade.
State Senator Marvin E. Stromer will teach political science this fall at Hiram Scott College in Scottsbluff. He will move his family to Scottsbluff in September, preserving his Lincoln residence. The appointment, announced by Dr. Joseph Hichar, runs for one year with hopes for a long association.
Plans announced for the 45th annual Oregon Trail Days in Gering on Thursday and Friday July 14 15. Sioux Indians will return with tribal dances in full costume on both days. Roland Warner Hull and Mrs Madge Rundell Gering head the list of old timers for the Old Settlers Reunion. Warner and Rundell were named honorary president and vice president for the 1966 celebration. The honorary officers will lead the parade Friday at 11 a.m. Governor and Mrs Frank Morrison will also join the parade.
Mrs Helen Spencer presented three groups of students in a June 1 recital series at St Patrick High School Auditorium. piano solos, organ and vocal performances highlighted by certificates for advanced grades, guild ratings, and perfect practice records among many named students.
Miss Nebraska will be named Saturday evening in York after a four night pageant entitled Happy Birthday Husker State. One contestant, Ann Holloway of Sidney, competes for a chance to enter the 1966 Miss America competition. Contestants rehearse in York as each evening swimsuit and talent winners advance to a semi final.
President Johnson proclaims July 24 to 30, 1966 as National Farm Safety Week. The event is sponsored by the National Safety Council and the U S Department of Agriculture with endorsements from major farm groups. In 1964 farm resident accidents caused 8300 deaths and 760000 injuries.
Sidney police investigated two minor crashes on Thursday. The morning incident involved a parked car owned by Harry M. Sayre that rolled into a second car owned by Jerry Cronk and a motorcycle belonging to Don Hume, with no injuries or damage estimates available. In the evening, Nevin Janssen’s car turning into Town and Country Market parking was struck by a left-passing vehicle driven by Evert Gade, with no injuries and no damage estimate.
Washington most hospitals are meeting Medicare provisions against racial discrimination says HEW. A revised list of approved western Nebraska hospitals includes Kimball County Kimball Pioneer Memorial Mullen Ogallala Oshkosh Dalton Rushville St Mary Scottsbluff Memorial Sidney Crawford. The AP reports trainer Joe Camac traded jockey Joe Regalbuto to E W King for a horse named Burts Reward after Regalbuto rode for King.
Cadet Thomas R. Buecker of the Sidney Composite Squadron Civil Air Patrol was selected for the private pilot powered course at the 1966 CAP Cadet Flying Encampment. Twenty cadets nationwide were chosen. the four week program offers 40 flight hours and ground training toward FAA Private Pilot certification. Buecker will receive the certificate before departure upon course completion and FAA test passage. He plans to attend Nebraska University and join Air Force ROTC this fall.
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