Ten Years Ago in Sidney: Recreation, Fireworks and Wheat
Residents urged greater attendance at city recreation events as the Sidney summer band series opened. City council backed a second water well while headlines noted hail in Dalton and a rising wheat harvest expected to be latest in years.
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Sidney
Dalton
Charlotte Keller
C. B. Dorwart
Sidney Country Club
Deadwood
Hotel de McCarty
Fort Madison
Iwa
Fortune
Order of Red Men
Nebraska 100 Years Ago A Virgin Prairie
A Bernie Camp piece recalls Nebraska a century ago as largely virgin prairie with native grasses and deep roots. It notes minimal infrastructure, no irrigation or conservation works, and simple roads, while contrasting with today’s highways railroads power lines elevators dams and terraces.
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Nebraska
Prairie
Missouri River
Union Pacific
Platte
Omaha
Plattes
George Washington
Pennsylvania
Navy airman returns from Vietnam era cruise aboard Kitty Hawk
Armed Forces report notes Aviation Electronics Technician Third Class Fred L. Humphrey of Sidney returns to Lemoore California aboard the USS Kitty Hawk after an eight month combat cruise in Southeast Asia. VA-144 pilots flew over 3300 hours delivering four million pounds of explosives. Also Lincoln Nebraska cadet James L. Selzer, son of Be ssie Selzer of Sidney, awarded AFROTC grant at University of Nebraska for fall term under a competitive program with tuition and fees covered plus a $50 monthly allowance. Selzer is a 1965 Sidney High School graduate.
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Fred L. Humphrey
USN
Fred A. Humphrey
Sidney
Lemoore
Calif
Kitty Hawk
Southeast Asia
South Vietnam
Lincoln, Neb
James L. Selzer
Bessie J. Selzer
Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps
Afrotc
University of Nebraska
Air Force
Selzer
Sidney High School
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Christian Church
Panhandle
Scottsbluff County
Bridgeport
Clayton Mintken
Elwell Motor Co
Waddellafe
Arthur Zike
Hershey
Jean Liebendorfer
Bay Petroleum Corporation of Denver
M. H. Bud Robineau
Denver
Bay
H. T. Doran
Home Abstract Company
Dale C. Chambers
Cheyenne County Abstract Company
J. K. Dykman
Lodgepole
Cheyenne County
North Side
Clarence Perry
Robert Waite
Court House
Dave Huff
Andy Brett
Leonard Herrod
Vath
Columbus
Sidney Baseball Club
Francis Brennan
Johnny McFadden
Everet Sanders
Scrubs
Mickey Bros. of
Gibbon
Mike Tobin
Board of Equalization
John Adams
Mac Radcliff
J. L. McIntosh
Milford
Utah
A. D. Stewitts
Frank Welch Lodge
A. F
Oregon
Post Office Drug Store
Lutheran Sunday School
Masonic Hall
Sidney Stock Yards
Pine Ridge Agency
Redington
Livingston
Pumpkin Creek
Sam Coulter
Fairlane
Ford
JOE A. Gibson, Inc
Hlinois
Sidney, Nebraska
Bernie Camp
Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation
Sidney Telegraph
Nue
Gene
Resujy
Wan
RCI
FOX
Annind
BO Mot
ERC
Avs
Pat Teal Fles
John- Wayne
Kirk ‘Douglas
Technicolor
Panavision
Howard Keel
Robert Walker
Keenan Wynn
Bruce Cabot
Joanna Barnes
Telegraph Printing Company
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