Hold-The-Line Budget And City Paving Districts
City Manager Tom Coffey presented a hold-the-line budget of 419 075 to the City Council, with a 23 320 mill levy based on 11 500 000 valuation. The plan reduces waste fees, drops parking meter levies, and funds debt service while keeping tax load possible if valuations hold. Four Country Club area streets pursue paving districts to avoid costly repaving later. Rose Street paving district approved. bids for two police cars awarded. a flat-bed truck bid and seven building applications approved.
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Tom Coffey
Coffey
L.M. Clinton
Country Club Area
Country Club
Coronado Road
Solano Road
San Marino Road
Okay
Rose St
10Th Ave
13Th Ave
Joe A. Gibson Inc
Gibsons
Maddox Motor Co
Kokjer Motors
Elwell Motors
Sanitation Department
Swiss artist finishes four month Peetz church windows
Miss Bradi Barth of Ghent Belgium completed a four month project painting seven decorative stained glass windows for Sacred Heart Church in Peetz Colorado. The Swiss artist created Creation Nativity Beatitudes Last Supper Crucifixion Resurrection and Assumption scenes using water colors and lacquer on glass with a protective plastic filter.
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Ghent
Belgium
Sacred Heart Church
Peetz
Colo
Bradi Barth
Garden of Eden
Miss. Barth
Switzerland
Cecile Verschraeghen
Ter
Emile Verschraeghen
St. Anthony’s
Sterling
St. Anthony’s School
Verschraeghen
Thomas Gilmartin
Miss Barth
Our Lady
Europe
Colorado
Shrine Circus Here Friday at Cheyenne County Fairgrounds
Shrine Lodge Pole Valley Shrine Club presents the 1959 Rudy Bros Circus Friday June 26 at 2 15 and 8 15 PM. Highlights include French poodle Parisian fashion show, Flying Wards aerial act, Helane aerial display, polar bears, clown stars, and master trainer Albert Rix. Admission remains unchanged despite larger acts, per chairman Earl Schultz and committee.
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BRCS
Earl Schultz
Pole Valley Shrine
Cheyenne
County
Tommy Bentley
Circus Feaures
Helane
Albert Rix
Cunningham
Rudy Bros, Circus
Diving Tower Fall Injures Youth in Sid ney Hospital
10 year old Rick Innes, son of Mr and Mrs C V Innes, is reported in very satisfactory condition at Sidney Memorial Hospital after a fall from the swimming pool diving tower Tuesday afternoon. He suffered a severe concussion when he struck his head on the concrete neck.
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Rick Innes
C. V. Innes
Sidney Memoral Hospital
Sigler Named New Sales Head at Sidney Flooring Co
In a Monday advertisement Sidney Flooring and Supply Co. announced M. R. Sigler as the new store manager. Sigler will serve as sales manager for the firm.
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Sigler
Flooring Co
Sidney Flooring & Supply Co
M. R
Sig
Omahan Injured In One Story Elevator Fall
An Omaha man, Donald Macey, age 40, was injured after falling one floor down an elevator shaft at a Sidney hotel Monday evening. He was listed in good condition at Sidney Memorial hospital with a concussion cuts bruises and rib injury from stepping into an open shaft thinking the elevator cage was there.
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Omaha
Sidney
Sidney Memorial Hospital
Donald Macey
Internal Revenue Service
Western Nebraska oil output hits new daily record
Oil production in Nebraska climbs to a new all time daily average of 64 422 barrels for the week ending June 20 with optimism rising for new Western Panhandle producers. Notable wells include Edward M Davis 1 Painter Kimball County 2890 barrels from J sand after an hour test at 6659 67 feet and Chandler Simpson Rodman P at 713 feet depth 285 barrels per day.
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Nebraska
Nebraska Panhandle
Edward M. Davis
Painter
Kimball County
Sage Oil
Houtley-A
Simpson
Chandler-Simpson
Rodman-P
Banner County
Sinclair “Oil & Gas
Singleton
Spider Blamed For Auto Mishap In Pasadena Street
Miss Patricia A. Morris 18 of Sidney ran toward a service station after spotting a spider. The vehicle struck a parked car owned by Darold Geering, causing an estimated 200 dollars damage to the Geering car and 300 dollars to the Morris car.
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Patricia A. Morris
Sidney
Pasadena Street
Darold Gering
Geering
Morris
Thief Steals $13 But Returns Trousers
A passing motorist lost $13 in Sidney but regained his dignity when the thief returned his trousers. R D Ewers of Phoenix, Arizona, told sheriffs deputies someone broke into his room at a local motel Tuesday evening stealing his wallet containing $33 and his trousers. The thief emptied the wallet and tossed the billfold and trousers back into the room.
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Sidney
R D Ewers
Phoenx
Ariz
Sheriff's Deputies
Heat drought hurts Nebraska winter wheat yields
Nebraska reports show winter wheat in southern counties maturing early due to hot dry weather. Streak mosaic and Hessian fly reduce prospects in many areas. hail damage noted locally. If heat and dryness persist, an unusually early harvest may occur, complicating westward combine availability.
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Nebraska
Federal Division of Agricultural Statistics
Panhandle
Kansas
Grain market wheat price quote from local elevator
Wheat priced at 1.54 dollars per bushel quoted today by local elevator sources.
Fort Sidney Royalty Invited To Cheyenne Frontier Days
Miss Fort Sidney Rosa lie Swanson and her two attendants Roberta Needham and Sherri Bauman were invited to participate in the Cheyenne Frontier Days Parades in Cheyenne Wyoming on July 21 23 and 24 Fort Sidney Days Celebration Chairman Bob Wait announced the invitation from parade chair Dr H Andrew Miata.
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Fort Sidney
Cheyenne, Wyo
Sidney
Miss Fort Sidney
Rosalie Swanson
Roberta Needham
Sherri Bauman
Not Too Late to Register for Cheyenne County Swim Lessons
Free Cheyenne County Red Cross learn to swim program expands to over 1000 participants this year with 29 instructors including nine water safety experts. About 100 weekly classes cover all ages from preschool to adults, with 40 lifesaving students and 200 adults enrolled, as organizers note late registration remains open with a 50 cent fee and one free lesson weekly.
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Red Cross
Cheyenne County
Bertram O'Connor
Vern Anthony
Ten Years Of Oil In West Nebraska Special Section
The Sidney Telegraph previews a Friday special section on ten years of oil exploration in western Nebraska. It notes The Ohio Oil Co. discovery Mary Egging No 1 near Gurley sparked a boom now with about 1 500 wells in the southern Panhandle. The feature thanks industry partners and commemorates Drake’s 100th anniversary in Pennsylvania.
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Sidney Telegraph
Nebraska
Ohio Oil Co
Mary Egging
Gurley
Fusu
Denver-Julesburg
Telegraph
Panhandle
American Petroleum Institute
Pennsylvania
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L. E. Seeman
House Appropriations Committee
Seeman
Sioux Depot
Gen. Seeman
House
Albert White
Shrine Circus
Omahan
Spider
Sunol
Lodgepole
Potter
Lorenzo
O’connor
Anthony
Mike Heaton
Calvin Outright
Bill Welch
Jeannette Bailey
Ruth Fraass
Virginia Babcock
Charlotte Anne Dorwart
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