Interstate 80 widening bids target Nebraska and Colorado
Nebraska bids totaling over 3 million dollars cover I 80 work in western Nebraska including Chappell Oshkosh and nearby interchanges with grading culverts fencing and guard rails on multiple segments. Colorado bids exceed 6.5 million for interstate paving Crook Sedgwick and other projects plus highway improvements near Denver and Boulder.
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Nebraska
Colorado
Nebraska Department of Roads
Devel County
Chappell
Oshkosh
Missouri Valley Construction Co
Grant Island
James E. Simon Co
North Platte
Harold W
Keith
Big Springs
Brule
Robinson Seed Co
Hill S Sand and Gravel Co
Polk
Colorado Highway Department
Crook
Sedgwick
Glenwood Springs
Hampden Avenue
Kipling Street
Turkey Creek Canyon
Denver
Cole
Boulder
Hudson
Second Industrial Consultant Presents Bid To Promote Depot
Sidney officials and local business groups meet with Applied Scientific Knowledge and Ayres and Associates to discuss hiring an industrial consultant for promoting the former Sioux Army Depot site. The plan includes a fact book, brochures, a movie and ad campaign targeting The Wall Street Journal and Plant Site Locations, funded by the city Chamber of Commerce and local industry. No decision was reached, with groups considering options and costs estimated between 25 000 and 30 000 dollars plus monthly retainer.
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Sidney City
ASK
Elsworth Greene and Associates
Kansas City
Kan
Ayres
Borris
Vo~Tech
Cheyenne County
Two Publica
Wall Street Journal
Raymond Graff Appointed To C of C Board
The Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce named Raymond Graff of Dalton to its board of directors. He will represent the Dalton community. Graff is a retired insurance and investments broker and previously ran a farm implement business in Dalton for years.
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Cheyenne
Dalton High Grad Rick Bode Hurt In Lake Diving Accident
Rick Bode, 1968 Dalton High School graduate, suffered a broken neck in a Sunday sand-pit lake incident near Bridgeport. A 15-year-old helper pulled him from shallow water and his mother assisted in the rescue. He was moved to Memorial Hospital in Cheyenne for surgery and was listed in satisfactory condition at noon Monday.
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Dalton
Rick Bode
Chuck Bode
Bridgeport
Young Bode
Dalton High School
Dan Smith
NFO Meeting Set For National Guard Armory Tonight
An NFO gathering is planned for Monday at eight o'clock at the National Guard Armory. Non members and interested parties are invited to attend.
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NFO
National Guard
Whitakers Elected By State VE W
Carl Kruse of Tekamah elected and installed as commander of the Nebraska Department of the Veterans of Foreign Wars succeeding Joseph J. Sedjacek of Clarkson. Mrs. Robert Frances Rice of Omaha named president of the auxiliary at convention. Hartington named best VFW post. 1969 convention awarded to Kearney. New officers include James Burt Creighton senior vice commander and Marion Whitaker Sidney junior vice commander.
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Norfolk
Carl Kruse
Takamah
Nebraska
Trailer Breaks Away Near Sidney Causes Minor Damage
A trailer broke loose from a car driven by Bette Redalen at 11 30 p m Friday ten miles west of Sidney on Highway 30. The trailer rolled into the north ditch while the car stayed upright. There were no injuries. three people in the car escaped unhurt. Damages were about 75 dollars to the car and 200 dollars to the trailer renewal.
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Sidney
Bette Redalen
Williston
N. D
Ronald Gussman
Nebraska State Patrol
Gussman
Panhandle Weather Outlook with Cool, Showery Periods
A Panhandle forecast shows mostly cloudy and colder conditions with scattered thundershowers this afternoon and tonight. Tuesday brings partly cloudy skies with a chance of afternoon and evening thunderstorms, highs near 70s to 80s today and 75 to 85 Tuesday, with 60 percent then 40 percent precipitation chances. Temperatures over five days expected to average 2 to 8 degrees below normal, followed by a midweek warm-up and late-week cooling.
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Panhandle
Wheatbelt Receives $767000 REA Loan for Upgrades
Congressman Dave Martin announced that the Rural Electrification Administration approved a 767000 loan to Wheatbelt Public Power District of Sidney. The funds will finance 58 miles of distribution line upgrades, 10 miles of new tie line, conversion of 55 miles of existing line, two new substations, and a portable 750 KVA facility. Wheatbelt serves Cheyenne, Arthur, Deuel, Garden, Keith and Morrill counties, with completion expected to expand service to 2736 consumers on about 1920 miles of line.
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Dave Martin
Rural Electric Administration
Washington D. C
Wheatbelt
Sidney
Acity
Charles Ham
Cheyenne
Arthur
Deuel
Garden
Keith
Morrill
Broadwater
Lewellen
Lone Sidney youth disputes cause of fatal Colorado crash
Lowell Hare, 17, claims a missing unidentified car failed to stop and caused the fatal Colorado accident on May 28, while his truck yielding to the other vehicle and a city police investigation are noted. He was fined for failing to yield.
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Lowell Hare
Sidney
Colorado
Colorado Highway Patrol
Hare
Douglas G Rabb Dies At Denver Rites Wednesday
Douglas G Rabb 33 formerly of Sidney died in Denver after a long illness. Funeral services are set for Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church with Stevens Mortuary in charge. He is survived by his wife two children and his mother Henrietta a Denver University fraternity house mother.
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Douglas G. Rabb
Sidney
Denver
Unitarian Universalist Church
E. Hampden Ave
Stevens
East 17Th Ave
Mr. Rabb
Henrietta
Denver University
Douglas Rabb
Krameria Way
Colo
The
Cancer Fund
Ag Station Field Day This Week
A field day at the University of Nebraska Plains Agricultural Laboratory five miles north of Sidney is set for Thursday June 27 at 1 30 pm. Gerald Moline says UN personnel from Scotts Bluff Station and East Campus Lincoln will discuss winter wheat research projects and visitors may enter via the southeast or west gates of the former Sioux Army Depot to reach the site.
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University of Nebraska Plains Agricultural Laboratory
Sidney
Gerald Moline
Scotts Bluff
Lincoln
Sioux Army Depot
Marijuana Count Hearing Delayed for Four Calif youths
Four Lancaster California youths held on marijuana charges in Keith County Court Ogallala see a postponed hearing after a June 25 date was set then continued to allow time to appoint defense lawyers. Bond is $500 each. The suspects are David B. Carter 21 William J. Ward 20 Wayne A. Swalia 19 and William E. Brandish 19. They were arrested after Sidney reported an attempted marijuana sale to two girls.
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California
Keith County
Ogallala
David B. Carter
Newark
Calif
William J. Ward
Wayne A. Swalia
William E. Brandish
Lancaster
Nebraska State Patrol
Rites for Mrs. Bergstrom set for Wednesday at Sidney
Shirley C Bergstrom 52 longtime Sidney resident and former owner of the Sidney Beauty Academy died Monday at Memorial Hospital after a month as a patient. Services are planned Wednesday at 2 pm at Gehrig and Son Funeral Home with burial in Greenwood Cemetery. Memorials go to CancerFund.
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Shirley C. Bergstrom
Memorial Hospital
Sidney
Sidney Beauty Academy
Lodgepole
Aca P. Wolcott
Kimball
Niel F. Bergstrom
Alliance
Lutheran Church of
Potter Queen Leads Wheat Month Kickoff In Nebraska
Patrice Herboldsheimer of Potter Nebraska the 1968 wheat queen will help launch July as Wheat Month with events in Omaha and Lincoln. Howard Lampmann executive director and Mrs Beverly Anderson director of home economics will speak to home economists and media as Arvill Davis chairs a six man committee appointed by Governor Tiemann. The governor proclaims Wheat Month highlighting wheat as Nebraska’s top cash crop and a key driver of the economy while Nebraska departments and associations coordinate activities across states and with Kansas.
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Patrice Herboldsheimer
Potter
Nebraska
Wheat Flour Institute
Howard Lampmann
Omaha
Beverly Anderson
Lincoln
Arvill Davis
Tiemann
Nebraska Committee
Wheat Division
Nebraska Department of Agriculture
Nebraska Wheat Growers’ Association
Wheat Foods Industries of
Four Weeks Of French Studies Planned For Students
Three Lodgepole High School students from Western Nebraska along with their French teacher Miss Carolyn Allen of Sidney toured Philadelphia before boarding a plane to Paris. Michael Jessen Gloria Quinn and April Jones will study four weeks of conversational French at the University of Strasbourg with Miss Allen teaching at an advanced level. They will tour the eastern United States London Germany Switzerland Belgium and Normandy on their journey before traveling to Paris.
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Lodgepole High School
Philadelphia
Nebraska
Paris
France
Carolyn Allen
Sidney
Michael Jessen
Ray Jessen
Gloria Quinn
Fred Quinn
Germany
Switzerland
Belgium
Normandy
Phine River
Luxembourg
Carolyn .Allen
Atlantic
Strasbourg
Gloria Guin
Miss Allen
April Jones
Nebraska Wheat Acreage Cut In 1968 Crop Plan
The Agriculture Department announced 1968 wheat allotments with Nebraska at 2,881,036 acres, down 429,895 from this year. National allocation stands at 51.6 million acres, down 13 percent from last year, with other states listing Colorado Iowa Kansas South Dakota and Wyoming totals in parentheses.
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Agriculture Department
Nebraska
Department
Colorado
Iowa
Kansas
South Dakota
Wyoming
Albertastenau, Is Dead At 71
Albert Herman Fastenau 71 of Bridgeport died early Sunday at Alliance Hospital. Born Oct 25 1896 in Otoe County, he farmed in Gurley Morrill County after marriage to Alice Reinmuth on Sept 26 1928. Survived by widow seven daughters three brothers three sisters and fifteen grandchildren. Service June 26 at 1 p.m. Assembly of God Church Bridgeport. burial Dalton Cemetery. Holechek Funeral Home in charge.
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Albert Herman Fastenau
Bridgeport
Alliance Hospital
Otoe County
Gurley
Alice Reinmuth
Sidney
Cheyenne County
Morrill County
Albert Mercer
Hanover
Ill
LaDella Meyer
Biloxi
Ella Emmett
Lila Bruntz
Pauline Ewing
Linda
Scottsbluff
Marva
Adolph
Jay
Herbert
Dalton
Minnie Freudenberg
Syracuse
Neb
Lena Gross
Lida Bennett
Assembly of God Church
Correll
Dalton Cemetery
Holechek
Funeral Home of
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Raymond Graff
C of C
Dalton Boy
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
Sunol
Sidney Man
Francis W. Thomson
King Street
Telegraph
Mrs, Bergstrom
Mrs. Bergstrom
Don Tedesco
John Trenerry
Thomson
Joe Goldtrapp
Tedesco
Craig-Holechek Funeral Home
Pageth
Albertastenau
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