Western Nebraska Parade Crowds Feature Lions Club Float Wins
Parade crowds estimate 15 000 to 25 000 witnessed one of western Nebraska's best parades. Dalton Lions Club won top prize with the Indian Love Call float, also sweeping both festival and state parade honors. Out of town division prizes went to Brule Lions Club and the female quartet Dedic & Co of Potter.
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Nebraska
Dalton Lions Club
Dalton
Lions Club
Brule Lions Club
Dedic & Co
Potter
Beta Sigma Phil
Wheatbelt Public Power District
Millard Mustl
Mildred Muscle
Cheyenne County
Lodgepole
Big Fort
Sidney
Brule
Telegraph
Boy Scouts Plan Buttons for Jamboree Ad Campaign
Leftover Fort Sidney celebration buttons will be reused to advertise Sidney at the Boy Scout Jamboree in Colorado Springs next month. Residents with spare buttons are asked to drop them at the Sidney Telegraph or contact C. E. Heizer at 4468. The Heizer family will use the buttons as swap material to promote their town.
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Fort Sidney
Fort Sidney Days Celebration Ends With Record Parade Crowd
Celebration officials announced a successful Fort Sidney Days with Kids Day and a Saturday parade drawing estimates from 15,000 to 25,000 attendees. Carnival profits aim to break even inside a month as costs near $3,000 with carnival receipts shared by the event corporation.
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Sidney
Fara
Fort Sidney
Cooper Martin Among Celebration Dignitaries
Fort Sidney Days parade featured dignitaries including John Cooper of Humboldt GOP gubernatorial candidate Dave Martin of Kearney GOP congressman hopeful and Sam Diedrichs of North Platte district judge candidate. Diedrichs rode an old wagon bridge float amid bands and county entries. About 4500 people attended a free barbecue before supplies ran out Saturday.
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Kimball
Kimball County
Morrill County
Denver
Fort Morgan
Ed) Bowman
Ford
George Fleming
Chet Webster
Dallas
Ore
Fort Sidney
John Cooper
Humboldt
GOP
Dave Martin
Kearney
Sam Diedrichs
North Platte
Diedrichs
Ak-Sar-Ben Awards $500 Grants to Cheyenne County Fair
The Cheyenne County Fair at Sidney Nebraska receives a 500 grant from Ak-Sar-Ben Omaha for fair grounds improvements under the dollar matching program. The funds will finance an office building and support about 100000 yearly for county fair premiums, with county matches boosting facilities.
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Omaha
Cheyenne
Sidney
Nebraska
Knights of
Ak-Sar-Ben
Stewart Brown
W. E. Eeeet
Cheyenne County
State Racing Commission
Sidney in Midst of Hail and Wind Area
A severe weather forecast from the Omaha Weather Bureau warned of severe thunderstorms with hail and damaging winds Monday afternoon and evening. The area covered the southern Nebraska Panhandle and southwestern Nebraska, northeast Colorado, and extreme southeastern Wyoming, from Cheyenne to North Platte, 1 to 8 p.m. local time.
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Omaha Weather Bureau
Nebraska Panhandle
Nebraska
Colorado
Wyoming
Cheyenne
North Platte
Dalton woman 63 dies after heart attack
Mrs. Michael C. Troidl 63 of Dalton died after a heart attack at her home and was pronounced dead at Pioneer Memorial Hospital. Funeral services set for Thursday at St Marys Catholic Church Dalton with burial in Greenwood Cemetery Sidney. Rosary Wednesday at the funeral home. Memorials designated to the church building fund. Survivors include her husband three sons five daughters and many grandchildren.
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Michael C. Troidl
Dalton
Pioneer Memorial Hospital
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Cletus Semper
Greenwood Cemetery
Sidney
Gehrig and Son Funeral Home
Church Building Fund
Lena Alber
Norway
Iowa
Charles
Lena Biggs Alber
Petersburg
Neb
Michael C. Troid
American Legion Auxiliary
St. Mary’s Altar Society
Francis L
Culver City
Calif
James M
Leonard G
la Puente
Rita M. Ormsby
Marjorie J. Enriquez
LaPuente
Irene V. Egging
Anne Edwards
Seattle
Alfred
Carl Alber
Bridgeport
Francis Alber
Sterling
Bernard Alber
Funeral Set Here On Tuesday For Mrs. Shinkle 68
Funeral services for Bertha H. Shinkle 68 will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Craig Mortuary Greenwood Cemetery burial beside husband William Wesley Shinkle who died in 1936. Born June 13, 1892 at Wayne Nebraska she later lived in Brownson Sidney and Denver with survivors including three children a nephew five grandchildren two sisters and four brothers. Pallbearers listed.
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Bertha H. Shinkle
Denver
Brownson
Carl Borcher
Sidney
Henry Monnich
Craig Mortuary
Greenwood Cemetery
William Wesley Shinkle
Wayne
Neb
Bertha Hofeldt
Shinkle
Sioux City
Iowa
Montana
Borcher
Lemoyne Shinkle
George H
Littleton
Merlin Meyer
Margaret Hofeldt
Minnie Krakow
Wenatchee
Wash
Harry
Frank
Pat
Lester Hofeldt
Harold Lyngham
Raymond Anthony
Joe McMillen
John Engel
Art McMillen
Norman Swanson
Transfer Announced for Zapp and Manley Patrol Roles
Robert Zapp, stationed with the Nebraska Safety Patrol for 16 months, will transfer to Alliance effective July 15 per Lt. M. R. Lambert. Paul Manley, long based in Alliance, moves to Sidney after five years here. he has led the local PTA and engaged in Dale Carnegie work. Manley has resided in Alliance since fall 1955 with wife Joan and four children.
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Robert’ Zapp
Nebraska Safety Patrol
Alliance
M. R. Lambert
Scottsbluff
Paul Manley
Sidney
Manley
Safety Patrol
Zapp
Joan
Sidney Youth Injured In Home Made Rocket Mishap
A 19 year old Sidney youth Bob D Rennick was seriously injured when a home made rocket he was launching exploded in his face. The blast at his parents home on Monterey Drive tore facial skin and burned his eyes, with doctors noting possible loss of sight in the right eye but hopeful corneal repair. Rennick, a 1959 Sidney High School graduate and Regents scholar, had been a freshman at the University of Nebraska.
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Sidney
Bob D. Rennick
Robert Rennick
Monterey Drive
Rennick
Bob
Sidney High School
University of Nebraska
Sidney per Person Spending Tops Nebraska and Nation
Local consumer expenditures grew 11.1 percent from 1954 to 1958 reaching 19.214 million dollars, averaging 2234 per person. Sidney outpaced national per capita spending and West North Central figures as residents funded goods and services from groceries to cars and health costs.
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Sidney
Nebraska
U. S. Department of Commerce
United States
West North Central States
Oshkosh Bride Named Nebraska Pony Express Queen
Mrs. Beverly Kicken Jensen, bride of about a week, was chosen Nebraska Pony Express Queen at an Oshkosh horse show. She won over nine contestants for best horseman ship, sponsored by the Garden County Saddle Club. Princesses were Jane tvicGinley of Keystone and Doralee Mac Kinzie of Brule. They each received trophies.
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Beverly Kicken Jensen
Nebraska Pony Express
Oshkosh
The
Garden County Saddle Club
Jane tvicGinley
Keystone
Doralee MacKinzie
Brule
Miss Nebraska Pageant Set For Columbus Saturday
Janet Tar'ng of Potter and 18 other contestants will compete in the Miss Nebraska Pageant at Columbus with prelims Friday and finals Saturday night. Top prize is 1000 dollars, with 350 and 250 for runners up and 100 for Miss Congeniality. Lynda Mead, Miss America 1960, attends as a guest. contestants hail from Alliance Beatrice Bellevue Columbus Fairbury Fremont Grand Island Hastings Kearney Lincoln McCook Norfolk Ogallala Omaha Patte County Scottsbluff Sidney York and more.
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Janet Tar'ng
Potter
Fort Sidney
Columbus
Ned
Columbus High School
Sidney
Lynda Lee Mead
Joan
Arolyn Lines
Nebraska
Ogallala
Shirley Donelan
Alliance
Ann Moss
Fremont
Grand Island
Hastings
Kearney
Lincoln
McCook
Norfolk
Ogallata
Omaha
Patte County
Scottsbluff
York
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Phil Kopetzky
Fort Bidney
Armory
Kopetzky
Bonnie Brown
Janet Eggny
Virginia Berry
Ed Bowman
Denver Weatherman
Antique Automobile Club
Sidney Rotary Club
Bridge of Friendship
Silke Hermann
Germany
Rotary International
Sidney Memorial Hospital
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Pap E
S.e Armory
Gary Schwartz
Wayne Bauerkemper
Jack Wackerla
Mel Chipps
Rotarians
Memorial Hospital
St. Paul’s Church
Doz Hinkle
Applause
Boy Scouts
Sot Willis
W. W. Schulz
Norval
Houston
Sidney Lions Club
Mrs. Troidl
Mrs. Shinkle
Alliance -Patrolman
Sidney Youth
Rocket
Robert Stump
Hull’ Cook
U. S
Miss Nebraska
Janet Egging Miss Fort Sidney
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