Rushville Wins SBA Backed Tanning Plant Deal
Congressman Dave Martin announced approval of a 240000 SBA loan to Nebraska Tanning Corp securing a Rushville tanning plant with a 300000 facility and at least 25 jobs. Wisconsin executives Stephen E. Seidel and Peter Seidel join Rushville investors Bill Hollstein Don Forney and Albert Dale to fund 360000 total. Construction starts this week.
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Rushville
Dave Martin
Small Business Administration
Nebraska Tanning Corporation
Wisconsin
Stephen E. Seidel
Peter
University of Wisconsin
Bill Hollstein
Don Forney
Albert Dale
Seidel
SBA
Football Field Is Moved In Hemingford
Hemingford board of education approved moving the high school football field to the Box Butte County fair grounds outfield of the baseball diamond. Work starts immediately with water lines and ground prep for seeding. The meeting also covered the coming year budget with a “hold the line” plan and a search for a new superintendent after Merle Beck resigned to lead Tecumseh High School.
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Hemingford
Box Butte County Fair Grounds
Board of Education
Vincent Rosenberger
Supt
Merle Beck
Tecumseh
Alliance Chamber survey backs daylight saving change
The Alliance Chamber of Commerce Political Action Committee reports a strong move toward daylight saving time. Acting Chamber Manager Gladys Deal sent ballots to 149 members asking if Nebraska should adopt daylight saving if the nation votes in 1967. Of ballots returned, 145 voted yes and four voted no. Ballots included space for signatures and reasons.
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Alliance
Political Action Committee
Alliance Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Gladys Deal
Nebraska
Bayard opens information center at Chimney Rock Park
An information center opened today at Chimney Rock Park along Highway 92 operated by the Nebraska State Historical Society in cooperation with Bayard. Charles Satchell of Bayard, a University of Nebraska student, oversees the center with his grandparents early Bayard settlers nearby. A trailer will house Satchell as tours learn about Chimney Rock with free bronze Pony Express plaques offered if Bayard provides a lease. The Agate Beds National Monument project has begun with six National Park Service staff at Carnegie Hill and University Hill fossil work.
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Bayard
Chimney Rock
Highway 92
Nebraska State Historical Society
Charles Satchell
University of Nebraska
Alex Baird
Satchell
Agate Beds National Monument
Sioux County
National Park Service
Carnegie Hill
University Hill
Hail Fells Wheat. 4-H Camp Attendance Planned
Hail damaged crops across eastern Meadow Lawn through Weyerts area with losses on several dozen farms while most of the county still shows good wheat prospects. A small grain field meeting is set for Friday July 1 at 1 30 P M on Ed Narses farm near Hand's Corner with Louis Daigger and Charles Fenster to discuss samples fertilizer and varieties. Twenty five girls and four boys attend the 4 H District Camp at Halsey this week featuring a canoe trip on the Loup River with organizers Mark Weiser Lester Thels and others assisting the group.
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Ivan Liljegren
Meadow Lawn School
Dalton
Weyerts
Cheyenne
Ed Narses
Louis Daigger
Charles Fenster
Huckelberry Finn
Halsey
Loup
Becky
Tom
Huck
Mark Weiser
Lester Thels
Leo Krieger
Harold Tremain
Larry Clineton
Darrell Hunt
Keith Spiker
Frank Gregg
Dale Niebaum
Judy Pelster
Marilyn Block
Farm Population Slump Noted In Martin Letter
Congressman Dave Martin notes a shrinking U S farm population from 1940 to 1964, with 6 3 million farms dropping to 3 12 million and agricultural share of the population falling from 23 percent to 6 8 percent. He urges Nebraska to attract industry to create jobs and retain residents, highlighting senior citizens as an untapped resource.
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Martin
Dave Martin
United States
Nebraska
Chadron State Appoints Head Start Director
Chadron State College President Dr. F. Clark Elkins announces Mrs. Berdine Maginnis as director for Head Start programs in Nebraska South Dakota and North Dakota. She will oversee all programs in the region as part of the Regional Training Center funded by a 27403 grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity.
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Chadron
F. Clark Elkins
Chadron State College
Beredine Maginnis
Nebraska
South Dakota
North Dakota
Maginnis
Free-State
Chadron State Colege
Office of Economic Opportunity
Construction surge in Gordon as church buildings rise
With better weather Gordon sees $319,480 in active projects led by an $85,000 educational wing at the Methodist church and a $40,000 facility for the Gordon Gospel Chapel at Fifth and Main. The two expansions address long overdue space needs for both congregations.
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Gordon
Methodist Church
Gordon Gospel Chapel
Fifth and Main
Julia May Bowers Dies at 88 in Kimball Nebraska
Julia May Bowers 88 of Kimball Nebraska died Wednesday evening in a Scottsbluff rest home. Born October 20 1877 in Brantford Kansas she and Mack H Bower married in 1904 in Greenleaf Kansas. They lived on farms near Sidney and Kimball before her death survivors include three sons four daughters two brothers two sisters ten grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Her husband died in 1962.
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Kimball
Julia May Bowers
Scottsbluff
Brantford
Kan
Mack H. Bower
Greenleaf
Sidney
Hiram M
Charles Harold
Earl Lawrence
Edna Hisey
Hill City
Pearl Daniels
Austin
Colo
Marie Murray
San Diego
Calif
Violet Anderson
Los Angeles
Lawrence Nelson
Christina Davis
Concordia
Nellie Roberts
Colorado Springs
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Sidney Telegraph
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Goodyear
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Crawford
Dawes County Extension Office
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Crawford Hereford Breeders
John Lambert
Dawes County
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