Varied Fourth of July plans across Dalton region
The Fox Theater in Dalton runs continuous shows on July 4 starting 1 30 pm featuring One Eyed Jacks with free kids show. Meadow Gold backs events from 10 am. Lions Club serves coffee and ice cream. baseball at 2 pm. band at 7 30. fireworks after dark. Nearby Bridgeport hosts Morrill County Amateur Rodeo July 3 4 at fairgrounds with top bronc riders, bull riding and prizes.
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Fox
Meadow Gold
Dalton Fire Department
Lions Club
Bunker Hill
Dalton
Lions
Don
Bridgeport
Fairgrounds
Area Readings Break 100 Degree Mark and Heat Wave Ends
June closed with record heat across the Panhandle and western Nebraska with many locations topping 100 degrees. Cooler conditions were forecast with chances of scattered showers, while drought and a grasshopper invasion strained crops across the northern plains.
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Panhandle
Lodgepole Nebraskan
Scottsbluff
Chadron
Alliance
Hemingford
Kimball
Nebraska
Imperial
North Platte
Valentine
Cheyenne
Wyo
Plains
Omaha Weather Bureau
Sidney
Great Plains
Kansas
North Plains
Summer Band Concert Opens Six-Show Series
The City Band under Sidney Phelps presents the first of six Friday night concerts at the new Legion Park bandshell at 8 pm. About 60 musicians with many alumni will perform Algeria March and more in a program featuring King and I selections and Valley Forge March amid limited seating.
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Legion Park
Sidney Phelps
Phelps
Algeria
Lexington
Welch
Weather Outlook: Patchy Tonight Then Cooler Saturday
Generally fair conditions with a cooler change on Saturday. Tonight lows 50 to 60, Saturday highs 80 to 90.
More County Farms To Be Overplanted
The ASC near final total on overseeded wheat farms in Cheyenne county shows 359 farms overseeded for 1961, up from 174 in 1960. About 664 of 926 farms reported destroying overseeded wheat and will be remeasured, with 262 farms contacted for non reporting and remeasurement. The ASC plans to finish checks on feed grain farms by July 15.
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ASC
Cheyenne County
Don Rapp
Rapp
Sunol Seeks Bids for School Fire Alarm System
The Sunol school district No 12 calls for bids to install a fire alarm system at the Sunol school to meet state fire law requirements. The move signals the district will keep the 12 grade school operational and not contract with Lodgepole or Sidney districts, a plan now abandoned. The notice appears in The Sidney Telegraph.
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Sunol
No 12
Lodgepole
Sidney
Sidney Telegraph
Bluffs Elks To Get National Youth Cup
Scotts Bluff Elks Lodge wins first place for lodges 500 to 1,000 members for the second year. Exalted ruler C. L. Stoneking receives notice of the national award. letter comes from James P. Fhersberger of the Grand Lodge Youth Activities Committee in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
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Scottsbluff
Scottsbluff Elks Lodge
C. L
Hap
Stoneking
James P Fhersberger
Grand Lodge
Latrobe
John Seevers Heart Victim Rites Set Sunday
John F Seevers 62 of Ord ville died at Memorial Hospital after a heart attack at home. He was a Sioux Ord ordnance depot lead foreman and a St Pauls Lutheran member. Funeral 2 p.m. Sunday at St Pauls. burial Monday at Plainview. Survivors include Ada his wife and nine children.
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John F Seevers
Ordville
Sioux Ordnance Depot
Memorial Hospital
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
C. C. Boye
Plainview
Neb
Craig Mortuary
Mr Seevers
Treynor
Iowa
John
Wilhelmina Weddingfeld Seevers
Naper
Ada Wesche
Seevers
SOD
Ada
Don Lingwall
Verna
Gerald Gerler
Ruth
Sidney
Wilford
Arnold
Herbert
John J
Rocky River
Ohio
Gary Lee
Chicago
Fred Behrens
Gibbon
Minn
August Ahlers
Adolph Ertzner
Omaha
Carl Thomson
Ernest Bailey
Cedar Lanes Open House Celebrates Second Anniversary
Cedar Lanes on Highway 19 sidney south edge hosts an open house Sunday from 1 to 6 pm marking its second anniversary and the start of the 1961-62 year after a full interior refinishing. Free coffee doughnuts Pepsi-Cola and Fairmont ice cream will be available and door prizes offered for families.
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Cedar Lanes
Highway 19
Sidney
Fairmont
Coke Franchises Sold At Sidney Alliance And Scottsbluff
Coca Cola bottling franchises in Sidney Alliance and Scottsbluff are sold to Torrington Coca Cola Bottling Co. Carl Miller of Torrington owns the buyer. The Selzers operated the plants since 1930 with Mike Sr. in business since 1921.
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Coke
Sidney
Alliance
Scottsbluff
Coca Cola
Mike Selzer Sr
Jack
Mike Jr
Torrington
Wyo
Coca Cola Bottling Co
Carl Miller
Selzers
Mike Selzer
Mike Selzer Jr
Selzer
George Nickum
University of Colorado
Ohio National Life Insurance Co
Scottsbluff and
University of Nebraska
Youth in Potter faces four charges after shooting incident
Anthony Cruz, 16, bound over from county court to district court with bond set at 1000 dollars. He is charged with breaking and entering Rose Hardware Store and stealing a 22 rifle, assault with intent to do great bodily harm, shooting to kill, and resisting an officer during a getaway from Sheriff and Marshal officers.
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Potter
F L Balderson
Young Cruz
Rose Hardware
Cruz
Charles Fisher
Shorty’ Alves
W W Schulz
Rodeo Announcer's Child Gravely Ill
A 34 year old Texas girl Sharon Beth Carter suffered a convulsion and breathing trouble while traveling with rodeo announcer father Glenn Carter and his wife from Athens. Police escorted the family to Kimball hospital and Carter remained at the waiting room during the emergency.
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Kimball
Texas
Sharon Beth Carter
Glenn Carter
Athens
Tex
Sidney
Burt Carter
Carter
Carters
PVO Leases Large Protein Plant in Long Beach
Pacific Vegetable Oil Corp of San Francisco has secured a 25 year lease with option to buy on the Spencer Kellogg vegetable oil plant in Long Beach California. The facility spans about 84 acres with 13 buildings totaling 185 363 square feet including a four story refinery and a 296 000 bushel grain elevator.
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Rocca
PVO
Truck Licenses Are Bonanza For Deuel County
Deuel County Clerk's office spent two days issuing titles for a new fleet of trucks and tractors, now to be registered locally and generate undisclosed revenue. Two hundred eighty titles were written for the Kingsley Frock Co after it beat a West coast firm.
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Chappell
Deuel
Kingsley Frock Co
Real Estate Values Up Decline in Local Businesses Noted
Cheyenne County 1961 tax evaluations show rural real estate up by 588160 to 61466980 while business evaluations fall from 8511880 to 7624765 as 24 firms moved or closed. Oil production and urban property rise modestly with urban real estate at 25705675 and special schedules at 14138780.
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Cheyenne County
J. B. Ruttner
Ruttner
Express
Northwestern Bell Delivers 1960 Property Tax Payment
J. R. Miller explains a $23 842 88 check from Northwestern Bell Telephone Co to the county treasurer for the second half of 1960 personal property taxes. He notes the heavy tax burden on local telephone service due to a 10 percent federal excise tax. If the tax is cut July 1, customers could save more than one month's service yearly. extension reviews are planned.
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Northwestern Bell Telephone Co
J. R. Miller
Miller
Congress
Northwestern Bell
Nebraska
Frontier Buying 6 British Jets
Frontier Airlines plans to purchase six BAC One-Eleven jets from British Aircraft Corporation at over 12 million dollars. The twin-engine aircraft carry up to 69 passengers at 540 mph and would service Rocky Mountain and Midwest routes once contracts are finalized by early 1962.
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Denver
L. B. Maytag
Sjr
Frontier Airlines
British Aircraft Corporation of
England
Frontier
British Aircraft Corporation
Rocky Mountain States
Midwest
Oil leases filed for Sheridan County acres hit new total
Glen S. Phillips on behalf of Hitchcock Enterprises filed leases on 11,470 acres as oil leasing expands in Sheridan County this week. Combined with other filings, 33,075 more acres were leased this week, bringing the yearly total to 115,527 acres.
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Sheridan County
Glen S. Phillips
Hitchcock Enterprises
Oklahoma City
Highland Electric Co owner suffers heart attack while fishing
Bill Highland, owner of the Highland Electric Co, had a heart attack on Saturday June 24 during a fishing trip at Lake McConaughy. He was taken to Memorial Hospital in Sidney and is reported in satisfactory condition by hospital attendants.
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Bill Highland
The
Highland Electric Co
Lake McConaughy
Memorial Hospital
Sidney
Texota Oil Discovers Madden No. 1 Well in Cheyenne County
Texota Oil Co of Denver says its No. 1 Madden discovery in southwest Cheyenne County yields initial potential of 120 barrels per day from the D sand. Location is NWNE Sec 24 13 53 with two new leases filed this week in Cheyenne County.
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Texota Oil Co
Denver
Cheyenne County
Potter Field
Texota
I. L. Pindell
Lapess
GuthWet
Ci' Olsen
Stuarco Oil Co
Murfin Drilling Co
Potter
Banner County
Olsen
CSE
Stuarco of
Dow and McHugh and Muffin ‘Drilling Co
Red Willow County
E and
E Drilling Co
Greeley County Well Marks First Since 1951
Casing set on the first exploratory oil well in Greeley County since 1951. Drillers reached 2,600 feet near Scotia on property of Art Holt and plan to reach about 5,000 feet. Faith Drilling Co of Texas is drilling for Biffie Ol Industries. No oil producers exist in the county. earlier wells were drilled in 1941, 1942, and 1951.
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Scotia
Greeley County
Art Holt
Faith Drilling Co of
Texas
Biffie Ol Industries
Yare
Vivo
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John F. Seevers
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Coca-Cola
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Nebraska Oil and Gas Commission
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Donnell Drilling Co
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