Evertson resigns as Box Butte extension agent
David M Mick Evertson announces resignation effective May 1 1971 after serving since August 1 1970. He will become area livestock consultant for DeKalb Feed Company based in DeWitt Iowa moving there in early April with his family. He thanks local farmers ranchers and businessmen for their support and urges continued Extension and 4 H participation.
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Alliance
David M
Mick) Evertson
Box Butte County
Evertson
Sheridan County
DeKalb Feed Company
Rock Falls
DeWitt
Iowa
Salute To Nebraska TV Series Honors State History
A March long TV series on Nebraska Educational Television Network presents 12 programs from the Heritage Library. Notable features include Dr. John Neihardt in four episodes and profiles like Nebraskan General Alfred Gruenther and Mari Sandoz. The slate covers Lincoln history, Neihardt Day coverage, and the Land of Their Own segments.
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Nebraska
Nebraska Educational Television Network
Heritage Library
John Neihardt
Neihardt
Prairie Capitol
Lincoln
Alfred Gruenther
General Gruenther
Mari Sandor Elsie Cather
Willa Cather
University of Nebraska
Robert Knoss
Bernice Slate
Robert Hough
James C Olson
Robert Manley
Hiram Scott College
Scottsbluff
Nebraska State Capitol
Mari Sandoz
Regional Library Plan for Chadron Moves Forward
The Chadron City Library faces a push to become a regional library with the Nebraska Public Library Commission involved. A committee proposes raising the operating mill levy from 127 mills to the maximum 2 mills. The Panhandle Library Advisory Council allocates 2100 dollars in federal funds to add more volumes. If interest wanes, the Alliance library would be developed as the Northern Panhandle regional center.
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Chadron
Chadron City
Library Board
Nebraska Public Library Commission
the Panhandle Library Advisory Council
Alliance Library
Panhandle
Hemingford School Bond Committee Set Meeting date
Hemingford district leadership forms an 11 member Citizens Committee to review the defeated 450000 bond proposal. They will meet March 3 with Hinde and Laurinate architects and state fire inspector Fred Otte to assess gym and lunch facilities and discuss high school addition plans.
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Hemingford
Citizens Committee
Hemingford Board of Education
North Platte
Hinde and Laurinate
Fred Otte
Robert Duncan
Otte
Chadron
Rushville
Gordon
End of Morse Telegraph Units in Chadron Replaced
The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad removed its Chadron morse code telegraph units, in operation since 1885, replacing them with a direct dialing system linked to Chadron’s Northwestern Bell network. Work continues on a radio controlled system to keep dispatchers in constant contact with engineers and crews and to place trains under dispatcher control.
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Chadron
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
C&nw
Northwestern Bell
Measles Strain Hits CHAPPELL High School
CHAPPELL High School reports a measles outbreak with 33 absentees on Monday and 42 on Tuesday, mainly from the junior and senior classes. Affected include three basketball players, two returning for Tuesday’s game, while Wednesday shows improvement with 30 absent. other illnesses noted include flu like infections and mumps.
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Chappell
Chappell High School
Missile Museum Hope Boosts Kimball Site Plans
Kimball County High School district may operate the abandoned missile site south of town as a museum. Changes relaxing site use rules could permit city or district ownership for parks and recreation, with district officials seeking government approval via ongoing correspondence led by Superintendent Max Healsey.
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Kimball
Kimball County High School
Max Healsey
South African Pact Reaches Overhead Sprinkler Deal
GERING Lockwood Corporation officials and J P Vorster of Johannesburg completed contract talks for Irrigation Development Ltd to manufacture overhead sprinkler systems. Vorster says one system could be operating by April 1 with air transport needed per Lockwood sales manager Joe Asche.
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Gering
Lockwood Corporation
J.P. Vorster
Johannesburg
South Africa
Irrigation Development Ltd
Vorster
Joe Asche
Lockwood
Public hearing on Cheyenne County road vacation plan
Cheyenne County Board sets a 9:00 AM March 16 1971 hearing at the Courthouse in Sidney to consider vacating county road segments between sections in Cheyenne and Deuel counties. Notice to landowners and a three week newspaper run precede the hearing.
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Cheyenne County
Nebraska
Deuel
Dever County
Cheyenne County Commissioners
Sidney
County Board
City of
13Th Avenue
Engineers
Kirkham, Michael & Associates
Woolworth Avenue
Omaha
Marvin D Hixon
Hugh Booth
Ilinois Street
Thalt
Longtime Kimball educator Kathryn Bushnell Lee dies at 82
Kathryn Kingwell Lee 82 of Bushnell died Friday in a Kimball hospital. Born Nov 3 1883 in Custer County Nebraska she taught rural Kimball and Cheyenne County schools starting 1908 and later served as Banner County superintendent. Funeral at 2 pm at Kimball Presbyterian Church with ministers Ray U Hamilton and Terence Keefe officiating. Burial in Kimball Cemetery. Memorials to Banner County scholarship fund. Allen Funeral Home of Kimball in charge.
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William L
Potter
Georgia van Pelt
Bushnell
Joe Green
Sidney
Albert Green
Portland
Ore
Vinnie Owens
Presbyterian Church
Kimball
Ray U Hamilton
Harrisburg
Terence Keefe
Kimball Cemetery
Fogelman Pioneer Served In Argonne Lost Battalion
Nial Fogelman 76 of Scottsbluff Everett Nial Fogey Fogleman died Thursday in a local hospital. Born February 24 1895 in Grand River Iowa he lived there until 1917 moving to Torrington. He served in World War I with the 77th Division of the Lost Battalion. He returned to Torrington in 1919 and moved to Scottsbluff in 1923.
54 000 Get Food Stamps In Nebraska
Nearly 54 000 Nebraskans received food assistance under the Food Stamp Program in December, the Midwest regional director of the U S Department of Agriculture said. The figure reflects individuals in need aided by the program's benefits.
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Nebraska
Dennis M. Doyle
Midwest
US Department of
Food Stamp Program Reaches Nebraska and Midwest Pockets
Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service sponsors the program with the Nebraska Department of Public Welfare. In December, 87 Nebraska projects issued coupons totaling about 1.3 million dollars with 765 thousand in bonus coupons. Across 674 Midwest projects, about 2.4 million participants received coupons totaling nearly 56 million dollars with over 30 million in bonus payments.
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Food and Nutrition Service
FNS
Nebraska Department of Public Welfare
Nebraska
Midwest
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Lodgepole
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Johnson
Mary’s
Beauty Nook
Robert Michelman
Missile Museum
Hope Up
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Gordon R Tobin
National Shooting Sports Foundation
James M Walker
Sydney G
Finch County
Martin
Mattoon & Matzke
Sidney Telegraph
Teeny
TIMEX
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L.P
Minneapolis-Moline
Hesston
Fox Forage Choppers
Foland Farm
Forrest
Kathryn Lee
Essie Bramwell
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
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Nial Fogelman
FOX
Michal J. Uttu Fauss
Hally
Cony
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Alain Delon
Cqlop
Joan Crawford
Dracula
Christopher Lee
Hamms
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Theodore Hamm
North Woods
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