Four Year Old Hero Fails to Slay Fire Dragon in Trailer Blaze
In Trailer City east of Sidney a trailer home owned by Kristine Bertus was destroyed and valued at about four thousand to five thousand dollars. Four year old Jimmy Norwood and his aunt Mrs Janice Sweet escaped unharmed as the fire department contained the blaze around 9 a.m. with water from a cup and the gas shutoff by Joe Goad. The origin of the fire remains unknown and the family reported no insurance on the trailer or contents.
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Trailer City
Sidney
Jimmy Norwood
Janice Sweet
Sweet Trailer
Jimmy
Frank Norwood
Joe Goad
Goad
Sweet
Robert Mitchell
Kristine Bertus
Noy Bobo
Richard Boyer
Ken Theisen
Willis King
Mrs. Sweet
Kristina Bertus
Janice S
Sidney Fire Department
Telegraph
King
Kiwanis Stars of Tomorrow Talent Show Sunday
Nineteen acts from kindergarten to high school compete in three age based divisions at the Junior High School starting at two o clock. Tickets are sold in advance and at the door. Hollis Peratt is master of ceremonies.
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Kiwanis Club
Exeter drills first Furnas County oil discovery in Nebraska
Exeter Drilling Company reports the No. 1 Palmer well in se 17-2n-25w Furnas County as the first oil discovery in the county. A basal sand zone yielded 370 feet of clean oil and 110 feet of oil cut mud with water absent and rising flowing pressure. Nearby wells and plans for further wildcat drilling in Furnas and Gosper counties follow, with Sunray Mid-Continent reporting oil on tests in Dundy County.
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Exeter Drilling Company
Palmer
Furras County
Nebraska
Furnas County
Cambridge
Oread
Lansing
Kansas City
Furnas
Gosper
News of Exeter
Tom Jordan
Denver
Gesper
Jordan
Dundy County
Sunray
Pennsylvania
Pierce Lake
Benny Hochman Day Declared In Sidney Nebraska
Mayor K L Moore proclaims Saturday March 4 1961 Benny Hochman Day in Sidney honoring the former Nazi camp internee turned American citizen and public figure. Jaycees plan a 6 30 dinner dance at the National Guard Armory with Merle Bobo presiding and Dean Wilson giving the speech.
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Sidney Junior Chamber of Commerce
Jaycees
Mr. Hochman
National Guard
Jaycee
Merle Bobo
Dean Wilson
Chamber of Commerce
Hochman
Sidney
Ralph Edwards
Poland
Northwestern Bell Telephone Co
Nebraska
Benny Hochman
Top Program Scheduled For Wheat Dinner
Cheyenne County Wheat Growers and Businessmen Banquet set for Sidney next Wednesday March 8 will feature Pearle Finigan Nebraska director of agriculture and Howard Gramlich longtime animal husbandry head as speakers. About 300 growers and business men expected. NWGA leaders John Lienemann Mannie Kreader and four vice presidents will join the program with a Q A session. Connie Hruska the state wheat queen and Ralph Spearow state wheat king guests. Hammond McNish master of ceremonies. Cheyenne Wheat Growers report membership at 328.
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Pearle Finigan
Nebraska
Howard Gramlich
University of Nebraska College of Agriculture
Cheyenne County
NWGA
Robert Rauner
Gurley
Robert Stoddard
Harrisburg
Billy Daribbeno
Enders
Bill Colwell
Hay Springs
Campbell
Connie Hruska
Sidney
State Wheat Queen
Ralph Spearow
State Wheat King
Hammond McNish
Cheyenne Wheat Growers Organization
Republican Founder's Day Slated March 20 at Sheraton Fontenelle
The 26th annual Republican Founder's Day will be held March 20 at the Hotel Sheraton Fontenelle in Omaha. All Republicans are invited to attend the men's or women's luncheon and the banquet where Ivy Baker Priest, former Secretary of the Treasury, will speak. Mrs John Elwell Jr in Sidney has tickets, with banquet at $5 and luncheon at $2.50.
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Sheraton-Fontenelle
Omaha
Ivy Baker Priest
Secretary of the Treasury
John Elwell Jr
Sidney
Brigadoon Tickets On Sale For March Show
Tickets for the musical Brigadoon are on sale with adults 1 50 and children 75 cents through high school. Pre school children without seats are admitted free. Cast members or Bob Clark at Hardy Clark Furniture Co sell them for the Sidney Senior High auditorium performances on March 17 and 18.
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Bob Clark
Hardy- Clark Furniture Co
Sidney Senior High
Sidney postal worker receives regional Community Service Award
LaVerne Couch, a Sidney postal clerk, is among six civil service workers in a seven state region to receive a First Community Service Award for outstanding publicity on Civil Service job opportunities. The Ninth U S Civil Service region includes Missouri Kansas Minnesota North and South Dakota Nebraska and Iowa.
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LaVerne Couch
Sidney
Civil Service
Couch
John W. Godbold
United States Civil Service Region
Leo Gorman
U. S. Civil Service
Missouri
Kansas
Minnesota
North
South Dakota
Nebraska
Iowa
Godbold
Gorman
Flo
Snow blankets Cheyenne County as up to eight inches possible
The first winter snowfall across Cheyenne County covers Sidney and surrounding areas with two to five inches, with up to eight inches forecast in some localities by tomorrow. Snow began Thursday night, causing light damage to tree limbs while livestock and motorists are urged to take precautions as temperatures drop and moisture lingers.
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Cheyenne County
Sidney
South Table
North Tableland
Scottsbluff Weather Bureau
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Hail Furnas Co. Discovery
Odie Sweet
Merle
Jimmy and
Cup
Sidney Friday
Jim Paxton
Richard Bower
Merle Boho
Con
America
K. L. Moore
Gordon Tobin
U.S. Weather Bureau
U. S
Sidney Postal
Dalton
Don Dey Ermand
Nebraska Panhandle
Lodgepole
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