Gurley News highlights Farm meeting and community events
Gurley delegates attend the Farmers Union Convention in Omaha led by Ross Handley. The issue lists junior YFD delegates, a parish and club calendar, menu, and local visits, with dozens of names from Gurley and nearby areas. It notes Scouting Pack 88 celebrating a 50th anniversary with a blue and gold banquet and awards ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee Foster
Merrill Johnson
Neal Rowan
Gurley
Farmer’s Union
Omaha
Ross Handley
Y.F.D
Judy Jurgens
Judy Kreinbring
Robert Rowan
Keith Miller
Ronnie Kreisel
Dalton
Harvard
Charles Gabriel
Eldena
Illinois
Jerry Lietje
Pamela
Casper
Clay Berry
Adolf Fastenga
Herman Miller
Carl Hoffman
Gering
Claude Bauder
Stanley Elsen
Grant
Kathy Pelster
Hannah Bartels
Wayne Elsen
Arnold Draper
Wendell
Bud Reinmuth
Elaine Golay
Sidney
Kearney
Bob Golay
Bill Frederickson
Ida Blinde
Henry Fredericksen
Herbert Fastenau
Ed Rihn
Low
Geo. Ehlers
Richard Taedter
Alliance
Clara Nerhung
Gurnsey
Wyo
Clarence Beyer
Adolph Fastenau
Elmer Fruedenberg
Richard
Bill Jackson
Travis
Joy Fastenau
Phil Hanneman
Hanneman
Dean Adams
Arnold Braash
Handley
Trawny
Rodney
Rollie Ahim
van Lessig
Vern Sinsel
Cubs
Den
Harold Ludeman
Timmy Engelland
Kim Ahlschewede
Alongo Kuehl
Life Scouts
Verle Lessig
Rodney Ahim
David Ahim
David Bruner
Joe Fresquez
Claude Dwinell
Randy Ludeman
Terry Aden
Dennis Berry
Mike Egging
Rob Bauner
Earl Lessig
Cub Scouts den 4
Ralph Bruner
Roy Dwinell
Nebraska
Beets honored at 60 high ten banquet in Ovid district
The 60 high ten beet producers were honored at the Ovid High School gym. Kenneth Benzel of Sidney led as high grower at the Sidney station with 20.41 tons per acre and 17.3 percent sugar. John Bauer Jr topped Sunol with 20.83 tons per acre and 16.2 percent sugar. Alexander Gerk of Julesburg named high sugar producer. The event drew 125 attendees and featured Lyman H. Andrews as speaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ovid High
Ovid
Great Western
Elmer Meier
Edward Meier
Charles E. Mueller
Charles T. Mueller
Pete Gerk
Kenneth Benzel
Sidney
Sidney Station
Benzel
Sunol
John Bauer, Jr
Ovid High School
Great Western Sugar Co
Alexander Gerk
Julesburg
Bernard A. Powell
Lyman H. Andrews
Great Western Sugar Company
I. L. Johnson
Powell
Shimamoto
Sedgwick
Wayne Moist
Robert Abrams
Max Hubbard
Robert Grey
Crook Station
Pete Nein
Ovid Factory
High Ten
Gerk
Two Road Projects In Panhandle Scheduled
Nebraska Department of Roads advertises bids for two Garden county projects. One resurfaces 8.9 miles from Lewellen to the Keith county line with asphaltic concrete. The Oshkosh project pins concrete pavement from the grade school east to beyond A and J station costing 27,696.70 with half funded by the federal government and half by property owners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oshkosh
Department of Roads
Nebraska
Garden County
Lewellen
Ogallala
Keith County
Broadwater
Gas Loop Franchise Granted to Kansas Nebraska Natural Gas
The Rushville City Council unanimously approved a 25 year franchise for Kansas Nebraska Natural Gas Co. This completes the Northwest Nebraska six town circuit and K N will seek Federal Power Commission approval to begin work soon, extending the line from Alliance. Earlier towns Hemingford Crawford Gordon Chadron and Hay Springs granted 23 year franchises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rushville
Kansas-Nebraska Natural Gas Co., Inc
Northwest
Nebraska
K-N
Federal’ Power Commission
Washington
Alliance
Hemingford, Crawford, Gordon
Chadron
Hay Springs
Hepatitis Epidemic Threat At Alliance
Alliance faces a hepatitis threat with 15 to 20 possible cases and fears of an epidemic. Dr. Robert Morgan urges immediate gamma globulin inoculations for exposed individuals. The disease presents with stomach upset and headache and can be detected by urine analysis. Both children and adults are susceptible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alliance
Robert Morgan
Nebraska State Medical Society
the Box
Butte County Medical Society
Morgan
Annual checkups aid early cancer detection
The article urges timely physician visits to improve cure chances and emphasizes annual checkups as the best method to detect cancer early. It stresses that delaying medical review lowers treatment success.
Nebraska AG Says Leasehold Lands Taxable
The Nebraska Attorney General ruled leasehold interests in public lands are taxable. A prior suggestion by state tax commissioner Forrest A Johnson set county assessors to value leaseholds at 35 percent of annual rent from lands leased by the State Board of Educational Lands and Funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Nebraska
Forrest A. Johnson
Panhandle
State Board of Educational Lands
Johnson
Public land taxes and lease holds debated in Wednesday opinion
Assistant attorney general H. G. Hamilton notes improvements on public lands should be taxed and that lease holds of public lands differ from private leases. Written at John son’s request, the opinion cites ranchers and farmers paying school land lease taxes under protest, arguing they resemble rent payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wenesday
H. G. Hamilton
Johnson
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