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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1968
Page
1
The Egging Co near Gurley advances a 97 foot water tower for 50 000 gallons with a two way radio antenna for office to mobile unit communications. Fire protection and sprinkler systems justify the project and plant operations expect April deliveries.
Secretary of State reports 30 of 37 counties filed petitions for votes on educational service units. Cheyenne, along with Boone, Buffalo, Burt, Chase, Colfax and others, will have the exclusion issue on the November 5 general election ballot. Only Thayer qualified to rejoin. Custer Dawes Garden Garfield Sheridan did not.
Farm operators enrolled in the 1968 feed grain program with more than 20 percent diversion must finalize any revision to their filed intentions by March 15. Lawrence Thompson of the ASC office in Cheyenne County cautions that changes affect all payments and loan eligibility and urges operators to contact the ASC office with questions by the deadline.
Groundbreaking and construction will begin for the Panhandle Mental Health Center in Scottsbluff after federal funds approval. Low bids by Fullen Construction Co Inc for general work at 180000 dollars and Platte Valley Plumbing and Heating Co for mechanical at 14000 dollars, with Syracuse Lawler Architects to finalize contracts. The facility sits two blocks north of St. Mary Hospital.
The Sioux Industrial Development Corp has $265000 down for a $1325000 purchase of the Sioux Depot area via the GSA with the City of Sidney as purchasing agent. The deal aims to reclaim about 26000 acres, buildings, a railroad and fencing for future leases and tenant prospects. City Attorney L M Clinton awaits a sales contract from GSA as the complex paperwork progresses.
Fair and cooler this afternoon and tonight in the Panhandle. Saturday partly cloudy with a chance of light rain showers. Westerly winds 15 to 25 mph this afternoon. Lows 20 to 30 tonight. highs 40 to 50 Saturday. Rain chances under 5 percent this afternoon and tonight, 10 percent Saturday. Five day forecast calls for temperatures Saturday through Wednesday near normal.
Earl Yung, 43, of Kimball, and his wife Ethel have been indicted on two counts of income tax evasion. The government says they paid 6628 dollars when they owed 15235 in 1962 and 1107 dollars when they owed 1928 in 1963. The Yungs run a wheat farm, cattle feeding operation and a farm supply company.
A GI writing to the Sidney Chief of Police expresses thanks for courteous treatment in January while he stayed overnight awaiting a Denver flight. He thanks a station attendant who let him wait indoors and patrol officers who drove him to the airport after taxis failed, noting the kindness of Sidney residents.
The annual meeting of the Nebraska School Improvement Association will be at 7:30 Monday, March 11, in the District 97 schoolhouse three miles south of Colton. Resolutions from the 1967 convention will be read and discussed. Elections will choose two directors for expired terms and fill one vacancy from a resignation.
Cheyenne County Trade Fair and Exposition will sell booth space May 2 to 4 with events at Sidney airport including dedication ceremonies on May 5. Prizes include a new car a color TV and trips to Las Vegas. The retail committee oversees displays with Tom Kokjer Jim Jimmerson Kent Miller and others handling booths entertainment and demonstrations. A March 13 meeting will set final details.
Funeral services for Minnie Brockelsby 83 long time Cheyenne County resident will be held Monday at 10 am in the First Methodist Church with Rev. John Stayton officiating. Burial will be Greenwood Cemetery. Craig Holechek Funeral Home in charge. Minnie Wertz born Sept 18 1884 in Schuyler taught in Colfax and Washington counties and married William E Brockelsby Dec 25 1906 at Richland Neb. They lived near Bartley and Richland then farmed north of Sidney before moving to Memorial Rest Home in 1965. Mr Brockelsby died Jan 25 1967. Survivors include a number of nieces and nephews.
BEN PELSTER of Dalton paid $200 for Hampshire ewes. Two of the ewes have now produced quadruplets, one birth on Feb 16 and another just Wednesday evening, with odds cited as about one in 100 000. Pelster, with 40 years in farming, calls the repeated event almost unbelievable.
Sidney High School to stage Oklahoma a Rogers and Hammerstein musical directed by Duane Nichols March 15 and 16 at 7 30 p m in the senior high auditorium A community orchestra directed by Larry Pippett accompanies the performances Tickets cost 1 for adults and 75 cents for students The cast includes JoAnn Owen Harvey Herman Debi Thayer and others with over 120 students involved in the production
Norman Cogil, a Nebraskan native from Ogallala, was named manager of the L A Foster Lumber Company in Sidney. He previously managed a Paxton yard, spent nine years with the FBI, and moved with wife Margaret and their four children into a new home at 1029 7th. S. A. Foster operates headquarters in Lincoln with nine other lumber yards.
New field near Dix in Kimball County reports its third producer as Doheny runs casing at No. 3 Scheele in an unnamed field. Nearby, Gehrke Unit No 1 expands in Kimball County and other rigs operate in Cheyenne, Banner, and Red Willow counties as Toltek and Crown Central push new wildcats and expansions in western Nebraska.
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