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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1957
Page
1
A public hearing will be held in the Deuel County Courthouse courtroom on Monday March 18 to discuss the reorganization plan for districts Nos 17 18 24 25 41 42 and 58.
Ivan Hartman of Whitney is elected president of the newly formed Northwest Wool Growers Association. Dwight Holloway of Grant is named vice president. Directors join Minnesota South Dakota and Iowa in a four state marketing group with Crawford designated as Nebraska headquarters.
Four new trustees join president G. J. McGinley on the Good All Electric and Chemical Specialities Profit-Sharing Trust board. New members are Mark H. Harrington Lee A. Wells and Ray M. Wainwright, with W. D. Messenger remaining as the fifth trustee. The fund’s total contributions reach 575 183 46 dollars through May 1956, with 106 140 dollars disbursed to employees and a remaining balance of 469 982 42.
Dawes County Infantile Paralysis Foundation estimates that over 350 Chadron students have not received a single polio shot. Dr. Eric De Flon, chapter president, announced a March drive to begin vaccinations before the hot weather polio season.
Mrs Myrna Balcom was appointed last week to fill the unexpired term of County Clerk A H Barrett who resigned due to health. The appointment was made by the county commissioners. Balcom has served as deputy county clerk for years and will fill the term expiring January 1959.
Chadron city council approved changes to business ordinances repealing a long standing requirement for grocery stores to close one day a week. The repeal aims to bolster competitiveness with larger retailers outside the city limits that remain open on Sundays.
Arlyn Klein of Lisca Elevator purchased the Grace Grain company elevator and related lines at Lewellen. New owners take over management on April first. The Lewellen plant, built in 1948 with a 1950s addition, stores about 176000 bushels. Dale Grace had owned the business previously.
Nebraska Wheat Commission meeting in Lincoln discussed boosting demand for wheat foods. American Bakers Association leader E. E. Kelley urged coordinated grower miller baker efforts amid falling per capita consumption of wheat products.
Four part Telegraph series analyzes Russia after 1917 revolutions focusing on industrialization education and the Kremlin challenge. AP specialist William L. Ryan traces main currents of Soviet history and the rise of the "new Soviet man" amid global ambitions.
Livoni Construction Co applied for a permit to build a new house at 2434 Park View Rd valuing the dwelling at 15000 dollars. The city has issued three prior new home permits this year totaling 62450 dollars in valuation.
The public is invited to a two day 18 county session on care for the aged in Sidney City Auditorium. Co sponsors include Cheyenne County welfare head Mrs Joan Hart and local leaders from Potter Sidney Lodgepole and others. Dr Jack A Wolford and Dr Joe Martin will headline discussions and the two day session will conclude Thursday afternoon.
Lincoln report notes USDA estimate of 450 million bushels exported in the year ending July 1 1957. Nebraska officials discuss winter wheat varieties at the University of Nebraska and export prospects with Gulf ports and a Greek delegation visiting in April.
A rig was moved to the Mary Egging No 1 well in the Julesburg Basin after a Friday night explosion and fire that injured four Ohio workers. The burned rig was largely destroyed and property loss reached about 100 000 dollars. The injured men Dean McGirr Robert Seidel Albert Griffith and William Corbett improved in Cheyenne County Memorial Hospital as crews from Gurley Sidney and Dalton fought the blaze with the Sidney fire department. A stacked rig in Huntsman yard will be sent to the site to drill deeper in search of a possible deep sand reservoir.
Non agricultural applications keep regional labor totals high with unemployment driving claims for benefits. Francis Hiner of the Nebraska State Employment Service notes current area labor supply below January and last year’s February, citing workers leaving the area for other jobs. The report urges farmers to contact Volunteer Farm Representatives for workers and lists local volunteers with phone contacts.
Mrs. Fred Wittig Sr aged 93 died Friday at her son Art Wittig’s farm near Sidney after weeks of failing health. Funeral services were held at 1:15 p.m. at the Craig Mortuary and 2 p.m. at South Divide Trinity Lutheran Church. Burial followed in the church cemetery. She was born Amelia Marie Augusta Eichler in 1863 in Wilhelmsheim Germany and immigrated to the United States in 1881. She married Fred Wittig in Sidney in 1886 and lived on a Sidney-area farm before moving to town in 1924. Surviving are two daughters Amelia Johnston and Emma Nelson, two sons Art and Fred, ten grandchildren, ten great grandchildren, a sister Mary Ethridge and brothers Fred Eichler and Vern Eicherl. Pallbearers included Alvin Wittig and Arnold Wittig.
Cheyenne County faces pressure as the relief fund nears depletion with four months left in the fiscal year. County Chair George Fleming warns relief expenditures are the constraint while urging tight screening and no unapproved relief.
Out of court settlement reached in Cheyenne County District Court as Kenneth Earnhart pressed $50,000 for injuries from a Gering auto crash. Tremain was the car’s driver. Jury to hear another auto crash suit against Carlton Haze by Charles Scherb seeking $5,668.28 in Sidney from the December 31, 1955 collision.
Cheyenne County reports two new oil well sites. Sage Oil Co. plans the Dur land Trust No. 1 wildcat near 13-16-51, with a second near the Rudolph Field ten miles west of Sidney. Mountain Valley Oil Corp. aims Schmid No. 1 near 18-13-32 while Colorado Western plugs Thompson No. 2 near 12-14-50. Bauum gartner Oil Co. reports Sorge No. 1 wildcat near 4-15-50, drilling at 4,788 feet.
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