Western Outlook Report On Expanded Telephone Services
The March issue of Western Outlook, appearing in The Sidney Telegraph and 14 Neb and Colo newspapers, covers Northwestern Bell's new multi million dollar plant serving western Nebraska. It highlights plans to develop Ash Hollow as a tourist and historic site and features a Kimball retiree’s carved wood collection and inaugural snowmobile races at Valentine.
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Western Outlook
Sidney
Nebraska
Colorado
Wyoming
Omaha
Lincoln
Ash Hollow
Lewellen
Northwestern Bell Telephone
Valentine
Sidney Council Backs Senior Center Letter Of Intent
The Sidney City Council voted to sign a letter of intent to apply for a Title II grant under the Older Americans Act, outlining a $19,014 project with federal state and local funds. The vote followed debate on legal authority, with City Attorney L M Clinton noting recreation use as the only viable path.
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Sidney
L. M. Clinton
C. B. Dorwart
Nebraska Committee On the Aging
Glen Weller
Nebraska
Alliance
Clinton
Sidney School Board approves sabbatical and calendar
The Sidney School Board approved a sabbatical leave policy for teachers after seven years with half pay for a year and a required return of at least one year. Two days personal leave on pay was rejected, and a bachelor’s degree plus 36 hours not given the same pay as a master’s. Three veterans plan retirement. calendar for 1969 70 set with 180 days. Title I summer program expanded for grades 1 6 at Central Elementary. Next meeting is April 8.
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Sidney Educators Association
Board of Education
Sidney
Kurth DeLand
SEA Welfare Committee
Mattie Bryan
Mabel Nielsen
Sidney High School
Vergal Winn
American Legion
Supt. Russell Pedersen
Central Elementary
St. Pat’s
Sidney Educators Reject Board Salary Schedule Objections Cited
The Sidney Educators Association rejected the Board of Education salary schedule at a regular meeting. Reasons include inadequate M A plus 18 reimbursement, no structural improvement, unchanged experienced teachers' increment, and future hires benefiting most from the $6,000 base raise. SEA president Dick Osterday noted 92 percent of 84 members voted to reject.
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Sidney Educators Assn
Sidney Board of Education
Kurth DeLand
SEA Welfare Committee
Dick Osterday
The
SEA
Weather Panhandle Forecast Shows Clearing Skies
Gener ally fair this afternoon with partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. Colder with light snow possible Thursday. Highs in the 30s, tonight's lows 5 to 15, Thursday's highs 20 to 30. Chance of precipitation near zero today and tonight, 30 percent Thursday. Five day outlook calls for above normal temps early then cooler weekend with likely snow. highs in the 30s, lows 5 to 15. Courtesy Frontier Airlines.
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Panhandle
Frontier Airlines
Well Known Dalton Man Died Today
Harvey L. Heizer 86 longtime Dalton business leader died after a long illness at Pioneer Memorial Hospital. Heizer moved to Dalton in 1906 and ran Heizer's Grocery until 1954. Surviving are his widow a daughter Logusta Dutcher a son John Joseph four grandchildren two sisters and other relatives. funeral services pending at The Craig-Holeciek Home.
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Dalton
Harvey L. Heizer
Pioneer Memorial Hospital
Craig-Holeciek
Harvey Lysander Heizer
John Joseph and
Aristine Johnston Heizer
Laddonia
Audrain County
Orrie Evelyn Flynt
Hallsville
Nebraska
Marian Flynt
Logusta
John Joseph
Ruth Jobe
Bridgeport
Dalton Presbyterian Church
Lions Club
Heizer’s
Flynt
Logusta Dutcher
Hugoton
Kan
Grace Berry
Mexico
Lola Larsen
Lubbock
Texas
Narcotic Case Hearing Held In District Court
District Judge John Kuns ruled for the defendants in a motion to suppress in the State of Nebraska versus Dwayne Roland and Robert Sterling. The state sought to admit narcotics found during a routine auto inventory by Nebraska State Patrol, after a search warrant followed the contraband discovery. Roland and Sterling were represented by attorney G F Bush.
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John Kuns
State of
Nebraska
Dwayne Roland
Robert Sterling
Don Tedesco
Kuns
Roland
Sterling
G, F, Bush
State Welfare Dept orders 19 patients moved from Memorial Home
The Nebraska Department of Public Welfare announced it will transfer nineteen Memorial Home patients in Sidney to Kimball Manor after negotiations over payment rates failed. The department cited maximum pay rates and advised moving patients who cannot be served under current terms, with local welfare offices offering assistance to arrange new care. Cheyenne County now houses about 50 welfare patients in rest homes, and officials warn the move could end Memorial Hospital and Home’s operation without a settlement.
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Nebraska Department of Public Welfare
Memorial Home
Sidney
Welfare Department
Board of Memorial Hospital and Home
Darold Hendee
Memorial Hospital and
Home
Robert D. McManus
Memorial Hospital and Home
Nebraska
County Division of Public Welfare
Hendee
Virgil Knackstedt
Cheyenne
Welfare Headquarters
Lincoln
State Office
Knackstedt
Mr. Knackstedt
Kimball Manor
Kimball
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Terry Carpenter
Scottsbluff
Cheyenne Memorial Home
Memorial Hospital
Memorial Hospital Home
Billy Smith
Potter
Paul Huff
Lodgepole
A. J. Jorgenson
Board of
Jack H. Lowe
Lowe
Private Rest Home Planned for Sidney Area
Plans move toward a 60 bed private rest home in Sidney at 15th Ave and Toledo St with FHA funding hoped within 30 to 40 days. Sidney Federal Savings has approved a loan contingent on FHA approval as construction could start in April or May with George Clayton of Grand Island as architect. Cheyenne County welfare patients seek return home as Memorial Home’s rate structure triggers welfare department action.
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Sidney
15Th Ave
Toledo St
Mel Adams
Federal Housing Administration
FHA
Sidney Federal Savings, and Loan Assa
Adams
Nebraska Department of Public Welfare
Memorial Home
Virgil Knackstedt
Cheyenne County
Mr. Knackstedt
George Clayton
Grand Island
Kiwanis Stars of Tomorrow at Sidney Junior High
Seventeen acts will perform in the Kiwanis Stars of Tomorrow show at 2 pm Sunday in the Sidney Junior High School Auditorium. Thirty two entrants competed in last week's auditions. Finalists span Elementary Junior High and Senior High divisions, including Teresa Sullivan, Jane Pelster, Eileen Tobin, Kay Glassburn, Carole Hahler, and Larry Glassburn among others.
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Kiwanis Stars of Tomorrow
Sidney Junior High School
Teresa Sullivan
Jane Pelster
Jeryl Lessman
Karen Gibbons
Eileen Tobin
Jerry Juedes
Kristi Bennett
Julie McRoberts
Kay Glassburn
Carole Hahler
Loretta Hinman
Peggy Ahlschwede
Larry Glassburn
Free Hams At Cheyenne County Dollar Days
The Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce will give away twelve free hams as part of the Dollar Days promotion this weekend. Registration occurs in participating stores on Thursday Friday and Saturday with a central entry point at the corner of 10th and Illinois. Sales receipts are used and winners will be drawn Saturday night. the list appears Monday in the Telegraph. Ed Haupt chairs the event.
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Cheyenne County
Dalton farmer Allen Baack killed in hay loader accident
Allen D Baack 21 of Potter area was fatally injured Tuesday afternoon when caught in a hay loading machine on a farm 10 miles northeast of Dix. Funeral 10:30 Friday at St Pauls Lutheran Church with burial in St Pauls cemetery. Survivors include his wife Carol and one daughter Shelley Kay. Memorials designated for This Is The Life or Lutheran Hour. Also Wheatbelt Public Power District named Gene Lienemann new manager effective April 1, succeeding Charles Ham who resigned to join the National Rural Electrification Commission in the Philippine Islands. Ken Peetz named to Wheatbelt board.
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Dalton
Allen D. Baack
Dix
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Potter
Bruce Lakamp
St. Paul’s Cemetery
Craig
Allen Swain Baack
Sidney
Arthur
Olga Schuessler Baack
Carol Schreinert
Chanute Air Force Base
Tll
Dalton Area
Shelley Kay
Larry
Columbus
Ind
Donna Carr
Aurora
Cole
Pamela
Ernest Baack
Ottilie Schuessler
Wheatbelt Public Power District
Gene Lienemann
Charles Ham
National Rural Electrification Commission Association
Philippine Islands
Ham
Wheatbelt
Lienemann
Randloph
Neb
KSID
Wheatbelt Board
Ken Peetz
Bob Elsen
Elsen
Power
January Bond Buying Marks Eightteen Thousand Seven Hundred Forty Eight
Cheyenne county sales of U.S. Savings Bonds and Savings Notes for January totaled 18 748 dollars, reported by H G Spearow county chairman.
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U.S
Cheyenne County
H.G. Spearow
State-Owned Tracts Auctioned In Western Nebraska
The State Board of Education Lands and Funds confirms the sale of 21 state owned school land tracts in western Nebraska counties. Nineteen tracts sold at appraised prices, two at higher bids. Another 21 tracts to be auctioned within 60 days. a sale occurred in Cheyenne County in February. An additional tract will be offered next Monday March 17 with lease bids if unsold.
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State Board of Educational Lands and Funds
Nebraska
Lincoln
Cheyenne County
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Sioux Villa
Weller
Dorwart
State Committee On the
Elsie Ruttner
Edward Bauman
Stan Larabee
Senior Citizens Group
Robert Hossle
Senior Citizens Organization
H. N. Boyd Co
Harry Marsh
Richard M. Peetz
Kenneth L. Smith
State Liquor Commission
Treasurer’s and Utilities
John Baudek
H, L, Heizer
State Welfare Dept
Young Dalton Farmer
Allen D. Brack
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