Farm Implement Demonstration Set Near Gurley
Cheyenne County dealers plan a farm implement demonstration at the Ted Egging farm southeast of Gurley on April 8 with April 15 as a weather backup. The Chamber of Commerce board endorsed the event and will issue details later.
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Cheyenne County
Farm Implement Dealers
Ted Egging
Gurley
Board of Directors
Chamber of Commerce
E. R. Jim Jimerson
Jimerson
Wil Farm
WNUCC to push Interstate 80 project in western Nebraska
Western Nebraska United Chambers of Commerce plans to press for a faster Interstate 80 route from Ogallala west to the Wyoming state line. The group backs reassessing priorities, aligns with Omaha World-Herald calls, and notes potential changes in state engineering schedules and right of way purchases as protests over exact routing persist.
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Frank Morrison
John Hossack
Nebraska
C of C
Omaha World Herald
Panhandle
The
World Herald
Ogallala
Wyoming
Colorado
Nebraska Line
Nebraska Highway Department
Sidney West
Kimball
Special Liquor Issue At Gurley Election
Gurley voters face a first time proposal on April 7 to allow liquor by the drink. Petitions push the measure for the ballot while nearby Dalton may consider it but has no petitions. Lodgepole and Potter will not act.
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Gurley
Dalton
Lodgepole
Potter
Governor Advocates West Nebraska Road Priority
Governor Frank Morrison urged the State Highway Advisory Commission to weigh Western Nebraska highway conditions and traffic when setting Interstate west of North Platte priorities. He asked hearings this summer to evaluate U S 30 segments between Big Springs and Sidney and Kimball and the Wyoming line amid plans for the Wyoming Interstate completion by 1965.
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Lincoln
Frank Morrison
State Highway Advisory Commission
Nebraska
North Platte
The
Highway Commission
Big Springs
Sidney
Kimball
Wyoming Line
Wyoming
Cheyenne
Friday Rites For Charles Eckert, Dalton Resident
Funeral services for Charles William Eckert, 57, of Dalton, will be held Friday at 2 p.m. from Dalton Trinity Lutheran Church with the Rev. Lee Nelson officiating. Burial follows in Dalton Cemetery. Eckert, born February 1, 1907 in Dixon Nebraska, died Monday evening after two weeks in Pioneer Memorial Hospital. He was a grain operator at the Dalton Co-Op and is survived by two sons, Thomas and Jerry, both in the Armed Forces, along with four brothers and nine sisters.
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Charles William Eckert
Dalton
Pioneer Memorial Hospital
Lee Nelson
Dalton Presbyterian Church
Dalton Trinity Lutheran Church
Dalton Cemetery
Craig Mortuary
Dixon, Neb
Nebraska Wheat Growers elect McCook man president
Scottsbluff Nebraska Wheat Growers Assn elected Wayne Allen McCook as president Monday, succeeding William Colwell Hay Springs, who resigned to run for Congress in the Third District. The NWGA board adopted a unanimous resolution commending Colwell for his service.
Weather Outlook With Clouds and Snow
Partly cloudy this afternoon with mostly cloudy skies and scattered light snow tonight. Tomorrow remains partly cloudy and colder. Lows tonight are 20 to 30 with highs tomorrow in the 40s.
Army Depot off limits to oil explorers near Sioux
Sioux Army Depot will not be opened for oil and gas exploration as Col. Stanley W. Smiley announced. Washington concurred that exploration would disrupt the depot’s primary mission of storing and processing ammunition and explosives. The Interior Bureau of Land Management had proposed specific parcels east of the reservation for bids, but the Army’s stance stands. The decision signals new area planning around the Lieber well drilled by Midwest Oil Co. and notes that no subsurface lease rights exist at the depot. Grazing remains the only outside activity, supervised.
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Sioux
Stanley W. Smiley
Washington, D. C
Smiley
Bureau of Land Management
Department of the Interior
Army
Lieber
Gurley
Bureau
Col Smiley
Midwest Oil Co
Denver
Marathon Will Renew Drilling in Banner County
Marathon Oil Co renews drilling in Banner County with a wildcat No. 1H Johnson NWNE 33-1954. Exeter Drilling Co moves in rotary tools as a discovery is put on the pump. No. 1 Young SW NW 28-17-58 completing after yielding 15 barrels per hour from J sand perforations. If successful, the new well could expand the Panhandle field.
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Marathon Oil Co
Marathon
Sidney
Banner County
Johnson
NWNE
Exeter Drilling Co
South Texas Development Co
Katex Oil
B. Kingston
Don M
Panhandle
Commission OKs four Nebraska oil cases pooling for 40 acre tract
All four docketed cases for the March Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission meeting were approved yesterday. Two involved pooling to form a 40 acre drilling tract amid minority-owner objections in Cheyenne and Scotts Bluff Counties. Court tests of the ruling are anticipated. Also approved were unorthodox drilling locations for Morrill County by J H Chain and for Cheyenne County by Jack H McCollum.
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Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
Cheyenne
Scotts Bluff County
Commission
J. H. Chain
Morrill County
Jack H. McCollum
Cheyenne County
Wildcat Venture Announced in Cheyenne County
Sage Oil Co. hires Toltek Drilling Co. to drill a wildcat well No. 3 State in CNW NE Sec. 16-12-52, Cheyenne County, near the Nebraska Colorado line.
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Sage Oil Co
Toltek Drilling Co
Cheyenne County
Veteran Pharmacists Celebrate 20th Anniversary in Sidney
Two Sidney pharmacists N W Ladegard of The Western Drug Co and Earle A Winter of The Winter Drug Co received gold ink framed duplicates of their licenses marking their silver service to the profession. Winter licensed 1910 and Ladegard 1912 both long time Sidney businessmen with stores dating back to 1930 and 1916 respectively. The shops have undergone modernizations while preserving core compounding and dispensing duties.
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Sidney
Nebraska Pharmaceutical Assn
N. W. Ladegard
Western Drug Co
Earle A. Winter
The
Winter Drug Co
Winter
Mr. Ladegard
W. E. Swatzlander
Ladegard
Peterson Bros
Times
Straw Pile Ignited By Weed Fire Near Sidney
Firemen battled a 2000 bale straw stack at Carl Olson farm southwest of Sidney after burning weeds fed flames. Windsor winds shifted boosting the blaze, consuming about $500 worth of straw as volunteers kept it from spreading. Earlier that day firefighters also responded to a grass fire east of Sidney, doused before the truck arrived.
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Carl Olson
Sidney
Dorwart Cornelius Thorpe Fish In Runoff For City Council Positions
Gene Lienemann as temporary Cheyenne County Centennial Assn. chairman aims to form a countywide committee in April. He has visited Lions Clubs in Lodgepole and Potter, seeking ideas and two representatives per community. Further visits to Gurley, Dalton and other towns follow. The 1967 Centennial plan was discussed, stressing early project initiation.
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Gene Lienemann
Cheyenne County
New ASCS Manager Is Announced
Lawrence Thompson was officially named office manager of the ASCS in Cheyenne County, succeeding Bob Buhrdorf who resigned for a rural mail carrier post. Thompson, a Weyerts native, has long served with ASCS since 1956, most recently as feed grain performance clerk after four months of on-the-job training across Devel Kimball and Scotts Bluff counties. He and his wife Janice have three children: Gerald 13 Suzanne 10 and Larry 6.
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Lawrence Thompson
Agricultural Stabilization Conservation Service
Cheyenne County
Bob Buhrdorf
Thompson
ASCS
Devel
Kimball
Scotts Bluff
Don Bremer
Weyerts
Gurley
Janice
Gerald
Suzanne
Larry
Deeper Well Site Found In Lodgepole
Henry Jenik reports a promising test hole in Lodgepole west section under engineer John Olsson of Lincoln. Drilling to 80 to 100 feet aims to triple current well capacity, potentially ending water rationing as three existing wells yield 200 to 300 gallons a minute from shallow depths.
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Lodgepole
Henry Jenik
John Olsson
Lincoln
Memorial Hospital Sees 92 Percent Occupancy Average
Memorial Hospital reports an occupancy rate near 92 percent since January as the board hears progress on a rest home addition and hospital remodeling. Plans for improved service and radiology equipment were discussed but no decisions made.
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Memorial Hospital
Leo Bolin
Memorial Rest Home
Four Earn Council Seats In City Primary Returns
A turnout of 900 voters, twice expected, chose four candidates for the general ballot. Incumbents Dr. C. B. Dorwart 379 and Dr. C. J. Cornelius 368 won, with J. L. Thorpe 335 and Jack Fish 330 also advancing. Madeline Aufdengarten finished fifth with 259 votes. Absentee votes, 17, will not alter the outcome. The four primary winners compete April 7 for two four year terms.
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C. B. Dorwart
C. J. Cornelius
J. L. Thorpe
Jack Fish
Madeline Aufdengarten
Gordon Tobin
North Side
Ward Aufdengarten
Cornelius Dorwart Fish Thorpe
Frank Baker Retires After 47 Years With Union Pacific
Frank G. Baker of 1733 Maple St retires after a 47 year railroad career with Union Pacific. Born in Evanston Wyoming he joined UP in 1916 as a relief phone operator at Rawlins. He served in World War I and held clerk and yardmaster roles across Evans ton Omaha Denver Green River North Platte and Sidney before promotion. He married in 1919 and has children in Texas Colorado and Wyoming. active in Railroad Yardmasters of America Elks American Legion World War I Veterans and UP Old Timers Club.
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Frank G. Baker
Maple St
Union Pacific Railroad
Evanston
Wyoming
Mr. Baker
U. P
Rawlins
Omaha
Denver
Green River
North Platte
Sidney
Texas
Colorado
Railroad Yardmasters of America
Elks, American Legion
Union Pacific Old Timers Club
Farmers Union Meeting Set in Scotts Bluff
The spring meeting of District 1 Farmers Union is scheduled for next Tuesday March 24 at the Park Lane Hotel in Scotts Bluff. An all day session begins at 10 a.m. and includes a noon luncheon.
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Farmers Union
Park Lane
Scottsbluff
Population shifts leave Sidney and Cheyenne County lagging
Nebraska total population rose 5.12 percent since 1960 but Sidney and Cheyenne County declined. Sidney dropped from 8,004 office residents in 1960 to about 7,870 by 1963, while Cheyenne County fell from 14,828 to 14,766. The trend reflects oil exploration slowdown and rural-to-urban migration, with Sidney and Fairbury as the only cities in the 24 surveyed to lose ground. Bellevue remains the fastest growing city, and Scottsbluff and Alliance show notable gains in western Nebraska.
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Nebraska
Sidney
Cheyenne County
University of Nebraska Bureau of Business Research
Fairbury
Uncle Sam
Bellevue
Scottsbluff
Alliance
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Chamber
Wayne Moran
WNUCC
Charles Eckert
McCook
Wildcat Venture
Earle A
Dorwart
Cornelius
Thorpe
Frank Baker
Farmers Union Meeting
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