Drill Weary Burglar Strikes Sidney Over Weekend
Weekend burglary wave travels from Dalton-Gurley to Sidney as a thief or thieves drill locks at Read's Army and Sporting Goods 935 Illinois Farmers Feed and Seed East Illinois Coca Cola Bottling 1516 10th Street and Sidney Implement Co East Illinois. Loot is minimal with $8.10 in nickels found at Coca Cola plant cans of paint and tools stolen at Sidney Implement none at Farmers Feed and Seed. A plate glass break in Potter off weekend at Stan's Propane Gas is noted though cash drawer and safe remain untouched.
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Dalton-Gurley
Sidney
Read's Army and Sporting Goods
Ilinois
Farmers Feed and Seed
East Iinois
Coca-Cola Bottling Company
10Th Street
Sidney Implement Co
East Illinois
Roy Bauer
Sol Willis
Dalton-Gurney
Coca-Cola
Sidney Implement
Army and Sporting Goods
Illinois
Potter Breakin
Stan
Potter
Gene Morris
Lodgepole Lions Plan Easter Egg Hunt and Baseball Clinic
Lodgepole Lions Club at the Legion Hall discusses two major community projects. Easter egg hunt planned for April 1 with details to follow. Baseball clinic set for May 16-19 featuring Johnny Hopp of Hastings. Bayard hosts Chimney Rock Stone Age Fair March 24-26 with exhibits at the Legion Hall and a history of thousands of visitors.
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Lodgepole Lions
Lodgepole
Lodgepole Lions Club
Legion Hall
Johnny Hopp
Hastings
Kansas-Nebraska Natural Gas Co
Bayard
Chimney Rock
Chadron Armory Plans Move Forward on Schedule
Lt. Col. Hans Holtorf told about 75 chamber members that Chadron's National Guard Company will get a new armory within two years. He said plans have gone to Washington for approval and, barring any setback, construction should proceed promptly.
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Chadron
Chamber of Commerce
Hans Holtorf
Gering
Field Artillery
Assumption Arena
Washington
Split Sessions Set for Kimball Schools Next Year
Kimball School Board approves split sessions to ease overcrowding with one room used for two classes. Grades five and six moved to split schedule starting around 7 30 a m to 5 30 p m. middle grades deemed least affected. daily instruction shortened by 30 to 35 minutes.
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Kimball
Kimall
Chozen
Only Three Farms In Grain Program Remain Unlisted
Cheyenne County townsfolk await final data for the president's feed grain program as 1,474 farms were surveyed and three remain unlisted. Dob Rapp, office manager, commends local committees for gathering required data and notes no procedural details are yet available. He expects official instructions from state and national offices soon and says productivity indices will be set once cleared.
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Cheyenne County
ASC
Dob Rapp
Farmers Union Meet Set in Berea With Leaders Speaking
A Farmers Union District meeting is planned for Monday March 27 at the Farmers Union Hall in Berea. Speakers include Elton Berck Lincoln state president of Farmers Union and a Rural Civil Defense representative. The event begins at 11 30 a.m. and lunch will be served.
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Farmers’ Union District
Farmers’ Union
Berea
Elton Berck
Lincoln
Farmers' Union
Ohio Oil Co. Reports Record 1960 Earnings and Growth Plans
Ohio Oil Company reports 1960 net income of 39.215 million dollars or 2.84 a share, with 510 wells drilled worldwide and refined products sales at a record 35.585 million barrels. J. C. Donnell II cites Libya Dahra Field development and a planned pipeline to the Mediterranean as key growth drivers, while 1961 prospects look favorable amid higher crude output and demand.
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Findlay
Ohio
Ohio Oil Company
J. C. Donnell II
U. S
Ohio Oil
Donnell
Libya
Oasis Oil Company of
Ghia Oil
Dahra
Oasis Companies
Mediterranean
New Mexico
Marathon
Speedway
Jaycees Aid Fire Extinguisher Sale For Cub Scouts
In Sidney the Cub Scouts begin selling 288 fire extinguishers door to door to raise funds for Cub Scouting. The Sidney Jaycees purchased the extinguishers and will take profits to support the local program, with Junior Chamber President Merle Bobo noting the work boosts youth programs.
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Sidney
Sidney Jaycees
Jaycees
Junior Chamber
Merle Bobo
3-County Wildcat Well Series Slated in Nebraska
Miami Petroleum Co. Inc. plans new wildcat tests in Red Willow Frontier and Furnas counties Nebraska. No. 1 Rosier B and No. 1 Kehr in Red Willow target granite about nine miles north of Sleepy Hollow Field and near Bartley. No. 1 Mitchell A in Frontier County north of Cambridge. No. 1 Palmer A in Furnas County south of Wilsonville near Exetor’s Palmer discovery.
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Texas
Red Willow
Frontier
Furnas
Miami Petroleum Company, Inc
Abilene
Kehr
Sleepy Hollow Field
Bartley
Frontier County
Miami
Mitchell
Miami Petroleum Co. Inc
Nebraska
Red Willow County
Wildcat
Granite
Tuesday Rites For D B Phelps 79 Retired Farmer
David Burgess Phelps 79 a retired farmer of South Divide died Friday in Memorial Hospital after a period of declining health. Funeral services set for Tuesday at 2 pm at South Divide Trinity Lutheran Church with Rev C C Boye officiating and burial in Greenwood Cemetery. Gehrig and Son Funeral Home in charge. Memorials may be made to South Divide Trinity Lutheran Church fund. Born September 3 1881 at Johnson Nebraska he married Emma M Michaelis November 21 1901. The family lived in Johnson and Crook before moving to a farm on South Divide. He retired about a year ago and lived at 829 15th Ave. Survivors include his wife two daughters four sons and many grandchildren and great grandchildren.
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David Burgess Phelps
South Divide
Memorial Hospital
Johnson, Neb
Richard Phelps
Emma M Michaelis
Johnson
Crook, Colo
Mr. Phelps
15Th Ave
Ohio Swabs Two BOPH At Potter Area Discovery
Oil well No. 1 Nielsen in Cheyenne County Nebraska shows production test of two barrels per hour with trace water. Logs indicate J sand perforations at 5268 to 5274 feet and a top at 5261 feet. Discovery lies about a mile SSE of Potter and two miles south of Slama field with a dry hole separating the prospect from Slama.
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Ohio
Cheyenne County
Nebraska
Discovery
Potter
Slama Field
Slama
Field Oil Tests Across Kansas Nebraska Regions
A list of oil wells and test locations across Frontier Furnas Harlan Kimball and Sleepy Hollow areas. Companies include Buick Drilling Co. Simmons Lansing Midwest Oil Chandler Simpson Pubco Petroleum Pubco No 10 1 G and Juniper Oil and Mining. Refers to wildcats 3600 foot tests to granite and 6500 J sand with multiple county coordinates and directions.
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Sleepy Hollow
Frontier County
Miami
Mitchell-A
Wildcat
Granite Test
Stockville
Newcomb-A
Cambridge
Granite
Furnas County
Palmer-A
Wilsonville
Exeter
Palmer Discovery
Buick Drilling Co., Inc
Simmons
Drake
CSW
Harlan County
Johnson
Lansing Midwest Oil Corp
Barber- C
Redwillow
Lansing-Kansas City
Pubco Petroleum Corp
Wall-B
Lansing
Juniper Oil and Mining Co
Painter
CNE
Kimball County
Chandler & Simpson
Chamerlain
Kennedy- Johnson
Broad Terms Set For Huge Land Sale This Week
The Panhandle Land and Livestock Co. will auction 22 percent of land and other property at Bushnell on Thursday March 23. Advertised as the largest regional offering this century, the sale starts at 10 o clock. Contacts include Asmus Rychecky of Scottsbluff Gene Binning of Kimball Jorn Jirdon of Marion and land owner.
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Bushnell
Sidney Telegraph
Panhandle Land and Livestock Co
Asmus and
Rychecky
Scottsbluff
Asmus
Rychécky
Gene Binning
Kimball
Jorn Jirdon
Marni
Spring West Nebraska Farmers Eager To Complete Field Chores
Western Nebraska farmers enter spring eager to begin annual field work as moisture improves soil in the Panhandle. Nebraska farmers plan to plant about 6.885 million acres of corn, up from 6.817 million in 1960, with a 50.5 bushel average yield in that year. Nationally, crop acreage may total about 330 million acres, with increases in durum wheat oats potatoes tobacco dry peas soybeans and sugar beets and decreases in corn spring wheat and other grains depending on weather and market conditions.
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Nebraska
Panhandle
U.s.department of Agriculture
Agriculture Department
Jaycees Plan Program To Bring New Industry To Sidney
The Sidney Junior Chamber of Commerce will launch a campaign to attract new industry and payrolls. About 50 Jaycees will distribute pamphlets and posters early Tuesday with support from the Senior Chamber and other groups.
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Sidney Junior Chamber of Commerce
Sidney
Jaycees
Jerry Hile
Junior Chamber Industrial Committee
Senior Chamber
Pay System At Sioux Will Use U S Mail
Sioux Ordnance Depot will mail employee pay checks instead of hand delivering them. The change takes effect next month with the first checks mailed on Wednesday April 12, allowing some workers to receive pay on Thursday rather than Friday. Waldo Dearing, assistant to Col. Harvey Bower, announced the plan to the Chamber of Commerce board.
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Sioux Ordnance Depot
SOC
Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
Waldo Dearing
Harvey Bower
School District 12 Meeting Cancelled
The special meeting of School District No 12 Sunol scheduled for Tuesday evening March 21 has been cancelled per Telegraph notice.
Lodgepole Man Wins Grant for Institute Teachers
Marvin Hokom of Cleveland Ohio son of Lodgepole residents Lowell and Mamie Hokom received a grant from the Academic Year Institute for Teachers supported by the National Science Foundation. He will study mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1961 62 and summer 1962 while pursuing graduate and undergraduate work toward a master's degree. Hokom, a Lodgepole High School graduate, earned a BA in education from Nebraska State Teachers College in 1958 and now teaches mathematics at Joan Adams School in Cleveland on a one year leave to attend the program. About 45 teachers from across the United States will participate.
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Marvin Hokom
Cleveland
Ohio
Lowell Hokom
Lodgepole
Institute For Teachers
National Science Foundation
University of Colorado At Boulder
Wokom
Lodgepole High School
Nebraska State Teachers College
Kearney
Cleveland Public School System
Joan Adams School
United States
Safflower Project Takes Tie to Grant and St Francis
Watching Progress George Speidel of Lincoln travels with Pearle Finigan to confer with PVO GM safflower mill officials in Sidney and nearby Grant and St Francis Kansas. The venture aims to expand safflower acreage as demand outpaces supply with the mill raising the 1961 seed price to 70 dollars per ton and offering possible bonuses.
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George Speidel
Lincoln
Nebraska Department of Agriculture
Sidney
Speidel
Pearle Finigan
PVOGM
Ken Woodward
Grant
St. Francis
Kan
Nebraska
Wyoming
Colorado
Kansas
Finigan
Panhandle
Jaycee Membership Meeting Scheduled
The Junior Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual membership meeting Tuesday at the Yendis Cafe at 6 30 p m The Sidney Jaycee chapter counts 140 members with a 1961 goal of 175 plus
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Junior Chamber of Commerce
Sidney Jaycee
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Scottsbluff Lodge No. 1367
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Fidelity, Inc
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Bob Williamson
Ohio Oil Co
Lions Club
International District 38-N
Ft. Sidney Motor Hotel
Virgil Plummer
Plummer
Vince Malczewski
Sidney Club
D. B. Phelps
Louis Nienhuser
Albert Brauer
Chappell
Dwayne
Elmer
Chester
Howard
Sacramento
Calif
Nebraska ‘Ag Department
West Nebraska
Jaycees Plan
Sioux
Lodgepole Man
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