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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1967
Page
4
Art Assink reports 410 Boeing employees in Kimball with about 60 hired locally. The missile modification program will wind down in about 60 days and finish in October. Some workers may gain permanent positions or transfer to other Boeing sites.
The Board approved Ordinance No. 172 creating six new paving districts Hemingford Districts 11 to 16 with about 17 1/2 blocks of improvements. An additional 16 blocks of street projects by resolution connect to the paving districts but lie outside them.
County spelling champions from grades 3 through 8 will compete in Kimball County at Kimball Junior High this Saturday. Registration runs 8:30 to 9 AM, with written tests, and an oral contest at 2 PM. Top six per group advance. oral winner to World Herald contest in Omaha April 8.
Richard Jensen 22 and Leo Jensen 15 are jailed in Chappell on burglary and breaking and entering charges. They were arrested at their father’s home after an informant reported them. Richard seeks counsel. a preliminary hearing is anticipated this week with possible transfer to district court if waived.
The Chappell Register celebrates its seventy ninth year of weekly publication begun in March 1888. It has never missed an issue and preserves wartime records, local achievements, crops and weather, and historic events including the assassination of a president. Only one weekly preceded it in Deuel County, the Rustler, which closed after a short run.
Applications are being accepted for drivers to operate three school buses for Chappell students starting September 1967. Send letters of application to Superintendent Vernon Thomson. This marks the first use of school buses after district reorganization into a K 12 system.
Seven area men filed incorporation papers for Cody College Inc to establish a four year liberal arts college near the original Col Buffalo Bill Cody ranch northwest of North Platte. The non profit venture aims to open in fall 1969 with land negotiations ongoing and plans to hire a college president later.
The Board of Education approved a migrant workers children’s school for next summer funded by a $32,000 ESEA grant, replacing the prior OEO program. The move will broaden the program to include non migrant children and expand enrichment and remedial classes.
Donald Robertson and Lloyd Pye pulled aside on Roosevelt Boulevard to let a police escorted truck pass. The truck cleared the way but its load a house being moved snagged Robertson’s car and pushed it into Pye’s truck causing $300 in total damage.
Girl Scout Troop 14 hosts an Easter egg hunt at Road Side Park starting 10 am for children up to fourth grade. The same edition notes a Boy Scout car wash at the schoolhouse Saturday from 7:30 am to 5 pm with a $1 car fee and $1.25 for whitewall cars.
The Sidney Telegraph invites readers to submit old pictures of historical interest from Sidney, Cheyenne County, and western Nebraska. Bring or mail photos to the newspaper’s department to help illustrate the August Centennial Edition.
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