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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1954
Page
3
Sheriff Schulz warns against amateur aid after a Friday auto crash in Michigan left two hurt. Patricia McCall, 19 of Dearborn, was freed from under the car by bystanders with a wrecker. She was placed in a station wagon and rushed to the hospital, instead of being kept still until medical personnel arrived.
County authorities filed complaints in county court against Elks Club manager E L Brooks and Sidney Country Club manager Robert Burns for keeping gambling devices. Sheriff and police investigators visited both clubs Saturday night, confiscating a free game machine at the Elks and a Polio clock a dice machine dice table poker table chips and cards at the Country Club. No one was gambling at the time. Police indicated complaints may have been entered by individuals.
The American National Bank reported that savings bonds sold between February 15 and March 15 reached the highest thirty day total since the war ended, amounting to 344 thousand dollars. Bank officials and bond leaders hailed the result as a sign of increased thrift by the public.
Telegraph office broken into again Saturday night but nothing missing. A back door was pried to gain entrance, drawers opened but office undisturbed otherwise. Police found the break-in shortly after two a.m. Sunday and had dusted for fingerprints. a prior entry through a window last week yielded a small amount from a petty cash drawer.
C. V. McCullen of Shell Oil Co says Shell has abandoned its No 1 State oil well in Dawes County near a Cree Drilling Co. site. Drilled to 4184 feet, the well lost circulation and was halted to avoid further expenditure, casting doubt on future oil exploration in the Nebraska Panhandle.
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The Tele graph reports a 12,164 foot terrace on Bennie Herboldsheimer’s farm near Potter as a potential state record but a former Alliance man notes longer terraces may exist. Robert Kastner cites 15,690 feet built on the Toldstedt ranch northeast of Alliance in 1952 and mentions other large terraces in Dawes County, inviting competitors to come forward.
Newell H. Joyner of the University of Nebraska State Museum will headline the fourth annual northwest Science Clinic in Gordon on March 26 with a talk titled Museums and Their Role in Natural Science. He also speaks at the evening banquet on the Natural History of Nebraska and Our University State Museum. Chadron College and Scottsbluff College representatives join the program with lectures on Carbon's Big Brother, What We Inherit, What Is Calculus Like, vitamins relations, and a Gordon photography lecture by Earnest Purdy.
Wedding invitations appear printed and engraved in The Telegraph showing formal notices of marriages and related announcements.
President Keith Sorum announces the annual meeting of the Potato Certification Association of Nebraska to be held in Alliance on Thursday April 1. A dinner at the Alliance Hotel for members and wives opens the event, followed by the business meeting and program. Principal speaker will be Frank Garrett of Fairhope Alabama, a potato specialist with the Alabama Experiment Station.
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