Reduction Of Liquor Tax Sought By Sidney Officials
Sidney city leaders consider lowering occupation tax on liquor firms as part of renewal of licenses. An attorney for local licensees was delayed but will attend the next council session. Current policy charges maximum occupation tax twice the state license cost.
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Sidney
Gordon Tobin
Nebraska
Mill
Brandin’ Iron
Elks Club
Silver Dollar
Horseshoe Bar
Boyd Cigar Store
Elkhorn Tavern
Stag Tavern
Log Cabin
Town & Country Liquor
Thomas Liquor
Innes‘ Liquor
Pip's Liquor
Mac's Liquor
Eddié Bergner
Bergner
11Th Ave
Alvardo Road
Summit Drive
11Th Avenue
The
Methodist Church
Pasedena Place
Woe Strikes Wheatbelt Public Power District
Multiple wrecks marred a day for Wheatbelt Public Power District workers. Two transformers fell from a trailer near Gurley on Highway 19 injuring no one, then a district truck collided with a propane tanker near the company garage on West Illinois Street causing damage to four parked cars. Police considered charges against driver Ron Lienemann. A separate Sidney High School crash near King Street injured no one.
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Wheatbelt
Illinois Street
Ron Lienemann
Ivan Knapp
Ogallala
Robert Ankeny
Dalton, Berry
Rezanina
Sidney
Leo Whetstone
Dave Willis
Ankeny
King Street
Sidney High School
Larry Carey
Marcella Lessman
Route 1
Lessman
Gerald Robbins
Carey
Jury Trial Opens in Break-In Case at Cheyenne County
Trial starts in Cheyenne County District Court for Simon Ribera Jr charged with break ing and entering. Jurors impaneled this morning include Donald Lafler John Jurgens James Brunton Ben Berges Lyle Gish Dionise Hernandez Fred Pierson and others. Ribera pleads not guilty.
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Cheyenne County District Court
Simon Ribera, Jr
Ribera
Raymond Hernandez
Ordville
Donald Lafler
John Jurgens
James Brunton
Ben Berges
Lyle Gish
Dionise Hernandez
Fred Pierson
B. H. Hammond
M. A. Nelson
Joe Teague
Ernest Juedes
Francis McElfresh
Price Correction for Farm Equipment Ad Error
The Telegraph issued a correction for Monday’s advertisement for McCormick Farm Equipment Store. The 4 Farmall Cab tractor price was printed as 150 dollars instead of 750 dollars. The error occurred in the Telegraph back shop. the store bears no responsibility. The corrected ad appears in the next publication.
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Telegraph
McCormick Farm
McCormick Store
Todass Publicaton
Storm Mishaps On Snowy Nebraska Highways
Nebraska Safety Patrol reports three Friday motor vehicle accidents in Cheyenne County caused by snow. Ronald Krueger's car hit halted machines injuring Harvey Miles and John Schmidt. George Autry struck the Jenkins car. Roland Little crashed into a Weatbelt Public Power District pole. Total damage about 3200 dollars. Miles and Senmiat were injured but not hospitalized.
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Cheyenne County
Nebraska Safety Patrol
Sidney
Ronald Krueger
Sunol
Harvey Miles
John Schmidt
Julesburg
George Autry
el Monte
Calif
Arthur Jenkins
Highway 30
Roland Little
Ft Collins
Highway
Gurley
Oil and Gas 4-Well Program Slated in Northwest Cheyenne
McDaniel Drilling Co began the Worth No 1 well at 3000 feet in the Gaylord Field as the first of a four well program for Baumgartner Oil Co. The Gaylord No 1 offset and nearby wells mark a busy Cheyenne County oil area with Ohio Oil and Shell Oil also active on wildcats and tests. Nebraska production last week rose to a new all time peak at about 54 430 barrels per day from 52 155 the prior week.
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Cheyenne County
McDaniel Drilling Co
Gaylord
McDaniel
Baumgartner Oil Co
Baumgartner and
O’donnell & Edmondson
Ohio Oil
Mary Egging
Chandler Musgrove
Potter
Shell Oil
Nebraska
Sidney considers mandatory city garbage collection proposal
Sidney City Council tentatively approves a new waste collection ordinance. It would mandate city pickup, cap container size at 30 gallons, and keep 55 gallon drums for residents who burn trash. The plan shifts disposal to city crews and allows health board fee adjustments with potential future rate increases.
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Sidney
Iurrey Fuller
Fuller
Board of Health
Waste Department
Grain Market Wheat Prices Quoted by Local Elevators
Local elevator sources list No 1 Wheat at 2.90 dollars per bushel and No 2 Wheat at 199 dollars per bushel today.
City Farmer Free Feed Deadline Set
Reservations for a free beefburger feed sponsored by the Sidney Chamber of Commerce must be in by Saturday for the April 2 event. Herbert Hughes of Imperial will speak. chamber officials urge members to invite farmers and limit guests to men due to seating.
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Sidney Chamber of Commerce
Herbert Hughes
Imperial
National Wheatgrowers Assa
Chamber of Commerce
Ralph Welch
M. R. Sigler
Federal Mail Load Shrinks Says Sidney Postmaster
Postmaster Weldon Stewart reports congress and federal agencies now ship less mail to the Post Office Department. In fiscal 1956 penalty and franked mail totaled 1.47 billion pieces, the lowest in ten years except 1948, with payments of 34.5 million dollars under Public Law 286.
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Sidney
Weldon Stewart
Congress
Federal
Post Office Department
Washington
Congressional
Federal Department
Stewart
J. Congress
Postoffice Department
Postal Service
Moisture from Nebraska spring storm cheers farmers
An Omaha area weather report notes the spring blizzard left beneficial moisture across Nebraska plains. Panhandle winter wheat stands to gain as snow melts, with stubble fields storing meltwater. Road travel faced ice and snow but loosened by Monday. Dr. M D Weldon says two inches of water should penetrate soils, aiding thaw and reducing runoff.
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Nebraska Plains
Panhandle
Sidney
High Plains
Missouri
Iowa
Omaha
Des Moines
Ex Daltonites Reunite in Navy Blue at Newport Base
Ex Dalton residents cross paths at the U S Navy base in Newport where Chaplain Richard K Dwyer and Ens Walter C Brestel Jr meet while attending different schools at the Navy Station. After completing Chaplain Indoctrination on March 29 Dwyer will join Naval Hospital Great Lakes. Brestel, son of Mr and Mrs W C Brestel of Dalton, is attached to the destroyer USS The Sullivans and heads for a six month Mediterranean cruise aboard ship in May.
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ENS
Walter C. Brfstel, JR
Dalton
Richard K. Dwyer
Newport
R. I
Dwyer
Dalton Presbyterian Church
Navy
Rli
U .S Navy
Richard K Dwyer
Walter C Brestel
Lbs Naval Station
Newnet
Chaplin
Naval Hospital
Great Lakes
Michael
Christopher
Hastings
Neb Ens Brestel
W C. Brestel
Dalton High School
University of Nebraska
Brestel
the Sullivans
Sullivans
Mediterranean
Eight New Irrigation Wells Drilled In County Last Year
An irrigation well inventory reports 4 094 new wells drilled in 1956 bringing Nebraska total to 19 089. York County shows the largest gain with 344 new wells and 87 percent increase. The county by county survey is by University of Nebraska Conservation and Survey Division with Soil Conservation Service.
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Eugene C. Reed
University of Nebraska
Reed
York County
The
Soil Conservation Service
Repairs Planned for Worst Stretch of Highway 30
Nebraska will undertake major improvements this spring and summer on a 184 mile sub standard segment of Highway 30 between Ogallala and Paxton. Bids open April 18 in Lincoln for grading culverts guide rails roadbed prep base courses and asphalt surface. The project aims to eliminate a dangerous stretch and improve traffic safety amid long standing planning uncertainties.
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Nebraska
Ogallala and
Paxton
Lincoln
Ogallala-Paxton
Plains Drive-In Opens Saturday for 1957 season
The Plains Drive-In Theatre begins its 1957 season this Saturday at 6 45 PM with a double feature “Far Horizons” and “April In Paris” starring Fred MacMurray Donna Reed Doris Day and Ray Bolger. Improvements include new restrooms and constant prices 50 cents for adults and free admission for children under 12 with Thursday family night at one dollar per car.
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Far Horizons
Fred MacMurray
Donna Reed
Paris
Doris Day
Ray Bolger
Don Gillham
Bob Carter
Lie Detector Test Leads to Forgery Charges in Nebraska
Roy Engberg 21 of La Junta Colorado faces a charge of uttering a forged endorsement after a lie detector test prompted a statement about forged checks in Cheyenne County. His brother Freddie Engberg 18 was arraigned and bound over to district court on the same charge with a $1,000 bond.
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Cheyenne
Roy Engberg
la Junta
Colo
Freddie
Sidney
Cheyenne County
Engberg Brothers
Nebraska Safety Patrol
Freddie Engberg
C. W Smith
Bill Schulz
Lee Knudtsen
Scottsbluff
Smith
Bed Street Mattress Fire and Frus Truck Blaze
Firemen were called to 1305 11th Ave this morning for a mattress fire thought started by a cigarette. Earlier yesterday a freight truck near Illinois Street had its motor ignite after the carburetor flooded. the driver was Ray Parks of Salt Lake City.
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Sidney
11Th Ave
23Rd Avenue
Illinois Street
Ray Parks
Salt Lake City
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Senmiat
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M. D. Weldon
Extension Agronomist
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Kimball
Morrill
Sotae
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Garden
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Sioux
Thomas
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