Crowning Of Queen Open House Set At WNTC
Western Nebraska Technical College hosts its annual open house weekend with an industrial education fair drawing 600 students from 16 to 18 area high schools. The Sweetheart Ball crowns a queen from four candidates, and Sunday features glider rides, plane demos, a flight breakfast, and an SAD complex exhibit.
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Western Nebraska Technical College
WNTC
Valerie Peterson
Pamela Jo Berry
Gurley
Diane Carlson
Potter
Sandra Merrihew
Ashby
Nebraska
Cheyenne County
Merle Rudebusch
Film on Wheat Marketing To Be Shot Across Central U S
Frank Jones of Lodgepole announced a national wheat marketing film project to be shot July and August across Missouri Kansas Nebraska the Dakotas Montana and the Pacific Northwest with stops in Indiana and Ohio. Scott Anderson of Concept Films and E L Hatcher signed the contract in Washington D C with USDA officials present.
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Washington, D.C
Cheyenne County
Frank Jones
Lodgepole
National Wheat Institute
Scott Anderson
Concept Films
Jones
The
Institute
Montana
Pacific Northwest
Indiana
Ohio
Wheat Institute
Wheat Research and Promotion Act
National Association of Wheat Growers
National Farmers Union
National Federation of Grain Cooperatives
Duram Growers Association of the
U.S
National Grange
Midcontinent Farmers Organization
National Farmers Organization
NFO
E.L. Hatcher
Washington D.C
Clayton Yeutter
USDA
Community Action Plans To Be Mapped Monday
The Cheyenne County Planning & Advisory Council will hold a public meeting Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the East Ward School auditorium. Rev. Wilbur Bennett invites low income and minority residents to attend and voice needs to the Nebraska Panhandle Community Action Agency. The session aims to ensure participation guides anti poverty program planning.
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Cheyenne County
Wilbur Bennett
East Ward
Nebraska Panhandle Community Action Agency
Bennett
Summer School Cancelled in Sidney Schools
Superintendent Russell Pedersen announced no summer schools this year due to funding cuts and Title I uncertainties. Federal aid previously reached about $30,000, last year around $5,000, now drops to about $1,000, enough only to rewrite remedial reading next fall until new funds arrive.
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Sidney
Russell Pedersen
Pedersen
Vo Tech Study Authorized By Legislature
The Legislature authorized an interim study on how state and technical community colleges perform their duties. The move ties to discussions around gifting Hiram Scott College facilities in Scottsbluff and potential reorganizations of the technical community college system.
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Technical Community Colleges
Hiram Scott College
Scottsbluff
Technical Community College System
Panhandle Forecast Shows Warm Weekend Outlook
Sunny and warmer this afternoon with highs in the upper 70s to lower 80s. Tonight and Saturday stay warm with lows around 45 to 50 and 80s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph, 5 percent precipitation today, 20 percent Saturday. Sunday to Tuesday mild with a chance of showers and 60s highs, 40s lows. Courtesy of Frontier Airlines.
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Panhandle
Frontier Airlines
Meeting Set On Alcoholism In Panhandle
County and civic leaders host a 2 p.m. meeting at the Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce with John North Bill Alteberry of the State Division on Alcoholism Allen J Arringdale of the Nebraska Panhandle Community Action Agency and Rev Wilbur Bennett. Discussions cover plans for a local alcoholism counseling center and a western state treatment center with Lincoln officials addressing the growing alcoholism problem. North and Alteberry will then travel to Scottsbluff and Alliance for further meetings and school appearances.
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Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce
John North
Bill Alteberry
State Division
Lincoln
Allen J. Arringdale
Nebraska Panhandle Community Action Agency
Panhandle Board
Panhandle
Wilbur Bennett
Sidney Schools Lose Jordan Ball and 10 Others
Eleven teachers in the Sidney Schools informed Superintendent Russell Pedersen they will not return next year.名单 includes Jordan Ball vocal music instructor, Ancel Lewis retiring, Barbara Persons and Patricia DeVoss English teachers, and several other staff from junior high to primary grades. Applications are flooding in and being reviewed as enrollment figures are finalized.
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Sidney
Russell Pedersen
Pedersen
Jordan Ball
Ancel Lewis
Patricia DeVoss
Barbara Persons
Pakistan
Susan Wieben
Joan Beese
North School
Dale Householder
South School
Alliance
Janet Knight
South
Connie Luther
Diane Rollo
Central
Geraldine Tallich
More Changes Sought in Vo Tech Proposal
State Sen. Robert L. Clark tells the Sidney Telegraph that SB 533 is back with amendments from education committee as lawmakers drop the five local areas idea. The plan may form seven college areas with one quarter state funding for two Panhandle institutions, Western Nebraska Technical College in Sidney and Nebraska Western College in Scottsbluff.
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Robert L. Clark
Sidney Telegraph Today
Education Committee
Clark
Jerome Warner
Education
Western Nebraska Technical College
Sidney
Nebraska Western College
Scottsbluff
Community Technical College
Panhandle
Weather Slows Sidney Cancer Fund Drive Progress
The Sidney residential cancer fund drive is slowed by bad weather but is expected to finish within two weeks. Chairman Mrs. Jerry Kocourek says six more volunteers would speed up house to house canvassing. Contact Kocourek or captains Mrs. Richard Craig and others for details.
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Sidney Residential Cancer Fund
Jerry Kocourek
Kocourek
Richard Craig
M. L. Merritt
Charles Everitt
Harold Meyer
Bruce Raddatz
Alfred Jung
S. J. Simmerman
Potter Plans Senior Center Potluck Meeting
A potluck dinner meeting in the basement of First Lutheran Church will discuss ideas for a Potter senior citizen center. The 6 pm event includes entertainment by the Silver Serenaders, a kitchen band from Gering and Scottsbluff, plus a talk on senior centers by Darlene Feeser of Senior Opportunities and Services. The Rev. Larry Sydow will MC.
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Potter
First Lutheran Church
Silver Serenaders
Gering
Scottsbluff
Darlene Feeser
Nebraska Panhandle Community Action Agency
Larry Sydow
Marrin Elected President By Historical Association
Lawrence Marrin of Dalton was chosen 1973 74 president of the Cheyenne County Historical Association at a Sidney meeting attended by about 35 members. Robert Zuhlke becomes immediate past president and remains on the board. Other officers named include Marion Dickenson as vice president Ella Mae Goranson secretary Elmer Hartmann treasurer Ruth Munshaw Dalton representative Leola McNurlin Gurley representative Lee Nelson Lodgepole representative Doug Reetz Potter representative Harold Kuhns Sidney representative.
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Lawrence Marrin
Dalton
Cheyenne County Historical Association
Sidney
Robert Zuhlke
Gurley
Association
Marion Dickenson
Lodgepole
Ella Mae Goranson
Elmer Hartmann
Ruth Munshaw
Leola McNurlin
Lee Nelson
Doug Reetz
Potter
Harold Kuhns
Clark Fuller
Committee OKs Mason Position in Nebraska Legislature
The Legislature's committee on committees on Thursday recommended confirmation of several Governor Exon's appointees including John Mason of Sidney to the Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.
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Exon
John Mason
Sidney
Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
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Larry Schnell
Hemingford High School
Sandy Merrihew
Marcella Rees
Bonnie Coleman
Oshkosh
Congress
Technical Community College
Potter Plans Senior Center
Chadron
Leonard Bayne
Jerry Houston
Allan Hartzler
Tim Franzen
Mark Zalesky
Bruce Bickford
Tommy Rocha
Mindy Kallhoff
Beth Glassburn
Camp Norwesca
Chadron State College
Marrin
Historical Association
Zuhlke
Weller House
FY. Sidney
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Nebraska Historical Society
Historical Society
Marvin Kivett
Fort Sidney
Fort
A. H. Atkins
Broadwater
Atkins
Oks Mason
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