Nebraska passes anti boycott law tainted by Teamsters targets
Coffey praises LB560 as protecting small business and workers from secondary boycotts by the Teamsters in 1955 56. Gov Brooks let the measure become law without signature. Coffey who faced a six month secondary boycott losses over 75 000 says the law has teeth and will aid legitimate laboring men. He ran a non union trucking firm in Alma Nebraska and went out of business after seven months.
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Tom Coffey
Teamsters Union
Nebraska
Ralph Brooks
Coffey
National Labor Relations Board
Hoffa
Brooks
Coffey Transfer
Alma
Teamster
Lincoln
Clark Transfer
Norfolk
Motor Carriers
Teamsters
Clark
Portrey Dies at 82 Retired Cheyenne County Farmer
Frank W. Portrey 82 a longtime Cheyenne County resident died late yesterday after a stroke at Memorial Hospital Funeral services will be Friday at 10 am from St Patrick's Church with his son Rev L A Portrey of Lexington in charge Burial is Greenwood Cemetery under Gehrig and Son Funeral Home Rosary will be Thursday at 8 pm at the funeral home St Patrick's building fund designated as a memorial He was born Feb 15 1877 at Effingham Kan and survived by his wife Agnes five daughters a son and three grandchildren in addition to a prior daughter He and his family lived near Falls City before moving to Cheyenne County early in the 1900s
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Frank W. Portrey
Cheyenne County
Memorial Hospital
Aincée
St. Patrick's Church
Portrey
L. A. Portrey
Lexington
Thomas Siudowski
Anthony Egging
Grand Island
Vincent Pelster
Greeley
Neb
Greenwood Cemetery
Gehrig and Son Funeral Home
St. Patrick’s Building Fund
Effingsham
Kan
Mr. Portrey
Charles
Kate Santo Portrey
Falls City
Agnes Thiltges
Arago
St. Patrick’s Church
Agnes
Agnitz
Ursuline Order
North Platte
Alma Portrey
Clara Branson
Kansas City
Ida Kelly
Scottsbluff
Mary Schneider
Denver
Rev. Portrey
Marion
The
Gesina Johnson Dies After Lengthy Illness in Cheyenne County
Gesina Johnson, 78, longtime resident of Cheyenne County, died early today in a Cheyenne hospital after nine weeks as a patient. Survived by two sons Walter and Lloyd of Sidney, a daughter Mrs. Ralph Lewis of Cheyenne, and ten grandchildren. Widowed of R W Johnson. they farmed near Sidney before retiring to town eight years ago. Funeral arrangements pending at Craig Mortuary. full life account to appear in Monday’s Telegraph.
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Gesina Johnson
Cheyenne County
Cheyenne
Craig Mortuary
Walter
Lloyd
Sidney
Ralph Lewis
Johnson
R. W. Johnson
Mr. Johnson
Huntsman
Lloyd Johnson
Greenlees Names Ten Best Mom Contest Winners
Ten winners were named in Greenlees Best Mom contest in two age groups 8 to 10 and 11 to 13. Neal Atkins says entries favored the younger group as judges Mel Everingham Dale Black and Jack H Lowe selected five winners per class highlighting heartfelt entries from Sioux Ordnance Depot and 1210 Country Club among others.
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Neal Atkins
Greenlees
Atkins
Mel Everingham
Dale Black
Sidney Public Schools
Jack H. Lowe
Sidney Telegraph
Stephen King
Sioux Ordnance Depot
Chevyl Sittner
Country Club
Memorial Hospital expansion urged as bed crowding grows
The Memorial Hospital, opened in May 1955 with fifty beds, now houses fifty nine patients daily. A rest home addition to the east will free eleven beds, lowering to around the normal fifty, and may prompt earlier enlargement plans. The hospital’s growing acceptance, wide services, and broader patient draw contribute to the heavier demand, with potential for a second floor on the rest home in 3 to 5 years.
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Memorial Hospital
Ad Drdng
Yo’ Léo Bolin
Bolin
Texaco Dealers Promote Mothers Day Event in Sidney
Texaco dealers in Sidney join a Mothers Day promotion Friday and Saturday. Fresh orchids flown from Hawaii will be given with the purchase of Firechief or Skychief gasoline. Door prizes also offered. The four participating dealers are Bagby's Texaco Heckers Texaco Gerald's Texaco and Wendell's Texaco.
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Texaco
Sidney
Hawaii
Bagby’s Texaco
Heckers Texaco
Gerald’s Texaco
Wendell’s
Schulz Receives Silver Beaver Award In Scouting
Cheyenne County Sheriff W W Schulz, active in scouting for two decades, was honored with the Silver Beaver Award by the Wye Braska council at Scottsbluff. Fellow recipient Vance A Houston of Scottsbluff also received the award for distinguished service to boyhood.
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Siuicriff
W. W. Schulz
Boy Scout
Wye-Braska Council
Council
Telegraph
Cheyenne County
Wye-Braska
Scottsbluff
Vance A. Houston
Grain Market: Wheat priced at 168 dollars per bushel
Local elevator sources quoted wheat at 168 dollars per bushel today in a brief grain market report.
Popcorn Sale To Sponsor Foreign Student Plan
High school students will sell sacks of popcorn downtown on three Saturdays in May to raise funds for an International Field Service exchange student in Sydney for the 1959-60 year. Seniors May 9, Sophomores May 16, Juniors May 23 in a class contest with ten cent base price and extra gifts accepted.
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International Field Service Exchange
Sydney
Howie Maley
LeToy Ensley
Sherri Bauman
Dick Yonekura
Lynn Nelson
Carol Clark
Hopper sign ups cover 80000 acres
Cheyenne County reports eighty thousand acres of rangeland signed up under the grasshopper control spray program led by county agent Ivan Liljegren. The area concentrates along Lodgepole Creek and excludes about eight thousand acres in southern Morrill and northern Cheyenne County. Elmer Graff of Dalton says over ten thousand acres are under contract in his area, potentially rising to thirty thousand. A meeting with state and federal officials is set for Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. to review the map and surveying plans.
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Cheyenne County
Ivan Liljegren
Lodgepole Creek
Morrill
Elmer Graff
Dalton
Graff
Tele
Liljegren
Grasshopper Control Committee
Roland Biggs
Carl Olsen
Keith Sprenger
Frank Deaver
Clifford Herboldsheimer
Potter
Whitlock Consolidates Sterling Terminal Moves to Sidney
Whitlock Truck Service Inc announces closing of the Sterling Colorado terminal and moving 11 trucks and several staff to Sidney Nebraska, consolidating close to operations. The Sidney district headquarters will now run about 30 of the firm’s trucks with Kimball operations holding eight more.
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Whitlock
Sterling
Whitlock Truck Service, Inc
Sterling, Colo
Sidney
Nebraska
Kansas
Colorado
Carl Johnson
Johnson
Hays
Troy Zehr
Whitlock’s
Kimball
Kimball-Banner
Kimball Terminal
Inquest In Beene Death Tentatively Set For Saturday
Beene death to be examined by a six man coroner's jury at Cheyenne County Courthouse Saturday. Roddy Jay Beene, 48, mute, found dead March 26 after autopsy showed a base skull injury. Authorities say unlikely to be accidental or safety related. no weapon found.
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Cheyenne County
Roddy Jay Beene
F. L. Balderson
Beene
N. C. Beene
Balderson
Oil production in Nebraska tops 60,000 barrels per day
Oil production in Nebraska remained above the 60,000 barrel per day mark in the week ending May 2 with an average of 60,423 barrels per day. Observers said the figure aligns with seasonal demand and is slightly above the first quarter average.
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Nebraska
Dalton Fifty Years Ago Founders Planned Growth More Land
Records from July 21, 1909 show Cheyenne County declared five miles square for the village of Dalton. Trustees named were G. H. Willis C. W. Munshaw W. S. Woolsey Herman Armuth and Herman Martin. Dalton, with about 200 residents, lagged Sidney but had room to expand as it marked its 50th anniversary.
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Dalton
Sidney
Hie
Cheyenne County
Rex Carey
Cheyenne County Commissioners
H. T. Doran
L. R. Barlow
J. B. Hastings
J. Brett
G. H. Willis
C. W. Munshaw
W. S. Woolsey
Herman Armuth
Herman Martin
Nebraska
Willis Resigns City Position to Take Richland Post
Jim Willis public accountant and Sidney city offices manager resigns to become City Finance Officer at Richland Washington. Offered by former Sidney city manager Murrey Fuller now Richland manager. Will assume duties May 25. Family will join after school ends. Willis born in Sidney, graduated Sidney High 1944, served in Navy, Nebraska 1952, studied in New York. Previously with Touche Niven Bailey Smart Chicago and W D Messenger. Five years with Sidney city. Active in Elks VFW and American Legion. family attends Methodist Church.
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Jim Willis
Sidney
Richland
Wash
Murrey Fuller
Willis
Mark
Jamalee
Mike
Sidney High School
Navy
University
Nebraska
Touche, Niven, Bailey and Smart Accounting Agency
Chicago
W. D. Messenger Accounting Agency
City
Lions Light Drive Nets $157 In Four Team Effort
Lions Club members faced a rainout Monday but still sold $157.80 worth of light bulbs in a four team drive. The door to door canvas will continue Tuesday evening until completion.
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PEP Club
Pen Club
Lions
Lions Club
Transients’ 204th Arrest Highlights Jail Record
James F. Payne, 63, arrested on intoxication in Potter last week after a fall and cut from broken glass, is noted by the sheriff as no stranger to jail. FBI records trace his 204th arrest since 1921 across 14 states, with prior confinement in multiple states and a July 1946 intoxication arrest in Sidney. Payne claims veteran status and says he hails from the Old Soldiers Home at Wadsworth Kansas.
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James F. Payne
Potter
Sheriff's Office
FBI
Cheyenne County
Louisiana
Arkansas
Indiana
Illinois
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
South Dakota
Wyoming
Colorado
Oklahoma
Texas
Montana
Idaho
Sidney
Payne
Wadsworth
Kan
Governor OKs Longer Trucks Bill LB381
Governor Brooks signed LB381 Tuesday increasing truck lengths from 50 to 60 feet. The action expands allowable semi trailer dimensions, affecting transport regulations and highway routing for trucking firms and long haul operators.
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Lincoln
Brooks
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Sidney High
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Ore
Earl Bishop
Rapp
W. Schulz
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Methodist Church
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