Eleven Vie For 1966 Fort Sidney Queen Honor
Eleven Cheyenne County girls compete Saturday night at the Junior High School auditorium for the Miss Fort Sidney queen title. The eight o clock judging leads to a chance to represent Sidney and Cheyenne County in the Miss Nebraska pageant and a $1,000 scholarship from the Sidney Business Institute. The event is sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce as part of Fort Sidney Days and County Fair preparations, with sponsors including C. A. Story Agency and local businesses. Susan DeVier will crown the winner.
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Ft. Sidney Day Queen
Cheyenne County
Fort Sidney
Sidney and
Business Institute of Sidney
The
Junior Chamber
Sheriff Race Draws Most Attention In Cheyenne County
In Cheyenne County a close GOP sheriff primary tops interest as Tuesday's election nears. Eugene Morris Sr. and Kermit Brumbaugh, both former deputies, lead a competitive slate with incumbent Schulz retired. Other contests include County Commissioner districts, Treasurer, Assessor, and various write-in and non political races shaping a busy primary day. Incumbents with no opposition include County Attorney John Peetz Jr. and Clerk Ralph Englert.
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Cheyenne County
Eugene E. Morris
W. W. Schulz
Kermit Brumbaugh
Schulz
Morris
Brumbaugh
Jack Curless
Carl Olson
Douglas M. Boyd
Sidney Area
Leonard Fine
Sidney
Tom Lenzen
South Divide
William G. Smith
Raymond H. Lessman
Francis H. Runge
Mable Jorgensen
John Underdown
Milton G. P. Nissen
Ed Swanson
Lloyd Mintken
Stewart Brown
John Peetz, Jr
Ralph Englert
Ruby Spindler Henkle
Irwin A Caldwell
John Webb
Guy F. Bush
Sidney Attorney
Wayne E. Bond
Raymond W. Weed
Wheatbelt Public Power District Board
Lumir Studnicka
Roy E. Earnhart
Henry Ley to Visit Sidney Saturday
Democratic candidate for Governor Henry Ley will be at the airport in Sidney from five to five thirty Saturday afternoon. The public is invited to meet and visit with him. Ley, former Nebraska Banking Commissioner, resigned to run for governor. this is his first campaign visit here.
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Henry Ley
Sidney
Mr. Ley
Nebraska Banking
Sidney paper rates and address update notice
Publication details list second class postage paid at Sidney Nebraska and offer subscription rates for inside and outside the 50 mile zone with carrier and single copy prices. It notes change of address information and identifies the paper’s establishment year 1873 with date Friday May 6 1966 and volume 92 number 111.
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Sidney
Nebr
Sixty Pages This Week Sixty Pages This Week
The Sidney Telegraph published sixty pages this week across three issues to cover news, editorials, and advertising for the area. The Monday edition had 16 pages and the Wednesday issue 24 pages, with today’s 20 page edition continuing the schedule enabled by cooperation from news sources, advertisers, correspondents, and staff.
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Sidney Telegraph
Dorwart Elected Vice President of Nebraska Medical Assn
Dr. C. B. Dorwart of Sidney was elected vice president of the Nebraska State Medical Association at a Lincoln meeting. Dan Nye of Kearney was named president and Robert Morgan of Alliance president-elect, with Dorwart set to become president in 1968. Dorwart has practiced in Sidney since 1937 and serves on the Blue Cross Blue Shield board.
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Nebraska State Medical Assn
C.b.dorwart
Sidney
Lincoln
Dan Nye
Kearney
Robert Morgan
Alliance
Dorwart
Nebraska Blue Cross
Blue Shield Board
Medical Association
New Telephone Manager Named for Northwestern Bell in Sidney
Jack Pheifer of Chadron has been named local manager for Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. in Sidney. He has worked with Bell since 1964 as Chadron local manager and previously held roles with Western Electric, including coin box collector, frameman, switchman, and outside representative. A Madison Nebraska native, he earned a University of Omaha business degree in 1964 with wife Joan and two children, Michael and Susan.
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Jack Pheifer
Chadron
Northwestern Bell Telephone Co
Sidney
Bell
North Platte
R. B. Bale
Pheifer
Western Electric
Northwestern
Omaha
University of Omaha
Call Is Sounded For Blood Donors In Sidney
Memorial Hospital in Sidney issued a call for blood donors to organizations and individuals. Hospital administrator Darold Hendee said the facility will act as a drawing unit for Southwest Blood Banks, collaborating with the American Red Cross and the Defense Department to supply additional blood. Organizations such as American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars are invited to donate as groups, with others urged to contact the hospital as well.
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Memorial Hospital
Sidney
Darold Hendee
Southwest Blood Banks
American Red Cross
Defense Department
United States
Hendee
Red Cross
The
American Legion and Auxiliaries
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Doyle Butts
Perons
Library Workshop Draws 55 Librarians in Sidney Neb
About 55 librarians and library board members from the Nebraska Panhandle attended a district meeting and workshop in Sidney at the new public library. Miss Louise Nixon of Lincoln spoke, praising attendance and interest. Attendees from Kimball Lodgepole Scottsbluff North Platte Chadron Crawford Alliance and McCook joined in. The program included films on The Challenge of Change a panel with Edward Newman Miss Nixon and John Kopische and a talk by Harriett Lute on children’s book selection. The event notes the Sidney library’s matching funds and propels plans for future workshops in Scottsbluff or North Platte. DRIVE CAREFULLY.
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Nebraska Panhandle
Sidney
Sidney Public Library
Louise A Nixon
Lincoln
Nebraska Library Commission
Sidney Mbrary
Nebraska
Library Commission
Kimball
Lodgepole
Scottsbluff
North Platte
Chadron
Crawford
Alliance
McCook
Edward C. Newman
Omaha
Nixon
John Kopische
Harriet Lute
Western Regional Plains Library
R. W. Brown
Public
Training Center Open House Planned Sunday
The public may tour the Sidney Occupational Training Center this Sunday May 8 from 1 to 4 p m. Students will serve as guides and faculty will explain the work in sessions with refreshments in the cafeteria. Visitors will tour the main office classroom building shop area cafeteria student recreation center and housing facilities. Enrollment now stands at 150 trainees from Nebraska Wyoming and South Dakota with 350 in the first year and 77 percent graduates. Over 80 percent of graduates are employed in their trained field. The SOTC has expanded staff from 10 to 20 and added two new shops. Culinary Arts classes were delayed but will be offered. Joe Schaf coordinator urges the public to visit and see the center’s work.
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Sidney Occupational Training Center
SOTC
Nebraska
Wyoming
South Dakota
Joe Schaf
4 289 Children Born At Hospital Since It Opened
Memorial Hospital administrator Darold Hendee notes 4 289 babies born 1955 through April 1966 as National Hospital Week May 8 to 14 highlights the hospital’s role in the area population boom. The record year was 1962 with 590 births, while 1963 to 1965 averaged lower, 1966 showing 76 through April. The first child born was Mark Allen Slama.
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National Hospital
Darold Hendee
Memorial Hospital
Mark Allen Slama
Raymond Slama
Potter
Vandals Slash Car Interiors at Dude's Steak House
Vicious vandalism Thursday evening slashed interiors of three parked cars behind Dude's Steak House. Owners Matt Janda Leo Zwickl and Richard Heeg were attending a bowling banquet nearby as damage included deep cuts to front and back seats and headliner on a 1966 car, seat cuts on a 1964 model, and seat cuts on a 1963 model.
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Matt Janda
Leo Zwickl
Richard Heeg
Poll Indicates Low Voter Interest in County Governor Race
A Sidney Telegraph street poll of 20 residents shows only about 40 percent plan to vote in the upcoming primary. Results reveal scattered support for Hagemeister and Sorensen, with many respondents unsure of candidates or issues for both the governor and lieutenant governor races.
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Sidney Telegraph
Ledger
Bruce Hagemeister
Hagemeister
Val Peterson
Norbert Tiemann
Henry Kuhlman
Phillip C. Anderson
Kenneth Bowen
Byron Johnson
Hesi
Ross Rasmussen
Terry Carpenter
Carpenter
Wheat Acreage Boost For Cheyenne County Farmers
Cheyenne County farmers could plant 20 thousand more acres of wheat this fall if approved 15 percent national increase takes effect. ASC manager Lawrence Thompson notes current allotment about 140 thousand acres and a 27 bushel average, potentially adding over half a million bushels. Government calls the 1967 plan voluntary, with price supports at 1.25 per bushel and export demand rising, signaling broader income gains for Nebraska wheat producers.
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Cheyenne
Lawrence Thompson
ASC
Department of Agriculture
Great Plains
Raymond Davis
Washington
Nebraska
Panhandle
Johnson
Agriculture Department
Orville L. Freeman
India
Frank Morrison
Morrison
Counties eye 15 percent wheat acre rise in 1967
Kimball and Deuel County ASC officials report awaiting official word on a 15 per cent wheat acreage increase for 1967. Kimball could gain 16,700 acres if fully approved, while Deuel expects up to ten per cent or 5,782 acres. Combined with Cheyenne, total rise may exceed 40,000 acres boosting the area economy.
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Kimball
Devel
ASC
Deuel
Cheyenne
Overland Air Service to refuel Air Force jet helicopters
Lloyd Carr of Overland Air Service at Sidney Municipal Airport says a contract to refuel jet helicopters for the Air Force is confirmed. Warren Air Force Base uses the craft to shuttle crews to Minuteman control centers across southern Nebraska. Carr expects readiness by May 20 and potential first year fuel sales exceeding 100 gallons.
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Lloyd Carr
Overland Air Service
Sidney Municipal
Air Force
Carr
Warren Air Force Base
Sidney
Minuteman
Panhandle
Nebraska
Warren
SAC
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Sidney Beauty Academy
Rudy’s Market
Sidney National Bank
Fox Theatre
Kokjer Motor Co
Susan DeVier
Ann Holloway
Carol Bruns
Dianne Sedgwick
Mary Jurgens
Karen Wester
Caroline Burdick
Cathy Benzel
Gloria Fillinger
Kathy Curless
Billie JO Smith
Gert Fritzler
Sidney, Nebraska
Dr. Dorwart
State Assn
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