Fine Arts Festival Opens Tonight at Sidney Schools
The annual Fine Arts Festival runs this week at Sidney Public Schools with an 7 p.m. art demonstration in the Art Room and a 7:30 p.m. choral concert in the Auditorium featuring 6th through Senior High Choruses under directors Alice Zack Ann Peterson and Duane Nichols. The schedule includes May 7 One Act plays directed by Pam Himes Bobbette Bryant and Doris Cornelius May 8 Band Concert directed by Larry Pippitt and Mike McDowell. Art displays from all levels will be on view all week with free admission.
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Sidney Public Schools
Alice Zack
Ann Peterson
Duane Nichols
Pam
Snoopy Fifth Kennedy Wins Straw Ballot at Trade Fair
The comic Snoopy finished fifth in a straw presidential ballot at the Trade Fair. Snoopy earned 102 votes, while Robert Kennedy led overall with 574 votes, Nixon 475, Rockefeller 137, Reagan 108, and others trailing. Balloting conducted by the Village Toys and Bookkeepers of the Jones Center.
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Snoopy
McCarthy
Humphrey
Wallace
Johnson
Robert Kennedy
Nixon
Rockefeller
Reagan
Village Toys and Bookkeepers
Jones Center
New Medicare Handbook Mailed To Nebras ka Panhandle Seniors
Claire W. Schuneman SSA district manager in Scottsbluff says a new Your Medicare Handbook will reach older residents in the Nebraska Panhandle within weeks. The edition reflects 1967 Social Security amendments changes and aims to improve protection and simplify Medicare procedures. It was developed with input from elderly readers and communications experts.
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Nebraska Panhandle
Claire W. Schuneman
Social Security
Scottsbluff
Schuneman
SSA
John Egging Named to National Farm Safety and Engineering Panels
John Egging of Gurley is named vice-chairman of the National Institute for Farm Safety tractor and machinery committee and joins the American Society of Agricultural Engineers tractor committee in the power machinery division. He will help approve standards from the Farmers Industrial Equipment Institute and serve on a committee to define roll over safety standards. He plans to attend 1968 conventions at Geneva Lake near Toronto and in Chicago.
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John Egging
The
Egging Co
Gurley
National Institute For Farm Safety
Egging
National Safety Council
Geneva Lake
Toronto
Canada
Chicago
American Society of Agricultural Engineers
Power Machinery
Farmers Industrial Equipment Institute
Burglarized Log Cabin at 1034 Illinois Report
Sidney Police investigated a Sunday break in at the Log Cabin 1034 Illinois. Entry was gained by breaking the rear door and about 30 dollars was missing from a front cash register.
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Sidney
Illinois
Extension of Agriculture Act seen by Wheat Growers Leader
Phil Curtiss of Sidney head of the Cheyenne County Wheat Growers Association says renewal of efforts to extend the Food and Agriculture Act has surfaced in Washington. He notes proposed changes to improve administration include May 1 certificate value date and parity increases within millers certificate, aiming for earlier payments and broader farmer acceptance, with over 90 percent signups in Nebraska for 1968.
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Phil Curtiss
Sidney
Cheyenne County Wheat Growers Association
Washington
Curtiss
Nebraska
Governor's Plane Useful At School
The Nebraska governor Norbert Tiemann’s plane, wrecked in a Platte River crash at North Platte, was removed for usable parts and sent to the Western Nebraska Vocational Technical School in Sidney. The frame is being used in the air frame course as instructional training.
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Western Nebraska Vocational Technical School
Sidney
Norbert Tiemann
Nebraska
Platte River
North Platte
Tech School
Panhandle Weather Forecast Drops Temps and Rain Odds
The Panhandle region sees partly cloudy skies with scattered afternoon and tonight thunderstorms. Temperatures fall from highs in the 60s to lows in the 25 to 35 range tonight. Tuesday highs reach 45 to 55 mph with 15 to 25 mph westerly winds turning northerly tonight. Precipitation chances run 70 percent this afternoon and tonight, 50 percent Tuesday. Five day outlook shows 2 to 9 degrees below normal into midweek with a cooler end and possible showers and storms.
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Panhandle
Cheyenne County Leads Nation in Home Ownership Rise
Cheyenne County shows 63.8 percent of dwellings owner occupied up from 62.2 percent in 1960, higher than national 63.4 percent. The area also posts a strong index of home equipment at 395 of 600, aided by rising incomes mortgage access and inflation hedging.
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Cheyenne County
United States
Life Insurance Institute
University of Michigan
Department of Commerce
Certify Seed By May 20th Farmers Told
Lincoln farmers must file seed certification applications by May 20 for crops including wheat oats barley rye bromegrass wheatgrass sweet clover vetch and first crop alfalfa. Applications are via County Extension Offices or the Nebraska Crop Improvement Association in Lincoln.
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Lincoln
Nebraska Crop Improvement Association
NCIA
Sudan
Deadline for Disabled Voter Ballots May 13
The county clerk Ralph Englert says disabled voters must request ballots before 4 p.m. Monday May 13 to vote in the May 14 primary. Registration closed May 3, so only those registered by then qualify for disabled voter ballots.
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Ralph Englert
Cutworm Danger Dwindling in Cheyenne County
Cheyenne County agent Ivan Liljegren reports cutworm activity has tapered off with moisture curbing worms and aiding wheat maturation. He and Lincoln entomologist Lloyd Anderson plan field tests for spray efficacy, seeking a non residual alternative if Endrin is removed next year.
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Cheyenne County
Ivan Liljegren
Liljegren
Lloyd Anderson
Lincoln
Telegraph Drive For Subscriptions Gains Pace
The Sidney Telegraph boosts a circulation drive as 17 workers push for subscriptions with a $3,000 prize pool. Attendance at the Cheyenne County Trade Fair reached 18 000, while two year subs at $14 cut per-copy to 5 1/3 cents, with a May 10 pro rated standings update and bonus points for the first 12 days.
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Sidney Telegraph
Cheyenne County
The
Rain and hail drenched parts of the region Sunday
A spotty thunderstorm delivered over 1 inch of moisture to Sidney and nearby areas while rain and hail spared some zones. Winds up to 35 mph stirred dust and left foggy conditions Monday with more storms forecast. Lodgepole and farm districts reported 1.03 and up to 3 inches in the afternoon, with hail up to a quarter inch and temperatures ranging from 38 to 74.
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Sidney
Potter
Dalton
FAA
Lodgepole
Lodge
Pole
Cheyenne County
Here
Ivan Liljegren
Nebraska
Lorenzo
Ernest C Knicely Dies at 85 in Cheyenne Wyoming
Ernest C Knicely aged 85 died Sunday at Memorial Hospital Cheyenne after hip fracture surgery. Funeral at 2 p.m. Wednesday in First Christian Church with Rev Ellis Wotan officiating. burial Greenwood Cemetery. Survived by widow Etrulia Ann Stone two sons Clarke and Jack one sister Mabel Holcomb seven grandchildren. Memorials to First Christian Church building fund.
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Ernest C. Knicely
Memorial Hospital
Cheyenne
Wyo
First Christian Church
Ellis Wotan
Greenwood Cemetery
Ernest Clarke Knicely
Ashland
Nebr
Christian
Sarah Knicely
Etrulia Ann Stone
Lincoln
Sidney
Knicely
Clarke
Ojai
Calif
Jack
Mabel Holcomb
Redlands
First Christian Church Building Fund
Big Brother type program planned for Sidney
A Big Brother like program for fatherless or motherless children in Sidney is set to begin with an 8 p.m. Wednesday meeting at the Chamber of Commerce offices. Lions Club leader Dr. Paul Adkinson says volunteers will match sponsors and children and handle publicity, with 35 fatherless boys noted in one public school section.
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Chamber of Commerce
Lions Club
Sidney
Lions
Paul Adkinson
Kiwanis
Rotary
All Public Schools
Sidney Jaycees
Elks
Cheyenne County Welfare Office
Adkinson
Hossle Guessed By Conger In Final Who's Who
Daryl Conger of Sidney won $70 by solving 12 clues in the Who's Who In Cheyenne County contest. He identified Sidney's new mayor Bob Hossle as the subject. Clues appeared as Monday ads in The Telegraph with prize money for winners.
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Daryl Conger
Palomino
Sidney
Cheyenne County
Bob Hossle
Conger
Ginny
Injury Reported In Friday Crash On US 30 West Of Lodgepole
Nebraska State Patrolman Ronald Gusman investigated a Friday night crash on US Route 30 one mile west of Lodgepole at 11 10 p m. A 1968 station wagon driven by James Miles Soukup of Portland Oregon and pulling a Hayhoe Racing Enterprises trailer of Vancouver Washington attempted to pass a semi truck driven by Kenneth Solomon of Cupertino California. The Soukup vehicle sidewiped the truck and both left the road into the north ditch. About $700 damage to the car and undetermined damage to the truck were reported.
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Nebraska
Ronald Gusman
Lodgepole
James Miles Soukup
Portland
Ore
Hayhoe Racing Enterprises
Vancouver
Wash
Kenneth Solomon
Coppertino
Calif
Soukup
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Cheyenne County Court House
Anderson Excavation and Wrecking of
Omaha
Kennedy
Medicare
Telegraph
Lois Dindinger
Lloyd Goranson
Peetz
Colo
Margaret McCabe
Mary James
Dix
Dan
Linda) Markel
Florence Ludeman
Cindy Sharman
Raymond C
Geraldine) Walker
Thelma E. Hajek
George @oy Hare
Doris Green
State Line
Scottsbluff Weather Bureau
E.C. Knicely
E. C. Knicely
Hossle
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