Heavy Spring Storm Triggers Road Damage North of Lodgepole
Heavy moisture from a spring storm caused widespread rain and snow across the county with 2.13 inches of moisture since Sunday at Lodgepole and 2.5 inches at the FAA station in Sidney. Bridges north of Lodgepole reportedly washed out while runoff and local frost protection measures affected gardeners and crops. Temperature swung from 32 to 70 degrees with frosts brief and intermittent.
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Lodgepole
Tommy Thompson
FAA
Sidney
Dalton
Don Dey Ermand
John Farmer Victim of Long Illness
John A. Farmer 74 a former Sioux Army Depot foreman died after a three year illness at Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be at 2 p m Friday at the First Christian Church with Rev Ellis Wotan officiating. Burial in Greenwood Cemetery. He was born March 8 1894 in Fremont Nebraska and lived in Fremont Geneva before moving to Sidney 21 years ago. He married Luella Tutin in 1944. Surviving are his widow a daughter two stepsons a step granddaughter a brother and a sister. Memorials to the First Christian Church building fund.
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Sioux Army Depot
John A. Farmer
Memorial Hospital
First Christian Church
Ellis Wotan
Greenwood Cemetery
Gehrig & Son Funeral Home
John Alvin Farmer
Fremont
Neb
John Grant Farmer
Viola Ann Metz
Geneva
Sidney
Sioux
Wahoo
Luella Olive Tutin
Order of Eagles
Harold Clark
Raytown
Harold Temple
Oakland
Calif
Clyde Temple
Stockton
Vern Farmer
Cheyenne
Wyo
Ralph Reemis
Kimball
First Christian Church Building Fund
Neighbors Aid Farm For Hospitalized Man In Nebraska
Edward Borges, nine miles north of Lodgepole, was hospitalized when 21 neighbors came April 30 to help with fieldwork using tractors plows and discs. Volunteers include Floyd Miller Lavern Bauer Harold Borges Charles Van DeVoorde and others. Edith Jurgens provided a tractor. Dinner was served at Borges home noon by Margaret Bauer and others. Floyd Wise supplied coffee.
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Edward Borges
Lodgepole
Floyd Miller
Lavern Bauer
Harold Borges
Charles van DeVoorde
Floyd Bruns
Edme Flessner
Doyle Flessner
Bill Bartling
Lowell Hokom
Dean Christensen
Ed Boehmer
Russell Oleson
Dale Florke
Jim Payne
Clarence Horst
Larry
McCook Students to Tour Western Nebraska Voc Tech
Fourteen McCook high school aerospace students will fly in on four planes Thursday to Sidney to tour Western Nebraska Vocational Technical School facilities. They will view airframe and power plant instruction with instructor Jim Ford. This marks the first aero space program tour of the local school in a joint University of Nebraska Extension Service and Nebraska Department of Aeronautics offering.
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McCook
Neb
Sidney
Western Nebraska Vocational Technical School
Merle Rosebusch
Vo-Tech
Jim Ford
Rudebusch
University of Nebraska Extension Service
Nebraska Department of Aeronautics
Contest Standings To Be Printed On Friday
The Sidney Telegraph will publish the first official standings in the 3000 cash circulation drive on Friday May 10. Sixteen workers pursue top prizes while subscriptions and renewals flow in with two year plans boosting votes and commissions for all drivers. The list of workers includes Lois Dindinger Potter Lloyd Goranson Peetz Margaret McCabe Dalton Mary James Dix Dan Market Lodgepole Florence Ludeman Gurley Cindy Sharman Rt. 1 Ldge Ethelman Criswell Chappell Ruth Wicks Sidney Marge Dougherty Doris E Norman Sidney David Schobert Sidney Cecil Hume Sidney George Goy Hare Sidney Thelma Hajek Sidney R C Walker Rt. 2 Sidney.
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Sidney Telegraph
Telegraph
Lois Dindinger Potter
Lloyd Goranson Peetz
Margaret McCabe Dalton
Mary James Dix
Dan Market Lodgepole
Florence Ludeman Gurley
Cindy Sharman
Ethelman Criswell Chappell
Clark
Ruth) Wicks Sidney
Marge Dougherty
Sidney
Doris E
Norman Sidney David Schobert Sidney
Cecil Hume Sidney
George Goy Hare
Thelma Hajek
R, C, Walker
Union Pacific promotes cattleback service for cattle transport
Union Pacific launches a cattleback plan to haul two fully loaded drop-center stock trailers on a single 85-foot flat car to boost Nebraska cattle shipments. Rates vary by who provides trailers, with examples from Kimball to Omaha and a cattle rate that undercuts typical trucking costs.
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Nebraska
Union Pacific Railroad
U. P
W. F. Petersen
Union Pacific
Sidney
Kearney
Omaha
Lincoln
Fremont
Norfolk
Grand Island
North Platte
Kimball
Gering
Neb
Petersen
Gottschalk Named News Editor at Daily Nebraskan
Lynn Gottschalk daughter of The Sidney Telegraph co publisher Mrs Mary Jane Gottschalk was named news editor of the Daily Nebraskan the University of Nebraska paper. She was chosen by the University's Board of Publications along with Jack Todd who will be editor for the coming year. Todd will succeed Cheryl Tritt with Ed Icenogle as managing editor Mark Gordon as sports editor and Jim Evinger as business manager.
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Lynn Gottschalk
Sidney Telegraph
Mary Jane Gottschalk
Daily Nebraskan
University of Nebraska
Miss Gottschalk
University
Board of Publications
Jack Todd
Scottsbluff
Todd
Cheryl Tritt
Kimball
Ed Icenogle
Lincoln
Mark Gordon
Sioux Falls
S. D
Jim Evinger
Panhandle Weather: Warmer Trend With Light Winds
General forecast calls for fair skies and rising temperatures this afternoon tonight and Thursday. Westerly winds 15 to 25 mph diminish at night with highs 55 to 65 this afternoon and again Thursday, lows 30 to 40. Precipitation chances under 5 percent through tonight and Thursday. Five day outlook shows Thursday through Monday temperatures about 10 degrees below normal.
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Panhandle
Mornday
Cheyenne County Primary To Use Voting Machines In Most Precincts
Cheyenne County voters number 4707 plan to cast ballots in the Nebraska primary next Tuesday May 14. Fourteen of twenty one precincts will use automatic voting machines with two machines per precinct to speed totals. Polls open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at locations including Weyerts Lutheran Church Ordville Scout Hall and the old fire hall Union Valley.
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Cheyenne County
Nebraska
Ralph Englert
Cheyenne
Eagle
Weyerts Lutheran Church
Ordville
Union Valley
Fire Hall
Englert
Bunker Hill
Huntsman
Lorenzo
Trognitz
Chambers
Sidney
Shoup Company
Election board school aids Cheyenne County primary setup
LT COL SAM SHoup of Shoup Voting Machine Company toured Sidney Tuesday evening to assist Cheyenne County Clerk Ralph Englert with an election board school ahead of the May 14 primary. He demonstrated ballot layouts on voting machines to be used in 14 of 21 precincts, with 22 machines leased and six donated by Shoup.
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Sam Shoup
Shoup Voting Machine Company
Sidney
Cheyenne
Ralph Englert
Election Board
Shoup
Telegraph
Primary Ballot Deadlines And Party Totals In County
Sample ballots will be printed Friday May 10 for inspection ahead of the May 14 primary. Absentee ballots must be cast by May 11 at noon and ballots from disabled voters must be received by May 13 at 4 p.m. Republicans lead with 2624 voters, Democrats 1956, Independents 126, and one American Party voter among 4707 registered. Registry closed May 3. Nebraska prohibits cross over voting.
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Nebraska
New American Party
Nebraska to Know Eligible Voters for May 14 Primary
Nebraska will announce in advance the number of Republican and Democratic voters eligible for the May 14 primary. Statewide registration, mandated by the 1967 legislature, takes effect this year with Friday’s registration deadline and a tally expected by next weekend. Early April figures show Republicans 53.5 percent to Democrats 46.5 percent.
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Nebraska
Allen Beermann
Town Voters Only for Liquor Issue Next Tuesday
Voters from Potter will decide the liquor by the drink measure next Tuesday with eligibility checked at the machine by a county clerk. A control lock on the voting machine will open for residents within the municipality and stay locked for those ineligible. The issue is expected to draw a large turnout.
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Potter
Ralph Englert
Lone American party voter in Cheyenne County to use paper ballot
County Clerk Ralph Englert says only one Cheyenne County voter registered with the American party and Secretary of State Frank Marsh advised that this voter should cast a paper ballot, posing no machine-related problems.
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Cheyenne County
Ralph Englert
B.een
Frank Marsh
Eighth Grade Graduation Set Friday
Fifteen Cheyenne County eighth grade students will graduate Friday at 2 p.m. in the Elks Auditorium. Susan Knicely, Rotary Exchange Student to Sweden, gives the keynote talk. Diplomas presented by County Superintendent S A Caldwell.
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Cheyenne County
Elks
S. A. Caldwell
Susan Knicely
Rotary
Sweden
Carol Hokom
Harold Fitzwater
Lorenzo School
Loretta Krueger
Nancy Dalton
Supt. Caldwell
Paul Jon Booth
Gene Francis Dickinson
Coreen Mary Oliverius
Betty J. Frerichs
James J. Childers
Richard A. Kurz
Rodney E. Rezac
David L. Johnson
Susan Louise Olsen
Raymond Lloyd Jallen
Loretta Grace Krueger
Nancy Maureen Dalton
Daniel Lee Lippstrew
Trinity Lutheran
Scott K. Nienhuser
Martin A. Nienhuser
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