WNUCC Tour Highlights North Platte Ranch and Lake Maloney
Western Nebraska United Chambers of Commerce members spent a day in North Platte visiting Scout's Rest Ranch shown as a tourist attraction. The board meeting at Buffalo Bill barn discussed acquiring the ranch costing 75,000 dollars and an expected ten year 2 million dollar restoration. The group backed Hemingford effort to nominate the Cook Ranch at Agate as a National Monument. Thane Davis of Hyannis spoke during the day.
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Nebraska
Ternoon
North Platte
Jerry Pulliam
Nebraska Fish and Game Commission
Gene Kemper
Alliance
Hemingford
Sen Roman Hruka
Cook Ranch
Agate
Thane Davis
Hyannis
Plan Fraud On Small Farmer, Camp Says, Loose Talk Confuses Grower
The article critiques the 1964 wheat program urging May 21 ballot voting. It argues certificates mislead farmers about shares and warns of export reserve and CCC allocations. It explains penalties for overplanting and diverted acreage under the new land-use rule.
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Camp
ASC
Congress
Secretary of Agriculture
Commodity Credit Corporation
CCC
Mayyal
Herbert Krauter
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee
Krauter
ASC County Committee
Open house shows Interstate segment from Kearney to Lexington
The commission announced an open house tour of the Interstate between Kearney and Lexington on Tuesday May 28. Nebraskans can view the road at all construction stages with public access and local Chambers of Commerce providing tour information. Lake Maloney hosted a ski club water carnival while visitors used boats for lake tours and Merl J. Mattes spoke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commission
Kearney
Lexington
Davis
Chambers of Commerce
Lake Maloney
Platte Valley
Merl J. Mattes
National Park Service
Omaha
Jack McDermott
Fort Laramie National Monument
Wyoming
Sidney
John Elwell, Jr
Wayne Moran
J. Fred Thompson
Around Town Highlights Weekend Plans and Education Course
Around Town notes Mr and Mrs Lowell Davis travel to Laramie to visit son and daughter in law Robie Miracle. Mother's Day plans include Ernest Worden and family guests in Pine Bluffs. Seventeen Sidney area residents enroll in Colorado State College off campus Educational Psychology 285 class at Sterling Northeastern Junior College, taught by Dr. Ivan Ejiker, with many local participants. Also listed are recent completers of a Northeastern Junior College typing course and a report on Schou Portrait Studio attending a Professional Photographers Color Corporation seminar in Beloit Kansas with Tony Wickers.
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Pine Bluffs
Wyo
Ernest Worden
C. J. Jelliffs
Colorado State College
Sidney
Sterling
Ivan Ejiker
Greeley
Jesse King
Ken Bennett
Neal Craig
Lester Couch
Jack Knicely
Tom Patrowsky
Pearlie Coplie
Roberta Lyons
D. P. Popp
Marion Teel
Helen Jeppesen
Harold Bond
Joe Dodds
Wayre Ayres
Doug Howarth
Lumir Studnicka
Potter
Judy Rankin
Lorenzo
John Schou
Schou
Beloit
Kan
Professional Photographers Color Corporation
Tony Wickers
Topeka
Ames Nebraska Pioneer Cattle Headquarters History
Ames Nebraska grew around the Standard Cattle Company founded by early promoter Oakes Ames. The ranch used the 101 brand and fed and shipped cattle from the town, owning much of Ames except the depot and store. By 1887 the company owned or controlled vast farmland across about thousand acres.
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Ames
Nebraska
Fremont
Union Pacific
Oakes Ames
Congressman Ames
Turing
Standard Cattle Company
Jake" Snyder
Ames ranch and sugar beet industry shape early 1900s town
Snyder describes a vast Ames cattle operation with a five acre barn holding 3008 steers, many hogs, worker housing, schools and churches, plus a sugar refinery built in 1899. Poor 1900 beet crops due to wet conditions led to losses and the factory moved to Scottsbluff in 1909.
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Platte River
Bluffs
Ames
Snyder
Nebraska
Sing
Scottsbluff
Band Trip Briefs Meet Governor Morrison After Concert
Band parents and members are invited to greet Governor Morrison after the concert at an informal reception in the Junior High cafeteria. Band parent officers are in charge and urge attendance. Attend Church Sunday.
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Governor Morrison
Also Mentioned on This Page
Dalton High School Awards
Dalton High
Larry Borges
Dalton
Crisco Co. Ig
Shirley Andersen
Janice Thurow
Andersen
Ivan Kruger
Wayne McRoberts
Larry Fitzgibbon
WNUCC
WMCC
Historin
National Parks Service
Fort Laramie
Jet. Elwen Sr
Telegraph
Bernie Camp
Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation
Cheyenne County
Lowell Davis
Laramie
Brian Miracle
Robbie
Northeastern Junior College
Willene Williamson
Jessie Walkinshaw
Old
Hahler Garage
Sidney Flooring & Supply
SAVE
Don
U.S. Royalstires
Gade’s Steel & Iron
Alfred Hitchcock
Fox Theatre
Clarence Zalesky
Illinois
Eldon Gilbreath
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