Potter County leads in oil and a dull Cheyenne primary
In Cheyenne County the primary produced a light 1,412 turnout with Cecil Hunt winning the Democratic first district commissioner nomination 105 to 61 over Joe Bonkiewicz Jr. Lemoyne Johnson was unopposed GOP first district candidate with 44. election costs were about $3 per ballot. Eisenhower led GOP with 669 votes. Beallaver and other races noted with various vote totals across statewide and county results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil Hunt
Joe Bonkiewicz, Jr
Hunt
Jane Bonkiewicz
Lemoyne Johnson
Bunker Hill
Election Board
Hilda Steffens
Ella Ehlers
Ray Lessman
George Ehlers
Carl Borchers
I. L. Pindell
Pindell
Haskell
Adlai Stevenson
Averill Harriman
Richard Russell
Harry Truman
Frank Sorrell
Cheyenne County
Ted Baum
Scottsbluff
C. W. Smith
Smith
A.A. Fentske
Sunel
Robert G. Simmons
13Th Judicial District
I. J. Nisley
John Kane
Wells .C. Jones
Kindergarten Round Up Registration Moves to Spring
Sidney Public Schools announce a spring Kindergarten Round-Up replacing fall registration. Fall registrations are Monday and Tuesday, May 21 and 22, with Monday for A to M and Tuesday for N to Z. Registration hours vary by school. a preschool physical exam program is also planned in cooperation with local physicians and dentists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney Public Schools
T. R. Tillotson
Central School
Frances Willard
South Ward
North Ward
Sidney Pta
Sidney Physicians and Dentists
Counties May Buy Blue Cross Insurance for Needy
Atty. Gen. Clarence S. Beck rules county boards may purchase Blue Cross and Blue Shield group insurance to cover medical, surgical, and hospital care for county-needy residents. He says providing benefits is a governmental duty funded by taxation and counties may exercise reasonable discretion in how it is carried out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blue Cross and
Blue Shield Group
Atty
Clarence S. Beck
Morris V. Hoebler
Custer
Beck
Hart Named Welfare Director In Cheyenne County
Mrs. Joan Hart was provisionally appointed permanent Cheyenne County Welfare Office director by the county commissioners. She had been an assistant and was one of four applicants. She will take a state test. Salary set at 280 dollars per month.
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Joan Hart
Cheyenne County
Hart
Jess Osborn
State Welfare Office
Upturn in Cheyenne wildcat oil hits 930 feet oil
Cheyenne County reports its second wildcat oil strike of the year, the 22nd in the Panhandle, with Miracle-Fifer Drilling Co. at Anderson No. 1 northwest of 12-15-53 and southwest of Ittner Field. A sand stem test yielded 930 feet oil and 116 feet oil cut mud and water. logs to follow.
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Cheyenne County
Panhandle
Potter
Miracle-Fifer Drilling Co
Anderson No. 1
Ittner Field
Skull Creek
Fifer
Denver
Love-Miller
Thompson
Ohio Oil
Robirds No
West Sidney Gas Field
Wytex Oil
Wildcat
Magnolia Petroleum
Kimball County
Hoatley
Banner County
Vedene
Baner County
Hackberry
Miracle Fifer
van Pelt
Morrill County
Olsen Field
Mailboxes In Sidney Are Being Repainted
The local post office directs repainting of all olive drab mailboxes in Sidney to a red white and blue scheme. Tops will be red, bottoms blue and lettering will be affixed with white paint.
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Sidney
Omaha Boosters Coming Thursday
A trainload of Omaha boosters will spread goodwill through Cheyenne County tomorrow with eighty Omaha businessmen arriving in Lodgepole Sunol Sidney and Potter at specified times to parade, hand out candy and balloons, while residents are urged to display welcome flags. The goodwill train will shelter overnight in Sidney, and city officials warn it will block the Tenth Ave crossing from 7 p.m. to 4 a.m with the 12th Ave crossing recommended.
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Omaha
Cheyenne County
Lodgepole
Sunol
Sidney
Potter
Tenth Ave
12Th Ave
SOD Worker Killed In Car Train Crash
Reinhold Brening 30 of Bayard an explosive breakdown operator at Sioux Ordnance Depot died instantly in a car train crash near Bayard. His 1955 car was struck by Burlington train No 31 as it crossed an open crossing. The train traveled 59 mph. Brening had worked at the depot since 1950 except for a brief 9 month gap. He lived with his mother. a brother survived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux Ordnance Depot
Reinhold Brening
Bayard
Brening
Burlington Railroad
Morrill County
Mr. Brening
Roy Bonham
Bridgeport
Star-Herald
Wheat Fields Need Rain To Speed Growth
Winter wheat in Cheyenne County benefits from early moisture but most acreage needs rain as crops develop rapidly. A statewide crop survey notes light precipitation in Nebraska’s wheat belt with parts of the Panhandle promising for summer fallow wheat. Farmers expect a soaking rain to ease worries as corn planting lags behind last year due to cold and drought. Pasture and hay growth improve with warm spells, but growth is being grazed down quickly where feed is scarce.
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Cheyenne
Federal Bureau of Agricultural Statistics
Nebraska
Panhandle
Town and Country Store To Open On Sundays
The Town and Country Market at 2020 Tenth Ave announces Sunday hours starting next Sunday May 20. Management cites circumstantial necessity to match competition and says the policy will continue at least through the summer months while aiming to serve customers on the same basis as rivals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tenth Ave
Town and Country Market
Final Band Concert To Be Given Friday
Nearly 300 Sidney Public Schools band students will perform in a combined concert Friday at 8 pm in the Sidney Junior High School Auditorium. George Hinn announces no admission charge and invites the public. The program features the Elementary Band of 109 fifth and sixth graders, the Cadet Band of 100 junior high students, and the Senior High Band of 9 sophomores juniors and seniors.
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Sidney Public Schools
Sidney Junior High School
George Hinn
Prominent South Table Farmer Critically Burned
Edson Walker a 73 year old farmer from northeast of Lorenzo is in Cheyenne County Memorial Hospital in critical condition with third degree burns covering about 50 percent of his body. He was burning weeds on his farm when a fire spread to three tar paper sheep shacks destroying them. He was alone. Details of how the accident happened are unclear. He has received blood transfusions and was resting at telegraph press time.
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Edson Walker
Cheyenne County Memorial Hospital
Walker
Lorenzo
Elmer Carsrud
Telegraph
Sidney Council Approves Study for First Off Street Parking
The Sidney City Council discussed a wide range of issues including a plan to establish the city’s first municipal off street parking lot. They approved negotiations with landowner L. O. Keedick, authorized a five year airport management lease with Gene Warren, and debated dog control, power plant usage, and future electrical line improvements. Other actions included paving district contracts, Legion Park bids, zoning hearings, a railroad storage lease, and a new land plat.
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Sidney
Murrey Fuller
Fuller
Hickory St
Ninth Ave
L. O. Keedick
Mt. Vernon
Keedick
Gene Warren
Warren
Inland Construction Co
Legion Park
Livoni
Union Pacific Railroad
U. P
Fenrise
County Fairgrounds
Highway 30
Sidney High Baccalaureate Planned For Sunday Evening
The Sidney High School graduating class of 1956 will hold baccalaureate services this Sunday at 8 p.m. in the Junior High Auditorium. Seniors will attend in a body. doors open to parents and friends. The program includes processional, invocation by Rev. Parks, vocal solo How Lovely Are Thy Dwellings, scripture, prayer, Mendelssohn triple trio, baccalaureate sermon by Rev. Monnich, benediction, and recessional.
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Sidney High School
C. Fred Parks
Samuel Little
Jerry Wolf
Dianne Hinrichs
CB. Johnson
R. L. Townsend
Mendelssohn
Karen Edwards
Linda Mintken
Alice Wood
Marcella Lessman
Carol Siemers
Treva Crawford
Kathy Sieckmann
Betty Nightingale
Margaret Ann Olson
Henry Monnich
George Hinn's Father Buried In Rushville
Funeral services were held at Rushville Nebraska Methodist Church for Samuel Hinn 80 who died last Saturday He was the father of George Hinn the instrumental music director in the Sidney schools Mr Hinn was retired and the family previously lived in Sidney before moving to Rushville His wife survives
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Rushville, Nebr
Samuel Hinn
Hinn
George Hinn
Sidney
Rushville
SHS Senior Class Program Is Tonight
The Sidney High School seniors present their annual class program at 7:30 this evening in the Junior High School Auditorium. Admission is free as parents and friends are invited to attend the Garden of Dreams themed program featuring the class history prophecy will and the school key robe and colors being presented to the junior class. Principal Max Casey will award the senior honors.
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Sidney High School
Max Casey
County Groups Cited In Heart Fund Drive
A Nebraska Heart Association release notes Lodgepole Sidney Ellis Lodge and BPOE raised 2046 dollars for the Heart Fund Drive. Lodgepole Monday Evening Club sponsored and credited 240 dollars. Potter American Legion in Cheyenne County ranked fifth in Posts aiding the campaign with 200 dollars.
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Nebraska Heart Association Today
Sidney Ellis Lodge
B.P.O.E. Does
Lodgepole Monday Evening Club
Lodgepole
Cheyenne County
Potter American Legion
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Jack Eliott
Frank Johnson
Roy Blixt
Wheatbelt Public Power District
Victor Johnson
W. Lee Hawkins
George Zimmerman
John Hornicek
Eva Bowring
Hazel Abel
Pat Heaton Sr
Bill Chaloupka
Chaloupka
Jack Bentley
James Hazelwood
President—Eisenhower
Anderson
Swanson
Burney
Johnson
Griswold
Marsh
Hill
Townsend
Milner
Pettygrove
Vogt
Sorensen
Miller
Eby
Reed
Bowring
Larson
Hanson
Weaver
Lincoln
Towle
McKnight
Crosby
Kratz
Fay Smith
Edson Smith
Carpenter
Byrne
Wagener
Metcalfe
Warner
Wagner
Hughes
Abel
Welsh
Stewart
Perry
Paxson
Samson
Durham
Amen
Haberman
Batchelder
van Norman
Simmons
Dempster
Jirdon
Bixler
Fowler
Kefauver
Stevenson
Harriman
Truman
Russell
Baum
Sorrell
Andreasen
Long
Cornwell
Havorka
Anzalone
Petersen
Larsen
Grissinger
Grubbs
McReynolds
McPherson
Laird
First District
Benkiewicz
Moran
Neville
Heaton
Quigley
Green
Meier
Riley
Barta
Hollstein
Holtorf
Davis
Putnam
Kirwin
Fenske
Nisley
Kuns
Jones
University Regent
Blixt
Elliott
Zimmerman
Hawkins
Hornicek
Mrs. Hart
Omaha Boosters
Council
Sidney High
SHS
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