Sidney City Services Grow While Mill Levy Drops
Sidney has cut the mill levy from 23.9 in 1948 to 17.2 today while expanding municipal services. The city funded major projects including a new municipal building, library, fire truck, park land, sewage plant expansion, city shop, warehouse, and airport enhancements. Future plans include electric utility expansion, airport terminal, street improvements, and park expansion, with interstate access expected. taxpayers thus gain more services without higher levies.
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City of
Sidney
Union Pacific
Services Set At Lodgepole For Greg Wise
Gregory D. Wise 20 died early Thursday at Memorial Hospital after illness at work in Cedar Rapids. He had surgery for lifelong conditions and funeral services are 2 p.m. Saturday at Zion Lutheran Church in Chappell with Rev. Bundschuh officiating. Burial in Pleasant View Cemetery north of Lodgepole. Craig Holechek Funeral Home in charge. Born May 28, 1948 to Dale and Ruth Lehn Wise, he graduated Lodgepole High in 1966 and Denver electronics Institute in 1967, worked for Collins Radio Co. in Cedar Rapids as an electronics tester. Surviving are his parents, one sister Jody, and grandparents Herman Lehn of Chappell and Georgia Wise of Lodgepole.
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Lodgepole
Gregory D. Wise
Memorial Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Sidney
Zion Lutheran Church of Chappell
John Bundschuh
Pleasant View
Craig- Holechek
Dale
Ruth Lehn Wise
Lodgepole High School
National Electronics Institute
Denver
Colo
Collins Radio Co
Zion Lutheran Church
Hastings College Honors Two Bronco Award Winners
Hastings College announced the 1969 Bronco Award recipients at the honors convocation. Larry G. Flohr of Dalton and Mark W. Buswell of Cody, Wyo., were named Bronco Award winners. The event also listed Who’s Who honorees and featured J. Harold Hamil as speaker, with background on Flohr’s and others’ campus leadership and activities.
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Hastings
Larry G. Flohr
Dalton
Mark W. Buswell
Cody
Wyo
Hastings College
Kathleen Connell
Denver
Roger Davis
Schuyler
Richard Dell
Youngwood
Margaret Grummert
Omaha
Diana Johnson
Bushnell
Katherine Knappenberger
Lincoln
Keith Matzen
Genoa
Richard Messenger
Clarinda
Iowa
Carol Phaneuf
Alliance
Sydney Reusch
Fairbury
Aneeta Speirs
Kearney
Janet Vance
Chappell
J. Harold Hamil
Farmland Industries
Kansas City
Flohr
Weyer Hall
Eta Phi Lambda
Student Public Relations Council
Student Education Association
Fred Flohr
Vance
Louis Vance
Taylor Residence Hall
Social Life
Election Board
Inter- Sorority Council
Bronco
Chi Omega Psi
Johnson
Sigma Tau Sigma Social Sorority
Carl E. Johnson
Sheriff reports arrest of Clay ton Kellerhuis at Bert's Texaco
Sheriff Kermit Brumbaugh reports the arrest of Clay ton Kellerhuis on a charge of passing a no account check at Bert's Texaco. After a hearing before County Judge Sydney Finch Kellerhuis was bound over to district court.
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Kermit Brumbaugh
Clayton Kellerhuis
Bert’s
Texaco
Sydney Finch
Kellerhuis
Har Association Meets This Week in Scottsbluff
About one hundred western Nebraska lawyers attend the Western Nebraska Bar Association meeting in Scottsbluff on Friday and Saturday. Speakers include Judge Donald Lay of the U S Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in St Louis District Judge C Thomas White of Columbus Nebraska Supreme Court Judge John E Newton of Lincoln and M J Bruckner of Lincoln special attorney for the State Board of Education.
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Scottsbluff
Western Nebraska
Western Nebraska Bar Assny
Donald Lay
U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
St. Louis
C. Thomas White
Columbus
Nebraska Supreme Court
John E. Newton
Lincoln
M. J. Bruckner
State Board of Education
Sit z Estate Sale Rescheduled to June seventh
The Muriel Sitz Estate sale of household goods and antiques is postponed from this Saturday to Saturday June seventh to avoid a clash with the Grace McFadden Estate sale. The McFadden sale will proceed as planned at noon on Saturday.
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Muriel Sitz
Grace McFadden
McFadden
Land sale in Cheyenne County fetches appraised value
State Board sells state owned school land in southwestern Cheyenne County. Rodney G. and Arline M. Mathewson purchased the tract at its appraised value of 25600 dollars, averaging 40 dollars per acre. A lease sale was planned if the land did not sell.
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Cheyenne County
State Board of Educational Lands and Funds
Rodney G
Arline M. Mathewson
Panhandle Forecast Shows Partly Cloudy Skies and Showers
Panhandle forecast calls for partly cloudy conditions this afternoon tonight and Saturday with a 10 percent afternoon rain chance and 20 percent tonight and Saturday. Temperatures warm with highs in the 60s to mid 70s and lows around 40s to 50s. Five-day outlook indicates near normal temperatures through Wednesday with occasional afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms. Courtesy Frontier Airlines.
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Panhandle
Frontier Airlines
Californian Is Arrested With Stolen Vehicle
A 27 year old man from Bell Gardens California was held in Kimball County jail after police stopped him for speeding five miles west of Potter at 8 am Thursday. The stolen 1968 Chevrolet was traced to Los Angeles and taken into custody for driving without a license. He was sentenced to five days in jail for the license violation and held for the FBI on Dyer Act charges for transporting a stolen vehicle across state lines.
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Bell Gardens
Calif
Kimball County
Potter
Richard Larsen
Nebraska State Patrol
Virgil L. Bohannon
National Crime Investigation Center
Los Angeles
Bohannon
Band Director Undergoing Tests at Memorial Hospital
Larry Pippitt, band director at Sidney High School, is undergoing tests at Memorial Hospital after falling ill on Monday with severe abdominal distress. He was persuaded to visit a doctor and was hospitalized while tests proceed.
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Larry Pippitt
Sidney High School
Memorial Hospital
Pippitt
Sidney Plans Airport Terminal To Serve Region
City of Sidney intends to build a new terminal at Sidney Municipal Airport after a Denver conference with Frontier Airlines officials. Mayor Robert Hossle said consensus supports the terminal now, with Frontier agreeing to share rent. Frontier envisions a future regional airport concept serving Sidney, Scottsbluff, and Alliance, with central site shuttle service, though years away. The project estimated at 60 to 70 thousand dollars, with the city contributing 20 to 25 thousand, pending state federal funding for a 1970 construction plan.
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Sidney
Sidney Municipal Airport
Denver
Frontier Airlines
Robert Hossle
E. Paul Burke
Scottsbluff
Alliance
Burke
Nebraska
Frontier
Omaha
Lincoln
Anti Corporate Farm Bill Clears Committee For Senate Floor
Nebraska Agriculture Committee approved LB668 to bar corporate farming with a 5-0 vote, sending it to the Senate floor. Some members warned amendments may be needed as supporters call for studying corporate farming impacts. The bill would bar nonagricultural corporations from owning farmland unless 75 percent owned by actual farmers.
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Senate
Agriculture Committee
Nebraska Agriculture
Jerome Warner
Waverly
Henry F. Pedersen Jr
Omaha
Nebraska
State Agriculture Department
Great Western Sugar Beet Company
Mitchell
Great Western
Nephew of Local Residents Killed
Funeral services were held in Sterling for Ralph Robert Runge 21 of Route 3 Sterling killed Tuesday night in a west Sterling auto crash. He was the son of Eva Mae Wilson Runge and the late Ralph Robert Runge who died in 1962. Also killed was Clyde James Keller 22 of Atwood. Injured was John Michael Keen 21 of Route 3 Sterling. Runge is survived by his mother a brother and several aunts and uncles near Sidney.
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Sterling
Ralph Robert Runge
Route 3
Eva Mae Wilson Runge
Vietnam
Clyde James Keller
Atwood
John Michael Keen
Runge
Sidney
No Papers Issued on Memorial Day and Fourth of July
The Sidney Telegraph will not be printed on Friday May 30 Memorial Day and Friday July 4 Independence Day. Church news and other contributions for those two editions should be received early enough for the papers printed on the previous Wednesdays.
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Sidney Telegraph
Church News
Local DeMolay Named For Top Scholarship
Gerald D Thompson, son of Mr and Mrs Lawrence Thompson and Sidney Chapter DeMolay member, receives a 1000 scholarship from the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Valley of Alliance. The award honors the top Job's Daughters of DeMolay in Western Nebraska for scholastic DeMolay athletic and church work. Now in its second year, the prize totals 250 per college year.
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Gerald D. Thompson
Lawrence Thompson
Sidney
Order of DeMolay
Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Valley of Alliance
Orient of Nebraska
Job’s Daughters of DeMolay
Nebraska
Sidney DeMolay
EKG Drive and Memorial Fund Raise for ICU Equipment
Memorial Hospital in Sidney will acquire a Burdick Crash Cart for intensive care use thanks to the EKG program sponsored by The Sidney Kiwanis Club and the A J Jorgenson Memorial Fund. The three Sunday drive and contributions surpassed 3600 dollars, with the memorial fund adding over 900 dollars toward a 5400 dollar unit, delivery expected within six weeks. A possible additional EKG Sunday may be staged later this year to help more people access tests.
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A.J. Jorgenson
Burdick
Bruce Plantz to Organize Hams for Emergencies
Bruce Plantz of Sidney has been named Emergency Coordinator of the Amateur Radio Emergency Corps by the American Radio Relay League. He will mobilize Cheyenne County amateur operators to provide organized emergency communications during disasters, coordinating fixed, portable, and mobile radio stations for disaster response and local meetings.
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Bruce Plantz
Olsen Drive
Sidney
Cheyenne County
George Hart
American Radio Relay League
U.S
Canadian Association of Radio Amateurs
Plantz
Amateur Radio Emergency Corps
ARRL
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Larry Flohr
Gregory D, Wise
Har Association
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Frank Frauendorfer
Cecil Hume
Frauendorfer
Telegraph
Gerald D, Thompson
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