25 Years of Soil-Water Conservation in Cheyenne County
The Sidney Telegraph salutes Cheyenne County Soil and Water Conservation District for a quarter century of guiding soil and water practices. The editorial emphasizes soil care as essential to regional welfare, noting floods and erosion avoided by the program and honoring the farmers and administrators behind it.
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Cheyenne County
Cheyenne County Soil and Water Conservation District
Sidney Telegraph
Sidney
Nebraska
United States
Cabela Wins Nebraska Outstanding Small Businessman Award
Richard Cabela of Cabela’s Inc. receives Nebraska’s outstanding small businessman of the year plaque for 1970. The Chappell-born, Sidney-based firm run with his brother James mails catalogs to 400000 prospects nationwide and employs about 60, aiming for 1.75 million in sales this year. Government officials note SBA loans helped grow the rural business into a regional sporting goods concern.
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Nebraska
Richard Cabela
Cabela’s Inc
James
Cabela
Chappell
Sidney
United States
Canada
Virgin Islands
Norbert Tiemann
Nebraska Sba
Rick Budd
Nebraska City
Budd
SBA
Devel County State Bank
American National Bank
Cabelas
Centennial Shaping Up For June 4 Thru 7
Plans for the Cheyenne County Centennial event June 4 to 7 are shaping up with a downtown program. Highlights include a Thursday 7:30 p.m. opening with Old Time Fiddlers and Prairie Schooners, a Friday kids parade and teen dance, a Saturday parade with 50 entries, a water fight, and a Sunday go cart race.
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Forsythe & Dowis
12Th and
Jackson
American National Bank
Prairie Schooners Square
the Fox
Bob Roderick
National Guard Armory
Paul Adkinson
Ben Belden
Cheyenne County
Vernon Goranson
Michener Explores Platte Region for Possible Novel
Pulitzer winner James A. Michener visited Logan County areas including Chimney Canyon West Plains and the Sprague ranch to gather background for a potential novel. He arranged the tour with Overland Train museum members and said the trip is exploratory with no era set.
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North
South Platte
Memorial Day Pool Opens In Legion Park
The Municipal Swimming Pool at Legion Park opens on Memorial Day with daily hours 1 30 pm to 7 pm and no night swimming until July. Nebraska Dept of Roads invites bids to upgrade 180 miles of gravel roads serving Warren Air Force Base and Minuteman Missile sites in Nebraska and Colorado. bids open June 18 in Lincoln.
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Legion Park
Nebraska Dept. of Roads
Warren Air Force Base
Lincoln
Cheynne County
Banner and
Kimball
Nebraska
Logan
Colorado
New Farm Program Seen Soon in Martin Report
Congressman Dave Martin says final agreement on a new farm program is expected soon from the House Agriculture Committee. Legislation should reach Rules Committee for debate and floor passage next month, as Ways and Means reviewed textile import effects and foreign countr ies voluntary restraint talks progress.
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Dave Martin
House Agriculture Committee
House
Ways and Means
Secretary of Commerce
Stans
Wilbur Mills
Western Nebraska Bar Association Elects Officers in Ogallala
Jack R. Knice ly of Sidney was elected president and Don Tedesco was secretary treasurer at the Western Nebraska Bar Association annual meeting in Ogallala. The 1971 meeting was awarded to Sidney and may occur in May. The State Aeronautics Commission boosted Sidney Airport terminal funding by 6030 to 33680, with total cost rising to about 84200 due to inflation and added features. Additional state help of about 14300 was hoped, but the commission limited participation to 40 percent. The terminal design has been revised several times, with plans to serve future commercial needs and possible shuttle service. The commission also approved Ogallala’s request to advance state funds for land acquisition tied to an airport improvement project.
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Ogallala
Jack R. Knicely
Sidney
Western Nebraska Bar Assn
Don Tedesco
Nebraska
State Aeronautics Commission
Sidney Municipal Airport
John Baudek
Frontier Airlines
Commission
Emery II Named Head of Marathon Gas Department
W B Emery II is appointed manager of Marathon Oil Co natural gas division forming a single office for the Alaskan LNG Project and gas contracts. He previously led LNG operations in Los Angeles since 1964 and served as Marathon's Tokyo representative.
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Emery
Sidney
Marathon
McMillen
Dalton Gurley Lions To Celebrate Anniversaries
Milestones in the history of the Dalton and Gurley Lions Clubs will be observed at a banquet and program in St. Marys Parish Hall in Dalton. The Dalton club marks 25 years and the Gurley club 10. Special guests include dignitaries from other clubs and Bridgeport, sponsor of Dalton.
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Gurley Lions
St. Mary’s Parish
Dalton
Dalton Club
Gurley Club
Bridgeport Club
Dalton Organization
Gurley Group
Wayne P. Marshall
Kearney
Lions ’International
Dr. Marshall
Kearney State College
Donald Devier
Elwin Linton
C. Vander Stoep
Gurley
Bridgeport
Frontier Seeks Air Route Cutbacks Affecting Sidney
Frontier Airlines asks the Civil Aeronautics Board to stop Sidney as a stop on two Denver to Omaha daily flights. If approved, travelers must reroute via Denver or Scottsbluff and face reduced service six days a week, including Sundays. The CAB decision will determine Sidney’s future air access.
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Sidney
Frontier Airlines
Civil Aeronautics Board
Frontier
Denver
Omaha
Sidney Air Service
Scottsbluff
Devel County
Sidney-Denver-Omaha
Alliance
Chadron
Columbus
Nebraska
Bartlesville
Okla
Moab
Utah
Winslow
Arizona
Postoffice Department
Strike Settlement Report Appears Premature
Reports over the weekend claimed a settlement in the Kansas-Nebraska Natural Gas strike, but officials said the agreement was not finalized. James E. Keating noted guards at nine towns remained on 24 hour duty as talks continued and the union rejected a proposed provision reached at the bargaining session.
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Communications Workers of America
Kansas-Nebraska Natural Gas Co
James E. Keating
K-N
Nebraska
Colorado
Omaha
Keating
James Smith
Kansas-Nebraska
James Miller
Hastings
Smith
Panhandle Weather Forecast With Showers Possible
Partly cloudy through Tuesday with a slight chance of afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms. Highs 60 to 70 today, lows 40 to 50, highs in the 70s Tuesday. Rain chance five percent through Tuesday. Extended outlook shows mainly partly cloudy days through Friday with afternoon storms, warmer midweek highs 70 to 80 and cooling to the 60s toward Friday.
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Panhandle
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Telegraph
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Marathon Gas Department
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