27 May 1957
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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1957
Page
1
Memorial Day activities are planned across the area with parades and services in Sidney Poetz Lodgepole Gurley Dalton and Chappell. Veterans groups supervise arrangements with brief memorial programs including invocations addresses and taps.
Mrs. Martha Fecht 85 died Saturday in Dalton Hospital after a year as patient. Funeral Tuesday at 2 p.m. Trinity Lutheran Church Dalton with Rev. John Rupley officiating. Burial in Dalton Cemetery. Gehrig and Son Funeral Home in charge. Memorials to Cancer Fund. Born December 13 1871 in Jacksonville Illinois daughter of Carl and Sophia German. Lived 70 years in Cheyenne County and moved to Weyerts in 1887. Married Harm A. Fecht September 26 1889 in Weyerts Lutheran Church. She and husband homestead near Weyerts then moved to Dalton in 1917. Survivors: daughters Henrietta Borcher Sidney Ohio, Clyde Toof Dalton, Herman Staley Lincoln, sons Albert Oshkosh and Arthur Minneapolis, 16 grandchildren, 30 great grandchildren. Pallbearers: grandsons Robert Thurston Arthur Borcher Richard Toof Donald Fecht Herbert Fecht Arthur Fecht.
Sidney High School senior class sponsors host a dance at the National Guard Armory from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. and a dawn cookout at Wildcat State Park if permission is granted. Guests of honor are Carol Swift and George Hinn.
Palmer Thurston of Potter dies. funeral Wednesday at First Lutheran Potter with Rev Wacker officiating. Burial in Potter Cemetery. Mrs Gilliam, born 1899, daughter of John and Martha Gilliam, survives with husband, daughter Virginia Smith, son Clifton Thurston, four grandchildren, sister and brother. Pallbearers listed. Funeral arrangements by Craig Mortuary.
The Sidney Chamber of Commerce will hold its second quarterly meeting June 6 at the Sioux Ordnance Depot. A 5:30 p.m. social, 6 p.m. dinner at the SOD Cafeteria, and a double-header program include Waldo Dearing speaking on depot operations and a screening of The Corporal Story. Tickets are 1.75. Reservations by 5 p.m. June 3.
Mr and Mrs L M Short announce the sale of the El Palomino Motel located at 2220 Illinois St to Mr and Mrs Selmer Odland and Mr and Mrs Joseph A Boen of Minot S D The El Palomino long held as a quality motel has been air conditioned refurnished and redecorated during the Shorts ownership The Shorts will move to Wyoming to pursue uranium strip mining plans and thank Sidney guests for their patronage
Army authorities announced the Sioux Ordnance Depot will move pay day up 48 hours due to Memorial Day. Workers who normally receive Friday pay will be paid Wednesday, with about half the staff paid weekly and the other half on the second week. Thursday is a holiday for all depot personnel. work resumes Friday.
Local elevator sources quote No 1 Wheat at 1.90 per bushel and No 2 Wheat at 189 per bushel. The report lists current prices for wheat grades and highlights market levels for buyers and traders.
A two-vehicle crash near Lodgepole sent a mother and her two month old daughter to Sidney hospital. Dale Snovely 34 Napa California drove east on Highway 30 and said braking to avoid a farm drive caused loss of control. The vehicle was struck by a westbound car driven by Clarence Grasz 33. Total damage estimated at 500 dollars.
Sidney’s Jim Willis 31, former city office manager and 12th grade football star, announced a United Nations posting in Beirut Lebanon as audit staff supervisor for the Beirut branch of UNRWA. He will audit disbursements for the Middle East refugee relief program after a medical and security clearance.
George Weymouth aged 67, brother of O. J. Weymouth of Sidney, died last Thursday at his Tor rance California home. The notice also mentions a Wednesday event in Milan Missouri.
After a year of talks the Cheyenne County Fair Board moves to bid on a new all purpose building. Bids are due June 5 with a shell planned this year. The 40 by 96 foot masonry shell may gain a stage kitchen rest rooms and heating later to serve 4 H and other groups year round. Ak Sar Ben funds 500 annually could be matched by the county to total 1000 for improvements.
Sidney will be represented at the national convention of the Interstate Parks Highway Association at Alliance June 7 to 9. JB Baker, chairman, and M R Sigler will attend convention sessions. The association seeks a federal designation for a north south highway from Texas to Canada, with Nebraska hosting a major stretch along what is now State Highway 19.
Sidney City Council meets for the second regular session of the month tonight. After a previous crowded meeting on zoning changes, officials are set to remove the time limit on non conforming uses and likely approve filling the vacant lots at Ninth Avenue and Hickory Street owned by L. Kedrick of Mt Vernon IA.
Exploratory activity in the Nebraska Panhandle yields the Olson No. 1 gas well in Garden County near Oshkosh. The well shows 14 feet of gas saturated sand with no oil recovery, while the gas test reported 3 000 000 cubic feet per day. Various companies announce new wildcat and discovery prospects across Cheyenne, Kimball, Morrill, Banner, and surrounding counties as industry eyes potential markets.
Weather observers report favorable wheat prospects for the Sidney area but warn hail risk remains. Experts note wet May and June likely, with forecasted thunderstorms and possible tornado activity. Local communities prepare warning systems as Tornado frequency trends rise since 1916, with a long history of fatalities and damage around the central United States.
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