Mobil Minuteman garages studied for mobile ICBM defense
The Defense Department weighs a Garage Mobile Minuteman program to relocate Minuteman missiles into five mobile garage sites linked by roads. Each missile would ride a semitrailer, kept in constant contact with NORAD, to confound Soviet planners and deter attacks. Feasibility costs and strategic benefits under review by Boeing, General Electric, North America Rockwell, and Air Force systems command.
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Defense Department
Strategic Air Command
Pentagon
SAC
Air Force
North American Air Defense Command
United States
Soviet Union
Russia
Minuteman
Nebraska
Colorado
Wyoming
South
Dakota
Montana
Missouri
Omaha World- Herald
Space and Missile Systems Organization
U.S
Vienna
Boeing Co
General Electric Co
North America
Rockwell, Inc
Air Force Systems Command
Ussr
Centennial Parade Entries Deadline Sets May 30
Cheyenne County prepares for a June 6 Centennial parade with a 10 a.m. start at Ilinois Street. Co chairs Dr. Paul Adkinson and Lyle Mather urge prompt entry submissions by May 30, mail to Box 365 Sidney. Prizes total six with a Grand Prize $150 and other awards. Dignitaries, bands, riding club Velvet Spurs, and a long list of organizations plan participation.
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Big Cheyenne County
Paul Adkinson
Sidney
Lyle Mather
Gurley
Ilinois
Panhandle forecast shows showers and cooler temperatures ahead
Partly cloudy through Thursday with afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms. Cooler Thursday with highs near 70 to 80 and lows 45 to 55. Rain chances 20 to 30 percent, then Friday to Sunday partly cloudy with more showers and cooler highs in the 60s and 70s. Courtesy Frontier Airlines.
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Panhandle
Frontier Airlines
Rites Set Friday for Mrs Weyerts in Weyerts Church
Mrs Henry Weyerts 67 lifelong Weyerts resident died Monday night in a Denver hospital after long illness. Funeral at 10 a.m. Friday Immanuel Lutheran Weyerts with Rev Kenneth Malpert officiating burial in Weyerts Cemetery. Gehrig and Son Funeral Home in charge. Memorials to Weyerts Church. Survived by husband two daughters Catherine Neel and Mary Darnstaedt two sons Emil and Walter ten grandchildren two brothers two sisters.
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Weyerts
Henry Weyerts
Denver
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Kenneth Malpert
Gehrig and Son Funeral
Weyerts Church
Louise Forster
Lodgepole
Christ
Katherine Peters Forster
Henry J. Weyerts
Lfe
Catherine Neel
Sidney
Mary Darnstaedt
Scottsbluff
Emil
Walter
Gurley
George Folster
Henning Folster
Fairfax
Gertrude Scharrel
Emma Lutkehus
Bridgeport
Wheat In Boot Stage As Nebraska Crops Benefit From Rain
Localized rains in Nebraska replenish topsoil moisture after hot, windy days. Wheat is in the boot stage in the southern Panhandle and headed out south of the Platte River. Corn planting nearing completion at 95 percent. Sorghum and soybeans show strong progress with 60 percent planted. Sugar beets and potato planting advance with good field conditions.
Memorial Day Observed With Local Programs Across Communities
Memorial Day will be observed with special programs in Sidney and surrounding areas. Sidney offices close Friday and Saturday with a 10 a.m. ceremony at Greenwood Cemetery featuring Frank Mattoon as speaker and the usual band and Legion/VFW participants. Lodgepole holds a 10 a.m. parade to Pleasant View Cemetery with a high school band and Legion and Auxiliary members, followed by a cemetery program led by Rev. Raymond Thiel and other local leaders. Potter hosts a 10 a.m. Legion Hall program with invocation by Rev. Ted McIntyre, a boys quartet, and speaker Ross Boyer of Gering, followed by cemetery services.
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Sidney City
Cheyenne County
Sidney
VFW
American Legion
Greenwood Cemetery
Frank Mattoon
Sidney High School
Lodgepole High School
American Legion and Auxiliary
Raymond Thiel
Roy Grimes
Harold Backus
Delmar Zalesky
Potter
Legion Hall
Ted McIntyre
Expanding Southwest Oil Field Adds Fourth Well
In Cheyenne County the Southwest Sidney field expands as three new wells in section 3-12-51 are joined by a fourth, No. 1-B Underdown, with No. 3 Hurt testing 3000 feet of oil in the J sand. Exeter Drilling Co. and partners drill amid mixed results as the Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission notes cautious progress and ongoing drilling for a wildcat near Gurley.
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Southwest
Sidney
Cheyenne County
Nebraska
Exeter Drilling Co
C. W. Hughes
Art Guida
Clark and
Warren
Lorenzo
Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
Commission
Patrick A. Doheny
Gurley
Jurgens
Braden-Gear Drilling Co
Campground Gains Fans Across Cheyenne County
Cheyenne County reports growing popularity at the west edge campground near the county fairgrounds. Ed Cole, chamber manager, notes Wheatbelt Public Power District will add more electrical plug ins after two Hemet California visitors praised free parking and Lions Club donated tables. Fifteen campers stayed one night, highlighting positive public relations for the county.
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Sidney
Cheyenne County
Hemet
Calif
Wheatbelt
Lions Club
Ed Cole
Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce
Cole
U P Experts Offer Help In Quest For New Industry
A meeting of City Council, County Commissioners, Chamber of Commerce and local groups will discuss industrial development in Sidney. Upland Industries of Omaha invited to share plans and insights, with emphasis on expanding local industrial locations beyond interchange issues.
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U. P
Chamber of Commerce
City Council
John Mason
Jack Chapman
Upland Industries Corp
Omaha
Sidney
Chapman
Mason
Upland Industries
Union Pacific Railroad
Las Vegas
Culver City
Calif
Byron
Whittier
Fullerton
California
Union Pacific
Union Paci
Fic
Topeka
General Foods Corp
National Blank Book Company
Paper Products
City of Industry
Donrey Medias Group
Portland Oregon
Lincoln
Nebraska
Norwest Publishing Co
Mid-America Webpress, Inc
General Leisure Products Corporation
Gates Rubber Company
Denver
Dalton Lions Charter Members Honored At Joint Anniversary
A Dalton Lions Club and Gurley club observed their anniversaries with honored charter members at a Tuesday event. The Dalton group recognized 25 year members C. J. Carley John Davison Don Dey Ermand Ray Graff Ray Buchanan Ray Weed and Lawrence Marrin. Further coverage and photos will run in Friday's Telegraph.
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Dalton Lions
Dalton Lions Club
Gurley Club
Dalton Organization
C. J. Carley
John Davison
Don Dey Ermand
Ray Graff
Ray Buchanan
Ray Weed
Lawrence Marrin
The
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George Fleming
Nebraska Wheat Queen
Susan Herboldsheimer
Debbie Bondegard
Kathy Wright
Jorena Englert
Connie Palmer
Cheyenne
Wye
Sterling
Colo
Potter High School
Banner County High School
Har
Servisoft
Newberry’s
Penney’s
McDonald's
Ben Franklin
Shrine
W. P. Ackerman
Neb
Game Commission
Mrs. Weyerts
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