Frontier Cutting Sidney Flights for Possible One-Trip Policy
Frontier Airlines will suspend Flights 562 and 563 to Sidney starting June 1 and substitute Flights 566 and 567 temporarily while awaiting a CAB decision by July 1 on reducing Sidney service to one round trip daily between Denver and Omaha. Flights 554 and 651 remain, with some weekend cuts. new schedules show Sidney as a stop on 566 and 567 with specific times.
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Frontier Airlines
Sidney
Civil Aeronautics Board
Denver-Omaha
Omaha
Frontier
CAB
Associated Press
Kansas City
Lincoln
Denver
Grand Island
North Platte
Nebraska
Neb
Columbus
Kearney
Hastings
McCook
Brower to Join Scottsbluff Firm July 1 Move
Thomas D. Brower of Thorpe, Peetz and Brower will leave Sidney around July 1 to join a Scottsbluff partnership named Van Steenberg, Winner and Brower. Brower came to Sidney from Kimball three years ago after 11 years there and says the move keeps him in western Nebraska.
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Thomas D. Brower
Sidney
Thorpe, Peetz and
Nebraska
Panhandle Weather Forecast Showers Possible Late Weekend
Partly cloudy through Saturday with a small chance of thunder showers. Highs 60 to 70 today, nights 35 to 45, Saturday near 60. Rain chances five percent through Saturday. Extended outlook shows showers and cooler weather Sunday through Tuesday.
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Panhandle
Electrical Failure Causes Plane Fire at Sidney Airport
Vallejo men Bill Gee and Bill Donahue escaped unharmed from a four passenger Piper Comanche on the Sidney Airport runway after an electrical failure disabled the radio and landing gear. The craft nosed in and burned. the pilots leaped out seconds before the fire. They had left Vallejo at 4 am en route to Hartford with a refueling stop in Utah. Firefighters limited damage to the tail section as the two men sought a later flight home.
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Vallejo
Calif
Sidney
Bill Gee
Conzaga Street
Bill Donahue
Kentucky
Hartford
Haugan
Lloyd Carr
Overland Air Service
County Central Committees Set Annual Meeting
Democrats meet at Ft. Sidney Motor Hotel on Thursday June 4 at seven p.m. to elect officers and form a county committee. Republicans convene the same night at eight p.m. at the same venue to select a new leader after Frank Mattoon says he will not seek reelection.
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Cheyenne County
Democrat
Republican Central Committees
Ft. Sidney Motor Hotel
C. A. Story
Frank Mattoon
Honor Students Named At Sidney High Class of 1970
Sidney High School names Loren Bauman valedictorian Karen Johnson salutatorian and JoAnn Owen class orator for the 1970 graduating class. Bauman averages 3.957 Johnson 3.864 Owen 3.850. All three active in band chorus Madrigal orchestra student government National Honor Society Masque Gavel Mu Alpha Theta Pep Club French club Future Teachers of America and theatre roles.
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Sidney High School
Loren Bauman
Karen Johnson
JoAnn Owen
Bauman
Miss Johnson
Miss Owen
Ed Bauman
George Owen
Union Pacific offers 2000 acres for Sidney development
A new UP land division led by Upland Industries will assist Sidney with development on more than 2000 acres the railroad owns in and around the city. John Chapman toured Sidney to discuss I 80 interchange development, potential annexation, and possible residential and commercial projects on UP land.
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Union Pacific Railroad
Sidney
John Chapman
Upland Industries
U. P
Union Pacific
Chapman
Mr. Chapman
Nebraska
Nebraska Dept. of Roads
South Central
Bureau of Public Roads
Four Corners
Southeast
Chamber of Commerce Industrial Committee
Railroad
Omaha
Los Angeles
John Mason
Mason
P. H. Heaton
Heaton
Bondfire in Sidney Destroys $640000 in Bonds
City officials held a Bondfire after the City Council authorized burning over $640 thousand in bonds that had been paid off. City Clerk Gordon Tobin carried the cancelled bonds to Safeway’s incinerator Tuesday morning, celebrating Sidney’s progress toward a bond-free status.
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Gordon Tobin
Safeway
Sidney
Heavy scattered showers mark area rainfall reports
Rainfall on Thursday evening varied widely with the heaviest totals north of Dix and Potter and west of Dalton where at least an inch and a half drenched ditches and roads. Observers cited lighter amounts elsewhere including about a half inch in east Gurley and .05 inch at the FAA station. A cold front followed the rain driving down temperatures from Wednesday through Friday.
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Dix
Potter
Dalton
George Coulter
Don Dey Ermand
Gurley
East Gurley
Federal Aviation Agency Flight Service
FAA
Lodgepole
George Emanuelson
Old Areas Revitalized Sought Oil in Western Nebraska Shows Progress
In western Nebraska drillers revive abandoned or small wells in Kimball and Cheyenne counties using new techniques to boost oil output. Braden Gear and Great Plains in Hagen No 1 after reworking Westgate. Okmar in Hafeman reports 100 bpd potential. Exeter and associates expand in Southwest Sidney Field from one to four wells plus a fifth underdown being drilled. Wildcat activity approved by the Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission includes multiple new locations in Morrill Banner Scotts Bluff and Cheyenne counties with Braden Gear as contractor where indicated.
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Nebraska
Kimball
Cheyenne
Braden&Gear Drilling Co
Great Plains Exploration Co
Hagen
SESW
Westgate
Hoatby
Kimball County
Okmar Oil Co
Hafeman
NWNE
Cheyenne County
Exeter Drilling Co
Sidney
NWSW
Toltek Drilling Co
Art Guida
C. W. Hughes and
Clark
Warren
Toltek
Wildcatters
Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
Morrill
Banner Counties
Wildcat Ventures
Morrill County
Ackman-Schulein- Roosevelt and Associates, Ltd
Durnal
Nerud
Peters
Braden-Gear Drilling Co
Banner County
Burchfield
Braden-Gear
Scotts Bluff County
Tige Enterprises, Inc
Fuller
Deal Drilling Co
Patrick A. Doheny
Jurgens
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Brower
Sidney High
Edd Bailey
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