Five generations pictured in Sidney family feature
A Sidney Telegraph People You Know column recalls five generation portraits led by baby Shellie Ann Backlund, with aunts and great aunts named from Dalton, Lincoln, and Wilder. The piece links Clyde Backlund of Denver and Phyllis Harris of Dalton to the family photo and notes a former Harris lineage in the area.
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Sidney
Nebraska
Shellie Ann Backlund
Janet Harris
Dalton
Raymond Weed
Grover Sanders
Wilder
Idaho
Leo Click
Chappell
Bertha Hagel
Lincoln
Clyde Backlund
Denver
Phyllis Harris
Glenn Harris
Around the Clouse Sidney Police Desk Keeps 24 Hours
The Sidney Police Department maintains a round the clock desk with Myron Peter and Harold Tobin as senior deskmen. Jim Siefer and Richard Boyer also serve, handling about 1,100 calls monthly and a record 42 calls in one day. The desk handles a wide range from loose horses to domestic disputes and even assists fire calls, with legal matters escalated to lawyers.
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Country Club Heights
Teyrioe Jem
Pete
Toby
Eliy
Long Term Contracts Prove Faith In Future Of Nation
A historical analysis shows Americans’ growing commitment to long term savings through life insurance reserves corporate pension funds and mortgage debt retirement. Growth in life insurance and pension assets rose sharply from 1950 to 1960, boosting the share of contractual savings in total personal saving to about 40 percent. Mortgage repayment and home ownership also surged, with 11 million new homes added in the 1950s and mortgaged homes rising to over two-fifths of available housing stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
US Department of Commerce
Life
Teenage shoe tester works for family factory
New York thirteen year old Nina Silverstein tests shoes for her family business to gauge teen appeal. She observes classmates reactions to a range of styles from old fashioned to modern flats as she helps guide her father's fashion footwear line. Nina plans design school after graduation.
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New York
Nina ‘Silverstein
Nina
Stanley Silverstein
Joseph
Dad
Rene
Amazon Queen of UCLA Botany Wins Jungle Title
Dr Mildred Mathias famed UCLA botanist and plant authority earned the nickname Queen of the Jungle for summers in the Amazon. She identifies plants for government agencies, has authored numerous publications, and chairs UCLA’s botany department while raising four children at her Brentwood home.
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Los Angeles
Mathiasella
Amazon
Federal
State Departments of Agriculture
Customs Bureau
UCLA
Gerald Hassler
Brentwood
Mathias
Dermot Taylor
Peru
Ecuador
Taylor
Ucla Medical School Pharamcologist
Bugs Bunny
Visitor recalls 1895 fire at UVA Rotunda and saving Jefferson statue
Mrs Edwin Betts, hostess at UVA Rotunda, tells visitors about the 1895 blaze. Dr James B Bullitt of Chapel Hill, a student 1895 to 1899, proved more knowledgeable about the fire and helped save a statue of Thomas Jefferson from the flames.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlottesville
Vam
Edwin Betts
University of Virginia
James B Bullitt
Chapel Hill
Thomas Jefferson
Major Medical Insurance Is Fastest Growing Health Plan
The Health Insurance Institute reports Major Medical, or catastrophe insurance, as the fastest growing form of health coverage in the United States. By mid-1961 about 31 million people were insured, up from 21.85 million at end of 1959, with benefits rising from 336 million to 431 million in 1960.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Health Insurance Institute
Major Medical
Institute
University of Miami Bumps Trimmed After Driver Complaints
Automobiles on the University of Miami campus faced hazards as the engineering department installed a series of asphalt bumps to slow traffic. Recently the bumps were trimmed, drawing complaints from student drivers and sports car owners who reported damage and difficulty navigating the altered surface.
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Miamist
University of Miami
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