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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1964
Page
11
Fox Theater hosted a costume Hallowe'en show for youngsters last Saturday with valuable prizes for winners. A packed house and happy turnout impressed box manager Verne Austin who praised the well behaved and enthusiastic children. The pictures highlight several winners.
The Lawrence Nass farm home in Chappell was gutted by fire of undetermined origin, with living room and kitchen furnishings destroyed. Mrs Nass found the blaze around 4 45 p m, neighbors aided, and fire crews limited damage to the bedroom area while saving basement contents despite extensive smoke and water damage.
Four conservation award winners were named at the Kimball County Soil and Water Conservation District banquet. Honorees were Mr. and Mrs. Donald Roberts, sponsored by the Bank of Kimball. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Tomich, sponsored by Kimball County Bank. and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Madden, sponsored by the American National Bank.
The county road south of Chappell saw another mile of oil paving completed last week creating a link between Chap pell and the Colorado highway to Denver. Future work includes elevating two wide corners on the correction line three miles south of town. State troopers are enforcing the law against discarding burning cigarettes from vehicles to curb grass fires in the area.
Billy G Ray of Chappell starts the county s first irrigation well on the South Table south of Chappell with County Extension Agent Bob Woolman and Unit Conservationist Paul Smith guiding the project. The gravity system will irrigate 200 acres with 650 gallons per minute, growing sugar beets sudan grain sorg hum and alfalfa plus off season wheat.
Nebraska Safety Patrol Lt Morgan Lambert urges Western Nebraska drivers not to throw cigarettes or any lighted material from cars as grasslands remain vulnerable to fire. The warning comes amid dry conditions and elevated fire risk across Scottsbluff and surrounding areas.
Formal application to the U S Army Corps requests the formation of an Army Reserve Troop unit in Kimball. If approved the platoon would consist of 28 enlisted men and one officer as C Company 244th Engineer Battalion. Approval rests with Cheyenne Battalion CO and Nebraska Adjutant General with nearest facilities at Scottsbluff and Sidney. Local supporters cite travel time as a key reason to form the unit.
In New York, a wild scene near the airport saw about 250 excursion-bound college girls mob Trini Lopez as he tried to change planes for a Whig Airlines jet to a South American tour. He dodged a frenzied crowd, clothes torn and his guitar stolen amid the chaos, while whispers tied him to Mary Ann Mobley.
AP reports that when Fleet Marine Force Pacific chaplain J E Ryan left for the Far East he named Chaplains John J Glynn to relieve him. One Glynn is a Navy lieutenant at Pearl Harbor and the other an Army major at Tripler Army Hospital. They are not related.
New Virginia Iowa resident Mrs Jean Felton travels from New Virginia to Des Moines for a dental appointment for her daughter Cynthia after picking her up at Truro School. In Chicago Chemetron Corp cites national studies showing 43 percent of plants do not resume production after a major fire and 28 percent close within three years.
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