Funds OKd as new classes open Monday at Sioux Army Depot
Funds have been approved for a one year extension of the Federal manpower retraining program at Sioux Army Depot. Sidney schools superintendent Russell Pedersen announced Congress and the Nebraska Department of Labor have arranged for five project categories adding seven staff and a student body of 200 for auto body and mechanics clerical and building maintenance training. Current retraining students will graduate Friday with most securing employment. The food services course continues under a separate proposal with no interruption. Rep. Dave Martin says details on total funds will come soon.
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Sioux Army Depot
Russell Pedersen
Sidney
Dave Martin
Pedersen
Nebraska Department of Labor
Food Services
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Congress
Rep
Martin
Land Use Plan Seeks Ways to Profit From Sioux Depot Acres
A land use survey for Sioux Army Depot near Cheyenne County drafts an industrial park plan and other options for 16 700 acres and 51 structures as the depot phases out in 1967. Proposed uses include Industrial Park grazing lands cultivated lands civil defense facilities and a research project potential waste disposal. The plan aims to attract private and public participation while transferring title to Sidney.
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Sioux Army
Sidney Industrial Corp
Defense Department
Cheyenne County
Cyril Williams
Sioux
Industrial Corporation
Donald Bradford
Department of Defense
Washington D.C
Bradford
Sidney
Fleming Sees Quick Start for Taxes Session and Trade School
Senator George H. Fleming of Sidney backs a special session to consider a sales or sales income tax to broaden Nebraska revenue. He also supports timely progress on a state vocational technical school at Sioux Army Depot, citing no insurmountable delays and urging immediate action. Meanwhile VFW Post Home at 21st and Illinois is sold to Kansas-Nebraska Natural Gas Co Inc, with remodeling and relocation of the company office planned by Christmas.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
21St
Illinois
Porter McGuver
610
Kansas-Nebraska Natural Gas Co, Inc
Jerry Krutsinger
K-N
The
Telegraph Today
VFW Post
VFW
George H. Fleming
Sidney
Fleming
George Gerdes
Alliance
Nebraska
Sen. Fleming
Lincoln
Legislative Budget Committee
Frank Morrison
Attorney General’s Office
State Department of Education
Sioux Army Depot
Department of Education
Sen
Nebraska AG OKs state trade school plan at Sioux Army Depot
The Nebraska Attorney General ruled the Department of Education can start a state supported trade school at Sioux Army Depot subject to conditions. Approval hinges on a federal state agreement granting permission to acquire buildings land and equipment under a letter of intent with eventual title conveyance. State education officials had not commented by press time.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Nebraska Department of Education
Sioux Army Depot
Education Department
Farmers Union County Meeting To Be Friday
The Cheyenne County Farmers Union annual meeting is set for Friday November 12 at 11 am in the Fort Sidney Motor Hotel. A noon luncheon will be served. Business includes resolutions on county state and national levels and election of officers. A Kansas City Farmers Union Cooperative Marketing Assn. representative will speak, with Elton Berck state president scheduled to attend.
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Cheyenne County Farmers Union
Fort Sidney Motor Hotel
Farmers Union Cooperative Marketing Assn
Kansas City
Algo
Elton Ber=ck
Farmers Union
First of six wells eyed at Gurley wildcat site
A west of Gurley wildcat drilling project by Mac Oil Co Exeter Drilling Co and W C Hughes targets No 1 Sorge in Sec 4 15 50 following two Cheyenne County wells shut this week Production casing planned after discovery of 300 feet oil in Frontier County No 1 Quick test and potential gas shows reported but not confirmed
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Gurley
Sioux Army Depot
Mac Oil Co
Exeter Drilling Co
W. C. Hughes
NWSW
Cheyenne County
Rex Monahan
Gell
Platte Valley Oil Co
Ladegard
Sidney
Ben J. Taylor
Frontier County
Quick
Depot drive hits 90 percent participation at Sioux depot
United Fund drive at Sioux Army Depot reports 83 percent participation by personnel, totaling 1222.90 dollars or 90 percent of the goal. Five keymen achieved full participation: Nora Morto, Gloria Kleinert, Harold Ells, Jim Takahashi, and Gary Boyer, under Lt. Col. Cyril P. Williams.
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Edward H. George IM
Sioux Army Depot
Sidney-Sioux Army Depot
Cyril P. Williams
Nora Morto
Gloria Kleinert
Harold Ells
Jim Takahashi
Gary Boyer
Front Row Seat in Viet Nam War Tale From Sidney Young Man
Sidney's Jim Schilling serves in South Viet Nam, writing home about jungle patrols near Bien Hoa and Phuoc Vinh. He describes ambushes on a 20 truck convoy, munitions found, and daily life on the line amid heavy fighting with Viet Cong. He notes lost laundry, tough conditions, and sharing war stories with a Peetz friend.
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Sidney Young
South Viet Nam
Jim Schilling
Viet Nam
Bien Hoa
Jake Schilling
Emanuel Troutman
Stars & Stripes
U. S
Jim
Ben Cat
Phuoc Vinh
Peetz
Sidney
South
Morris Testifies At Pope Trial
Deputy Sheriff Gene Morris testified about 22 minutes in the Duane Pope murder trial at Lincoln. He helped at the Big Springs scene last June, where bullets were dug from The Farmers State Bank floor. Earlier he was called to Lincoln the prior week as part of a growing witness list in the McPherson College graduate case.
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Gene Morris
Duane Pope
Lincoln
Morris
Big Springs
Farmers State Bank
McPherson
Fringe Zoning Ordinance And Map Published
A map and a proposed ordinance setting up fringe area zoning regulations for Sidney are published to meet legal requirements. The ordinance would affect about one mile in all directions from the city limits, giving the city power to control development within the area under Nebraska law. The council has pressed the move after months of discussion and planning commission approval.
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Sidney
Sidney Telegraph
Nebraska
City Planning Commission
Gurley Farmer George Frerichs Frerits Dies at 43
George William Frerits, 43, died suddenly at his home six miles east of Gurley Tuesday evening. He leaves wife Lola and daughter Georgia, 11. Services pending at Craig Mortuary in Sidney.
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George William Frerits
Gurley
Lola
Georgia
Mr. Frerichs
Craig Mortuary
Sidney
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K-N Gas Co
Farmers Union County
Sioux Depot
United
United Fund
Pope
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