Nebraska Guard Move Aims At High Combat Readiness
Nebraska officials approve an accelerated training plan for the 67th Infantry Brigade to reach full strength, including 4,677 troops with Western Iowa units, ready for wartime duty anywhere. The Guard will train near year June 5 18 and operate under the governor during reorganization.
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Melvin Paul
Statehouse
Lincoln
Nebraska National Guard
Defense Department
Lyle Welch
Nebraska Adjutant General
Nebraska
Home Life at Spotted Tail Agency Described in Detail
A historical overview details the Spotted Tail Brule Sioux agency near the fort, describing post layout, trading houses, mail routes via Cheyenne, barracks of pine logs with mud chinking, and living quarters for officers, troops, laundresses, and the hospital. The piece notes excellent perennial water, upcoming permanent quarters, and the Minneconian winter influx from the Black Hills. Also covered is the retirement of A T Lobdell after a long Highway Department career starting in 1919 and praised by Nebraska Highway Engineer John Hossack.
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Spotted Tall
Black Hills
Big Horn Mountains
Spotted Tail
Cheyenne
Camp Robinson
Sibley
State Roads Department
A. T. Lobdell
Lobdell
Highway Department
Nebraska
John Hossack
Madison County Courthouse praised by grand jury
The renovated Madison County Courthouse in Richmond received praise from a county grand jury. The panel added a suggestion that officials keep the building free of loafers and tobacco chewers.
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Richmond, Ky
Madison County
Seaman Recruit Dennis Shelley Begins Navy Basic Training
San Diego California Armed Forces notes Seaman Recruit Dennis D. Shelley son of Mrs Leona A Shelley of Sidney will complete seven weeks of Navy basic training at the U S Naval Training Center San Diego. He will study military subjects and learn seamanship, drill and survival skills under experienced petty officers before being assigned to a school shore station or ship based on tests desires and needs of the Navy. GO TO CHURCH SUNDAY.
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San Diego
Calif
Dennis D. Shelley
USN
Leona A. Shelley
Jackson
Sidney
Navy
U. S. Naval Training Center
Wheat Meeting Set Next Week in McCook
The 12th annual Nebraska Wheat Growers Association meeting unfolds over three days in McCook. ASCS deputy administrator Raphael Fitzgerald discusses the farm program at a Wednesday workshop. Thursday features trade talks with regional ASCS director Donald Smith and wheat growers president Anson Horning, plus Gov. Frank Morrison speaking at a banquet. Officers will be elected, a 1966 Nebraska wheat queen crowned, Wayne Allen delivers the president's address, and resolutions are adopted. Attendees include wheat grower officers and members from Nebraska and Wyoming.
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ASCS
Donald Smith
National Association of Wheat Growers
Anson Horning
Frank Morrison
Wayne Allen
McCook
Nebraska
Wyoming
Hungry Dad and Banana Prompt From Child
In Jeffersonville Indiana Carl Ferree took his 3 year old daughter to a grocery store. The owner offered the child a banana. Ferree asked what the child should say and the girl replied Give Daddy one too in a playful exchange reflecting family dynamics.
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Jeffersonville, Ind
Carl Ferree
Ferree
Camp Sheridan Nebraska 1874 Rustic Description
Act ing Assistant Surgeon Charles V. Petteys reports Camp Sheridan at Spotted Tail Agency in 1874. The northwest Nebraska post sits near Beav er Creek, with Cheyenne 213 miles away and Camp Robinson 43 miles southwest. Timber fuel and fertile fields flank pine forests and rolling terrain. wildlife includes deer bears and birds. Climate mostly dry with seasonal storms. crops like corn potatoes onions cabbage and tomatoes grow. summer diseases include diarrhoea and dysentery while winter brings catarrhal conditions.
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Camp Sheridan
Spotted Tail Agency
Charles V. Petteys
United States Army
Nebraska
Cheyenne
Camp Robinson
Ed Cloud Agency
Beaver Creek
White River
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Kenneth L. Bowen
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Bowen
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Justice Department
George Dworak
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Dakota City
Dakota County Board of Equalization
Nebraska Education Department
Omaha
Fremont
Grand Island
Beatrice
Morrison
Europe
E. A A. Rogers
Rogers
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
N. B. Bennett
USBR
Bennett
Lincoln Air Force Base
Don Bradford
Office of the Economic Adjustment
Lincoln Base
University of Nebraska
Cheyenne County
DelRae Beermann
Jean Hynek
Wilber
Nancy Jeppesen
Ruskin
Jeanne Duba
Nancy Pivonka
Old
Sheridan
Ford Ltd
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THERM
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