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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1950
Page
10
The Telegraph reports Sidney’s 23 year weather average 49.1 degrees with January 1937 at 9.6 degrees and January 1930, 33 below zero. September 1940 recorded 110 degrees, while 1930 saw 23.82 inches precipitation and 37.2 inches of yearly snowfall.
Nebraska veterans recalled to active duty while receiving VA payments must inform the Lincoln VA Regional Office immediately. Ashley Westmoreland warns that benefits stop when they return to service, and any payment after enlistment is an overpayment. Include C number, name, address, payment amount, purpose, and recall date.
City uses waste oil to dustproof unpaved streets in Sidney. Virgil Knowles says crankcase oil from filling stations and waste oil from Ohio Oil Co. coat streets on north and south sides, with Crant Street getting two applications. Residents praise dust reduction as street department plans future seal coats and cost cuts on regravelling.
Following John Walker’s 1827 invention, the market saw matches named lucifer parlor and flamer. Each either contained or were intended to strike against phosphorus, a poisonous and deadly compound.
Membership cards for the 1950 1951 Sidney Civic Music Series were mailed Monday morning. If a card was not received, notify secretary Mrs. Jack H Lowe. First concert at Sidney High School Auditorium next Friday November 24 features Ferrante and Teicher, piano duo, praised by The New York Herald Tribune as an excellent piano team and booked for 130 concerts this year.
Graveside services were held at Dalton Cemetery for Barbara Ann Krauter infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Krauter of Dalton. She died shortly after birth on Sunday November 12. Rev. Don Daly led rites. Burial was at the Craig Mortuary. Survived by her parents and one sibling.
The Cheyenne County Chest X-ray Survey begins in Lodgepole next Tuesday morning with the State Health X-ray Unit providing free chest X-rays for Lodgepole residents and nearby areas on November 21 and 22 from 9 to 12 and 1 to 5. More than 450,000 Nebraskans have already used the service with 97 out of 100 found normal. After Lodgepole, the unit will tour Sidney, Sioux Ordnance Depot, Potter, Gurley, and Dalton through December 16, sponsored by the Sidney Woman’s Club and led by county chairs Mrs. J. S. Bright and Mrs. Mary Bess.
During a lightning storm the safest place is inside an all steel closed car. The steel body conducts the current away from occupants, reducing risk. Modern vehicles with metal shells provide shielding by directing the strike along the frame and into the ground.
Plans for the annual 4-H Achievement Banquet to honor outstanding Cheyenne County 4-H members will be finalized at a committee meeting this Saturday. The event, held Thursday night, November 30, is led by chairwoman Mrs Walter Dykman of Lodgepole with committee members Mrs Cliff Webster Dalton Mrs Lee Hawkins Peetz Henry Hinrichs Gurley and Edson Madden Sidney. Assisting agents Cheyenne County Violet Shepherd and Kenneth Van Skike.
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