Glassford Quits Nebraska Coaching Amid Family Focus
Lincoln Nebraska coach J William Bil Glassford announces he will not exercise the five year contract option after seven years in charge. The resignation follows amid campus and fan harassment as Nebraska prepares to face Oklahoma in the Big Seven title game with Glassford’s swan song looming.
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Lincoln
University of Nebraska
J. William
Bil) Glassford
Cornhusker
Bill
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Glassford
Clifford Hardin
Hardin
Bill Orwig
Orwig
Consid
Man found guilty of manslaughter in SOD employee death
Elmer J. Picotte died Aug 9 when a panel truck driven by Ball crashed seven miles northeast of Sterling on Highway 138. A district jury convicted Ball of manslaughter. sentencing awaits possible Colorado Supreme Court appeal. Patrol evidence disputed Ball’s intoxication claim.
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Sterling
Prnsterm
Sioux Ordnance Depot
Elmer J. Picotte
Ball
Highway 138
Picotte
South Dakota
Frances Shallenberger
Colorado Supreme Court
Colorado
Ed Post
Post
MOD Begins '56 Operations for March of Dimes
A Cheyenne County dinner discussed Polio not yet licked as the 1956 March of Dimes drive opens. Robert E. Day outlined plans while Mrs. Charles Ham announced city directors and Teen Against Polio efforts with local students forming a teen committee across Lorenzo Sunol Dalton Gurley and Sidney.
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National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis
Devel
Kimball
Cheyenne
Robert E. Day
West
Nebraska
Foundation
Grand Island, Neb
Charles Ham
Cheyenne County
Harold Lessig
Gurley
Dewey Lovell
Potter
Myrtle Hoffman
Lodgepole
Gordon Simmer
Sidney
Beta Sigma Phi
Dalton
Lorenzo
Stinol
Della Caldwell
Sunol
Ralph Fleming
Linda Nelson
Delmar Maas
Gloria Sheridan
Charles Meyer
Michael
Margaret Heaton
St. Pat's
Jack King
Sidney High School
Public Invited To VOD Contest In Sidney
The Voice of Democracy public speaking contest is set for Monday afternoon at 2 in the Sidney High School Auditorium. Six speakers will compete three from St Patrick's Academy and three from the high school with Bennie Hochmann as chair. The winner will receive a table model radio on display at Fox Theatre. Judges are Don Jorgenson Rae Jones Jack Ramm and Dr Lloyd O Halloran. The topic is I Speak For Democracy. The Jaycees annual project notes last year's winner Jack Frost who placed highly in state finals.
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Voice of Democracy
Sidney High School
St. Patrick’s Academy
Bennie Hochmann
Junior Chambers of Commerce Committee
Fox Theatre
Don Jorgenson
Rae Jones
Jack Ramm
Lloyd O’halloran
The
Jaycees
Jack Frost
SOD Employees Donate 301 to Boy Scouts
The Windy Plains Boy Scout District received a $301 donation from the Sioux 4 Ordnance Depot Employee Contribution Fund per district finance officer Harold Katz. Dick Knudsen turned the funds over to the Wyo Braska Area Council, with the check presented by Col. E. W. Pennington for Col. A. L. Wood, commanding officer.
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SOD
Boy Scouts
Windy Plains
Ordnance Depot
Harold Katz
Wyo
Col. E. W. Pennington
Col
A.L. Wood
Second Youth Sent To Kearney In Rape Case
A Cheyenne County Juvenile Court judge ordered Tony Murillo, 17, sent to the Nebraska Boys Training School at Kearney for statutory rape and felonious assault with intent to commit rape in the alleged rape of a 14 year old girl near Sidney. A second youth earlier was sent to Kearney and a third awaits district court trial.
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Nebraska Boys Training School
Kearney
Sidney
Cheyenne
Co. W. Smith
Tony Murillo
Murillo
Water Spreading Project Completed In Lenzen Draw
The Soil Conservation District finished a water spreading project on Narjes Brothers leased school land one mile east of Sidney Airport. Two diversion dams and irrigation ditches will flood about 70 acres of Lenzen Draw pasture, spreading water four hours to two days. Similar systems already aid Lulu Evans Gundhart Olsen and Harry Anderson farms.
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Narjes Brothers
Sidney
Lenzen
Phil McMullen
SCS
Lulu Evans
Gundhart
Olsen
Harry Anderson
McMullen
First Jury Will Get $30 000 Civil Case
The Chey gate County District Court opens a civil case Monday as the first on the docket. Minnie Dryer of Dalton sues Eugene Malm and Joe Vetchek for 30 000 claiming injuries from a Feb 4 1954 auto crash east of Dalton caused by dodging a flock of sheep. County Attorney Pat Heaton Jr notes no criminal jury cases are immediate.
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Cheygate County District Court
Minnie Dryer
Dalton
Eugene Malm
Joe Vetchek
Pat Heaton, Jr
Burial set for Mrs Neumann at Lodgepole
Mrs Hank R Neumann 83 died November 17 in Ogallala rest home after long illness. Services 2 PM Saturday at Craig Mortuary with Rev Henry Monnich. burial Greenwood Cemetery. Pallbearers George Billy Leonard Marion Glen Dickinson. Survived by husband Don and Charley Dickinson brothers, a half sister Ben Vacik, nieces and nephews.
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Hank R. Neumann
Lodgepole
Ogallala
Craig Mortuary
Henry Monnich
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
Greenwood Cemetery
George
Billy
Leonard
Marion
Glen
Friend Dickinson
Pluma E. Dickinson
Grinnell
Cheyenne County
Hank Neumann
Dickinson
Neumanns
Charley Dickinson
Ben Vacik
Sunol
Funeral set for Rex Wilcox hunter found in river
Funeral services for Rex Wilcox a 48 year old Sioux Ordnance Depot employee will be held at 2 pm tomorrow in Bridgeport. Officials say he died on a hunting trip from a heart attack possibly brought on by exhaustion. He was born in Alliance and lived in western Nebraska most of his life. Survivors include his wife Cecelia and four children. Canaday Funeral Home Bridgeport in charge.
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Rex Wilcox
Sioux Ordnance Depot
North Platte River
Bridgeport
Wilcox
Mr. Wilcox
Alliance
California
Cheyenne
Nebraska
Sidney
Ogallala
Cecelia Brachtenbach
Gerald
Bell
Calif
John
Rex
Dianne
Elsie Wilcox
Max
San Francisco
Canaday Funeral Home
Well Known Gurley Lady Dies at 81
Anna Weyerts, 81, longtime Gurley resident, died at her home after a summer illness. Funeral services will be held in Gurley with burial in Weyerts Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery. She was born January 6, 1874 in Golden, Illinois, married Chris E. Weyerts in 1892, and is survived by five children, 18 grandchildren, and 18 great grandchildren.
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Anna Weyerts
Cheyenne County
Gurley
Gehrig & Son Funeral Home
Weyerts Immanuel Lutheran Church
Anna Maria Hinrichs
Golden H Ill
Henry Hinrichs
Chris E. Weyerts
Evangelical Lutheran Church of
Jhon M. Pieyerts
Elma
Wash
Chambers No 1 well in Rudolph Field near Sidney shows potential
Oil company officials report that production casing has been run on the Chambers No 1 well in the Rudolph Field west of Sidney with a DST showing oil and sand at the D sand. The discovery is compared with Novotny's initial find, with new drilling and other nearby wells advancing in the Dorman Pool and McLennon exposures while several wildcat and dry holes are reported across the region.
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Shannon “Oil,Co
New. Rudolph
Sidney
The
Telegraph
C. G. Novotny
Ginther-Warréh-Ginther
Dorman No
Dorman Pool
Lewis Drilling Co
McLennon Pool
Ohio
Oil Co
Olson
Texota Oil: Co
Sidpail
Sperrow
Ted Ito
Sidind
Mente
Murti & ‘Buttons Pettersohi
Morrill County
Klénke
Box Butte
New Drilling Co, ‘I
Ois Discovery
Dix
Todd’ Gross, Jr
Pine Bluffs
Bushnell
Kimball
Lowell - Williamson
Li Pastrhan
Black Drilling’ Co
Telethon Covers Sidney Area To Aid Muscle Research
Sidney viewers join a Muscular Dystrophy telethon airing on KLZ Denver channel seven and piped to Sidney channel two. Pledges go to Sidney Community TV office 4300, names relayed to Denver and announced hourly. Stars include Daly Gabor Gonzales O Connell Lewis Midnight. Telethon starts 10 p.m. tomorrow and 4 30 a.m. Sunday.
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Sidney
KLZ
Denver
Channel Seven
Channel 2
Colorado General Hospital
Rocky Mountain
John Daly
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Gonzales Gonzales
Helen O’connell
Monica Lewis
Captain Midnight
Television Gift Secured For Polio Victim Kenneth Mitchell
Contributions totaling over 300 dollars ensure a Christmas television for Kenneth Mitchell who has been bedridden since polio. The Chamber of Commerce drive, led by M. R. Sigler, is officially closed with donations ranging from a dollar to 100 dollars from a local donor. The set will be purchased from Gamble's with free service from Madsen's Radio & Electric.
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Kenneth Mitchell
M. R. Sigler
Chamber of Commerce
Mitchell
Matilda Joris
Santa Cruz
Calif
Sigler
Gamble’s
Madsen
Radio & Electric
Senator Hruska to Speak at Cheyenne County Dinner
Senator Roman Hruska will headline a Cheyenne County Republican Central Committee dinner at the Elks Club tonight. The event, open to the public, charges $5 per plate and marks his first Cheyenne County visit.
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Roman Hruska
Elks Club
Cheyenne County Republican Central Committee
Senator Hruska
Cheyenne County
Sid ney Depot praised by Senator and Col Robinson
Senator Hruska commended Col Wayne and the depot personnel for cooperation with the Sidney community at noon. Col A A Robinson reaffirmed SOD as a permanent U.S. Army establishment, noting the large investment and that small employment reductions can be absorbed.
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Hruska
Wayne
Wood
Sidney
A. A. Robinson
U.S. Army Ordnance
Washington
D.C
Robinson
U.S. Army
Nebraska Senator Stays On Campaign Trail In State
The senator logged a day in Kimball yesterday and visited Scottsbluff the day before as part of ongoing statewide campaigning since his election to office.
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Kimball
Scottsbluff
Schlumberger May Buy Johnson Testers
Negotiations are under way for the sale of Johnson Testers Inc to Schlumberger Well Surveying Corp. The price is pegged at eight million dollars and the deal will be approved or rejected at a Johnson stockholders meeting. Johnson Testers specializes in drill stem tests while Schlumberger handles electric well logging. Both have offices in Sidney. If acquired, the unit would likely operate as a subsidiary.
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Johnson Testers, Inc
Schlumberger Well Surveying Corp
Johnson Firm
Johnson Testers
Schlumberger
Sid
Navy Recruiting Office Opens in Sidney Post Office
Opening of a permanent Navy recruiting office in Sidney was announced today by Petty Officer First Class George Edmondson. He will cover Cheyenne County and parts of Colorado and Nebraska. Edmondson is a veteran of Pearl Harbor, Tarawa, and the Korean War, with 14 years of service.
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Navy
Sidney
George Edmondson
Edmondson
Cheyenne County
Peetz
Colorado
Devel County
Edmonsons
Elm St
Pearl Harbor
Princeton
Death of George B. Allington After Suffocation
George B. Allington 50 longtime Sunol and Sidney resident died Tuesday night in his room at Glenwood Springs Colorado from suffocation caused by insufficient ventilation after turning up the heat. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at the Craig Mortuary with Rev. C. Fred Parks officiating. Greenwood Cemetery burial with military honors. He served four years in the army with heavy artillery on the front in France and Germany. He is survived by his parents and two brothers, Tom of Sunol and Bill of Lincoln. a sister Opal died earlier.
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Craig Mortuary
George B. Allington
Sunol
Sidney
Glenwood Springs
Colo
Allington
C. Fred Parks
Christ Episcopal Church
Greenwood Cemetery
Palibesters
Clarence
Hansen
Hia
Booth
Clinto ‘Gade
Russe
Es ‘Daniel
Emil “Zale
Neth
DeMers
Deer Lick
Bert Allington
Lodgepolé
Sunol High
France
Germany
Tom
Bill
Lincoln
Opal
Mrs Iva Ogden Dies After Illness in Sioux City Area
Mrs Iva M. Ogden 47 died late Thursday at Cheyenne County Memorial Hospital after an extended illness. Formerly of Ainsworth she lived at 1832 4th Street Sioux Villa with a niece and nephew. She leaves a son and daughter in Ainsworth. Funeral and burial plans are incomplete under The Craig Mortuary direction.
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Iva M. Ogden
Cheyenne County Memorial Hospital
Ainsworth
Craig Mortuary
Theft Reported Of A Boxer Dog In Potter Parish
Roy Galbraith of Potter reported to the Cheyenne County sheriff's office this morning that a Boxer dog was stolen. The brief notice notes the incident as a theft with no further details on the dog or suspect information.
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Cheyenne County
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