Cheyenne County Sees Burgeoning Oil Drilling During Week
Cheyenne County explores heavy oil activity as Texota Oil confirms No. 1 Maud Laing at Dalton and city project plans, while Tom Wessels fields three wells including No. 2 Schoen and No. 1 Jurgens in Rush Creek. Regal Drilling contracted for No. 1 Adams as well as workover at No. 1 Jurgens. Equity Oil and Gage Oil and Gas prepare No. 1 Goodwin near Hinshaw Field with Muffin Drilling Co. engaged.
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Cheyennne County
Nebraska 03
Texota Oil Co
Dalton
Maud Laing
Town
Banner Oil Co
NWNE
Texota
Laing
Cheyenne County
Tom Wessels
Denver
Schoen
Rush Creek
Gurley
CNW
Regal Drilling Co
Wessels
Jurgens
Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
Adams
Kimball County
Oil~gas Commission
Equity Oil Co
Gage Oil and Gas Co
Goodwin
Hinshaw
Muffin Drilling Co
No Accidents From Snowfall In Sidney
Snowy Sidney streets were slick but not dangerous and drivers stayed cautious. A two car collision occurred at 9 09 a m Thursday at 9th and Illinois involving a 1961 Chevrolet driven by Gertrude M Jensen and a 1954 Chevrolet driven by Garry W Robinson with damages estimated at $50.
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Sidney
9Th
Illinois
Gertrude M. Jensen
Monte Vista
Garry W. Robinson
Sioux Army Depot
Robinson
Driver suffers heart attack. car crashes near Ordville
Astoria resident Thomas Earwood, 61, had a heart attack while driving a 1955 Cadillac just outside Ordville. The car hit a fence and a telephone pole. Earwood is listed in satisfactory condition at Memorial Hospital. His wife was uninjured. The Barwoods had been visiting Ordville. In a second crash that day, 3-year-old Donald Hill was injured when his father’s 1956 DeSoto failed to turn at a dead end county road four miles north and three east of Sidney. The child sustained facial and leg lacerations and possible concussion. the father was uninjured. The DeSoto was a total loss.
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Astoria
Ore
Ordville
Memorial Hospital
Thomas Walter Earwood
Gene Morris
Earwood
Barwoods
Donald K. Hill
Donald D. Hill
Julesburg
Morris
Hill
Sidney
Assessors From Two States Form Joined Tax Group
County assessors from Nebraska and Colorado formed a two state organization to study avoiding double taxation and to locate residents who did not file tax returns. Sterling hosted a meeting where Harold Chirnside of Logan County was named president and Ida Bradt of Kimball County was chosen secretary.
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Nebraska
Colorado
Cheyenne
Lloyd Miniken
Sterling
Harold Chirnside
Logan
Ida Bradt
Kimball County
Kimball
Devel
Keith
Perkins
Chase
Dundy
Weld
Sedgwick
Philips
Yuma
Calves on the loose near Sidney cause tally of damage
About 200 Herefords broke from Albin Olson farm near Sidney after a thunderstorm. Three calves were killed by trains and one by a truck, others roamed widely as volunteers hunted them down. Elberne Luehrs and neighbors helped, and a Nebraska trucker reported striking a calf.
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Sidney
Albin Olson
Town
Luehrs
Country Club Heights
Elmer Ward
Omaha
Stramit Corp Annual Meet Starts Monday
Stramit Corporation plans its annual sales meeting for Monday and Tuesday at the Fort Sidney Motor Hotel. The event unites Canadian and United States divisions, led by Ken Rimington and Dean Hiner, to address Midwest Stramit challenges and successes with Stramit panels.
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Stramit Corporation, Ltd
Fort Sidney Motor Hotel
United States
Dean Hiner
Midwest Stramit
Dalton
Sidney
Ken Rimington
Stramit
Dalton plant tour and meetings outline sales methods
The Monday schedule includes a tour of the Dalton plant followed by hotel meetings and a banquet. Tuesday will be a full day of meetings. Hiner says the combined meetings will help the Dalton plant representatives gain firsthand information on Canadian methods used to sell Stramit.
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Dalton
Hiner
Dalton Plant
Canada
Weather outlook fair with cool tonight and mild tomorrow
Fair to partly cloudy weather tonight and tomorrow. Lows near 20 degrees tonight. Highs around 45 to 50 degrees tomorrow.
Bosses Night honors Butch Williamson as Boss of the Year
John Elwell Jr receives Distinguished Service. Paul H. Husmann earns Bronze Key. Ned Swaeby wins Silver Key. The Bosses Night awards salute Sidney business leaders for community service and Jaycee activities with Merchants Transfer Co. named Outstanding Business of the Year and Soap Box Derby headed by Ned Swaeby.
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Jaycee
John Elwell Jr
Hubert D
Butch’ Williamson
Ned Swaeby
Jack Robarchek
Paul H. Husmann
Photo Center
Sidney
Merchants Transfer Co
Ed Haupt
St Pat Sunday Concert Moved From School To Youth Center
The St Patrick's Benefit Concert shifts from Sidney Junior High Auditorium to the Youth Center after a furnace explosion at the school. Performances proceed at 2 30 and 7 30 p.m with 140 youths led by Sister Rose Marie Mrs Helen Peetz Spencer and Frank Baca on ten pianos and two organs, all instruments used in each number.
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St. Patrick’s
Sidney Junior High
Sister Rose Marie
Rose Marie
Helen Peetz Spencer
Frank Baca
Mrs Emerson Dies at 50 in Memorial Hospital
Mrs Calvin Emerson 50 died Thursday night after five years of poor health. Funeral Monday at 10 in Sioux Army Depot Chapel with Rev W W Norton officiating and burial in Alliance Nebraska Cemetery. Memorials to Cancer Fund. Survivors: Calvin Emerson, son Howard in Sidney, daughters Joan Lenstron in Denver and Delores Hegarty in Kimball, five grandchildren, sisters Elsie Munger and Ruby Hanson, brother John Shaeffer.
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Calvin Emerson
Memorial Hospital
Sioux Army Depot
Rev
W. W. Norton
Alliance, Neb
Craig Mortuary
Cancer Fund
Lois Lela Shaeffer
Centerville
Iowa
Ira
Ina Gedney Shaeffer
Wood Lake
Neb
Alliance
Calvin LeRoy Emerson
Sidney
Ordville
Emerson
Sioux Army Depot Community Church
Calvin
Howard
Joan Lenstron
Denver
Delores Hegarty
Kimball
Elsie Munger
Ellsworth
Ruby Hanson
New Lebanon
N.Y
John Shaeffer
Colorado Springs
Colo
Angels Dominate Rival Tests Split with Baltimore and Minnesota
The Los Angeles Angels posted their strongest results last season against Baltimore and Minnesota, finishing 9 wins and 9 losses against each foe in an even 18 games apiece.
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Los Angeles Angels
Baltimore
Minnesota
Kennedy Shot Dead in Dallas as Johnson Prepares to Take Oath
President John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas by an unknown assailant and died at Parkland Hospital. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency as officials hunted the suspected shooter. Governor Connally was wounded. eyewitness accounts described a masked shooter and possible sniper from a building.
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Dallas
Tex
Associated Press
John F. Kennedy
United States
Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson
Parkland Hospital
John Connally
Texas
Connally
Lyndon Johnson
Ralph Yarborough D-Tex
Yarborough
Secret
William McKinley
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Warm Springs
McKinley
Abraham Lincoln
James Garfield
Ray Cruise Named Head of WNOA
Ray Cruise of Sidney was elected president of Western Nebraska Organized Agriculture at a Bridgeport board meeting. He is active in extension and community affairs. John Joachim of Oshkosh was chosen vice president and Mrs. Percy Woolery of Oshkosh secretary treasurer. Delegates from seven counties attended.
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Ray Cruise
Sidney
Western Nebraska Organized Agriculture
Bridgeport
Cruise
WNOA
John Joachim
Oshkosh
Percy Woolery
Thunder Storm Delights Area With Rare Electrical Display
The second snow of the season arrived Thursday evening as a genuine thunder and lightning storm crackled overhead. Residents in the area witnessed an energizing and rare electrical display.
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County Oil Exploring Tops
Stramit Corp
United States of America
Kennedys
Williamson
Jaycee Awards
John Elwell
St. Pat
Youth Center
Mrs. Emerson
Lanner
Garden
Morrill
Sheridan
Sioux
John Martin
Gordon
Harrison
Earl Gell
Ivan Liljegren
Gene Lienemann
Wheatbelt Public Power District
Elza
Jim” Martin
Telegraph
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