Nebraska Oil Drilling Pattern Expands Across State
Nebraska oil activity now spans the state from Chadron Arch to Nemaha uplift with many counties seeing multiple wells. Major players include Belco Petroleum, Phillips Petroleum, Pan-American, British American, and H L Hunt moving rigs into Linoln, Morrill, Dawes, and Lancaster counties while new discoveries emerge in Kimball and Box Butte. The state plans a Dec 5 lease sale offering 13 330 acres in 10 counties, with bids starting at 50 cents per acre.
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Nebraska
Denver-Julesburg
Panhandle
Chadron Arch
Central
Nebraska Basin
Nemaha Ridge
Belco Petroleum Corp
Cherry
Hooker
British - American Oil Producing Co
McPherson County
Quentin Little
Ardmore
Okla
Box Butter
E. F. Blair
A. N. Bieber
C. R. Barr
Texas
Garfield County
Loup County
Peterson
Hawthorne
Arrowhead Exploration Co
Custer County
Willis
Holt County
Nemaha
J. D. White
W.O. Fry
Wichita
Gage County
Lancaster
Darrell Blanton and
Exeter Drilling Co
Linn-Nager
Kimball County
Kimball Fawnsite
J” Sand
Miami Oil Producing Corp
Capitol
State Board of Educational Lands and Funds
Buffalo
Chase
Frontier
Grant
Harlan
Hitchcock
Lincoln
Morrill
Sheridan
Frontier County
Man with 104 offenses in long criminal record
A Sidney police report details Fred Pulver, 68, of North Platte, arrested three times in two weeks on intoxication counts and ordered out of town. Pulver’s record spans from 1915 with time in South Dakota State Penitentiary and at least six other jails and three penitentiaries for offenses including vagrancy theft and grand larceny.
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Sidney
Fred Pulver
North Platte
Pulver
South Dakota State Penitentiary
State Inmate Admits Theft At B S and B
William Bohacek, inmate of the Nebraska State Penitentiary, pleaded guilty in Cheyenne County Court to two counts breaking and entering and car theft. Judge C W Smith ordered custody with Sheriff W W Schulz pending a district court hearing. Bohacek and companion George Smith, also imprisoned in Lincoln, were charged with breaking into Black Siva s and Bryson east of Sidney around Aug 24 and stealing a car outside the building. They were arrested next day in North Platte and convicted there for breaking and entering. Bohacek was brought back to this county Wednesday. Smith likely to be brought here later.
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William Bohacek
Nebraska State Penitentiary
Cheyenne
C W Smith
W. W Schulz
Bohacek
Black, Siva’s
Bryson
Sidney
George Smith
Lincoln
North Platte
Lincoln County
Gene Morris
Smith
Interstate Highways Timetable Outlined for Nebraska
A meeting in Ogallala outlined Nebraska interstate plans from the 1960s into the 1970s. Grand Island to Kearney would open 1962 or 1963, Kearney to North Platte 1963-65, Milford to Grand Island 1965, with North Platte to Ogallala and Big Springs in the late 1960s into the 1970s.
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Nebraska
Ogallala
Grand Island
Kearney
North Platte
Milford
Big Springs
Panhandle
City Moves Begin As Department Relocation Starts
Bright and early, city trucks moved equipment from the main offices to the new city headquarters. Police and fire departments were joined by telephone workers as crews cleaned, set up desks, and connected phones. Chief Sol Willis and Police Judge Roy Gish pitched in, signaling a swift, communal effort to ready the new facility for Monday doors.
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Band Shell
Sol Willis
Roy Gish
Missing Horse Found Dead In Gully On Zike Property
The highly trained half-Arabian bay horse named Who Calls, owned by Art Zike, was found dead Thursday afternoon at the bottom of a gully on the Zike property. The 20-year-old horse had been missing since Sept 25 and the cause of death awaits the body’s retrieval from under leaves and snow after youths out hunting reported the sighting. Deputy Sheriff Kermit Brumbaugh said the animal was a favorite and a fine trained animal.
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Art Zike
Zike
Kermit Brumbaugh
Post Office Seeks Christmas Workers in Sidney
The Sidney Post Office will accept applications for Christmas temporary workers until December 1. Postmaster Leo M. Gorman says pay is $1.96 per hour and veterans receive preference.
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Sidney Post Office
Leo M. Gorman
ASC Deadline Near For 62 Wheat Signup Rush Expected
Don Rapp ASC office manager reports better than 700 agreements signed by noon Tuesday with about 250 pending as Cheyenne County farmers face the December 1 deadline for the 1962 wheat stabilization program. In a rush the office will accept signatures on intentions to participate and compute payments later. Eligibility hinges on compliance with acreage allotments and diversion under the program.
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Agricultural Stabilization Service
Don Rapp
ASC
Cheyenne County
Wells Sentenced To Six Years In State Penitentiary
Wells to Lincoln under escort after District Judge John Kuns sentenced Luther Wells on a forgery conviction to six years in the State Penitentiary. Deputy Sheriff Gene Morris accompanied the transfer Wednesday.
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Luther Wells
John Kuns
State Penitentiary
Lincoln
Gene Morris
Five Indians Accused of Stealing Watches at Ben Franklin
Cheyenne County Attorney plans petty larceny charges against Mary White Josephine New Julius Titus Norman LaMotte and Phillip Janis for allegedly stealing 13 items including watches from Ben Franklin Store. Arrests followed near the U P tracks and a Toledo street house. Authorities review prior offenses while three men stay jail-bound and two women held in city custody.
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Cheyenne County
Frank Balderson
Mary White
Josephine New
Julius Titus
Norman LaMotte
Phillip Janis
Ben Franklin
Bob Decker
Decker
U.P
Toledo Street
Alliance
Sidney
Griffiths 81 Dies. Rites Set Monday in Sidney
Charles Albert Griffiths, 81, died this morning at Memorial Hospital after a long illness. Born Jan 12, 1880 in Erie Colorado, he worked 46 years as a Union Pacific engineer between Cheyenne and Sidney and on streamliners until retirement in 1953. Funeral Monday at 2 pm from Craig Mortuary with Rev. Carl Nelson officiating. burial Greenwood Cemetery. He moved to Sidney in 1911, married Ruth Fast Feb 15, 1923. member of Elks Lodge Cheyenne 60 years, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Frank Welch Masonic Lodge 75 for 36 years, and Consistory No 1 Cheyenne. Survived by wife Ruth, one sister Mrs Mary Denton of Sacramento, Calif, and several nieces and nephews.
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Charles Albert Griffiths
Memorial Hospital
Craig Mortuary
Carl L. Nelson
Greenwood Cemetery
Mr. Griffiths
Erie
Colo
Thomas
Mary Griffiths
Presbyterian Church
Union Pacific Railroad
Cheyenne
Sidney
Ruth Fast
Mr Griffiths
Elks Lodge
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Frank Welch
Lenzen Named National VFW Aide-de-Camp
Kansas City Missouri Robert E Hansen commander in chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars announced the appointment of Thomas Lenzen Route No 2 Box 33 Sidney as National Aide-de-Camp Lenzen will serve as a personal representative of the commander and is praised for his past record and anticipated service with dignity and honor
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Kansas City
Robert E. Hansen
South St. Paul
Minn
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States
Thomas Lenzen
Sidney
VFW
Hansen
Lenzen
Hub Caps Stolen From 1955 Chevy in Sidney
Police investigated the theft of four hub caps from a 1955 Chevrolet owned by John Lindsey. Reported Wednesday night, the car was parked at 509 Linden Street and the loss was discovered after 7 pm. The incident occurred near the Lindsey residence.
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John Lindsey
Sidney
Lindsey
Linden
Masons Plan Special Dinner and Program
Past Masters of Frank Wellch Masonic Lodge 75 and members with 25 years or more will attend a Tuesday dinner and program at the Masonic Temple at 6 30 PM. Ernest Van Wey deputy grand master will be the featured speaker. Reservations due by Monday noon via Neal Atkins or Harold Bond at listed phone numbers.
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Frank Wellch Masonic Lodge
Masonic Temple
Ernest van Wey
Neal Atkins
Harold Bond
Anti-Communist Talk To Be Aired On KSID
Wileon Skousen, a leading anti Communist figure, will broadcast his talk The Naked Truth About Communism on KSID Sunday at 1 pm. The speech debuted in April 1960 before a Farm Bureau meeting in Nebraska City and has aired on multiple stations. Skousen authored The Naked Communist, awarded Most Patriotic in 1959 by the All American Conference. He is field director for the American Security Council, based in Chicago, and delivers about 350 speeches annually.
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Wileon Skousen
KSID
Farm Bureau
Nebraska City
Skousen
All American Conference
Washington
American Security Council
Skousen J
Chicago
Council Meeting Opens In New City Hall
Monday's city council meeting marks the first in the new council chambers. Attendees are asked to use the west door. The agenda lists a quiet session with the usual call to order, petitions, visitors, requests, building applications, occupational licenses, and a resolution on paid bonds and coupons and destruction of the same.
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New City Hall
Frontier Air Lines 15th Birthday Observed With Party
Frontier Air Lines marks its 15th birthday with a morning party at Sidney terminal 9:30 Monday. Dale E. Kindred says a birthday cake will honor the anniversary, with Mayor K L Moore and numerous local couples invited to attend. The Denver headquartered carrier serves Nebraska and much of the Rocky Mountain west and seeks a Denver to El Paso route.
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Frontier Air Lines
Nebraska
Rocky Mountain West
United States
Sidney
Frontier Terminal
Dale E. Kindred
K. L. Moore
Dean Wilson
Wayne Moran
Ed Bau‘man
Lloyd Carr
Joe Haugan
Leo Gorman
Stewart Lockwood
Richard Hatterman
Kindred
Frontier
Denver
el Paso
L. B. Maytag
Sheridan County Well Is Dry but Oil Shows Found
Geologist James Gow reported a dry hole at the Adolph Cerny land northwest of Clinton after drilling 3,700 feet into granite and testing at 3,200 feet where 32 feet of limestone bore oil in pockets but lacked connecting passages to enable production. He noted oil pockets could exist elsewhere and planned another test after year’s start.
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James Gow
Adolph Cerny
Clinton
Gow
Sheridan County Star
Rushville
Gen
Nebraska Nebrakat test market plans and films
Negotiations are underway for a commercial test market of Nebraskat austere survival ration developed from wheat as a companion to a survival product. The plan includes testing pelleting machinery and possible production by another large cereal manufacturer. Industrial conferences show corn starch films from Midwest Research Institute reach nearer to commercial reality with greater strength. Amylose starch products from Nebraska are being tested by Midwest, with potential use as a coating for cereals that crumble easily.
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Nebraska
Nébraska
Midwest Research Institute
Midwest
Tax Seminars Slated For State's Farmers
The University of Nebraska will run four Income Tax and Social Security Short Courses statewide in December. Sessions in North Platte, Hastings, Norfolk, and Lincoln cover income tax basics for tax preparers and individuals filing farm or business returns, plus social security coverage and benefits information for all learners.
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Lincoln
University of Nebraska
Nebraska
North Platte
Hastings
Norfolk
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Melton
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Banner County
Petro-Lewis Inc
Gay Oil Co
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Pan-American
Rinehart
Red Willow
Kimball
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Wells
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C. A. Griffiths
Ruth
Mary Denton
Sacramento
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Tom Lenzen
Masons
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