Yankees Win First Game Of Series 1957 World Series
The New York Yankees defeated Milwaukee 3 to 0 in the opening game of the 1957 World Series. Whitey Ford allowed five hits with five strikeouts for his fifth World Series win. Andy Carey delivered a perfect squeeze bunt in the sixth to drive in Yogi Berra. Milwaukee’s starter Warren Spahn pitched five and one third, with reliever Ernie Johnson and Gen McMahon finishing. The paid attendance was 69,459 as the Yankees took a 1-0 series lead.
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Yankee Stadium
Lew Burdette
Casey Stengel
Bobby Shantz
Bullet Bob Turley
Channel 4
KSID
New York
Harvest Of Sugar Beets To Begin In Lodgepole Valley
W C McGuffey of Great Western Sugar Co Ovid district says sugar beets in Lodgepole Valley will start next Tuesday. Anticipate another good crop with slightly higher tonnage and possible lower sugar content. It will take about three weeks to harvest all irrigated beets in Cheyenne County and about 100 days for the Ovid region. Dry beans harvest is finished for the year. corn safflower and sorghum are mostly past frost risk.
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Great Western Sugar Co
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Sunol
Sidney
McGuffey
Cheyenne County
Nebraska records state oil and gas sales exceed 5 million
Nebraska for the first time reports state produced oil and gas sales surpassing five million dollars in August with gross receipts of 5,242,500 and severance tax totals of 101,805. Western oil production drives the rise as daily crude runs exceed 56,000 barrels late September, with August output at 1,739,384 barrels yielding 102, snl in revenue.
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County Employees Petition For Wages Is Tabled
Cheyenne County commissioners tabled a wage increase petition from women deputies and clerks at the courthouse suggesting no action soon. The vote paused with one commissioner absent, while other business saw Wheeler Lumber Bridge & Supply Co. win a bid of 1598.00 for snow fence and posts to be delivered within two weeks.
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Wheeler Lumber Bridge & Supply Co
Hastings
Wheeler
Thomas Lumber Co
Hughes- Josten Lumber Co
Co-Op Council Sets Meeting In Sidney At Yendis Cafe
The Nebraska Cooperative Council schedules its annual district conference at the Yendis Cafe in Sidney on October 8. Dean Scheele president of Kimball County Grain Co will chair the meeting with the theme The Challenge For Cooperatives.
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Challenge For Cooperatives
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Kimball County Grain Co
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Electric Truck Arrival in Sidney Delayed Again
Sidney's electric distribution department faces delays as the new truck body and frame, bought last April for 10107 dollars, reach Omaha four months after planned spring delivery. A final check in Omaha found mechanical issues. after towing to Big Springs, repairs were underway today. The old line truck will be sold once the new unit is fully operational.
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Big Springs
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Sidney Woman Ida Harris Dies After 67 Years In Sidney
Ida A McCombs Harris 79 longtime Sidney resident died Monday night in a Scottsbluff hospital where she had stayed ten days She was born May 18 1878 in Shelby County Indiana and came to Sidney in 1890 Funeral services set for Saturday at 10 am at Gehri g and Son Funeral Home with Rev R L Townsend officiating Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery beside her husband Oscar M Harris Survivors include two daughters Irene Perry and Mary Van Valkenburg along with three grandchildren four great grandchildren one sister and one brother
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Gehrig and Son Funeral
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Greenwood Cemetery
Oscar M. Harris
Shelby County
Ida A. McCombs
Zebulon H
Mary Ledwith McCombs
Bridgeport
Harris
First Methodist Church
Rebekah
Royal Neighbors
Irene Perry
Mary van Valkenburg
Seaside
Calif
Mark Thompson
Kansas City
Robert O. McCombs
Salt Lake City
Oil field records third dry hole in Heider field
Oil field brief notes a third dry hole in the Heider Field north of Potter. British American Oil Co abandons Willis C No 3 as a duster in the SW NE of 2-16-53. The pool now has three dry wells and three dusters. Northwest of Dalton Colorado Southern Petroleum drillers reach 4500 feet on Cruise No 1 SW SE of 24-17-50.
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Potter
British-American Oil Co
Dalton
Colorado Southern Petroleum Corporation
Chappell Youth Faces Four Charges In County Court Here
An 18-year-old Chappell youth, Robert Arnold, faces four counts including driving under the influence hit and run operating without a Nebraska license and obstructing traffic. Deputy Kermit Brumbaugh outlined the sequence from Sidney to Peetz to Chappell with involvement of Wayne Fisher and two 18-year-old Sidney girls. Arnold allegedly assaulted a passing motorist and later sought to attack another vehicle while en route to the girl’s father.
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Chappell
Robert Arnold
Arnold
Sheriffs Office
Nebraska
Kermit Brumbaugh
Wayne Fisher
Cnappell
Sidney
Fisher
Brumbaugh
Sdney
Highway 19
Colorado
Peet
Peetz
Chapwell
Tie
Picer
Chappeil
John Miller 67 Victim Of Heart Attack At Hospital
John William Miller 67 died late yesterday afternoon at Cheyenne County Memorial Hospital after a heart attack. Funeral services will be Friday 2 pm at St Pauls Lutheran Church with Rev Henry Dorn officiating. burial in Greenwood Cemetery. Memorials may go to St Pauls mission fund. Miller, born April 24, 1896 in Frohna Missouri, lived in Wenedy and Sidney before joining the Union Pacific as a maintenance foreman and custodian at the Sidney schools. Survivors include wife Mary, daughter Rita Englund of Sidney, sons Reuben of Cumberland Maryland and Eugene of Ponca City Oklahoma, six grandchildren, sister Mrs. H. G. Mangels of Ft Morgan, and brother Constantin of Rochester Minnesota.
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Cheyenne County Memorial Hospital
St. Pauls Lutheran Church
Martin
Amalia Naumann Miller
Mary Grosse
St. Louis
Wenedy
Ill
Lodgepole Boy Injured in Vehicle Crash Near Sunol
A 14 year old Lodgepole boy was injured with back injuries and possible drug involvement after the 1955 model car he drove went out of control on a county road about two miles east and three miles north of Sunol. The driver identified as Gene Hokum possessed a school diving permit.
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August Mielke 86 dies in Bridgeport rest home
August Mielke 86 died yesterday morning at a Bridgeport rest home where he had lived ten months A retired farmer he lived 45 years in Cheyenne County Funeral services set for tomorrow at 2 pm from First Christian Church with Rev W K Hasenyager officiating Burial in Potter Cemetery Gehrig and Son Funeral Home in charge of arrangements Born in Germany July 22 1871 he came to the United States July 4 1885 lived in Wisconsin until 1894 then moved to Bloomfield Neb He married Anna Bergstrom November 23 1896 in Bloomfield and they moved to Potter in 1912 Survivors include daughter Mabel Portz Sidney grandson Douglas Killham Grand Lake Colo three sisters Ida Nentwig Glendive Mont Bertha Buhrow Berlin Wis Amelia Halverson Seattle Wash and three brothers Emil Oshkosh Wis Theodore Fond du Lac Wis Fred Spokane Wash
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Cheyenne County
First Christian Church
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Potter Cemetery
Gehrig and Son Funeral Home
Germany
John and
Wilhelmina Reetz Mielke
United States
Wisconsin
Bloomfield
Neb
Potter
Anna Bergstrom
Mabel Portz
Sidney
Douglas — Killham
Grand Lake
Colo
Ida Nentwig
Glendive, Mont
Bertha Buhrow
Berlin
Wis
Amelia Halverson
Seattle
Wash
Emil
Oshkosh
Theodore
Fond du Lac
Fred
Spokane
Ben Planck Dead In California City
Former Sidney resident Benjamin Earl Planck aged 58 died Monday night in a Riverside California hospital. He was a brother of Forrest Planck of Sidney and visited Sidney with his wife for nearly three months this summer. Funeral services are set for tomorrow at 2 pm from Hughes Mortuary in Lima Loma California. He was born February 21 1899 on the homestead nine miles northeast of Sidney. Survivors include his wife Katherine and brother Forrest. He was preceded by his parents a brother Frel and sister Mrs. Alice Dresser. Mr and Mrs Forrest Planck left this morning by train to attend the funeral.
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Riverside
Calif
Forrest Planck
California
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Lima Loma
Emory
Jesse Mann Planck
Katherine
Forrest
Frel
Alice Dresser
Sidney Brings Big Airport Upgrade to 4500 Foot Runway
The Sidney Municipal Airport began a major expansion to extend the northwest southeast runway to 4,500 feet by 100 feet, with ongoing earth-moving and sod removal. The project, funded by federal and state grants plus city funds, aims for completion before 1958, weather permitting, and hinges on CAB air service rulings.
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Rites Thursday In Scottsbluff For P. H. Knight 76
Peter Henry Knight a former Scottsbluff resident and retired mortician died Monday night at home. Final rites set for 10 a m Thursday at Benson Funeral Home Scottsbluff with Rev Timothy Molony officiating and burial in Fairview Cemetery. Knight born Oct 20 1886 in Scott County Iowa operated a funeral home in Thermopolis Wyoming then Scottsbluff from 1929 until retirement in 1949. He moved to Sidney in 1950 and ran a motel until ill health led to retirement about two years ago. He served in Wyoming legislature eight years and was a member of Masonic Elks and Moose lodges. Survivors include wife Opal and step-daughter Lila.
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Benson Funeral Home
Timothy P Molony
Fairview Cemetery
Gehrig and Son Funeral Home
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Scott County
Iowa
Thermopolis
Wyo
Knight Funeral Home
Sidney
Wyoming
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Moose
Opal
Lila
Postal Windows To Close At Noon Saturdays
Sidney postoffice will close its windows at noon on Saturdays starting Oct 12 acting postmaster Don Gillham announced. The station has operated 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. six days a week, with Saturday afternoon mail flow considered insufficient to justify weekend hours. Also set are Christmas mailing deadlines for overseas, Far East by Oct 15 and Europe plus Near East Africa by Nov 1 with Nov 10 as last day for Europe and S and C America packages.
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