Sales Income Tax Best, Farm Bureau Head Says
Mead Nebraska Farm Bureau president Roland Nelson urged a tax plan favoring a sales income tax blend, opposed to a pure sales tax, and pressed for a broadened tax base. He warned against bond financing for roads, called for a state water plan, and criticized boycotts on California grapes while urging strong action to preserve the American dream.
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Roland Nelson
Mead
Nebraska Farm Bureau
Cheyenne County
Farm Bureau
Panhandle
Nebraska
Nelson
Soil and Water Conservation Commission
California
New York City
Farm Union Elects Officers In Sidney Meeting
District One of the Farm Union of Nebraska met in Sidney on Monday for officer elections and the fall business session. Elton Berck state president and Mrs. Jack McVicker Gurley local secretary reviewed the program and the push against non farmer owned corporate farms. Cliff Bartels of Alliance was elected president with other officers named in a related story.
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Farm Union of
Nebraska
Sidney
Elton Berck
Jack McVicker
Gurley
Berck
Cliff Bartels
Alliance
Telegraph
Cheyenne County Farm Bureau Elects Officers And Passes Resolutions
The Cheyenne County Farm Bureau held its annual meeting Tuesday night electing officers and approving resolutions. It recommended no County Fair activities on Sunday morning and urged that tax funded workers should not have the right to strike.
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Cheyenne County Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau urged to back limits on farming loss deductions
National discussion pushes for federal tax reform to restrict deducting farming losses from non-farm corporate income. The state president supported the resolution noting many farmers earn more from nonfarm sources than from farming itself.
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Farm Bureau
Francis Runge Re-elected President of Cheyenne County Farm Bureau
Francis Runge of Sidney was re elected president with Bob Misegadis Sunol as vice president. Mrs Ron McMillen Sidney was named ladies chairman and Bob Runge Sidney Youth Member of the board. Directors by district include Leo Wolff Jr Floyd Bruns Lemoyne Johnson Northeast district Leonard Beyer Rolland Larson Kenneth Morgan Northwest district Ronald Hadeen Ray Nien heuser Paul Narjes Southeast district Ron Mc Millen Rodney Mathewson Roland Green Southwest district. Delegates to State Convention: Ray Nien hueser Rolland Larson Francis Runge.
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Francis Runge
Sidney
Cheyenne County Farm Bureau
Bob Misegadis
Sunol
Ron McMillen
Bob Runge
Leo Wolff Jr
Floyd Bruns
Lemoyne Johnson
Leonard Beyer
Rolland Larson
Kenneth Morgan
Ronald Hadeen
Ray Nien=heuser
Paul Narjes
Rodney Mathewson
Roland Green
Ray Nienhueser
Farmers Union Seeks Better Marketing Prices For Wheat
Alliance leader Cliff Bartels was elected president of the first district at Sidney as Elton Berck Lincoln spoke on upcoming legislature and corporate farming. Grants Poole and Bob MesserSmith were named vice president and secretary treasurer, with resolutions backing income tax methods, anti corporate farming, and full parity for wheat plus 50 cent export certificates. Berck urged electing a candidate to aid farmers and noted a Farm Union drafted bill to curb corporate farming, aiming for legislative support.
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Cliff Bartels
Alliance
District of Farm Union of
Nebraska
Sidney
Elton Berck
Lincoln
Neb
Grant Poole
Limon
Bob Messersmith
Farm Union
Berck
Witholding Block Selling Is Working Says NFO Members
A Kimball zone meeting drew over two hundred as National Farm Organization members reported successful withholdings and block selling raising prices. State President William Selhorst outlined a 52 county expansion to boost NFC membership and regional influence. James Finner described a 1500 hogs per day sale contract with an Ottumwa packing plant. Another zone meeting was scheduled for Chappell on October 9 with time and place to be announced.
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National Farm Organization
Kimball
William Selhorst
Dodge
Selhorts
James Finner
Torrington
Ottumwa
Iowa
NFC
Nebraska
Finner
NFO
Chappell
Farm Price Index Gains in September
Washington reports the Agriculture Department index showing farm prices up six points for the month ending September 15. The index runs 267 percent above the 1910-14 average, up from 261 in mid August and six percent higher than a year ago. Egg and milk led gains while cattle soybeans and chickens declined.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Court House Dedication Set Oct 12 in Cheyenne County
Dedication ceremonies for the Cheyenne County Court House are planned for Saturday October 12. The open house starts at 9 30 a m with county offices open for inspection. A 1 p m mass band concert follows a 1 30 p m flag raising ceremony by Boy Scouts and an invocation by Rev Max Kors. County officials will be introduced and Pat Heaton Sr will deliver the main address. The new building opened last spring after the old courthouse was torn down.
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Cheyenne County Court House
Billie Smith
Third
Max Kors
Christ Episcopal Church
Sidney
John Peetz, Jr
Pat Heaton
Peetz Residents In Car Accident Near Sterling
Four residents were hospitalized after a two car collision 14 miles north of Sterling Colorado. Theresa Koester 41 Donald Koester 16 of Akron and Douglas Marsh 23 Lucille Marsh of Peetz were injured. Theresa Koester and Donald Koester were air lifted to Logan County Hospital. Douglas and Lucille Marsh were treated in Sidney Nebraska for head injuries.
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Peetz
Sterling
Colorado
Theresa C. Koester
Donald L. Koester
Akron
Douglas H. Marsh
Lucille
Donald Koester
Marsh
Koester
Theresa
Donald
Logan County Hospital
Sidney
Neb
Potter Man In Critical Condition After Farm Accident
Myron Woten, a Potter farmer, is described as critically ill with a crushed chest at Memorial Hospital after a tractor backed into him while guiding silage on Clifford Herboldsheimer's farm two miles east of Potter. He was transported by Potter Rescue Unit to the Sidney hospital.
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Memorial Hospital
Myron Woten
Clifford Herboldsheimer
Potter
Sidney
Potter Rescue
Van Deventer Dies at 77 in Memorial Hospital
Mrs Maude Van Deventer a Sidney resident for nearly 20 years died Monday at Memorial Hospital after a three week stay. Funeral services set for Friday at 2 pm at Craig-Holeechek Funeral Home with Rev John Stayton officiating. Burial in Greenwood Cemetery. She was born March 6 1891 in Beloit Iowa and later lived in Long Pine Nebraska. Survived by three sons Robert Baker Ralph Baker and Jack Baker two daughters Mary Coen and Eileen Pinney one sister Pearl Pinnell six grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
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Sidney
Nearely
Maude van Deventer
Memorial Hospital
Craig-Holeechek
John Stayton
Greenwood Cemetery
Maude Lentz
John
Margaret Lentz
Beloit
Iowa
Long Pine
Neb
John van Deventer
Robert Baker
Bremerton
Wash
Ralph Baker
Boston
Mass
Jack Baker
Norfolk
Vietnam
Mary Coen
Okinawa
Eileen Pinney
Fowler
Colo
Pearl Pinnell
Ogden
Utah
Kickoff Planned for United Fund Drive in Sidney
The 1969 Sidney United Fund drive starts Thursday October 3 at 7 a.m. with a breakfast meeting at Fort Sidney Motor Hotel led by Benny Hochman. Door to door solicitation begins Friday and the goal is 13 200 dollars with a 500 dollar challenge from the Sidney Kiwanis Club to match or exceed. Eight groups share the funds: American Red Cross Boy Scouts Girl Scouts United Service Organizations Kings Daughters Salvation Army Muscular Dystrophy and National Travelers Aid. Campaign headquarters are at Elwell Motors.
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Sidney United Fund
Fort Sidney Motor Hotel
Benny Hochman
Business District
Sidney Kiwanis Club
Donat
Ing
Sidney
American Red
State Crops 'Home Free' From Frost Across Panhandle
Nebraska's fall crops including corn sorghum soybeans and beets show no serious frost threat with about 90 percent of corn ripe and 75 percent ripe for sorghum and soybeans. Wheat planting 85 percent complete with west region mostly finished and Panhandle yields described as very good despite drought conditions.
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Nebraska
Panhandle
Panhandle Weather Calls for Clouds and Cooling Outlook
The Panhandle forecast shows cloudy and colder conditions with light rain possible this afternoon. Northerly winds 15 to 20 mph, highs 50 to 60, tonight’s lows 25 to 35 with frost risk. 10 percent rain today, 5 percent tonight, under 5 percent Thursday. Five day outlook: temps 2 to 6 degrees below normal, highs near 70, lows in 40s, little to no precipitation.
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Panhandle
Scottish Rite 92nd Reunion in Alliance this October
The ninety second reunion of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite will be held in Alliance on October 22 to 24 at the Masonic Temple. Degree work ranges from the fourth to the thirty second. banquet ends at 6 30 p.m. on October 24. Committee members from various towns include Earl B Haworth Clifford D Webster and Clarence Meyer among others.
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Alliance
Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Masonic Temple
Sidney - Earl B
Haworth
Earl W
Schulz
Virgil F
Dean
Dalton
Clarence A
Mellberg
Clifford D
Webster
Lodgepole
Clarence L
Meyer
Fred F
Lehmkuhl
County Receives About 106 900 From New Sales Tax
Cheyenne County and its towns stand to gain roughly 106 900 in local shares from the broadened state sales income tax this year 21 380 goes to the county treasury and 85 520 to incorporated communities. Governor Norbert Tiemann notes the figures are tentative but close with distributions planned for early January 1969 and funds usable by cities and counties for the 1969 fiscal year.
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Cheyenne County
Norbert Tiemann
Sidney
Tiemann
Giant 1860 pound Brown Swiss steer heads to Potter slaughter
The two year old Brown Swiss steer raised by Robert Larson of Kimball weighed 1,860 pounds, larger than typical cattle. It could reach 2,800 pounds on a richer diet, with an estimated dressed weight around 1,120 pounds. Heinz Thomas of Potter Cold Storage notes the extreme size.
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Potter
Potter Cold Storage Company
Robert Larson
Kimball
Larson
Heinz Thomas
Telegraph
Parking Ban Ordered For City Paving
The city will overlay Illinois Street and Tenth Avenue starting this week. No parking will be allowed on either side of Illinois Street during the project which will proceed half at a time to keep traffic moving. The work on U S Route 30 between Sidney and Lodgepole continues by Teton Construction Co with possible delays due to weather.
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Ilinois St
Tenth Avenue
John Baudek
Sid Henderson
Teton Construction Co
Baudek
Nebraska reactivates push for International Parks Highway
The Alliance Area Chamber of Commerce plans to revive Nebraskas participation in the International Parks Highway Association. Nebraska’s segment U S 385 runs southeast of Chapell through or near Sidney Bridgeport Alliance and Chadron. A meeting will be held soon to boost the reactivation led by James E Bradley executive vice president.
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Nebraska
Mexico
Canada
Alliance Area Chamber of Commerce
Chappell
Sidney
Bridgeport
Alliance
Chadron
James E. Bradley
Alliance Area C of Co
Bradley
Nebraska Highway Advisory Commission
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Farmers Union
Farm Price Index
Court House
van Deventer
United Fund
Lth Avenue
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