Chamber Plans Interview Night For Senate Race Candidates
The Sidney Chamber of Commerce schedules a Tuesday event at the Elks Auditorium where six Nebraska candidates for Senate Congress and Governor will lay out three minute openings and three minute replies in written Q&A moderated by Tom Coffey. A 300-person crowd is expected with 175 members already reserving seats as Carl Curtis Robert Conrad Donald McGinley Dave Martin John Cooper and Frank Morrison attend.
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Sidney
Nebraska
Senate
Congress
Governor
Chamber of Commerce
Elks Auditorium
Chamber
Wayne Moran
E. K. Yanney
Lodgepole
Leonard Fine
C. A. Story
GOP
Sen
Carl Curtis
Robert Conrad
Donald McGinley
Dave Martin
John Cooper
Frank Morrison
Six Senate Congress and Gubernatorial Candidates at Chamber Event
The Nebraska Senate, Congress and Gubernatorial candidates Curtis Conrad Cooper McGinley Morrison and Martin will appear at the Chamber of Commerce quarterly next Tuesday. The event is not entertainment but may prove entertaining.
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Sidney
Nebraska Senate
Congress
Curtis
Conrad
Cooper
McGinley
Morrison
Martin
Chamber of Commerce Quarterly
Shall We Secede The PanhandleFaces congressional redraw
Residents of the Nebraska Panhandle threaten secession as reapportionment eyes cutting Nebraska from four to three House seats. text notes the west has long depended on Fourth District coverage and cites current reps Don McGinley and Dave Martin amid looming district changes.
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Nebraska Panhandle
Nebraska
Rinses
Panhandle
Citig
Ebe
Weat
Don McGinley
Ogallala
Dave’ Martin
Kearney
Ningham
Larry Brock
Driver Involved In Injury Fined In Police Court
Seventeen year old Kyle K. Mc Queen of Elsie Neb was fined one dollar plus costs in police court for failure to yield in an accident involving personal injury. Andy Oskvarek 51 of Sidney was struck while crossing a crosswalk at 9th and Illinois and hospitalized in good condition with bruises and shock. Police said Mc Queen rode west on Illinois and turned onto 9th when the mishap occurred. He pleaded guilty before Police Judge Roy Gish.
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Kyle K. McQueen
Elsie
Neb
Oskvarek
9Th
Illinois
McQueen
Ilinois
Roy Gish
Nebraska Support for Property Leverage Amendment
The Nebraska Chamber of Commerce and the industrial committee back a proposed constitutional amendment on the November ballot. It would let villages cities and counties own property to attract industry via revenue bonds, not general obligation bonds. Cheyenne County results from 1958 show heavy education needed to sway voters.
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Chamber of Commerce Industrial Committee
Board of Directors
Nebraska
Cheyenne
Ralph’ Brooks
Nebraska State Chamber of Commerce
Campaign To End Saturday Books Must Be Returned
The Sidney Telegraph announces a weekly subscription drive ends this Saturday night. All youths who borrowed books must return them after that date to compile a list of winners and distribute awards. Parents should ensure their children return books and all sales records, so accounts can be closed only after return and audit.
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Sidney Telegraph
Farmers Hurt By Campaign, Kreader Says
Mannie Kreader of Dalton, executive secretary of the Nebraska Wheat Growers Association, warns that campaign rhetoric may make farmers political pawns. He urges candidates to base farm policy discussions on facts and warns against using scare statistics to pit urban and rural populations against each other.
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Nebraska
Mannie Kreader
Dalton
Nebraska Wheat Growers Assa
Kreader
Oil Leases Attracting Top Prices in Cheyenne County Nebraska
Cheyenne County shows strong oil lease demand with Rex Monahan paying 10.56 per acre for a quarter section northwest of Sidney while Humble Oil and Refining Co. picks up a full section for 50 cents per acre. Garden County leases sell for two dollars per acre. A new sale is set for Oct. 28 across several counties including Cheyenne and Scotts Bluff. Last sale on Sept. 30 covered 8 476 acres with 11 758 in bonuses. Nebraska crude output nears 23 million barrels for 1960, with total state oil value surpassing 323 million since 1939.
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Cheyenne County
Sidney
Rex Monahan
Sterling, Cole
Oitman
Humble Ol and Refining Co
Tulsa
Humble
Garden County
Cheyenne
Scotts Bluff
Kimball
Hitchcock
Red Willow
Nebraska
Richardson
Banner
Morrill
Garden
Bridgeport Considers $256000 School Bond Issue
Bridgeport voters will decide on a $256000 bond on November 8 to enlarge facilities. The plan includes a gymnasium and a six-classroom building with kindergarten. The district’s population grew 47 percent last year to 694 students, and previous bond attempts failed by narrow margins.
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Bridgeport
Effort To Reopen Oil Field Active In Southwest County Area
An effort to reestablish a one well oil field opened in 1954 and abandoned is under way three miles south and eleven west of Sidney. Multiple wildcat moves and new drilling locations across Cheyenne, Banner, Kimball counties signal ongoing oil exploration with several prospects and potential production figures.
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Sidney
Love Miller
Gage and Renshaw
Rudolph
Ambassador Oil Corp
No. 1
Narses
Ambassador
Flessner
Lodgepole
William Meakins
Scheeler
Sundl
H. C. Arnold
Zuhike
Harry V. Hill
Panhandle
Banner County
Jil-Tex Drilling Co
Mead Land and Cattle Co
NW SE
Wildcat Hills
Edward Mike
Davis
Nelson
Cross Et Als
Thirteen Adult Classes Being Offered Here
Thirteen adult education classes start the week of Oct. 17 at Sidney Public Schools. Registration for courses is next Friday Oct. 14 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Junior High office with evening signup Oct. 1 and Oct. 12. Classes include woodwork and lapidary, singing, typing, metal shop, sewing, conversational French and Spanish, biology, bridge, ceramic pottery, chess, high school math and personal make-up with fees ranging from 5.80 to 8.20 dollars. Additional classes can be added if ten or more register and a qualified instructor is secured. Registration only during listed hours. no on-site signups.
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Bill Fankhauser
A. W. Lewis
Lyndall Lundy
Betty Burklund
Prudence Soukeras
Ray Swift
E.T.C. Jones
Jim Cantrell
John Jensen
South Ward School
Jim Godfrey
Bob Cook
Kennedy Leads Local Straw Poll at Lee Store
At The Lee Store in Sidney a new President's Sundae invites votes with each order. After ten sundaes, Kennedy leads Nixon six to four in the informal poll.
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Lee
Sidney
Kennedy
Nixon
Voter Registration Milestone as 2000th Register Emerges
City Clerk Gordon Tobin announced the 2000th person registered to vote early Friday. Through Thursday 1,562 had registered—1,075 Republicans, 776 Democrats, 111 independents—with about 3,000 eligible. Final registration is Oct. 19. city offices open Saturday for last-minute registrants.
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Gordon Tobin
Tobin
Sidney
Wheat Experts On Panel At Chadron Show
A panel of wheat researchers growers handlers and processors will lead the morning program at the Nebraska Wheat Show in Chadron on October 13. The discussion aims to unite industry segments to address wheat varieties production irrigation marketing quality and export demand in Nebraska with speakers from the USDA University of Nebraska Gooch Milling Cargill and local grower groups.
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Chadron
Nebraska Wheat Show
Duane Foote
Nebraska Grain Improvement Association
Nebraska
Virgil Johnson
Usda Agronomist
University of Nebraska
H. B. Lilly
Gooch Milling and Elevator Co
Lincoln
Gene Neuswanger
Neuswanger's Alliance
William Colwell
Nebraska Wheat Growers Assn
Hay Springs
Ace Tory
Cargill, Inc
Omaha
John Schmidt
Panhandle County Officials Set Annual Meeting Speakers
Cheyenne County officials host the Panhandle County Officials Assn annual meeting and election in Cheyenne at the Elks Auditorium. About 200 county officials from Banner Box Butte Cherry Cheyenne Dawes Devel Garden Grant Kimball Morrill Scotts Bluff Sheridan Sioux Thomas and Hooker counties are expected. Forrest A. Johnson and Mel O. Steen will speak. Registration starts 9 a.m. with lunch at noon.
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Cheyenne
Panhandle
Forrest A. Johnson
Mel O. Steen
Pace
Telegraph
Elks Auditorium
Panhandle Assn
Banner
Box Butte
Cherry
Dawes
Devel
Garden
Grant
Kimball
Morrill
Scotts Bluff
Sheridan
Sioux
Thomas
Hooker
Fair boards organize for better show in Panhandle Nebraska
An association of county fair officials from eight western Nebraska counties and Pine Bluffs Wyoming formed in Bridgeport to coordinate fair dates and planning. W W Hickman will lead as president and W E Cunningham as secretary treasurer. Kriesel of Gurley serves as director. Tentative 1961 dates are August 24 to 27.
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Panhandle
Nebraska
Wyoming
Bridgeport
Panhandle Fair Assn
W. W. Hickman
Mitchell
W. E. Cunningham
Sidney
Pine Bluffs
Wyo
Kriesel
Fred Kriesel
Gurley
Cheyenne County Fair Board
Cheyenne County Fair
Cunningham
Late fall warmth persists with no frost yet in Sidney
Oct 7 reports show Sidney temperatures not dipping below 33 degrees, averting a freeze. Weather observer Dave Elis says warmth continues with flowers signaling mild conditions, and officials expect more of the same in coming days.
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Sidney
Dave Elis
Ells
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Phil Weaver
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Potter
Panhandle County Officials’ ‘Association
Sidney Public Schools
Don Burrows
Trojans
Maroons
John Pace
Chappell
Devel County
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