Memorial Hospital Overcrowded Prompts Expansion Talks
Crowding at Memorial Hospital reaches 70 patients in a 51 bed facility with eight babies in nursery and several patients in halls. Administrator Leo Bolin reports no clear cause and plans for enlargement are reviewed by the board, with an 80 percent occupancy already deemed unsafe. An 8 room 16 bed expansion is also underway at Memorial Rest Home, expected next spring.
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Memorial Hospital
Leo Bolin
Sioux Army Depot
Bolin
Hospital Board of Directors
Sidney Hospital
Memorial Rest Home
State Wheat Queen Is Married Runner-Up To Assume Throne
The 1963 Nebraska Wheat Queen runner up Kay Lynn Erickson advances to Queen if she cannot serve. Queen Chantal Misegadis, who wed Warren Radke, vacated the throne. Erickson attends the University of Wyoming. second runner Sandra Schreiner would serve if needed. The 1963 Wheat Greiners Convention will be in Alliance November 14 16 with Erickson presiding and crowning the 1964 Queen.
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Robert Rauner
Gurley
Chantal Misegadis
Lodgepole
Warren Radke
Bis Springs
Tennessee
Kay Lynn Erickson
Potter
Sidney
Miss Erickson
University of Wyoming
Laramie
Sandra Schreiner
Potter High School
Don Erickson
Kay Lynn’ Erickson
Nebraska
Land buys for Minuteman sites advance in three states
Omaha district officials report about 85 percent of land for 220 Minuteman sites in Wyoming Nebraska and Colorado acquired mainly by easement grants. Col Harold J. St Clair cites cooperation from landowners and notes one condemnation case filed in 1963 in Cheyenne for titles while most land remains usable for owners.
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Omaha
Wyoming
Nebraska
Colorado
Omaha District Army
Harold J. St. Clair
Col. St. Clair
Air Force Missile Project
Warren Air Force Base
Cheyenne
Col St. Clair
Air Force
U.S. District Court
Laramie County
Goshen County
Platte County
Youth Council Meeting Called for This Sunday
A special meeting of the Sidney Yours Council is set for 2 4 in Room 100 at Sidney Mier S ws. President Jim Knice says important business will be discussed and all members are urged to attend.
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Sidney Yours Council
Sidney Mier
Jim Knice
Banner County Oil Discovery Tops Reports
Banner Oil Co Inc reports an apparent oil discovery at No 1 Sandberg in Banner County with production casing run before completion. No test details released. Also a field confirmation at Chas e Singleton No 1 Saindaco in Sinclair Field could prove commercial. Only two producers reported in western Nebraska this week.
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Banner Oil Co, Inc
Banner County
Sandberg
Chas.e Singleton
Saindaco
Sinclair Field
Nebraska
Mixed Feelings Over Heat as Harvest Presses On
Western Nebraska farmers show mixed reactions to the hot dry spell. Sugar beet digging proceeds with hopes of a record harvest while some wheat growers fear rapid grain drying and premature ripening. Beet dumps operate at major stations as corn and sorghum supplies move to Panhandle growers. some praise the robust root systems for winter survival.
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Nebraska
Great Western Sugar Co
Discovery Dollar Days Promises Savings in Sidney
The Sidney Trade area hosts Discovery Dollar Days a three day shopping promotion opening Thursday through Saturday under the Sidney Chamber of Commerce. Co chaired by Tom Hennig and Hollis Peratt with Robert Lloyd directing the retail committee the event features special discovery items coded for cash gifts at checkout and extended store hours including Friday night. Grocers car dealers and other businesses join in offering standout prices making Sidney the place to be for thrifty shoppers this weekend.
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Sidney
Sidney Chamber of Commerce Retail Committee
Tom Hennig
Hollis Peratt
Robert Lloyd
Sidney Telegraph
Sidney High Homecoming Parade Leads to Queen Crowning
Sidney Friday Homecoming events start with a 2:30 p.m. parade by the SHS band on Illinois street ending at the courthouse lawn for a Pep Rally. The 7:30 p.m. Weymouth Field game versus Gering climaxes with halftime coronation of Homecoming Queen candidates Kris Bitner Jane Landmesser Cheryl Mintken. A Fort Sidney Motor Hotel dance follows until midnight featuring Homecoming King nominee Doug Adams Jerry Cronk Jim Langdon, with Gering students barred per a Western Conference ruling.
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Sidney
Sidney High School
Illinois Street
Courthouse Lawn
Gering
Weymouth Field
Kris Bitner
Jane Landmesser
Cheryl Mintken
Fort Sidney Motor Hotel
Doug Adams
Jerry Cronk
Jim Langdon
Keith County Courthouse to be Dedicated Friday
Keith County's new 250000 courthouse will be dedicated in a 2:30 p.m. ceremony on the west side. G. J. McGinley will deliver the dedicatory address and Newell Eastman will serve as Master of Ceremonies. The Ogallala High School band, directed by Duane Miller, will perform, with Rev Homer Dickerson giving the dedication prayer. Architects Hinde and Laurinet will present the courthouse and seal the cornerstone during the ceremonies.
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Keith County
Ogallala
G. J. McGinley
Newell Eastman
Duane Miller
Homer Dickerson
Methodist Church
Hinde & Laurinet
Sidney School Board Tackles Many Topics In Long Meeting
The Sidney Board of Education met Monday night with reports from Supt. Russell J. Pedersen. Officials accepted final teacher reports on summer travel and work. Discussions covered vocational education in Nebraska secondaries, bus routes, and the band appearances at county festivals.
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Sidney
Labor Demand in Sidney Edges Down Slightly
The Nebraska State Employment Service Sidney office reports a small drop in non agricultural worker demand. In 1962 there were 177 openings, 150 in September this year, with 143 placements last month versus 163 in September of last year.
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Francis R. Hiner
Sidney
Nebraska State Employment Service
Hiner
Cecil Hunt Transferred to Memorial Hospital
Cecil Hunt of the First District was moved to Memorial Hospital in Cheyenne County Tuesday after 38 days in St. Joseph's Hospital of Denver. Mrs. Hunt said he was tired but improved, pneumonia has cleared, and stomach trouble lessened.
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Cheyenne County
Cecil Hunt
Memorial Hospital
St. Joseph's Hospital
Denver
Secretary Freemans advocates selling wheat to Soviet Union
Secretary Orville Freeman told Nebraska farmers in North Platte that the United States should sell wheat to Russia and other eastern European nations. He cited dollars earned and people to people contacts as reasons, a remark seen as a precursor to a Kennedy plan to sell more than 300 million dollars of wheat behind the Iron Curtain.
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Freeman
Cheyenne County
North Platte
Sec. of Agriculture
Orville Freeman
Grand Island
Orville Freemans
United States
Russia
Nebraska
Mr. Freeman
Kennedy
U. S
Soviet Union
Colonel Praises 183 Handicapped Workers at Sioux Depot
Colonel Stanley W Smiley spoke during National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week at Sioux Army Depot. He cited 183 handicapped employees in varied roles and argued proper placement yields quality, dependable work while highlighting programs by the U S Civil Service Commission and Army Department to place workers where abilities are used.
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Stanley W Smiley
Amy Denot
Sioux
George Seelmeyer
U. S Civil Service Commission
Army
Sioux Army Dept
Runaway Changes Mind Go Back To School
One of two Galesburg Illinois runaway youths, John Eckland aged 16, decided not to leave after a near hitchhiking episode with Mike Meyers 17. Eckland reached Sidney and called an aunt in Galesburg, prompting his parents to return from Nebraska as Elmwood and sheriff were informed.
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Galesburg
Ill
Sidney
John Eckland
Mike Meyers
Cheyenne
East Bay
Nebraska
Elmwood
W. W Schulz
Ecklands
Meyers
Columbus Day Broadcast Set From KSID At 10:45
Supreme Knight Luke E Hart of the Knights of Columbus will deliver a Columbus Day address broadcast at 10 45 a m Saturday Oct 12 over KSID station Hart has led the order since 1953 and joined its board in 1918 The talk titled Christopher Columbus The Man His Message and His Challenge outlines the theme and aims to share its lessons with members and the public
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King Lybarger
Hinkler
Christopher Columbus
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Ken Nienhueser
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Bill Roelle
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Harold Kettler
Stewart Brown
Joe McMillen
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Dean Hecker
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Cliff Berry
Kenneth Morgan
Henry Gell
Earl Gell
Herman Jurgens
Joe Bonkiewicz
Lemoyne Johnson
Rollie Green
Ivan Walker
Ernest Osborn
Harold Draper
Glen Twarling
Gil Hougan
Ed Warjes
Doug Reetz
Harold Irwin
H. H. Miseggadis
Walt Wiegers
Iuke E. Hart
Knights of Columbus
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