Sidney Telegraph editorial page overview
The Sidney Telegraph, western Nebraska's oldest newspaper founded in 1873, serves Cheyenne County as the official paper. It is published every Monday Wednesday and Friday by The Telegraph Printing Co. Inc. from 830 Eleventh Avenue in Sidney Nebraska and is affiliated with The Associated Press and Nebraska Press Association.
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Nebraska
The
Associated Press
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Cheyenne County
Sidney Telegraph
the Telegraph Printing Co., Inc
11Th Ave
Sidney
Telegraph
J. M. Nelson
Lincoln
Frank J. Pulver
Peetz Gazette
Frank J
James Sparks
Pete Lenzen
H. S. Schaeffer
Population surge nears 200 million in the United States
As 1967 closes, the U S population is about to reach 200 million, up from 199 million and well above the 1960 census. The piece warns growing pressure on resources and institutions, especially transport and schools, but expresses confidence in America’s ability to meet future challenges through imaginative, collective action.
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United States
America
Highway plans echo familiar clashes over wilderness route
The piece laments state highway department stubbornness as it pushes an east–west interstate through a wilderness area. Nebraskan readers recall a Big Springs interchange battle, while a Federal official in Sidney dismisses local protest and cites 1944 I-80 routing. The tone critiques democratic processes and questions public input.
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Colorado
Highway Department
Big Springs
Sidney
Feds
Nebraska
State defends school bus safety after Waterloo crash
In a Waterloo Nebrum incident four children died when a train struck a school bus. Officials argue state education safety standards are adequate and blame human error at grade crossings, saying criticism of the Department of Education is unwarranted.
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State Department of Education
Waterloo
Nebr
Time to Really Think on Youth Turmoil and Governance
A Wisconsin letter from Oconomowoc urges firm discipline and a return to basic principles. It argues against lowering the voting age or raising the beer drinking age amid campus disturbances and calls for respect for authority and majority government within constitutional limits.
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Oconomowoc
Wis
Enterprise
Five motorists deaths set Cheyenne County tally
Way Back When notes from ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy years ago in Sidney Chronicle. Items include Mrs. Ben Cates, 60, of Lodgepole killed after alighting from a bus. hospital fund efforts. open depots, new businesses like Art's Motors. vaccination and crops news. local personalities and upcoming events.
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Lodgepole
Cheyenne County
Sidney Improvement Project
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Coyote
Ted Hecker
Sioux Depot
Alvin Duis
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Frances Lathrop
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Francis H. Ayres
William C. Lovall
Francis J. Schwartz
Cody F. Patterson
John Nick Chelonis
Albert J. McCorysdale
Henry G. Kurth
Roy Hedges
Albert M. Durling
Otto
Furer
Inter State
Louis Mann
D. J. Lewis
Ed Runge
John Daugherty
Herbert Stevens
The
Potter Review
Camp Funston
Kansas
Stevens
Sidney
Gertrude Stokes
Red Cross
Glenn van Gorder
France
Nevada
Neb
Black Hills
Sidney Telegraph
Professor McLernon
Miss Beard
Nebraska
Word Puzzle Clues from a Historical Page
A mixed list of crossword style clues and answers from a historical newspaper page segment. Entries include terms across many categories with numerically marked positions. Readers encounter a collage of names, objects, actions, and abstract concepts arranged as clues and solutions.
Well Earned Retirement of Sidney Police Chief Sol Willis
The retirement of Sol Willis as Sidney police chief ends a long serious tenure in law enforcement. He will remain involved as a probation officer while Roy Bauer takes over as chief, maintaining the department’s standard of enforcing law with dignity and impartiality.
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Sol Willis
Sidney
Willis
Jaycees
Roy Bauer
Bauer
Is This Progress The Government Printing Office In stalls a fast typesetter
The government printing office has installed a typesetter that can set the equivalent wordage of the Bible in 77 minutes. Gutenberg took nearly five years in the 15th century to complete the same task. With computerization, the challenge is to hire enough people to read the resulting volumes as time marches on.
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Gutenberg
If Wives Quit Their Jobs Nebraskas Economy Slump
Lincoln report explores the impact if all working wives left employment. Labor force would shrink about 20 percent causing a labor shortage, lower family incomes, and increased poverty risk. Wives’ earnings stabilize families and state finances through benefits and security, the extension specialist notes.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Clara N. Leopold
University of Nebraska Extension
Leopold
Labor Department
Women’s Bureau
National School Lunch Week Highlights Farm Benefits
Farmers gain a market for their products while Nebraska students receive nutritious meals. Ethel Diedrichsen of the University of Nebraska Extension notes the program also spurs job and industry growth in rural areas, feeding 20 million children across 71,000 schools.
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Lincoln
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