Telegraph Open House Showcases 1930s Printing Process
The Sidney Telegraph announces an open house on Saturday October 15 from nine a.m. to four p.m. at The Telegraph Printing Co. Visitors will tour the plant and watch the steps in producing the tri weekly newspaper with detailed explanations. National Newspaper Week observance led by John Gottschalk invites all to attend.
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Sidney Telegraph
The
Telegraph Printing Co., Inc
Telegraph
Nebraska
John Gottschalk
Paper Carriers and Parents to Be Honored Guests
Sidney Telegraph will honor carrier boys and their parents at a Tuesday night dinner at the Ft. Sidney Motor Hotel for National Newspaper Week. A special film will be shown and guests will tour the Telegraph office and printing plant to see newspaper production.
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Sidney
Ft. Sidney Motor Hotel
Special Tours At Sidney Telegraph Plant
National Newspaper Week prompts special tours of the Sidney Telegraph plant this week. Eleven St. Patrick's High School journalism students joined the tour this morning. Tuesday night, fifty three Telegraph carriers and their parents will be shown through the shop. Friday, Sidney High School journalism class will tour the shop in two groups of eleven.
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Sidney Telegraph
St. Patrick’s High School
Sidney High School
Sidney reporter Harry McCormick dies a Texas fame
Harry McCormick, longtime Sidney Telegraph and later Texas journalist, died in Dallas. A Schuyler, Nebraska native, he lived 65 years in journalism, early work as a printer in Schuyler, later sensational Houston reporting. He wrote the Raymond Hamilton kidnapping story tied to Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker era events.
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Sidney Telegraph
Texas
Dallas
Harry McCormick
Schuyler
Neb
McCormick
Houston
Mr. McCormick
Raymond Hamilton
Clyde Barrow
Bonnie Paker
Barrow
Hamilton
Texas State
Huntsville
Mr. McCornick
Telegraph Opens with 25 Prizes at Open House
The Sidney Telegraph invites the public to its open house next Saturday October 15 where registration earns entry for twenty five prizes. Prizes include five bathroom scales five socket sets three Centennial stationery sets three personalized stationery sets five one year subscriptions and four quarter page ads for merchants who register. Open house hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Refreshments will be served.
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Sidney Telegraph
Telegraph
Ten Counties to Vote on Educational Service Unit Measure
Ten Nebraska Panhandle counties and 79 of 93 statewide will vote November 8 on excluding counties from Educational Service Unit numbers 17 18 and 19. The measure arises from SB 301 and hinges on a 50 percent majority. Units 17 18 and 19 cover Sheridan Dawes Sioux Box Butte Morrill Scotts Bluff Banner Kimball Cheyenne Garden and Deuel counties.
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Panhandle
Nebraska School] Improvement Association
Nebraska State Education Association
Nebraska
Scotts Bluff
Devel
Sheridan
Dawes
Sioux
Box Butte
Morrill
Banner
Kimball
Cheyenne
Garden
Boards of Education
Soil Banquet Slated for November 14
The Cheyenne County Soil and Water Conservation Service will sponsor an awards banquet on Monday evening November 14 at the Youth Center. Guest speaker Dr. Robert Manley history professor and guitarist, formerly at the University of Nebraska, now at Hiram Scott College in Scottsbluff, will give the address.
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Cheyenne County Soil and Water Conservation Service
Robert Manley
University of Nebraska
Hiram Scott College
Scottsbluff
Catholic Education Assn Convention October 13 14
The Nebraska Catholic Education Association meeting in Omaha Civic Auditorium draws 2300 delegates October 13 and 14. Speakers include Dr. Vance Rogers of Nebraska Wesleyan on Vatican II, Senator Marvin Stromer on student unrest, and Dr. James L. Youngblood of NASA on space program education. Youngblood, 36, with three Rice degrees, plans NASA education programs and speaks at 2 30 p m Friday October 14.
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Nebraska Catholic Education Association
Omaha Civic Auditorium
Methodist University
Vance Rogers
Nebraska Wesleyan
Marvin Stromer
James L. Youngblood
Youngblood
Manned Spacecraft Center
NASA
Houston
Texas
Rice University
du Pont
Mrs Sorenson to appear at Dalton Potter teas
Mrs Philip Sorenson wife of the Nebraska lieutenant governor will visit Dalton and Potter on Wednesday. A 2 p.m. tea in the Royal Room of Dalton and a 4 p.m. tea at Buffalo Bend in Potter are arranged by Mrs Lois Dindinger. A 11:30 a.m. coffee for Mrs Sorenson is set at Fort Sidney Motor Hotel Shelter Room in Sidney. All are welcome to attend either event.
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Philip Sorenson
Nebraska
Dalton
Potter
Royal Room
Buffalo Bend
Lois Dindinger
Steers Bring $31.10 Price at Sidney Livestock Sale
Crow Bros. four hundred pound steers sold for $31.10 at the Sidney Livestock Commission Co auction, as bidding stayed steady on cattle and hogs. Schnell Farms and August Heideman reported notable sales, with heifers and steers in the 520 to 840 pound range bringing $25.20 to $24.30. Additional lots included 64 black heifers at $111 per head and 26 head of 220 pound hogs at $21.90, overall bulk $21.10 to $21.90. Feeder pigs brought $25.50 per head and sows up to $19.20.
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Crow Bros
Sidney Livestock Commission Co
Schnell Farms
Heideman
Ken Weyerts
Vernon Jobman
Chamber Office Burglarized Over Weekend Theft Saddles Funds
Vandals broke into the rear door of the Chamber of Commerce building over the weekend and stole 3186.92 from Chamber Western Union and Centennial funds. A transistor radio owned by Manager Ron Mercer was also taken. Only money drawers were rifled.
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Chamber of Commerce
Chamber, Western Union
Centennial
Ron Mercer
Quest For New Oil Production Broadens Drilling In County
Banner County may see an oil discovery this week as Chandler and Associates press a wildcat program at No. 1 Olsen-C locating near Rocky Hollow Field. Production casing installed. completion expected for commercial output. Multiple western and eastern Cheyenne County wells draw industry interest and new operators join races.
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Banner County
Chandler and Associates
Olsen-C
Rocky Hollow
Cheyenne County
Robert L. Cramer
Sidney
Eugene
Flah
Lodgepole
Cramer
CSW
Nebraska
Larson
Potter
Osier Oil Co
Regal Drilling Co
Luarson
South Potter Field
Buttes Gas and Oil Co
Exeter Drilling Co
Scotts Bluff County
Redding
Ben J. Taylor
Red Cannyon
Frontier County
Weskamp
GWSW
Minnie Tobin 75 Sidney Native Dies After Illness
Minnie Tobin 75 a Sidney native died Saturday morning at Memorial Hospital after a two month illness. Funeral services were held at Gehrig and Son Funeral Home with Rev Fred J Parks officiating. Interment was in Greenwood Cemetery Sidney. She taught in Cheyenne county rural schools and in Bridgeport and Grand Island. Survivors include sisters Jennie and Edith Oldershaw of Sidney nephew Kenneth Johnson of Minneapolis and stepson Effie Tobin Messerall of Aberdeen Md.
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Minnie Tobin
Memorial Hospital
Gehrig and Son
Fred J. Parks
Rapid City
S.D
Greenwood Cemetery
Sidney
Tobin
Memorial Rest Home
John
Susannah Oldershaw
Chadron College
Cheyenne County
Bridgeport
Grand Island
John A. Tobin
Laramie
Wyo
Denver
Union Pacific Railroad
San Bernardino
Calif
County Strong Bid For Nebraska Community Betterment
Cheyenne County and its communities push strong entries for the Nebraska Community Betterment contest. Sidney leads with projects including a new library, Chamber office, shopping center, a vocational school, Fort Sidney Museum, Rose Bowl band trip, and streetscapes. Finalists to be chosen before a Nov. 11 Lincoln banquet. 18 organizations involved.
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Cheyenne County
Nebraska
Lincoln
Sidney Chamber of Commerce
Sidney
Chamber of Commerce
Western Nebraska Vocational Technical School
Fort Sidney
Sidney High School
Sidney Senior High School
St. Patrick’s Academy
Agricultural Experiment Station
Business Institute of Sidney
First Christian Church
Deadwood Trail
Lodgepole
Union Pacific
Gurley
4 H Honors Distributed To County Winners
The 1966 4 H achievement night banquet at the National Guard Armory honored club members with the theme Best Ever Harvest. Gary Kurz guided the event as toastmaster while Corwin Mead and Miss Del Rae Beermann presented memberships and leadership pins. We Three performed special music as ten year and five year service awards were given to numerous members and leaders.
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National Guard Armory
Gary Kurz
Gary
Four Leaf Clovers
Clover Leaf Drovers
Corwin Mead
del Rae Beermann
We Three
Marla Walker
Garry Brown
Rick Walker
Panhandle forecast shows continued fair weather
Frontier Airlines reports continued fair conditions in the Panhandle with no precipitation through Tuesday. Tonight and tomorrow bring low temperatures around 30 to 40 and highs near 65 to 70. The five day outlook indicates average temperatures near normal, highs 65 to 75, lows 30 to 40, with little or no precipitation expected.
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Panhandle
Frontier Airlines
Farm Fair At Sterling Draws Hundreds
Hundreds of farmers and ranchers are expected at Sterling Colorado October 19 and 20 for the first Colorado Farm Mechanization Fair. James Golden, president of the Colorado Farm Power Council and manager of the Yampa Valley Electric Assn Steamboat Springs, notes this is Colorado’s first such event. The fair at Logan County Fairgrounds will showcase more than 40 exhibits of modern farm machinery and materials handling gear with an 8 p.m. Shrine El Jebel Hillbilly Band benefit show on October 19.
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Sterling
Colo
Colorado
James Golden
Colorado Farm Power Council
Yampa Valley Electric Assn
Steamboat Springs
Golden
CFPC
Power Council
Logan County Fairgrounds
Shrine el Jebel Hillbilly
Fairground
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Howard Reimers
Lemoyne Johnson
Wendell Abrams
Richard Ernest
Earl Anderson
Lloyd Brauer
Vern Brauer
Ted Houser
Virgil Walters
Jesse Allen
Wilmer Brauer
Robert Buhrdorf
James Edwards
Ross Glassburn
Darrell Hunt
Fred Kriesel
Tom Allington
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Rodney Mathewson
Robert Misegadis
Harvey Miles
Robert Spearow
John Underdown
Linda McNurlin
Sarah Johnson
Marlene Ernest
Betty Fraass
Marlene Rushman
Patty Smith
Callae Curless
Cathy Cruise
Cheryl Gordon
Connie Hickman
Cathy Benzel
Carolyn Deaver
Nancy Deaver
Nyla Leypoldt
Liz Cunningham
Beth Edwards
Paula Ritz
Sandra Spearow
Pat Thompson
Kay Glassburn
Sharon Houser
Pam Sanders
Jerel Walters
Jay Gell
David Johnson
Bruce Brauer
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Pat Runge
Rex Behrends
Larry Disney
Larry Glassburn
Arthur Huff
Jim Quinn
Vance
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