United Fund Drive Faces Shortfall Risk In Sidney
United Fund receipts reached 5935.10 at mid campaign with four employer employee teams still unreported. Leaders fear failing to hit the 12000 goal, prompting rapid house to house drive prep and a year end administrative plan including a $25 monthly salaried secretary and $10,000 bond for treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Fund
J. R Miller
Miller
H. C. Q. Nelson
Nelson
Sidney
United Fund Board of Directors
Jack Knicely
Fox Theatre Plans Sixth Birthday Week
The Fox Theatre marks its sixth anniversary with a birthday week starting Sunday. Patrons registering birth dates receive a free birthday ticket and the celebration runs through a three day debut of The Sun Also Rises starring Ava Gardner Tyrone Power Mel Ferrer Errol Flynn and Eddie Albert. The schedule includes The Giant Claw and The Night the World Exploded on opening, with The Prince and the Showgirl and The Peacemakers shown Friday and Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fox Theatre
Sidney Theatre
Fox
Darryl F. Zanuck
Ava Gardner
Tyrone Power
Mel Ferrer
Errol Flynn
Eddie Albert
Marilyn Monroe
Lawrence Olivier
Redistricting Units Directed In Eight Panhandle Counties
Nebraska State School Reorganization Committee ordered the dissolution of redistricting groups in eight of the eleven Panhandle counties including Cheyenne. Forty-three counties overall were directed to end work for failing to submit comprehensive plans. New elections were ordered in Morrill Devlld Kimball Sioux Box Butte Dawes and Garden Counties. Scotts Bluff submitted a plan while Banner consolidated Nebraskas counties into one district. Cheyenne sees ongoing consolidation but no county plan proposed yet.
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Nebraska Panhandle
Cheyenne
Semimnaittee
Uneyvcane
Morrill
Devdl
Kimball
Sioux
Box Butte
Dawes
Garden
Sheridan County
Scotts Bluff County
State Committee
Banner County
Nebraska
Cheyenne County
SHS Homecoming Tonight Features Game And Dance
Sidney High School holds its annual homecoming tonight with the Sidney Gering football game followed by a dance in the school auditorium. Admission is 25 cents per person, refreshments served, and the Homecoming King will be crowned with the Queen announced at halftime. All alumni and students are urged to attend both events.
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Sidney High School
Sidney- Gering
The
Alumni Association
Tonyes Stikker Dies at 75 Near Dalton Nebraska
Tonyes Stikker 75 died today at his Morrill County farm home ten miles northeast of Dalton after six months of declining health. Funeral set for Monday at 2 pm at Trinity Lutheran Church Dalton with burial in Dalton Cemetery. He born June 24 1882 in Hanover Germany to Conrad and Johannes Middens Stikker came to Cheyenne County in 1889 and to Morrill County in 1903. survived by son Allen, daughter Rose Cortelyou of Fairfax CA, four grandchildren, sister Grace Zorn and brothers Henry and Ben Stikker, all at the farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tonyes Stikker
Allen Stikker
Dalton
Trinity Lutheran Church
John Rupley
Dalton Cemetery
Craig
Mr Stikker
Hanover
Germany
Conrad
Johannes Middens Stikker
Cheyenne County
Morrill County
Broadwater
Hannah Eberle
Sidney
John
Allen
Rose Cortelyou
Fairfax
Calif
Grace Zorn
Henry
Ben Stikker
Steam Locomotives Retired Once More
Sidney reports the last of the steam locomotives on the Union Pacific Railroad have been retired again until at least next summer. Coal-burners were placed in retirement after a busy summer along the North Platte Cheyenne district as diesel units arrive and heavy freight slows. The UP typically keeps steam on the Sidney run only during peak freight periods.
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Sidney
Union Pacific
North Platte-Cheyenne
U.P
Sidney Run
Perioa
Union Pacific caps 1956 with Harriman Gold Medal
Union Pacific Railroad announced a perfect safety year for 1956 earning the E. H. Harriman Memorial Gold Medal for the best annual safety record among Class A railroads. The award, based on low casualty rates for passengers and employees, will be presented in New York on Oct 16, marking the 13th time UP has won since 1913.
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Union Pacific Railroad
E. H. Harriman
ICC
New York
Western Railroad
National Safety Council
Councils
Pale Western Worm Threat May Be Less
County agent Ivan Liljegren reports fewer Pale Western Cutworms in Cheyenne County wheat fields this spring based on light trap results from summer surveys in western Nebraska. Peak moth flight occurred Sept 12 to Oct 2, with few moths found. more Western Army Cutworms are expected next spring.
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Cheyenne
Ivan Liljegren
Nebraska
Jim Beyer
Sidney
Scottsbluff
Alliance
North Platte
Brandon
Cheyenne County
Liljegren
Ken Pruess
Nebraska Wheat Commission
Ed Block
Lodgepole
Airport Grading Work Nears First Concrete At Sidney
Nebraska State Aeronautics Department representatives checked progress on the Sidney Airport runway extension project. Materials for the concrete mix arrived, with 30 railroad cars of sand loaded and 130 more awaiting arrival. First concrete laying could occur before month’s end, according to observers.
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Sidney Airport
Nebraska State Aeronautics Department
Sidney
Stolen Radio Returned in Unusual Way at Sidney
A radio stolen from Western Auto in Sidney was recovered by breaking a plate glass window. Inside a brown paper sack was the radio with the note This is that stolen radio look inside. Police Chief Sol Willis suggested a father might have returned it after discovering his son’s theft.
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Western Auto
Sidney
Sol Willis
Two New Oil Sites Listed Over County
Cheyenne County reports two new oil well locations, Gemco Oil Co. Jobe No 1 near 22-16-50 and Baumgartner Oil Co. Rangers No 2 near 19-17-51, with activity at the Fox No 1 north of Potter. Morrill, Kimball, Banner and other counties show additional discoveries, tests, and plugged wildcats across several fields including Blotgett No 1, Rodman B-3, and Stuarco tied wells.
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Cheyenne County
Gemco Oil Co
Jobe
Potter
Morrill
Baumgartner Oil
Kimball County
Lewis Drilling Co
Stuarco Oil Co
Longfield
Chandler-Simpson
Sesw
Rodman Field
Kimball
Pan American
Lukassen
Ratliff
Banner County
Pure Oil Co
Clearview
Impressive Wheat Yields Boost Nebraska Harvest Outlook
Department of Agriculture forecasts Nebraska wheat at 76,148,000 bushels from 26.9 bu/acre, up from 62,852,000 bushels at 19 bu/acre in 1956. Panhandle counties, led by Cheyenne with 6–7 million bushels at 30 bu/acre, push the record yield amid harvest completion and ongoing sugar beet and corn prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Nebraska
Department
Year’s Blaze Loss Four Lives and Massive Damage
Sidney firemen answered 141 calls during the year as Fire Prevention Week closes. Four family members died in a home fire near the city, with total property damage estimated at 146690. The department reported 17 city and 20 rural damage calls, 48 city summonses, 28 outside-city summonses, and 28 silent calls.
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Sidney
Harvey Vizina
the Clily
City Ladder Truck Wrecked In Smash
The Sidney electric distribution department lost one of its three vehicles when an aerial ladder truck crashed with a 1938 car at the intersection of 18th Avenue and Elm Street at 12 04 p m. Ellsworth Ferguson 31 drove the truck and Mrs Maxine Montgomery 22 of Sidney piloted the other vehicle. The collision center occurred near the intersection as the truck rolled over damaging the ladder and exterior gear.
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Sidnay
18Th Avenue
Elm Street
Ellsworth Ferguson
Maxine Montgomery
Sidney
Montgomery Auto
Final Rites Set Here Saturday For L. T. Rezanina 89
Funeral services for L. T. Rezanina 89 will be at 9 am Saturday from St Patrick s Church. Rev Albert Albel to officiate with burial at Greenwood Cemetery. Rosary at 7 pm tonight at Gehrig and Son. Survivors include four daughters two sons one sister and many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Rezanina lived 70 years in Cheyenne County after moving from Austria as a child.
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St. Patrick’s Church
L. T Rezanina
Memorial Hospital
Albert Albel
Greenwood Cemetery
Gehrig and Son Funeral Home
Matt Treinen
P. J. Lenzen
Carl Mahr
Fred Wittig
George Messing
James Kucera
Rezenina
Cheyenne County
Sidney
Leonard T Rezanian
Austria
Plattsmouth
Neb
Cheyenne
Catherine Allaier
Walter
Ben Bolke
E A Bulmer
M Benedict
Columbia
Frances DeSoles
Santa Fe
Frank
Paul William
Benedict
Charles Jankovsky
Long Reach
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Cheyenne County Soil Conservation District
Wendel Mathewson
Mathewson
Conservation District
Sidney Rotary Club
Sidney Implement Co
Robert Townsend
First Methodist Church
Nebraska Wesleyan University
NWU
Townsend
SHS
U. P
Moscow
Lowell J. Williamson
Smith Field
Johnson
Grubbs Field
Willson Ranch
Wytex Oil Corp
Balderson Drilling Co
Warner
Panhandle
L. T. Rezanina
J. B. Baker
Baker’s Tire Service
Kiwanis Club
Rocky Mountain
Manitou Springs
Colo
Wyoming
Colorado
South Dakota
Baker
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