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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1966
Page
1
The Telegraph invites readers to visit its plant during National Newspaper Week open house Saturday from nine to four. The web offset press will run briefly at 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Refreshments are served and twenty five prizes will be awarded to registrants.
Cheyenne County Farm Bureau held its annual meeting in the 4-H Building electing George Heumann as president and Halsey Fuller as vice president with new ladies chair Mrs Fuller. Delegates to the State Convention were named and resolutions urged flood control road safety Saturday office hours and county road improvements. The group also supported higher taxes on intoxicants for local clinics and hospitals and backed Farm Bureau positions on wheat and CCC sales and bond policy.
Marius Christensen remains in critical condition at Memorial Hospital after suffering a stroke Monday night. Attending physician provides updates on his fragile status.
Students can still register for the opening term at Western Nebraska Vocational Technical School. Registrations accepted through Friday Oct. 14. The term began Oct. 3 and progress has been smooth. Officials cited a National Director of the Selective Service System news release saying headquarters has issued no directives discriminating against post high school vocational students regarding draft status.
Sidney Lodgepole Dalton and Chappell high schools host homecoming events with football games coronations and dances Friday night. Sidney begins with a 2 30 parade route change from 18th to 14th streets then to 14th to 19th lines, ending at courthouse square for a pep rally featuring speaker J H McNish and three class floats.
The City of Sidney will take bids until Oct 18 for painting 44 buildings at Sioux Villa housing project. The Benjamin Moore Co. won with a bid of 1216.50. The council also approved selling buildings north of the airport, condemned for highway rerouting.
Mrs. C A Story died this afternoon at a Denver hospital after heart surgery performed earlier that morning. No details were available at press time. Arrangements are under the Craig Mortuary directorate.
Dr. Paul Adkinson announced Cheyenne County and regional dentists will run a free oral cancer clinic Sunday Oct 23 at Central School from 1 to 4 pm. Adults over 20 will be examined for neck glands mouth and throat. biopsies possible. Volunteers from American Cancer Society Nurses Association and local groups will help. An orientation for local workers is set for Thursday at Fort Sidney Motor Hotel with two more training meetings next week.
Final confirmation on opening and closing dates for the remainder of the year was given at a Chamber of Commerce retail committee meeting. Night openings are planned during Christmas season with extended hours December 16 to 17 and 19 to 23. Thanksgiving closes November 24. Veteran's Day Friday November 11 may see Sidney stores closed morning, then open 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. Moonlight Madness is October 27 with 5:30 p.m. close and 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. reopens. costumes will be included. Free Saturday parking extended through October. Christmas promotion set for October 24 at 9:30 a.m. at Chamber office. all Sidney businessmen invited.
Joe J. Huckfeldt of Gering was chosen new president of Group VI Nebraska Bankers Association at the Monday meeting. Mel Adams of Ogallala was named vice president and Tom H. Olson of Lisco secretary treasurer. About 250 attended the banquet. Charles W. Jarvis spoke on Prescription for the Happy Life. The convention site for next year will be Scottsbluff.
Authorities seek the thief or thieves who stole Hal Jacksons motorcycle from the Jacks ons apartment behind Osage grocery over a week ago. It was found Tuesday night near Bernies Packing Plant southwest of Sidney in a cave dug into a bank, camouflaged with branches. The bike had no keys, suggesting it was pushed to the cave by the culprits, discovered by local youths and their dog.
Boys aged 8 through 13 will join the annual punt pass kick contest at the high school football field Saturday afternoon at 1 30. Harold Chaffee Sidney High School football coach directs the event for Gibson Ford Mercury the local sponsor. Local contest leads toward district regional and national competition with a national winner as the goal.
The Sidney Board of Education investigates a non graded elementary approach where children advance by individual needs rather than age. Site visits to Lakewood, Colorado Springs, La Junta, Wray, and Kansas schools inform the study, with a Denver Institute planned in November and a final report to the board.
Nebraska moves toward the last phase of harvest with a forecast of a standout 1966 crop year. Corn, sugar beets, grain sorghum, and soybeans are being harvested or planted, with moisture content around 17 percent for sorghum and many regions reporting good yields. Winter wheat stands look strong, moisture in topsoil growing short in parts, and livestock conditions remain favorable overall.
A gear burned out on one unit of the Sidney Telegraph press early today limiting output to four page sections instead of eight. The paper expected repair before the next press run on Friday.
Anton Nelson 75 of Peetz Colorado died Tuesday at Memorial Hospital in Sidney after a short illness. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. in Sterling with interment at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Survivors include six sons six grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Mrs Nelson preceded him in death in 1965. He had lived in Memorial Rest Home the past year. He was born April 4 1891 in Lodi Illinois and later moved to Nebraska before settling near Peetz. He served as a director for Rocky Mountain Farmers Union and on the Wheatbelt Public Power District board.
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