Nebraska harvest set to smash records as drought eases
Warm dry weather boosts 1958 harvest in Nebraska with sugar beets sorghum and corn riding near record yields. State crop observers report total production up 21 percent from last year and 54 percent above the 1947-49 average as corn and soybeans push toward all time highs while irrigation and drying efforts continue amid favorable conditions.
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Nebraska
Panhandle
Monthly
Federal Division of Agricultural Statistics
State Federal Division of Agricultural Statistics
Veterans Day program eyed for Sidney with joint VEW and Legion plan
The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post discussed a joint Veterans Day program with VEW and the American Legion set for November 11 in Sidney. The event will include a speaker and star medals for Korean and World War II veterans, with a community supper to follow. The next meeting moved to November 10 due to Veterans Day.
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Prelinaini
Sidney
Veterdas‘of Foreign Wars
VEW
American Legion
Sidney ‘Merchants
Yeats
Willbecomes
Ae EL
Adata
Wee ‘Chettman
Leten
VFW
Wilber Wiedman
Charles Colling
Jim Paxton
Falls City
Frank Baker Heads UP Oldtimers Union at Sidney
Frank G. Baker was elected president of the Union Pacific Oldtimers at the organization's annual convention in SUN. ALLEY Idaho. He has worked for UP since 1941 and has served in several departments over about 40 years. New auxiliary officers were also elected and installed.
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SUN
Paul H. Murray
Rawlins
Wyo
Women’s Auxiliary General Committee
City Manager Murray Fuller Heads to Dallas Meeting
City Manager Murray Fuller departs today for Dallas Texas to attend the annual International City Managers meeting as part of his official duties.
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Murray Fuller
Dallas
Texas
Lodgepole Day Set for Long Beach Nov 2
Annual Lodgepole Day to be observed at noon November 2 at Houghton Park Long Beach located at Atlantic and Harding south of Artesia Blvd A pot luck dinner will be held attendees asked to bring a main dish salad rolls or dessert Coffee and table service provided For more information write Maida Edwards 7959 Chase Ave Los Angeles Calif
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Houghton Park
Long Beach
Sterling Youths On Two-State Bicycle Escape
Two 13-year-old Sterling youths rode 55 miles across Colorado and Nebraska in a bid to skip school. The boys started in Sterling and ended about 8 p m in Dalton Nebraska where Cheyenne County Sheriff W W Schulz helped repair a tire. He then returned them to Sidney where a sister of one boy and an undersheriff were waiting to take them home.
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Sterling, Colo
Sterling
Dalton
Neb
Cheyenne County
W. W. Schulz
Sidney
Peetz
Sheriff's Office
Weather favorable for football games across the region
The forecast calls for mild, summer like conditions with highs near 66 to 75 and low temperatures in the 30s to 40s. Forecasters expect continued pleasant weather with 75 to 85 highs on Saturday, little precipitation, and temperatures 5 to 10 degrees above normal for the area around Sidney and statewide readings in the upper 60s to low 70s.
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Sidney
Scottsbluff
Alliance
North Platte
Lodgepole to Vote on Bonds for School Expansion
Lodgepole residents vote next Tuesday October 21 at the town hall on a 267000 bond issue to add eight classrooms a music room library gym and home economics space plus 27000 for remodels with a 55 percent approval threshold. Enrollment has grown from 150 in 1935 to 263 today and ballots run 8 am to 8 pm with tallying in Sidney under County Clerk Ike Pindell.
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Lodgepole
Lodgepole School
Pollinz” Place
Laban Lydiatt
Lydiatt
Sidney
Ike Pindell
Wheat Growers Meet in Ogallala Reports From Europe
Nebraska Wheat Growers hold their regular monthly meeting at the Ogallala Elks Club at 10 a.m. Monday. Bob Rauner of Gurley will report on two European trade fairs in Munich and Vienna. Marx Koehnke and John Reynolds from the Lincoln office will discuss the Alliance state convention and a wheat county membership drive.
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Bob Rauner
Europe
Ogallala
Nebraska
Rauner
Munich
Vienna
Elks, Club
Alliance
Marx Koehnke
Association
John Reynolds
Lincoln
Reynolds
Three Roger's Truck Line Drivers Fined for Overweight Load
In Cheyenne County Court Friday morning three Roger's Truck Line of Sidney drivers were fined a total of 150 dollars for overweight loads. Each paid 50 dollars plus costs. The Safety Patrol listed the trucks as 5550, 4990 and 4210 pounds over gross or about eight, seven and six percent respectively.
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Roger
Sidney
Cheyenne
Safety Patrol
Twenty Thousand Dollars Per Day Flows to Panhandle Mineral Owners
Panhandle oil activity remains brisk with Kimball and Banner counties reporting new field wells while more than twenty five rigs operate in the region. Statewide daily production tops around seven thousand barrels, delivering over one hundred fifty thousand dollars in gross value and about twenty thousand dollars daily to land and mineral owners. Weather-friendly autumn conditions bolster drilling pace as explorers expand in Kimball Banner and Cheyenne counties amid several wildcat and offset developments.
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Nebraska
Kimball
Banner
Panhandle
Kimball County
Rocky Mountain
Cheyenne
Farrell
Sunburst Petroleum Co
Haack
Dix
Exeter Drilling Co
Morrill
Scotts Bluff
Garden
North Platte River
Sioux
Sheridan
Box Butte
Old Timers 17 At Sioux Given Awards
Col George C Abert presents length of service awards to 17 Sioux Ordnance Depot employees for federal service with the Ordnance Corps and other agencies. Top honoree Thomas E Crabb has 38 years. Next include Dixon F Rhoades 27 years and a list of 15 more recipients with 20 to 24 years. Soon 462 depot workers with 10+ years will receive similar honors.
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Sioux Ordnance Depot
George C. Abert
Ordnance Corps
Thomas E. Crabb
Crabb
Lebanon
Kansas
Hastings Naval Depot
Sioux Or
Dixon F. Rhoades
Benjamin G. Bole
Clarence A. Sullivan
Wilbur A. Wiedman
Phillip L. Bennett
Earl W. Schultz
John A
August Lukken
Grover C. McAlexander
Ray B. Brown
Grain Market Wheat Price Quoted By Local Elevator
Local Elevator sources quote wheat at 1.56 dollars per bushel today. The price reflects current market trading and may influence nearby sales and futures considerations.
Alliance Man Heads Panhandle Officials
T. P. Weed of Alliance was elected president of the Panhandle County Officials Assn at a one day Elks Club meeting in Alliance. Weed is a Box Butte County Commissioner and succeeds Pat Hennnessey as clerk of the district court. Ira Radke of Chappell is vice president and Eunice Rhein of Alliance was re elected secretary treasurer. Over 100 persons attended.
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Alliance
T. P. Weed
Panhandle County Officials Assn
Weed
Box Butte County
Pat Hennnessey
District Court of Alliance
Ira Radke
Chappell
Eunice Rhein
Elks Club
Oil Progress Week Banquet Ends Saturday in Sidney
The tenth annual Oil Progress Week program closes in Sidney with a 7 30 p m banquet at the Youth Center after a social hour at the Elks Club from 6 to 7 p m. A 12 member Casper industry cast presents humor with the skit The Plight of the Prairie. Tickets available at the Chamber of Commerce or from Oil Progress Week Committee members led by R E McMillen Ohio Oil Co Sidney district manager.
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Youth’ Center
Sidney
Elks Club
Casper
Wyo
Chamber of Commerce
15Th
Ilinois St
Oil Progress Week
R. E. McMillen
James Keating
Darwin Carley
Elwood Pederson
J. H. McNish
Paul L. Martin
Clarence Dorman
George Richards
Don Lyon
L. A. Lindstrom
Clare Hess
Bob Cramer
O. F. Outright
Milt Corbin
On Progress Week
Bridgeport School Bond Vote Seeks 228000 Buildng
Bridgeport voters prepare to decide on a 228000 bond issue to build a seven classroom school for K through third grade plus a gymnasium with seating for 900. The plan includes removable seats and facilities for dressing rooms offices and storage. Proponents cite oversized enrollments and crowded facilities in Bridgeport, a town with large school enrollment for its size.
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Bridgeport
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Omaha
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Nampa
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Harold Jolliff
North Platte, Neb
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U.S. Weather Bureau
U. S. Weather Bureau
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Sidney United Fund
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Stuarco Oil Co. Inc
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Potter
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Lewis Brothers
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B. F. Allison
Mintken
Torggson
Banner County
Nebraska Drillers and Mar Oil Co
McDaniel
Pan American Petrolutum
Olsen
Lewis Field
Morrill County
Ohio Oil Co
Lane
S. D. Johnson
Champlin Oil and Refining Co
Champlin
Scotts Bluff County
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Alliance Man
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