Important Oil Discovery Reported in Morrill County
Independent oil operator Sam Gary reports a discovery in Morrill County near the Lindberg field. The No 1 Lindberg well produced 120 feet of oil, 450 feet of heavily oil cut mud, and 45 feet of mud and water after tests from 5044 to 582 feet depth, with six feet of good sand in core. Location CSW NE Sec 5 17 52, three miles west of Lindberg Field, northeast of Willson Ranch Field, northwest of Gaylord Field. Swabbing and pumping tests are planned. Separately Strata Oil Co reports swab recovery at No 1 Olsen in Banner County with seven feet of good sand. testing to continue.
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Sidney
Nebr
Sam Gary
Nebraska
Morrill County
Gary
Lindberg
Cheyenne-Morrill
Lindberg Field
Banner County
Willson Ranch
Gaylord
Banner-Morrill County
CSW
Skull Creek
Strata Oil Co
Olsen
Ralston
State Offers Oil Leases In 12 Nebraska Counties At Auction
Nebraska announces an oil and gas lease sale set for November 7 covering 12 counties from Morrill to Custer plus about 33,000 acres. Major acreage centers include Perkins and Red Willow with notes of new drilling activity listed by the Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. Detailed lease copies are available from the State Board of Educational Lands and Funds in Lincoln.
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State
Nebraska
Morrill
Panhande
Custer
Perkins County
Box Butte
Panhandle
Arthur County
Arthur
Chase
Dawson
Grant
Hayes
Lincoln
Perkins
Red Willow
State Board of Educational Lands and Funds
Capitol Building
Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
Ulsted
Weather outlook fair through Tuesday
The forecast calls for fair weather through Tuesday with cool nights. Lows tonight are expected to dip to 25 to 35 degrees and daytime highs on Tuesday should reach 60 to 65 degrees.
Carley Named Vice President For Firemen
At the Nebraska Volunteer Firemen's Association convention in Norfolk Cheyenne County delegation reports good news and bad. Gordon F. Carley elected first vice president as Sidney bid for 1963 convention loses by coin flip. New officers include E. H Wolf Deshler president Don Dickmeyer Fremont second vice president Russell D Salak Schuyler secretary treasurer.
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Nebraska Volunteer Firemen’s Association
Cheyenne
Gordon F. Carley
Norfolk
Sidney
Alliance
Columbus
Willis King
Sidney Volunteers
E. H Wolf
Deshler
Don Dickmeyer
Fremont
Russell D. Salak
Schuyler
Walter Runden
Wahoo
Nebraska Association of Fire Chiefs
Scottsbluff
Raymond L Kramer
William B Sladek
Russell D Salak
Val Peterson
Nebraska
Denmark
Peterson
Russia
Free Countries
Falls City
Less Wheat Goes Into Federal Loans 1961
The Agriculture Department notes a sharp fall in wheat moved into price support for 1961 and a rise in corn put under loan. As of September 30, 230,194,797 bushels of wheat were loaned, down from 121,211,939 bushels a year earlier. The department offered no reason for the drop. Farmers may be hoarding wheat or selling more on the open market.
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Agriculture Department
Department
Public Information Meetings Updated for Wheat and Barley Programs
Farmers in Cheyenne County are urged to note new dates and venues for the final two public information meetings about the 1962 Wheat Stabilization and 1962 Feed Grain programs. Tuesday’s meeting moves to Sidney district courtroom at 7 30 p.m. and Wednesday’s to Potter Legion Hall at 7 30 p.m. The changes aim to maximize attendance after conflicts in both communities. A prior session was held in Lodgepole and a 7 30 p.m. Dalton Legion Hall meeting followed. The meetings explain eligibility including 10 percent idle acreage and diversion payments, and outline the barley program details with a Q and A period.
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Sidney
Potter Legion Hall
Rapp
Lodgepole
Dalton Legion Hall
Cheyenne County
Wheatbelt Annual Meet to Be Held at Dalton School
About 250 to 300 people are expected for the Wheatbelt Public Power District annual meeting this Saturday October 28 at the Dalton school auditorium. The all day event includes a noon luncheon program and entertainment with Dwight Nesmith Kansas State University engineering professor as principal speaker and Representative Dave Martin also scheduled to speak. Registration begins 11 a.m. followed by an electrification discussion. The noon lunch is free for customers families and guests. The afternoon business meeting will include entertainment guest introductions reports from President Wayne Bond and Manager Charles Ham a talk on The Farm City Future by Nesmith and door prize awards.
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Wheatbelt Public Power District
Dalton
Dwight Nesmith
Kansas State University Division of Engineering and Industrial Services
Manhattan
Dave Martin
Wayne Bond
Charles Ham
Nesmith
Beet Harvest Not Up To 60 Bumper Yield
The 1961 sugar beet crop near 60 percent harvested over the weekend. Weather reduced yield by about a half ton per acre from 1960 with lower sugar content, though sugar levels rose over one percent since harvest began. The Ovid factory logged a 24 hour record of 2,744 tons sliced on Oct 16 and averages over 2,300 tons daily. About 300 workers are employed at the factory and stations. Growers will be paid over $187,290 for last year’s crop, averaging about $1 per ton, totaling over $2,343,495 paid to Ovid district beet growers for the bumper 1960 crop.
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K L Johnson
Ovid
Jonnson
Co op Council Meets Tonite Executor Here
Gordon Busboom executive of the Nebraska Cooperative Council will be a guest at the Cheyenne County Co op Council annual meeting tonight in the Fort Sidney Motor Hotel banquet room. Dinner at 7 o clock. Reports on state activities and programs, plus election of a county board member.
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Gordon Busboom
Nebraska Cooperative Council
Cheyenne County Co-op Council
Fort Sidney Motor Hotel
Busbroom
Floyd H Miller
Lodgepole
Herbert Fecht
Dalton
Lee Foster
Gurley
Cheyenne County
Grain, Gas and Oil
Busboom
Kimball
Hay Springs
Alliance
55 Mile Gusts Sweep Panhandle in Autumn Wind
A crisp autumn wind lashed Nebraska's Panhandle with gusts up to 55 mph in Sidney on Sunday. Temperatures cooled, with 21 degrees recorded before dawn, while the day saw a high near 4d miles per hour midmorning and a passing cloud cover that dissipated later. The low pressure system formed over Canada, threatening snow in western Nebraska, but stalled north and instead dumped snow in Wyoming Idaho and Montana.
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Panhandle
Nebraska
Sidney
Canada
Here
Wyoming
Idaho
Montana
Don’t Dump Trash In Lodgepole Creek
Cheyenne County Sheriff's office warns the public against dumping trash in Lodgepole Creek near Krueger's Lake. Deputy Kermit Brum baugh says complaints report old ties, tubs, gunny sacks and rubbish in the stream. He notes the creek water is used for livestock and farm needs along the route.
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Lodgepole Creek
Cheyenne County
John Sewald achieves perfect entry in Telegraph football contest
Sidney resident John Sewald correctly predicted all 20 games in The Telegraph’s annual Football Guessing Contest for the first time since 1955, winning $25. He also nailed the tie-breaker with an eight-point Rice win over SMU, 21-13, though the real score was Rice 10 SMU 0.
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Telegraph
John Sewald
20Th Avenue
Sidney
Sewald
Rice
SMU
Lyle C. Olsen
J. H. McNish
Gary Boye
Kent Helen
Albert Kaus
Ken Mangels
Homer Rocontes
Ray Tsuruda
Chuck Colling
Bill Jallen
M. G. Roach
Paul Hakes
Roy Bradshaw
Gurley
Donald L. Buell
Ogallata
Oklahoma State
Nebraska
Liljegren Tops Land Judging At State Contest
Cheyenne County sent agents and 4-H members to the State Land Judging Contest in Lincoln. Paul Hutchison led the local team with 301 points, while Louis Loerns of Hitchcock County scored 346 as the high 4-H boy. Hitchcock County won top team honors with 963 points. Ivan Liljegren led Cheyenne County agents with 345 points, third in adults and fourth overall. Top judge was Gordon Vavricek. Marvin Hanson led the adults with 359 points. The Chevy nne team included Jim Andersen, Bob Runge and Mike Policky.
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Cheyenne County
Lincoln
Highman
Paul Hutchison
Louis Loerns
Hitchcock County
Ivan Liljegren
Nearly 1 400 Mentors Attend Nebraska Education Meet
Nearly 1,400 teachers are slated for the District VI convention in Sidney Neb this week with sessions sectional meetings a banquet and officer elections through Thursday. Officers include Nels Sullivan Sam Metcalf Sid Phelps and Eugene Hughes with current leaders Pedersen Tilotson Perett and Sterup among those presiding.
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Sidney
Nebraska State Educational Association
Nels Sullivan
Gering
Sam Metcalf
Valentine
Sid Phelps
Eugene Hughes
Chadron
Glenn Bosley
Hemingford
Paul Kipper
Oshkosh
Marie G. Perett
Russell Pedersen
Gordon
Dick Sterup
Bridgeport
T. R. Tillotson
Teachers to receive souvenir Telegraph at Sidney convention
Every teacher registering at the District 6 convention in Sidney this week will get Wednesday's Sidney Telegraph containing full program details and greetings from Sidney officials. With 1200 to 1500 teachers expected, circulation will rise. the paper has traditionally been given free to registrants.
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District 6
Sidney
Sidney Telegraph
The
Telegraph
Dies at 66. Sidney native Otto Kurz cremated in Denver rites
Otto K Kurz 66 a Sidney native died Saturday in a Denver hospital after a period of failing health. Funeral services will be Wednesday at 10 a.m. at St Patrick's Church with burial in Greenwood Cemetery. Rosary is Tuesday evening at the Gehrig and Son Funeral Home. He was born October 15 1895 in Sidney and worked as a car inspector for the Union Pacific retiring after a heart attack. Surviving are his wife Mary two brothers and five sisters of Sidney Boise and Hooper Neb.
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Sidney
Denver
St. Patrick’s Church
Vincent Pelster
Greenwood Cemetery
Gehrig and Son Funeral Home
Wos
Mr. Kurz
Otto K
Caroline Mader Kurz
Mary Speaker
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Dailey 78 Heart Victim In Lodgepole Rites
Bernard Francis Dailey 78 died Saturday at Memorial Hospital after a heart attack at home in Sund He had lived in Garden and Cheyenne counties 75 years, ran farms until retirement about 130 years ago then moved to Sunol Funeral services set for Tuesday 9 am at Sacred Heart Church in Lodgepole burial Greenwood Cemetery Sidney Rosary Monday 7:30 pm at Gehrig and Son Funeral Home Survivors include wife daughter Bernice Rowlan of Lisco son Robert J of Lodgepole six grandchildren one brother John E of Lisco and two sisters Mrs Margaret Bellin of Lisco and Mrs May Cain of Payette Idaho.
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Bernard Francis Dailey
Memorial Hospital
Sund
Garden
Cheyenne
Sunol
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Lo¢gardie
Robert Marron
Greenwood Cemetery
Sidney
Gehrig and Son Funeral Home
Rosary
Mr. Dailey
Applington
Iowa
Robert F
Ellen Noonan Dailey
Garden County
Anna Vacik
Bernice Rowlan
Lisco
Robert J
Lodgepole
John E
Margaret Bellin
May Cain
Payette
Idaho
Rabb's Address Corrected to 1777 Williams St
S C Stu Rabb, receiving medical treatment in Denver, is residing at 1777 Williams Street rather than 1771 Williams Street as previously stated. The notice confirms the updated address for Rabb.
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Rabb
Williams St
S C
Stu) Rabb
Denver
Williams
Moustronaut Feature Rates World Herald
The Omaha World Herald Sunday magazine wrote about a Moustronaut feature describing a successful launching of a mouse in a racket by Gary Schmidt of Sidney. The piece notes a similar prior experiment by Sidney Leleps and colleagues several months earlier.
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Omaha World Herald
Mostronaut
Gary Schmidt
Sidney
Sidney Leleps
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Pauline) Chambers
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Katherine) Walker
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