United Fund Seeks 15550 With Whirlwind Drive
The 1963 United Fund of Sidney and Sioux Army Depot launches advance gifts and personal solicitations aiming to raise 15550 for seven agencies. Kickoff breakfast set Sept 17 at Ft. Sidney Motor Hotel. Eddie Haupt chairs employee efforts, Bob Decker residential, Jack H. Lowe advance gifts. Agencies include Red Cross 3100 and Boy Scouts 5000.
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United Fund of
Sidney
Sioux Army Depot
D. J. Garcia
Garris
Bennie Hochmann
Ft. Sidney Motor Hotel
Eddie Haupt
Bob Decker
Boy Scouts
Boy Scout
United Fund
Boy Scouts of America
Organizations gain training via Wyo Braska area council
The report notes the Boy Scout Training and Supervision benefits from the Wyo Braska Area Council while Girl Scouts seek 1800 dollars, a modest ask for the work done by volunteers led by mothers. Travelers Aid receives a token budget, with most of last year’s fifty dollars spent locally, justifying the United Fund board’s support.
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Wyo-Braska
Girl Scouts
Sidney Girl Scouts
Guiding Star Council of
Travelers Aid
Sidney
United Fund Board
Patterson Liston Title Fight May Be Seen On Sidney Cable
Sidney Community TV negotiates with Teleprompter to bring the Patterson Liston championship via closed circuit on Tuesday Sept 25. If successful, it will be shown to Sidney cable subscribers and others under same ownership in Kimball Gering Alliance Neb Sterling Colo. Rights sought for 19 million. Fight held at Comiskey Park Chicago. Sidney uses AT&T line and microwave to feed the local system. Pope says details to be announced next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney
Community TV Co
Teleprompter
Sonny Liston
Kimball
Gering
Alliance
Nebraska
Sterling
Colo
Patterson-Liston Fght
Comiskey Park
Chicago
At&t
Sidney Community TV
Onty
Pope
Sidney Ommunity TV
Addion
Ex-Cons Now In Omaha Jail
Three former federal inmates are jailed in Omaha after escapes from a Texas penitentiary. Glenn W. Arnold, Robert C. Berry, and Melvin Junior Welch were taken here by U S Marshals with bonds set at 14000 each. They face charges of transporting a stolen vehicle, transporting two shotguns, and attempting jail escape. Also involved is Hal Buckles, 35, jailed on breakin and auto theft. The group was tied to breakins at Peetz Potter DeMers Son Elevator in Brownson and at Kimball. They nearly escaped from Cheyenne County jail Tuesday night.
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Glenn W. Arnold
Houston
Tex
Robert C. Berry
Waco
Melvin Junior Welch
Beatrice
Omaha
U. S
J. L. Thorpe
Ofville
Lodgepole Theft Charge Admitted
Harry Lee Buckles 35 of Omaha admitted breaking into Ewerts pool hall at Gurley and stealing a car. Identified by Lodgepole teenager in a Saturday Lodgepole break in he had denied until Thursday. Arraigned before County Judge and bound over to district court on $1,000 bond.
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Duncan
Lodgepole
Harry Lee
Buckles
Omaha
W. Schulz
Oshkosh
C.’W. Smith
Cattle inspectors stationed across western Nebraska says senator
Senator George H. Fleming said certified cattle inspectors are available at Alliance Sidney Kimball Chappell Bridgeport to inspect cattle before shipment to the Denver market. He noted Wyoming pulled out, making it uneconomical to run a Denver office, with the state favoring local inspectors. Farmers pay inspection fees. state covers mileage.
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George H. Fleming
Nebraska
Denver
Sidney
Wyoming
Keith Schneider
Alliance
Keith Campbell
Kimball
Leo O’hare
Chappell
Leonard Carrol
Bridgeport
Jim Long
Sen. Fleming
Frank Marsh
Lincoln
Dalton Queen to Be Announced at Fall Festival
The 1962 Dalton Fall Festival will crown the Dalton Queen after a talent pageant with 15 candidates in the Dalton School Auditorium at 8 p.m. An 11 a.m. tea in the Royal Room will honor the finalists, with Beta Sigma Phi sorority leading the event.
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Dalton
Dalton School
Royal Room
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
Problem Of Packing Plant Odors Studied
City and Nebraska Meat Packers Inc officials work together to solve odors from the packing plant northeast of the city. City Manager Tom Coffey says progress is being made and a solution will come soon. Meat Packers officials share concerns and are diligently addressing the issue.
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Nebraska Meat Packers, Inc
Tom Coffey
Meat Packers
Coffey
Weather outlook with mild afternoon and cooling rain
Fair and warm this afternoon with increasing clouds this evening bringing light rain. Night will turn colder with a low around 40 to 45 degrees and tomorrow's high near 50 to 60.
September events brighten Dalton Potter County calendar
September calendar features Potter Days on Sept 14 15 and Dalton Fall Festival Sept 17 18. Queen pageant Sept 8 selects Fall Festival queen. Firemen banquet Sept 15 at Gurley and Auction Dollar Days Sept 28 29 in Sidney. Western Nebraska United Chambers dinner Sept 20. Plus Minutemen Missile panel Ak Sar Ben awards and Scottsbluff meeting on community development contest. Sidney plans area meeting within 100 miles and new low cost housing near Memorial Hospital. City garage and water dept offices under construction north of Thomas Lumber Co.
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Dalton
North Platte Valley
Gurley
Sidney
Chamber of Commerce
Western Nebraska United Chambers of Commerce
Wmcc Board of Directors
Fort Sidney Motor Hotel
C. B. Dorwart
Scottsbluff
Tom Coffey
Memorial Hospital
City
Water Department
Thomas Lumber Co
Electric and Water Department
John Theis 78 Lodgepole resident dies after illness
John William Theis aged 78 a Lodgepole resident since 1921 died early Thursday morning at Western General Hospital Scottsbluff after four days in hospital and weeks of declining health Funeral services set for Saturday at 2 pm from Lodgepole Methodist Church with Rev George Goodwin officiating Burial in Lodgepole Pleasant View Cemetery Craig Mortuary in charge Memorial gifts to Lodgepole Methodist Church His wife Anna survives with one son Lester H Lodgepole three daughters Ethel Brandl Dorothy Hokom Esther Feikert one brother Elmer Theis Plainview four sisters Mamie Saathoff Susie Jost Rosie Dinnesen Elsie Brandl fourteen grandchildren and one great grandchild named among the Survivors He was born January 11 1844 in Plattsmouth Neb to Nick and Mary Holmes Theis He married Anna Nigbaum October 10 1906 in Pierce Neb The couple lived in Plainview 1888 to 1921 then moved to Lodgepole. He retired from farming about ten years ago.
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John William Theis
Lodgepole
Western General Hospital
Scottsbluff
Lodgepole Methodist Church
George Goodwin
Buriet
Lodgepole Pleasant View
Craig
Thies
Plattsmouth
Neb
Nick
Mary Holmes Theis
Anna Nigbaum
Pierce
Anna
Lester H
Ethel M. Brandl
Dorothy Hokom
Esther F. Feikert
Kearney
Elmer Theis
Plainview
Mamie Saathoff
Susie Jost
Wessington Springs
S. D
Rosie Dinnesen
Portland Ore
Elsie Brandl
Creighton, Neb
Sidney High Pep Club Car Wash Is Saturday
The Sidney High School Pep Club will hold an all day car wash on Saturday at the Safeway Store parking lot on west Illinois Street. Cars will be washed and cleaned for one dollar to help replenish the club's treasury. Washing crews will operate from eight a.m. to five p.m. and students will pick up or deliver cars if owners entrust them.
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Sidney High School
Safeway
West Illinois St
Pep Club
County schools enroll over 4300 students in 1962
Cheyenne County school enrollment reaches a county total of 4824 with 265 rural pupils to be confirmed later. Sidney leads with 2043 enrollments, St Patrick’s Academy 576, and other districts including Potter, Dalton, Lodgepole, Gurley, and Sunol showing varied class by grade totals.
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Cheyenne County
Sidney
St. Patrick's Academy
Potter
Dalton
Lodgepole
Gurley
Ordville
Sunol
Lorenzo
St. Paul’s Lutheran
Seventh Day Adventist
Robert Scoville
Potter Public School
Albert Mason
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Sioux
Hochman
Salvation Army
Red Cross
Kings Daughters
United Fund Organization
Sidney Celemaph
Fareed Hs. Socom
Nebr
P.O
Aper
Is the United Way
Kenny Paxton
Clinton
Federal Penitentiary
Sydney
Dalton Queen
Western Nebraska Observer
Minuteman
Western Nebraska
John Theis
Sidney High
County
New High
L. E. Lydiatt
Pfad
Iiindergarten
Sen Vis
Supt
Francis Cortney
William Schott
ST. Paul's Lutheran Scool
George W. Gerdes
St. Paul’s School
Asses
Gerdes
Donna Schlessslmans
Ledergarten
Wal Johnson
Seventh Day Adventist Grade
Wayne Blount
Frank Reed
The
Sioux Army Depot School
Josie Klitzing
Steve Janda
Jack Cook
Telegraph
Sidney and Dalton
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