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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1971
Page
7
The two day Potter Days festival opens with entries accepted and a Potter Gurley football game at 7 30 p m tonight. Dix crowns Miss Dix at halftime as Potter Day proceeds with parade at 10 30 a m tomorrow and a concert at 11 30 a m followed by a free barbecue at noon at Railroad Park.
Western Plains Livestock will not conduct a sale this weekend per manager Sarge Sargent who is out of town on business. The announcement notes the absence of the sale due to his absence.
The USDA invites public comment on a proposed revision to Food Stamp Program rules to ban cash change for purchases and require credit slips for up to 49 cents. 50 cent coupons remain usable. The proposal also shifts cash deposits for bottle returns to cash paid by purchases.
Braulio Baeza and Allen Jerkens led the 1971 thoroughbred meeting with multiple winners. Baggie Cornell tied for second among trainers with 13 victories each. Also noted, Bill Drescher of Conger NY, son of the late Yankees catcher, will enter St John’s University after graduating Clarkstown Central High School with a .448 batting mark.
Dr. S. R. Rathbun, newly named Chief of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Hot Springs VA Center, previously held the same post at the VA Hospital in Livermore, California. A Nebraska native, he earned a 1950 BA from Chadron, MD in 1957, and completed rehabilitation residency at Colorado. He and his wife Carolyn plan to reside at the VA Center with eight children aged one to 20.
The Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission in Sidney sent a field representative to eastern Nebraska this week to verify reports of oil shows in a Blair near Washington County well. Spokesman says tests indicate twenty percent rock porosity, significant but not proof of commercial oil or gas deposits. logs and field inspection awaited.
Lawrence Thompson says county ASCS center provides information on the wage price freeze but cannot act on complaints or grant exceptions. Direct inquiries should go to the IRS district office in Grand Island Nebraska 0001 or seek ASCS help to file properly. The Cheyenne County ASCS office at 11th and Alvarado Road Sidney ZIP 69162 offers assistance and contact by phone 254 4507 with staff Thompson or Bremer.
Lincoln aeronautics chief Nicholas Smeloff and Gov. Exon file with the Civil Aeronautics Board to halt Frontier's planned 50 percent service cuts on the Omaha to Denver corridor via Hastings Kearney and McCook. Smeloff argues the action violates state certification and contradicts federal subsidy goals.
About 240 leaders from nearby communities viewed a Fox Theatre preview of For Pete's Sake a film tied to the Billy Graham Crusade. The Sept 22 29 public premiere will be in Sidney with showings in 14 Nebraska cities.
Officials of the Federal Land Bank Association of Sidney Nebraska met in Scottsbluff on September 8 with Federal Land Bank of Omaha leaders to discuss developments in cooperative lending. About 100 representatives from 11 associations in western Nebraska attended, including Cheyenne County directors.
Millard Musil of Potter as President Don Block of Lodgepole as Vice President Oren V Clary of Lewellen Lawrence Engstrom of Kimball Robert Nelson of Bridgeport and Manager Gary Hessler are listed. In Dallas a barking dog disturbing a neighbor is a misdemeanor.
Gov. J. J. Exon released a letter detailing an investigation into four Indian deaths in Alliance jails over the past year. He said the deaths were not due to intentional or unintentional criminal negligence but highlighted severe socio economic issues facing Nebraska Indian citizens. The probe began after Irene Blackfeather became the fourth Native American to die in local confinement, with three deaths in Alliance city jail and one in the county jail.
The Keen Teen Center hosts a Saturday night dance with live music by Open Roads. New membership cards will be issued at the event.
Joseph L Whites announces Marion Whitaker of Sidney as a member of the VFW National Safety Committee. The panel meets Sept 26 in Kansas City Missouri. Whitaker is Cheyenne County service officer and junior past state commander, joining a safety program praised for Drive to Survive and Lite-a-Bike initiatives.
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