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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1966
Page
1
Fair tonight and Saturday with lows 35 to 45 and highs 70 to 80. Precipitation chances are zero. Five day outlook shows temperatures a few degrees above normal through Wednesday, with early warmth and little change thereafter. Daily highs near 80 and lows around 45 to 55.
Ki Oats Pup Tent No 1 of the VFW Military Order of Cooties plans to invite the state council to hold the Grand Scratch state convention in Sidney next May. Local leaders Neal Craig and Leo Schaf will fill key posts while regular meetings proceed, expecting about 150 attendees for a two to three day event.
A speaker questions generational naming, tracing the lineage from Dr. George P Taylor VII of Sidney to his son George P Taylor VIII in Minneapolis and his grandson born August 24, exploring how the numeral sequence should apply. The exchange raises issues of tradition and numbering in family names.
The United Fund board cut the year quota to 12 825 after last year’s 12 000 haul fell short by about 3 000. Agencies listed include American Red Cross 2 000 Boy Scouts 4 100 Girl Scouts 1 900 King's Daughters 1 900 Salvation Army 1 200 Muscular Dystrophy 600 USD 125 Traveler's Aid 505 and expenses 950. Kickoff is set for Monday Oct 3 with a 7 am breakfast at Fort Sidney Motor Hotel and a 9 am meeting for assisting ladies.
Nor mand W Oberndorfer 41 died from a gunshot wound in a farm barn near Potter. He had survived a skull fracture from a pump accident in 1966 and wore a plastic head plate. Funeral at St Pauls Lutheran Church Monday at 2 pm with Rev Albert Prouty. burial in St Paul Cemetery. Craig Mortuary oversees arrangements. Survivors include his widow Adella and three daughters Barbara Charlene and Peggy plus siblings and in laws.
Fall rain showers saturated the countryside this week from the southern Panhandle to Potter and north Dalton. Totals varied. Chappell near 1.5 inches in one day, Lodgepole about .94 for Wednesday and Thursday, with other rural areas reporting up to three inches. Replanting wheat may be needed in some sections while rapid growth raises potential problems in Chapell. Observers at Gurley, Dalton, Pot ter, Mud Springs, Sidney, and the FAA station logged multiple moisture events, including traces and small inches.
New ownership sale is under way this weekend at The Ben Franklin Store in Sidney. The new owner is Preston Hogeland, formerly of Chadron. He invites the public to come in and get acquainted as scores of bargain items are featured as inducements during the sale.
Over 100 students enroll for the fall term as day classes begin at 8:00 a.m. Monday September 18 at the Sidney Business Institute. Night classes start September 27, with 20 percent male and 80 percent female students. The institution offers accounting secretarial and IBM key punch training, plus continued education through its Kansas City parent school Draughn's School of Commerce.
A crippled children's clinic will be held at the Sidney Elks Lodge building tomorrow Saturday sponsored by Nebraska Services for Crippled Children. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. and doctors start examining at eight. Registration closes at 10:30. An orthopedic team includes Dr. Fritz Teal Dr. James R. Scott Miller and pediatrician Dr. P Wayne Marsh. They will examine children for orthopedic handicaps cerebral palsy cleft lip and palate and eye conditions amenable to surgery.
The Sidney Chamber of Commerce renovates city entrance signs. They will be repainted with a new slogan Warning: Sidney will steal your heart. The signs will declare Sidney as the home of the Western Nebraska Vocational Technical School.
The quarterly Sidney Chamber of Commerce meeting has been moved from next Tuesday night September 20 to October 4 to avoid conflict with the Dalton Fall Festival. The change applies to all attending members and notices went out citywide.
Cheyenne County opens two day autumn festival with Potter Days and Dalton Fall Festival. Highlights include wheat harvest pride, irrigated crop yields, farm exhibits, parades at 10:30 a.m., races, free movies, a 7 p.m. softball game, a Saturday dance, and a lighted evening parade in Dalton with cash prizes for floats.
Architects Hahn Dunn Gardner of North Platte prepare plans for a new Cheyenne County courthouse with bids set for Oct 27 and completion anticipated March 1, 1968. Estimated cost is 445500 for construction and demolition of the old building. Weather may delay work but officials expect progress and moved offices.
About two thousand bushels of wheat were stolen from a granary on the Don Meier farm near Lorenz. County Attorney John Peetz said no suspects have been questioned and no arrests planned. Authorities warn farmers to check storage facilities and report losses or attempted entries immediately.
Sidney Public Schools have received approval for a Title One program under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act for students in grades seven through twelve. The senior high program, led by Lloyd Kinison, receives 11,276 for 23 students and runs through the 1966-67 term, with total Title One funding at 23,800 and remaining funds used for a summer term next year mirroring the elementary program.
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