Sidney Nebraska Projects for 63 City Improvement Program
Sidney enters sixteen projects in its 63 City Improvement program with a prize bid. The scrapbook by Darrell Hunt highlights improvements across airport walkways, a new hotel rework, Christmas lighting expansion, a historic Fort Sidney marker, a free motor safety check, a municipal garage, new schools and a pool, skating rink, and a vocational school concept. Various clubs and city leaders coordinated the effort, including Kiwanis, Lions, Rotary, and the Chamber of Commerce, with community support noted from about 8,000 residents and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney
Nebraska
Darrell Hunt
Betterment
Panhandle Camera Club
Fort Sidney
Kiwanis Club
Fort Slaney
Elk’s, Lions and Rotary Club
10Th and
Elm
Jackson
Sidney High School
St. Patrick's Parish
Waymouth Field
Lions Club
Band
Legion Park Loony
Ghtinder of Commerce
Tring
Camarens
Arkreviedgemen's
Rand
Business and Professional Woman's Club
Chamber of Commerce
Acs
City of Sidney
The
Elk, Lions
Rotary
Kiayamis New Gar Dealers
Comery Cleo
Explorer Scouts
Hunt
Ivan Adams Louis Neuman
Ed Haupt
Laura Fish
Francis Hiner
John Elwell Jr
Dalton Community Betterment entry leads with Stramit plant gains
Dalton’s Nebraska Community Betterment entry lists 11 projects for Oct 1962 to Oct 1963. It highlights Stramit plant as a new Cheyenne County industry, improved utilities, sewer work, a new rural fire truck, street lighting, library Bookmobile, park upkeep, and youth activities, with a preface urging growth to keep the town thriving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dalton
Nebraska
Robert Ankeny
John Heizer
Dial
Dalton Telephone Cor
C J Carley
Gordon Carley
Stsamit
Lions Club
Gurley
Dalton and Weyer
Santa Claus
Lions
Fire Department
Dalton Business Tiew
Dalton Park
Garden Club
American Legion Post
Legion Hall
Stramit
Fooklet
Lee Nelson
Dalton Presbyterian Church
Jaycees To Decide On Community Project Next Tuesday
The Sidney Junior Chamber of Commerce will choose a funded community project at its next meeting Tuesday. The Jaycees have $2,000 available and seek suggestions from members, with ideas due at the meeting per co chair Jom Schilling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jaycees
Sidney Junior Chamber of Commerce
Jom Schilling
Scout Camporee Set At McGrew This Weekend
The second annual council wide Camporee by the Wye Braska Area Council BSA will run this weekend at Fred Hardt Jr ranch in McGrew starting today and ending Sunday A large number of Scouts and Scouters from Cheyenne County plan to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wye- Braska
Boy Scouts of America
Fred Hardt Jr. McGrew
Cheyenne County
Telegraph Printing Co. announces management shift to Waterson and Meysenberg
The Telegraph Printing Co. Inc announces Oct 1 for active management transfer to William C. Waterson and Henry J. Meysenberg. Current president Jack H Lowe and secretary treasurer Jarvis C Bush state Waterson and Meysenberg will handle administrative control and production while Mio Meverbure remains in advertising and Laws continues as editor in chief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Telegraph Printing Co. Inc
William C. Waterson
Henry J Meysenberg
Jack H Lowe
Jarvis C Bush
Mr Waterson
Meysenburg
Telegraph
Sidney Telegraph
Waterson
Turlock
Calif
Lowe
Bush
Mio Meverbure
Laws Will Emain
BPW District Conference Set for Sidney Sunday
Business and Professional Women's Club outlined plans for District 66's convention on Sunday September 9 at the Fort Sidney Hotel. About 60 members are expected, with Miss Marie Nicholson presenting program details at the gathering. A Motorcade Banner project linking BPW clubs statewide was announced and will reach Sidney October 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Business and Professional Women's Club
District 66
Sidney
Leonard Holloway
Laura Fish
Ruby Wood
Miss Nicholson
Chappell Club
Hospital Bazaar Booth
Edna Scriber
Shrubetn Schwasnick
Fort Sidney
Hospital Census Reaches New High at Memorial
Memorial Hospital reports a census of 65, the highest since its 1955 opening, with four patients in the TV room and one in the hall and seven babies in the nursery. Administrator Leo Boling cites growing use of facilities, not a flu surge, as the cause. The board studies a 20 bed addition, with a tentative plan to extend a wing along the TV room roof.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memorial Hospital
Leo Boling
Bolin
Hospitals Board of Directors
Nng
SBA Representative to Visit Sidney Next Wednesday
Bill Thomas of the Small Business Administration will visit Sidney on October 2 for interviews. Those seeking an appointment should contact the Chamber of Commerce office or Leonard Finne, a Nebraska SBA advisory council member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Thomas
Small Business Administration
Sidney
Chamber of Commerce
Leonard Finne
SBA Advisory Council
Nebraska
Bridgeport PTA Conference Set for Tuesday in District 13
Nebraska Congress of Parents and Teachers District 13 will hold its meeting October 1 at Bridgeport High School Auditorium. State Senators Fleming and Carpenter will speak. The event includes a film How Good Are Our Schools and a session on school accreditation levels to help 평가 schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska Congress of Parents and Teachers
Bridgeport High School
George Fleming
Sidney
Terry Carpenter
Scottsbluff
Edicaten
Eich
Anner
Tees
Nebraska
Migs
Nichol
PTA
Guticeme
New Parking Lot Opens Monday in Sidney
The city reveals a completed off street parking lot on Jackson at the former police station. It features 41 meters with 16 five hour or less and the rest two hour. Meter heads lack popping hands prompting self tracking of time. Bronze machines center lane handle five to twenty five cents. Total meters in Sidney rise to about 355 per Lt. Smith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Sidney
Lt. Smith
Rauner Speaks To Lions Club On Wheat Problems
Robert Rauner, president of the Nebraska Wheat Growers Association, spoke to the Lions Club noon luncheon at the Fort Sidney Hotel. He discussed progress in marketing surplus wheat since 1953 and urged support for new grain standards to balance supply and demand in western Nebraska. He noted the region’s 75 percent population impact and quoted concerns over export markets and pricing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lions Club
Fort Sidney
Robert Rauner
Nebraska Wheat Growers Association
Stewart Brown
Nebraska Wheat
Rauner
Wheat Growers Association
Nebraska
Senato
George Fleming
Fi Ney
Denver Region Industry Quest Proposed Here
Sidney area businesses urge local residents to help target Denver area industrial leaders for new job opportunities. A joint committee of the Chamber of Commerce Sidney Industrial Corp and Ft. Sidney Area Development Corp requests names of contacts and specific industries to approach before October 1 to attract expansion and subcontracting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney
Denver
Chamber of Commerce
Sidney Industrial Corp
Ft. Sidney Area Development Corp
Nebraska
United States
Unis
Mgrit
Chamber of Commerce Industrial Committee
Jury Called Monday for District Court Duty
Jurors are summoned to report at 9 30 am Monday for district court duty per district clerk Mrs. Ruby Henkle. One criminal case is on the docket with Prestling and District Judge John Shuns presiding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruby Henkle
John Shuns
Two Inmates Escape from State Penitentiary Wall
Larry Dye and Jerry Lewis escaped from the segregation yard of the state prison by using a bedsheet rope to scale a 10 foot wall near a barbed wire enclosure. They were captured minutes later about a mile south along US Highway 77. Charles McClelland, 34, failed to clear the wall and remained at large.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Penitentiary
Maurice Sigler
Larry Edward Dye
Jerry Lewis
Thomas
Dye
Lancaster County
Cheyenne County
Sigler
Charles McClelland
Douglas County
Leslie Tripp
Sipler
Tripp
Anc Uer
Wheat Growers Back New Grain Standards
The Nebraska Wheat Growers Association supports a proposed new set of grain standards from the USDA to boost overseas sales. Hearings on the standards are scheduled to begin October 16 in Kansas City, Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Nebraska
United States Department of Agriculture
Nebraska Wheat Growers Assa
Kansas City
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Sidney High
Mexico City
Dalton Community Betterment
McGrew
Nebraska State Journal
BPW
SBA
Bridgeport
Denver Region
Industry Quest
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