United Fund Kickoff Aims For Eight Sidney Groups
The Sidney United Fund kickoff is Monday with a goal of 12,825 for eight member organizations. Men meet at 7 a.m. and women at 9 a.m. for breakfast and briefing as volunteers distribute materials. Fund distribution supports Red Cross Boy Scouts Girl Scouts USO Kings Daughters Salvation Army Muscular Dystrophy and Travelers Aid.
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United Fund
Sidney United Fund
Fort Sidney Motor Hotel
United Way
American Red Cross
Boy Scouts
USO
Kings Daughters
Salvation Army
National Travelers Aid
Red Cross
Sidney
Milk Price Hike Pressures School Lunch Costs
Inflation drives higher lunch costs at Sidney schools with milk rising by a cent and a half in half pint cartons, adding about 3200 to annual expenses. Bread butter cheese and some surplus items are scarce, while the 25 cent lunch rate may not be sustainable. Superintendent Pedersen notes menus are financially risky, yet a rate increase is avoided to ease parent burden.
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Sidney School
Russell Pedersen
Pedersen
Pedestrian Safety Award Highlights Sidney Progress
Sidney earned the American Automobile Association Pedestrian Safety Citation for no pedestrian fatalities in 1965. City officials and Warren Burkholder of the Cornhusker Motor Club attended brief ceremonies, noting five consecutive years without a pedestrian fatality and sharing safety program analyses and school safety patrol initiatives. The article also covers the opening plans for Nebraska’s second vocational-technical school at Sioux Army Depot, directed by Merle Rudebusch, with staff details, facilities, and enrollment plans across Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado.
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Sidney
American Automobile Assn
Warren Burkholder
Cornhusker Motor Club
Ward
Sol Willis
George Felsch
Four More Well Sites Announced In Panhandle Oil Series
Pioneer Nebraska oil exp lorer Chandler and Associates of Denver announce wells 3 through 6 in a Panhandle wildcat series. No. 1 Gustafson in Kimball County, No. 1 Brashear in Scotts Bluff, No. 1 Tomich A in Kimball, and No. 1 Russell Post in Kimball. First two wells: a dry hole and a second drilled in Banner County. Several other fields and potential tests outlined.
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Nebraska
Panhandle
Chandler and Associates, Inc
Denver
Gustafson
Kimball County
Brashear
Scotts Bluff
Tomich A
Russell Post
Banner County
Olsen-C
CSW
Cheyenne County
Kame
Dalton
Kimbark Exploration Ltd
Sundance Oil Co
Robert L. Cramer
Sidney
Lodgepole
Flah
Sandhills Oil and Development Co
Holt County
W. F. Gettel
Kimball
Empire Drilling Co
Wichita
Hitchcock County
Kelley
CNE
Empire
Frontier
Sioux County
State Board of Educational Lands
Frontier County
Barger
John Seyfang Dies at 98 After Eight Decades in County
John A. Seyfang, 98, longtime Potter resident, died Thursday at Memorial Hospital. Born in 1868 in Germany, he came to Cheyenne County in 1886, married Minnie Mater in 1894, and worked as a section foreman for Union Pacific. He helped build the Potter American Legion Hall, ran a dance hall, and served as a bank director. Surviving are four children, eleven grandchildren, and twenty-three great grandchildren. Funeral Saturday at First Evangelical Church, Potter, with burial in Potter Cemetery. body lying in state at Gehrig and Son Funeral Home. Burial in family plot. Memorials designated to the church.
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John A. Seyfang
Cheyenne County
Memorial Hospital
Nebraska
Mr. Seyfang
First Evangelical Church
Potter
Paul Reimers
Gehrig and Son Funeral
Brownson
American Legion Hall
Memorial Rest Home
Ben Folkers Rites Monday
Funeral services for Ben Folkers formerly of Sidney will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Sidney. Burial in Greenwood Cemetery beside his wife, with survivors including son John of Denver and daughters Lenora Chapman Helen German and Mary Ann Rosenthal of Omaha. Craig Mortuary in charge of arrangements. A fuller obituary to follow in Monday's Telegraph.
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Ben Folkers
Sidney
Denver
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
Henry Monnich
Greenwood Cemetery
Germany
Cheyenne County
Gurley
John
Lenora Chapman
Helen German
Mary Ann Rosenthal
Omaha
Henry Johnson
E. B. Foster
Craig Mortuary
Phase out reduces use at Sioux Army Depot
Sioux Army Depot has advanced its stage out program to where fewer than fifty of the 1,200 buildings are in use, according to Lt. Col. Cyril P. Williams, commanding officer. The payroll stands at 232 workers as of this week.
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Sioux Army Depot
Cyril P. Williams
Col. Williams
War materials move through Sidney at high rate
Traffic of war materials through Sidney by rail and highway reaches peaks unseen since the Korean conflict. Articles including trucks jeeps tankers tanks and other equipment move daily, presumably bound for Vietnam as the United States struggles to gain progress in the Far East war.
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Sidney
Viet Nam
United States
Far East
Injured Marine Corps Medic Recovers Aboard USS Repose
Bob Smith son of Mr and Mrs Ervin Smith is hospitalized aboard the hospital ship USS Repose after breaking his ankle in action in South Viet Nam. Serving with the seventh Marines as a hospital corpsman in the DMZ front lines, he expects seven to eight weeks of hospitalization. He went overseas last April.
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Bob Smith
Ervin Smith
Repose
South Viet Nam
Seventh Marines
USS Repose
FPO
San Francisco
Cali
Bob
Frost Tonight Prompts Chill Weekend Forecast
Weather data from the Federal Aviation Agency flight service station notes temperatures fell to 39 degrees as frost is predicted tonight and the weekend is expected to be chilly. The report highlights a sharp cold snap for the area.
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Federal Aviation Agency
Weather Flight Service
Panhandle Weather Forecast Frost Tonight Then Clearing
Frost and freezing temperatures expected tonight with clearing skies and continued cold conditions. Saturday will be generally fair with lows near 25 to 30 and highs around 60 to 70. Precipitation chances near zero. Courtesy Frontier Airlines.
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Panhandle
Frontier Airlines
Is Uncle Sam Culprit In Wheat Price Loss
Wheat was quoted at $1.52 a bushel in Sidney yesterday, down 18 cents from $1.70 a few weeks ago. With five million bushels of 1966 wheat in Cheyenne County, a paper loss tops $900 thousand for producers. Weak demand and CCC wheat shipments to markets like Denver and Omaha undercut prices, despite farmer efforts to keep wheat out of the market.
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Sidney
Cheyenne County
Uncle Sam
Department of Agriculture
Secretary of Agriculture
Denver
Omaha
Pre-Centennial Meeting Planned For Monday Noon
A noon luncheon at the Fort Sidney Motor Hotel banquet room will discuss plans for the October pre Centennial promotion. Sidney retailers and county centennial committee members are invited, with Ann Morrissey of Hastings Advertisers presenting a Centennial Booth.
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Fort Sidney Motor Hotel
Sidney
County Centennial Committee
Ann Morrissey
Hastings Advertisers
Vo Tech School Near Sioux Army Depot Gains Army Equipment
The new vocational technical school at Sioux Army Depot is expected to receive about 1.75 million dollars worth of Army equipment, not counting land and buildings that will become state property for the school. Senator Fleming argued to Nebraska lawmakers that locating the second state supported vo tech here would capture property and equipment as the Army plans to abandon the depot.
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Sioux Army Depot
Army
George H. Fleming
Sidney
Nebraska
Sen. Fleming
Sioux
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Travelers Aid
Dale Kindred
Carl Schmidt
Wm. Fankhauser
Glenn Houtz
Elon
Merle Rudebusch
Western Nebraska Vocational Technical School
Rudebusch
Industrial Council
Sidney Chamber of Commerce
Depot
Dale J. Carlbom
Chadron and
Delmar Maas
Colorado State University
Ft. Collins
Lyle McIrvin
Chadron State College
Vincent Havorka, Jr
Randolph
Ford
Wyoming
Colorado
Veterans Administration For Veterans
John Seyfang
John A, Seyfang
Sam
Vo-Tech School
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