a a i hi State Society Lincoln, Nebr. Low tonight five to ten High tomorrow 30 to 35 cloudy tonight, and toWEATHER The The 50 Mile Zone $7 Outside 50 Mile Zone. $6.50 Per Year By Carrier. THE NEW DIRECTORS of the Sidney Chamber of Commerce are pictured above in conference with newly elected president Ralph Welch. Shown (in the usual order,) are Dean Wilson; Welch; Don Jorgenson (standing); Edward Bauman and J.
B. Baker. At left, Welch and his first vicepresident, Hollis Peratt. pictured: J. Hammond McNish, second vice-president, who was out of town.
All of the new officers take over the first Monday in January. (Thompson Photo). Welch Installed As President Of Sidney Chamber Group Ralph Welch was installed as president of the Sidney Chamber of Commerce "at the final quarterly meeting of the year last night at the country club. The well-known Sidney insurance man was the only nominee for the office, stepping up from first vicepresident. Ati the same time, members attending the meeting gave priority in 1957 projects that encouragement of industrial development and highway work.
The group also expressed interest in the proposed United Fund campaign which is now taking shape. Strangely, in the balloting for projects most needed in 1957, there was not a single vote for the community hotel. In past years this has been high on the list. Other officers who will form the "official with Welch are: Hollis Peratt, first vice-president. J.
Hammond McNish, second vice-president. B. Baker, Don Jorgenson and Dean Wilson, directors for twoyear term. Edward Bauman, director for one-year term. The new officers actually take, over the first Monday in 1957.
A unique method was used in determining projects which should get emphasis in 1957. J. Fred Thompson outlined the procedure, Chris Milius Will Be Speaker Here At Farm Meeting $5 Per Year Inside In 1873 then had the membership divided off in groups of six. Each made recommendations. Then the cumulative result was tallied.
Greatest interest was shown in: 1. A continuation of Sidney's efforts to attract industry. This 1 in- I cluded suggestions for planning, acquiring of industrial locations and formation of an industrial corporation. 2. Highway 30 improvement and relocation.
Members felt the plans of the state and federal government should be closely followed and that every effort should be made to keep the No. 30 and' inter-state routes as close together as possible. 3. United Fund drive. There was strong sentiment that this ieda should be given a trial here.
It also was noted that the orin the direction of cooperation ganization has made long strides among retailers in staging special retail promotions. Continuation of this program was urged. The need for a public lounge in the downtown section also was noted. This has been brought up many times in past years. Ralph Thompson, retiring president, outlined called accomplishments for results in 1956.
He then of the election and declared Welch the new president. About 50 people, attended the meeting. United Fund Group Talks Of Committee Talks have been held this week by members of the temporary committee appointed last week to select a permanent committee for formation of a United Fund Drive ization in Sidney. Purpose of the talks was to discuss ways and means of procedure, and to consider the names of several leading Sidneyites who would be eminently qualified for leadership in the fund campaign. Rudy Munderloh chairman of the temporary board.
He said his committee had made some good progress for in its job of selecting a permanent membership. Personnel of the permanent board may be completed within the next week or so, Munderloh said. Several persons have been interviewed. "We don't want to make the mistake of simply appointing people and then finding they aren't willing to devote time to the drive," Munderloh said. The United Fund proposal calls for a "once over" fund drive, probably the fall of next year, to cover all acceptable charitable purposes for the calendar year 1958.
The various charities would have an opportunity to meet with the board in advance and present their proposed budgets. Sidney Telegraph by Partly morrow. degrees. degrees. Established A well-known farm leader will be the speaker Wednesday, Dec.
19, when the Cheyenne County Farmers Union holds its annual meeting. He is Chris Milius, of Omaha, long-time head of the Nebraska Farmers. Union who is retiring from office. The meeting will be held in the Legion Room of the Sidney City Auditorium, beginning at 10:30 a.m. Lunch will be served.
In addition to an address by Miljus, new officers will be elected and other business conducted, according to Harold Brauer, organization secretary. Atomic Energy Van Appearance Delayed The "Atoms for Peace' van originally scheduled for Friday and Saturday showings in Sidney has been postponed to Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 18-19. The informative exhibit on the uses of -atomic energy will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
on the west side of the city auditorium. Created by the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, the display is on nation-wide tour under the sponsorship of the Jaycees. If You Don't Receive CAR JE '-DELIVERED TELEGRAPH by 6 Please Call 4939 PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY AT 830 11th Avenue, Sidney, Nebraska Nebraska, Wednesday, December 12, 1956 Second Authorized Class at Mailing Sidney, Privileges Nebraska.
Sidney, State's Oil Production Hits New High Volume 83-No. 44 50,000 Barrel Per Day Mark Now Exceeded Crude oil production in Nebraska--most of it coming from the Panhandle--exceeded the 50,000 barrels per day mark for the first time last week. Average daily runs hit 50,539 barrels, according to field sources. That increase is spurred on by the pressing Western European need for oil in the face of Middle Eastern import curtailments due to the Suez crisis. Production one week ago was 48,859 barrels of oil daily from Nebraska.
And that was a record high total. Along with the peak in production today comes the report of another wildcat oil strike, the third of the week. Latest field opener is Braden Drilling Co. Stuarco Oil's Wykert No. 1, NE NE of 5-16-56 in Kimball County.
A sand drill stem test from feet had gas to the surface minutes, and 4,950 feet of fluid, of which 3,850 feet of slightly mud-cut gassy oil and 1,100 feet of highly oil and gas-cut mud. Braden officials told The Telegraph they intend to complete the discovery as a flowing well. This is 16 feet of oil sand in the Wykert, of which 14 feet is reported to be of a productive nature. In Cheyenne County, two wildcats were plugged. After setting production casing on the wildcat State No.
1, southeast of Gurley, Petroleum, has decided to abandon the hole. There was no production after perforation of the casing. Shell Oil quit on the wildcat Nelson No. 1, south of Potter on the SE NW of 8-13-52, after testing a faint sand show, and is moving now to the wildcat Johnson A No. 1, NE NE of 11-12-53.
New Record A new drilling record in western oil and gas fields seems assured for 1956 even if the December completion figure falls below the monthly average for this year. Petroleum Information reported Tuesday 41,499 wells were completed in 14 western states in the first 11 months. The 1955 total, a record, was 41,753. The percentage of successful wells for the 11 months was just short of 50 per cent. Western Nebraska ranks third in total completions.
It had 841, with 289 of them successful oil wells and one gasser. Colorado, with 1,138 and ming with 854 completions are No. and 2. Colorado Logan County received four oil well locations from a total of 16 locations announced for a five county area by the Colorado Gas and Oil Conservation Commission. (Please Turn To Page Two) For Building.
Tougher View May Be Taken On Variances In Sidney A hint that variances for construction will be harder to obtain in the future was sounded Monday night by Sidney City Council. The council granted a $30,000 building permit to Ray Maley to construct a home on the southwest corner of 15th Ave. and King St. That permit contained a variance for permission to have only a 12 foot yard and 12 foot front yard, the dwelling facrear, ing east on 15th Ave. The present city zoning ordinance requires larger front and rear yards and the new zoning ordinance, which will go into effect Jan.
10 has even tougher qualifications about front yards, rear yards and side yards. The home to be built under the permit given Monday would cover more than 25 per cent of the lot area, a variance not granted in the new zoning code. Since the council in the past has been very lenient about granting variances, it saw no justification for refusing Maley a permit. But Councilman C. B.
Dorwart suggested that a new line be drawn when the new zoning code goes into effect. "We will then have a good excuse" to reject permits asking variances, he suggested. Councilman Ferris Preble said he saw little sense in paying money (to S. R. DeBoer, of Denver) for having a new zoning code drawn up and then have the council disregard such a code by granting variances.
In other business, the council set down its next meeting, Dec. 17, for the sale of $103,000 in paving district bonds and $51,000 in intersection paving bonds. Those bonds would go to finance construction in Paying Districts 63, '65, 66, 67, 73, 47 and 75. The bonds--without interest--would be $17,000 annually from 1959 to 1967, with the exception of an $18,000 payment in 1964. Permission was given city officials to add a 14 by 14 foot addition to a small house owned by the city at the municipal airport.
This house is now occupied by Jim Morris, airport field attendcnt. There was discussion, but no action, on two other matters. Disqualification Date The council talked about setting a date after which its offers for damage payments in regard to the 13th Ave. underpass construction would become void. If settlement isn't made by that date, property owners would have to monies.
sue the city to get any Thus far, three owners have settled, another case is pending a possible appeal to the Nebraska Supreme Court and five other cases are not settled. YOU COULDN'T ASK for a better pet than said Rolland Banks, of Sidney. Lucky is a raccoon which Banks and his son snared two weeks ago while hunting along the North Platte River. Lucky and the Bank's dog, Pal, make excellent companions. And the raccoon declines to stray, when permitted the run of the Bank's back yard.
(Thompson Photo) Commercial Air Line Service Is Predicted For Sidney Next Year Joseph Feuerborn Jr. (Thompson Photo) Joe Feuerborn Is National Finalist Joseph Feuerborn son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Feuerborn, of 2019 Elm has placed as a finalist in the competition for the National Merit Scholarship for 1957. The test was taken on Oct.
24, national testing day for the Merit Scholarship examination, and only the top five per cent of senior high school classes are permitted to take the test. A choice of several colleges is the privilege of the winners. To determine the college and choice of subject matter, Joe will take the aptitude test of the College trance Examination Board at Sterling, on Jan. 12. A student at St.
Patrick's High School, Joe is also working on the nation-wide science talent search project. This involves a special student project that has a particular interest for the scientifically inclined student and Joe's special project is linear ion accelerator. He will also qualify for the national science aptitude test in the next two weeks. King's Daughters Drive Is Still Lagging At $855.56 Total of contributions received. by King's -Daughters is now only $855.56.
Sidney's needy families will be hungry and cold at Christmas time unless the public responds to the appeal from King's Daughters for its Christmas fund. The organization met last night to make plans for charities in accordance with the money available, but that does not mean drive is coming to an end. All contributions, large or small, will be welcome, and should be mailed or brought to The graph office. Make. Checks payable to The King's Daughters.
The job of helping those in need cannot be accomplished without money. And the money must come voluntarily from those who are more fortunate. Sum previously acknowledged: $616.66. Anonymous, $1. Kathryn Taylor, $5.
Mrs. Thomas E. Kokier, $5. Grace M. Schulte, $10.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy A. Wells, $5. Anonymous, $5.
Mrs. Julia O'Connell, $10. Anonymous, $10. Mable Olinger, $5. U.
P. Oldtimers, $5. Mr. and Mrs. C.
W. Hornaday, $10. Knights of Columbus, $10. Mr. and Mrs.
0. J. Weymouth, $5. W. P.
Ackerman Agency, $10. St. Paul's Lutheran Ladies Aid, $10. V. F.
W. Auxiliary, $100. Chapter FR, PEO, $5. B. P.
W. Club, $8. Mrs. Clara A. Hendriks, $10.
A friend, $10. 'Pancake Day Set Saturday A Pancake Day snonsored by the Methodist Men's Club will be held Saturday, 15, from 7, a.m. to 7 p.m. in the basement of city auditorium. Menu feature is all the pancakes that can be eaten, for $1.00 Proceeds will go to the Methodist Youth Camp Norwesca.
Sidney will have commercial air' line service some time in 1957 if the recommendations of the Board of Aeronautics is approved in Washington. Rolland Harr, state airport director, and Rush Clark, attorney for the board, have been handling Nebraska's bid to the Civil Aeronautics Commission. A request for a statewide, feeder network has been made. Harr predicted yesterday that the request would be given an O.K. by officials in Washington, probably in time for 1957 service.
"The big question is how much feeder service we will get," Harr commented. Nebraska is one of three states in the country that does not have local airline service, Harr said. Recommended An attorney for the Civil Aeronautics Board, James Deegan, who attended all hearings in Omaha and Washington on the Nebraska request, recommended local serv- ice for the state. The attorney's recommendations paralled the Nebraska request ex- cept in one instance. Deegan recommended against a route from Casper, to Omaha, via ron, Valentine, Ainsworth, Norfolk and Columbus.
CAA Examiner Curtis Henderson, who will make the final recommendations, has, in statements, indicated a favorable attitude toward the need for local service in Nebraska. Only 10 Shopping Days Left 'Til CHRISTMAS! Weyerts Man Dead At 64 Fred C. Thompson, 64, of the Weyerts Community, died early yesterday morning at a Scottsbluff hospital. He had been ill only two weeks, having been hospitalized in Scottsbluff on Dec. 1.
A brief service will be held Friday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the Craig Mortuary, to be followed by services at 2 o'clock from the Immanuel Lutheran Church at Weyerts. Rev. E. G. Ihrig will officiate, and burial will be in the Weyerts Cemetery.
Fred C. Thompson was born Oct. 23. 1832, at Weyerts, which was nostoffice. in those davs.
He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Thompson. He lived all his life in the Weyorts community, where he was engaged in farming. His present home is only one-half mile from the place where he was born.
Mr. Thompson was a life-long of Immanuel Lutheran Church, having been baptized in intancy and confirmed in his youth. lie was a member of the church council for nearly nine years, and also a member of the District C3 schocl board for two. terms, or six years. In 1917.
he was married to Miss Anna Jurgens, who survives him, iS do three sons, Arthur and Carl, of Lodgepole, and Lawrence, of Dalton; three grandchildren, and one brother, George, Thompson, of, Sidney. He was procoded in death by his narents, Mrs. George Miller, and two brothers, Harry and Will. The family requests that memorinl contributions be given to Immanuel' Lutheran Church. Pallbearers will be William BartUng, Roland Jurgens, Thomas Thompson, Robert Jurgens, Thomas Miller 'and Perce Dimick.
Honorary pallbearers will be Martin Borges, Herbert Rabe, Herman Bruns, Ubbe Bruns, Charles VanDeVoorde, Cornelius Weyerts and H. W. Kugler. Basically, the State Aeronautics Department proposal would do this: Temporarily suspend trunk line air service by United Airlines at Scottsbluff, Grand Island and North Platte. Replace Braniff at Norfolk.
Would Serve 13 Cities Remove Western Airlines at Scottsbluft and Alliance. Establish a local airline feeder network, Beatrice, Hastings, Kearney, McCook, Imperial, Sidney, Grand Island, North Platte, Scottsbluff, Alliance, Chadron, Ainsworth and Norfolk. The feeder network would channel passengers and freight into Lincoln and Omaha via twin-engine DC-3's 1 making several flights daily, and provide connections with key cities in surrounding states. Nebraska now is writing its brief on the matter. This must be submitted to Henderson by Dec.
20. Up 10. Per Cent Latest CAA figures, for the fiscal year ending last July 1, show a 10 per cent increase in passengers hauled in Nebraska over fiscal 1955, or a total hike of 682 passengers. The passenger total for fiscal 1956 was 233,708. Aeronautics Director Stephen Gilbert said this increase is below the national figure of a 15 per cent hike during the same period.
Gilbert said Nebraska would exceed a 15 per cent hike in one year if feeder airline service is inaugurated. 12 Teams Measure County's '57 Wheat Twelve two-man teams currently are working out of the Cheyenne County Agricultural Stabilization and 1 Conservation office, measuring the land in the which was seeded to wheat earlier this fall. Aerial maps are assisting the measuring teams. Don Rapp, manager of the county ASC office, said it is hoped that all of the measuring work will be He said are measuring finished by of the month. themind between six and eight sections daily.
Will Mail Cards Sometime in February farmers will be cards informing them of allotment and mailed, their total land land planted in wheat. "By April 1," said Rapp, "a farmer can be cleared away on his acreage." He can then decide whether to get rid of his excess acreage wheat by plowing it up and stay in compliance with his allotment, or grow excess wheat. Tax Distributions Are Seen Shortly Distribution of tax money will be going out to school districts and 1 urban governmental units in the "near Cheyenne County Treasurer, M. M. Inhelder said this morning.
Inhelder Saturday was appointed treasurer by the county commissioners. He fills the vacancy left by the death Dec. 2 of Treasurer Herb Stevens. There was a monitor of the state auditor's office, Carl Lyon, in the county treasurer's office this morning for a quick accounting of checks and records. 'There has been no breakdown of tax distribution for the past several months.
Inheldar said. Accordingly, there has been no distribution of funds, as per normal basis, either. "There is plenty of money to Inhelder said, "and it will be going out in the near future." Services Held In Texas For Sidneyites' Father Oren F. Chesebro, 92, the father of Mrs. Glen Spearow and Mrs.
Vera Watson, of Sidney, died last week at McAllen, after an illness of six weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Spearow and Mrs. Watson have been in McAllen for some time because of Mr.
Chesebro's illness. Funeral services were held at McAllen. Mr. Chesebro, a former Sidney resident, was a retired salesman and Methodist minister. He left here in 1928, but had returned several times to visit his children.
Other survivors include a son, Harold, of Neligh, Nebr. W. L. Miller Dies In Denver Rites Friday William L. Miller, 83, died yesterday morning in a Denver hospital where he had been a patient the past weeks.
He had been in failing health for, nearly a year. Funeral services will be Friday morning at 10:30 o'clock from the Gehrig and Son Funeral Home. Rev. Henry Monnich will officiate, and burial will be in the family plot in Greenwood Cemetery. William L.
Miller was born in Philadelphia, in 1873, and moved to Sidney in 1918. He was employed by the Union Pacific Railroad in Sidney from 1919 to 1939, when he retired and moved to Denver. He made his home in Denver until the time of his death. Survivors include his wife, Mae; four daughters, Lola, Katherine, Theira and Vae Elaine; seven grandchildren, two grea ren; and one brother and four sisters, all of Omaha. Mrs.
Schwartz Dies Tuesday Mrs. Frederick L. Schwartz, 55, died yesterday evening at her home at 910 Elm after an illness lasting one year. Funeral services will be held in Sidney later this week. The Gehrig and Son Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
The family requests that memorial contributions be made to Muscular Dystrophy. Helen Vida Hite was born Aug. 1899, at Kimball daughter of George and Rose Keller Hite. She was married to Frederick Laury Schwartz on Aug. 6, 1918, in Kimball.
Mrs. Schwartz was a member of First Methodist Church in Sidney, Survivors include her husband Frederick: five daughters, Evelyn Burt, of Lyons, Louise Banks, of Rushville, Helen Houser, Sidney, Leila Stone, of Culbertson, and Ada Gray, of Grand Island, and three sons, Leonard and Harold, of Sidney, and Gary, of Culbertson, Neb. GRAIN MARKETS Following are prices quoted for wheat today by local elevator sources. No. 1.
2. 02 per bushel..
