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WPP mt i IN OLi'i MEBR XXXX Daily Times itV Proposals 'Hashed' Here By 100 Persons PRICE FIVE CENTS Audit Bureau of Clmilntlon 1 IINk 'finical lorn Id New Service Vol 70 No 67 rnT THE ALLIANCE (NEB) DAILY TIMES-HERALD FRIDAY AUGUST 17 1956 Nearly 100 persons turned out1 should insist on coverage County Agent Sets Up Fairgrounds Office drawn according to Communications Commisr Musfeldt said get value received for Nominee Stevenson Thursday night to hear and' ask questions about television posslbil-itles for Northwest Nebraska The group gathered in the City Auditorium as the crowd was too much your maps being Federal sion sure you 11 'Hands Off Policy As A Five Seek Veep Post Musfeldt also predicted it would be 10 years before any television company would try to put a local station in Northwest Nebraska with intent of supporting it by local revenue Asked to give an opinion on thej Hay Springs satellite site Musfeldt said it appeared to be an excels lent location with a clear line for signals from Rapid City and adequate elevation to cover most or this area He said it probably coulc radiate a 200 microvolt signal al-l though 100 microvolts gives any modern TV set a good picture He thought the Hyannis area should receive sufficient signal strength from Hay Springs about 70 miles away Also present was Helen Duhamel owner of KOTA-TV Shd did not talk to the crowd But aft for Room A the scheduled site Mel Dahl chairman of the Chamber of Commerce television committee explained that the meeting was aimed only at presenting all the facts available on various TV propositions not to reach any decisions --He introduced three other speakers: Clell Elwood Hay Springs who told about the Northwest Nebraska Television Association Inc and its purpose Dr Robert Bowen who reported on the proposals of KHOL-TV Holdrege and KF8C-TV Cheyenne and Lew Wollaston who outlined the proposed Hay Springs satellite of KOTA-TV 'Rapid City Years Later in the evening Robert Musfeldt chief engineer oj KOTA-TV igave several points ofcaution He 5 i 1" ging it out for delegates and a host of others were toying with the idea of getting into the brawl It was all doing Less than an hour after the convention gave him an overwhelming victory for the presidential nomination Thursday night he threw the No 2 race open by refusing to state a choice As a result nobody could be sure CHICAGO (UP) Democrats jumped into a battle royal today over choice of a running mate for Adlai Stevenson The eighth session of the convention was called to order at 12:20 pm CDT In the first wide-open vice presidential scrap in modern political convention history four senators and a big city mayor were slug said thaL whatever plan is adopt- erwards she told The Times-Iler-ed it is -essential to get advice aid some of her plans including from competent TV engineers Flower Show Set Saturday No Veep On First Sidewalks Contract WiTo-Frickfe If The Fricke Construction trailer is equipped with telephone public address system electricity refrigerator food and two seeretaries One of the secretaries Patsy Brown is pictured at the entrance with Royce Reynolds son of the county agent The other' secretary is Verla Turek Telephone number at the extension office is 57R2 Both Reynolds and Home Demonstration Agent Margaret Schluckebier will be working at the Fairgrounds all through next week and their Alliance offices will be closed The Fair opens Thursday August 23 (Times-Herald Photo by Dick Manley) IIEMINGFORD The Box Butte County Extension Office now is established stylishly though temporarily in Heming-ford Pictured above is the trailer in which County Agent John Reynolds has set up shop at the Fairgrounds until the County Fair closes Sunday! August 26 The an increase of broadcasting power from 1500 to 75000 watts within a few weeks a 50-fold boost This should provide an Excellent picture in the Hay Springs area where a fairly good signal already is received Mrs Duhamel said Wollaston explained the Hay Springs plan this way: To erect a 300-foot tower with a 6-bay antenna radiating 36 kilowatt power from a 6-kilowatt transmitter Estimated cost: $100000 KOTA-TV would take an option to buy the station in five or six years with Mrs Duhamel personally guaranteeing the purchase The price would be set in accordance with depreciation Vates set by an independent appraisal firm1 Russia Backs Egyptian Seizure At Suez Parley Home Ec Ag Judged For Fair and Flowers for Happy will be the theme of the annual Flower Show to be held at the Alliance City Auditorium on Saturday The show is being sponsored by the Alliance Garden Club with Lawrence president serving as flower show chairman Two special displays will be featured They will include a stage setting by Howard Claimer of the Alliance Floral Company and a garden setting by Warren Maxwell superintendent of the City Park Special music will be featured on the hour every hour during the afternoon and early evening Mrs Inice Dunning will be in charge of this part of the program The doors will open at 8 am and judging will begin at 10 am The doors will be locked during the judging period The show will continue until 8 pm Other special features will include two junior classes and an educational display by the Future Farmers of America CONVENTION HALL Chicago (UP) Democrats fighting out in open convention a many-sided vice presidential contest failed today to nominate a running mate for Adlai Stevenson on the first ballot Sen Estes Kefauver of Tennessee piled up the greatest number of votes but his 483(4 was far short of the 686(4 necessary to nominate In the lull before the second ballot was started managers tried to get delegations to switch to their men The first ballot gave these votes Kefauver 483 Sen John Kennedy (Mass) 304 Sen Hubert Humphrey (Minn) 134(4 Sen Albert Gore (Tenn) 178 Mayor Robert Wagner of New York 162(4 Gov Le Roy Collins of Florida iy2 Gov Frank Clement of Tennessee 13(4 others 91 not voting 3 Nebraska voted all 12 for Kefauver Members of the Northwest ka Television Association would receive portions of the: sale price in ratio to their membership contribution A membership of $25 a family is being discussed KOTA-TV now broadcasts from pm td midnight It uses NBC CBS and ABC films but is not yet on a network for live program Next year the station plans to bull micro-wave relay to Denver Dr Bowen reported that Chey- the 1956 convention would wind up its business tonight as planned Before dawn four men had bid for the vice presidential nod At mid-morning Sen Albert Gore (D-Tenn) made it five Gov Frank Clement his ambitions for the -spot in favor of the senator Alabama first state on the convention roll call list voted to yield to Tennessee for nomination Tennessee Snubs Estes The man with the biggest organization and a headstart over the rest of the field was Sen Estes Kefauver also of Tennessee He has been snubbed by his home state delegation in this convention but he claimed to h'ave piled up some 350 votes in other delegations It will take 686 to win Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas refusing to go after the job himself said he believes the top are Kefauver Sen John Kennedy (Mass) and Sen Hubert Humphrey (Minn) Lt Gov Jared Maddux of Tennessee nominated' Gore He reminded the delegates that Gore is co-author of the highway construction bill passed by Congress this year He said Gore and completely destroyed the Dixon-Yates Arizona yielded to Ohio for Michael DiSalle former price administrator to nominate Ke fauver DiSalle said the post of vice president has grown in importance in recent years He said ihe people now feel that the vice president must be able to step into the presidency He said that no one has the heart of the as has Kefauver Connecticut sent Gov Abraham Ribicoff to the platform to place Kennedy in nomination Ribicoff said Kennedy would appear to young people and a which would appeal to independents He told the delegates that Kennedy has never lost an election 5 -Minute Limit The convention agreed to limit nominating speeches to five min-tHtes and to authorize only two seconding speeches of two minutes each It also agreed to ban demonstrations in the race for the vice presidency Backstage there was high confusion as politicians lined up to notify the platform staff that they would nominate various candidates Senators state chairmen and party big-wigs huddled in every available meeting room scribbling nominating speeches LONDON (UP) Russia threw its weight behind Egypt in the Suez Canal dispute today charging that the old Suez Canal Co was a of colonialism in Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitri Shepilov defended the legality of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel seizure of the canal and BY DICK MANLEY TimesHerald Managing Editor parley be organized with Egypt included Shepilov addressed the 22-nation Suez conference after Foreign Minister Christian Pineau of France proposed that the world recognize Egyptian ownership of the canal and eventually turn all profits from its operation over to Egypt in return for international control French Bar Control The French offer went consider ably further than did US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in his opening speech Thursday but it still refused to accept stand that Egypt alone would control the vital waterway Shepilov suggested appointment enne KjPBC-TV is studying the reneWed his demand that a new feasibility of raising i tower fcti Scottsbluff KSTF-TV to perhaps Let Box Butte Road Projects Dealers Told Packard Will Keep Building Salvation Army's Drive At $3205 feet and raising power from 12 to 30000 watts Cheyennes offici here early this week suggested a price of $45000 for the tower to be contributed by people of the area An engineering study of this plan should be ready in aboat weeks Bowen quoted Cheyenne officials saying they coiild tower in about two months of a six-nation commission to or Information Received in Alliance ganize the new Suez parley He said it should be composed of Egypt India United States Britain France and the Soviet Union three from each camp Nasseil in rejecting in vitation to the present conference also had demanded a larger conference and Russia earlier had the conference be Service local Packard agency indicates Packard cars will remain in production A United Press dispatch reported that Detroit plant is being closed and that auto production of the Studebaker-Packard Carp is being shifted to Studebaker works at South proposed that by Thursday the Company of Alliance was awarded a contract by the City Council Thursday night for repairing sidewalks around Alliance The city took over the repair job when individual property owners failed to improve the walks ahead of a deadline set recently winning bid was $3384-87 considerably under an engineer's estimate of $4350 The Fricke bid only one received accepted a 45-day limitation on construction The city will bill property owners for the costs of individual projects which are scattered all over the city Flack-Third Bids In City Manager II Laing reported to the Council that the Ar nold Swanson Company of Hastings placed the low bid earlier in the day on the East Third-Flack Avenue paving project Bids were received on the federal aid project in Lincoln and Laing had flown to the Capitol City to be present The Swanson company which holds the contract for a 4-lane paving project on West Third here bid $21939701 for the second major improvement of highway approaches estimate for the Flack-East Third work was $22573495 The only other bid was $24457926 by Booth and Olson a Sioux City firm which now is graveling three streets in northeast Alliance Laing said the Lincoln bids must be audited and approved before a contract is signed with Swanson Work will be started and completed this fall While at Lincoln Laing was told that several Nebraska cities are having trouble getting bids on paving projects Falls City got none Grand Island only three and Beatrice five all over the estimate The Council approved sub-letting of storm sewer work on West Third to I Peters of Alliance and was told that power line poles on the north side of the street may liave to be moved north about two feet to make way for the construction Also approved was subletting of exca-1 vation work on West Third to the and Equipment Company Hastings A progress report indicated that the storm sewer work would be finished in about 10 days and then excavation of the present surface will start west of the Burlington underpass Other Business The Council also: (1) Generally approved without official vote the project which will 4 1 'HEMlENGFORD Box County Fair is six days off but the Fairgrounds already- show signs of the bustling activity that will increase as opening day Thursday August 23 nears Thursday 4-H Club girls went through their paces in a variety of demonstrations and the judging contests Home economics demonstrations continued through today and 4-H boys put on agricultural demonstrations this morning Judging Results Here are the results of judging contests Beginning Foods First Virginia Cass ABC Club second Judith Caha Four Leaf Clover Club third Orvillyn Ranson ABC fourth Benita Hausmann ABC Advanced Foods 'First Dorothy Turnbo Future Homemakers second Verla Turek Busy Buddy Homemakers third Judy Reno Do It Yourself Club fourth Marilyn Tinsley Busy Buddy Homemakers Beginning Clothing First Betty Dyer Busy Buddy Homemakers second Judy Nielson Busy Buddy Homemakers third Virginia Cass fourth Sharon Rose Busy Buddy Homemakers Advanced Clothing First Verla Turek second tie between Char-nell Leibel ABC and Mary Lou Bayer Jolly Juniors fourth Marilyn Tinsley Beginning Homemaking First Sharon Christensen second Patty Stewart both of the Clover Club Four Leaf A total of $3205 in cash and pledges has been received so far in the Alliance Salvation Army's capital fund campaign which started Monday Capt LeRoy A Gould of the Omaha divisional headquarters reported this morning the drive is making With Milton Rubeck local drive chairman he went to the Hemingford area today to visit prospective donors Wednesday Captain Gould was accompanied by Owen Farrington and Thursday by Donald Williams both members of the Salvation local Advisory Board Goal is $15000 toward purchase by the Army of the Presbyterian Church and manse LINCOLN (UP) The State Highway Department today announced the letting of slightly less than $14 million in road work and repairs The total letting was $1388-11892 Of the amount $137487673 came from construction funds and $1324219 came from maintenance funds Apparent low bidders and projects included Box Butte Flack Ave Third St in Alliance 7 mile pavement and culverts Arnold Swanson Co Hastings $21939701 Box Butte Hemingford north culverts Fisher Schmidt Co Potter $631505 Scotts Bluff Morrill south 3 miles grading gravel detour seeding bituminous Nichols Construction Geneva $6087990 Scotts Bluff Morrill south culverts Nichols Construction Ge neva $1649555 Bowen also reported had last weekend with officials at Holdrege said he showed them on a map how their proposed station could be located northeast of Alliance instead of on Angora Hill and not lose any population in the viewing area With this information KHOL-TV agreed to consider a site on Box Butte Hill about eight miles northeast of Alliance The original KHOL-TV proposition involves putting up a $325000 telecasting station at Angora with power of 100000 watts! The programs would come by relay from Hayes Cepter Pedple of the area would be asked to contribute $200-000 Station officials suggested another plan For the people to build own and operate their own station KHOL-TV would provide the programming and take the national advertising revenue The owners would keep the local ad revenu atw No KOOW Presentation Bend Ind defense production will go to Utica Mich in line with a recent contract with Curtiss-Wright a leading aviation firm The UP story left in doubt the future of Packard production but indicated the Packard name might appear on the high-priced Studebaker line Letters Explain Moves enlarged to 46 nations with a preponderance on the side of Egypt this conference agrees on general Shepilov de dared representative conference could then be He insisted Egypt had broken no international laws by seizing the canal Reds Ships Arrive Meanwhile the Egyptian government stepped up the pace of its NEW YORK STOCKS NEW YORK (UP) Stock market midday prices: Chrysler 70 5-8 generated by Stevenson surprise la Democrat Program CHICAGO (UP) Today's program of the Democratic National Convention Night at 8 pm CDT ft Cont Oil 133 Firestone 92 1-4 Ford Mtr 58 7-8 Gen El 62 3-8 Gen Mtrs 47 5-8 Goodrich 81 1-4 Goodyear 78 Gt Wes Su 20 1-2 Homestake 34 1-8 Int Harv 37 7-8 Kennecott 140 1-2 Maytag 31 1-2 Mid Oil 37 3-4 Mont Dak 26 1-8 Ohio Oil 41 3-8 Penney 88 1-4 Pepsi Cola 22 1-2 Philco 21 3-8 Rexall 10 1-8 Safeway 56 7-8 Sinclair 67 1-2 SO Ind 63 -78 SO Ohio 56 5-8 Texaco 63 US Stl 65 7-8 Wstghs El 57 Woolworth 47 3-8 A fourth proposition by radio stations KCOW and KOLT was Wl action by throwing the nomination for the second spot wide open From Florida Rep Robert Sikes stepped up to nominate Gov Le Roy Collins Sikes said Collins would serve as a right for Stevenson One delegation after another Illinois Indiana and on down the list to Minnesota for the nomination of Humphrey Speaking for Minnesota Sen Stuart Symington of Missouri made the nominating speech for Neil Colerick Alliance Packard preparedness to defend its seizure dealer has received letters frcmjof the canal by force if necessary Churchill new president of It permitted publication of the Studebaker Packard outlinging fact that two Russian ships loaded the plans Churchill with arms for Egypt arrived in made these points about the rela-j Alexandria Wednesday It also was tionship to Curtiss-Wright revealed for the first time that two Studebaker Packard will other arms ships had arrived a have available $35 million in new week ago from Red Czechoslo-operating capital This comes vakia There was no information from leasing two plants to Curtiss- about the quantity or type of arms Wright for $25 million and the sale involved of certain defense property for ap-i The semi-official Mideast News proximately $10 million Agency reported the formation of Curtiss-Wright will have a new anti-Western underground an option on five million shares in to our (Packard-Studebaker) stock jmine and to at $5 which potentially would sabotage Western i 1 facilities mean an additional $25 million of the signal is Address by former President Harry Truman Address by vice presidential nominee Address by presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson not discussed The TV committee said it had asked for a representative to explain the plan but that KCOW General Manager Gene Ackerley declined saying all the available facts had been announc- II Nominee Stevenson Gets Offer ed How They Balloted Elwood said his association has estimated conservatively there are 10000 families in this area This figure comes from a count of REA Wing Commander Aly Sabri working capital and Consumers power meters One person present suggested making a survey of all towns! in athletics under public school Recreation Studebaker-Packard auto- asser political chief flew here motive production will be consoii- rom Cairo Thursday night and dated in South Bend scheduled meetings today with In- The program clears the dian Minister Krishna area to get pledges of money way for some final tooling and on and Foreign Minis -then pick the TV deal that sum marketing decisions have1 ter Ruslam Abdulgani both pro will buy Another man countered haon wv ponents of a bigger conference been held in abeyance on both the to ask how money could be raised CONVENTION HALL Chicago The result of the first ballot for the Democratic presidential nomination Stevenson 905(4 Harriman 210 Davis 33 Battle 32(4 Timmerman 23(4 Symington 45(4 Johnson 80 Lausche 5(4 Chandler 36(4 Votes necessary to 686(4 All of 12 votes went for Stevenson Weather Advanced Homemaking First Charnell Leibel second Mary Lou Bayer Miss Bernetha Hinthorn Dawes County home demonstration agent judged the judging and demonstration contests Emroy Shannon vo-ag teacher at Alliance High School judged the agricultural demonstrations this morning Entries Break Records Reynolds reports the livestock shows already have far surpassed last entries and mqpe competitors are expected As of Thursday there were 52 beef cattle entered compared with 33 last year 30 dairy cattle up from 24 last year 27 sheep (19 in 1955) and 36 swine (only four last year) Garden and flower exhibits also are expected to surpass the 1955 showing provided hail or wfcid interfere meanwhile Elsewhere on- the County Fair scene Saturday is the deadline for entries in the big Fair parade scheduled for Saturday afternoon August 25 More than 100 units are predicted by Mrs Opha Shaver special secretary to the Lions Club parade committee However many prospective paraders have not yet entered officially Box Butte Dairy Queen Charnell Leibel will ride in the parade as will the Parade Queen Balloting for the Parade Queen has ended and the votes counted She will be crowned at noon August 25 at the corner of Box Butte and Niobrara by the district Lions governor Studebaker and Packard lines of Churchill said the program developed with Curtiss-Wright provides practical means of giving Studebaker-Packard an opportunity to continue as a strong stable com- if people know to be spent Another man said $25000 available around Hyannis Numerous questions were asked and the meeting went off in order- 4: supervision The City Program has been conducting this program with Arthur Merrill as director The Old Timers Association has furnished muh of the equipment The new project by wards will feature more instruction and less competition Laing reported Only the summer baseball program will be left to city supervision and Laing said $115 per month salary will be scaled down (2) Declined to amend the zoning ordinance to permit billboards in the city upon the request of Harold Churchwell Laing said several Alliance firms have violated the ordinance by placing billboards on city property around the West Third undenass The Council wrapped up its business in about 40 minutes Members Matt Todd and Kenneth Lee were absent iy fashion with no dispute on nter- petitor in the automobile its of the various plans am in Churchill wrote to the dealers the Temperature at 11:30 am Wind at 11:30 am 6 -13 I Chairman Dahl help is needed from fans to reach any decision All plans are more or less subject to change of details Alliance area Tonight partly cloudy and cooler with showers and thunderstorms west Low 55-60 Saturday partly cloudy to cloudy and cooler High in low 80s mph 75 High Temp Thursday 78 Overnight Low Temp 58 Precipitation Thursday 00 Total precipitation 1956 1130 Same period 1955 1261 (By United Press) Nebraska: Partly cloudy through Saturday Scattered shower? tonight Cooler tonight and Satut day Low tonight 55-60 west and north 60-65 southeast High Satur- economists who see a new market pattern emerging which will mean higher industry volumes annually during the next few years I have every confidence that this program with Curtiss-Wright will perrfiit us to recapture at least the market position we held prior to our recent financial! C-C Ag Meeting Tonight The Chamber of Commerce agri Teacher Injured HEMINGFORD (T-HNS) Miss Sumi Takeda new vocational home-making teacher in Hemingford High School was injured Thursday in an auto accident on a gravel road near Last Chance Colo It is reported that she suffered severed 'eg tendons but will be able to come to Hemingford In time for school opening Miss Takeda whose home is Rocky Ford Colo was on her way to Hemingford when the accident happened I culture committee will meet at 7 :30 tonight at the Panhandle Rural tion Associa Electric Membership headquarters Plans I for the annual Robert West 88 (left) of Bloomington 111 shakes hands with Adlai Stevenson Recalling lie escorted father to the White Hdhse after his election to Farmer-Businessman Tour are the vice presidency Mr West expressed desire to so accompany Adlai nominated Thursday night for president by the Democrats (International Soundphoto) ex- Fire accident jewelry burglary Phone 607 Brittan Insurance too see beautiful brick home at day 70s northeast around 80 south-1120 Niobrara now for sale adv west worries! Phone Brittan Insurance1 pected to be the main item of bus-00-j adv iness 4 lL.