Show MOVE HOUSE 26 MILES TO KEEP POWER COOP COOP forert FOREMAN MAN ON JOB OGALLALA NEB after the manager of the consumers public power district at grant neb had devoted several months to house hunting without success he served notice that he would be compelled to resign it was then that ed W harvey the district manager who declared he afford to lose the grant manager got busy harvey asked all employees throughout the territory to look for a house suitable for a family the hunt ended at keystone 26 miles from grant V where a six room house 34 by 54 feet was found harvey said he would move it confining moving operations to the hours between midnight and morning the job took three nights two tractors provided the power and plummer brothers of ogallala moving contractors supervised the move complications included a detour below keystone damp dam necessitating the clim climbing bind of a long steep hill guard rails along the highway had to be removed to permit the house to pass hour by hour through the long nights the house moved foot by foot and yard by yard to travel the 26 miles to its new foundation the novel solution of the house bj bunting problem resulted in keeping the manager at grant and his reunion with his wife and children who had been living in scottsbluff Scotts bluff over miles away for several months the keith county news reported |