Sure hope there aren't any more new laws dealing with pets. We don't have any cats, but we have an unlicensed, untamed, noisy parakeet and four turtles.
Bus Wymore told Toastmasters the other evening, Nebraska needs to advertise its state for tourists. While we think of the state as jim dandy, a letter from a woman in New York to the state Chamber manager at Lincoln pulled the plug out of the bucket. The woman planned to cross Nebraska the first week in June and wanted to know if it would be safe what with the cowboys and Indians whooping it up.
The Otoe county courthouse looks pretty snazzy now, thanks to Commissioners Chas. J. Gude Sr., Earl Deming and Melvin Ommen, who have directed a fix-up program. The program was started about three years ago with a paint job here and there and since has snowballed into a complete job. Although it has been a big expense, the job wasn't done entirely by contractors. Sheriff Ralph Hall farmed out a few of his prisoners.
County Judge George Stanley, Murma Vigen and Ed Ernst of the Nebraska City park board have been "bending over backward" to help build up the ball field at Steinhart park, baseball enthusiasts say. In addition to a complete repaint job of bleachers, the park board is discussing new fencing and dugouts. About 350 youngsters are scheduled to play baseball in the summer program.