If the Otoe county "jail break" is any indication, then as far as news is concerned we've started the New Year off with a bang.
When Sheriff Ralph Hall needed help last week during the break attempt he called for a trusted friend. Ed Harshbarger, the guy who crawled on top of Wessel's store a few years ago with a pistol in his hand and brought down a man who broke into the store.
It was also Harshbarger who wrapped a bottle of nitroglycerin in toweling, put the explosive in his car and drove to Lincoln.
"J. J." Brown, small son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Brown, had his stomach pumped a few days ago. The little shaver got into a bottle of aspirin, candy coated, naturally.
An elderly woman in Nebraska City told a Citian after she received one of the American Legion's Christmas baskets that the angels aren't all in heaven. "They're in Nebraska City."
A serviceman I know said the other day he was told by a career serviceman that only reason he didn't get out of the military is because he is too lazy to work and too nervous to steal.