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Ted Weldon, coach at the Valentine high school and brother of Dr. R. C. Weldon, said in Nebraska City recently that a number of the high school students attending the Valentine school travel as far as 60 miles.
Students who live in the sandhills 'board in ' a week at a time in Valentine.
Coach Weldon paid the highest of compliments to Sam Metcalf, school superintendent. The coach worked under Mr. Metcalf five years in Valentine.
County Superintendent Carl Gawart's young son, Kent, was as brave as can be for a tonsil removing job, but the pricking-of-the-finger for the blood test was a different story.
That is, until Superintendent Gawart suggested doing the job on the boy's left hand. Young Mr. Kent thought that was a good idea, too.
After all, no one must do anything to cause a man to slow his "draw."
We are missing our boy Steve Mason in The News-Press office.
Steve, son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Mason, was injured recently in a motor scooter-car collision. The youth serves the Civil Air Patrol as cadet information officer and has done a bang-up job of it . . . particularly, his younger friends say, when the gal cadets visited Nebraska City.
A state highway man wearing a brightly colored jacket stopped traffic recently on No. 2 west of Nebraska City to survey motorists. He inquired about the number of times motorists traveled No. 2. He didn't ask for opinions but got one from a Syracusean who drives to work each day in Nebraska City over the much-discussed section of the highway between Dunbar and Syracuse.
"Why don't you guys fix this —*-% #*!!! road?"
No comment.
Y'all come, they are saying in Brownville.
Sunday, August 25, is the day for the national fiddling and country music contests.
Richardson county Sheriff Ed Mahoney is defending champion in the fiddlin' event.
Nebraska Citians will be especially interested in the western music contests because the winners will appear at Memorial Building September 9 on the Grand Ole' Opry card under Junior Chamber sponsorship.