The News-Press printed a three-line story recently about the Basenji dog.
If memory serves me correct, the animal is of African breed. The item in the newspaper said the animal was one of the most ancient of breeds and that the dog is barkless.
Yup, that's true.
I read a fine book a few years ago and later it was made into a movie starring Walter Brennan. The story was about the dog, how it was trained to hunt quail and its most unusual ability to "point" at a distance much farther from a covey of quail than a highly-trained bird dog.
I have only seen one Basenji. It is owned by Dr. and Mrs. A. O. Gigstad.
The Basenji does not bark. It makes a sort of howling sound and licks its paws like a cat.
The Gigstads got the animal a number of years ago when the pup was very sick. I've forgotten the details, but it seems that the animal had been given up for dead. "Doc" Gigstad brought him back to a normal life.
Question for the day.
To grow an apple tree, plant a seed from the fruit taken from another tree, the same for other fruits. How about growing a banana tree? Plant a banana????
Congratulations to the O toe County Association for Retarded Children for a well-organized campaign and the successful result—attaining the $4,500 goal in Nebraska City.
It would be interesting to know how much Nebraska Citians contribute annually to funds . . . betcha it wouldn't miss $50,000 very much.
Chamber Manager Bob Hegstrom, the organ player, will soon begin handing out a few honorary "cornpicker" awards to persons to promote the state cornpicking contest at Nebraska City October 14-15.
Duane Hall seems to have "pull" at the coffee counter and gets served before a couple of others. Superintendent Sam Metcalf smokes six cigars a day. A pack of filter fags lasts him two days. Toastmaster President Tom Hemphill got hitched and I wonder if the other members of the club will corner him with a question on table topics.
The towboat information you read in the paper each day is compiled by Del Broers at the U. S. Corps of Engineers office, who makes radio contact daily with river boats. County Civil Defense Director Ed Harshbarger has received a $30 slide projector and other equipment for a complete program on civil defense just for the asking. Wouldn't you know —the gas war ended before I got a full tank.
Banana tree? Nope, you don't plant a banana. You plant a root of a banana tree.