There's a lot going on during holidays, but perhaps the biggest single item of interest will be thc Nebraska-Alabama football game New Year's night.
I always marvel at how many people go to football, baseball and basketball games and other athletic events and wonder how the churches fare in Sunday comparison.
The fella who said "they don't build churches for Christmas and New Year's" wasn't kidding. He, of course, left out the Sunday after Christmas . . .
STOLEN from the proofreader: Know why the monster drank a coke after eating the thing? . . . Cause things go better with coke!
And then there's the case of the low-flying airplane:
The four-engine prop driven plane circled Nebraska City at an unusually low altitude then headed south. Four people, said they saw it . . . perhaps many more, but SAC officials in Omaha said 'twarn't anything they knew about.
Up on the North 40.
They're putting in the new sewer line in the Broadview Terrace Addition, that's Milo Heights to us folk on the hill.
Election will be coming around this spring and Louie Genoa and Harold LeGrande have already announced their intentions on running for mayor on the Blue Grass ticket and Glen Cohn and Topper Eloge on the Poplar ticket.
More than likely it will be a pretty snazzy contest . . . the candidates are neighbors . . . sort of "over-the-fence politicking."
The annual Jaycee banquet will be held January 18 at Steinhart Lodge and who do the Jaycees have as their speaker — none other than "Terrible" Terry Carpenter.
Tickets are $2.50 each for the Steinhart Lodge dinner affair. The banquet will also be the time recognition will be given several outstanding citizens.
Best wishes to Mel Conley and Emil Knoll who are leaving the postal service after many years of service.
They will be missed by their many friends on routes and in the post office building.