Congratulations to Bob Roudebush for burning up Virg Miller's bowling lanes the other night.
Bob rolled a 211-210-279 for a blistering 700 series, an honor shared by few. He cards a 179-pin average at V-Lanes.
Trouble with bowlers like that . . . they just put me out of sight.
But we'll get back at our neighbor somehow. We may run him for city commission on the North 40 then get him to zone the west section for commercial and put in a bowling-annex.
Thanksgiving dinner:
Rohlicky, kolache, svickova, knedliky brambrove and the usual cranberries and other tasty bits.
You can check these out with Blanche Duerfeldt, but that Czech Village holiday dinner at Wilber was rolls, prune kolaches (you gotta eat 'em to appreciate 'em), sour cream gravy, a sour-taste beef and sticky dumplings.
Clarence Homolka, a friend from the Masonic Lodge in Wilber, reminds that December 2 at 6:30 p.m., is the annual goose, sauer kraut and sticky dumpling feed for Masons.
Vic Bremer, Ed Hunter, Sam Metcalf and myself attended the event last year.
We had to admit later; we were miserable, but enjoyed it.
A woman in Miami Beach won a national bridge contest on cards selected for the match by a computer.
The woman is blind. Her cards were exchanged for Braille cards and witnesses called out dummy plays.
A few years ago there was a boy at the School for the Visually Handicapped by the name of Wally Wallace from North Platte, I believe.
Wally was a frequent visitor at our home where he enjoyed a game of pitch. His cards were marked with Braille and he played an excellent game. He pretty well championed the game and delighted all by "shooting the moon."
The Shenandoah, Ia., Sentinel printed a story the other day that Sp-5 Richard Seddon was chosen soldier of the month with the 101st Aviation Battalion in Vietnam.
The Seddons lived in Nebraska City for some time.
He attended and graduated from Peru State College. His wife worked in the composing section of the News-Press.
Specialist Seddon is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Seddon, Shenandoah, Iowa.
Our records show that 11 Nebraska City and area young men have died since the beginning of the Vietnam war.
They are:
Cpl. Robert L. Kempkes, Palmyra.
First Lt. Robert Wiesneth, Louisville.
First Lt. Larry Stark, Lincoln.
First Lt. James Poggemeyer, Nebraska City.
CWO Richard Lange, Chesterton, Indiana.
WO Larry Stoner, Unadilla.
Staff Sgt. Guy Abbott, Hamburg, Iowa.
T-Sgt. Richard Glittinger, Talmage.
Sp-5 Ronnie Moore, Plattsmouth.
Sp-4 Robert Harris, Percival, Iowa.
Lt. Larry Betts, Nebraska City.
On January 16, 1920, and for the next 13 years, prohibition existed across the U.S.
At the end it was called 13 years of crime and corruption, "A disgusted American public righted a colossal blunder which had impaired individual liberty."
Others thought differently:
Evangelist Billy Sunday said: "The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses and corncribs. Men will walk straight now, women will smile and the children will laugh. Hell will be forever for rent."
John F. Kramer, Ohio legislator: "This law will be obeyed in cities large and small and in villages and where it is not obeyed it will be enforced. The law says that liquor to be used as a beverage must not be manufactured. We shall see that it is not manufactured. Nor sold, nor given away, nor hauled in anything on the surface of the earth or under the earth or in the air."
Dry crusader William B. "Pussyfoot" Johnson: "The world will be dry in 1950. Public opinion is going in the direction of prohibition all over the world."
And if President Roosevelt's proclamation hadn't ended prohibition on December 5, 1933, we may never have learned about Papa Joe Griesedieck.
No part of the marshmallow plant appears in the confections that Americans call marshmallows.
Poisonous Sumacs.
Poisonous sumacs can be recognized because their berries always hang in drooping clusters. The red berries of the harmless sumacs are in dense, erect clusters. The poison sumac has white berries.