The new Chamber of Commerce president is a swinging man.
At least he will be soon.
Harry and his wife, Kathleen, will fly to the Hawaiian Islands for a winter vacation, an award to Mr. Vondrak from the Bankers company for his sales successes.
All I can remember about the Hawaiian language and I'm not sure it's spelled right is, "Mele Kalikimaka," which is Merry Christmas. The Hawaiians have a beautiful Christmas song much like our "White Christmas."
Congratulations to Mrs. Arnold Beckman on winning the $300 first prize last week in the contest sponsored by Nebraska City businesses.
Mrs. Beckman was in Norman's IGA with the winning number. That shopping trip was worth $300 in cash. The cash prizes continue until the grand prize—a new Maverick.
The Nebraska City Planning commission began thinking bigger the other night when a consulting engineer said the town's population will be over 11,000 in the next 20 years.
That means a lot of changes. We are not an overnight boom town, but the community has shown a steady growth in the past 20 years.
That growth was projected along the same lines for 20 more years and the engineers came up with some startling figures.
We need 300 acres of ground that is now in vacant lots and farmland on which to build 41 new houses and apartment dwellings each year for 20 years.
The new Northside "double classroom" school is being used to near capacity and yet the engineers project that by 20 years from now there will be 1,000 more children in school here than there are today.
Sounds like Nebraska Citians have their work cut out for them at the start of the new year.
The two proudest parents in town today are Mr. and Mrs. Junior Bruns.
Their son, Roger, has been selected to the honor choir of the "Young Nebraskans" and will go to London. Roger won the honor following auditions at Doane college at Crete.
Congratulations to Roger and to the parents of this fine young man.
Nebraska City Optimists enjoyed the recent tour of American Meter company. The tour was conducted by Norwin Bruening and Dick Beswick of the company and was the program for the day.
The visitors told the guides their first impression was, "We didn't realize the plant had expanded so much."
Optimists have also toured Pendleton Woolen Mills, Crown-Line Plastics and Morton House Kitchens.
At the outset, we all had to agree; Nebraska City is a pretty fortunate community and a good place in which to live.
When I read the other day about Arnold Palmer's fiery comeback in the golf tourneys I couldn't help but think about Ron Brown and one warm afternoon on the Steinhart park golf course.
"Brownie" knows everyone on the golf course and he always has a few choice words that'll draw smiles from any disturbed golfer.
One of the most eager groups of youngsters to tour the News-Press was the special class of Mrs. Mary Wurtele of Northside. The boys and girls are studying communications, art, agriculture and other fields. They receive no school credits.
Their "thing" is, they just want to know what's going on.