The most interesting experience we've had this week came on a visit to the office of a Nebraska City professional man.
In our waiting moments we picked up a magazine, a recent issue of Playboy. (Mebbe it was used to get the patients to say "ah").
Sheriff Bill Miller will leave Nebraska City soon to take over as chief of police at Plainview, Nebraska. The sheriff resigned after serving a four-year term in Otoe county.
We wish the sheriff and his family much success. We've had occasion to call him and his deputies and they have always been courteous and helpful as we made the news beat. We'll not forget a call from Mrs. Miller one night telling us of an airplane crash. Those type of calls were much appreciated.
Sheriff Miller will be a compliment to the Plainview police department. He came to Nebraska City as a police officer and worked as deputy under former sheriff Ralph Hall.
And he goes to Plainview with considerable training as a former police officer and as a sheriff whose job it has been to cover a lot of miles in law enforcement.
My copy of the JollyTripper's brochure says that the travelers will leave Tuesday for a two week trip in the west, including Old Mexico.
Ed Bottcher, Talmage, has organized another of the trips enjoyed so much by the travelers. The Jolly Trippers will load at Syracuse at 7:15 a.m., stop at Dunbar at 7:45 and be at the courthouse in Nebraska City at 8:15 a.m.
They will head south to Kansas, then go west on U.S. 36 and spend the first night at Colorado Springs. They are an adult fun group and they give some very interesting programs in their trips.
Good motoring to the Jolly Trippers. We'll see you in two weeks.
Verne "Pick" Pickering, who retired after about 45 years with the News-Press, is not around to answer my questions about oldtime dance bands, but perhaps one of you readers can help me on this.
Whatever happened to Mickey Kull and his band?
I'm sure Pick and His Tophatters were playing at similar dances when Kull was popular about 25 years ago. He was known during the years that Kenny Knowles was "packing them in" at the dime-a-dance.
One of Knowles' features was the song, "Shanty In Old Shanty Town."
One of Kull's clever musical numbers was, "It Takes A Mighty Good Man To Do That." Does anyone know the words and tune?
Family identification at the halftime show at the ball game:
"It's hard to tell one from another in the band uniforms, which one is your daughter?" the woman next to me asked.
"The one with the long, straight hair," was the reply.