Camp Catron will bloom!
What's going to happen to Brownie and Girl Scout attendance at Nebraska City's Camp Catron northwest of town now that the established camp program has been dissolved?
"More girls will use it than before," Mrs. Russell Palmtag, Girl Scout cookie chairman said.
Under the established camping program, up to 200 girls spent two weeks each at Camp Catron. They were part of the 6,000 girls in the Homestead Council.
Under the new troop camping program to be instituted this summer, Mrs. Palmtag said the number could be five to six times greater. She said instead of providing the dining facilities and staff for the two week camps, any of the troops in the Council can use the facilities under the supervision of their own leaders (and prepare their own meals) for overnights, weekends or a week at a time.
Mrs. Palmtag said many people got the wrong idea from the stories in the paper about the established camp. "Camp Catron will bloom this summer," she said.
There will be no dining facilities under the program, but waterfront directors will be provided for the use of the swimming pool.
She said Nebraska City's girls have always used the facilities for day camps. Now, that can be expanded to offer the facilities to even more girls.
Homestead Council officials are hopeful that winter facilities can be added (that includes water and toilet facilities) to make the camp available for those camping programs.
Mrs. Palmtag said the new camping program will be conducted similar to the operation of the Boy Scout camp at Humboldt — more youngsters for less cost.
The Daily Nebraskan.
The News-Press has taken on an additional printing job as a sub-contractor that has required some early work hours.
Arbor Printing company of Lincoln was awarded the contract to print the Daily Nebraskan, the daily newspaper for the University and we are doing the printing part of that job on our Goss Community offset press.
Zean Carney, the owner of Arbor Printing, has to deliver the 14,000 copies of the daily newspaper at the University by mid-morning.
And that means Max Moyer, who heads our job printing department; Chuck Johnson, the Goss pressman and his assistant, "J. R." Snodgrass have early work hours.
The fellows have been coming to work at 6 a.m., or shortly afterward to get the job on the road. We're pretty pleased that Max's sub-contract bid on the job was accepted and we've been hustling around in the early morning hours.
Those early morning work hours are hard on the rest of us, too.
I've been waking up at 4:30 a.m., stomping around the house and disturbing the sleep of the rest of the family. It wasn't so bad Friday because there was snow to scoop.
I was easily encouraged to return to the house Friday morning when I saw Millie in the kitchen preparing my bacon and eggs, toast and yeah -- strawberry preserves!
Zean Carney is an ambitious young man operating a successful printing shop. Zean and his wife, the former Marilyn McCoy, are graduates of Nebraska Wesleyan University.
Zean worked for the Lincoln Journal in the classified ad department while in college and later was news editor for Henry Mead at the Seward Independent.
"J. R." is one of Robert Rathe's distributive education students. His real name is Dave, but we had to coin a new name for him.
We had Dave Davison and Junior Hughes working here when Dave Snodgrass started work and it was too confusing to call for "Dave" or "Junior" and not know who was who. So, he was tagged with "J. R."
Skelly Wier will leave a bit of himself with the American Legion post in Nebraska City when his lease expires September 30.
He has been the Legion's steak chef for many years and has served those juicy steaks to thousands of Legion club diners.
We're not sure how long he's been the chef. Someone said it's been about 16 years, about the time Ray Duncan was the post commander.
Skelly worked at the post when meals were served cafeteria style and then Marie Wieckhorst was among the operators of the dining hall.
Later Skelly returned to manage the dining facilities and has been there since. "He's worked there 15 or 16 years the second time," his wife recalled.
Here's a note from Mrs. Chester Ganzel about the peace symbol.
Remember? That's the design we printed here a couple weeks ago and labeled it as anti-Christ, according to the Oklahoma Mason publication. Since then, the clergy has spoken.
Mrs. Ganzel writes.
"My son-in-law, the Rev. William Tomlinson (his wife is the former Eileen Ganzel) is serving the United Methodist churches of Alta and Truesdale, Ia.
"The clipping is from his recently monthly church newsletter."
The peace symbol was created by the Direct Action Committee against Nuclear War in London in 1958. It is a symbol of nuclear disarmament. It combines the semaphore signals for the letter N (flags at 45 degree angle) and D (flags held vertically). The letters stand for "nuclear disarmament." The circle represents the world.
Peace marchers in England first carried the symbol on their banners. At that time nuclear testing in the atmosphere was the big issue. Since then the symbol has come to stand for peace in general.
For an evening of tough language and an interesting and bloody war story, go see "Patton" playing at the Pioneer in Nebraska City.
General George Patton's tank command won many victories during WWII. And some of the battles and events leading up to the end of the war are told in the story.
You may not like the swearing of the general. But you'll have to admit he was a "hell of a commander."
Two of the showings were sponsored by the VFW post in Nebraska City. And we were impressed when the house lights went on and a color guard walked down the aisle to the stage.
Members of the color guard who placed flags on the stage were Bill Knickman and Herman Varenhorst, ex-Army GI's, Dave Nelson, an ex-sailor and Bill Rivett, an ex-Marine, all members of the VFW post.