Some time ago during a warm Sunday morning, Danny DeVorss, two years of age, decided he would attend church. Danny is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard DeVorss. The family lives on First Avenue near St. Mary's Catholic church.
Well, you see, Danny is ecumenical. He doesn't care much about things like catechism, or kneeling during the church mass.
In fact, Danny doesn't care much about dressing either.
So, when Mr. and Mrs. DeVorss answered a knock on their door, they were surprised to find their young son standing there dressed a bit on the cool side and barefooted.
The parishioner who returned him to his home, said the youngster really added something to the church movement. He sauntered down the long aisle in the brief Sunday wear eyeballing the well-dressed grownups, plopped himself on the front pew and was taking in the whole event when he got the message that he was supposed to be somewhere else.
Danny's reply to his mother's question was.
"B-i-g p-e-o-p-l-e."
Virg Pitstick read the other day that the Navy wants to recruit ex-sailors.
Virg wants to know how "far back" the ex-sailor recruiting goes. Virg will be 74 years young December 24. He is one of the 40 surviving members of the WWI veterans Last Man's club.
The other day reporters asked Vince Gibson, the Purple Pride boss at Kansas State College at Manhattan, for his observation on the No. 1 Husker football team.
Ole' Vince, in his salty southern style, hinted that he had found a weakness in Nebraska.
Wo-ee'! The reporters grabbed their notebooks and the radio and TV guys fired up their equipment and then the Kansas fox revealed.
"That Nebraska water boy moves purty slow on the turf."
Bob Devaney is about the most colorful coach in the nation and he's drawing a lot of publicity.
This month's national VFW magazine carried a two-page color spread on the Huskers and particularly on the man who has directed them to the national championship.
It's a well written article by Howard Silber of the World Herald staff. And it not only points out the powerhouse Huskers, but particularly points to Devaney, his fine character and his uncanny recruiting abilities.
Does every college have a championship team or does a coach "make" a champion? I say every player is good but it takes a coach to get the most out of his team.
Silber's article pretty well bears this out. It's brief, and good reading. 'Course you might have to give Aldean Grundman a check for dues in the VFW post to get the magazine.
Our gal, Mary Ulbrick.
One of the hardest working people we know is Mary Ulbrick. She's also one of the best cooks.
Well, Mary has really got herself into a job this time. She's publishing a four-volume book on the Centennial Arbor Day. Each book will be about 100 pages.
Her helpers are her daughter, Mrs. Ron (Charlene) Chapin and Mrs. Elmer (Cordelia) Conkling.
Mary has spent untold hours going through the News-Press files selecting pictures for the Centennial documents. I have no idea when she finds time for the writing.
Three of the volumes will be available for the April Centennial celebration. The fourth will be compiled after the celebration carrying in it all the goings on.
And, just like the Mary we know, the profits from the sale of the books will go to help finance the statewide (and hopefully, national) recognition program of Arbor Day.
"Don't put anything in the paper yet about the books," Mary said the other day.
Sorry, Mary, you're working so hard on another of your volunteer programs, that we felt our readers ought to know about Our Gal, Mary.
What is Jatrnice?
What is Jelita?
If Bohemian Joe Kafka doesn't know, then he's missing something tasty. (Note to Blanche Duerfeldt: Did I spell them right?)
We've decided that our household should work out its own post-freeze rules and have established a Wage and Pay Board to govern same.
Guess who's chairman of the boards? Yuk, yuk.
I thought of a dozen new rules we could put into effect in our household and they were well thoughtout and could be easily enforceable.
However, the No. 1 cook and her delegation from the living room voted me down.
I proposed, for example.
— That allowances stay the same and any "extra" for such necessities as a roller skating party, would have to be reviewed by the board.
No new panty hose until "both" legs have runners.
The grocery allowance will stay the same, but it is suggested that No. 1 cook "conserve" by baking homemade bread, lots of pies and cinnamon rolls.
The telephone. Oh yes, the telephone. Collect calls from No. 1 daughter in college must be held to three minutes. (The delegation okayed this part, but added an amendment that more than one collect call from the source will be accepted each week.)
Any and all decisions will be settled by the best out-of-three on the ping pong table.