Vern Livingston told us the other day about a jealous wife who was outraged when her husband came home late, smeared with lipstick and smelling of perfume.
"You've got a lot of nerve," she cried, "coming home like this and telling me you have to work late!"
"Don't be silly," stammered the husband, "if I had a lot of nerve I would have told you the truth."
Ed and Lola Hunter were especially pleased with the large turnout at their open house at Nebraska Outerwear the other day.
"A lot of people came in from Syracuse," Ed said. "They'd come up to me and say 'don't you remember me?' and the name would escape me for a minute."
The open house revealed for the visitors the work and the products put out by the Hunters and their employes. The company makes several different styles of winter coats. A special rack of garments was displayed in the factory and caught the attention of many visitors.
Among the comments were heard.
— The plant is new and beautiful.
— A nice, clean place to work.
— The Hunters sure are great for doing this (open house).
— I sew, but my sewing machine doesn't go that fast.
— I'll bet the arms of that one woman ache by the end of the day, throwing those winter coats around.
— 1,000 coats a week? My, that is something!
— Isn't it wonderful that something like this is in OUR town?
Sev Sorensen and his FFA boys will have their annual banquet Tuesday night co-sponsored by Nebraska City businesses.
We've attended FFA banquets for a number of years and have enjoyed them. We've got a soft spot for the FFA since our Green Hand days back in high school, and always enjoy Sev's annual dinner.
I think that every FFA boy will agree that the most-fun classes in high school were in the ag shops and on farm tours. I learned acetylene and arc welding from my FFA days and although I have only welded a few times in all those years, I still remember the instructions the voc ag teacher drilled into us on safety and welding.
A father, passing through his son's college town late one night on business decided to pay his son a surprise visit.
Arriving at the fraternity house, he rapped loudly on the door. After several minutes, a sleepy voice called from an upstairs window, "What do you want?"
"Does George Clark live here?" the father called.
"Yeah," replied the voice, "just dump him on the front porch and let him sleep it off."
John Hancock, look at this!
Since you're all my trusted friends I think it's only fair that I share something.
You see friends, back in the eighth grade in Washington, Kans., I was the champeeen of the penmanship for de whole 8th grade.
I mean, I really put class into curly-cues on capital letters, and dashed a little Heller Keller style in with it just to satisfy my teacher because she was a great admirer of Miss Keller.
Well, anyhoo to get along with the sharing bit the other day one of the gals here questioned some penciling I did on some copy.
It sorta put me back a bit. I told Kris Eaton that if she stays in newspaper work, someday she can look forward to something as great a feat as my penmanship.
The couple examples below are notes I took while covering the fire at Syracuse the other night. I'm not making excuses, but you have to cry with me a bit: it was smoky, dark, water being sprayed all over, my fingers got cold, my back ached, my camera was getting heavy and I missed "Longstreet."
These were reduced a bit from the pocketsize notebook to accommodate the space for this column, but didn't think that'd make much difference.
The message.
Hauschild Ford.
Radio Communications, Jourdon.
Reuter Shoe.
West End Lounge.
Don Niemann, patroling in alley, saw the fire.
The letter "F" means fire damage, silly, what else?
The vertical pencil lines on both notes are my super-style of indicating "that's all she wrote brother, turn the page."
The message:
Staack Furniture heavy water damage.
16 means there were 16 fire departments represented.
Now, follow this carefully down the left, Syracuse, Weeping Water, Avoca, Cook, Talmage, Pawnee City, Table Rock.
Not so hard was it? Now on the right: Plattsmouth, Palmyra, Tecumseh, Nebraska City and Unadilla (that's one of my favorite styles).
Thanks! To the Jaycees.
The last couple of years our children have been taking an active part in the projects sponsored by the Jaycees and we have enjoyed attending the events.
I can recall joining other Jaycees during the 10 years I was a member, painting the bleachers at Steinhart park, putting up that backstop (the late Bill McArthur "cobbed" City Utilities boom truck to help), building ice skating rinks and selling pop, candy and popcorn on hot summer nights at the Jaycee pop stand to pay the bills.
But our family never "capitalized" on the Jaycee projects until a couple years ago. And we've been enjoying our evenings a great deal.
I remember when Len Hoskins and Coach Roger Davis of the School for the Visually Handicapped coaxed several of us into driving boys to Omaha when those two men started the Jaycee wrestling program.
Now thanks to a successful program involving nearly 100 boys, we are wrestling fans.
So, thanks to the Jaycees and of course the wives, the Jaycee Jaynes. Your "thing" is good for the town.
Don't call me to help anymore. I'm an Exhausted Rooster.
Call the Hoyle brothers or Gary Cooper. If you can't get them, call Paul Knoll of Granneman Agency. He's up until midnight anyway.
Make room for Arbor Day.
Vern Livingston, state Arbor Day chairman and Mrs. Jerry Livingston, local chairman, have twisted the arms of many people to help with the Centennial celebration April 21-22-23.
There's one committee that's been overlooked, we think — the group m charge of getting chairs for the program at the mansion.
The committees are hopeful that a speaker of national prominence will attend, and if so, Arbor Lodge State park could be a little crowded.
Oh, you don't think so?
Let me clue you, podner!
Former President Grover Cleveland was in Nebraska City on October 27, 1905, to dedicate a monument to the late J. Sterling Morton.
The Nebraska City Daily News said 18,000 people jammed Morton (now Arbor Lodge State) park.
As the scouts say, "Be prepared."