Thirty-three people died in traffic accidents in the state during March, seven more than a year ago. Nineteen of the lives were snuffed out in "after dark" mishaps. Twenty-five of the victims were males.
These facts and figures come from Tom Ryan, supervisor of the Accident Records Bureau of the Department of Roads. The worst day was March 12 with four deaths. Otoe county recorded one fatality and that was on March 11, when Keith Heather, 18, died in a mishap near Syracuse.
Mr. Ryan's report also showed that Saturdays and Sundays were the worst days with seven fatalities each. The other bad days were Mondays with six deaths and Fridays with five.
Sam and Belle Ells (Mr. and Mrs. Le Headley, Auburn) will be on the television show, Conversations, Thursday at 12:30 p.m., on Channel 3.
You remember Sam . . . he's the guy who went to the blue rock shoot with his "iron" and displayed marksmanship like Sergeant York.
Sam and Belle will be "promotin' Brownville" on the show. They will be dressed in their plainsman and woman costumes.
Sam will also take along a few "necessary" things . . . such as two flint and percussion weapons, a rifle and a pistol, two flasks and powder horns and a Bowie knife. Oh, yes, Sam said he will also display his trade tomahawk. That's one traded from an Indian, he explained, with his chuckle (or was it a chortle?).
The morning sun cheats me out of a temperature reading on the north side of our house. The sun warmed the mercury to 60 degrees at 6:30 a.m., the other day, but Joe Thissen said it was 34 degrees.
It was a bit cooler than that. Norm Bruening, 2327 Park Lane, said he scraped frost from the windshield of his car before going to work at American Meter plant. And, Mrs. Amelia McIninch said there was also frost in the Talmage area.
We didn't get our usual report from Bill Winkler, Dunbar. But according to George Fenske, there is no frost in Dunbar after Bill gets his tomatoes in the ground.
Now, I don't know how true that is, but it would indicate that Bill controls the weather or George is protecting a potentially free supply of vegetables with a public relations program.
Someone called the Rescue squad, 873-3900, the other day to ask why the word "RESCUE" was painted backwards on the front of the new $14,000 rig.
You can ask Sheriff Seals about this if you doubt it, but . . . motorists just don't seem to hear a siren and so more blinking lights (now, they're using red and white flashes to attract attention) have been added to emergency vehicles.
To go a step further, if you're driving down the road and as an alert motorist you hear a siren and see the red lights in a vehicle coming up behind you in your rearview mirror, what is it: police, sheriff, fire-rescue?
To answer that, the Rescue squad painted the letters backward on the front of the unit.
Hold this up to a mirror . . . see?
[RESCUE, printed in mirror image].
We're gonna miss you, John Hall.
A Nebraska City eighth grader who has been shattering records with his blazing speed on the asphalt track, put on his last show of speed at the meet Thursday night — John Hall will move to Seattle, Wash., in June.
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hall and family have lived in Nebraska City for three years, coming here from Norfolk, Virginia. Mr. Hall has been employed by the I. S. Joseph company which operated the tallow terminal along the riverfront.
A fire last fall damaged the terminal and Mr. Hall considered a move to Mexico with his family, but instead chose the Jacob Sterns company at Seattle where he will be general manager of the tallow terminal.
The Halls have a daughter, Mrs. Gary (Jana) Palmer, who is in Germany. Mr. Palmer is in the Army.
Victor Hall will go to Seattle on Sunday and his family will follow in June.
Best wishes to the Hall family. You've been a fine addition to the community and you will be missed.
His call was to Nebraska City.
The Rev. John Green, pastor of the First Evangelical Lutheran church at Nebraska City, thoroughly enjoys his church, congregation and the community.
I hope I never leave, he said the other day. Pastors often move around in answer to calls, but Pastor Green said he has no plans to move anyplace. One of the reasons he sought in his move to Nebraska City, was to settle permanently.
To which we say — good show . . . just stay in the pulpit on weekends and leave a few pheasant and quail for me.
Notice to Ray Gruber.
If you wear THAT jumpsuit again to a daylight activity at Hayward park, please tell the ticket man at the gate so he can usher you into a shady place or issue sun glasses to the rest of us.
P.S. (I gotta give you credit, Dad. If you wouldn't have worn that jumpsuit in public you would have broken the heart of your proud daughter, Marcia.)
And so: You're today's G-O-O-O-O-D DAD!
And you deserve to be treated royally, not like just one of the household. You should command attention at the dinner table, take the first choice of meat on the plate, direct which TV programs are to be watched and, most important of all, make the kids leave a car at home so you don't have to walk to work.