Kohoutek is on its way and is expected to put on its most remarkable show during this month. After mid-December the motion of the comet toward the sun will be clearly seen. As the days pass the comet will draw closer to the sun, rising later each day and it will continue to get brighter and its tail will lengthen.
By January 10 the comet will attract worldwide attention because it will be large, bright and can be seen at a reasonable hour. It will be closest to the Earth (73 million miles) January 15.
Binoculars are probably the best instruments available for watching comets. If you want to photograph the comet, you should use high speed film. The comet is named for Lubos Kohoutek who discovered it at the Hamburg Observatory.
During the spring months the comet was too faint to be seen with any but the largest telescopes and it has been invisible all summer because it was on the opposite side of the sun from Earth and lost in the sun's rays.
A full-time mayor for the town.
Mayor Ervin Rogers, 69, will become a full-time mayor-of-the-town effective January 1.
He has sold his share of Rogers and Schmitz Auto Electric to Al Schmitz and will devote his energies to the duties of public office.
Mayor Rogers was elected to the office in the recall several weeks ago. At that time he told The Buck he planned to retire "about the first of the year." He was elected to fill out the unexpired term of former mayor A. O. Gigstad. That term expires in the spring of 1976.
Erv and Al opened their shop July 16, 1949.
Erv worked for Carl Laatz, in an auto electric business and when the business was sold to Tony Gerbert, Erv worked there for about 10 years.
Al came back after WWII, worked with Erv and for Clemmy Holmes for a time. The two men decided to form a partnership and open their own shop. They did and they have been very successful.
"Oh, it gets a bit growly around here once in awhile," the mayor said, "but we get along just fine."
Firestone marketing experts predict that about 424,000 of the cars in Nebraska will be riding on snow tires this winter.
"Nebraska motorists will purchase some 369,000 snow tires of which approximately 45 per cent will be retreads," according to Bill Dawson's company representatives.
The experts figure that many motorists will be riding on the same winter tires for the second or third season. And although they predict a greater demand for snow tires, there has been no substantial increase in production.
And a roly-poly Christmas to you!
I don't know about the rest of you folks, but these Christmas parties that I enjoy so much are going to end up qualifying me as a roly-poly pot-bellied helper for Santa Claus.
We ought really to spread these big dinners over 12 months and do a little "shake, rattle and rock" in between to keep trim.
The other day I dug out my old brown suit with the button vest. Yeah, smarty, I got it buttoned, but it wasn't very comfortable.
As a matter of fact I can now describe relief that you've heard so often from the opposite sex — "whoooooo . . . eeeeee."
Take a look at the dinner menus during the past week.
How many steaks did you eat? How do you like 'em, black and beautiful, pink and precious or bloody and barbarous?
How about baked potatoes? With butter? Aw, come on . . . sure you didn't put sour cream on the spud?
What was in your tossed salad . . . onions . . . celery? What did you use for dressing? Thousand Island, Italian?
Did you set aside a cocktail and a sub a cuppa coffee? Did you use cream and sugar?
How about the rabbit food? Ummmmm . . . radishes, carrots, celery, black and green olives with red peppers, sweet (yuuuck) pickles and b-o-o-i-i-n-n-g dill pickles.
And then there were hot rolls, whole wheat and white bread and that super hot garlic bread.
Well, how's that for a starter?
Then, if you were smart you went to one of the family covered dish dinners. I used to take a four-wheeled cart, but Millie said it was embarrassing.
I'm not too hot on turkey, but the dressing is No. 1. And the gravy is also always super-duper. Sometime I'd like to count the number of different salads.
All I know is . . . you can't get them all on one plate.