Jill Regler, Mike Stein, Susan Derks and Norbert Wenzl for being selected to attend the Optimist sponsored Anytown at Dana college in Blair this summer.
We've been fortunate to hear reports from students who have attended the sessions and they come back all fired up and rarin' to go.
Didya hear the one about the four high school boys who skipped classes?
They returned to school after the hot runch break and explained to Mrs. Winklehake that their car had a flat tire along the way.
She smiled understandingly and said:
"Tch. Tch. You boys missed a test this morning. Please take seats apart from one another and get out your paper and pencil."
After the boys were seated, she continued: "Answer this question . . . which tire was flat?"
Veterans Day is observed November 11 in Nebraska and a total of 138 congressmen have put their names on 54 bills to return Veterans Day to November 11. In Addition, 37 states now mark Veterans Day on November 11.
So what? So . . . the House Judiciary committee has yet to change the date back to November 11. It really doesn't make much difference to the WWI veterans in Otoe County. They said last year they would observe November 11 as Veterans Day (Armistice Day, if you please) because they remembered what happened that day.
The Nebraska City school board's decision to close the Union school is not what you would call "how to win a popularity contest on main street in Union."
In fact, Union school patrons are organizing a campaign to keep their school and going a step further by pointing out the potential school enrollment through school reorganization.
One Union businessman who has children riding buses to Nebraska City said there are people in town who feel that if Nebraska City doesn't want to keep a school in the town, then he feels the town doesn't need Nebraska City.
The school board points out that dollar-wise it is not economical to operate the Union school anymore: the enrollment is down and the building is old and there are better facilities in Nebraska City that the Union people are paying for that should be used.
Union residents said phooey to that the other night at the school board meeting. They contend school consolidation is a bright spot, there is a successful housing project in Union, there are more young families and there is pride in development of the town.
They asked one other question before leaving the meeting: How do we appeal?
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The lawyer was talking to his client in the county jail.
"Now, Jake," the lawyer said, "in order for me to get you out of this mess your wife is going to have to testify. And she's going to have to put on a good show, dress soberly, look worried and maybe cry a little."
"No sweat," Jake replied. "Just tell her they're going to set me free."
Scouts of Troop 346 in Nebraska City have been picking up corn from fields near Hamburg, Ia., as a money-raiser to help finance a trip to Canada this summer.
Scoutmaster Don Chapin, Frank Bataillon and the Rev. Victor Ireland are among the adults who will accompany the boys on the 10-day trip. They promise the boys it will be fun, fun, fun. In fact, they've pumped up so much enthusiasm in the troop that the number of boys wanting to go has increased. There could be 20 to 30 boys on the trip and undoubtedly a few more dads will be going along.
And then there was the one about the church notices in the Friday paper that said the district superintendent will preach at the Sunday morning worship service and the choir will sing, "O Lord, Have Mercy."
A young wife approached the service window at the post office and snapped:
"I wish to complain about the postal service."
"What's the trouble, lady?" Jack Eads asked.
"My husband is in New York on business and the letter he sent me is postmarked Miami Beach."
On the lighter side . . . we read in the Today magazine about the church that canceled its office supply orders with its regular dealer.
The dealer telephoned to ask why.
The pastor's secretary answered, "We ordered some pencils from you to place in the pews for people to register their attendance."
"Well, yes, didn't you receive them?" the salesman asked.
"Oh, yes, we received the pencils," she answered, "but they were stamped with the words 'Play golf next Sunday'."
We've visited with a number of farmers and have been told that this will be SOME year. For one thing, a farmer friend in the middle of the state says he can get only 70 per cent of the fertilizer that he bought last year. He feels he can stretch it some way, but there's no way to get comparable production. He irrigates his crops and like many farmers, he's had some good years. In fact, this was the year he was going to get rid of his John Deere 4020 tractor and get a newer and larger machine.
A farmer in Otoe county says the general corn yield for the eastern part is 100 bushels per acre, but with the fertilizer shortage, he looks for 80 bushels per acre.
A farmer in south-central Nebraska bought his fertilizer from one company for several years. The company went out of business this year. He went to another supplier and was told "no way, you didn't buy from me last year."