Yes, Mrs. Robert Pfeiffer, Dunbar, the way to make snow ice cream is just follow the instructions printed in The News-Press last week. Send Bob outside in the cold to get the dishpan of snow.
Someday when Millie is out of the house for a few minutes, I'll dig out the one on soybeans and bacon. It's not as good as beans and hamhock, but sure runs a close second.
We've become more conscious of starving nations and we're doing something about it.
CARE is purchasing eight million pounds of wheat, beans and other foods for immediate shipment overseas. Famine countries include India, Bangladesh, Niger, Chad, Sri, Lanka, Haiti and Honduras.
"Estimates are that more than 10,000 men, women and children are dying of starvation everyday," CARE said.
The Feed-the-hungry program is asking Americans to skip or reduce one meal a week for the rest of the year and send their food dollars saved to the aid agency.
The symbol of the campaign is an empty plate with the words, "I care." The CARE address is Room 15, 3600 Broadway, Kansas City, Missouri.
Happy Birthday, Bill Parker.
Andy and Maggie Kreifels aren't the only Notre Dame fans in Nebraska City. Bill Parker graduated from the school and we're told that the old rah-rah Gold and Black made a return appearance at his home on February 12, his birthday.
Bill is the only diehard Irish fan in town with a gold-painted (or yellow) toilet seat complete with the Notre Dame emblem.
Now I ask you . . . what better conversation piece.
"Heya folks, welcome to our home," Bill says as he greets visitors at the door. "Come into the bathroom. I want to show you my toilet seat."
. . . now all he needs is green shhhh . . . toilet paper.
Little Bucks.
Now we know why Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Lynn, Hamburg, Ia., were excited during the high school wrestling matches at Sidney — their son, Bryan, was in the finals . . . Who-o-o-ps! Tim Regler is a junior not a senior. Sorry about that, Tim, must have been Godspell or your imitation of Groucho Marx that threw me.
. . . Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Keller found a large old ring in a home they purchased. The ring is believed to have been owned by Arthur Blaylock and is inscribed "Watchateria." Anyone help with the meaning?
Bob Wernsman, a Peru State grad, has returned to the community as editor of the Challenge, the weekly newspaper.
Bob was a frequent visitor to the News-Press when he was a student at the college and a protege of Everett Browning and the college newspaper, The Pedagogian.
Bob later worked for the Journal-Democrat at Syracuse and the paper in Wahoo. We wish him well on his new job. The man who left the job, John Schmidt, opened a tavern in the town and appropriately enough named it "The Front Page" . . . and if you've seen the play you have an opinion of editors and also reporters who receive gifts of gold watches.
Francis Moul of the Journal-Democrat, called the other day and his folks made a couple of trips to the News-Press to have their type set after the Syracuse photo typesetting machine broke down.
The Journal-Democrat staff "punched" the stories into tape, drove to the News-Press to run it on our photo machines to get the cold type and returned to Syracuse to get out their paper on time.
Our photo computers accept "idiot" and teletype tape. Idiot tape means that the computers put in the hyphens and spaces between words. The machines used to punch the tape do not have carriages like typewriters. As such, there is no end of the line.
Our photo machines accepted the Syracuse tape and produced the cold type at the rate of 30-plus lines per minute.
Baseball in high school? It's a possibility.
A delegation of baseball enthusiasts asked the Nebraska City school board to consider a high school baseball program for next year and offered equipment that the American Legion post owns.
What the program amounts to is simply getting more boys out for the sport and getting a few games under their belts before the Legion's summer baseball program gets started.
As it stands, the Legion will not likely have a Junior league team because so few boys are interested. The delegation said it thinks that the number will grow if the program is started during the school year.
If you've got some thoughts on the subject you might contact Glen Cohn, Don Reuter, Jack Simms or Legion Commander Harold Bliss.
Newcomers.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Rhyno are settled comfortably in their home in Porter Acres Addition and enjoying their retirement home in Nebraska City.
Ray and Alice spent a lot of years moving around during his career as a railroader. That's all over now and they've settled here. Why? Good reason — their daughter is Mrs. Martin Heng.
Want more than that? Grandchildren.
Welcome to town, Mr. and Mrs. Rhyno.
A look at the stars.
I'm Scorpio and I've been having a rough time. It all started with the outlook that my daily -organization would flop. (That was no real surprise). Sunday's astro-graph tells me to get on the ball with something, but at last I found what I was looking for when I peeked into the future (that means I opened the advance-for-release mail).
February 21 is my day — "Trust yourself. Do things your way."
I'm going to paint those letters on a big sign and put it up in the living room.