This week's Famous Quote came from two men. The subject was financing the ESU4 education program for the handicapped.
Governor Exon read the News-press first and then said what Kenneth Gardner said about it was an untruth.
Mr. Gardner said what he said was the truth and said he didn't say anything that wasn't said to be the truth or he'd have said so in the first place.
To . . . which Governor Exon said he said at a board meeting what had to be said and should have been said before.
To . . . which Mr. Gardner said anything else he had to say would be said at the Auburn meeting last week. [Ed. Note: Yup, he said it!].
This month's Electric News from OPPD gave some timely hints on safety and kite flying and recognized Mrs. Merlin Hartman, Douglas, as the Guest Homemaker. Mrs. Hartman's "Cherokee Casserole" recipe was reprinted. Sounds tasty . . . I'll slip it in Millie's index file and get her to try it sometime.
We thumbed through several books given to us on Nikon and Nikkormat cameras and noticed that they were printed in Japan. Not unusual, nor was the high quality of printing.
What did catch our attention was the full page color picture on the inside of the cover (advertising the quality of the Nikkormat EL camera). It was a picture of a football team. Yeah, you guessed it . . . No. 20, Johnny Rogers, running through the Oklahoma Sooners. The Japanese must like Nebraska football, too.
This is Lee "Red" Fenton, 73, 319 Seventh Avenue, with a copy of the Declaration of Independence. Red says he doesn't know how old the copy is nor where it came from except that it has been in the family for three generations or more. The parchment paper is well preserved in a glass covered frame.
We sat beside a couple from Deweese at a Legion speech contest last week who asked if we knew Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Schreiner. Bob Karmazin is a nephew of Mrs. Schreiner.
Mr. and Mrs. Karmazin looked out the window of the school at Scotia and remarked they liked Phoenix and Sun City weather a lot better. They returned from a vacation in Arizona to join the rest of us back home in the ice and snow.
Here's a note from the Honda motorcycle people that the new models will be out soon including the new road machine, a 1,000 cc shaft drive (that means no chain to you four wheelers). To the best of our knowledge the only other drive shaft motorcycles are the BMW and the Moto Guzzi. Call Guy Miller (after 11 p.m.) and he will fill you in on the details.
Johnny Sornson, owner of Johnny's Yamaha at 1425 Central, said Yamaha is expected to offer a 1,000 cc shaft drive machine in the fall. It will be a four cylinder "V."
Johnny has a 1975 two-cylinder 650 cc on the floor along with his other 1975s. Yamaha also makes a twin 750. The Nebraska City cycle dealer said he is looking for a good year, but nothing as super as last year when he was swamped during Feburary and March. "It hasn't started off with a boom like it did last year, but I think we'll have a pretty good year."
The sudden change to the 40s the past few days has brought out a few cyclists. Johnny has been riding a bike to work recently.
The best act we've seen was a couple of boys — Brad Yost and Jerry Steinman — riding motorcycles in a field during one of the snowstorms. Now I know what is meant by "diehard."
Bob Poggemeyer is out of the hospital and I take credit for his release.
No, I'm not the great healer, but occasionally the right words are said to the right person at the right time . . . all I said to Bob was:
"Thanks a lot, Bob."
"What for?" he asked as he walked down a hospital hall in his pajamas and housecoat.
"For the use of your dogs . . . you know, the dogs that you always say are such good bird hunters?"
"Did you use MY dogs?" he snorted.
"Sure . . . and my, they are good hunters . . . we must have gotten eight or 10 rabbits."
(Understand Bob checked out of the hospital a short time later).