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The Elks report –
A woman in a windy city was seen holding her hat with both hands while her skirt blew higher and higher.
The male passersby were enjoying it, and in response to their quizzical glances she snorted.
"Gentleman, what you are looking at is 40 years old . . . what I'm hanging onto is brand new."
The Homemakers School –
You're invited to the News-Press Homemakers School co-sponsored by businesses this coming Thursday.
Miss Jan Hill, a home economist from Middleton, Wis., will return again this year to conduct the demonstrations at the Pioneer Theater.
She will be assisted by five women from the local Catholic Daughters organization. They are Mrs. Ralph Causgrove, Mrs. Ken L. Clark, Mrs. Arvon Marcotte, Mrs. Bill Olmer and Mrs. Robert Warhurst.
The weather report –
The other day my thermometer showed -5. Bill Winkler reported -16. The Kenneth Hobacks of near Union reported similar readings.
Bill Whipple of Union said the weather started out to be that of 1936 and "that was one h— of a winter. There wasn't much flu. Good thing, too: You couldn't go any place."
Bill offered a clipping from the News-Press on the granddaddy of all winters.
High Low January 19 10 -14 January 20 13 -12 January 21 25 4 January 22 0 -10 January 23 -3 -14 January 24 3 -5 January25 2 -15 January 26 4 -16 January 27 1 -18 January 28 10 -15 January 29 9 -14 January 30 3 -8 January 31 10 -17 February 1 7 -5 February 2 8 -1 February 3 11 8 February 4 0 -14 February 5 10 -21 February 6 13 -3 February 7 18 -2 February 8 -9 -13 February 9 0 -16 February 10 10 -10 February 11 1 -9 February 12 5 0 Febraury 13 13 4 February 14 -5 -16 February 15 3 -11 February 16 -2 -13 February 17 -5 -8 February 18 7 -14 February 19 15 -14.
Congratulations –
to the young men and women who were nominated to the military academies by Rep. Charles Thone.
Of course, we know that one young man, Keaton, pretty well, and we found that we know some of the others.
We've never met Mark Heng, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stan Heng, Lincoln, but we know his dad and mom and grandparents. Stan was the administrative sergeant at Company A, received a commission and continued his advancement with the military service. He holds the rank of major and is assigned to the adjutant general's staff in the National Guard.
We don't know Ilsa Bednar's family, but we met the young woman when she was the only girl on the all male track team at Johnson-Brock. She has also received recognition for music and drama and is president of her 4-H chapter.
Meanwhile, back in the Brown House on the North 40 . . . No. 1 son has been advised by the Great Master of the House that he soon will have to switch from toast and cocoa to a True Navy breakfast of hot beans and black coffee.
He is a member of Coach Stevenson's Pioneer wrestling team and since he has a growing young man's body, he has a problem with weight.
As any wrestling parent knows, the boys are constantly dieting. Mel Todd, Jr., says he has observed additional showers and longers showers and a whale of a lot of spitting.
For a lot of the boys, it's pretty difficult. The Queen Bee stopped fixing breakfast for our wrestler back in December. I had forgotten that was when he and I used to barf down bacon, eggs, toast and jelly together every morning.
Don't worry, son . . . once this wrestling is over you've got to start New Training--shoveling down the beans . . . and for a holiday or some other special treat there's SOS . . . that's something on a shingle (hamburger, gravy and toast).
. . . Small wonder they call the American serviceman the man with the heart of gold and the stomach of iron.
The Dunbar Review –
How in the world is it possible that the idiot who married your daughter is the father of the greatest children in the world?