He's smiling
Peru State Coach Jerry Joy is hobbling around with a pair of crutches, wearing a smile and looking forward to football season at Peru State.
He hopes to be healed and walking by then.
Coach Joy sustained a serious leg injury when he ignited trash in a barrel. He believes a high caliber shell was in the trash, exploded from the fire and sent metal from the trash can flying through the air like shrapnel.
He caught pieces in his leg and shattered a leg bone into nearly three dozen pieces. Misery isn't the word for it . . . but come next fall.
The brave trio
The three bravest (or most foolhardy) men we know are the three who walked the ice on the Missouri river drilling holes and measuring ice and water flow.
The three are from the U.S. Geological Survey team of the U.S. Corps of Engineers.
Diane Lukowski of the News-Press was there. She said the trio crossed the entire width of the river of ice, picking its way, and back again. When they were finished, they apparently had enough, but did pose for Diane on the ice.
Retired
Congratulations to Gertrude Koester, Rose Gilson and Herb Frede who have retired from duties at St. Mary's hospital. They were recognized by Steve Urosevich, hospital administrator.
Rose is a longtime friend . . . and can she bake fresh rolls!
Nebraska City had a school where the Safeway store is now located. I can never remember whether it was a HS or JH because they switched them around. It was built for a HS, but used both ways.
Anyway Edgar Lightbody was superintendent and every morning when I made my news rounds, Edgar would lead the way to the basement-gym-lunch room of the school. And there was Rose, whipping up the most delicious food. We sampled it every day.
The boys and girls in Miss [illegible]ete's (Amelia Peterson) vocal music class above the lunch room had some growling stomachs by 11 a.m. each day.
Drugs
Don Niemann, an investigator for the drug division of the Nebraska State Patrol, made it pretty clear the other day on drugs in Nebraska City and southeast Nebraska — they're here.
The officer displayed a number of different "tools" of users and also drug samples. The talk was different. Rather than tell about drugs, he told Optimists the symptoms of drug users so they could see for themselves.
He also burned some marijuana on a piece of foil. That brought Mrs. Roger McCreary and Mrs. Leona Kirby out of the kitchen at the First Lutheran church.
Truckin'
Johnny Bando writes from Donna, Tex., that we ain't seen nuthin' yet until we see 463 trucks lined up to unload freeze-damaged fruit before decay and mold set in.
Johnny sent a clipping from the area showing an aerial view of the trucks lined up in rows waiting to be unloaded. The wait period was 2½ days. In one day, the Texsun plant processed 2,200 tons of fruit into 66,000 cases of juice.
And as the owner said, the company will be busy for a couple of weeks and the season will come to a quick end.
The Bandos and Clarence Beccards traveled in the winter vacation country. They reported a lot of trees destroyed by the freeze.
Good luck, Jerry
Jerry Hall has taken over the Chevrolet dealership in Humboldt. It will be renamed Hall Motor company and a grand opening will be held later.
Jerry formerly operated the Sears store in Nebraska City and has been associated with Weinmair Auto and Mike Koory Motors in Nebraska City.
Good luck and much success to Jerry and Bev Hall.
The Sidney Rodeo
There's going to be a great time at Sidney, Ia., come August. Singing star Bill Anderson will be in the show arena.
Thanks to Jim Sutton, Sam Kellogg, Jr., and a host of Sidney rodeo directors and volunteers, we had a great time the other night. We met with Bill Anderson, took a few pictures and some notes. We had way-too-much to eat, but enjoyed it all.
The Marlboro-looking guy who kept calling to me, turned out to be someone who remembered — Mike Streeter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Streeter. Mike plays the drums for Bill Anderson and puts in a lot of road miles.
Nope, he didn't use any influence to get Bill Anderson to Sidney, but once the deal was made, he made himself available to come back home to meet people.
The Streeters lived in Nebraska City. He worked nights in Omaha and Council Bluffs clubs and his wife, Barb, worked at Farmers Bank.