My younger brother, Dennis, who visited with us last summer, and helped paint our house, detasseled corn, pitched bales, worked at Ocoma Foods and bought a motorcycle, will enter college this month to major in accounting.
He says he heard Morton House advertised on "one of LA's top radio shows." The advertisement claimed Morton House made Nebraska City and Otoe county famous for its beans. Some people are just learning there is a Knoll's Country store, he added.
Which reminds me, a certain radio news broadcast might appeal to its listeners more if the advertiser were changed. The advertisement which goes along with the noon news gives advice about the best rat poison you can buy and rats this and rats that. Pass the hamburgers, Ma.
After too many years of talking and no action, I am finally starting to get into amateur ham radio. Learning the International Morse code is not hard, but it takes patience and practice.
Our eight-year-old daughter, Denise, has been checking my dits and dahs with a book. After this had gone along a few times over two or three days, she walked up to the key and accurately "pounded brass" on a half dozen letters.
Invitations have gone out by Jaycee Week chairmen Jim Rhea and Bob Toler to all ex-Jaycees for a night of hospitality, January 23, at the Elks club.
If you were a member of the Jaycees at one time, and you didn't get an invitation, the reason is only because the co-chairmen were unable to get names of everyone. But, you are very much invited, they said.
My new neighbor will be State Trooper and Mrs. Harold LeGrande. They will build a new home south of our place. I've advised Officer LeGrande that his lot is about six feet narrower than it says on the deed, because I took about that much more space when I planted Kentucky blue grass and podner, ah aim to claim squatter's rights.'