New Year's Resolution: Promise not to beat my wife in ping pong.
This may be one of the quietest, deadest, most silent New Year's you have ever witnessed unless Eddie Gerber either climbs to the bell tower on the courthouse or gets himself, a substitute.
For many years, Eddie has "shaken 'em up" with the courthouse bell ringing, but he's been refraining from that bustling type of exercise in recent weeks. Eddie stepped down from courthouse custodial services recently after an illness.
He is missed by his many friends. Note to Eddie: (Wonder if the district court room will ever be the same without Judge Beaumont and Attorney Gerber).
We whooped it up a couple of times in kangaroo court style. One day right smack dab during a heated discussion from bar to bench, the late Judge John M. Dierks stepped into the court room.
Our faces turned red, but the judge was a jovial sort himself. He turned his back on us and with a smile left the room.
Don't you get a kick out of that TV commercial where the guy uses a microphone to amplify the sound of you-know-what in his nose?
For New Year's
What with all the quints and quads being born in the world, it's high time to form an organization in Nebraska City to prepare for a multiple birth.
We could call it the Nebraska City Society for the Protection, Welfare and Educational Program for Multiple Births . . . or the Care, Welfare and Pepping-Up for New Fathers of Multiple Births.
Don't laugh, mother . . . it could happen.
We're going to miss visiting Fort Teen on New Year's Day.
The Center will not be opened for the color TV showing of the Rose Parade or bowl games. Maynard Kempke, adult director, said the reason is the lack of attendance which is as good a reason you'll find.
Mrs. Norman Hull, Otoe county caseworker who resigned to work with the Lancaster county welfare department, will have her raincoat returned.
The coast was taken by accident by a motorist en route to Texas.
The driver wrote to the "White Cafe on U. S. 75 in Nebraska City." The letter was handed Dean Duncan at Dean's Cafe. The writer apologized for taking Mrs. Hull's coat and asked for help in returning it.