Dr. Dorothy Newbury, the mission educator who spoke at the Chamber banquet last week, enjoys her work in Liberia so much that she finds it hard to cut off her speeches.
Miss Newbury spoke over an hour, but not to a restless audience. They enjoyed her witty comments on Liberian attempts at agriculture, family life and living in the bush without the necessities of such things as plumbing and telephones.
Best wishes to Harry Vondrak, the new Chamber president and his board of directors, on a successful year with the Chamber.
Dawson Oil company is making plans to build a second major service outlet in the Nebraska City area.
Instead of U.S. 75 as the highway, it will be the interstate at the Percival junction. Nebraska City is expected to be a major busy intersection for car and truck traffic and the engineers have planned that to include the interstate intersection.
Bill Dawson said he is well pleased with his location in relation to the interstate. "We're in a real good place with a shot right off the interstate in a clear view to drivers."
"Easy Rider," a film made, in the language of the movie people as skimpy-on-money, is packing theaters across the country to the tune that may make it a box office smash in 1969.
The film was made on $450,000 borrowed money by Bert Schneider. The job took him seven weeks. In contrast, "Doctor Doolittle" took $17 million and a year to produce.
Easy Rider has been booked at the Pioneer on New Year's, Sid Metcalf said.
Understand the movie goer comes out of the theater a bit disgusted and supporting the two motorcyclists and not the townspeople.
Wall Street Journal printed an interesting article on films today, as Mrs. Arthur Sackles pointed out. Most movie goers are 14 to 25 years of age and they don't give a hoot for the $20 million Liz Taylor glamor stuff. They want a story.
Friends of Animals, Inc., New York, sent a clipping from the October 24 News-Press of the story about cats suspected as carriers of leukemia.
Alice Herrington, president of the organization, quotes an authority that "There is no evidence at present that cat leukemia viruses infect humans or cause leukemia in humans." She cites three other authorities and specialists who defend cats.
Thank you, Miss (or Mrs.) Herrington. There'd be heck to pay in our house if our youngest had to give up "Buffy," last year's gift.
Bishop Sheen: "There are three kinds of news – good news, bad news and Agnews."
The great feats of the astronauts on this trip to the moon will go down in the record books as a team effort.
They are sailors, in effect, and are on the Navy's payroll.
Wonder if the moon voyage would have been done any different under the good ole' Navy custom – the right way, the wrong way and the Navy way.