Deer hunting has been good this season, according to friends of Jim Kleveland.
Understand Jim's bow and arrow season was not a successful one, but some thoughtful friends (?) posted a paper-mache of the "one that got away" in the Kleveland yard as a New Year's gift.
One thing sure, Jim, when you gotta have friends, it's nice to know who they are . . . Y-a-h-o-o . . . er . . . W-h-o-o-p-i-e!
And then there was the saxophone player-solo vocalist who "swooned" 'em at a New Year's party so much that he was plagued with busses and demands for his autograph.
Mrs. Arthur Whyte is "socking it to 'em" in Miami.
She chose the Miami Herald as her daily newspaper away-from-home and was disturbed to read that columnist Larry Thompson left out some famous names of Nebraskans in his published list.
She wrote the columnist about J. Sterling Morton and his accomplishments in the growth and development of the state.
Our best wishes go to Bob and Barbara Roudebush upon his retirement from the brick manufacturing business in Nebraska City.
Bob made the news a few weeks ago when he capped a 30-year bowling career with a 700 series at V-Lanes, an accomplishment not many of us will see.
His successor at Western Brick and Aggregate is Bob Williams, former president of the Behrens Ready-Mix company at Beatrice.
Bob is working here every day and will move his wife, Beverly, and daughter, Jana Jo, six years of age, to Nebraska City as soon as suitable housing is found.
The new manager said R.R. "Red" Abbott will join him as sales manager. And that pleases us, because Red, a former state trooper, and his family lived here for several years before moving to Lincoln. They will continue living in Lincoln while Red travels for the brick company.
How about a golfing story? We've heard of angry golfers shucking clubs into Steinhart lake, or getting them lodged in trees and lodging another trying to free the first, but the best secret came out just the other day . . . about the golfer who ran his cart into the creek near No. 1.
Bill Thornton, a 10-year Navy veteran now employed as an engineer with Consumers nuclear station at Brownville, says his family enjoys living in Nebraska City very much.
The Thornton family is one of several who may settle here and commute daily to the Cooper station. The commuters are looking forward to completion of the interstate in Iowa and the Percival-Iowa No. 2 junction, which is expected to be a major traffic intersection for this area.
Richard Hoch, legal adviser for Governor Tiemann, says he enjoys his new job at the statehouse. Learning a new job is not simple, particularly in the political field, but Dick says he has met many fine Nebraskans and has found the job highly rewarding and satisfying.
There will be an ice skating rink in Nebraska City and it will be provided by the park department.
Wm. F. Davis, park board chairman, said plans are to place a 40 by 100 foot plastic covering over level ground, raise the sides with lumber and flood the area with two to three inches of water. The location of the new rink has not been decided.
"If it works out and more space is needed, we'll build another," he said. Cost of a rink is $80.
Davis said he had an inquiry about using the Steinhart lake, but after checking the thickness, suggested to the parent that it not be used.
The best one I've heard this week came from a patient at St. Mary's hospital.
He asked for a calendar in his hospital room.
The staff obliged and attached a beautifully-colored calendar on the wall at the foot of his bed . . . from a local mortuary.
Isolationist.
George Washington warned this country against alliances with foreign nations. In his farewell address on Sept. 17, 1796, he wrote: "It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world."