Thanks to Don Carlile of the Peru State staff for the warm reception given a group of Senlor High students on their first campus visit.
They were impressed with Peru State. They were also pleased to see so many Senior High graduates on the campus. "It seemed every place we went, we saw someone from Nebraska City," one said.
There's another man in Peru who is apparently doing a pretty good job of salesmanship. He's Selmer Dahl, the president of the Bank of Peru.
Mr. Dahl believes in the growth of Peru and he's banking his company will be in there to help. The results of this enthusiasm has paid off. Peru is dressing up.
Mr. Dehl is an impressionable man. He was a tight end for the football team at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, S.D., and as such is a broad shouldered hulk of a man.
He confesses that he was the most injury prone player on the team.
Harold and Rose Halm looked over their building last week after a wall collapsed and said, "we don't know what we'll do." Their building was also waterdamaged by a fire last spring.
Their many friends called and perhaps they had something to do with boosting enthusiasm for rebuilding plans now being made. The Halms were "just sick" when the tragedy occurred. They had worked many years to enjoy Joe's cafe and rental quarters.
There is the brighter side, they agree. There could have been injuries or death involved. Mrs. Halm's quick thinking and alarm got the tenants out of the building seconds before the collapse.
Now there are plans for that north section of the property that includes taking off the top floor and rebuilding a one-story structure.
We wish the Halms better luck than they have been having . . . so they can reopen Joe's and put those shredded beef sandwiches of Rose's back on the menu.
Know what a no-no is?
That's advice from Dad on graduation to son . . . "Awright son, you've got your diploma. Now, go out and set the world on fire."
I may be wrong but
I don't think we adults can "ignore" the high school boys and girls many more years. They're too smart; much smarter than you and I at graduation. Maturity can be questioned and that usually comes with time. Put the two together and you've got a leader.
Last week's issue of the Otoean, the high school newspaper, did not carry a story about the "demands" of a few students to the school board. Maybe that was "maturity" that we didn't grasp . . . they apparently didn't see it as a story.
Demands by high school students are old hat, but perhaps years ago they were more in the way of action than words.
I recall one small town school in Kansas where a group of boys on the word "go" crawled out the classroom windows and took a holiday. If memory serves me correct, the parents chased down the boys and sat them down in the classroom chairs.
There was long hair, too. The football boys all had long hair and got their girl friends and sisters to put pin curls in their locks so they would look . . . like something. The hair on the back of the neck was called a ducktail.
Dean Martin doesn't slide down any firemen's poles, but he does get around pretty swift in the movie "Airport" which is playing at the Pioneer Theater.
It's several stories rolled into one with the main emphasis on a single flight, a man with a bomb and . . . oh shucks, go see it.
The movie was filmed at the Minneapolis airport. And if you've ever been there, then you will recognize so many of the scenes. There's a lot of humor about a hitchhiker and the pressures of being an airport manager that's interesting.
City Street Commissioner Clyde Stoll's resignation caught us all by surprise. Although he has said he would not reconsider, we hope he will still change his mind.
We talked at some length over the phone and at Stoll's 66 Service with Clyde after he had written his letter ofresignation. The reasons he gave us don't justify a resignation. Instead, we are told he has all the more support to stay on the job.
We agree. He has done a good job and is still interested in the welfare of his town.
I have a personal interest in this. A few years ago the late L.Z. Ewing, Dayton "Murph" Murphy, Clyde and myself got into tangles.
It seemed everytime I drove into Stoll's 66, Clyde would start crabbing about needing sewer lines in the south part of town. "Dammit, run for City commission," was the advice.
He did.
We have sewer lines in the south part of town.