The cost of Country Clubs.
American Legion Country Club dues at Shenandoah, Ia., have been increased to $136 a year. That includes the golf course.
The Shenandoah Sentinel said it is the first increase since 1968 when Legion members paid $80 a year. Non-resident Legion members paid $86 and country club and golfing members paid $98 at that time.
A spokesman said the raise will not bring the dues anywhere near the national level for clubs with such accommodations as held at Shenandoah.
Adam Schellinger Post No. 8 Legionnaires pay $5 a year. Accommodations are the club facilities on Central Avenue. The post has 700 to 800 members a year.
Dick Miyoshi will soon be slicing apples instead of picking them.
The Miyoshis have leased the Transport Inn cafe on South Eleventh Street. Dick has operated the Catron-Miyoshi Orchard here for several years.
Best wishes to the Miyoshis in their new endeavor. Mrs. Miyoshi is director of the hot lunch programs in the Nebraska City schools.
Congratulations to "Spud" Clark for obtaining the Junior Olympics program at Hayward park.
We've got the best athletic field in this area (the $100,000 playground, a caller says) and making use of it is the most practical thing we can do with the tax dollar.
We've never attended a Junior Olympics contest. We've read about the events and admire the competition. We have spent some time at a smaller but similar girls competition directed at Hayward by Mary Ellen Slack and it was a dilly.
Those little girls really pounded the asphalt in fiery competition.
Spud is going to need help to put this thing over. And surely, the Pioneer Boosters and the KC's of Lourdes will be there pitching in.
Thanks to Harry Vondrak.
"When's the next basketball game?"
That's easy. Those billfold sized cards provided by Harry Vondrak list the entire Nebraska City school athletic schedule.
The Optimist club considered sponsoring the football, basketball and wrestling schedule cards when school first opened. The club was too pokey.
Harry didn't fool around. He got together with Jim Brockhaus, NCHS athletic director, and the cards have been widely circulated, and widely used, we might add.
Snowmobiles generally aren't too popular in this area because we just don't get the snow like Minnesota and other states.
The Blizzard of 1971 will have left its mark historically, in the form of the ski-track vehicles. The two-cycle engines make quite a sound and you only have to follow that sound to Steinhart park on a Sunday afternoon to watch the groups who get together.
We've never ridden on a snowmobile — but we intend to do it soon.
A group of Nebraska City motorcycle enthusiasts are looking forward to summer and vacation time. They are planning a trip on their bikes into the Black Hills late this summer.
Among those interested are Mr. and Mrs. Marty Allgood, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kafka, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Dale Taylor.
We are quite thrilled with our new wire service. Associated Press has become part of the News-Press family after an association of 49 years with United Press International.
We've had millions of words in news from UPI over the years and we've enjoyed the courteous way in which they helped us do our job.
But we made a change. For the good, we hope, to do one thing — improve the news in your daily newspaper.
You won't see names like Charles Weiser, James Joyce and Pat Koza on our stories any more. Now, you'll read the wire stories of AP staffers like Odell Hanson, who handles the legislature for the bureau.
So, so long UPI, hello AP.
Sen. Calvin Carsten, the Second district's freshman senator in the state legislature, got the thrill of a lifetime the other day as one of the many who had the opportunity to welcome President Nixon on his visit to the University campus.
"It was really wonderful," the senator said.
Senator Carsten is talking with the voters every place he goes. And that included the Corn-Soybean Clinic held in Nebraska City on Friday.
The senator has a office and clerical help at the statehouse to assist him in his duties as the representative of the voters in parts of Otoe and Cass counties.
His telephone number is 471-2393.
A Junior High student in Nebraska City has his own thoughts on drug abuse and control:
"What's wrong with Washington? They won't spend a mere $5 million to buy out this year's crop of opium.
"Now, they spend $10 million on an SST that can't fly, $7,000 a day on the war and billions on rocket flights. Why not spend $5 million to lower drug abuse in the U.S.A.?"
Not bad, Tim. At least it shows you're thinking.