Show time in Nebraska City.
Mrs. Tom Lacy, a newcomer to Nebraska City, is asking for help to organize a Little Theater with hopes of raising the curtain the first time in a few months.
Congratulations!
We wish you much success.
The Lacys have made Nebraska City their home while he is employed with the nuclear plant at Brownville. There are a lot of other families who have done the same and we apparently will see some of their contributions to the town.
Perhaps the Lacys don't know it, but they were "wooed" to Nebraska City.
A group of Nebraska City businessmen, Chamber representatives and City officials, spent quite a bit of time with the power people with the hopes that a number of families would find this town a fine place to live.
They all spent a number of Sundays conducting tours to fulfill that salesmanship job.
Other "new" names you perhaps will hear more about are Mrs. Larry Kuncl, who is the coordinator for the reading hour for the small fry at the library and Mrs. Bill Thornton, who is working on the Miss Nebraska City scholarship pageant.
We're pleased that so many fine people from the Cooper Station facility have chosen our town. And we welcome their enthusiasm to our community.
Our "welcome gal" is Mrs. Roger Peterson and she has, or will soon, call upon you.
Thanks to Avery Lett we had a revealing flight over the Nebraska City area of what the storm has done. It's really amazing to see all the ice and water that has accumulated over roads and farmland.
Makes you feel pretty small in this big world.
Among the most interesting sights were Waubonsie park which sure looks different with no leaves on the trees and of a farm southwest of Nebraska City. The farm looked like someone had driven a snowmobile over a tract of snow covered land. The pattern was unusual.
A closer check of the picture showed instead that the tracks were made by cattle.
We got an official 9.3 inches of snow. That was considerably less than the last storm, but it was officially labeled a blizzard, according to weather observer Joe Thissen.
And we sure wouldn't argue with Joe over that! It was a whale of a storm. The part we liked best were the bright sun and 30's and 40's we've enjoyed since.
Larry Parker, who reads and rewrites the 25 years ago column for this newspaper, remarked the other day about a picture and story in the News-Press about Winston Churchill.
Mr. Churchill impressed Larry a great deal. The British prime minister impressed a lot of people. As Larry remarked, it was Churchill who lifted a badly beaten nation from its knees to victory.
The picture had a significance that many of us recall.
It was Winnie's hand sign, "V" for victory.
Today the same sign is called a peace symbol.
This note came from Dr. M.B. De Jarnette.
What is an American?
He is the fellow who yells for the government to balance the budget, then takes the last dime he has to make the down payment on a car.
He whips the enemy, then gives him the shirt off his back. He yells for speed laws that will stop fast driving, then won't buy a car if it can't make 100 miles per hour.
He knows the line-up of every baseball team in the major leagues — and doesn't know half the words of the "Star Spangled Banner."
He'll spend half a day looking for vitamin pills to make him live longer, then drive 90 miles an hour on slick pavement to make up for lost time.
He ties up his dog, but lets his 16-year old son do whatever he wants.
He will work hard on a farm so he can move into town where he can make more money so he can move back to the farm. He couldn't fight his way out of a paper bag, but spends $20 for ringside seats, and tells the professionals how to fight.
We're the country that has more food to eat than any other country in the world — and more diets to keep us from eating. We're the most ambitious people on earth, and we run from morning till night trying to keep our earning power up with our yearning power.
We're supposed to be the most civilized nation on earth, but still can't deliver payrolls without an armored car.
Happy wedding anniversary!
Mr. and Mrs. F.L. (Dorene) Duffey enjoyed an evening of dinner and visiting with friends Thursday in observance of their 37th wedding anniversary.
Mrs. Duffey, the N-P society editor, writes anniversaries by the dozens so we felt that perhaps we could give their marriage a little plug right smack dab in The Buck.
Congratulations!
The Duffeys have two children, Bill, a graduate student at Columbia University, N.Y., and Mrs. Thomas (Kathleen) Stevens, Omaha, a laboratory technician for four doctors.
Grandchildren are Elizabeth, year and a half (she was born in Vienna, Austria) and William Michael, two and a half months old.
Kathleen has a son, Kevin Grant, who is six years old and an apple in the eye of his grandfather.
We hadn't planned anything special at the plant, but things sorta fell that way Friday morning. "The chef" of the educational television network sent us a package in the morning mail and it included, among other tasty items, a cake and rolls.
So, the gals here had their own anniversary party during the morning coffee break.
And, they say "The chef" pastries were great.