There are quite a number of new families in Nebraska City, so we have a bit of information for them.
Saturday, April 10 at 11 a.m., there will be an Easter Egg hunt at Nuckoll's square (the park a block north of the telephone building).
Take your children to the hunt. It's a lot of fun for the youngsters.
But, please! Stay out of the way.
When the Jaycees say "go!" all the little feet surrounding those poor lil' ole' candy eggs take off like a herd of wild horses.
Now, we don't want you parents to think you're not wanted. You're more than welcome.
We just dare you to step in front of the rush . . . It'd sure make a good story for the paper.
There's another Easter egg hunt this year.
The Easter Seal Society is sponsoring a special hunt for handicapped children Wednesday at 4 p.m., at the School for the Visually Handicapped.
The program is the idea of Mrs. Don Neeman, special projects chairman for the Society. Too often we tend to neglect the children who need special attention.
Congratulations to Mrs. Neeman and the State Society for conducting the program.
The days in the month.
Our face was red the other day when we printed a school activity as being scheduled for April 31, when there are 30 days in the month.
Is this how it goes?
30 days has September, April, June and November; the rest have 31 except for February which has 28 and 29 on Leap Year.
We say this with a bit of reservation:
We've enjoyed the winter.
But we're sure in blazes going to be glad when it's all over.
If the legislature doesn't knock it out, Daylight Savings Time will go into effect at 2 a.m., April 25 and will end at 2 a.m., October 31.
I don't know whether I'm looking forward to that or not . . . it just means more sunlight time to work in the yard at home.
Water pollution checked.
Joe Thissen, chief of Nebraska City's water treating system, said he is confident City well water is not contaminated with metal pollutants, but is asking for a federal water test to back him up.
Well, we are not worried about arsenic or cadmium metallics in our City water, either, but we do wish now that Nebraska City's bid several years ago for that laboratory and testing station would have been approved in Congress.
Thissen saw the need for a laboratory along the Missouri river and a number of people spent considerable time trying to get the federal government to break loose.
Instead there are testing stations at Alabama, California and Ohio.
It's still not too late to get something of that importance and magnitude located here. We understand that the state does not have the special facilities for the proper testing of the metallics.
Senator Curtis will be in Nebraska City soon. It's a good question to put to him.
Some fresh entertainment has been scheduled for the April 13 birthday banquet of the Otoe County Republican Women at Senior High.
The Offuttaires, a choral group, will perform.
The 45 women in the group are wives of men who are assigned to SAC. They have often been called "Musical Goodwill Ambassadors." Their programs consist of show tunes, patriotic songs and other light music.
The director is Mrs. James Cronin, who holds a Bachelor of Music degree in voice.
Tickets are $3 each and that includes the dinner to be catered by Fred Oetgen at Steinhart Lodge. U.S. Sen. Carl T. Curtis will be the principal speaker.
Mrs. Carl Zimmerman, the energetic chairman of the Nebraska City Improvement Council, is heading up a spring cleanup campaign and will need a lot of help from the rest of us.
She might be interested in knowing that on April 17 a number of students from Peru State are going to walk the highways in the college area to pick up litter.
We were pleased to read that our friend, Peggy Peoples, a senior at District 27, won first in a state sewing and style revue. (Peggy Tootsie, the aging Cocker Spaniel, is still a pretty frisky old girl.) Rescue squadsmen appropriately recognized Austin Cutler, former rescue chief, for his leadership . . . Dale Haverty was also recognized for dedication to the rescue service. Good man, that Dale. Retiring FFA President John Cole corrected the attendance report at the banquet the other night and quipped that the "adviser" didn't "advise" . . . Sev Sorensen was quick with his answer. He has to be. He's been in parlimentary word battles with FFA boys for 28 years. The audience enjoyed it.
Who slugged Carry Nation?
Well, we're not sure, but a caller said she was confronted by J.M. T. Schneider who operated a saloon at Eighth Street and Central Avenue where Thygeson's is now located.
Carry Nation, the leader in the prohibition movement, made herself well known to bartenders and saloon keepers. She entered saloons carrying a bag of rocks, tossed one into the mirror behind the bar and chopped up the whiskey and beer with a hatchet.
Harry Bischof said he recalled his father, the late William Bischof, telling him that Schneider saw Carry a-comin', ran around the bar to meet her, grabbed her and "tossed her out the front door."
Mrs. Owen Mullen, a granddaughter of Mr. Schneider, said she doesn't recall any mention of the incident.
Greg Durr doesn't help matters any. He keeps asking "who," "who," and doesn't offer any helps. (Stop reading that flashback item in the Herald, Greg).
Lucian Smith ought to volunteer an answer but he must be busy with his tax return.