Creighton Knau, the farm announcer for KMA at Shenandoah, kept his audience entertained the other night at the Farm Bureau banquet with good humor and he held their attention with a message.
Mr. Knau spun off his jokes so fast we couldn't keep up with the note-taking or trying to remember them. Besides, our table topics partner was Mrs. Jack Haupt who developed some throat trouble and was unable to do more than whisper. Watching her try to laugh was worth the evening.
Marvin Heiser was my elbow partner and friends, I gotta tell you, ole' Marv really can cut loose when a goodie comes out.
Like the one about St. Peter and the devil who were arguing over a fence. St. Peter wanted the devil to repair the fencing on his side, but the devil told him to go to the devil.
To which St. Peter replied.
"I'll sue you."
The devil laughed.
"Whereya gonna get a lawyer?"
Congratulations
to Debbie Hall and Ranae Rettig, NCHS girls state delegates and Jane Porter and Vickie Francois, alternates, to Lori Brown, delegate and Julie Panko, alternate at Cook. The annual American Legion and auxiliary program will be June 4-10 at Lincoln.
Hello to Kay
Kay Stilwell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Stilwell, Unadilla, attended Kearney State after graduation from high school and is now working as a legal secretary for former governor Bob Crosby in Lincoln.
We haven't seen Kay since she was a high schooler and competed in the Legion speech contests, and learned about what she is doing in a visit with her mother.
Chapter Farmers
FFA adviser David Blecha and his FFA boys and girls came up with some fine awards for some deserving people the other night at the annual FFA banquet.
The Chapter Farmer awards went to Mr. and Mrs. Don Ramold, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Guthals, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Glover and Mr. and Mrs. Loran Patton.
CPR training
It was good reading to note that 90 students at NCHS had been certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The more the better.
Thanks to a lot of people who worked on this: Doctors Bonebrake and Weldon, nurses Karen Dodd, Nedra Eiserman, Linda Moran, Cheryl Eppenbaugh, Simone Anderson and rescue squadsmen Troxler and Keran.
The long weekend
This is a big weekend in Nebraska City for students from many schools who are competing at NCHS for awards m the annual Science and Engineering Fair.
Mrs. Bob Hawkes is director of the annual event and we can attest to the great deal of work involved. She's been busy. There will be nearly 200 projects that have to be judged before the winners are known at the 3 p.m. program Sunday.
The auditorium was scheduled to be opened to the public Saturday at 6 p.m. and again Sunday beginning at 9 a.m. There is a "closed door" time that is necessary for the boys and girls to prepare their displays and themselves for the lengthy judging involved. It's pretty heavy in the school science program.
There is some big money involved. There are five awards with a total value of $7,250.
The golfer
Stolen from the KMA radio man.
There was the golf twosome of a priest and a Methodist preacher. The priest drove off the tee and the ball rolled dead in a sand trap 35 feet from the pin.
The Methodist preacher drove and the ball bounced gingerly onto the green and rolled within 3 feet of the cup.
The priest stepped into the sand trap, crossed himself and swish, the ball came out of the trap and went into the cup. It took the Methodist preacher three strokes to go three feet.
That wasn't the first time. It happened in similar ways, always with the priest sinking it on a single fairway stroke.
On the last hole, the situation came up again. This time the Methodist preacher crossed himself and then proceeded with the all-day ability, to putt it three more times on the green before sinking it. You guessed it — the priest went through his usual formation from his point in the rough and in a single stroke sunk it.
"I just don't understand it," the preacher said. "How come when you cross yourself you sink them with a single stroke and when I tried it, it was the same old one, two three?"
To which the priest replied.
"I dunno but you gotta know how to putt first."
The reappraisal
Today's Famous Quote came from the halls of the Otoe county courthouse where many people have been gathering every day and comparing notes while waiting to see the tax appraiser.
This one is from Don Grundman, Syracuse. It's his recommendation on "How To Get Your Tax Valuation Cut."
Attach 1 ticket to a Big Red football game to your protest form.