She will be missed.
Good luck, Marion
Marion Straw, assistant manager at Woolworth's in Nebraska City, is working in Fremont as the store manager.
We wish Marion much success in her new assignment. Many of the Hotel Grand coffee drinkers will remember that Marion worked for several years at the desk and had to settle a number of arguments on who was going to pay for the coffee.
She will be missed on Central Avenue.
And speaking of Central Avenue, there's the return of another Central Avenue worker. Wilma (Mrs. Jim Ohnmacht) is working at Family Prescription Shoppe.
Wilma was also at the hotel for many years and when the building was destroyed in a fire, she began the coffee serving job at the Friendship Room.
Wilma succeeds Mollie (Mrs. Willard Joiner) who worked for many years for F. L. Duffey at Montgomery Ward.
The hunt
Opening weekend for the pheasant season attracted us to the son-in-law's home at Sargent (north of Kearney), and resulted in a good time and good hunt.
We also discovered the world is getting smaller. On a drive to the hunting ground we visited with a young man at the wheel of the vehicle.
His roommate at the University is Dean Grundman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vic Grundman, Nebraska City.
The small town of Sargent uses the hunting season as a money-maker. The Methodist church sponsors a hunters turkey feast. It is advertised for $2.75 and you can fill 'er up.
Yup. It was just like they said. We managed two plates but had to turn down a full slice of apple pie.
To shake it around in the stomach that evening, we accompanied son-in-law Bryan Mabie and State FCA Director Wendell Conover and his son, Tim, to Broken Bow where we watched the very fine Ansley team defeat East Butler in a Class C2 playoff.
Christmas?
You bet. We've seen Christmas decorations up and ads in the paper. People are starting early this season and from indication, that will mean a long Christmas season.
Why the rush to get to Christmas? We don't know, but it would appear that the shoppers are setting the pace. Many just received their Christmas club checks and have started accounts for the 1979 Christmas.
Congratulations
to Tracy Edwards, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Beccard, on her selection as the FFA Sweetheart. She was selected at the annual FFA dance and received a jacket and other gifts. As the FFA sweetheart she gets to sit at the head table with the boys and look pretty and that's always pleasing for the audience.
Other candidates were Susan Davis, Deanna Haupman, Tammy Kreifels, Lori Moles, Jane Porter and Terri Snyder.
Gasohol
You will be reading more about gasohol in the future and as plans for the plant near Rock Port progress.
We don't know much about gasohol, except that Dawson Oil sells it and we've been burning it in our six cylinder Dodge van for over a year.
If we don't accomplish anything tangible, we can at least look to the heavens and say "Frank Sorrell — are you watching?"
The phone rang
Thanks to Don Haith and his LT&T crew, we were able to handle an unusually large number of telephone calls election night. When we have so many calls on special things like election results, the LT&T folks man the boards to prevent a locking up of switches, er - something like that.
The phones started ringing at 8 p.m., but it was 9:30 before the first results were reported from the courthouse.
A number of callers had comments on the results. Some were disappointed their choice wasn't elected, many were happy and a few were irritated because an issue wasn't going their way.
John Quinlan and Jerry Wilson manned election headquarters at the courthouse and our society editor, Sue Quinlan, also was on the job getting results and firing them to the News-Press.
The courthouse folks worked the longest until about 1:30 a.m., but everyone was pooped when the lights went out and it was time to go home.
Reminds me of the time Clerk Jerry Schmitz kept us at the courthouse all night. Wonder if that was the same night that he started singing, "A Mighty Fortress."