Nebraska City, Nebraska The Nebraska City News-Press 533 columns · 1959 to 1979

The Buck Ends Here

By Ivan D. E. Beaumont

Panoramic view of a Nebraska City street lined with brick storefronts
Nebraska City, about 1908.

Sunday, January 30, 1972 · Page 3

Car fever, boat fever, camper fever

Close view of the keys of an old typewriter

A lot of people I know get spring fever.

I get car fever, boat fever, pickup truck fever, camper fever and motor home fever . . . but spring fever? Never bothers me.

I remember when the late Ed Harshbarger wanted to sell me his jo-boat with a cabin, motor, trailer, the works. I huffed and puffed on that for some time before turning it down.

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Ivan smiling beside a 1950s car, holding his baby daughter Denise
Ivan with Denise, [year of photo].

Little Bucks

Short ones, from twenty years of columns

“Really, I was in control of the situation all the time. It's just that I hadn't set which time was mine and which time was the pony's.”

“Nebraska City, we like to brag, has about the best dad burned swimming pool in the state of Nebraska.”

About the author, in his own words

Ivan & Millie

Down in Kansas
“. . . Topsy, the Shetland that transported my three brothers, two sisters and me . . .”
Fairbury, 1948
“. . . I was going to junior college in 1948.”
The Great Navy of Nebraska
The governor commissioned “Millie (this will really give her age away . . . snicker, snicker) an admiral.”
Portrait of Millie and Ivan, young, with Ivan in his Navy uniform
Millie and Ivan, [year of photo].

What he wrote about

Ivan, shirtless on the deck of a ship, playing a lap steel guitar
“You know, after that I always felt the Navy didn’t really need me as much as my enlistment required.”

December 24, 1968

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Arbor Day

“Theme for the Centennial is ‘Say Trees Without Smiling.’”

January 30, 1972

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Red two-cent 1932 Arbor Day postage stamp showing two children planting a tree
The 2¢ Arbor Day stamp, 1932.

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