Jay Westover, Navy recruiter at Nebraska City, will be leaving town this spring when he retires in April after 21 years of military service.
Jay and his family are thinking about moving to Colorado.
The state of Colorado must have some attraction for retired military personnel. Our friend D. A. Thompson, the cigar chewing master sergeant and his fine wife, are living at Denver. Mrs. Thompson, as many of you will recall, worked as office secretary for the Chamber.
Bulletin.
Metrecal was named today as the recipient of the famed Nobel prize.
You know why the Mothers' March of Dimes is January 30? That's the birthdate of President Roosevelt, who was a polio victim.
Merle (sports car owner) Short said the cold weather has resulted in his company putting 709 water tank heaters on the market. Shipments went as far south as Texas.
Arbor-Easter.
Arbor Day (April 22) and Easter are on the same day this year. Just what the Chamber's Arbor Day committee is going to do has not been immediately decided. There might be some conflict holding the annual tree planting ceremony on Easter Day.
Arbor Day and Easter have not been on the same day this century and for your information and according to Dr. Carroll Prouty's pocket notebook, the events will not occur on the same day again until 1973 and 1984.
As you probably know Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon after March 21.
Bed of a creek near Forest City, Ark., has a deposit of seven million cubic yards of oyster shells.