The buzzer system in the county commissioners' office in the courthouse has been repaired once again, enabling employes in the county, clerk's office to "buzz" the commissioners' room to answer a telephone call.
Otoe county court has a new telephone, the type that may be used as a hand piece or a button and speaker system permitting county court employes to converse over the line without lifting the receiver.
I've got the best one at home. It's one of those "tweeters" and since I can't hear it when it "tweets" during my tweeping hours at night, I have renamed it to "twilent twelephone tweeter."
Up on the north 40.
The wind howled, rattled the windows and shook the trees up on the north 40 a week ago, but everything withstood the gale. Not so, north of the armory where the Jaycees have constructed a windbreak for ice skaters. The wind broke it!
Mrs. Robert Norton, kindergarten teacher at Second Avenue school, asked the small fry in her class if they had seen pictures or heard about a man named George Washington.
One of the youngsters blurted.
"Oh, we don't watch that TV show."
Methods of instruction of students in schools has changed.
Classes are taught over what is called Educational Television, actual telecasts from the University on various subjects.
Such classes are conducted daily in Nebraska City's schools.
And when the man in space project was under way, students at Sixth Street school spent much of their classroom time in front of TV sets watching history being made.
Jack Eads, the postal clerk who was pictured in a recent issue of the News-Press with the "Man in Space" four cent postage stamps, says he rated better than the space pilot, Lt. Col. John Glenn, because the News-Press picture of Eads was much larger than the picture printed of Glenn.
Eads' only question was whether he would be going up or down.