According to this month's American Legion magazine, the country is facing a growing rat population.
Well, I never questioned the headline, 'cause I think we all knew a few rats, but then I read a little deeper into the story to find the fella was talking about the four-legged kind.
I haven't been out to the "civic center" north of town, for a week, but apparently the city's rat-poisoning project is doing fine.
Otherwise my mailman, Frank Bataillon, would have said something.
UP ON THE NORTH 40.
The Duane Halls got the jump on the early frosts and have a nice lawn around their new home on the North 40.
That new home added a minute and 22 seconds more to Frank's mail route.
Walter Kutz, his head bandaged from a gunshot wound, held up his ambulance trip to St. Mary's hospital when he made a request.
Mrs. Pearl Phillips of the Cincinnati House obliged and returned to his room to get a cord for his electric razor.
FAMOUS SAYING.
"Dad," junior said,"can I buy an activity ticket?"
Congratulations to Bob "T-Bird" Toler and his Chamber committee for throwing a fine shindig for area firemen. The food was good, the refreshments tasty, but better yet was that story about Don Roberts and the holdup at the bank.
It takes a special kind of person to be a fireman. Not everyone has the opportunity to get called out in the middle of the night or in the middle of work during rain, sleet, sunshine, or snow to inhale black smoke, man an ax or a firehose for who knows how many hours.
Nebraska City is another of those fortunate towns that has a dedicated group of firemen who for some strange reason enjoy that kind of activity.
A quickie telephone call by Ray Duncan of The News-Press to his supplier in Omaha, a rush to the bus depot and Morton House pumped out can goods at eye-blinking speed the other day.
And the little item that threatened to hold up the work was a rubber type figure, "4".
In answer to a question from Jean Golden, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Golden:
"What is meant by 'A & W'?"
According to Sue Leiben, it is Allen and Wright, the last names of two men from California who originated the now famous root beer drive-ins.