Sister Vincent Mary, whose responsibility at St. Mary's includes 40 third graders, is looking forward to a big snow this year.
She is from Owensboro, Kentucky.
It will be a delightful experience for the Sister when 40 little boys and girls rush to her all at one time and want help with their overshoes.
Congratulations to Rennie Metcalf, daughter of Superintendent and Mrs. Sam Metcalf and Jim Wirth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Wirth, for winning the Elks Youth Leadership contest.
Understand park officials had a special cleanup job recently at Riverview park—500 empty beer cans . . . the driving lane, ice-covered like many streets, recently, has been a treacherous area resulting in dozens of drivers calling for wrecker service, park officials said.
Ed Brinkman, the new manager of Beneficial Finance in Nebraska City, says he likes Nebraska City. People are friendly and it's not hard to get acquainted, Ed says.
Thanks Ed, its always nice to hear compliments from newcomers.
The Union Pacific will likely toot its horn this spring when the 100th anniversary rolls around of the driving of the golden spike.
Remember the story?
E.H. Bailey, president of UP, wrote the other day that the golden spike linking the UP and Central Pacific was "at Promontory Summit, Utah, May 10, 1869, and signaled the completion of the first trans-continental railroad."
Mr. Bailey sent along a copy of an oldtime poster announcing the cross-country rail service.
Someday it would be interesting to know the railroad story of Mollie Monahan. Clarence Monahan of Palmyra says Mollie was related to his family.
Earl Freeman who retired from government service at Offutt Air Base, is back on the job in another kind of service.
Although Earl has a continued interest in the Disabled American Veterans and Scout programs, he now is active in the Chamber as chairman of the float committee.
Gale Bottcher, who started working parttime at the News-Press when he was in highschool, worked his last day Saturday.
Gale, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bottcher, will enter the University to study electrical engineering. He worked for us while he attended the Milford Trade school and we're going to miss him now that he is entering the University.
But we wish him the best of luck.
The one-side no parking situation that exists on South Seventeenth Street for a single block may have come about as a courtesy to taxpayers or as a traffic clearance necessity.
But either way, it's a shame that a taxpayer has to solicit his neighbors and the City commission to keep harmony in streets.
Wonder what neighbors did when Joneses had company on a hot Sunday afternoon and horses were "parked" in the streets? Who cleaned it up?
The parking question points to the necessity of planned parking and some type of appointive city administration to take the "heat" off city commissioners.
The appointment of Dale Payne as an "administrative assistant" for the Sarpy county board, may be a coming thing, unless taxpayers put a halt to it.
Payne receives $10,000 a year in the position, perhaps a new kind of lobbying for county officials. We can do without elected officials lobbying for elected officials.
If this sort of appointment sets a pattern, then the taxpayers will be paying elected officials to pay an assistant to spend more tax money . . . some merry-go round.
Yours truly JOHNNY DOLLAR.