Fred Scott, Bellevue, will open karate classes here this month at the National Guard armory.
If registration here is indicative of those across the country, then the sign-ups will include a large percentage of housewives and children.
Which could mean that the old man is in for it . . . and the new breed is going to take a karate chop at the generation gap.
Actually, karate is a not-contact sport.
You can't touch the other fellow. If you did, you might knock his block off.
About the only sport we've seen this winter is sledding and ice skating.
Surely, someone is skiiing. Bill Thurman used to ski along the Goose Hill banks. The first time I tried skiing, I fell flat on my back and scooped snow under my coat and shirt at what seemed like a 95 mile per hour rate.
Richard Whitehead, who calls his track near the Nebraska City river bridge the "New Captial of Racing," hopes to open the season this spring and run two nights a week, Tuesday and Friday.
Whitehead's new book of rules lists 12 general track regulations, six rules on engines and fuels, 16 directives for chassis and structure and 10 safety requirements including sissy bars, headgear, safety belts, harness and roll bars.
The booklet also lists rules for super-modified race cars with such racing jargon as kick-in and kick-out boxes, quick change rear ends, wind, scoops, and knobbies and studs . . . which all add up to much, much excitment come racing season.
BULLETIN: U.S. airlines canceled all its flights to Miami Beach today because the Havana airport was socked in.
There's a new proposal on how airlines might handle highjackers. The idea is to install a plunger-operated trap door in the cockpit. As the hijacker enters the pilot's cockpit, the captain pulls the plunger.