Ken Morehead, Falls City auto dealer, told Legionnaires the other night that he could wait 15 or 20 years before seeking the office as head of Nebraska Legionnaires.
"But why wait? I'm full of fire now; I'll take time from my work and do the best job I can as Department Commander. I may not be so full of fire in 15 or 20 years."
That drew smiles from some of WWI war horses at the dinner meeting.
The Legion is attempting to beef up its Holmes-Legion midget and junior baseball league this year. A play-by-play report of the action at Steinhart park was initiated by Commander-elect Jack Johns during the July Fourth celebration.
The post bought a loud speaker system and built a press box on the top row behind the umpire. Frank Bataillon, athletic chairman for the Legion, hopes to install a flagpole near the scoreboard and hold a flag raising ceremony before every game.
Frank is my friend. I was helping with the money-in-the-sawdust kiddies game during the Fourth celebration and got trampled when Frank said "go."
Didya hear the one about the 60-pound Jaycee leaguer who belted one in his first game?
The ball scraped the bottom of the bat and jiggled straight back to the pitcher who fumbled it. There was still plenty of time to nail the batter at first, though. But the pitcher wound up and threw the ball over the first baseman's head.
The slugger flew on toward second base.
Someone retrieved the ball and threw it to second where it went sailing into left field. The hitter swaggered into third, puffing a man-sized grin, then clomped onto home plate.
"Oh, boy!" he shouted with pride.
"That's the first home run I ever hit in my whole life!"
In Africa, some of the native tribes practice the strange custom of beating the ground with clubs and uttering wild, blood-curdling yells.
Anthropologists call this a form of primitive expression.
Nowadays, we call it golf.
Al Larson, Kingsley, Ia., telephoned the other day to say "Thanks" to Company A guardsmen.
The Larson family was stranded here when their car caught fire. Guardsmen fed the family, gave them cash and took them to Kingsley.
Larson said Chief of Police Clarence Iversen who directs the Salvation Army services, was also contacted for help, but the guardsmen took over and got the family back on its feet.
Work is under way on the 50-bed addition to Nebraska City Manor and manager Albert Inman says addition will be filled not too long after its completion, scheduled for several months from now.
Inman says that while there is no "waiting list" at the Manor, like there is at Riverview Terrace, families will come to him and in time the addition will be occupied to capacity.
Up on the North 40.
For a while there, I had begun to think that Bill Rose at Earl May's had sold me popcorn seed instead of sweet corn seed.
The long dry spell is yielding runt-sized stalks and small ears. My late planting absorbed the recent moisture and will outgrow the first rows by two or three feet.
We got mixed up on the bean seed this year and planted climbing beans. And boy, are they climbing . . . and at least it looks like there will be beans.
From the Optimist magazine:
Distressed father to teenage daughter: "Young lady, either that dress is too short or your're not in it far enough."
"Catfish" Neal Martin; There is a legend which says that a trout in the water will grow at the rate of about one inch per year . . . after it is caught, it grows an inch a day.