Superintendent Jim Withee is pulling out his hair over the upsy-downsy hot lunch pricing program. There was a time when the school officials thought so many dollars would be received to help foot the bills and that has jumped from one extreme to another since the Nixon freeze.
Meanwhile, back at the kitchen, mom is not packing lunches for junior and sissy. Rosemary Miyoshi's hot lunch program is a booming success for the pocketbooks of families. (Meal tickets are $1.25 for a week.)
We are contributing in a small way to the growth and development of Missouri — we're paying non-resident tuition, room and board and "etc." (that's the stinker) to Northwest Missouri State college at Maryville, Missouri.
Our eldest, Denise, shares a room with Teri Rucker, Sidney, Ia., in a dormitory. The girls are on the seventh floor. Their room overlooks the backside of the college, a cow pasture and a farm pond.
We have learned what our friends meant when they said "snicker, snicker," as we talked about moving a member of the family elsewhere.
We made three trips to the dorm from the car. Four carried stuff on Trip No. 1, two of us puffed on No. 2 and four carried in the "junk" on the third and final trip.
If living at college is anything like at home where the house seems to accumulate items, then Dale Sharp is going to have to do the job.
The News-Press three - unit Goss offset printing press is rolling 'em out every day with additional press runs.
We started printing the Syracuse Journal-Democrat on our press during the summer and the first issues of the University newspapers, The Daily Nebraskan and Courier II, are off the press.
Zean Carney, owner of Arbor Printing company, does the composition and darkroom work of the papers at Lincoln. The line negatives are driven to Nebraska City where plates are "burned" in a photographic process and put on the press.
As an example, the other evening Jerome Keran, our plant superintendent, and Larry Rulla, a high schooler who helps in the mailroom, printed 21,000 copies of the Courier II, completing the job shortly after 11 p.m.
Then, at 5 a.m., the next day, Jerome and Chuck Johnson, our Goss pressman, printed 16,000 copies of the Daily Nebraskan.
Arbor Printing was here and loaded a trailer with the 37,000 newspapers and distributed them shortly on the University campus.
There's going to be action right here in River City on September 11.
It's the Applejack Festival at which 1,500 to 1,700 boys and girls will compete for school marching band honors and Peru State and Tarkio College will play football at Hayward park.
It promises to be a great day.
The parade will begin at 4 p.m. east from Sixteenth to Sixth Street. The Apple Bowl game will have particular significance in that Tarkio is bidding for permanent possession of the trophy. That's the payoff for three consecutive wins.
Jack Brawner and his committee have done a bang-up job of organizing the festival and with a little weather luck it's bound to be another booming success.
Brawner and his gang are planning ahead. They've already got the paperwork completed for three more years of football between the two teams regardless of the outcome at Hayward park on Saturday night.
The Odyssey's bounce back'
The Odyssey Combo will make its first appearance in Nebraska City at the armory following the Apple Bowl.
That is, it will be the first appearance since they were robbed of expensive guitars, amplifiers and a speaker system.
They don't have all their new equipment but a music company is providing the items that have not been received in shipment.
The bandsmen are Dan, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Gruber, organ and rhythm guitar; Mike, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Gangel, bass guitar; Lennie Lahman, 18, son of Mrs. Mattie Murphy, drums (what else?); and Scott Duncan, 17, son of Mrs. Ralph Dyer, lead vocal and guitar.
Lennie is the old man of the group. He's 18 and a freshman at Peru State. The rest of the group is 17 years and seniors.
The combo was organized four years ago. Among the early bandsmen were Jim Hutchens on drums and Herb Detloff on bass guitar.
Maurice Colbert still plays his trumpet with the band occasionally. Others who have played included Tim Snyder, and Joe Nocita, trumpet, and Steve Boerner, trombone.
The boys play in the area but have made music for dancers at Grand Island and Bruning. Their band bill runs $250 to $300 a night.
They competed a couple years ago against a large number of other combos for a slot at the State Fair and did well for themselves.
Lennie's flown the coop by graduating from high school, but that doesn't discourage the rest of the boys. They're thinking of all attending the same college next year. Big Red is hinted.
Oh, yes, the big question.
"Where do you guys practice?"
"The basement of the Christian church!"
Lordy lordy.