Our gal, Mary Bell.
When you have a group of volunteers who are supposed to get some "paperwork" done, you know darn well they won't do the job.
That's where our gal, Mary Bell, comes in.
She went to the city clerk's office the other night to make sure those rescue men got their life insurance papers filled out . . . and she didn't leave until she was satisfied that everyone in the room had signed up.
It didn't make any difference whether the men fudged on their ages or said they didn't know the birthdates of their wives. Mary stuck with it until she got the right answers and then typed them on the forms.
Thanks, Mary, for putting up with us slowpokes.
Talk about shortages
Gary White of G & L Conoco said he has had an order in for some time for a supply of anti freeze, and has been told by his supplier.
"I'll take your order — that's it."
Gary says he's concerned a great deal about the shortage and is hopeful that he will have a supply very soon.
Ed Behrns of Automotive, Inc., said he ran up his company's telephone bill, but got confirmation on 1,000 gallons of antifreeze.
The solution — you gotta have it in Nebraska — sells for $1.97 to $2.39 a gallon in Nebraska City, and one dealer said he thinks it'll go to $6 a gallon before winter sets in.
And speaking of winter . . . it's snowing now in the hunting grounds in Alberta, Canada, where Jerry Gilliland and Russ Morton will be going on Tuesday.
If they have good hunting, they will return with trophies of moose and elk.
Jerry has been planning for the trip for over a year.
Jerry and Russ will be hunting in an area 2,500 miles north of Nebraska City. They will drive it in one of Manny Weinman's "stretch" pickup trucks.
They talked with their guide the other day and he told of the game movement and suggested they double check their hunting guns and get practiced up on accuracy.
Jerry has been target practicing to improve the accuracy which has previously dropped other big game.
In addition, he has been running two miles to condition his body for the hunt. "I never thought I could run two miles, but I— can sure do it now."
Good hunting.
The other day we ran across a story that twice used the name of Rathe.
John Quinlan double checked:
There are two Rathes and they did play tennis in the tourney here. Brothers Bob and Jim are both teachers and former doubles champs at Beatrice.
Bob teaches at Nebraska City Senior High and Jim teaches at Lincoln Northeast.
The dumbest thing I did this week was to leave my notebook on the counter at the catalog order and service department at Montgomery Ward.
Well, not really. You see my secret "double-o-7" code has never been broken and such lambs as Mrs. Larry (Connie) Connell and Mrs. Kenneth (Delores) Keller wouldn't have a chance.
Thanks to the very nice gals at the counter.
"We thought it looked like something that belonged to you," they said when I called back shortly before closing time.
"Would you mind setting it aside and I'll pick it up the first thing in the morning?"
"Sure," Mrs. Keller said. "It'll be right here."
I tried to explain to Mrs. Keller the next morning about the certain little marks and swirls. When they're put together, they are sentences.
I'm not sure she believed that I was the champeen of the penmanship contest in the eighth grade, but at least she listened, smiled politely then excused herself to take care of a paying customer.
The reason I was at the counter in the first place was to make use of Ward's clever system of parts replacement.
A pulley broke on our washing machine and although the machine is getting along in years, Mrs. Connall flicked on the machine, put in a couple pieces of film and ker-pow — there was a diagram with all the little gismos that make up a water pump and pulley system.