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Thanks to Mrs. Mike Stover, Supt. Jerry Regler and a host of other teachers and members of the staff at the School for the Visually Handicapped for helping us put together the special section the past week on the Centennial Celebration of the NSVH.
Here at the News-Press, the advertising and layout were done by Doreen Droge, our ad sales gal. Sue Quinlan worked up most of the pictures and stories and the two women teamed to put the right picture and the right story in the right place to make the special section good reading for you.
Doreen is a graduate of the University and Sue is a Kearney State graduate.
Doreen teamed with Len Hoskins and Dick Barton and a couple days later came up with the special section on Homing Helps. The popularity of that project is a bit staggering.
You, our readers, have responded by your attendance at each session. In fact, because of you the homemaking school was repeated again this year. And for that we say thank you for reading our newspaper.
Today's tip.
Got a question on your state or federal income tax? Take advantage of the toll free telephone service offered by the state and federal agencies. The numbers are listed everyday in the upper left hand corner of the News-Press. We've checked out the service and found the tax people on the other end of the line to be very helpful.
Sports fans were hit with a bombshell recently when word got around that Dale Orton family may be moving to Iowa.
Hopefully you have been attending basketball games or reading about them in the paper. "Big" Jon Orton, the towhead who sparkled on the football field again this season and is often a one-man performer in basketball, will graduate this year.
His younger brother, "Stevie Wonder" Orton, is a sophomore and the other night he pumped in 24 points in the Pioneer victory over Shenandoah. Friends say the Orton family has had a lot of offers by Nebraska Citians to house the young man so he will be around next year.
There's still Greg and Cory at home. They are a little younger, but in the true Orton sports tradition, they excel like big brothers Randy, Jon and Steve. Greg is exciting to watch on the pitching mound and Cory is the killer on the Jaycee wrestling mat.
Rod Bliss, a senior at Nebraska City Senior High, likes to do his own thing and last month when we had the big storm, he bundled and took a walk.
He told his story in the recent issue of the Otoean, the high school newspaper. The downtown area was dead, no cars were on the streets and few people were seen walking from store to store.
As he walked main street watching show removal crews at work, motorists stopped and asked about the work. Rod played along and since the motorists thought he was a foreman or sumpthin', he waved his arms like he was too busy to talk and was giving instructions to the men in the heavy equipment.
One motorist asked what he was doing walking down the street and by this time Rod was getting amused at the interest so he told the driver that he was practicing for the Arbor Day parade. That went over about like a snowflake at a flower show.
His big kick was walking down the middle of Eleventh Street. "Never having walked down the middle of a four lane highway, I thought this might be my only opportunity."
Rod had one consolation. If he was going to do something foolish . . . at least he did it when no one was around. I never did hear what his dad said when son returned home. But I'll bet after Harold heard the explanation, he said something like, "Son, you've been out in the cold too long."
The Otoe County Wildlife club supports a hunting season on the mourning dove. Joe Voges, secretary, said the dove is a wasted game bird. "Hunting pressure has little to do with survival of the bird. The dove is one of the few birds that can survive."
He said the dove will nest anywhere and has a high reproduction rate. Most states have a season on them. Nebraska is just raising them for other hunters, he says.
"We had a season on the doves 30 years ago," Mr. Voges recalled.
The mourning dove is so named because of its cooing sound. Joe said it also is called the "turtle" dove taken from the Biblical times when reference was made to the dove as the voice of the turtle.
I've eaten stuffed pigeon and fried rattlesnake, but never had the stomach for dove. Joe says they are delicious.
Congratulations to the Peru Community Theater for staging an entertaining musical, The Music Man. Since the second performance was poorly attended because of the snowstorm last week, you get a chance this weekend. Final staging will be Sunday at 8 p.m. in the auditorium on the Peru State campus. Tickets are $2 at the door.
There were so many outstanding people in the large cast that I hesitate to single out any one individual for a super performance. Clay Kennedy's stage savvy caught my attention. He played the part of the grumpy mayor of the town . . . then I thought . . . oh, heck, Clay's grumpy one minute and smiling the next minute so I'll just check him off.
No one asked me but I think Don Miller, the financial aids director at Peru State, was overlooked for the lead part of Professor Hill. I'm just curious whether he would have swapped his cowboy boots for spats and whether he could carry a tune like he does when parents talk to him about money help for their kids enrolling in school.
Ooops! Almost forgot. Congratulations to Mrs. Miller for being named recipient of the Kiwanis community award. In Peru, it's "Yes, Bobcat, there is a Santa Claus and it's Virginia."
Glen Houdersheldt, whose job it is to tell people about the necessity of physical fitness for a national institute, puts his whole self into a presentation.
The speaker graduated from high school at Wayne and went on to college and later coached at Glendale, California. One of his faults, he admits, was playing his high school football team against that quarterbacked by a young boy named Dave Humm.
Mr. Houdersheldt's enthusiasm pretty well "took in" the Optimist club the other day when he referred to most businessmen as a bit pouchy around the waistline. He said he was not attempting to lose friendship in his new acquaintances, but the truth was the truth.
The speakers point was that unless Americans do more about physical fitness they will fall under the vital statitistics of the American Heart Association as another heart disease victim.
That was enough to get the attention of the two dozen men at the meeting. Understand a special fitness program will be instituted in town. Contact Ivan Boerner at Jessup's and he'll fill you in.
Rescue squad to the rescue!
Nebraska City rescue squadsmen have their family get-togethers so that the wives will have a chance to get acquainted, but they've never really had a chance to cut loose like now. Two of the volunteers will get married on the same day, April 5.
The couples:
— Kim Kohout, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Kohout and Chris Lechner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norbert Lechner.
— Jim Rader, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Rader, Sr., Tarkio, Mo., and Peggy Warrick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Sunderman, Clarinda, Iowa.
Kim works for his dad at Haley's Chevrolet-Cadillac and Jim is the service manager for Weinman Auto company.
So the two guys are tying the knot. So what? So . . . no rescue squadsman has ever gotten married while serving on the Nebraska City crew.
We doubt that the brides will permit the squadsmen any say-so for the wedding ceremony . . . but I'm sure there will be some "uncontrollable" effort by the volunteers to help make the day long remembered for the newlyweds . . . (Snicker, snicker).