Incredible Hulk?
Green?
Ron Badberg has a new item on his sandwich menu at Dean's cafe in Nebraska City:
"Incredible Hulk . . . $2.25."
"Y-E-E-O-O-W-W!"
The family pet
This is a dog-gone good story. It's about a family named Alexander at St. Paul, Nebraska. Mrs. Darlene Alexander wrote to Andy Kreifels, sent a picture and asked if he could help her locate another dog, of similar breeding.
Mrs. Alexander explained that the family pet, "Cuddles" is dead. She said the Alexanders got the pup (the runt to be exact) from the Kreifels family three years ago.
"Cuddles" with two of the Alexander children.
Mrs. Alexander said in her letter that the family has been lost without the dog. She asked for help to get the children another dog like Cuddles.
Mrs. Kreifels said they still have their dog, Gigi. All of the six pups were given away and the family planning was taken care of by a veterinarian.
Favorite wins
Hal Foster, creator of the comic (?) strip "Prince Valiant" won a top award from the National Cartoonist Society at a recent meeting.
Thanks, judges [illegible] it's about time. We read Prince Valiant the first thing every Sunday, then go to Blondie and Dennis.
Mr. Foster was unable to attend the New York ceremony, so the award was accepted by John Murphy who collaborates on Prince Valiant. Mr. Murphy, by the way, sports a van dyke which was popular in the Prince's days.
Subscription agents
The News-Press is offering more assistance to new subscribers or readers who wish to renew their subscriptions. We have added a number of new agents who are making calls.
The subscription sale by the News-Press is the oldest annual sale held in town. Our readers have responded over the years and so we try to improve the service.
And, in our business names make news and that's what we are offering readers. The newest is Mrs. Jack (Janet) Whipple of rural Thurman. Her phone number is 374-2788. The Whipples have five grown children.
Jack is a pilot and flies Cessnas at Grundman airport in Nebraska City.
The names of the other sales agents appear in the ads announcing the discount and annual sale. We're pretty proud of the people who work for our newspaper. They're people you know and they are known by other readers. They make up a valuable part of the newspaper staff.
They are: Mrs. Adola Kirchhoff, Talmage; Mrs. B. A. Johnson, Syracuse (son, Chuck, works at the N-P); Mrs. Willis Knake, Nehawka; Mrs. George Martin, Union (son, Don, is with the NC police department), Kathryn Stoner, Unadilla; Mrs. Keith Penney, Percival; Mrs. Ralph Dowding, Palmyra; Mrs. Harry Kastens, Otoe (she's trying to beat her own record of last year):
Debbie [illegible]istrope, Hamburg; Jean Castle, Lorton; Mrs. Vernon Kreifels, NC; Connie Driever, NC (she is also working part-time at the N-P making mechanical changes in the mailing system of papers); Mrs. Alice Wehling, Paul (remember the pigeon dinners at the Paul tavern?); Mrs. Larry Roll, NC; Shirley Hodges, NC, and Karen Churchill, NC.
She is free
The Christmas edition of the Pacific Daily News published on the island of Guam carried a story about a Vietnamese woman who escaped from Communism and her native country, spent eight days at sea and swam to shore in Malaysia, a free woman.
She is Kim Chee, married to Lon Bottcher, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bottcher of Talmage. Kim worked as a translator for the U.S. Military Intelligence Branch before the fall of Saigon.
The newspaper carried a story about her ordeal on Christmas of 1975. Twenty-four refugees boarded the small fishing boat that later developed engine trouble and drifted aimlessly at sea for several days.
Kim came to Nebraska to visit a friend, Mrs. Dennis Bohlken. She met Lon Bottcher, a teacher who was home on leave from Guam. They later married and now make their home on Guam where he continues as a teacher in the JFK High School.
"There's a granddaughter now," Ed said. "We hope they will come home this summer."