The Omaha guide., 1955-11-25
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From Around Nebraska
The Board of Education at Albion has passed a new ruling
that the High School band will not be available for everything
that comes along. According to an article appearing in last weeks
News. requests for the band to play must be cleared through the
school administration.
Highway No. 6. which is a growing competitor for Highway
80 which runs through Blair, now has a publication issued regular
ly which bears the name Of "Sixogram" 1t goes to businesses
and individuals who are interested in the welfare of Highway 6
and deals with things which will be beneficial to that route. Ref
erence to the sixOgram was made in the Minden Courier.
the visiting Juniors were treated to something out of the ordinary.
During the noon hour someone entered the vault in the office
of the County Clerk and made away with $685.. Around eighty
students were in the offices during the morning and it is be-
1eved that someone slipped in during the confusion and secreted
themselves in the building, taking the money after the office staff
had gone to lunch at noon.
Money taken was an accumulation of hunting and fishing
license funds.
At Edison an auction Of cattle was held last week and the
C. K. Mousel Hereford Ranch sold a 17monthold bull which it
had raised for $4,000. The price was the highest ever paid in
Nebraska at an auction, according to the Public Mirror published
at Arapahoe. In the same sale the same rancher sold sxty-one
other head of cattle which averaged $1,000 per head. Two other
young bulls brought $500 and $4,000.
Sounds like there should be good times on the Mousel ranch
for a while, a. least.
100 Telephone users at Schuyler received letters from the
telephone company last Friday, telling them what their new dial
telephone number would be. Schuyler will switch over to dial
service December 4h, the Schuyler Sun announced.
The Central City Republican announced last week that the
Gas Company closed its Central City office last
Tuesday and discharged its personnel. The move was prompted
in the interests Of economy since Central City is one of the towns
which have opposed the rate increase the company has been seek
ing.
Central City gas users will henceforth be served out of
Fullerton, the newspaper stated. In case the higher rate is award
ed, a cut back to the former method of doing business may be
reinstated, it was inferred.
A drop in the water table level in the Platte Valley has been
recorded and is being attributed to the heavy uses of irrigation.
The Mid-State Reclamation district has revealed that the level
has dropped ATS feet in Merrick County Central City,; TOP feet
in Hall County Grand Island; and 835 feet in Buffalo county
Rearney.
The summer recreation program and the amount to spend on
it has been a problem in towns the size Of Blair for several years.
AS a matter of comparison, the money spent at Seward last sum-
mer amounted to $1127. the Seward Independent revealed last
week. Of this amount, $3.50 went for supervisory personnel, the
balance for equipment and miscellaneous expenses.
A rancher at Ord lost rs head of cattle in three hours last
week shortly after giving them a feeding of oat hay. The hay,
1t was later determined, had become poisonous and when eaten,
turned the blood of the cattle black, shutting off the oxygen in
the blood supply.
Market value of the cattle was $500 per head, the Ord Quiz
revealed, but the cattle were purebred breeding stock which had
taken years to develop and their value was many times that a.
mount.
Construction work on the new community hospital at Osceloa
is entering the final stages, the osceola Record stated last week.
Tile for the floors and final plumbing installations are being made.
Occupancy will take place soon.
The firemen at Aurora like to be good hosts-so they enter
tanned their guest fremen with a fire.
To demonstrate some new methods and equipment, the fire
men purchased a small house on the outskirts of the town and set
it afire. Then they proceeded to let it burn at varying speeds,
pointing out the use of various types of sprays. The demonstra-
ton started with a fire in the attic and it was shown the length
of time a fire could shoulder in the attic before it would be dis
covered.
At Chadron the street department has blocked off appropriate
streets to provide coasting area for the kids this winter.
Also in the news at Chadron are three suits of $4,000 each
which have been filed against a Chadron radio station. 1t is
charged that a teen-ager had sent in a request for a certain music
al number and had the number dedicated to the plaintiffs in the
case. The incident was considered slanderous by the plaintiffs
and they have sued for the 100000.
The whole thing was the outgrowth of a neighborhood fuss
some time prior to the broadcast on October 3rd.
The Chadron VFW club got into the news at Chadron, too.
State officers picked up a couple of slot machines found stored
in a room in the club building.
West Point is planning its Christmas decorations and will have
a Nativity Scene as a new feature this year. The scene will en-
body fifteen lfesized figures, will be electrically lighted and will
have special electric lighting facilities, according to the West
Point Republican.
Indicative of what irrigation means to farming is a man at
Aurora who was honored at a dinner last week because he raised
a field of corn which averaged 1872 bushels per acre. There were
a half dozen other men there, too, who had yields of over 100
bushels, according to the Aurora NewsRegister.
December 7st : Sofe-Driving Day
No Paper Carried The Story
No paper carried the story. Can't understand why. II was
good maerial-packed with human interest.
1t happened this way: They had planned the vacation for a
long time. The children had counted the DAYS till it began Then