The Omaha guide., 1956-01-20

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News Around Nebraska
One Of the most unusual musical concerts presented in a long
time took place at OgaIlala last Friday evening. Seven electric
organs were assembled and all played simultaneously to produce
a tremendous chorus of tonal effects never before experienced
by many of the audience. The concert leaned heavily to semi
classical numbers and created a very interesting evening, the Keith
County News stated.
It's a little cold to be thinking Of such things right now, but
Scribner is laying plans to have a new bathhouse at its Municipal
community nearly $4,000 the Scribner Rustler stated last week.
Construction work will start as soon as weather permits.
The town of Ponca in the northern part of the state, is already
making plans for a twoday summer festival. The Nebraska
JournalLeader reported the date set for June Is and rs and the
theme of the affair is days of So. Some of the special attrac-
lions have already been hired to make certain that there will be
ample entertainment when the date arrives.
And looking still further into the future is the Chamber of
Commerce at David City which has announced its Christmas Com
mittee for next year. The group is already planning decorations
and trade getting schemes to make David City a popular place
in 1856.
At Arapahoe there is a man who can probably make the in
come tax men lift their eyebrows. In a single year he has an
nexed four extra tax exemptions, and they are all his own.
During the past twelve months, his wife has given birth to
two sets of twins, bringing the family total to six girls and three
boys. The high cost of living is going to be something of genuine
concern to that family when the youngsters get a little older.
Chadron is looking forward to a new eastwest airline service
In the very near future, according % q OndQrOn RECORD. An ar
line has made application to be permitted to stop regularly at
Chadron, bringing a new service to that community.
At the present time, Western Airlnes has a permit to stop
there but never does because the airport facilities are not up to
the standard which their planes must have. This inadequacy is
one of the reasons Chadron voters are going to vote on a $4,000
bond issue January 31st. The money would pay the cftys one
fourth share of a 100000 for a paved runway improvement pro-
gram. The paved landing strips are needed to induce the better
and larger airlines to stop there regularly.
At Ord there is a move on foot to build new school facilities
but owners of adjoining property are Directing to selling their
property. A condemnation suit has been started to force the
home owners to a showdown and so the battle is on. Sale of
$4,000 worth Of bonds, the money from which is to be used to
erect the building, has been completed, indicating that the project
is to 60 through regardless of the wishes of the adjoining property
owners.
An arforce tanker plane, which hauls as much fuel as a rail-
road tank car, lost the huge pipe which is used to connect the
tanker to another plane when refueing take splace during flight.
The lost pipe, known in aviation circles as a boom" was found re-
Gently on a farm near Schuyler. The pipe had been driven into
the ground four feet by the impact and a wrecker from the Lin
coin Airbase was needed to pull it out of the ground. The Schuy-
Ter Sun showed pictures of the damaged boom as it appeared while
stuck in the field and after it had been loaded onto a truck.
Apparently. for some reason, the planes drifted apart after
contact was made, steering loose the refueling boom and causing
it to fall to the ground.
Fortunately, the incident took place over an open field rather
than over a town where there could have been heavy damage to
houses.
Aurora has received bids on a new high school building. A
Grand Island contractor has been awarded the work at a figure
Of $462,000, according to the Aurora NewsRegister. Work will
start when warmer weather permits.
Also in the news at Aurora is a thank you note received by
some Aurora folks from some Korean children to whom clothing
had been sent some time ago. The thank you" came in the form
of a framed certificate which not only bore the words of thanks,
but also the pictures of the Korean children pasted around the
note.
The note has been placed on display in an Aurora Gift Shop
so that those who took part in the drive may see the faces of
some of those who received the clothing.
The Boy Scouts at Lexington are teaming up with the Licking
ton Fire Department as auxiliary aids in the event of any type Of
major disaster. The boys will assist with First Aid Communica-
tons, will serve as radio operators and messengers. About thirty
Scouts will be used in the unit, the Dawson County Herald stated
last week.
The new hospital at Fender held an open house a week ago
last Sunday and more than 5000 persons visited the hospital to
see the facilities offered there. The hospital is a 20bed unit,
complete with all needed departments.
The Chamber of Commerce at Loup City appears to be
plagued with the same trouble Blair has. Too few attend the
meetings and the same few come every time.
AS an experiment to see how this could be remedied, the Loup
City c. of C. recently held a breakfast meeting. The group met
at Zoo AM. at a Loup City Hotel. At the meeting the matter of
attendance was put squarely to those attending and each was asked
to state his version of why the Chamber wa experiencing so
poor attendance. No one came up with anything definite, but
it set lots of members to thinking. y
The Ord school board has approved sending the Ord High
School band and the Ord Singers to Enid, Oklahoma to participate
in a national high school music contest. There's a catch to it,
though. The band has to figure out some way to raise $4,000 for
expense money.