The Omaha guide., 1956-02-10
From Around Nebraska

There will be no shortage Of men at Fairbury College, the
Journal revealed last week, and the women should be swamped
with dates at all times.
Enrolment for the second semester reached 178 last week
and of this number there were only SO women.
And even that number is better than ever before, the Fair
bury newspaper commented. This semester the women-man ratio
is 2h to / The first semester it was 8 to !.
The gals can be choosy there, to say the least.
The Minden Chamber of Commerce has set out to extend
the glad hand to strangers who move into the community. Accord
ing to the Minden Courier last week, they will be contacted by an
official greeter who will ask them about church utilization, clubs,
lodges, favorite entertainments, kind of house they are seeking
and other information. This will then be passed on to ministers,
club presidents and others who will make an effort to get the new
corners comfortably settled as quickly as possible. Minden be-
lieves that the right start is essential if the strangers are to like
Minden and want to call it their permanent home.
The relocation Of highway 81 is to get under way in the central
part Of the state this summer the Albion News announced last
week. Highway 81 is the route which runs from Blair west
of Nckerson.
For many months, the folks in the Albion area have worked
to have the highway extended west through Albion and on west
through the rest OF the state. To connect up so that it becomes a
crossstate road, requires the building of a short stretch Of new
roadway, but the route is otherwise coraplete and ready to 60.
A letter from 1. N. Ress to the News has revealed that something
will probably be done to complete Highway 81 into a croSstate
route. Blair has a special interest in this construction since the
completed roadway will lead some extra business through this
area.
Petitions are being circulated in Pierce County for the pro
motion Of a Bangs disease program there. The Pierce Leader
pointed out last week that there are IA counties in the state which
already have a Bangs program. Washington county is one of
these.
Need for a new City Hall at Wahoo is under discussion, the
Wahoo Newspaper stated last week. The present City Hall is
IS years old and is said to be in poor repair and completely made
quate for the needs Nearly $4,000 is on hand to start the cost
of a new building, the City Clerk told the Wahoo Lions Club in a
talk last week. The building houses the city offices, the fire de-
partment and the city library. A bond issue may be called to
provide funds for the erection of an adequate structure.
At Neigh the Neigh Leader called attention to the perfect
attendance records Of % boys and girls of the Neigh schools
during last semester. A big black 90 was printed on the papers
front page last week to call attention to the article listing the
names of those having perfect attendance.
A German immigrant girl who is the daughter of a farmland
in the Schuyler vicinity was made happy last week through the
generosity of some music lovers there. The girl had been living
in the country near Schuyler and had been learning to play the
violin. She had used a borrowed instrument and found that when
the family prepared to move to Schuyler that the borrowed violin
was no longer available. The Schuyler Sun heard about the girls