The Omaha guide., 1956-01-13
News Around Nebraska


The boys out at Loup City are having a good time with an ice
sled which they have rugged from an cupboard motor. The Sher-
man County Times, printed at Loup City, showed a picture of the
sled in operation. It is of the bobsled type with room to accomo-
date about a halfdozen-
The boys have secured a 3AHP- Airboy Cupboard motor,
have removed the propeller and installed the blade from a good
sized electric fan. The motor and fan is mounted at the rear
of the sled and pushes the outfit. The Times says the sled will
make 35 miles per hour on good ice, which is a pretty fast clip
out in the cold wind.
All the kids need now is cold weather-and they've had a
lot of it so far this winter.
There's fun on the ice at Seward, too, according to the In
dependent. That community has built a skating rink in the city
park and the Independent says the skating there is the best in
several years. The rink has been lighted for night skating and
the latest addition is the use of a city-owned public address system
which plays records and provides music for the skaters.
Youngsters from Seward and dozens from the nearby Milford
Trade School are enjoying the skating, the Independent reported
last week.
Oakland had a spectacular fire one day last week when a cut
ting torch set fire to some chemical residue in the bottom Of an
old tank which had held liquid fertilizer. Bob Bogue, editor of the
Oakland Independent reported the smoke as coming up in huge
pillows of red and multihued colors. Firemen, for a time, thought
the smoke might be poisonous, but there were no serious after
effects. However, an alert was sounded as far away as Craig and
Uehling.
Damage was confined to the tank.
Tekamah High School is planning a Homecoming and has
chosen (omigosh) Friday, January 18th as the date. 1t will be
the first Homecoming Tekamah has ever had and it is hoped that
it can be an annual affair, according to the Burt County Plain
dealer printed at Tekamah. The day will be a purple and gold
DAY a II mere Will % e a pep rally, the introduction of
candidates for King and Queen, a Homecoming dance, a basketball
game and a coronation held between halves.
A young man who claimed to be a Baptist minister "took"
the Lexington merchants for some szeable sums Christmas week.
the Dawson County Herald reported.
He got a job in a Lexington restaurant and then proceeded
to forge the name of his employer on three checks for ss67O each.
Then, he traded in his 1851 automobile on a 1856 model, giving a
check for S2,23250 for the balance due.
On his way out of town he got arrested for speeding but was
released when he paid a fine of SIS in cash. Since then, police
are looking for him
City officials at Crete aren't SO sure they like the way Santa
Claus has been doing things. They are about to confscate some
OF the gifts which he left a couple of weeks ago.
Tile street department has reported the loss of 81 light bulbs
since Christmas and there is a strong suspicion that Santas air
rifles are to blame. The city issued a warning through the Crete
News last week that the BIB guns will be picked up by police I'M
less parents can get their youngsters to take shots at something
Seward. which only recently installed new street lighting to
provide a great white way" through the business district, is plan
ming an extensive expansion of the lighting program. Last week
bids were received on the work which totaIed $1O6,544.
1t is interesting to note that the Knox Electric Co. of Tekawah,
which won the bid to build Bans new line to Fl. Calhoun, was the
second low bidder on the big project.
A 17yearold Burbank, California youth had the authorities
at OgaIala in a other last week.
He ran away from home December 18th and stopped in
Ogallala where he had some acquaintance. Burbank officials
had tipped off the ogalala police that the youth might stop
there and they followed up the suggestion and picked him up.
Taken to Jail, police phoned the boys father for funds with
which to send him home. The boy asked to talk to his father
and told a glowing tale of being offered several jobs and gave
assurance that everything would be alright.
The father consented that the boy should stay. Later.
however, police checked up on the wouldbe employers and
found that they had never heard of the youth and that they
did not intend to hire him. So, another call to Burbank
brought orders for the wanderer to come home and money
was sent for a bus ticket.
Not until after he had left, however, did the whole truth
come out.
The youth had approached a local contractor about build
ing him a home. He described his lot, told the type of
house ne wanted and went through a number of details. He
represented himself to be a specialist who had come to town
to work for a local firm.
The blueprints were prepared, but the youth, being en-
route to California, never returned and the contractor has
some good, unused plans and the police some new tales for
their memoirs.
Western Nebraska began receiving television over a new
station on Sunday, January LIST. The station is KHASTv and
will serve twentyseven west Nebraska and Kansas counties.
The broadcasting station is located near Minden.
The Ord vicinity has another mystery light in the sy.
reports the Ord Quiz Last week two BurweIl women, who
were driving at night, reported a flaming red fireball arose
from a cornfield near the highway, arched over the highway
in front Of their car, and fell into the field on the opposite
side of the road.
A search of nearby fields gave no trace of the phenomena
which is the second to occur in the area.
A few months ago, an Ord High School Senior, reported a
ed around to pursue it. No one ever solved the mystery.
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