- READ THE OMAHA GUIDE - News From Around Nebraska The Pawnee City Rotary club has announced a Christmas activity which will be followed with much interest in that com munity. The club is sponsoring a “Courteous Clerk” contest. Ballot boxes are being placed in all of the stores and custom ers are given an opportunity to cast a ballot naming the clerk which the customer thought was the most courteous that day. Any clerk is eligible and voting is not necessarily held to a clerk in the store where the voting is done. The contest will start at once and continue until after the “return and exchange” period following Christmas. Merchants realize that this period after Christmas is one which is especially trying and requires much patience an understanding. Winning the contest is merely honorary, the Pawnee Republi can explained last week with the award being publicity and a picture in the Republican as the only “prize”. By elimination of a cash or monetary prize, the winning of the recognition is one which comes completey from a desire to be a better clerk, it is felt. • • * A 160 acre farm near David City was reported sold in the Banner-Press last week for $63,000. This is slightly under $400 per acre. • * * David City is another of the many towns in the state which will carry out a home Christmas lighting program. David City’s prizes are for $25, $15 and $10. * • • A farmer near Seward, who specializes in raising purebred Shorthorns, has recently sold three head to the Department of Agriculture in Australia, the Seward Independent announced last week. The purebreds will make their ocean journey in February and will form the basis for improved herds in that country. * * * Jefferson County, of which Fairbury is the county seat, will note its 100th anniversary next summer and the Fairbury Journal has announced that plans are being made to celebrate the mile stone. A budget of $25,000 is being considered to pay expenses of putting on a pageant and carry out other things pertaining to the celebration. The pageant, historical plays and other plans are being laid. * * * The University of Nebraska has announced that Glen Nelson, of Comstock near Broken Bow, has produced the top field of corn in Nebraska this year. Nelson’s field produced 153 bushels per acre. The corn was raised on irrigated ground under per fect conditions. * ♦ * Curtis, Nebraska ’way out in the western part of the state, has announced a home lighting Christmas contest this year. Cur tis will offer six prizes to the winners. * * * Minden is preparing for their annual display of Christmas lights from the courthouse tower. The lights, in past years, have attracted nationwide attention because of their beauty. The Min den Courier announced last week that still more improvements will be noticeable in the lighting this year. The Christmas pageant which is always given on two Sunday evenings prior to Christmas, will be presented Sunday, December 11th and again on the 18th. In past years the pageant has been seen by 10,000 persons per evening and preparations are being made for that many again this year. The pageant starts at 7 P.M. * * * The Chadron Record disclosed last week that the probable kill of deer during the open season in that area, would exceed all previous years. 196 deer were checked in at the Ranger station on the first day which was Tuesday, November 29th. The total had run up to 216 by mid-morning Wednesday which was the second day of the open season. The largest deer checked in weighed 219 pounds. * * * At Ogallala a “Night of Quartets” was held recently and the program which was presented was enjoyed by a crowd of 1200 per sons. Quartets came from Kearney, Holdrege, Grant, Ogallala, Grand Island and many other places to offer a bit on the unique program. A girls’ quartet from Kearney known as the “Four Flats” was new to the program this year and was enthusiastically received. * * * Valley County (Ord) produced 2 million pounds of popcorn this year, the Ord Quiz revealed last week. But this figure, al though somewhat staggering, was a million pounds under the a mount anticipated, according to the contractor for a number of processing companies. Corn borers and lack of enough moisture were blamed for the smaller-than-expected crop. * * * Across the river in Harrison County, Iowa, farmers are col lecting a fund to carry on the work of the rural fire truck which serves them out of Missouri Valley. In that area, farmers must furnish their own fire fighting equipment rather than depend upon free service from town. • • * The Tekamah Lions Club is sponsoring a movie, the proceeds of which will go to purchase Christmas baskets for the less fortun ate folks in the Tekamah area. “The Private War of Major Ben son” is the title of the show. * * * At Minden some farmers have reported catching a mountain goat-the first seen in that area for many years. The animal was herded into a corral by the use of a pickup truck. The goat stands 3 feet high and has horns which measure 37 inches from tip to tip. “Now” says the Minden Courier, “The men are wondering what they are going to do with it.” About American Affairs BURLINGTON (IOWA) HAWK-EYE GAZETTE (Ind.) says: (11/15/55) Like most men, or women, who earnestly and conscientiously set out to achieve sorely needed reforms, Secretary Benson of the U. S. agricultural department is being crucified on the cross he is forced to bear. Benson has gone about his task, not with his thoughts on the votes he might attract for the Republican party but for the overall good he can do agriculture as a whole and the nation’s entire economy. He has tried, insofar as possible, to take politics and maudlin sentiment out of the farm program. . . SPARTA (WISC.) HERALD (Rep.) says: (11/14/55) These fellows you meet at an army re union—the ones you have n’t seen for ten or twelve years—that tell you you haven’t changed a bit,' are the most wonderful liars we’ve ever met. No wonder we have so many fond memories of them. COATESVILLE (PA.) RECORD (Ind.) says (11/15/55) In a recent debate on “Public Power vs. Private Power” on the Facts Forum radio program, Congressman Bruce Alger (Rep.) of Texas said: “The development of power is not the function of Federal Govern ment. .. Government is to protect our rights and freedoms.. .Free en terprise can not survive governmental competition... one must go, either public power or free enterprise... Let’s root out these seeds of economic destruction now threatening our great country — and get government out of business.” It is estimated that sale of all these 2,500-odd businesses would net the Treasury 30 billions, cut the expenses 5 billions a year, return two billion in taxes. BARTOW (FLORIDA) POLK CO. DEMOCRAT (Dem.) says: (11/15/55) We’ve been raised from infancy to believe that the concepts of the Democratic party were fundamental and sound, so it is small wonder that we still subscribe pretty largely to that belief... but somehow or other we don’t find ourselves getting all hot and bothered because our friend and fellow-townsman Sen. Spessard L. Holland indicates that he is something less than 100 per cent enthused over the prospective candidacy of Adlai Stevenson as the Democratic nominee for Presi dent ... quite frankly we personally feel the same way about the matter_as a charming and gifted speaker Steveson would be hard to beat, but the evidence he has given in the past of opposing those factors which have been the lifelong tenets of the South leave us cold to his candidacy.... indeed it appeals to us that the most capable candidates for the Democratic party’s presidential nominee hail from south of the Mason-Dixon line. BLACKFOOT (IDAHO) BULLETIN (Ind.) says: (11/14/55) .... With the car manufacturers producing millions of new cars each year, we keep wondering when they’ll reach the saturation point — each year brings out new models and they are somehow sold. For almost every new car sold, there is a trade-in car placed in the second hand lot and they too, always seem to find their way to a new owner. The production of new cars seems to be going ahead much faster than the older models are disappearing from the highways and the marvel to us, is that there always seems to be a market for these millions and millions of automobiles. We’re beginning to wonder as year follows year if there ever will be such a thing as a saturation point. BURLINGTON