Sept. 23, 1951
Another Otoe County bridge was broken down by a heavy piece of machinery Friday night.
The gravel road east of Douglas was closed Saturday after a 15-ton bulldozer went through the five-ton span seven miles east of the town. The machine was owned by the Franz Construction Co. of Douglas.
This makes two or three county bridges broken by heavy machinery this year.
Nebraska City had a bridge closed for two months after a tractor went through it and the state lost a bridge near Talmage when a dragline broke it down.
September, 1951
Barada, Neb.-U.P.-A six and one half foot tusk, which may have been that of a pre-historic mammal, was unearthed here last week, two workmen said Saturday.
Jake Sailors and Dutch Hanika, both of Barada, dug out the bow-shaped tusk and seven-inch tooth, which weighs five pounds.
They were about buried 15 feet deep in an area cut away for a roadside improvement.
Paleontologists at the University of Nebraska have been notified.
The bone and tooth were found just across the county line in Nemaha County, about four miles northwest of here.
September, 1951
Apples will not be sold in the Memorial Stadium during Cornhusker football games this fall.
A hike in apple prices has made the fruit an unprofitable item, according to L.F. “Pop” Klein, manager of concessions.
3.2 million -
The number of children who lived with both a grandmother and a grandfather in 2010.
Source: Families and Living Arrangements: 2010
30% -
Among children younger than 5 whose mothers were employed, the percentage cared for on a regular basis by a grandparent during their mother’s working hours in 2005.
Source: Who’s Minding the Kids? Child Care Arrangements: Spring 2005/Summer 2006
70% -
Among grandparents who were responsible for their grandchildren, the percentage who lived in an owner-occupied home.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau 2009 American Community Survey
7.5 million -
The number of children living with a grandparent in 2010; these children comprised 10 percent of all children in the United States. Of these children, 4.9 million lived in the grandparent’s home.
Source: Families and Living Arrangements: 2010
1.6 million -
The number of grandparents who were in the labor force and also responsible for most of the basic needs of their grandchildren.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2009 American Community Survey
700,000 -
Number of grandparents with a disability who were caring for their grandchildren.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2009 American Community Survey
1 million -
Number of grandparents responsible for caring for their grandchildren for at least the past five years.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2009 American Community Survey
1.9 million -
The number of grandparent-caregivers who were married.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2009 American Community Survey
8% -
Percentage of grandparents living with grandchildren who were caring for their grandchildren and whose income was below the poverty level. This represents half a million grandparents.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2009 American Community Survey
$45,007 -
Median income for families with grandparent-caregiver householders and/or spouses. If a parent of the grandchildren was not present, the median dropped to $33,417.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2009 American Community Survey
Sept. 27, 1951
Lincoln-U.P.-Firemen rushed to the Richard Densberger home after smoke was observed pouring out of the house.
However, they found no fire--just an extremely well done pot of beans Mrs. Densberger had accidentally left on the stove.
6.7 million -
The number of grandparents whose grandchildren younger than 18 lived with them in 2009.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau. 2009 American Community Survey
2.7 million -
The number of grandparents responsible for most of the basic needs (i.e., food, shelter, clothing) of one or more grandchildren who lived with them in 2009. These grandparents represented about 40 percent of all grandparents whose grandchildren lived with them. Of these caregivers, 1.7 million were grandmothers, and 1 million were grandfathers.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2009 American Community Survey
Sept. 27, 1951
Oakland, Calif.-U.P.-Shinola, a little black dog of uncertain ancestry, gave his life to save his mistress yesterday.
Shinola began barking when he smelled smoke in the bedroom of their apartment until his mistress, Dorothy Moore, 39, awoke. The bedroom was a mass of flames.
Mrs. Moore ran into the upstairs hall and roused other tenants in the building. Then she returned to her own apartment but was unable to find the dog. She fled with first and second degree burns.
The dog’s body was found between the inner and outer walls of the apartment, where the flames had burned a hole.
In 1970, Marian McQuade began a campaign to set aside a special day just for grandparents. In 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed a presidential proclamation, designating the first Sunday after Labor Day as National Grandparents Day. The first official observance was Sept. 9, 1979 — and has been celebrated every year since. In honor of our nation’s grandparents, the Census Bureau presents an array of statistics about the role they play in our lives.
Sept. 27, 1951
Nehawka- (Special to the News-Press)-Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Harshman have missed chickens from their flock all summer but never could catch the culprit that was stealing them.
Last week the dogs chased a badger into the yard and Mr. Harshman killed it.
Since then the chickens have not been disturbed.
Sept. 27, 1951
Nebraska City will launch an experiment next week with its first pay parking lot when meters are set up on city property at Eighth Street and Central Avenue.
Installing of the meter poles will start Saturday with Clifford Rakes doing the work for the Duncan Meter Corporation. The city will install the heads.
The lot, with a parking charge of five cents for two hours, probably will go into operation immediately afterward. Twenty-seven meters are to be installed in the lot and on the west side of Eighth Street adjoining the lot.
Sept. 27, 1951
Tornadoes and thunderstorms killed at least 11 persons in the Midwest as autumn’s first cold wave swept eastward today on the heels of violent winds.
The worst tornado ripped through two Wisconsin areas Wenesday, killing seven person and twirling trucks and tractors like playthings.
Another twister dropped down on Bitely, Mich., caving in a tavern wall and killing a woman patron.
High winds and pounding thunderstorms struck elsewhere in Wisconsin and Michigan and in Minnesota, Iowa, Indiana and Illinois. Snow fell in Minnesota and upper Michigan and cloudy, topcoat weather was forecast for the area today.
The Chicago weather bureau said the Midwest’s storm would move eastward today, but was losing much of its punch as it did. The forecasters said winds followed by falling temperatures were in store for the North Atlantic and New England states.
“It is a very intensive storm for this time of the year,” a weather bureau spokeman said. “But we can’t forecast whether it means the country’s in for a tought autumn.”
Sept. 25, 1951
At a meeting of the Nebraskas City Teachers’ Association Monday, Gordon Glewwe demonstrated the use of tape recorders in the school.
A sound engineer for the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., Glewwe told of the University of Minnesota’s Tape-for-Teaching program. Through this program, he said, schools in the state send blank tapes into the University’s library, which records educational material from its files and sends it back to the school.
A similar program, said Glewwe, will soon be in effect in Nebraska.
A bandit who likes to munch apples loafed around Nehawka, southern Cass county town, all afternoon Monday and then held up the Nehawka Bank 10 minutes before closing time. He got away with $4,177 in cash.
Sept. 17, 1951
Preston, Minn.-(U.P.)- A first degree murder charge will be asked late today against a 16-year-old boy who killed another teenager in a love triangle over a 15-year-old girl.
George Frogner, Fillmore County Attorney, said he would ask for the first degree charge against Carroll Bakken who has been held since Saturday after he admitted shooting Doeland Peterson, 19, at Rushford, Minn.
Peterson was killed after Bakken, who had been going steady with Nina Johnson, 15, saw him sitting in a parked car with the girl early Saturday morning.
Sept. 17, 1951
Kansas City-(U.P.)-A 70-year-old Council Bluffs, Iowa woman today was busy distributing more than $1,000 worth of gifts for needy flood victims.
Miss Elizabeth McCammon arrived here yesterday to start personal delivery of the various articles to needy families recommended by the Salvation Army.
"I brought the type of things," she said, "that I would buy for a member of my own family. I want to deliver the gifts myself. That's why I came here."
Friday, Sept. 14, 1951
Curtis, Neb.- (U.P.)-The Nebraska Cornhuskers will wind up their fall drills here with a practice game tomorrow no matter what the difficulties.
Coach Bill Glassford, plagued with bad weather, the flu and injuries to players, said the game would be played "even if we have only 11 men on a side and 12 inches of water on the field."
The team will return to Lincoln Sunday and Glassford hoped for warm summer weather back on the home field. In Lincoln, students planned a welcome home rally for the team and coaching staff.
