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Mondoy. January 12. 1987 Columbus, Nb Tlgram 5 '0 a 'fin IVrfT yi mi in til of men who Dooled ON THE AIR The cast of "On the Air" gathers right, are Patty Troia, Rebecca Silvey, Jan Myers, Donald Kolterman, Jerry Van Horn, and Donald-Brian Johnson. (Telegram photo by Judy Schmidt) around the microphones to sing the play's opening song, "Happy Holidays," at the Howells centennial fundraising event. Pictured, from left to $410 to buy the right to shave off Vering's beard.

(Telegram photo by Judy Schmidt) Leigh, Creston offer community education courses LEIGH (TO Community education courses from Central Community College Platte Campus are again being offered during the winter session at Leigh Community Schools. An open house for special registration will be Jan. 19 at 7 p.m. at the school library where more information may be obtained from coordinator Ken Swanson. At least eight people must be registered in order for a class to be held.

Community credit classes offered include: preparing farm financial statements; beginning microcomputing; apple works; microwave cooking students' choice of their own recipes; color analysis; basic word processing workshop; and wire welding. Also offered are these non-credit avocationalrecreatio-nal courses: crafts potpourri; slimnastics; men's exercise group; country western swing; square dancing; quilting. Advisory committee members include Arlen Beck, Cecil Fields, Russell Herink, Joe Hoppes, Lori Magsamen and Wendy Rahtz. The Leigh Learning Center also begins its winter semester Jan. 19.

College credit courses also are offered through the Platte Campus in many areas. The center is open Monday from 7-10 p.m. with learning center manager Ken Swanson available for assistance and serving as a contact with the college. Students work individually through the learning center; therefore, no minimum enrollment is required. Students may begin a course anytime the center is open.

lunches sold and shorn at Howells fundraiser TINY TRIM Banker Dana Dan-nelly takes a one-inch blade pocketknife to the beard of feed dealer Reynold Vering while postmaster Dave Kaup watches. Donnelly was one of Beards, box By JUDY SCHMIDT Telegram Staff Writer HOWELLS In the Howells Ballroom Sunday night, box lunches were selling for as high as $30, and the right to trim off a beard $400. Some people might blame such behavior on the full moon, others might call it madness, but the residents of Howells simply call it fundraising for their centennial. "You think this is bad, just wait until July," said Larry Smeal, speaking of the centennial celebration planned for July 3-5. Smeal paid $30 for the box lunch his wife Lois had brought to the box social, the highest price paid for a box lunch that evening.

The auction prices on the approximately 35 box lunches averaged around $13 a lunch. The prices were high because all the boxes were board of the Howells Historical Society. "We're trying to get them (the cast of "On the to come back for another performance," said Paul. Approximately 350 people attended the performance at the Howells Ballroom. According to Dana Dannelly, treasurer of the centennial committee, more than $3,000 was raised for the centennial, with more than $2,300 raised by the beard-auctioning alone.

Howells' next centennial fundraiser, a soup and pie luncheon with a white elephant auction afterward, will be Feb. 15 at 11 a.m. at the Howells Ballroom. his beard until they had run the cost up to $120. Mark Wisnieski, who had donated his time as auctioneer, then suggested that a group of people pool their money to outbid the doctor.

Boysen unplugged Wisnieski's microphone, but it was quickly plugged back in and the bidding continued until Boysen's beard was sold at the evening's highest bid of $444, a price that the doctor would not or could not top. The other two top selling beards belonged to Reynold Vering and Rich Bellina, which both sold at $410 apiece. Boysen led the bidding, and again the money was raised by pooling. Vering and Bellina work as feed dealers. Fiscal rivalry was preceded Sunday night by a radio revue as the play "On the Air" was presented before the bidding began.

While it may be true that those who can, do, and those who can't, criticize, Donald-Brian Johnson has proved that he can do both. An entertainment critic for an Omaha radio station, Johnson created "On the Air" and stars in it as the announcer. The only thing professional ethics prevents him from doing is reviewing his own show. But the audience reviewed it for him. While an "APPLAUSE" sign is one of the show's props, it usually wasn't needed as the cast of seven went through plots, commercials, songs and skits taken from actual radio broadcasts of 1943.

While the many patriotic songs and skits were what one would expect from that era, it was hard to believe the lines that got past the censors, especially the ones in the laxative commercial. The only lack of 1940s realism in the play came about because radio, being an audio medium, was being presented visually. While "On the Air" was filled with vibrant costumes and sweeping dances, the radio studios of the 1940s, concerned primarily with what was going out over the air, used only a few costumes and dance steps to keep their studio audiences happy. "On the Air" shows what a 1943 Christmas Eve program could have been. Paul and Janet Pekarek, who go to plays in Omaha "whenever they have a new one," arranged for the performance.

Paul is chairman of the town board and Janet on the operated as a satellite station of KCAU in Sioux City. The only change being made is that of the call letters. Pat Boilesen's CROSS COUNTRY MUSIC Bluegrass-Gospel SHOW brought to the box social by wives whose husbands knew better than to let those boxes go to someone else. Pranksters in the audience, knowing the straits the husbands were in, upped the bids as much as they could. Emotional blackmail was also on hand during the "shave off" in which men put their beards up for bid, and the highest bidder had the privilege of shaving it off.

The only catch was that the bearded one could also bid on his own beard in order to keep it. The high prices on beards started with veterinarian Dr. Dwight Boysen, who, many in the audience were heard to say, "was born with a beard." It seems Boysen was adamant about keeping his beard and priced his full beard at $200. Aghast at that amount, the crowd bid on getting a part of Methodist ternoon. Church Sunday af- (Telegram photo by Brad Gaston) KBGT-TV owners change station's call letters i 'Ufc si 'A.

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