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Lincoln Journal Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 15

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7 7 Maggie and a neighbor action tells story. Volunteers Out Today Football Proves How Heart Aided By Gene "Hey catch!" Spiraling toward the pho tographer was a miniature footbaU. The surprised target awk wardly shed his bulky press camera and a handful flash, bulbs to spear the ball "Nice grab," bright- eyed, auburn-haired passer snouted. Returning the a 11, the puffing receiver inquired: "Where do I find Miss Maggie Cody?" "Right here I'm Maggie Cody," replied the girl. The man looked surprised.

Fumbling his pockets, he finally came up with a crumbled assignment sheet which read: "Get a picture or two of Maggie Cody, the 8-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Cody of 1717 So.

28th St. We'll need the shots for Heart Sunday, Feb. 26. "She is a little girl who neared death's door with a heart ailment." The surprised photog was greeted next by Mrs. Cody, who quickly dispatched Maggie to the bathroom for a shift with the washcloth.

his head, he murmured: "Amazing." "Yes it is," Mrs. Cody re- plied. "Last year doctors told us that without an operation, Maggie not live for more than 4 years." i medical re- search, Maggie wouldn't with us today," she added, i Hole in Heart The mother, teache at St. Teresa's grade school explained that Maggie wa born with a hole between two chambers in her heart At first, she said, doctor; had hopes that a i would outgrow defec which they were unable to correct at the time. She didn't.

"An operation of the na ture needed would have been a hit and miss affair 8 years ago. Research in the field was still in the experimental stage," Mrs. Cody recalled. The playful first gradei was operated on last June since pro- She now and has claimed healed." jumps and skips to h'-er heart's content. A thankful Mrs.

Cody today will join 2,500 Lincolnites in soliciting for the annual Heart a Drive from noon to 4 p.m. She is a rural chairman of the i 1 n-Lancaster County Heart Council. Forty members of the Sigma Nu and a a Sigma fraternities at the University of Nebraska also will help in the door-to-door canvass. This year's goal is $25,000. Maggie will be 1 i mom ring doorbells, too.

Nebraskan, 80, Man of Many Skills Royal--Edd Chart, a Nebraskan all his life, will be 80 Apr. 10. In itself his age is not since many people become octogenarians nowadays. But Edd Charf has the distinction of having mastered 5 trades and of being proficient in all of them, in addition to being, a. musician and playing for dances as a sideline.

He was born at Swedeburg in" Saunders County in 1881 His father, Peter Charf, came from Sweden where he was a shoemaker and he continued at that trade in Nebraska. There were 7 boys in the Charf a i and each learned to play a musical instrument. The father was a violinist. Guitar'Lessons At the age of 7 Edd walked a mile to take lessons on the guitar from a minister. Later the Charfs moved to Wausa and there the boys played for dances for a number of years, as they did later in Antelope County in the Millerboro community.

Construction Job At the age of 14, Edd went to Lincoln to work for a construction company, where he learned the trade which he has followed the rest of his life. He qualified as a carpenter, a mason, a painter, a paperhanger, and in addition to these, he was a farmer for many years: Charf five trades. Public Atlas Meeting Set Elmwood--The Lincoln Air Force Base's 3-man team of Atlas missile experts will conduct a public meeting here iVednesday. The trio--Col. Thomas Corbin, Lt.

Col. Frederick H. arsh and Frederick J. Childress of Convair-Astronautics --will discuss the Strategic Command's new Atlas missile program and its ef- ect on Elmwood area residents. One of the 12 Atlas missile aunch sites in the Lincoln area is being constructed near here.

BUCK WHITE FRESH EASTMAN 8MM TRI-X MOVIE FILM Now take movies of weddings, birthdays, graduation and all special occasions including indoor sports places where color cannot reach! WESTERN CINE 8 MM TRI-X Movie Film is avail- tMe in rolls or magazines. MHCE Of THE FILM FAST PROCESSING! A A BABY'S SHOES BRONZED BY EXCLUSIVE NEW PROCESS EVERY STYLE REDUCED Vo Following his marriage in 1911, he located near Royal where he continued to ply his trades and play for dances. In more recent years, when his own family of 7 was growing up, he and his sons a (now of Kent, Wash.) and Floyd (now oJ Neligh), and daughter Lily (now of Oakland, often furnished i for dances. He played too, with local orchestras--Bob Hering and his Sardines, and Joe Hering's Royal Nightingales. Strung Banjo He says now his fiddle bow is broken, but occasionally he sits at the piano, or strums the guitar and the banjo, or plays the mouth harp or mandolin.

Charf doesn't handle big jobs any more, but he still does neighborly deeds about town with the saw and hammer. Bess Furman Joins HEW Veteran Reporter In Washington Sunday Journal Star Bureau Washington Bess Furman, a native of Danbury, has become assistant to Wallace turner, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Dept. of a cation and Welfare, time Washington cor- spondent, Miss Furman tias known every first a since Mrs. Herbert Miss Furman Hoover. Now a young 66, Bess Furman has two brothers in Nebraska, Dr.

Donald A. Furman of McCook, and Charles February 28, 1961 JL1NCOLN SUNDAY JOURNAL AND STAR Boyles: Long Range Lighting Plan Needed By Leo Scherer I mercial rates for the i Mayor Pat Boyles is concerned over Lincoln lighting. He feels the city sometime will have to' correct thfe faulty lighting, especially on arterials and in older sections of the city. It has been estimated Lincoln now has at least a $1- million lighting E. Furman of Danbury.

She will close her desk in New York Times Washington Bureau to take the $12,200 a year job with HEW. Around City HaN which includes sections of heavy traveled arterials with no street lighting. Boyles feels the updating of the lighting might take a bond issue or a detailed, long-range program. A city street lighting survey now being prepared could give a clearer picture of the needs and also the cost involved. Exemption Study The matter of tax-exempt property isn't a closed book.

Councilwoman Helen Boosalis is giving the a further study since receiving the report that the city has close to 300 properties the tax rolls. Tax Commissioner William Schlaebitz says the present tax-exempt property within the city qualifies either by state law or Supreme Court decision. and Consumers. This is correct. Livengood said the city industrial rate is basically the same as Consumers but the rate can vary depending on fuel costs.

20- Year Experience The 3 Council incumbents who have decided not to seek re-election this spring have a total of over 20 years experience in local government. They are i Vice Chairman C. W. D. Kinsey and Councilmen Hugh Thome and Al DuTeau.

Kinsey 9 years; Thome 8 and DuTeau 4. The holdover Council member with the longest experience will be D. L. Tyrrell. 3B Doctorates Are Received by Six Seward-- Six faculty members from Concordia Teachers College here received doctorates in the past 6 'months.

They are Walter E. Mueller, Ph.D. in English from University of Nebraska; Luther C. Schwich, Ph.D. in Physical Education, University of Utah; Walter A.

Hardt, Ph.D. in Secondary Education, University of Nebraska; Robert Sylwester, Ph.D. in Education, University of Oregon; Wilfred C. Langefeld, Ph.D. in Education, University of Nebraska, and Carl T.

Brandhorst, Ph.D. in Zoology at the University of Nebraska. There are 12 Ph.D's in the Concordia faculty of 62, according to Dr. P. A.

Zimmerman, President, with' others nearing the completion of doctorate requirements. Wheat Men Add State Wyoming Area Is Organized Scottsbluff John Liene. mann of Scottsbluff, president of the Nebraska Wheat Growers says wheat growers in 7 eastern Wyoming counties have organized to affiliate with the Nebraska group. Lienemann said the Wyoming producers have chosen to join the Nebraskans because "they felt, as we did, that it would be mutually beneficial for us to begin to work together." Mayor Picked Albion Joe Wilson has been appointed acting mayor of Albion by the City Council. He succeeds Ray Medlin who died earlier this month.

SEARS I A JUBILEE YEAR POSITIVELY MONDAY ONLY! I 9:30 AM Dawes Talent Show Scheduled Students at Dawes Junior High School will present "Dawes Debut" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, in the Dawes Junior High auditorium. Theme of the youth talent show is "Around the World." Omaha Rolls Up Omaha--A record number of students have enrolled at the University of Omaha second semester. A total of 3,062 day students registered compared to 2,579 last year. Power Rate Puzzle Water and Light Dept.

officials J. W. Livengood and Guy Thompson are puzzled over certain electric rates released in a 1960 Federal Power Commission report. The report showed a different industrial i rate for the City and n- sumers Public Power i strict. However, Livengood a i the industrial rate used in the report wasn't the same one he sent to the Commission.

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