THE STAPLETON ENTERPRISE THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2017 Page 6

TEN YEARS AGOMAY 10, 2007

Taylor Lovitt was theValedictorian of the Classof 2007 and Talia Millerwas the Salutatorian.

Those honored May 2 atthe McPherson CountyEighth Grade Graduationwere: Mara Seifer, AngieThompson, Dillon Daig-ger, Ashley Bessmer,Molly Hinkle, Gage Ry-land and SamanthaKramer.

The United StatesAchievement Academyhas announced thatLogan Krull from Tryonhas been named a UnitedStates National AwardWinner in English.

Engagements: NicholeNeal, North Platte andEric Mumm of Chadron,June 30, 2007; Jana Jame-son & Todd Gragg, NorthPlatte, August 18, 2007.

TWENTY YEARS AGOMAY 15, 1997

Justin Moore was Vale-dictorian and Lana StreiffSalutatorian at the MCHSgraduation held May 11.

McPherson CountyEighth Graders graduat-ing on May 12 were:Megan McNutt, Kari BethDaly, Katrina Fisher,Cameron Powers, ChadMcNutt, Chaunci Beck,Travis Powell, Corey Neal,Dru Melvin, Jarod Arens-dorf and Joseph Cochran.

The McPherson Countyboys track team won thelast OTC meet. Thoseplacing for the Longhornswere: Tyler Neal, JeremyNeal, Ty Melvin, TravisBeck, Justin Moore, DellSchultheiss, Jay Powers,Luke Connell, Wayne Mc-Nutt, Arlis Blake, DarrinMunson, Matt Burch, DanSchmidt, Kyle Correll,Dan Schmidt, AaronSchroder, Ross Brouwer,Tyler Neal, Kyle Correll,and Darrin Munson.

THIRTY YEARS AGOMAY 14, 1987

Gary and Judy Connelltraveled to Kearney Mon-day where Gary was toenter the Good SamaritanHospital for surgery for aruptured disc in his back.Gary spent several days inthe hospital at NorthPlatte last week.

Kerry Kramer of Tryon,will graduate with a Bach-elor of Science degree innursing from KearneyState College May 15,1987, at Foster Field.

The high-point winnersin the track and fieldevents at Rural Field Dayin Tryon, April 30 wereMegan Wilkie, Terri Rode-wald, Kelly Long, DawnStreiff, Justin Moore andKevin Starr.

FORTY YEARS AGOMAY 12, 1977

The 1977 Senior Classwas pictured in this issue.Class members wereCindy Miller, Dallas Neal,Bill Kramer, RandyHoughtaling, NancyGragg, Polly Kemp, ScottCorrell, Lanny Brouwer,Kenneth Rundback,Sandy Schmidt and ScottBrouwer.

Among those graduatingwith the Dental AssistingClass at Mid Plains Com-munity College May 15,was Miss Dee Smith,daughter of Mr. and Mrs.Fred Smith of Tryon.

Eileen Kugler, CountyChairman, welcomed ap-proximately 60 people tothe Extension Clubs’Spring Tea held May 2 atMCHS.

FIFTY YEARS AGOMAY 11, 1967

Darwin Munson pre-sented the salutatory andJacque Trumbull gave thevaledictory address atcommencement May 11.

Mrs. Nellie Yost of NorthPlatte will be the speakerat the eighth grade pro-motion exercises May 17.

Birth: Mr. and Mrs. DalePettit, Crystal Delight,May 2, 1967.

Death: Arthur M. Dal-garn, May 8, 1967.

Susan Kinsman, a juniorat MCHS was injuredTuesday evening nearTryon, when she acciden-tally fell out of the back ofa pickup driven by DougNeal. She was treated forcuts and bruises at thehospital.

SIXTY YEARS AGOMAY 16,1957

Lightning struck in thesouthwest part of TryonMonday, burning out thetelephone lines in thatsection. The homes ofBilly Neal, Frank Cottonand Paul French were leftwithout telephone serv-ice. A parakeet sitting ontop of his cage which washanging from the ceilingin the Paul French home,was knocked to the floorwhen the bolt of lightninghit.

During the storm onMay 8th which crossedthis part of the country,lightning set fire to theprairie on the Tom Nealranch. Several ranchersarrived in time to put itout and only a smallamount of ground wasburned.

Four inches of rain hasfallen in six days, so thishas aided in keepingdown prairie fires startedby lightning.

Mr. and Mrs. Don Nealand family are movingthis week to the housewhich was recently occu-pied by the Harry Davisfamily.

SEVENTY YEARS AGOMAY 15, 1947

Manley Mahaffey didnot carry the Flats mailSaturday on account ofcar trouble.

Harvey Neal, son of Mr.and Mrs. Jack Neal, ac-companied Miles Snyderand son, Jimmie, homeThursday evening in Mr.Snyder’s airplane. Mr.Snyder brought the boysback Monday morning in

time for school. It wasquite a treat for Harvey toride in the plane. Jimmiehas been coming toschool almost all winterin the plane with his fa-ther.

After averaging gradesat the Tryon Gradeschool, it was found thatthe all A students for theyear were Bobby Cotton,Esther Winters, ArleneBedker and RamonaNeal, and for the lastquarter, Bobby Cotton, Es-ther Winters, Janis Black,Audrey Priest, ArleneBedker, Burrell Frenchand Ramon Neal receivedall A’s.

EIGHTY YEARS AGOMAY 13, 1937

Tryon’s first auto acci-dent in many months oc-curred at the intersectionof main street and thehighway Sunday morn-ing when the Ira Cump-ston Dodge sedan wasstruck by a Chevrolettruck loaded with cattle.Fenders, bumpers andbody of the autos weredamaged.

Some new cement stepswere installed at the PostOffice over the weekend.

S.W. Warren is havingsome fencing done on hisproperties in the southpart of town and rerout-ing a road which has notfollowed street lines tooclosely.

NINETY YEARS AGOMAY 12, 1927

The oyster supper atMrs. Nicholson’s was at-tended by fifty peopleand a fine time was re-ported.

District No. 10 recentlyput up a new flag pole.Miss June Stoddard andMiss Freda Wayman werethe first to raise the flag.

Esther Austin burnedboth of her hands quitebadly Wednesday morn-ing while starting the firewith gasoline, which hadby some unknown waybeen put into thekerosene can. Her sisterand neighbors managedto put out the fire beforeit could get any headwayto further destruction.

Monday, May 15 - Ham-burger gravy with riceand peas.

Tuesday, May 16 -Chicken drummies,mashed potatoes andcorn.

Wednesday, May 17 - Hotbeef sandwich, mashedpotatoes and green beans.

Thursday, May 18 - Bar-becue riblet sandwich,

Aunt Bea’s Senior MealsLunch Menu

Sixty years, what has it wrought?Poodle skirts & bobbie socks

Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne tooTime flew so fast - where were you?

Sputnik, Apollo, now the space stationTest tube procreation

Kennedy’s assassinationTime stood still on 9/11.

How did we live without computers?Calculators or Nerf shooters?Video games we had none,

We could pretend and have fun.

TV was a big event,Channel 2 was heaven sent!

Radio still holds it placeAnd KRVN sets the pace.

Mini skirts and go-go boots,Country fun and Hee Haw hoots!

Saturday night at the showMa & Pa Kettle, don’t you know?

Minnie Pearl and Grandpa JonesMemories of more than them alone.

My, how the time does fly,So many friends have said ‘Good-bye’.

Who is here from 60 years ago?Please, at this time do let us know.

What are your memories of that time?I know candy bars were two for a dime.

As we gather once againAnd say hello to old friends,

We wonder who will be here next yearCelebrating 61 years with friends and cheer.

J.R. Trumbull29 September 2010

Logan Co. 60th Oldsters Party

Quote: “Sit on the tackof success and rise rap-idly.” Class Motto MCHSClass of ‘67

Fifty years ago as we saton the stage of McPher-son County High School,I’m sure we neverthought about living intothe next century muchless the second decade ofthe next century. Com-puters, cell phones, lasers,Tasers, and a multitude ofother things that we takefor granted today were ei-ther unheard of or justpart of science fiction.During my first year ofcollege, one of the guyshad gotten a calculatorwhich was ‘WOW’, bigstuff.

That thing cost $250 atthat time and only had acouple of functions morethan the dollar store ver-sion does today. Most ofus had to use a slide ruleto calculate things. Don’task me how to use onenow because I have usedthe slide rule about asmuch as I have used alge-bra in my life.

Geometry was practicaland could be applied butsome of the rest justdidn’t make the transferinto real life. Typing wasa struggle but I use thekeyboarding skills daily.It is so nice to be able todelete and rewrite al-though the computerword processing programand I don’t always agreeon the spelling of certainwords. It turns out thatI’m right most of thetime. At least I do knowhow to look up a word inthe dictionary although Iam probably more apt tosee if I can Google the cor-rect spelling. Ha!

Time flies or so they say.I’m not sure who ‘they’were who said it but timedoes seem to pass muchmore rapidly than it usedto, yet there are somethings that seem to havehappened only yesterday.

SIXTY YEARS

McPherson County News~ Established 1889 ~

Serving McPherson County & Tryon, Nebraska

baked beans and Frenchfries.

Friday, May 19 - Tatercrust cod, Au Gratin pota-toes and beets.

Monday, May 22 - Ham-burger patty with gravy,mashed potatoes and car-rots.

Tuesday, May 23 - SloppyJoe, baked beans andFrench fries.

COURTESY PHOTO

From The

Tryon Graphic Files

Pictured are l-r: Dave Sullivan, Hooker County Clerk; Darlene Osborn, bus driver;Bryan Crisp, Hooker County Commissioner, and John Bryant, McPherson CountyCommissioner, prior to taking off from Tryon to North Platte. In addition to thepleasant ride to North Platte, the group toured the North Platte Public Transit fa-cility.

Over The Hills

By J.R. Trumbull

First public transitbus leaves Tryon

Hooker County PublicTransportation, in part-nership with McPhersonCounty and the NebraskaDepartment of Roads,began their pilot projectto offer public transporta-tion service to NorthPlatte on Tuesdays.

Transportation beganTuesday, May 2. Alongwith the trip to NorthPlatte, the group touredthe North Platte PublicTransit facility.

This service is now avail-able to all residents ofMcPherson County. Thegeneral public transitservice is providedthrough an agreement be-tween the Hooker CountyBoard of Supervisors andthe McPherson CountyCommissioners. The pilotproject will leverage exist-ing public transportationin Hooker County for res-idents traveling to North

Platte. The new transitservice will stop in Tryonto pick up and drop offMcPherson County resi-dents at the McPhersonCounty Courthouse. Alltransit trips must be re-served a minimum of 24-hours in advance.

To book a ride on thenew transit service, con-tact Hooker County Pub-lic Transportation at308-546-9347.

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