1969: Wausa Vikings are Knox County champions
Feb. 10, 1944
WAUSA — A deal has been consummated the past week whereby one of our oldest business institutions changes hands, Mr. A. C. Anderson disposing of his hardware and implement stock and business to Mr. Carl “Bud” Lingren. Mr. Lingren will hold a farm sale on Friday, February 18th, and will take charge of the store about the 7th of March, providing everything works out according to plans.
Feb. 10, 1944
WAUSA — Talkitis, a contagious disease known to exist in Wausa High School, proves to be very disturbing to those students immune to the disease and to the teachers. This disease may be identified by three symptoms. First, the student is cold and indifferent to those about him, second, the urge for talking becomes greater, and third, he is talking rapidly and constantly. Talkitis is very wildly spread throughout the senior, junior and sophomore classes and the freshmen are rapidly becoming victims. Marks from the disease may remain in the personality of the individual afflicted, although one hopeful thought to be considered is that Talkitis isn’t fatal and may be overcome by three methods; first by the discipline of the teachers, second, by careful practice on the part of the individual, and third, the cooperation of the students.
Feb. 6, 1969
WAUSA — The Wausa Vikings made it two years in a row as they again brought home the Knox County championship. The Vikes played tip-top basketball as they won over Verdigre and St. Ludgers on their way to the finals against the Bloomfield Bees. In the second round the Vikings met a determined St. Ludger team that worked hard and displayed good passing and also had the ability to score. The Vikes worked a good defense and limited the St. Ludger’s scoring to a good percentage at the free throw line. Balanced scoring on the part of the local team was a factor in the win. Dave Holmquist and Milo Anderson led in the scoring with 25 and 20 points. For St. Ludgers it was Mike Shaffer with 21 points, 13 of these coming at the free throw line. Final score was 95 to 67.
In the finals Friday night at Bloomfield, the Vikings displayed a fine brand of basketball and rolled to a 74 to 45 win over the Bees. The Wausa team com- bined a number of factors to gain the win - stout defense work, good passing and again balanced scoring. Bloomfield, playing a rather deliberate game, gave the Vikes a challenge in defense in stopping the screening plays and in controlling the boards. However, the local five rose to the test were able to move out to a 22 to 13 lead at the end of the first quarter. The second stanza found both teams playing conservative ball and a low number of points resulted with 10 for the Vikes and 6 for the Bees. In the third and fourth quarters the Vikings opened up the game and scored 53 points while holding the Bees to 28. Hitting the scoring column for the locals were John Olson, Milo Anderson, Ron Nelson, Les Theirolf, Dave Holmquist and John Anderson. Holmquist was the leading scorer and Les Theirolf was a standout on defensive play on the boards. On Friday night of this week the Vikings will host the Plainview Pirates and on Saturday night they will travel to Creighton to play the previously postponed game.
Feb. 10, 1994
WAUSA — Water samples from the prospective well site southeast of Wausa have met purity requirements of the Nebraska Health Department and other agencies, the Village Trustees were told this week. They were so informed at their regular meeting Monday night, Feb. 7, by consulting engineer Ron Benson. A new well was ordered when the well in the west pump house failed. The successful test well was drilled southeast of town on the edge of the Eunice and Lillian “Anderson farm. An earlier test well in Gladstone Park had failed to provide sufficient water. The board will now move ahead with the well, including buying or renting about 10,000 square feet at the site. The well had been estimated to cost $100,000 and the town is seeking a Community Development Block grant or similar help to finance it. In a battery of tests, contaminants were found to be below the limits set by state and federal agencies except for a slight excess of calcium carbonate, causing hardness. Benson described as “great” the nitrate finding of 0.1, compared with the allowed reading 10. He said herbicide and pesticide levels in the well samples, policed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, were “not detect- able” and heavy metals were far below limits. Benson said the Salmon Well Co. of Wakefield, which dug the test wells, estimated the successful one will yield 250 to 300 gallon per minute. With continued use of the east well and 155,000 gallons stored in the tanks near the old pump house, the engineer showed charts indicating that with the new well the town will have sufficient capacity to fight a major fire. Benson suggested enlarging the casing for the well to be ready for the unexpected water yield and housing a chlorination tank at the site.
Feb. 11, 2009
CENTER — Knox County Supervisors decided to spend some of the money the county receives from Keno operations at their meeting on Monday morning, The Supervisors agreed to use close to $2,000 to pay for eight new chairs that have been ordered for the board room at the Courthouse. The county has received a little over $6,000 since March of 2007 from Keno at Rolling Hills Golf Course which is west of Wausa. “Rolling Hills Golf Course is the only one that participates in the lottery under the county,” said Knox County Clerk Joann Fischer. “The county’s share from Keno is $6,604.” The County Clerk handles all of the bookkeeping from the lottery earnings where the county receives a percentage of the lottery earnings.
“The daily tickets and slips come to the office. We have to verify the ticket sales, pay-offs and any unclaimed tickets. The amounts are compared with the weekly report from Lotto Nebraska,” said Fischer. The lottery was set up for Lotto Nebraska and the business to split 14 percent of the earnings, 9.5 percent will be for the local government, 2 percent goes to the State, 1 percent is for legal costs and 73.5 percent of every dollar goes towards future winnings in lotteries. When Keno is located within a city limits the county only gets a portion of the lottery earnings if an inter-local agreement was made between the town and the county ahead of time.
