1968: Winter storm blankets area with 16 inches of snow
Dec. 29, 1938
WAUSA – Tuesday of last week was the big REA demonstration at Coleridge, Nebraska.
Many of the farmers from the Wausa community drove over to witness and see the various electrical appliances at work. The crowd present is estimated at from 1,200 to 1,500 people. Previous to this date current had been turned into the lines in the Wausa community and some farm places were electrically lighted as early as on Saturday evening, Dec. 17.
Not all of the farm homes in the local community who have signified their in- tentions of taking the current have been attached as yet, and even electric wiring is steadily going forward at many places.
This new improvement is a long step in progress for the communities so improved and we are glad that a sufficient number of our farmer friends were interested to the extent of signing up and getting the company organized. Why shouldn’t the accommodations of the farm be as good as those in the town?
Dec. 31, 1953
WAUSA – The Christmas story was depicted in tableau and song Tuesday evening at the auditorium at the annual program of the Inter-church Youth Council and the Wausa music department.
Fred Vorce Jr. was the director and gave the welcome. Christmas music was presented between the tableau scenes. Both high school groups, under Mr. Vorce’s direction, and the grade school, under Miss Vernal John- son’s direction, participated. The grades were the third through eighth.
Soloists were Vendla Burns, Carol Plog, Bernice Moon, Nancy Anderson, Barbara Enquist, Wylie Burns, Joyce Mattson, Arvida Mattson, Barbara Anderson, Dennis Hult and Malvern Seagren. Kenneth Hult was reader and the accompanists were Joyce Mattson, Arvida Mattson, Iris Mae Udd, Rosalie Newman, Sharon Lindquist, Miss Johnson and Mr. Vorce.
Dec. 26, 1963
WAUSA – Carl G. Anderson has been asked to submit a fifteen hundred word theme on “Gravity.” His interest in science deals basically with gravitational balances of energy in the physical and magnetical fields of the earth. The Gravity Research founded by Roger W. Babson in 1948 is sponsoring a one thousand dollar first prize contest.
The essays must be in by April, the winner will be selected in June, 1964. Mr. Anderson is employed as manager and business supply clerk for his department which serves two hundred employees for the May D & F Co. at the Westland shopping center, Denver.
Dec. 26, 1968
WAUSA – All activities in Northeast Nebraska and most of the upper Midwest States were completely paralyzed Saturday night and Sunday as a major snow storm gripped the area.
An estimated 16 inches of snow was whipped by winds 30 to 50 miles per hour with gusts to 68 miles per hour. Wausa residents are comparing the storm to those occurring during the long-remembered winter of ‘48-49.
Visibility was cut to only a few feet Sunday afternoon as the violent winds stirred the fine snow into what appeared to be a solid white wall. The fury of the storm continued unabated until after midnight Sunday.
Dec. 29, 1988
WAUSA – One of the “hottest” news subjects of 1988 never came about. Apparently it won’t, but it permeated feelings, conversations, local government action and the Nov. 8 election.
A holdover from “Big Headlines of 1987” the subject was the possible location of a five-state low-level radioactive waste storage facility near Wausa. New Year’s Eve 1987, you’ll recall, the County Board of Supervisors responded to unofficial petitions of more than 4,000 signatures by voting against any Knox County location.
In the 1988 debate, opponents feared harmful radiation would leak into the
