Innerestin Facts Bout Nebraska

[Leo Tanner]

If ya do, drift north an lunch is on me an Lil.

[River City John]

Isn't Ted Turner one of the largest single landowners in Nebraska?

[Leo Tanner]

Don't know, have ta ask Jane.  On second thought, I'll just take yer word fer it.

[litl rooster]

The Naval ammo depot in Hastings supplied 40 percent of the ammo used in Big Two.  Were the biggest plant in the country.

Roo oughta be feelin some kinda twiter from that bit a news.

Having a Naval Ammo depot in Newbrassky is like having the ARMY corp of engineers in charge of the water ways....That's Military Intelligence at it's finest.

[litl rooster]

Isn't Ted Turner one of the largest single landowners in Nebraska?

That's New Mexico he owns

[Texas Lawdog]

LR, I was in MI for a while, I guess I wasn't cut out to be a Double Naught Spy!

[Leo Tanner]

Well yer first name meets the quailfications.

[Texas Lawdog]

Yep, Leo I got my first name from my granddad on my mom's side of the Family(King). He was a working cowboy that died before  she was born. I have his Masonic Ring(too small for my finger). He was a member of the Lodge in Matador, Texas.

[Leo Tanner]

Having a Naval Ammo depot in Newbrassky is like having the ARMY corp of engineers in charge of the water ways....That's Military Intelligence at it's finest.

Atchaly it makes sense if yer coast lines er at risk.  "TURN OUT THOSE LIGHTS!!!"
   There was reports of CD folks seein Gerry periscopes off of Manhatten with the naked eye.  Centralize that ammo. 

[G. P. Cobb]

That's New Mexico he owns

Yes he is, dunno about New Mexico,  he owns a lot in the sandhills.
EX-Nebraskan

[litl rooster]

Yes he is, dunno about New Mexico,  he owns a lot in the sandhills.
EX-Nebraskan

It's a plot to take over the west one state at a time

[Tensleep]

Ted Turner does have a big ranch in NM near Cimmaron, he's loaded it with buffalo.

[Texas Lawdog]

Ah, Cimarron and Red River NM.  Spent a lot of summer vacations up there. You've never lived till you traveled the old gravel road between them, especially pullin' a 2 horse trailer with tired horses in it.

[Delmonico]

Ah, Cimarron and Red River NM.  Spent a lot of summer vacations up there. You've never lived till you traveled the old gravel road between them, especially pullin' a 2 horse trailer with tired horses in it.

Some folks never travel any gravel roads, sorta feel sorry for them, but most when they do end up on one they ain't got enough common sense to wave as someone passes by goin' the other way.

[Ozark Tracker]

I have a real good friend up here that went to visit his cousin in Tulsa last year, when he came back he told about driving around Tulsa, said when they'd pull up to a stop light, Larry said he'd throw up his hand to the car next to em, said people looked at him like he was nuts and then his cousin told him he'd better stop wavin at people before he waved at the wrong car and they got shot.   
Needless to say, Larry felt Tulsa wasn't a very friendly city.   course Larry's lived over here in Arkansas all his life and probably waved at every cars he's met on the gravel road for the last 50 years.

that's the way we were raised several years back,  you waved at people cause people were generally friendly,  just in the past several years has it become a bad thing. 

(still a good thing over here, you wave weather you know them or not and chances are they'll wave back, cause they don't want'a take a chance they might know ya and not wave)

[Delmonico]

If yer close to town you end up with Yuppies in SUV's that don't wave and they drive 10-15 miles an hour.  worse when ya got to follow one down the road.  Would get in trouple but always figgered it would be fun to do one a the PITs like they do on COPS.

[Delmonico]

Back a bit, yep the Naval ammo plant was here, they didn't have no ICBM's, no bomber could reach here and any sabatour off a sub we could a spotted them sneakin' up out here on the prairie.   Was a big Army Air Corp bomp plant at Mead, about 40 miles NW of Lincoln, they used to shuttle folks to there in busses to work.

Lots a POW Camps also, if they escaped where would they go.   One Nazi that did down in south central Newbrassky story goes got marched back to camp by a 12 year ould with a single-shot 22.

[Ozark Tracker]

I'd heard my Dad talk about the German soliders at the camps in Oklahoma, said he'd get several to work during the summer, said nearly all the farmers used a few. said most of em were glad to be there doing that and not over there havin to fight.
back in the early 90's there was a group that came to Muskogee from Germany, they had been held at Camp Gruber, about 10 miles from Muskogee, they went out and toured the place with some of their familys and some of the older folks who ran the camps back then,  they stayed about a week or so

[Delmonico]

Pretty well all of them that wern't Nazi's were said to have been glad to be here and didn't try to escape.  Lots of them used on farms up here also, some came back later and stayed.

One of the few Japanese captured in the war came back and became one of the biggest apple growers in Nebraska City.

[Arcey]

Crews were bold 'nuff ta use U-Boats ta mine the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. Thinkin' that's the one they found on the bottom not too long ago off the coast of Carolina. Aircraft got it.

One story told these parts was the Guard caught three comin' ashore in New Jersey wearin' plain clothes with communication equipment. Military Tribunal the next mornin'. Convicted as spies. Shot dead that afternoon.