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MONDAY, APRIL 20. 1936. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE THREE High School Offers Course in Auto Driving Measured It Is Hoped Will Cut Death Toll as Result of Auto Acci dents on Roads. Air Heroine Wins Promotion New York, April 13. Spread of automobile driving and safety courses in high schools a3 a means of cut ting down the high death rate from motor mishaps is advocated today as a result of a national survey con ducted on the subject by The Wom an's Home Companion, which makes a stirring appeal to parents to insist on safety education for their chil dren. Parents are also urged to back up what can be taught in schools spur red on by the realization that "at the present rate, one out of every three children faces the probability of death or maiming from motor acci dents in the course of a lifetime." "Schools are doing far too little to teach safe driving," the survey re veals. "In fact most of them give no automobile safety training. When they do try to teach highway safety, they often find themselves handi capped by having to offset the poor influence of parents. As children ap proach driving age they should be taught in the high schools, by exper ienced and qualified persons, how to drive safely. There is no good reason for not giving driving and highway safety instruction to every high school student in the country. The essence of the bad driving problem would be attacked, for not only do the records show that drivers of high chool age are poor operator, but from our high schools will come most of the future operators of motor cars. "Steps have been taken toward providing driving instructions forj high school students in nine states, the District of Columbia and the! City of New York. Several of the states have been doing It for some time. In New Jersey, where fifty high schools provide this training, credit is allowed to students taking the safety courses. "In the Garfield high school, Ak ron, Ohio, there is a student Motor Traffic club which studies the differ ence between highway conditions be fore and after enactment of traffic laws. "There should be more of that sort of thing. "The most effective Instruments for improving the situation, so far a3 the younger generations are con cerned, seem to be education and example. The latter is of first im portance to parents because the op eration of motor vehicles, as with other phases of family life, the child is deeply influenced by what the par ent does. If you are careless and j reckless with your car, you cannot, expect your children to drive muchj differently. If you scoff at traffic -v - -. &??V In. m, ' X Jury Term of District Court to Start Monday Lb; EXPLAINS BUTTERFAT RISE Return of more favorable weather conditions in March accounted for a rise in butterfat production in Ne braska dairy bred improvement asso- ations, M. N. Lawrltson, agricul tural college extension dairyman, Small List of Cases Set for Hearing said in his monthly dairy report. and a Short Stay for Jury Is Expected. The jury for the April term of the district court is to be here Monday for the start of the trial of cases as signed to be heard by them. The trial list this spring is very small and a number of the cases already set will probably be passed or settled before trial is reached. Cows on test averaged 28.3 pounds fat. More than 3,000 cows were test ed during the month. An increase in demand for good dairy cows was noted in the report with more ani mals sold for breeding purposes than during the previous month. The Douglas-Sarpy association led the state in butterfat production for the month. A total of 254 cows aver aged 34.3 pounds butterfat. Fred The first case that is listed is that (Leibera of Bennet had the high herd r Isellie Granger, stewardess of the ill-fated "Sun Racer," TWA transpor: which crashed in the mountains of Pennsylvania and carried eleven per sons to their death, has been promoted to hostess on the transcontinental airliner, "The Sky Chief." Miss Granger is shown after she had be-jn nNi of her promotion at Uniontown, Pa., where the other two survivors of th. air crash are in hospital. of the State of Nebraska vs Bright, an appeal from the justice court at Greenwood and in which the defendant was found guilty of intoxi cation and sentenced to fifteen days in jail. On Tuesday, April 21st, the case jof the Manley State bank vs. Frank J. Spangler, et a!., is set for trial at 9:30 a. m. This case is similar to another action between the same par ties as well as the Manley State bank vs. Cyrus Livingston. On Thursday, April 23, the case of James in the 5to 15 laws your child cannot help agree ing with you that such laws are silly and not to be taken seriously. If you are a parent who tells jour boy or girl to watch out the rear window for motorcycle officers while you challenge death by stepping hard on the throttle, you have no right to expect youth to be law-abiding. "Approximately thirty-six thou sand persons were killed in this coun try by automobiles in 1934, an all- time record! During that year one human being was killed by automo biles in the United States every fif teen minutes, and somebody injured every thirty-one seconds! "No further statistics are neces sary. If only every parent in the country would think about these simple figures! If they were any kind of men or women they would do something to remedy the tragic situ ation. Once a sufficient number of parents realizes what it means, some sort of solution will be forthcoming. "Members of parent-teacher asso ciations, and those parents who try to be an influence for good in their communities through service clubs or other organizations, can do a great deal to arouse other parents to ac tion. "People are not behind the ve hicular traffic laws. Until they sup port these laws, or substitute new ones which are universally popular as well as effective, there will be lit tle slackening in the fatality rate. They will not back up the laws until they are willing to obey them, and they will not do that until they are awake to the murderous potential ities of automobiles which are not operated by safety-conscious drivers. "Parents must awaken the safety consciousness of drivers if we wish to save their children. Public con demnation should crush the thought less driver who through deliberate negligence kills or maims a child. "Nation-wide statistics show the magnitude of the problem, but the matter of a remedy is up to each town and city. "Since munipalitles control the situation, parents must direct local attention more specifically to the matter of street and highway safety. No better mediums for accomplish ing this objective exist than the or ganizations in which women are ac tive. Once all have a common in terest, the thing to do is to make a local accident survey. Only through systematic fact-finding studies of the problem, day-by-day in every com munity in the land, can we put our relves in a position to attack the causes of accidents with their shock ing toll. Before we can adequately deal with the causes, we must by careful diagnosis find out what the causes are. You will find that public safety authorities will gladly co-operate. Just as important is the co-oper ation of the local press, which also will be readily forthcoming." steins averaged cow class. His 56.8 pounds. Hol- South Sixth Street Ready for Traffic Friday Permission Is Granted to Throw the Street Open for Travel on Friday Mornine. Charlotte Traccy vs. Robert A. Beat- ty, et al., is set for hearing. This On next Friday morning the south cases as that of Mae C. Busanell and Sixth street paving will be thrown Marie Kinuamon vs. Eeatty et al, open for traffic, information received covers action for damages as the re-j from Lincoln states and will again suit of an auto collision in the south make that one of the busy thorough part of the city. fares of the city. The members of the petit jury Specimens of the concrete used In panel for the term are as follows: 'the paving were taken to Lincoln Fri- John A. Gakemeier, Murdock; Mar-jday by Robert Reed and tested by ion N. Tucker, Nehawka; Leonard i the state highway department and Born, Plattsmouth; Walter J. given a very high rating, being O'Brien, Manley; Fred Armstrong, placed In class A for quality and dur ability and which has hastened the time that the street might be used. The department decided that seven days setting of the cement would be sufficient owing to the high quality and as Thursday saw the last of the cement poured the formal opening of the street will be made Friday. The department was very high in their praise of the work on the Street and its excellent construction. The merchants and residents along the street will celebrate the comple tion of the paving on Wednesday evening with a free street dance that is expected to be a wow in every way. John Katt, the director of the ar rangements, has planned to have two bands or orchestras on the scene, one playing at each end of the block and keeping the dancing going all of the time for the merrymakers. Plattsmouth; J. Ross Nichols, Louis- jville; J. A. Davis, Murray; George jM. Domingo, Weeping Water; C. E. j Morris, Union; Fred Beverage, Mur tray; George L. Spohn, Weeping Wa lter; Bernard G. Wurl, Plattsmouth; .LM Cansemer, Nehawka; Chas. Swan, Union; Chas. Jacobson, Eagle; C. J. jPankonin, Louisville; W. W. Jame json, Weeping Water; John W. Nor jris, Avoca; J. C. Petersen, Jr., Platts ! mouth; J. W. Mendenhall, Weeping I Water; Louis Born. Plattsmouth; jGeorge L. Hennings, Cedar Creek; I Henry Meier jurgen, Murdock; Frank jciaus, Flatsmouth. SAYS RELIEF MUST GO ON Expect Large Crowd Here for Regional Meet Cars Coming in from Most of ITinety One Towns of Region Promis ing Attendance Here. "Name Calling" Contest x f Jib ml - jiw w ' Pittsburgh. Governor Earle sounded a warning that "we face revolution" if unemployment relief is stopped without first providing for workers deplaced by machinery. The governor, in an address prepared for a Jefferson day dinner, said ma chinery has "definitely retired" mil lions of workers and they would re main on relief "until we shorten hours and raise wages. He con tinued: "I warn you that if we shut off relief and fail to meet the challenge of the machine we face revolution, because empty stomachs do not rea son. President Roosevelt provided a solution in the NRA and saw that solution destroyed by the supreme court. "I admit honestly that except for raising wages and shortening hours I know no answer. On the one hand, if we continue to spend colos sal sums for relief, we drift toward bankruptcy. On the other hand, if we shut off relief, and let our people starve, w return to barbarism and plunge our country into revolution." Killed In Defense? - I - I - r v lit. yy.J . ; , Al! '".Si U,,! - lV' -Ss Mr. Naomi May Hasten When quizzed by police of Al toona, Pa.f in connection with the fatal stabbing of Edgar Smith, for whom she worked as housekeeper, Mrs. Naomi May Hassen, above, testified that she had grabbed a butcher knife in self-defense when Smith attacked her, accusing.hr of "running around' . FARMERS FAVOR OLD AAA Omaha. Results of a poll showed all master farmers attending the chamber of commerce luncheon In their honor favored the old AAA and all have hopes for success of the soil conservation plan. Comments were varied on the new AAA. They ranged from "it is better than before," ex pressed by A. H. Heckendorf, Pil ger, and O. R. Thompson, Wisner, to "it is the best available at this time," offered by E. C. Demarest, Talmage, and H. G. Johnson, Oakland. In reply to a question as to aids for the farmer, most suggested location of industries here to process farm prod ucts for Industrial, not food, uses. The largest crowd to attend a re gional League of Nebraska Munici palities meeting in recent years is ex pected here Wednesday. The past few days cards have been coming in at a rapid rate from the mayors of the different towns in cluded in this region. Nearly all o? the cards promise attendance of two or more city officials, some as many as seven or eight. The Plattsmouth Dramatic club held a rehearsal of its one act farce comedy, "Model Session of the Town Bored," to be presented as part of the evening program following the complimentary dinner at six o'clock at the Legion community building. R. Foster Patterson writes from Tarkio that he will be on hand with some new and hot advice on "How to Run a Municipal Government," by a Braintruster. Another feature added to the pro gram includes the vox pep or "man on the street" microphone interviews by the master of ceremonies with dif ferent visiting city officials. A num ber of other stunts are also being ar ranged that will send the visitors home with pleasant memories cf a good time spent in Plattsmouth. Afternoon Session All Business The afternoon session will be all business. Municipal problems of all sort will be discussed and the pro gram includes a question and answer period prior to adjournment. This program will be under the direction of Mayor George S. Lj-ons, of Falls City, who has written the committee that he will be here early in the day. Others to arrive in the forenoon include C. E. Eeals, secre tary of the League and a group of League officials and speakers who are I to address the afternoon business ses sion. Registration booth will be located in the corner room at 6th and Main, Just off the lobby of the Plattsmouth hotel, where visiting officials may register and secure their program and banquet ticket at any time dur ing the day. Plattsmouth has been highly com mended by League officials on the efforts being put forth to show the visiting officials a good time. On the bottom of the program appears the statement that Plattsmouth is reduc ing its bonded indebtedness at the rate of 12 to 15 thousand dollars a year, and now has a total bonded indebtedness of only $251,000, which is considered as very good advertis ing in view of the fact that many smaller towns than this to be repre sented here have a considerably heavier bonded indebtedness than Plattsmouth. Bar6"?Controvers)' 'si l f v? ) Tanya 111 feeling between the nudist col ony at the San Diego exposition,' headed by Tanya, blonde queen, above, was "bared" when the nud ists picketed the show of Sally Rand, fan dancer, whom they claimed -was compromising-them by commercializing her charms in a dance ,whicb was nottrue art. ARE OR LODGE SCOUT COMMITTEE TO MEET OBTAIN PRINTS ON BED New oYrk. A set of blurred fin gerprints, developed by nitrate of sil ver from the footboard of the bed on which Nancy Evans Titterton was at tacked before she was strangled to death, were studied by police experts attempting to solve her murder. Au thorities, who have sought vainly for a workable clew since her body was found Good Friday in the bath room of her Beekman Place apartment, held no great trust in the value of the smudged prints. FOUND DEAD IN TRUCK Blair, Neb.- C. C. Reeh, 62, was found dead in the cab of his motor truck on his farm, west of Blair. Relatives said death apparently was due to a heart ailment. He was found by his wife and daughter, who began searching for him when he failed to return to the farm house about 6 p. m. He had taken the truck to fix a well platform in a pasture near the house. Reeh purchased a home re cently in Blair, preparatory to re tirement from farm work. BOND ISSUE VETOED Stockville, Neb. Frontier county voters rejected a proposal to issue $27,000 worth of bonds to pay the county's share of constructing a new $50,000 courthouse here and political observers wondered if the vote would mean renewal of the long feud be tween Stockville and Curtis over which should be the county seat. Tbi vote on the issue was 1,152 and l,r 303 against. In a special letter sent out from Nebraska City Saturday, attention of troop committee chairman, com mittee members and Scoutmasters of Arbor Lodge district i3 directed to the regular bi-monthly meeting cf the district committee to be held on Tuesday evening, April 21, in the Memorial building at Nebraska City, beginning at 7:30 p. m. "This will be a most important meeting of the committee," the letter from District Chairman Bert Swal ley states, "and I want to urge every troop committeeman and Scoutmast er to be present. "Plans for the Arbor Lodge dis trict circui3 to be held at Auburn June 2, will be discussed. I hope you will aid us in making plans by be ing present at this meeting." riattsmouth will probably be rep resented at the meeting by Scoutmas ter Raymond Laraon and two or three of the local troop committee mem bers, as well as by E. II. Wescott, one of the vice chairmen of the Arbor Lodge district. CARD OF THANKS See the gooas you touy. Catalog descriptions are flowery enough, but how about trie goods when you get them? We wish to express our gratitude to cur friends for the beautiful flow ers and many acts of kindness shown during our sorrow. We especially wish to thank those who took part in the services of our beloved sou, brother and grandson. Mr. and Mrs. James Conn and Fam ily; Mrs. A. Grauf; Mrs. Sarah Mc-Natt. "Baseball Needs More Romance 77 ::':': :' :V : y--r i m y x 1 , It f XVA St' 9 ft'" f 1 K J 1 j .; . ' A 11 .-9 ' ,J NX, V. ; 7 Baseball needs ncre romance and'wliov proceexj to illustratp his players with greater sex appeal, de-jtheo? by going into a 'ronantic J 6 ' pose" with one of the chorines at clares Stanley "Frenchy" Bordagaray outfielder of the Brooklyn Dodgers, pose" with one oi tne cnonnes ai New York's American Husic hall during a recent show.