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MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1937.
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Sweeping -investigation into alleged" income tax
evasion on the part of a number of the wealthier
men in United States was launched by a congres
sional committee following months of work on the
part of treasury officials. Members of the house
City Library
Adds 3907 Books
During Past Year
Annual Report Shows 2500 Visitors
and 1957 Registered Borrow
ers to June 1937.
Reports of the Plattsmouth public
library have Just been completed and
sent to the state library commis
sion. 3,907 books have been added
to the library shelves during the past
year. This brings the total number
of volumes to 20.0 47.
2500 persons have used the library
for reading, study and reference dur
ing the year. 1957 borrowers are reg
istred. The number of volumes loan
ed for home use, schools, city and
rural total 41,479. The library sup
plies all reference for schools, city
and rural, study clubs, etc.
Expenses for salaries, repairs, book
binding, heat, water, lights, insur
ance and desk supplies amounted to
52,700.72. The rate of the city tax
levy for the library is 1.5 mills. An
annual donation of $25 is made by
the IE.O.. society. .--- -
The Plattsmouth library was open
306 days on the following schedule:
2-5:30 and 7-9 during the winter
months, the same hours prevail in
summer except the library closes at
8 p. m. during July and August. Six
holidays are observed. New Year, De
coration Day, July 4th, Labor Day,
Thanksgiving, and Christmas day.
Miss Clive Jones is librarian and
Miss Verna Leonard, assistant li
brarian. Members of the board, ap
pointed by the city council for a
term of three years are: E. II. Wes
cott, president; Miss Barbara Ger
ing, secretary; Mrs. P. T. Heineman;
Dr. II. G. McClusky; and L. S. Devoe,
superintendent of schools.
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Great Lakes Shipping on "Way to
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Tonnage moved so far this season on the Great
Lakes indicates that a new record total for iron
ore and coal shipments may be recorded this year.
Ore moved thus far totals 13,814,411 gross tons
In comparison to 5,069,000 tons for the same period
5s Committee in session
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committee include," left to right, top row, Jer
Cooper of Tennessee, Fred Vinson of Kentucky,
Frank Crowther of New York; seated, Thomas A.
Cullen of New York, R. L. Doughton of North Car
olina, chairman; Allen Treadway. Massachusetts.
CADJ
From Thursday's Daily
Frank Mullen waB a business visi
tor in Omaha today.
Mrs. Adrain Edgar and children
are visiting at the home of George
Kaffenberger.
Miss Nancy Lee of Lincoln is visit
ing at the home of her sister and hus
band, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Cross,
this week.
Mayor and Mrs. O. C. Hinds of
Weeping Water were here last eve
ning to spend a, few hours visiting
with friends.
Mrs. Pete Carr and Misses Tillie
and Martha Summers left this morn
ing for a trip in the south. They will
visit in Missouri and Arkansas.
From Friday's Dally
II. A. Tool of Murdock was a visi
tor at the court house today and
calling on his many friends in the
city.
Attorney C. E. Tefft of Weeping
Water was here today to attend to
some matters of business in the coun
ty court.
Mr, and Mrs. J. R. Stine departed
this morning for Omaha where they
are to spend a few days with rela
tives and friends.
Rex Bailey, principal of the Ever
ett school at Lincoln, was here
Thursday to spend a few hours visit
ing with Miss Alpha C. Peterson,
county superintendent of schools.
E. P. Stewart, of Springfield. Mis
souri, is here to spend a short time
looking after some matters of busi
ness. He accompanied Mr. and Mrs.
S. Arion Lewis of Omaha who. have
been visiting at Springfield.
Rev. V. C. Wright, of the First
Methodist church, who has been at
Lincoln for the past several days at
tending a theological summer school
at which he was one of the faculty,
returned home Thursday evening.
freighter
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last year. Coal shipments thus far total 12,561,000
tons in contrast to 9,185,000 for the same period in
1936. On the basis of this increase it is anticipated
that ore shipments will reach approximately 70..
000,000 tons and coal tonnage about 50,000,000.
FUNERAL OF FATHER HOFFMAN
From Saturday's Daily
Father Hoffman was noted for a
27 year pastorate in Falls City, where
he erected the Church of Sts. Peter
and Paul. Actively interested in the
promotion of recreational facilities
for youth, he built the model Tiehen
Memorial gymnasium as a parish
project in conjunction with the
church.
He was a close friend of the late
Msgr. Edward Hagan of Dawson and
was recently toastmaster at a ban
uet in the latter's honor.
Ordained into the priesthood May
rainer nonnum stvveu
Lincoln diocese continuously from
that time. After leaving his Falls
City parish he served for a short time
in Manley before being assigned to
the Auburn church.
Burial will be at Falls City Mon
day, following a solemn pontifica'
mass of requiem of the Fall3 City
church Monday at 10 a. in., by Most
Rev. Louis B. Kucera. The sermon
will be preached by the Rev. Thomas
Barden of Tecumseh. lifelong friend
of Father Hoffman. The body is be
ing taken to Auburn, where services
will be held Saturday morning, the
Rev. James F. Gilroy of Falls City
in charge. On Sunday the body will
be taken to Falls City, to lie in state
until Monday morning.
Officers of the mass will be:
Assistant priest, Rt. Rev. Msgr. A.
M. Mosler, V. G.
Deacons of honor to the bishop.
Very Rev. F. A. O'Brien, V. F., Very
Rev. Charles A. Becker.
Deacon of the mass, Rev. William
Murphy.
Subdeacon, Rev. Ralph Egan.
Mitre bearer. Rev. Walter V.
Sherry.
Book bearer. Rev. John G. Mattie.
Candle bearer. Rev. John P. Mur
phy. Thurifer, Rev. Lawrence F. Obrist.
Acolytes. Rev. Sylvester G. Wag
ner, Rev. Lawrence II. Kalin.
Masters of ceremonies. Very Rev.
L. V. Barnes, Very Rev. C. J. Rior
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South Side Creek Overflows Follow
ing Rain Wednesday and Causes
High Water Again.
Wednesday afternoon saw a repeti
tion of the high water sweeping down
from south side creek on Chicago ave
nue and to bring the Hood tide up to
the curb on Sixth street from Pearl
to Main and overflowing into Main
street to a considerable depth.
While the rainfall was com
paratively light, .7C of,an inch, thej
result was the same as though a
much heavier fall was recorded as far
as the overflowing of the streets was
concerned and demonstrated clearly
that the present sewer arrangements
on Sixth street are wholly inade
quate and a menace to the properties
along there and also Main street
where the flood waters are poured
when the sewers on Sixth street fail
to carry the load.
As the flood waters were lapping
at the edge of the curbs on Sixth
street manholes were removed to find
that the box sewers t hat were made
to carry off flood water were less than
a third full altho a raging torrent
was sweeping down the street.
Many were heard urging that ad
ditional gratings be placed on top
of the box sewers on Main street in
the block from Fifth to Sixth streets
and also that more and larger open
ings be made on Sixth street to pre
ventythe disaster that will follow an
conditions are allowed to continue,
extraordinary rain if the present
The flood also left a very striking
story of soil erosion as the waters
in receding left in their wake deepi
and rich black mud from the upper)
part of Chicago avenue down into!
Main street. Residents whose prop
erties adjoin the avenue had just
completed digging out the mud
caused by the Tuesday rain when
their labors were rendered useless
by the Wednesday storm.
WIN A GOOD GAME
Friday afternoon tlie American Le
gion baseball team visited Nebraska
City and won from the Junior Legion
team by the score of 11 to 3, with
the Plattsmouth juniors playing a
good game throughout. The local
hurlers were Earl Wiles and Stuart
Sedlak, poth pitching a good game
and receiving excellent support from
their team mates. Wiles led the locals
in hitting with three two baggers.
The pitcher for Nebraska City was
Edward Fullerton, Jr., former Platts
mouth boy.
The box score of the game was
as follows.
Plattsmouth
AB R II TO E
Sedlak. ss-p 4 2 10 1
Sniffer. 2b 5 0 0 0 1
Phillips, 2b 5 2 0 2 0
Wall. If 1 3 3 10 1
Hayes, c 3 3 2 15 0
Wiles, ss-p 4 13 10
Rebal. cf 2 0 10 0
Werstler, lb 3 0 0 2 0
Jones, if 2 0 0 0 0
Jackson, if 0 0 0 0 0
Lutz, cf 1 0 0 0 0
Noble, lb 0 0 0 1 0
32 11 S 21 3
Nebr. City
AH R II PO E
P.uelar, 2b 3 0 0 4 0
Thompson, cf 4 110 0
Ryder, If 3 2 2 0 0
Houcher, ss-p 3 0 3 1 0
Rawlings. c 2 0 0 6 1
Carpenter, lb 1 0 0 G 1
Adams, 3b 4 0 0 2 1
Heifer, rf 3 0 0 1 0
Fullerton, p 4 0 0 1 0
27 3 6 21 3
TO SUMMER IN WEST
Mrs. Joseph Wooster and son. Ray
mond, departed this week for Denver
where they are expecting to spend
the summer months. They will join
Mr. Wooster who has been working
at the. railroad shops there for the
past year and will enjoy the cool of
the Colorado climate.
They will return in the fall for
Raymond to resume his school work,
he being a member of the class of
193S of the local high school.
Phone news Item9 to No. 6.
HAS TIMED 150
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ous stand of brome is highly profit
able, not only for pasture and hay,
but especially for seed production. It
can be harvested and threshed with
ordinary farm machinery.
Another value of the brome-alfalfa
mixture is that the cattle do not bloat
on the feed. The brome grass is pre
ferred by fhe livestock and it remains
green during the entire summer.
Native Buffer Strips
On the F. J. Hild farm, members
of the tour saw contour and buffer
farming in which a timothy pasture
had been left as buffer strip. This
method is also working very- satis
factorily. However oats or wheat
make adjustment easier on the buffer
strips. The gully was left in sod.
Farms were also shown in which
a furrow is used as a terrace. The
furrow is used in permanent pastures
which are already established. They
are placed at closer intervals than
terraces but do not destroy the per
manent seeding. '
Checi Dams
Approximately 1C0 C.C.C. boys
are employed in hand labor every
day. One of their projects was seen
on the Carrie Cloidt farm. Here bad
gully erosion is being checked by a
series of brush and w ire check dams.
At the headwater of the gully a diver
sion ditch has been built so that the
water may be controlled in the fin
gers. A series of eight dams made
of brush and wire are building up
deltas. Willow aprons prevent a "cut-
I ting under" of the dams. Several
feet of soil have been built up this
spring in the gully. As the dams
are completed the slopes are planted
to trees. The C.C.C. boys have com
pleted five miles of ditches on 43
farms and planted over five thousand
trees.
The Kaffenberger farm" also dis
played a fine example of contour and
strip farming. Oats is planted on the
knoll. After about a 12 foot drop
the corn rows are started. They
make complete circles about the hill.
A buffer strip of rye follows. Close
growing crops are planted both above
and below the corn.
Lunch at Kaffenberger Grove
A free lunch was served in the
grove on the John Kaffenberger farm.
The lunch was served by the farm
bureau employees and C.C.C. work
ers. Following the lunch D. L. Gross
spoke. He told of the soil conserva
tion in the state as a whole. There
are 19 areas in Nebraska. 1G are
cared for by C.C.C. camps such as in
this county while in three project
areas, W.P.A. labor is used.
Soil conservation was introduced
into Nebraska in 1934. The work is
now entirely experimental. The
farmers enter into a five year con
tract for the work on their farms. All
labor is furnished by the camp and
most of the materials are furnished
by rhe farmer
Mr. Gross Speaks
Mr. Gross pointed out the danger
of soil erosion in this country. He
stated that it may be prevented by
cutting down the row crops and by
learning how to grow to prevent
erosion. He drew the attention of
the men to many contours which had
been broken over on farms seen dur
ing the morning with a"wash board"
result. He told that field draws be
come deeper if not protected. He
suggested that machinery be lifted
when crossing them in order to allow
vegetative growth which prevents
erosion and causes silting.
Field terraces were seen on the
Lester Wagoner farm near Cedar
Creek. Here the terraces were sim
ilar to those upon the Young farm
except that they are not closed and
have a drain which empties into a
seeded terrace outlet. At the bot
tom of the outlet a masonry struc
ture with a 100 foot concrete floor
was shown which will take care of
the terracing run-off a3 well as drains
from the other fields.
Study Gullies.
On the George Stoehr and Vic
tor Stoehr farms buffer strips and
earth dams with drop' inlets are
showing up to good advantage on
exceptionally hilly land. An interest-
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Here is Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.,
son of-the president, as he-appeared
during a fitting for the
cutaway which he will wear at his
wedding to Kthel duPont on Jun
u0 at Wilmington, Del.
ing sight was found near Cedar
Creek. A gully of a depth of approx
imately 30 feet reaching back into
the fields a quarter of a mile has
been formed. One farmer in the
group explained that the gully was
started in 1873 when a farmer made
a lister furrow in the field of slough
grass.
On the Harry Williams farm a
drop inlet on a road till was shown.
This inlet i3 protecting both the
bridge and the farm from destruc
tion. Near Louisville the group stop
ped at the Henry Ragoss farm to see
pasture terraces with a seeded outlet
and a natural spill-way.
5000 Cu. Yd. Dam.
The final, and probably the largest
project inspected, was the large earth
dam on the Leslie Wiles farm. A
dam with LOOO cubic yards of fill has
been placed here. It is being laid
with stone rip-rap as a protection
from wave action. The drainage area
is 72 acres for the dam and before
the run-off outlet is reached the dam
will bold twelve acre feet of water.
This dam is one of the 15 large dams
which have been constructed over the
county by C.C.C. labor.
Workers from the C.C.C. camp in
Weeping Water have laid out and
are carrying on a complete program
in 43 farms in Cass and Otoe coun
ties. All are being worked on a five
year basis. After Friday's trip farm
ers returned quite thoroughly "sold"
on soil conservation methods. The
next few years will probably show a
complete revolution in the farming
methods in this section.
NOTICE
State of Xebraska
ss.
County of Cass J
It is hereby certified that at a
regular meeting of the German Evan
gelical Lutheran Synod of Nebraska,
held at Grand Island, Nebraska, May
19, 1937, to May 23, 1937, the name
of said Corporation was changed from
"German Evangelical Lutheran Synod
of Nebraska" to "Evangelical Luth
eran Synod in the Midwest of the
United Lutheran Church in America."
And that Article 1 of the amended
articles of said Corporation was
changed to reatl "The name of this
Corporation shall be the Evangelical
Lutheran Synod in the Midwest of
the United Lutheran Church in Am
erica," and that by virtue of the
change of said name. Article 5 of said
amended articles was changed to sub
stitute the name Evangelical Luth
eran Synod in the Midwest of the
United Lutheran Church in America
for the name German Evangelical
Lutheran Synod of Nebraska.
In witness whereof we have here
unto subscribed our names and affix
ed the corporate seal this lGth day
of June, 1937.
F. A. NOLTE.
Attest: President.
A LENTZ,
Secretary (Seal) jl7-4w
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County Surveyor
Discusses Facts
of Drain Area
Describes Work of the Planning and
Construction of the New Sixth
Street Sewer System.
In the last few weeks the local
citizens have seen quite large volumes
of water coming down the Chicago
avenue and also continuing on down
Main street, which condition has
existed since the town attempted to
cover up a creek bed and expect the
water to never attempt to continue
down the same course again.
It is true that the Works Progress
Administration built a new 7" con
crete pavement from Pearl street to
Vine street and under this pavement
built laterals and also a storm sewer.
At the time of construction the
only inlet to the 4'x4' box sewer
from the south was a 30" diameter
tile, which end area when running
at full capacity would take care of
4.9' of water, thus leaving 11. 9' or
the box sewer empty.
The new construction on W.P.A.
continued this 4'x4' box sewer on
south to the north line of Pearl
street, and south line of Vine street,
also constructed inlets on both sides
of the street with end area openings
which aggregate end area total 1 'z
times the opening of the 4'x4' box
culvert whiclu according to the Hen
ningson Engineering Co. of Omaha
was ample size for the inlets.
In other words the full capacity
of the Sixth street pavement will
only take care of 16' square feet of
water, then when the water comes
around the corner of Pearl street curb
full there is GO-square feet of water
to be taken care of in a 16' capacity
storm sewer. Then as the water
crosses Main street. Sixth street will
lower the water only 4" on the curbs.
I feel sure that if the vertical bars
were removed from the inlets we
would be sure of filling the 16' storm
sewer to capacity.
Now then lets take a look at the
real drainage problem of the south
area: The approximate area of drain
age that conies into Sixth street is
1000-1200 acres and in order to have
ample sewer to take care of this
would take an aggregate sewer sys
tem of 150' end area opening, but
we have only openings for 60.7' In
cluding the 90" sewer under 6th
street that is not connected to the
lateral system of the Sixth street
paving, between Vine and Pearl.
At the Welshimer oil station there
,i a 4'x4' concrete box across the
paving and that overflows, then on
north along the avenue 1500' we find
the sewer is only 30" in diameter
which will take care of 4.9' of water
with a load of 40 to 808 to handle,
this is where the water comes out on
to the pavement of the avenue, and
I am sure that W.P.A. did not and
would not attempt to use a reduc
tion of drainage such as this is. Also
W.P.A. made suggestions as to their
approval on ewer projects along Chi
cago avenue to relieve part of the
flood water that we get on every
heavy dew, hut surfacing seems to be
the only worth while project at the
present time.
R. D. FITCH, JR.,
Cass County Surveyor.
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