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PAGE TWO MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1941. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL II The Plattsmouth Journal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Entered at Postoffice, PlattBmouth, Neb., as second-class mail matter MRS. R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 A YEAR IN FIRST POSTAL ZONE Subscribers living in Second Postal Zone, 12.50 per year. Beyond 600 miles, $3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, J3.50 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly In advance. DEAR FOLKS By VAN On Thanksgiving Day The K. J. Rummels were hosts to Chris and Virginia Bulin and Bob and Margaret Rummel . . . Mrs. Anna Hesse had Thanksgiving dinner with a Glendale friend. Mrs. Gladys Field . . . The Gerald Sbraders were guests of the Oscar Shraders of Or ange ... Guests of the Walter Reeds were Alex and Ruby Schlieske, and daughter Sharon; and Mr. and Mrs. M.i Hon Reed, and children t-niriej Vander-! and Jerrv . . . The Paul voorts had a family dinner . . . The Clyde Graves' were hosts to the Guy Heils and Joe Graves . . . The Ralph Marshall's hosted the Merrit Browns, and children. Suzanne and Kenneth, of San Luis Obispo; Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Short of Glendale; and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brown of Nebraska City. Nebraska. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Green of Plattsmouth, arrived for Thanksgiving and are visiting Mrs. Green's parents and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Mark, and Rosa lyn Mark, as well as other relatives . . . The Fred Lindemans of Costa Mesa had a family dinner. A Day at Disney's We went to call on our fellow Embanker, Donald Duck, the other day. Donald. Mickey Mourse, Pluto, Goofy and their buddies were our hosts on a fascinating tour of the Disney studio. For two hours our guide, a pleas ant young ex-New Yorker, escorted us through the many departments, from the story rooms where picture ideas are originated to the studio theater where the finished product is previewed by the Disney staff be fore public release. i Our first stop was a story room, where we talked to artists and idea men working on a story based on the "Uncle Remus" tales by Joel Chandler Harris. The method of story origination is interesting; black and white action sketches (with dia logue indicated by captions) are pinned in story sequence on the walls and special boards. The continuity is divided into scenes, with perhaps half a dozen sketches comprising one scene. In the story room, too, were "char acter" sketches of Uncle Remus and other principal story characters. These character sketches, in their ac cepted forms, are the models followed by the animators when actual produc tion starts. We saw story sketches, too. of "Wind in the Willows." by Kenneth Grahame. The leading char acter in this story is a toad whose love of speed is his undoing. i In the background department an artist showed us how backgrounds are prepared on glass to be photo graphed by the multiplane camera. This camera, an invention as closely guarded as a military secret (we only saw the little room where air vents suck the dust from the clothes of em ployes entering the camera room) is the main cog of a photography pro cess which gives depth to the finished picture As the name of the camera implies it shoots scenes in multijMar ... Lawanna Kellev and Mar planes; the backgrounds, instead of gaet Ann Vallerv attended a recent being in one flat plane, are painted on glass so that various objects such as houses, trees, fences, etc., may be placed in the planes they actually occupy with respect to each other. Even the character drawings are sometimes overlapped; we saw one sketch where three layers of celluloid were used to show a character stand ing on a hand car running on a rail road track. The particular back ground artist we talked to, was paint ing a resplendent sunrise scene for "L'ambi." Our school days came back to us on our next stop. Remember those little figures we used to draw on our note book pages and then flip the pages to make the figures "move." Well, the Disney animators have raised this idea to a fine art. Using letter size drawing paper, a sceue is first roughly animated and the action Bhown by flipping the papers. An in teresting sidelight on the animation department is that several artists may animate oue individual motion. One artist draws the "extremes," that is the beginning and ending of any par ticular motion, such as the raising of an arm, for instance, and other ani mators known as "in-betw eeners" draw the necessary "in-between" action. When the animators complete their work, the finished pictures are turned over to a corps of girls who trace them on celluloid, and ink and paint them with the marvellous Disney col ors. The Disney studio prepares its own paint and so many are the colors and shares used, that they are given numbers instead of names. Girls are employed to do this exacting work, we learned, because they have steadier hands and are more patient than men. The girls work in long, well-lighted rooms resembling school rooms, with their orderly arrange ment of rows of work benches and paint racks. We thought the studio's sound stage an amusing place because of the many queer gadgets and devices used to produce desired sounds. We saw an xylophone made from water pipe, and a set of chimes made of beer and wine bottles tuned with various quantities of water. A3 an example of the amusing trickery em ployed by the Disney sound men, we learned that the sound of a whale "swooshing" through the water was made by amplifying the sound of bursting soap bubbles. Disney sound men are former mu sicians (most of them drummers) and they "play" the sound from especial ly written sound "music." Split sec ond accuracy in timing is obtained by the use of an electrical pulsation or "beat," heard through headphones worn while sound effeTts are record ed. We wound up our studio visit by viewing the sound stage where the orchestra music is recorded and also took a look in the studio the ater, where three technicians were watching the screening of a short being made for the Canadian govern ment. Sitting .at a long "console" in the center of the theater, the three men discussed and made ad justments in the sound, by turning the console dials. For providing visibility of the screen, the Disney theater is the best we've ever seen. The floor level dips in a long curve from the rear of the theater to the stage, so that each row of seats gives an uninterrupted view of the screen even a child sit ting behind a tall person can easily see. As we said goodbye to our guide at the studio gate, we came away with the feeling that "It must be fun to work at Disney's." You and I get a big kick out of watching the hil arious antics of the lovable Disney characters, but after a peek behind the scenes, we know the Disney staff matches that feeling in the "bang" they get out of producing pictures for our enjoyment. Here and There Richard Kline has been gilest .art ist at Santa Monica clubs, recently. He is an accordianist and has played jat the Cocoanut Grove and Lo Da Burns and Allen broadcast at Holly wood Radio City . . . Wally Reed en joyed a hunting trip near Ventura, getting the limit on quail . . . The Woody Gamblins of Santa Monica, with John Lindeman of Costa Mesa, DONT LET CONSTIPATION SLOW YOU UP When bowelt are sluggish when you feel irritable, headachy and everything you do is an effort do as millions of folk do. Chew PEEN-A-MINT, the modern chewing gum laxative. FEEN-A-MINT looks and tastes like your favorite gum you'll like its fresh mint flavor. Simply chew FEEN-A-MINT at bedtime-sleep without being disturbed next morning gentle, effective relief. You'll feel like million, full of your old pep again. A gen erous family supply of FEEN-A-MINT ppsts paly 10. FEEN-A-MINT attended the motorcycle laces near Newport. . . . Virgil and Georgia Kline were hosts to members of their church. The evening's enter tainment had a rather unexpected ending, when an earthquake broke up the gathering . . . The Fred Lin demans were Sunday visitors in Bur bank, visiting the Paul Vandervoorts and C. H. Bulins. Mrs. Lindeman re ceived news that her daughter, Mar gie Ireland, and children Tatty and Tommy, are leaving for Bermuda In December, to join Mr. Ireland, who is stationed at the U. S. Naval base there. . . . Rosalyn Mark of Santa Monica, had a3 her guests, Peggy Wiles of Bellflower, and Joy Miller of Glendale. Round About Margaret Rummel gave a dinner on November 15, to honor Bob Rummel on his birthday. Present for the oc casion were the E. J. Rummels, C. H. Bulins and the R. T. Rummels. Clyde and Joe Graves also called during the evening. Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Taylor, accom- jpanied by Elmer Taylor, arrived in California on their motor trip from Plattsmouth, on Nov. 22. They had a pleasant trip, their only exper ience with bad weather being a snow storm near Albuquerque, N. M. They will visit friends and relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Rhodes of Lynwood; Mr. and Mrs. Joe Faith of Torrance; and Mrs. Edward Donat of Plattsmouth, were Sunday guests of the Hamilton Mark family of Santa Monica. Another recent visitor at the Mark home was Mrs. Tressa Ol son. N B C-ing Stars On recent Hollywood jaunts the column has caught several of NBC's top shows, including Fibber McGee and Molly, Eing Crosby, and Burns and Allen. A good pre-broadcast gag was pull ed on the Fibber McGee show. While McGee was introducing his cast a photographer took a number of flash light pictures, winding up with one of McGee at the microphone. After taking this shot, the photographer said to McGee: "Thanks, Mr. Hope." McGee sputtered: "Hey, wait a min ute, I'm not Bob Hope. I'm Figger McGee." Whereupon, in great dis gust the photographer said: "Oh Fudge!" And opening his camera, jerked out the film and threw it away. " We erijoyld cast member Bill Thompson's dead pan characterization of "Old Timer" and "Wallace Wim ple," thought Molly was pretty, and were amused at the way McGee does his "overgrown boy" characteriz ation. The McGee cast seemed to highly enjoy doing their broadcast and had the audience with them all the way. The "Old Groaner," as Ping Cros by is affectionately dubbed, was ap pearing on his first broadcast since his South American vacation, and was aided and abetted by Jerry Les ter, Rise Stevens. William Frawley and Warner Baxter. Miss Stevens is our idea of what an opera star ought to be like both easy on the ears and easy on the eyes. The Crosby broadcasts are noted for their easy-going camaraderie, snappy persiflage and fun, and this one was no exception. Jerry Lester set the pace before air time by do ing falls on the stage and dives into the audience, and the fun continued apace. Our Satisfy-Your-Curiosity score came out even. We learned that An nouncer Ken Carpenter actually rings the three chimes himself after those priceless station-break gags, but as for Ring's fabulous shirts, we were denied the appraisal of them he wore but an almost conservative blue slack suit. Another night found us in Studio B watching that lovable nit-wit, Gracic Allen, and her long-suffering old Suffer Distress At This Time- If this period in a woman's life makes you cranky, nervous, blue at times, suffer -akness, dizziness, ot,flashes, distress cf "lrregularl- nLv2Ia 'p,injcham,s Vegetable Compound made cspectafzi for women famous ?or helping relieve distress due to this functional dis turbance. . Taken regularly Lydia Pink nam s Compound helps build up re sistance against bucIi annoying symptoms which niay betray your age faster than anytldng. Also very effective fcr younger women to re lieve monthly cramps, i Thousands of women report r marlcable benefits! Get a bottle of Lydia Pinkham's Compound today from yorr druggist. Follow label directions WORTH TRYING! hiiooiiirj Honor Milkmen Heroes ft JP" Jib ij LjI mIl A. G. Marcus, Pasadena, Califs' president," International Association ol Milk Dealers, presents Pasteur medals awarded by the Milk Industry Foundation to heroes of the early morning milk routes. Left to right: Fred Mokrohajsky, Raymond J. Clancy, Mr. Marcus, Robert Snyder and Cornelius K. Oker. MILKMEN heroes of the nation were honored for distinguished and heroic service to consumers in the line of duty by presentation of the Pasteur medals at the recent Bilk industry convention in Toronto. Cornelius K. Oker, Adonr Farms milkman, Los Angeles, received the gold Pasteur medal for digging three feet to save the lives of two children buried in an 8-foot sand eave. The milkman saved the little girl by blowing air into her lungs while a pulmotor saved the boy Silver medals were awarded to Raymond ' J. Clancy, of Sidney Wanzer kt"Co., Chicago, and Fred Mokrohajsky, of Shelley & Parke, Binghamton, N. Y. Clancy went after a housebreaker with a quart of milk and, although wounded by a knife thrust, drove him off. Mokro hajsky rescued two small boys who had fallen through ice into a river. Bronze medals were awarded to Leon Record, H. P Hood & Sons, Auburn, Me., for saving a baby and Its parents from a burning hotel, Ronald N- Entwistle, Supplee-Wills-Jones Co;, Jenkintown, Pa., for sav ing the life of a quarry worker whose clothing was aflame from gasoline by wrapping him in canvas cloth; Robert Snyder of S:lverwood Dairies. London. Ont.. for savine a spouse, George Burns, accompanied by Paul Whiteman and band, Senor Lee, Bill Goodwin and Jimmy Cash. During the warm-up show White man and band played a medley of tunes like "Stardust," "Whispering," and other perennial favorites, that made some of the easiest listening we've experienced in a long time. Senor Lee played the guitar and sang a Latin-American tune but we'lll let you in on something that Mex - ican dialect of his is an acquired art. Lee really hails from Denver, CoJo- rado, but in ten years of trouping in Mexico, he perfected his Spanish so that he actually has a trace of Mex ican accent when he speaks English. Even the sound effects man got in on the fun, when he did a "mechan ical man" act. Whitcman's musicians wore splendid blue uniforms with lots of braid, and featured combin ations of six violins (including Whiteman) five saxophones, piano - duos, as well as individual soloists. The script called for George, Grade, and the gang to go duck hunting, and the duck noises were made by the chap who is Donald Duck's voice in the Disney cartoons. Ex-grocery clerk, Jimmy Cash, was very poised and confident in the de livery of his song, and was en thusiastically applauded. And what do you suppose the sound effects man used to simulate the sound of a falling duck? You'll never guess, so we'll tell you he dropped a partly filled HOT WATER BOTTLE on the floor. f jljf ;. The present that not only is appreciated by the one Ijfj. who receives it, but benefits every one in America. soldier from drowning. Alvin Airey, Glendale" Farms, Newark, captured a robber; Earl Auchenbach, Farmers Fairfield Dairy, Reading, Pa., helped save a family from their burning home; Ralph Lavin, Kennedy-Mansfield Dairy, Madison, Wis., applied artifi cial respiration to a baby: George Blaul, Borden-Wieland, Chicago, rescued an elderly invalid when her home caught fire. Nicholas L. Cast, Borden's Farm Products, Rockville Centre, N. Y., walked into a burning room to tele phone the fire department; Carl Kessler. Dairymens Ohio Farmers Milk, Cleveland, captured a thief; Gerald Griffin, Philadelphia, Pa., led a family from the second story of their burning home. Peter James, H. S. Chardavoyne, Brooklyn, N. Y.. extinguished a fire in an automobile in spite of dangei from explosion, John Storrie, Borden-Wieland, Blue Island, 111., ad ministered artificial respiration to a baby- Clarence E. Shambaugh and Charles Coyle of Kruger Dairy Co., Carlisle, Pa., dragged a burning oil stove from a house and extinguished the flames, Anthony Washcfsky, Abbotts Dairies, Philadelphia, Pa., rescued an elderly lady from her burning homo Rambling Reporter We hear Ed Iladraba was tender ed a surprise party in honor of his birthday. Among ethers present were Dick Hatt and Francis Warren. . . . When George Stoll was recently mus tered out of service, he and the Floyd Klines celebrated the occasion by spending an evening out togeth er. They also stopped to see Randall Oldham, now the manager of a drive- lin on Wilshire boulevard . . Mr. land Mrs. Henry Brown of Nebraska City, Nebraska, who have been visit- ing their daughter, Mrs. Ralph Mar- shall, and family, returned to Ne- braska on the Challenger, the day after Thanksgiving . . . Sunday visi tors of the C. II. Bulins were Mrs. Roy Otredosky, Neil and Emma Samek of Santa Ana. and the Robert Pudds of Long Beach . . . Edith Van dervoort. with several co-workers in the Van do Kamp company, had din- ner in Chinatown. She also attend- ed a dinner for assistant managers of the Van de Kamp company, which was heUl in the company's plant din ing room in Los Angeles . . . Joe Graves of Lennox, and Keith Snyder of Huntington Park were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ham ilton Mark of Santa Monica. Club Disbands Temporarily Margaret Ann Vallery was hostess to the Nu Fu, Jitters at the club's last meeting of the year. Because of the approaching holiday season and other activities, the members voted I to disband temporarily, with meet- tf again in February, Cornhnsker in Hollywood NBC stars recently elected to the Hobby Hall of Fame by the Hobby Guilds of America, included Irene Rich, Hanley Stafford and Fanny Brice (Daddy and Baby Snooks), Clig Arquette, Connie Boswell, Jim Jordan (Fibber McGee), and Rudy Vallce ... Charlie McCarthy was adamant about riding with Mortimer Snerd in Hollywood's Santa Claus Lane parade. Charlie told Eergen Quote "I ain't going any place where there's 750.000 people, with that bumpkin." . . . Ronald Colman and Greer Garson have been set to co-star in James Hilton's book, "Ran dom Harvest." . . . With Jack Benny and Bob Hope donning women's clothes for pictures, Veronica Lake turns the tables in Paramount's "This Gun for Hire," by wearing mascu line clothes. She wears male evening clothes while doing a magic act in the picture . . . When Warner Brothers wanted a Dakota snowstorm for a scene in: "They Died with Their Boots On," their special effects men created one by spraying whitewash on the Calabasas hills and filling the air with bleached corn flakes blown by fans. Of course this had nothing to do with M-G-M's decision to use the terrain near Calabasas for scenes of the Burma Road for their picture "China Caravan." Special effects men could turn the moon into the sun, if eivon a chance . . . It's a lie though, that they had anything to do with the recent earthquake ... u hen we visited Paulctte Goddard's set on the Paramount lot, they were calling her picture: "The Lady Has Plans." Now they are calling it: "The Girl lias Plans," on the theory that people are move interested in a girl than they are in a lady ... At the begin ning of November, production sched i tiles of the major studios listed 09 ; pic tures underway, either in prepar ation or with shooting being done Star names include: Joe E. Crown, Jack Benny, Norma Shearer, John Boles. Buster Crabbe. Bob Burns, Al Pearce &, Gang, Charles Laughton, Brian Donlevy, Ginger Rogers, Dean na Durbin and F.dw. G. Robinson and many others. Looks like some good entertainment coming up. 470 N. Santa Anita Ave., Curbank, California. FLAG STOP FOR EAGLE The Missouri Pacific crack stream liner, the Eagle, will hereafter be on a flag stop at this city. Agent D. S. Sumner announces. There have been requests as to this train, one that is very convenient for those who desire to go to Kansas City, Missouri, leav ing here at 9:07 and reaching Kan sas City at 11:30, allowing a time for business and returning the same day or night. Heretofore it has been necessary to secure passage on the train several days ahead in order that the train receive orders at Omaha for the stop. Under the present rule the train can be flagged for passengers for Kansas City or farther points. IN DEEP APPRECIATION It is with a sincere heart that I wish to thank all of those kind and thoughtful friends who sent me gifts, flowers, cards, letters and paid me personal calls during my stay at the Methodist hospital at Omaha. These expressions brought cheerful memories to me.- Mrs. Charles Howard. ings to begin 1942. WABASH By Journal Field Representative Louis Schmidt was in town Wed nesday of last week and was getting the roads in condition for the people who would be driving Thanksgiving day. "L. R. Stanley attended the com munity sale at Syracuse last week, going to buy some shoats and calves, as he has an abundance of com tins year and expects to feed it for great er profit. . John Finkle was called to Crete last week to look after business mat ters for a short time. Mrs. Henry H. Corbeling was in Elmwood a number of days during the past week, going to nurse her little granddaughter. Miss Gwendolyn Gerbeling, daughter of Mr. and Mis. Orville Gerbeling, who was very ser iously ill for a number of days, hut was reported as showing some im provement later. H. II. Gerbeling has completed the picking of his corn, with the excep tion of some end rows where there is little grain, and which he will use for feeding from day to day as he gathers it. He is well pleased that the corn is out of the field. Mrs. Sherman Hardaway was leel ing rather poorly for a number of days during the past week, but later was reported as feeling better, which is good news for their many friends. Shelled and Marketed Corn Etta Mae Reed, who owns the rami about a mile southwest of Wabash was here Wednesday having her corn shelled and delivered to the Wanash elevator, considering it well to get the corn moved and got the pay for it than to have to crib it and then later come down and have the same shelled. W. Riester did the shelling and the grain was hauled to the elevator in trucks, as the roads were good. To Make Home in Lincoln Alex West, who has been employ ed on the Herman Lnetchens farm over on the highway, where he has worked during the summer and un til now, has resigned his position and with the family last week moved to Lincoln, where they expect to make their home for the present and where he will seek employment. Mrs. West Doing Very Nicely Mrs. Jack West, who was so 111 and had to go to the hospital in Lin coln for a major operation, is report ed as getting along nicely. A daugh ter was with her at the time. The husband is in Midway Island in the middle of the Pacific and when ad vised that an operation was impera tive instructed her to go ahead, and the results have fully justified the suggestion. Friends will be pleased to learn of the progress she is mak ing. IMPORTANT NOTICE The Cass County Historical So ciety will meet in Plattsmouth on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 1941, at 11:30 in the morning at the Hotel Platts mouth. Lunch will he served for 35c per plate. An interesting program has been planned. The prize winning essay in the State Historical Society contest will be read. Come and bring your friends. Re member the date, AVednesday, Decem ber 3, 1941. A. A. McREYNOLDS. Ssecretary.
