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MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1942 PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE FIVE City Council Has Very Busy Session Monday Purchase New Truck Chassis, gressing in very pleasing manner. Lincenses Granted The license committee reported their recommendation that led to a somewhat lengthy discussion on the propiety of some of the applications. The committee recommended that li censes to sell beer be granted to Edward Donat, sr., George Conis, Canvass City Vote; Grant Beer ; Heni-y Timm. Clyde and Helen Ros- License ; Name Zoning Board borough, Ray bright, B. c. Cohn, Kooeri beaiaK, wimam bweenie, Robert Slavicek, Erna Lapidus, Hotel Plattsmouth. Mayor Lillie op posed the action of the committee in renewing the license to the Hotel claiming that there The city council opening its ses sion Monday on the summer sched ule, at S p. m., had a full session that lasted past the midnight hour, cov ering a wide range of subjects from Plattsmouth the city zoning to the granting of 'had been much disorder there in the past year and causing frequent police calls. After a lengthy discussion of this phase of the question, the council adopted the report of the committee and grant ed the licenses as listed above. Reso lution was adopted to present to the City Treasurer M. D. Brown reported j state liquor commission approval ot that at the first of Anril there haditne action. the licenses for the sale of beer. The session was also the first held for April and brought with it the reports of the various officers oi the city. City Clerk Albeit Olson reported that he had collected $9S.50 during Hie month of March, while been $22,4S1.21 deposited by the city in the Plattsmouth State bank. The license committee also recommended that a license to sell Chief of Police Drucker reported that beer be not issued to August Ahrens, there had been four arrests and fines 'owing to the number of places also and costs of $33 collected. Police i operating in the city. This report Judge Graves, for the week of March 29, reported two arrests and fines and costs of $16.50. Name Zoning Board Chairman Rebal of the Judiciary committee, announced that he had selected a board to prepare plans for the zoning of the city, in accordance with the wishes of the state defense council. The names suggested were confirmed by the council on appoint ment by Mayor Lillie as follows: T. B. Farmer. W. F. Evers. L. S. Devoe, J. Howard Davis, Robert Mann, John J. Cloidt, Mrs. A. H. Duxbury, Mrs. Fred I. Rea. Mrs. James G. Mauzy. A communication was received an nouncing that the lire insurance rate on the city hail building had been increased, due to the tile structure built on the south and the closeness of the "scale house" to the addition, being less than 15 feet. This was referred to the fire and water com mittee. The council also received a letter from the Brewers and Beer Dealers association, announcing the desire to have cities exercise care in the licensing of places, the manner in which they had been operated and the type of operators. This was signed by C. E. Sandall, state di rector. The fire department announced the naming of E, ,W, Eujdje as the treasurer of the department to suc ceed Robert "VYurl, now in service. On the hearing of the claims for labor performed, one item, that of the work of cleaning out of sewers, drew the attention of Councilman Schutz, who stated that the sewer was one that led to the Lugsch clean ing establishment. This item was or dered stricken from the claims. Fire Chief Dr. O. Sandin reported two fires, that at the Ritz theater building in the Griffin apartment, also the brooder house of Alvin Smock. On motion of Councilman Finni frock. the mayor and city clerk were authorized to issue a deed to George Taylor to property bought from the city through the tax and property committee, the payments now all be ing complete. Chairman Noble of the streets, alleys and bridge-; committee, report ed that the street work was pro- was adopted 8 to 1, Councilman Puis! voting against the report. Following the arguments over the! manner of conduct of the places,1 Councilman Svoboda offered the mo-! tion that the license committee, j throughout the year keep check ofj the places and their operation rather, than just at the license time. This; was unanimously adopted. J Purchase New Chassis ! Eids for the furnishing of a chassis; for the proposed auxiliary fire truck ! were received from the Cass County ! Motor Co., C. A. Ruse and Ray Wiy-' sel. These were tabulated by the; fire and water committee and the' recommendation of the purchase of a truck from the Cass County Motor, Vo., at tne bid price ot ?i,oo. inis was accepted by the council by a unanimous vote. The department and city however will have to transmit this action to the Interstate Com merce commission due to the priority- established owing to the war. Vote of City Election denhall. 31; maj. for Gabelman. 72. BOARD OF EDUCATION Bern hardt, 665; Knorr, 605; Jaeger, 47j; Cappell, 655. CONDEMNING WATER PLANT: Yes, 1,109; No, 144; maj. 965. The finding of the committee was approved and the issuance of cer tificates of election ordered present ed to the successful candidates. Councilman Rebal asked that some steps be taken to have the condition of the paving on Chicago avenue remedied if possible and elimination of rough spots. This was referred to the streets, alleys and bridges com mittee. Councilman Svoboda moved that the city hall be cleaned up and plac ed in order for the summer season somewhat land the matter was placed in the hands of the parks and improve ments committee for action. The following claims were order ed paid: j GENERAL FUND i Lester Taylor, labor $ Chester Taylor, same John Kubicka, same i Virgil Arnold, same ! Arthur Haden. same ! Earl Leesley, same : Wm. Ferguson, same ', Jess Greene : W. E. Rusk, same l Bun Elliott, same j W. A. Swatek, binder twine j E. J. Richey, coal E. J. Richey, mdse. j Iowa-Neb. L. & P., gas State Journal Ptg. Co. mdse. j Weyrich & Hadraba, mdse. Hamilton & L'aumgart, room rent Cass Motor Co.. same Edward Gabelman, same C. A. Ruse, same Election officials, 1st ward Election officials, 2nd ward Election officials, 3rd ward Election officials. 4th ward Election officials. 5th ward25.00 Earl Harris, cleaning work- Puis Hardware, mdse. Plattsmouth Journal, printing War Dangers Boom Miami's Air Terminal passengers have an understanding of visas, passports and be able to care for baggage. . To allow more weight in passen gers and cargo, everything possible has been done to economize. More frequent stops save carrying extra fuel. No hot meals are served, and the customary heavy silver service has been adbandoned. Where two stewards were aboard, now there is one. Meals consist of box lunches and 10. OS 4.49 9.60 2.40 MIAMI, Fla. (UP) The scarcity of ships and the danger of Axis sea raiders have swelled Miami's work and importance as the prin cipal U. S. air terminal between the j few night flights are made. Americas. ' Such economies have increased Inter-American travel through capacity as much as eight passengers. Miami's land airports and marine seaplane bases last year totaled 95, 517 passengers, compared with 34, 528 for all other ports, including New York, Los Angeles, San Fran cisco and Brownsville, Tex. Pan American Airways' entire system in Latin America all pas senger and express space has been made available to U. S. government demand. Restrictions and priorities govern each flight. Air express fig ures for one month in 1942 show Greenwood Special Journal Correspondence 1.(50 'n;oi.e cargo carried than in any other entire year. Average weekly cargoes 0 1.60 30 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Graham were business callers in Lincoln Thurs- : day. Mr. and Mrs. Ulysses Conrad, of Colorado, visited his sister, Mrs. Clarence Mathis, from Tuesday un til Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gribble and Gayle visited Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Weller at Staplehurst Sunday. Mrs. Fred Etheridge received the dad news Monday of the death of sam i 4 05 : leaving -Miami total more man O.Ou j tons. 2.b0 0n a typical day recently, 16 na J'oitions were represented among the 200 passengers arriving ana depart ing on flights between the Ameri cas. Three Hungarians with diplo matic passports from Washington headed the list of foreigners, which ! operation at the Bryan Coral Stones Used to Build Unique Houses MIAMI, Fla. (UP) A domicile of hand-carved rock made of 15-ton slabs of coral rock, with gargantuan doors and all-stone furniCure is being built here by Ed Leedskal-nin. The 4 6-year-old Latvian weighs but 121 pounds, but he does all his work without mechanical aid or anything but "muscle" power. He has hoisted huge slabs as high as 50 feet in the air, and balanced five and 10-ton stones so delicately a child can turn a table, rock a chair or revolve a giant stone. "I do it the same way the old Egyptians built their pyramids," he said. His only tools are a rock axe, crowbar, sledges and an ingenious arrangement of levers. Every object in Leedskalnin's .-tone age yard serves a utilitarian purpose. There's a stone cradle in solid rock and it rocks like a charm. He has twin beds carved from stone, with a bath right along side, and his giant sun dial's accu racy is unquestionable. An elevated fish pond, a circular lounge pivoted to turn to anyangle Elmvood By Journal Field Repreaentatire 22. J-0 j 10.00 20.65 1 .25 : her oldest son, Clark Alton who died j for sun baths or shade, and a mas 7.00 7.00 7.00 7.00 25.00 26.50 25.00 26.50 also included three Danes, one Swiss, three Frenchmen and nationals from Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Canada, Venezuela, Panama. Mexico, Haiti, the Eahamas and Great Brit ain. . r- i ..a . . ,1 : . - .1 50 00 aeverai new iuuiea aim miicafcu 1.15 : service have been started to meet i ! war demands. Where once three 137.39 flights a week to Balboa were suffi- T.iiii oin Tele Cn nhorw citv hall ' 11.55 cient. daily rount trips have been in at his home in Des Moines, Iowa, Sunday evening. Clarence Mathis. underwent an Memorial hospital in Lincoln Saturday morn ing. Mr. Mathis is 87 but stood the operation fine and is getting along fine at last report. Miss Ella Johnston is very ill. She is at the Vernon Stewart home. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Rouse were in Lincoln Tuesday. Janice and Larie Lee Keller of Lincoln spent the week-end with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Eleven local Odd Fellows attended the Weeping Water lodge meeting Wednesday night of this week. Miss Grace Wood visited in Lin coln a couple days this week. It was a beautiful shower this vicinity had Wednesday night of this week. The gardens were in need of it. The Community Kensington will be held next Thursday. Place in definite at this time. The mattress people have moved into the Crozier property lately va cated by the Acton family. The music contest was held at Au burn Friday and Saturday with a gooddly number participating from here. Mrs. Fleisihman was a capital city visitor on Wednesday of this week. Mrs. Frances Brown Streight of Murdock has been very sick with gall stones. She was taken to the hospital and operated upon yester day. It is hoped she will soon return entisely restored to health. At S:30 at the Methodist church was held the meeting of the Cass sive orchestra stand, however, are County Christian Fellowship Associa all dwarfed by two giant monoliths, weighing more than 30,000 pounds each. Facing east and tipped with amonster star and crescent moon, respectively, these pillars also were quarried by hand. RECEIVE PALMER AWARDS ; J. H. Boetel. hauling election booths 10.00 ! BUSINESS TAX FUND ; Lester Taylor, cleaning streets $ John Kubicka. same ! Virgil Arnold, same i Bill Furguson, same W. E. Rusk, same I Bun Elliott, same j STREET LIGHTING ! Consumers Public Power, augurated. Now there are extra week-; Joe Kyles. ; ly flights to Puerto Rico. Service be- j Mrs. Luella Berger, and Mrs. June I tween Maracaibo. Venezuela and j Kyles attended Dist. No. 7 Rebekah 65 'Miami has been doubled. 4. SO ; 3.20; 2. so ; 3.20 i 4. SO ecrs Big Freight Loads But all the new duties carrying delegates to conferences; flying offi- meeting in Lincoln Tuesday after noon and evening. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kyles spent Sun day at Alvo with their daughter, Mrs. machines and ammunition to j Wayne Kinney and family, army bases; evacuating American Jolly Jokers met Friday evening The council was then called upon to canvass the vote cast at the last j city election including the sick and j absent vo'ters ballotts. Councilmen ! Puis. Svoboda and Noble were nam-! fnmiliAG from ri3n?pr 7one?" and flv- Street lighting $302. 35 i ... , KlHF TiFP HTM F'T FUND I inS the mai1 to every large city on ed as the committee. The following j is the result of the official vote: Plattsmouth Vol. Fire Dept., nozzieman . $ ROAD FUND Lester Taylor, labor $ same the continent has not stopped com- 4-50 mer( jal air express service. Sometimes packages must wait to Chester Taylor John Kubicka, same 37 mA i UK Hayes, . t . ; inline, aw, Arthur Haden, same 43.20 majority. 234. ! Earl Leegley, same CLERK Olson, 832; Patterson,' : Furgus-r.n,' same -I4 ' 435; maj., 397. Trent Tyner, same T R E A S U K EH Fitch, 4Jb; j y. j. Rush, same at the home of Mrs. Daisy Wright, j Mr. and Mrs. Max Graham and sons, of Ashland and Mr. and Mrs. j Walter Woitzel were dinner guests !at the Robert Graham home Sunday. I Mrs. Hannah Shaffer received a 43.42 o- i allow something more vital to go 0, first, but they still get there much! card from her son, Donald, saying rapidly than by boat. Last ; he was on his way to San Diego, Cali a shipment oT2S3.895 false ; fornia. Donald is in the naval re- .60 week teeth left for Rio. and Brown, 851; maj., 415. POLICE JUDGE Graves, 1,117. COUNCILMEN: First ward Iverson, 109; Nelson, 124, maj., for Nelson 15. Second ward Giles. 13S; Seiver, 185; maj. for Seiver 47. Third ward Sumner, 147; Rebal, Euu Elliott, same Frank Enearl. kerosene 2.54 Kroehler, Hdw., supplies 1.05 E. J. Richey, same 5.05 Hamilton & Baumgart. repair 7.50 DOG TAX FUND Earl Bailey, burying 1 dog$ .60 O. F. Smalley, same .60 POLICE FUND 22:40! 8.00 : bundles are slipped in to make up j 23.20 , lotai weight such as medicine, film,! tpnonograpn records, jeweiry. every day ' serves. Sunday Dinner Guests Sunday dinner guests of Mrs. ball Clarence Mathis were Mr. and Mrs. The following pupils won raini er method awards: Miss Nolting's room Junior certificates: Elva Jean Smock, Anna Schubeck, Donna Rho dcn. Progress pins Anna Schubeck, Robert Meisinger, Lois Johnson, Frances Eastridge, Virgil Shryock, Kenneth Rozell, Norma Jean War then, Mary Ellen Denson. Miss Prohaska's room: Progress pins Alis Grauf. Analee Galland, Leila Clark, Eugene Shoebotham and Donald Young. Others are working for awards. tion. The speaker of the evening was Chancellor Schwartz of Wesleyan University. Light refreshments were served by the W. S. C. S. ladies. The W. C. T. U. held their regular April meeting at the home of Mrs. L. Hollenbeck on Tuesday afternoon, April 14th. Mrs. Chappel had charge of devotionals while Mrs. E. Elliott had the lesson. Luncheon was served by the hostess. TALKS TO GIRL SCOUTS 219; maj. for Rebal 72. Fourth ward Schutz, 149; Rice, Kroehler Hdw., supplies 6.50 88: maj. for Schutz, 61. j FIRE HYDRANT RENTAL FL'ND Fifth ward Gabelman, 103; Men-; Plattsmouth Water Co. $4S3.96 bearings, chemicals, hair nets, foun tain pens even dill pickles. War time personnel changes also have been made. Women are doing jobs formerly done by men. Girls now handle most of the reservations and are being assigned to the traffic Ulysses Conrad, of Colorado; Mr. and Mrs. Otto Ericksen, Albert and Everett Ericksen, Art Mardel, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Mathis and family and Mrs. George Ericksen. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. McGill and family. Dr. Talcott and wife called in the after- department where they must meet ; noon. Fred Eusch of the Ladies Tog gery, spoke before the girl scouts on "Behind the Scenes in the Store,' to give the girls who are passing the second class badge a chance to learn about buying and selling. We en joyed our hike very much Satur day morning and v.e hope to go on many more. Jean Collins. Celebrates Birthday Lou Langhorst celebrated his 76th birthday on Sonday, April 12th. The following were present at this event: Mr. and Mrs. Sid Moore and Dorothy of Omaha, Mrs. Eva Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Reeder and twin girls of Plattsmouth, Mr. and Mrs. Karl Schneider and Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Williams. DOES EXCELLENT WORK The showing of photographs at the Weyrich & Hadraba store win dow, made by Merle Jones, has at tracted much attention. Mr. Jones not only took these pictures but also did the enlarging. Windstorm Haml Damage to your prop erty now may cost consid erable to repair. If Your Property has Value, it Should be Insured. Call or See or - i INSURANCE" AND &ONDS Phone- 16 Plattsmouth Bluebird Club Meets The Bluebird club met with Mrs. Bailey on Wednesday afternoon of this week. The lesson on "Cheese Making" was given by Mrs. Elliott and Mrs. Wilken. It as a very in teresting as well as instructive les son. As it was election of officers the following were named: - President Mrs. . 0. Quellhorst. . Vice President Mrs. L. Hollen beck. Secretary-Treasurer Miss Minuie Kunz. Group Leaders Mrs. Eb'er and Mrs. Howard Pool. Music Leader Mrs. Gardner. Reading Leader Mrs. Monning. Health Leader Mrs. Sumner. Reporter Mrs. L. Hollenbeck. Williams-Nicklas Mr. and Mrs. Williams announce the marriage of their daughter, Anna, to Glenn Nicklas of Elida, New Mexico. The marriage took place April 11, 1942, at the Meth odist church, Covis, New Mexico. Mr. Nicklas teaches vocational agri culture in the Elida, New Mexico, schools. Barn Caught Fire Wednesday night the barn on the Jesse Holka farm west of Elm wood was struck by lightning and caught fire. Someone passing this farm about midnight saw a light in the barn and stopped and asked Mr. Holka if he had electric lights put in his barn. Mr. Holka answered "no"; the oth er person responding, "Then your barn's on fire." Mr. Holka going to the barn extinguished the fire, which had burned, through two-by-fours and other timbers. This was found out just in time to avert a big fire. Thomas Walling Company Abstracts of Title Plattsmouth 4 J. Phone 324 - f ,iiIii;iir .iiI .iiI . . !itII;, t t rive types of Americgn-built ahcralt eie now on ercli've comberf duly in Australia while four olher models aie on their way to her defense. In a specially-prepared montage, the Aviation News Committee oi the Aeronautical Chamber ol Commerce bring you pictures of the nine American warplanes that are in the vanguard of the vast "more aid to come" program which will ultimately sweep the invader from the United Nations sky. Reading counter-clockwise, the pioneer American warplanes are: 1) the Seeing Flying Fortress, which, with 2) the Consolidated B-24. or "liberator." constitutes the Army Air Corps' team of heavy oUensiv weapons; 3) the Bell P43, ot "Aiiacgbrg." best described os a "cannon on wings"; 4) the Douglas A-2DA. invaluable for lightning-Iile day or night thrusts at the ioe; S) the Lockheed "Hudson." allectionately called "Old Boomerang" by R.A.F. pilots lor its amazing ability to return under the most trying conditions: 6) the Martin B-25, the twin -engine deadly attack bomber: 7) the Curtiss P-40. ox "Tomahawk." thm standby ei the American Volunteer "Flying Tigers" in Burma: 8) the North American B-25. the Air Corps' twin-engine bomber which combines speed with a large bomb-load; end 3) the Consolidated PBY-S. or "Calalina." whose job it is to patrol the coast and blast thm U-Aeau fcga) (it iea IFSffOOQ At Bottom Rates Prompt Closing SEE