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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1944 PAGE FIVE THE JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA ALLEY OOP By V.T.Hamlin Tr- f-1 if wm i ..- ... . - ----- - "77 - i I HUNGARY RED RYDER By Fred Harman .dos. ' M m.m . , - ; N 1 Vv ii " GOlo TOKIOCKT NEW KOAOl 1H" ATTEMPT ON VoSE PRACnClfO' VCOD RloHT fOOVO, J, ,7 .' iLVNAT'Ui 4,.C,V 0U RE LEAOlNS US) WAITED 1CU 5 OUR LIVES WAS (I OJTSlDE !JP FOR A J0& hO"-iL SHERIFF ? - iXf OW- LT (XER A TERRIBLE JMO WVETiAT. BECAUSE OF 1HIS OFFICE ir Tri' ORCUS, -&&&3S-Wj2 "i.- "$ vRAD! -tf GOVERNOR J . INVESTIGATION ?V v RYDER-SgPk V Imitovvv. jm.UW'SHii-xr Whik..i....Cr J (ifWRAIi i i--k -- 111 II By Jewtrnal Field ReprweaWir REDS CUT OFF NAZIS Reds near com plete cutoff of Nazis in Budapest area after advance to winthin six miles of only escape route along Danube, through Estergom. Map shows Red drive from north to south. (NEA Telemap.) UNION ITEMS By Journal Field Representative Mr. and Mr. George Copenhaver and family of Nebraska City were spending the day with George's mother and brother, Betty and Wes ley. Mrs. Eunice Surface who has been in Texas the past few months working, came in to Union a few days to visit friends and relatives. Mr anH Mr?.. J. W. Kirwin of Lincoln came down to visit at the Lidgett and Lynn homes, they being old friends. The time was well spent. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Becker who have been running a restaurant here for the past several month? decided to quit the business and sold out to "Warren Pearsley, who is taking over at once. Mrs. Lowell McQuinn, who has been down in Tennessee working while her husband was there, de cided to return back to th old heme town after Lowell was sent overseas. Donald Becker who is . attending school in Peru is spending the Christ mas holidays with friends down in Ponca City, Okla. Mr. and Mrs. Dewey True and familv. who has been living in he country the past few years, mo ed into town a few days ago, in he Pearsley property in the south part of town. Mr. and Mrs. OUie Attebery and family of Kansas City, Kans., came in Saturday afternoon to spend Christmas with the J. R. Dysart family and other relatives and friends in Union. Mrs. Burr Stanley of Wayne, Ne braska, is spending a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jess Dy sart. Mr. II. E. Warden and Wesley Copenhaver were business visitors in Nebraska City one day this week. Mr. J. S. Pittman returned home from a ten day vfcit out in Brush, Colo., with his relatives and friends, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Becker left one dav this week for Chicago to spend the holidays with their dau ghter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Hoback. Mrs. Melvin Fuesner of Weldon, Iowa, came in to spend the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jess Dysart. Mrs. John Lidgett was very pleas antly surprised a few evenings ago when the telephone rang rather late and upon answering it found it was her nephew, Henry Lidgett of Cali fornia, enroute to Washington, stop ping off m Umaha 30 minutes ana callingto wish, his folks at home Christmas greetings. He will be sta tioned there for the next six months Mr. J. R. Dysart was a business visitor iii, Nebraska City lat Satur day. , Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Pasch are the parents of a daughter, which came to bless their home and make her future home with them. Mrs. Mary Fletcher, who has been confined to her bed the past several months, is showing some little gain the past few days, of which her many friends will be pleased to hear. FIRST METHODIST CHURCH UNION, NEBRASKA , T. Porter Bennett, Pastor "Closing The 9:45 "Fear Not" Year of 1944" will be the subject that the pastor will take for the morning sermon. The pastor wishes all a Happy New Year. - 10:30 The Church School. Don- old McQuinn, the superintendent. The main lesson is entitled, "Cour age for the Christian Enterprise." The program given by the Church School last Sunday night brought out a large crowd and the program was enjoyed by all. reporting a fine trip. t KEEP 015 Will! WM 00H0S r THIS CURIOUS WORLD By W'.liiam Ferguson UNHITCHED A TfcvVU!- rso'Kaca i-nw WASON Or C5.W.PAKK, MWff VUwrv. THE HORSES : FOR HOME J -rktMS I ' 1 1 I ,1 FJffiftAS-y II nry'f t X. ' thanks Elizabeths vmth&all, r - (Continued on rage 3, Col. : Miss Gretchen .Wiles who is in training- for Cadet nurse at the Uni versity hospital in Omaha, was en joying a vacation of a few days with the folks at home, returning to heri work on "Wednesday. ....What might have been a real tragedy occurred at the Bickett home Tuesday when a gasoline iron which Mrs. Bickett was using ex ploded 'throwing the gas over her and the room, setting things on fire, but even tho she was burning, she had .presence of mind. to take a coat which was hanging nearby and ex tinguish the fire without more than siigh' burns on her arms. ' -' There was no little excitement in town when on' ' Thursday,' 'while sit ting at the table 'eating' his noon meal, Bob Weston happened to look cut the window' and1 &w his car, which was parked, as .usual on the street near his home,, being driven i away, and out of town. The sheriff was called and notice . sent out' or everyone-'to k be on the lookout for the missing car. A few hours' later, just as mysteriously, the ' car was returned and found' m its accustom ed place, with no one near it. Plow- ever, , Bob was pleased to have the car returned. . . Mrs. A. W. Hull has returned from a visit with his daughter f in Okla homa .and ..will spend' the winter months with his daughter here, Mrs. A. W. Leonard and Mr. Leonard. The Leonards are also expecting a visit soon, from their son Lawrence and family who reside in California. Pvt. Dale Hanson who is station ed -in Alabama desired his car to use while his wife "arid little daugh ter are with him there, and accord ingly, his father, accompanied by Henry Hobscheidt, drove it as far as St Louis and were met there by Dale who took the car back to his camp, and the other men returned home by train. 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