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I ' AGE TWO THE JOURNAL. P LA TTS MOUTH, NEBRASKA THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1945 The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1831 Published semi-weekly, Mondays and Thursdays, at 409-413 Main Street, Portsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska, by The Journal Pub lishing Company. IESTEE A. WALKEB, PUBLISHES. DON J. ARUNDEL, BUSINESS MANAGER Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second class mail matter in accordance with the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: S3 per year, cash in advance, by mail outside the Plattsmouth trade area. DAILY JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by car rier in the City of Plattsmouth, 15 cents per week, or S7.00 per year cash in advance; by mail in the Plattsmouth trade area: S3 per year, $1.75 for six months, $1.00 for three months, cash in advance. By mail outside the Plattsmouth trade area, $5.00 per year, $3.00 for six months, 60 cents per month, cash in advance. So You Want a New Car! Unpleasant reading for innumerable Americans doubtless was the recent state ment of Col. J. Monroe Johnson, Director of the Office of Defense Transportation, that it will be at least three years before millions of persons are able to buy new automobiles. Disliking the role of wet blanket, it would be pleasant to express the opinion that Colonel Johnson has? leaned toward the pessimistic side, so as to avoid the dis appointments, and the criticisms, that would result from a more optimistic pre diction unfulfilled. Unfortunately, anyone who examines facts and records won't be inclined to ac cuse that ODT chief of pessimism. On the contrary, his views smack of optimism. It will be a production miracle indeed, even for American industry, if all who want new automobiles are able to obtain them with in the next three years. We won't go so far as to say it is a miracle impossible of achievement- But it doesn't seem likely, and let's examine some of the reasons why: Motor vehicle registrations' in the Uni ted States in 1941 totaled 32,557,951. Re placements since then have been negligible. Most cars of 1941 and prior-year vintage could well be replaced now. Nearly all will be ready for the scrap heap three years hence. Thus, if they could be produced, it is entirely possible that the market could ab sorb within the next three years as many automobiles as1 were registered in 1941. That would call for more than 32,000,000 motor vehicles, with no allowance for sev eral million non-owners of four years ago who expect to ride when cars are available again. What would seem to be the reasonable probabilities that the motor car industry might be able to reconvert and then pro duce for such a market. Let's consider past production records. During 1941, American motor vehicle pro duction reached the all-time record total of 4,838,561 units including 3,744,300 passenger cars and 1,094,261 trucks. Pro duction during EIGHT years, 1934-41, in clusive, approximated only 31,200,000 units. Clearly, if the automobile industry car, within three years, reconvert and produce for such a prospective market, it will re present an unparralleled record of peace time production. True, it might be done. American indus try might do anything. But common sense would seem to emphasize further the wis dom of the advice: If you are so fort mate as to possess an automobile, you had better take care of it. If you ever find yourself afoot, you are liable to be traveling shank mare for a long time to come. Changing Berths Vft If I ill I Of yiiif - m round Ration Guide Child Care Center is Aiding Employed Mothers QUESTIONS and ANSWERS Q Where are Great Corn and Little Corn Islands, and to what nation do they belong? A Situated about 50 miles off coast of Nicaragua, the islands belong to the Uni ted States. Q The giraffe, tallest animal in the world, stands from 18 to 20 feet in height. How fast can it run? A It's been clocked at 30 miles an hour. Q What is a tripych? A A picture, as on an altar, consist ing of three panels set side by side- Q Who discovered the stethscope? A Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laen nec, French physician (1781-1826). Q What is styreae, an ingredient of synthetic rubber? A A liquid raade froaa co$! tar. The Child Care center at Cen tral school is intended to assist employed mothers in more ade quate care of their children from the ages of two through six. Support for the Center is ob tained from three principal sources: Funds from the Federal government through provisiones of the Lanham Act; Space and services from the school system; Fees paid by parents of children enrolled in the Center. The Child Care center is staff ed by qualified personnel, whose duties include not only custodial care of the children enrolled, but also leadership supervision of social, educational and recreation al activities and training suitable to the age and development of their young charges. The nursery school develops the child along all lines; helps him to become more skillful in the use of his body; to learn about the world about him, to under stand people and to work with them; to acquire keener sppre ciations of color, form, harmony, grace; to develop more helpful attitudes and direct his own emo tions. Provision is made for a hot lunch at noon, with a light lunch in mid-morning and mid-afternoon. The menus for these lunches are planned by expert dieticians and are intended to provide a sizeable part of the food needs of the average child. Cod liver oil is given daily, usually before the mid-morning lunch. Cots are pro vided for rest and nap peroids, usually taken in the afternoon from about 12:00 P. M. to 2:45 P. M. Free play and supervised activities are scheduled for other parts of the day. The health and physical condition of the children is checked daily by the teachers in charge with periodic inspection and supervision by the Public Health Nurse, Miss Hazel Owen. EPSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN BY PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, D. C You know, some of the things they do in Congress make sense at that. After spending four years and billions of dollars for war, talking interminably about such incomprehensible issues as reciprocal trade agreements, contract terminations, cartels, Bretton Woods, cutbacks, carryovers, surplus property dis posal, reconversion, UNRRA and such things, a few Senators have finally gotten around to talking about something that everybody can understand tooth ache. This is getting right down to the decayed root of all evils lumbago, loss of sleep, distemper, bad grades, indebtedness, absenteeism, poor eyesight, wife-beating, alcoholism, and an inability to chaw utility grade beef. If Congress could just pass a law making it illegal for anyone to have a tooth ache, things ought to start getting better right away, whether the Senate confirms the San Fran cisco Pearly Gate charter or no. ash ' Edson CENATOR MURRAY'S proposal is to spend a million bucks to estab- : lish a National Institute of Dental Research and then appropriate another $730,000 a year to keep it going. This would be cheap. Many's the man who has said, "I'd give $1,730, COO to be rid of this blankety blank blank blankety bicuspid." Well, here's a law which would do the trick. Dental research, of course, is what the tooth carpenter does when he starts pokin' around. 'The Murray bill would simply put this pokin' on a more scientific basis, to get at the cause of toothaches, then extract the causes. Senators Pepper and Aiken, jointly, have a supplementary bill which would appropriate federal money for grants-in-aid to States ; and local governments so they could establish and maintain "ade quate measures for the prevention, treatment, and control of such (dental) diseases, including dental-care programs for children, the training of personnel for State and local dental health work, and the ; development and maintenance of effective means for the education : of the public concerning dental disease." There's a mouthful for you to test your new store teeth on. Surgeon General Thomas W. Parran of the U. S. Public Health Service estimates that the cost of the Pepper-Aiken bill would be only about $6,000,000 the second year and maybe $10,000,000 a year thereafter. That's about what is spent now on T. B. and. venereal disease control. "DUT think what a postwar employment project this dental care ! business might become. Think of all those id'a machine tools at . Willow Run that could be moved right into dentists' offices. Better still, why not convert Willow Run into the Institute of Dental Re search? Instead of making Liberators to kill people with, the big Ford plant could be used to liberate mankind from all that suffering. Wyoming is the only state which does not have a severance tax on oil. BARBS Governors Conference Acts On Food Distribution MACKINAC ISLAND, MICH. (U.R) . The nation's governors left for their home capitals Thursday determined to help solve the national food distribution problem. The heads of 42 states ended the 37th annual governors con ference Wednesday after promis ing to examine and act at once on complexities of homefront supply and distribution of food, particularly of meat. Sharp sectional conflicts do-! veloped over the warborn food problem after three days of liar-! monious discussion generated lyj unanimous endorsement of the San Francisco World Security' Charter. . j In a resolution covering the , food study, the governors en-; dorsed continued federal food ad-! ministration but authorized a three member committee to ex-j plore conditions and seek possible remedies in cooperation with fed eral officials. TORE and more Jap ships are being sent to the bottom. The Rising Sun is being eclipsed by the sinking sons. . Jilissouri police who pinched a .woman for stealing 15 dresses .said they caught her with the 'goods on her. In this hot weather? i If there were no fat people, who would occupy all the aisle seats in the movies? 14. poiDer-drireit toothbrush has been patented. It viay be interesting enough to make little kids want to brush their teeth. . A cut in rates for long-distance phone calls covering more than ?30 miles hes been announced, acid- ssviccr.ci- siouid1 ve s rst craci: at "it: NEW FORD OFF LINE The 1946 Ford, shown above, has ICO horsepower in its V-8 rr.otor, raking it the mcst powerful Ford in history. The chief exterior chjr.je is j r.iw raiiswr sri!! sr.c th u$t of hr.pv-type springs1 and shock absorbers will Improve Ford's readability, the makers say. By DREW PEASSON Dssw Pear.on Seys: Less meat of all types tor civ:!i.-!r.s in th.r-d quartet; Army decision an nounced last .yeek was made in March; Surplus Pfopeity boys will play along with Sterling Bloc; Reps. Kecfe tnd Bender challenge democrats on i.ocial prcgrest. Vv'ASrHIXG lON Last week's announcement that true will be more btcf this summer than in the spnng- v.1;... intended to bolster public confi dence in the .ir food chief, Secretary cf Agricul ture Ci::iton Anderson. However, it's likely to boomerang. In-uir fat- is there will be leas meat of all type;, ior the civilian population in July, August, vvAi Soptembc- than in the previous three months. "vVi-.r food A, ministration estimates show 235 ml lion pounds ere beef, 107 million pounds more veul and 13 ? ill '.on puundi more lamb. But counter-balancing his, the pork supply for the civilian market is e;-:, ccted to be 403 million pounds less this sumuior ; lan in the spring. Thus, tno jrh there should be o55 million ad ditional poun y cf beef, veal and iamb, the over-all u.ei.t supply a ill be 4S million pounds less. Pi: i t of t .is is due to the fact that War Food Aciiii.ni.-trati. :i, in a perfect example of hlunder-:aro-:-hel l oiicy, hist year asked for a reduc- 11 ,n in the i jg crop. But in addition pork is cut toi.uuily sca.ee uuiing the summer. The fall hog ciui) is slatmhtijied in the spring and the spring ci.p in the fall with very little off-season hog s.u..g.iteni;g. li was a. iiounci'd last week that the army had gi-nti-ous-ly -orseiited to reduce its set-aside of icu.uiiy-ins. tvied raeat;. But what was not point ti out wa5 tiat this decision was made last March, v.i;ta the sc :ond-quarter meat allocations were (!tci,!t(l. Thi., -gesture" by the army may come back with itiewed hih demands for meat in Sep tember. 5UfM.US PROPERTY SECRET Aiout tlv; doert wall of secrecy in Washing ton ; hroucis he Surplus War Property Board, the U1--P'J: al agei cy for the richest war booty in his tory. Xuw ti at public-minded ex-Senator Guy Gil lette nas res ned and his hard-hitting friend Wes ley ist urges las beet fired, few people really know what ;.:-;es oi: in:de Surplus Propeity. iiti, ho -.-ever, is one interesting inside de-vck.r-.Tent Ihe Surplus Property boys haven't i.ub..;.-:.c.; it, but they have just about decided to unload suipL.-ts in England cr in Eritish-domin-atec; arets in exchange for local currencies rather than d .iiars. Thi;; means that in Egypt, and the Xear ai.d Miiile East, the United States will play squarely into tie hand.- of ihe British Sterling f i'JC. In these Brrijli-domiuated areas, all dollars are collpeted by Fritish banks, under arrangements y:tii Xeu: Ea- ciii governments, and sent to Lou do::. Th:, ma..- s it extremely difficult for U. S. i:-m.to do bi.-ines:; in Egypt and the Near Eat, a..d tks British want to keep it that way. U. S. firms can t get pais.: except in local currencies. It i.- hard to get tiillars in return. Meanwhile London b-nks are choc-.ad with dollars. Bat de-pite thi:, the Surplus Property boys r.uve decided U play along with the Sterling Bloc. REPUBLICANS SHOOT BACK ?v-:-pr6ser.tat:ves George Bender of Cleveland, Chk, and Frank Kxci'e of Oshkosh, V.'is., are the iii.-t republicans to challenge the democrats on tii-j.r social pn-gram in a long time. Bender got indignant a.- ha i-an listening to Chairman Clar ence Cannon o:' 3Ii;,souri sonorously proclaim that h:s tpproyiiition.- committee had not blocked the continuance f the Fair Employment Practices com mittee. Bender promptly called Democrat Cannon's bluff on this and GOP Representative Keefe step ped m to sipport him. Keefe recounted in great detail how the democrats had knifed FEPC. "1 am sick and tired of this shadow boxing," Keefe stormed. "You have 50 more votes in this house than have the republicans." he continued,, ''and any time the Pres. dent of the United States wants this legislation passed you fellows will be whipped into line as you have in the past, and you will pass it because you have the votes to pass it. Why kid anybody any longer?" The Wisconsin Republican then challenged Cannon to bring FEPC out for a vote before the full house. "My good friend, the gentleman from Wis consin '' said Congressman Cannon in reply. But Keefe interrupted. -I1- o vgkqj srdlu shrdlu "That is the way you addressed John Taber of New York (with whom Cannon had a fist fight)." Keefe reminded him. ' You called him 'My Good Friend.' " 'T would not put the gentleman in the same class," Cannon assured Keefe, amid laughter. BENDER UNBENDS A moment later Cleveland's Bender took the floor again- to point cut that it was the vote of democratic representative Roger Slaughter of Mis souri in the Rules Committee that prevented FEPC from get ling to the floor for a full vote' by the entire house. "He (Slaughter) is from President Truman's home district," Bender climaxed. Bender has frequently voted with the demo crats and has been a constant critic of republican tactics and policies, but this time he laced into the democrats. The sins of the republican party are many, he said, but long before the New Deal was ever heard of, republican-controlled congress es had built up "a remarkably fine record for social legislation." "My father used to work seven days a week. 12 hours a day. Under the republican administra tions his hours were cut to 11 hours, then ten hour;, then nine hours. Tune and again under re publican legislatures of states in the north, im provements vveie adopted. There are many states in the union not dominated by republicans now that do not have Workmen's Compensation laws." The republicans. Bender detailed, were res ponsible for industrial safety laws, pure food and sanitation laws, recognition of collective bargain ing, the ruling out of injunctions for the breaking of strikes, the railroad labor act, the Sherman anti-Trust act, the child labor amendment, and a number of other important landmarks in social legislation. The party was originally organized to end the most vicious of all labor practices slav ery. , (Copyright, 1545, by the Bell Syndicate, I-c). MEATS and FATS Book Four red stamps, K2 through P2 valid through duly "A. Q2 through U2 valid through August 31. V2 through Z2 valid through Sep tember 30. Al through El valid through October 31. All the above points may be med now. PROCESSED FOODS Bock Four blue stamps, X2 through S2 valid through June 30. T2 thru X2 valid through July 31. Y2, Z2, Al through Cl valid through August 31. Dl through III valid through September 30. J 1 through XI valid through October 31.- All j the above points may be used now. SUGAR Stamp 3G valid for five pounds through August 31. FUEL OIL Period 4 and 5 coupons from 1U-J4-45 coupon sheets, valid and Period 4 and 5 coupons from 1043-44 coupon sheets (red) are valid through August .31. SHOES Airplane Stamps 1, 2 and 3. Book 3, each valid for one pair indefinitely. AUTOMOBILES Price ceil ings on used cars effective now. Cail local boards price and ration ing board for ceiling prices. TIRES All passenger car and commercial vehicles eligible for recaps and tubes without certifi cates. B. and C holders eligible for synthetic rubber tires. GASOLIXE Bo, B7, BS, C6 C7 and C8 coupons valid for five gallons each. A1G coupons valid for six gallons each through Sep tember 21. B6 and C6 expire June 30. Ration boards now ac cepting applications for increased B rations All coupons must be indorsed on face with name and state and license number. More Banker Help For 4-H Clubs County Bond Sales Nearly Reach Quota Bankers of Nebraska who hie coopciatcd with 4-H Club boys and k rls for several years past, in connect on with the annual 4-11 Fat St.uk show in Omaha, will be askeii to aid the young stock raisers in financing a new ven ture., this year. Heretoijie the bankers have sent free a yearly subscription for the official 4-H paper to the group leaders and have directly financed many Ak-Sar-Ben show contestants in buying and feed ing calves and pigs for the show. This year, something new has been added. The Union Stcck Yards Company of Omaha, in response to requests frum club leaders and county agents, will hold a calf sale to make better grades of calves more readily available to 4-11 boys and girls. This sale is planned for October 31st and Xevember lt at tli South Omaha yards with about, 3,000 fine selected calves on sale. This new plan will not only save time and travel for county agents and 4-II leaders in buying calves, but should tend to . improve the quality of stock raised and shown at the annual fall shows. The Nebraska State Bankers association will urge its members to cooperate in financing purchas es of calves at this sale by 4-H boys and girls. The 18th Annual Ak-Sar-Ben Club fat stock show has been set this year for October 3-4-5th at the Union Stock Yards in South Omaha and it is expected that 500 or more 4-H Club boys and. girls will have entries of beef and swine for this event. The Ak-Sar-Ben committee will shortly send out its announcements, together with the lists of prizes to be offered. Nebraska individual seventh War Bond sales as reported by Federal Reserve through July 2 shows that Cass county with an , individual quota of $758,000 sold! $73S,2;6 or 97 per cent, of quota.) The report on "E" Bond sales j for the same period amount to! $52S.30 or 101 percent of the; que La set of $523,000. County War Bond Sales Chair-j man Walteer II. Smith says that) ueiayeci reports win nrooaDiy bring the total above this figure. Suspect Confesses To Schuyler Killing CORN NOT KNEE HIGH LINCOLN. Neb.. (U.R). S'met; SCHUYLER, Neb., 'U.R.1 Hen ry, M. McCandless, 20, sought in the death of David Martin, 23, signed a tonfe-sion Tuesday at Seattle, Wash., claiming that he beat Martin to death on the Me Mann carnival grounds at Col umbus last week, Colfax County Attorney Walter B. Sadilek said Thursday. Boon to Vacationists five ner cent of Nebraska's corn, which traditionally should be knee-high July 4. remains stunted by the cold, wet weather which plagued farmers during early summer weeks, according to ag ronomy Professor T. A. Kissel bach at the State Agricultural college. me veteran corn breeder was not, however, pessimistic about! th 1945 crop. Despite adverse conditions, he said, the corn stand j over the state generally is good.j The wet sub-soil will resist! drought, he said, pointing out that' the cold, wet years of 1917 andi 1919 produced large crops. j HELEXA, Mont.. i'J.Rj Gov. Sam C. F'ord believes that the growth of airlines after the war will make Montana, with its many dude ranches, lakes and other outdoor attractions, one of the greatest recreation and vacation centers of the nation. Ho ward Davis Insuraace In come Tax Service Rubbinz It In BEVERLY, Mass.. tU.R) Ev eryone knows there is a meat shortage, but a Beverly market owner must have been trying to rub it in when he advertised as his only available meat: "Pigs Ears No points required." AUGUST 10TH New Safety Vehicle Law goes into effect. If you do not have auto insurance, get it now. SEE SEARL S. DAVIS ::."'.-;"-:-..--. . . . : V J'-': '-if as i j r . IS- . : ?: f' : f -. ; ft Mens Sailor Straws U ' 'Ihe rarest bird in the straw hat field. 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