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THE JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUT!!, NEBRASKA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1946 PAGE SIX By Mildred Hall III in California Mrs. A. Dove Asch, who makes Tier home in Los Angeles, Cali fornia with her niece, Edith Eaman Purviance, is under treat ment in a sanitorium where she has been bedfast for some time. She has received many greetings and letters from Cass county friends and old neighbors which have given her a great deal of pleasure. Returns from Kansas Raymond Cook, grand high priest of the Royal Arch Masons of Nebraska, spent several days in Topeka, Kansas, where he attend ed the grand chapter of the Royal Arch Masons of Kansas. Assist Farmer Members of the Friendly Farm ers Unit of the Farm Bureau went to the home of Ford V. Heim, who has been ill with pneumonia since January 4, to husk a field of corn last Monday. When the husking was finished, ladies of the group perved the men with a hot lunch. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. William Halmes, Peter Halmes, La Verne Kennedy, Mr. and Mrs. John Halmes, Billy Halmes, Art Sprieck, Otto Petereit, Marvin Petereit, Earl Selby, Gordon Wil coxen, Clyde Meisinger, Mr. and Mrs. August Siemoneit, Mr. and Mrs. John Pai-kening, Ralph Park ening, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Weiss, Mrs. Art Weiss, Emil Schmidt and Fritz Siemoneit. Mr. and Mrs. John Parkening were hosts to eighteen members and two guests of the Friendlv Farmers Unit of the Farm Bureau j at its regular meeting last Friday. I The road situation was dis-' cussed and the recent taxpayers; II fHI I 1 1 Ir 3 T IV i tl ri in l , o nn Heim, who has been ill in the hos-! pital with pneumonia for the past five weeks. roLo"-;.-. i?,? buiir.es meeting the . . t..' 'ii t-. !., a discussed by the group. Plans were,the members made donations with j made to husk the remaining corn a total of 38 dozen eggs, three for one of the members. Ford V iars of nickles, 1 cake, four dozen TOUGH DURABLE COMFORTABLE PLAIN or CAP TOE . $4?; Quality Footwear iiKiiBiiuBiiiamiiiiiiiBiiiaaiiaiiiajiaBiBa::; BUY YOUR VITAMINS AT CASS DRUG EVERSHARP SKYLINE Fountain Pen and Pencil Sets $1.50 to $1475 Not for life but forever i 50c 1Q Vitalis Palmolive Shampoo IPANA Tooth Paste ...... Anacin Tablets 100 for Rayne Creme Shampoo Powder Puffs 6 for a H I I i if I Coty Face Powder t 00 YOUR PRESCRIPTION PRUG STORE if Phone 45 spent playing cards. Refreshments were served by the hosts. Th next meeting will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Schmidt on March R when the top ic for discussion will be "Soil Con servation." Welcoming Party Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Lepert, who were recently married, were welcomed to their home communi ty when friends' and neighbors went to their home Wednesday eve ning for a party. The evening was spent getting acquainted with Mrs. Lepert and treats of candy and ci gars were passed by the hosts. Guests Leave Mrs. J. J. Smock and her son, Harold, of Downing, Mo., and her daughter, Mrs. Keener Price and her sons, Keener and Kenneth, of Memphis, Mo., left Wednesday for their homes after spending the past week in Plattsmouth at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Smock and with Mr. and Mrs. William Henricksen of Omaha. Harold Smock will go into the armed forces sometime during this month. Flower Club Meeting Mrs. Joe Sikora was hostess to members of the Social Workers Flower club at its regular meet ing held at her home on February 13. Mrs. George Mumm assisted in serving the two-course lunch. Mrs. Sam Gilmore, president of the club, presided at the meeting I opened with the group singing America and a prayer. Reports !of the secretary and treasurer were read and approved and a re port was heard on the donations made to the Service Center at the Union station in Omaha through the Plattsmouth canteen. All of cookies and $1.50 in cash. Three members assisted in making sand-; wiches. Two dollars were also; iven to the March of Dimes cam- paign. Patterns for quilt blocks Jjj j. ii H THAT STAND THE GAFF! 0 UP n 1 Shoe Repair liVLKiauiiiiiiK!!:!!!:::!;.:::!: vls S'g Self Polishing FLOOR WAX And POLISH Quart ..... 59c Dries hard with high gloss in a few minutes. 3 ll ii Pj g 1 Fever 4 00 Thermometer Wildroot Creme Oil, 60c Size Fitch Shampoo 75c Size 49c 59p Johnson Baby Oil 2.00 Size I69 Peruna Tonic 1.25 Size 98 Grove's Cold A fit Tablets, GOz Size Vaseline Hair Tonic, 70c Size .... 6$ D U shoe were given each member to piece twelve blocks. Five visitors, Mrs. Walter Mar tin, Mrs. Jim Gochenour, Mrs. Elmer Ilafka, Mrs. Stanley Lepert and Mrs. Dorothy Rumph, and fourteen mambers we're present at the meeting. Mrs. JimLepert will be the hos tess at the all-day -quilting party at her home when each member will bring a covered dish for the noon meal. Here for Funeral Mrs. Ted Akeson was in Flatts mouth to attend the funeral ser vices for Walter Ilickev held on Thursday afternoon at the Sattler funeral home. Arrives Home Arthur Capper, th? son of Mrs. Cieo Capper, arrived home Wed nesday afternoon following his d;charge from the navy at the Great Lakes senaration center earlier in the week. Receives Discharge Wayne Gorton arrived home on Tuesdav from service with the army. He receive 1 his discharge at Fort Logan, Colo. Breakfast Club The Credit Women's Breakfast club had its regular meeting at Phil's Cafe Wednesday evening, with eighteen members present. Miss Ann Hassler, president, had charge of the business meeting fol lowing the dinner served !y the staff at the cafe. Mrs. Sig Xelson had charge of the lesson and discussed as her subject, 4'The Part Personality Plays in Business." The next meet ing will be held on March 12. Celebrates Birthday Geoige Taylor was honored on Irs r.Tih birthday Wednesday when h's liaughters surprised him with a ('inner party. The afternoon was snent xisiting and playing cards, v were Mrs. narrj Winscott. Mrs. Sherman V.'insrot, Mrs. Kenneth Downing sud her daughter. Donna Marie. ;rd Mrs. James Churchill and her two daughters, Karen Kay and Janet of Omaha and Mrs. Marion Sreck ard her daughter. Bonnis T. I ay !or of Plattsmouth. UNO Assembly Is Ready to Adji ourn LONDON (U.R) Nations assembly The United prepared to H adjourn sine die Thursday night, B (ringing down the curtain on five H weeks and one day work in Lon- don. g UNO officials arrived for a late night session to hear a fare ljwell address by British prime g minister Clement R. Attlee. The 11 ' arrangements were contingent on y the assembly completing its work a!on half a dozen matters before 10 j p.m. (4 p.m. est.) The assembly opened the plen g ary session and planned to sit un II til its work was done, reserving Ii, the late session for closing for H , malities. But all of the UNO work will j;not be done when the assembly m adjourns. H j The secretary council will sit i for two or three days more to con- ; sider charges by Syria and Le Bbanon that the presence of Anglo g j French troops there threatening i the peace. Family of Four Dies 1 In Fire Thursday ZION, 111 (U.R) A family of j Thursday by a fire which swept ;the two i story frame building where they lived. John Korunka, 39, his wife, Laberta, 37, and their children, Diana, 2-Vz and John, Jr., 11 months, apparently were over come by smoke and trapped by the blaze. They were caught in their second - floor apartment when flames roared up the stairway. The family on the first floor es caped without injury. Firemen, battling the flames in the midst of a blizzard, said the position of the bodies indicated that Mr. and Mrs. Korunka had sacrificed their chance to flee in a vain effort to rescue the chil dren. Firemen said the blaze ap-over- parently was caused by heated furnace. an Committee Approves 65 Cent Increase In Minimum Wage WASHINGTON, OJ.R) The sen ate labor committee Thursday ap proved a bill to raise the minimum wage to 65 cents an hour. It add ed amendments which would bring between . 2,000,000 and 4,000,000 additional workers und er the wage hour law. The present state mmimum wage is 40 cents an hour. Chair man James E. Murray, D., Mont., said the bill probably will be ready for senate action next Monday. In its present form the bill pro vides for. an immediate change in the wages and hour law to put the 1 Calendar If your club or organization is having i meeting or party you would like in cluded in the Calendar, please call the Journal at 6 or 45. V.'etl be glad to have it. Thursday, February 14 Women's Auxi'iarv and St. Mary's Guild of St. Luke's Epis copal church will meet at the hoive of Mrs. Frank Cummins. 2:"D m. Goldenrod Studv Club at the rhome of Mrs. Will Minford at Murray. 2::i0 p.m. Catholic Information Course. Holy Rosary Parish Hall. 2 p. m. and 8 n. m. Open to the pub'ic. Mvnard Farm Riin-a'i Unit. My nard Community II. i1! S . in. Friday, February 15 American LeHon Auxiliar if ot 8 dub. 8 p. m. Okihi Campfire council five at Central Building auditorium. Pub lic invited. 8 p. in. tL fWl j0k KM 3 A&A I ' JL. S i ; Notices DISCHARGED your old tank VETERANS. GET back! This time in the new Regular Arm-. Re-enlist within three month of disc-hare; and you come back in with you' former stiipes rs permanent rank. You get family allowances f( i- your deperdents. Sr0 foi each year of ra;t service, in.-onu-tvx exemptions, fro? hospitaliza tion, clothing, food, shelter, and eorly retirement benefits. Your best peacetime job is the Regular Army. Act now. within the thiee morth noiiod. You can choose a 12. IS. 24, or month enlist ment. Contact vonr IT. S. Army Recruiting Office, 1510 Doug las Street. Omcha, at once. GAMES IMP TV Center. Th ?ea ,41rt.v '''-j'nlv-1 "'.'4 .1 LOST: BLACK TPCKET BOOT'. Contains keys .and. valuables. Call oC'J or leave,' at Jfurrsl Offi-je. - WANTED R E S P O N S I B L E .nartv- to wash apnrox. 12 hand towels ner week. Seo Postmaser. HOT'SEKEEPF. W A N crll or wtite Mrs. (ilea T E D, Pprry, Artirlet for Sale 20 tural gas heater with vent. A C a''re acreage go ii house, we chicken conn, on navement, close in. Louis Naeve Th. 14S. FOR SALE: 127- CHEVROLET coupe with box on back. 2 new tires, flood running ordr. Also poitnble electri: washer. Phono 2S4W. 14-2td . I HOTEL BAR FRESH FISH sandwiches. 8-tf APPROXIMATELY 100 LOADS well rotted horse manure located south ed-re of Plattsmouth. I'i-o" for hauling. Oakmont Farm Ph. 596. A-l LUMBER. ALL SIZES dimensions. Tlywood. Parts Cabinets. Work benches, ders. Phone iOiJ. AND Pins. Lal- BARBS tV MAI. fM'jXM- pERTAIN people tell the trutu uncertain ones are likely not to. e - An Ohio man was arrested after robbing 24 homes in one week. Working too hard is sure to get you. The New York Purchasing De partment offered 2500 white mice for sale. Think of the mothers who will jump up on kitchen chairs. - And now the moon has been contacted by radar. Are there any homes for rent? 7 w v '"-i.'-'j A Los Angeles man asked di- him $5 for each kiss. Is that ex- nrtlv fair fiv smarkprs fnr nno' minimum wage at G5 cents per ; hour for two years. At the en 1 i of that time the minimum would rise to 70 cents an-hour for the next two years, after which it would go to 75' cents at the be-' iir"1' of the f'h .yc:v. I'.lluvvin -passage. An amendment introduced by Senator Claude Pepper, D., Fla., extends coveraure to include cer tain type of retail establishments. Read Journal Vant Ads i A Lady Defective Gets "Goods" on Wayward Wives CHICAGO, (U.R ."Who was ! that man I seen you with last j ! night?" Is a question that put? ! J much more than $"4 into the ; pockets of Mrs. Lillian Thomas. She is a ladv detective, and u Igrandmaw. And o"d looking. : With the divorce rate booming ! i Mrs. Thomas's income is blooming, j i Her job is to find out if there ; anything tall, dark and handsome' ' in wives' lives. j j "There was the Chicago judge whose wife ran av.-ay.J,' she re- i called, "she win d him from Phoe- j '.nix, asking for more money. j ! l,I went out there. I had a pic ture ot her and she was a strikirt ; ; type, so I knew her instantly. It; 'wasn't long before we were close j friend. ! 'This wife she must have beer! a trarnn before she was married j would hang around bars, collecting i men. Sh3 always paid the bill. But; I she lived in the rattiest lit'le ho-; t'L I moved over there to keen a line on her. Had to keep the light- on all night, so many vermin crawling around." Mrs. Thomas explained that shej meant cockroaches. ; "It's a funny thing." she said, "hut you get mountains of evi dence on some woman, and then j the husband doesn't do anything' about it. Generally, he takes hei back." " The da'ntv detective could be i atomic bombs because they are "a prejudiced. When she was gettinc : vital and integral" part of army her divorce 12 years aco. she ordnance. Patterson told the sen used a detective rgency. In heriae atomic energy committee that cae. when she got the evidence l ike war department strongly op sin? got a divorce. Then she wem to wotk for "It seems think of any their money, the agency. wealthy men can't other wav to spend so they have theii wives sl a b-wed. just to know what they're doing. "Of course, I felt sorry for one hush? nd His wife w is plain.; sick. Said she was about to have a nervous, break-down. I was called in a a 'nur.- e.' "What an act she'd put on hm.over her huskard was i-i the L ' ' ' - n '' i v.-oivjm all quiet and nice. She wa trying to gut h.i- sympathy. Instead, got his goat. nj ''I don't carry a trun. but this.i;, right hand and suffered cuts was one case on which I wished ; about the face when the bomb ex I'd had me." ' jploded. Oklahoma Tornado Causes Wide Damage not crtain whether the vision was affected. ARDMORE, Okla., (U.R) Okla-1 Lanning found the bomb, neat homa highway patrol officers : lv wrarned and bearine a cost of- Thur: day estimated at more thanfice ppecial delivery stamp, when ;N3; .200,000 damage from a tornado picked up his mail at his Eding which struck Ardmore early Wed- ton hotel apartment Wednesday nesday, destroying 30 homes and injuring 10 persons. One of the injured, Frank Bell 1 05, was reported in critical condi tion, but other victims were re leased from hospitals after emer gency treatment Arumore, a town of 20,000 in South Central Oklahoma near the Texas border, was isolated from the rest of the state for several hours yesterday nyirninj when telephone and power lines were disrupted. Oklahoma highway official? said the storm centeied in th1 southeastern residential district uprooting homes and sidewalks. Thirty homes were demolished and abbut 150 structures, includ ing several business buildings, were damaged. The extension service of the University of Illinois reports that shagbark hickory and white oak are among the best fuel woods. Other good fuel woods are black walnut, black locust, osage orange, ash, maple, sycamore and honey locust. HOTICE . . . We Have A Limited Number of And Can Book Orders for 1 Future Delivery NOW IS THE TIME TO BOOK YOUR CHICKS SO YOU WILL BE ABLE TO GET THEM WHEN YOU WANT THEM. We Are Booking ' HILL CHICKS When you get HILL CHICKS you don't guess ... Yen I --.now you arc getting the BEST. PLATTSMOUTH CREAM ED Y "The Home of Casco Butter" tl i a New York Tugboat Crews Return to Work Again Friday NEW YORK, OJ.R) Striking tugboat crews returned to work Thursday ending a 10-day walkout that resulted in a critical fuel shorts re in New York City and forced a suspension of normal business activity for IK hours. Mayor William O'Dwver an nounced the end of the strike at 7:15 p. rn. Thursday after both sides had agreed to submit the di-pute to arbitration by a three ir.nn board. A few hours later the mayor' emergency fuel committee lifted all rest rift ions on light fuel eil deliveries to horr.e and apart ments, abolished the citywide brownout beginning at 0 p. m. and ordered resumption of heat ing in subway trains and street cai s. Rationing coal End heavy fuel oil used in industrial and commer cial buildings will continue until i existing supplies have been in i creased. j Schools in the citv, which had ! been closed since Friday, reopened i Thursday. Decision to reopen the I schools was made yesterday after ; noon prior to the settlement of the i strike. i . Army Wants to Keep Atom Bombs WASHINGTON. OJ.R) Secretary of State Robert P. Patterson said Thursday that the army wants to hang on to "present stocks" of noses a bill of Chairman Brien Mc Mahon, D.. Conn., which would transfer domestic control of atomic energy from the military to a civilian commission. FBI Investigates "Valentine" Bomb WICHITA. Kas. (U.R Local and federal authorities Thursday investigated the possibility that a disgruntled landlord might have mailed a handmade bomb, wrap red in valentine trimmings, to OPA Area Rent Adjustment Of ficer Wavne I-anniner. 50. Lanning, in serious condition at St. Francis hospital, lost part of Hospital attendants said a piece ! of shrapnel or glass tore into j Lanning's right eye and they were morning. The package bore a re turn address, ''Ruth, Lassen hotel, Wichita.'' Live Stock Reports Omaha Doge Saleable 7,500. Market on hoSs steading at ceiling $14.50. Cattle Saleable 6,000. 200 Calves. Slaughter classes cattle generally steady. Good and choice steers $14.75 to $17.25. Sheep Saleable 15.000. Little done as yet on slaughter classes. Early bids around 25c lower. Good and choice fed wooled lambs held above $11.50. Kansas City Hogs Saleable 500. Market steady at ceiling of $14.55. Cattle Saleable 2,000. 200 calves. All classes cattle generally ALL TYPES OF INSURANCE Call or Set ERWIN SIEMERS PLATTSMOUTH PHONE 5 OUT OUR WAY OH. 1 BEG WHY. HE'S YOUR. 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