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II I P i 1 h t) E C C t I s i i PAGE TWO THE JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1946 The Plattsmouth Journial ESTABLISHED 1881 Published semi-weeklvir Mondays and. Thursday, at 409-413 Min Street, Piatts:mout.!i. Cass County, Ne biaska, by 'The Journal Publishing Company.. LESTER A. WALKER Publisher B. J. ALCOTT General Manager rather Entered at Hie Postoffic at Plattsmouth Nebraska is second class jt) mattei in accordance wit tnt Act ot Congress 01 March i,, li9. UBSCfUPIJ0N RATE: S3 per year. u!i outs iie uii Plaitsmouth trade area. cash in advance. Dy 1 he Hausing Outlook 'jTospects for now housing still soenr'as much a matter of guesswork as efer, :ven alter President Truman nas ftjuwa-il' or removed most of the coi.t.'is.-i't.rliaps tne most optimistic gues "w'ouid be that , construction of liewdw'elliiigs will pursue the course which., food followed after price, de control more abundance and higher priced ' That, we repeat, is optimistic. The dem'id for housing, unlike the simi liar demand for meat, cannot be sat isfied almost overnight. Substitutes for a ph.ee of one's own are decidedly less -atisiactory than substitutes for steak-- And there is no' abundant sup ply of buillding materials comparable to the abundance of cattle on the rane in this last days of OPA. The. outlook would be pleasanter if th formerly scarce foods had 'ev eled'off at a price which showed only a reasonable advance. Unfortunately, that hasn't happened yet- And there is nojeason to believe that the slower process of house building will not keep price?-' inflated for a matter of years. sr4 than wefefe . br( hiQnt.ljs, It has beinaid with an' i uncom- "forta))ly. accurate-sound; of true pro phecy, that the President was inviting a boom and bust in. housing and real estate by. his decision. Yet what was he to do? Certainly the controlled hous ing Program wasn't doing the job. The intention, of course, was to do everything for the veteran, and do it first. The program proceeded on the assumption that most veterans Wanted to buy houses. Dwellings p'anned un er the first price ceilings could scarcely have been livable, what with present material and labor costs. And the ev entual ceiling of $10,000 didn't provide any dream houses. It is scarcely to be wondered that l many house hunting. veterans, perhaps a ma jority, decided that they couldn't or wouldn't saddle themselves with such an obligation for a house whose value was almost certain to depreciate sharply in a short time. Now, new houses will be more ex pense e. They will, be too expensive. But perhaps the cost of building or buying them' will now be borne by persons better able to stand the cost than youngsters only recently back from war. The new uncontrolled and decon trolled program may at least open up some rental properties for veterans. Many families, of older householders expanded during the war and are now badly in need of larger quarters. If a considerable poition of those families are aole to assume the obligations of new and more adequate dwellings, the unhopeful prognosis of our housing ills at least may not be-hopeless- Where Do We Go From Here? 0NIARAlf6 IN CM v ...... ft, Ed son's Washington Column 5 -l , S 1' 1 V4 wo .'. .1719 1 V t- t i i. . VjsJ'-sc J I I - j '' Si:,' Ii: h ' I I BY PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent Fdson 1 fc' - . bitw.o.od ; Jack Hays vva called to Super ; ior. Stmuay bj- a messag-e sayir.gr that his mother. Mrs. lien Hays j had been taken to a hospital, and ! that 5he was ser iously ill. Veine Amick. of FuIIerton VrfASIIIN'GTON, D. C. (NEA) Objections to the expansion'of social .security benefit provisions in labor union contracts arc many and varied. - Hugged individualists s;iy all this is babying, and that it tends to make people shiftless. i Kmployers who have been carrying on disability and pension plans of their own are inclined to say, 'We have been doing this on our own accord for a number of years. Why bother to put it into union contracts?" ( Kmoloyers whose private insurance plans have been successfully administered and who have built up considerable good will with their employes as a result may be reluctant to give them up. One of the most interesting aspects of such situations, how ever, is that some employers who have been most advanced in this activity have been the hardest hit by their employes in recent strikes International Harvester and General Electric offer outstanding examples. Employers who have done nothing about insurance for their em ployes frequently say, "We can"t afford it. Business conditions don't permit such expenditures." , rriIE principal objection from management, however, is that any" increased insurance provided by employers on an individual eny. pany or industry-wide b;;sis is a double tax, in conflict with the present demand for increased government social security deductions, and contrary to congressional proposals for government health insur ance plans. ' t This argument was heard particularly when the CIO Steelworkers put in their demands for a comprehensive health and welfare plan during the war. In effect, the steel companies said, '"Wait a minute. Which way are we going"' Are we going to have more state and federal government social security, covering all the people? Or shall there be a return of social security planning for employes by their employers? Let Congress determine a national policy on this, then go on from there." ' Congress, however, has not yet seen fit to decide which way social security should grow. The issue may be prominent in the new Congress. v " ' 4 "N'E real legal tangle that may have to be cleared by Congress before much further advance is made in non-governmental social security plans is whether insurance is interstate commerce. In summary, the need for government regulation of union-private industry social insurance will come only if there is a multiplication of abuses under the various trustee systems set up to control funds set aside for sickness, disability or retirement insurance in labor : contracts. j Another remote prospect is that all such group insurance plans i will be taken over by the government, for rdministration as under I tMc Railroad Retirement plan. , - their first house drink since 1911. Sterling- Amick, who spent Thanks- ! An oh! Munich custom iiPi-mit givi' - Day with his pat ents, Mr. -howcry workers to drink a ct?r- i' and Mrs. Sterling Am. cic. has been : tain amount of the products of sent U) Korea. j their lab jr. Mr.; Jack Cohen and Uvo small : Rat. the other complaints still sons, have teen confined to '..heir homo with the flu. They spent An innerspring mattress is de- When baiting a moltburrowitis signed to supply two-thirds of the total resilience of an ordinary mat tress and sprins combination. It should be used with a rather firm stand. As U.-n-r as they do stand, j spring and should be well padded, the strength of Bavarian morale important not to collapse it. A hole should be made intheside of the burrow with the fingers, a piece of bait inserted, and the. hole covered with a handful of '.t ' T iv. 3W. . vi ' siiiwi ; jv.w . la (U"s If the News and Observer'of Raleigh, N. C, were to lose the services of linotype operator James Hayes, 'the staff shudders' to think what woidd happen to the editorial page. lie is the on! man on thelstalT who can decipher the handwriting of Publisher Josephus Daniels, right, dean ci North Carolina editors, former Secretary of the Navy and ambassador to Mexico. Daniels writes his edi torials .and columns in longhand, and a wretche d "fist" it is, as inserts, above, show. But years of experience make it duck soup for Hayes, pictured left, composing a Daniels editorial. I Christmas Day quietly at their own ar.d the size'of the Bavarian bay I was (hopv?. j w indn-v will continue to suffer. j here Sunday to attend the funt-r- ! o. C. Hinds was p.ble to come; The first complaint is that' al of his grandmother, Mrs. Min- ; to V'-epir"; Water, SuiKlav to at-'hser isn't beer any more." to-j r.ie i-.ngelkemeier. ! tend the tur.eval services for Mrs- ; dv.y's 1.7 pt i cent "thin beer" j Judge Paul Fauquet, and wife ; doj1 F'hiipot. He returned to Lin- :not only coir ares lamentably) : and family of Plattsmouth attend- ; coin with his son. Harold .Hinds. ;wUh the old 12 per cent vaneiy I ed the Christmas entertainment at ;m.vs. Hinds was unable to attend, .hat also is cor in calories. j the Weeping Water Congregation- Mr., 1 Mrs. TIpion Powers,! Aiided to that it cost four times j : al Church, Sunday evening. nrj j.glite;-, of Denver, are the pi ice formerly- paid for a baer ! i Rey. arret Mrs. .Jacob Badzar, of j srwiy. rr.g the holdiays with Tip- ! times as strong-. A pcasa.-.t j Crete, spent Thursday at the home ; ton's- parents, Mrl and Mr 3. Ear l rr-i-t sell five quarts of whole milk I i of Rev. a.i-1 Mrs. John C. Prvor. i t.. ,.c " to buy one (luart of beer. i - . - - ,r i V ' TV V i V? . I Rev. Calr.ar is a brother of Mrs. Mr aUtj jrvg. Gerald Joigenscn i Bavarians, of ouise, never con j Pryor. ;an,i .laughter-. Jerry Lou. of Lin- ! ide-red bet-r a luxury. It was a Jolly Home Makers Extension coin, and Mr.;. Reginald Jorgen- i necessity. The idiom for absolute j Club "met Friday at the home . sen. and two daughters. Sandra hopelessnes is "hopfen an.lmalz j of Mrs. George Miller for a cne j Lynre and Kftthrine. enjoyed the jVerloien"- (hope and malt lost.) i n'rlnpk Phi-Utmas T.'in. heon after i Chi istmas dinner at the home of , means things have come to a I which ther e was a gift exchange their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Jack land a shower for one of their ; Jorg nscri. i members, Mrs. Willis Lorensen. ; Mr. and M.-s. Lloyd Ranney en j Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Dwycr spent tertalnt'd Mr. and Mrs. Sam Lingo Christmas Day at the home of a id family of Elair Mr. and Mrs. Miss Barbara Gering. in Platts- t Ranney "s1 2-lias Margaret Ran mouth. j Mr. and Mrs. J 1 of LaMosa, Texas, V. Richson. arrived Tues- i Mark vSics: Mr. and Mrs. J.M. ne- for ( "hrislmas tlinnc-r-. v- J?s H f :Mi i- Pre War Lager, Bavarians Claim (UP). of choan c.iou-'li w.is settl? 1 when I i: c v. ei : k( i s were ali"we j t'ay. to spend the holidays at Ihe j t w 1 home of their son-in-law and dau- : L?r ?J0. I . ghter, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Amb- ; 2JtVt i .UL f-i'lVC ler. i ; Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Ludwick : and family, left Sunday for Cor- , i dova, Illinois, to spend a week at ; the liorne of Mrs. Ludwick's par ents. Mr. and Mrs. George L5ru- ' ner. Mrs. Elmer Worman spent the ; Christinas dav attending a family I reunion at Palmyra. j j Miss Eloise Pool, mathemalie ' A A A Al C.,- TT:..ft..Ui. msi; l'.'-ior, ai ine oiaie unn ciauji ! at Lincoln, and her sister. Miss . illazel Pool, instructor at Geneva. came home Saturday, and the jfami' had their Christmas celc ' bration Saturday evening at ihe ; homi of their parents. Mv. and ! Mrs. Clarence. Pool. -; Mrs. E. J. DeWolf is visiting her daughter in Plattsmouth. George Sdl. and his son Lloyd, left Sunday for Indianapolis, Ind iana, to visit Mrs. LoRoy Sell and the grandson. Mr and Mrs. Dan Sudduth had as their Christmas Day guests, their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Downs, and fam ily, of Lincoln and their sons, and wives. Mr. and Mrs. Don Ku lduth ami .wo sons; Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd i ... . ;ssd stall. I And that they have done on the leer' front, since Bavarians for ' merely drank beer as a substitute frr butter ami m.at. Beer and , h.ead were always favorite mid ' morning -breakfa.-t and supper i staples. Another popular meal was I beer soup, made of beer, beaten eggs, sugar, starch and cloves, t A. other result of the beer shor- LINE IS KCT ALWAYS THE SHORTEST D15TAUC& BETWEEN TWO PQitttSf. CM THE EARTH'S GLOBE, , THE SHOKIESTPISTANCE. BETWEEN ANY TA'J PJINTS 15 A CUKVSD J.ASS... A LINE WHICH IF CONTINUED TJ -UAKl A COMPLETE OZCLZ vva'iD divide: THE EARTH INTO TWO EXACTLY EJ'JAL tage i l eduction in mil's deliver - jies, because faint ers doing heavy ! labor ever y day ar e drinking milk , where thev once drar k beer. ! i)og Catcher FMIed f;vanston, in. iiP Chief dog The first catcher Jphn Hoffman fired two Mt'MCII. 1c.;"- llr.o cf compai'-ts ahov-t fnots at tne rattlesnake coiled on Pmarir.ii Leer it's neither ;l;n i-'" citizen's lawn, approached cau ful enougli. strong enough n o r ' tiou..ly to investigate, and found T3 DZY TOPECX CCXCZZTL COPR. 196 BY NEA SERVICE. IC ! T. M. REG. U. S. PAT. OFF. AEAMS PELICAN." THE RCCK CSiCE WAS A CCUMOU HASITATCF THESE BIRDS. 12-33 the plaster paris scare "Made in Texas." labeled, NEXT: How lone is a year2 S3SJ HIT! MA-6I4 Air Force Now Aiding Civilians TOIvYOlr The junked Japan- NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING The annual eeting of the Stockholder of the Platts mouth Loan and HuUding Association in Plattsmouth, eases, radio sets and new coin, aluminum mixed with the 23 000 j 7,aSS County Nebraska on Thousands of tons of scrap, the tons of part pr imary aluminum ! Mcnay, January 6, 1947 at battered remains of Japan's war .stock in the hands of the fabri- 8 P-' for election of Direr. ....v., j,,,,,,, c-jcaxors. io prrmary aluminum is Tors and all othr rp(ri,hr business will be transacted. 7hs colorful native eosfumej of the Swiss completely capture the fancy of visiting Army Regulars, on -nouah from occupation duties in Germany. An opportunity to ."tee the world" can become a realization to tuna, men between 18 and 34 yeorg of age, inclusive, -who enilit in the new. Regular Army. jgtu-0j Junked Nip auction plant sand roiling mills in ! hins nrndnrefi in Tarv.,,n tr,.i.. ! .TMrijin wilV, .,,.1.. . l , . . ,- 1 . . ocLuuuai y tllLllliUluill for the manufacture of light metal products. , Secondary aluminum being pro- ese air force, from Zeros to heavy j duced at a rate of 750 to 760 tons monthly. Allied headquarters dis- !:.( d. Must of the light metal rolled products now reaching the local bomber. ---i beginning to down black rnaTnel pi ice.i by providing the market with peaceful daily needs ranging from pots and pans to bicycles, toys, clocks, cigarette , markets are made from secondary . Shoes are said to take the big gest hunk out of the average Am erican's clothing budget account ing for sfven-and-a-half per cent of the numey spent by the average person for wearing apparel. Srcrir for th Journal C. A. Johnson President Attest: M. D. Brown '' Secry-Treas. 5 1 Si 1; I i -y Right Now "7 i yj..-5i-je. AW 1 51 mm is the logical time to buy an OVERCOA T -Because all o oar winter wea ther is siill ahead o us-you'll need it. Furthermore you can own a coat now at the old price levels. WIten the new set-up or nest Fall comes round you'll ap preciate your purchase. We have noShistg but All Vool Coats The Last Word in to $fcg-50 Style and Comfort C ik r'.'.-.ivw?, ; - Wrf- Green i racing Stamps White Shirts Since 1879