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J. THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, JOURNAL PAGE FOUR " " Thursday, February 12, 1948. ouhvUk Mrs. Bessie Core Mr. Wm. Wirth went to Oma ha Sunday and brought Mrs. Wirth home from tfce hospital. She has been there for two weeks. Mrs. Paul Doty returned home Sunday from the hospital, where she was taken for treatment. Harold Sell, student at ' the University of Nebraska, spent the week end here with his par ents, Mr. arid Mrs. Jesse Sell. Geo. Schoeman was in Omaha Saturday to spend the day with Mrs. Schoeman, who has been in '.the Methodist hospital for the past month. Mrs. Robert Sprecker and family of Omaha came Friday and spent the week end with her brother, A. D. Etenash and Mrs. Benash. MPS. J. F. McShane, Mrs. E. H. Worthman .Mrs. H. W. Worth man, John and Susan and Will aid McShane were shopping in Omaha Saturday. Miss Irma Nelson of Mitchell, Nebraska was a weekend guest of Miss Louise Thurman. The girls are friends at Wesleyan University. Fine Portraits $5.00 A Dozen And Up Fridays, 1 to 6 P. M. Saturday, 1 to 8:30 P. M Plattsmouth Hotel E. M. BLANCHARD Mgr. COLVIN-HEYN STUDIO Hans Staben went to Omaha Saturday and spent the weekend with Mrs. Staben, who had just been released from the hospital. He returned home Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Griffin and ba by have moved to Louisville from Blair and are living in their trailer house on the O'Bri en property. Mr. Griffin is em ployed on the big contract for the Omaha Public Power dis trict. Rev. Jerry Pace of the Metho dist church began his work at Wesleyan University Monday, Feb. 2. He will take work there this semester. Dennis Wehrmann came from Lincoln to spend the weekend with his mother, Mrs. Erna Wehrmann and his two sister, Feme and Violet. Dennis is working on his Master's degree at the university. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Gosch are occupying the Larson property on Main street vacated by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Larson. They have been in Arizona but have returned to Nebraska to make their home. They formerly lived on a farm near Springfield. Mrs. Benton Hutchison re turned to the Methodist hospital in Omaha this week for treat ment. Louis Gadway wa s a passen ger on the late bus to Omaha Monday going up for treatment. Mrs. Manford Hutchison re turned home early this week from a Lincoln hospital. She has been there several days. Herbert Eager went to Oma ha Friday and brought back the household goods and dental off ice equipment for Dr. W. J. Sny der, who has returned to Louis ville and reopened his dental office here in the Worthman building. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Schoepp ner drove to Templeton, Iowa Walter H. Harold R. Smith & Lebens Attorneys-at-Law Donat Bldg. - Plattsmouth Tforee-fco-Orae Odds Against Any Weatiher TOSCO AH-Metal, Self Storing Combina tion Screen and Storm Sash Against cold, heat or draft, RUSCO combination windows offer superb protection. 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Available now ia attractive blends and solid colors Foj Full Information and Free Estimates, - write: 1 on Wednesday of last week to attend the funeral of an uncle of Mr. Schoeppner. Mrs. Earl Baker of Omaha has entered a hospital for an operation. Mrs. Baker is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hutchison of Louisville. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gardner Jr. left Wednesday for Californ ia, where they will visit with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brammer. Mrs. Brammer and Mrs. Gard ner are sisters. Lttle Carol Gard ner is staying with her grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Hennings, while her parents are gone. Harry Wirth was a dinner guest at the Lester Wagoner home Sunday. Jim Ingram was ill last week. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Heim are driving a new Chevrolet club coach bought this week. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Zastera and Mrs. Zulemma Dye of Platts mouth went to Lincoln Saturday to attend the graduation exer cises for the mid-year class at the University of Nebraska. Miss Josephine Zastera received her Bachelor of Science degree with this class. Miss Josephine re ceived her degree in nursing last fall and is now Surgical Su pervisor at the University hos pital in Omaha. A position which she was given early last fall. Bud W irth and Mrs. Emil Hiers called on' Mrs. Wirth at the Methodist hospital Thursday. Mrs. H. W. Worthman and WiHard McShane were Omaha visitors Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Bob McShane and little son spent the week end visiting relatives in Louisville. Mrs. Lulla Campbell, mother of Mrs. Marcia Benash of Louis ville, passed away at Omaha on Wednesday, January 28th after an extended illness. Mrs. Camp bell, who had made her home with her daughter until her health became such that she needed hospital care, going to a hospital in Omaha last October. After treatment there she was moved to a nursing home, where she passed away. Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Shyrock and son moved to their home in the east part of town Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Ossenkop have rented the place vacated by the Shyrocks. Mr. and Mrs. John Luken, Gilbert Luken and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gaebel drove to Missouri on Tuesday to attend the funeral of Mrs. John Luken's brother-in-law. Mrs. Wm. Diekmann received a painful knee injury Monday last week. She was helping Mr. Diekman saw wood and the saw slipped striking her knee. Dr. Worthman dressed the injury. Kenneth Graham, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Graham is here spending a ten day leave with his parents south of town. Ken neth has completed his basic training at the Air ' Training Command at San Antono, Texas. After his leave he will report at Rapid City, South Dakota, for further training. Mrs. Kathryn Welte and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Welte were in Lincoln on Tuesday, where they attended the funeral of a brother-in-law of Mrs. Welte. Mrs. Hans Staben, who has been in the Methodist hospital in Omaha for some time has left the hospital and gone to the home of her son in South Omaha Monday was her birthday and she receved many letters and cards. LaRue Williams has accepted position as manager of the Farmers elevator here. Chauncey Woolhiser has ac cepted the job as water and street commissioner just vacated by LaRue Williams. W. S. Schwalm who has been managing the elevator lately will assist LaRue Williams un til he eets acquainted with his duties at the elevator. Albert Murray is driving a new Chrysler station wagon. Henry C. Gaebel was here from Lincoln on business last Thursday. Carl Sell visited the home folks between semester examinations t Wesleyan university. A. K. Frolich was here from Kansas City on business a couple of days last week. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Schroeder and Lois attended the show in Louisville Monday. Mrs. Walter Zimmerman and Joan, of Springfield, were here shopping Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Twiss spent the week end in Kansas City visiting Mr. and Mrs. No lan Hickman. Eugene Ingman, of Lincoln spent a few days here between semester examinations at the university. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Marquardt and children, of Avoca, visited Sunday with Mrs. Marquardt's mother, Mrs. Bedella Stander Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Mayfield and son of Omaha, were guests of Mr.' and-Mrs.-L. J. Mayfield for a short time Thursday evenr ing. Richard Brown, who entered the navy last month is now at San Diego, Calif., for training. Mrs. Benton Hutchison ' re turned to the hospital in Omaha last week for treatment. fclmwood MRS. "RACE PLYBON, Correspondent The Womans club met at the home of Mrs. Mattie Douglas last Thursday afternoon, Febr- ary 6th with 8 members pres ent. The main discussion was "Texas." The ladies of the official board of the W S. C. S. of the Metho dist church are to meet in the basement February 13th for their annual noon luncheon. Mrs. Lloyd Miller has been suffering with an abscessed ear but is under the -doctor's care and doing nicely. Mr. and Mrs. August Borne meier have purchased a home in Elmwood, known as the Den nis property. We welcome them to our midst. Mr. and Mrs Ralph Green were in Iowa City, Iowa, attend ing graduation exercises of their son. James, who completed his studies in engineering. The ladies of the "Friendly Neighbors" club of Weeping Wa ter met with Mrs. Charles Fleisch man on Thursday afternoon, Feb. 5th. Elmwood invited guests at this meeting were Mrs. Ellis Mil ler, Mrs. Nettie Mendenhall and Mrs. Lewis Hollenbeck. A nice time was had with "quiz" games and a dainty lunchoen was served by the hostess in keeping with the valentine season. The P. N. G. circle, will meet at the hall Thursday afternoon, Feb. 12th. This is initiation day and Miss Minnie Englekjng is the candidate. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Creamer were Sunday guests at his mo ther's. Mrs. Clara Creamer. Merle McCoy, who has boon in a Lancoin nospitai is nome. It is reported that Mrs. Grace Plybon is to start on her re turn trip from Califonia next week. Miss Alma Clemens had as guests Sunday Mrs. Emily Gon zales, Mrs. Ruth Manning, Miss Grace Wfood and Miss Rieke. In the evening Mr. and Mrs. Bud Clements were guests at the Clement's home. Mrs. Jfosie Miller has been on the sick list lately and has been having x-rays taken. Mrs. Minnie Rosenkoetter has been quite ill at her daugh ter's home, Mrs. . Walter Oehler king, where sne iS DemS cared Mr. Roll Miller is at Lincoln taking treatments and staying at his daughter's home. WhiAdoxJi Miss Margaret Mills, who is employed at Omaha was home over the week end taking sick on Sunday and was unable to return to her work until Tues day. Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Stroy and Mrs. Albert Theil were Lincoln shoppers on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Craig were Syracuse visitors Thursday af ternoon. Jerry McHugh, of Ogallala, Nebraska, spent Friday visiting relatives in Murdock. Mrs. Mary Piatt, who has been attending school in Washington has completed her work there and returned home on Wednes day evening. The Women's Missionary Soci ety met at the church on Wed nesday afternoon for their reg ular monthly meeting. The Youth Fellowship Circle met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Eisele, Monday evening j with a very good attendance. Mr. Charles Stroy. who has been ailing for some time passed away suddenly at her home on Thursday afternoon.- Mr. and Mrs. Merle Reickman, who has resided in Washington for several years arrived here February 1st. They will make their home on Mr. Reickman's father's home. Mr. A. D. Zaar, Mrs. L. W. Rase and son Bob went to St. Joseph, Mo., on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Eisele were Lincoln shoppers Tuesday. Jim Hemke, who has been in Texas for several weeks return ed home on Thursday. Greenwood's first and second teams of basketball played here on Friday evening. Murdock won both games. Callahan Missionary Society met at the church on Thursday afternoon for their regular monthly meeting. Cheer for Bridegrooms riculum did not take place for a NEW YORK (U.fi) Fewer eve- decade. In 1880-81, however, the ning chores for future young ! elective system was adopted and DAVIS & PECK Lawyers Plattsmouth Phone 264 husbands were predicted when the Children's Aid Society estab lished classes in carpentry for girls. The classes specialize in how to make book ends, corner shelves, magazine racks and trays. OUT OF OLD NEBRASKA (Continued from Page One) and the scientific course con sisted in the substitution of modern languag-c and some sci ence for Latin and Greek. On the basis of its curriculum then, the University originally was designed primarily to fit its students for scholarship or the ology. A broadening of the cur-i the way was opened for the in troduction of new courses with out limit, and upon almost every feasible subject. r,'l. il?.ftf mri- ELECTRICIAN HOUSE WIRING General Electrical Contractor W. R. HERRING Phone 3020 See Me For Wiring I EAGLES J. Howard Davis Soennichsen Bldg. Dependable Insurance Phone 264 FOR THE PUBLIC EVERY SUNDAY AT 2 P. M. SHARP 40 Games-40c I ." D: n r. c i t uig ntca ouuur rrues oopeciai rrize om-iHi i i xa.ivtovoM. i i .in i mi ' Your share, $1;78 2,472,718 .4 V'!' ' For your livestock and your dairy and poultry products, soybeans, cottonseed, etc. . . . you ranch ers and farmers of America received in 1947 almost thirty billion dollars, a new high. Out of that amount, $1,782,472,718 came to you from Swift & Company iri payment for the prod ucts you sold to us. Of every dollar that we took in from the sale of our products, we paid to you an average of 79.3jf for your products. Together we are doing a big, vital job of helping feed millions of families in America and in many foreign lands. Neither of us can do that job with out the other. Since we are in this together and dependent upon each other, we feel that you have an interest in knowing how we have handled our end of this "joint operation." This page is our way of telling you. It shows you how we handled, in 1947, our business of processing and marketing. It shows how much money we took in, where it went to, and what services we performed to earn our 10 profit per dollar of sales. HOW SWIFT'S DOLLAR WAS DIVIDED 79.3 Cenf$ to Producer Swift & Com pany, during 1947, returned to millions of producer of agricultural products an average of 79.3 cents out of each dollar received from sales. We provide a daily cash market for your livestock, dairy, poultry and other products. 9.7 Cenft to Employes In 1947, Swift's 73,000 employes earned $217,072,169 in wages and salaries, or an average of 9.7 cents out of each dollar of Swift sales. It takes many skilled people to process livestock and other raw agri cultural products into Swift's quality foods. 1.8 Cent for Transportation Swift's transportation bill was $41,053,244 in 1947, or an average of 1.8 cents of each sales dollar. Approximately ?;, of the livestock is produced west of the Mis sissippi River, of the meat is eaten east of it. Swift service bridges this average 1,000-mile gap between Amer ica's producers and consumers. 3.8 Cents for Supplies Last year, out of each dollar of sales, Swift spent an average of 3.8 cents, or a total of $86,005,885, on supplies of all kinds mountains of salt and sugar; trainloads of boxes, barrels, other containers; miles of t wine, tons of paper; fuel, elec tricity, etc. IBB I Cent as Earning The Company's 1947 net earnings were $22,334,977, after provision of $12,000,000 for high cost additions to fixed assets; This represents an average of only 1 tent of each sales dollar. Swift & Company is owned by 64,000 stockholders, whose savings provide the money for capital, plants, equipment, tools and raw ma terials. Of the net earnings, the stock holders received $12,436,612 in divi dends. The balance has been kept in the company as a reserve for future needs of the business. 1.3 Cent for Taxes Our total tax bill in 1947 was $25,915,888. This aver aged 1.3 cents out of each dollar Swift received for the products it sold. In addition to federal taxes, Swift & Com pany paid taxes during 1947 in each of the 43 states, and in hundreds of municipalities where the company owns plants or other property. Where the Dollar Went SUPPUES 3.tt TAXES J TRANSPORTATION M J OTHER EXPENSE; 3.1 1 EJAPIOYES 9Jt REMAINING AS EARNINGS 3.1 Cent for Other Expense Among other necessary business costs are de preciation, interest, employe benefits, sales promotion, rent, research, insur ance, development of new products, advertising, stationery, postage, tele phone, telegraph, passenger travel, etc. These necessary expenses took an aver age of 3.1 cents of each sales dollar. For raw ogricultufol product (Irveitock, 7.3 A or How We EARN Our Profit In addition to providing a market for livestock and many other agricultural products. Swift performs many essential services for producers and consumers. Most people can't go to farms to buy their meat neither can retail dealers. Swift brings the meat to them. We have been doing this big. necessary job for 62 years, efficiently and economically. Here are the services Swift & Company performs to earn its small profit: 1) We buy livestock and many other products that farmers and ranchers raise; then process and dis tribute them. 2) We process, brand, and perform all the many necessary operations to prepare our products for market and consumption. 3) We utilize all by-products. Every part that can be used is processed and sold in various forms. Tha income from this source increases the price of live stock to producers, decreases the cost of meat to consumers. 4) Our research finds new uses and new markets for farmers' and ranchers' products. 5) Our Martha Logan experimental kitchens test foods under home conditions, so that Swift prod ucts may give consumers the greatest possible satis faction and value per dollar. 6) We pay transportation charges on our finished products, delivering them to dealers in all parts of tha United States. This makes a broad, nationwide mar ket instead of a limited local market for the products of livestock producers. 7) We provide employment and a livelihood good wages, good working conditions and security for 73,000 people who work for Swift & Company. Our earnings for all this were one cent on each dollar of sales. Conservation of Our Land Resources by H. H. Kildee, Dean of Agriculture Iowa State College Q il.n.Kddee Mi Here is a quick "piciure" of how Swift's average sales dollar was divided in 1947. Smallest slice is Swift & Company's net earnings for many essential services in the processing and marketing of the agricultural products you produce. It aver aged a fraction of a cent a pound on the millions of pounds handled. ' Vice-r 'resident and Treasurer During recent years we have become increasingly conscious of the importance of conserving our land resources. Accordingly, we have initiated conserva tion programs and practices which are sound and logical. Such action was and is urgently needed, not alone for the current generation, but as an obligation to generations yet unborn. As one result of the pro grams adopted, much land (which because Qf its character and slope was being destroyed by erosion) lias been turned back to grass. Thus, expanding live stock production has become an increasingly impor tant part of the program of conserving our natural resources. Continual sale of crops off a farm or ranch results in serious loss of plant food. But the maintenance of plant food elements in the soil is urgently needed if our crop land is to continue to provide adequate quantities of human food. Livestock farming is help ing accomplish this. For when land is used for graz ing, rather than for crops, soil erosion ceases and tha unnecessary kss of plant foods is checked. Swift & Company UNION STOCK YARDS, CHICAGO 9, ILLINOIS Nutrition is our business and yours ! use mimsAh WANT APS ' 4fr 3 - - l 4. .jS ,j ,H r.t. -1