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1 The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1881 PuMishd m!-wk!v, Mondays and Thurs ' ay. at 409-41?. Main iStret. Plattsmouth. Cass Countv. Nebraska. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher FRANK H. SMITH Editor VERN WATERMAN ..Advertising Manager Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor. Merle D. Furse, Plant Superintendent , Harry Wilcoxen, Manager Job Department SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year in ; Cass and adjoining counties, $4.00 per year elsewhere, in advance, by mail outside the ? city of Plattsmouth. By carrier in Platts- month, 15 cents for two weeks. f Entered at the Potefflce at Plattsmouth. Nebraska as jeeond class mill maKer In ac cordance with the Act of Congress of March t. 1ST. EDITORIALS TAXES MONEY TO GRAVEL Her mm L. Bornemeier, commissioner of the Third Cass County District, got inquisitive the other day as' to how some county roads were gravel rd in the first place. Through cooperation with Gto. R. Sayles, county clerk, the records from 1320 were checked and it was found that townsldp levies were made as follows: i; Louisville 1930 1.0 Weeping Water 1930 2.0 South Bend 1930 3.0 Avoca 1930 2.1 Tiotcn 1931 1.3 Greenwood 1931 .8 E'-mwood 1931 1.9 South Bend 1931 1.9 Louisviile 1931 .7 Elmwocd 1932 1.9 Louisville 1935 .8 Center 1936 .8 Eight Mi. Grove 1936 1.0 South Bend 1936 .8 M Pleasant 1937 1.0 South Bend 1940 1.0 South Bend 1945 1.4 From this it is found South Bend precinct heads the lis't and today boasts the best county roads :-nd also has on hand $556.47 for additional gravOing and maintenance. Gist of the survey seems to be that most pre cincts made an original levy for gravel roads, but the greater share of them failed to follow through and as a result what work that was done has" been lost for lack of "follow through" with levies for maintenance. This seems to be one "out" for improving pres. ent road conditions, for, according to our infor mation, townships can make special levies for this rrjrpos'e. Cooperation with the commission ers in furnishing- trucks, labor, and maintainers could resut in better roads for.everycne. A small levy each year would maintain tnem. NEBRASKA'S BUSINESS AND YOU Nebraska taxpayers are due for a shock when thev k-arr Mae cost of their state and local gov ernments daring the past six years, the Nebraska Small Dullness Men's Association warned re cently. The NSBMA based its warning on figures re leased by the Bureau of Census showing that the average person's share of the state and local tax load has multiplied more than five times in the past 35 years. The per capita levy in Nebraska rose from ftll.01 in ?913, to $44.62 by 1932, and to $54.76 in 1942. Tallies or the past six years areni yet avail able, but the NSBMA cited the increased spend- - Lng of stete and local governments in the post war yoarj.' is a strong indication that the per capita shae of the Nebraska tax levy will show a substantial increase for the six-year period.' DOWN MEMORY LANE TEN YEARS AGO J. W. Holmes returned from a trip in western Nebraska and eastern Colorado; reported crops In fin shape and bountiful harvest expected ... Group of Plattsmouth ladies' enjoyed a trip to Old Mexico; those in the group were Mrs. Lil lian Treeman. Clara and Mary Bookmeyer, Hazel Dovey and Minnie Guthmann . . . July issue of the Firm-Town Hardware magazine carried illu strated story of local business man W. A. Swatek, of the Bestor & Swatek. salesman for Skell gas. because of his" rating for sales made . . .Work on the NYA project of building new community tennis courts was nearing completion under sup ervision of Frank Godwin and Louis Patton . . . Thomas Clifford was a visitor from Los Angeles. TWENTY ONE YEARS AGO Finals in junior tennis tournament was staged " on the courts of the Tourist park with much in- terest in the match between Ralph Mason and Edgar Wescott . . . Misses Alpha and Gerda Peterson returned from several weeks visit on the west coast . .-. Parmele Theatre closed for a ten day pvriod during installation of new $10,000 pipe organ and redecorating program . . . Sattler Fun eral home remodeled building giving the chapel r additional space; also new heating plant was in--stalled ... Dr. Charles M. Gradoville opened his dental offices in Bates building on North Fifth i street . . . City's Streets inhabited by "water puppir;" a variety of lizard following heavy I rainfall. If you haven't been gypped by a fake mail order advertisement, had either your appendix or tonsils removed, and been made a fool of by one of the opposite sex, you are not a true Ameri can citizen. These are the minimum requirements. A woman likes to know what men really think about her, but only up to a certain point. Furse's Fresh Flashes Sign on a movie theatre . Tighti" also "Selected Shorts.' "Mother Wore Speaking of movies, we occasionally realize what a world of make-believe they are. They smoothly dispense with all of life's little problems and hardships. When the lover kisses his love, he never smears her lip stick or musses her hair. When he calls on the telephone he rjever gets the busy signal. And whenever he wants to park his car, there is always' an empty space right in front of his destination. They always seem to have the money for any whim that catches their fancy. What a rosy world in which to live! A carpenter couldn't take a job here because there was no place to park his Cadilac. He wouldn't do anyway, as the contractor prefers men, with chauffers who will drive their cars home out of the way. a Ad ;n a Missouri paper: "Auctioneering is my business. Prices are very reasonable. If I am out of town, make dates with my wife." Had a terrible collision here the other day. Two motorists collided while chasing the same pedes triaa. It's a lot easier to burn a twenty-dollar bill than to pay one. Maybe its' alright to bar camels from the streets of Palestine as a safety hazard, but over here we could stand a few drivers that could go seven days v.-ithout a drink. Flipper Fanny, our wistful little contour twist er, says she got her pretty little round mouth from saying "No' so often. By DUff PKA&SO (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: RUSSIANS LACK RAW MATERIAL FOR A BOMB; KEFAUVER STAKES HIS RE CORD IN CONGRESS AGAINST BOSS CRUMP; DEWEY TOLD REPUBLICANS TO BRAVE WASHINGTON'S HOT WEATHER; GOP LEADERS CONSIDER THEIR OWN SPECIAL, SESSION IN NOVEMBER. WASHINGTON Most encouraging sign on the atomic-energy horizon is what the Russians are now doing in Saxony. Low-grade uraniumm deposits are found in this southern German state, and the Russians have been 'vorking feverishly' to mine them. They haw bee n using a great deal of labor, and going j to great length to scrape up this uranium, which is so low grade that in Canada it would be ig nored. . The fact that the Russians are' taking all this trouble over such poor quality uranium in Germ any obviously means only one thing; They don't have any worth-while uranium of their own in Russii. TENNESSEE'S YOUNG CORDELL HULL Tennessee's easy-talking, hard-fighting con gressman, Estes Kefauver, wore a coonskin cap in stumping- the state against boss Ed Crump's political machine. "My coonskin may have three rings around its' tail," he told Tennesseans, "but it doesn't have a ring through its nose." Kefauver, who looks and acts like Cordell Hull in his younger days, is staking his forthright re cord in congress against boss Crumps' machine in a thre-cornered showdown fight over Tom Stewart's senate seat. Botn Crump and Stewart, obviously worried, have gene to the extreme length of trying to turn racial prejudice against Kef auver by calling him d foreigner. Crump has been buying full page newspaper ads, s'mearing Kefauver as a foreigner and therefore un-American. At the same time J. J. Walker of McMinnville, Tenn., pronvnent lumberman, has been acting as Stew art's mouthpiece in spreading the same charge. Not?: Actually. Kefauver was born in Monroe county, Tenn., near Madisonville. INSIDE THE GOP CAUCUS Gaujing their own long.windedness, Republi can Senators scheduled the Senate to Statr one hour late the other day. They wanted to decide what they should do about Harry Truman's challenge of a special session. They were right in the?r estimate their verbal free-for-all lasted all morning. Only the sound of muffled voices leaked through the ponderous doors, but here is a play- by-play account of what happened inside the GOP meeting. Speaking for the high command, Senator Bob Taft made it clear that the decision to keep con press In special session long enough to pass on "emergency measures' had been dictated by their new Republican leader, Tom Dewey. Taft sTaid he had been in constant touch with Dewey, both by telephone and through his Washington-based campaign manager, Herb Brownell. Taft quoted Dewey as saying it would" be a "grave mistake to adjourn immediately. Then Taft edded his own opinion that congress should remain in session about two more week?. This brought sharp disagreement from Wyom ing's Ed Robertson. Indiana's Bill Jenner and Nevada's George Malone. Robertson called for immedate adjournment, suggested they recon vene after November. (He faces the fight of his" life from Wyoming's Governor Hunt.) Taft de- plied that the idea of a special Republican session of Congress, called by the Republicans, already had strong- support from the GOP leadership. Malone had nothing to say about a post-election Session, but he begged to go home now. Once an Cleaning Up For the Big amateur pugilist, he gave the Senators the benefit of his ex perience in the ring. "Truman is in the position now of a fighter who is knocked flat on his back in the tenth round," warned the Nevadan. He has got nothing to lose if he comes up swinging wildly. But it is a mistake for us to stick our chins out." "DON'T MAKE US RUBBER STAMPS" Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge criticized Taft's policy committee for releasing a state ment to the press before consult ing with the rest of the Senators. Firecracker - tongued Charles Tobey of New Hampshire agreed. He said it made the caucus look like a rubber stamp. Tony Klimm Critically 111 The county many of Tony known farmer of this section, will regret to learn that he is in very critical condition at Om aha, where he has been for the past week. Mr. Klimm underwent a very serious operation, and it was necessary to have blood transfu sions given him almost daily ow ing to his weakened condition. Three nurses are constantly with him and Mrs. Klimm, who has been at the hospital since his operation, remaining there as much as possible. Usually Brusque Gene Milh Mrs. Joe Noble kin of Colorado tried to smooth J?an of Downer's ver the discord, suggested thatl hav been here ae release was given as the view! two weeks visiting ov th nt ha mmmiftoo. nr v -fVio fun! Of MrS. Noble's Mrs. Joe Libershal and other relatives and friends returned home Sunday. caucus. Acting majority leader Ken Wherry chimed in with the explanation that several news men had been on their necks and it was impossible to dodge them. Patronize Journal Lodge came back with the sug gestion that the special session be restricted to action on inflation, housing, civil rights, the inter national wheat agreement and the UN loan. Taft reminded him that it was up to the committees to decide what congress should consider. New York's Irving Ives urged that all the President's recom mendations be processed through the commitees before the Re publicans made a decision on what should be done. Judicious Forrest Donnell of Missouri a- greed that in view of the Pres ident's constitutional powers, the only "fair and constitutional thing to do was to turn his re commendations over to the com mittees. President of the Senate Arthur Vandenberg limited his say to a couple minutes, but stressed the importance of going through the committee procedure. DIVIDE DEMOCRATS AND RULE Belligerent Harry Cain of Washington state urged bringing up the Sales-Tax bill for Wash ington, D. C, predicted it would start Senator Olin Johnston of r-t . i tU r 1 ' ooum caronna on anouier un buster. ' Both Taft and Wherry opposed this. But Taft was anxious to bring up the Antipoll-Tax bill, in order to start a filibuster and ex pose the division inside the Democratic party. Taft also sug gested this would demonstrate the need for a rule to break fili busters. Bill Knowland of California then proposed passing a rule a gainst filibusters at once; but Taft pointed out that such a mo tion, itself, would be filibustered. "When 20 Determined men de cide to filibuster, he declared, "you can't break it in less than five or six weeks." Note; A cheerful note was introduced by Iowa's Bourke Hickenlooper who told of the break in the oats market. One reason prices were falling, he claimed, was Iowa's bounteous oats crop. "Are they tame oats'?" piped up someone in the rear. Cattle have been moved from California into Nebraska and oth er midwestern slates because of a drouth on the West Coast Just where, now, is the Great Ameri can Desert? November Shindig - ! Very Social Workers Has Flower Club Picnic The Social Workers Flower II friends over" Cass Klimm, well LClub held their annual picnic for the members and their families on Sunday, July 25, at the pleas ant Fred Spangler grove south of this city. Everyone came with well laden baskets of food and at noon the long table was filled ! with fried chicken and all the j trimmings that all enjoyed im- j mensly. i The afternoon was spent In ! playing cards as well as ball : while others of the party spent i the time in visiting. Late in the j afternoon all enjoyed cake, pie ; and ice cream. j At a late hour all left with the j feeling of an enjoyable day and ! looking forward to their next and daughter, Grove, 111 for the past at the home meeting in September at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Gilmour. parents, Mr. and H. A. Schneider, president of the Plattsmouth State Bank, was a visitor in Kansas City, Mo., the last of the week to look after some matters of business. Advertisers. Perm-Aseptic does this triple iob! Omw hoyomd msnl" Thinking people realize ' that nothing is clean unless it is germ resistant. The eye cannot see germs. A fabric may be ap parently elean to the eye, but it may be loaded with germs. That's why we say mM-umno fabrics are "clean beyond vision." Attiv mar w meoHttiont Ftw-isimc dry cleaning gives your clothes active, lasting pro tection for a remarkably long time keeps them sweet-smelling and fresh even while worn. clofc wear Imngmri Because raM-Asxrns resists germ growth that disintegrates fabrics. YouU find that the life and good looks of your garments are actually increased when you have them roanuirrmD1. Bring them in today. z 3 LUGSCH CLEANERS Phone 61 18 THE PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA, SEMUVVEEKL1 JOURNAL Monday, August 2, 1948 PAGE THREE RETURNS FROM HOSPITAL UNDERGOES OPERATION Mrs. Frank Heigl entered the Clarkson hospital at- Omaha on . Friday and underwent a major operation on Saturday morning. ! Mrs. Clovis Day and Miss Pearl Sutton were at Omaha Monday ; where they were donors cf blood , for a transfusion for the patient. j Mrs. Louis Naeve, who has been at the Doctors hospital at Omaha i recovering from tht? effects of a j very serious operation, has so far I recovered that she was able to return home Sunday. 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