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State Historical Soc CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER We. IPlotttsimiqdilitih few- - PlHff. -r-, State Capiw xiiLU SEMI-WEEKLY Monday - Thursday Largest Paid Circulation of All Cass County Newspapers VOLUME 63 TWELVE PAGES PLATTSMOUTH, CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1948 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NUMBER 75 Police Car Row Stirs Citizens To Fight Mood Resulting publicity of the Plattsmouth City Council's row with Mayor A. B. Rogers over disposal of the police depart ments automobile, has' brought a controversial subject out in the open, and raised tempers to a fever pitch. Former ex-Mayor Clem Woster, following the release of Thurs day morning's story in the Oma ha World-Herald, stated, "This is The most disgraceful piece of publicity ever shoved down the throats' of the population of a progressive community bv the so-called public servants of this city." The telephones at The Journal news desks have rung continu ously since the publication of the story by irate citizens of Platts mouth demanding less' meddling in the affairs of the police de partment and more cooperation on the part of the administra tion with an eye to more ade quate police supervision of the residential areas in addition to the business districts. A good number of businessmen of the city do not go along with the statement attributed to May or Rogers' as quoted in the World-Herald, "just ask any of, the business men and the house wives how they like to have our policemen on foot, and they will tell you that it has improved con ditions on Main street." While most of them will agree that s'ince the appointment of Sheriff Solo mon as chief, main street condi tions are improved, few of them will go all out in approving of disposing of the police car, stat ing, "it is' needed at times for emergency calls in the residential area during the absence of Chief Soloraon or Deputy Rhoden." A most misleading statement in the article "His salary (refer -ing to Sheriff Solomon) is' paid by both the city and county." Technically Solomon draws pay checks from both, however, an agreement was reached -with the County Board of Commissioners, similar to one in operation at Ne braska City, whereby Sheriff Solomon is paid an additional sum by the city to act as Chief, mostly in a supervisory capacity, with the understanding that his, "county duties' shall not be inter fered with by city police duties." So far, the test is proving very satisfactory, and many Cass coun ty residents have suggested the same system be set up through out towns of the county, all to come under the direct supervis ion of the Sheriff. Plattsmouth citizens are sore. Living in a community now en tering the greatest "boom" per iod in its history, with new busi ness buildings being erected, over one-hundred new homes under construction, with a list of large retail companies demand ing business' locations in the city, local residents resent publicity that our streets are "unsafe for girls to walk home alone." This newspaper doubts there is grounds for such a broad statement. King Korn Karnival Stands Now Ready As was announced some time ago, the King Korn Karnival Kommittee was arranging booths that would be used for the sale of tickets during the pre-karnival days, the stands were placed in service Wednes'day. The stand for the sale of tick ets for the King Korn Karnival itself will be at the corner of Fifth and Main next to the Wes cott store. The booth for the sale of the Horse Show tickets will be at the Plattsmouth State bank corner. The handy station of the stands will give everyone an opportun ity of securing their tickets' any time from now until the Karni val and in addition tickets are being sold by members of the high school band over the city. The stands are well made and are substantial enough so that they can be used each year by the Kommittee for handling tick et sales for the Karnival. Runaway Girl Held Sheriff Tom Solomon and De puty Sheriff Shrader Rhoden Tues'day while searching for a girl reported as missing from her home in Omaha, discovered an other girl that had run away from her Omaha home a few days ago! She was held here at the request of her mother who resides at 225 Cedar street, Omaha, later being turned over to the mother. The girl who was revealed as a runaway, had been working here for a few days when found. More Punch Boards j Sheriff Tom Solomon was out j in the vicinity of Greenwood ! Monday afternoon and night and I returned home with several j punch boards and jars that had j been taken at one of the places ; of business in Greenwood. The sheriff and Deputy Sher iff Shrader Rhoden decided to test out. the jar and as the result of opening $49.75 of the slips' found that they would have won $22.75 if it had been for keeps in stead of fun. The officers had i not tested out the punchboardsj when the reporter visited the court house so there was no; check on how much must be in vested before winning. Whiskers Now Featured'By Men of City The men of the Plattsmouth community, who are doing their part to boost the King Korn Karnival, are now showing a great array of whiskers of color and design that is going to make the work of the judges in the whisker growing contes't a hard one. The urge of Chairman Donat of the King" Korn Karnival kommit tee for the men to join the whisk er club, and raise their hirsute adornments for the fall festival, has met with a warm response as a stroll down the city streets will reveal. In fact, the success of some of the men in getting the whiskers underway is causing them considerable trouble at home, where the once smooth face of papa has now changed to the rough and bearded face of a old time frontier man with its accompanying disturbance of the peaceful tenor of the household. This will not be long as there is only some twenty-eight days until the King Korn Karnival is with us' and again the razor will swing with its old time vigor and smooth faces be the rule. 'German Band' to Aid In Karnival Spirit For some little time a number of the bandmen over the city have been practicing and drilling for the purpose of having the us ual "German Band" for use in the karnival festivities. The band is composed of real musicians and will give some fine musical offerings when they start on their musical tour of the county and in the King Korn Karnival parades. With "Doc" Sandin as the moving spirit and other of the older veteran musi cians in the lineup there will be a real treat for the public. READ THE JOURNAL FOR THE LATEST IN NEWS. Harry Knabe Purchases Certificate 1,000,000 in Hampshire Registry Bidders from Many States Compete for Unique Pedigree Number at Indianapolis r.-.".-.-.-.?3KwJfctta6uidfe i V i 1 ... A feature of the 10th Annual I Hampshire Type Conference re-j pig ' club project and has been cently held at Indainapolis was j continuously active since 1918. the selling of the number 1,000.000 j During the 30 years of operation sow certificate of Hampshire there nave been 57 auction sales Swine Registry as the opening of Knabe-bred Hampshires held, feature of the auction of the ani- each conspicuously successful mals consigned to the Building j witn manv 0f the breed' top in Fund sale of that event. Breed- J dividual animals being featured, ers from more than 20 states j Doz?ns of the high winners of were present and many partici- j the state and national shows have pated in the lively bidding on this been bred on tne Knabe farm, certificate witn its unique num- while iiterallv hundreds of boars ber. The final bid of $525.00 was j and sows have distributed made by the veteran Nebraska among the commercial pork pro breeder, Harry M. Knabe, of Ne- j ducers' herds of Nebraska, Iowa, hawka. j Missouri and Kansas. Many of The Knabe herd is one of the ; the pork growers have never used most famed and hfghly respected any but Knabe-bred Hampshires of the Hampshire breed. It start- j in their operations and this fact ed as an outstandingly successful alone has resulted in a vigorous 'Mystery Man' Gets ftp,!' - X 3b n $6Hx'.v&i Alexander Koral. left, so called "Mystery Man" of the House Un-American Activities Committee's spy inquiry, begins his testi mony before the committee in Washington. Seated beside him is Joseph Ferer, who acted temporarily as his attorney when Koral's attorney, Lee Prager, took the wrong plane out of New York and wound up in Boston instead of Washington. (NEA Teiephoto). Plan Softball Tournament For This City The local city Softball League is arranging a tournament for the last of the month, covering from August 31 to and including September 3rd.. The funds, aside from the necessary expenses, will be devoted to funds' for the im provement of the athletic field, a most worthy cause. There will be double headers each day during the tournament and will be between the best teams of Plattsmouth and Ne braska City. The plair of selecting the teams for the tourney will be taking the first four leading teams in the Plattsmouth league and the first from Nebraska City. The games will be played un der the lights according to the present plans and will no doubt attract a very large number from this city as well as Nebraska City to see their favorites in ac tion. NOW WITH UNION FIRM The Sanford Industries at Un ion now have as an accountant j at the plant Clifford Hankins. Mr. Hankins is an expert in this line of work and will add greatly to the force at the Union plant. Use Journal Want Ads at..:::- - 757 Pinch-Hit Lawyer Sheriff Recovers Stolen Car in Record Time Sheriff Tom Solomon Tuesday made a record recovery of a car stolen from Omaha at 4:45 in the afternoon. The car was the prop erty of Le Vern E. Cauley and had been left parked on the street in the business' section of Omaha from where it had been taken. Around 7:45 that evening a call was received by the office of the sheriff notifying them that a car was being driven south on high way No. 75 in a manner that indi-" cated the driver was not sober. The sheriff took up pursuit and overhauled the car near the junction of highways No. 75 and 34 east of Union. The driver of the car had evidently been drink ing and was brought back to Plattsmouth with the car. The man had no identification on him but later was' found to be Marvin M. Sailors, 33, of Omaha. . The alarm for the car was sent out on the radio at 9:45 Tuesday evening- from Omaha after the man was safe in the Cass county jail. The car and th? man were lat er turned over to Omaha police to be taken there for charge of the car theft. and sustained demand thru the years in good times and bad. Commenting on his purchase of the '1,000,000' sow number. Mr. Knabe, said, " I just couldn't help but what that certificate. This Hampshire breeding has been a wonderful experience for the Knabe family and has brought many happy associations with the finest group of livestock enthu siasts in the worlu. This certifi cate will always symbolize both the inspiration and the gratifying reward that comes from devoted application to the job of breed ing better livestock. I earnestly want this number 1,000,000 pedi gree to mean something to our two youngsters Margaret Ann and John both of whom have brought a liberal measure of sat isfaction to their parents thru their club activities! Their mother and I want them to hold this certificate as indicating the ma--nitude of the job that lies ahead of them. We want them to regard it as a reminder of the sincerity and integrity that are indeed a vital part of the missoin of live stock breeding' Of course, I re cognize that there is a lot of publicity benefit from the buy ing of this certificate. For that I am glad. But my real hope ic that this one million number will always serve as a stimulus to my son John to maintain that es sential measure of ambition, sin cerity, idealism and integrity that is so vital to a long term success in livestock breeding." By the purchase of this certifi cate Mr. Knabe is privileged to assign it to any sow of his choos ing, except those that may have progeny on the record books of Hampshire Swine Registry. No doubt we shall be able to soon announce the individual sow that has been selected by Mr. Knabe to carry this number. Frank Dall Resigns as Surveyor Tuesday Frank P. Dall., county surveyor of Cass county since January. 107, filed his resigna tion with the board of county commissirners to be effective as of September 1. Mr. Dall is laying 3 side the duties of the office that he has so efficiently filled, in order to take no his work at the Univer sity of Nebrsaka in the college of engineering at the opening of the fall term on September 15. He was a student at the School of Mines in Colorado, following his graduation from the Platts mouth high school, later leaving the school when lie enlisted in the air corps of the United States. He served with distinction in the air force and was wounded in action in the air war in- Italy later being invalided home. Later in November 1946. he was elected as surveyor of Cass county and has since held that office. His record in the office has been outstanding, it is with re- ! gret that the county board ac cepts his tesignation as he has been a most faithful official. Mr. Dall is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Hoi man Dall of Manley and has many friends over the county that regret to see him leave office but he will carry their well wishes in his- future studies and career. Biles Store Holds Anniversary Sale A year ago Mr. and Mrs. Frank Biles and family came to Platts mouth to make their home and Mr. Biles' to take over the store 013 Main street between Ffth and Sixth streets which he has since operated. This week Mr. Biles has been holding his first anniversary sale and has a great array of bargains in the large stock of wall paper, FRANK BILES paint and the many other lines that are carried in this' popular store. This is to give the resi dents of the community an ex pression of appreciation for their patronage in the past. Mr. Biles states that it has been a most pleasant year for himself and family in this community, they are deeply appreciative of the patronage and delightful so cial activities since moving- to this city to make their home. VFW Has Great Crowd at "Stag" Monday evening the members cf the local post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars' entertained at their club rooms at a "stag" for tne memoers. The event was largely attended and a great deal of fun and enjoyment de rived by the members. The evening was spent at cards with all kinds of games being played as suited the membership, j tnat served to make the evening pass mos't delightfully for every one. The committee in charge had prepared a fine luncheon for the occasion and with the refresh ments provided made it a most complete evening for everyone. The V.F.W. club has received a pool taVe that was donated to them byT.he Masonic Home of this city, the table has been re built by the members under the direction of Warren Bollmeier and is now a fine and up to date table and one that is the source of much pleasure to tho members' who are fond of this line of en tertainment. Guild Not to Hold Coffee This Month There will be no Woman's Guild coffee social held at the St. Paul's church this month. READ THE JOURNAL FOR THE LATEST IN NEWS. Murray Schools Will Open on September 6 j The Murray School will open j September 6. During the sum mer the interior has been com- j plttely re-decorated, and the building placed in A-l condition. Miss Irene Finkle is returning to teach the pre-primaiy, lirst. sec ond, and third grades. Miss Gloria Birkman of Talmage, Neb., has been hired to teach the Fourth, fifth and sixth grades, and John McQuinn of Union. Neb., to teach the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth grades. All of this faculty come- with highest recommenda tions and qualifications. The pre scribed course of instruction for the State of Nebraska will be fol lowed throughout the school, the ninth grade will offer Alegbra, and the tenth grade, Geometry. Latin will be offered those stu dents of the ninth and tenth grades who desire it. Thoughout previous years, the Murray school has given instruc- tion sufficient to enable it s stu- i dents to go into eleventh and i twelfth grade work elsewhere i and do good work. From a scho- have not found themselves in any j way handicapped. To carry on j this tradition will require the employment of qualified, higli type teachers, and what is more important, the cooperation of all people of the district, whose taxes support the school. We feel that this faculty will meet the best . i- , ' i T IT in tne lirst requirement. iia w e ask you all to fulfill the import ant second requirement. Charles H. Boedeker, modera tor. Raymond Lancaster, director James Comstock, treasurer. Fire Damages Louisville Business House Louisville was visited early Sunday morning bv a fire that did considerable damage to the store building owned by James Stander, who formerly made his home on the second floor of the building, but since being hospita lized the apartments has been closed. The building was occupied by I the Carl's 5c to SI Store, which I carried a large stock of goods and l suffered a loss that it is thought may run as high as sixty per cent while the loss to the build ing will be in the neighborhood of $1,200 to $1,500. The fire stated in some papers on a shelf in the back room. The Christianson store was largely damaged by water used to fight the fire on the second floor, leaking down on the stock of goods. The loss to the stock is only partially covered by the in surance, the owner stated. IXJURFS SHOULDER C'aude Kennedy, while engag - ed inn taking a din in the waters of the old Missouri river, near his home southeast of the citv, had the misfortune to have the ligaments of the right shoulder iniured on Mondav evening'. Claude was driving into the waters of the river when he chose a place that was not too deep and as the result suffered the injury. He has the shoulder taped un and will be6ufof com mission for some time. Court House Briefs Miss Alice Jayne Grosshans, deputy county treasurer, is en - joying a vacation from her duties and visiting at the home of her sister, Mrs. John Stamo and fam- ily at Nebraska City and also at- tending the Sidney, Iowa, rodeo that oDened on Tuesday. John Beckman. custodian at the court house, is' back from en- joying a two weens vacation mat fiattsmoutn. and tnat there are he has spent at home at Mvard j no children of the marriage. The with the family. He returned to . plaintiff asks for the restoration work in time to harvest the crop j 0f her maiden name Gladys' Lor of grass on the court house i ene Kuhns. lawn. In the county court Wednesday morning, marriage license was issued to Kenneth Eugene Ander son, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert S. Anderson, of Nckawka and Margaret Elizabeth Faris, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Faris of Union. Petiiton for determination of heirship in the estate of L. A. Tyson, was filed in the county court Wednesday. The deceased was owner of real estate in the village of Elmwood. The petition Envoy to Canada f jT V: Laurence A. Steinhardt, above, former U. S. ambassador to Pe ru, Russia, Turkey and Czecho slovakia, has been named by President Trivnan to be ambas sador to Canada. "Treasure Hunt" Draws Many to Local Stores The "Treasure Hunt" staged by the local merchants Droved one the most successfui events that has cn held in the city in many month as was evidenced Wed- nesday when from early in the morning the business section was filled with vounz Deonle and ,the women of the community, Each of the stf)res had SQmQ j featured article that was the I -troasure" and for which numbers had been printed in the Journal the persons being required to ap pear in person at the stores to check for their number. Hardly had the stores opened for business when the rush of the hunters was on, the searchers go ing from store to store to find the one that their number called for. Most of the places of business were very lively as the crowds were going and coming, also tak ing advantage? of the opportunity to snap uo fhe many bargains that "were being offered in ad dition to the ' treasure." It gave the public the chance to visit the stores end look into the line car ried by the Merchants. Teachers in Local High School Faculty In the list of teachers in the local high school faculty for the ( 1948-49 term, appearing in the Journal Monday, the names of two of the able members of the staff were omilted. These teach ers were Mrs. Pearl Mann, teach er of science and mathematics and Mrs. Alta Reade, instructor in English and dramatics. These teachers will be ready with oth ers of the facultv to take up their duties on Tuesday, August 31st when the city school will open for the regular term. Omaha Boy Injured In Wreck Monday Thomas R. Marsh. 11. of Oma- ! ha- was jurd Mondav evening i when a car driven by his father ' struck a culvert on a country road between Manlev and Murdock The bov sustained a back injury. The driver of the car. James H. Marsh. 55, 1009 S. 34th street, Omaha, told Sheriff Tom Solo mon, who was called to the scene of the accitent. that he was trying to avoid a washout on the road when the accident occurred. Mr Marsh was uninjured in the wreck. j ; was filed by Bess Tyson Robb, a danghter. j In the office of the clerk of the j district court Thursdav a suit for j divorce was filed in which Gdvs j Lorene Olson is plaintiff and j John Olson, the defendant. The j petition sets forth that the parties were married on Febr. 3. 1947 at In the office of the clerk of the district court this (Thursday) morning a petition was filed by Dorothv Everett asking a divorce from George Everett. The peti tion set forth that the narties were married on June 8. 1928 at Sidney, Iowa, and have since ben residents of Cass county. The plaintiff asks for the custody of the two minor children of the marriage and also asks that property valued at $4,000 and an auto be given to the plaintiff in lieu of alimony. Rotary Hears of Air Force Reserve Training Force Tuesday at their weekly luncheon the members of the Rotary club had a very interest ing talk from Lt. Col. Hawkins. of' the U. S. Air force stationed at Offutt Field, north of this city. Col Hawkins gave his remarks the title, "Know Your Aii force", it was most interesting and in formative to the members of the club. It covered the extension, course that is being given to the members of the air force reserve in all sections' of the country, some 165 of the courses keeping the members of the force that have been Dlaced on reserve, in formed of the latest steps in the progress of the air force and their lines of study and develop ment of modern methods of con ducting the air force. I He pointed out the fact that in j the past there had been a wide flung line of students in the air force reserve training, that cov ered many of the places of the nation, many in distant lands in the active service. This was shown by the 10th air force organization that was now tak ing the men from Fort Crook to . Ft. Benjamin Harrison, near Indianapolis, where a force of some 20.000 men are now being assembled and where the present force at Of!utt Field is' to be sent. Speaking locally he stated that the new forces to be brought to the local post for training wculd be double that of at pres ent, where there had been 500 civilians employed before there would be 1,000 in the future, and in all lines the demands would be double, that of housing and all things that entered into th? living of the troops stationed at the field. There were present two guests, H. A. McKenzie of the Lincoln Telephone & Teleg-raph Co. and Mr. Shoemaker of the Nebraska City club. The meeting also marked the birthdays of the members that happened to fall in the month of, August and in this group were Dr. P. T. Heineman, Frank A. Cloidt, Fred Lugsch. R. R. Furse and Carl Chriswiser. The aggre gate age of the group was figur- .' ed out to be 244 years. Traffic Loss In Cass Shows Marked Decrease Cass county's estimated econo mic loss for the first six months of 1948 has just been released by the Nebraska Safety Council. According to the report, deaths, injuries and accidents on this county's streets and highways have cost the citizens 5110,100. This was figured on the current accident experience of one fatality, 31 -personal injuries and 38 pro perty damage accidents for the first half of the year. These figures show a marked decrease over 1947 when the eco nomic loss for the county was $150,300 which included six fatali ties, 47 persona injuries and 63 property damage accidents. These figures represent the minimum of accident experience in the County since they are only the accidents reDorted to the Ac cident Records Bureau of the De partment of Roads-Irrigation. On the state level, the accident experience has increased, how ever, the number of fatalities and the resulting economic loss have decreased 28 percent and 6 per cent respectively. The total economic loss to the state for this period was S5.093, 5(50 as compared with S5.397.280 for the same period last year. Nebraska had 106 fatalities for the first six months of 1918 as compared to 145 for the same neriod in 1947. Injuries resulting from traffic accidents increased from 2625 for 1497 to 2914 for 1948. Property damage accidents for the same two periods were 6407 for 1947 and 7757 for 1948. Will Honor "Shorty" Cole at Closing Game The closing night of the local Softball League will be o" Thurs nay, August 26th, and will mark the final emes of the leagne season. In aopreciation of the services of Roy Cole as treasurer of the league, field electrician and all around handy man, the occasion has been designated a "Shorty" Cole nieht. Do not fail to attend this tribute to a good and faithful worker.