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CAP1I0L NEWS Taxes appear to be the main problem before the 61st Nebras ka legislature now in session. Growing sentiment is report ed that the property tax cannot support many more demands, and that new sources of income must be provided. Sens. Dwight Burney, Kart ington, and William Metzger, Cedar Creek, signed a bill to levy a two per cent sales tax. Burney wants to leave the field of income taxes to the federal j government, support state gov- i ernment with the estimated $20,000,000 annual revenue from ; the sales tax, and allow local i tTOVPrnmPTitc nnri srhnnl rtic. .i . , f It i 1 A 1 iiiL-i.5 a ciear neia wun mc property tax. In that way, he said, local citizens are given a close checi rein on their taxes. Metzger said he wants th proposed sales tax held until the all-important budget bill is ready and the senators can se exactly what the financial situ- MI't'm-IWBiStLMlH 1. Real Estate LOANS! 42 Percent Interest Charge Reduced for each monthly payment. Plattsmouth Loan & Building Ass'n. ation is. If much additional money is needed, he said, the bill should be passed. If the legislature is able to "hold the line" of government spending during the 1949-51 biennium, Metzer said, then the legislation should be killed. Sen. Lester Anderson, Aurora, changed horses in mid-stream. Last month he announced h.2 had decided to sponsor a two per cent sales tax bill. He said he was convinced it was thi answer to Nebraska's financial ills. But this week he said he had changed his mind. Investigation convinced him, Anderson said, that a sales tax, "is a poor man's tax which would rob per sons on state assistance rolls of $500,000 to $1,000,000 a year. He said he will introduce a sta'.e income tax bill, probably next week. Anderson said thou sands of wealthy Nebraskans live on the income from bondo and securities, owning no prop erty which can be made to share the load of financing state gov ernment. "These are the fellows who can and should help pay the added taxes we need," he said. Anderson estimated his in come tax legislation would pro vide $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 a year. Other legislators are hopeful some solution will present it self which will eHminate the need for either new tax. In creasing present levies and fees would be preferable to these lawmakers. The 1947 legislature tried that; approach, and boosted liquor taxes sharply. Revenue from this source is considerably smal ler this year than last, a fat Chairman Richard Brega of the state liquor control commission attributes at least partially to the higher taxes. IF YOU need immediate cash to meet EMERGENCIES O When those sudden money emergencies arise and you need money immediately, our CASH LOAN PLAN is at your command. For more infor mation, without obligation come in or telephone us. MUTUAL FINANCE CG. PIIOXE 3213 112 NO. 5TII EAGLES GAME S PARTY EVERY SUNDAY AFTERNOON At 2 P. M. 30 GAMES-50c sine.' irf " BBS IIS 11 Maybe reading our regular Drug Ad will be worth $2 or more if it is your name that appears somewhere in the ad. It may be printed out in plain sight or be mixed up with the items advertised, or upside down, or the first letter of every item in one list. Read this ad carefully. If your name appears, bring this ad to our store and receive $2 in trade. If not redeemed before next Tuesday, next week's ad will be worth $4. The value of the ads will increase $2 a week until someone whose name appears claims the trade ticket. Names will be taken from the Telephone Directory. A new name will appear in the ad each week. Starting Thursday, February 3rd c anrl rnnti'nuinf? each Trnirsr?iv our Gi . Cj B ad will be good for $2.00 in trade to & some person whose name will appear rj within the ad. Watch for and read our ad every week. Names to appear in the ad will be se lected by a disinterested person. Li SCHREINER DRUG Plattsmouth, Nebr. Phone 4114 12 INCHES MJ I 40 WATT FLOUR.ESCENT LIGHT WITH REFLECTOR. SUSPENDED 12 INCHES ABOVE FLAT FILL FUT WITH POROUS SOIL TO WITH IM hONEHNCH OF TOP COVER. WITH LAYEft. OF SPHAGNUM MOSS BLOCKS TO HOLD FLAT ABOVE PAN PAN OF WATER.! GLASS FIBER. OR CLOTHES LINE WICK Inexpensive Equipment Will Insure Ample Light and Water to Your Plants, and Protect Them From Disease. Science Designs Seed Box To Start Plants in Home Grandfather's methods of sowing garden seeds in a box to grow in the kitchen window during the win ter have been subjected by experi ment stations to a series of rigid tests. Sometimes grandpa succeed ed, and sometimes he failed; with out knowing exactly why. Science demands first to know why, and then seeks a way to pre vent failure. If all the protective measures which have been recom mended in the last few years were applied to a single seed box (see illustration) here is what it would have. 1 Automatic watering, by the wick method, to make sure the oil never dried out. 2 A layer of sphagnum moss on top of the soil, in which the seeds were sown, to prevent diseases, es pecially "damping off," which can not develop in the anti-biotic moss. 3 A lamp, preferably fluorescent, suspended a foot above the box, so Jt can be turned on to supplement the daylight, whenever light is needed. With this equipment, none of which is expensive, any amateur gardener ought to be able to sow seeds of flowers or vegetables in an indoor box, and bring the seed ling plants up to transplanting size without disaster. Licit important of these devices is probably wick watering, which is as simple as an oil lamp. A wick, preferably of fibre glass, is passed through a hole centered in the bottom of the box. The top of the wick is imbedded in the soil, the bottom drops into a pan below the box, and as long as there is water in the pan, the soil will be kept moist. With a large enough pan you can leave the box for days without attention. Sphagnum moss will not allow plant fungi to develop. By spread ing a layer of moss on top of the soil, sowing the seeds in it, and covering lightly with more moss, germination will be quick, and loss by disease nil. But the moss will not take up water from below, and if wick-watering is used, it must be watered from above until the seed lings grow roots which reach the soil. Artificial lighting is not neces sary, where a south window un shaded by outside trees or building, is available. But where it is not, if a fluorescent lamp is hung over the box, as indicated by the di agram, and kept lighted all night, the plants will get enough light. It will not be needed until they sprout. Mazda lights may be used, but they should be hung higher, so that the night temperature of the box does not rise above 65 decree" South Ashland Mrs. John Rtmmf The matter of aiding Nebras ka's needy citizens undoubted ly will be another thorn in the unicameral's side. Legislation boosting maxium monthly assis tance grants to the ages from $50 to $60 a month, and to $70 for the blind, sailed through the public health committee without a hitch, but ran intj trouble on the floor of the legis lature. Sen. Norris Schroeder, Hos- 1 kins, served notice he will trj , to kill the bills. He argued there j Is no ceiling now on assistance payments, since needs beyoni the $50 ceiling are met from state-county funds. i Sen. Arthur Carmody, Tren- ; ton, argued that needs still are unmet for 20 per cent of those on the old age assistance rolls, and that all would benefit under liberalized grants. The extra money will be spent in th3 state, he said, at the corner grocery and drug store. Schroeder called this a phil osophy of "attempting to spend ourselves into prosperity. We have seen this tried, and we all know the results." Further debate is scheduled for January 31. Valentine Rancher Dan Han na is sponsoring another of the perennials: a bill to permit the state to serve oleo instead of butter at state institutions. The board of control estimated this would have saved Nebras ka $55,000 last year. Hanna is prepared for oppo sition that the legislation would be a blow to dairymen and the state's economy. But he said Mr. and Mrs. Harry Klipp spent Saturday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Ashley Boiler. Mr. and Mrs. AsMey Boiler and Eddy were Friday dinner guests of Mrs. Olive Whitlatch. Little Eddy Boiler spent sev eral days a week ago with his grandmother, Mrs. Olive Whit latch. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Holing were Friday supper guesf; of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Bachman. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Buell and Raymond spent Sunday after noon with Mr. and Mrs. Martin Stenberg and family. Mrs. Martin Stenberg spent Tuesday afteroon with Mrs. Dal les Hunt. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Graham and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Mans field attended the Grange in stallation at Waverly on Wed nesday evening. Mrs. Robert Graham, Mrs. Mack Stickney and Mrs. Earl Mansfield attended a shower on Friday evening for Miss Denece Jones. Mr. and Mrs. William Cook spent Tuesday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Mansfield. I Clyde Jones, John Jones and Raymond Nelson were Wed.'s- day dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Jones. Wilbur Miller of Lincoln was a Friday dinner guest. Clinton Jones and child ren were Saturday dinner guests. Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Moore and sons spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kellogg and family. Mr. and Mrs. George Kraft of Louisville and Mrs. Mary Lau and Ella of Murdock spent Tues day with Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kup ke. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kupke call ed on Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Heil at Louisville, Fridya. Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Schleu and family spent Friday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Eg gers. Mary Alice Nelson spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Nelson. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Bailey and Martha Dean were Saturday dinner guests of Mrs W. P. Bail ey. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Laugh lin nad Arthur spent Friday in Lincoln. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Stock and children spent Sunday afternoon and were supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Rishel. Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Rikli spent Sunday at the John Rem menga home. Mrs. John Remmenga visited her mother at the Bryan Me morial nospitai m Lincoln on Tuesday afternoon. THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Thursday, January ,, 1949 PAGE FIVE rector, Eighth U. S. Civil Serv ice Region, Post Office and Customhouse Building, St. Paul 1, Minnesota. PEORIA, Ill.(U.R) Frank Lind storm added a shiny new bi cycle to his possessions after burglars failed in a try at his garage. Apparently frightened when Lindstorm approached. the burglars left their loot, in cluding a shotgun beside a nearby fence. The bicycle stood over the shotgun. For several decades after 1606. English sovereigns made land grants to colonies, and Nebraska lay in the claim of three British colonies: Massa chusetts, Connecticut and Vir iaSfct ' - f I mm CIVIL SERVICE POSITION The Veterans Hospital, Lin coln, Nebraska, announces that it will cccept applications for the position of Chauffeur at a starting salary of $2152 per yea." and the position of Fireman, Stationary Boiler at a starting salary of $2350 per year. A full description of these employment opportunities can be found in Civil Service an nouncement No. 8-32-1 (1949), Chauffeur, and announcement No. 8-32-2 (1949) Fireman, Sta tionary Boiler. Announcements and necessary forms for filin? applications can be had at any first- or second-class post of fice in the State of Nebraska, or from the Secretary, Board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners, Veterans Administration Hos pital, 74th and J. Streets, Lin coln 1, Nebraska, or from Di- - ft JIM EDEN For Expert Wallpaper Hanging Call 4264 ...and wake sure it's Roberts! Here's a husky little customer who knows just what he wants . . . plenty of country-fresh, cream-in-every-drop Roberts -Milk. REACH FOR DELICIOUS MILK It's FRESH from the Farm .if5? ' i t By LYN CONNELLY NWNS Radio-Scneo Editor ONE of tiie most impressive con tests Horace Keidt has had on his popular NBC show, is 18-year-old Dick Contino, accordionist who won the first 14 weeks' competition when the program made ''J its debut ... A fine musician, the lad built up a following rapidly while tour ing with the Heidt troupe as guest star . . . The adulation he received from young and old alike would be enough to turn any person's head, but Dick has proved too level headed to let over- . At thia - : -jp Dick Contino night fame change him stage, he is still bewildered about the whole thing himself, although he thinks it's "all wonderful and a swell break." Handsome, with black wavy hair and flashing dark eyes, he cuts an attractive figure on the stage, and when he smiles brilliantly and makes his accordion reveal what he is feel ing within him, he is unbeatable as a showman ... He will prove a natural for television and the movies, both of which he will enter soon. Actually, Dick is like any other 18-year-old boy . . . Modest and unas suming:, he is shy on the subject of girls . . . but admits he "likes them law requires margerine sold in . okay" . . . iiis forceful personality this State to contain at least 50 and amazinsr talent have cautured per cent animal fat, and said the radio audience to the extent that ! the law to protect the dairymen he has a number of fan clubs all is comparable to taxing grape- i fruit grown outside Nebraska, j Gov. Val Peterson announced I he has reappointed all state de I partment .chiefs except Neil Vandemoer, head of the assis tance program. Vandemoer has served on a month-to-month basis ever since Peterson too office in 1947. William H. Diers, Gresham, was reappointed to the board of control for a six-year term Ross D. Rash, Gordon, was named to the board's assistance advisory committee for the term over the country that are actively boosting: him, and in the recent 4-H poll of radio favorites conducted by this writer, Dick was chosen by his rural counterpart as the one most likely to become a star. PLATTER CHATTER Victor has two fine albums out in time to make excellent Christmas gifts . . . One is by Artie Shaw and features tunes from musical show hits, including "Rosalie," "The Man I Love." "Villa." "Donkey Serenade" and "Ziegeuner" ... All pieces are instrumetnl and played by Artie with ease and finesse . . . The second al- ilSSUZ.L: iTCmB H -"tains favorite hymns such iviupn xi. vo-iciiwiic. as -onward. Christian svirfiprc Patrick F. Payne, Omaha, and Harry Peck, Lincoln, were ap pointed to the board of direc tors of the state safety council. The latter three appointments are not subject to confirmation by the legislature, which must approve the others. Department chiefs reappoint ed were Rufus M. Howard, agri culture director; Donald P. Mil ler, labor commissioner; J. F. ' McLain, banking director; Ber j nard Stone, insurance director; E. C. Iverson. state fire mar- ! shal; Fred H. Klietsch, state en- ginner; Philip K. Johnson, tax commissioner; Dr. W. S. Petty, state health director; Henry Bartling. secretary of the board of educational lands and funds. The Old Rugged Cross," "Abide With Me" and "Rock of Ages." as played on the organ by Dick Siebert . . . The hymns, always inspiring, are more so at this particular season. THEY'RE IX NO HURRY URBANA, 111. U.R) Supervisor Arthur Kinzer has proof that prosperity is still around. Kin ! zer prepared checks for local t workers in the election Nov. 2. He's still waiting for half of ! them to be claimed. DENVER (U.PJ Here's some news on the square that Tex ans, wherever they live, will find hard to swallow. Thomas B. Burnite of Denver says that Colorado is larger than Texas in a cubic way, that is, because of its moun tains. Burnite points out that Colo rado's volume of 134,349 cubic miles is first in the nation, while flat Texas' 86,070 cubic mile is a measly ninth. But Burnite does admit that Texas' square mileage of 267, 339 is first in the nation and much better than Colorado's 104,247 square miles. Tea is grown successfully in 23 different countries. Sell It Thru Journal IVant Ads. wry. : s r ntt 5? e .. ...tm-tf 'vr..- srw ri.w.-.'. - s i. 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