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THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE FOUR Mrs. ThMnai M-Jrtey Friends of Miss Opal Reehle, a student at the Peru Normal, will regret to hear that she has been quite ill, for the past week, at the College Infirmary, suf fering from a strep throat. It was hoped that she might be moved to the Nebraska City hospital, this week. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lindhart, of Elmwocd, spent Monday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rugha. ' Elizabeth Chapter of O. E. S. held a school of instruction Monday afternoon, when their Past Grand Worthy Matron, Mrs. Edna Maloney, of Omaha, accompanied by a friend, Mrs. Louise Howe, of Omaha, were present, also their district sup- WITH THE DIETRIM PLAN Smoll tasteless capsules, easy, lo-lake, together with complete directions. Contains no danger Bus drugs or chemicals. $249 15-DAY iUPPlY CASS DRUG A Change ft 1 1 Chinas to Itfiiilio FRESH ! . . . Get your car out of its "heavy-underwear" winter oil and into fresh summer-grade Conoco NA Motor Oil . . . and OIL-PLATE your engine. SLICKER STARTS ! . . . because an exclu 07-Pafe today at Conoco Mileage Copyright 1949, Continental Oil Company ill' Sfeinkamp's onoco Service 148 North 6th St. Thursday, March 3, 1949 ervisor, Mrs. Jessie Duvel, of Douglas, who conducted the afternoon session. Following the afternoon session, the out of town guests were entertained at dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Domingo. The evening session was the illus tration of work by the local officers. Mrs. Harold Domingo re turned home Sunday, after hav ing her tonsils removed, at Bry an Memorial hospital, Satur day. Charles Freeman will be as sociated with Ralph Lane, the new manager of the Keckler Filling Station. He began work March 1st. The district Odd Fellows con vention, which includes Avoca, Nehawka, Elmwood and Weep ing Water, will hold their ban quet and meeting, Wednesday evening, March 9th, at Weeping Water, with the members of the Rebekah Lodge serving the ban quet, at the Congregational church. A letter received by friends here, from Mrs. Frank Wood, tells of the recent illness of Mr. j Wood, who is State Elevator In spector. He was taken ill while at jpairDury, ana was Druugut iu his home at York, and confined to his home for two weeks by the flu. He was able to return to his work, this week. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Clayton and Gerald Hahn of Omaha, were visitors at the Harold Johnson ' home, Sunday. Mr. Clayton is a brother of Mrs. Johnson. Mr .and Mrs. Orville Berneck er have rented the Ralph Keck ler home and will move there when Mr. and Mrs. Keckler leave for California, sometime during the first part of April. Harry Triplett and Millard ism Order... - 'Tit ; l i Sk 2' if '1 i ' V-W- V Mr sive additive in Con ocoN'fastensashield of lubricant to cylin der walls. No "dry friction" starts with an OIL-PLATED engine ! mm your Merchants! JIM BRIDGEWATER, Agent Phone 201 Vance, both of Ft. Riley, Kan sas, were forced to land at the Brown Airport, Sunday, on ac count of the strong wind which necessitated an added supply of gasoline. They were enroute to Omaha. Th3 new directory of Airports and Airman's guide, published February 15, has put Weeping Water on the map, by listing Brown's Airport, of Weeping Water, as one of the 132 air ports in Nebraska. This direc tory lists all airports in the United States. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Young of Guernsey, Wyoming, left Wednesday after a week's visit with Mr. . Young's mother, Mrs Jeanette Young, and with other relatives in this community. Mr. and Mrs. Kasmus Laurit zen, Sr., were hosts at a dinner at their home, Wednesday eve ning, for twleve members of their pinochle club. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Michelsen, Sr., returned home Saturday after a six weeks vacation, which took them to New Or leans, Miami, Florida Keys, then up the east coast to Wash ington, D. C, and then to Pitts burg, Pa., where they visited at the home of Mrs. Elmer Mich elsen, Jr's. parents, before com ing on to Weeping Water. Little Bethie Lou Bickford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mel vin Bickford, has been quite ill, this past week with the flu, which is so prevalent, at this time. Mr. and Mrs. John Opp moved Monday from the "Slick" John son Apts., on the south side of town, to the S. L. Brant former home, on the north side of town. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cook went to Alvo, last week, to at tend the fiftieth wedding anni versary cf former Weeping Wat er people, Mr. and Mrs. William . . . because husky Conoco IS''4 stubbornly fights power-robbing sludge and carbon. SAVS fvONy . . . because rugged Conoco N' is made from carefully selected paraffin-base crude oil. It stands up... takes less oil between drains. Plattsmouth f wi Timblin. Honoring Miss Esther Mogen sen, whose engagement t o Howard B. Ellis has been an nounced, the Center Valley clud entertained at a party and shower in her honor, at the Center Valley school house, Fri day evening. Miss Mogensen re ceived some very lovely gifts, and all enjoyed a delightful evening. Mr. and Mrs. Chris Rasmussen and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Livers were guests from town. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Rauth and Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Rohrdanz, two couples who have lived in the Manley neighbor hood, are moving into Weeping Water, in the near future, so their Manley friends gathered at the Catholic church hall, in Manley, Sunday evening, for a party, in their honor, before they moved into town. The eve ning was spent playing pinochle, after which a fine lunch was served by the hostesses. Mr. and Mrs. Rauth are moving into the former E. E. Day home, which is being remodelled and re-decorated, and Mr. and Mrs. Rohr danz are moving into the for mer Anton Jorgensen home. The popular Square Dancing club meeting for February, was held Friday evening, at the au ditorium, with a good atten dance, in spite of the bad con dition of the highways. Work is being rushed on the basement of the Leahy store building, installing an office and other conveniences, prepar atory to the installing of a branch of Leahy's Keiser-Fraz- er automobile business, and al so of his Massey-Harris imple ment business. Fran Schwab, will be manager of the Weeping Water branch. Another new business house which is opening this week, is the Wipf Paint and Wallpaper shop, which will be located in the building vacated by the Al len Grocery store. Rev. J. S. K. Wipf, pastor of the Mennonite church, is the owner of the store. Mr. and Mrs. Adam Cook and Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Cook of Nehawka, spent Wednesday in Omaha and Plattsmouth. The L. P. Wolcott home was the scene of a happy gathering, Sunday evening, when two birthdays were celebrated. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wolcott, of Lincoln, came during the after noon, to enjoy Robert's birth day, at the home of his parents, and Mr. and Mrs. John Norris were invited to join them, as Mrs. Norris's birthday is mis sing, this year, as it comes on February 29th. Other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hays and Tommy; Mr. and Mrs. Law rence Houseman and Larry: Mrs. Doris Norris and Linda. All enjoyed a fine dinner and an evening's visit. The Camp Fire and the Blue Bird groups had a real treat Monday evening, when they met at the school house and Mr. By LYX CONNELLY NWNS Radio-Screen Editor pROFESSOR QUIZ is busy these days writing a book on the his tory of quiz programs . - . Should have plenty of material ... Bob Hope is feuding with his bosses, Paramount studio, because the latter insists he hold oH television for a while and Bob thinks the time for him to get active in f vf -.A the video field is J now . . . Para- mount's objection J stems from the fact that people who see Hope in their homes Bob Hope will not go to the theatre to see him on the screen . . . Bandleader Art Mooney debuts on his" own radio show over Mutual this month. Shirley Mitchell has returned to Hollywood to make her home in Los ngeles and will join NBC's "Great Gildersleeve" show . . . Shirley was heard on the show as "Leila Ran some" until she married and moved to New York two years ago . . . Henry Morgan is coming back on the air! He'll debut on NBC, which network was reeling under CBS' sudden wooing of its top stars . . . Fred Alien is trying to get Margaret Truman to make her first commer cial radio appearance on his show. PLATTER CHATTER Capitol: Big news is Mel Tonne's first platter for Capitol and he turns in a fine job . . . "She's a Home Girl" is a slow ballad which Mel hums and sings and he docs a turn about on the flip side, singing a gay little number called "Careless Hands'' ... Jo Stafford's latest is a new tune by Cole Tortcr now getting a big play, "Always True to You in My Fashion," with a romantic ballad, "Just rcmir.iscin'," on the reversa . . . Irish fans will enjoy Jan Garber's excellent recording of that old fa-" vorite, "Mother Machree" with that beautiful Irish lullaby, "Too-Ka-Loo-na-Loo-Kal"' on the back. Victor: What Spike Jones does to "MacNamara's Band" probably shouldn't happen to a perfectly good little song, but it's fun nevertheless, and you'll get a kick cut of it and its coupling, "The Clink Clink Polka" . . . Vaughn Monroe follows his re cent hit, "Red Roses For a Blua Lady" with another winner, "A Sen orila's Bouquet" . . . "Don't Lie to Me" is on the other side. and Mrs. Sigveld Jensen showed moving pictures of their trip to Denmark, and pictures of their own flowers at Riverside Gard ens. The Camp Fire girls were accompanied by their leaders, Mrs. Richmond Hobson and Mrs. Marion Stone, and the Blue birds by their leaders, Mrs. Stanley Wood, Mrs. Owen Welch and Mrs. Harry Potts. Russell VanEvery came from Ogallala Friday and he and his wife left for home Wednesday. Mrs. VanEvery has been assist ing in the store, while her par- 1 onto lf r amrt Tfrc AAiphplspn have been on a six week's vaca tion. Gerald Stovall began work as traveling salesman for H. O. Rice Wholesale Grocers, last week. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Domingo and their daughter, Miss Bet ty Domingo arrived home Thursday from Saratoga, Cali fornia, where they have spent the past four months with Mrs. Domingo's mother, Mrs. George Hitchman and her sister, Miss Anna Hitchman. Saratoga is near San Jose. They had a most delightful visit, in spite of the frosts which have damaged much of the fruit in that vici nity. They were accompanied home by Mrs. Carl Tapper and two children of Richland, Cali fornia, who are visiting her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Stein kamp. Otto- Mogensen has bought the former Jim Wiseman home, north of the Christian church, from Lawrence Wiseman. Ed Norton is visiting at th? home of his daughter, Mrs. Os car Dowler, in Omaha, this week. Henry Crozier returned home the latter part of the week, from Lincoln where he spent a few days in a hospital. Unicameral News Echo es By Bernie Camp Information Director Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation (Unicameral Echoes is made available through the coopera tion of your local newspaper and the Nebraska Farm Bureau Fed eration. Opinions expressed are not necessarily those cf this newspaper.) Road Program Most Important Probably the most important legislative measure to come be fore the 61st session of the Ne braska legislature has not yet been introduced. This will be the highway program recom mended to Governor Val Peter son by the Nebraska Highway Advisory Committee. ' Roads affected the ability of every citizen of the state to move quickly and efficiently from one place to another Laff of the Week . i I Lvr? r-r; j L pHrP uV--' MY OFFICE IS IT'S 10 MINUTES PAST 9 OJV-- J 0f?N RA,N -AMISS TRILE YOU'RE LATE " U Mj!flC 7"" . The Middle . . . . by Bob Karp (J j j MONN6, WLLVOU CERTAIN LY j I IPOA JOS WHEN IT HEEPS "HUM, t t L U r ... MRS.ANEYARe.UPANATrT . POlNG, MS. i Hed like to know if he can borrow a cup or cement. B!5.ght An'earlv -: OUT OUR WAY By A. R. Willian if OfP I THINK SODA MADE j -"TIl c-x, Kt--,.! -n " HIS HOMEKADE .SPURS , r AJmU mlv: LLEL W si 7X A LITTLE TOO HEAVY-- J f f AXT lyyft XH ,CT AUV dJ I V I WHEM HE JUMPED S Wv WA XVi 1 CX--1 l& A v. TO SHUT TH' GATE, v UlX 8?fffty& A B I Xf ( JL Vk-n, V THEY DIDM'T SEEM ) THJ ' WA?V A RUlNif If J 11 (hf KfaL MJ'uW- swAHx--LAfrs pear' j - ylww THE ANCHOR: from farm to market and from one part of the state to another or to another state. No one de nies the need for a good and adequate road system. Nebraskans disagree on the ways and means of providing adequate road systems and their interpretation of the kind of road system the state can af ford under all economic condi tions. The Highway Advisory Com mittee has recommended an an nual budget of $46,000,000 for state and local highway con struction and maintenance and for matching federal funds available for highway construc tion. The committee envisions a 20-year program which will total $920,000,000. Opponents of the committee program, among them the three farm organizations the Grange, the Farmers' Union, and the Farm Bureau Federa tion, feel that present funds are adequate for road construc tion and maintenance if they are equitably and properly dis tributed. The view of these highway users is "more miles of road per dollar expended, nor, more dollars per mile of road." To pay for the committee highway program increased automobile and farm and local truck license fees; and an in crease of one cent a gallon on state gasoline taxes have been recommended. These sources would bring in an estimated $6,000,000 a year in additional revenue. The committee felt that coun ties and cities have been receiv ing too much revenue from gas oline taxes and registration fees. The committee recom mended $2,300,000 less per year for these subdivisions than they now receive. These funds would be transferred to the Stale Highway Department. Added to the new revenue sources of $6, 000,000 the State Highway De partment would have an add ed total of $8,300,000 from mo tor vehicle registration fees and gasoline taxes. The recommendation from the advisory committee was that almost $7,000,000 additional is needed to carry out a highway and road improvement program for counties and cities. The committee would have these funds raised by additional pro perty levies to provide $9,300,000 a year in new revenues for counties and cities. To this end, the 32 mill limitation on pro perty taxes would be repealed so that local government sub divisions could levy the con stitutional limit of 5 mills on property. The advisory committee re commended less miles of roads to be maintained by the State Highway Department. To that end county road systems would be reclassified into two systems. A primary road system would include roads necessary to ac V' KV-?i 1 commodate major, direct traf fic between towns and would be eligible to receive state funds for construction and mainten ance. A feeder road system would ! be known as "land access roads'' and would be improved with lo cal revenue. Highway funds over and above these needed for improvement of primary roads could be used to improve feed er roads. Such a reclassification would mean that the State Highway Department would have less county roads to maintain and construct as a part of the state highway system: and counties and cities would have more miles of road to pay for and maintain. The State Highway Depart ment now maintains 9,222 miles of highway. This is 8.7 per cent of the total roads in the state. The remainder of the 105,000 miles of road in Nebraska are maintained by cities and coun ties. Cities and counties main tain 96,042 miles or 91.3 per cent of the roads. Under the new program the state would maintain 3,022 miles of road or 7.6 per cent; leaving counties and cities 97,242 miles or 92.4 per cent to maintain. Tell Your Senator Your State Senator cannot know how you feel about legis lation unless you tell him. Your opinion is important to your State Senator. He wants to know how you feel about legis- FUNNY BUSINESS " " - . i "A little mushtard, pleash!" PRETTY SAD FLOOD, EH, MAYOR? A lation; and is happy to receive your letters, telegrams, or tele phone calls. Write and tell him what is on your mind. A letter addressed: Your State Senator's name, State Legislature, State Capitol Building, Lincoln, Ne braska, will reach him quickly. Music as They Ride MELROSE, Mass. (U.R)-It will be music while they ride foi passengers on buses operated by the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railroad Co. The com pany has ordered installation of radios in 78 buses often -ftf ourwatj? J A MOViE USHER By Hershberger SHUCKS, W& DOM'T LET LITTLE TWIN&S LIKE THIS BOTHER US, ALEX.