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1 ;! TTJE PtLAinrSiMdDQJTIHI JJaDQJB&NAQ. SECTION TWO CASS COUNTY'S NEWSpaper UNITED PP. CSS AND NWNS SERVICE 4 The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED IN 18S1 Publi.tif spmi-weeklv, Alondavs and Thurs days, at 4(i-13 Main Street. JMattpmouth. Cass County. Nebraska. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher ! r ttAKK H. SMITH fcCUtOr HAROLD TUCKER... Advertising Manager O. C. Osterholm. Plant Superintendent Harry Wilcoxen. Manager Job Department Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor mm lassocmrion tieM: NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION" SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year in Cass and adjoining counties, S4.00 per year elsewhere, in advance, by mail outside the city of Plattsmouth. By carrier in Klatts mouth, 15 cents for two weeks. F.ntTt-d et thr Fos toff Ice at Plattsmouth. Nelira.ska a second das' matl matter In ac cordance with the Act ut Congress of March 3. 1879. EDITORIALS DOING SOMETHING WORTHWHILE We would like to see the women folks of our town, especially members of the Garden Club and the Woman's Club, take over two or three of the vacant lots that have been eye sores in the city for years and start a face lifting project. We have in mind spots on Washineton and Chicago avenues that have been allow ed to grow un in weeds the past few years. One in particular i that in front of Dr. Hudson's home on Chicago avenue. Last year, weeds higher than an average per son's head greeted all comers to our city. Another is the "island" on Washington avenue just off Avenue A that certainly anything but inviting to prospective new comers or visitors to Plattsmouth. A little planning on the part of our women folks could make these spots a thinn- of beauty. Proner nlantings of shrubs and flowers would add as much to Plattsmouth as thp ladles of Omaha did to 13th street with their Mount Vernon Gar dens. It shouldn't take too much encourage ment or persuasion to get this project un derway. Let's lay down the aces and pick up the hoes. - A PLAN TO PREVENT WAR It might be a eood idea, in connection with discissions about the proposed North Atlantic Security Pact to understand that its nrime nurnose is not to nrepare for war with Russia but to deter Russia from ag gre;on and thus prevent war. The idea is general in Western Europe that the Russians will not attack the coun tries of Western Furope if Moscow knows that the United States will immediately come in on the side of the nations attacked. Tf this is rmde abundantly clear to the Rusifn leaders. theleaders seem to be confident that no war is in the making. M WHY THE FARMERS SOLD Not lon? ago we were asked bv a reader of this newspaner why manv farm ers sold their erain under the sunport price. The explanation is that the farmers had a record harvest but. to secure a Gov ernment crop loan, were required to secure proper stovace. Becauc there was no place in which they could put their grain they could not take advantage of the price support program.' This issue was stressed very heavily by President Truman in his last campaign. The Chief Executive took crreat pains to put the blame for the lack of storage space on the Congress. Now. the new Congress is bein asked to provide authority for the acquisition of adeauate r-rnin storaee space. Under a proposed bill, the Government would hnv or lease the space so that farmers with surplus prain can store it on the farm, at sub-terminals or in big terminals and take advantage of the support prices. The record-breaking production by AmenVnn farmers in recent years has probablv removed the fear of famine from our minds. Nevertheless, it seems to be within the reasonable bounds of national interest to provide a grain reserve of con siderable magnitude in order to meet emer gencies that may occur. Adequate grnin storage is one way to accomplish this purpose. Furse's Fresh Flashes DOWN MEMORY LANE TWENTY YEARS AGO Rev. Father George Agius, local priest, had received recognition as author in the Boston Transcript, one of the largest daily papers of the country for his work "Tradi tion and the Church" which he had written . . . William Rummel purchased the 100 acre farm of the late John Koukal estate Some wives are like fishermen they think the best one's got awav. - Congress is now confronted with the unsolved problem of how to get people to pay taxes they can't afford for services they don't need. -k When they abolished the poor house, a Plattsmouth man says they ruined the best argument he had when expenses were too high at his house. 4C 4c 4c Quarrels are what love is made of. 4r A nickle or so will cure the problems of an average eight-year-old boy. 4c 4c - Ralph Waldo Emerson stated it this way: A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene. To please a woman, a doctor only has to confirm her suspicions. - We'd be rich too, if we could do it all over again. If a man supports the familv, whv shouldn't he be the best dressed member of it? The American male has a lot to learn. When the freezing days are over, it will be just as foolish to put alcohol in the radiator as in the driver. - They say checks will be popular come spring and we can guess who'll wear 'em and who'll write 'em. It's the Untenable Position's Only Defense THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEW! I -WEEKLY JOURNAL Thursday, March 10, 1949 PAGE ONE I MPEKALISTS.' -rX- .TUT-' . . . Ice iams took out the wagon bridge at Louisville as well as damaging the Missouri Pacific railroad bridge. . . . Retesting of cattle in Cass County was completed under direction of the Department of Agriculture, of the state university, making Cass Coun ty a reaccredited tuberculosis free area for a three year period . . . F. W. Burr, Los Angeles, arrived in Plattsmouth to join his father W. S. Burr, who took over manage ment of the Coronado apartments. M M M TEN YEARS AGO L. O. Minor, for twenty-five years su perintendent of the Plattsmouth Water Company, received fine promotion in being made manager of the Kankakee, Illinois water corporation . . . Mrs. Frank Mullen was named president of the Plattsmouth Woman's Club . . . Group meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Elmer Sundstrom look ing toward organization of a Junior Wom an's Club for the business and professional women of the city. Mrs. John Beetem of Douglas was a guest to explain the work of the junior organization . . . Residents of the community were aroused by sound of ducks flying low over the city, apparently the forerunner of spring and the annual migration to the north. ' (Copyright, 1949, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: N A V Y SECRETARY SULLIVAN SERVES RESIGNATION NOTICE IF UNIFICATION BILL PASSES; CON GRESSWOMAN DOUGLAS GRILLS ECA CHIEF HOFFMAN; ELECTRIC CO. LOBBYIST LECTURED BY MCKELLAR. WASHINGTON. Sitting in front of President Truman the other day, Secretary of the Navy John Sullivan gave virtual no tice that he would resign if the new armed forces unification bill is passed by Con gress. Sullivan's statement came during a long White House huddle while the heads of the Army, Navy and Air Forces smoothed out the wrinkles in the bill which is supposed to cut out bickering, overlapping, and backbiting. Secretary of Defense Forrestal was also present, together with his success or, Louis Johnson, while Truman himself sat in part of the time. During the long discussion of the bill, Secretary Sullivan made objection after objection. He was especially opposed to taking away the autonomous power of the Secretary of the Navy and making him take orders from the Secretary of National De fense. After the new unification bill was final ly complete, and after Sullivan had regist ered all his objections, Secretary of Air Stuart Symington turned to him and said: "Are you goine to support this bill when it goes up to the Hill, John?" "My coursp is all too obvious," replied Sullivan, which to those present made it quite clear that he would resign. President Truman, who was present, obviously heard the remark but said noth ing. Note Sullivan is reported as a possible choice for Secretary of the Treasury when and if John Snyder resigns. Sullivan once held the job of Assistant Secretary of the Treasurv under .Henry Morgenthau, who eventually eased him out. Truman, who disliked Morgenthau, would like nothing j&t00- "'arSs. SISillW i x I y. A t m THISCn pooo&ooooq Tin ii 'nr mm immmro fcill 1 1 i i , Hi I . 1 1H ' II . i il Willi mrm m asmngxon better than to show what bad judgment Henry had by reap pointing Sullivan to the Treas ury. CONGRESSWOMAX GRILLS ECA BOSS Though it concerns every man who same day may have to shoulder a rifle, Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas chose a secret session of the House For eign Affairs committee to give ECA boss Paul Hoffman a rugged grilling about the rebuilding of the Germstn steel industry. How ever; the lady from California got few straight answers. The attractive, plain-talking congresswoman had before her a private report from French gov ernment officials, emphasizing the dangers of reviving the war potential of one knocked-out foe, Germany, at the same time the Democracies are trying to head off another competitor, Russia. So Mrs. Douglas asked: "Does the United States gov ernment intend to write off the tremendous sacrifices of Ameri can blood in the last war by put ting the world time-clock back on a pre-Munich setting, when Democracy had two potential enemies instead of one?" If not, continued Mrs. Douglas, are steel plants marked for re parations, including plants stol en from the French, being kept in Germany? "Can you tell me when the plants marked for reparations will be transported, and to what countries?" she demanded. "I mean all of them including those plants in occupied Ger many rightfully belonging to France." PLAINTIVE HOFFMAN PASSES BUCK Hoffman passed the buck first to Norman Collison, chief of the ECA mission in Germany, then to the State department. However, in the next breath, he admitted that a number of the steel plants would have to be kept in Germany in order to build German production up to the 10,700.000 tons a year rate, which is the 1936 standard. Ger man steel production now totals 7,900.000 tons a year. "That isn't answering my ques tion." persisted Mrs. Douglas. "I want to find out how manv steel nlants will be moved out of Ger many, when, and to what coun tries.' Pinned down. Hoffman con fessed that he didn't know, that the final answer would be up to the State department and the nations involved. He then threw up his hands and annealed to the committee for support. "I'm doing the best I can," said he, a little plaintively. McKELLAR LECTURES Peppy Purcell L. Smith, regist ered lobbyist for the National Association of Electric Comm nies. pot a snappy lecture the other day from crotchetv Sena tor Kenneth McKellar of Tennes see. Pmith also got a very, very red face. The Senate Appropriations comrruttpe was holding hearines on $2.500 000 to build a steam eleetric Plant for the Tennessee Vailev Authority. Smith's electric association was opposed on the ground that the appropriation was unconsti- 1 tutional and would be an "enter ing wedge" for the socialization of all industry. To support their campaign. Smith introduced for the record a letter from a CIO local in Ohio, opposing the $2. 500.000 for the TV A steam-electric plant. Next day, the Washington Post carried a full-page adver tisement, paid for by e electric association, outlining the CIO stand. Senator McKellar promptly put the ad in the committee's rec ord. Then, turning to Smith, he almost roared: '"Is this put in as a threat to congressmen that CIO workers are not going to support them unless they adopt your views about this plant?" "I cannot attempt to interpret the views of the CIO workers," replied the electric company lob fa j-ist. "Your real purpose," McKellar shot back, "was to prevent pass age of this steam-electric appro priation. It is propaganda, pure propaganda that you are under taking indirectly to threaten the Congress about this matter, and I want to say that, as chairman of this committee, I resent it very strongly. "I do not think you should have done it," continued the sen ator from Tennessee, catching a fresh breath. "I think you have done j'our association an injus tice and it will be a remarkable thing if they retain you, with the big salary that you get of $65. 000 a year." Smith fidgeted, shifting from one foot to the other, but McKel lar raced on. "I think." he said, "they are poing to have a hard time re taining and paying you that sal ary when you do such a silly thing, it seems to me, as putting in the paper propaganda of the kind I have just called to your attention." "I think that needs no re sponse, senator," said Smith, and sat down. Senator Ferguson of Michigan eisd the pain by commentins? that the advertisement was "bad public relations." but that every one had the richt to come before Congress and plead his cause. Jr.-Sr. Banquet Plans Take Form (From The Platter Plans for the Junior-Senior Banquet and Prom are begin ning to take form. Members of the Junior class are working hard to make both of these an nual events a success. The Banquet will be held Sat urday, April 23. the Prom April 30. They will traditionally be held in the- -Central Building auditorium. Ray Bachman will provide the music for the Prom. The Banquet cnairman is Pat Dew. The committees are: room decoration, Beverly Brown; servers and seating, Barbara Kimball, Rita Mulholland, Jen ny Lee Spidell, Nora Lou Fraz ier; Invitations, Betty Wandra, Eva Nell Mendenhall and Patti Speck; food committee, Florene Duda, Mary Patterson, Phyllis Arnold; table decoration, Pat Hadraba, D e n a and D i a n Reichstadt; program committee, Betty Wandra and Pat Had raba. Those mysterious C. C. C. meetings held lately have a con nection with the banquet. The C. C. C. committee consists of: Betty Wandra. Nora Lou Fraz ier, Jenny Lee Spidell. Dena and Dian Reichstadt, Pat Hadraba. Eva Nell Mendenhall. Pat Dew, Florene Duda and Billy Jean Horn. Miss Atkinson is sponsor of the Banquet. Prom committees are: room decoration, Barbara Kimball, Rita Mulholland, Nora Lou Fra zier, Alice Ann Reade, Jenny Lee Spidell, Peggy Krisky, Con nie Dalbow; punch committee, Bonnie Meisinger, Beverly Brown and Patti Speck; throne decoration. Eva Nell Menden hall, Pat Hadraba and Marie Toman; flowers, Florene Duda and Phyllis Arnold. Miss Kra mer is sponsor of the Prom. TTTITH CONGRESS attempting to hammer out the third major la bor policy in 14 yeafls, the house ap proved the first major deficiency ap propriation bill of the session calling for $471,900,000, it slapped at the utility lobbyists by providing $2,500, SO0 for a TV A steam plant at John sonville, Tenn., and it gave Mike Strauss his job back as commissioner of the reclamation department. AU of these actions were to undo something the 80th congress had done. The deficiency appropriation bill was to provide funds slashed from various budgets by the EOth congress the TV A steam plant was denied the TV A in the EOth con gress; the Taft-Hartley act was passed by the 80th congress; and Kike Strauss was ushered out of his job by the 80th congress with a rider on the appropriations bill. So the congress was just tak ing up the slack and, as a mat ter of fact, has done nothing of importance so far in the way of new legislation. All the impor tant administration measures are still bogged down in commit tees and likely will be for sev eral weeks to come. It appears that the fight to repeal the Taft-Hartley act which manage ment wants and labor despises and to re-enact the Wagner Act which labor likes and management despises, or to replace both with something of a compromise which neither will like, will go on through the commit tees and on the floor of both houses at a point -by-point- clip which would cover about 40 specific points in the field of labor-management relations. The final version of the labor act will be hammered out in conference committee some months hence. Most important measure to be thrown into the hopper during the past week was the administration economic stabilization measure which would give the President stand-by authority to slap on wide spread controls at about all levels of the economy with the exception of consumer rationing. Agriculture Secretary Charles F. Brannan, spokesman for the administration and evolving as the strong man of the President's cibinet, told the committee that the nation needed the law because "critical shortages of some essential materials and in adequacies of production capacities, together with pronounced and con tinued increases in some price levels, jeopardize employment opportunities and threaten national security and the maintenance of economic sta bility." . Also, the measure to up the payroll tax and bring about 20 million more folks within tbe fold of the social security bene fits was introduced. The predic tion is being made by observers here that the measure also will be passed to bring back those ousted from provisions of the bill -by the 80th congress and to add self-employed such as the pro fessional men, state government employees, non-profit employees and domestics. Likely farmers will not be included, but only for the reason that some farm lead ers hive taken a stand against being included. Indications are, according to these observers in the field of social wci- ; fare, that the states will be voted some 300 million dollars more for aid to children and the aged and blind on public relief rolls; that mo?e money will be voted for schrxl lunches: that old-age benefits will be upped about 50 per cent and that the payroll tax on botii employer, and employee will be at least one and one-half per cent next year in- stead of the present one per cent. Still in the realm of prediction, it: appears that the congress proposes to vote in favor ol a bill offered in, the senate by Senator lister Hill of Alabama and in the House by Con gressman W. R. Poage of Texas which would give REA-type loans for rural telephones. Tbe adminis-; tration of the bill may be undertaken by the Rural Electrification admin istration. Senator Hill said that even ; if his bill were made law and car ried out there would still be half the farms without telephones, and that there were less rural telephones now than in 1920. AVilliam C Henry of the Northern Ohio Telephone com pany, speaking against the meas ure, declared the bill would "in stantly threaten and ultimately completely destroy" the 6,000 members of the V. S. Indepen- dent Telephone Association. He suggested instead that congress authorize REA to make long-term-low-interest loans for tbe purpose. The house armed services sub committee has approved a bill au thorizing the establishment of a 3,-000-mile-long, 75 million dollar prov ing ground for testing guided mis siles. The air force had asked for 200 million dollars for the proposal. had marriage license waiting periods and blood test laws for some time. Kansas enacted such a law in 1947. Until the Kansas law was enacted, couples converged on Columbus, Kan., where they could get married without waiting. Hundreds of Missouri and Oklahoma couples said "I do" in the Columbus court house. Now, Bentonville is the Gret na Green of the midwest as Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma couples go to Arkansas for a quick license. Some Can Hold It GRAND RAPIDS, Mich (U.R Circuit Judge William B. Brown refuses to permit admission of the drunko-meter tests in in toxicated driving trials "because j auuic unvcia tcta iiuiu tijtii u- quor better than others. Kathy Parkening Alumni Editor From The Platter) Katherine Parkening has been .chosen as Alumni Editor for the ; "49" annual. The annual staff has decided to have a complete story of what the class of "48" is now doing. This is only one of ! the new ideas that will be car ! ried out in this year's annual. The Staff is planning to ask members of the Junior typing class to help with making master sheets for the annual so they will have practice for next year. As soon as the pictures, taken recently, are back, work on the i master sheets will go ahead at full speed. READ THE JOURNAL FOR THE LATEST IN NEWS. ARKANSAS TOWN BECOMES MIDWEST GRETNA GREEN JOPLIN. Mo. (U.R The mar- i riage center of the four-state area of Missouri, Kansas, Okla homa and Arkansas has moved from Columbus, Kan., to Bent onville, Ark. Missouri and Oklahoma have B A I ' y Brain ansae? 1. The island of Sylt, mentioned in Winston ChnYchiirs memoirs, is in the (a) Mediterranean sea, (b) Black Sea, (c) North Sea. 2. If you wish to visit Trafalgar Square, you would go to (a) Dublin, (b) London, (c) Rome. 3. The father of the United States coinage system was (a) Alex ander Hamiilcn, (b) Thomas Jefferson, (c) John Adams. 4. The radio station in Quito, Ecuador, caused a riot recently by broadcasting a description of an invasion from -Mars similar to Orson Wells' broadcast in the United States in 1938. Both broadcasts were dramatized by radio versions of the novel entitled (a) Things to Come," (b) "The War of the Worlds,- (c) "Brave New World." 5. The ancient Jewish body or council that met in Jerasalem as a supreme court for religious civil and criminal affairs (recalled by the recent meeting of the new Israeli Assembly) was called (a) the Kaballah, (b) the Majlis, (c) the Sanhedrin. , ANSWERS 1. (c) Nortfe wa, off the ceaM of Germany. 2. (b) London. 1 3. bl TSomn Jefferson, about 160 years ago. A. (b) "The War of the World.," by H. C. Welta. 3. (c) The Sanhedrin. 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