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i I TME PLAWM(D)Qj oJflJC-&NAIL SKf'TION TWO CASS COUNTY'S NEWS pa per AND NWNS SERVICE THE PLATTSIYIOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Thursday. June 23. 1949 PAGE ONE The Plattsmouth Journal ANOTHER RQAD BLOCK Furse's Fresh Flashes a ;t.ish i:i 1 in" ivsi i i 1 - J f ft? k ! a:., r r - .... M l.ns :.ifl T!:n-s .ft. I 'Li - iii.m. I . RONALD R. FURSE . FRANK II. SMITH . BERNARD A. WOOD Publisher Editor .Advertising Mgr. ' O. C. Osterho!rri. Plant Superintendent Harry Wilcoven, Manager Job Department Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor f) assocaron NATIONAL iDlTORIU ASSOCATIO SUBSCRIPTION RATE: S3.50 per year in Cass and adjoining counties. S4.00 per year elsewhere, in advance, by mail outside the city cf Plattsmouth By carrier in Platts mouth. 15 cents for two weeks. I hill unit if -. i ''.' '' st-u-n in i 'ic h,i-t iikc ; n-:. , ..". if a;;.! !i: rs ,,; ' ?'.:' ..' if i'in!i!rss : O'Ricllv EDITORIALS i 1 COLLECTING TAXES Darin.'-r the past few weeks Cass Coun ty treasury has len enriched to the tune ..i" over !.". 00O through the collection of !rli!!!!:t-nt personal taxes dating back sev eral years. In many instances, it has been n . .'-sary to levy u?on the personal prop t ?tv of individuals in -order that they come through with tax payments that have been due and unpaid for as hirh as 10 years. Mot persons pay their taxes. when due wi:!i Sin!,, urc-inir. although many rri?e. ; A small r.ercentatre take "This Is a Free ! r..u try" literallv and enjoy the Four ; F'-odoms without a me"re token payment. altlv-uh tho- tiriv-' city and state higrh i vni's. ''V.d their children to public schools I and itherwiso use public property that has --f-r. constructed with voi;r sweat and d-!lar. Two ye firs ncro. the state legislature "' 'k 'eco'.'-ni'a '"' e rf the situation and ;'' Illi "a-"tl hf.u-e bills to remedy the I'-ikt. i nder tr." new bill it is the duty of each Countv Sheriff to collect delin irer.t taxes when aiven a distress warrant. nt is th j --::e 1 ity f.f the Countv Treasurer to ch warrants, each beinr subiect 1 "der bond t perform the duties of their i f fice a- outl?ne(l by statute there is no r -c-ur.' (verybudy pays tax.es or else. '; Th---.se v. ho have been forced to pay tl fir .ir-t ohlitrations through executions b-vj.-s havf henp'd much unjust cri ti ism on county officials who are only do h s their duty. It is well to remember tl at it takes a certain amount of monev t 1'(T th wheel- of 1 -eal povennent ti'rninL'. When one small rroup fail to c: rrv th' ir end of the burden bv failure to pay. then those who are paviner must die up the extra amount out of their own pecket. s If !' per cert fail to pay their taxes, the mill kvv m'Ht be increased to brin.tr the additi n;tl revenue. This newspa- 5 -' i. i"i i r;"aos praise on anv countv her official that saves us money. OPPORTUNITY ON THE FARM eftator r'linton P. Anderson, of i-o. a former Secretarv of Asrritdture New is coieee f'-aouates Tnat tnev wi have 14,4" ' slu.rtaire of epportunitv on the nation's fi :; v;ns v. Viej-e there exists "a yreat field for fi : i'-al endeavor." This is an interesting statement le- : ;i( rrany persons have been under to ' 'ressi(,n that atrricultural activity fails -. present opportunities sufficient to at U the vounjrer "-eneration. While there exeunt ions in Cass County and all over 'f ration, the ireneral impression is that i farmer hs a hard b'fe. beset by the p -ril of weather and with not much nvnm-i- of a competency in connection with fi nancial rewards. It is "mcoura""ine to hear the opinion of Mr Anderson. It tends to confirm the be that agriculture, like other economic . -"'-in offers improvinsr rewards for intelligent. hard-workinr and industrious it h'viduals. -k A IOB FOR EX-PRESIDENTS ?Tr. TTerbert Hoover, former President, 'inks that it mieht be well to permit President, tin retirinfr frbm office, to iier-orno p-pnprs; ,,f the Senate, but with out the rijrht to vote. The suggestion follows long; years of speculation as'to how the nation can make A local young swain attending a rather wild party near the river the other night fell in the water. No news to this as he didn't drown, but we'll bet he was badly diluted. . A Plattsmouth wife says her husband is so helpless that every time he darns his socks she has to thread the needle. If you see a man who is eettingr ahn? swell and making a success of himself, vou can be sure that he is married to a deter mined woman who knows what she wants. 4t If most people had to settle their bills with cold cash instead of "charge it." thev would quit their dam foolishness. A local girl says her favorite author is her dad he writes checks. A famous professor says that books are a wonderful help to man. We suppose he included bank books and pocketbooks. , A man applied for a job here the other day and when we told him we were over staffed he told us we could still hire him as the little work he did would never be noticed. Life must be worth living the cost has doubled but still most of us hang on. use of the experience gained by a Chief Executive. The ex-president would be in the Senate, available to give information on any subject before that body and through it to the country at large. We see no great objection to the Hoover proposal, which would, at least, give our ex-presidents a job with a salary. The possibility exists that, if divorced from an idea of a return to office, the ad vice of the former chief executive might be valuable. k "dWFmemorylanF TEN YEARS AGO Raymond Wiysel, local welder and re pair shop operator, secured the agency for Studebaker automobiles in this territory . . . Announcement made that the Louisville toll bridge would become a free bridge on September 8th with appropriate ceremo nies marking the occasion . . . Wedding of Dorothea Marie Siemoneit and Emil Franz Schmidt was held at St. Paul's church on June 18 . . . Mrs. Pearl Mann entertained at dinner at her home honoring Mr. and Mrs. George Thomas of Los Angeles. Other guests Ave re Mrs. R. A. Bates and Robert Mann . . . Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Price announced engagement of their daughter. Nancv Leona. to Mr. Willard Prink Jr. . . . Cass County Canners club of NehaAvka aus ited the Journal plant. Norfolk Packing Company and the Ice plant. -K TWENTY YEARS AGO Weeping Water Avas SAvept by a severe Avind and hail storm and elevator of E. F. Marshall Avas struck by lightning and burned to the ground . . . Cook familv held their 16th reunion at the W. D. Wheeler farm, south of the city . . . Old time melody "Liza Jane" was dedicated to Judsre Charles Graves at band concert under di rection of W. R. Holly . . . E. H. Wescott and H. G. McClusky Avere named as direc tors of the neAv junior college at Bellevue . . . H. F. Gansemer of Murray marketed 85 head cf Avell finished 1,188 pound Hereford steers at $15.25 . . : Burlinsrton agreed to plans for makincr road to bridge, necessitating cuts in the hill leading to the bridge. '"II' . v -,A'" ---v' " irM i mm THIS; PAST WEEK to congre5s has sn both senate and house marciiing two way. the senate tiIk v.z about economy and actually shaving about a billion dollars cS the defence bill, wi:h the house, in seeming contradiction, whooping through a veterans' bonus bill .which will cost nobody-know s-how-n:any billions and sto a new pes-t-ofTice pork-barrel bill whirh appro priated $40,000,000 to buy s;:es and prepare structures for every congres sional district in the country. The senate parsed a similar bill back on March 18 and presumably more the machinery and provid tech nical as.-stance to those backward countries which can new use it. It likely will operate under the state department, although ever.tualiy it may require a separate agency. The second p'srt of the program Is designed to employ private enter prise and private risk capital and to this end some guarantees are being written into the legislation against depreciation of currencies and spe cialisation or expropriation of indus tries. The United Sti-tes is expected to C3ntntute rb?u: $30.o:0.000 the 1 f.rst year. Under related programs. is committed to funds will be forthcoming later for , this coun-ry Irtv.cy is anv actual construction work. 1 about 520 000 .000 of this amount. AAl.etlier the soldier bom bil 1 Ot.'ier industrial countries, such as which includes ill veterans of both ! En: ind r.d France, are scheduled AA'crld AVar I and II will now get on I LO in rase an euriy aajournmcm prevents passage of the le:la- DM (Copyright. 1949. Bv the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSOX SAYS: GENERAL B R A D L E Y FIGHTS BACKSTAGE BATTLE WITH GEN FRAL MACARTHUR: DAN TOBIN WARNS TEAMSTERS AGAINST V N W A R RANTED STRIKES: SHORTSIGHTED OIL INDUSTRY CONDUCTS ANTI-HIGHWAY LOB BY. WASHINGTON. An important, backstage battle has broken out between tAvo of the nation's highest-ranking gen erals Douglas MacArthur and Chief of Staff Omar Bradley. General Bradley wants to AvithdraAA American forces from all the Pacific ex cept Japan and HaAvaii even out of the Philipnines. In case of Avar, Bradley ar gues that American forces caught in the Pacific outside Janan or HaAvaii Avould be immediately sacrificed in another Bataan. Therefore, he wants all troops AvithdraAvn to positions Ave can maintain. General MacArthur, on the other hand, wants American troops strung out around the Pacific to create spheres of influence to stem the spread of communism. Mac- Arthur is definitely opposed to withdrawing American troops from the Philippines and South Korea. ' The tone of his cables has be-' j come so strong that mild-man- j nered General Bradey has been j forced to remind him that he. ' Bradlev. not MacArthur is the! Chief of Staff. j DAS TOBIVS WARNING t Dan Tobin. head of the pow-1 erful Teamsters union, has sont ' a confidential letter to all Team- j sters' locals, cautioning them i against strikes and urging a ; conciliatiry policy toward em-! I ployers. ! Tobin. intimate friend of the ; late President Roose-elt and a: long-time power in the A. F. of j L.. started his letter by saving; that he was fearful of today's : economic situation and caution-j ed his locals against pushing j good employers for wage . in- j creases. j Tobin commented at some j length on the foolishness of the j Ford strike at this time. He j recognized that Walter Heather. head of the United Auo Work- j ers. was under compulsion from ! union membership, but said that Reuther would have ben wiser j to haA'e ruled the situation with j an iron hand and forbidden the ! strike. Referring to his own union. Tobin Avas critical of the Avst coast Teamsters' strike and a'so I of the Teamsters in New York. City. In the latter city bakery j drivers had struck for an tin-, warranted increase, on the as-! sumption that people had to eat! bread so there must be bread j deliveries. But with the strike! many weeks old. consumers get along by buying from chain stores and independent baker ies. Tobin said. j Communist agitation inside j labor unions also came in for; criticism from the forthright Teamsters boss. He said he had ( receiAed reDorts of active com-! munist leadership in one Team-j sters' local which he declined : to name. An investigation was ; being made. Tobin said, and ; these agitators would be fired: from the union Avhether they; signed non-communist affadav-j its or not. i Tobin also warned his Team-j sters that one trouble in union ' or" irizatjnr.s Avas the inability, and unwillingness of rank-and- j file memDrs to understand eco- j nomic laws. Ke pointed out: that Avhile members of his un-i ion are unskilled, thv. receive j annual returns .higher than' uui-Muvria. uidS.ritiS UI1C1 SKl'l- ed mechanics because of the fact that the latter suffer seas onal laA-offs. TIIOrCIITFUL PRESIDENT A group of four-H club young sters waited on the White House portico to see the President while Representatives Robert Secrest and Earl Tt Wagner Avere inside presenting him with a pe tition from the Ohio congres sional delegation to name George Rogers, an SEC attorney, to the Securities and Exchange Commission. "I'm going to be photograph ed with those young people in the rose garden outside." said Truman. "Don't let us detain you. Mr. President." urged Secrest. Just then a sudden cloudburst tattooed the windows of the President's office. I "Stick around," he told his callers. "If I take those kids out in the rain to be photo graphed, their lathers and mothers will be after me." ANTI-HIGHWAY lOUEY Congress is new probing the ; fact that the oil industry, which' i owes its prosperity to the gaso- j line burned on highways, is so ! shortsighted that it opposes new ' highways. Reason: To pay for the roads, many states are boost- ' ing gasoline taxes. j The extra taxes aren't paid by the oil companies, but by mo- ; torists. Yet the industry has al- j ready boosted " gas" prices so high they fear the public won't stand for both higher prijes and higher taxes ! So. believe it or not. the oil lobby is actually fighting against building new roads. Take North Carolina, for ex ample: Gov. Kerr Scott, a hard- ' hittine liberal, submitted a' S200.000.000 read program to the , vo'ers. To finance it. he pro-. posed a one-cent-per-gallon in crease in the state gasoline tax. The oil lobby immediately and bitterly opposed, appealed to citv voters to block the program. When the vote finally came. ; city people did vote 5-1 against new rural roads. But the farm-: ers amassed 225.000 votes to the : urban voters' 175.000. j Meanwhile, in the rest of the , nation, highways are in the worse general condition than at nnv time since the depression. Yet the oil lobby continues to opnose new roads. But here are the statistics: Since 1945. the number of auto mobiles on the hiehwaA-s has increased by 10.500.000. Of thse. 2.500.000 are trucks. All told. 100.000.000.00 ton-miles were traA-eled in 1943 almost double the 1945 traffic. Yet only a pal trv few million dollars have been added to the road bill. Because of inflation. eA-en this increase in dollars really has been a de crease in jrchasing nowei when it came to road building. Result has been Avear-and-tear on automobiles, irrigating traffic snarls, and an increase in traffic deaths. What the public doesn't realize is that safety cn b built into the roads. Yet the public, while paving more for automobiles and gasoline, has let the high Avays run down. The most frequent cause of city traffic accidents is the f?il ure of motorists to yield the right-of-Avay at intersections, r-ccording to Illinois state police. Soldiers Secure Education in Japan Duty By EARNEST HOEIlRECHT I Tilted Press Staff Correspondent. TOKYO U P The American j Army is trying to provide Amer- j lean soldiers in Japan with in- formaticnal and educational op- j portunities comparable Avith j those available back home. j Throughout Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Far East Com-1 mand. a Troop Information and Education Section is operating under Col. C. B. Wiison. Col. Wilson's section is popularly known as TI&E. "To the young soldier, separ ated from school and home training at a period when prop el guidance will determine his utility to cope with the pro blems of life and citizenship, the TI&E program is of fundamen tal importance," Col. Wilson said. "This program is also of un questionable value to the Army as a whole, since the soldier is his country's representative vherever he may be. and the respect in which the United States is held depends in great part upon the soldier's conduct and the standards Avhich he maintains as an individual." Four Major Activities Col. Wilson said four major activities are conducted under 1 TI&E auspices. There is a Aveekly information i hour which must be attended by both officers and enlisted : personnel. At these hours, im ; portant developments in science. politics, industry, economics and other subjects, as well as ; national and international is- sues, are presented in an ob jective manner, he said. News , papers, magazines, maps and j -isual aids are used to make the i discussions clear and A-ivid. t Col. Wilson said a supplemen tary officers' information hour, ! a mandatory monthly period for ! information and discussion, "al , so has teen established. Kept Informed "At these periods." Col. Wil son said, "officers are informed j on matters of American policy and their own part in the imple- ' mentation of that policy." ; Col. Wilson said that as an important part of the program j 115 mimeographed and printed neAA-spapers are published daily the senate calendar at this late date is conjectural. Insofar as the peace and other foreicn program measures are con cerned, the first thing on the calen dar is passage of the extension of the reciprocal trade agreements which txpire on June 30. In the Ij.'t congress, it will be remembered. ii h the backing of both Governor Dewey of New York and Governor Warren of California, the COth ror.preFs re fused the urual three-year exten.-Ion and made the agreements good only until the June dat this year. This year, however, the agree ments hare been blue-printed as an indispensable part of the Marshall plan. This question cf tariffs has been under constant attack since 1934 when, under the pressure cf the then secre tary of state Cordell Hull and President Roosevelt, the first re ciprocal trade agreements were enacted. They have been fought as "New Deal" ever since depite the fact that as far back as 1?0 ;. a Republican president, McKi:i ley, said that isolationism was dead and the way to "peaer an l prosperity was through reciproc ity treaties." President Truman Is r.ov; ir i-;r that his congressional leaders r.I.- consider his "point four" prctan in the must legislation for this c..n gress. Hie legislation 1 as been dr?It tion, there is stop-gap machin ery already set up for starting the point-four program n t'ie Smiih-Mundt bill, known as the I". S. informational and educa tional exrha-.igc act of 1918. It has in it authorization for tcch nual assistance even though it was labeled the "Voire c f Amer ica prc.jram when it went through conjres-. Oi :ier letu-'aik -n involved in our eronorr.i? program as it effects our foreiin policy include ths Intima tions 1 Wheat ArreT.'.rr.t tnd U. S. membership in the International Trade Orfiar.ir.atirr.. The AA'heat Treatry, shich ciied in the EOth con grrs, is up Spain. The ITO faces ri.ffic u'.t sledding. It is proposed, ac cTdzr.sr to its sponsors, to prevent economic warfare and establish & cede of fair cleaiin- in foreign trade. Ir is set up to tr.cile such problems as r-rrte Is. surpluses, full employment and the mnre of customs regulations r nd formrlitses hlch discourage free ';.c- ITO is backed by the commit tee fcr Eccviomio-Development, vari- 'v( r.-.T.'s and church groups and tr.'cii? unions. Its charter, however, v:v ..;.s poaus tthkh accordir.? to the Cur i'd States chamber of com merce and the National Association ' f Manufacturers, would prevent ef fective u.-rfuln?s;:. Oi pencil's of the plan to place the ed, and proposes r coordinated plan . entue authority over CCC in the for the United States r.nd the Untied ! hands- cf the secretary cf agriculture Nations to develop the resource, m- v on a victory in the senate, when dustries and standards of living of j the conference report on the meas that large part of the world where , ura came back to the senate. Trie there are backward areas and sub- ! hous? had insisted that members of standard living. j the CCC should be named by the The first part cf the program deals j .-"crctary cf cgriculture and serve at with policy, previsions for setting up i his discretion. throughout the command to keep the men abreast of cur rent news events and to pro vide them Avith many other fea tures they would ordinarily get in their homctOAvn newspapers. 'Best known is the Stars and Stripes, which is published free to all personnel of the Far East Command," he said. "In order that all commands may be re presented, there are six editions published daily, except Sunday the All-Japan. Tokyo. Yoko hama. Korea. Okinawa and Marbo." NORTH LIBERTY CLUB North Liberty Extensoin club held their June meeting with Mrs. Chas. Land. All members except one were present. Mrs. George Rieke and Mrs. Jesse Moritz gave the lesson on "Mu sic." After the lesson csciussion the leaders had sonzs and pis-no numbers by Phyllis Eieke, Suzanne Kendall. Dorii Ehlers, Esther Klein. Nancy Jane Land, 'and Lynn and Ellen Taasch. Visitors were Mrs. C. W. Mase man cf Falls City: Mrs. Raeheal Farris. Murray: Mrs. Myril? Swan. Miss Joan Swan. Mrs. Louis Burbee. Mrs. W. C. Wat kins and Mrs. Russell Easter of Unijii. ' Tne next meeting: Avill be a picnic for members and families at Steinhart Park in Nebraska City on July ICth. The hostess and her assistant. Mrs. Charles Swan, served refreshments. More than 50.000.000 spot an:! projection resistance welds will be made this year by automo bile manufactures in the pro duction of an estimated 500.CCO cars. f l'.J v.ill cccnr cn (a) April 1, (b) April 3, (c) March 29. ':r is the monetary unit of (a) Palestine, (b) Turkey, ' t cf the Tas!iinton monument is fa) 555 feet, 5!i '-?:. I) inches, (c) 725 feet, ei;ht inches. t 'hlcf ,'us'ice of the I'nited State Supreme Court wm """! 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