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TTME tPLATTSMflDOJlTIH JflDtMFMtL SECTION TWO CASS COUNTY'S NEWSpnper UNITED PRESS AND NWNS SERVICE CLOAK AND DAGGER DRAMA THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Thursday, July 7, 1949 - PAGE ONE The Plattsmouth Journal Furse's Fresh Flashes statu. ISM i:n ix ivm 1 'n l,! iv ! . .! v.-itii-w-. klv. Mfinil.iys :i nl Thurs !:i vs. :ii I '. - 113 Ma in Slnl, 1 'la tl smouth , i "..,.( v, N'-!r:t. kit . RONALD R. FURSE Publisher FRANK II. SMITH Editor BERNARD A. WOOD Advertising Mgr. O. C. Osterholm, Plant Superintendent Harry Wilcoxen, Manager Job Department Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor (assocaron NATIONAL CDirOfilAl ASSOOATIO SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year in Cass and adjoining counties, $4.00 per year elsewhere, in advance, by mail outside the city of Plattsmouth. By carrier in Platts mouth, 15 cents for two weeks. at 1 1 I'.wti.i t ii c ;it l'lattsm.Mitli. :is ii-iil . h mail matter in Willi lie Ait ''"Unless nf Maleli . T!I'H;iIT FOR TOD.!)' ', inrt lw (jrcatlx tlinii;ht he nobly ,'. Pope - EDITORIALS PARKING METER TROUBLES Plattsmouth is not the only city in the state that is having- its discussion coneern ii)' the installation of narkinir meters, -or s, it seems from articles and editorials taken from community newspapers. Some two weeks ajro the city council -f P.lair ordered the purchase of 294 park iii.ur meters. The action brought a flood of ar-.iused opposition and a special meeting oi the Chamber of Commerce was called when a majority of business men expressed their -opposition to the installation of the meters on Rlair streets, according to a veri fied report of the meeting. A previous poll by the Pilot-Tribune had revealed that persons questioned were ' ' -j to 1 against the meters. "Since the contract has already been signed it appears evident that the only way to stop delivery of the meters would be by a special referendum vote by the citizens of P.lair," stated the Pilot-Tribune last week. Plattsmouth's mayor and city council have been approached by salesmen for parking meter companies. They present a good sales talk and under some conditions there is considerable to be said in favor of them. However, this newspaper honest ly believes there are better ways of solving the parking problem in Plattsmouth than by using parking meters, and the opposi ti m encountered at Blair seems to substan tiate our views. P.lair. like Plattsmouth. is a progressive community of good people. Its citizens are "champing at the bit" in efforts to improve their community and their city officials, like in Plattsmouth, have been taking considerable abuse from over enthusiastic though, perhaps, well-meaning citizens who want to go forward. It would be wise for Plattsmouth not t take too hasty action in the installation 'f meters. They should be a last resort. Every other method of solving our parking problems should be investigated thorough ly before, we "jump off the cliff." JRGES COMPETITION It is always interesting to hear a busi ness man speak in favor of competition be cause -of the custom of so many leaders of business to seek, in various ways, to secure something of a monopoly. Edgar G. Burton, a business man of To ronto. Canada, says that "there are all too many in the business community who think they should be protected from competition by using various devices of their own of monopoly, cartelization, price-fixing and the power of the state to establish restric tive standards." This is a statement that is worth re membering. Everyone of the devices narked bv Mr. Burton has been used, from time to time, by business men to eliminate competition and thus stifle the mainspring of private enterprise. The practice is not confined to the leaders of big business but can be exemplified in the operations of manv whose business is confined to the K KNOW YOUR FUTURE MATE A Chicago widow recently put police on the trail of a prospective husband, whom she accused of swindling her out of a substantial sum of money. Police described the man as a veteran operator, who has preyed on women for half a cfntury. They related other in stancr ir where, under assumed names, he paid court to wealthy women and even tually disappeared with their money or jewels. According to the authorities, the Arrest of that elderly man in Chicago for fleecing hundreds of women over the nation just shows how old a man must get before he can deceive a woman. June is the month for girls with a lot of "bride" ideas. We go along with a lot of other men a dimple is one depression we ail enjoy. - Remember the fly that buzzes the loud est is the first to be swatted. A Plattsmouth wife uses a neat trick to get money out of her husband. She tells him she is "going back to mother" and he immediately hands her the fare. One consolation if Plattsmouth gets parking meters they will be most helpful as handholds as you stumble over our curbs. Europe, to us, is just a great big jig saw puzzle with a "peace" missing. A bank is where fountain pens are kept on a leash. M M A local high school girl says a drizzle is two drips going steadv. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, says her new boy friend is a man of rare gifts he hasn't given her one since thev started going steady. man has an international reputation as a swindler. The publicity given the experiences of these women may senve a useful purpose if it warns other women and teaches them to investigate the character and creden tials of ardent suitors, who, despite avow als of love, require readv cash. -fc D0rTMEMTLANE TEN YEARS AGO Three inch rain swept city as holiday climax: streets were filled with water In torrential rainfall, culminating a heated Fourth of July and electric storm . ." . Large group gathered at Calumet Bend, at the Beil home at Kenosha to celebrate birthday anniversary of Greeley Beil . . . Mr. and Mrs. Wm. F. Evers and family departed for a trip to the Pacific coast and to attend the meeting of the Masonic Home officers at Portland. Oregon . . . Indepen dence Day was observed at Methodist church with fine program arranged to make the start of campaign to make church independent of debt. Rev. J. C. Lowson was the pastor ... Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Patton celebrated their golden wed ding anniversary with family gathering at their home in the south part of town, July 4 . . . Miss Helen Smetana, secretary for the Egenberger agency departed for a va cation trip to California. -k -c -K TWENTY YEARS AGO Clement Woster, clerk at the Fetzer Shoe Co., departed for Chicago where he took special courses of study at the Dr. Scholl's school on the care and treatment of the feet . . . Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Short and children, Sanford and James, arrived from Peoria, Illinois for a visit at the Hans Seiver home . . . Sattler Funeral Home in stalled ambulance service of latest type to care for emergency cases ... A. L. Tidd presented the park board with a collection of some 1,200 iris, to be planted in various parks of the city . . . Miss Irma Mayfield was added as clerk at the Farmers State Bank . . . Editor Lee J. Mayfield of the Louisville Courier with Mrs. Mayfield de parted on trip to the west coast. They were accompanied by Dr. and Mrs. E. H. Worthman and two daughters, making the trip by auto. t&REftr-ao-o&ra (Copyright. 1949. By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) . DREW PEARSON SAYS: 'MEDTCAL LOBBY PRESSURES CONGRESSMEN AGAINST FEDER AL HEALTH INSURANCE; NA TIONAL SOLDIERS HOME SHOULD BE EXPANDED! BENDIX STRIKE OFFERED SERIOUS THREAT TO BERLIN AIRLIFT. WASHINGTON. Latest gadget the Americal Medical Association lobby is us ing in the pressure campaign against fed eral health insurance is a post card, dis tributed from doctors' offices, which threatens vote retaliations against mem bers of Congress who support the health program. The card reads: "As for myself and family, which consists of votes, we are unalterably opposed to compulsory health insurance or any other legislation which tends to regiment our population and socialize our government." The sender fills in the blank with the I l a. : 1 1 Boooffo o o cN l IJf ashin gicn numoer oi voies in nis lamuy. i Senator Claude Pepper of Flori-! da, a leading sponsor of health ' insurance, reports he has receiv- ed hundreds of the sterotyped i cards. Some have also been mailed to President Truman. ; One sender, whose wife recent- , ly underwent an operation, wrote Pepper that he was ' com- , pelled" by the doctor perform-. ing the operation to fill out and sign the card. Another report-' ed that he feared he would "an- . tagonize my doctor and nurse" if he didn't comply with their , wishes. Both these individuals in-, formed Senator Pepper that ; they strongly supported tbef health-insurance program. Sim- ! ilar cards also are being distri- ' buted by Florida insurance ; salesmen. OLD SOLDIERS Five hundred forgotten sold iers, who survived past" wars but are victims of old age, are await ing to get into the National Soldiers' home at Washington, D. C. But there's no room. Those on the inside would like to make room by building new quarters. They have plenty of money $33,000,000, every cent contributed through the years by enlisted men. But the money is held in trust by the Treasury department, and the ex-soldiers can't get it out without an act of Congress. Though this money belongs to the soldiers and not the taxpay ers, the Budget bureau has turn ed down a request to release .16.700,000 to expand the sold iers' home. The bureau's recom mendation has influenced the Congress to refuse use of the funds despite the ?"a -hat the soldiers' home hasn't teen ex panded since 1911. Meanwhile, the waning list of ag-d, lonely ex-soldi-rs is grow ing longer. TIIilLAT TO BFRLIN AIRLIFT The public was never told how the Bendix strike at Sou'.n Bend. Ind., involving fewer than 6.000 .vci'kers, came closer to g-ound-ii-g the Berlin airlitt ih.n the Kuvsians ever did. Tiv.it was the- reason the Air Foive urgent ly cummoned both sic.f-i to the Pentagon last week to settle the strike at a dramatic, all-night session. Here, for the first time, is the inside story: After negotiations broke down at South Bend. Secretary of the Air Force Stuart Symington per sonally invited Bendix-boss Mal colm Ferguson to Washington. Simultaneously he sent an Air Force plane to Detroit to pick up Walter Reuther. chief of the United Auto Workers. The two men were brought in to see Symington separately. The Secretary of the Air Force warned both that plane produc tion would be crippled, the Ber ' lin lift forced down for lack of key parts if the strike contin ued. It was Reuther who suggested thev sit down on the spot and settle the strike. "With all this talent from both labor and management," he de clared, "if we can't settle this strike, then it iust plain can't be i settled. And I'm willing to sweat I it out." I Ferguson was brought in, and the two men met face to face. "I am convinced that by using . Klietsch said that future irri- the Democratic processes." Reu- ; gation in Nebraska will be great ther offered, "we can settle this ! ly under the irrigable potential strike, and by doing it in that way, we will enable the Air Force to continue to defend the Democratic processes we are using." Ferguson promptly agreed. Assistant Secretary of Labor John Gibson also was called in. offered to serve as arbitrator. For several hours the two sides haggled behind closed doors, took time out only for quick snacks. Symington kept a Pen tagon kitchen open all night to accommodate them. ; unless the state anti-diversion ! law is interpreted liberally. He also called for a modifica tion oi tne extensive bureau plan, to show the projects and 1 areas which could be served un ' der all kinds of circumstances, ranging from the present stage of development to full realiza j tion of the bureau's program. I The proposed undertakings i should be set forth in chrono ' logical order, the state engineer j said. i Both Klietsch and the gover- By 3 a. m. the negotiators were ! nor aSf eed development should still deadlocked. Finally Reu ther blurted out: "The thing that bewilders me is how a situ ation that has dragged out ten weeks and should have been settled at the outset, yet has been handled with good faith and good will and intelligence, could have gotten so 'snarled' proceed in downstream . order, but this will depend upon or ganization of districts 'accep table to the reclamation bureau. In his letter of transmittal. Gov. Peterson said he joined with others in his eagerness to get contrauction going as soon as possible. . . . . : i : . . : 1, " lip 1L 15) lUIUJillC. Reuther used one word that I Meanwhile, the battle of the can't be repeated here which j petitions went on. caused the tense, solemn group The Veterans of Foreign Wars to burst out in laughter. This rpnnrteri nmsrpss in their r.am- i paign to block rent decontrol THIS WEEK rN BOTH nouse and senate, political fortunes are be ing made. Especially are lines being drawn for the 1950 elections, for ob server point out that the senate debate on the Taft-Hartley bill has marked certain men In that body for Labor's enmity Just as house debate on the housing measure has put 1U stamp on some members in the lower body. As a matter of fact the 1950 cam paign already Is under way. with the Democrats recently holding a mid west conference at Des Moines to sell middle-west farmers on the Brannan farm program and to forge a link between the farmer and la bor organizations. Republicans, too. were getting ready to pitch In for the campaign. The house congres sional committee has finally ob tained a publicity man to handle Us program. In the person of Robert Humphreys, former Newsweek editor and International News Service staff man In Washington. Ken. Robert A. Taft of Ohio, not content to wait for action by the senate campaign committee, has become a columnist in his own right and Is tending out weekly columns to some 118 newspapers in his native Ohio. It already appears that on the Taft-Hartley bill the administration must necessarily be satisfied wiUi some poor makeshift amendments If they get anything at all In the way of a new labor law Observers here point out that In the senate there are probably eight doubtful Demo cratic seats and four doubtful Re publican seats up for election in the coming campaign There re 47 Democratic seats and 37 Republican seats which possibly will not change. Doubtful Democratic seats are considered to be: Senator Sheridan Downey of California; Senator Bnen McMahon. of Connecticut; the suc cessor of Republican Senator Ray mond Baldwin, who will be a Dem ocrat named by Governor Bowles to serve from the end of 1949 to the 1950 elections: Senator Glen H. Tay lor of Idaho, who became a vice- pretiidential nominee on the Wallace ticket; Sen. Scctt W. Lucas of Illi nois; Sen, Robert P Wagner of New York, who will not run to succeed himself. lt Is thought maybe that his son. Robert Wagner Jr.. may get the nod, but former Gov. Herbert F. Lehman, and the new congressman. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., have been mentioned In connection with the poot); Sen. Francis Myers of Penn sylvania, end Sea Warren Mr.u son of Washington. On the Republican 6lde the four doubtful seats, according to tht po litically wise here. Include Senator Eugene Millikan, of Colorado; Homer E. Capehart. of Indiana; Sen. Forrest O. DonnelL of Missouri. anJ Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio. According to the political flopesters here, Taft may see ac tion against Gov. Frank Lausche, the winner in the 1918 election. It also Is rumored that in In diana, Got. Henry F. Schricker may decide to contest the 1950 election with Senator Cape hart Cupehart la seeking tls 6econd term, and when he was elected In 1911 by 22.000 votes. Indiana went for Dewey for president by S4.000 votes, then went on to elect Repub lican Sen. William E. Jenner In 1948 by 155,000 votes. But in 1948 the stat went for Dewey by 14,000 votes but elected seven out cf 11 congressmen and also Democratic Gov. Henry F. Schrlcker. In the meantime, both parties are planning regional meetings this summer, end the Republicans al ready have held party caucuses In Los Angeles, Omaha and Boston Also coming lr.to the national picture Is a name well known to Republi cans, one Philip WUkie. He Is the 29-year-old son of the late Wendell W'ilkie and has been offered the post of ajsistant to Senator Owen Brew ster of Maine, recently named chair man of the GOP senatorial caia paig.i committee. The Democratic senatorial campaign committee Is headed by Sen. Clinton Anderson of New Mexico, former secretary of agri culture. Also on the Democratic committee are Senators Kefau rer of Tennessee, Kilgore of We5t Virginia and O'Mauoney of Wyoming. Apparently there was something of a paradox at the recent governor's conference at Colorado Springs, for according to observers here, those states'-rights governors who yell loudest In national campaign years about federal domination, yelled loudest at Colorado Springs for more federal grand-l --aid funds. Accord ing to newspaper reports of the con ferences. Gov. J Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, the states' right crs presidential candidate; Gov. Her man Talmadge, of Georgia, and Got. Earl Long of Iuilana. led the de mand for more federal grants to help states meet socio, security needs. broke the ice and started the ne gotiators on the road to settle ment. By 11 a. m.. almost 24 hours after they started nego tiatinG:. an agreement was reach ed, ending one of the most, cri tical strikes since V-J Day an other triumph for the Democra tic processes. KEY CONGRESSMAN The president paid high praise to Democratic Represen tative Mike Kirwan of Ohio, militant battler for public pow . er legislation, in a chat with an other Mike the other day Rep resentative Mansfield of Mon tana. Mansfield reported that the Interior department's public power and reclamation program. , which Kirwan navigated through the House, faced a "very tough" battle in the Sen ate. 1 "I'm for you all the way." commented Truman. "You ; know, the Interior bill was the best we've ever cot through the House. Mike Kirwan deserves . the major credit. He fought it ; through the appropriations sub committee, through the full committee and finally through the House over the protests of 1 th1 private nower lobby. i "I think the world of Mike," ' added the President. "In my opinion, he's one of the most outstandine and ablest legisla tors we have in Congress. CAPITOL NEWS i . (Compiled by Nebraska Press Association) i Lincoln Avery Batson, regional reclamation director at Denver this week is studying the con clusions reached by State En ; gineer F. H. Klietsch after a sur very of the reclamation bureau's plan for developing the Lower Flatte river basin. Klietcsh's fjndinss were made j in a report to Governor Val Pet J erson. who forwarded them to Batson. and the Nebraska Farm Council said signatures were coming in "very satisfactorily" on petitions to remove the one-cent-a-gal-lon additional gasoline tax vot ed by the last legislature. But, the opposition was un limbering some pretty heavy ar tillery at the same time. The Better Nebraska Associa tion, formed to back the gover nor's highway program, carried its fight to save the revenue measures into rural Nebraska, recruiting county and city cfli cials to join in the scrap. H. G. Greenamyre, Lincoln, executive secretary of the asso-I ciation said he believes the highway carrier interests are "silent partners" of the Farm Bureau, the Farmers Union and the State Grange in the cam paign to undo the work of the legislature. Lincoln Mayor Clarence G. Miles said he could not under stand why farm organizations have "lined up with these utter ly selfish interests." The petroleum industry got i into the act as John Ainlay of ; Lincoln, Nebraska Petroleum Industries committee director, attacked the gas tax boost with the prediction the state would loose heavily in revenue from tourists who fill up on the Iowa border and make "one tank do , across Nebraska." j And Gov. Peterson, father of ! the highway improvement cam paign, took exception to a state ment by Grange Master Byron ! Holmes, of Milburn, that 400 engineers are employed in the i state engineer's office. Holmes had suggested three-fourths of them should leave their desks ; and mount road graders. The governor said there were only 191 engineers, including 89 trainees in the highway depart ment. "I am certain." he said, "that Mr. Holmes would not want to ! make a mis-statement of fact." The governor this week is va cationing at Lake Okobo-ji, la., but it won't be all loafing. The chief executive took alon an armload of reports on Missouri I basin development, and the Brannan agriculture report. He has to bone up on the river studies before the July 21 inter agency committee in Helena, Mont. These were other state house developments: Agriculture Director Rufus Howard predicted Nebraska's ' farm income this year will fall off $175,000,000 to around a bil lion dollars. He pointed out no conclusive picture can be drawn until the outcome of the corn crop is known. The board ol control reported that meat and butter prices have dropped considerably un der last year's level and the cost of serving 30,000 meals a day to inmates and workers at the State's 16 institutions has gone along downward. The state game commission will set the dates of the migra i tory water fowl season at its I meeting July 11. Secretary Paul Gilbert said. A 45-day season ap j pears likely. j Gov. Peterson sent his secre ! tary, Christ Petrow to the state , health department to represent ! him there until a successor is i named for Director W. S. Petty who has resigned effective Aug. 1. Petrow will conduct a person ! nel survey in the meantime. Figures showed the cigaret j tax yielded $22,000 more in June than for the same month last ! year. The liquor control com i mission said its income for the year ending May 31, was S312. 504 less than for the previous , ear. 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