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p I PUBLISHED Ncbr State Historical Soc, rWEEKLY State Capital Bldg. iuuiiuay-1 nursuav Largest Paid Circulation of All Cass County Newspapers VOLUME 64 SIX PAGES PLATTSMOUTH, CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1949 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NUMBER 74 CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER City Schools Open Tuesday, August 30th Flattsmouth city schools will open on Tuesday morning, Aug ust 30. 1949, with a complete FtafT of fully qualified instruc tors. Monday will be observed by all teachers in a series of pro fessional and organizational meetings preparatory to the opening of school the next day. Many interesting guest speak ers have been selected to speak to and consult with the teach ers during this day. County Sup erintendent Behrends and City Superintendent Friest have ecn fortunate in obtaining speakers who will be available for the city schools as well as the pre-openings meetings of the rural teachers which is be ing held on the same day. These yuest speakers are Dr. Edith S. Greer, state supervisor of ele mentary education and normal training coming to us from the state Superintendent of Public instruction's at Lincoln. Mr. J. L. MacDowell, basic elementary reading specialist from Chicago aid Lincoln and Mr. Neal S. Goman. special field represen tative from the Nebraska state education association office at Lincoln. Following is listed the teach ing personnel for the coming year : Miles Eloe. high school prin cipal: Doris Atkison Armstrong, vocational home economics. Gerald Clayburn, shop, me chanical drawing, science and Junior high school physical ed- 1 acation. i Ruth DicKinson. commercial. ; David Fowler. Jr.. music. Mary J. Kramer Eloe. English i and journalism. 'Wiles, hurler for the Timms J Pearl Mann, science and1 came to bat. and smacked the I mathematics. ' John J. O'Hare, institutional Qn-The-Farm Training. Jean Roadhouse, English and i dramatics. Myrtle Schwab, history and English. Pearl Staats. English, normal training, library. Merle Stewart, science, ath letic coach. Jessie Whalen. history," guid ance, co-ordinator. Clara Weyrich, mathematics, tests and measurements. Joe C. York, mathematics, social science, assistant coach. Elementary grades Junior "Iigh in high school building Zilpha Seward, eighth grade; Alvina Zastrow. eighth grade; i Continued on Page Six Lightning Strikes Tower at Oreapolis During the electrical storm on Thursday evening a bolt of lightning hit the "tower" at the Oreapolis crossing of the Bur lington and Missouri Pacific railroads, north of Plattsmouth. The lightning did little dam age to the building, but burn ed out the electric fuses and caused the tower to be without lights and power for a short time. The Plattsmouth fire depart ment was called out by the lightning blast and hurried to Oreapolis but fortunately their services were not needed and business was progressing as usual in a few moments. Accidental Deaths Total 13 for 1949 The total of accidental deaths in Cass county so far for the year total thirteen, reports at the office of Sheriff Tom Sol omon show. This is a very strong showing up to date this year. Three of the deaths were from drowning, four from auto mobile accidents, one from sui cide and five from various types of accidents. The accidental death of Har ry Bashus brought the figure to thirteen in the list as the re-1 suit of his shooting while hunt ing south of this city Friday. O. W. Finney Has Stay in Hospital O. W. Finney, one of the well known contractors in eastern Nebraska, has been at the Clarkson hospital at Omaha for the past ten days, suffering from an attack of stomach ul cers. Mr. Finney had a similar attack seme years ago. The patient has responded well to the treatment and it is hoped will be out and able to return home in a few days to Murray to recuperate at home. Youths Confess Another Breakin The Bellevue ' and. Omaha youths, Edward Christianson and Dale Konvalin, who are be ing held in Omaha in connec tion with breakins and auto theft, have confessed to having been in the party that recently visited Cedar Creek. They con fessed to having broken into the Ault store at Cedar Creek on the same night that they enter ed the Blair Construction Co. office. At the Ault store they were unable to secure any mon ey, and left there to raid the Blair office where they secured $26 and then were frightened away from the scene. The two remain firm in their statements that they had no part in the breakins at Murdock or oiner places in uass county. Two of the youths that are listed as members of the gang, are still at large. Great Game as Softball Season Draws to Close The softball fans that jour neyed out to Athletic park Fri- day night had a great treat af-! Paid out in the order received. installation of officers of Cass forded "them in the clash of the Payment is expected to start County Voiture 1218 of La So Timms, league leading team, ! afound the first of January. ciete Des 40 Hommes at 8 Che- and Donat's second place win- ners. The Timms were the win ners 1 to 0. The game was one of the finest, if not the best seen on the local lot, in many months, both teams being at their best, good, fast, errorless ball was played by both of the teams. The game ran into an extra I inning before the final result was secured. It came as a real thrill tn thp fans when Earl ball for a two bagger, being re- lieved on the base bv Charles Eugene Ault, first sacker of the team who was resting on the third sack when Grover (Tuffyi , Parriott rapped a single to the right garden that brought in I ihif Ti'innln or run - t ThP emmp -a-ns nn tn pninv all of the way through and filled with msnv bri iant nlavs uim many Dmiiani piayb. Harry Rohlfs did the pitching! f nt, .v,u0 nr.K noil the stopping back of the plate. Wiles and Spidell were the usual ' hard working battery for Timms. , ; Peru School Head ! Visits in City Friday W. L. Nichols, presi- dent of the Peru State Teachers : vu"vbi- " -..v. - . short time looking over the city, : while here was a caller at The , Weichel was sleeping, this arous Journal for a short visit and to ' ir.or him, he was able to get out look after some advertising for i 0f the house which was by that the school for the coming fall : term. In the past years Peru Teach ers has grown to be one of the best known educational institu tions in this section of Nebras ka. Several hundred from Cass county in the years past, have received theii education at the home of the Peru Bobcats, many of the graduates have served as instructors in the Plattsmouth scnools. The school has given a sueat opportunity to many that could not afford to attend the larger ; enough to cover the loss. universities at'd colleges, plac ; ing them in a position to rccei e j Mrs. Zelphia Seward and Mrs. training for their future years j c. A. Rosencrans departed in their chosen fields, partic- ; Monday for Honeywell, Missouri, ular'y in the field of teaching, j where they will join their moth The school will now be able ; er, Mrs. Mollie Lasley, who has to offer A.B. degrees to the : been there for some time. Mrs. students and this is expected to : Lasey will accompany the be a big inductment to the boys ( daughters home. and girls of southeastern Ne- i braska. I Sell It Thru Journal Want Ads. Court Home Irietfs The off fee of County Judge Richard ' Peck was the scene of j Sheriff Thomas Solomon was two weddings on Friday after- ; called out Sunday by the rob noon. Edwin C. Scott and Evie j bery of a gas station attendant R. Bell, both of Omaha were : at the outskirts of Springfield. married by Judge Peck ,with Mrs. Marie Behrends and Miss Thelma Kruger as the witness es. Lowell A. Whitaker and Mar jorie J, Coney of Omaha were also married during the after noon with ' Kenneth McAufl en and Betty Mae,- Johnson of Omaha as the 'witnesses. In the office of the clerk of the district court Saturday,- an action in divorce was filed en titled Alice Tignor vs. Earl Tig nor. The petition sets forth that the parties were married on September 13, 1937, that the de fendant is now a non-resident of the state of Nebraska. The plaintiff asks for a decree of ab solute divorce and also for a re straining order to prevent the defendant from interfering with the personal liberty of the plaintiff. Registration for Dividends On August 29 The Hugh J. Kearns post of the American Legion of this city is prepared to be in a position to aid all World War II veterans that wish to fill in their cards in applying for the National Service Life Insurance dividend. This applies to any veteran, re gardless of organization afflia tion or not. The post has secured the use of the St. John's hall on Main street which will be used for registration headquarters and here the force of workers will be ready on Monday, August 29th at 10 o'clock to start in on the work of filling out the cards that are to be sent in to secure the dividend. The hall will permit the use of a force of volunteer typists who will be ready and willing to get in and help get the veter- I ans applications ready for mail- j ing. i The cards are to be in the I hands of the veterans on August 29th and should be sent in as soon as possible as they will be i It is announced by the state ! service office of the Legion that to speed up the processing of application forms, veterans are asked to bring their serial num ber, their insurance numbers and their VA (claim C number if a veteran has filed a claim : for VA benefits. If a veteran ! doesn't know his insurance i number or numbers do not write I to the VA. Cards are acceptable 1 ! without these if not readily ; J i available Farm Home Near AIvo Destroyed The farm. home, of Mr. and Mrs. John Weichel located be tween Alvo and Elmwood, one , - ni ine ar anQ rauer" a"u nomes in mai secuon vi me county, was destroyed by fire early Friday morning and Mr. Weichel had a very close call to get out of the burning struc- ture The cause of the fire is un ! known, the first intimation of the fact that the house was on fire came when the chimney of tile UUUUilig tuiioocu, into the bedroom where Mr. time a roaring furnace. Mrs. Weichel and children were visiting in Kansas and not at home at the time of the fire. The Alvo fire department was notified of the fire and respond ed to the call and were able to keep the fire from spreading to adjacent farm buildings. The house was a mass of ruins as it was so far along when discov ered that nothing could be done to save the structure. There was some insurance on the buildine it is stated but not D B A man and a woman driving a 1946 Dodge car, bearing a Lin coln county license, drove up, the man stepped out of the car requesting the attendant for change. As the attendant pull ed out his billfold, he was stuck up at the point of a gun, the billfold taken and the parties made their getaway. The alarm was sent out and. Sheriff Solo mon, members of the highway patrol and Sarpy county offi cers joined in the search of the highways but - without success. In the county court Saturday a complaint- was filed against Richard Livingston, charging him with intoxication. He made a plea of guilty and was given a fine of $15 and costs. In the office of the clerk of f the ' district court Friday was (Continued on Page Six) OFF-RECORD PACT DISCUSSION . . . Two ho opposed Atlantic pact plead their points with bi-partisan co-pilots of the part. Left U riffht are Sen. Arthur V. Watkins (R., Utah), who joined minority leader Wherry in request for rider that would free I'nited States f arms obligation, Senators Tom Connally (D., Tex.), Arthur Van-denberg- (R., Mich.) and Kenneth Wherry (R., Neb.). Install Officers At Forty & Eight Thursday Thursday evening the regular vaux, was held at tne forty ana Eight club, with the voiture being honored bv the presence of one of the national officers, Max . Berenberger, of Omaha, Sous j Chef de Femin de Fer, as the! installing officer. There was a 1 very pleasing auenaance oi me members from this city as well as in Cass county. The officers installed were: Chef de Gare Eugene O. Vro-, man i . . . . Cher de Train KODen uappeu Commissire Intendent Albert Conducteur Thomas Walling Garde de la Porte Leslie W. Niel Lampiste Frank M. Rice Commis Voyger Louis Baum gart. Medicine Dr. P. T. Heineman Cheminots Locale Fred T.no-srh rharles Atteberv. Union: ! Frank H. Smith, Thomas Wall-j eastern Nebraska, have been ,. T Dak, p,JonvmiK tn spp snmpthin? rip- ine. C. E. Ledgway, Robert Cap- dpII Correspondant Lloyd Beh rends Aumonier Oliver Schriber Advocate C. E. Ledgway Reports of the grand proma nade of Nebraska 40 & 8 at Oma- i ha at the time of the American j Leeion state convention was giv- J en by Lloyd Behrends and C. E. i AjCU w txy , VCIJr IIHCICOIHI;, aliu j telling of the various actions of the body as affecting the organ ization. A number of visitors were in attendance, including Kay Kam el, grand sous chef de train of Nebraska, Clarence Welsh of Omaha, grand corresoondant of Nebraska, William Bishof. of Otoe county voiture, Nebraska City, Robert Larkin, Omaha. Following the meeting the members were entertained at a very pleasant luncheon at the club rooms and followed by an i naa aone noumig un me sauujr evening of visiting and social ! of the levees as yet, so we put pleasures j the heat on and they have A number of local Forty & ! promised that they will try and Eighters are planning to drive ' get down there this week and to Nebraska City on Wednesday , get their studies started as to evening for the installation of j the types and sizes and kinds officers of Otoe county voiture. ! of levees that should go in Dr. P. T. Heineman of Platts-1 there. mouth, grand chef de train of j As soon as we are assured of Nebraska, will be the installing ! levee protection we will start officer i work on some gravel pits. We i , I have already talked to Mr. Cur- M- TVI..C Frlenn ' tis- of L'man- Richie Sand and r. ana mrs. t-ason j Gravel Company, and he is quite In Car Wreck ' interested in going in with us Mr. and Mrs. Leon Edson. of and mking a series of gravel Sterline. Colorado, former resi- PjV3 there which would be suit dents of this city, who were here! abJfT for flfg; mav to call on old friends last week,!t trust that we may have were badly injured in an auto the Arm' Engineer s report as accident near Lexington. Ne-!soon as Psslble and that ce braska. while on thir way home.; can show you some progress Mr. and Mrs. Edson enjoved before too long. I assure you a visit here with Mr. and Mrs. that 1 will stop in when I am Ward Schade and other of the : in vour arfa- 4 , old friends, that they had known - ery truly yours. during the time that Mr. Edson; was the carrier on RFD No. 2. j From the reDorts received : here, they were traveling along on the way to the west, with j Mrs. Edson driving, apoarently j she had dozed for a few sec- onds and th car crashed! throueh the railing of a bridge.! rolled down an embankment a! distant of some fifteen fet. ; When Mrs. Edson cam to. she ; was in the car. Mr. Edon an-1 narentlv thrown from the car. ; had ben raneht undpr the i wreckaee. Both were taken to ! the Lexineton hosnital and as soon as possible will be taken ; onto their home at Sterling Mr. ! Edson's iniuries " wre very se vere and he is still in serious condition. The 'car was completely de molished in the wreck. JP f'S Promise Action On State Park Near Here Residents of this section of Nebraska will be interested in learning that the State Game, Forestation and Parks Commis sion, are again taking up the matter of the improving of the game reserve and state park norm oi Piattsmoutn aiong me Platte river. This park was secured some two years ago from the Federal "imK1H or many years as part of the U. S. rifle range, it being an im- PJtant training ground for the "" A Z.Z T.t uuu ii , incr tVp lnst u-nr nnri fnllnwillfJ. JovmJ 4 TPi-Mt -v.l" Kilt rlllT1- i " ! the use of the ran5e was discon- I tmued. In the past year and a half the local Chapter of the Izaak Walton League has been active in a campaign to secure the cre ation of a state park here with lakes and facilities fo fishing . eid as a general recreation park. They, as well as residents i of this locality. Omaha and anxious to see something de finate started at the park, as the result have been secured the start as the following letter received by Attorney A. L. Tidd, one of the long time boosters of the project indicates: August 8, 1949. ; A. L. Tidd. 1 Attorney at Law, j Plattsmouth, Nebraska. Dear Mr. Tidd: I share your enthusiasm for action at Plattsmouth Rifle Range. We have been disap pointed in that things are not progressing faster. However, everything now depends upon the report of the Army Engine ers. We have not been able to get the Engineers on the project as rapidly as we would have liked. We finally got tired of waiting last week and went down to Omaha and found that they i t i iU: l 4-. . 2 Game, f oresiauon ana Parks Commission. ' Paul T. Gilbert, Executive Secretary. . HIGH SCHOOL , . REGISTRATION High school registration will be held in the High School building from 9 a. m. to 4 o clock P- m- on Tuesday, August 23 1949. It is important that all students enrolling in the tenth, eleventh and twelfth grades register at that .time. Should it be impossible to register on this day, appointment may be made with Principal Miles Eloe, whose office phone is 3174. Mesdames Skinner, Braun and Gray, residing on South 9th street were Omaha visitors on last Wednesday. Carl Morehead Badly Injured in Explosion Carl Morehead. 25, one of the popular men of the community, was very severely injured on Wednesday evening while he was engaged in working on the county highway west of Platts mouth. Carl has been operating his caterpillar on the roads for Cass j working in the dusk to get the work completed before calling it a day. As he was lighting a cigarette, he started to investi gate the condition of his disel fuel tank, suddenly the ' fuel tank blew up and the flames swept into the face of the young man. It was thought at first that the injured man might have sustained possible fatal injuries and he was hurried on into Omaha where he was placed in the St. Joseph hospital. An ex- i animation disclosed that the burns on the face were very se vere and the eyes of Carl seem ed aliected by the blast. Relatives visiting at the hos pital Thursday found that he was able to detect the difference between daylight and dark and this was all that he could see vvkh the eyes that are being u?pi bandaged as well as the est of the face. Students Seek Board and Room Several requests for board and room from rural high school boys and girls have come to Superintendent Friest's office. People in Plattsmouth who would like to keep boys or girls during the school year for pay or work should contact Mr. Friest's office. The phone num ber is 5278. Hio office will serve as a clearing center. This may be the means of' which some rural boy or girl may be assured of a high school education. Softball Tourney Starts Tuesday Athletic Park With the close of the regular season of the softball league, the directors are planning a city tournament that will open Tues day evening at 7:15 at the Ath letic park. The first game will be between the Murray and Veterans of Foreign WarsT while the second game will be between Donats and the Timm team, league leader. On Wednesday b:X 7:15 the winner of the'Murray-VFW game will play the winner of the Donats-Timm game, in the first contest of the evening. In the second game the losers of the Tuesday round will play each other. On Thursday the winner of the second game Wednesday will play the loser of the first game Wednesday. On Friday evening the winner of the Thursday game will play the winner of the first game Wednesday. Mrs. Tucker to Head USO Drive Mrs. Marion N. Tucker, of Nehawka. has accepted the Cass county chairmanship of the U.S.O. drive that will be held in October. This announcement was received from the office of B. Frank Watson, Lincoln, state chairman of the organization. Mrs. Tucker has been an ac tive figure in the.. various patri otic drives in the county dur ing the war days. VISIT WITH PARENTS Don Stewart, of San Francisco, arrived the past week to visit here with his . parents. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Stewart, and the many old time friends of the commu nity. Mr. Stewart has been lo cated on the west coast since his return from service, but still eniovs being here among' the familiar scenes of his boyhood days. -' . ; Mr. and Mrs. Tack Neitzel of Omaha, were here Monday eve nim: for a few hours to visit with old time friends in the city,. Thev had enjoyed a trip to Louisville and Cedar Creek and stopped here before going on back to Omaha. . t Mrs. Wildon Switzer. son and dauffhter .. of Nehawka .. ,we re county seat visitors Wednesday afternoon. ; State Engineers Open Office Here j With work on the Louisville road project to start in a very short time, the state highway department is opening an office here for the use of the engineers j that will be engaged on the job. The office for the supervising' engineers has been opened on the court' the third floor of house, in the office that was for merly used by the county at torney, which makes quite a comfortable place for the work and handling the blue prints of Dean Hill, of Lincoln, is the engineer on the job, and will be located here as soon as the ac tive work on the grading and drainage work starts be opened at once to get as much done as possible before the fall season closes. Edith Solomon Purchases the Coffee Shop The sale of the Coffee shop , in the Hotel Plattsmouth build- ing on ms side, a guage inn ing, was made on Friday even- . across his feet, a wound m the ing by Don Rainey, disposine of right temple of the head. He the shop and equipment to Miss had apparently been dead for Edith Solomon, one of the well several hours as naor mortis known and active young bus- : had started to set in on the iness women in the city. body. Miss Solomon, the new own- From the reports received at er, took over the plant on Sat- ; the office of the sheriff, the urdav, and Sundav was in full young man had been enjoying charge of the handling of the a day s vacation from his work coffee shop and the Sunday in Omaha and taken the day meals at this popular eating out in the open, place. The car of the young man Miss Solomon needs little in- was parked in the highway near traduction to the residents of i the fence and here the officers this communitv, as she has ! found the bill fold with some made her home here for a num- , money, cards ana snapsnois as ber of years, completing her j well as the auto registration school work here and for a num- I card that revealed that the ber of years was an able official I young man was Harry Bashus. in the handling of the WPA and j 7005 Fort Crook drive. South relief work in this section. In ' Omaha. the war years Miss Solomon was The body was removed to the a member of the armed service, j Sattler funeral home to await serving in the WAVES, and is I the funeral arrangements, an active member of the Amer- j Sheriff Solomon and County ican Legion in this. city. She j Attorney Smith found that the has more recently been engaged i rifle had one discharged cart in an important post in the ridge in the chamber, in the government work at Fort Crook, pocket of the dead man several Miss Solomon states that it ! other unused cartridges were is her sincere desire to make the found-. , . . , coffee shop one of best in this Inquiry of relatives revealed section, her efforts will be di- raftfiH intn tViic 1inf T'Hfa nmhi- tion of the new owner will be to see that the very best of food and service be provided her .,lstnmorc Mr. Rainey, former proprie- tor, has not announced his plans for the future and will some time to determine what he will engage in. take just ! Sheriff Called Out on Traffic Case Sundaya' small auto wreck occurred north of the Murray corner when a car driven by Andrea De Regus of Omaha, ran into the rear of a car of Thom as Dukes, also of Omaha. An investigation of the accident by Sheriff Tom Solomon disclosed that De Regus had fallen asleep at the wheel of his car and be fore awakening the car had ran into the back of the Dukes car. One of the cars was run into a small ditch but was not over- turned and the other car par- tooelner wiln a biography of the lially slid into the ditch on the mmisters purpose of the series opposite side of the . road. Bitn is to better acquaint the citizens cars were damaged some but ; Qf Plattsmouth and Cass County none of the occupants injured, j with the reiigious activities and : i services offered in this commun- Stuart Nielsen, who has been ; ity visiting at Minden, Nebraska, at ! j't is noped this series of ad the home of his grandparents j vertiSements, generously sup and other relatives has returned ; ported by iOCal business men home. He had a most pleasant ; oriH .nmpn will hrinr tn resi outing REFtJTER . . . Dr. Edward U. Condon,' bureau of standards di rector, refutes charges that he is "untrustworthy" and tells sen ate ' rules committee he favors i resolution jjermittinr persons smeared by committees to refute the charges. f rr. Harry Bashus Killed Friday In Accident Tragedy was revealed Friday afternoon at the Ramge farm south of Plattsmouth. on high- way No- 75, wnen lne lifeipss body oi Harry i&Keeisi aasnus. 21. was found lying in the pas ture of the farm near a wooded sector of the place. Alvin Ramge and son. Robert, had started out ot drive in the cows from the pasture, the men walking down the highway to where the cows were located As the cows were wending their way through the pasture, the men noticed the cows stopping f . " , Z "V, hastened up to d ye the cous nd pain. Hie UUUy Ul tur uiuunuu- ate young man. The Messers Ramge hastened to the house and sent in a call for Sheriff Tom Solomon, who in turn, called County Attorney Walter H. Smith, acting coroner. When the sheriff and county attorney reached the scene. they found the young man ly- firing pin and that the last ! ;vhile Harry as driving witn inenas. me gun miu ac- cidently been discharged in th ' car but without injuring any i one. It is thought that this de , fecl ma' have caued lYle accl ( Continued on Page Sixi Honor Churches In Series of Ads By Business Men Starting with this issue and to appear once each month is a series of page advertisements Vinnnrino- thp churches of Plat- j lsmouth a n d community, a j good.will contribution to church j pnimR nfliri fnr hv iocai business men who's names appear on the pace. During the coming montns each church of all denomina tions in the community will be fpntnrpd in seDarate releases. dents of this territory a better understanding of religious or ganizations, tolerance and co operation among the creeds re presented here and will be of ! benefit to all churches in their efforts to spread the Truth of God and a better way of life to all. Return Home from Outing in North Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lugsch. who have been enjoying a vacation trip to the Lake Superior region of Minnesota, returned home Saturday after a very pleasant stay in the north country. Fred demonstrated his skill at fishing, he returned home with his limit in game fish, twelve wall eyed pike and twelve north ern pike being his trophies. Thev enjoyed visiting in and near Port Arthur. Duluth. and other places of interest, and re port that the weather was very hot during their stay, and the fisherman returned bearing the marks of the intense heat and sunburn. '