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THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE FOUR Thursday, November 17, 1949 CAPITOL NEWS (Compiled by Nebraska Press Ass'n.) LINCOLN Nebraska has a pretty good state government, in the opinion of Gov. Val Pet erson, who last week called it "the biggest bargain in state government of any state in America." The chief executive doesn't pretend that the system could n't stand some improvements. That's part of the job of the legislative council's committee now studying state spending: to make suggestions on how to bet ter the state government. The governor heaped praise on the work of the committee: "It is trying to evalute state institutions, to determine whether there is need for serv ices rendered and whether it is the state's responsibility to meet that need or could it be better done by private institutions," he said. "If this is the state's respon sibility, then the committee will decide whether this is efficient ly and economically done. Gov. Peterson said he believes every state institution should be evaluated periodically. "The fact that one was created by a past legislature does not mean it should be continued forever," he said. SHOT PELLETS HAVE VERSATILE ROLE 1 ? otto THE INGENIOUS "STRANGER" who filled Mark Twain's cele brated "Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" with shot so he couldn't jump gave the push that probably I started the humble lead shot pellet on, a versatile career. Shot pellets which are best known as the load in hunter's shot shells now, along with steel pellets used in air rifles, glamorize Hollywood stars, perform humanitarian du ties in hospitals, help radio send chills up your spine, catch fish, clean silverware in restaurants and hotels, counter-balance scales and harden steel, among a host of other jobs. Evening gowns and various other feminine clothes are weighted in the hem by shot strung on a cord or sewed into tapes. Steel shot pep pered against castings removes metal flakes; bombarded against metal surfaces, it hardens steel and is called "shot-peening." Sound effects men in radio stu dios roll shot pellets on a drum head to simulate the rumble of cannon and drop them upon an in flated rubber bladder to give the effect of the roar of surf and the sound of thunder. In hotels steel shot pellets of dif ferent sizes are tumbled with sil verware in soapy water to clean and polish them. The housewife and the druggist shake lead pellets in bott-es to clean them. In pro hibition days Filets cleaned the yeast deposits from home-brew bottles. To provide traction for healing broken limbs, hospitals frequently use bags of shot instead of larger weights because more accurate amounts of weight can be applied by adding or removing the tiny pellets. The trigger pull cf rifles is tested by pouring shot pellets in to a can suspended from the trig ger. When enough pellets are poured to pull the trigger, the can and contents are weighed to give the "trigger pull." But this is not all by a long shot. Shot is also used in cowboy's quirts and policeman's blackjacks, lai'h All i1 " The yearbook committee was appointed by Mrs. Jesse West lake, our County Chairman. They consist of Mrs. Allis Mick le, Mrs. Carl Sutton and Mrs. Fred Herman. The election of officers were as follows: Mrs. Wendel Hart, secretary; Mrs. Oliver Meising er, treasurer. The executive board members were elected from each commissioner dis trict. Mrs. Lloyd Lewis was elected from the 1st district and is to serve for three years. Mrs. Will Ost is to serve one year and is representing the second district. Mrs. G. R. Eveland is asked to serve for two years and represents the 3rd district. Reports of the State Conven tion were given by Mrs. Ray Norris,' Weeping Water, Mrs. Charles Marshall, Elmwood and Mrs. Jessie Wesclake, .camwood. Both groups aie pressuring the State Liquor Authority for tighter enforcement measures. As for the tavern owners, ap parently they're willing to risk severe penalties. They want to keep up some business with the out-of-state breweries in the event of another long and costly strike among the beer worKtre. Several tavern owners already have been caught piping ofx brand beer through spigots which carry the names of well advertised brands. Trade circles say brewers are facing increasing competition from mid-western companies who are spending heavily to pro mote their products. The illegal practices by tavern owners arc- making matters worse for the : cal breweries and unions, circles say. Silent Movies Back NEW YORK (U.R Sile; movies are making a conv b , thanks to the noiseless po;; . fccLj. It is pcrpous and cax.r. be blown up and exploded filled with water and dropp from a balcony. Nature Takes Over MEMPHIS, Tenn. Lloyd W.- Wilkins is going 0 home before winter. Not cr.-y ; nests, but a tree is growing o : cf the top. Thunder! Hie rumble of cannon! The roar of surf upon the rocks! A radio script might call for all these sounds and others. Alert sound-effects men have discovered tte use of shot pellets in reproducing sounds difficult to manufacture. Dropping the pellets upon an inflated rubber bladder produces most of the storm and battle required of the sound effects man. as "sinkers" on fishlines, in the counterpoise of scales, in toys where they are jiggled back and forth to fit into holes or to pass through a complicated labyrinth. Working models of boats fre quently use shot as ballast, and textile finishing plants tumble samples of cloth with shot in soapy water to simulate wear and give "laundering" tests. This tiny, but extremely useful lead shot pellet is made by a sim ple process. Molten lead poured through a "dropping" pan, the bot tom of which contains as many as 2,600 perforations. Tapping the pan breaks off pear-shaped drops. As they fall 154 feet into a tank of water surface tension forms most lif the pellets into perfect spheres. Scooped out of the water which cushions their fall, they are dried, the culls are separated from per fect pellets, then they are sorted and are ready for loading in hunt ter's shells and for the many other useful purposes. YOUR (gCOTCJ?) fixed . i . If your clutch slips, it means you're losing power, and fuel costs are higher than they ought to be. Let our experts put your clutch back" in tip-top shape. Drive in today! "We Cater to Your Car!" DOWN TOWN MOTORS HUDSON SALES & SERVICE 125 South 5th Phone 3119 Get the thrifty power f a husky view BEft HBOJSK JSs' "' ' Get durability that counts--and gel if where it counts in the next new truck you buy. Get a husky, super-rugged new Studebaker truck. Get the stand-out pulling power and the stand-up staying power of the Studebaker 'ower Plus' or Econ-o-miser engine. Get a Studebaker truck and a roomy, big vision cab with weather-protected steps inside the doors. It's the,,day-long-comfort'! cab that drivers call America's finest. tilYSEL OITO "Studebaker Sales & Service" 2nd & Chicago Ave. Dial 4157 SEBnlGE The governor pointed out that Nebraska's fiscal 1949 per capita taxes were the lowest in the country. The average .53 per acre taxes on farm real estate is below the national average of .57 '"even though we don't have either a sales or income tax." Governor Peterson took to task over the week end an Iowa State College faculty member who had charged here that , the Missouri Basin Development Program was "a program for the people rather than by the peo ple' The Iowan is Dr. Ray E. Wakely, who was speaking be fore the annual National Con vocation of the Church in Town and Country. He labeled the basin plan "a program made by groups of experts who do not agree among themselves and whose basic disagreements may jeopardize the entire program for valley development." Not so, said the governor. He said Wakely was mistaken in ias uelief that the program was "superimposed on the peo ple of this area." "The fact is," the governor told his press conference, "That the program had its inception in the minds of the people of this area. They have requested the multitude of individual pro jects which make up the to tal." " The political pot bubbled along a little more merrily this week as the Nov. 21 deadline cor the selection cf a new re publican state cii.urman near- ed. The campaign for the chair manship was shaping up as a two-way fight with an outsider like Joseph Wishart of Lin coln given a good chance to emerge as the compromise choice. Max Denney, of Fairbury was getting the best press with a handful of blue ribbon endorse ments, many of them from men who had themselves been con sidered candidates for the post being left vacant by the resig nation of A. T. Howard of Scottsbluff. Opposing Denney was David Martin, Kearney lumberman, who had the support of the let's-get-it - ofr - our - chest ele ment of the party, represented by S. E. Torgeson, Kimball, who charged that the Denny cam paign was backed by a group of amateur politicians who want to "control the Republican par ty for many purposes." Meanwhile, there were these developments: Richard Marvel, of Hastings, joined others who had been thought of as candidates, in backing Denney. s 'Mrs. Arthur Bowring, of Mer riman, submitted her resigna tion simultaneous with How- ard's, so "a new chairman will have the privilege of choosing the vice-chairman to serve with him." Howard, himself maintninprl ' a hands-oir attitude. He said there is enough feeling now to rjroduce a "terrific fight" and he ' doesn't want to add fuel to the fire. More teachers are becoming eligible for regular certificates, according to State Supt. Wayne O. Reed, and that means that it may not be necessary next i year to issue any temporary j j permits, he said. But W. A. Rosene, director of certification, said a large anti cipated grade school enrollment next yeaj, could make it nec essary to employ teachers who hold the interim cards. Rosene said there would be an estimated 3,000 new teachers with regular certificates avail able next year, in addition to 1,500 who will be graduated from teacher training. A similar number of temporary instruc tors will qualify for third grade elementary permits. Rosene said. These were other statehouse developments: j The office director of the di vision of Nebraska resources remained unfilled. Agriculture Director Rufus Howard said the $5,000 a year salary was proving a stumbling block in obtaining a replacement for Allen V. Dawling who resigned, j T:ie state superintendent's i office said 25 counties now have I set up school reorganization committees. Gov. Val Peterson ordered a statewide probe of the number j of inmates in state penal insti- tutions aomg time on cnecK charges. The governor blasted ;the "untold cost of running down, prosecuting boarding and feeding all types of check of fenders." Clarence A. H. Meyer was named as assistant attorney general succeeding Jane Moyer, who is resigning to get married. The ( state normal board will meet 'at Peru State Teachers College December 2, Board Sec retary Albin Larson said. State Treasurer Edward Gil lette said Nebraska taxpayers spent $3,463,371 to run their state during October. lit J I - . . Beer Strike Spawned New Law Breaker NE YORK (UP) Agents of the New York State Liquor Au thority, whose job it is to see that the liquor laws aren't bro ken, have a new and different type of violator on their hands. And it's not easy to trap him. The violation doesn't deal with hard liquor just beer on tap. It involves the use of out-of-state beer through taps which bear the name of better known and standard types of beer. It would take a beer expert, a trade professional, to tell the difference. So when a patron thinks he's getting the beer that's advertised he's some times getting beer from out of the state, a product that may be inferior. The situation, according to State Liquor Authority agents, first developed during a recent strike of brewery workers in New York. Scores of taprooms, anxious to maintain their beer trade, bought from out-of-state brew eries. There is no law that says this can t be done, but the state agency insists that the "bar" source of the beer b properly t identified. Breweries and Unions The practice has hit at both New York breweries and the un ions involved. In the case of the breweries, it has lowered output and dropped sales. The union com plains this means less employ ment all around. Q ws Mm i JZSif W -It ... e p BUY HERO TODAY EO Pounds O -c Plattsmouth Creamery Thf! Home of 203 Main Cut: er Phcr.e 4278 PAHDON MAII NIPPON DRAWL . . . Two Japanese sandwichmen advertise movie based on the old south" (U.S.A.). Ballyhoo on sign says picture is "Waltz in the Afternoon," a story of love in bygone days. Note flag on lady's" hat. Real Estate Transfers F. G. Hull & Gertha Chester Sporer & Helen 11-4-49, L. 1 to 12, B. 3 W. Rock Bluff, $2000.00. George T. Troop & Mary Walter Willrodt & Edna, 10-31-49, L. 5 & W. 10' L. 6 B. 45 Y & H. Add. Platts... $3770.00. Thomas Solomon Earl Mcs selhiser & Lorene, 10-13-49, L. 8 B. 2 Wabash, $1.C0. Thomas Solomon Earl Mes selhiser & Lorene, 10-13-49, L. L. 9 & 10 B. 2 Wabash, $1.00. Thomas Solomon West. Sand & Gravel, 10-18-49, L. 20 SWU SEU, 13-12-10, $15.00. Emma Chovanec John Cho vanec, 11-4-49, L. 13 to 17 B. 13 Dukes Add. to Plattsmouth, $300C00. Geo. O. Reichart & Lucille I Fred T. Reichart, 10-21-49, Fic. SEVi NEU 22-12-11, $250.00. Victor Schomaker & Erma Amer. Es. Bk., 10-27-49, Und. 2 '3 SEi 30-10-10, $4000.00. Thomas Solomon R. F. Iver son, 10-22-49, L. 1 SW'i SWU 34-10-14. $1.00. Thomas Solomcn R. F. Iver son, 10-22-49, N',a SWU NWVi 33-10-14, $1.00. Thomas Solomon R. F. Iver son, 10-22-49 L. 1 SWU SEU, 32-10-14, $1.00. Thomas Solomon R. F. Iver ison, 10-22-49, WVz SEVi, 2-10-12, $1.00. William A. Stoll & Lena El mer E. Stoll. 11-7-49, W 2 SEU 2-10-12, $1.00. ' William A. Stoll & Lena El sie Snavely, 11-7-49, Eli NEU 2-10-12, $1.00. William A. 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