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PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY Monday-Thursday i t I i Largest Paid Circulation of All Cass County Newspapers VOLUME 65 SIX PAGES PLATTSMOUTH, CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1949 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NUMBER 6 CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER I1 V r Sheriff Solomon Catches Robber at Murray Sunday Sheriff Tom Solomon was out patrolling over this section of the county Sunday night, and in the course of his travels ar rived at Murray, just at the right moment to step into a breakin being pulled off at the Radtke restaurant. The night was getting foggy and as the sheriff came into town he noticed a car parked ! near the restaurant. Getting out he approached the car that started to move away, he rapp ed on the window, and the driver, a woman, brought the car to a stop The sheriff open ed the door and noticing blankets in the back seat turned them back to reveal a large amount of goods as well as two small children, two and five years, hidden in the seat. The sheriff was told by the woman in the car that her husband, an ex-convict, was in the restaur ant building and was armed. Sheriff Solomon sounded the siren cn his car and this was responded to by William Sey boldt, who remained on guard at the car while the town siren was sounded. Soon a posse of men assembled to start search for the man in the case. A few moments later the man ap peared on the scene from the direction of the railroad tracks and gave himself up. Later a revolver and some cartridges were found near the tracks where they had been concealed by the robber. The man had brought a quantity of cigarettes, gum, ci gars and small articles and placed them in the car and had returned for another load, when the sheriff appeared on the scene. In the loot there was also a small radio that had been stolen a short time before from the Sam Smith garage at Weeping Water, that the man had broken into before coming to Murray. Tne man gave his name as Tony Gonzalious of 5463 South 2Cth avenue, Omaha, and his wife as Virgie. The man and his wife were held in jail while the two small children were placed in the care of the wel fare office to be cared for un til the disposition of the case is made. The timely arrival of Sheriff Solomon Sunday night out of the deep fog nipped in the bud another of the robberies that have been pulled off aver the county. Louisville Legion to Back Scouts The members of the Henry Newman post of the American Legion are to take over the sponsorship of the Boy Scouts in Louisville, it was decided on at a meeting held in that city on Thursday night. Judge Paul E. Fauquct, district chairman of the Boy Scouts, was in Louisville to meet the mem bers of the post in regard to building up a live and active troop of the organization to carry on the fine principles of the youth movement. The post will sponsor the oklei Scouts, but will not maintain a Cub organization at this time. D. W. Webb is the chairman of the Legion Scout committee, and members of the executive com mittee, Henry Davis and Bob Larsen, have been named, and other of the Legion members will be named to complete the full committee. It is hoped to have the Louis ville Scouts among the best in the county when the Legion gets their plans under full operation. To Fly Here For Christmas Among the holiday visitors in Plattsmouth this year will be Mr. and Mrs. Joe Goss, of Los An geles, who are flying from their home to Omaha to be here with relatives. Mrs. Goss is the for mer Janet Westover, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. R. P. Westover, who are now living at Boise, Uaho. While here Mr. and Mrs. Goss will be guests at the home of Mrs. H. L. Gamer and Miss Jessie Robertson, aunts of Mrs. Goss. John H. Boetel of this city, was at Glenwood Friday where he attended the funeral service for Mrs. John Hartman, former res ident of this city, held at the Reid-James funeral home. Consumers Power Cut-Over'Blue Devils in Completed in The Consumers News Letter of this week has a very inter esting and praiseworthy letter on the work of converting the Plattsmouth system to 4,000 Wye that was recently complet ed: "Conversion of the Platts mouth distribution system to 4.000 Wye operation as a means of obtaining better voltage reg ulation and increased capacity through better load balancing, marks the first system outside of Lincoln to be changed over to this type of operation. '"The mechanics of the change over were remarkably handled by Fred Rea, district manager, and Ernest Elliott, district sup erintendent, in co-operation with R. J. Wolfe, distribution superintendent, who planned and mapped out all details of that switch so that only about a 45 minute niterruption of ser vice occurred. Details were broken down Judge Dunbar Directs Verdict j In Damage Suit j Friday afternoon in the dis ; trict court Judge Thomas E. j Dunbar gave a directed verdict in the case of Verna Fillmore, executrix of the estate of Pear ley D. Fillmore, against Marion and Donald Taylor. The suit was for S10.000 alleged to be due to being struck by a car owned by the defendant, Mar ion Taylor, and operated at the time of the accident by Donald Taylor. The jury was impaneled and the testimony of the plaintiff was heard by the court and at the conclusion of the motion of the defendant attorney Fran cis M. Casey, the court order ed the jury to return a verdict in favor of the defendants, Marion and Donald Taylor. The accident which caused the death of Mr. Fillmore oc curred on South 6th street in Plattsmouth on May 8. 1948, when on or about 11 p. m. the deceased was crossing Sixth street in the middle of the block, and was struck by the Taylor car and died as the re sult of the injuries. The de fendant was not crossing at the intersection and at the time of the accident the car of the de fendant was being driven at a lawful rate of speed. Following the settlement of this case Judge Dunbar excus ed the members of the jury for the term, expressing his appre ciation of their services. Adds to Beauty Of Christmas One of the beauty spots of the yuletide season in this city is the tree on the court house lawn, a landmark that has stood for many years in front of the county building. Each year for a great many seasons the Consumers and their predecessors in the light ing service here, have decoated the tree with the beautiful col ored lights with the glowing white star surmounting the tree and this burns each even ing during the holiday week. ! The tree attracts much at tention from those passing through the city on highway No. 34 as well as the local peo ple, reminding them that this is the beautiful holy season of Christmas. A classified Ad In the Journal costs as little as 35c. ANSWERS CRITICS . . . Defense Secretary Louis Johnson says "national defense shall not be ran in Interests of either pro fesslonal seamen, airmen or soldier." . " - Record Time ! minutely with each tranform- er marked and lines tagged with ! directions as to what each part of the crew was to do. Crews were paired up into two-man teams so that the entire system could be covered methodically in a minimum of time. '"Participating in the char.ge , over were Shorty Cole's Platts mouth district line crew, Ed i Ericsons Lincoln district line j crew, Ralph Harshbarger's and i Aubrey Gaines traveling con j struction crews. 'The program also included 1 the installation of six new vol tage regulators, three new ! transformers for the Nehawka line and additional transform er capacity for Plattsmouth at the Plattsmouth substation, along with other improvements , to increase capacity and pro i vide better service in Platts mouth and other communities served from facilities in the area." Stites Plant Holds Open House to Public Saturday was Family Appre ciation Day at the Stites Im plement plant on South Chicago avenue, the company holding open house from 11 a. m. to 8:30 in the evening, and feel delighted with the large num ber of the greetings extended them. The Appreciation Day was in charge of Kenneth Weaver, manager of the local establish ment, and all who called were pleased with the opportunity of getting acquainted with the members of the staff. All had the opportunity of looking over the line of equip ment handled at the place. The prize offered by the com pany was awarded to Billy Beck er, son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Becker of this city. It is estimated that there were between 350 and 400 per sons visiting' there during the day. During the calling hours the members of the group were treated to refreshments of ice cream, coffee ana doughnuts that added to the enjoyment of all. Many Sign Up For Unemployment Friday morning the basement of the court house resembled the scenes back in the early thirties, with a group of over 100 persons there to sign up for unemployment checks. The representative of the state was kept busy into the afternoon in looking after the signing up of the applicants. The seasonal shutdown at the Norfolk Packing Co. plant with the holiday vacation at the Graymoor plant, has placed a large number of women work ers out of employment for a time. Curtailing of the force on the Missouri river work has also added to the unemploy ment in this section of the county. Frank Pankonin of near Weep ing Water was in the city Sat urday for a few hours looking after some matters of business Christmas Edition Issued Thursday The annual Christmas edi tion of the Journal, in which Plattsmouth business houses customarily extend greetings of the holiday season to their customers, will be issued this week. Many business places al ready have been contacted and every effort will be made to give everyone an oppor tunity to include their best wishes for the Yule season in this special edition. However, anyone who is in advertently missed is asked to give us a ring or drop in at the office and we will be happy to see that your ad is not omitted. Scores of business places in Plattsmouth used this means of conveying the season's greetings to their customers and friends last year. Many more have already taken space for Thursday's edition which will be one of the larg est ever published in the city. Victory Over GlenwoodRams The Plattsmouth Blue Devils opened their home season on the basketball court Friday night at the hilltop with a smashing 43 to 27 victory over the Glenwood Rams. The visitors were unable to successfully solve the Platts mouth defense, whlie the locals, led by their veteran members of the squad massed an early lead that was never topped. Throughout the game Coach Merle Stewart itsed his young recruits freely and thirteen of the local squad saw service against the Rams ere, the last whistle closed the battle. Bill McCormick, who last year was one of the chief scorers for the locals, paced the Plattsmouth offense with six field goals for twelve points. Dan Rohan with three field tosses and a gift shot added seven more to the Plattsmouth total. Jtinecek and Cole, veterans, made two field goals and two free tosses for five points apiece. Ofe, guard, rang up two fiefd goals, while Hodge, one of the newer, members of the squad, I scored one from the floor. Ash- baugh, guard, added five points to the total of the Blue an..! White tide. The score at the halftime was 21 to 7 in favor of the Blue Devils. Edwards, guard of Glenwood, was the chief point gainer as he had four field goals to top the scoring with eight points. McDole, Raynor, Thomas, Collier and Davis, each secured field goals from the court. Schoening, was the sec ond high scorer of the Rams with four points. Dasher, forward of the Blue Devils, was unable to play as h? sustained a head injury in prac tice that has kept him on the retired list for several days. Both teams did very well in their tries from the free throw (Continued on Page Two Cass County Peopl e at Poultry Show Dressed chicken and good eggs featured the Nebraska Poultry Improvement Associa tion banquet in the Rome Hotel at Omaha, Wednesday night, December 16. In the first classification were 11 fowl garbed in every thing from cowgirl outfits to royal robes. And in the second was Nebraska Gov. Val Peter son, pronounced one of the best of "good eggs" by the Poultry and Egg National Board. Winner in the fashion fowl contest sponsored by the nation al board was a Japanese Silkie attired by Mrs. Helen Gayer, former Plattsmouth resident, now living in Omaha at 6805 Minne Lusa Boulevard. The chicken's green-and-white plaid outfit, including plumed hat and red parasol, was made by Mrs. Gayer of feed bags. By winning the contest the Silkie will go to Indianapo lis in January to compete in the north cenetral region con test. Winners will vie in tho national meet in Kansas City; in February. Second place in the fowl con test went to Mr. and Mrs. Clar ence Norris of Weeping Water, Neb. They exhibited a turkey in royal purple cape with crown and scepter. Mrs. C. F. Bean, of Inavale, Neb., took third place, and Mrs. Hazel Howarth of 6424 North Sixteentth Street, Omaha, was fourth. Her White Leghorn was dressed as Little Miss Muffet. Sam Helzer of )Grand Island, exhibited Mrs. Bean's bird. Roscoe Hill of Lincoln, a vice-president of the national board, presented the Good Egg Club membership card to Gov ernor Peterson. The banquet was part of the Nebraska association's conven tion. It was held in conjunc tion with the Ak-Sar-Ben Poul try Conrgess in the City Audi torium. LEAES FOR SOUTH Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Konfrst. and daughters, Patty Ann and Nancy Sue, accompanied by Mr. Frank Konfrst. left today for Key West, Florida, to spend the winter, expecting to return home in the spring. Mr. Frank Konfrst will reside - with his daughter, Mrs. Agnes McDiar mond. Sell It Thru Journal Want Ads, Omaha Youths Injured When Car Hits Bridge Sheriff Tom Solomon was called Friday night at 10 o'clock to the vicinity of Murray where an auto accident had resulted in the injury of five students, en route home from Nebraska City to their homes, foil owing a basketball game. The members of the auto party were from the Benson high school and riding in a car driven by Miller M. Whitman, 4967 Mi ami street, Omaha, and as the car was coming down a steep hill on highway No. 75, south of the Murray corner, when sud denly a fuse in the car burned out and the lights of the car were extinguished, the car rolled on a short distance, striking a small bridge, was overturned, and rolling some distance blocked the highway for a short time. The car was very badly dam aged in the wreck and it was fortunate the occupants escaped as easily as they did. A door was shattered in the wrecked car and it was otherwise torn up as it rolled over on the high- way. The most seriously injured of the party was John Dallam, 17. of 2004 North 52nd street, Oma ha, who suffered deep neck wounds as well as abrasions on the head and neck, losing a great deal of blood as the result of the injuries. He was given first aid at the scene of the ac cident and taken on into Omana by the Sattler ambulance to the Methodist hospital. The four boys treated, for cuts and bruises were Llovd Kaul, 2808 North 53rd street; Bob Diers, 2411 North 56th street; Bob Driscoll. 4830 Bedford ave nue; Jim Johnson, 5204 Izard street. While the wrecked car was blocking the road, several char tered buses that had taken the hnskethill snnnrl nnrt rrvnters In C5tv mp nH delayed sometime by the wrecked car. College View Here On December 21st The basketball fans of the city will have another oppor tunity of enjoying this sport be fore the Christmas season as the College View team will come here from Lincoln on Wednes day evening to battle the Blue Devils on thelocal court. The Blue Devils fresh from their 43 to 27 victory over the Glenwood Rams, will face a difficult foe in the Viewmen, who have opened their season quite successfully and will make the going more difficult for the local crew. Plattsmouth has also had a good start in the season with a great battle against South and the win over Glenwood. College View the past week ivas nosed out by Friend in the I game on their court by the mar gin of 37 to 35 after two over time periods were required to settle the result of the battle. Jim Stewart of College View was the outstanding player for his team as he scored almost half of the-scores of the View men. Road Workers to Winter Quarter In This City The Olson Construction com- pany that has had charge of tk 1 : e 4i r the grading for the Louisville road for the past few months, is to make their winter quarters in this city. The near approach of the winter weather had caused the abandonment of the work until spring, until that time the equipment will be stored here to await the com ing of the spring season to per mit the resumption of the work on the grading and culverts. The company will have their bulldozers, drag line, scrapers, graders and other equipment left here and should the, opportunity occur that they may aid the residents of this locality in any of their lines they will be in a position to look after them. TAKEN TO OMAHA Friday, Mrs. Arthur Bruce who has been ill for a long time, was taken to Omaha where she was placed in the hospital for treatment. She was taken to the hospital by the Caldwell ambu lance. The many friends are trusting that the treatment may allow her early return home. " " & I CAriTAL-LABOR HARMONY . . . That relations between capital j and labor have improved since recent walkouts is evidenced by this i friendly by-play between Phillip Murray (right) and Admiral Ben j Moreel, president of Jones and Laughlin Steel corporation. Henry R. Herold Honored by His Company Henry R. Herold. sales repre sentative for Richard Hudnut in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for the last 27 years, has been I elected a vice-president of Wil- liam R. Warner & Company, Inc., and Hudnut Sales Com pany, it is announced by Elmer Bobst, president of the parent firm. Effective February, 1950. Mr. Herold will be in charge of the Pacific Division of Warner-Hud-nut. handling the distribution of Richard Hudnut, DuBarry, Chen Yu, Court ley, Standard Laboratories and other products of the William R. Warner affili ated companies. His headquar ters will be in Los Angeles. Mr. Bobst paid a tribute to Mr. Herold on the occasion cf his election as a vice-president, saying, "He has done one of the company's outstanding jobs, building his territory, from a sales viewpoint, into one of the most productive in the country. "Mr. Herold has combined a keen sense of salesmanship and a thorough understanding of all branches of drug and cosmetic distribution. Now, with the con stantly increasing market in California, we feel that Mr. Her old's appointment will place proper emphasis upon its greater potentialities." Mr. Herold came to Oklahoma City from Omaha. Nebraska, 27 years ago for Hudnut. He is a member of the Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club: Beacon Club; Men's Dinner Club, and a member of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopalian Church. He has two children, Henry Robert II, attending Oklahoma City University, and Judith, at tending National Cathedral School, Washington, D. C. Mr. Herold is a son of Mrs. Henry Herold of this city and the late Mr. Herold and a neph ew of Miss Barbara Gering of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Robert Herold have purchased a home at San Marino, near Los Angeles, California, and expect to re move to the west on completion of the new plant in Los Angeles after April 1st. Death of Otho Marrs Sunday The many friends over thn. city were shocked Sunday with the news of the death of Otho Marrs. 52 which occurred Sun day at 9 o'clock at the residence in the southwest Dart of the 'city, where he had been making !his home for some time. Mr Marrs, who was known to the many friends as "Dutch." . . .. has been a sufferer from a se vere heart ailment for the past several years, and has several times been a patient at the U. S. Veterans hospital. His pass ing wThile sudden was not un expected by those who had known of his condition. He has been a resident here for the past fifteen years, com ing here from Missouri and was engaged as a drag line operator during the building of the Glenn L. Martin bomber plant at Fort Crook, and later as an operator for the army engin eers on the Missouri river work. There is surviving his death two sons, one of whom is re ported to be with the U. S. troops in Germany and the other in Oklahoma. The body was taken to the Sattler funeral home at 4th and Avenue A to await word from the family. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Panzer cf Ashland, were here Sunday for a visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Knorr and family Salesmanship Courses Free To Schools ,The Chamber of Commerce .held their December meeting Thursday evening at the Edith Solomon coffee shop in the j Plattsmouth hotel and had -a j very interesting iaiK given on the distributative education bv Cecil Stanley, of the oi'.ice of the state department -f .Va cation, as well as the i w.j: business meeting. In the routine business i r port of the football ban v.n was given by Harold AILiuv. committee chairman. T'ieiv were 123 attending the banquet, fifty-two members of the squad. 24 fathers and 39 sold outside j of these The receipts were $94.60, the Chamber of Com merce paying for the members , of the football squad. The re- j ly praised by all and it was decided to start the arrange ments lor the 1950 banquet at an earlier date. Clement T. Woster, former mayor and present councilman, discussing the matter of aid to the public school band pro gram in the summer, at the request of President R. R. Furse of the Chamber of Commerce, stated that the city in the past had levied a tax sufficient to bring in some $1,2C0 to the amusement tax fund. Last year there had been a balance in the fund and the council last spring in making the budget, had lowered the amount of the levy. The city had however, paid in $630 to the band aid during the summer, but owing to the lower levy, were unable to give the amount asked to make good the deficiency to the schools. It has been agreed at the (Continued on Page Two) Firearms Stolen From Farm Home Sheriff Tom Solomon reports the theft of firearms from the farm of W. H. Jorgensen, two miles west of Union. The guns were taken on Thursday while Mr. Jorgensen was absent from home visiting his wife, who is ill at a hospital. The sheriff states that the party evidently made their en trance by the back door of the house, apparently opened by the use of a skeleton key. The weapons taken were two shot guns and a twenty-two rifle. No trace of the weapons have been secured. At The Cass County Court House In the county court on Friday marriage license was issued to Richard D. Appling, of Palmy ra, son of Mr. and Mrs. Marion S. Appling and Helen Mariem Falk, daughter of Mrs. Cather ine Falk of this city. In the district court Thursday afternoon, order was entered by Judge Thomas E. Dunbar, in Ihe application of Alexander John Drozynski, Pauline Marie Drozynski, John Robert Droz ynski, for change of name from Droznyski to that of Lane. There being no objection the apolication was granted. This Monday morning Judge Thomas E. Dunbar was in the city for a short time, enroute j to Omaha from Nebraska City. , while here entered the order i confirming sale and ordering deed to the purchaser of real estate in the case of Dangard Reichstadt et al. vs. George W. Fornoff, et al., sold last week at public auction by Attorney Raymond J. Case, referee. Car Wrecks at Week End Keep Sheriff Busy The week end brought a num ber of car wrecks in the county that kept Sheriff Solomon busy Friday and Saturday in getting the wrecked parties, cars and triu-ks straightened out. On Friday the car owned by Ralph Younker. 19 of Union, was wrecked two miles south of the Murray coiner on highway No. 75. Younker told the sher iff that the tie rod came lousi thereby leaving no control over the car that had turned over several times, knocking down a telephone pole The car had turned over several times. Younker suffered cuts and bruises and Rex Eaton. Union. 17, a broken collar bone, cuts and bruises. Stanley Meadf was an occupant of the car but was not injured. Younker was thrown from the car in its roll ing. The damage to the car i.s estimated at $200. The second accident occurred north of Manley. Donald Sud duth, of Weeping Water, was driving his car north on a gravel l'oad as a car driven by Melvin E.. Buskirk. of Louisville, was coming south. Mr. Buskirk told the sheriff that he was unable to get around a car trav eling in the same direction in ime to miss the oncoming luWut'n car. The Sudduth car .."I'd over onto the shoulder ' the road in order to miss tho n vkirk car. The injured were '. .1 to the office of Dr. Kun kv '.i V'epnig Water ior treat men. Injured in the Suddnth car w .e Mrs. Orva Sudduth. 23. injured nose, cuts and bruises. Other occupans of the car were Dennis Pudduth. aged eight months. Mr;. Arthur Meeske, 33. of Weepin .' W . ( r, and her son. Thamas Me '!: aged three. In the Buskirk ra." were Mrs. Ruth Buskirk. agea 4'i. shock, cuts and bruises, Melvin E. Buskirk. chest and leg in'v.ries. The damages to the car i; estimated at $300 Saturday afterroi Sheriff Solomon was called to highway No. 1, three miles west of Mur ray, where a truck accident was reported. The driver of th" truck was Raymond Pointer, of Weeping Water, and the acci dent was caused by loose gravel. Pointer reported. The injured were given first aid treatment by Sheriff Solomon. Raymond Pointer had a deep cut on the left wrist and possible sorain of the right forearm. Betty Wood. 16, of Plattsmouth. an occupant of the truck, received minor cuts ana onuses. mo owner of the 1946 Studebaker truck was August G. Kruse of Omaha, who escaped injury. Christmas Is Busy Time at Post Office The Christmas business so far at the local post office has been heaviest in many years, Post master L. W. Niel reports, and the heaviest run is yet to come in this, the final week of th- rush. The post office has the serv- I ices of an extra clerk the pat ' week, Mrs. Charlotte Gall, who is j handling the package window at the office, and has been kept on I the rush all of the day. ! In the mail delivery over the ; city there have been three addi j tional carriers placed in service ; for the holiday. Troy Cotner. ! Joe Highfield and Robert Lornr- mere taking over the work of delivering the mail to the homes in the city. With the growth of the Christ mas packages at the post of fice, there will be increasing necessity for more parcel post service and this will continue until into Christmas day. The Christmas card business has been very heavy at the local office for the past several weeks and shows no abatement. Ralph Hild Named To Honorary Group Ralph Hild, son of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Hild. of Platts mouth, is a new member of the Block and Bridle Club, nation al honorary organization for animal husbandry students at the University of Nebraska. Block and Bridle sponsors the university livestock judgnis teams which compete at nation-wide contests. Hild, a sophomore, is one of 12 students named to membership. i 1