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PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY Monday-Thursday Largest Paid Circulation of All Cass County Newspapers VOLUME 65 SIX PAGES PLATTSMOUTH, CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1950 FI OPY NUMBER 28 CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER Vandals Damage Traffic Signs And Lights The members of the city po lice force and also the street department report a number of cases over the city where street traffic signs have been bentvor taken away from their accus tomed stations. This is reported especially bad on Chicago and Washington Avenue along high ways 75 and 34. The signs as to speed and stopping, were placed there as a measure of protection to the children who have to cross the avenue to and from their schools. Their unauthorized re moval is not only the violation and destruction of public prop ey, but as well a danger to the little children, as passing motor ists unused to the streets lead ing into the school zones, have no way of knowing that the streets are used by hundreds of children each day. unless the signs are posted. Their removal may mean the injury of some child through an accident. The city street department have or dered several sets of the signs and find them bent ap or taken away almost every day. The city police are on the lookout for the parties doing this damage and if located they will be brought into court for the offense. The street lights in the out lying districts are also reported as being- made targets for the rifles of youngsters, a number have been shot out and when re placed the same thing is repeat ed. This is something that does j' one any good and certainly works a hardship on the locali ties where the lights are out of rommission. The police officers are check ing these cases and will endea vor to round up the parties pull ing off these 3tunts. Town Team in Dual Win on Thursday Games The Plattsmouth town basket ball team on Thursday night annexed two games to their cred it at the high school gym in a battle with the Pay Less Food t arn of Omaha and the Firemen from Glenwood. In the Pay Less Food game, the locals won 52 to 28 and in the scoring Clayburn of Plattsmouth led with 17 points with air of the team hitting the hoop consist ently. For the Omaha team De vores and Bruger with 8 each were the high scorers for their team. The Plattsmouth quintet in the last game were the winners from the Firemen by a score of 50 to 38. Reckard led the locals in scoring with 17 points, while Mitchell was the high pointer for Glenwood with 8. The box score of the Glenwood game was as follows: Plattsmouth fg ft pf tp Stewart, f 2 0 0 4 Gall, f 1 0 0 2 Cole, f 2 1 3 5 Reckard, c 7 2 0 16 Hobbs, g 4 3 4 11 Vroman, g 3 2 4 8 Richards, g 2 0 0 4 Totals 21 8 11 50 Glenwood fg ft pf tp Herold, f 0 1 1 1 Sell, f 0 0 0 0 Mitchell, f 4 0 2 8 Wade, f 3 0 3 6 Seitz, c 3 1 2 7 McKee, g 5 0 0 10 Barkas, g 3 0 3 G Totals 18 2 11 38 On Tuesday, March 7th, the town team will stage a double header with the Omaha Socony Vacuum team of Omaha and the Co. I National Guard team of OpSenwood. Former Resident Here from Lincoln Friday. J. C. Stroy. fcr many years a resident of the Murdock community, was in the city to spend a few hours looking after some business matters at th? court house and calling on A. L. Tidd, an old friend of many years standing. Mr. Stroy is now a resident of Lincoln where he has made his home for the past several years and enjoys very much his loca tion in the capital city. He still owns the farm near Murdock in the heart of the fine agricul tural empire of Cass county. l'atronizr Journal Aciverstisers. Changes in Office Of River Engineers Changes are announced in the office of the army engineering force that will be effective in the next week. Larry Zuroski. who has been clerk here in the local office of the U .S. engineers for the past three years, is being transferred I to Nebraska City where the main offices are located. Leonard Brothers, who has been located at Queen Hill in charge of the office work for the engineers, is being brought to Plattsmouth to serve as clerk in place of Larry. Louie Baumgart Acquitted of Driving Charge The trial of the case of the State of ' Nebraska vs. Louie Baumgart, charged on the com plaint of the state highway pa trol of operating a motor ve hicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquors, held in the county court Thursday, at tracted a very large audience for the hearing that required the entire day, and the case not given to the jurv until 4:30. they returning a verdict at 5:30 find ing that the defendant. Mr. Baumgart, was not guilty of the charges preferred. The case originated on Sun day, February 19 when Mr. Baumgart with several friends were returning home from Council Bluffs on reaching this city. Mr. Baumgart, who was driving the car, was arrested by State Patrolman LeRoy Jensen, later released on bond for the hearing which was held Thurs day. At the request of the defend ant counsel. Francis M. Casey, a jury atrial was ordered by Judge Richard Peck, and a jury composed of James Campbell, Chester Welshimer. Henry Ja cobs. Fred Armstrong, Edward Berlett, Hy Gruber, was sworn in to try the case. There were a great many wit nesses heard during the trial, the state presenting members of the state highway patrol in addition, to Mr. Jensen. The defendant hod as wit nesses the members of the party that were with him in the car at the time of the arrest as well as Sheriff Tom Solomon. The court room and that sec tion of the court house was crowded all of the day by friends of the defendant and those in terested in hearing the testi mony. Will Sponsor Bus To Auburn Tourney The Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a bus to the district class B basketball tournament at Auburn on Wednesday, Mar. 8th. The bus will have a ca pacity of 25 and those who first apply will be given the prefer ence. Harold Alkire is in charge of the bus trip and those who desire transportation should contact Mr. Alkire at Soenni chsen's to secure reservations. The fare for the round trip will be SI. The bus will leave here at 6 i p. m. tor Auourn as me ria' is mouth team will play the last. weeks. He has shown a fine re game of the evening. Platts-S covery and was released from mouth has Crete for their foe i tho hospital and is expected to on the opening night. (return with the wife and son to I this city. Read the Journal! By Carrier. 15c for two weeks. Court IHIousg Brieh . . In the office of the clerk of the district court on Saturday, nn action was filed in which Paul V. Nichols is the plaintiff and Clayton Chambers and Freda Chambers are the defendants. The petition of the plaintiff sefs out that, on March 4, 1937, the defendants made a note for $400 to be due March 4, 1940, also delivering a mortgage deed. That ho parties are all residents of Fremont county, Iowa. The note and mortgage were made to Thornell & Nichols and the plaintiff is now the owner of the note and mortgage. The land involved in the transaction was located on the Missouri river bottoms in Fremont countv. at the time of the making of the note. The petition states thfit the states of Nebraska and Iowa, in 1943 passed a law defining the boundary between the two states along the Missouri river, ceeding to each other certain lands that were not in accord ance with the new channel. The petition asks for the foreclosure of the note and mortgage, and Rotary Club Visits Lewiston In spife of bad roads only five Rotarians failed to make the trip to the Lewiston community building last Tuesday evening when the local club acted as hosts to the farmers of that community. Over 150 Rotarians and guests were present for the big feed and program that included a talk by Dr. F. D. Keim (in foreground!, of the agronomy department of the University of Nebraska. Journal Staff Photo. Melvin Todd Honored by Stock Feeders The national meeting of the Corn Belt Livestock Feeders as sociation that closed in Omaha Saturday honored one of the ac tive leaders in the work in this part of the west, selecting Mel vin Todd, of Union, president of the Nebraska Livestock Feeders, as the first vice-president of the national organization. The pre sident of the association will be C. B. Watson of DeKalb, Illin ois, re-elected to the post he has most ably filled. Mr. Watson was the speaker at the Cask County meeting held at Weeping Water two weeks ago. The members of the conven tion made it evident that they want a secretary of agriculture from "down on the farm." The meeting also favored donating surplus crops instead of dollars to the people of the old world. Delegates ended the two-dav association convention with pledges to fight the Brannan plan, and to combat "socializa tion" of the livestock industry and the government. The controversial Brannan plan for agriculture, a tarset throughout the entire meeting, was condemned as having "un-' ending possibilities of govern ment control of our industry." The stock feeders cheered a suggestion by editor Byron De morest of the Omaha Daily Live stock Journal that "we need a farmer who has been out in the field and got manure on his shofs as secretary of agricul ture." HENRY STARKJOHN RELEASED Mrs. Henry Starkjohn with Mr. and Mrs. William Starkiohn, departed today for Savannah, Missouri, where Mr. Starkiohn t has been for- the past three Sell It Thru Journal Want Arts that all persons claiming some title, interest or possession be barred and a decree of foreclos ure be granted. In the district court on Satur day. Judge Thomas E. Dunbar heard a number of matters that were pending before the court, among these the following: - In the case of Mildred Gake meier vs. Dean Gakemeier, hear ing was had on the order of the court why the defendant should not be cited for contempt of court. James F. Begley appeared as attorney for the plaintiff. In the divorce action of De lores Adkins Litle vs. Ravmond Harold Litle, default of the de fendant entered and decree of divorce entered. The parties have made a property settle ment. Order confirming sale of real estate was entered in the par tition suit of Elsie Bohlsen. et al.. vs. Emma Schroeder Ranwaz. The court entered the order con firming the sale held by Judge Paul E. Fauquet. The court en (Continued on Page 6) ; lilHSr IllPlf Demonstration Great Success The demonstration held at the plant of the Siites Implement Co. on South Chicago Avenue,' on Saturday, proved om of the. most successful that the com pany has staged. Miss Itathryn Miller was the demonstrator of the frozen foods and did a wonderful job In showing the large number at tending the possibilities of th? frozen foods in the household. . There were 125 registered for the show and prizes were award ed to Mrs. J. W. Rummel alumi num ware set. Mrs. Otto Petereit, $25 certificate. Mrs. Fred Daven port, $15 certificate, Mrs. Emil Siemoneit. large roast, Mr. Hal mer Frazier, ice cream and cake. Death of A. H. Siekman, W ell Known Resident The death of A. II. Siekman. 75. a prominent resident of west Cass county, making his home on a farm a mile east of Eagle, died on Thursday morning at the farm home. He was born at Lengo. Ger many, coming to the United States when he was 16 years old. He lived first at Sprague, Washington, where he worked for the Great Northern rai'read. In 1897 he came to Nebraska, living at Elmwood. He married Margaret Nickel in 1901, moving to Palmyra where he lived sev en years. For the past 40 years he has lived on the farm near Eagle, retiring in 1945 because of ill health. He was an active member of Trinity Lutheran church and was vice president and a board member of the Farmers Union elevator at Eagle. He was also president of the Eagle Telephone company and had served on the Eagle school board for several terms. Surviving are his wife; four sons, Floyd of Rt. 7 Ray of Rt. 3, Harold of Hastings and Roy qf Eagle; two sisters. Mrs. Alton Miller of Elmwood and Mrs. Roy Palin of Lincoln, and ten grand children. Death of Mrs. Lydia Hartman Mrs. Lydia Hartman. 77, wi dow of the late Rev. Theodore Hartman, for a great many years pastor of the Immanuel Luther an church near Louisville, died Thursday at an Omaha hospital She has been making her home at 607 South 31st street. Survivors: Daughters, Harriet, Chicago; Esther, Stanford- Cal.; Mrs. John Thomson, Miami, Fla.; Mrs. C. B. Drake, Omaha; Mrs. W. J. Baumgartner, Knox ville. Ia.; Mrs. John Hermann, St. Louis. Mo., and Mrs. Robert Hanson. Grand Island. Nebr.; son. Theodora IL. Appleton, Wis.; Otto, Houston, Tex.; Ar thur H. and Clemens H., Los Angeles. Funeral 'service were held to day (Monday! at 1;30 from the First Lutheran church. Omaha. The burial was at the Hillcresi Memorial park in Omaha. S. J. Million has returned from spending the winter months with a son at Ft. Worth, Texas, and a daughter at Alex andria, Virginia. Farmers Cub Scouts Have Blue and Gold Dinner Friday The Blue and Gold Anniver sary dinner for Cub Scouts was held at the Central school build ing on Friday evening, Febru ary 24. The usual large number were in attendance and there was plenty of food at the pot luck dinner which preceeded the regular pack meeting. Committees in charge of the dinner were: food committee, Mrs. Humerickhouse, Mrs. Havel. Mrs. Doran Bowman. Mrs. Ben Anderson, Mrs. Ed Mische, Mrs. Earl Winscott. Decorations were in charge of Mrs. Richard Bev erage, Mrs. Ernest Janda, Mrs. C. E. Markham, Mrs. Wm. Meints. Mrs. Earl Allbee and Mrs. Chris Bulin. Pop and cof fee was served by Ed Mische Walter Smith and Doran Bow man. A special treat to the Cubs was a piece of birthday cake which was baked and donated by Jack Archer of the Tastee Shop. Following the dinner the reg ular pack meeting was held. In addition to the regular advance ments and achievements, seven cubs were graduated from cub- bing to be ready for scouting. They were: Daniel Archer, Ed ward Eugene Egenberger, Loren Haase, John Haith, Edward Mische. Stanley Rozell and Her man Weber. Representatives of all three Scout troops were present to bid these boys welcome into their (Continued on Page Six) HAS APPENDECTOMY Jeanelle, small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Meisinger. residing on Lincoln avenue, was taken to Omaha Saturday where she was operated cn for appendicitis at" the St. Cather ine's hospital. She is reported as doing as well as possible and it is hoped will soon be able to re turn home. We'll Recommend This Group in a ill jiji m yi pjuyifllllWllllii iljBlli I 4MMNHM;-9t " f " " V" " v J"W ItrMmsw .ZTll &JJM&.' &t 1 An old adage claims "too many cooks spoil the soup," but take it from a Journal reporter the group pictured above could improve the servings a t the Waldorf. No ambulances were needed fol lowing the feed at the Rotary-Lewiston Farm-.rs meeting last Tuesday night, but many spent a sleepless night after partaking of numerous "seconds" of the bountiful feed prepared by these women. The cameraman had his back to the wa 11, but couldn't avoid clipping the end ladies short. Our apologies. Journal Staff Photo. Ruth Patton Makes Filing For Re-Election County Treasurer Miss Ruth Patton, today i Monday', mad? her filing for re-nomination and re-election to the post that sho has most capably filled since 1S42 when she was named by the board of county commis sioners to fill the vagancy occa sioned bv the resignation of Jchn E. Turner. Miss Patton has been untiring in her work, her office has been given the highest recognition by state officers for its efficiency handling of the county financial affairs. Miss Patton was clerk in the office of register of deeds in 1926, when Mr. Turner was elected as the treasurer of Cass county, and she was tendered a position in that office and en tered on the discharge of the du ties that she has so efficiently carried out. In 1929 she was named as the deputy in the of fice, proving her efficiency in in handling the county financia exacting and complicated office. With the coming of the war vears Miss Patton took a short leave of absence and was en gaged in work at the Martin bomber plant at Fort Crook until the resignation of Mr. Turner led to a demand for her return as the head of the office. Miss Patten was re-elected in 1944 and again in 1946 without opposition. Her fine work and clear un derstanding of the job soon won her recognition in the State County Treasurer's association, serving for five years as the sec retary of the group. In 1948 she was selected as the president of the association with a very fine record of service and she is now a member of the legislative committee of the association. The residents of the county will be pleased to learn that Miss Patton will enter the race for the position, as she has a know ledge of the office in every de partment, as a visit there in the work day will demonstrate to anyone that has business in this important part of the county government. Death of Anton Auerswald Tuesday The death of Anton Auers wald, 69, long time resident of Manley. occurred on Tuesday at his home. Mr UC12 uiU VVli a blacksmith for a number of years in this county, coming to mat locamv irom umana, mthat the committee have sea- former home He is survived by his wife, Camilla, daughters, Mrs. Roy Steinkamp, .Manley, Mrs. Frank Bahula Omaha . The funeral was held Thurs day at 3:30 p. m. at the Brewer Konsko chapel at Omaha and burial at the National Bohemian cemetery. Attorney Pat Boyle anel Joe Wishart of L'ncoln were in the city Saturday to attend to some matters of business and calling on old friends. Mr. Wishart is the finance officer of the republican Ktntp pnmmittpp J r0th tv,D T,irr.oi! Rv rn rripr . ! 15c for two weeks. Water le Loss Heavy j The farm of Mrs. George Do- I mino, near Weeping Water, j was visited by fire on Saturday j morning that burned to death j seven brood sows and a hundred j small pigs. ! Harold Domingo, the tenant. saici a number ot cattle in a lean-to broke away but two ! calves were missing. j Fire Chief James Kivett of ' Weeping Water reported that . when he arrived the roof and ; framework of the large barn i filled with hay, straw and feed ! were ablaze. I A corn crib and several brood -! er houses close to the barn were pulled away. Firemen were able to save the other builciinas be- cause of a large supply of water i in a storage tan! and the 500 the depart- gallons carried by merit's pumper. Legion Hears Reports on Mid ; Winter Meeting The regular monthly meeting of the Hugh J. Ktarns post ol the American Legion wa3 held on Thursday evening at the I main dining room of the Edith j Solomon coffee shop v.i h a very) large attendance of t! ""ru bers and -a. great deal of s shown in the re"-; n various activities of th:1 aid the state organization C i mander Howard Hirz pivi.k i over the meeting. The athletic committee of which Leonard Brothers is chairman, and Jack O'Donnell, Russell Nielsen and Fred Hcrb ster members, had a very inter- i esting report to offer. It was announced that the sixteen suits for the baseball team spoil- sored by the Legion had been ordered for the boys that will represent Plattsmouth in the DSC league this summer. Chair mnn Rmthprs ani'irtuneeri that sixteen iueii.iiu.iiw iiuvc aicuu. to furnish suits for the team. Jack O'Domiell, one of the well 1 known baseball players of the ! city, who will have a large part in the playing operations of the coming season, reports that j there had been a large number ot the players oi last year re- cruited for the season and some ! promising material that had ' graduated from the Junior Le- eion teams would be available for playing. He stressed the need of additi0ns to the pitching staff 0h tVic will nf tho mnin spots to be looked after by the i ffimmittpp It was susreosted son tickets printed that could be sold and help finance the team in the earlier stages of the season. (Continued on Page Four) Mrs. Elmer Tritsch Now in Hospital The many friends here of Mrs. Elmer Tritsch of Murray, will regret to learn that she is now at the Methodist hospital at Omaha where she was taken ; last week for observation and. j treatment. She may later have to undereo an operation. She is reported as doing as ! wfn ns nnssihlp nnri it is honed may soon be able to return home of Cooks Veteran Member Leaves Board Of Education At the caucus of the voters to tUn , ' the old members of the board retired, declining renomination to office. These two were Frank A. Cloidt, member of the board of education for a period of tweniy-six years, and William F. Evers. who has spent the past few years on the board. Mr. Cloidt is a real veteran in ! irie sciiooi work, as ne nas oe-n ! a number since the twenties and i greater part of the time I served as the secretary of th. boeiy, performing a fine piece of work in the handling of the of fice, his experience and advico having been invaluable to the school district in guiding its af fairs and seeing that the finan cial standing of the district has been the best. In this he has ! found warm support from his as sociates on the board who will greatly miss his advice on school affairs. Mr. Cloidt two years ago was named as the president of the board of education after a long battle to be allowed to retire from the post of secretary. His term of service has seen the maintenance of the physi cal plant of ihe school system -icpt at a high standard and h? s a member of the board when hv new Central building was . Cv -d and placed in service, i. a '.so has had t he pleasure of icvhi T, the completion of the A in. lie park as a part of the school property and where the youth of the city can have an outlet for their athletic sports. The long and faithful years that Mr. Cloidt has given to the schools and o Plattsmouth can be scir.ciiini? he can look on with pride and the appreciation of a task well p-i formed. Mr. Evers, while not serving a long period ol years on the board, has been a i.rost valuable man, especially in toast ruction work and the mahi.enuncc of the school property. Air. Evers in retiring is to face a much larger task in looking after the construction of the new large addition to the beautiful Ma sonic Home in this city, which it is expected will be underway this summer. Blue Devils Win at Close Of Season Play The Blue Devils of Plattsmouth high closed their basket ball season on Friday night with a victory to climax a good season of play. The Blue Devils defeat ed the Valley team in the clos ing of the season by a margin of 40 to 34. This was an East Ne braska Seven contest and left the Plattsmouth team No. 2 in the conference. In the game Friday, the vis itors from Valley started strong and were in the lead for the first, half, largely by their success in recovering the rebounds and making them count. The locals I were without the services of Janecek at the center post that forced McCormick to center and hampered his usually sharp shooting eye from this position. In the opening cjuarter field goals were registered by Mc Cormick, Stanley Cole and two by Dasher, who also had a free throw. Dan Rohan also scored a free toss. For the Valley team. Weldon, Sullivan, Hansen and Lewis each scored field goals. Sullivan having two to his credit. In the second quarter of the game, Dasher and hard fightin Cole each had two field goals and Gary Ashbaugh also had a field score. Weldon with a field goal and two free tosses, Lewis (Continued on Page 6 County Officials At Lincoln Meet The meeting of the Southeast Nebraska County association was held in Lincoln on Friday, bringing together a large num ber of the officials from this part of the state. The meetings were held at the Lincoln Hotel. Attending the meeting from Cass county were: County As sessor W. H. Puis, County Trea surer Ruth Patton, Register of Deeds Lucille Horn Gaines, County Surveyor C. E. Markham, County Commissioner and Mrs. W. F. Nolte. County Commis sioners Parr Young of Nehawka anel Alva Reid of Elmwood.