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The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 1881 Published neml-weekly. Mondays and Thurs days, t 409-413 Main Street. Plattstnautb-, Caa County, Nebraska. RONALD R. FURSE .x Publisher FRANK H. SMITH Editor BERNARD A. WOOD . . . .Advertising Mgr. Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor hissocmTion U mnomi ASSQCUJioB' SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year In Cass and adjoining counties, $4.00 per year elsewhere,, in advance, by mail outside the city of Plattsmouth. By carrier In Platts mouth, 15 cents for two weeks. Entered at the Postofftce at Plattsmouth. Nebraska as second class mall matter In ac cordance with the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY The judge is nothing but the lazv speaking. Benjamin Whichcotc IfiJAV.'AVAVAVtViVtVAV EDITORIALS VAVVAVAVAVAVVAVAWVAVAVAVAVAVA 'rf LOCKING TO THE FUTURE A most progressive step was taken by Plattsmouth Chamber of Commerce last Thursday night when a resolution was passed requesting that city officials create an improvement district for widening and relighting of Main street. This matter has been under discussion for several years, but little had been ac complished beyond the talk stage until several months ago when a committee headed by W. A. Swatek, working closely with the city council, prepared tentative plans and secured an engineer's estimate of costs. Fully 100 per cent of property owners along the main stem were amazed at how little expense would be involved to modernize and improve the business dis trict. While the project has not boasted of full blessing of all the holders of business property along the street, we can say it is to Plattsmouth s credit that not one , has risen in violent protest, which refutes tho oft heard remark that "Plattsmouth Is a backward town. They won't spend the money to improve and modernize." To us, that statement or opinion is a lot of baloney our townsmen have proven on more than one occasion since this writer's residence within the city that a majority will go along if a leader will come forward to start the "ball rolling." It is not to be expected that all will go smoothly before the project is com pleted. There will be some differences of opinion as to how much wider the thor oughfare should be made, and whether parking areas should be sloped to the curb, or be constructed with a step low enough to clear bumpers and still allow Platts mouth visitors to gain the sidewalk without a running-jump or assistance from one whD has already made it. Knowing and seeing the ugly, deplor able condition of curb lines, sidewalks and street lighting in the business district of Plattsmouth eliminates the possibility of even one protest against the program. Not one resident will argue that new lights and curb repair is not absolutely necessary, and this newspaper will wager not one prop erty owner along Main street will protest the additional expenditure of another $20 or $25 a front to do the job right. We here in Plattsmouth have learned that an attractive, modern, clean town with a convenient shopping district at tracts trade. We are all looking to the fu ture many of our business places have plans drawn for new and modernized store fronts only awaiting the cleaning up of Main street before construction. Most of us here in Plattsmouth are determined to protect our investments in homes, com mercial properties and businesses by mak ing of our city the most attractive in the area. New lighting and modernizing of Main street is only one more forward step to as sure respect for our city to encourage and attract new home owners, new citizens and new businesses, all adding to and pro tecting the investments we already have here. HOOKS, SLICES, ACCIDENTS Willie Turnesa, former U. S. and Brit ish amateur golf champion, who has played on from five to six hundred golf courses in six nations in twenty-two years, says that golf is a game of great uncertainties and if it were otherwise, persons would no longer play it- The amateur was testifying in behalf of a defendant, being sued by a man hit in the eye by, a golf, ball driven from a . para 1 le 1-f a i rway . -. . Mr. Turnesa said"; thjat Ihe had accidental!'5 hit "players with golf j ballsfcnd had often been hit himself.. Every 'player, he testified, might hook or -slice a ball and land on the wrong fairway The golfer asserted that ninety-nine per cent of golfers lift their heads while driving and, consequently, make bad shots. Moreover, "fore" should not be shouted Furse's Fresh Flashes About the best example of perfect se curity we have seen is the fellow serving: t lilC ICl 111 All tlic tliin-uvuuj . WThich reminds us of the prisoner about to be executed requesting a large bowl of mushrooms as his last meal. Said he had always wanted to try them but was afraid he would be poisoned. A prisoner is always in a bad way. Even when he takes' the witness stand under oath he has only two choices. If he tells the truth he goes to jail, and if he lies he goes to Hell. - Saw a sign in a drug store up the street advising customers "If you don't use our soap, for goodness sake use our perfume." Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, tells us that when she told her latest boy friend he shouldn't see her anymore, he immediately turned out the lights. A local gal tells us she has fallen in love with six men without avail. We sug gest she wear one on her next date and maybe she'll have better luck. A book agent dropped in the past week selling a book he guaranteed to do half our work. We were tempted to buy two of 'em. k A Plattsmouth mother tells us she doesn't believe in letting her children have "piggy banks," thinking it encourages the youngsters to become misers. We wouldn't know about that, but do know it turns many parents into bank robbers. - Another "editor left town heading" in an outstate paper: "Two Sisters Compro rnise Weekly's Entire Staff." until a person is about to be hit and, even then the warning is dangerous because it generally causes an individual to look to ward the ball rother than to duck. All in all, he concludes that in golf "we don't know where the next ball is going." You can get any number of Plattsmouth golfers to back up that statement. IE DISTURBING DECS. DOWN MEMORY LANE TEN YEARS AGO Thirty-one farmers of the county en rolled as co-operators and demonstrators of the 1940 Nebraska Pasture-Forage-Livestock program . . . County Judge A. H. Duxbury was scheduled as Memorial Day speaker at Elmwood and Palmyra . . . The Plattsmouth Woman's club announced dates for their hobby show, May 28 and 29 . . . W. H. Wilcockson, president of the Wilcockson Motors of St. Louis, presented hisalmo mater at Elmwood with a roster of Elmwood high school down through the years, to the members of the alumni more than 700 copies in all. Mr. Wilcockson was a member of the Elmwood class of 1901. 20 YEARS AGO The Roberts Construction Company completed work on the concrete paving from the north end of the John K. Webster bDulevard, to the Stull place . . . Rev. O. G. Wichmann, pastor of St. Paul's Evangelical church, delivered the baccalaureate ser mon at the Presbyterian church . . . C. H. Martin, of the local Red & White store, was at Springfield arranging stock for new store there which was to be operated by Stuart Chase . . . Frederick Wehrbein and Mildred Schulz were named by school as king and queen of May at festival in Gar field park, directed by Miss Ruth Lindsay and B. E. Woodward . . . N. C. Christensen of Weeping Water departed for his old home in Denmark, making the trip on the ship, "Oscar the Second." This was his sixth trip back to his native land. (Copyright, 1949, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS : U. S. ARMY HAS FIENDISH NEW WAR GAS WHICH MAKES MEN INSANE; U. S. MUST USE NEW PROPAGANDA METHODS TO CON- VINCE EUROPE WE ARE NOT WARMONGERS; PRESIDENT TRU MAN COULD SELL PEACE BY EU ROPEAN WHISTLE-STOP TOUR. WASHINGTON. A sensational story was flashed out of Detroit recently that the army has developed a magic nerve gas which destroys the will to resist and makes war painless. The story grew out of a remark by Maj. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe, chief of the army chemical corps, who happened to mention nerve gases at the American Chemical Society's annual meetiricr invDn- troit. The sensatidnardet'ailsabout mak ing war painless, however, were supplied by an imaginative reporter. Inside facts about the armys new nerve gases are sensational, all right, but exactly opposite to what the press reported. The gases do not cause a gentle sleep and do not pave the way for bloodless conauesL Instead, they drive men mad, turn them into raging lunatics before kill ing them. The army's experiments have been based on two nerve gases developed by the Germans and still known by their German names Tabun and Sarin. These are fiendishly lethal gases, de pending upon the dose. A small dose will cause severe headache, nausea and chest congestion. A few extra whiffs will attack the optic nerve and cause blindness, then degenerate vital brain cells, until the victim loses his sanity. Homicidal tendencies are sup posed to result. Gas masks are no protection from Tabun and Sarin, which seep into the body through the skin pores. Protective clothing has been developed, however, that will help. RUSSIANS HAVE SECRET, TOO? The army is now using goats, rabbits and rats to experiment with Tabun and Sarin at Dug way proving ground in the bar ren Utah desert. The gases are invisible and difficult to detect, though army scientists who have gotten a whiff of escaping Tabun say it smells faintly like "Juicy Fruit" chewing gum. The Germans turned over 200 pound and 500-pound Tabun gas bombs to the U. S. army after V-E day bombs which had never been used for fear of re taliationthough captured Ger man documents show that Prop aganda Minister Joseph Goeb bels urged that Hitler resort to Tabun in the last, desperate days. German officers handling the Tabun bombs were deathly afraid of them, warned that they might explode if left in the sun too long. Inasmuch as the Russians took over German war secrets, it is safe to assume that Russians have been experimenting with Tabun and Sarin in the same way we are doing. Note Dr. Albert Speer, former reichsminister of armament, told allied authorities he had planned to kill Hitler with Tabun by fil tering it into his ventilating sys tem. But Hitler built a protec tive chimney around the venti lating funnel before Dr. Speer could carry out his plot. HARRY'S WHISTLE-STOP Whether you agree with Presi dent Truman or not, any fair minded political observer will agree that when Harry gets out among the folks, it does some thing both for him and for them. He is like Antaeus who got new strength every time he was thrown to earth, and whom Her cules could not vanquish until he held him over his head away from the earth. Likewise Harry Truman is strongest when he gets away from his palace guard of cronies and sticks close to the earthy people from whom he came and to whom he belongs. They give him almost a spiritual lift, and he in turn gives them a political lift as faq as his popularity and the Democratic party are con cerned. This, of course, is something for the Republicans to worry about. However, in these days of new and fiendish poison gases, there is also something else for all of us to worry about namely, the wave of neutrality that is sweep ing western Europe. Carefully nurtured by the Communist party and by the Moscow radio, many Europeans have come to believe that tr?e U. S. A. is the world's worst war monger and that western Europe is foolish to get In:' the middle of a clash between the U. S. A. and the U. S. S. R. Propaganda is relatively cheap. It costs little to send radio waves into western Europe, or send Communist speakers among the ranks of labor. The Marshall plan costs us billions annually and has done a great job in re building Europe. But we have cause we haven't accompanied it received little credit for it. be by the proper sales campaign. SOAP AND PEACE No good American business firm ever curtails advertising for long; but many Republican con gressmen, influenced in part by business, voted to curtail the state department's sales cam paign to Europe. Several years ago, a well-known American soap cut down its advertising on the theory that enough Americans i were sold on the fact that "it floats." Sales immediately dropped, and that company has come back as a big advertiser since. All this is by way of saying that the United States has to sell its peaceful aims, its gener osity, its constructive moves to rebuild the world, not once, but all the time. It can never stop Furthermore, we have to think up new sales ideas, new adver tising gimmicks regarding our peace alms, just as a manufac turing company thinks up new promotion plans to sell its goods. So here is a suggestion: Presi dent Truman, a down-to-earth, likable gentleman, who goes over great with the plain people, should go to Europe this fall or summer to make a whistle stop tour. v If he visited not merely the big capitals, but took- a- train through the heart Of France, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, stopping at little -stations along the way, he could do a great sell ing job for his country and a far greater service than touring our own western states. I personally have spoken' from flat cars in the railroad stations of Ihe cities of France and Italy and I know how the people wel come anyone who deals not government-to-government but people-to-people. And Harry Truman, I predict, giving off-the-cuff, down-to-earth, - sincere, straight-from-the-shoulder facts about what the American people have al ready done for Europe, and the reasons why we have done it. would become the world's No. 1 salesman of democracy and would stymie the Moscow radio for months to come. Wjvuhck Mrs. Florence McOonaU um jjjjjjfjriif r r it ur A birthday party for Mrs. Emil Reike and Marvin Wendt was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Wendt last week. En tertainment consisted of "Court Whist." Other guests were Mr. artd Mrs. Leonard Klemme, Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Pansk, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Vogt, Mr. and Mrs. Thorwald Hansen, Lucille and Herbert and Mr. Emil Reike. Ladies Aid met at the home of Mrs. Alvin Backemeyer on Thursday of last week with a very good attendance. Assisting hostesses were Mrs. Frank Buell, Mrs. I. C. McCrory and Mrs. Wil liam Streich. Mrs. Matthev Thimgan had the misfortune to fall while hanging curtains last Friday and badly injured her knee. She spent several days tn bed, but is able to be up some with the aid of crutches. Sunday dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Verle Brunkow were Mr. and Mrs. Ray Willis and son of Omaha and Mr. and Mrs. Ferd Brunkow. The Murdock Alumni banquct will'.be held Saturday. May 27 at the school house at 0:30. Mrs. August Wendt gave a miscellaneous shower for Miss Lucille Hansen on Saturday af ternoon. Miss Hansen will be wed to Marvin Wendt early in June. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kupke, en tertained Mr. and Mrs. Herman Wendt. Marvin and Lueiile at dinner Tuesday evening. Later In the evening a surprise tool shower for Marvin was enjoyed when a group of young folks gathered for the occasion. Mrs. August Wendt and Myrtle Wendt were Lincoln shoppers on Tuesday. Mrs. Emma Ward, Mrs. John Buck and Mr. W. O, Gillespie were Lincoln shoppers on Mon day. Miss Norma Barnemeier spent the week end in Lincoln at the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. John Krueger spent last Saturday in Lincoln visiting relatives as well as doing some shopping. : THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. stmi-vwfefckLY JOurna PAGE FOUR Mondav. Mav 2? ia ' - lV E MtnUI Attitude Causes Headacht GROUP OF SCIENTISTS in a meeting at Columbia universi ty made one of the most valuable statements the medics profession could announce for the benefit of laymen. Althoug they didn't couch their remarks in as simple language as I us ik sums up 10 me same thing: , v, hiw Connie Osburn Journal Correspondent Mr. and Mrs. Emil Meisinger and Margaret and Virginia Cameron and Mr. and Mrs. Louie Meisinger of Plattsmouth, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Green and .sons in Omaha. Mrs. Joe Kyles accompanied Dr. and Mrs. Wallace of Friend, Nebraska, to Kimball, Nebraska, to visit relatives. Sunday Mother's Day guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Grady were Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Rosen crans and Jackie, Mr. and Mrs. Buzzy Gakemeir and Mr. and Mrs. John rady and baby. Rose McDonald was in Lincoln Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Emil Meisinger drove to Avoca Thursday after noon and visited Miss Viviau Meisinger who has been teach ing there this year. The term entied Friday and Miss Meising er is home for vacation. Dorcas Society met Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Grady and Glenda of Omaha and C. C. Robinson of Ashland were Moth er's Day guests of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Osburn and family. Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Ryan were Lincoln shoppers Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Emil Meisinger spent Wednesday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Leesley and family. Mrs. Leesley and Judy accompanied them to Lin coln to see the flood waters. Mrs. Tom Ryan entertained at a Mother's Day dinner Sun day. Guests included: Mrs. Kathryn Ryan. Mrs. Rose Mc Donald and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Thomas. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Leesley and family and Mrs. Emil Mei-' singer spent Tuesday evening at Springfield, Nebraska. Mrs. Leesley and daughters Sharon and Roberta and Mrs. Meisinger attended the Mother-Daughter banquet. Mrs. Alice Cameron of Omaha spent the week end at the Emil Meisinger home. Carnegie When ya have a headache, it is likely to be due more to your mental attitude than to any organic disorder. To tell it in medical terms, I quote three neuro psychiatnsts of the college of chysicians and sur geons who worked in the headache clinic at a Bronx hospital, New York City. They said "re sults strongly suggest that the effectiveness of treatment is primarily caused by the patient's psy chologic reaction to the treatment situation in general." Dr. Sidney Carter, who has tested many persons with regard to headaches, says, "To overlook or to fail to treat the psychological conflicts in a patient with chronic headaches is to run the risk of failure." So: don't you sum it up that you worry yourself into a head ache, and if you can rout worry, you won't have headaches Anyway, the next time a headache comes your way, ask your self what you are worrying about? Then ask yourself if you ca do something about that worry. If you can, then get at it. you can't, then tell yourself the truth, put out of your mind i subject that you are worrying about and fill your mind wi something else. The best thing to fill it with would be som thought of helping someone else who is worse off than you ax To go still further on the subject of how worry can get you down, I quote Dr. Edward Weiss, professor at Temple university, Philadelphia, who says that marital troubles are the most frequent cause of rheumatism, and he says he based his observations on a group of 83 se lected from 499 people. All but 11 of these were mar ried. The most frequent troubles underlying this physi cal condition were loss of 8leep and poor sexual adjust ment. , And he goes on to say that much' of the trouble stems from man or woman bottling up within themselves things they war to say to another in a fault-finding way but which they refrai from saying due either to fear of that person, or the wish not t hurt that other's feelings. Dr. Weiss recommends relaxation, dismissing unpleasar thoughts from the mind, and taking up some occupation that wi keep your mind off your worries. j sister, Rose. He had been ill for several years. He leaves his mother, a wife and two daugh ters. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Reister drove to Unadilla Friday morn ing to look over the flood situa tion. They also went on to Talmage. Mrs. Robert Gess and Mrs. E. C. Herbic were hostesses at a miscellaneous shower in honor of Miss Eleanor Urwin. About fifty guests were present. Miss Urwin is to be married in June. James Johnson arrived home Wednesday night from the Pa- the funeral Saturday at Unic of Tom Akin, who was drowm a week ago in the flood. Mrs. Jesse Sell and son, Dav and Mrs. Clarence Crawfoi drove over to Fremont Thursdj afternoon. The yards of the property i Searle Davis are being lant scaped and planted to blue grai this week. Miss Nola Noyes of Omaha wj a guest of her parents, Mr. ar Mrs. J. R. Noyes, on Mother day and the three had the dinner at the hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Barr ar son, Mr. and Mrs. Chris Olse 1 coiuav1Ub Mrs. Bessie Core, Journal Correspondent Louisville has passed the 1,000 mark in population. To be ex act, 1,003. Mr. and Mrs. Oris Schliefert were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Schlie fert. Other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Arlie Ragoss and Billy Gae- bel. Louisville had its first base ball game of the season last Sunday. They beat Weeping Water 23 to 1. Tom Warocka, Sr., returned to his home Saturday night after spending several months in Cal ifornia with his two sons, Tom, Jr., and John and his grand daughter, Mrs. Geo. Rhoden and their families. Workmen have finished re pairing the damage done to the Farmers Elevator by the high wind of a couple of weeks ago. The tin has been replaced and the whole building given a coat of gleaming paint. The regular meeting of the American Legion was held Fri day night instead of Thursday. night, due to commencement ex ercises being Thursday night. At a family dinner at the Ralph Wildrick home Sunday, Mrs. Wildrick and her three sis ters were together for the first time in four years, although they all live fairly close to each other. Michael Krambeck, one year old son of Laverne and Eleanor Krambeck, was entered at the Children's Memorial hospital for three or four days with a very bad case of hives. L. J. Mayfield received a card from his niece, Mildred Bring man, of Riverside Drive, North Hollywood, Calif., saying her fa ther, Chas. S. Bringnfan, ? was seriously ill with pneumonia and not expected to recover. Mr. Bringman was a pioneer citizen of Louisville in the early 80's. F. H. Nichols received word Monday of the death of his nephew, Hugo Moats, of Harri sonville, West Virginia. Mr. Moats formerly lived in Omaha and was the son of Mr. Nichols' cific coast where he had re ceived his discharge from the and Mr. and Mrs. Dale Reete navy after serving out his en- j all of Valley, and Mr. and Mr listment. Claude Sack and Ronnie Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Ault and J South Bend were guests Mott daughter, Sharon, of Wichita, ! er's day at the home of Mr. an Kansas, came Saturday evening I Mrs. Mose Barr. to get acquainted with their new grandson at the Henry Davis home. Duane Ault also came again that day, all returning Sunday. Mrs. John Mass received a phone call from her son, Pfc. Donald Mass, Sunday to greet her on Mother's day. He is at Wichita Falls, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Seward of Hastings, Nebr., came Satur day evening to visit their aunt, Mrs. Mary Group. Mrs. Group's daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Bramel, also Mr. and Mrs. Emil Carson of spent the day here. Mrs. Cy Johnson and Jamt were shopping in Omaha Mor day. Louis C. Lau made a busine; trip to Plattsmouth Monday. Clyde Ahl and daughter, No ma, and Shirley Larson were i Omaha Saturday. Misses Betty Woehler ar Ruth Schroder were in Omar, shopping Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Welte ar Mrs. E. A. Ingram were shoppir in Omaha Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Terryben of Omaha visited at the Fro Omaha, j Terryberry home Sunday. I Mr. and Mrs. P. A. iaco'oso Sgt. and Mrs. Kenneth Miller ' were Sunday dinner guests c came Wednesday from Rapid City, South Dakota, and are visiting at the Glen Miller and Charles Sluyter homes. Sgt. Mil ler has a 21 day leave from the air base. Mrs. Glen Miller has been taking care of the grand children while their mother was In the hospital at Denver. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wildrick went to Weeping Water Satur day to spend the day. Rev. and Mrs. M. H. Meyer were in Omaha Monaay, tne Rev. going to play a little golf. Judge and Mrs. John L. Pols and the Judge's sister, Mrs. Shockey of Lincoln, were Satur day afternoon and evening vis itors at the Harold Koop home. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Houdek and family of Wahoo and Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Roark of Omaha spent Mother's day with Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Peterson. Mr. and Mrs. Oris Schliefert were in Lincoln shopping Fri day. Mr. and Mrs. Gauer Salberg and family of Omaha were here Sunday to spend Mother's day with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Salberg and Mr. and Mrs. Claude Johnson. Mrs. Leon Siemsen of Ashland was a guest at the home of her grandmother, Mrs. Chas. Lau and her aunt and uncle,, Louis j onrt Wplpna , Lau on Wedriesii4VS ; Mr. and" Mrs Fred Terryberry of Louisville and Mrs. Dale Harms of Plattsmouth attended Mrs. Larson at the hotel. Miss Betty Salberg of Omah was a Mother's day guest of he parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Sal berg. ' Mr. and Mrs. Howard Jackma of Omaha were down Saturdo afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ingram ar family spent Sunday at Palmy where they visited at the Da Rhoten home. County Agricultural Agci Clarence Schmadke of Weepir Water was in Louisville on bus ness last Friday afternoon. Mrs. Fred Huff left for Ch cago Wednesday for a visit wit her daughter.. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Nichols ar having their home redecorate this week. Chet Elseman c Murdock is doing the work. A classified Ad In the Journj costs as little as 35c. CECIL KARR ACCOUNTING Income Tax Service Bookkeeping: Systems Installed rh. 6287 Donat Building Walter H. Harold R. Smith & Lebens Attorneys-at-Law Donat Bldg. - PlatUmouth ncd Estate 5 Percent Interest Chfcrfe Reduced for each monthly payment. - Plattsmouth Loan & Building Ass'n.