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J ID La SECTION TWO CASS COUNTY'S NEWSpaper UNITED PRESS AND NWNS SERVICE 5 -1 J j . y ' 1 3 1) s t I n it -I I ' i i t - ! I I' , ?;? i" i. sit The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper KSTAPLISHFjD IX 1 S81 Published pomi-wcfklv, Mnnl.ivs an.l Thurs. days, at 400-413 Main Street, I'lattsmouth, Oa.is County, Nebraska. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher FRANK II. SMITH Editor BERNARD A. WOOD Advertising Mgr. Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor lassocmrion r HAJ70MAI I Dl TO ft I At 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. F.ntril at tt, Postr f fI- at I'lsittrnouth. Nfiru..ka :is swonJ his m:til matr in - frl:inc? with the .t of Cunju-ss of Maivh 3, IhTS. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY Many (oik like philosophers and lire like fools. . Tln'iiKi-; l-'ulk-r MERCHANTS AND PARKING One of our bigryest business headaches is the increase in urban traffic congestion. The auto industry has m?.de plans for pro ducing five million nore cars this year most of which will try to park in front of our places of business. Even without these new cars, parking and traffic has become a major problem in modern retailing", and, for pood or ill, it has exerted pressure to chanjre the busi ness map of the country. Since the war there has been a trrent rise in suburban businesses: the establish ment of branches of big downtown slor-s in the outlying areas of most cities and the erection of new shopping; centers in the fields midway between traffic congested cities. Migration of business to suburbs h.ns hurt many cities. Good examples of thi migration can be found on the west coa.-t where once sleeping villages are now thriv ing communities hometowns where the payroll check is spent. There's a lesson for us to learn here. Shoppers are on wheels today and will g: for their purchases where time is n. t wasted finding a place to park the f'amih jalopy. Adequate parking space is needed in Plattsmouth on busy davs of the week. The solution might be found in the example set by one town when they organized a "Park & Shop" corporation. Cooperating merchants used its capital to lease parking lots in the business area. A small charge for parking is refunded if the parker spends one dollar or more in any cooperat ing store. . Some relief from congestion will be found here when the street modernization program is complete. Double parking for a few minutes by shoppers while pic-kin e: up supplies at stores will not block all traf fic on the street as it does" now. With the added width, it will also be much easier for cars to pull away from parking stall-;. fWhile the widening; project will not be an answer to the parking problem, there i little doubt it will speed up traffic and relieve congestion along Main street. 4c 4c LOOK AFTER EGGS Several poultry dealers have told us one reason eggs fail to bring a price com mensurate with costs of production is the lack of proper handling before bein; placed on the market. Here a few days ago one poultry deal er found only three egg's out of three doz en suitable for selling over the counter. Pray help the poor merchant if any of hii eggs turn out to be bad. Poultry dealers are anxious and willing to cooperate with producers in pointing the way to greater poultry profits. Big profits are to be made from eggs if prop erly handled, graded and placed on the market in a saleable condition. Fresh, iarge, clean eggs will demand a premium on anybody's counter. Next time you bring eggs into a dealer, why not a,sk him how you can cooperate t.o give retailers the kind of eggs they need. It will not only put more dollars in your pocket, but Mrs. Housewife can buy wuh confidence and open with less caution. WOULD STOP PUBLIC INVESTIGATION Senator Ralph E. Flanders, Republican of Vermont, would bring to a halt all pub lic aspects of the senate investigation of alleged communism in the state depart ment. The Vermont senator admits that he has been long disturbed by state depart ment policy, particularly the close agree ment between the official party line of the Chinese Communists and the attitude and Furse's Fresh Flashes Fellows who drive with one hand are usually headed for a church aisle. Some will walk down it, others will be carried. : Shown a picture of the Pilgrims going j to church, a local mother took the oppo'--; tunity to impress upon her son the im-1 portance of attending regularly. The lit-' tie "Hopalong" fan informed her he would ; be glad to go every Sunday, too, if he could shoot Indians along the way. ' -tc - It was the first he knew he had a choice j when a Plattsmouth gal's father asked the new boy friend if his intentions were hon orable or otherwise. j "Whenever we know the right answer, i no one ever asks us the right questions. ! - There is not too much to talk about at j an afternoon bridge party until after the first two or three guests leave. - What this country needs is more and : better mouthtraps. - More people would try to do right it they thought it was wrong. 4c 4c ) There was once a time when church j collection plates got most of the money j filling stations now get on Sundays. ! 4c 4c 1 Noah would have saved us poor folks a lot of trouble if he had swatted those two mosquitos as they went aboard the ark. 4c 4c One good thing about a one-way stre t is that you can get bumped only in the ; rear. 4c 4c 4c THE RISING RED TIDE .. i. ' -" m THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Thursday. May 25, 1950 PAGE ONE i iTrm pousafH fun Writ "-' 1 j. A mm fasiungtoa 13 internal revenue bureau that do- a chair and fallen, hit tins her ' scribed a personal card for the People who complain about their in-j nations to the host committee head against a marble wall. come taxes can be divided into two groups were a chanty gift and tax de- MPf w-.mpn ductible. Chicago, it was argued. .i.tnai.u ..lu. was p!aying host to the presi dent regardless of politics. actions of the state department. Having; secured this, local le gave serious concern to the his-,I1a til '.v . i;ai i t vvii C4t uiiii ikj Jy gave serious concern to tory and results to date of the investiga-: pective donors with an appeal tion" and concludes that proceeding fur-1 lor funds. And in the same let -thr fllnnir nvpit r,(- "ciiii do little tr, believe it or not, they in- good." Mr. Flanders is convinced that the pres ent method of open hearings on the charges , treasti of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, of Wiscon- ' "al sin, can do much harm. He thinks that the whole thiny has jiffeeted "unfavorably serted the schedule of Demo cratic political activities. When George Kiliion, ex- ur? r of the Democratic na- commitiee. arrived in Chi cago, he showed the non-politi- ; cal appeal for tax-deductible We are delighted to accept the congressman's story, but it Fhould also be noted that his prolonged absences from con gress apparently are not entire ly due to the loss of his wife. MERKY-GO-ROUXD Secretary of State Acheson is ; so tired following his London ' conferences that he cabled the state derjartment that he is not to be disturbed on the voyage home no matter how manv speeches Senator McCarthy makes about him . . . Francis Pickens Miller, the Byrd ma- youngster. "With a second name like that, he ought to be," quipped the president. funds, with the Democratic chine's sworn foe in Virginia, the morale of able and conscientious public , events schedule to Chairman Bill -fussed a -real hot potato 'at Sen. servants and has caused astonishment and uncertaintv in our relations abroad -X Lichtblau. DOWN MEMORY LANE Harry Byrd. He proposed a Vir ginia state "committee on reduc tion of non-essential expenses." Senator Byrd uses his chairman ship of a similar committee in congress to fire shots at the ad- Boyle. "That fool Nate growled Kiliion. "It's the first I knew about it." ! remarked thp worried Boyle. Later, he reocrted the whole ministration, but no such probe ! matter to President Truman. of padded payrolls in Byrd-con-; Note The Chicago Dailv Nes ' trolled Virginia has ever been ;and Ex-Coneressman Everett red before . . . Another hot Dirksen. GOP candidate for the , fiRbt between right and left wings oi tne UU.U is on m North Dakota. Frank Vogel. a cam paign manager for' "Oid Bob" La Follette's presidential cam paign in 1924. is running for gov ernor . . . Professor Harold Urpy, vmi .on-t hont Aihnn nvn i famed atomic scientist from th.? baseball team selected Grover Parnott as h it nm t mnoh-nrH- i University of Chicago, is slated TEN YEARS AGO Tl, nlt..,,.,,l, A A CiAi nnnitnQfni! !tl i , i MUNuuuiii v "'"""ir1 " Icratic red faces and of the huge Gertrude allery. queen of King Knrn . amounts o money contributed Karnival as the candidate from this com-j by the liquor interests to the mnnitv for rpnrpspntal ive at Shenandoah i Truman reception. tt,. ... ' .... ' tuu fD TT I ROUGH-AND-TUMBLE VEEP riiiuti oiiun . . . i iic lt ut i men ii 1 . n. captain lor tne 1941 season . . . American : tumble debate or after-dinner-10 De director oi tne new sci Leeion Drum and Bugle Corps placed first I speeches. ("ice loundation . . Landlords nnrl , hnnl l,,nH took Pford honors at the The o1her da' in Chicago. avp bepn ba ting such bad pub and .school band took second nonoi at uu iBark, pUuert a near-miracle Hcitv over high rents that the Golden Spike days in Omaha . . . Joe -Noble Up, . nfi0ri .oc Ao w,a nom I Norfolk. Va.. real estate board was chosen to participate in Boy's Stat sponsored by the American Legion . . . Karl Henry Stefan, nephew of Mrs. Henry Stark oh n. was graduated from the U. S. naval academy and expected assignment to the cruiser Omaha . . . Supt. L. S. DeVoe was to be speaker at the memorial services at Xehawka. 20 VF.AR5 AGO The "Old Missouri" was cutting away the bottom land along the Nebraska side on the south, throwing up a large bar or island near the river channel . . . Sheriff Bert Keed and Deputy Kex l oung returned , arkiey was nAm T i--rv t Vi " ro tVlOTT f: r Konn ; from. taken for safekeeping following an at tempted escape from the county jail hero, following their capture at Greenwood where they burglarized the Anderson & Cope store . . . Roanna Meisinger enter tained at a handkerchief shower honoring Helen Amick, who was leaving on a vaca tion . . . Farewell to Miss Ruth Lindsay, supervisor of music, was given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Cloidt, who en tertained the members of the Presbyterian church choir, in her honor. cratic rally honoring Thomas Jefferson just before President Truman arrived from the west. The dinner was Doorly handled. The toastmaste r forgot to intro duce Postmaster General Don aidson and Secretary of the Navy Matthews. Jack Arvey staged a show of dancing girls from Chez Paree, while in con trast motherly Coneresswoman Mary Norton of New Jersey droned out a 30-minute speech. By this time it was nearly mid night, the honor-guest table was almost empty, and the audience was ready to go home. ' Bat still to be heard Traffic Safety In State Is Showing Gain "The Traffic Safety- Move ment in Nebraska has proved itself." Stated Captain C. J. San ders, Nebraska Safety Fatrol, in a report on the progress of Ne braska's safety program since the starting, of the Nebraska Safety Patrol in 1937. "We feel that hundreds of Ne branskans are alive today who would have been killed in traf fic accidents had the accident rate m effect in 1937. when the state traffic safety movement began, continued without re duction. For example. Nebraska had 443.849 motor vehicles regis tered in 1937. With this num ber of automobiles, there were 322 traffic fatalities for a rate of 12 persons killed per 3 00 mil lion miles of travel. Last year, 1P49. Nebraska had C03 832 mo tor vehicles registered for an increase of over 150 thousand automobiles since 1937. In spite appointed a 22-man committee P" ; C-T V k to keep rents down. Instead of i number of automobiles in Ne curbing rents, however, nine of braska, there were only 2ot traf the committee members, them- fic fatalities for a mileage rate selves, boosted rents from 27 to , of 5.6 deaths per 100 million WITH MOST of the le-Mntin in the senate su.!H-rJfd 1:1 favor of FEPC and other c. ;1 fiyi 's leg islation as proposed 1 y iiie 1'icfi dent, the federal government ad juumed to Chicago where, for the first time in the nation's history, the people were able to view and 'iear an officicl open meetir.it of President's cabinet sitting in Chi cago's civic opera hc-use. There on Sunday May It, the cabinet with full membership, with the exception of Secretary of State Dean Acheson w ho is in London, presided over by Vice President Alben Barkley and flanked on the stage by all the party stalwarts and by prom inent business. labor and agri cultural officials, gave the peo ple of the country a ring-side seat at the deliberations of this body, plus a report of congres sional action by Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn. Not only was an audience of more than 5.000 people given a chance per sonally to see the cabinet in ac tion, but millions more watched the proceedings through the medium of television, and other millions heard the action through radio. Under- Secretary of S!r'e James Webb, pinch hitting for tne absent Acheson, gave the people ; : : -rt on Uie nation's position in world leadership. lie pointed o nt the necessity of carrying on the Mar shall plan, of implementing t'te Atlantic pjict, not only as a ;:im e security measure for our own ra tion, but as a means of remaining stiorg here at home. Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer made a brief summation of the world trade situation, of our domestic com merce and also of the necessity for economic strength on the domestic front. Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan outlined the continued necessity for a strong agricultural policy to maintain agriculture at a high level of production and to insure continued high agricultural income. Of course, Brannan gave a plug for his own and the adminis tration's agricultural Program. Sec retary of Labor Maprice Tobin gave a report on how a productive and peaceful industrial life is es sential to the well-being of the nation, and he pointed out that the nation's industrial machinery is geared to the highest point in his tory, as to productive capacity of commodities, man hour production and employment. p Secretary cf the Interior Osc3T Chapman explained the vital role his department piays in protec ting natural resources and develop ing water power for increased hydro-electric energy, while Secre tary of the Treasury John Snyder spoke about the current Indepen dence Eond drive and the develop ment of a sound fiscal policy. Tostmasier General Jesse Donaldson spoke concerning the reorganization and revitaliza tion of the post office depart ment and the general subject of communications, while At torney General Howard Mc Grath gave an analyses of the administration policy of protec tion of our free system of juris prudence, the protection of the citizen and the bill of rights. Secretary of Defense Louis John son gave a frank discussion of the nation's national defense program, pointing up to a continued program to deter aggressors while we con tinue a program of economic strength. SjH-aker Sam Rayburn discussed the legislative position of the party i:i congress. The overall subject of this historic cabinet meeting was "A Report to the American Peo- r!lowing the cabinet ses sion, an open civil rights panel was held on "Protecting Hu man Rights," with Attorney General McGrath, Sen. Theo dore Francis Green of Rhode Island ar.d Congressman Wil li rn Dawson of Chicago playing the leading roles. Prior to the cabinet meeting, the Democratic national committee held a session at the Sherman hotel in connection with the Jetfer son jubilee conference and the three-day session wound up with the address of President Harry S. Truman in Chicago stadium Mon day night, following his grass roots trip across the country. The Pres ident spoke to more than 23,000. msssam MERRY-GO- (Copyright, 1949, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: EASY CHICAGO M O N E Y MAKES DEMOCRATS "UNHAPPY; VICE-PRESIDENT BARKLEY AC COMPLISHES THE IMPOSSIBLE IN SPEECHMAKING: REASONS BE HIND REPRESENTATIVE CHATH AM'S ABSENTEEISM. WASH INGTON. To p-d rawer Demo crats were not happy when they got to Chicago and discovered the manner in which a quarter of a million dollars had been raised to welcome President Truman to Chicago. First, a ruling was obtained from the Most speakers would have been discouraged to start. But the vice-president got to the point of what other speakers had ignored the real story of Thomas Jef ferson. He described the details of his life, his influence on the nation, and did it in such a way that the tired and milling audi ence actuallv listened. ABSENT CONGRESSMAN This column, leaning back ward to Congressman Thurmond Chatham of North Carolina, re cently explained his proloneed absence record from congress by the fact that his wife had passed away 10 months ago and he had not been able to concentrate on his work. That explanation may have been overly generous. Since then, it has been learned that Congressman Chatham's ab sence has been partly due to house parties at his Currituck Sound cottage. Two weeks ago. furthermore, he brought Mrs. John T. Barnes. Jr.. wife of a Reynolds tobacco official, to the Baptist hospital at Winston-Salem at 2:30 a. m.. May 8, with a severe gash at the base of her skull. Mrs. Barnes. 35 years old and a prominent socialite, was suffering from loss of blood. Mr. Barnes arrived at the hospital at 5 a. m. Hospital authorities, nurses and internes flatly refused to discuss the incident, but Con gressman Chatham, when quer ied, said that Mrs. Barnes had been dining, with others, on his terrace, had caught her dress in 100 per cent. The nine men who wre supposed to hold rents down but increased their own rents are: Ludwell Baldwin. Wal ter Bott. Clifton Cauncill. Ralph Drewery, M. Etheridge. Robert KGolage. William Kutz. Lawrence Page and C. V. W. Trice. "DRIVER OF THE YEAR" miles of travel." "This exceptional reduction in Nebraska's traffic death rate is a noteworthy achievement. It .shows that the Nebraska Safety Patrol's enforcement and edu cational program has been wholeheartedly supported by Lloyd Reisner, 37-year-old schools ana civic groups, it truck driver of Indianapolis, was shows that traffic deaths can be as cool and collected as you reduced despite an increase in would expect the "driver of the year" to be when he was con gratulated by President Truman for his highway safety feats. Truman himself seemed to get mileage "All Nebraska law enforcement agencies owe sincere thanks to the law-abiding John Q. Public. nounced by Joseph A. O'Malley, general .-.ales manager. Chrysler Sales Division, Chrysler Corp oration. The campaign will include more than three thousand daily and weekly newspapers from coast to coast, covering practi cally every Chrysler-Plymouth dealer town that has a news paper. The first advertisement ap peared the week of May 14th. A second will follow the week of May 21st and the series will continue each week during the montn of June. Read the Journal! By Carriei. 15c for two weeks. Fouchek-Garnett LAWYERS Banded Abstracters Heal Estate LOANS! , 5 Percent Interest Charge Reduced for each monthly payment. Plattsmouth Loan & Building Ass'n. a bigger thrill than th truck ! While he depends on us for en- driver as Reisner told of saving a little girl's life on a highway near Louisville, Ky. "Our highwr.ys are becoming safer every year," remarked Tru man, "and we have men like you to thank for it." Before departing, Reisner got a prized presidential autograph for a nine-year-old Indianapolis neighbor, John Trurnan Harmon no relation to the president. "You're making a lifelong Democrat cart of this boy," grinned Reisner as Truman in- forcement service, we lisewise depend on his continuing sup port of Nebraska's traffic safety program." 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