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THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE SIX Monday. July 24. 1950 Union Mrs. L- O. Todd Mr. and Mrs. Jim Balfour spent Sunday evening at the Ivan Balfour home. Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Mousev and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Upton drove to Kansas City. Missouri, last Sunday where they were the puests of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Finch. Mrs. Finch is a daugh ter of the Uptons. Mrs. Ronald Dysart. Doris. Robert and Tommy of Oakland. California, are spending a week in Union visiting relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Cross and Iva Mousey drove to Omaha late Sunday night to meet the two grandsons of Mr. and Mrs. Cross. Robert and Richard Smith of Arriba. Colorado. Their train, j which was due in Omaha at ; ATTENTION DEEP-FREEZE OWNERS Vanilla Ice Cream 85c Per l2 Gallon $1.40 Per Gallon Other Flavors Sliffhtly Higher TASTEE SHOP PLATTSMOUTH Locker Plant We Are Now Ready to Resume SLAUGHTERING EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY Call 5110 for Slaughtering: at Any Time We expect to have our new curing and smoking- equipment installed in the near future. In the meantime we will arrange to have this done for any customer who wishes cured meat. A Few Lockers Available for Rent Rent a locker and let us show you that it will save you money GUY LONG, Owner JOHN HOBSCHEIDT, Butcher ranees Cost Less Cost Less Cost Less Year after year gas is proven the safest fuel in tabulations made by the National Fire Pro tection Association. Every year N. F. P. A. checks with fire officials in 17 states to get a cross section of American fire experience. Every Year Gas Is Proven the Safest Fuel Iwatek Your Skelgas Dealer DU1 5119 43? Main St midnight, was two and one-half hours late, so the Cresses had a long wait. Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Rihn cf Plattsmouth called on Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Dysart and their guests last Sunday afternon. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Paasch and two small daughters. Lynn and Ellen, returned last week from a week's vacation in the Ozarks. They visited Jerry's parents at Owensville. Missouri, whom Jerry had not seen since four years ago. Mrs. Melvin Todd and son. Melvin. Jr.. and Mrs. Elmer Kas bohm and son. Donnie. of Dun bar, attended the Soap Box Der by at St. Joseph Mo., last Sun day. Donnie was one of the forty-eight entrants in this race. He won second in class A and was awarded a trophy, a wrist watch and membership in the national Y. M. C. A. A fine ban quet was also attended by the boys and their mothers. Mrs. Herb Burbee of Nianqua. Missouri, was visiting relatives and friends in Union last week. She called on Mrs. Todd on Wednesday. Mrs. Burbee is a former Union resident. Mrs. Gene Edmunson and Mrs. Ida Jorgensen of Fargo. North Dakota, were visiting at the Elmer Witherow home sev eral days last week. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Becker have moved into thfe Jorgensen home in the east end of town. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Whit ford and son. Jon. of Joplin. Mis souri, were visiting Mrs. Whit ford's mother. Mrs. Nina Upton, last week. Mr. Whitford joined his family on Thursday and they to Buy to Use to Maintain Hardware went on to Colorado for a short vacation. Mrs. L. G. Todd' was hostess for the Woman's Society of Christian Service last Thursday at the church. Twenty ladies were prv?ent. Rev. Mitchell, wife and two little daughters were also present and were able to meet some of the ladies of our congregation. After a short devotional and business period, the guests were served a very fine dinner which was served by Mr. Ashleman of Nebraska City, salesman for the Vita Craft aluminum nroriucts. The j "dime cake" baked by Mrs. Ste- Ivan Balfour drew the "dime slice" of cake. On Julv 27th the ladies of the W. S. C. S. of Plattsmouth will be guests of the Union Society. Mr. and Mrs. Winnie Craw ford attended a family reunion at Farragut. Iowa, last Sunday, given in honor of a nephew of Mrs. Crawford. Miss Dorothy Niday left last Monday for Cleveland. Ohio. where she is visiting a brother. Cecil Niday and family. Mr. and Mrs. Donald McQuin and three daughters were Sun day guests of Mr. and Mrs. Marsh Thompson at Bellevue. They attended church services in the evening at Nebraska City where Ramona was on the eve ning's program. Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Balfour and Mrs. Todd attended a show at Nebraska City last Sunday afternoon. An official board and congre gation meeting was held at the Methodist church last Sunday evening. There was a good at tendance. Ltitie Lowell Schaefer cele brated his fifth birthday last Saturday afternoon bv inviting a number of his little friends to his home. It was a busy aft ernoon. Several games were played out of doors. Then one of the highlights of such an occasion opening of the birth day gifts. There the little guests were told to find their places. Cookies with their names were at each place. Flowers and a birthday cake made the table very beautiful. Lowell blew hard and put out the birthday can dles. There the cake vas cut and served with loads of ice cream and Kool-Ade. Those present were Robert, David and Judy Attebery. Joan Fensner, Leon Fitbpatrick, Iola Mae and Ire Fae Rich. Donna and Patty McQuin, Lyle and Lowell Schae fer. Mrs. Donald McQuin, Mrs. Sarah Rich. Mrs. John Klem and Mrs. Todd. David and Paul Anderson of Plattsmouth were welcome vis itors at the Methodist Sunday school last Sunday. 4-H News The Union Bird Society held their meeting at the home of Robert Ehlers Friday. July 14th. Fifteen members were present. Each one answered the roll call with a winter feed, suitable to be used in winter feeders. Each boy brought with him his bird feeder which he had been work ing on since the last meeting. A short business meeting was held. Then the leader. Mrs. Schanot. played recordings with bird cries on them so as to acquaint the boys better with our familiar I Dim cans. At the close of the j meeting delicious refreshments I of cake, ice cream and Kool j Ade were served by the hostesses, i Miss Mary Becker. Mrs. Otto j Ehlers and Mrs. Ben Albin. Five mothers were present and the leader. Mrs. Schanot. and the as I sistant leader. Miss Mary Beck i er. Next meeting will be held August 4th at the home of Low ! ell and Gary Rieke. Lyle Schae- ie-r. News Reporter. lmwjDDjd Mrs. Grace Plybon, Journal Correspondent Mrs. Lulu Hess returned on Tuesday to her home in Lincoln, Colorado, after being here to attend the funeral rites of her mother. Mrs. Emma Moomev at j Ashland on Sunday. We are glad to report that Mrs. Elmer Shreve is so much better that she is expected to return home soon, after spend- i ing about six weeks at the hos pital in Lincoln. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Gerbeling and Sandra were Sunday eve- j ning visitors of his mother, Mrs. i Gerbeling and his aunts Mrs Douglas and Mrs. Plybon. They report that they have purchased a home in University Place four and one-half blocks from their store. It is being constructed and will be ready for occupancy in early fall. Mrs. Fitch and Miss Ahlene are spending a few days at home from their camp at South Bend. Ralph Shreve, a farmer south east of town passed awav at Lin coln on Sunday, July 17th. He is survived by his wife, the for mer Delia Schlanker; two daughters and three sons. Fun eral services were held at Roper and Sons mortuary Wednesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. W. P. Hill. Music was furnished by Robert Anderson, soloist, and Maryalice Macy . accompanist. Interment was in Elmwood cem etery, with pallbearers being Glen Fentiman. Robert Davis. Willard Hall. Waite Hall, Rube Irons and Kenneth Quinn. Wheat harvest has progressed slowly because of the many rains. Paul Bornemeier is assisting at the Farmer's elevator during the harvest season. The manager there, Ed Earnst, went to Lin coln on Tuesday to meet with the railway commission as is his IIAIR-R AISIN'O . . . Helena Orat ovica waa interested in fellow passenger Josef Virog's handle bars as they arrived in New York custom when so many cars are needed for the wheat shipments. Diane Bornemeier. small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ches ter Bornemeier, had the misfor tune to fall in such a way while playing that a collarbone was broken. Soap Contribution Minor Headache For Students SPRINGFIELD. O. (UP) Wit tenberg College's students all but trebled their goal in a drive to collect 1.500 bars of soap for French hospitals. However. Fe land Meadows, director of the drive, didn't realize he was going to get a liberal education in gov ernment regulations, foreign shipping, insurance procedures and general business methods. The problem of getting rid of the soap, once it was collected, became so great that Meadows had to call on a special assist ant and they in turn recruited the aid of a local business man to help solve their problems. When the soap drive ended. Meadows counted 4.100 bars of hand soap, weighing 1,620 pounds. A check with the post office showed the shiDping cost would be upwards of $100. The students didn't have that kind of money. What's more, postal regulations required that the soap go in something like 80 separate car tons. American Aid to France then informed Meadows that the stu dents would have to pack the soap in double-wooden cases, water-proof-lined. The net pounds of each kind of soap would have to be supplied along with information on net and gross weight of each case, cubic feet of each case and value of each case. Moreover, there would be an insurance charge, a handling charge and also a charge for ocean freight if ECA failed to accept responsibility. The local business man knew much about the red tape in volved in foreign shipping. He helped the Wittenberg students get the necessary crates and put his own employes to work pack ing the soap without charge. Two water-proofed wooden cases, each with an inside ca pacity of about 17 cubic feet, are now on the way to France bear ing more than four-fifths of a ton of soap insured for $400. It cost the Wittenberg students $22.50 to ship the soap to New York by freight, plus the han dling charge of $2 for American Aid. They banked on ECA to cover the cost of shipping the soap from New York to France. FIREMEN PUT ON SHOW i FOR BORED TRAINMEN CHICAGO (UP) The passen gers on the Soo Line's Minnea polis Express were bewildered at the sight of a bunch of fire men fishing from a rowboat on dry land. But the train crew knew what it was all about and chuckled in appreciation. Members of the River Forest fire department decided one day a couple of years ago that the trainmen looked bored when they passed through the west ern suburb. The firemen de cided to make the trainmen's lives more interesting. Now, whenever they think of a good idea, they act out var ious "scenes," as duck hunting skits and gangland dramas com plete with guns, all designed to give the Soo Line crews some thing to look forward to. I have purchased the Plattsmouth Motor Parts of Ira Bebb and have taken possession. I will ap preciate a continuation of your good will and pa tronage. Dean Dunham Brake Drum Turning Plattsmouth Motor Parts Co. "Your NAPA Jobber" 317 Main Oregon Restricts Fireworks Sales; Bans Risky Ones SALEM. Ore. (UP) From here on. flying saucers, pin wheels, lady crackers, snakes, golden butterflies and devil chasers will be on sale in Ore gon only from June 20 to July S. The men who furnish the fire works are glad of it. Oregon's new fireworks law relegates such dangerous de vices as the M-S0 and the cherry salute to the limbo of lost limbs. And the purveyors of pyrotech nics say "Good!" They felt the business was get ting out of hand and that gooa regulations, such as those adopt ed by the recent Oregon legis lature, were better than-a ban on the whole works. C. E. Brown, who heads the Hong Kong Importers and the Western States Fireworks Co.. with headquarters in Toppenish. Wash., said he was glad to see the more hazardous merchan cise ruled out of bounds. For instance, there is the M fiO. It is war surplus, used by the army in war games because il lets go with a blast that scunds like cannon fire. It can take off a hand, and has. The cherry salute is so called because it is the size, shape and color of a cherry, with the fuse y sticking out like a stem. It is powerful enough to blast fingers off. and has. The limited selling period does not worry Brown. It just cap sules his schedule. He's looking for a bang-uo blowout come the Fourth of Julv with as much goods sold in Oregon as in an unlimited season. lie said: "The kiddies will just save up their cash and con centrate on their firecracker buying between June 20 and July 6. We look for a sale as big as ever." Brown, whose companies sell firecrackers, punk and assorted bombs, blasts and salutes in Ore gon, Washington, Idaho. Mon tana and Alaska, estimates total sale of fireworks in the four states and territory will repre sent a retail value of some $4, 000.000. Brown said Chinese firecrack ers are by far the most popu lar pyrotechnics, with rockets and roman candles next. Audible items are the ones you get a bang out of. A popular en try is the flying saucers, some 3 inches long and 1 inch through, with a whirling wing on top. The gadget flies through the air. then explodes. . Visible items are sparklers an other comparatively noiseless de vices. Two brand new- numbers are the golden butterflv. which shoots a rig into the air where it showers golden stars, and the devil chaser, which does like wise, but showers silver stars. Mystery of "Ghost City 9f Of Africa By HAROLD GUARD United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON (UP In the dense jungleland, Kenya Colony there is a "ghost city" of unknown origin which the Colonial Of fice said may soon become a tourist attraction in East Afri ca. Gedi. the mystery citv of Ken ya, was discovered 25 years ago. It was overgrown by a tangle of dense tropical iungle. No reference to it exists in the historical records of the Kenya coast. But officials of the colo nial government here recounted how they visited the ruins ten years ago at a spot about one and a half miles inland and ten miles south of Malindi on the Kenya coast. They said African tribesmen shunned the area in the belief that it was haunted and gave it the name "Shauri Mbeya" which literally means "Bad Show." Colonial officials said investi gations and conservation of Gedi are now being planned by Prof. J. S. Kirkman. warden of Kenya's historical sites. "The city covers about a hun dred acres." according to colo nial officer Antony Haler. "There are five mosques, a rul er's palace and a number of large houses, one of which might Wholesale, Retail Automobile Parts Phone 277 hae been a school. Among tlv ruins have been found jars and pottery from China. Siam and Annam. Trees were growing through the roofs of the temples and there" were ghostly sounds and an eerie atmosphere all about." It is thought that Gedi may have been an Arab town because there were many built in the 12th century when Arabs mi grated from southern Arabia. But unlike all other Arab cities in East Africa, Gedi is not on the sea coast. The Kenya government plans to take over the area as a na tional park. "There is a terrific fascination about the place." an official said. "It could be made into a wonderful tourist attrac tion. It has never been estab lished how the place originated or why it was deserted. It may have been deserted because of plague or possibly coastal raid ers drove the inhabitants awav. It may be 300 years old or pos sibly 3,000. There are absolutely no records even of its existence today but we all know it is there off he beaten track, overgrown by jungle and an aura of mys tery." The Atlantean Research Cen ter said all their available data indicated that Gedi was a city cf Malay origin. "We have records which show that traders from Malaya were going to East Africa in the year 1200. The curator of the museum in Nairobi has minutely describ ed the pottery found in the ruins of Gedi which provide evidence that the city was occupied bv traders from the East. The architecture indicates they were Mussulmans. Thev may have been Islamic but the fact that the city is not on the seacoast is contrary to Arab traders' prac tice." the Research Center said. SCIENTIST TELLS HOW CHIGGERS WORK DURHAM. N. C. (UP) Ants may come to your picnic, but ! chiggers will go home with you ! unless you take the advice of Duke University scientists. I Dr. G. W. Warton. Duke zoo-! ologist, has completed a study of i the little red monsters life and! habits. For all his efforts, he ; found no thoroughly satisfac-1 torv treatment for chigger bites.! But Dr. Wharton did nip1 some lalse ideas about chiggers. alias red bugs: They don't get under your skin for a good meal. Instead thev biie your hide, injecting a I squirt of saliva. It's the saliva . that makes you itch. It helps ! digest your skin for the chigger, who gels his meal from your i epidermis, not your blood. j It may take two or three days ! for the chigger to get all he j wants of you and drop off. You ' ifch worse after he's gone than I while he's still grazing. Scratching only prolongs the j itching and may cause infection, i The best treatment for chig gers is to go where they aren't1 14-Oz. Bottle Del Monte Sliced fH Snider's Fancy Jfcjr JLJr S-? PlifEAIP Florida Gold Sweet ' Q aimg oFnoncg 3 r- n00 o Florida Gold Fancy O Grapefruit Sections dnc 3 F" 29c Vitality Refreshing jpi Food Club Quality Controlled Q AOTIEin) 3HILi& SI He Q" Pvorhocf Pit m PINEAPPLE Elna right to Lunch-On IPeaimuail: Food Club They avoid hardwood groves, i so a growth oi elms is a gooa campsite. Chiggers' favorite hangouts are lrm' in tho irrramri npnr rnttpn logs, tree stumps or blackberry brambles. And though some sort of insect radar, they can tell when you re coming. And if you believe the old theory that you can't get chig gers at night, an evening in the woods will yield a fine set of red bumps to show you they work right around the clock. There's one thing in your fa- j vor. Chiggers 'are attracted on ly to stationary objects. Keep walking and you're itchless. GIRL'S QUEST FOI1 JOB j LEADS TO TRAGEDY ! CHICAGO (UP) Jobless be cause she had to help out at ' home. Bernice Sury, 25, saw a want ad for help at St. An-; thony's Hospital. i She decided to see what the ; advertisement offered. Her mo ter asked her to stay home, but Bernice had made up her mind, j A few blocks from her home, i she was struck by a street car. She was taken to St. Anthony's , Hospital with a skull fracture. G Till0 Aim Don't Feed Culls . . . Sell 'em Take Good Care of Your Pullets Keep 'em growing and healthy. Don't waste feed on worms and lice. Vaccinate against disease. 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