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South Mr. Clin Kuha Mrs. Lester Waltland and son Leslie of Taylor spent from Thursday until Saturday with her sister Mrs. Bernard Dill and family. Mrs. George Vogler and sons called on Mrs. Orville Cordes on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Dill ac companied Mr. and Mrs. Paul Campbell to Bruning over the week end. Jess Fidler and Elinor and Bill Rosencrans attended the foot ball game at Lincoln Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. V. D. Livers and Keith visited the Kenneth Li vers family at Western Sunday. Mrs. Bill Blum and Mrs. Vyril Livers were Lincoln shoppers on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Frahm visited the J. L. Carnicle family Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Rosencrans attended the county Legion con vention at Weeping Water on Thursday. Mrs. F. J. Knecht and Mrs. Bill Rosencrans attended the Junior class play at Waverly Saturday evening. Sunday dinner guests at the Glen Thiessen home were Mr. and Mrs. Pleas Proctor and Paul and Pauline, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Lackey and sons and George Bobst. The dinner was in honor of Paul and Pauline's birthdays. F Thursday evening dinner I guests at the J. C. Streight home ! were Nancy Streight, Mr. and I Mrs. Glen Thiessen and Gordon, i Mr. and Mrs. Pleas Proctor, Paul and Pauline. Mrs. Jack Kuhn spent from Thursday until Sunday evening with Mrs. Valgene Ewing. L. R. Ward of Ashland was -a Wednesday supper guest at the Glen Kuhn home. Sunday dinner guests at the J. C. Streight home were Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Laughlin and Wayne, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Olsen, Norma and Clark Bushnell. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Fidler and girls were eve ning callers. Jerry Peterson. Valgene Ewing and Charles Dodds spent the week end at Central City hunting. Peru Bobcats Face Losses Wescott's Good Clothes Nothing Else Since 1S7I Al Wheeler, tutor of the Bob cats at Peru State, will enter his last scheduled game of the sea son minus two of his regulars. The New Mexico University game, one of the toughest for the Bobcats this season, will find Frank Masek. senior tackle from Odell, and Darreil Mudra, high scoring halfback senior from Omaha, remaining at home. Mudra was sidelined after the Hastings tussle from an injury to his foot. The campus doctor has reported a broken talus in his foot. Mudra now sports a , "Doane" cast on his foot. Mudra t will be unable to go out for bas , ketball due to the injury. Masek will be unable to make the trip due to a recent birth of a daughter. The little pirl was born the day of the Hastings fracas. CAPITOL NEWS I Otto Lushinsky of Omaha was here Saturday to visit his father, former Mayor George Lushinsky, who has not been feeling so well. I The largest switchyard in the world operated by a single rail , road is the Chesapeake and Ohio 1 yard near Ashland. Ky. BUSINESS W Mention! The Easy and Inexpensive Way to Meet (ding and Income Tax Requirements EVERY BUSINESS MUST KEEP BOOKS 95JdealSvfem . Designed by forsjw Government expert Requires No Bookkeeping Experience A Simplified BOOKKEEPING and TAX RECORD All in One Loose-Leaf Book Actual Size V4 12ft inches Special Books for.. .merchants, farmers end ranchers DRUGGISTS GROCERS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CAFES end RESTAURANTS BEAUTY SHOPS and BARBER SHOPS JEWELERS and WATCHMAKERS HARDWARE STORES GARAGES SERVICE STATIONS CLEANERS and DYERS MANUFACTURERS ond OTHTR LINES OF BUSINESS Mat: $2.00, $3.50, $5.00 and $7.50 complete, including sheets for one year or more, and Income Tax Bulletin The Plattsmouth Journal PRINTERS Phone 241 STATIONERS 409-13 Main St. 1 It b, K DeCRC "t-ow wiW 0- o - ?P4$a UAY22 1950 4aH&& but Toon ,0 "HIGH' QUALITY iSb W BUBBSEL STAXXPS If . The Plattsmoulh Journal PRINTING AND OFFICE SUPPLIES Plattsmouth (Compiled by Nebraska Press Ass'n) LINCOLN The statehouse was recovering from the elec tion this week, which made it a dull week from a news stand point. Cornhusker football and ducks and pheasants replaced politics as conversation topics in the crowded capitol cafe. But government went on. any way. The various state agencies have begun the parade to the governors hearing room for hearings on their budget re quests. Tax Commissioner Philip K. Johnson and Budget Director Loren Laughlin conduct the hearings which have been a lot more private than public up till now. Everybody's asking for more money, both with which to pay employes and to operate their agencies. Biggest boost asked so far is from the Division of Ne braska Resources, which wants a 50 percent hike. The division created to attract industry to Nebraska, has an appropriation for the current biennium of $100,000, plus an unexpended balance of $1,433. Requested for the 1951-53 period is $150,530. The division said it plans to spend more than $90,000 of its $100,000 for advertising, largely in national magazines. The big ger amount also includes pro vision for an additional field man. Still on the subject of budgets, the state liquor commission sub mitted a request of $387,000. compared to a current appro priation of $321,000. Chairman Marcus Poteet said the addition of six inspectors to the staff, along with general salary in creases, accounted for most of the raise. Attorney General C. S. Beck, in the request for the state justice department, is asking the legislature to aDprove $G,000-a-year salaries for his five assis tants. Their salaries now range from $4,200 to $5,000. Beck's salary is set by statute at $5,000 and that of his deputy. Walter E. Nolte. at $4,800. More authority in self-government was recommended for Nebraska's 93 counties in the report of the legislative coun cil's committee on reorganiza tion of county government. The group, headed by William Metzger of Cedar Creek, sug gested 11 changes in laws con cerning county government. This would necessitate two con stitutional changes and several statutory revisions. Recommended changes would remove the five-mill tax limit on counties, and give them au thority to select their own gov ernment and fix the salaries of their officers. "Pending the outcome of the proposal for calling a constitu tional convention "recommend ed by another legislative coun cil committee, "Metzger's group recommended that the legislat ure propose the amendments for submission to the people. The committee recommended amending the constitution to: Permit each county to exer cise the power of home rule in selecting its own form of gov ernment the county manager, commission or "single execu tive" plan. Remove the five-mill tax limit now imposed upon counties making "local citizens respon sible for determining their owh tax burdens . . ." Statutory changes recommen ded include: Giving each county the option of choosing a three, five or seven-member board of commissioners. Giving each county the option of electing its board members either from single districts or from the county at large. Repeal of all statutory prov isions fixing salaries of county officers and employes, and sub stitution of a provision that the salaries be prescribed by the respective county board Other changes recommended dealt with clarification of the offices of county surveyor and county engineer, creation of a "county-wide highway planning board," conduct and duties of officers, and the status of town ships in counties where they are retained as units of govern ment. e Bridges damaged in Southeast Nebraska's catastrophic May 8 floods have been replaced under the $125,000 emergency repair program, state officials have re ported here. Brig. Gen. Guy N. Henninger, state adjutant general, who di rected administration of the federal grant, said the money would not "replace one-tenth of the flood damage." But many of the washed-out bridges were little-used and no longer vital to the counties' transportation. "Even so." he said, "it would take a million dollars to replace all the necessary bridges and that will be done slowly by the counties as they are able." Henninger said the residents of the stricken counties John son, Saline, Nemaha. Otoe and Cass are "exceptionally well pleased with the program. Short, Short Stories from the week's capitol news: About 175 Nebraska towns are eligible for state and f deral FAMOUS LAST WORDS . . . NEBRASKA THE PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL i Thursday, November 23, 1950 PAGE THREE 3 "Don't worry I know thh read like a book." money during the next three years for airport construction, according to James D. Ramsey, state aeronautics department director. Nebraska harvested a bumper crop of babies during June, July and August, state health depart ment records show. The three month total was 8,401. compared to 8.210 last year. August births totaled 2,973, highest month on record. Revenue collected last month of the state liquor commission amounted to $182,034 the com mission's monthly report shows. PROGRESS MADE A hospital project at Callaway, approved by State Hospital Ad visory Board, is awaiting federal approval. If the project is okay ed by the government, the village board will ask for bids. American farmers doubled their use of commercial fertili zers during the ten years from 1937 to 1947. - h IAMIS C OLSON, Superintendent TATS HXBTOBICAL SOCItTT Nebraska's Governors 22 Chester H. Aldrich, governor of Nebraska from 1911-13, was born on a farm in Astabula, Ohio, No vember 10, 1862. He was the eld est of five children. j As was true of so many other young men who came to Nebras ka and made a mark for them selves, Chester Aldrich worked his way through school. He at tended Hillsdale College in Mich igan for three years, teaching school on the side to meet ex penses, and then went on to Ohio State University, from which he graduated in 1888. Shortly after his graduation, young Aldrich came to Nebraska settling in Ulysses, where he was appointed principal of the high school. He taught school in Ulysses for three years, reading law on the side. He also found time to woo and marry Sylvia Stroman of Ulysses. Upon admission to the bar, Al drich removed to David City where he began the practice of law. In addition to his extensive law practice, he was active in community affairs ixi David City, serving on the school board and the town council, as well as a term as mayor. In 1S06 he was elected to the state senate and served one term. In 1910 he entered the Re publican primary as a candidate for governor and won the nomi nation over two opponents. In the red-hot campaign that fol lowed his Democratic opponent was Mayor Jim Dahlman of Omaha, long a colorful figure in Nebraska. Aldrich won by a comfortable majority, but the Democrats had control of the legislature which convened as he was inaugurated. There seems to have been little cooperation between the Gover nor and the legislature. If jtou rxrVA rpnr? dnv Alrtrif Vi'c mpscTtrpi; in iiic vwiLLAjica uuii..i; u turner years ago by the state historical society you will observe that he vetoed many legislative acts, and some of them in sharp language. Gov. Aldrich was renominated by the Republican party in 1912, but was defeated in a close race by John H. Morehead of Falls City, the Democratic candidate. J Following his term as Gover 1 nor. Mr. Aldrich practiced law in : Lincoln, until he was elected an I associate justice of the state su 'rjreme court in 1918. He died. , March 10. 1924, while serving on ithe court. As Governor. Aldrich's mes ; sages were sharp and concise. He was one of the early boosters lor good roads in Nebraska. In his outgoing message to the legisla ture, he stated. "Travel by auto mobile has now become general and eventually the almost ex clusive way of getting across the country both for business and pleasure. To use the automobile successfully good roads are ne- ; cessary." Some of the more destructive insect enemies that infest Amer ican shade trees were imported into this country. They include the elm leaf bettle, the brown tail and gipsy moths and the vora cious Japanese bettle. Blended Phillips 66 gasoline is winter blended to give you fast start-ups and warm-ups during the cold wintry days. Your friends rely on this wonderful Phillips 66 gasoline Why don't you? And for worry free winter travel try our famous Phillips 66 motor oil. the oil that lubricates and protects your car motor in one operation. Huebner's "66" Station TANK. WAGON SERVICE Phone 212 Plattsmouth mm See If Friday at your Ford Dealer's the '51 Ford! 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