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CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER POLISHED ..-WEEKLY TIM PLATTiM!(0)aj JdDQJKNM Monday - Thursday VOLUME 70 heriflf T On the shoulders of Sheriff Tom Solomon will rest a Kreat part of the burden of Civil Defense co-ordination in Cass County. Although given no official designation, sheriffs throughout Nebraska are expected to be called upon to carry much of the load for organizing Civil Defense, on a county-wide basis. Much of the information released by r State Director Edward Gillette is earmarked for the sheriff's desk. In directives to too city of- fieials in Nebraska 26 largest x cities, the state civil defense! head suggested that the cities work with the county bnenii in building Civil Defense organiz- aauns. i And in Cass county that will ! mean that Plattsmouth city j officials, and the local defense 1 committee, along with Sheriff World Day of Praver will be Solomon will bear the burden, i observed this year in 92 coun Solomon said Saturday that j tries, according to Mrs. T. I. most of the work will have to j Friest. chairman of the World be done in Plattsmouth. Many ; Day of Praver committee of the volunteer fire departments 1 Plattsmouth Council of Church throughout the county have al- ; ready established temporary civil defense measures Solomon said. ExceDt for Plattsmouth. that is about all that will be needed. In other information distrib uted bv the state head. Omaha and adiacent areas are listed as most likely tareets. Plattsmouth would come within that terri tory. Directives also stress de fense against atomic bomb at tacks. The Civil Defense organiza tion is based on local self help, mutual aid at the community level, assistance and suDDort from adjacent communities, state and federal assistance, and cooperation between states. Thursday Governor Peterson signed into law 5100.000 appro priations for civilian defense spending. The bill becomes law immediately. Solomon said he is planning to consult with State Civil De fense officials this week to find cut just what role county sher iffs play in the county defense set up. Mrs. Nellie Bauer, Resident Here 50 Years, Dies Mrs. Nellie O. Bauer, resident of Plattsmouth for 50 yeaif. died at a Lincoln hospital Thursday. January 25. 1951. She was 80 years old. She had been in the hospital for about a month. Born March 10. 1870 at Wood bine. Ia.. she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Kemp. She was married in 1886 to Jack Maiors. later marrying John M. Bauer, at Ft. Robinson. Nebr. Mr. Bauer died nine years go. Mrs. Bauer was a member of the Mynard United Brethren church. xfrc nc,r tiH nf T.rnrnin' Mrs! H. A. Sheldon of Oshkosh ' and Mrs. Frank sneiaon 01 Plattsmouth: one son. Rex Ma jor of Omaha; five sisters and one brother. One daughter, Mrs. Nora Ma son, of Kansas City, preceded her in death. Funeral services were held at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon at Caldwell Funeral Home with Rev. Harold Mitchell officiating. Frank Cloidt. accompanied by Mrs. Marcia Davis, sang. Pall bearers were Joseph Pittman, Eldon Hull. Martin Sheldon, ,, Robert Brittain. George Moore and Henry Royer. Burial v:as at Horning ceme tery south of Plattsmouth. Caldwell Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Metzger Favors State Sales Tax Senator C. A. Metzger. Cedar Creek, representative of Sarov and Cass counties. Friday in troduced, along with Senators Burnev of Hartington and Lind eren of Campbell, a state sales tax bill calling for a two per cent lew on articles bought in or for usp in Nebraska. The bill is exoeed to pro rtce $25,000,000 with part of it earmarked to replace the pres ent state property tax levies. Bill Proposes To Aid City Controls A bill Erivin? second class cities (1.000 to 5.000 population) pow er to subdivide and regulate the area within a three-mile radius of a cifv is ppin? considered bv the legislature's p-overnmnt rommittee The rroposal has the backing of te Nebraska League of MunicioaTties. Plattsmouth wUh n popula tion of 4.R80 foils in the second class classification. Journal Want Ads Pay! SIX PAGES Have V fWtfi I I5)V lit Villi uaj Jl Prayer Church Services Set Women. As customary, the date of its observance will be the first Friday of Lent, which falls this year on February 9th. "The chain of praver will be made of millions of people wor shipping in all corners and cen ters of the earth and praving in sixty different languages." Mrs. Friest said. "Following the sun. it will be started in the Fiji Islands at dawn and continue westward from the crowded ports of Singapore and Shang hai into isolated villages of China and Pakistan: from the African junales to the Arctic wildernesses." World Day of Praver is inter denominational, interracial and international in scope, the lo cal chairman said. Offerings are divided between missionary work at home and abroad to bring the peoples of our coun try and the world into greater communion with each other throueh supplying their educa tional and recreational needs. Last year a ouarter million dol lars was collected and used in this work. "All churches, fraternal, youth, charitable, civic and so cial groups are invited to join with the women of the church to make this Day a community- wide as well as world-wide sym bol of fellowship. Special pro grams are being planned to in clude all the groups in the com munity, and for children. Mrs Friest said that adult services will be held at St Lukes Episcopal church at two o'clock February 9th. Children and Youth services will be held at the Methodist church at four o'clock. Deputy Sheriff Collects Over $8,000 In Taxes Deputy Sheriff Kenneth Dun lap has collected $8,067.49 in taxes since November, but still has a Ions: way to go before his job is completed. The Deputy Sheriff has been pounding the roads throughout the county collecting taxes dur in? the past three months, but will find collections closer to home from now on. While he still has $13,621 still to collect, he will find most of the tax money close to home Dunlap will begin collecting tax es in Plattsmouth this week since the county has been cov ered. Union Farmer Combines Clover Otoe County Agent A. H. De- Long reports that on one of those warm days recently. Neils Madsen, farmer near Union, "gat the harvest fever." Neils took his combine out of storage to cut several acres of clover. Mr. Madsen said the yield was "fair." At The Cast County Court House License for marriage was is sued in county court by Judge Raymond J. Case Friday, Janu ary 26, 1951. to Harold Albert Staack. 26, of Weeping Water and Leila Kathe.rine Dodenhof 18. of Avoca. First hearing in the estate of William H. Wehrbein was held Friday. Edward F. Wehrbein was appointed administrator Attorneys are Begley and Peck Judge. T. E. Dunbar will con vene court in the District Court room here at 9:30 Wednesday morning. s Largest Paid Circulation of All Cass County Newspapers PLATTSMOUTH, FAITHFUL CANINE . . . Not even two broken les kept Gobo, black cocker spaniel, from guarding body of Daniel Ilolton. Jr.. his master, after the man was killed when his car plunged Into a ravine In Carbon Canyon, Calif. v mmmmimii tiwiii) it fan BEGINS LIFE ANEW . . One of our oldest immigrants, Jnba Taub, 81, from Czechoslovakia, examines a watch on his ar rival in New York City. H is a watchmaker. Sophomores Top First Semester Attendance Here Sophomores were the most consistant students m Platts mouth high school during the first semester, according to the list of students having perfect attendance. Thirty-six sophomores attend ed classes each day that school was held. But the boys held a slight edge even in the sopho more class. Twenty-one boys had perfect attendance and 15 girls. Freshmen were second with 3, the juniors had 20 and the seniors tallied with 13. Those having perfect attend ance were: Seniors Girls: Janet Baker. Ethel Grauf. Charline Holoubek, Mar gie Kief. Lucy Meisinger. Gay Hild, Dorothy Hild, and Deline Cundall. Boys: Ed Baumgart, Ray Kou- bek, Bob Moore, Art Newborn, Wayne Rieke and Dick Tincher. Juniors Girls: Barbara Alkire, Evelyn Allen, Grace Berlett, Mary Frans. Darlene Keller. Liz Paint er. Carol Rakow, Delores Rozell, Imogene Schiber, Marilyn Stoehr and Joann Henry. Boys: Charles Aylor, ivar Bomberg. Dick Coffelt, Carol Haase. Don Hayden, David New- burn. Ronald Ofe, John Toman, and Victor Volkart. Sophomores Girls: Shirley Beckman. Bar bara Clifford. Joe Lea Colby, Charlene Haney, Sharon Kneer, Francis Moore. Mary Mumm, Barbara Meyers, Merna Petereit, Joyce Piper. Rose Reade, Jean Schubeck, Betty Sutton. Edith Wetenkamp and Joann Weten- kamp. Bovs: Rex Burbee. Don tseim. John Blotzer, D. Beverage, John Carper, Willard Chnstenson, Marvin Dooley, Wendell Friest, Jerry Fulton, DeWitt iiaiey, Lyle Hild, Loren Kaffenberger, Raymond Knskey, jonn is.ruse, Bob Litle. James Markham, Ken neth Meisinger, Russell Menges, Robert Parriott, Jerome Shellen- barger and Raymond Sprieck. Freshman Girls: Bette Janecek, Elaine Kaslon. Donna Keller, Beverly Meisinger, Mary Niemeyer, Pat Painter, Florence Radtke, Mar garet Toman, and Delores w ues. Boys: Ray Adkins, Dale Burns, Duane Burbee, Danny Covert, Harold Demaree. George Eber- sole. Harvey Eledge, Jack Fans, Charles Kern, Dale Newourn, Larry Pierce, John Schreiner, Larry Stones and Loran Topliff. Miss Windham To Live At York Home Miss Hermia Windham de parted this (Monday) morning for York. Nebraska, where she has taken up residence at the I. O. O. F. home there. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Vincent drove to York, taking Miss Windham. She will be happy to hear from her many friends in the old home town. A Classified Ad in The Journ nal costs as little as 35c. CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA - Seven From Cass County Graduate At University Seven Cass county students were listed among the 511 mid year graduates from the Univer sity of Nebraska. Two of the seven are from Plattsmouth. Graduating Saturday at the close of the first semester at the university were Raymond J Larsen. Jr.. Plattsmouth. who received a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering. and Alta H. Reade. Plattsmouth. who received a master of arts degree. Other county students listed with the graduating class were William G. .Umberer, Elmwood associate degree in applied sci ence: Charles P. Gonzales, Elm- wood, bachelor of arts with certificate in journalism; Floyd M. Boker. Louisville, bachelor of arts in architecture; Ronald R McWilliams, Elmwood. bachelor of science in electrical engi neering, and Norman W. Lund berg, Nehawka. bachelor of sci ence in mechanical engineering. No formal commencement ex ercises were held for the third largest mid-year graduating class at the university. Boxcar Shortage Not Felt Here While shortages of many products have gradually been taking over news space, one of Nebraska's long-lived shortages doesn't bother Plattsmouth in the least. The short ace. boxcars. Boxcars, accordine to local ized information from the mid west, are short all over the na tion, with Congressmen in Washington making minor in vestigations. In many areas corn and wheat are being piled on the ground. Elevators are full, box cars are net available. But in Plattsmouth. there are no elevators, and the need for boxcars does not exist. Band To Present Concert Tonight A winter band concert will be presented at the high school I auditorium by the 55-piece Plattsmouth high school band. The concert will feature a clar inet solo by Carol Rakow. Various types of music, in cluding selections of Beethoven and a group of American folk songs, are listed on the pro gram. While reserve tickets have been on sale for a couple of weeks, general admission tick ets will be available at the door tonight. If not all sold, reserve tickets will also be available. I The band will be under the di l rection of Ward F. Pscherer. Auto License Sales Top 5,000 Mark More than 5.000 new auto li cense plates have been issued by the county treasurer's office since January 2, County Treas urer Ruth Patton disclosed this morning. Issuance of certificates is run ning well ahead of a year ago when the 5.000 n'ark was not passed until February 6. Exact count Monday lorning showed that 5,066 new plates have been issued. But there is still a large num ber of Cass county car and truck owners who must still pur chase the new plates. The new plates must be on all cars 'jy February 15. Miss Patton said. But the motor tax becomes delinquent February 1. The tax must be paid before new auto license plates are issued. Attends Funeral At Winigan, Mo. Funeral services were held Saturday, Jan. 27, 1951. at Winigan. Mo., for Miss Betty Davis, 15, who was stricken with polio which later developed into sleeping sickness. Miss Davis is a sister of Mrs. Leo Osterholm of Plattsmouth. Mr. and Mrs. Os terholm attended the funeral. MONDAY, JANUARY 29, Dairaee Marilyn Warga Sets New Record In Swim Meet The Midwestern A. W. U. In door Swimming Champion meet was held January 27 at the Morning Side College Pool Allee gymnasium, Sioux Ci:y, Iowa. Many teams took part in this event. The Omaha J. C. C. team which Marilyn and Maybelle Warga are members won most of the honors in the romen's di vision. Marilyn Warga was one of the four girls who swam :-i the senior women's 400 yard free style relay, won first place, and set a new record. In the 150 yard individual medley re lay Marilyn won second place. In the 50 yard free style Marilyn won second place. Maybelle Warga won third place in the novice girls' 75 yard medley relay swimming the breast stroke. Omahan Heads Cancer Society Drive In State John Byrne, well known Oma ha jeweler, has been appointed Campaign Chairman for the Ne braska Division of the American Cancer Society, according to Dana Bradford, president of the Nebraska division. "Mr. Bvrne is admirably qual ified." said Mr. Bradford, "for he is well known throughout the entire state, and has many times shown his ability as an organ izer in Omaha charity and phil anthropic campaigns." The drive lor cancer iunas will be held in April. Nebraska's share of the over-all national goal is 5100,000.00. In accepting the position as state campaign chairnvn. Mr. Byrne stated: "We must make everv effort to reach the goal set by the American Cancer So ciety, for cancer is becoming an increasing enemy of mankind One out of every eight Ameri cans will die from cancer. "The Cancer Society has made rapid strides in combatting the disease through the dissemina tion of information about can cer, in cancer research, and through tumor clinics. They have accomplished miracles. "But these projects cost mon ey, and it is up to us to support the fight against cancer with our time as well as our funds. Deaths from cancer can oe greatly reduced if all of us will do our part to help the Ameri can Cancer Society achieve its goal. "We have a fine state-wide organization and I know that every county chairman will work cooperatively to make the 1951 campaign a success." Last Rites For E. H. Heitzhausen Are Held Monday Funeral services for E. H. Heitzhausen, former resident of Plattsmouth, who died at Port land, Oregon, Wednesday, were held Monday afternoon. Janu ary 29. 1951, at one o'clock" at Sattler Funeral Home. Organ music was played by Mrs. Howard Davis and Dr. H. G. McCluskv officiated. Pallbearers were Carl Schmidt- mann, William Schmidtmann George Schmidtmann, Henry Nolting, Leonard Born and Don ald Born. Mr. Heitzhausen died at the heme of his son, Fred, in Port land, January 24. 1951. after be ing in poor health for almost a year. He was 93 years old. Surviving are his son, Fred of Portland, and two grandsons, also of Portland. Burial was at Oak Hill Ceme tery. Sattler Funeral Home had charge of arrangements. The body arrived in Plattsmouth Sunday. Elmwood Man's Leg Amputated ELMWOOD (Special) Wil liam John, who had one leg am putated a year ago. was taken to St. Elizabeth hospital in Lin coln last week, where he had the other leg amputated. Subscribe To The Journal 1951 Jin) X-ray Machine To Be Used For Carrier Reserves Dr. E. A. Rogers, director of Tuberculosis control division of the State Health Department. stated today that the schedule of the portable X-ray unit, which was to have been here January 29 to February 6. has been post poned until March 22 to 31. due to X-ray equipment bein: used at Of tint Air Force Base to aid m processing u large number or reservists, who are ordered into the active military. A warm thanks and deep gratitude was expressed by ol- ficials of the 2473rd Air Force Training Center to residents uf Plattsmouth and the State De partment of Health for cooper ating in aiding processing. By using the portable X-ray unit, the time element involved to obtain chest X-rays of each ndividual is approximately one minute, enabling a large group of reservists to be accommodated during the time allowed. But all Plattsmouth residents are not giving up tneir cnance for the free X-rays, since all reservists wno win gei .x-rays are members of the 433th Troop Carrier reserve, which trained at Oifutt Field for the past three years and who reside in the Iowa-Nebraska area. Approxi mately 30 of the reservists are from Plattsmouth. The published schedule for other Cass county towns is still in effect. Dr. Rogers said. Number Of Cass County Farms Decreases 96 The number of farm's in Cass county has decreased from 1.849 in 1945 to 1.753 in 1950. accord ing to the preliminary report of the Census Bureau. It repre sents a loss of 96 farms m the five year period. The figures, according to the census bureau are not fully com parable, because it used differ ent definitions of farms. A farm m 19d0 represents a place of three or more acres where agricultural products, ex elusive of home gardens, with a value of $150 or more were pro duced in 1949. In 1945, places of three or more acres as well as those less than three acres, were considered farms if they produced agriculture products valued at S2o0. Seventeen Nebraska counties. including Sarpy, showed an in crease. All others showed losses. Cass County Sales Up In December The University of Nebraska Business Administration college reports that retail sales in Cass county during December were up 17.3 per cent over the same month in 1949 and were up 25.7 per cent over November. Surveys were made in eight of the state's principalities and in most counties. The college said business was really booming in Fremont where nearly a 50 per cent increase was reported. DRAFT BOARD MEETS Members of the Cass County Draft Board met at the court house Saturday for general rou tine business. Classifying new registrants and re-classification of others drew top attention. flL K ' 7 etjj C '' CHAMP LIAR . . . Fellow workers in Los Angeles plant salute Frank Goulette wbo has just been named champion liar for 1950 by the Burlington Liar Club of Wisconsin. FIVE CENTS PER COPY m PUateAAl(LQfilnl A March 1051, v.ill il of Dimes Hall, Tuoday nijrht. JantKiry .0, ose- Dimes promotion activities In Platts mouth ami Cass County, unless the drive is extended. .Mrs. Dee Nielsen, county chairman, said Monday. The Hall, which will be at 8 :'( Tuesday nijrht, will square dancinir. Music will orchestra and will feature state festival callers. Admission will be GO cents single, and 81.20 a couplo. Tickets are beinr sold by members of the Plattsmoulh Junior Woman's Club, sponsors rf the dance. They will also be available at the door. But while the finnl nrnmn- Funeral Rites For Mrs. Dunscombe Held Wednesday Funeral services for Mrs. Eliz abeth Dunscombe w( re held at St. John's church Wednesday. January 24. 1951. at 9:.-C . m. with Father John Kcllcy exi'ici ating. Mrs. Dunscombe died January 21. 1951. at her apariiiun. Plattsmouth hotel, alter an ill ness of several months. She was 75 years old. Born May 27, 1875 she had ' been living here since 1933. coming to Plattsmouth from Omaha. Surviving are her daughter. Mrs. Erna Lapidus of Platts mouth; two sisters. Mrs. Frances McLaughlin of Omaha, and Mrs. Pearl Harmon of Oakland. Calif.; and one brother, George Bobier of Omaha. Casket bearers were William Theis. Robert Bersch. Donald McLaughlin, Jim McLaughlin. Willis Bobier and Earl Bobier. Burial was at Oak Hill ceme tery near Plattsmouth. Caldwell Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Carrier Reserves To Take Physicals Plattsmout h reservists with the 43th Troop Carrier Wing j win begm taking physical ex- animations late this week, ac- cording to orders received by members last week. While no', all of them will take the examinations the same day. the physicals are expected to be concluded by the early part of next week. By being called, the chest X ray machine which was sched- I uled to appear here today, has been re-routed to Offutt Field to take care of the air reserves. Present orders indicate that those passing their physicals will be called to report for ac tive duty by March 10. Carl S. Hammer Dies At Greenwood Carl S. Hammer, 69. resident of the Greenwood area during most of his lifetime, died Mon day. Funeral services were held at Cedar Hill church Thursday afternoon. He had been ill for a long time. Surviving are his wife. Bessie: two sons. Harry and Morris, all of Greenwood; one daughter. Elenor May Kruger of Lincoln and four sisters, Mrs. Charles Howe of Greenwood. Mrs. Min nie Schroder of Ashland, and Mrs. Christina McGilson and Mrs. Emma Wieth. both of Chi cago. POLICE COURT Charles Schultz Saturday, January 27. 1951. plead guilty to charges of speeding and was fined S10 and costs In Judge C. L. Graves' police court. Journal Want Ads Pay! NUMBER 18 held at Kagle.- Hall, starting modern and by the Flood R. L. Clinton, feature both be furnished Mr. and Mrs. tion is drawing near, results of earlier March of Dimes cam paigns are beginning to appear. Mrs. Nielsen said. Monday, that the campaign netted SIS for the March of Dimes through the card party held Friday af ternoon at the 40 & 8 club rooms. They didn't have quite the crowd they expected how ever. Mrs. Nielsen said. Twelve tables were sold to the card players Friday for S2 each. Each foursome .selected their own group and played the games of their choice. Door prizes were won bv Mrs. Louis Hansen. M r s . W a 1 1 vioennichsen. Mrs. Harold V. Mitchell. Mrs. Bernard Meisin-g.-r and Mrs. Philip Hirz. Ccukies and coffee and nuts wert stuved to the card players. Mrs. Nielsen said that cookies that wire left over were sold to the players. Mrs. Lillian Schmitt unci Mrs. Henry Donat. poured. Ta cuv which was held Sat urday, also netted the cam paign a lew extra dollars. Mrs. Nielsen said that S15 was col lec'eri for the Dimes drive through the sale of March of Dimes Taes. Thcv were sold bv Plattsmouth Boy Cccuts. Barmie Schneider. B. Stewart Nielsen, and Bob Jenkins headed the Scout committee. Six other scouts participated in the sale. Other contributors came in for special praise from Mrs. Nielsen. The sale of a dozen eggs and a sled at the Platts mouth sale barn brought S14 in to the March of Dimes treas ury Airs. Nielsen said. The ar ticles were provided by Mrs. Tim Wester and were sold at auction to the highest bidder. i Continued on Page Six) Mrs. Sam King Former Resident, Dies In Missouri Mrs. Sam King, former resi dent of Plattsmouth for many years, died at Maryville. Miss ouri. Sunday. January 28. 1951. at 7:20 p.m. She had been ill since Christmas and had lust undergone a major operation. Mrs. King left Plattsmouth almost two '"ears ago after her marriage to Cum King of Marvs ville. Sent ember 3. 1949. She had been married once before. Surviving besides her hus band. Sam. are one son. Ray Cavender of Omaha: and grand daughter. Mrs. Robert Tucker of Yuba City. Calif., and one great grandson. Gregg Tucker, also of Yuba Citv. Mrs. King was a member of the Rebekah Lodge of Platts mouth and the Christian church. Funeral services will be held Wednesday. January 31. 1951 at 1 p.m. from Christian Church. Hopkins. Mo. Marines Call Elmwood Man ELMWOOD (Special I John Hall, son of Walter Hall of Lin coln, who has been an efficient clerk in the Elmwood grocery for some time, has been called into the marines. He left Fri day for San Diego, California, for active duty. Taking his place in the store is Gerald Thorns, who lives east of town, and who graduated from Elmwood high school with the class of 1949. Mrs. Reade Receives Her Masters Degree Mrs. Robert Reade received her master's degree Saturday, January 27. at mid-term exer cises a"t the University of Ne braska. She majored in speech correction and therapy from the university speech department with a minor in educational psychology from the teachers college. Mrs. Reade's thesis was on speech needs in the Plattsmouth city schools. Journal Want Ads Pay!