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THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL 7 PAGE EIGHT Thursday, March 15, 1951 SPRING DRUG Specials For Your New Spring GIo YARDLEY'S CREAMS Reg. $1.00 Size 2 FOR $1.50 Plus Tax SPECIAL Nylon Bristle HAIR BRUSH $1.00 Limit One Home Hair Coloring TINT AIR Choice 12 Shades $2.00 Plus Tax Saybrooks Beef Iron Wine TONIC 16-oz. $1.29 W. A. MINERAL OIL Full Quart Worthmore RUBBING ALCOHOL Pint All Metal Case FLASHLIGHT i With Batteries $1.29 JO URNA Lisms America's Choice PANGBURN'S BETTER CANDIES Especially ' Boxed For Easter Meadow Gold ICE CREAM Select Your Favorite From IS Flavors e Pints O Quarts Half Gallons ass Drug WALGREEN AGENCY, It was quite a shock the other day to read where about eight per cent of the American people have never read a newspaper. For a time it seemed to us we workers in the Fourth Estate were falling down on the job. Closer scrutiny, however, re vealed it to be a government statistic compiled by 2,700 stenographers, 317 department heads, and two interviewers who failed to take into account that at least 10 per cent of the popu lation have yet to enter kinder garten. Allowing for child prodi gies, their survey seems to have hit it right on the nose. There was considerable conso lation in the remainder of the survey to learn that between 1946 and 1949 there was 48 per cent of the American people who never read a book not even "Forever Amber" and 60 per cent of the intellectuals sup posedly making up our popula tion (over 90-million persons) did not open up a magazine dur ing this same period. One thing this survey proved, if statistics can prove anything, is that more people read newspapers in the U. S. A. than all other printed media combined including cir culars. Bellevue this week Is voting on the proposition of a $30,000.00 school bond issue which, if car ried, (Later: We learn it did) will " drop $235,000.00 into the school districts lap for new buildings with an ultimate pros pect, of receiving as much as a million and one-half. Three new ward buildings are in the prosoectus to relieve problems confronting the district since the arrival of SAC headquarters in this area. Recently the Plattsmouth schools received a check from the federal treasury in the amount of $10,C00 to help com pensate for the additional fi nancial burden placed on local schools in caring for pupils re sulting from military personnel residing in the city. Platts mouth schools, especially rooms in lower grades are no longer adequate to care for the ever! increasmg load. Recently a new teacher was added to the staff. Grades have to be divided; transfers from one ward to another were made in an at tempt to consolidate and ac commodate the extra student population. On a percentage basis, it hard ly seems Plattsmouth schools have, or are being adequately compensated if the outlook at Bellevue calls for anywhere near the million and one-half fig ure quoted in press disoaches and releases from the Bellevue school board. The 1950-51 school census figures fail to bear out the thinking of persons respon sible for securing these funds granted the two districts show ing such a wide discrepancy. According to the recent school census covering the state and compiled by the State Depart-, ment of Education, Plattsmouth schools had an average daily at tendance in the elementary grades of 586: Bellevue 516; High school: Plattsmouth 297; Bellevue 155. We doubt that children of military personnel account ior over so per cent or the school population of our neighboring growing city. Here in Plattsmouth, figures avail able show that approximately 150 students from parents di rectly affiliated with the mili tary are attending school. In formation available indicates that slightly less than twice that number are in the Bellevue schools. There is no doubt Bellevue is experiencing difficulty in handling this influx of pupils, especially in building problems. But a survey shows that Platts mouth teachers are carrying a heavier work load than at Belle vue, with many grades much more crowded. Here several teachers are responsible for the educating of up to 40 students ; in a class, with many rooms pacKea to near double their planned capacity. This, however, does not tell the story from the federal crant angle. That lies in the assessed I valuation of the two districts' and their mill levy. According! to the school census reference. Bellevue's assessed valuation is nearly $200,000.00 greater than Plattsmouth, yet their mill levy is only 29.6 as against 26.2 for Plattsmouth. Bonded indebt edness for either district is neg ligible. Bellevue has 1.8. with Plattsmouth 1.2. Certainly it is time for rep resentative citizens . of Platts mouth to do some investigating. The time is here when expan sion of our present school sys tem is a must. Conditions will not improve, they are fast going from bad to worse. Call it ask-: ing for gove mnrtneadnh ' ing for government hand outs' if you must, but let's not go to sleep as in wpa days, then be forced to carry the entire bur den alone. Plattsmouth is faced with a school building problem now and it is tin to all of us to help do something about it. RRF Mediterranean peoples began covering their plow points with iron or copper in about 1200 B. C. So be " C" ; "0000 " I l J Jvk ' sure to stoc UP now'-as woy these March of Values will MH I jpSTOy- - work wonders for your food budget $y 1 ' Gt$ec6f OVERLAND BRAND ALASKA c-.r?wZlf SALMON , 4 fW SKTEaZ ORANGE-ADE !25c 1 Can I.U V7 L.' ... UfTfn K ' RBRTTTTT y IGA PEARS 39c WORLD'S EASIEST MEAL! 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