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DT0R4LS INCOME TAX "MISTAKES" One out of four taxpayers makes a mistake in their individual income returns, according to the Internal Revenue Bureau, which adds that, in nine cases out of ten, the mistake is in the taxpayer's favor. While making a survev of returns in 1948, the Bureau found that 14,000,000 returns contained errors, with the Govern ment being short 81,400,000,000 and the taxpayers short only 8100,000,000. Because of inadequate help, many of the erroneous returns for any year will not be adjusted. While spot checks will be made of a selected number of returns in the lower brackets, all those reporting in come of 825,000 or more will be fully scrutinized. Another surprising revelation is that business men. despite their training, make mistakes in nearly half of their returns. This includes sole owners of farms or non farming enterprises, which are not incor porated, doctors, dentists, lawyers and other professional men. Because of the high percentage of error, the returns of this class will be checked more closely in the future. Undoubtedly many of the mistakes made in connection with filing income tax returns are honest errors. Equally un doubted, is the intentional effort of some taxpayers to avoid as much of the levy as they can. These mistakes take from the Government more than a billion dollars a year and it would seem to be wise to per mit the Internal Revenue Bureau to em ploy more assistants in order to catch the mistakes and collect the proper sums from all taxpayers. COMMENDATION FOR SEN. WILEY We call attention to the action of Senator Alexander Wiley, of Wisconsin, who recently wrote a man. nominated for a Federal judgeship, asking information about "certain rumors." The Wisconsin Senator, ranking min ority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, declined to make nublie a ser ies of questions, explaining that he kept them secret in fairness to the nominee. Declaring that he did not intend to be a party to any '"smear assault." the Wis- . consin Senator pointed out that naturally there swirls about almost any man in pub lic office a certain amount of adverse re ports, most of which are usually politically based and some of which are based on personal, petty vindictiveness. Everbody should applaud the Wiscon sin Senator for the fair method he adopted in regard to questions sent to the nominee. If we had more examples of this kind, in the Senate and elsewhere, the public would adopt a judicial attitude toward many reports that are circulated about some of our officials. WITHOUT A CONCLUSION The Senate's prolonged inquiry into the dismissal of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur from his commands ended after nearly eight weeks of testi mony, with an estimated 2.045.000 words in the record and no probability of any conclusive report. The testimony was mostly that of mil itary leaders, with Secretary of State Acheson and a few others sandwiched be tween. The military experts did not agree upon the matters discussed. They were almost as far apart as the Senators who listened to the cascade of words. In general, there was agreement as to the power of the President, under our form of government, to remove General Mac Arthur. As Commander-in-Chief of the nation's armed forces, the Chief Executive acted within his constitutional powers but, for the most part, the opinion was that the removal, should have been handled differ ently. THOUGHT FOR TODAY . " Philosophy is the account which the hu man wind gizrs to itself of the constitution of the :cor!i. R. W. Emerson The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IX 18S1 Awarded Ak-Sar-Ben Plaque For "Outstanding Community Service in 1950" Published semi-weekly. Mondays and Thursdays, at 109-413 Main Street. llaUs mouth. Cass County. Nebr. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher HARRY J. CANE Editor FRANK H. SMITH News Reporter Helen E. Heinrich & Donna L. Meisinger Society - Bookkeeping & Circulation PLOTSMaDOJiriH JldDdJTOAD. Serving Plattsmouth and Cass County for Over Seventy Years SECTION B CASS COUNTY'S NEWSpaper 7 H tieM. lassociarion A m NATIONAL 1 1 tVTAtVtJ r ASSOOATl Furse's Fresh Flashes Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, is a most virtuous gal. She can sav "No" in nine different languages. Our local town sot should visit the blood bank the next time it's in town and have them drain his eves. A Plattsmouth widow says the next man she marries must be a man who will pick up things and be quiet around the house. .She should marrv a burglar. Kansas, with her floods and recent legalization of liquor, should be wet enough right now for Carrie Nation to turn over in her grave. A fool and his monev are some party. Mark up a unanimous vote among local merchants for the good old days when a ceiling was something that went over vour head but didn't get in your hair. It's dangerous to place a woman on a pedestal makes it easy for her to kick vou in the teeth. If you need something to worry about, you might chew on this for a while: A scientist says the sun is becoming hotter and that eventually the oceans will boil. Down Memory Lane K)N 1A YEARS AGO 1U "COME INTO MY PARLOUR rr Entered at the Post Office at Plattsmouth, Nebraska. s second class mail matter in accordance with the Act of Congress frf March 3. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year in Cass and adjoining counties, $4.00 per year elsewhere, in advance, by mail outside the city of Platts mouin. tsy carrier in Plattsmouth. 20 cents for two weeks. Mrs. Louis Tiekotter, Joan and Ken neth returned from a visit in Wisconsin where they -were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ben H. Woodward and family at Beaver Dam. Mr. Woodward was director of music in the local schools during their residence here . . . Don Seiver, general chairman for the city's metal drive, in keeping with the national effort announ ced the opening of drive assisted by all civic organizations in the city ... A iarge crib was placed at the intersection of 5th and Main where collections of aluminum pots and pans and other scrap metal was being dumped . . . Mrs. Hoyt Clark editor and Mrs, W. J. Shallcross, associate ed itor were preparing copy for the "Bellevue Bomber" to be run weekly in the Journal . . . Local city council began move for a city owned waterplant with Henningsen Engineering Company drawing up plans. OA YEARS AGO U Glenn Woodbury, district court re porter of second district, with Robert Nichols of Louisville planned a trip and camping vacation in the north . . . Geo. Schmader, local boxer won a six round bout at the athletic show at the carnival here . . . Miss Mary Peterson returned from vacationing in the Pacific Northwest ... A group of Murray residents held a picnic supper in the vicinity of King. Hill honoring the Murray Red Sox baseball team, in appreciation of the fine work shown by this team the past season . . . The Ofe Oil Co. afforded residents an opportunity of viewing the largest tire ui the world this giant tire was llM't. high and 4-ft. wide, and mounted on a special bus for exhibition of the product of the Goodyear Company. (Copyright. 1949. By the Bell Syndicate. Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: SENATOR IAL COURTESY HELPED KANSAS FLOOD; TRUMAN'S POLICY ON NATURAL GAS UNDERCUT BY HIS OWN CRONY ; FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION PUTS VETOED KERR BILL INTO FORCE. Washington. Part of the damage suffered by the people of Kansas in the current flood would have been avoided but for the custom of senatorial courtesy. Thirteen years ago. Congress passed a bill authorizing a 22,000 acre reservoir on Tuttle creek, north of Manhattan, Kan sas. It was proposed by the Army Engin eers as a means of controlling the floods which have swept eastern Kansas period ically. However, the dam was never built .for the reason that the money never was voted by Congress. Although authorized, it was never voted because one of the late Republican Senators from Kansas, Clyde Reed, objected. Every time the appropri ation came up for the Tuttle creek reser voir. Senator Reed turned thumbs down, and under the system of senatorial cour tesy he had the final say. Frank Carlson, now a GOP Senator from Kansas, was then a Congressman and did his best to obtain passage of the appropriation. Later, as governor, Frank Carlson also tried to push the Tuttle creek reservoir through. But Senator Reed had some friends in that area who owned farming land which would have been t SAID THE SPIDEE ! , o I TO THE FLyljkg ?" ! o " i" itVo HE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAl Thursday. July 19. 1951 Section B PAGE ONE Washington taken over by the proposed res- so hot that Lee started toward ervoir. uniortunateiy. ne put their interest ahead of the in terest of the rest of the people of eastern Kansas. Now lives have been lost and millions of dollars worth of property ruined in a flood which could have been partly control led if the army engineers' plan had been followed. Why Truman Can't Win An unpublicized incident oc curred in the Federal Powec Commission recently which il lustrates why Harry Truman is almost certain not to be elec ted President of the United States even if he chooses to run. The incident involved a poker playine crony of the president's. ex-Sen. Mon Wallsren. who de liberately cut his chief's throat. This has become a favorite pattern in Washineton. The White House outlines a policy, frequently a fine and courag eous policy Then the president appoints men who throw that polic in the ditch: That's why the Truman administration is beins called the "Tallc-Big-Do-Little" administration. This was what he did on one of the most important battles he has waged in the past year his veto of the Kerr Natural Gas Bill. The bill was authored by a friend of his. powerful, popular Sen. Bob Kerr of Okla homa. But it would have boosted the price of eas to city popula tions everywhere, and also boosted the profits of the oil and gas companies. So Truman vetoed it. Yet. believe it or not. the Federal Power Commission has now secretly overruled the pres ident's policy and completely nullified his veto. What the Kerr bill said wns that the Federal Power Commis sion did not have jurisdiction to regulate the price of natura' gas going into interstate pipe lines. The president, overruling the Kerr Bill, said the Power Commission did have jurisdic tion. Secret Vote But. by a secret 4-to-l vote, the FPC has now decided not to take jurisdiction over the big gest producer of natural gas. Phillips Petroleum, thus direct ly reversing the president and giving the oil and gas moguls their greatest victory in years. Incidentally, housewives in the cities of the north, midwest and southwest can look for hikes in the price of their gas very shortly. Significantly also Senator Kerr is one of the biggest sup pliers of natural gas to Phillips Petroleum. He owns several leases in partnership with Phil lips, while his Kerr-McGee oil company owns an estimated $100,000,000 in natural gas re serves. His gross income of $12 000.000 a year makes him the wealthiest man in the Senate Truman's Crony Most amazing thing about the Federal Power Commission de bate was the way the president's poker-playing crony. Chairman Mon Wallgren, actually broke into the final arguments .of the attorneys defending the public to quote excerpts from the Kerr , bill. T want to hear something about what Congress thought." Wallgren explained, as he quot ed from the bill which his chief in the White House had vetoed. At one point. Wallgren nearly got into a brawl with James H. Lee. Detroit attorney, who was arguing for the public. Wallgren shouted accusations across the the Commission . bench, and Wallgren pushed back his chair ready for action. However, aged Commissioner Claude Draper headed Lee off by dashing out from behind the bench and planting himself in front of Lee. Wallgren also baited William Torkelson. counsel for the Wis consin Public Service Commis sion In fact, the FPC cfcairman seemed to go out of his way to undercut the man in the White House who appointed him. One of Wallgren's tactics was to bombard pro-consumer lawyers with so many questions that Xhey didn't have time to sum up their arguments. " For ex ample. FPC attorney Lambert McAllister was limited to two hours to present the public's case. Yet Wallgren hurled so many irrelevant questions at him that McAllister never fin ished his presentation. Finally. Commissioner Thomas Buchanan blurted angrily: "Don't you think we might have ! a little more argument from counsel?" An Old Man Gets Tired One day. following these' oral arguments. Wallgren called a surprise closed-door meeting to decide the Phillips case. Staff members could hardly believe it when the motion to rule in favor of Phillips and reverse , . i -, i : f I me president s policy vsas unti ed by Commissioner Draper, the man who had battled tooth- and-nail against the Kerr billi only a year ao. It may be significant that Draper's confirmation for an other term was held up by the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee last month. Now 76 years old. and most of his life a public servant. Draper has no money and little to live on if the Senate had fail ed to confirm him. Though Draper flatly denies it. members of his own staff claim that the Senators held uo his confirmation until he agreed to reverse himself on the Kerr bill. Significantly, he was finally approved for another term only on June 21. just one day before his previous term ran out. . Those voting with Draper against the president and in favor of the oil and gas interests were Commissioners Nelson Lej Smith. Harrington Wimberly, a friend of Senator Kerr's trom Oklahoma, and Chairman Wall gren. Only Buchanan voted for the public. Note Here is what President Truman said about the Kerr bill a year ago in his veto message: This bill would preclude the Federal Power Commission from regulating sales of natural gas to interstate piDeline compan ies .. . The continuance of that authority will adequately pro tect the public interest by per mitting the commission to pre vent unreasonable and excessive prices which would give large windfall profits to gas producers at the expense of the consum ers " NEB SKA pHERE IS ABOUT a two to one cVirice that Vhe pface talk? now going on in Korea between repre sentatives of Geneial Matthew Ridgwar and Red Chir.a may be successful. Likely if the cease fire order holds food, there will be discussion looking toward an sr mistier, but when peace will con-.e will depend upon weeks of discus sion. In the meantime, the jrovern meni here in Washineton i op erating n a stop gap basis. Since no appropriation bills were passed by the eongress when the end of the fiscal year, June 30, rolled around, it was; necessary to pass emergency stop gap bills in order that the agencies of gorernment reutd function and the employees be paid. By the sa:r.e token, neither house or senate could get together on an extension of the highly important national defense act. which also ex pired June 30, so after an all-night session, congress passed a 31-day extension o? the act, but hedged it about with a ban on any roll back in prices during thst 31 days. So the consumers who were due to reap the benefit of some price roll backs on thousands of articles which the office of price stabilization had already ordered effective July 2. will be prevented from cashing in on those lower prices. OPS was forced to issue a quick price freeze again on these artie'es as of June 30. These price roll backs would have applied to ma chinery, cotton textiles, shoes, wearing apparel and many house hold appliances and such items as boJts. screws, nuts, phx-nbing and drainage specialties, builders hardware,- soaps, cleansers, watches, mattresses and box springs, agri cultural insecticides and other items.- 4 What will happen to the foreign aid progrem. including the Mar shall Plan and the aid asked for by General Eisenhower is Still to be seen. It may be that some stop-gap legislation will be necessary to keep the country from lapsing or repudiating some of its commit ments under these programs. Because of Democrat increases in the senate, such as the replace ment of GOP Senator Vandenburg. deceased, by Senator B'.air Moody of Michigan, two Republicans have been ousted from important com mittee posts on the senate appro priations and banking and cur rency. The two senators bumped were those with lowest seniority. Senators McCarthy of Wisconsin and Bennett of Utah. The GOP as signed McCarthy to the senate rules committee and Bennett wg assigned to postoffice &nd civil service committee. This leaves McCarthv without a major committee assignment. In the meantime, a resolution adopt ed by tke Your.g Republicans of the Eighth District of Wisconsin, Senator McCarthy's home district, urging McCarthy's defeat in li52, was given widespread publicity here. The resolution urged the Mc Carthy defeat on grounds that he has accomplished nothing of im portance during his five years in office and "has engaged in char acter assassination and mud-slinging tactics, thus discouraging fcood men from holding office." The house on a roll call of 240 to 139 passed a bill authorizing the importation of Mexican farm labor and permitting farmers to employ Mexican "wet-backs" those enter ing the country illegally. A similar bill authorizing recruitment of Mexican farm labor was passed by the senate May 7, but the senat bill contained an amendment mak ing employment of "wet-backs" a felony. The senate crime investiga ting committee now is engaged in a probe of narcotics in the country. As a result of its hear ing, -nineteen narcotics control bills have been introduced ia this congress, . largely protect ing minors from drug addiction. . In the entire 8tst Congress only 1 . one measure was introduced. Strangely enough, two former top-notch government employee upheld the morals and ethics of the average government employee in Washington in testimony before Senator Paul Douglas senate labor subcommittee on ethics ia gov ernment. They were former Sec retary of Interior Harold Ickes and former chairman of the atomic en egy commission, David LiiienthaL h UMES C OLION, Suptrinttndt ST AT I IITOIICAL lOCIITi- The proudest case in the en tire museum of the State His torical Society in the capitol is that which holds the names of those Nebraskans who have won the Congressional Medal of Hon or, the nation's highest award. Recently, something which sel dom occurs took place in that case a new name was added. The new name, as all of you might guess, is that of Sgt. Ern est R. Kouma of Dwight, who entered the ranks of the na tion's most honored heroes when President Truman awarded him the Medal of Honor, May 19. His act of gallantry, as all of you VETERANS' COLUMN By RICHARD C. PECK Cass County Veterans' Service Officer Vocational Rehabilitation for Korean Veterans The VA has recently issued regulations outlining conditions under which veterans who re ceive disability as a result of the different occupation which he will be able to follow and which will not be affected adversely by his disability. The law requires that the disability be of such extent that the VA may pay fighting in Korea will be en-! disability compensation at full rir on t n rpnu ni i m i inn i innv i -- This training was previously the cut off date of July 25 1956 limited to WW II Veterans, but is now extended to cover veterans disabled on or after June 27, 1950. This was extended by Pub lic Law 894. Richard reck as G. I. Bill Training. Vocational Rehabili tation Training is limited solely to those who suffered disabili ties and is designed to train a veteran to pursue some occupa tion which will enable him to earn a livelihood in spite of his disability. It is often true that because of the disability incur red in service, the veteran is hearine room, charsins that l-, unable to continue his previous cal utility commissions shirked occupation. This training is de their duties. The areument got sigaed to train the veteran in a which is the date applicable to disabled veterans of World War II. will not apply. Disabled vet erans of the Korean War will have nine years from the end of the current emergency in which to train. The law also provides that Korean veterans who already This training had G. I. Bill Training or Vo is not to be con-! cational Rehabilitation Tram- fused with what i ing as a result of disability in has been known curred in WW II may be en titled to additional training, it found necessary because of new- disabilities. In determining whether such a veteran needs additional training, and what type he should get, the VA will consider his previous records of training, as well as his current medical record. The reason for. this regulation is to assure that( any previous training given may. be utilized to the fullest extent; Victor Vifquain. who was hon know, occurred while covering ored foc gallantry displayed in the withdrawal of United Na- tne capture of a Confederate tions forces in Korea. August f lag at Fort Blakelv. Alabama. 31 and September 1, 19o0. Aprii 9 1865. General Vifquain. The addition of Sergeant a Saline County pioneer, return Kouma's name to this Nebraska ed to Nebraska after the Civil roll of the nation's most ton- ; war to play an important role ored brings the number on the in the building of the new state. list to 21 a smau numoer wnen Both of Nebraska-S awards you consider the thousands of i j.,rintr Wnrw war tt u.Prp mnrfp Nebraskans who have served in paslhumously the recipients the armed forces since the med- were kiHed in tne action for al was authorized m 1861. Nev- .hi.u thpv hnnnr()fi. 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