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THE PLfiTTS.IIOUTH. rjBRSXA, ZZLY.i-'-'JZZ'.'.LY JCL'FNAl vovii 'H H T.hir'.av. Jr.n ..r.r 10. i rr THIRD HOUSE OF CONGRESS" EDITORIALS Furse's Fresh Flashes r RUBBER ROAD About thirteen years ago, near Ams terdam, Holland, a rubber road was con structed. This road was used by the Nazis in invading The Netherlands and, also, by the Allies in driving the Nazis out. While other roads in Holland were worn out by the wear and tear of this military traffic, the rubber Amsterdam road is still in ex cellent condition. Since the Amsterdam experiment, highway engineers in America have built highways out of a mixture of natural rub ber and asphalt. Roads containing natural rubber powder have been laid in Virginia, Texas, Ohio, Canada and Newfoundland. In these roads, the mixture of rubber pow der and asphalt has been varied so that the results can be studied with varying speci fications. Car-stopping tests in Virginia indicate that cars stop much more quickly when brakes are applied on a rubber road. Some engineers feel that the rubber-asphalt mix has a tendency to resist the formation of surface ice. Rubber roads seem to come through extremes of warm weather and cold weather in better shape than other type roads. The effect of traffic shock and vibration is apparently reduced material ly. Rubber roads may point the way to saving both dollars and lives on the high ways of this nation. Certainly, there will be great savings in maintaining this type highway. Every citizen who has taken a long trip recently realizes that many traffic tie-ups are due to the necessity of repair work on the highways. We watch with interest the develop ment of rubber roads as an answer to our maintenance problem, though inclined to minimize the life-saving quality of these roads. Experience in most states indicates that the large number of highway acci dents are due principally to the man be hind the wheel. This is the answer to sav ing lives on the highway. ir ir ABSENCE AND FONDNESS From London comes the story of Tom and Ada Robinson, who say their marriage has been "one of the happiest anyone could have." Recently, Tom and Ada met each other in Waterloo Station for the first time in forty-two years. The husband true to English manner isms, remarked : "Hello, love. How've you been?" The wife has now decided to accom pany Tom to South Africa where he has been living the last several decades, but both agreed their previous married life has been very happy. The fact that they had been separated for forty-two years seemed to bother neither, and they both seem satisfied with their marriage. While such a marriage might be called somewhat extraordinary, and unnatural, it seems to provide the solution to the problem of a happy marriage for some people we know. ON BEAVER DAM-BUILDING State and federal conservation agen cies are taking advantage of beaver tal ents, according to the National Geogra phic Society. Conservationists have relo cated beaver colonies in areas where beaver-size dams are needed to aid in flood control, and in the preservation of natural resources. The beavers have responded in admirable fashion. Two of them built a dam eighteen feet long and six feet wide in Massachusetts recently, where such a dam was needed, and did it in three weeks. In New York engineers reached a site where they were to construct a flood-control bridge and found that a colony of beavers had already done the job, and a good one at that. The success of the beavers has been so marked that they are now being dropped in boxes which open upon ground contact in some western states. If the beavers do not perform as expected they are removed. Thus, in a recent Oregon project, four THOUGHT FOR TODAY We confess our little faults only to per suade others that wc have no great ones. -j- La Rochefoucauld The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper KSTAHLTSHKo IN 1881 Awarded Ak-Sar-Ben Plaque For "Outstanding Community Service in ' 1950" ?uMlslietl sem1-wtkly, Mondays ami Thursdays, al iOJ-413 Main Street. 1'laUs mouth, Cass County, Nebr RONALD R. FURSE Publisher HARRY J. CANE Editor FRANK H. SMITH News Reporter ItlCBRflSKR TO! fieM. associarion I Lll .1 I H NATIONAl BDITOBIAL ASSOCIATION A local man lost 110 pounds over the weekend she was a blond. Just about the time a fellow begins to think he can make both ends meet, some guy comes along and moves one end or the other. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, has lost her latest boy friend. He tells us Fanny has been kissed by near ly every man in town. That's no excuse this ain't such a big town. A Plattsmouth wife says if her hus band dies she'll never marry again. She's afraid there might be another man just like him. Beef steak isn't worth any more than it was in the thirties, but it costs a lot more. Some men have a reputation for truth fulness because they can't think fast enough. What's become of that friend who borrowed a few dollars from you just be fore Christmas? Some girls think it is better to have loved a short guy than not to have loved a-tall. Consideration for others sometimes puts you in a seat where you can't see what's going on. A gentleman seldom mentions what he pays for his cigars, and a lady is equal ly reticent about the price of her girdle. - . ?mw. .ff ';!: f the beavers had to be removed because of a failure to follow engineering plans. They were guilty of changing the dam site. Hut where they succeed they do the job in expensively and efficiently and are being more and more widely used for govern ment dam-building. The efficient, inexpensive service ren dered by the beavers of the nation is an example which could well be followed in various rovernrnent circles. The only re gret is -that beavers are not available for govenment tasks other than cut-rate dam building. Down Memory Lane A YEARS AGO 11 The service station and cafe of Kent Oil company was formally opencl on Saturday. It is leased by Ray E. Story . . . John J. Gillin, Jr., Walter Korisko, E. A. Nutzman, Knud Jensen, Frank L. Rhoden, W. C. Soennichsen and A. L. Tidd were elected directors of the Golden Rod Oil1 tnai bcnaior linages made a speech cn the Senate floor on Sept. 23. 1919, urging a pay in crease for "good old Charlie Cliphant." Dridrs was then trying to et '"good old Charlie" to take the heat off Hvman Klein in a tax case totaling around $7, O00.0C0. So, apparently to curry favor with "good old Charlie", he prcposr-d raising his salary from S10.0CO to $14,000. Thus the public would both pay more and collect less taxes. Note Oliphant testified that Senator Bridges had approach ed him .through mystery-man Henry Grunewald, a great friend of both Bridges and Olinhant,, GROWING U. S. ISOLATION Most disturbing development in the U.S.A. to members of the Churchill party has been the growth of isolationism in cer tain sections. British observers who see the United States dur ing periodic visits may have an advantage in diagnosing popu 'ir changes between those vis its. At any rate they compare -"iblic sentiment today to that 'list befor Parl Harbor when he United States also was torn between isolation and internar tional participation. This, incidentally, anpenrs to ho hnrnn nut lha UocUirtt-v, boennicnsen store has completed plans f or 1 Merry-Go-Round poll of Pepub modernizing the store front . . . Glenwood 1ir,?ri ermdidatps. At th start of beat Plattsmouth 32-20 in a basketball tbis po11- Taft chalked up his r-amo nlnv-,.,1 h,.,-.. l',,Ht l,.,,l greatest strength in the 'radi- 0 ,...,.. . wv. " tionally isolationist midwest: ana L.aison and lint each-eight. Eisenhower his greatest strength -ir in New England, the south and 5A YEARS AGO him to fix a big tax case in Baltimore involving liqucr- dealer Hymaa Kiein. had net given Tcxmass a clean : 1 1 1- 1 1 U ! McDonald, who brieves the r:-irfrr-' intrrmntir.n .,!(!, toublic is entitled to know all the iacts auuuL (Jit; wiiaiiuiui ut.-a.ia, used to run a Detroit dairy, was supreme potentate of the Micni- I gan Shrine, got to know Truman Oliphant cn behalf of Klein, according to committee counsel De Wind, took place "sometime in i4y. uur senators nave Company. The group has plans for drill ing 12 wells in Cass county . . . John E. Parkening was installed as Worshipful Master of Plattsmouth Lodge No. G. J. Howard Davis is senior warden and How ard Wiles, junior warden . . . The H. M. now dug up the interesting fact because they are fellow Shriners, ana iock a mua bmne 10 xuta Hay worth when she visited in Washington. He is a bachelor. ATOMIC ARTILLERY Though President Truman has been opposed to exchanging atomic information with Eng land, one so-called atomic secret, which the Churchill par ty has been told, is that our much-ballyhooed atomic artil lery is not going to work mir acles cn the battlefield. This is not exactly a secret, for the American public will be told the news later namely, that atomic artillery, while by no means a dud, has been a military disappointment. In other words, while a lot more powerful and deadly than con ventional artillery, the new atomic shells will not wipe out armies overnight. Most significant result of the recent Nevada blasts was that animals staked behind near-by shelters easily survived atomic artillery and baby A-bombs dropped from fighter planes. This convinced U. S. observers that troops in trenches or be hind clumps likewise could withstand an atomic raid. Thus, in rugged terrain, atomic artil lery would bs no more effective against troops than heavy ar tillery. This means that the atomic bomb could not stop the Chinese Communists in Korea. By holing up in caves or lying low behind rocks and ridges, they could take terrific atomic pun ishment. Shell for shell, however, atom ic artillery would pack 100 times the wallop of TNT, would sweep clean any military targets stick ing above ground. The new A-bombs also would the Pacific coast. The poll, which is still contin- The Practical Poultry Producers of - xscxuy tan Taft strons in thee arsas In Lluh were declared the state champion fact, the voting runs almost con poultry and dairy clubs of 4-H clubs in stant in regard to Taft strength Nebraska . . . C. S. Wortman has opened in th midwest, Eisenhower a law office at Ashland. He has been "t J1"- ,.. associated with A. L. Tidd at Plattsmouth sending a postcard to your fa . . . Mrs. John G. Wunderlich of Nehawka, ivorite Republican candidate, Box who has spent the past five weeks at th" ! 1952- Washington 13, D. C. homo, of her daLn, Mrs. Clayton A. E"?!',SCK. hosencrajis and Mrs. Sadie Shrader. re- first Rpnnhiicnn hpn'n nf th'r. the air force's tactical and stra- turned to her home . . . Mrs. Katherine construction Finance Corpora-' tegic commands for a special Mullen was installed as president of the tion in 19 vears of Democratic ; atomic air arm called retarda- Woman's Re! ef Corps. V ce presidents -, T' - . orV. cai o 'i x? ', , ' , ry on the forthngnt polices of are Mrs. Emma McMaken and Mrs. Ornha i Stuart Symington nail. .Mrs. Anna Egenberger is secretary As head of the Securities and Jixcnange commission. McDon ald vigorously advised GOP members of the PFC not to O. K. the controversial Texmass loan, warned them that his SEC and Mrs. Mattie Egenberger, treasurer . rarmers Mutual Insurance Company, a local institution, in existence since 1890, sold its interests to a Lincoln firm. n, : r Via mnct offpptivp in rprnrninf? n 1 .1.1 CIlgl.il 111 UL11C1 UlUtta. ("I- ' ' 2 oeen vn-i nor, vnto in tv,ic vir.ii i-,r iT?nssiaii invasion of western Eu rope by bombing troop concen trations and transportation cen ters along the invasion route. Both B-29s and fighter-bombers to he the 1 are already temg diverted irom tion command Atomic raiding along the in vasion route would be most ef fective again air bases. One atomic bemb could wipe out an air base, flatten parked planes, and level ooerations buildings. Note Our most powerful atomic bombs will probably be V , A( NGTON REPORT by Howard "BufTett Congrsman, 2nd Nebrajka District public pres3 has I tvii so full of "graft and cor iv.pt im" in the operation of tlie Reconstruction Finance Corpora tion, tlie annual rciort of this agency of government as filed this week by Stuart Symington, admin istrator, turning over to the U.S. treasury dividends of $10,315,812 on tho corporation's capital stock of $100,000,000, is important. The RFC also turned over to the treasury $75,000,000 resulting from proceeds on the RFC production programs in synthetic rubber and tin, and from liquidation of war time assets. An additional $1,000, 000 was paid on account of net proceeds from liquidation during the fiscal year of assets of the smaller War Plants Corporation. So this is a total of $95,343,812 turned over by RFC to the fed eral treasury as net income from its operations in the fiscal j-ear 1951. Another operation still in the production stase is that of Manila. RFC now operates five abaca plantations in Central America with 25,000 acres under cultivation and 50,000 acres to be planted by December, 1952. Sale of hemp during the year was 19,987,200 pounds with production of 10.500,850 pounds. In its lending activities, the report shows that during the year the corporation approved 3,271 loans for $290,000,003 cf v.hich almost DO per cent were in arr.cur.ts of less than $100,003. At the close of the year the cor poration had out; landing 11, C0 business loans with balances cf sow.uou.ubu. m.s l.- a cecur- ol : traefor hav tWarorf we 1,092 loans and $103,000,000 cor:-:ni1fiftv nor t r.f i, "" J . ZxT.d cbcut a third of the mules. ?SfTf A. Seaton of Nebraska, will be in full disclosure of loan Information has been instituted. The "graft and corruption charges" against RFC resulted in, besides resignation of the board, firing of a dozen or more other clerks and lesser officials, out of a total of several hundred em ployees charges of influence ped dling against both the Democratic and Republican national chairmen, William IJoylo and Guy Gabriel son. Said Mr. Symington: "In its lending functions, its mobilization functions and its procurement and production functions, the RFC is operating with efficiency and dis patch. Credit for this condition goes to the fine men and women who make up our organization." Bureau cf the census year-end re ports that U.S. population has doubled in the past 50 years ami that population vow is approximate ly 155,000,000,- that this year broke all records on new bbicSf almost 4,000,000; that families are grouiu larger (that trend is up and vuy top the mark of 40 years ago uhen av erage family u as 4.7 children, u huh compares uith 3.1 tod.:y). There are a 'out f'ne million single men as compared to 3,000,000 single noma and percent age-uisc, there are more single men cn farms than in the cities, about fiie per cent more. Census figures, however, point t3 fact farm population continues to dwindle, almost 29 per cent in past decade and that farms are Setting bigger, averaging about 210 acres today as compared to 174 acres in 1D10. Reason is farm mechanization, since trucks and pared to the figures for Ji 1950. The $103,000,009 reduction during the year on the S92.000, Thinking people in Nebraska believe our foreign policy is promoting war. To the written question. Do you believe our i foreign oolicy is promoting war? - seven out of eight ans- i wered, "Yes." This was the ver- j diet of a recent and careful ; survey in Eastern Nebraska. Are i they right? Does international ism mean a continual Opera tion Killer like Korea? Operation Killer is not a newt T X 1 idea. Alexander. Ceasar, Napo-j Ff?!"?! iLSPO leon and Hitler all tried it. It ! A icl didn't work for them. It won't " A f T work for us. But it will wreck V F1C85 UD us. just as it has finished off othcrs Kh0 In Nebraska The fact that we piously and . , , , , loudlv proclaim that we are . Tiip oollar vain? of farm land Christians when we range afar m ras.a increased 14 per in mass killings does not sane- ccat aurmS tne past year, ac ifv our actions. The truth is ! ccrding to the latest figures iust the ODposite. as anyone or? l u- s- Department of 'an perceive with iust a mini- i Agriculture. "ium of serious thought. i The USI'A said trtu firm real i estate valars contirau-d to ad- For over 12 vears. the wnrlrl i vance m nearly v. I s ates during v.r.en congress convenes i in .Tsnnarv Sonfr Qor 009 Kaiser-Steel Corporation loan ceeds the te KericthT Wherrv. It will be remembered that : senate minority leader. He is nub- i-res;acnt lruman a?Ked lor res ignation cf the five-man bca'-d which ran RFC and named a sin gle administrator, Mr. Symington, with a loan pclicy board composed of the secretary cf the treasury, the secretary of commerce, the RFC administrator and the RFC deputy administrator. Final de cision on all loans rests with a review bonrd within the corpora tion ir. Vashingoa and a policy of lisr.er of the Hastings, Neb.. Trib une and describes himself as a "liberal conservative," says he will not serve beyond the one year to which he was appointed. About f'Jty former congressmen have signed thcmselyes or their firms as lobbyists. Three signing this week were former congress men Hugh reterson D-Ga.) ; H. Jerry Voorhis (D-Cal.) and Albe L. Reeves. Jr., (R-Mo.). ! to l;cc;: their investment in real ! estate. In the better farming areas, farms available for sale are lim ; it:d to those resulting from es ; tate settlements and retire inents. In seme areas the list- ir.g.s are confined to the less de ; iirable farms, or those tht would need conoid rrable money spent ; cn them for improvements to land and buildinrs. The number of inquiries to buy farms last summer ard early tail was i-xmowhat less than dur ing the si.i to eiht months fol , n-i-.vln the Korean War. has been at war most of the time. Wherever human beings have been killing each other, one fact stands out. Always one ide. and often both sides, have bn equiooed with death-wean- tho four months ending Nov. 1, 1951. But the average of 2 per cent increase was only half as large as during the same period a year ago. Nationally. Twer rums veie N. E. A. advises colleges to re tain spcrts and check evils. ons supplied for free by Amer- sold durinsr the late summer and ica. ine American taxpayer has fall of 1951 than during a sim footed the bills. - largely with- iiar period in 1950. "rarrn real out representation in the mov- ! estate men have indicated that es that made him a party to it was difficult to get listings mass murder. ! hprnuw of favorable returns to j present owners and their d.sire Subscribe to The Journal ESTATE Entered at the Tost Office at I'lattsmouth. Nebraska, ."second clui mall matter In .ccortfance witn iu Ad of Conzren t Maroh a. 18,9. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year in Cass and adiolnlns counties. $4.00 per year elsewhere, fn advance By mail outside the city of Platts moSfll By calrier in Plattsmouth. 20 cents for (Copyright 1949, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS : SEN. BRIDGES INTERVENED IN BALTI MORE TAX CASE; CHURCHILL PARTY DISTURBED BY ISOLA TIONISM IN U. S.; ATOMIC ARTIL LERY WON'T WORK MIRACLES. Washington. The manner in which t-. :me Senators have pulled wires to secure tax fixes has come up recently in connec tion with Sen. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, who in slated to be the new Republican leader of the Senate, replac ing the late Senator Wherry. Certain GOP Senators who do not wL;h to be named, but who believe nothing should mar Republican ability to pin the corruption label on the lruman adminis- VETERANS' COLUM By RICHARD C. PECK Cass County Veterans' Service Officer The truth is that internation alism won't wcrk. Billed as na tional defense, it delivers na tional suicide. It can and is socializing America bv ComDul sory Military Servitude (UMT). regimentation of business, on oressive taxation, and relent less inflation. Thus internation alism eventually brings full scale socialism and liberty is outlawed. Not tho $64 question, but the I iDU-miinon people question is this: - Will America renounce this foreien nolicy of interna tionalism before it destroys us? Compared with .this question, every other matter before us is secondary. Will the Republican Partv brinp this issue irto fous m the 1S52 campaign? Unless it does, the 1952 race will be a worse farce than 1943. A W S lUultinln Sclerosis Disability Sometime ago the Veterans AHmirictntinn nr.nnnneori thnt- li Will review au uiJiJutanuna ui veterans claiming compensation or pension because of multiple sclerosis, which is a kind cf crenin rmralysis. This review is being m ad e to det ermine whether those not now on the compensation roll . are entitled to ccmpe n s a t i o n under the mw law which pro vides that multi ple sclerosis de veloping to a de- 1 f a:tiE gree of 10 or Richard te more disability tration, have dug into tlie testimony of within two years after separa- Charles Oliphant, hastily resigned counsel vhi,wir i Z Jfy,25, r i.w i i. r i i 1347. whichever is the earlier, of the Internal Revenue Bureau. Oliphant shall be presumed to be service testiiied bcnaior Bridges had approached connected. ArJniicqiicns he reviewed includ3 those allowed for non-service connected pen sion and those compensation and pension applications which have been previously disallowed or terminated. In other words, if a veteran has previously made application claiming this type of disability and his application was denied, his application will now be reviewed. If however, a veteran has this disability and it developed to a degree of 10 within two years after separa tion, but he has never made ap plication for pension; such a veteran win nave 10 mane ap used to blast factori's and mili tary bases. It has been com- i puled that one such bomb packs ' , more explosive power than all ; tne ordinary bombs so far dropped in a year and a half of i Korean fighting. t WASHINGTON PIPELINE i Stanton Griffis is retiring as ambassador to Spain chiefly be- I i cause of ulcers. Also h3 has i written a book which Cass Can field cf Harpers is crez about. ' It's the Griffis Memoirs, begin- nine with the days when he sold snake oil at country fairs, but not including his feminino ad mirers at the U. S. embassy in Maoria . . . f anny Perkins, for mer secretary of labor, now on the civil service commission, is i given the credit or blame for getting ex -Sen. Hiram Dingham ! of Connecticut appointed chair- i man of the loyalty board. Dir.g- puuaiiuii i14 w oiow h j the j m j recent r oioiiitv unaer inc nsw taw. ,,, u.. i Also covered by the new law are those veterans who were on duty on and after June 27, 1939, and who deva loped this type of disability within two years after the president shall declare the ing - relation of hostiH'Ks in Korea. ory casti?aUd by an official senate resolution for letting a Connecticut manufac- j turers association lobbyist tit in j on secret tariff hearings. i A Classified Ad in The Jour nal focc o c lit-tla oc Hf INSURANCE Soennichsen Building Fhone 264 Plattsmouth Grosswcrd HORIZONTAL 1 Ma'e sheca 4 A S.-.ilan f'rar.'c 9 Observed 32 Anger 13 To c;asp 14 Tree yielding caucho 13 Reso'.r-rfe J 17 Fxa!tr.i 13 Vniures 21 liiu.n nutei 22 To halt 24 NothirifJ if Miii'is 29 A c:t.-;dcl "1 Hone o body S3 Spanish for river 24 Exclamation ot p::in 315 Tennis stroke "7 To tf.iff :;9 Toward 40 A iict Aork 42 Small ru? 44 Metal pbi for fastening 45 German river 43 Child's game 50 A luir.p 51 nepres.-ion between tvva mo'intiiir.-i 53 ?.hr f"!'y ticvelcpcJ 53 Fart of v ole ino 53 Having passagew.vs as a theater 61 To point F2 Pollute 64 Note ia ftirido's seal C5 Femnl" ruff ft Proierti'cs 67 A metal VERTICAL 1 To tear 2 Lan1 i:v.-.ire 3 Pasttire'ar.J 4 Prcpact 5 Wooed , Priscii'.i 6 A Ca.aese vei'.H 7 Kir.a c.r fish 8 Small coni-pu'-tment 9 American pio neer, ROid dis covered on hir property 10 A teveraje 11 Msrr.rd 3'! Part cf coiit 1.1 To be iil 20 TitV o 5'c Percent Interest Charge Reduced for each monthly payment. Plattsmouth Loan & Building Ass'n. 2 t i 6 1 8 :c i I hi i r 1 i r respect 22 Vrot.? Unci 2 Vam'3 cabin T, K.uiled 27 Locations 2 Covers with a black sub stance CO A r T?v husbanJ ' ?. To prohibit 35 Fly in-; jnamraal 3! Co.n ipl. 41 Vi.s suitable ti 13 TMck. black f Jbstar.ce '3 A kr, ,vc 47 To decuy 41 Mythical being ?2 Allows 54 DeDressions 33 Vc'-icle 5b A k r.d of pr.-jss ."7 Co'!e?c veil c1 T..-KH., r:.f Puzzle No. 153 GO Man's nick- Il.li.13 63 Hawaiian I hav.i; Answer to Puzzle No. 1:7 Ilu F. LI A ItllilllUilJlI l u.l'-1 -4- ; 1 A R - i i. A. ' V A t, V