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::::::::::::::::v EDITORIALS Furse's Fresh Flashes LAFF OF THE WEEK PLATTSMOUTH'S SCHOOLS We had a sneak-view of Plattsmouth's proposed school improvements the other day. While we have attended a few meet ings of the school board while present plans were in the dreaming stage, the look we had last week was the first time we had a complete picture of what is in store for this school district if local resi dents see the light. Crowded conditions in most class rooms of local schools is deplorable. Out look for the next decade is dark if pro vision is not made to take care of increa sed enrollment from kindergarten through high school. Lack of grade room facilities in ward schools has thrown a terrific bur den on Central and high school they can't continue to carry the load and re tain our accredited rating. Within the next week or two the com plete story of the proposed building pro gram as recommended by the school board, together with architects drawings, will be presented to the readers of this newspaper. Not only will plans be shown, but a complete and truthful story of the proposed program will be discussed at length. We hope to investigate every angle of interest to local taxpayers and give in formation down to the last minute detail as to costs, what it will add to the individ ual taxpayer's annual bill, what returns a property owner can expect from his in vestment in additional educational facil ities and any disadvantages that may be present. We hope readers of this newspaper will be fair with themselves and with others by getting all information both pro and con before making up their mind whether it is, or is not the proper move for Plattsmouth. THE MARCH OF DIMES DRIVE The March of Dimes Drive is on again, and this year the effort is launched with greater hopefulness than ever before. Only two months ago, Basil O'Connor, National Foundation head, announced that progress toward the development of a vaccine to prevent polio was definitely on the way to perfection. This comes as welcome news to a na tion in which polio has each summer stricken thousands of unsuspecting citi zens, sometimes proving fatal and in other cases leaving victims crippled for life. This disease has struck annually for many de cades and has, until this time, defied all the powers of the medical profession. A contribution to the March of Dimes is a contribution to a cause which takes second place to none and since the money donated by Americans in recent years has paid off in concrete results, which are now on the verge of producing a vaccine, the incentive should be all the greater. The Plattsmouth Journal cannot en dorse the latest March of Dimes Drive too highly. We urge every reader to examine hi.s own personal situation and do his best in this humanitarian effort. ANEW ERA IN AGRICULTURE At the annual meeting of the Ameri can Association for the Advancement of Science, there was a demonstration of a synthetic chemical named Krillium, that converts non-productive into productive soil in a matter of hours instead of years or generations required by present meth ods. Krillium is not a fertilizer but a soil conditioner which restores the physical structure of the soil to the proper consis tency, thus enabling plants to get the pro per amount of oxygen, water and nutrients from the soil. This development marks the beginning of a revolutionary era in agriculture. It is conceivable that in the distant future deserts may be turned into rich farm land. Old worn-out land may become farm frontiers. Unfortunately, Krillium is still in the development stage and will not be on the market in substantial quantities before 1953. It is expected, however, that one THOUGHT FOR TODAY Pi'litics arc now nothing more than mean? of rising in ihc world. Samuel Johnson The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper i:st.w:mshki in msi Awarded Ak-Sar-Ben Plaque For 'Outstanding Community Service in 1950" I'ulilislir (1 sf'mi-weokly, Mondays and Tliursdavs at -lo-l:: Main Street. I Mat tsmoutli, Ca.ss County. Ncbr. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher HARRY J. CANjE Editor FRANK H. SMFTH News Reporter - " - 1 ineBRBSKd " J- OSSOCIBTIOn g am t arm ij m NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION Easiest way we've found to file an in come tax is to keep 10 per cent of last year's income and send Uncle Sam the rest. A psychologist is a person who uses two dollar words to explain a failure that is caused by laziness. We wonder if potential Republican presidential candidates are now suffering from "Ike" fright. To begin to deal with a problem child, a local doctor says it is best to discover his interest in life. If it's setting fire to the cat, we'd suggest you find another doctor. Another little boy we know is very polite. The other night he pointed out an empty seat on the bus to a dear old lady then raced her for it. If the average husband wants to know- where all his wife's grocery money is go ing he should stand sideways in front of a mirror. A State Department representative says no accurate or reliable map of the world has ever been made. JJnder present world conditions we doubt that it would be possible. A Plattsmouth motorist has just re gained conciousness in the hospital. He had the right-of-way, but the other guy had the truck. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, tells us she'll have to quit eating cake because she's got to watch her figure. Just keep eating cake, Fanny. We'll watch your figure. pound of Krillium will cost around two dollars and that it will have essentially the same effect on soil structure as five hundred pounds of commercial compost, which sells at about two and one-half cents a pound. In view of the fact that communism thrives among people who live on soils that no longer produce enough food to support them, we feel that this new syn thetic soil conditioner may prove to be a very effective weapon in the fight against communism. Down Memory Lane OA YEARS AGO t3 Mrs. R. H. Anderson was elected president of .the Social Workers of the Methodist church. Other officers are Mrs. W. A. Wells, vice president; Mrs. Clement Woster, secretary ; and Mrs. Bert Coleman, treasurer . . . The Brex shops will start to operate on a seven hour day instead of eight, as they have for the past year . . . Fifty-three Cass county students are enrolled at the University of Nebraska . . . Leonard Stoehr has been named manager of the Farmers' Elevator Co., of Cullom . . . Homer Sylvester of Weeping Water, has filed as a candidate for the office of county sheriff . . . Mrs. Ralph M. Wiles was installed as Worthy Matron of Home Chapter No. 189, Order of Eastern Star . . . Plattsmouth high school debate team competed with one from Omaha Creighton Prep. Members of the team are John Becker, Madge Garn ett, Edward Wehrbein, George Adam, George Luschinsky and Stuart Porter. j A YEARS AGO I" Miss Lucille Gruber, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Simeon Gruber of Union, and Mr. Dale Long, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Long, were married . . . W. P. Kraeger was installed as Commander of Mt. Zion Commandery, No. 5, Knights Templar . . . Ernest Zitka, native here and an employee in a grocery store, has moved to Omaha . . . Cass L. Sylvester has filed as a can didate for county sheriff. Ten vears ago his brother filed for the same office . . . Beatrice scored a 40-35 basketball win win over Plattsmouth. Hilt scored 18 points in pacing the Blue Devils . . . Miss Charlotte Palmer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Palmer, former residents here, was married to Boyd Gaston at South Gate, California . . . Miss Alice Leone Ambler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Ambler of Weeping Water, and Donald F. Boesiger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Boesiger of Cortland were married January 21. t? m zri if. - :3- J& &- V W2t .n mm UUU19I131L THE PLATTSMOUTH, 3ZERASXA, SEWI-WESKLV J'tTiA PAGE FOUR Monday, Janua.-y 21, ID:: tsrns More than one reacr h r ; asked us what has bopi - o this column since n'v t- mas time. TV-1! u"-i'-n is about the most simple we've ha.', to answer time we la:t two bucks cn that nag ?t t-c ra-??s last c encv.r vrmer we jus: aui t la: "... And we cou!J start a completely new nation without wcn:en ... we could call it 'STAG-NATION'!" the Democratic parly Kefauver atomic bomb is, the more fiss- of Tennessee met together at ionable material it requires and thr- While House. However, part the more it costs to produce, of what they said has become Therefore the Air Force argues Known to intimates, and here is that our stockpile"- of atomic a brief summary of what hap pened. What Senator Kefauver did not know was that congres sional friends of Speaker Sam Rayburn, who not only want Sam to run for President, but are jealous of their old Tennes see colleague in the House of Representatives, had carefully arranged to plant seme anti Kefauver poison with Mr. Tru man. They had Congressman Mike Kirwan, of Youngstown, Ohio, one of the most astute Demo crats on Capitol Hill, call on the President just a few minutes be fore the Kefauver appointment for the purpose of prejudicing the President. Reeardles of what Kirwan may have told Truman, it had no outward effect. For, when the tall Senator from Tennes see entered, the President was most cordial. Kefauver was just as modest as Truman was genial. Probab ly he did not know about the strategy to prejudice the Pres itent, but. if he had known, his strategy could not have been better. In his usual slow Tennessee drawl. Kefauver recalled that he had always supported the Truman program, had gone down the line on a lot of con troversial problems, even go ing further than any other southern Senator on civil rights. Kefauver Asks Advice The President asknowledged that Kefauver s record good, though they had disagreed cn a few issues. The Tennessee Senator then came to the noint ne was oemg urged to run for fhe Democratic nomination and, in justice to his friends, he would have to make a public statement fairly soon. Therefore, he said, he would 'ike to have the President's ad-' vico. From this point on, Mr. Tru man did most of th? talking He said that the Democratic bombs isn't large enough to per mit us to waste fissionable mat erial on small a-bombs and ar tillery shells. Instead the Air Force argues that one of its bombers can deliver an a-bomb anywhere that atomic artillery can fire. It also argues that the risk of keeping atomic artillery close to the front is too great. The Army replies that small atomic missiles are easier to deliver and that atomic artil lery has an added morale value. So far, the Army has been win ning out. MAILBAG G. Y., Bladcnsburg. Md. The bleed plasma recently shipped to Argentina did not come from people who donate voluntarily to the Red Cross. This was "commrecial blood" sold to Sharpe and Dohme, a pharma ceutical house, by professional donors who were paid bv the drug firm. The army will not buy this commercial plasma, but only accepts blood donated through the Red Cross. So this material was not being diverted from troops in Korea . . . Fur thermore, only 29.8 pounds of plasma was shipped, not a ton, as stated in newspaper accounts . . . The erroneous estimate of a ton of blood came from the fact that a saline solution and other material necessary for the ad ministration cf the plasma ac companied the Argentine ship ment. The government has strict rules governing the ship- i ment of this rommerrinl hlnnd VaS ! nut rf rrn or a limited amount can be ex ported in any one period, none cf which can go to Russia or its satellites. CRIME CLEANUP For the first time in years For over th r wj'jks we ve had ov." c'-os Luried so deep in go""" r "n regulations that we've "'r-srst convinced our selve; vote Republican. First v" It. .1 the pleasure of distrib- ! 'T come 15 salary and with Uing receipts covering a pe ilod of 12 months. Added to this was the figuring of Excise Tax to the federal treasury cov ering the proper per cent on payrolls for unemployment con--ib"ions. Nebraska came in for her share on this item, so oy acuiing A to B, subtracting excess ever 3,0C0 bucks from each we arrived at an "Experi ence Rating" that did not ex ceed 6l2 per cent of the whole, thereby escaping a ' Voluntary , Contribution,'' if ycu get what we mean. Catching our breath, we moved on to withholding. This is a little procedure of deduct ing each week no small percent age of each printer's hard earned pay check to be sent over to Yamin (wherever the hell that is). Once a month we rush over to the bank, make a de posit which they forward to the Federal Reserve in Kansas City. In turn we get a card from Kansas City that looks like it had been shot full of holes with the family blunder bus. It is important to hang on to these. Each three months we gather these cards together, make up a complete report of all happen ings money wise in this particu lar joint, and send the whole kit and kaboodle to the revenue office in Omaha. There we are issued a number like any in mate, although to our know ledge it is not hung in the rogues gallery not yet. -K Added to this, each week we deduct one and one-half per cent from that payroll check again, to which we dig down in our pocket for an additional one and one-half per cent, which should total three. (Did you ever take one and one-half per cent from anything in little dribbles, then take one and one-half per cent from the whole she-bang and make it come out even? We worked on this for a week, gave up and threw in an extra 17 cents). Now we come to Form No. 940 (Rev. Oct. 1951). That's where you take the figures from Sched ule B, less credit as shown in Schedule A (From Item 16 1, as long as it is not more than 90 per cent of that shown in Item 2. At this point you take time out for a treatment from Doc Stibal, a cup of java with the coffee club to catch up on the gossip you've missed out on for the past 10 days, and test the knot in the rope you've kept handy in case the going gets too discouraging. Now that we've got the book keeping done for the govern ment, we arrive at Schedule C, the crime-ridden District of Co lumbia is getting a good going I which adds up the profit and over. Credit for cleanuo goes loss from the business you've to a lot of people: forthright tried to manage in your spare Sen. Matt Neely of West Vir- time. We took one look at this ginia who hasn't pulled a single ' one which is to be attached to ounch . . . Arnold Bauman, the Form 1040, had visions of the oarty needed new blood and he hara-nitimg New York attorney Kelauver uommutee mvosiiga- welcomed "Youn Democrats" ' whom Neely put in charge of the tions on TV and higntaiied it into national Dolitics. Hi.s at-! cleanup . . . Also Kuss Wiggins, for Cecil Karr s onice in me reienuess managing ecuior oi uonai DUiiamg. n ne can i Kety the Washington Post, who kept us out of jail that's when we poundmg away at the Washing- use the rope The Washington Merry -Go-Round Kiiteri i at the l'o.-t Offic-f at l'lattsmnutti, Nebraska. u'x sftoonil las.s mail mattr in accordance with the Act of Congrc-s of March 2. U79. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year in Cass and adjoining counties. $4.00 per year elsewhere, in advance, bv mail outside the citv of Plattr niyutli. By carrier in l'laUsinouth, 20 cents for two weeks. (Copyright 1949, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS : TRUMAN WAS FATHERLY TO SENATOR KE FAUVER; HST TOLD KEFAUVER HE WOULD "UNDERSTAND" HIS CANDIDACY; TENNESSEE SEN ATOR WILL OFFICIALLY FILE IN OHIO JUST BEFORE FED. 6. Washington. Only two people knew exactly what happened "during the 30 minute:; when President Truman and the man who may take over the leadership of titude was friendly, almost fatherly. He thanked Kefauver for his candor. The Senator explained dur ing their conversation that he faced the deadline of February 5 in Ohio, where his supporters wanted to enter his name in the Democratic primary. Personal letters from Kefau ver authorizing primary dele gates to support him are now in the hands of Timothy Hogan Cincinnati Democratic leader! but Hogan has been instructed by Kefauver not to make public these letters before Feb. 1. "As the leader of our party vou have every right to know about my plans, Mr. President " declared the crime-busting Sen ator, explaining that, despite newspaper speculation, this was the first time he had flatly stated his intentions outside his own family. In brief, Kefauver clearly in dicated that he would run. At no time, however, did the Presi dent tip off his own political plans, and Kefauver did not press him. As the meeting closed, the President stressed the point -"There will be no differences between us . . . whatever you do will be with my understanding " In other words, Truman did not give Kefauver his blessing but did say he would "under stand." Atomic Feud HPV, I xii.- flimy carrea a wooden ton police and crime situation i -fc until someone had to act ... 1 We just ain't had no time to Previously U. S. Attorney Maury run a newspaper. They tell us Fay made a sincere effort to you work three months out of spotlight the gambling racket every year for the government, here, but got the run-around If that's true, then we will in all from the police hierarchy. Now probability be back in the groove Neely - Bauman - Wiggins have come April 1 that's April Fool's outmaneuvered gift - accepting Day, the idea for which must Police Chief Bob Barrett, euch- have come from taking a look ring him into a position where at the great American people, he resigned . . . When Con- gressman James Davis of Stone To top it off, this morning's Mountain. Ga., ' was put in mail brings us a letter signed charge of a D. C. crime cleanup "A Journal Reader."' We're glad not long ago, he fizzled. The somebody reads it. One of our senator who continually asks good advertisers put us behind questions aimed at helping de- the "eight ball" Wednesday on linauent ponce is weuter oi this subject wnen ne asuea us Idaho. about attending a luncheon Friday that we had smeared all over the front page of Monday's issue and we came up with the question, "What lunch." It won't be so tough to reconvince him that we do have a reader, brought $17.50, while John Nor ris and Lewis Rogers had hogs box to Cabttol Hill last S 'at Omaha at $17.25 Norris had nnrl comfni:,, , ?.CK-' in o-Diohinnr 2fif) and Roeers had and carefully unveiled it behind ' 19 weighing 260. and Rogers had v,iuor-u uuuis ui me congression al Atomic Energy Committee Inside was a small-scale mod el of a giant atomic howitzer capabio of firine atomic nrm Five Shippers Have Hogs At Omaha Market Last Week Five jBass county shippers had now that we've heard from this hogs at the Omaha market last guy. week. The five shippers sent f- t 129 hogs to market at prices His letter states, Am encics- ranging from $17.25 to $17.75. ing a copy of "Labor." I thought Too price was received by you might be interested in an Marvin Petereit with 26 hogs article on the activity of the weighing 209, and Vernon Dett- A. M. Association whom, you so mer 29 hogs at 205 pounds. Both ably defended in the last Con- ,',1 ti7 7.i .Tnhn Hansen eressional election. If you re- had 31 at ' 253 pounds that , collect, I took you to task for your &LUI1U aoOina'. fcuvtium-.iH medicine or "Socialized Modi cine" as the A. M. A. like to call it. You also cletenaea voiun 94 weighing 225 Glen Todd had 23 steers weighing 1,433 that sold at $34: 7 DENVER Colorado's ski fans will concede better snow conui lerv shpllc Tim , 1 laree that it must ho u.. tm to no other part of the I train. J I i0be, not even Iceland. A card Backstage between n-m a,. !,r received asking for a Colo- and-Air Force . hot battle h-U rado ski folder and schedule of been brewing over the use of I events for this ssason. The card atumic artillery and buby a-, was from Kr. Amgi'imsoon cf bombs. Actually, the smaller an 1 Reykjavik. Iceland H - 17 777 - 5 s&415amM HfllUE mmmmmmm Carnegie Let Tomorrow Care for Itself r.J" ARIAN BOYD, St. Paul, Minn., brought her first child home from the hospital thrilled with anticipation. She felt qualified to care for the baby. Hadn't she spent several summers caring for small children during high school and college vacations? Also she had had a two years' teachers' training course, which included child psychology. But she was to learn that there is a great difference between theory and practise. She was alone in a strange city; her hus band had to be 'away most of the time. So she lived through the usual tortures of a young mother, with no experience and no doctor or nurse at her elbow. An overwhelming sense of responsibility came over her as she realized that she and she alone was wholly responsible for her child; it was up to her whether he lived or died. What a job she had undertaken! She wor ried constantly. If the baby cried, she worried for fear he was ill and couldn't tell where the pain struck. If he didn't cry, she worried for fear his vocal organs were not as strong as they should be. She would peek at him far too frequently to see if he were still alive. If she took him out, she was afraid to cover his head; he might smother. She was afraid not to cover it; he might catch cold. Oh, yes, Marian took motherhood all of the time with a dose of worry. But somehow the little human dynamo got through such in cidents as falling off a high porch, down strange basement step.-, out of the back of a speeding automobile and he always came up smiling. So by the time another baby made its appearance, Marian had learned to do the best she could and take things as they came. She found by adopting this policy, she could breathe more freely, actually enjoy her day and her child. She selected a motto, "Don't cross a bridge until you come to it." She now has four healthy, husky and happy youngsters, and she cares for all four of them with greater ease than she once cared for' one. Her message to other young mothers: Just do the best you can every day; let tomorrow take care of itself. tary Health and Hospital Insur ance plans as being equal to the government brand. I would like you to write an editorial on your reactions to the above men tioned article. (Signed) A Jour nal Reader." -X ' Brother, (This greeting may not be appropriate as it looks like Form 40 writin' to me) we ain't in no moud at this time to be commentin' on any govern- Capitol News LINCOLN Is Nebraska be coming a one-party state? Some of the leaders of the Democratic party fear so. They point to the long years Repub licans have held the statehouse and what's worse, they say, few Democrats have filed so far for the April 1 primary. As cf last week end, only three persons had filrd with the secretary cf state on the Demo cratic ticket: Mrs. Mina B. Dillingham of Omaha, a political unknown, for governor. Samuel Freeman of Hubbell, who collected only 3,394 votes in 1950, for First district congress man. Stanley D. Long, Grand Island druggist, who was braten in the last election for regent of the University of Nebraska, for U. S. senator. Reason? , Wrhat is the reason? For one thing, political-minded people will tell you. Republican R. D. Harrison's thrashing cf Frs mont's Mayer Carl Olson, in the special Third district congres sional election, quickly cooled off the aspirations of many Demo crats who had been encouraged by the creditable showing Wal ter Raecke, the Csntral City lawyer, made against Gov. Val Peterson in 1950. Peterson won. about 5 to 4. The Republicans succeeded in casting a Truman label on Ol son from which he found it im possible to becom? unstuck. The echnique was this: State G. O. P. Chairman Dave Martin told street corner crowds that Olson m.ildn't be anything but a Tru man Democrat; that if he were. ie'd have no effectiven:ss in congress. Harrison. himself, never mentioned the subject. -rMn was the hatchet man and he did a superlatvie job. The effect is impressive. A visitor to the statehouse last week was a man high in the Democratic party's leadership in Nebraska. His name cannot be used. "I had planned to become a candidate," he said, ' but I can't support the spending policies and the corruption of the Tru man administration, so how could I campaign. If you stand up as an anti-Truman man, you'll catch hell from both the Republicans and the down-the- line Democrats." Hope Democrats are still hopeful they can come up with some strong candidates. Raecke has not indicated what he will do and, in answer to a Nebraska Press Association question, said, "I don't want to set a deadline for myself." And in the First congressional district, Lincoln Demos are working cn Attorney Clarence G. Miles io run again against Rep. Carl T. Curtis. The Repub- j lican won in 1953, 67,000 to 58 -000. Mil:s has not yet given his answer. Meanwhile, William Ritchie of Omaha, the former State Demo chairman, has said he may be a candidate for the U. S. senate on an anti-Truman platform. Reasonable State Superintendent of Pub lic Instruction Freeman B. Deck- mcnt medicine, although a shot of Item 2 might change our at titude some. At this minute we're agin' anything additional the government wants to get its mitts in, and besides wc just don't aDpreciatc replying to a ghost. We wish you would come out in the open just like we're j doing when we put our initials 1 ncht here. RRF er says a "reasonable" redis tricting program will solve a large portion of Nebraska's edu cational problems. A realign ment of districts, he insists, "'will solve cur teacher short - ! age and to a large extent, our i financial problems." ' The trouble with Nebraska, the superintendent thinks is. "We have a lot of youngsters and a lot of valuation, but we have too many schools." As a matter of tact, he says, "We don't really have a teacher shortage; just too many schools. This is illustrated by the fact that last year we had 16 school districts with one pupil each and used 16 teachers. That isn't sound, financially, educa tionally or socially." I Also These were other statehouse developments of the week: Department heads were au thorized to grant increases of up to $10 a month for low-salaried clerical workers in the capitol. Walter E. "Duke" Nolte re signed as deputy attorney gen eral to join a Seguin, Tex., bank. Attorney General Beck ruled that state assistance depart ment may refuse aid to persons who have relatives in other states able to support them. Shipments Of Livestock Over State Lines Cut Though Americans travel from California to New YorK without restrictions it's becom ing increasingly difficult for our animal population to move across state boundary lines without "passports." This was reported today by the American Foundation for Animal Health in a new bull etin suggesting that farmers should make sure their livestock are healthy before attempting to ship them interstate. "Failure to get "passports' or clean bills of health, may cost the shipper hundreds of dollars in state fines, plus delays in shipping, extra feed bills and quarantine losses," the Foun dation said. "Most states require health certificates from a licensed vet erinarian, stating that the tran sit animals are free from dis ease. Most states also require brucellosis and tuberculin tests for cattle, mallein tests for horses, and a scabies examina tion for sheep. "Swine cannot be shipped interstate unless prop?rly vac cinated for hog cholera. Most states require that dogs come from a rabies-free area, or un dergo vaccination for rabies be fore they can be transported interstate. "Protecting cur animal pop ulation from foreign diseases this country has 'port of entry' stations where veterinarians . examine all animal newcomers to make sure they aren't dis , ease carriers." t Because animal passports are so vital in helping prevent the spread of animal diseases. foundation authorities suggest ed that before owners ship animals interstate, thev make sure proper health certificates are made out and certified. A few minutes spent in getting such credentials may save need less exnrmse and weeks of bother, they added. r.I'M-CHF.WING DISCOURAGED LANCASTER, O. Police gum med up the works for Lancaster children who oersisted in spend ing their school lunch money at chewing gum machines. Sev eral elaborate machines were confiscated after parents com- o i ri f(L P fit's