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PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY Monday - Thursday Largest Paid Circulation of All Cass County Newspapers VOLUME 71 SIXTEEN tAGES PLATTSMOUTH, CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1952 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NUMBER 37 CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER HE over, uainc Presidential win ularity Polls' Taft, Kefauver, Stassen, Eisenhower and Kerr that's the way the presidential popularity contest ran in Cass county at the April primary Tuesday, unofficial tab ulations reveal. A write-in candidate, Robert Taft held better than a 100-vote margin over Harold Stassen, ex-governor of Minnesota and college president. And he also handily out- M-t.nncfcri another write-in rnTwMrltP Hpriprnl Dwio-ht T) nenhower by more than 300 down the line. Pvt. James Earl In Air Force fr Pvt. James A. Earl j Pvt. James A. Earl, son of Mr. j and Mrs. C. J. Earl of Alhambra, ) Calif., formerly of Plattsmouth, I is completing air force basic ! indoctrination training at Lack land Air Force Base. i Pvt. Earl has been in the air j force a short time. His par- j ents left here a couple years! ago. ; In basic training, the 23-year- : old airman will be prepared for entrance into air force technical ; training and for assignment in specialized work. ; Pastry Shop At New Location; Remodeling Ends Stan's Pastry Shop has moved to its new location, just one door north of the former establish ment at 112 North 6th. The moving was completed last week end. Remodeling of the new quar ters was started several months ago. when the former business occupying the building closed out. The extensive remodeling, accomplished mostly through Ms Propupek's own efforts, had btn held up on numerous oc casions when it appeared to be well near completion. Holding up the remodeling ac tivities mostly was a strike at major companies in Omaha sev eral months ago. The strike necessitated increased bakery activity in the pastry shop. Now located at 124 North 6th street, Stan is planning an open house to show the new facilities of the modern bakery to resi dents of Plattsmouth and Cass county. Rev. Mundinger To Give Special Easier Message The Rev. George Mundinger, nator of First Lutheran church. Washington and Avenue D, has been selected as speaker for a soecial Lenten telecast over WOW-TV, 10:30, Wednesday evening, April 9. Sponsored by the Luhteran churches Missouri S3rnod of the Omaha area, this special Holy Week program will feature a choral group comprised of se lected personnel from Lutheran church choirs as well as repro ductions of portions of the Luth eran liturgy. The Rev. Mr. MuTdinger will speak on the three significant events of the passicn week. First Lutheran church is a member cf the sponsoring or ganization, Lutheran church Missouri Synod, which has 1. 800.000 members in 5 000 church es in America. It sponsors the International Lutheran Hour which is heard locally over radio station KBON 2:00 p. m. and 7:30 p. m. every Sunday. Mrs. Rose Day returned home Monday Ircm Ilansas City where she has been visiting for the past few weeks. :r ! f ' 1 " I IS? 9 ii'MMlHl ' I votes. MacArthur ran far On the democratic ticket, i Senator Esles Kefauver had ! had things pretty much his own ! way. He edged oil-millionaire Senator Robert Kerr of Okla i hcma by nearly 400 votes, j And Governor Val Peterson , found the going tough in Cass county. The three-time Nebras ka governor trailed aging Sen- i ator Hush Butler by COO votes in the 23 Cass county precincts. Peterson carried only three pre cincts in the republican battle. Dwight Griswold, former Ne braska governor, was an easy winner in the republican short ; term senate race, while Win. 1 Ritchie of Omaha outdistanced i his opponents in the democratic ' battle. i Cass countians also favored ; ex-lieutenant governor, Robert Crosby over Lincoln Mayor Vic- tor Anderson in the republican ! race for the nomination of ! governor. Crosby held close to a 300 vote margin in the 23 : precincts. Walter Raecke of ' Central Citv. former member of ' the state legislature was the i unanimous selection of the democratic party. , : Other political issues of in- I terest to Cass countians were j in the attorney general race and the congressional battle. C. S. Beck received the Cass coun- ! ty nod for the republican nom ination as attorney general, over Max Towle of Lincoln. Beck held a 300 vote margin in the county. Reman Hruska and James Hart received their party nom- inations for Congress. Hruska took the republican nomination i a- iuarr uttiaie Willi ueorpe Thomas and Hart easily distanced Paul Manhart. out- In county voting. 22 precincts j reporting, Taft. a write-in can- i uiuate uh me itepuDiican llCKet has received 888 votes, one hun dred more than Stassen. Eisen- ; hower, also a write-in candidate, j was named on 576 ballots. Stas i sen was an overwhelming choice for second place however. ! Kefauver held a commanding j lead over Kerr in the Democratic ' poll. Countians gave the Ten ' nesseean 815 votes to 465 for the j Oklahoman. In the bitter senate battle be ; tween Butler and Peterson. Cass j county voted 1518 to 972 for , Butler. They also favored Rob i ert Crosby over Anderson, 1242 I to 1035. Raecke drew 1111 votes ! in leading the Democratic bal I lot for governor, i 'Continued on Page Seven) One Precinct Still To Report Tabulation of the ballots in Plattsmouth, second ward, second precinct, are not expected to be completed until late this afternoon. It is the only precinct in the county still to report. Freshened after a short night off, ballot counters re turned to their tasks this morning: to continue their marathon counting. The vote will not have any ma jor affect on the election results. Louisville, Union File County Officer Lists Two additional lists of offi- cers for Boys' and Girls' County Government were received here early this week, Richard Peck, chairman of the promotion, has disclosed. Results of local elections were received from Union and Louis ville for the American Legion sponsored program. Boys' and Girls' County Government is an annual promotion of the Amer ican Legion post at Plattsmouth and is carried cut under the Le gion's Americanism committee, of which Peck is chairman. Union officers who will be here for the April 9 government day are Richard Attebery, sher iff; Shirley Ann Lee, clerk of the district court; Ann Carol Stan der, clerk; Betty Neil, superin tendent of schools; Dorothy Schanot, treasurer; Ramona Mc Quin, register of deeds; Jim At tebery, surveyor; Marvin Atte bery, commissioner; Gene Her mann, judge; Ronald Boswell, attorney; Joyce Stevens, asses sor, and Helen McClane, welfare director. Bridge Levy Is Loser; Sale Of Farm Okayed J A proposal to set up a one mill bridge levy in Cass county was overwhelmingly defeated at the polls Tuesday by about 300 votes. The proposal entered on the ballot by Cass county com missioners at the request of the Cass County Farm Bureau pro posed that one-mill be levied lor bridge purposes. A similar proposal was defeat ed when submitted to the county voters two years age. The issue was generally favor ed in the rural precincts, but with some exceptions, lost in the urban voting. Eleven of the 23 precincts favored the levy, with 12 going against. On another special issue, the voters favored sale of the county poor farm. It was given more 1 than a 700 vote majority. Twenty-one of the 23 precincts voted in favor of selling the farm. Prior to the election, county comrmssioners pointed out that the county is not in the farming business, and that sale of the farm would provide some funds for carrying out other programs, one of which the commissioners explained would be repairs to the court house. Voting was particularly brisk on the bridge levy proposals with nearly 4,500 ballots being cast. Only about 4,000 ballots were cast in the county farm issue. For Against Bridge Levy 1826 2070 County Farm 2089 1401 Totals do not include Platts mouth city. Second Ward, sec ond precinct. All other 22 pre cincts are included. Shellenbarger, Huebner, Named i To School Board j Although watching the school : bond issue fall for the second I time, two members of the board i of education witnessed their j nwn rptiirn tn the sr.hcfol board i toco rc, lit nf th ritv plertinri i vm Tnocau ' A. W. Huebner, chairman of the board, and C. E. Snellen- harp-er vine nrpsident nf the ! board, were re-elected over five i nther ranriiriates. including ; thre write-ins. Huebner was the leading vote getter, while early returns had SteDhen Davis close on the heels of Shellenbarger, who picked up votes in the final precinct to report. Howard Davis, also a candidate on the ballot, was fourth. Robert Mann, a write-in can didate, captured 46 votes, Searl Davis received 20 votes and Emil Weyrich, one. Second Ward Huebner 167 Shellenbarger 132 Steve Davis 116 Howard Davis 92 Mann Searl Davis Weyrich First Ward Huebner 159 Shellenbarger 120 Steve Davis 127 Howard Davis 137 Mann 21 Searl Davis 12 Weyrich 1 303 300 162 137 5 8 197 173 116 90 Land Is Named Deputy Sheriff Charles Land of Union, forme' marshal there, has been named deputy county sheriff. His ap pointment was announced Tues day by Sheriff Tom Solomon. He had been marshal at Un ion for five years. Land started on the new job Tuesday. Named county officers at Louisville were Ken Dobbs, treasurer; Richard Schoeppner, surveyor; Jim Ossenhop, sheriff; Steve Gray, attorney; John Hammons, judge; Marian Al frey, clerk; Wonda Isaac, super intendent of schools; Fred My ers, register of deeds; Joyce Hutchison, clerk of the district court; John Worthman, asses sor; Jerry Partridge, commis sioner, and Ronald Hinkle, wel fare director. Enrollment of the Louisville and Union schools bring to six the number of county schools that have already submitted lists of officers. Greenwood, Eagle, Weeping Water and Plattsmouth had previously filed their election results. Five other county schools have also indicated that they will send delegates to the annual event. During the all-day program, high school officers will become familiar with the activities of the offices to which they were elected. County officers will show the kids the 'Topes." East ridge Studies Mortars Pvt. James H. Eastridge of Plattsmouth (right) adjusts the angle cf fire on a 60 mm mortar by the elevating handle during instruction prior to actually firing the weapon on the range. Pvt. Kenneth G. Erussel of Davenport, la., a fellow-trainee in Com pan3' "F", 61st Infantry, of the Eighth Division, acts as assistant gunner. Both men are in their 10th week of a 16-week basic train ing cycle at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Private Eastridge is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Eastridge of Plattsmouth and is married to the former Mary Sporer of Murray. 99 onver uonar Egg Hunt For Kids Scheduled Several hundred Plattsmouth youngsters will scavenger the city park area next Saturday, April 12, in search of "silver dollar' Easter eggs. The eggs will be carefully placed in partial concealment throughout the park area. How many eggs will be found is still to be determined, but sponsors of the Easter egg hunt explain that value of the eggs, in addi tion to their market price, will run close to the 100 mark. The groceries particpating are The Handy Market, Hinky Dinky, Jochimsen's, Joe's New Way Market, Myers Market, Ru back's Super Store and Roen nichsen's. The egg hunt, which is for children under 9 years of age, will be started with a parade at 10:00 a. m. The band will par ticipate, and will form in front of Cass theater with the new model cars and all children who will take part in the hunt. The parade will move east on Main to Third Street, right at Third Street to Second Avenue, up Second Avenue to the city park. Mrs. Dye asks that all children five years of age and under be attompanied by a parent. The entire area will be roped off, and will be policed by the city police force and Chamber members. A special area will be roped off for all children four years of age and under. A large number of the eggs to be displayed in the park will bear the store name of Platts mouth merchants. Finders of the eggs will receive a silver dollar from firms whose names appear on the eggs. . In addition to the egg hunt, the children will also parade through the Plattsmouth busi ness district to the accompani ment of elements of the Platts mouth high school band. They'll be in the linest of automotive company, too, according to a re cent announcement. Seven local automobile deal ers have agreed to enter 1952 model cars in the Easter parade. On display will be leading auto mobiles of 1952 as sold by local dealers. To be on review are the new Nash, Dodge or Plymouth, Ford, Studebaker, Kaiser-Fraser, Pontiac, and Hudson. The Easter egg hunt and auto style show is a promotion of the Plattsmouth Chamber 01 Com merce Retail division. Mrs. Zu lemma Dye is chairman of the committee in charge of arrange ments. Other members of the committee, who are currently completing arrangements for the Saturday activities, are Miss Helen Eiting, George Smith and John Soennichsen. Former Sheriff Dies On Coast Word has been received here of the death of Gus A. Hyers. 78, at Los Angeles, California. Mr. Hyers was the son of Ruben W. Hvers. for many vears sher iff of Cass county in the late ! eighties and early nineties. j Gus Hyers was born in Platts- mouth and spent his youth in this community, later movine to Lincoln. He was appointed state sheriff of Nebraska by Governor McKelvie, serving un til in 1927 when he removed to the west coast. Survivors are the widow and one daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Johnson of Omaha were iraests at the Al bert Hilfiker home Sunday. Parole Violator Sentenced To Jail Jack Liddick was sen tenced to ten days in jail by County Judge Raymond J. Case after Liddick pleaded guilty to a charge of intoxi cation Monday. Judge Case also added five more days onto the jail sentence since Liddick had violated terms cf his parole. Liddick was paroled to Sheriff Tom Solomon three days before the jail sen tencing after he had been convicted of his second of fense of drunken driving. McHugh Holds Slight Margin Over Dooley Edwin T. McHugh. Murdock banker and attorney, took a slisht edge over his opponent Tom Dooley of Papillion in the race for third district represent ative to the Nebraska unicam eral. McHugh carried Cass county by nearly a 500 margin but trailed Dooley in Sarpy county by slightly more than 300 votes. Both names will be on the gen eral ballot in November. In other non-political voting Tuesday, District Judge Thomas E. Dunbar, who was unopposed was easily the choice here, al though several write-in votes were cast. No one write-in had more than a few votes. Likewise, Judge Raymond J. Case was unopposed for county judge and was easily elected. Case incidentally was the lead ing vote getter in the county. County Survey or Glenn John son, recently appointed by the county commissioners, was also unopposed and easily elected. Cass Sarpy Total McHush ..2055 1097 3152 Dooley . . 1570 14070 2977 Totals do not include one Cass and one Sarpy county precinct. Second Ward, second precinct, Plattsmouth, is not complete. Music Talent Plans Program For Wednesday Talented musical students at Plattsmouth high school will be host to residents of the com munity, when the group again presents its annual pre-contest music program. The program will be given Wednesday night, April 9, at the high school audi torium. To be presented is the full program which the local stu dents will present at the Auburn district contest April 18 and 19. Instrumental and vocal solos, small groups, ' the band and chorus will participate. In all 24 entries, comprising more than 100 musicians will be on the program. Presented annually just prior to the district music contest, the program is one of the feature events of the Plattsmouth music department, since practically every musical student partici pates in one of the groups. A definite program will be announced Monday for the Wednesday night program, ac cording to Music Director Ward Pscherer. S Sgt. Carl Hofacker. station ed at the air base at Roswell, New Mexico, arrived here Wed nesday moniirig to enjoy a months furlough with old friends. nn n McShane, Giles Pace Assessors; Nolte Is Winner Willard McShane, Democrat, easily passed the primary hurdle m seeking eection. as county as sessor. McShane had a 600 vote ; margin over his Democratic op i ponent, A. W. Cloidt, of Platts , mouth. McShane, whose home is at ; Louisville, was appointed asses i sor by the county .commissioners following the death of the late ' Wm. Puis last fall. He carried i 22 of the 23 precincts in the ' county. j Opposing McShane on the j ballot in the November general i election will be Ernest Giles of Plattsmouth, victor over E. A. Ingram of Louisville in the Tuesday primary. Giles won the ; Republican nomination with : better than a 600 vote majority. In other county voting, Wil , liam F. Nolte successfully de ; feated Sam T. Gilmour on the : Republican ballot for county i commissioner. Currently presi ' dent of the county board, Nolte , was leader in five of the eight , percincts with one even. Lead i ing the write-in candidates on ! the Democratic ballot were A. ' W. Propst and Sam Gilmour. I Voting results: Assessor Democratic McShane Cloidt Republican Giles Ingram Commissioner Republican Nolte Gilmour Democratic A. W. Propst 971 . .396 . .1393 . . 787 424 288 .32 Sam Gilmour 30 One precinct is still not re ported. Six Draftees Leave Today Six Cass county young men departed this morning, Monday, for the armed services under the April draft quota for Cass coun ty. In addition 18 others left for their physical examinations. Inducted today were Dean A. Oberle and Richard L.Umland of Eagle. Irvin R. Franke and Robert E. Beck of Louisville, Ervin H. Brockhoff of Elmwood and Samuel L. Mansfield of Ashland. Louisville Man Awarded Damages Ernest A. Beck of Louisville was awarded damages amount- i ine to S550.15 in county court j following hearing of his damage ' action brought against Donald O. Otto of Walton. Beck was awarded the dam ages as a result of an accident which occurred on a county in tersection several months ago. ' He charged Otto with negligence. I Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Perry and 1 T. H. Pollock left Wednesday ' for Arapahoe, where they will s-end a few days. School Building Program Blasted By Voters Again Plattsmouth's school building program took the knock-out j count for the second time within six weeks, despite the attempt to j satisfy more voters by trimming j the plan considerably. Defeated in a special election by a slim one per cent in late February, the proposed school building program, cut from $425,000 to $295,000 took a severe beating Tuesday. With a 55 per cent favoring vote needed, the bond issue drew less than 50 per cent of the vote. With defeat of the bond is sue, the task of reorganizing the Pattsmouth school system ap pears to rest on the shoulders of the board of education. Over crowded conditions, one of the purposes for which the building program was intended, will nec essarily continue to exist. The bond issue was hardest hit in the Second Ward, first pre cinct, where 188 voters opposed the Issue, while only 95 voted in its favor. It also fell behind In the First Ward, second pre cinct, where the voting was 145 for, and 189 against. Mayor Clement Woster will head the city govern ment for another two. years, according to the wishes of the voters Tuesday, over the write-in aspirations of Fred Vincent. Woster received a comfortable majority of the votes in all four precincts and holds a 700 vot? margin over his opponent. Also named to the city government by the voters Tuesday were Les Hutchinson and E. O. Vroman, council men for the second ward, Howard Hirz. first ward coun cilman. Albert Olson, city clerk, and James Graves, police magistrate. 1 Jca : Estes Kefauver v- ibbben xan Harold Stassen A guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Young is Mrs. Svend Munkhof of St. Louis. Mo. Mrs. Munkof and Mrs. Young are sisters. First ward, first precinct vot ers gave it a slight six vote mar gin, 153-152 to complete the first three wards for which returns were known. Second ward, sec ond precinct voters gave the bond issue a slight 27 vote mar gin. The issue failed 657-761. Meanwhile similar school bond issues at Murdock and Alvo car ried, according to early results of voting in those precincts. Murdock just squeezed by but managed to get the approval of 55 per cent of the voters, while Alvo had similar success. Both school districts have plans for additions to the pres ent school buildings. A gymnasium-auditorium is included in the Murdock plans. Issues voted were $66,500 at Murdock and $28,000 at Alvo. Voting on the school bond: First Ward For Against 1st Precinct 158 152 2nd Precinct 145 " 189 Second Ward 1st Precinct 95 188 2nd Precinct 259 232 657 761 i i ! i - 3 . f Voters also returned A. w. i Huebner and Clair Shellenbar I ger to the Plattsmouth board of ; education. Both held" convin j cing margins over other can j didates in the field. ; City residents cast 1445 votes j in the election Tuesday with the , school bond, school board and i council races creating the most interest. The real battle in the city el ection was between E. O. Vro man and Francis Casey, can didates for the short term coun cil seat from the second ward. Vroman held slight leads in both precincts and unofficially holds a 38 vote margin. He held a 12 vote marsin in the second pre cinct after earlier returns had given him a 26 vote margin In the first Drecinct. In the other second ward council race, Les Hutehinsoja. won with comparative ease 5h both precincts. He held a 63 vote margin after votes were tabu lated in the first precinct, and the late returns from the sec ond precinct provided anoier 62 margin. Totals for the two candidates were 434 for Hut chinson. Republican, and 309 for Chriswiser. Democrat. Howard Hirz had little trouble in the first ward. He received 456 votes to 127 for Clyde Ros borough. Hirz, currently serving as councilman in the second ward, is now a resident of the first ward. He will succeed John Sattler. who declined to seek re-election. Vroman, elected for . a one year term, will complete the term of office started by Hirz a year aeo. Hutchinson was el ( Continued on Page Eight) Rev. Stewart, 71, Former Murray Minister, Dies Rev. J. C. Stewart, former minister at Murray, and father of Mrs. Chas. Boedecker of Mur ray, died at Omaha Monday night. March 31, 1952. He was 71 years old. Rev. Stewart had been mfci ister of the United Presbyterian church at Murray for many vears. He left Murrav in the late 1930"s. He had been in 111 health with heart trouble for a long time. After leaving Murray he be- ! came minister at Stanwood, la.. where he had preached for many years. He came to Nebraska from Spirit Lake. Idaho. He had been living in Omaha in re cent years. Surviving are his wife; one daughter. Mrs. Frances Boedeck er of Murray, and a son, Mor gan Stewart of Chicago. Funeral services will be "held at the United Presbyterian church at Murray Thursday aft ernoon, April 3. 1952, at two o'clock. Burial will be at Platts mouth. Hobson Funeral Home of Weeping Water is in charge of arrangements. Four County Men Get Scout Posts Four Cass countians. includ ing two Plattsmouth men. were elected to the Executive board of the Cornhusker Council. Boy Scouts of America, at the an nual meetine of the Council ! held at Hastings Sunday. Named to the board were E. A. Ernst and Orville Nielsen of Plattsmouth: Earl Stiff ler of Louisville: and Charles Mar shall of Elmwood. W. A. Fraser of Lincoln was elected president of the coun cil. He succeeds Dean F. E. Henzlik. Grocery Store Slates Carnival Ice cream, pop, candy, pop corn and peanuts will be given away free at Ruback Super Store this week end, as the store offers a "carnival" of bargains for Its customers. Journal Want Ads Pay I