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TIME PD.ATnrSRfldDlUTDO JJflDIMRIM PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY Monday - Thursday Consolidated with The Nehawka Enterprise -- Delivered Twice Weekly to More Than 3000 Cass County Families VOLUME 71 SIX PAGES PLATTSMOUTH, CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA; MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1952 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NUMBER 72 CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST. NEWSPAPER Couiriifty Geosys light flimctrecase More and more Cass county youngsters are receiving formal education at a steadily increasing cost, according to a compiliation of figures in the annual report of Sup erintendent of County Schools, L. A. Behrends. Behrends reports show that 3,428 students were en rolled in county rural and town schools during the past school year, compa.-ed with 3,362 the year before. There are more boys than girls attending county schools. Gas Rate Hikes In Effect With August Billing W. T. Gleason. manager of the Central Electric & Gas Company, announced that due to increased cost of gas pur chased at wholesale, increased fxes, increased cost of labor, maienai ana au omer uems w expense required to provide de- penaaDie natural gas service, had made it necessary for the Gas Company to make an up ward adjustment in its rate. The most important item of additional expense is the in crease in wholesale gas rates. On June 27, 1952, the Northern Natural Gas Company from whom Central purchases the gas distributed in Plattsmouth, was permitted to place their third increase in wholesale gas rates in effect. This third in crease, said Gleason w.ill in crease his company's cost of gas purchased at wholesale more than $1,600,000 above the rates recently approved by the Fed eral Power Commission, cover ing Northern Natural Gas Com pany's first two applications for rate increases. The wholesale rates his company is now forced to pay he said, are more than 60 per cent above the wholesale rates in effect during the early part of 1950. It is impossible for our com pany to absorb all these in creased costs he said, and therefore effective with the bill ing for August 1952, new gas rates amounting to an increase of only 5 cents per thousand cubic feet will be placed in oper ation. The effect of this increase on the individual customer's bill will be small, Mr. Gleason said. For example, the bill for 1000 cubic feet will only be increased 5c from $1.45 to $1.50 or 3ATc. A bill for 5000 cubic feet will only be increased 25c, from 84.65 to $4.90 or 5.4. A bill for 10,000 cubic feet will be in creased 50c, from $7.40 to $7.90 or 6.8. A bill of 20,000 cubic feet will only be increased $1.00, from $12.90 to $13.90 or a very large user of 40,000 cubic feet would be increased $2,000, from $23.90 to $25.90 or 8.4. The average increase to all custom ers he said, is approximately 7.6 Tc Knorrs Start Remodeling Of Store Front Plans for a new front at the Knorr 5 cent to $1 store on Main street between Fifth and Sixth got underway this morn rg. An entirely new front will be constructed with some in terior remodeling also planned. Plans for the new front in clude large glass window display area topped by red glass with the store's gold sign above. The bottom of the store will be of aluminum. Windows will angle toward an inset doorway three feet back of the store front. Remodeling of the front will also mean com plete alterations to the window display region. Crewmen for Herman Tiekot ter tore out the front this morn ing and will rebuild the new front. Pittsburgh Glass Com pany will handle the glass work connected with installation of the new front. Plans are to repair the present store sign and to use it. At The Cass Comity Court House License for marriage was is sued in Cass county court to Paul Eugene Reinke, Jr., 23, of South Bend, and Norma Jean Schick," 21, of Elmwood. Charles W. Few was fined $10 and costs in county court on a charge of speeding. Complaint was Tiled by Patrolman Wise. Few pleaded guilty to the charge. ehooD hows The completed report shows that 2,595 grade school students, including 1,321 boys and 1.274 eirls attended schools during the past school year, while 833. including 432 boys and 401 eirls were enrolled in hish school, j For the year just ending. 1,753 coys and l,b75 girls were en rolled, compared to 1.723 boys 1 and 1,634 girls the preceding j year. j An increase is also anticipated i for the coming school vear..Ac- i cording to a county wide school i census recently completed, an increase of nearly 70 pupils can be anticipated. Rural school census was ud sliehtlv from 1401 last year to 1,428 this vear. A greater increase in anticipated city enrollment can be expected, since the census is up from 2. 668 to 2,703. Several city schools showed slight declines while Plattsmouth showed a consid erable increase. At the same time, costs of ed ucating each student have climbed. Receipts for the past school year in rural schools was ! $235,390.54 while expenses were t $193,903.30. The figures com i pare with receipts of $193,865.11 and expenses of $171,442.37 a year ago. In high schools a sim ilar increase is marked. Expen ses in city schools climbed from $459,937.27 to $520,915.40 while receipts went from $535,993.25 , to $620,428.30. ! Bulk of the increase in oper i ating costs is marked bv increas- cs ill icauicxs saianco. 111c ic- port shows that 26 male and 151 female teachers were em ployed in county schools, in ad dition to eleven male superin tendents. Other increases are marked bv an increase of from $6 to $7.50 per week for free hiah school tuition. Expenses under the free high school tuition program were $69,028 last year compared with $60,024 the previous year, while students attendins under th program dropped from 281 to 268. Rural teachers salaries aver aged just under $200 monthly. The report shows that $11,952 was paid each month to 60 teachers for a $199.50 average. Women teachers in city schools drew ah average of $251.31 a month for the nine month period or an annual sal ary of $2261.79. At the same time male teachers' salaries averaged $351.64. Rural schools for the coming year are asking for $124,937 through taxation while city schools have set a budget of $410,788 to be raised bv taxes. Announcement that district 19 has voted to contract for the coming year will cut the num ber of operating schools to 55. rural, plus 11 city schools. Board members Wilmer Harshman. Miss Evelyn Wolph and Oren Pollard of Nehawka. voted to contract since only one student resides in the district. They had three pupils last year. District 3 had top attendance for the past school vear at 23. (Continued on Page 6) Avoca Red Donors From Donors from four Nebraska communities offered 173 pints of blood during a recent Red Cross Bloodmobile visit to Avoca. Donors were from Avoca, Un ion, Elmwood and Nehawka. Donors included Louie All gayer, Mrs. Pauline Adams, G. L. Andrews, Bob Akins .Loyd H. Anton, Wm. Brendt, Mrs. John Berner, Valda Bornemeier, Os car Brandt, Leslie Behrns, Laura Brockhoff, Mrs. John Berner, Sr., Mrs. Leonard Brinkhoff, Mrs. Albert Bese, Mrs. Herman Bese, Wm. E. Berger, Herman Bredenkamp, Jim Burbee, Alvin Czeschin, Mrs. Francis Craw ford, Betty Crawford, John Compton, Joe Case, Mrs. Maxine Compton, Mrs. Hattie Dettmer, Mrs. Harvev Dettmer, Henry F. Dankleff. Mrs .Henry Dankleff, Mrs. Henry Dodenhof, Miss Ma rie Dankleff, Lyle Dankleff, John H. Dankleff, Mrs. Harry Ehmke, Harlan and Harry Ehmke, Walter Everman, John Emshoff, Mrs. Walter Everman, Mrs. John Emshoff. . Arnold French, Elsie Frans, Donald Freudenberg, E. A. Ford, Richard Lutz, Harry Ludwig, Orval Ganzel, Mrs. Orvai Gan zel. Margaret Garrison, Mrs. Henry Grafe, Phyllis Grunwald, Leaders Last . , : - Squeeze that trigger and you can't miss." That's the word Plattsmouth Reserve riflemen receive from their coaches as they line up on the firing range at Camp Carson, Colo. Plattsmouth unit, Co. H, 355th Infantry regiment in training with the 89th division, is in its second week of maneuvers at Camp Carson. Members of the unit, left to right, are Sgt. Robert Cappell, Sgt. Bill Cecil, both of Plattsmouth; Pfc. Merle Bornemeier of Murdock; Cpl. John Bradley of Murray; Pfc. Tom Rohan and Pfc. Don Aylor, both of Plattsmouth. The unit is expected to return to Platts- mouth on Sunday, August 10 . Damage Suit Asked $25,000 In District Court Arch A. Lamb of Missouri and Leo R. Vermillion of Kansas, were named defendants in a $25,000 damage suit filed in Cass county district court by Oliver j Henton. ! In his action, Henton alleges that as a result of an accident one-half mile north of the Mur ray corner last fall, he sustained damages and personal injuries. Henton's petition alleges that last September a tractor on which he was riding was over turned when a transport driven by Vermillion and a pick-up truck driven by Lamb collided at the intersection where Hen ton had stopped his tractor to await safe entrance to Highway 73-75. After the two vehicles col lided, the pick up truck collided with the tractor, overturning it causing damage and injuring Henton, the petition charges. Also named defendant in the suit is the Transit Incorporated of Herman, Nebraska, for whom Vermillion was employed. Rutherford In Fair Condition Fred Rutherford is reported in fair condition at Immanuel i hospital at Omaha following i major sureery on Tuesday of ! last wpk. Mr. Rutherford is ex j pected to remain at the hospital I for at least another week. New Owner At Mom's Cafe Mrs. Marine Tritsch, native of Plattsmouth, but more recently of Hamburg, la., and Nebraska City, is the new owner operator of Mom's Cafe on Main street. Mrs. Tritsch assumed man agement of the cafe on August 1, after purchasing it from Hy and Ruth Gruber, who had op erated the cafe for about five years. Mrs. Tritsch has been in the cafe business for over 22 years, 19 at Hamburg and three at Ne braska City, where she recently sold her interests. The cafe will feature dinners, sandwiches, short orders and homemade pie- Leo Scanlcn was an over Sun day visitor at Denison. Iowa, at the home of his parents and Uher relatives. Cross Blood Four Mrs. Marie Grunwald, Clifton Garrison. Mrs. Harry Hunteman, Mrs. William E. Heier, Wm. Ray, Ernest Haveman, Annie Hansen, Ivan Hansen, Robert Hallstrom, Elmer Hennings, Vera Hall strom, Allen Hauschild, Mrs. Fred Haveman, Frances Hen nings, Helen Fae Haveman. Miss Frances Hansen, Orville A. Happmann, Dorothy Hoback, Elmer HalLitrom. Mrs. W. V. Johnson, Mrs. Rasmus Jensen. Harry Jacobson, Neal Johnson, Ernest Jensen, Mrs. Horton Johnson, Horton Johnson. Elmer Johnson, Mrs. Bill Klemme, Glenn Kirchhoff, Mrs. Myrtle Krebs. WT. Gilfort Kime, Mrs. Anna Kepler, Herman Kamman, Mrs. Kamman, Mrs. Paul Lin hardt, Pauline Ludwig, Mac Luce, Ellis Lacy, Delores Lingle. Mrs. Merle Meyer, Ralph Mever, Earl Miller, Ben J. Mernen, Wm. Michelson, Nettie Mougey, Al fred Mever, John McQuinn, Donald Meredith, Margie Mere dith, Irene McQuinn, Fred Mey er, Henry Maseman. Mrs. Geo. Meyer, Henry Mueller, Mrs. John fcueller. Gus Neumeister, Eleanor Nutzman, Miidrea Neumeister, Marius Nelsen, Mrs. Nelsen, Mr. (Continued on Page 3) Year To Defend Honor Committeemen And Directors Of KKK To Meet Directors and committee chairmen of the King: Korn. Karnival Club are slated to meet Tuesday night, August 5, at the City Hall. President Richard Young called the meeting in an announce ment last week. The meet ing is called for 7:30. With the Karnival now only a little over a month away, activities are expected to start booming. AU board members and committee heads are urged to attend the session. At the session it is ex pected that a complete ad vance program for the Kar nival will be outlined. Thirty Compete In Share The Fun 4-H Contest A Plattsmouth 4-Her and two girls from Elm wood shared the number one spot in the 4-H Share the Fun contest held at Weeping Water Thursday. Miss Nancy Siemoneit of Plattsmouth with her tap dance, and Jolene Spohn and Raylene Miller of Elmwood with a mus ical reading on "Ma and the Ants" rated the number one spots. Both groups will compete in the state contest to be held later this year. . - -. : Alternates named at the con test were Janice Wiles of Platts mouth, toe dance, first alter nate; and Valerie Uffelman. Weeping Water, vocal solo, sec ond alternate. The event which drew 30 con testants was held at the agricul ture building July 31. Postpone Tractor Demonstration Hugh Stander today announc ed that the planned tractor demonstration originally sched uled to be held this afternoon will be held on Monday, August 11. Wet grounds forced postpone ment of the demonstration, Stander said. As a result the demonstration of the new John Deere tractor. No. 60, and the "soil surgeon" will be held one half mile south and one-half mile west of the Platte river bridge. The dem onstration will be held at two o'clock, August 11. The demonstration will be giv en by Stander Implement Com pany of Plattsmouth. Korean Vet Is Transferred To Georgia Camp Lt. and Mrs. Charles A. Seitz and daughter. Georgia, visited with Mrs. W. L. Dwver of Ween ing Water Saturday. Lt. Seitz is beinp transferred from Topeka. Kansas, to Camn Gordon. Geor gia for 13 weeks. Following the Georeia assign ment, he will report to the Far Tast. command, whore he served during 1950 with the 1st Caval ry Division in Korea. Democrats Confer Here Francis Robinson of near Ash land and Frank M. Morrison of McCook were here Saturday to call on Attorney Francis M. Casev. Mr. Robinson is a can didate for chairman of the state Democratic committer and Mr. Morrison is seeking the national committee position. Darl Ashbaugh's mother, from Omaha, is now making her home h'r m and family, Mr. and Mrs. Darl Ashbaugh - and-Crary. "School Days rr Approaching; Repairs Many A check of rural school build- ings over the week end indicated mat airuuuis uap i. far away for rural Cass coun- ; tlans. I With repairs and remodeling 1 to rural schools either completed j or in full swing, indications are that the sunmmer vacation is nearing the end of a long three- j month road. Rural students will j be heading back toward the I 'little white school house" in just four weeks, some even i sooner. i Nearly every rural school dis- j tnct has completed some neces sary repairs for the coming year. Including a new roof on Fairview school near Elmwood. rural schools are marked by considerable interior redecorat ing. Improvements to grounds and buildings have been notable throughout most county schools. Rural schools for the most part will start the first Monday in September, with a few slating ls.te . August openings. Most teachers have also signed on the dotted line for the coming year. Modern Service Station Planned South Of City Razing of the old station in preparation for expansion of the Texaco Service Station on the intersection of Highway 73 - 7S sr,H th Plat.t.stnniTth.Iiiilis- 75 and the Plattsmouth-Louis ville road got underway last week. j Plans for the station, operated by Alvin Smock, include exten- ! sion of the building to provide j a modern grease pit, roomy enoughb for two cars; room for washing cars, a complete remodeling-of the current build ing; construction of an all-concrete driveway and the addition of a lunch room. As Mr. Smock explained, plans call for a completely modern station built along the lines adopted for Texaco stations throughout the country. C. E. Welshimer, area distributor for Texaco products, is having the work done. Albert "Red" Young is doing the work. Pacific Junction Flier Is Dead Capt. Clyfton Vest, 33, of San ta Cruz, Calif., formerly of Pa cific Junction. Ia., was one of several Air Force men killed near Arthur, Nebraska, in the crash of an Air Force plane last Sunday. Funeral services were held at Santa Cruz, California, where Capt. Vest had lived. He was born and reared at Pacific Junc tion, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Vest. Surviving are his wife, Carol, and three children of Santa Cruz; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Vest, and his grandmoth er, Mrs. Minnie McCrary, all of Pacific Junction. Rumors That Beach To Close, False Rumors that Merritt Beach will be closed are false, D. J. Doody, manager of the resort, said today. Doody said rumors have been circulated that the beach would be closed. In fact, Doody explained that a test conducted, by the Omaha testing laboratories on July 31, 1952, give the beach a clean bill of health. Mrs. Faye C. Spidell was a surgery patient . at Methodist hospital at Omaha Saturday. She is reportedly showing rapid recovery. Improvements Of County And City Roads Up Road construction activity throughout Cass county, includ ing within the city limits of Plattsmouth, will be stepped up late this summer and early fall, according to requests tor bids currently being submitted by the irrigation notice to bidders is published ! in today s Plattsmouth Journal i on consirmction of the new con- ; crete paving on Washington ! Avenue and Webster Boulevard. Letting is scheduled for eight i o'clock on August 26. The pro- ject is a joint city and state : undertaking. At a department of roads and j irrigation letting on August 28, j bids will be asked for placing new gravel surfacing on .7 miles of highway No. 50 south of Weeping Water. The grading of the more than half-mile proj ect, the laying of new concrete pavement in Weeping Water and j the construction of a new bridge j according to a compilation of across Weeping Water creek is : local, county and state levies for : now in progress. : the current year. j Meanwhile activity in the j In addition they'll pay pro ! western end of the county where I portionately for care of patients a nine-mile stretch of highway at the three state mental hos- No. 1 is being extended, has been ct0OH n,in .o p nfr nf thp r.1rip r,iilP; fmm Murdock west to the county line is currently underway. The proj ect is financed with federal matching funds. Completion of the Cedar Creek road is also near. A project started earlier this summer, graveling of the road is now vir tually complete. Pavement north of Louisville on Highway 50 is another of the 1952 sum mer construction projects which will mean better roads for Cass i county These highway improvements along with road construction reported in the three commis- sioner districts marks rapid progress in improving roads in the county. Greer 40 Acres Brings $12,750 Forty acres of land near Greenwood brought just short of $350 an acre at auction on Wed nesday of last week. Richard Peck, attorney for the Greer trusteeship, disclosed that the 40 acres brought $12,750. The land was purchased by Harry Maiioff, who owns land just across the road from the Greer land. The land is located one mile south and one mile west of Greenwood. It is in Lan caster county. Lincolnite Is ! Rnrifr Af Mnnlv ' DUrleQ "niey Funeral services for Edward William Murphy. 68, who died at Lincoln Friday, were held Monday afternoon at Blessed Sacrament church with Rev. A. J. Kraemer officiating. Burial t was at Manley. former residence of Mrs. Murphy coin police station were honor ary pallbearers at the services. Uneven Weight Rolls Truck; Two Injured Ernest Pankonin of Louisville, in Plattsmouth on business to day, exhibited bandages and in juries which resulted in a rather freak accident last week. Pankonin, with assistance from an unnamed heluer, had loaded several cows, with calves at side, into a truck. En route frm the farm, the cattle shift- ed to one side of the truck. As aresult the truck rolled over, i Mrs. Fred Newman is spend Neither man was seriously in- ' ine a few weeks in St. Lonis iured although both sustained j where she was called by the itl bumps, cuts and bruises. i ness of a relative. Rock Bluff Homecoming Picnic Set For Aug. 17 Plans have been completed for conducting the annual kock Bluff homecoming at Platts mouth City Park on August 17, according to Dr. G. H. Gilmore of Murray, president of the Rock Bluff Homecoming Association. James C. Olson, secretary of the State Hitsorical Society at Lincoln, will be guest speaker, Dr. Gilmore announced. Dr. Gil more is also president of the Cass County Historical Society which he founded. Dr. Gilmore was elected presi dent of the association at a re cent meeting. Other officers elected at the time were Rex Young, vice president, and Mrs. George Mumm, secretary-treasurer. At the picnic a year ago. Dr. Gilmore, long-time resident of the Rock Bluff and Murray com munities, was honored for his 50 years of medical practice. The Association invited old timers to come and enjoy tht day and renew acquaintances. Ughtaiinig Stiiriikes Church; HgMgiDD Hleire 2.73 limclhes The weather man boosted corn harvpst jivuI f.ill planting prospects, plus the morale of Cass countians over tllG amZF Z l 1eUT' , . Accompanj ing the rain was the most severe electrical -storm of the sjimmer. The lightning blasts and thunder storm brought most r,f sleenincr Plattsmouth rpsiirprrf in life early Friday morning. r Residents Here To Pay $62.98 On Assessment Plattsmouth residents will pay $62.98 for each one thosand ; dollars of assessed valuation. i pitals, inmate at the Beatrice home for feebleminded and the University hospital. Plattsmouth taxpayers will pay 26.4 mills to the city. 24.6 mills for city schools and five mills to the county. Other coun tians will pay the 5 mill county levy but will have different lo cal and school assessments. Countians will also pay the same rate for care of Ca.ss coun ty inmates in the state institu tion. Instiutional payments are based on the rate of $2.50 per patient per day. Thev also pay the 6.98 mills ked by the ! state for the fiscal year. j : : V AlKVPI' I JIA f-llijifwl f - m uran ian Six Cass countians reported for induction into the Armed Forces this morning. Monday, i The sextette was called up in i the county's August draft quota. Reporting were Robert F. Sand, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Sand of Nehawka; Walter Smith of Union: Anton F. Fleck and George J. Newman of Louis ville: Richard W. Wohlfarth of Plattsmouth. and Wm. Richard Wolph of Avoca. Father Kelly's Successor Is Named By Bishop Bishop Louis B. Kucera has announced that the Rev. Raph ael Chonta will be assigned to the St. John's Catholic church of Plattsmouth, succeeding Fa ther John Kelly as assitsant pas- Father Kelly was recently transferred to Boys Town, where ne wm oe a religious irucioi rauier rwj m irae c ikm j N b k at 0mana 3rp Jam Sunday and will assume his ; KUv n Rpbert Kellv. 10. Boys Town duties on September ; nm, Thomas" Kellv. 15. n'i of 238 ! U Averm: rnd Jack Wilcoxen. Also transferred to Boys Town j 12 of ?Q4 U Avenue. 1 was Father Daniel F. Kealy, pas- i The bovs told Sheriff Solo tor of Ashland and Greenwood, rn.on. that thv vrD runnimr who Is now touring Europe fol- lowing the Eucharistic Congress j m Spain. Rev. s. J. biegiensKi ; j will succeed Father Kealy at j i Greenwood and Ashland. j j Father Kelly has been assist- ! ; ing Rt. Rev. Msgr. George Agius, j i who is currently on vacation. i Dr. G. II. Gilmore ft?"'' Only slight damage was repor ; ted in the city however follow - ing the electrical storm. Hard ; est hit was St. Luke's Episcopal '; church on Avenue A. Li&hjning ! reportedly struck ttae church : tower, destroying the cross atop the tower, and damaged the rof j and sides of the buildins. Recently remodeled with an i exterior rock finish, part of the j rock was dislodged. Damage to the new roof was also reported. F. I. Rea. manager of the Oon ! sumers Public Power office at ; Plattsmouth. reported following the storm that some electric j se'rviee was cut for a short per- iod in parts of the citv. Power was quickly restored and few ; noticed that the power was off. '- Slight damage was also re ported by E. A. Ernst, manager of tfee Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph office at Plattsmouth. Ernst reported one cable knock ed out and fuses out in scatter ed parts throughout the city , and rural area. Damage was generally considered not treat. Plattsmouth had one of the heaviest rainfalls reported in the state early Friday when 1.38 , inches fell here. Cass county ! farmers started counting the benefits after the r&in. Gener ally it boosted prospects for i what had already been termed one of the most nromising crops in years. The rains also meant ; much to farmers in nreparing i eround for fall nlantine. Prior j to the rain much of the farm i land in the county had been ! reoortedly in need of moisture. both for the corn and fall land ; prenaration Rainfall aeain Saturday night added additional insurance to ; crop prospects in the Platts I mouth area. Rainfall here Sat ; urday nisht was reported at 1.35 i inches. Rainfall for Julv sur- passed the five inch mark, ex ; elusive of the week end rains. While damage here, follow ing the electrical storm early Friday was minor, at Nebraska Citv. one woman. Mrs. Fred : Heuseman. 58. was bHled when ! lightning; struck a tree in the yard and aoDarentlr followed a clothes lhie into the house. Lisht but scattered hail was ; reoorted in isolated areas but aoDarentlv caused little if any ! damage throughout tMe county. Omaha Youths En Route To Texas On Forty Cents Four Omaha vouths. ages TO to 12. were delayed here in their trave's to Texas over the week nd bv Sheriff Tom ' Solomon. i The four bovs were en route gouth with 4Q cpnts amone them awav frrn home and were jro j ing to Texas Firestone Sale Successful Mei;in"?er Fireston? Store's? first business . annivrsiry sale wi? "very successful' Mrs. Lb Meisinger snid todv following the close of the big two-day "Prize winners at thp sale were Albert Scheumnn of Union, food miver: Mrs. Victor Meisirifeer of Louisville, radio- Clara E. Druecker of Union and Mrs. Natt'0 Snidell. pitcher and glass set; Fdwin Younkers and James E. Warga. canister sets; and Mrs. Helen Lanum, pitcher and glass set. Oscar, the Magical Man." treated men. woimen and chil dren to two days of fun during the sale. The Hollywood actor, "currently on tour of the statas carrying out similar promotions, was a big hit at the store. Journal Sales . Over Counter Show Increase Sale of the Plattsmouth Jour nal is increasing on the news stands as well as by mail. A check just com Dieted for the month of July shows that more than 569 pacers vere sold at Cass Drug during the month. In addition the Journal is sold across the counter Pt Bates Book Store. ConU Cierar Store and th Sports Hall, plus the Journal business offie.