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EDITORIALS Purse's Fresh Flashes 1EW CARS FOR 1953 1 Ke ports from Detroit indicate that the automibile industry is gettsnir customer-conscious and will make a strong bid to attract buyers in 1953. It is beginning to lDok as if the big automobile producers will make more changes in next year's models than in anv vear since the end of World War II. Chrysler is expected to put its new cars on the market in October and it is understood that there are major changes in the body designs of all four: Plymouth, Dodge, DeSoto and Chrysler. Dodge is ex pected to come out with a new V-8 type engine, 1-10 horsepower. General Motors is offering air condi tioning units in the new Cadillacs and Oldsmobiles. Both Euicks and Chevrolets are expected to change to the V-8 type engine. Ford expects to introduce new cars in November. While extensive body changes are not expected for the new Lincoln. Mercurys and Fords, the Mercurys and Fords may have new and more powerful engines. Hudson expects to offer a new body and also a new car in the light, six-cylinder field. Studebaker bodies are to be re-designed completely. Packard is offering power-steering and power-brakes. In other words, it looks as though there will be plenty of competition as the 1953 season approaches. The accent, which has been on power in recent years, is turning toward comfort and the prospects are that there will be plentv of cars to go around. AUR WIDENED OUTLOOK V There was a time, not very long ago, when the people of Cass county were not much interested in what happened out side of the United States and, if you go back some years, there was a time when nothing much mattered except what hap pened within gun-shot range of their homes. Times have changed and with them, the outlook of our people. Whether we like it or not. we cannot remain insensible to what happens in the world, because the economic consequences are felt in the sale of our products and the state of our business. The development of rapid transporta tion through the means jf the automobile and the airplane, has done much to widen our outlook. The dissemination of news, through the newspapers, the radio and television, has heightened our interest in the happenings beyond our local borders. Today, as never before, there are well informed people in every hamlet and cross roads in the United States. This does not mean, of course, that, as a people, we have what one might call an intelligent, world viewpoint. Our thinking, expressed in national action, often con tinues to be local. There is a vast number of people who believe that the United States is not yet a part of the big world in which they and so many other peoples live. Yet, there are signs that a new understanding is becoming manifest. ARACHUTES AND AIR TRAVEL Ticklers By George The old issue of parachutes or no parachutes on commercial air liners has been raised again as a result of a recent crash of a Pan-American plane in the jungles of Brazil. The cause of the crash is still undetermined. One of the theories advanced, however, is that a fire developed in one engine and the pilot, dived the great airliner in an effort to put out the blaze. He might have failed to extinguish the fire or he might have pulled off a wing in trying to pull out of the dive. At any event, passengers on commer cial airliners seldom are provided para chutes and in similar instances usually have no escape from a burning ship aloft. THOUGHT FOR TODAY In the affairs of this zeurhi, men arc sa:rJ, not by faith, but by the leant of it. About the most dangerous cases the average army nurse gets are those that are nearlv well. An eastern college professor says that fast reading is the key to learning. That may be true, but to acquire wisdom the hardway, just skip over the fine print entirelv. As a newspaperman, we know the first thing most people will do on resurrection morning will be to look at his tombstone to see if his name is spelled correctly. A local bird tells us that people seldom think alike until it comes to buying wed ding presents. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, says she never slaps her boy friend to hurt his feelings, she just wants to stop them. The first snow is now being awaited bv some of us. On the other hand, if your daughter doesn't get married, what are you going to do with her? We often wonder what would happen to the value of the American dollar if ev eryone were paid what he thinks he's i worth. We're sorry, but occasionally the temp-1 tation to say what we think gets the better of us. It seems that if only one passenger could be saved by the addition of parachutes, the move would be worthwhile. Down Memory Lane ill!. r WM Hi 1 - I- V ') i No more iron beds for me. I got rheumatism last night. at Berne. Switzerland, on Aug ust 28. This trip appears to be noti fied since the mtcr-parliamcn- tarv union gatherim; lor v: Coolev in.--i.5i''. i ! .. the Air Fon-o lation which c .- ; for gas and oil :.:-:v. '.-.mortant " ".operation. N-jver. that v a Constel SS3 an hour . not includ- 10 YEARS AGO Major Kaymc nd J. Larson has been attached to headquarters of Camp Carson. Colorado. Mrs. Larson and two sons will leave Saturday night for Colorado Springs to join Major Larson . . . Annual sweet corn pack of Norfolk Packing company will start Monday morning. Tomato can ning is also slated to start soon ... A car stolen from Glen Puis was located on the Chester Sporer farm near Murray. When found the car had been jacked up and the four tires had been removed . . . Arthur Warga is taking teletype training at Camp Crowder, Mo. . . . Mrs. Velma Bowman was ejected president of the newly organ ized Sunbonnet Garden Club. Other offic ers are Mrs. Hattie Shanholtz, vice presi dent; and Mrs. Lola Keichstadt, secretary . . . Mrs. John Hatt was hostess to the K. B. bridge club club. Prize winners were Mrs. John Wolff. Mrs. Frank Gobleman and Mrs. John Hatt. nA YEARS AGO lev The hoard of county commissioners have granted George E. Coon permission to operate a pool hall at Manley . . . Alvo defeated Elm wood 6 to 3 in a baseball game Sunday. Skinner and Fairfield were battery mates for Alvo . . . Leo Rikli is leader of the Happy Hustlers 4-H. Baby Beef club at Murdock . . . Mr. and Mrs. Herman Phillips of Weeping Water are the parents of a son . . . Jimmy Ganz of Alvo broke his arm in a fall at his home . . . Miss Ceeile Dohnlak and Carl Baum gartner of Murdock were married recent ly . . . Miss Isabell Gakemeier of Murdock is a student nurse at Bryan Memorial hos pital in Lincoln. The Washington Merry-Go-Round Benjamin Franklin (Copyright 1949, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper KSTAtn.isnnn in' mi Twic Winner Ak-Sar-Ben Plaques for "OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE" 1S49 1951 Prest ntod Nebraska Press Association ' GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD" in 1951 Uankci S.cr.t:l in ciuej over 1000 I'opulation rub! y' '1 tonii-T-f'k!'-, Mon'tay and Thursdays, at 403-tl':: Main Stri" ti I'iattsmouth. Cass. Coun.ty. Nebr. ROrJALD R. FURSE HARRY J. CANE .. FRANK II. SMITH . Publisher Editor News reporter nPnA. l assocron o 1i7 n NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION Fntrre' t tlie I'"sf OfTire at I'lattsmoutli. Nebraska. e' tirrnri'l l.-s mail nialUr in accordance with the A t ft Omsrrf fM f March '.. lhTJ. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year in Cass and adjoining counties. $4.00 per year elsewhere, in advance, by mail outside the city of Platts mouth. By carrier in Plattsuiouth, 20 cents for two weeks. DREW PEARSON SAYS: AD JOURNMENT SEES CONGRESSMEN OFF ON AIR JUNKETS; UTAH LIQUOR BUSINESS GOES "SOCIAL IST"; FCC HANDS TV LICENSES TO ADMINISTRATION FRIENDS. Washington. A new rash of congress men wangling free airplane transporta tion to various parts of the world has started now that Congress has adjourned. In fact, some of it started even before Congress left for home. Several flights are justified, but others have the appear ance of junkets, especially when wives and children are taken along. One trip with all the earmarks of the latter was arranged by Congressman Har old Cooley of North Carolina, who sent his sister, Mabel Downey, to Europe with free air transportation to study hoof-and-mouth disease for the House Agriculture Committee, of which Cooley is chairman and his sister is clerk. The hoof-and-mouth disease in which the United States is chiefly interested is in Argentina and Mexico, and, while it exists in Europe, there is no meat imported from Europe to the United States. Why it was necessary fur Cooley's sister to go to Europe remains something of a mystery. Congressman Cooley has also request ed the Air Force to supply a special plane 1o take a large group of Congressmen and Senators to the Inter-Parliamentary Union m the .alark. uf the crew or the wear ar.d tr;.r on the plane. Those listed for this trip in addition to Cooley are: Sen. A. Willis Robertson. Va.. his wife ar.d two sons: Rep. Albert Gore. T'jnn., his wife, son. and daugh ter: Sen. Hoir.er Fcrsuson. Mich., and wife; Sen. Willis Smith. N.C.. and wife: Sen. Tom Con nally. Tex., and wife: Sen. Tom Underwood. Ky.. and wi-e; Sen. Paul Douglas. 111., and wife: Sen. Alex Wiley. Wis., and wife: and Sen. Theodcre Green. R.I. Other congressional iunketecrs are: S'?n. Homer Canchart of Indiana and his assistant. Will iam Krcic. both accompanied l;y their wives, who flew to Eur coe in Air Force plane on July 11. Also Congressman John Wood of Georgia, chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee, flew to Europe with his wife in an Air Force plane on April 19. returning Mav 4. St n. Alexander Wilev and wife also flew to Europe on their honeymoon in an Air Force plane, leaving Mav 16. returning J-me 1. while Congressman Wal ter Norblad and wife left for Europe Julv 5. Utah "Socialism" Gov. J. Bracken Lee of Utah, one of the nation's most vigor ous critics of "creeping social ism" is let ting his GOP associa tes get away with some creeping "shake-downLsm." Some of his supporters have worked out a new wrinkle for raising money bv putting the bite on liquor companies which do business with the state of Utah. In Utah, liquor is ourchased and sold through the state liquor commission, and one firm doine business with Utah. The Continental Distilling Corp. of Philadelphia, got a letter from the Utah Statesman, demanding in rather peremptory terms that it advertise. The Utah Statesman, a week ly paper, is a Republican mouth piece, and in the letter demand ing liquor advertising, its pub lisher significantly states: "We adhere very closely to the phil osophy of the state administra tion. We. at least, have their un official blessing." The letter to the Continental Distilling Corp., signed bv edi tor and publisher Rue L. Clegg. also stated: "We are enclosing herewith our last week's issue of the Utah Statesman, tn-ether with a copy of a letter from Terry McGow an. chairman of the Utah Liquor Commission, having reference to the article on page 5 in which we praise the commissioners for their efficient and economical operation of that department. "We shall be most grateful to obtain your advertising and re ceive it direct (that is, after clearance with the liquor com mission i rather than taking it through one of the advertising agencies." TV License 11 urns Some choice television licenses 'ave been handed out bv Federal Communications Comi sion lately, and at least three have gone to good friends of the administration. - In another . case. Governor Stevenson is among those apply ing for license in Soringfield. 111. If politics is' involved in this I one. however, it's inter-oartv nohtics. for another top Illinois Democrat. Edward J. Barrett, the Secretary of State, is op posing Stevenson and his group. Barrett, who may replace Stev enson as governor, has applied for a competing TV license. Other friends of the admin istration who have been favor ed with the extremely hard-to-get TV licenses are: 1. Mrs. Lyndon Johnson, wife of the Senator from Texas who got a TV station at Austin. 2. Ed Craney and Bine- Cros by, who got a TV station in Spokane. Wash. Craney is close to Sen. Ed Johnson of Colorado, chairman of the Senate Inter state and Foreign Commerce Committee which rules on FCC matters. 3. Roger Putnam, the ccon- Capitol News LINCOLN Nebraska's county officials this week were totaling up your tax bill, based on a .state levy of 6.98 mills, .39 mills higher than last year's levy. This means taxpayers will pay $6.98 for each $1,000 their prop erty bears on the assessment rolls. The levy was set by the State Board of Equalization and will produce $21,552,953. The resolution adopted by the board shows the amount to be raised at $28,051,526. Estimated revenue to the general fund from such sources as the ciga rette tax, liquor tax, head tax, etc., was set at $10,424,000. Ap plying the 3 per cent ' cushion" required by law, this leaves $18, 156,352 to be raised by the prop erty tax for state general fund purposes. A 5.88 mill levy will produce this amount and the 1.1 mill in stitutional building lew added to it, produces the 6.98 mill levy. This isn't the biggest levy the state has ever known it was 13 mills in 1919 and wouldn't have shown an increase over last year had a near-million dol lars in operating funds saved under Gov. Val Peterson's 5 per cent saving order been allowed to apply against next year's budget. But since the legisla ture drafts a budget for a two year period, savings in the first year are not reflected in the second year's levy. Hearing The levy was set by the board immediately after it had ruled that increases ranging from 10 to 50 per cent on farm land val uations be applied in 19 coun ties. The vote was 3 to 2 with Gov. Peterson, Secretary of State James Pittenger and Tax Com missioner Philip Johnson out voting State Auditor Ray C. Johnson and State Treasurer Frank Heintze. Auditor Johnson objected on the basis that coun ty assessors in the 19 counties would have to re-work their books completely on short no tice and Heintze said he was against the plan because it did not completely solve Nebraska's tangled tax problem which should be given the atention of the Legislature. The order brings counties where the average per-acre val uation is less than 50 per cent of the 20-year sales prices in those counties, up to or slightly over, 50 per cent. Other counties range up to 82 per cent of this figure. John son County representatives ap peared at the hearing to ask that its valuation be cut but the board took no action on the request. Grant County was handed a 50 per cent increase and its county attorney, L. C. Hunger ford, protested that sales prices were not fair criteria of the land's true worth because "land sales out in our county are pri marily squeeze plays" between ranches competing for needed land. Sidelights The hearing had more than its share of sidelights. Gov. Pe terson suggested that the 19 counties below the 50 per cent figure should be raised to 50 per cent while those above be low ered to that figure. "That would be real equalization," he said. To which Auditor Ray John son said, "Yes and three-fourths of the other 74 counties would go broke" because they need the high valuations in order to sup port their county government costs because the state consti tution places a limit of five mills on the levy. Peterson suggested that per- omic stabilizer, who got a sta tion in Springfield, Mass. However, the New 'England paper which ' probably has thrown more invective in the president's direction than any other. The New Bedford. Mass.. Standard-Times, also was hand ed a precious new TV license last month. Another New Eng land newspaper vigorously against the administration, the Holyoke Transcript, was also rewarded with a TV license. haps the state should get out of the property tax field, altogeth er, leaving it to the counties and find some other way perhaps a sales or income tax to pay the cost of state government. On one point almost everyone was in agreement: Nebraska's tax picture is in a pretty hope less mess. State law requires 100 per cent valuation of property, yet only a fraction cf the class es of property, notably cars, are assessed at anything like actual value. v Hogs . A special session of the Ne- braska Legislature will be sum I moned if the federal govern ment and other agriculture I states agree to pay farmers for I their losses caused by the epi , demic of vesicular" exanthoma among swine. Gov. Peterson said he would ask the lawmakers to appropri ate $200,000 to be used for matching with federal funds to indemnify the farmers for their losses. The government's office esti mated it would take at least three weeks for action by the federal government and other states and that a final decision on summoning the lawmakers would be made then. Meanwhile State Agriculture Director Clay Wright issued an order banning swine shows at any of the state's 88 county fairs, the Nebraska State Fair and the Ak-Sar-Ben show, be cause of the outbreak of the disease. Tour Gov. Peterson is Col. Peterson of the Air Force this week. He is on a two-week tour of ac tive duty with the Strategic Air Command and will examine air bases in the United Kingdom and North Africa. He made a similar tour last summer and visited with Gen. Dwight Eisenhower in his SHAPE headquarters outside Paris. Before leaving for this year's duty, Peterson met with the general, now ihe Republican presidential nominee, at Denver. fHE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SZmi-VZZKlv PAGE FOUR Monday, August 4, Test Yciir Enffc i m dm 4P j Score 10 points for each correct answer in the first six questl 1. This year's summer Olympic games were held in: Norway Sweden Finland United States 2. What elective office did Franklin Roosevelt hold immediately to becoming president: - yr:- .i.,, "" Governor of New York s Senator from Pennsylvi Congressman from Pennsylvania Secretary of the 3. Who is said to have played a violin while Rome burned: aT Julius Caesar Nero Claudius Antony 4. The novel, Rob Roy, was written by: , f t Tennyson Scott Walpole Lamb . 5. Who was president of the.U. S. during the Mexican War- Harrison ; .' Monroe Taylor Polk 6. The island of Zanzibar is off the coast of: m $ Brazil Argentina Italv Afr,va 7. Listed below, at left, are animal characters from Aesop's F Opposite them are other characters or objects with which th associated. Match them,scoring10 points for each correct an (A) Tortoise -i-Manger (B) Fox. Grasshopper w wii; Grapes , D Dg -Hare , .Total your points. A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, average superior; 90-100, very superior. ' 1 9 ' e- Se Answers to Questions on Page 5' DHIA Operations Summary Shows Increase For '51 Here is a summary of the op erations of Nebraska dairy herd improvement associations' that completed their testing year in 1951. The figures were compiled by extension dairymen at the University of Nebraska. The average production of ail cows was 9216 rounds milk and 352 pounds butterfat. The av erage feed cost per cow was $154 and the returns over feed cost, $223. The average feed cost reauir ed to produce 100 pounds milk was $1.67 and to produce one pounds of butterfat the feed cost was 44 cents. Compared to the previous year's production the average cow in all associa tions produced 115 pounds more milk, 3 pounds more butterfat. and tested the same or 3.8 per cent. Feed costs were $14 more per cow in 1951 than in 1950. and the value of the product was $15 more. The returns over feed costs in 1951 were $223 per cow. compared to $222 in 1950. The net gain, in 1951 was 115 pounds milk, 3 nounds butterfat and $1 returns over feed costs. Feed costs are more realistic if con sidered from the viewpoint of the amount of roughages and grain cows market from the farm. Cows that produced 7,470 pounds milk and 300 pounds butterfat marketed $13 more feed per cow and then returned $34 more above feed costs than cows which produced 2400 pounds less milk and 100 pounds less butterfat. Cows that pro duced 400 pounds butterfat mar keted $29 more feed and then returned $74 more over feed cost than the cows in the 300 pounds of butterfat group. One cow producing 10.586 pounds milk and 400 pounds butterfat. was more valuable from the standpoint of produc tion than 3 cows producing one half as much milk and butterfat. Realty Transfers Howard Schwenneker & Ve nettia B., to F. G. Hull & Ger tha, WD 7-19-52, L. 13 & 14 B. 172, Plattsmouth. $0800.00. Bessie Montgomery & E. A. to State of Nebraska,WD 6-2-52, NW 10' L. 559 Greenwood. $200. Mi Futton to Darwyn Hoov er & Leta M., WD 7-17-52, W2 L. 8 Nz 9, B. 172. Plattsmouth, $2750.00. Andy Schmader to F. J. Car p?r & M. I QCD 7-19-52, L. 53. 12-12-13, S1C0.00. Floyd L. Rogers Sc Helen C. to Alva A Horn Sz Mabel R. WD 7- 21-52, SE14 18-10-14. $1.00. Jake Roichart to Melvin Reed & Alice, WD 6-26-52, S. 80' L. 1, Louisville. $300.00. Carl J. Schneider & Kermit to Ronald R. Furse & Irene L. WD 8- 13-51, E. 23' 4" L. 11, B. 29. Plattsmouth, $1.00. Orvilie Miller & Lydia to Moi lie Jane Rice, WD 7-1-52. Pt Ls 126, 127, 133, SW'iNE'. 19-12-14. $200.00. Peter Jurgens & Hanr.a to Victor E. 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