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EDITORIALS Furses Fresh Flashes c-X'X':w: PLATTSMOUTH SHOWS THE WAY Voters of the Plattsmouth school district did an outstanding job at the polls here Tuesday when they approved a $450,000.00 bond issue that will com pletely rejuvinate the local school system. Backers of the proposal were nearly dumbfounded when the final tabulation showed an overwhelming majority in favor of the proposition. Even this' newspaper, which seldom submits to defeatism and with fingers crossed as the parade to the polling places continued throughout the day, Tuesday, was near speechless when the final tabulation was announced. We doubt there is a city in the state of Nebraska that can boast of a finer display of civic understanding and pride than Plattsmouth presented on election day. It proved beyond a shadow of doubt that Plattsmouth residents do have deep con victions regarding the welfare of our community and are ready and willing to pay the cost of progress if presented with the right proposition. Much credit is due individual voters for their decision to do their own thinking and to the splendid work of P.T.A. mem bers who did a yeoman job Tuesday, and to the many clubs and veterans organiza tions who tirelessly carried information to the public and urged their support. Plattsmouth is definitetly on its way. THE LAW AND CUTTING NOSES Dr. Samuel N. Cramer, curator of the Tablet Collection of the University of Pennsylvania museum, recently discovered that the history of written laws extends back to 2500 B.C. which is at least a century earlier than heretofore believed. Dr. Cramer made his discovery by trans lating a clay tablet, found in Istanbul. Dr. Cramer's discovery is the fourth time since the turn of the century that scholars have turned back the beginning of the history of written law. The interesting part of the discovery is that it establishes the fact there were written laws 1,700 years before the time of Christ, violators of which were fined certain fixed sums of money. The translation of three of the laws showed these fines: 1. "If a man with ... an instrument his foot has cut -off, ten silver shekels, he shall pay." 2. "If a man to a man with a weapon his bones of . . . severed, one silver mina (60 shekels), he shall pay." 3. "If a man to a man with a geshpu instrument the nose has cut off, two-thirds of a silver mina, he shall pay." ' Laws have greatly advanced since that day and tend to bring punishment in line with the nature of the crime. No longer does it cost only ten shekels if one cuts off a foot. Nor is the severing of another's nose taken quite so lightly. And, judging from the number of laws dealing with am putation, it seems that the Sumerians, who lived in what is now Southern Iraq, had a bit of trouble with knife wielding, and that civilization is advancing despite what some people say. MICE STAY AT HOME Prof. John T. Emlen, Jr., Howard Young, and Robert L. Strecker of the University of Wisconsin's zoological de partment, conducted experiments to deter mine just how far mice wander. The in vestigation was begun when these zoolo gists were advised that an effective rat poison was not getting the desired results in a mice-infested building. With traps baited with peanut butter (more tempting than cheese) in two build ings, the experimenters caught a large number of mice which were marked and released exactly where they were captur ed. Some of the mice were recaptured more THOUGHT FOR TODAY Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world. Lord Chesterfield The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper KSTABSilSHKD IN 1881 Twice Winner Ak-Sar-Ben Plaques for "OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE" 1949 1951 Presented Nebraska Press Association "GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD" in 1951 (HankeO Second in Cities over 1000 Population) -Published Semi-Weekly. Mondays and Thursdays, at 410 Main Street. Plattsmouth. Cass County, Nebr. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher HARRY J. CANE Editor FRANK H. SMITH News Reporter ALBERT E. BACK Advertising Mgr. SOPHIA M. WOLEVER Society Editor 4 irtieML r assocaron , NATIONAL fDITOfHJkl ASSOCIATION Kntered at the Pout Office at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second clans inail matter in accordance with the Act of Congress of March 'i, 1879. 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 Plattsmouth. 20 cents for two weeks. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, says men are OK, but she wouldn't want one of them for a husband. We've found a book on child psycho logy that is very useful we use it as a paddle. We may not have been meek when we inherited the earth, but we will by the time we get the mortgage paid off. Corruption may be an election issue, but we haven't found anyone that is in favor of it. A local newly married man says a wedding ring is like a tourniquet it stops vour circulation. A college down in Missouri includes a course in love-making. We always knew Missourians had to be shown, but we had no idea it was true to so great an extent. ,A local groom, sent to jail after a week of marriage for beating his wife, says it is tough spoiling his honeymoon like that. The wife woke us the other night out of a sound sleep she had to, the sound was too loud. than five times. The tests revealed that most mice keep within a radius of 12 feet. Approximately 10 per cent adventure as far as 30-feet away from the original point of capture. The females wander even less than the males, and when the shelter is good, there is much less wandering. Exterminators are advised as a result of these tests to distribute a large number of baits throughout a building, so that the poison will not be out of wandering dis tance for the mice. The fact that these experiments indi cate that the mouse is a home-lover and not prone to wander, gives some concern. We have a faint recollection of an old fable about a city mouse that visited his country cousin. pothering Steam Down Memory Lane jA YEARS AGO IU Community precinct elections held over the county resulted in the following committeemen being elected to the AAA from Avoca precinct. Elected were Mer ritt F. Pollard, Nehawka, C. C. Wolph, Ne hawka, Claude D. Johnson, Weeping Water, Paul Whipple, Nehawka, Gordon Heneger, Weeping Water, Hall Pollard, Nehawka. Plattsmouth precinct commit teemen are C. L. Wiles, Guy Wiles, Rus sell Stander, Harry Nielsen and Mike Vetesnik . . . Superintendent L. S. Devoe was master of ceremonies at Plattsmouth Lodge's guest night. John Parkening gave the welcome and John Frady and E. H. Wescott led group singing . . . Gavin Far mer, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Farmer has been promoted to sergeant. A YEARS AGO JLJ Several persons were injured during the King Korn Karnival parade by small staples shot by a number of youths from rubber bands . . . The W. E. Moore drug store at Union was robbed of a quantity of narcotics and other valuable merchan dise ... A well improved 240 acres of land sold for $81 an acre. Another 240 acres brought $55 an acre . . . A. F. Sey bert, Warren Tulene and Fred Morgan were among luncheon guests along with Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Sumnick farm near Waterloo . . . Iowans will be admitted to the King Korn Karn ival free by virtue of arrangements com pleted for a free bridge across the Miss The Washington Merry -Go-Round (Copright 1949, By The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: GEN. EISENHOWER'S INVESTMENTS IN CLUDE LIPSTICK COMPANY; EI SENHOWER DUCKS MARYLAND SUBPOENA; YOUTHFUL PRANK . BACKFIRES ON STUART SYMING TON. Washington,. General Eisenhower's income taxes, when and if published, will contain some small and interesting enter prises that the public doesn't know about. There's nothing wrong about them, but the public doesn't ordinarily think of a five-star general investing in a lipstick company or a restaurant. However, Eisenhower has a stock in terest in the "Charm-More" Company which puts out lipsticks. He was one of the original investors when the company was first organized. He also owns part of a Howard John son restaurant in. Washington, p.C. George Allen, the former White House jester got Ike into this deal, along with another famous Democrat, Ed Pauley, the big California oil man. The restaurant is lo- JflflH AND MORE lmwnod Mlrv Cm lybe Mr. and Mrs. Howard Capwell of Lincoln spent part of this week in this community. Mr. Capwell was assisting to clear the storm damages from the farm of his son-in-law LeRoy Cook. Rev. J. A. Adams had as his guests recentlv his daughters. Mrs. Leah Hawk came from Washington. D.C.. and Mrs. Alma Romig from California with her son, Mark. Kim wood Wins Prize With Drawing At Lincoln W. A. Rose who is living at ' the Ebeler home at present has i a hobby that he enjoys very I much. He does free hand draw ings with pen or pencil. He won a third prize two years ago from the Nebraska Farmer for his showings of original art. He draws animals, houses, and por traits of people. His home is in Avoca. Elmwood Mrs. Eunice Ebeler Gillam and son Joseph spent a few days here this week as her mother was not feeling as well as usual. They came from Lin- HE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE FOUR Section B Thursday, October 2. 1902 mSHINGTCg Cy Stanley James. Journal Washington Reporter ratpri in rinwntown Washington, staee maniDulatiner aboard the Ike also has his farm in Eisenhower train as it rolled . coln through George Allen. I been tipped off that Edward 1 Couple Opend Only embarrassing thing in ' Grammer. cm trial for murder- j w .. nn Vin'tinv Ike's income tax returns in ad- n& his wife- then Puttinsc her j Vacation VlSltmg dition to the generous capital m ffSS E?senhowS?Uis ! T Nebraska iPt h'm nav nn th fti nnn nnn a character witness. I Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hollen- received cn his book, is an 'ex- This started some urgent tele- ' beck spent their vacation in emption on his house received ' grams to Maryland authorities Nebraska. They visited their nMciHant r.f PniumMo . hecrinnintr at. 5 n m pinaiiv daughter Darlene Erikson at r mo 1 Maryland's Sen-ptarv of state Ord and went on to Callaway ill xato mc Kcuciai wiutc vuc -- --- -- -- ----- - ni,a tj, tn coo ntVier dug up an 01a law wmcn nem X r, that a man need not testify as relatives. On the return trip a character witness if he signed they came by Grand Island and an affidavit that he didn't know visited Mr. and Mrs Elmer Bain. the defendant. Eisenhower . fcne is ine zormer wona xNeinari, Treasury asking that his house. ius 12 servants and upkeep not be considered as income since he was required by the Univer sity to live there. The Treasury spite his disappointment at the revelation of the expense fund for Senator Richard Nixon, and despite the results of that epi sode and the results of attacks brought following his alliance with Senator Bob Taft, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is to be the next President, unless the Democrats change the present situation in five weeks. And many top Democrats realize as much. General Ike's campaign seems to have steadily quickened fol lowing a low point reached in August, when the first rush of Adlai Stevenson's new person ality and jabs brought him sud denly into contention. Since that time the G. O. P. nominee has gradually hit harder, spoken more effectively, and steadily convinced listeners. Meanwhile, Stevenson's great start, which almost pulled him even with Ike, has slowed inevitably. The month of October is the month. Into the battle the two parties will throw their heaviest ammunition. For the Republican it will be their nominees, Bob Taft, Everette Dirksen, and ruled in his favor, gave him tax promptly signed such an affi- I exemption on his Columbia ex penses. In contrast, the Treasury has ualked at letting waiters, wait resses, bellhops, chamber-maids, wno also may have to live in hotels, deduct their meals and davit and quit worrying about process-servers. Sneak Attack Friends of Senator Korn of Missouri are planning a last minute sneak attack on Stuart Symington, now running against Kem for the Senate. They will certain circumstances. For instance, waiters in res taurants do not have to treat convicted for stealing an auto mobile in Baltimore. Of course, politics can be income a noon-daV luncheon ' SUrton6 whence? served while they are on duty: j Js J RtwnntWfna 5J" but cannot deduct dinner at the IfL0'! or end of the day if served to them T '"V '"" , when their work is over. , 'ViT iiciKWJUi . mat was in nic uajra Nurses who have to live in hospitals were finally given more favorable treatment than wait ers, though only after a long Treasury wrangle: whereas Ei senhower got his ruling without any trouble. The man who gave him the rulings on both the book, which saved him about $500,000, and the house at Columbia was Charles Oliphant. who resigned after bitter criticism by Repub lican congressmen. Note At Columbia. Eisenhow er received his regular army pay of $15,751. plus three aides or stenographers, plus a car. in ad dition to Columbia University remuneration. Harvard Advisers The Eisenhower train is far better organized than Governor Stevenson's entourage. Little 1 is left to chance around Eisen hower, especially the advance men who precede th train with banners, signs and even balloons. In contrast, the Stevenson party hasn't even always ar ranged for hotel reservations. The fact that most of the ad visers around the Democratic candidate are Harvard graduates caused Mike . Reilly. former White House secret service man now guarding Stevenson, to re mark: "Harvard is going to have to start a new course 'How to select a presidential candidate.' " Murder in Maryland There was some frantic back- when there weren t so many automobiles. Unfortunately the boy who was driving ran the car into a ditch, the neighbor nat urally got sore and the three booys were fined $25 each. However, the neighbor. Harry Dorsey Watts, learning that the incident might be r against Symington in the Senate race, wrote him a letter: "Your father." he wrote, "one of my closest friends, immed iately got together with the parents of the other bovs and paid me in full for the damage. The incident was onv a prank, and it's absurd that it could be considered anything else 34 years later." Note One man who really tried to clean up Washington is Symineton regardless of any joy-riding in his youth. "HONEST THIEF NEW YORK In July, when a Negro man held up a candy store and took $30 from a sales lady, he jotted down her name and address and promised to return the money. Sure enough the other day, Mrs. Bertha Ro mano received a note and the $30. The note was signed "Your Friend." - Mercurochrome derives from bituminous coal. Sulfa drugs are derived from coal chemicals. VETERANS' COLUMN By RICHARD C. PECK Cass County Veterans' Service Officer Q. A friend of mine, the" widow of a serviceman who was killed in Korea, is planning to remarry soon. She has been getting indemnity payments as a result of his death. Will the navprt-; stop after she remar ries? A. No. The re marriage of the widow will have -10 'effect on the indemnity pay ments, . and she will continue to receive them. Q. I . recently t Wfs: - eived a gift of V'rVf 1 ?T?'nl hundred Richaiu son. In figuring v annual income for trie purpose of getting a VA pen aon do I count the gift as in come? . , . , ; A. Yes. Gifts are counted in determining annual income for pension purposes. . Q. I have a service-connected dental condition and was . fit ted with bridgework v several years ago. The; bridgework seems to be wearing out. May I have it replaced? A. Yes. Bridgework "which - be comes unserviceable through, legitimate wear and deteriora tion may be replaced at gov ernment expense, provided your dental condition is still shown to be service-connected. Q. I have just been discharg ed from the WAVES, and I plan to go to school under the Ko rean GI Bill. I am married and my husband earns a nice salary. We have no children. May I claim him as a depend ent and receive a higher rate of GI education allowance? A. No. So long as your hus band is not actually dependent upon you, you may not claim him as a dependent for GI al lowance purposes. Q. I have a $10,000 National Service Life Insurance term policy that is about to expire. I plan to renew $5,000 as term insurance. If I change my mind some time in the future and want to renew the remainder of my Insurance, may I do so even though the expiration date will have passed? , , A. No, The amount of insur ance not renewed will termi nate - at the expiration of the soios at times. Blmwnod Rev. Louise Ward went on Wednesday evening to her home in Pittsburgh. Mr. and Mrs: Armstrong have returned from an extended trip to California where they visited in the home of their son. China Missionary Goes To Oklahoma Miss Edith Abel went to Ponca City, Oklahoma on Wednesday. She is a returned missionary from China. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hollenbeck called on her On Tuesday evening at the home of Miss Myrtle Wood in Wabash. Mrs. Ruth Schroeder Qf Des Moines visited her mother. Blanche Kuehn and sister Alice Kuehn this week. Elmwood Community Kensington Met Last Thursday Mrs. Laura Hollenbeck was hostess to the Community Ken sington on Thursday afternoon. with 28 ladies present. The pres ident Mrs. Nettie Mendenhall and program chairman Emily Gonzales had charge. The main number on the program was a report by Mrs. Deles Dernier on her Hawaiian trip. Her daugn ter Mrs. Thelma Cisco of Syra cuse helped her to make the talk and responses especially interesting. Covered dish lunch eon was enioyed. Mrs. Halverson and Mrs. Powell were there for first time. Ronnie Irons had to miss some school as he had an appendec tomy at Brvan hospital on Sat urday night. Elmwood P.T.A. Holds First Annual Meeting First P.T.A. meeting of the year was held at the school house on Monday evening. Out of town speakers were Mrs. Hanneman state resident. Mrs. Gene Allen legislative chair man, and greetings were given by Mrs. Wilks of Scottsbluff. Charles Marshall is the presi dent here this year. nimwooil Paul Eveland is president of the Young Republicans of Cass County, and Dwight Clements is secretary. The Lions Club men have been busv clearing uo the trees and burning them at the edge of the park. It is much apprec iated by the citizens. Elmwood Completes Air Coiir At Tulsa Cant. H. E. Reynolds has fin ished his course at the Startins Aeronautics School at Tulsa. Oklahoma. He and Mrs. Rey nolds, the former Jane Shreve, left nn Sundav with thir little HauhWs fvisn and Bckv for Fnrt r!rn"heu where they are Rationed at present. A Voodlv number from here attended the evaneelistic serv ices at Callahan church for two weeks. Special numbers were eiven each evening and the sneaker. Rev. Vinaroff also sang term ueriod,: and may not be reinstated at any time there after. 1 Q. I know that I may change the beneficiaries of my National Service Life Insurance. at any time, but may I also change the method of payments of the in surance? A. Yes. You may change any previously selected optional set tlement to any other and you may do so without the benefi ciary's knowledge or consent. Wednesday evenine dinner puests of Mrs. Monning were Mrs. Douglas and her dauehtea Ellen Pitts of South Carolina. Mrs; Gerbeling and Mrs. Plybon. TITRN-ABOUT'S FAIR PLAY TAMPA. Fla. When the Hills borough County Bar Association requested that Judge L. A. Grayson wear a robe when h? holds court, the judge complied. Then, the judge ordered that all lawyers coming before him must wear coats and ties. is running short. The Defense Department s expected to agree to a military budget six or seven billion dol lars under the request made this year. The 1953 request Is be ing worked out now, several months before it will reacn Congress. And though the re quested sum will be down ac tual spending next year ' will probably be up since expendi tures do not keep pace with au thorizations. If Congress economizes on other items next year, it may be able to balance the budget. But tax reductions may not be en joyed until the following year Minor reductions and some spe cial taxes might be reduced, but income tax relief will probably not arrive next year. One esti mate for this year is a 10 bil lion dollar deficit, and expendi tures running around 80 billions. The cost of building a home today is about 11 trr cent above costs three years ago, more than twine the enst -f icjo o.. many Governors and Senators. , building activity is mildly on For the Democrats it will be tho r,io ocJ " i Jr! government's relaxed credit reg- uuiuuns. uosrs aren t risin? Adlai and John Sparkman, Harry Truman, Estes Kefauver and Governor's, Senators and j mucn even th n t l other officials. Right now the ; mgM mcr i?e aul of -Democrats know they must do ; eminent-granted price hikes or die- . now being charged by metal Polls show Ike is cn top. The producers Democrats haven't gained the But cost appn snapinir nnr ground in New York, and sev- is"the to buM. In crea eral other key states, tney had nrP ,TraHoi if hoped to gain. They are wor- the real estate business is p 7- rieri ahnut four Smirhern states i.: . . y Newsmen who have traveled vfith both Stevenson and Eis enhower lean to the Democratic candidate. Even those report- Pre "U'Vin ct rn crcr f nv rnVU Republican in twenty years, the tions supporting the General "U IUl- au b""'b " make no secret of the fact that their strength for a final push , thev nersonallv like stevensnn market is net flooded. itintr f mm n n miH f n rrnoorn credit restrictions, the Demos are aware of their up hill fight is the fact that they broke the Nixon expense fund news in mid-September. In order to retain the White House, which has not housed a in October. Truman is to cover thousands of miles where he can possibly do some good with John Doe. Estes Kefauver is being thrown in wholeheartedly. Stev enson is invading the South to counter the Eisenhower threat while at the same time stressing his liberal side to win eastern and northern votes, and minor ity blocs. The Democratic hope is to win practically all of the South, and the border states, and the nec A poll of newsmen currently with Ike and Adlai showed that Adlai won majority support with both groups. That was a mild surprise to some observers. The reason most often given is that Ike is still unaccustom ed to the politician's role in dealing with the press. Ike is accustomed to playing the role or" a military officer, who puts things on and off the record at will, who can readily decline to discuss touchy issues, in the essary big-city states to give ,t f r.r o1 IT them another 125-150 electoral he re ss corps in " '- .. ,? . ine u. a. A. is a touch, hard- digging swarm of writers. They pry into anything with vim. ) Stevenson, as Governor, has had more experience in the ci vilian's relationship with the fourth estate and this exper ience is credited with earning; him the nod over Ike, to a large extent. Some dissenters from this opinion say that Ad lai is just more frank and that appeals to the press. chance. The Eisenhower battle plan calls for continuously step ped up attacks on the present administration right up to E Day. Ike is riding the crest of a wave of sentiment that it's time for a change, and this gen eral feeling has proved even more widespread than sdme Re publicans had expected. Steven son aamits it's his greatest ob stacle, and hasn't been able to remove it from the public mind. He will continue poking fun at the G. O. P., however, be lieving ridicule to be one of his most effective weapons. He hopes to draw even with Ike, in popularity, by mid-October. Odds probably are against it. Ike is well known, a great mili tary hero, and has been in the headlines for ten years. Stev- A Classmed Ad in The Jour nal casts as little as 35c. For Car and Fire INSURANCE W'm. S. 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