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D IT O RIALS Furses Fresh Flashes Ticklers By George CHRISTMAS SHOPPING TIME The Defense Department has an nounced that Christmas packages for men overseas should be mailed before Novem ber 15th and has urged those sending gifts overseas to mail parcels early. It seems a bit premature, just as we are getting over summer, to speak of Christmas. However, the Defense Department makes its recommendations on the basis of past experience, as tremendous distances are involved in sending a parcel from the United States to Japan or Korea. There are also over 100,000 Americans in Eur ope and even this number of parcels can easily cause a serious overloading of the mails if most of them are sent in a com paratively short period. , Thus, you are urged to get your Christ mas shopping underway at the earliest convenient time, so that servicemen over seas will not be disappointed this Christ mas. Mailing boxes should be of double faced corrugated cardboard, or box of comparable strength, and tied with strong cord. The loose end flaps should be sealed with gummed tape, and the contents should be of non-perishable variety, of course. CHECK-APPEAL We note with interest that a Boston bank is experimenting with making its checks and check books attractive for its customers. Women depositors are lured in by having a choice of colors. They can get their checks in jewel tones of jade, coral, amethyst, and turquoise. Check book cov ers for the ladies are red and blue print. There is a choice of gold, green, pink or blue checks for men placed inside dark blue silky plastic check covers. While we are watching with a degree of interest the experiment of the National Shawmut Bank in "check appeal,'.' we are afraid that the color of the checks would do our bank balance very little good. INCREASING TAX BURDEN, During the seven years since World War II, Americans have paid into the Federal treasury a total of more than $300 billion in taxes. This is about $50 billion more than was collected by the Federal government in taxes during the entire history of this nation prior to this seven year period. While most of us realize how much we pay each year in income taxes,1 very few of us have any idea how much we pay in hidden taxes. According to the National Industrial Conference Board, a private research agency, taxes paid on income are far less than hidden taxes." 1 "Hidden taxes," according to the agen cy, "are such things as the property tax your landlord pays directly but that you actually pay as part of your rent, or the taxes that a manufacturer pays directly but that you actually pay as part of the price of his product." The prospect for 1952 is that taxes will take $80 billion, or more than $16 billion more than 1951. The tax take in 1952 is about 25 over that paid in the fiscal year ending as the Korean war began. MACHINE THAT READS ALOUD Dr. Walter Blum, electrical engineer of Hanover, Germany, has invented a machine that will read aloud to the blind. This report was made to the World Vet erans Foundation by Edgar Joubert. On the battlefield in North Africa, a friend near Dr. Blum at the front was seriously wounded and lost his sight. The inspiration for his invention came from this incident. The invention is still in the experimen tal stage and it has been estimated that it will take at least three years and $100, 000 before manufacturing on a large scale is possible. It is hoped that this mechan ical reader can be produced for less than $300 apiece. THOUGHT FOR TODAY Lo! Morality is rel'ujion in practice; re' liyion is morality in principle. Wardlaw The Plalfsmoufh Journal Official County and City Paper KST A BUI 911 KD IN 1881 Twice Winner Ak-8ar-Ben Plaques for "OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE" 1949 1951 Presented Nebraska Press Association "GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD" in 1951 (HanlieO Second in Cities Over 1000 Population) Published Semi-Weekly, Mondays and Thursdays, at 410 Main Street, IMattsmouth. 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 --tnnpirk i ASSOOATKM Entered at the. J'ost Office jtt: Plattsmouth. Nebraska, as second class mail matter-in accordance with the Act of Congress of March 3, 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'carrierin Plattsmouth. 20 cents for two weeks. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, says when some girls get married they wear blue to show their faithfulness; some wear white to show their purity, but when she gets married, Fanny says she's going to wear a business suit. Unhappy is the person who knows it all and has no one to tell it to. A man's good looks are often spoiled when he sneers especially if he sneers at a bigger man. A detective wanted the description of a missing bank cashier and asked if he was tall or short. "Both," replied the bank president. Sizes are often deceiving. Sometimes a woman's thumb has a man under it. A man hurrying out of a special club meeting here the other day excused him self and explained his mother-in-law was arriving on the four o'clock broom. Now, they say a non-sinkable suit has been invented. It should be just the thing for floating a loan. Life can be beautiful did you see the picture on the cover of last week's issue? ' "Too two traveling men should meet; you got so much in common. J0wKv.-.v.v.w.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.".v.v.,.v. :::::: Down Memory Lane 4fi YEARS AGO lv The board of county commissioners today adopted a resolution authorizing the use of the old Civil War cannon, that has long stood on the county courthouse lawn, to the scrap drive . . . Mr. and Mrs. Ed. W. Beins have returned from Kansas where they have spent the past month . . . Victor Nord, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walford Nord, is home on furlough . . . Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Spiegel announce the mar riage of their daughter, "Louise, to Mr. Leland McNulty of Tarkio, Mo. ... On Sunday, October 4, Miss Opal Knaup of Humboldt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Knaup of Murdock, became the bride of Elmer E. Herr of Humboldt . . . Mr. and Mrs. Earl R. Lane announce the marriage of their daughter, Evelyn, to Ernest Guy Buttery, formerly of Platts mouth. M YEARS AGO Glenwood high school football team defeated Plattsmouth Friday by the score of 13 to 7. Guard William Wetenkamp scored for Plattsmouth when he took a blocked punt and raced 48 yards to score . . . Doug McCrary, John Svoboda, James Holy, Herbert Patterson and Herb Schuetz have departed for Chicago to see the World Series . . . Miss Marie Kaufmann received minor injuries in a head-on truck car crash here . . . Mrs. Eugene Nutzman of Nehawka was elected president of the Cass county Woman's Club federation at the convention in Louisville. Other officers are Mrs. W. S. McGrew of Louisville, vice president; and Miss Evelyn Wolph of Nehawka, secretary-treasurer . . . Mrs. J. W. Wolff and Mrs. Henry Ofe have been named delegates to the state convention of Nebraska Women's Clubs. The Washingfon Merry -Go-Round (Copright 1949, By The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Reports that the Republicans plan to the air waves with radio and television spot announcements between now and electioon day, which became a front page story October 2, was not news to readers of the Washington Merry-Go-' Round. On September 16, over two weeks ago, Drew Pearson published excerpts from the text of this proposed $2,000,000 GOP publicity campaign. Further excerpts were published by Pearson on September 18. DREW PEARSON SAYS: CAREFUL EXAMINATION OF NIXON EX PENSE FUND AND HIS FINANCIAL SITUATION REVEALS FAMILY FORTUNES IMPROVED SINCE HE BECAME SENATOR; PUBLIC HAS RIGHT TO KNOW FACTS, THOUGH NIXON WON'T DISCLOSE INCOME-TAX RETURNS. Los Angeles. When General Eisen hower announced last week that he would publish his income-tax returns, it was pre sumed that his running mate, Senator Nixon, would do likewise. However, just two hours after the Eisenhower announcement, a statement was issued by Nixon headquarters that the GpP vice-presidential candidate would not publish his tax returns and that he considered the matter a closedincident. In view of Governor Stevenson's com plete financial disclosure for ten years, and the pledge that Eisenhower and Sen ator Sparkman would do the same, Nixon is left in a position where the public now has a right to ask considerably more ques tions concerning his financial position than the brief details he gave in his nation-wide telecast. In that telecast Nixon stated that he had been cleared by the law firm of Gibson. Dunn and Crutcher. However, this law firm happens to represent some of Nixon's biggest and most active donors, among them Jack Gar land and the Garland estate: also the Union Oil Co. of which Herbert Hoover is a director and owner of shares worth $1, 200,000. Hoover was one of the two highest contributors to Nixon's extra-curricular fund. Nixon also stated in his tele cast that Price-Waterhouse, an accounting firm, had checked his expense fund and given him a clean bill of health. It happens, however, that Price-Watrhouse was the ac countant which got caught with amazing discrepancies in check ing the account of the McKes-son-Robbins Drug Company that they were forced to pay McKes-son-Robbins stockholders $500. 000 because of their oversight. Definite Deduction In the case of the Nixon fund. Price-Waterhouse appeared to be more careful. For. when you read the fine print of their statement in the newspapers, you find that Price-Waterhouse stated that they had not had 1 time to examine all of the Nixon funds. They also stated that they had examined only one fund handled by Dana Smith, collector; for Nixon, which the definite deduc tion that there-'was at least one other fund. ' . This system of self-examina tion by self-appointed lawyers and self-appointed accountants is something which Lamar Caudle or. Howard McGrath or others probed by congressional committees never could have got away witth. Such a self-appointed investigation of the Demo crats by the Democrats would have brought howls of protest ; from the Republicans. However, since Congress is ' not in session at the moment ! and since Nixon wilL. not bare his tax returns, it falls to the lot of the -ress to examine as j carefully as possible the unusual i expense fund and the financial i situation of the man who. if elected, would be one heartbeat away from the presidency. Family Fortunes Improved Neighbors will tell you here in the Whittier area, near Los Angeles, that the Nixon family's fortunes have picked up consid- i erably since Dick was elected to Congress. One year after he was elected 1946 the family bought a farm in York County. Pa. The farm was purchased in the name of Dick's father and mother, price not known, and for a while Dick used to go up from Wash ington to spend week ends on the farm. His father and mother didn't care for the Pennsylvania cli mate, however, and moved back to California. They still own the farm. Back in California. Dick help ed get his father a job as post master of a U. S. post office sub station at Friendly Heights, near Whittier. The senior Mr. secured the job just about the time his son became a Senator, and while it doesn't pay much $600 it has one important ad vantage. It is located in the Nixon grocery store. Thus, to buy stamps and mail letters, you pass through part of the Nixon store a great help to any merchant. A few blocks down Whittier Boulevard, brother Don Nixon has just opened a swank new drive-in restaurant, replete with palm trees, an orange grove, and tables under the grove. As you drive in. you give your order for food through a microphone, then pick up the food and take it out under the orange trees. The setup must have cost well over $100,000. The senator's home in Whit tier is a modest California bung alow on which he actually has a bigger mortgage than he stat ed over the air,. But the difficult thing to understand, and which he-did not explain. : is 'how he was able to buy two -houses at about- the same time, paying $20,000 down on his $41,000 house in Washington. - Retired Maj: Gen. Burr John son, the agent who sold Nixon the $41,000 house in Washing ton, states that he paid $20,600 in cash, which at that time was necessary under Regulation X. The house - is also well furn ished at a cost of at least $5,000 probably more. Some of it is Chinese furniture. Mrs. Nixon, writing in the Saturday Evening Post Septem ber 6. just two weeks before the "expense fund" storm broke, said that while running for Congress her husband was so broke some times "there wasn't any money to buy stamps to mail campaign literature." This was in 1946. Yet five years later on a Congressman's salary he was able to buy two houses, on one of which he paid $20,600 down in cash. Ordinarily the public would not be concerned with any of these matters. However, when a senator has a highly unusual expense fund contributed by big businessmen, many of them doing business with the govern ment, and when some of these contributors at first say it's for the purpose of helping Dick's living expenses in Washington, then the public has a right to know the facts especially since Senator Nixon stated on the air that none of this money went toward his personal expenses, yet to Peter Edson he first sta ted that without this expense fund he would not have been able to buy his home in Wash ington. Another column on the can didate's financial background will follow soon. South Ashland David Wagner, a long time resident of the oouth Ashland community, passed away at his home Wednesday nignt. Several from here attended the funeral Sunday. Our sympathy is ex tended to Mrs. Wagner and her family. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Mumm of Omaha and Mrs. W. A. Jones were Tuesday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Jones and sons. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Lambert and David visited with Mr. and Mrs. Beryl Keetle and children Monday evening. Mrs. Riley Buckmaster of Walnut, Iowa, visited with Mrs. Martin Stenberg Tuesday after noon. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Mooney of Sutton were Monday overnight guests at the L. J. Roeber home. Mrs. Gertrude Boiler and Rol land Tinnean were Wednesday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ashley Boiler. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gerdts and Patty of Wahoo were Wed nesday evening callers at the John and Robert Maack home. They also called on Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Peterson that evening. Mr. and Mrs. Gust Sorman of Omaha and Mr. and Mrs. George Gustafson of Lincoln spent Wednesday evening with Mr. and Mrs. John Gustafson. South Ashland Attend Services For Father Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wagner of Erickson. Nebr., Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Miller of Vancouver, Wash., came this past week to attend the funeral of their brother and father. David Wag ner Mr. and Mrs. Wagner have returned home following the funeral. Mr.' and Mrs. Miller will remain with their mother this week and visit other rela tives before returning home. South Ashland Mrs. Carl Kupke visited with Mrs. Gus Streich Tiear Green wood Wednesday afternoon. Mrs John Maack called on L. j Rpeber at the hospital Wed nesday afternoon. Mrs John Hoffman is slowly recovering from a painful seige of shingles. Mr. and Mrs. Ivan E Armstrong called on Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman Friday forenoon. South; Ashland Mrs. W. A. Laughlin Home From Hospital Mrs W. A. Laughlin returned home Friday after having spent several weeks in an Omaha hos pital and with relatives while recuperating. This past week she was at the home of her sons. Vernon and Grafton Laughlin and with her sister, Mrs. W. M. Boothe. Mrs. Boothe accom panied her home and remained until Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Laughlin and Mrs. Boothe were at the Myron Laughlin home Sunday. -South Ashland Return From Trip Through Ozarks Mr. and Mrs. Bonnet Bern man returned Tuesday evening from a 3,000 mile trip which took them through eight states. Their first stop was at Bi-gnel! Dam at the Lake of the Ozark; in Missouri. They alza were sightseeing at Little Rock and Hot Springs Ark. From there they went to Beaumont and Arthur Tevas, where they visited some of Mrs. Bornman's rent lves. While they were so near the gulf of Mexico they d-cided to go on to see the gulf - nd they stopped at Lake Char les, Louisiana, also. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Ranslem of Omaha accompanied them. Kathy and Cindy stayed with their grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Bornman and little Miss Judy spent the time with Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Jones. South Ashland Hold Birthday Party For Bennett Bornman A belated birthday party was held for Bennett Bornman Fri day evening at their home. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. Leon ard Roeber, Mr. and Mrs. How ard Schmidt, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Humston and Lloyd Jones. The occasion was also the seventh wedding anniversary for Mr. and Mrs. Bornman. Sandwiches, pumpkin pie and coffee was served. South Ashland Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Parrish, Donna and Leon were Wednes day evening guests at the Henry Bond home. Mrs. Harold Richards had lunch Wednesday with her daughter, Miss Joan Richards of Lincoln and in the afternoon Mrs. Richards drove on to Crete and visited with another daugh ter, Mrs. Bill Ziegenbein and Ricky. Mrs. Carl Weston spent all day Thursday with her mother, Mrs. Wm. Beetison. Henry Stander was a Thurs day dinner guest of his son, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Stander. Dicky Jones spent Thursday afternoon with his grandmoth er, Mrs. W. A. Jones and uncle, Lloyd Jones. Mrs. Jennie Farmer has had several callers this past week, among them were Rev. and Mrs. H. H. Utterback, Mr. and Mrs. John Laughlin, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Laughlin and James and Mrs. E. E. Odell. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Laughlin are frequent callers also. 'John and Sarah Nichols en tertained an uncle, John Ryncrd of Burlington, Iowa, at their home from Thursday until Mon day evening. They were all din ner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Stander Saturday and they called on Earl Nichols Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. George Gade spent Thursday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Martin Stenberg. South Ashland Mr. and Mrs. Robert Maack and family, accompanied by Mrs. Don Rau and children, went to Louisville one day last week and called at the Loren Vogel home to see the new baby there. South Ashland Mother And Baby Home From Hospital Mrs. Ralph Zeorian. Jr., and baby son returned from the hospital Friday and are at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Jones. Callers at the Jones home since then were Mr. Zeor ian's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Zeorian of Springfield, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. McCrory, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Morris and daughters, Mr. and Mrs. John Jones and sens, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Long and family, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Strong and family, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Ives. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Jones and Mrs. W. A. Jones. Sooth Ashland" Mrs. Mable Blair, spent this past week with her' sister, Mrs. Walter Farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hayward of Lincoln were additional Sunday guests. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Sten berg and Janet of Council Bluffs and Mr. and Mrs. Otto Olson and Nancy were Friday evening guests of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Stenberg and family. Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Bachman, Mrs. Mararet Lehman and Wal lace McClelland were Friday supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Nitz at their home north of Warm. South Ashland L. J. Roeber Still Remains In Cast Although L. J. Roeber is still in his cast he was able to re turn home from the hospital Friday. He has had many vis itors since his return. They were the Kenneth and Leonard Roeber families, Mr. and Mrs. ."HE FLATTS.YIOUTH, fJZBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURN PAGE FOUR Section ts Monday, October Q, 1 Test Your Intelligence) 1 i Score yourself 10 points for each correct answer in the first questions. 1. Only one president-elect ever received the unanimous vote of electoral college. Pick hire out below. Thomas Jefferson George Washington Franklin D. Roosevelt Chester A. Arthur 2. Which of the following countries does not have two official ! guages? Canada Union of South Africa Belgium Sdj j. which of the following men is credited with inventing the stei coat: De Witt Clinton Thomas Edison Robert Fu Eli Whitney 4. Which of these four men was the son of David, king of Israe Saul Uriah Solomon Samuel 5. Pick the non-Southern state named below. Georgia South Carolina South Dakota Louisiana 6. Which of the following men is a fictional character? Capt. John Smith Thomas a Beckett Sherlock Holmes Samuel Clemens ?. Match the following sports with the pieces of equipment comma usea in eacn sport, score yourself IV points lor eacn correct encj (A) Badminton mallet (B) Golf helmet (C) Croquet bird (D) Football tee Total your points. A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, average; 70s aupcuur, su-ivu, very superior. (Answers on Page 6) Herman Roeber, Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Beck and children, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Lenhardt, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Kupke, Mrs. Em ma Neuman, Mrs. Anna Neu man and Walter. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Reister, Mr. and Mrs. James Carson, Arthur Stander, Laura Brunko, Fred Neuman and Carl Weston. Saturday overnight and Sunday visitors were Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Ronnekamp, Loran and Cindy j and Mrs. Lizzie Komroffke, all cf Hastings. .smith Ar'i'and Mr. and Mrs. Gail Storck of Kansas City were Saturday call ers at the home of their cous ins, Mr. and Mrs. Ashley Boiler. Mr. Storck is a pilot for United Airlines. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Lambert were hosts Saturday evening to H. Ja Williss and Gladys of Prairie Home and Albert Arnold cf Bradenton, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. John Erickson of Los Angeles and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Erickson were Satur day evening dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Gade and Robert. I Mr. and Mrs. John Laughlin j spent Monday in Omaha with I Mrs. Sedrick Laughlin arid son Rudi. Smith ,:-!,lnl Visitors Here From Long Beacb, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hoffman and Diane of Long Beach ar rived at the home cf their par- ! eats, Mr. and Mrs. John Hoff ' man, Saturday forenoon. They I will spend some time there and with other relatives near Ash land. Additional Saturday din ner guests at the Hoffman home were Mrs. Ada Gunther of Denver and Mrs. Delton Ew ing of Boulder. These ladies are cousins of Mr. Hoffman. Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Johnson were also dinner guests there Satur day. Miss Lucille Hoffman was home from David City too. Mr. and Mrs. Everette Figg of Gret na were Sunday afternoon vis iters there. South Ashland I Art Skinner, Joe Grof, Henry Timm and Darlene Timm were Saturday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ashley Boiler. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Haase i were Saturday supper guests of' Mr. and Mrs. Robert Westlake and family at Prairie Home. Mr. and Mrs. George Harris and Pamela, Mrs. Henry Leikam and Miss Edith and Mrs. Ev erette Collins, all of Lincoln, were Saturday afternoon visitors at the John and Arthur Laugh lin home. Back To School i and i Fall Expenses a CAN BORROW $50 B LaVern Klipp attended youth rally at the Call! Evangelical church Satii evening. Miss Eleanor Borman a Saturday night with Mrs Tadlock. Sunday the two li went to Wausa and visited Mr. and Mrs. Keith Tadlock children. j Mrs. Angie Lemon and Ja( Lincoln visited at the C Lemon home Saturday a noon and had supper them. Mrs. George Bornman Eleanor and Mrs. Roy H were Lincoln visitors Satuj Mr. and Mrs. Ed Jlppj Sandra were Sunday dj guests at the Carl Parks 1) Afternoon visitors were Mn Mrs. S. P. Parks and fa. Mrs. Roger Laune and chll and Mrs. Bert Rager. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Fo; Jimmy and Jennifer of Linj spent the week end with and Mrs. Harold Richards. Mr. and Mrs. Carl KuDke ited with Mr. and Mrs. Gel Kratt at Louisville Sunday ning. (Continued on Page 6) YOUR TV SET GOT THE :Y0U When You Think of '; SHOES Think of X-RAY FITTING TO $500 OR .MORE ' T r.4- ,,r Inl,. C I fall needs. Consolidate I - your bills. Prompt, private friendly service. I I Get the Cash You Need for g I Back to School Expenses. : , AMERICAN : : LOAN PLAN : I 112 North 5th St. Phone 3213 I I (North of Cass Drug) f O. T. NTCHOL. MGR. J Maybe a minor ad justment or replace ment of an inexpen sive tube will make it like new. Call 280 FOR THE RIGHT JOB, DONE THE RIGHT WAY AT THE RIGHT PRICE MO Authorized and Bonded for Your Protection Hours - Daily 9:30 to 6 P. Saturday - Open till 6 Pj Radio and Television Servicj Phone 280 321 Main St. Plattsmouth, Nebr. 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