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iHE PLATT31KOUTH. NEERASKA. SE.VI-WFKI v JOURNAL PAGE SIX Section F Thursday, November 20 1952 EDITORIALS Furse's Fresh Flashes Capitol News Each With His Own Plans MAKING OF A GOOD TOWN What does it take to make a jrood town? Many people will aree good churches. Some people will say good schools. Others will say active business men. Others will say a prosperous industry of some sort. The writer has traveled some in every section of the country. North. East. West. South. Northeast a little. Northwest con siderable. Central west a lot. He has made it a point, when traveline, to visit towns rated as exceptional. He has also visited stores rated as outstand ing in the field of volume and service. At least several. He has lived where Corn was King. Where wheat was "the shining buckle." Where cattle feeding was a great busi ness. Where cattle growing was first in the assets of the territory. Where fruit prices and yields determined the prosperi tv of the community to a large extent. Where timber and lumbering were the big assets. Where railroading was an item in the welfare of the town to say the least. A good town may be found in any sec tion of the country and there are one or more in nearly every county in the nation. As yet this section of Nebraska does not have too much small town industry. We may never have it. So here we have to build on the foun dation of rural development and trade. The average farmer in these davs of hitrh cots of operating farm or business prob ably spends six thousand dollars yearly. The average resident of towns like those found in Clay countv mav spend around ??.000 or nossibly a little' more. This in cludes every item of expense. True, some families spend less. Others more. It in cludes groceries, medicines, clothing, cars and what have you. The main thing is to keep as mam of these trade dollars at home as one can. The stores must be active in solicitine trade, through newspaper advertising and through good service facilities. Thev can onlv build throuerh such poli cies. Good service facilities include stocks ampl for the trade. Ricrht prir-ing. Good merchandise. Courtesy and willingness to be friendly. Stores of exception service and volume have been built in small towns. Even cross roads stores have achieved national re nown and exceptional volume and Profits. Tint back of such stores invariahlv you find outstanding stocks, service, and ad vertising. But if a town wishes to keen alive it must be on its toes. Tts merchants must coopf '-ate with each other more. Appre ciate the fact that with all pulling together move can b accomplished in communitv buildiner and development. A town's trade territory grows as the stores and professional men prosper. As the people in the territorv prosper. And the rennle include business men. Work ers. Farmers. Th eye's a heap of satisfaction in lining in a thriving, progressive comum'tv. May be not everv individual feels this, but many do. And the extra dollars snent for pvog gressiveness aren't wasted! No Sir! Thev accumulatP something lik a snowball does as it is rolled around in the snow. Naturallv a newspn ner benefits as its home town benefits. If it doesn't. it isn't much of a newspaper. Which is one rea son most newspapers are trood boosters for progress ... in business ... in com munity service ... in farming! Sutton (Nebr.) News. 4- 4- We are inclined to favor televising of major collegiate football games, maior league baseball and other sports classics and think the sponsors will pay enough to offset any loss in gate receipts,' eventually. THOUGHT FOR TODAY One learns manners from those who have none. Persian Proverb The Plallsmoulh Journal Official County and City Paper KSTAHMSHKl IN 1S1 , Twice Winner Ak-Sar-Ben Plaoues for "OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE" 1949 1951 Presented Nebraska Press Association "GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD" in 1951 ffUnkef Second In Citify Over IftOO Population) PntiH-h-M Scml-Wei-Vltv Monday and Tlmrsda v at i Main Street, Ilatt!raouth. 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 r iMttocmnon KnlTefJ at tlie Post Office at Pla'ff mouth, Nebraska. sfiunO class ruall matter In accordance with t tie Act of Coasre-" of March :!, 179. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year in Cass and adlolnin? 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. I A There was bad news for relatives when they read an old man's will here the other dav he took it with him. Tt fa rai-inrtprl thpro are more men in menial n-ospuais man uumen. vue as to who put them there. Statisticians, it is reported, find that nine out of ten women are knock-kneed. For years we have thought that the statis tician business was most uninteresting. Now we know that cook books are int edited annually. Latest 1953 editions in clude instructions on how to broil a sirloin. Tt is OK for a person who drinks like a fish tT drive providing he drinks what the fish does. . A hobby is something you ko (roofy over to kep from going nuts over things in general. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little contour twister, says a psvchologist is a guy who. when she enters the room, watches every bodv else. 4- When saving for your old age. be sure and lav up a few pleasant thoughts. Down Memory Lane radioactive matter the atmos- I ever, was fly F-86 Sabrejets and phere can stand, and some fear j get into the battle against the the final answer may come when MIG's. But it was against air it is too late. force policy for one pilot to serve Reason for Rush ! two tours of dutv in Korea. Since the United States is such i It took Blesse until March, an attractive H-bomb target, the ! 1952, to make himself an excep j scientists felt it was imperative ' tion to that rule. He wrote that we know as much as pos- dozens of letters, pleaded that ::::::-::::::::::::y: j YEARS AGO IU Miss Maxine Cloidt, who was called mnnth n rn fnr trainimr in the WAVES, naval anviliarv fnivo h;ic l,P(.n r,ommi. I needed to Carry the new boir.b , . ' rp, ' . . , . how much damage it will do; Mllllfll clll f MM.yil . . . 1 lie -.iltl L'litCC 111 sioie aDOuc me new Domo so we can at least partly defend ourselves against it. This was the reason for the rushed-up Eniwetok explosion. We, needed to know, for in stance, how big an airplane was birth of Winifred Frances Sporer, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sporer of Mur ray, is somewhat doubtful. The newcomer was born en route to an Omaha hospital . . . Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Thomsen and Mrs. Don Siever attended the annual meeting of the Associated Credit Fureaus of Ne braska in Fremont . . . Rev. Wm. E. Goings, former Christian church pastor here, was married at Nebraska Citv . . . College View defeated Plattsmouth 18 to 6 in a confer ence grid game. White scored Platts mouth's onlv touchdown . . . Registration for ras rationing will be held here No vember 18. 10 and 20. A YEARS AGO LM Enjoying turkey dinners on Thanks giving day will be fourteen families, who captured turkeys released by the Platts mouth businessmen. Catching the turkeys were Wavne Hiner, William Kriskev, Earl Embery, Bob Brittain. Mrs. Clair Shellen barger. Howard Davis, William Crouch. BiUv Slayman, George Kalasek, Howard Ballinirer. Oliver Tavlor, Clyde Brittain. fharles Fulton and Sonny Kopischka . . . The marriage of Thomas Svoboda. Jr.. to Miss Alice Svoboda was an event of No vember 21 . . . Marvin Tritsch. William Wetenkamp, George Luschinsky. Albert Toman and Herb Minor will represent Plattsmouth high school at the YMCA meeting at Fremont. The Washington Merry -Go-Round what kind of air-raid shelters are necessary to protect the ci vilian population; how fast must an airplane travel away from an H-bomb explosion after the bomb is dropped, to avoid dam age; how much, material must be diverted from making atomic bombs in order to make hydro gen bombs. All these things made it nec essary to stage the Eniwetok test, as a result of which many of these questions were answer ed. Theoretically there's no limit to the size of an H-bomb. It can be made 50. 100. 1.000 or 10." 000 times as powerful as an A bomb. The chief limit is the necessity of making the bomb small enough to be carried by plane and not so big as to be wasted on medium-sized targets. This is wh.y the chief work on the atom bemb in recent years has been to reduce its size and weight without reducing de structiveness. That same exper imentation will now take place regarding the H-bomb. From now on, scientists will concen trate on making it smaller and lighter. Most important problem the scientists have to worry about is that the H-bomb uses large quantities of precious material that also goes into the A-bomb. So, for every H-bomb we make, we lessen the production of A bombs. Note All these things point up the fact that while we have been developing the weapons of war, we have fallen lamentably ne was not getting younger and was "never more combat ready in any aircraft." On Jan. 30. 1952. he wrote: "If it meant any less than everything to me, I would never have the effron tery to write asking help of this Kind." He admitted that his wife was "not crazy about me going back," but he begged for the chance. After Blesse finally got back to Korea, he wrote to one Penta gon officer who had pulled strings for him, Maj. C. H. Law rence: "Actually, I have been a little disappointed in a way. The MIG's have not been fighting much since I arrived." But Blesse's disappointment was short-lived. Within a few months, he had shot down nine MIG's and become the leading jet ace in Korea. He chased one MIG so far over the Yellow Sea that he ran out of fuel and was forced to bail out into the sea. But he shot down the MIG first. Washington Pipeline Senator Taft has passed the word that he favors Bridges of New Hampshire or Dirksen cf Illinois as senate majority lead er. If Bridges won't take it and Dirksen can't get it. Taft indi cated he would take the job himself . . . President Truman has made train reservations to his home at Independence. Mo tor January 22. He'll leave Washington two days after the inauguration, then plans to take a trip around thp world; later wants to live in Washington . . . General Ridgway has canceled plans for 12 aircraft carriers, which were suDposed to be used for the defense of Europe. This action was taken as a result of the ioint naval maneuvers in the North Atlantic, which turned out to be a flop ... If Senator Nixon wants to save himself a lot of far behind in developing the ' headaches during the next four (Copyright, 1952, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: SCIENTISTS LEARNED MUCH FROM ENIWETOK EXPLOSION OF H-BOMB; LETTING FREE WORLD KNOW U. S. HAD BEAT RUSSIANS IN DEVELOPING H-BOMB IM PORTANT, FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL REASONS. WASHINGTON Here are some of the views of top American scientists behind the official announcement of the first ex plosion of our first hydrogen bomb: 1. We know now that the H-bomb can be made. Prior to this, we simply did not know. It was a most uncertain experiment. But we also know that before long the Russians are bound to have an H-bomb too. 2. For psychological reasons it was im perative that the free world beat the Rus sians in developing the first H-bomb. If. the Russians had announced its perfection before we did, it might have thrown the free world, especially western Europe, into panic. 3. The H-bomb will have only a limited number of targets when used by us, where as for Russia it would have manv more targets. In other words, the number of ! Russian industrial cities of anv size is lim ited. And to the cold view of the military strategist, there is no use wasting an H bomb on a medium-sized industrial citv. On the other hnd. our gret industrial eities Detroit. Pittsburgh, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia fully merit the use of H-bombs by an enemv. 4. The scientists still do riot know wjiat micrM happen to thf world's atmosphere if a larger number of hydrogen bombs were to h exploded alnmct simultaneouslv. If, for instance. 100 H-bombs were to be ex ploded in a short interval, the atmosphere of the eorth might become so saturated with radioactive material that all life on this nlanet would be destroyed instruments of peace. Jet Ace One of the unwritten human stories of the Korean war is now America's top jet ace, Maj. Fred "Boats" Biesse, fought red tape so he could be sent back to Ko rea to fight Russian MIG's. For the better part of a year, Blesse bombarded his friends in the Pentagon with letters, plead ing with them to pull strings so he could be transferred to Ko rea. This was after he had al ready flown 102 missions in F-80 fighter bombers, and had been rotated home in May, 1951. What he wanted to do, how- years he d better make public his income-tax returns. The Democratic National Committee plans to keep hammering on this subject for four years if neces sary . . . The navy's first atom powered test submarine, built on the flats of Idaho, has been a huge success. The engine has been operating almost contin ually for the last nine months without a single major break down. It was built in Idaho because the materials were on hand there. A Classified Ad In The Jour nal costs as little as 35c. VETERANS' COLUMN By RICHARD C. PECK Cass County Veterans' Service Officer Many veterans wonder why Nebraska has never paid a bonus to its veterans. The reason is that the Nebraska Veterans Aid Fund was created to take the place of a bonus. After WWI manv citizens felt that Nebraska should reward its veterans but they realized that a small cash pay ment would not be adequate and would soon be spent. It was de cided that a long lasting type of aid should be adopted to help needy veterans in & js LACU American Legion or the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The county officer is not authorized to as sist in such claims. Veterans who receive an honorable dis charge from war-time service, their wives, widowo or dependent children under 18 ypars of age are eligible for benefits by way of temporary aid in time of r.eed. If the veteran did not live in Nebraska at the time of en try into service, he is not eligi ble for aid unless he has lived in Nebraska for five years im mediately prior to the time of his claim. The basic mission of the fund i.-: tr Brant assistance to heln time of emergen- j meet emergent needs of quali- ! fled veterans and their depend- erans. After WW II this trust fund was increased to a total of 8 million dollars in order to create sufficient earnings to tak cre of veterans of WW II and of the Korean War and their dependents. Claims for benefits from this Ilin(1 mint VlO nrinlnnUJ ..iiu Scientists still do not know how much post service officer of either the Richard Pfi-k cy in the years to come In 1921 the Legislature ap- ! ents until they can make ar propriated 2 million dollars into i rangements for permanent care a iiusi iuna wirn tne earnings ; either through tneir own re to be distributed to needy vet- i soures or through some other existing public or private funds. Aid granted from the fund is not a loan and is not to be paid back. Therefore, each applica tion must show the need and the purpose for which the aid is to be used. During the fiscal vear 1051-52 aid was given to 1171 applicants totaling $75,821.67. LINCOLN The hullabaloo of on? of Nebraska's most hectic election campaigns began fad ing i .to the echoes this week and attention here at the Capi tol turned back to the less spec tacular affairs of state. Nebraska's legislators, for in stance, began thumbing through a report by a Legislative Council Committee which recommends the lawmakers convene every year instead of every two. The committee, headed by Sen. Thomas Adams of Lincoln, noted that the chairman of the last three budget committees had complained about the dif ficulty of anticipating state agencies' needs for as much as 30 months in advance and had urged the question of annual sessions be given intensive study. Attorney General C. S. Beck had told the Adams committee that a constitutional amend ment would be necessary to al low the Legislature to meet every '"year. Nonetheless, the group suggested that simple leg islative enactment of the pro posal be tried and if that fails, then the question could be sub mitted to the voters. Advantages of the annual ses sion, the committee report said, are: Budget estimates can be more accurate if made for one year instead of two. The business of state govern ment has expanded to such an extent that there are many pro blems besides the budget which require legislative attention more frequently than every other year. With the increasing functions of state government, the Legis lature can scarcely attend to all of te accumulated problems of the biennium in three or four montns. The Legislature can keep clos er check on state government if r-opts pvpry yar than if 19 to 20 months elapse between At the same time, the com mittee recognized arguments against annual sessions: Biennial meetings cost less. Legislatures pass too many laws as it L and if they were to meet twice as often, probably more un-necded laws would be passed. Legislators are not full time oflicials and annual sessions would tnk? more of their time from this businesses. V -v V Valuations State Tax Commissioner Phil lip K. Johnson is currently hold ing a series of meetings with county assessors across the state. He is showing them a de tailed study cf the Nebraska tax picture and some of the figures are eye-openers. For instance. Johnson's staff has produced statistics to show that farm lands and improve ments in Nebraska are valued for tax purposes at only 35 per :ent of their actual value. Candidates for the Legisla ture found themselves in the last week before election spend ing almost as much time an swering questionnaires as they spent campaigning. The All Nebraska Association of Road and Highway Associa tions asked the hopefuls a ser ies of questions on the road pro blem. A majority recognized the need for more revenue for high ways and said they would work to supply a means to collect the money if they were elected. The candidates voted, 33-7, for a highway commission. Another poll was run by State Republican Chairman David T. Martin, who asked the candi dates for the non-partisan Leg islature for their stands on planks adopted by the GOP state convention. Martin received fewer replies than the An-Ar-rHa did, but one significiant vote was on the GOP's endorsement of a partisan unicameral. The candidates voted against it, 14 to 9. MNOTON I5y Stanley .lamps. Journal Washington Reporter Washington, Nov. 20 General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the President-elect finds himself squarely on the spot on the Ko rean War issue. Fulfilling his pledge to go to Korea will not take him off that spot either, though it will signify an honest attempt even if the General fails 1o accomplish peace. What the General is now faced with is this: 1. A lot of people are once again hopeful that the Korean War can be ended. 2. Some were told by Ike's workers that chances for peace would be good if Ike was elected. He could clean up the Korean mess, they were told. 3. The General has few trump cards to play in try ing to end the war. 4. He doesn't believe in enlarging it to the extent where we must fi'ht China in an all-out land war. Thus, if Ike cannot do any thing toward bringing about an end to the war. some people will be disappointed. Democrats will utilize their opportunity to de fend recent Korean policies, as 6 0C0 000 vr-It ever the only sensible policy. Ike and can't point to the fact that end the war either. To Complicate matters, for Ike Mosrcw announced just a few dajs after his election that the Reds would never abandon their demand for full repatriation of war prisoners. That has been the big hold-up in truce nego tiations so far. The Allies do not want to force prisoners to re turn to communist domination against their wishes. Ike might gam a cease-fire if he gives in on this issue but men like Gen eral Omar Bradley are dead set against such a retreat to gain peace. The Moscow announcement is taken as an indication that the Russians do not intend to seek better relations with the U. S. or establish a workable relation ship with Ike for special pur poses. Moscow's announcement that there would be no retreat on the repatriation issue puts the President-elect squarely on the spot. He can give in to the Reds and perhaps buy peace. He can refuse to back down on this i-sue and face a dimmer pros pect. It is Ike's first major pro blem, and the country will nat urally be watching him to see what he docs in the tight situa tion. Governor Adlai Stevenson did not realize on the night cf his defeat what a large vote he had received, even in being trounc ed hy a margin of over six and a half million votes. After the returns were about complete it became evident that Stevenson had shown considerable appeal, and that he had received more votes than any other Democra tic candidate in fifteen years, and more than any Democrat ever received, with one excep tion Franklin Roosevelt in his 1936 forty-six state landslide. Stevenson received enough votes to have beaten any Repub lican candidate in history ex cept Eisenhower. He polled over 27.300.000 three million more than Harry Truman polled when he won the Presidency in 1943. Thus Stevenson's defeat was not as much of a personal re pudiation as it was a tribute to the confidence in and popu larity of General Eisenhower j among the people. Ikes vote total which will just miss 34.- 000,000 is astounding people even yet. It is ovr votes more than Ro received. Stevenson and the Democrats know that if Ike does not lose his popularity between now and 195G, he will be a hard candidate to b'-at. again, assuming he ac cepts the nomination a'Mhi. They also know, in the next' four years, should a .sharp rt cession occur, or the Korean i'kh!in:r drag on or become enlarged with no decision, or both, th' ir stock might go up. After reviewing his large voe and the problems the Republi cans must surmount in the next four crucial years, Stevor..-.en has decided to maintain h;s leadership of the party. He has received thousands of letters, some from Republicans and others from Democrats who vot ed for Ike. thanking him for a cleanly conducted campaign, pitched on a dignified level. If the opportune time has arsived in 1956. he mav well be the Demccra'ic candidate again. Mennu-'-.i'e t-. r- 'ennhl are encouraged that the younp v country are ck-."lr. G O ' also j O. P. in 1952, and these are two ; mighty blocs of voters to have j in the plus column, i Friends of General Eisenhow ! er are speculating that General Alfred M. Gruenther will soon become a top military figure in : the defense sphere. Ike relied on ! Gruenther's brilliance in Europe ! during the war and in the NATO i command organization, and told reporters in France last fall that he was almost indispcnsible. He also favored Gruenther as his successor at NATO. Chairm9n of the Joint Chiefs. Chief of Staff. Army, or other lobs may be offered Gruenther. Bui he is expected to wind up in Washington, with Ike, before too long. Also .scheduled for a top joo is Henry C. Lodge, Mas sachusetts Senator until Janu ary. He may become Defense Secretary, would be a popular choice lor that job. Having neglected his own campaign for reeiection cy bocming Ike early this year. Lodge is due a re ward, and on top of that, he is well liked personally by Ike. republicans 'he belief : ,f the f1'. in the P. column. The '.emen ee-meel to swing o the G. I Journal Want Ads Pay! t 1 ii i i r. i ii - - ii '; WINTER FOLLIES I i i o . ' - " o o - i Tr7 1 1 t "ThaFwouldn't have happened if you had observed a safe following distance, officer!" NATION At SAcfTY CCUNC11 , I WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE I ii Extension Notes Evergreens need moisture through the winter. To protect evergreen trees and shrubs for the winter, the soil around the plants should receive a good soaking, before the ground freezes this fall. Since these plants do not shed their leaves, transpiration of moisture takes place through the leaves all win ter. The dry fall will leave those plants short of moisture. If moisture doesn't fall soon, it will be wise to provide some artificial rain. Income Tax Short Course Nexf. Month People who help farmers with their income tax problems have been invited to attend the an nual farm income tax short course at the University of Ne braska College of Agriculture December 11-12. Dr. L. B. Syn der of the Agricultural Econ omics Department, in charge of the course, said the first day's session will deal with the rudi ments of the income tax law. The second day will be devoted to more advanced and technical interpretations. Medical Scientist Here's the Answer Coal amounts for 69 per cent of all fuels used to generate electric power in the U. S. 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