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1 ::::::::::: EDITORIALS Furses Fresh Flashes MAKING IT EASY FOR TAXPAYERS The Internal Revenue Bureau will have completed an eiht-month reorgani zation by tax time next year and taxpay ers needing help with their returns will be offered better service and more hours of help by the various field offices of the Internal Revenue Bureau. Since some 57, 000,000 tax returns are expected next year, compared with ."S-1,000,000 this year, the longer office hours and better service will be appropriate. Assistant-Commissioner Justin Winkle, of the Bureau, says that field offices won't dose their doors in the face of taxpayers just because official office hours are over during the tax-paying period. Telephone (im ries will be answered in the evening, during lunch hours and on Saturdays. All -ff'ce will say noon until midnight the last night before returns are due. Manv othei innovations are to be tried this next tax-payinir season by the Bureau, including the use of monitors who ouestion taxpaye's b fore thev line up and divide them into different lines for various cate gories of information. This will prevent soniH eople from standing in line for sev-e'-al hours and then being told they were in the wron" line. Chairs and benches ar1 to be out out in halls to help the aged and in firm and prevent them from having to stand in line for lomr hours. All this indicates that Uncle Sam is trying to make it easier for us to part with our money.. While we welcome these im provements in the Bureau's service, we look forward to a still greater service which -hould be performed as soon as possible. That is the reduction of taxes. While no one should object to paying higher taxes while American boys are dying on the battlefields of Korea, if there is wastage which can be eliminated or economies which can be made without jeopardizing the lives of our soldiers, the time is appro priate for such action. A reduction in tax rate- would not onlv ease tav problems or 'the average citizen but would also ease the burden on the Internal Revenue Burepu and solve the problem in a manner which is oven more simnle than the improvements now being made by the Bureau itself. 4r ir AIR CRASH SEASON The recent series of air tragedies is not altogether surprising, although the number of such tragedies in the last few weeks is disquieting. Despite the claims that planes, can fly through all kind- of weather, it can usually be observed that the first extremely bad weather of the fall and winter increases the toll of air fa cilities. In spite of all the instruments for bad weather flying, instrument-flying is still a job fraught with more dangers than are encountered in fair weather flving. Though many of the planes which have crashed recenth- have been military trans port plane, the number of lives lost in these accidents is appalling and the future holds out the prospect that, as the size of thee planes increases, each accident may claim a larger toll. Thus, as the size of air transports in creases, the number of accidents must be reduced. One of the worst features of recent military air transport accidents is the fact that many of the planes were flv ing on schedules which did not involve the war effort or the transport of men or ma terials to and from Korea. In such operations, there is no reason why the fatality rate should be appreci ably larger than that of the commercial air lines, thouirh it appears that military air transport-: is becoming extrenvdv haz ardous. Perhaps, the number of flhrhts is increasing a the Air Foree acquires more planes but the air tragedies nevertheless THOUGHT FOR TODAY is no siihill art to sleep; to achiei'e it one must keep a:eal:e a'! day. I". W. Xcitz scne The Plallsmoulh Journal Official County and City Paper KST.BUSHKl 1 18R1 Twice Winner Ak-Sar-Bpn Plaoues for "OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE" 1949 1951 Presented Nebraska Press Association "GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD" in 1951 fHfiiiU SfPiiml In 'it i'-M Ovr 1000 Population) PiiMih.il S'-mi-Wfi klv, MothIhvs ami Thursdays, at 410 Main Strt-t. IMattsmluth. Pass County, N-br. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher HARRY J. CANE Editor FRANK II. SMITH News Reporter ALBERT E. BACK Advertisin? Mgr. SOPHIA M. WOLEVER Society Editor i i MSSOCATOn . M MATTOMAl Kntered t t lie I'ot Office at Plattsmouth. Nebraska, as Beyond class mail matter (n accordance with the Aft of Conjress 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 Flatts mouth. By carrier in Plattsmouth. 20 cents for two weeks. A doctor says the best way to enjoy perfect health is to rise every morning at five and take a cold bath. Wonder what's the next best way? We've often thought a sailor was just a plain dame fool. Note to women : The best reducing ex ercise is to place both hands on the edge of the table and push back. The idea of getting something for noth ing isn't now that's what the pioneers were doing when they settled this country. An explorer tells us that a tiger won't harm you if you carry a white cane. Prob ably depends on how fast you carry it. Keeping a secret from some people i.--like trying to smuggle daylight past a rooster. On'- pr'ache'- was amazed last Sundav when he asked all in the congregation who I liked sin to stand and 1 1 people got up. Thev thought he said gin. The only sruy who in't bothered with back-seat drivers is the fellow who di ies a hearse. A local man says he would never have ''Tio a millionaire if he hadn't had v. desire to see if the'-o was any size income his wife ("ulcin't live beyond. Peace, or War? v. if r- : j- i i m FLaTrSVIOUTH( NEBRASKA, StWI-WECKLY JOURNAL PAGE SIX Monday, December 8, 1952 rhomppfl rn pof.;tfo soup. b,ti- j A heart beat, de'ec'ed within a sapp rrackprs. butfpr. pork ?nd r".ll4t'' . relur.r-;'- to normal "an1! rir'p. rniin; art vrt-nm. ami coffpe with apparent rflir.h. $M t'-m e. tst? 3L s-ci"n ..i.,. 'rr iWP: .. to Down Memory Lane YEARS AGO poinimeni is that u vu: accidental. It came about partly because Ike and advisers, having almost completed the cabinet, looked it over and found no one represent ing minority groups. It was a cabinet comprised solely of Protestants, and wealthy prot ectants at that. So it was decided that the secretary of labor muit be cither Catholic or a Jew. Prior to this. Governor Alfred Driscoll of New Jersey had been considered, though he happens to be a Presbyterian. He felt i he must remain in New Jersey. I The Plumbers Union i Also considered was ex-Senator John Danaher of Connsrti- Annuuncement has been made of the.; cut, a Catholic, but he was op- Anna Rosenberg, an expert on labor relations, was also consid ered, but counted out because she not only is a Democrat but closely identified with the Tru- man administration as assistant secretary of defense. In the end, Eisenhower ad- ! visers couldn't seem to locate an outstanding Catholic or Jew who was aLso a Republican. So wnen marriage of Warren F. Taylor and Miss Dorothy Elliott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Elliott of Plattsmouth . . . Otto Lutz was elected president of Myiiard Com munity Club. Other officers are Mrs. Louis Kief, vice president: Pauline Wilson, sec retary: and Charles C. Barnard, treasurer. Lutz succeeds Richard O. Cole . . . Mr. and Mrs. Charles Koke are the parents of a son. Verlin Leroy . . . Virgeen Bethards of i latismoutn ana r.n t'nee, also ot riatts- A. F. of L. President George mouth, were married at Nebraska Citv . . . 1 Meany recommended fellow ! Mrs. L. S. Devoe and llrrman AKoonr Plumber Martin Durkin. a Cath- BMkSW . -rutly : - ..... J I ! i -Vi This little r.tory we're about, to j tell jusl clucsn'L beloiiR in th" Letter Iiox. lint, first read the letter: Murray, Kcbr. Dec. 1, 1952 To whom it may concern: To the writer of thf art id" in the Plattsmouth Journal of No vember 27 titled 'Power and Phone Service Hit Cass County Paialy."d, ' He. I have outlined the part I dis agree with i sec enclosure of your item. The phone crew and the Con sumer repair unit spent the nie.ht in our liou.se -you .said a barn. If it's a barn here's my account of the story of that night: Abr;iit ?:?.() on tb.it .stormy night we were aroused by a hu ui.ii t.oi.s.' ' winch came tramping up on our porch and "neinhed" the lurnent "There's nx of us who are stalled and can't go any farther and were wet and cold. May we come in and get warm?" Being human "horses" we rolled out of our s'all.s ond I donnd my cotton house coat (pardon. bDrn coat. My husband pulled on his blue denim har ness we t jolted down the stair runway, opened the barn door and sow the frostiest looking hu- mr n nors. After nickering and whinnev hr; ( between shivers1 his slorv I of how the rcoair "team" couldn't get through the drifts i he repeated thev were wet and cold and did we have some extra StPP.S. We nfiched a yes pnswer ond h car.tered off foundering through drifts to lead the rest nf the team to safety of our humble barn. We got down our dusty old relic of a kerosene lamp and turned no the heater. Presently we herrd hoof beats and up s'raggled six half frozen human horses. Thev prac- ! There k O'tr version of the j story. And, oh y s. our barn is i a bit draft-, but we have hot j and cold running w?!'r- and a ! bathroom. Also radio and a fc-lrjvision for our three rrAtu and I ourselves for entertainment, i Quite ;i barn hey boys'' Yours un'il the "eovn" come ; horn" and von print, a correction ! 'or this letter if you flare. ! Mr and Mrs. Dude Kiatt Murray Corner. Murray. N'ebr. : P. S. To the i-uys who were ; here- Don't take this to heart. As we read the account it struck ' a fenny bone and sort of comi ; cal!v insulted our "home." We couidn't resist a reply. What a guy can't get into running a newspaper, i. p.. every' hing but a barn. Editor Cane insists this was a night Tire. 0"r a oologies to Mr. and Mrs. Tliatt. it was a slip in notes while hurrvin? to get a storm story in The Journal with most lines of communications down. M We like the little postscript to The Journal: "We really enioy the paper. No hard feelings here . . ." It's the first time in months we've been called on the carpet and not had our hair pullPd out at the same time. It is ner.rjip like the Dude Hiatt's that make this world such a pleasant place to live in calling their home a barn is nesrlv as undig nified as some of the things they've called Truman. See hew easy it is to "Sill a col umn like this. A newspaperman will serine the bottom of the barrel attempting to write a col umn, then nice people like the Hiatt's come along- and do it for him. Next time we want to get away from it all this couple has a job. RRF. fwunin iwo minutes. Nn hrnin injury because ol the slopped heart has been noted in the child, now seven months old A Classified Ad in The j0Ur- grgr eqm SOT 3 mm ill i. ii:? M ' ' ' if ' HEART-MASSAGE SAVES COY CHICAGO Hand massage have been elected Worthy Matron and Worthy Patron of Home Chapter No. 189, Order of Eastern Star. Associate Matron and Patron aj-e Mrs. Howard Wiles and L. S. Devoe, Miss Malinda Friedrich is con ductress and Mrs. Carl J. Schneider, as sociate conductress. Miss Mary Petersen, treasurer, and Miss Clara Weyrich, secre tary. tAt tAt tAt YEARS AGO ZU Dana X. Bible, head coach of the University of Nebraska, will speak at a Plattsmouth high school football banquet here on December 0 . . . Cass county had 38 extension clubs active during the past year with membership of C52 women in a va riety of project clubs . . . 140 trirls in Cass county are participating in 4-H club activi ties . . . Bernard Galloway, coach at Dor chester, has been a guest at the home of his parents . . . The marriage of Miss Gladys Bushnell to Edgar Glaze will be an event of earlv December. remain disturbing. it. may be true, as some air lines con tend, that newspapers over-play air crash es, since they .are spectacular events. The fact remains, however, that few people survive major air crashes, whereas, sur vivors are often numerous in other major transnortational mishaps. Considering the fact that crashing into a mountain-side ?t o00 miles an hour is a fairly rapidly-devel-onintf ev?nt. the newspapers cannot be Warned for nrominentlj' displaying such tragedies. The answer lies in reducing them and not in minimizing the publicity given them. The Washington Merry-Go-Round (Copyright, 1952, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: EISENHOWER PREFERS EARLY BREAK WITH TAFT IF RIFT INEV ITABLE : DURKIN APPOINTMENT LARGELY ACCIDENT OF POLI TICS; NIXON WANTED TO AT TEND IKE-TRUMAN CONFERENCE. WASHINGTON Sources close to Gen eral Eisenhower say that if the president elect had to have a break with Senator Taft, he would rather it came early than late. Though he did not expect or want the disapproval of the powerful GOP senate leader over new Secretary of Labor Dur kin. nevertheless Ike figured a break was probably inevitable and, if so. he would olic, he was selected even thoug a Democrat. What Eisenhower advisers didn't know, apparently, were two things: 1. That Senator Taft would be so bitterly opposed. 2. That Durkin's union is one of the few indicted by the jus tice department for monopoly practices and make-work opera tions. The indictment was brought in 1940 and dragged on until 1947 when finally dismissed. One charge brought by the justice department was that the Plumbers Union would not per mit plumbing fixtures manufac tured by Sears, Roebuck to be used on any of their jobs. The justice department also charged that the union conspired with plumbing manufacturers, went in for feather-bedding, and co erced, boycotted, and refused to ! work on jobs where the competi- l tive fixtures were used. Durkin became president of Plumbers Union in 1943, three ' years after the suit was brought. Since the case was dismissed, some of these practices have been outlawed by the Taft-Hartley act. Taft B'ows Friends of Senator Taft say that privately he blew off more steam over the appointment of Sinclair Weeks as Secretary of Commerce than Durkin as Sec retary of Labor. For Taft re membered all too viv'dly how he had helped make Weeks chairman of the finance com mittee of the ReDublican party following which Weeks, at a cru cial moment of the pre-conven-ticn camoaitrn, telegraphed members of the finance com mittee and the GOP National Committee urging that Taft withdraw his name from the I race. Taft had also given Eisenhow er a list of his recommendations to the cabinet, from which, how ever, not one name was selected; and Taftites say this was a breach of the Morningside Heights agreement on patron age. Though Taft got credit for ap noint'ng his distant cousin, Ezra Taft Benson, as secretary of ag riculture, incj George Hum phrey of Cleveland as secretary of the treasury, actually he ini tiated neither. Meanwhile, he was convinced that Dewey was Dassing on if not picking the entire cabinet. So when all this was climaxed by the Durkin-Sinclair Weeks appointment, Taft really boiled over. Restless Nixon A telephone call from Miami to Augusta v.'hen Eisenhower was still resting there has convinced Ike advisers that the president elect is RED YACHT RACES Rus sians like yacht races, too, as seen in the above picture. Seen enjoying the sport is a group of Soviet sailors, competing in the Lenigrad competition of the all Union races. Their fin-keel boat has just taken the wind, moving them ahead in the contest off the port of Leningrad, in which ever 470 sportsmen took part, meeting with President Truman at the White House. Nixon seemed quite miffed when Eisenhower indicated that he could take care of himself with President Truman without any help. Meanwhile, the vice president elect keeps emphasizing that he will not be content merely to preside over the senate the traditional duty of the vice pres ident. He not only wants to attend cabinet meetings but wants to be given executive re sponsibility. In justification, he claims pri vately that he carried the west particularly California for Eisenhower. Some of Ike's ad visers point out, however, that thousands of voters wanted to know whether it would be pos sible to vote for Ik3 and not Nixon. N'ote Those who have watch ed General Eisenhower during the brief month since his elec tion say that though a bit green on some government procedure, he is a man who learns fast and is going to run his own show. tically stampeded to the warm 0f the heart of a 4-day old "baby A Classified Ad in The Jour nal costs as little as 35c. w r t QJ tminrr n Vi q it a rather battle it out with Taft during the '.with the new vice president as s&0r CAM GO TOR Zftj K10MTH9 Wl-fHOUT yrj DRINKING WAItR E si The ELAXD may be able to go without water, but your poultry and livestock cer tainly can't go without the proper feed. That's why we suggest you see the FARMERS FEED & SEED today for a feeding pro gram to meet your needs. It pays to feed WAYNE FEEDS! first two vears of his admininstration rath er than the last two years wen as Senator Taft. The nhonp caH was from Sen- Meanwhile the most interesting thing Sr"? r1 ; Elsen" ( jivwci iwiuu wjii'j nun 10 ac- ' ap- company him on his historic; about the headline-making Durkin IlSH' 1 ;fesfS.i srove and began removing wet frozen "harness" and horse (over shoes. j We neighed greetines and (talked some "horse-sense" about I how it wasn't fit outside for man cr beast. After an hour or so of this we decided to retire to our sralls. We trotted off and bedded down for the next four hours until daylight. When my mate plodded down i the runway stairs he saw how each "nag" had picked a stall and bedded down. All came i through without incident except I . . i . , . ; , . . . . .1 .. 1 1 I ui.s iiuifit V.I1U uiaLui ueu a aiimn sleeping dog who growled "Go cet your own stall I was here first." The horse apologized and moved over. Another hors1 com plained a bit about a "Charley Man" but a bit of movement did away with that. Then the old hag mare of the house prepared a breakfast of ; bacon, eggs, toast, butter, cereal and cream. Rather odd fare for horses but not a single "nag" complained. Then nickering good natured horse piny jokes the team denned their work harness, neighed thank ycu to the broken down old mare "cook" and trot ted reluctantly, into the cold to work. Two returned to the "barn" for lunch at the invitation of my sway backed mate and boy w?s credited with saving ; the child's life. The baby's heart I stopped beating while he was undergoing an operation for a diaphramatic hernia. Surgeons immediately made an incision in the baby's breast and began massaging the heart by hand. for Me will like these handsome INTERWOVEN Socks ... the irkal Gift for the well-dressed man. Smith's Menswear 5th & Main Phone 5114 SEASONS GREETINGS and BEST WISHES From the salesmen of POOL'S NEBR. CERTIFIED HYBRIDS RICHARD' COLE, Plattsmouth DWIGHT BAIER, Avoca H. G. 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