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THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE TWO Section B Thursday, December 25, 1952 The last state to enter the un ion, Arizona, was admitten on February 14, 1912, after New Meico. just 39 days Wit) best Uifefjc (or a cm) Cfhmtai IU' v. KAHI! and SOCHO& Auditors and Accountants Dcnat B!dg. Plattsmouth ALVO NOTES Mrs. Mabelle Winn Phone 420 - . . . .. . ,-r -r.l -1 . -.. .-cvv-w-A-to-- . Mrs. orace - - - i , , i2 Mrs. Rosa Burke and two little boys and Mr. Clarence Menke ircm Lincoln, brother and sister of Mrs. John Weichel were week end guests at the Weichel home. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Brun kow attended the funeral of their brother-in-law, Mr. Carl Compton at Weeping. Water Tuesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Emil Rieke were callers at the Mabelle and Ralph Winn home Tuesday evening. Mrs. Ruth Taylor and daugn ter Doris, who works in Lincoln, spent the week end at their home in Alvo. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Sutton were Friday night supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Klyver. Mrs. Sutton and Mrs. Klyner attend ed the funeral of Mr. Floyd Dickerson in the afternoon at Lincoln. IVi Post-Thanksgiving j Dinner Is Held I Mrs. Edith Braun entertained at a belated Thanksgiving din ner Saturday lhe guests were Liuch. Mrs. Eliza- beth Soflin, Mr. John Yeager, The needles of a Christmas tree can be sprinkled beneath acid-loving plants such as laurel or andromeds, rhododendrons and blueberries. If the needles on the tree are still firm, use the branches in an outdoor windowbox. Then push the cut ends of the bran ches down to the bottom and tamp the soil firm around them. This will generally give you greenery ali winter. If you must burn your Christ mas tree, don't toss it into a xircplace. Cut off the branches and burn them safely one by one. And remember, a Christmas tree tossed into the street can become a fire hazard if playful children pick it up and make a bonfire of it in a vacant lot. all from Lincoln, and Mrs. Aug usta Bucknell. Entertain Double Deck Pinochle Club Mrs. Mabelle Winn and Mrs. Cora Keyner entertained the Double Deck pinochle club at the home of Mrs. Mabelle Winn with a 12:00 o'clock .luncheon and Christmas party with ex change ol gifts. The afternoon was spent playing pinochle. Christmas Rose Enhances Yule's Festival Mood Americano usually decorate their homes at Christmas time with holly, evergreens, or hot house plants. Recently, however they found a new friend in the Christmas rose. Nurserymen say this plant's popularity has sky rocketed in the last few years. The Christmas rose is not rea'.Iy a rcsc at all but belongs to the crowfoot family. It is a small plant no more than a foot high when mature. Nevertheless it can put forth seven or eight small white rose-like blooms tinged with pink. Called by botanists Helleborus niger or black hellebore, it gets this name from its black stalks. Che Christmas rose is no freak, no supsr-precocious flower or early-blooming plan,t. This legi timate child of winter flowers natuially in December or Janu ary. It withstands snow and low temperatures, demanding only some sort of shelter from the weight of snow. Hslleborus niger does not pro- ' pagate well in the United States. Hence, -most of the tiny plants I are imported from Belgium and ' the Netherlands. They develop I best only in the western part of ! those countries where they i thrive in soil peculiar to the ; region. ! The ancient Romans knew about the Christmas rose and eagerly sought it for medicinal ; us2. They believed that eating ; the roots would "clear the brain, ! cure stupidity and relieve in sanity." "Let him him sail to Anticyra" : said the poet Horace, of an ill friend. Anticyra was a Greek town wher? the black Hellebore j flourished. The Helleborus family is in digenous to southern Europe and the Mediterranean regions. The Christmas rose variety came or iginally from Austria. The delicate beauty of the Christmas rose is hallowed by legend. Capitol News $750,003 increase in operating funds for the college as well as for a $6 million building pro gram on the Omaha campus. Officials of the school told Gov. Peterson, that "if you are lives," Nebraska can; s I'.'d to ignore its obligation to tra-n young men and worrier, as ""V sicians, nurses and tech A Classified Ad in T LINCOLN Governor - elect' interested in health and saving' nal costs -a little as 35c. "-.-i Francis Burt, the first terri torial governor of Nebraska, held that office for only two days. He served from Oct. 16, 1854, to Oct. 18, 1854. Journal Want Ads Pay! fa fa Ml m fa M ULS?IH Implement Co Highway 75 Plattsmouth -? fa fa mm s To mi Williams, second by Aloha Ben- ! nett, low Vera Sutton. Mrs. Mali . Kitzel and Luella Klyver were guest.s. Three .embers were tin- i able to be present. The next , party will be with Mabelle Winn, , Jaunray 28. ,ivn i The Laciies Aid held a supper j and bazaar at the church Th- j urday night with a pretty good crowd considering the roads. j They made arouna two hunarea j dollars. j Mr. Frank Dougherty was an j Elmwood visitor Tuesday. J Mr. and Mrs. Emil Reike call i2 i ed on Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Heier flS: Friday evening. Mrs. Mabelle Winn and Ralph were Monday evening supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Cheever and sons at Lincoln. - Ai Vi BIRTH Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Leavex are the proud parents of a little baby girl gorn at the Bryan M. hospital in Lincoln: The Leavers have another little girl. Alvo Mrs. Elliott Is i you and Yours, tlii ClirUfmie season, we extend our sincere wishes r happiness that will 1 ...p, 'ftaub HIV tinsel and tlie tree . . . and lie on in vour hearts through all the days and years to come. Price's Handy Market Dinner Hostess Mabelle Elliott the following at enter-Sundav 316 Chicago Ave. US m ': m.: 0 BART A POULTRY SERVICE fa fa II Mrs. tained tanner D?c. 14; Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Wilson from Rica. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Persol from Walton. Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Winkler and daughter, Pamela and son Johnnie. Mrs. Geo. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Dorn and child ren and Mr. and Mrs. Dale Hal verson. AlVO Mr. John Patterson from Ft. Collins. Colo., spent from Sun day until Monday at the home of Gerald Reber. Mr. Patterson is a brother-in-law of Mrs. Re ber. Vivo Parents Leave For Washington, D. C. Mr .and Mrs. Emil Rieke were Sunday guests of the latters parents, Mr. and Mrs. G rover Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Hill left Tues day night for Washington. D. C, to spend the winter with their daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Shuler. - Alvo Mr. and Mrs. Bob Leaver of Lancaster, Mo., are here visit ing the latters' father, Mr. Frank Dougherty and other rel atives. Mrs. Opal Mayfield entertain ed at a bridge party Wednesday afternon with two tables of Dlayers. Opal served a lovely lunch. Christmas Trees Can Be Put To Many Uses After New Years There are a number of things you can do with your Christmas tree after New Year's besides burning it. If it is a fir, for instance, it can be anchored in the back vnrri nnrhinc in i enmnf tVin M I garden and used as a bird viiceuer tne remainder of the winter, pieces of suet and little feed bags may be tied to the branches. A container of water should be placed beneath the tree and kept filled so the birds will have a drink every day. Or, cut off the branches and place them, curved ends up, over flower beds when the ground is exposed. An evergreen mulch helps prevent the soil from heaving during alternate freez es and thaws. Long branches may be built into little lean-tos to protect tender shrubs from sun scald. j 21J Chicago Ave. Plattsmouth fa fa f TJi 7-V- V'V-- T-T? V. rV: v Vv- T,-. V- 'v-. W- XV-. r-v. ? J. Howard Davis INSURANCE Soennichsen Building Phone 264 Plattsmouth - " ' I , - - - If. 2 Qfluq -the me fieoce of STANDARD OIL CO. F. H. GERBELING, Lessee Plattsmouth v 1 if If HRPpy $0 i ' 4& mi good rats FOR. ALL THE JOYS OF THIS mm rail STYLE SHOP 540 Main Robert B. Crosby has pledged he will work toward a reduction of more than a million dollars a year in Nebraskka's state prop erty tax. The soon-to-be chief execu tive told a news conference he would seek a cut of "not less than .33 of a mill in the current levy." The general fund levy is now $5.88 for each $1,000 of assessed valuation. Crosby would attempt to make this $5.50. This is the way Nebraska now determines what the mill levy will be: The various spending agencies submit their requests for two year periods. The governor and tax commissioner hold hearings at which the department heads explain the requests. Then the governor prepares a budget for submission to the Legislature. THo Legislature's budget com mittee then holds another ser ies 01 hearings, similar to those staged by the governor. Finally the Legislature appropriates the monev. Then the State Board of Equalization figures out how much the levy must be to pro duce the property tax share of the general fund appropriation. Crosby nroposese to suggest to the Legislature appropriations pegged to a fixed mill levy, in stead of the other way around I as his nredecessors have. ! t t No matter what the new gov- ernor suggests, the ultimate de- j cision is up to the Legislature. While nobody at the State house would talk for the record, there was some speculation, that Crosby was fairly safe in prom ising a tax cut. Figures on file in the office of Tax Commis sioner Philip Johnson indicate that with, any kinu of break in . tinuation of high income from other taxes, it won't be too much of a trick to reduce the levy this 1 year. In nine of the last 20 years, the levy has been cut somewhat. Crosby acknowledges, "I'm al together aware that it will be j easier to accomplish a reduction , i:us vfcii man it mi'int nave been in 1949 or 1947." K ! K nan jru The Nebraska Citizen's Coun- qJ cil. the taxpayers' group man- n agea oy lormer Tax Commis-1 sionsr Robert Armstrong, has ' proposed a six-point plan to im- i plement the constitutional amendment on taxation of mo- I tor vehicles which the voters approved last month: 1. Provide that the state tax commissioner shall furnish the county assessor schedules of values for ail motor vehicles ! computed at a percent of actual value, the same ratio as the as sessment of other classes of property bear to real value. 2. That the assessor determine the average total mill levy for all rural tax districts in ms county for the current year and the average total mill levy for all urban tax districts, but ex cluding levies made by districts which don't receive any of the motor vehicle tax. 3. The assessor shall compute the tax on each vehicle by ap plying the levy to the value pre scribed by the tax commissioner. 4. The tax lists shall be pre sented to the county treasurer before January 1. 5. The tax would be paid at the time of registration with the orovision of paying 75 per cent if it is registered in the second quarter, 50 percent if in the third and 25 per cent if in the fourth quarter. 6. For the purpose of allocat ing the tax proceeds, the coun ty treasurer shall use as the de nominator of a fraction the to tal mill levy for the rural or urban districts, as the case may be, and for the numerator, the total mill levy of the local tax district. lie appointed P$ . and Banking Director J. F. Mc- 1 Lain have been reappointed by 1 w I George Corns 3T h i II ft ft ft 9 fi ft ft ft ft h ft ft if 441 Main fa -h:im eason fc Qreeiiiias May the harmony of Christmas abide with you always; RAGER'S LAUNDRY and CLEANERS fa fa ft fa fa en ft? m fa M Phone 4293 124 No. 5th -ZJT" Z -- - - 1- ;;j"7 a r4 , . for we have seen His star in the east, fa , I a are come t0 uor' fM hip Him." HI 11 11 iiiwi fLiiiVA 11 1 vav 1 1 ir :: ll w 11 i PLATTSMOUTH MOTOR PARTS CO. 317 Mam St. DEAN DUNHAM Plattsmouth G" --or-el" Crnbv Crosby called Aitken's selec tion "one ot the most and per haps the most important ap pointments I have to make." e said. "It would be impos sible to expect that Mr. Aitken a anminisrered the Highway Department to everyone's satis faction but in an activity that is extremely difficult he has come closer to commanding the confidence of the several mo tions that are quarreling ou." roads than I would have expect ed anyone to do." Of MLain. Crosb said. "He has conducted a careful and fair administration cf the banking department and held the growth of regulation to a mini mum." Question The University of Nebraska went before Gov. Peterson and Governor-elect Crosby last week to justify its request for a 31 per i! 1 cent increase in tax funds with which to operate the institution during the next two years. Most of the hearing centered around a discussion of whether the state can afford to operate a first-rate College of Medicine. The university is asking for a For Car and Fire INSURANCE W'm. S. Wetenkamp Real Estate & Insurance Office S. 6th I'honc 517f III. J " j i! MR i mm 1 1- 1 TP ilsK I; I K 1-.'". . 1 III IM M M If . - tV- i W?& Auto SiRrviip Sf : I St if M w w W - mw n W 721-2nd Avenue Phone 4157 ll W Plattsmouth M" M SI S it K li Li I 8 rl rJ