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ViVAViVAVAVAVAWiV WAVAVA EDITORIALS TRUMAN'S PRESS CONFERENCES President Harry Truman's latest blast at General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General Douglas MacArthur once again reflects the explosive atmosphere which has so often the president's press confer ences. Perhaps, no other president has so startled the gentlemen of the Fourth Es tate as has President Truman in the last seven years. In his first years as president, Mr. Truman often confused the assembled re porters with off-the-cuff remarks, which were sometimes a bit sharp or in general ized form or misleading. Occasionally, he would react to a sharp question with char acteristic anger and speak abruptly, per haps before he had thought out his an swers sufficiently. In the past few years, President Tru man has improved his technique at confer ences somewhat, although he has still come up with blunt words and major surprises at various intervals. His pronunciation and manner have both improved since his early days. In leaving, President Truman will prob ably carry with him some of the explosive atmosphere which has so often been abundant in both the White House and the old State Department building, where conferences have been held in recent years. General Eisenhower is not expected t-o be as quick-on-the-trigger nor as elaborate in his answers to reporters' questions. Per haps, General Eisenhower's manner will work in the best interest of the country. Whether or not this is the case, reporters are sure to lose a headline-maker when the present chief executive bows out in Janu ary. TANK PRODUCTION CUT The Department of Defense has order ed cutbacks in the production of tanks and trucks. These cutbacks will result in the closing down of several arms plants and, of course, reduce the number of tanks to be built in the next few months. As far as can be learned, the cutbacks will affect production of the M-47 and M 48 medium tanks. They are not likely to affect the production of the new light tanks now being built. The cutbacks indicate that the defense department is stretching out defense pro duction goals and that sizable cuts in the budget of the Department may be possible next year. The reductions may also re flect an attitude on the part of members of the new administration that mass pro duction of present medium models should be delayed until they are perfected further. It is understood that the M-47 will probably go out of production by the end of next year and this seems to indicate that the defense department is inclined to stress newer and better models, over and above greater production of present ones. This is a healthy sign, since United States tanks have traditionally been in ferior to those of the enemy in major wars. If the current curtailment is designed to insure United States forces the finest tanks available, we heartily endorse it. We also hope that the new administration will see to it that U. S. infantrymen are equipped with the best, and simplest, rifles and machine-guns in the world. Unfortunately, this too, has not been the case in recent wars. MORE STEEL FOR US 11 Production of steel was recently begun at the United States Steel Company's Fair less Works, the largest single steel pro duction expansion of its kind in history. The new steel works sprawl over some six square miles of Pennsylvania and are ex pected to produce annually 1,800,000 ingot tons of steel when in full production. This figure represents almost two per THOUGHT FOR TODAY Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock. rvron The Plaffsmoufh Journal Official County and City Paper RSTABLISUKD IN 1831 Twice Winner Ak-Sar-Ben Plaques for "OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE" 1949 1951 Presented Nebraska Press Association "GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD" in 1951 (F.ankei 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 turnwu fCHTOMIAl ASSoaAnat Entered at the Post Office at Plattsmouth. Nebraska, as second class mail matter in accordance with the ct 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 carrier in Plattsmouth. 20 cents for two weeks. 7344. Furse's Fresh Flashes Seeing ourselves as others see us wouldn't do much good we wouldn't be lieve it anyway. A local man tells us he still acts to wards his wife just the same as he did be fore marriage. He used to lean over the fence in front of her house and watch her shadow on the curtain, afraid to go in. He does exactly the same thing now. . Opportunity often knocks so much like hard work that most people never recog nize it. The average business man is lucky if he can spend half his time attending to business. ' . Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, tells us she never worries about the past because she has presence of mind. A Plattsmouth wife says unfortunately husbands don't come any better than hers. Modern automobiles will reach a speed of 125 miles per hour and will stop on a dime. They should come equipped with a putty knife that will come out and scrape you off the windshield. Sympathy is what one woman offers another in exchange for the details. Down Memory Lane 4i YEARS AGO IU Miss Kathleen Balfour of Union has recently returned from the National 4-H Club Congress at Chicago ... A miscel laneous shower for Mrs. Leston Sorrell, the former Dorothy Jean Turner, was given at the L. D. Hiatt home . . . Pvt. Leonard Kalasek, here on furlough the past week, has returned to Fort Leonard Wood . . . Seaman Ralph O. limm has returned to Great Lakes Naval Training Station after spending the Christmas and New Year's holidays here . . . Miss Geraldine White, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. White, is now employed as a clerk at the bank . . . The city council has authorized City At torney A. L. Tidd to bring suit to collect damages to citv electroliers when a bus ivQliorl no-nincf tbpm rlnrmp- tiip June l flood . . . Mr. and Mrs. Kay lierold an ... . tt i i nounce the marriage of their son, Sergeant Ernest M. Herold to Miss Bernadine Meier dierks. 2 A YEARS AGO (J Alfred E. Edgerton has been ap pointed constable -of the count? court, Judge A. II. Duxbury announces. He has also been named to serve for the justice of the peace . . . Miss Mable Lucille Clark of near Rock Bluffs and Lester Eugene Ex line of Union, were married here Decem ber 31 . . . Defective wiring started a blaze in the Lerov Covert car but was rapidly extinguished bv the Plattsmouth Volunteer Fire Department . . . William C. Ramsey of Omaha, formerly of Plattsmouth, has been named assistant attorney general for the state of Nebraska . . . Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Kohrell and Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Marks, all of Union, have recently celebrated wed ding anniversaries. cent of the total U. S. steel production at present. Such production is not expected to be reached until the summer of next year, although the plant is already in the early stages of operation. The new-plant is expected to turn out a sheet of steel four feet wide at a speed of eighty miles per hour, which is the fastest steel production speed yet attained. The new steel production plant was begun in 1951 and represents a $400,000,000 invest ment. r The Washington Merry -Go-Round (Copyright, 1952, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL WILL CHOOSE HONEST U. S. AT TORNEYS; INDEPENDENT PARTY SPEAKS ITS PIECE; CONGRESS MEN VISITING KOREA ARE SOLD ON GEN. CLARK. WASHINGTON New Attorney Gen eral Herbert Brownell is going to specialize in picking top-notch U. S. attorneys throughout the country. He knows that corruption begins at the grass roots, and that the U. S. attorney's office is the place where it can easily originate. One of the best men previously picked by Brownell is Warren Olney, III, as U. S. attorney in northern California. Olney is former counsel of the California crime commission, is close to Governor Warren, and has done much to focus attention on California corruption. In southern California, h o w eve r, Brownell has under consideration for U. S. attorney an honest, well-meaning gentle man named Ebel Younger, husband of one of the most prominent Republican ladies in By Now I suppose you're going to tell me you ran out Ticklers r ! lead The plane was loaded to Youn-rrr near capacity, though it should California. Some years as?o. worked for the FBI and was the ; FBI's secret a cent. in.-io"1 the , Longshoremen's Union rnd the I office cf Harrv Brllses. Though have been able to us "P0 persons safely. in the future, however, the air force will order that, sandbags be usee instead of human cargo. Tokyo Commander A group of congressmen re cently inspecting the Korean war front sit down with Gen. Mafii Clark loaded for bear. Texas Congressmen O. C. Fish er and Frank Wilson Lad -their axes particularly sharpened fjr Clark because of t battle of the Rapldo river ' 1 - fct ' a' a T- . i .:. .v Guard division :he 35;h -- v; . . ' ; : mauled durin ; V.:..: r e cf Ca sino. Before the cenfer-rn.'; however, the ccncreosmcr. v... 100 per cent so id en the tp comma ndtr in the F.u- I.-j.j-. "You po on to Korea." C'.s told Ultra in Tokyo, 'and wi: .i you f-!r back, ler me know vh.it you think. I'll answer any nata tions." Clark did answer any ar:J. all questions, convinced the con gressmrn the war was in compe tent hands. As the conference closed. Clark turned to Congressman Carroll Kearns of Pennsylvania. "Does your district take in Conneautville?" he asked. "My father was appointed to West Point from there in 1885. and my grandfather lived and died there. , Ycunper's idertifv was supposed j to be known only to J. Edgar j Hocvcr and a few top G men, he j ! made the fatal error of leaving ; ! a carbon copy of a report to the jFBv in a v.T.stebasket in one cf ; Briaso.--' hotel roms. I It was labeled: "To the FBI from special agent Ebel Young ! cr." ! Naturally. Brida-' associates picked it ir nnd Youne;c-r was booted cut of the Bridges organ ization. The FBI. mortified, put Younger to work filing reports. Independent Partv Reports A rroiip of sr-nators favoring abolition of the senate filibuster gathered in the office cf Sena tor Lehman of New Ycr'; incot of them Democrats. FresT- r-l;o i v?re Irving Ives of Nf w York i and Jim Duff of Penn .-hania, ' Republicans, and Wayn? Morse ! of Oregon. Independent. I After considerable discussion i it was decided that the caucus should not agree on anything i deiinUc. and that they should j be particularly careful in what j thev told the press. ! "We must say that we dis- cussed the promem. generally, rpmavl'fiH nnp spnntnr. and he careful not to antagonize our own party caucuses." They found, however, that this was not unanimous. "My party, Mr. Chairman," piped up Senator Morse of Ore gon, "has already caucused and is ready to report. "As the Independent party." continued Morse, who is the sole Independent in the senate. "We have decided that we should have a showdown. The 83rd senate cannot be obligated by the rules of procedure of the 1st senate. We should make our own rules for the 33rd senate In fact, the family is buried there." i just as the 1st senate made its rules for itself. Regardless of what the Re publicans and Democrats do," Morse concluded, "the Independ ent party will always be ahead of you." Tragic Training The order hasn't yet gone out, but the air force will crack down on training flights as a result of the tragic, pre-Christmas crash that killed 87 at Moses Lake, Wash. Inside fact is that the doomed Globemaster was on a training mission, though its 105 passen gers were hitchhiking servicemen on their way home for Christ mas. This has raised the question of whether air force planes on training missions should be al lowed to carry passengers. In the case of the fatal Globemas ter, the pilot was supposed to be tested taking off with a heavy get all the latest hits oa W4 lEl E S-JC t JS-nff" J. k. m I? Oft . -f . DEC0RDS fs. ' ie fone hit on A, , 1 this side ttfiS. I vmby this side -rssssn i ch record mWMi''. mm Cass County STA namsw Motor Co. - aS&SLSLSLSLl.MJi 07 1st Ave. Plattsmouth ' Kearns said that his district did take in Conneautville and that he lived not far from there. "Well, if you ever go by the old cemetery on the hill," said General Clark, "I would appreci ate it if you would let me know George how my family's graves are kept j up." Kearns promised to do so, and : was as good a?, his word. He j took a special trip to Conneaut- ; ville, found the Clark tomb- ! stones knocked over, adjusted j them, planted some new shrub bery r round them, took pictures and sent them to Clark. Pentagon Politics General Eisenhower may not know it, but a backstage wire pulling na.cli is going on inside the Pentagon over who should step in.o General Van Fleet's bcrtr 8th army commander in Korea. Gen. J. Lawton Collins, army . hief of staff, is trying to plant his deputy, Gen. Mawell Taylor, in the job. However. Eisenhow er has hinted privately that he would like to see his own former deputy, Gen. Al Gruenther, re place Van Fleet. Taylor's supporters have quiet ly undertaken to convince Eisen hower that Gruenther is so urgently needed in Europe that he can't be spared for Korea. At the same time Collins has quiet ly sent Taylor, to Korea on an "inspection trip," so he'll be all ready to take over from Van Fleet the moment Ike gives the word. Whoever gets the job will probably end up as army chief of staff. of v?ais -I carry as many Demonstration of Deep Fat Frying And Pastry Planned A series of deep fat frying and pastry demonstrations will be conducted by -i-H leaders and home extension club lead ers over the county during the next two weeks. Schedules of the dates and places of the demonstration were announced today by Home Extension Agent, Miss Pearl Schultz. The schedule: Jan. 5 Weeping Water, Mrs. Frank Cook. Jan. 6 Union and Nehawka Mrs. Charles Swan. PANKONiN PLUMBING and HEATING nr til l .VMm n tmv, mm 4f. ftiifzsi, y r 3 4 A "'''fV- jCcc t riday, II rT fnr III f'ill tnnr'lorfiro cinr) holiof f f?m x,ve,T W. G. boeu; HJaS Correct Attest Phone CHARLES BOEDEKER ) 257 A- L- CARPER Directors 1 c)ft f . , LEONA BOEDEKER ) 620 First c No. 2005-Jan. 5, 1953 DER IMPLEMENT Frec Lunch THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SER5I-WEEKLY JC 4QE FOUR Monday, Januaijy Jan. 7 Murdoch, Mrs. Fred j A Classified Ad In Tl nal costs as little as 35c Stock. Jan. 8 Elmwood, Mrs. Char les Marshall. Jan. 9 Louisville, Mrs. Ar lie Ragess. Jan. 12 Greenwood, Mrs. Roy Comstock. Jan. 13 Eagle, Mrs. Hallie Slewait. Jan. 14 Plattsmouth, Mrs. Nellie Topliff. J. Howard O LAWYER! Soennichsen BuQ Phone 264 Plattsmouth Report of Condition of t THE MURRAY STATE BANK OF MURRAY, NEBRASKA f Charter No. 578 J at the close of business on December 31st, 1955 ASSETS Cash, balances with other banks, including reserve balances, and cash items in process of collection . . $ 3 United States Government obligations, direct and guar- anteed Obligations of States and political subdivisions Loans and discounts (including $25.68 overdrafts) Bank premises owned $1.00 TOTAL ASSETS LIABILITIES Demand deposits of Individuals, partnerships, and cor porations $1. Time deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corpora- tions I Deposits of States and political subdivisions Ovher deposits (certified and officers' checks, etc.) ' TOTAL DEPOSITS $1,535,408.66 Other liabilities f TOTAL LIABILITIES CAPITAL ACCOUNTS Capital Surplus 1 "ndivided profits . . Reserves TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS TOTAL LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL ACCOUNTS. .$1 This bank's capital consists of: Common stcck with total par value of $23,OC0.CO MEMORANDA . e,s pledged or assigned to secure liabilities and for oiher purposes (inclu-iin noles and bills redis counted and securities sold with agreement to re purchase) $' I. W. G. Boedeker, President, of the above named hereby certify that the above statement is true to the jb knowledge and belief. ca tJm StcZZis ZuiJ jbzs p", r-&&t stye tUtsis sL&lej. l m m Jolin Deere Day f?YL J JAN. 9th 1:30 P. M.r Cass Theatre Fa Fami'ias After Show at SUnder's COMP $1 $1, f ' 1 i : 5 ' PI V
