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fUE PLATTSMOUTH NrORflSKA. Si-WtTKLY J' l&f: Something To Be Proud Of PAGE FOUR Section B nsday, February EDITORIALS Furses Fresh Flashes Capitol News T! pa las tht Clf 1 V; 1 d du i:a - I UfASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY hi It is unusually appropriate to observe the birthday of the first President of the United States at a time when the nation also has a military hero in the White House. Washington, of course, won his first international fame as the command ing general of rebelling American soldiers. He was, happily, not only a great general but a great President and serves as proof that military men do not always prove misplaced in the White House' Washington quit school after his fa ther's death, at the age of sixteen and his education was not long in books but ade quate in forestry, sports and the ways of gentlemen. After three yearg of survey ing, Washington went to the Bahama Is lands, with his brother, Lawrence, who sought recuperation from an illness. Lawrence gave George his place in the Virginia Militia and shortly after this, the Governor of Virginia selected him for a dangerous journey through the forests, the purpose being to warn the French to de part from the area and not trespass on England's claims. The French refused to leave the area and Washington had to bring back the message that they probably intended to remain. Thereupon the Vir ginia Assembly appropriated funds for a fighting force to be sent against the in vaders, .-ind Washington accompanied the unit. The commanding officer soon died, in the resulting fighting and skirmishes, the Virginians were defeated. Washington returned to Virginia, was reduced in rank and resigned his commission with indigna tion. England sent General Braddock to conduct the next attack and he, too, failed, Washington being on this expedition also. Thereafter the boundaries of Virginia were ravaged by savages for some years. A third attempt capture the fort in which the French were trarrisoned finally succeeded, in 1753. When the disputes became hot and heavv between the colonies and En Hand,' Washington sided with the colnnits but favored conciliation. Whpn armed revolt broke out in. New Ensrland, New Fnerland leaders agreed that selection of a Southerner would unite the polonip? and Washington was aereed urjon. Hp uMrrjx tn Middle and Southern States with the New Fmrland States and carried thpm to victory in a long and bitter strug gle asrainst Ensrland. As every American know?, his armv was often in desperate condition, without food or money, and the success of his creat effort was many times in serious doubt. Washington emerged from the conflict a hero and was elected President twice by overwhelming majorities. No doubt he could have remained President, but he wisely chose to steu down after two terms. Fdi- a time in this country, historians seemed to think it modern, to minimize some of the legends that have grown up about Washington and his accomplish ments. In more recent years, however, histor ians have come to the conclusion that the more they study the man, the greater he actually emerges. Had the country not possessed Washington, it is highly doubt ful if the Revolution would have succeed ed, and thus, the independence of the United States today might not have been. As a soldier and a statesman, Washington has no peer. Although his portraits some times seem cold, he was a generous man, loved by his troops and admired by col onists in every corner of the Thirteen States. Washington is one of the world's great men. No other American can rank above him. He is the father of the great est nation on earth and made its greatness possible. All Americans, and especially the young people of today, should be reminded of these facts each year, when February 22nd rolls around. THOUGHT FOR TODAY All that wc know is, nothing can be known. Byron The Plallsmouih Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 1881 Twice Winner Ak-Sar-Ben Plaques for "OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE" 1949 1951 Presented Nebraska Press Association ' "GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD" in 1951 (Ranked Second in Citlea Over 1090 Population) Published Semi-Weekly. Mondays and Thursdays at 41 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 Editoi lassocmTion HXTIOHAL Assoa&no Entered at the Poet 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 mall outside the city of Platts mouth. By carrier in Plattsmouth. 20 cents for two weeks. A Plattsmouth man says the best way to stop the noise in your car is to let her drive. , The man who laughs at a woman try ing to drive a car through a 12-foot ga rage door, usually sobers up when he tries to thread -a needle. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little contour twister, tells us she never became a real success with the boys until she learned how to refuse a kiss without being deprived of it. Some people would rather blow their owni horns than listen to the band. A local man, who had been out on the town, arrived home during the wee hours the other night and found a man trying to jimmy the lock in the front door. He told the burglar he would open the door for him if he would go in first. He who can bottle up a little sunshine for a rainy day is a corker. A Plattsmouth girl vacationing in Flor ida has caught a fish weighing 185 pounds. It is six foot tall, wears a size 11 shoe, and has already spoken to her father. It takes more than a shoeshine to give a man polish. , f Mil i r Down Memory Lane d A YEARS AGO ! IU Announcement has been received here of the marriage of Miss Martha Lam phere Price to Cpl. George J. Stoll of Plattsmouth. Cpl. Stoll is a son of Mrs. Anna Stoll of Plattsmouth ... A group of neighbors harvested 45 acres of corn this week for Eugene Meisinger, who is serving in the armed forces . . . Raphael Toman of Plattsmouth is now stationed at Camp ' Grant, Illinois ... A condemnation court , has set the value of the present water plant at $216,818.75, about half way bewteen estimates of city engineers and water com pany officials . . . James Carmichael has been elected president of the 4-H Poultry, Swine and Garden Club. J. D. Winters is vice president and Edward Berlett, Jr., secretary-treasurer . . . Registration for food rationing will be held here on February 24th. - M YEARS AGO f A group of some 200 Cass county farmers appeared here this morning to seek an adjustment and extension of a farm foreclosure. The farmers represented the newly organized Farm Holiday group . . . Avoca defeated Plattsmouth Reserves 34 to 6 in the semi-finals of the Cass county tour nament . . . Plattsmouth defeated Auburn 31 to 8 with Rummel and Am leading the scoring . . . Miss Grace Simons and Clif ford Ricketts, and Miss Harriett Simons and Glen I. Rhoades of Plattsmouth were married in a double ceremony at Nebraska City February 16 . . . Avoca won the Cass county tournament by defeating Green wood 22i to 12 . . . Miss Jean Hayes has become a member of Kappa Zeta Chi sorority at Morningside college . . . Teresa Libe.rshal. daughter of Frank J. Libershal has earned a tuition scholarship for the current semester at the University of Ne The Washington Merry-Go-Round nnri dnwn thp island with Ik? ! while the plane refueled, made j such an impression mat iK.e asked him to fly on to Kcica. Back from the Pacif c. the new president lifted the embargo on Chiang Kai-Shk which meant little because of Chiang's impo tence, and definitely considered blockading the China coast, which would have meant much. Certainly it would have meant much for the navy. "Uncle Omar" Bradley At this point there entered another well-known and im- j portant figure. Mild-mannered. slow of speech, seldom out of j temper, Gen. Omar Bradley of Moberly, Mo., had once spoken out in no uncertain terms against Admiral Radford and his navy cohorts. Called before the house armed services committee to testify in the navy-air force row, Bradley let loose with some real Missouri language. "Fancy Dans" was what he called Radford and his admirals. Last week, "Uncle Omar," as he is affectionately called in the Pcn'aeon. was called back to Capitol Hill to testify on another Radfcrd idea blockading the China coast. This time Bradley testified in secret and before t.hP spnatp. This time his lan- , euaee was more restrained but just as effective. Prefacing almost every state ment with the reminder that policy decisions were not up to him hp warned senators that a blockade of China might force the Chinese Communists to at tack Burma and Thailand. If the-" were cut off from the sea, he said, the Chinese were almost certain to open a back-door route through these two coun tries. This was all the more likely, Bradley indicated, because about 4,000 Chinese Nationalist troops were in the Malays, led by a handful of American ex-OSS men. Their presence would give the Chinese Communists an ex cuse to attack. Senator Gillette of Iowa, Dem ocrat, wanted to know what would happen if war should ex plode in the Far East. Bradley gave a disturbing answer. The overwhelming strength of Rus sia, he indicated, would put us on the defensive. Cold War on Formosa Senators Knowland of Califor nia and Ferguson of Michigan, Republicans, pressed Bradley on sending Nationalist troops from Formosa to Korea. He replied that two Nationalist divisions were ready for action, but would have to be completely equipped when they got there. And he stressed the fact that equipping them would mean taking equip ment away irom tne eoutn Ko reans and from our NATO allies in Europe. Cross-examined by Senator Humphrey, General Bradley also warned that stepping up sup plies to Chiang on Formosa would set back the NATO de fense program by several months. All this testimony was given very quietly and behind closed doors. This time Bradley didn't refer to "Fancy Dan Admirals." But by the time he had finished, he had just about demolished any of Adm. Arthur Radford's ideas about getting the U. S. navy back into fnin in any blockade of the China coast. "Uncle Omar" ws Ik? Eisen hower's top combat ccrnmnder during the Normandy invasion. But he never did a better lob of political invasion than wlin he testified behind closed senate doors the other day. Note Uncle Omar got three assists from three rather im portant people. One was U. N. delegate Cabot Lodge, who four times came in the side doors of the White House to oppose a blockade of China and urge a tightened economic boycott through the U. N. instead. Other assists came from the British and French ambassadors who delivered pointed aide-memoire warning that if we wanted tc blockade the China coast we would have to go it alone. Washington Pipeline Adlai Stevenson promised Democratic solons that his pro tege, Steve Mitchell, wrould re sign as National Democratic Chairman around Labor Day. By that time he hopes to pay up the deficit . . . Gen. Joe Collins, army chief of staff, and General Van Fleet are ?t odd: over sev eral things in Kcrea. One is an amphibious land'nT behind ene my lines. Van meet thinks it can be done. Collins thinks the enemy is too heavily dug in. Van Fleet is also sore because Col lins wouldn't let him stay and finish ud the war in Korea as he did the war in Greece . . . President Eisenhower refers to the White House as the glass house, complaining to friends that he can't do anything with out having it wind up on the front page . . . Ike is considering a fishing trip to Florida in March, wants a crack at Florida's famed black bass . . . Secretary of State Dulles telephoned Maine's charming Sen. Margaret Lchase Smith recently to get her okay on appointing lame-duck Sen. Owen Brewster as an as sistant secretary of state. Mrs. Smith refused to commit herself, which Dulles interpreted as giv ing Brewster the cold shoulder. Now he's up for appointment to the maritime commission. LINCOLN A man with an acceptable solution to" Nebras ka's painful property tax pre j lems would be welcome to the Legislature this week. Debate has been resumed on the three tar proposal." which Gov. Robert B. Crosby asked speedy action but even the sponsors don't claim to have all tha answers. Ths three measures are: LB 272 which would set the v.vuation oi all classes of pro perty for tax purposes at 50 per cer. oi its actual value, rat? law now requires property to be listed at actual value for ta ration, but none of it is and iiat's what all the fuss is about. Supporters of this bill admit it's largely psychological and in pnuities on a 50 per cent basis are only half as bad as those at j 103 per cent, ine measure was killed by the Revenue Commit tee last week but Sen. Earl J. Lee of Fremont managed to get it revived on the floor. LB 89 which would limit tax ing subdivisions to collection of not more than 105 per cent of the taxes it raised the preceding year. This is a sort of safety valve to guard against too heavy tax collections in the event the valuations go up sharply and levies are not slashed corres pondingly. An amendment was adopted which in effect would exempt all the school districts in the state from this "safety valve." LB 302 which provides for an nual instead of biennial valua tions of real property. This mea sure is important because the assessments have oeen maae in even-numbered years and if the mSHINCTOa By Stanley James. Journal Washingt, Reporte MAI- 1 rf-fc u - - - 1 1 " .m it lb-A riAfcr fihnw On Rnarl . 1 . , -n F Dutch Hit Hard Taft Man To Watch Washington, February 19, 1953 The Eisenhower policy on China is already causing a lot of speculation over the world and is assumed to be causing serious reflecting in China and Russia. As this is written a de cision to blockade the coast of China has not been announced, but is in the air. However, some of our allies are squawking about it. A blockade would hit China squarely in the abdomen. The Chinese commies are already worrying about what the Na tionalists are up to now that the U. S. Seventh Fleet is not preventing them from attacking China any longer. A blockade would increase this anxiety. Some of the worries of the Communists, regarding the dan ger of Nationist attacks, are naval and air. The Nationalist might mine Chinese harbors, ists will be encouraft helped to perf-m that if The central iea bel$i Eisenhower strgy isH the continuing Var cos the Communists if the alists must do ls hjoj then an end to ile figl Korea would nt ne stop blockade, mint n incentive to the Cninvc stop Korean War, sncf tween Nationalists arU munists is expected tof The Eisenhower Far creasing the cost of to China is a souic plan, and if it pays oil have achieved a greal ThU3 the question. whether to let allies consideration stop a U.l ade, which might hefc achieve a great result; new administration country. Board of Equalization is to start j Dy oq f, th' After a slow start, might bomb ships trading with I Dwight D. Eisenhower Communist China. might do i his show on the road more than the United States is est. He has moved to thinking about doing if pro- I trols, stop federal hi vided shiDs and Dlanes. If allies ! ance the budget, ach force the U. S. to old off in mcnious relations witi blockade plan, then National- i and increase the press Chinese to end the Ko f 0Wta commit.., Wiled ' "? gf get in step umiication neeas irf from scratch on a new assess-! ,nr "7 "Y; nZl" m" ",,; Farmers are to be lei ment program, new valuations f ... . . t ironine out on, p.esent.y. LB 99 is the result of a Legis- would be imperative. Highways The Legislature had four highway bills before it this week. LB 4, to create a highway commission, was being held up which was aimed at ironine out j the features found objectionable in LB 455. But that doesn't mean there won't be protestants. Sen. Lefty Williams of Kearn ey, for instance, who last ses- Despite the rather first days, when Ike tf.e best instructions seconds on some occai direction of his adm a ha (Copyright, 1952, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: ARMY-NAVY FEUD WAS BE HIND BLOCKADE FUROR; ADMI RAL RADFORD AND GENERAL BRADLEY CLASH AGAIN OVER PROPOSAL; BRADLEY WARNS CHINA BLOCKADE COULD BRING FAR EAST WAR. WASHINGTON One of the most im portant factors behind all the headlines over blockading the China coast was an age-old rivalry that has periodically torn Washington apart the army versus the navy. This was not the only reason for the blockade furor, but it was probably the biggest. The cast of characters included some of the top brass of the armed services, and here is how the drama unfolded. The man who first enthused President Eisenhower re a blockade of the China coast was able, redheaded Adm. Arthur Radford, stormy petrel of the navy, who was banished to the Pacific from the Penta gon four years ago when he helped or ganize operation 23 to propagandize against the air force and mobilized a navy drive on congress against the B-3& bomber, against Secretary of Air Symington, and against the air force generally. Since then the dynamic Radford has been more or less out of the headlines as commander of the Pacific fleet. This would be enough to occupy most men but not the restless Radford. Meeting Eisen hower at Iwo Jima on the 'lattcr's hop to Korea, Radford spent one hour pacing up A Classined Ad in The Jour nal costs as little as 35c. VETERANS' COLUMN By RICHARD C. PECK Cass County Veterans' Service Officer INSURANCE DIVIDENDS FOR KOREAN DISCHARGEES: As records are received in the Veterans Administration hranoh offices on discharged Korean veterans who will be eligible for National Service Life Insurance dividend payments in 1953, cards are being mailed to the policy holders notifying them of thier right to select one of four op tions: (1) cash payment; (2) placed on credit, at interest, to pay any premiums needed to prevent lapse; (3) applied to pay premiums in advance; and (4)) hold as a deposit, at in terest, as part of the cash value of a converted policy. This office strongly suggests that trip hPst course of action ' ... . ..... iui me veteran to take is to re quest the divi dend payment to be made in cash and thus avoid the possibility of a -.mixnn a in thp fC'' bookkeeping pro-' in all of the other options. To do this, the pol icy holder miiKt. take definite action immediately upon receiving the notice card from the insurance office. If no reply is received within the time stated - in the notioe, the Kjcbaia i dividend will be held as avail able to pay premiums becoming due but will not be used for this purpose until a premium is not paid. Most of the term policies held by newly discharged veterans have been on a section 622'' waiver of premium. Therefore, only those policies on which premiums have been-paid by the policy holder for one month or longer in any anniversary year are eligible for dividend pay ments. No dividend accrues dur ing the months in which the premium payments were under waiver. Some notices are also being sent to policy holders in those cases where there is some doubt as to what option the holder selected in the previous year. However, most of these are being sent to policy holders who have not been in touch with the dist rict office for some time due to their current!, service. For all others, the options selected last year will hold for the 1953 an nual dividend unless the branch office is notified over the signa ture of the policy holder before the anniversary date of the pol icy that another option is de sired. ' . . Thp rntp nf Hivirlpnd Will On 50c per month for each $1000 oi i sion told reporters he had not 15 naw shaping ciean. read thP bill and did not attend ministration, expects fnr riphntP until the Public thp hparin on it is PxrwtpH to StaDiiize and is nJ ... . ... . .. . ... . ... . cl'l V-Qo;ico i . , wnrws nmm lips nan i.aicen ac- , pan rnp nrrarir rn inn spssinn s "'" wtvvi cu tion cn version as he did in 1951. j have steadily declined LB 268, a sort of compromise The bill has a total of seven ; months. measure which provides for a introducers and is given a good This attitude is indiq "highway committee" instead of chance of passage. Basically, it j what will happen when a commission and is sponsored ; is "home rule" enabling legis- j eral price level slips a by opponents of LB 4; j iation which would allow the j in a recession the adi LB 258, which increases the state tax cn gasoline from five to six cents a gallon and LB 259 which increases regis tration fees on motor vehicles. For most cars the boost will be from the present $5 to $8. There is evidence that the dissension which, split the sup porters cf the commission bill and those who want the revenue laws last session is present again. The tax increases are sponsored by Sen. Karl Vogel of Omaha, a determined opponent oi a highway commission. Helirings on the revenue bills are slated for this week and the other two measures come up for floor debate. 3t ir 9f Terry Terry McGovern Carpenter has consistently swiped the headlines away from his col leagues in the first six weeks of this legislative session. The Scottsbluff businessman's conduct in the Legislature mov ed veteran Sen. Sam Klaver of Omaha to remark respectfully, "Now I know why they call him Terrible Terry." Statehouse newsmen are fre quently asked, 'J'ust what kind of a man is Carpenter?" It's a tough question and most of us have to admit we don't know. Not yet, anyway. The biggest asset Sen. Car penter has is an ability to put into very common language what a lot of others have been grop ing to say. Even those who op puae nim had to admit that his 40-minute speech on bshalf of his motion to enact Gov. Cros by's budget and go home was masterful. I asked two of the men who know Carpenter as well as any of his colleagues can what they thought about him. Sen. Hugh Carson of Ord, himself no slouch at making headlines, said, "You don't real ize how thoroughly he's gone in- j to everything he talks about. I You notice that he's frequently gone from the chamber? He's down in the various departments digging out facts and asking questions." "And on top of that," volun teered Sen. Arthur Carmody of Trenton, "Terry's smart. He knows what he wants and how to get it." That's pretty high praise from two of the most influential men in the Legislature. But Terry has had his lumps, too. He took a bad beating from the Budget Committee on a bill which would require legislative approval of projects built under the 1.1 mill building program. Not only was his suggestion re jected but the so-called "de frosting committee" was abol ished too, giving the institutions more freedom than they had be fore Carpenter's bill was offered. And the Legislature twice beat down his attempts to kill LB 89, the tax limitation measure. In a session which so far has produced no clear-cut leader ship, Terrible Terry could well pmerse as the strong man of the Legislature. Watersheds Another watershed bill comes up for hearing this Thursday in the Legislature. It's LB 99 and is a streamlined version of LB 455 ( of -the- 1951 session which the creation cf watershed districts tion will probably let r, to combat the twin threats of 1 oncmic currents seek tj flood and soil erosion. i level. Some deflation i ment of a district would be init iated only by the filing of a pe tition with the county clerk. A majority of votes cast at an election after a public hearing on the proposal would be neces sary for the creation of the dis trict. Directors of the district would be. allowed to levy a tax of no more than a quarter of a mill for five years to cover engineering and maintenance expense. Contempt ed for a long time. Most people don't re hard the recent stond suiting flood, hit Holla l of the few West Durope tries w-hich has regaine economically. Over a t million acres of land vi ed, and valuable cropi Alter the war it took ers two or three years land flooded by the Gel looks like that all ovJ i now. cost or reoail The State Board of Eaualiza- dykes, pumoine out N tion was holding a series of skull 1 and dealing with salt sessions this week to map its a billion dollars. Tha defense against contempt pro-1 States will probably ceeamgs by tne State Supreme Court. The contempt threat grows out of the board's failure to do anything about the valuation of farm lands in Johnson County although ordered by the court to reconvene and consider the case. The board is expected to hang its defense on the peg that itt acted to the best of its judg ment in the Johnson County case. The high court has ordered the board to appear on March and show cause why contempt proceedings should not go ahead. , CMI though the Dutch onl 3y announced they wi quire no more Marsh aid. I f The key man to watc Eisenhower administrai gins to function is Sen bert Taft. Ike has put j fought Taft in so mi posts, it's hard to seel can get along with all There's Stassen, Browi a host of others. If hel Taft can cause them, ai lot of trouble. If his ?v ignored, it could turn c way, but so far, neither case. i WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZL Former Premier Here's the Answer HORIZONTAL 60 Calm 1 Pictured 61 Giants former French VERTICAL premier. 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