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Ml aDdDdJISRIAlL PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY Monday - Thursday Consolidated with The Nehawka Enterprise - Delivered Twice Weekly to More Than 3000 Cass County Families VOLUME 72 PLATTSMOUTH, CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1953 SIXTEEN PAGES FIVE CENTS PER COPY NUMBER 27 CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER mrycK- liiroDmi M oSIosnoim TV Are Birojj wired Two Plattsmouth men were injured, one seriously, when a truck in which they were riding was struck by a northbound Missouri Pacific 'freight train here late Wednesday afternoon. Injured' were Linford Dasher, driver of the three quarter ton pick-up truck which was traveling west on the cemetery road, and Richard Cotner, 25, also of Platts mouth. Dasher received serious injuries while Cotner re ceived only bruises and an injured left knee. Sheriff Tom Solomon, who investigated the accident, said that one foot probably meant the difference between life and death for the two Plattsmouth men. The north bound train struck James Rebal Has 9!h Birthday James Rebal, long-time resi dent of Plattsmouth celebrated his 89th birthday anniversary on Monday. But because of his poor health, the event was largely confined to a family ob servance. James Rebal Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Rebal and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rebal were dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clark Finney. Mrs. Finney is a granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rebal. Mrs. Chester Couch of St. Louis, a daughter, was here for the week end with her parents. All were present for a birthday dinner at the James Rebal home Monday. Mrs. Luella Cole At Weeping Water 80 Years, Dies Mrs. Luella Cole, resident of Weeping Water for 80 years, died at Weeping Water Tuesday, Feb ruary 24, 1953. She was 85 years old. A native of Atlantic. Iowa, where she was born SeDtember 21, 1867, she moved to Weeping Water with her parents when she was five years old. She had resided there since. She was married to Walter A. Cole at Weeping Water in 1888. Mrs. Cole was a member of the Congregational church. Surviving are five daughters, Mrs. George Miller of Blanch ard, Calif., Mrs. F. A. Backer of Lincoln, Mrs. Walter Olson and Mrs. Ernest Olson of Oshkosh and Mrs. John Hutchinson of Weeping Water; three sons, John Cole of Weeping Water and Rob ert and Richard Cole of Comp ton. Calif. Also surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Jennie Day of Boise, Idaho, and Mrs. Elizabeth Reed of Cali fornia; and two brothers, Ed Norton of Weeping Water and Robert Norton of San Mateo, Calif- Vur.prnl services will be held Friday afternoon, February 27, at the Consregational church at Weeping Water with Rev. John C Pryor officiating. Burial will be in Weeping Water Oakwood CepallbeaVers will be C. H. Gib enn Raloh Keckler, Lloyd Ran r,ev John Marquardt, Laurence Eidenmiller and Mogens John- CHohon Funeral Home of WeeDing Water is in charge of arrangements. Rural Fire District Sets Annual Meeting Thp annual meeting of the Kenwood Rural Fir Proteo se, district will be held at the tion cim Greenwood on &effisd? March 4 at eight ,(F?Mtion of officers will high : the annual meeting, ac Srdinf to Ernest F. Otto, secretary. J: IHleire: the front end of the truck just in front of the cab. The train was traveling at about 45 miles an hour at the time. Motor and j front part of the truck were ' stripped from the truck. Dasher reportedly received a i broken right shoulder, cuts and bruises and possible internal in juries. He was treated by Dr. L. S. Pucelik, who was in Omaha Thursday morning checking X rays of Dasher's injuries. Sheriff Tom Solomon gave this view cf the accident: Dasher, driving the pick up. turned onto the cemetery road just east of the railroad tracks, i Mud made travel difficult and the low sun blinded Dasher from seeing the warning signal at the crossing. The truck was travel ing about seven miles an hour at the time. Engineer O. M. Liebsch of Falls City stated that the train was doing about 45 miles an hour i when it hit the crossing where the accident occured. He said that he had blown the engine's whistle as he approached the crossing. The truck, according to Solo mon, was a total loss and dam age to the front end of the diesel was described as heavy. The train traveled approxi mately 729 feet after the im pact, while the truck driven by Dasher was bounced back ap proximately 48 feet. The train-truck mishap on the cemetery road railroad crossing comes at a time when the Platts mouth City Council is seeking possible ways of improving the road. The crossing, which is raised considerably from the level of the road to the east, has been called a danger spot here for sometime. The road has been in bad traveling condition for several weeks. Dasher, most seriously injured of the two, was thrown from the truck the instant of impact. He was not hospitalized however. No one aboard the train was in jured. The freight train, a local, No. 193, was en route toward Omaha when the mishap occured sev eral hundred yards south of the Plattsmouth depot. Subscribe to The Journal Broad Legion Outlined To Activities of the American Le- gion cover a wide area but are primarily directed at the youth of America and toward further ing an understanding of Ameri canism, James F. Begley, com mander of the Plattsmouth post, told Rotarians here Tuesday noon. A guest of program chairman F. I. Rea, Begley, who returned from a three-day mid-winter conference at Grand Island Monday, explained that the local post as well as posts on- a state and national level are dedicated to service of the community, state and nation. Among the organizations re gular features are Memorial Day and Armistice Day pro grams, an all-inclusive child welfare program, and a new "Back to God" movement, which is dedicated to the proposition that people must get back to God. Pointing out that the Legion's youth program is designed to control juvenile delinquency, Begley explained that Boys' State and Boys and Girls County Government are two annual programs which have a wide fol lowing in Nebraska as well as throughout the nation Boys and Girls County Gov- ernment, Begley explained, is a county-wide promotion of Le gion clubs throughout Cass county with the Plattsmouth post as host. It annually brings a hundred or more county high school students to Plattsmouth to view operations in county offices. The event will be staged in April this year. Three hundred boys now par ticipate each year in Boys State. whih was founded by Chief Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court Robert Simmons, and is now copied in many states and will in time be a nationwide pro gram of the Legion. The pro gram started with six Nebraska counties but 92 of the 93 coun- Variely Articles Taken From Farm House Recently Theft of several articles from a vacant house on the Ed Lutz farm, operated by Lloyd More head, has been reported to Sher iff Tom Solomon. MorphMri rpnnrtpri that, the t losses were discovered late last week, when he checked the house after about a week's absence. Reported missing were six doors from the house, three tires, rims, tubes, axles, spacers, lug bolts off of a truck, a gasoline motor, electric truckhorns, corn planter wire, oil filter, magneto for tractor, car radiator and scrap iron and assorted tools. Solomon said the articles were believed to have been hauled away in a pickup truck. The farm is located 5 miles west and one mile north of Plattsmouth on the Cedar Creek road. Mrs. Sochor, 74, Resident Here 60 Years, Dies Mrs. Antonia Sochor, resident of Plattsmouth for more than a half century, died at Methodist hospital at Omaha Monday evening, February 23, 1953 fol lowing an illness of several years. She was 79 years old. Native of Moravia, she came to the United States in 1880 and seven years later was married to James Sochor at Schuyler, Nebraska. They came to Platts mouth soon afterwards and had resided here since. Mr. Sochor died in 1927. Mrs. Sochor vlas a member of Z C. B. J., Western Bohemian Fraternal Association Lodge. Surviving are a dauehter, Mrs. Laura Wilson of Des Plains. Ill inois; sons. Otto Sochor of Hol lywood. California, Eugene So chor of Los Angeles, California; two sisters. Mrs. F. J. Kobar of Seattle, Washington and Mrs. Mary McKenzie of Hood River, Oregon: four grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Funeral services were held on Wednesday morning from Cald-well-Linder Chapel with Rev. Max Kors officiating, and later from Schuyler were short ser vices also held. Mrs. Hugh Stander, Jr., was soloist and Mrs. Richard Schade was organist. Pallbearers were C. E. Ledgway, Warren Lillie, Walter Tritsch, Paul Jahrig, Ro bert Walling and R. C. Jahrig. Burial was in Schuyler ceme tery at Schuyler. Caldwell-Lin-der Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Mrs. E. A. Ernst, who under went surgery at St. Mary's hos pital at Nebraska City on Wed nesday, is reportedly getting a!ong as well as can be expected. She is in room 203. Journal Want Ads Pay! Program Rotarians James F. Begley ties will take part this year. Another program of the Le gion at Plattsmouth is partici pation in funeral services for ex -military personnel Thp T.e- gion maintains lots at Oak Hill j cemetery for veterans, he point- ed out. Rotarians also heard reports from school Rotarians, Jerome Shellenbarger and John Schrein er, Jr. Representatives of the senior and junior classes res pectively, the high school boys gave their impressions of Ro tary activity during their month as special guests. The Plattsmouth ' Service Group . learned that it placed second in attendance in the district during the past month and took top place in its class. Visitin? Rotarians were Fred Salters, Buck Sewell and Dr. J. F. Toman, all of Omaha. Steve Grosserode was a truest of Ro tarian C. C. Girardot. '- i $500 Check Mrs. Mildred Comstock of Greenwood, left, chairman of the Cass County March of Dimes, is shown receiving a $500 check from Col. A. J. Beck, commanding officer at Offutt Air Force Base, while Mrs. Lottie Knecht, center, of South Bend, chairman of the county National Polio Foundation looks on. Offutt, which raised nearly $14,000 for the March of Dimes, presented the check to the ladies last week at a luncheon at Offutt Air Force Base. Sarpy County received $7,000 and Douglas County $6,400. Work As Journal News Announcer Brings Radio Job Mrs. Esther Donat, news broadcaster for the Platts mouth Journal for the past several weeks on "Plattsmouth Calling" has resigned to take a permanent position with radio station KFNF at Shen andoah, from which the Plattsmouth program is broad cast. Mrs. Donat will berin re gular employment with the radio station next Monday. She has been news broadcaster for the Journal since the local program was inaugurated. A student of journalism at Omaha university in recent semester work, she on'v re cently sold Donat's Tavern here to Joe Kruntorad of Omaha. Contract for . Remodeling Fire Station Okayed Remodeling and extension of the Plattsmouth Fire Station seemed assured today, follow ing action of the City Council Monday night m aDoroving a contract for $925 with Herman Tikotter. Tiekotter's estimate for en closing the ooen driveway, relo cating the door currently u?ed in the north entrance to the fire station, concrete and car Dentry work, and for construct ing the new addition in comoli ance with plans outlined by the fire department was below the $1,000 mark set by the city. Under the program of expan sion, planned by the depart ment; the onen driveway will be enclosed to house the fire truck now kepJ in the north end of the city hall. It would cut the two trucks side-by-side and would give the department ex cellent exits onto Fifth street. Along with the deDartment addition, the city is also plan ning to ask bids for refinishins: the north end of the city hall and installing an inside stair way .to reach the city council room on the second floor of the building. That would make it possible to remove the outside stairway, which is a definite hazard. Firemen, will at their own ex pense, remodel the first floor area of the city hall for a train ing and operations room in com pliance with its plans to reor ganize and expand. The depart ment has voted to organize on a company basis and to "con duct regular and extensive train ing programs. Work on the Fire Department addition is expected to get un derway early this spring and to be completed early to allow for remodeling the training room of the department. Feeders to Have Banquet Tonight Cass County Livestock Feeders Association will hold its annual banquet tonight. Thursday. Feb ruary 26. at the agricultural auditorium at Weeping Water. Principal speaker will be Jerry Sotola, packing comomy representative. Will A. Minford of Murray, president of the As sociation will conduct the meet ing. Music will be furnished by the Weeping Water Little Sym phony orchestra. A. J. Ross of Nebraska City was in Plattsmouth Thursday on business. Howard Phiipot of Bellevue was in Plattsmouth Wednesday visiting with friends. From Offutt Iff , ri 'VT X.' 4 I To Get Priority; Estimate Souah! A special meeting of tne City Council will be called if neces sary, Mayor Clement Woster advised Councilmen Monday night, as the city fathers brief ly considered possible action on rebuilding or repairing the Cemetery road. Faced with the problem for several weeks, "since the bot tom went out,' councilmen were advised that it's a problem for the entire city, not just the street department. Koward Hirz, chairman cf the streets, alleys and bridges com mittee, asked councilmen to consider every possible means cf repairing and rebuilding the road to the cemetery. In the meantime, Hirz has been ad vised to seek a definite estimate of the expected costs for bringing.- the road' into serviceable condition. - How the repair and mainten ance work will be financed is still another problem. Council men are hooing to avoid crea tion cf a district which would require benefit assessment against adjoining property own ers. By virtue of the necessity which the road holds for almost every citizen, councilmen are seeking a method whereby it can be financed by the city. Mayor Clement Woster opposed a sug gestion that a city-wide fund raising project be started. Hirz also refreshed council men of a proposed new route to the cemetery for which plans and specifications were prepared nearly 10 years ago. The plans, still held by Robert Mann, will be considered by the Council. They called for passage under the Missouri Pacific underpass and cutting south to tie in with the present cemetery road. Street Department Foreman Elmer Gochenour told Council men that several truck loads of rock have already been dumped onto the road. It has had little effect. He explained that the road would remain in bad condition until it is possible to raise the road level and to cover it with a thick rock coating. No Discrimination Against Workers, Onion Head Says There will be no discrimina tion against non-union workers seeking jobs with construction, companies on the Allied Chem ical Plant north of Plattsmouth, Chamber of Commerce officials were informed here Tuesday. Gordon Preble of Grand Is land, president of the Nebraska American Federation of Labor, told Industrial committee of ficials of the Chamber that there will be no trouble between union and non-union workers seeking employment on the plant site. He explained that non-union workers will be issued union cards once they have obtained jobs with construction compan ies for the Allied plant. Preble was accompanied here by John Devereaux of the Omaha paint ers union. They met with James Begley, chairman of the Chamber in dustrial committee. R. R. Furse, land Chamber Manager Charles Dean. Ordinance Okays Vacating Alley Ordinance vacating an alley adjacent to the J. Howard Davis property was nassed and ap proved by the Plattsmouth City Council Monday night. Classified Ad In The Jcrv si costs as little as 35c. Cemetery Road Firee For Specoo L leqjyest Candidates to Be Named For City And School Posts Qualified electors at Platts- mouth will nominate candidates ooapSsTts held here next Tuesday, March 3. They will name candidates for : two council posts, one from ; each ward, and will nominate : candidates for two three-year ' terms to the board of education. Walter H. Smith, chairman of I the Democratic central commit- I tee, has called for a convention ! to be held in the district court- ' j room at the courthouse at 8:00 j IJ.ni. luesaay mgni. j Meanwhile the Republicans, : in answer to Chairman Searl S. f Davis' call, will convene in the ' basement room of the Public Library. The school caucus will be held in the auditorium cf the high school, also at eight o' clock. Candidates for the city coun cil will be named for terms of office expiring for E. O. Vroman and D. L. Grove. Vroman is council to create such an im-prmnlptirp- r shnrt term nf nf-1 nmvomotit Hic-trt rtmotP fice from the second ward, Grove is completing a two year term from the First Ward. ; Sierninp the petition were Mav Terms of office for Robert nard Tntsch. Carl W. Propp. Painter and Herman Tiekotter Velma V. Propn. Harvey Bruns, expire on ine Doara oi eauca tion. Ray Story Gets License Here for New Trailer Park Ray Story has been granted li cense to operate a trailer park just south of Kent Service Sta tion and Cafe. A license was ap proved bv the Plattsmouth City Council Monday night. Story petitioned the council for a trailer park license under provisions of an ordinance pass ed several months ago by the council. A diagram nf the nrnnnspri ' trailer park, submitted with Storys petition. designated areas for 14 house trailers. Un der provisions of the council's recent ordinance, each trailer must have at least a 25-foot lot, and facilities for washing and bathing must also be pro vided. Story also asked permission of the council to straighten the drainage ditch south of the pro posed parking area. The work, which councilmen described as beneficial to the city, would be paid for by Story. Work on the project is expect ed to get underway immediately. Mrs. Ruth Rexroad of Belle vue was in Plattsmouth Wednes day visiting with friends. Boy Scouts Collections Good; Lions Take Contest Collections for the Boy Scouts cf America, reported late Wed nesday night from throuehout the county indicate that Coun tians will eo over their halfway mark in the fund raising cam paign. Incomplete reports tabulated earlv Thursday morning show totals for the six county com munities at well over the $1300 mark, just shy of the halfway mark in the county's $2700 quota. Loca'ly Plattsmouth Rotary Club 'ossed in the towel" at luncheon at the expense of the 7:30 Wednesday night acknow- Rotary Club, ledeing defeat by the Platts- j Meanwhile additional solicits -mouth Lions Club in the battle tion will be conducted until all to raise the most money for the Scouts. At that time Fred Feldhousen, chairman of the Lions drive re ported $392, more than $300 re ported at the same time bv Ponald R. Furse, chairman of the Rotary campaign, later re turns however boosted the com bined totals here to $567. There is every indicatin that locally the drive will exceed the S1O00 mark. Many solicitors un able to make their reports on Wednesday night, or unable to conduct their drives on that dav, will submit renorts later this week. Scattered reports received since Wednesday nisht have moved the amount above the $600 mark. Out in the county Nehawka The Plattsmouth City Council has agreed to a pro i posal of the Plattsmouth Chamber of Commerce to "cover" j parking meters on three good will promotion days being ' planned by the Retail division of the Chamber, i Action of the Council followed a lengthy discussion j held by Mayor Clement Woster and City Councilmen with, jsix members of the Chamber of Commerce. Discussion, i was held in reference to proposals submitted to the Council i b.v le Chamber, ! Approval of the council i s!ra trv for xTr Eg Hu' n Dr :Das and the Farmers barbecue, events to be held in i June and Julv. Petition Seeks Extension of Water Mains Petition has been filed with the city council for extension of water mains to serve residents in the general vicinitv just south of the Plattsmouth-Lau'viiie mad and west of Hishwav 73-75. The petition, signed by 16 Droo erty owners, was accented by tne citv council, which with held action on the recommenda tion of City Attornev Harold Lebens. Lebens explained that it would be imDOS?ible for the in the nroDosed housing district i are dedicated. iSterlintr Sand, Helen Sand. Rav. mond Fmok. Mary J. Smock, !Josenhin Sit7mn. H. E. Rob insnn. EHa Robion. Almde Forbes Robert Sitzmsm. Mrs. iwris lriTrn. uoy ts. &narp ana Otto Wohlfarth. Signatures of property own ers are now being checked by City Attorney Lebens. CHURCH COUNCIL TO MEET The church council of St. h"aui s evangelical and Kerormea cfjurcn win ineei Aioiiaay mi 'in, March 2. at the parsonace. The meeting is called for 7:30. . ! 1 . , r n nr, Proof Rabies Here Exhibited By City Plattsmouth City officials today produced proof that the drive now beinsr conducted to control rabies is not "an at tempt to pet more dog licens es or to get rid of stray doirs." While the drive is nroducing such results, citv officials to day have produced a copy of the State Department cf Health order, notifying the city police of rabies present in a dog which bit a woman here two weeks asro. The proof is shown in an advertisement by the city ap pearing; on another page of today's Journal. Meanwhile the citv drive is continuing;. More than one hundred clogs have already been picked up and an estima ted 35 are impounded at this time. communities. Nehawkans have set a blisterine pace for other reported $285.50, far above their $100 quota. Elsewhere incomplete renorts late Wednesday showed Weep in? Water, $0: Alvo, $85: Union $100 and Louisville $200. Only the Nehawka report was believ ed to be complete. By virtue of their winning ef fort. Plattsmouth Lions who re ported Wednesday night were feted at a "coffee and donut" canvassers have made their re norts. When totals for the two local clubs are completed, the amounts are expected to run prfttv evenly. Prior to embarkin? on their all-dav Scout solicitation. Ro tarians and Lions heard an ad dress by Denn F. E. Henzlik. dean rf the Teachers College at the University of Nebraska. Dean Henzlik, a member of the executive committee of the Cornhusker Council told the breakfasting solicitors that "Boy Scouts is one positive approach to f Jo-Ming Communism." While solicitors here were lis , tening to Dean Henzlik. Orville Nielsen, local Scout official was civing a send off to solicitors at Weeping Water. u Cuiioinniber was received for "covering" Other proposals submitted by ; the Chamber drew discission, j ririncipally from Mayor Clement ; Woster, but received no action by the Council. The proposals i wre presented by Chamber Manager Charles Dean. Cham ; ber members at the session were :John Sc.hreiner. Bill Williamson. Georp Smith. John Soennichsen nd Eill Knorr. Dfan explained that "since in- stallat ion of parking meters here. enouah time has elapsed to prove beyond a doubt, that they have heen beneficial and an asset to the city. We as members of the Retail Committee of he Cham ber of Commerce, fully approve their use." He pointed out also that busi ness men have spent consider able time, effort and money in advertising and promoting the community as a aes ' ?rea ana !nai l!?.ev desirable trade are vitally interested in continued success ful operation cf the meters. Jn drlit1rn to the "free metr davs." the Chamber nropod. 1. All cars bearing lions olates from out of Ibis county b issued "courtesy" tickets instead of the present 25 cent penalty tickets. Limit 3 courtesy tickets per year. -- 2. A nortionof thA net reve nue derived from parking meters be set aside and accrued in a special rarkin? lot fund. The soeHal fund to be used even tually for purchase and matnte- nare cf " city owned, "free parkin0, lot 7 rrtm nrimr, rth.r . ....... . .... t ...... . than arress anl fines for in advertent infract'oni of traffic rues anrt regulations. Generally Mayor Clement Wos ter convinced the businessmen ! present that those three pro posals are prettv well taken care of in the method now being conducted bv the citv. Mavor Woster told the busi nessmDn that everv courtesy is (Continued en Page 6) City's Liability Insurance Is Far Below Need Here Plattsmouths" newest insur ance agents. Albin Chovenac and A. W. -'Gus" Cloidt, have called the attention of the city council to its inadequate liabil ity insurance coverage. The information was disclosed Monday night at the Councils regular session. In presenting a property damage and liability survey to the council, the in surance agents pointed out, that only three of the city's eight mobile units are covered in li ability policies. It pointed out also that workmen, non-mobile equipment, and a variety of other city properties are also potential liabilities in case of accidents or damage. Mayor Clement. Woster urged Councilmen to give careful and immediate consideration to the company's proposal, and the is sue was placed in the hands of the Tax and Property commit tee for investigation. The committee, comprised of Howard Hirz and E. O. Vroman. has been asked to make its re port to the next regular council meeting. Former Resident Dies in Illinois Funeral services will be held it Rattler Funeral Home on Sunday, March 1, for Mrs. Agatha Ellen Gieneer. 84, form er resident of Plattsmouth, who id at Oak Lawn. Illinois on Monday. February 23. Mrs. Gieneer was born on March 12, 1868. the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Turker. former business peopls in Plattsmouth. Pev. Max L. Kors will officiate at the final rites. Burial will be at Oak Hill cemetery, where her parents are buried. Satter Funeral Home is in chargt of arrangements.