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UME tPO-A CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY Monday - Thursday Consolidated with The Nehawka Enterprise - Delivered Twice Weekly to More Than 3000 Cass County Families VOLUME 72 SIXTEEN PAGES PLATTSMOUTH, CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1953 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NUMBER 41 ovirag ciencH Sewer istricts At" Valley View Consulting engineers for the city of Plattsmouth tem porarily altered plans of backers of the Valley View hous ing project Monday night by recommending slight changes in procedure before setting up sewer and paving districts. Following a request of the house builders to create a paving district, representatives of Henningsen, Durham & Richardson, consulting engineers, advised the group to complete their grading before establishing the districts. PL IR j i creation of the districts could Mil 00! DOnSS AfC ?pedfications0should behelup r, i in until a definite grade is estab- I fill Off iftf hat lished. The builders had plan lillwU? Culilvl ned to start paving and sewer gmm m ri ga i construction before completing lACifr 1 AnCfrilllAn tne grading. The paving would JiUWj lUlfjIi lilllUSI (have been established on the $450,000 in school bonds haveibasis of Present Srade stakes made the rounds of necessary j Advised that earth moved in signers and have been returned ; for fills would have to be well to the bonding comoany. Sien- i ingthe$l,0CO bonds required I the signatures of four individ uals on 450 different bonds. Bonds were signed by A. W. Huebner and James Begley, president and secretary of the board of education; Cass Coun ty Clerk W. B. J. McDonald; and State Auditor Ray Johnson. Meanwhile construction ac tivity has taken it on the chin from old man weather. Rapid progress, noted in recent weeks, melted to practically zero as rain and snow hampered con struction. A check of the different school sites shows that structures are beginning to take shayle. Co lumbian school, most advanced of the three elementary schools, has the south wall well on the way toward its height. Bricks have also been laid at First Ward and Wintersteen schools. Rains have practically halted work on the new high school addition, where heavy excava tion had been in progress. Trailer Court License Issued To Art Rains Plattsmouth City Council Monday night approved a trailer court license at the request of Arthur H. Rains and Perry I. Graves. The court would be lo cated adiacent to 10th street and Avenue C. In submitting the request for license to the council, petition ers also exhibited statements from adjacent property owners that, they have no objection. The Council also granted Rains permission to connect to the sewer at the trailer court site to enable him to meet sanitary sewer requirements as estab lished by the council in a recent trailer park ordinance. A proposed plot of the intend ed trailer court, exhibited at the council session, diagramed pro posed sewer lines and trailer lo cations, plus the washroom, bathing and toilet facilities, re quired by ordinance. The dia gram showed space for about 20 trailers. Ken Wohlf arth Loses Fingers In Mishap At Work Kenneth Wohlfarth of Platts mouth, employed at a machine shop in Omaha, has had four fingers on his left hand ampu tated following a mishap at the W. A. Cady, industrial black smith plant Tuesday. Wohlfarth was injured when he caught his hand jn a rapidly revolving fan. He was taken to Methodist hospital, where the fingers were amputated. He will remain in the hospital for skin grafting. He was reported resting bet ter today. Mrs. Wohlfarth visit ed with her husband at the hos pital Wednesday afternoon. He is reportedly feeling as well as can be expected. Deadline For Filing Assessment Schedules Nears April 20 is the deadline for filing assessment sched ules. Plattsmouth and Cass county property owners, who have failed to file assess ment schedules, have until 5 p. m., Monday, April 20, to complete the job. Out county residents who were unable to file schedules while precinct assessors were wcrkin? in their community may file schedules at the as sessor's office at the court house. Plattsmouth property owners must also file sched ules at the court hoase. . Soydfoft Basically they pointed out that i jumyaaeu iui a v" u, they ere also nformed tha earth to be moved from the higher areas might not be suf ficient to meet the grades as presently established. Had plans for the paving been carried out, it may have required the build ers to haul in many loads of dirt from outside the area in order to make the grades. Meanwhile the council is ex pected to go ahead with plans to create the district, but will advise engineers to hold up plans and specifications until the grade is definitely established. Similar action will also be taken on a sanitary sewer system for the Valley View addition. Similar problems also contron- j ted the two groups on the sewer proposal. The basic problem seems to be where to terminate the Valley View sewer. In the meantime Engineers have been instructed to check with the State Health Depart ment on a proposal to termin ate the sewer in a storm sewer at, Holdredge street, or to run the sewer along Chicago avenue to connect with the Oakmont , sewer. ' The latter method would In volve approximately an addi tional $4,000 cost to the project, much to be paid by general ob ligation of the city. In submitting,, figures for pav iner. Eneineers estimated that overall cost at roughly $38,000, while the sewer project would cost in the neighborhood of $9,300 for the Valley View lat erals, plus the additional cost of sewer from the area to its terminal. A similar survey is being made for running water mains to the proposed new addition. Representatives of Blodgett & Krajacic, Inc.. and Maynard Tritsch represented the home builders at the council session. They were given the assurance of Mayor Clement Woster. speak ing for the council, that the city would do everything possible to assure speedy action in creating I Grading operations at the housing site location are ex pected to be stepped up in order that sewer and paving district construction can get underway as early as possible. Eagle Voc. Acr. Boys Earn Ribbons One Cass countv school was among the 120 schools partici pating in vocational agriculture judging contest at the University of Nebraska College of Agricul ture last week. Alfred Schroder of Eagle earned a white ribbon in the animal husbandry department. The Eagle team earned a red ribbon in the same department. Christian and Presbyterion church youth groups enjoyed a roller skating party at Nebras ka City Tuesday night. Neon Signs Are Assured; Council Gives Approval Plattsmouth is only $75 away from getting new 10-foot neon signs across approaches to the city from the north and south. Approval of the Plattsmouth City Council Monday night of the Chamber of Commerce's plans to erect two new signs was given along with the requested financial aid. The council voted to pay monthly rental charges on one of the signs and also to pay the monthly electrical bill for the two large neon signs. Estimated cost per month to the city would be about $15, including $9.30 for rental of the one sign. Meanwhile, Vic Schreiner. president of the Chamber, who requested cooperation of the city in the sign venture, explain ed that the Chamber will pay rental costs for the other sign and will pay installation costs. Schreiner explained that the Chamber had raised $245 of the required installation costs of $320. The two groups will enter Handling county government affairs for a day are these county commissioners, elected from each Cass county school as delegates to Boys and Girls County Government day at Plattsmouth. Left to right are: standing Commissioner Ray Norris, Weeping Water; Dick Printz, Alvo; Ray Adkins, Plattsmouth; John Vogt, Elmwood;, Dick Meyer, Avoca, and Ken Thomsen, Greenwood. Seated are, from left Commissioner Wm. Nolte, Henry Slander, Pioneer County Resident, Dies Henry Stander, pioneer Cass county resident, died at an Oma ha hospital on Saturday, April 11, 1953. He was 89 years old. Well known throughout most of the county, Stander lived for many years in the South Bend area, but in more recent year had lived at Louisville. Mr. Stander recently under went delicate eye operations and also suffered a stroke. He had farmed in the South Bend vicinity for many years, moving to Ashland after re tiring from the farm. After the death of his wife, he went to Louisville, where he lived with a sister, Mrs. Helen Cleghorn. Surviving are two sons, Cecil of Ashland and Herbert of Louis ville; two daughters, Mrs. Helen Mooney of Plymouth and Mrs. Eva Roeber of Murdock; and two brothers and one sister. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock at the First Methodist church at Louisville with burial in the Louisville cemetery. Eveland Hogs Top Market A record cattle and calf run for April, 21,700 Monday at Om aha, jolted the market hard. The break at Omaha was 50 cents to $1, in some cases more. Slaughter steers and yearlings at Omaha bulked $18 to $22 with heavy steers at $22.50. Butcher hogs sold steady to strong and fed wooled lambs were steady to a quarter lower. Among recent saes at Omaha for shipoers from this area were Lloyd Zeorian, 22 hogs weighing 224 at $21.90; Jose & Davis, 16 hogs at $21.75 and six weighing 30Q at $20.25. Eveland's hogs topped the market for April 9. MEETING CHANGED Because of the forty hour de votions of St. John's Parish, Catholic Daughters of America will meet on April 30 at 8 p. m. at St. John's Hall. into a contract with the neon sign company on a five year basis, with option to buy the signs at the end of that period. The signs, 10 feet wide, 18 in ches high with letters In neon 12 inches high, will be erected by Consumers over the two Highway 75 entrances to the city. Signs will be readable coming from either direction. Mayor Clement Woster and Councilman E. O. Vroman, How ard Hirz and D. L. Grove were heartily in favor of the ' signs. Les Hutchinson was not pres ent. In its motion approving ar rangements with the Chamber, the Council voted to include the street sign lighting costs in its next fiscal budget, to be pre pared next month after new councilmen take over. Attending the session along with Schreiner were Don Cotner and L. A. Caldwell. - - V C2 S ,-' II Union Farmer Is Pinned By Tractor; Escapes Injury A Union farmer escaped serious injury and possible death Monday afternoon when he was pinned be neath an overturned tractor for nearly a half hour. Bil Nixon of Union was the victim of the near mis hap when his tractor over turned while he was working in the field. The tractor turned over as he attempted to turn around at the end of the field. Fortunately, Con Watkins, working in the same field, saw the accident, and was able to pull the tractor off Nixon. Nixon, who was not seri ously injured, went back to work. Court House Wilbur G. Muller forfeited $14 bond in county court on a charge of speeding. Overload on axle cost Pete Ab bott $25 and costs . in county court here. Lawrence Albert Pace was fined $25 and costs in county court on a charge of overload on capacity. Overweight on axle cost West ern Brick Company $10 and costs in county court. J. W. Humphrey was fined $35 and costs in county court after he pleaded guilty to a charge of careless driving. A charge of careless driving also cost Darrell D. Fredrickson $25 and costs in county court. Fredrickson pleaded guilty to the charge. Francis J. McCormick was fined $1 and costs in county court on a charge of allowing an unauthorized person to operate a vehicle, and $50 and costs on a charge of possession of alco holic liquor by a minor. Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company has filed petition in county court for judgment in the amount of $21 from Henry Traut. Affidavit in garnishment has been filed in county court by R. E. Shold against Charles Mann, alleging that a $248.88 judgment against Mann has not been paid. Richard Dale Sack, 24, of Mur ray, and Ruth Ann Sporer, 22, also of Murray, have been issued a license for marriage in county court. Carol Marie Larimore was fined $5 and costs in county court on a charge of no driver's license. L. E. Tibbetts was fined $10 and costs and received a one year suspension of his driver's license on an amended charge of reckless driring in county eourt. Petition has been filed in dis trict court by Arthur W. Hill as-alnst heirs, etc., of the late Emma Casey and notice of con structive service has been or dered. COUNCIL GIVES OKAY Plattsmouth City Councilmen Monday night voted to give its approval to the State Liquor Commission for a package liquor license to Herbert Jochimsen. Package liquor licenses are granted by the commission. -A Journal Want Ad Pay! Plattsmouth; Dale Snoke, Eagle; Donald Haase, Murdock; Richard Attebery, Union; Carl Orn dorff, Nehawka, and Rodney M. Heim, Louisville. Nearly out of the picture at left are Miss Joan Norris of Weeping Water, granddaughter of the commissioner, and Herman Bornemeier of Elm wood, chairman of the board. Miss Norris was elected chairman by her colleagues. Journal Photo. South Park Sever Estimate $48,516; To Let Contracts Plans and specifications for the South Park sanitary sewer system, for which construction costs have been estimated at $48,516 have been approved by the Plattsmouth City Council. One of the largest- sanitary sewer systems to be planned in Plattsmouth in recent years, the system will serve a large num ber of residences in nearly a 15-block area in the general vicinity of 9th and south of 2nd avenue. - Details of the plans and speci fications were aired by a rep resentative of Henningsen, Dur ham and Richardson. Inc., con sulting engineers at the Monday night meeting of the City Coun cil, while final approval was given as the Council reconvened Tuesday night. Tuesday night the Council ap proved the resolution of neces sity and set May 11 as the date for hearing on the construction project. overall cost of the project, in cluding the $48,516 estimated by engineers as the construction cost, will total nearly $55,000, in cluding engineering fees and other incidental costs. Some special conditions, which may be required because of existing problems, may increase the cost slightly. Basically the sewer will serve residences along Holdredge and Patterson streets to the south and most residences north of Holdredge and east of 9th Street. The sewer line will follow along Lincoln avenue from Holdredge to about second avenue. Louisville Fete For Delegates Is Called Success A honoring ceremony, initiated at Louisville Wednesday night for its representatives to Boys & Girls County Government ap pears to have gathered support here. Attending the proeram at the Louisville Legion Club, James Begley, commander of the local post, asked to copy the Louisville idea for use at Plattsmouth. The Wednesday night pro gram was declared a definite success by Legion and Auxiliary officials attending the honoring program, at which reports were given by each of the Louisville delegates. Other meeting high lights included short addresses by Richard Peck of Plattsmouth and Congressman Roman Hruska who briefly gave comparisons of government on the county and national level. As chairman of Government Day, Peck extended praise to the Louisville officers taking part. Louisville Lesion Commander Luken also talked briefly to his fellow townsmen. Supreme Court Justice Robert Simmons, founder of Boys & Girls County Government, was reported ill and unable to be present. Refreshments were served by the Auxiliary. Attending from here were Mr. and Mrs. Richard Peck, Mr. and Mrs. James Beg ley, Mrs. Sophia Wolever and Mrs. LaVetta Baumgart. Journal Want Ads Pay! CeirDfteouonD PfeiGDs Inspection Plans Ready; Hazards At Garage Found Don't laugh, it might happen to you, too! That's the advice of Herb Minor, vice president of the Plattsmouth Volunteer Fire De partment, whose countenance has been a hris-ht red sinrA his colleagues made a "fire hazard" inspection ; tour of his garage ; Wednesday night. Volunteering his establish ment for a practice inspection session. Minor watched as in spection teams found minor faults which could lead to a definite fire disaster and were listed as hazards. Since last night's meeting, Minor has gone to work on his place of business to eliminate these conditions. His experience serves as a re minder that the Volunteer Fire men will open their inspection campaign here on Monday, April 20. One or more of these firemen will start the campaign Monday when inspection of downtown buildings is held. Conducting the inspection will be James As pedon, Bill Highfield, Ben An derson, Ernest Yenney, Ray Her ring, Leo Holman, Winifred Das her, Clark Finney, Lewis Svo boda and Herb Minor. Along with the inspection plans to be held in connection with Clean-Up Week, Firemen have also announced plans for a slogan contest and home in spection plan for grade school students. Pupils in grades, kindergarten through sixth, will be given of ficial inspection blanks for home inspection. They will be issued the blanks on Monday for return to school by the 24th. The winning slogan, suggested by the grade kids, will be used for the Clean-Up campaign which starts on April 27. Prizes of $5, $3 and $2 will also be awarded by the department to the top three slogans. Plattsmouth Boy Scouts may also take an active part in the program. They may earn merits for firemanship by aiding in the inspections. Scouts are asked to call Bill Highfield for further information about their part in the inspection. Adkins To Manage Tastee Shop Here Sherman and Ann Adkins have taken over management of the Tastee Shop here following the recent transfer of Jack Ar cher to the Caribbean. Archer left last week for his new station, although his wife and family will remain here un til the end of the school year. The Archers opened the Tas tee shop at Plattsmouth on the corner of 6th and Main streets in 1947 and moved to the present location a year ago. Request of James Holoubek to do excavating to connect with a private sanitary sewer was ap proved Tuesday night by the .Plattsmouth City Council. Robert Tefft, Avoca, Heads County Scholars Robert Tefft, son of Mrs. Carl A. Tefft of Avoca, is one of 42 University of Nebraska seniors to be recognized for superior scholarship at the annual Hon ors convocation next Tuesday morning, April 21. Tefft, who has been on the Honors list every year since he was a freshman, ranks in the uoper three per cent scholastic ally of the senior class. He is malortng in mechanical engin eering in the college of engin eering and architecture. The Avoca senior has also : been elected an associate mem- i ber of Sigma Xi, national sci entific research society. Sigma Xi members are those seniors i who have shown "marked ex- I cellence" in two or more scienc- , es. 1 Other Cass countians to be recognized for high scholarship at the Tuesday convocation are: Seniors Alice F. Engelking Matson of Elmwood and Stanley W. Smith of Avoca. . Juniors Ruth B. Greer of Alvo. Freshmen Mary L. Domin- Cirasiideired A special seven-member committee has been named to draw up articles of incorporation for a Cass County Cen tennial Corporation to carry out a special program for observing the 100th year of Cass county. I The committee was named at a county-wide meeting Iheld here Tuesday night to hear proposals of a producing company official for handling administrative and program details for the centennial celebration. It was at the sug- I gestion of the official, Wayne tennial boosters appointed the ticles of incorporation. Five Trucks Will Coiled Debris in Clean-Up Drive Clean up operations at Platts mouth during Clean-Up Paint Up Fix-Up week which opens here on April 27, will be boasted by, a fleet of five trucks to pick up trash and debris from resi dences throughout the city. The Plattsmouth City Council Monday night agreed to furnish the two city dump trucks, to join three other which will be loaned to the sponsoring: Cham- i ber of Commerce by Minor Pon- tiac and Plattsmoutn Motors. Although definite pick-up dates have not been set as yet, City Street Commissioner made it a note to inform the residents that "trash must be put on the curb in the front of the house for pick up by the city." That stemmed from past years when, although advised to put "trash in the front near the curb" many residents piled it in the alley Later they wondered lVjlIt rpain,ea inai a why it was not picked up centennial celebration provides r jf 4. , an excellent opportunity to pro- inKrH Ch?enr,S,0hier tahL!niote greater unity in the county informed the Chamber that ! and ti, Mm tim tawpii Main street will be blocked off ?? .-L,li?5- P?..""1 .,".veal "c-o ;"v,f"w north and south sides of the street in a contest to clean the Main street Albert Tighe Dies at Omaha "7" . iibnc, urns-tune .eic, ior lund raising activities resident of Cass county and a and directs the entire program prominent farmer in central toward a climax. It'll be the type Cass county for many years, died of celebration where everyone at Omaha where he had resided gets into the act. Lemmon ex in recent years. He was 81 years I plained, and presents opportu old. nities for individuals and groups r unerai services were held from an Omaha funeral home Tuesday morning and from St. Patricks church at Manley at 10 a. m. Interment was in St. Patrick cemetery at Manley. The rosary was recited Mon day night at 8 p. m. Johnson Is Low Bidder On Sidewalk Construction Job Ira B. Johnson's low bid of $590 has been accepted bv the Plattsmouth City Council for construction of a sidewalk in the block adjacent to the Frank Libershal residence on South 7th street. Johnson's bid, on 300 feet of MaewaiK, aiso proviaeo ior a 45 cent per square foot charge for all over 300 feet. Only other bidder on the side walk job was Wm. Kief. Robert Tefft go of Weeping Water, William E. Engelkemeler of Louisville, Kay Morton of Eagle and John R. Toman of Plattsmouth. Lemmon, that the 22 cen- committee to draw up ar Named to the committee were . T-l Edwin T. McHugh. Murdock; Harold Elliott, Weeping Water; Dwight Clements and Herman Bornemeier. Elm wood; Elwood Pankonin, Louisville; and Rich ard Peck and John Soennichsen, Plattsmouth. According to proposals out lined by Lemmon for the John P. Rogers producing company, a $11,450 budget would be estab lished for the centennial. The budget is based on half the po tential as determined by an jarea survey. Outlining briefly the exper- j iences of the company in such a proposed county-wide commit tee organization for carrying out various phases of the cen- ; tennial production. While it cannot be termed a money-making proposition, there is no reason why the centennial would not be self-supporting, the producer explained. He suggest ed that the centennial be held at Plattsmouth because "it is the focal point in the county as the county seat." A survey of accomodations here also showed that adequate facilities are available. 1 "ir. aacmice oi our loreiamers company, which the group Tuesday night recom mends be contracted to produce the centennial, handles a great portion of the arrangements, it will call for assistance from in dividuals and groups throughout the county, set up on a Emooth working administrative program. The company also furnishes i 111 ail wains oi me io paruci- pate. He also proposed that the celebration be set up on a "week-long" basis with religious activities opening the celebra tion. Massed services, with church choirs from throughout the county, were one of the sug gestions offered for opening the centennial. Other ideas were for men to grow beards, women to go with- ; out cosmeucs, unless permits are purchased; wooden nickles as legal tende-, girl's popularity contest, etc. Lemmon also sug gested June 20 to 26 as possible dates for the centennial. Sheriff Tom Solomon, tempor ary chairman presided at the meeting. Charles Dean was nam- i ed temporary secretary ALienaing me meeting were Commissioners Herman Borne meier. Ray Norris. W. F. Nolte;' Ruth Patton, Maxine Cloidt, Lucille Horn Gaines, John Soen nichsen, L. B. Dalton, R. R. Furse and Charles Land of Plattsmouth; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Linhardt of Elmwood; Edwin T. McHugh and W. J. B. MacDon ald of Murdock; Herman Sch weppe of Wabash; and Walter Marolf of Greenwood. Traffic Light Control Needed, Grove Asserts D. L. Grove, chairman of th lighting . committee Tuesday night recommended that the city council purchase a new control for its traffic control lights at Sixth and Main streets. The control has been erratic in recent weeks and hasn't fun ctioned properly for some time. Grove recommended that the. council purchase an expansible type control . for slightly over $400. The control would enable the city to add additional traf fic lights at other intersections. " Grove also suggested that the' council consider installation nf j traffic lights at intersections of nrsc Avenue ana Avenue A with Sixth street. The Council voted to acquire the new control unit. Subscribe to The Jeuraai