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- ' EDITORIALS Fursefs Fresh Flashes ..."-.. " v. .. v wS'AVtVtVtVA'tVtViVii'tV,. '" COAST-TG-COAST IN 4 HOURS An American airline official recently predicted U. S. jet passenger aircraft would be spanning the country, coast to coast, on a four or five hour schedule, in a comparatively short time. It was ad mitted that the British at present hold the lead in the production of jet passenger aircraft, although the official believed U. S. industry could catch up by 1960. It was indicated that some of the com panies now building jet bombers for the Air Force might be able to convert the bombers into passenger craft by using plans and specifications and experience gained in building military craft. When such planes are put into operation, it is likely that they will carry passenger loads in excess of the 55-passenger load of Brit ish Comet jets the only passenger jet now operating on scheduled runs. When U. S. jet airliners go into opera tion, they will probably cross from coast to cost in about four hours. It will be possible for a passenger to leave New York at the end of a business day and arrive in San Francisco in ample time to spend the night on the West Coast. For example, if he left New York at five o'clock, he could dine on the plane and be on the ground in San Francisco between nine and ten o'clock, New York time. The same sort of schedule would apply to an Atlan tic Ocean crossing, such as a trip between New York and London. This sort of service is expected to be available by 1960, or earlier. A PRIZE FIGHT NOTE We are inclined to agree with Joe Louis, that whatever the cause of the re cent heavyweight fiasco in Chicago, it did boxing no good. We would add here that the boxing "game" is in sore need just now of good publicity, not bad. Our own suspicion is that Jersey Joe Walcott was a bit more dazed than would appear, or that his reflexes were not as quick to respond as he assumed. Whatever the case, Jersey Joe did not arise at the count of ten and was counted out. It is true, that some referees would have al lowed him to go on, but the rules are on the side of the heavyweight champion and the referee who counted Joe out. Now that Champion Rocky Marciano is solidly on his throne, we suggest that he defend his title reasonably often. Since Marciano has not yet had a fight this year, we think he should defend his title in 1953. Thereafter, we think the champion should give at least two challen gers a year a crack at the title as long as. he is champion. Joe Louis often met fighters at a much faster rate than this and seemed to thrive on the process. The boxing "game" certainly needs a shot in the arm today and the colorful Marciano by giving worthy challengers their deserved chance can do much for the sDort. One heavyweight champion ship fight a year is not enough. LOOK HERE IKE The Government Accounting Office re cently reported that the purchase of two baffle plates for $2.97 by the .New York Post Office was listed and documented by nine papers, bearing twenty-four signa tures or initials, and twenty datings, and that the documentation took four months to process. This is but one of the typical examples of Bureaucracv, which closely resembles what old soldiers refer to as Army red tape. We do not know the perfect solu tion to end this ridiculous business. The only thing we can do is to point out this one example in the hope that it will dis gust the right people as much as it dis gusts us. THOUGH! FOR TO-DAY The march of the human mind is s'tne. Burke The P'allsmoulh Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IX 1831 I'lib'i.-fhcl Sini-'pt-kly, Mondays anI Thursdays, at 410 Main street, I'lattsmouUi, Cass County, Nebr. Three Times Winner Ak-Sar-Ben Plaques for "OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE" 1949 1951 1952 Presented Nebraska Press Association " "GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD" Second in 1951 First in 1952 (In Cities Over 2000 Ipulation) When a man doesn't know which way to turn he'.$ usually surrounded by pretty girls. Saw a sign in a tavern here recently reading, "Rap on the table the Spirits will appear." We haven't got a drop of social stand ing in our house. ' The quickest way to wipe out a friend ship is to sponge on it. The cost of living is so high that most of us can't live nearly as much as we'd like to. it A local man sent the director of Inter nal Revenue a pint of his blood along with his income tax. Which reminds us of Flipper Fanny, our little contour twister, when she came to the question "Are You Married?" on her return wrote "No, Darn It." The biggest trouble in running after women nowadays is to find one that will run. There's nothing the matter with the world, it's the people in it. Ticklers By George Down 'Memory Lane 2G YEARS AGO Mrs. Frank Rice has been installed as president of Wintersteen school. Also installed were Mrs. Sadie Richardson, vice president; A. E. Edgerton, secretary; and Mrs. Don Tincher, treasurer . . . Platte mouth high school track men defeated Nebraska City 67-55 . . . Two liquor run ners were captured near Union . . . Ice rates at Plattsmouth are being reduced to 50 cents per one hundred pounds . . . Alvo high school won the Cass county baseball championship by defeating Greenwood. Alvo's Dallas Fifer has averaged 10 strike outs a game during the season . . . Guy Clements has been elected president of Group 1, Nebraska Bankers Association . . . Stuart Porter has been named valedic torian, and George Adams has been named salutatorian of the senior class of 1933 . . . Sixteen tires and tubes were taken at a breakin at the C. E. Welshimer service station. YEARS AGO Mrs. Fred Ilea of Plattsmouth has been elected vice-regent of the Catholic Daughters of American at the state con vention. Mrs. Rea is regent of the local unit . . . Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Ruffner of Plattsmouth announce the engagement of f their daughter, Elizabeth Ann, to Pfc. Kenneth Anderson of Cheyenne, Wyoming . . . Plattsmouth high school defeated Boys Town 4-3 in a baseball game with Eldon Vroman holding the Cowboys to 9 hits . . . Pvt. James Nowacek and Pvt. Earl Miller are here visiting with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Nowacek and Mr. and Mrs. George M. Miller . . . O. II. Miller has been elected chairman of the village board at Murdock. Henry A. Tool was named clerk and O. B. Lupardus, treasurer . . . Miss Rachel Barbara Pell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Pell of Union was married to Everett H. Murphey at Omaha. to "Last week he was hit by a foul ball! The Washington Merry -Go-Round (Copyright, 1952, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: EISENHOWER HIMSELF INITI- RONALD R. FURSE Publisher HARRY J. CANE Editor FRANK H. SMITH .... . ALBERT E. BACK SOPHIA M. WOLEVER . News Reporter Advertisine Mgr. Society Editoi L III Mil. Ill HIJ 111. I ' Entered at the Post Office at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, la second class mail matter In accordance with, the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. - jl . SUBSCRIPTION HATE: $3.50 cer 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 or ATED IDEA OF BERMUDA CON FERENCE; IKE WORRIES OVER DRIFTING. ANGLO-AMERICAN RE LATIONS ; CHURCHILL TALKS PRI VATELY WITH HUSSION AMBAS SADOR. WASHINGTON It was President Ei senhower himself who decided on the Big Three meeting in Bermuda. The main purpose he had in mind, he. confided to friends, was not necessarily a subsequent meeting with Premier Malenkov, but to pull the disjointed policies of the Allies back together. Eisenhower became convinced that something must be done to heal British-French-American wounds after reading Senator McCarthy's speech blasting ex Pnme Minister Clement Attlee. He be gan conferring with his advisers immedi ately thereafter, also exchanged some secret messages with Winston Churchill. Churchill and Eisenhower have got in to' somewhat the same habit of conferring with each other by telephone or private cable as did FDR and Churchill during the war. And in one of these exchanges, Churchill suggested that he and Ike meet .privately without the French. Naturally this leaked out. Naturally, also, it made the French .sore. The Brit ish denied that such a conversation ever French sorer. However, th state department insisted all along that the French must par ticipate. Eisenhower has been deeply worried of late over the way American, British and French friendship was drifting apart. As one who delivered the fa mous Guildhall address in Lon don, a milestone in Anglo American relations, and as one who insisted that no officer who couldn't get along with the Brit ish serve in a key post under him, Eisenhower felt especially sensitive on this point. He also realized that if. the Allies did sit down for a Big Four conference with Malenkov, the Russians would be able to split them wide open if policies were not patched up in advance. Big Four Conference? ? Though President Eisenhower is still hanging back regarding the proposed Big Four confer ence with Malenkov, Prime Min ister Churchill is doing just the opposite. Despite his 78 years, he has become the eagerest eager beaver on the diplomatic horizon. Twice he has even talked secretly with the Soviet ambas sador in London. Jacob Malik. Foreign Minister Anthony Ed en, who has been ill, has tried to discourage Churchill's irre pressible diplomacy, but to no avail. Eden fears that any talk with Malenkov would, first of all. get, nowhere; second, mis lead the world; and. third, an tagonize President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles. However, Sir W;.is:on, during Eden's absence, had the foreign office contact Ambassador Mal ik and arrange a personal meet ing. At the meetin-?, Churchill told the Soviet envoy he was sure both he and Eisenhower would meet with Malenkov, pro vided Russia made some definite move in order to show good faith toward easing the cold wnr This Churchill said, would ! make it easier for the United States to participate. Malik was friendly and prom ised to7 cable Churchill's ideas to thp Kremlin immediately. The second meeting between the Soviet ambassador and the prime minister of England was held at Malik's request immedi ately after Churchill gave his speech in the House of Com mons urging a Big Four confer ence and, in effect, threatening to confer with Malenkov him self if the United States didn't cooperate. The ambassador told the prime minister that this speech had been favorably re ceived in the Kremlin and that Russia would soon show by its deeds that it was interested in a new understanding with tne west. Austrian Settlement? ? Meanwhile, from Moscow Am bassador Charles Bohlen has cabled the state department a message which has caused as tonishment, even amazement among U. S. diplomats., Bohlen reported that the Russians may surprise ' the world and accept Allied terms for an Austrian peace treaty. Austria is one part of the world, Secretary Dulles has said, which would be the key test as to whether the Kremlin means what it says about ending the cold war. If the Red army is pulled out of Austria, Dulles has indicated, it would be a gen uine demonstration of Russian good faith. State department officials are still skeptical regarding Ambas sador Bohlen's cable. Inciden tally, they were just on the verge of making concessions themselves regarding Austria when the cable arrived. "Trade Not Tariffs" Mutual Security Administra tor Harold Stassen has receiver' some unwelcome warnings abo" nw tt. s. hich-tariff at'i tude and its effect on traa between our Allies and the Iron Curtain. . Knowing that our western Al lies are upset over the Republi can trend toward tariff increas- i es.sRussia has sent some nf its J most charming and persuasive ijui biasing agents to western EuroDe to woo trade away from the U. S. A. As a starter,-the agents are offering oil, tungsten and chrome the latter two es- : peciaay nara to get in ex change for cbffee, cocoa and i uupra. international wheat agreement, under which she would get wheat from the United States, provided Russia will guarantee to ship 1,000,000 bushels of wheat to India each year for the next five years. Secretary of Defense Wilson's i refusal to accept the low British bid on an electrical generator for Chief Joseph Dam has caused particular bitterness in Great Britain an dmore of a tendency to trade with the Iron Curtain despite critical speeches in the U. S. senate. "Trade-not-aid." say our Al lies, "has got to be a two-way street." Merry-Go-Round Just about every cay Dran Acheson's friends ask Irm for comments on his sucecr Secretary of State Dulles. Ache son, however, gives them all the same answer "I know that job, and I've got nothing but sym pathy for anyone who's trying to do it." . . . President Eisen hower has ordered his yacht, the Williamsburg, put in moth balls to save the taxpayers money. However, the navy is still operating another yacht, the sequoia, for the top brass. It's sometimes used to take in fluential congressmen on week end cruise s . . . When President Eisenhower plays golf his secret service guards dress up in sports shirts and look like typical ama teur duffers . . . The air force is stuck with $3,000,000 worth of New Hampshire land and i doesn't know what to do with it. since Secretary of Defense Wilson canceled the strategic Portsmouth-Newington air base Moscow now has a network Legislative SIDELIGHTS.. by BERNIE CAMP Information Director Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation How the Two-Price System Works This is how the two-price sys- ; tern of farm price support pro- 1 posed by j. T. Sanders, legisla tive counsel of the National Grange, would operate. j A? -ovn!nin 'i. rbp farmer ' "VI tiv. f-'.l ' -J U.Y. W-- lit v with 1,000 bushels of wheat to ssil takes it to the elevator. UtrDA a . tncies have previously C etc re-iined that 80 percent of th? eron will go to primary use fT'.i zq percent to secondary use. I - yiice nas ueen set, at j 1.20. The market price is then nsurea at 80 percent of parity or $2.co a bushel. The producer receives S2.000 in cash for his wheat. The levator operator eoes to the bank and buys "par ity support and paritv payment certificates" to a value of 50 cents on the bushel. He then re moved the oaritv navment Dor- tion of the certificate on that puio ui me wneat going-to tne i primary market (a value of SlOOi and gives it to the pro ducer who may cash it immed iately or hold it up to 6 months. The 200 bushels of wheat for secondary marketing may move to an exporter who buys at $2.00 per bushel, the free market price, and turns in the parity payment certificates on it, re ceiving an additional $100. The primai y raarKei wneat moves eventually to a miller (proces sor) who pavs the market price, and buys this certificate and pass it along when he sold the wheat. The processor 'passes alons: the certificate cost to the ultimate consumer by incorpor ating it on a pro-rata basis in the price of his product. In the case or meat, a surplus food distribution plan would be set up. with meat f tamps dis-! tributed to needy families through local relief agencies. These families would use these stamps in purchasing meat they would not otherwise use. This stamp program would be fin anced in the Sanders plan out of funds received from the "par itv payment certificates" and which ordinarily would finance support of the secondary mar kets. Sanders plan appears to have outstanding faults, just as all leeal or artificial means of cre ating farm income have their foults. For one thing, consum ers are likelv to resent having to pay the cost of the "parity dif ferential certificates" in the cost of their cereal, bread, meat and other food items. Secondly ruE PLATTSIKOUTH. NEBRASKA, SZWl-WEEKLY AGE FOttr Monuay, xviuy o, r?.j HGMAMi INTEL Check the correct word. lKlorida was acquired from Spain in (1819) (18S8). 2. Capital of Kansas is (Abilene) (Topeka). :j. First U. S. Secretary of War: (Knox) (Adams). 4. Diameter of the moon is (2160) (8055) miles. 5. (Red) (Brown) is a primary color. 6. Man o' War earned about ($1,000,000) ($10, 000) for his owner. 7. Golden Weddings are celebrated after (50) (GO) years. 8. India is a (Republic) (Dominion). 9. The U. S. Naval Academy is at (Annapolis. Md.) (West Point, N. Y.). 10. (1956) (1958) will be a leap year. Check your answers, scoring yourself 10 points for each correct choice. A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, average; 70-80. superior; 90-100, very superior. Decoded Intelligram j "SS61 01 'PW 'snodeuuv 6 'onqndau 3 'OS 000'000'li O'.'PaU 09IZ V .'xoux eiiadoj, z "6181 I LEGAL NOTICES Francis 31. Casey, Attorney Plattsmouth, Nebraska NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT In the County Court of Cass County, Nebraska To all persona interested in tht estate of Adolph J. Schwartz, deceased. No. 4384: Take notice that the adminis trator of said estate has filed his final report and a petition for exemmation. and allowance , of his accounts, determination of heirship, and distribution of said estate and for his dis charge, which will be heard be fore said Court on June 10th, 1953, at 2:00 P. M. Dated May 2lst. 1953. RAYMOND J. CASE. (SEAL) County Jude No. 2152 May 25, June 1, 8, 19d3 12th, 1953, at ten o'clock a.m. I Dated Mav 22nd. 19o3. ! RAYMOND J. CASK. (SEAL) county juc-e No. 2150 May 25, June 1, 8. iia Only one arrest was rep 1 d the past week by the Neb:-j-a Game Commission, that i,r fishing without a permit. Journal Want Ads Pay! FIRST AID For CRI?PIE&" Waives Fouchek & Garnett, Attorneys Plattsmouth. Nebraska NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT In the County Court of Cass County, Nebraska To all persons interested in the estate of Harry G. McClusky, deceased. No. 4342. Take notice that the adminis tratrix c. t. a. of said estate has filed her final report and a pe- tition for examination and al- the Sanders plan would anpear lowance of her accounts, deter to be encourased the buildms mination of heirship, and dis- I up of surplus production be cause it "guarantees'' parity. ! There are no incentives to urge j farmers to shut from over-pro-; duced commodities to commod i ities in which production mav I be needed but which involve more labor, eoninrnent or finan tnbution of said estate and for her discharge, which will be heard before said Court on June of more than 1 C00 transmitters j cial outlay. Thirdly, it sets up to jam United Nations freedom i a system of certificates which broadcasts behind the Iron Cur- j tend to become an awkward im- tain. This proves more elo- j pediment to the free operation quently than wcrds just who is ! of . trade. Although Sanders afraid of the truth . . . The navy i claims that his plan involves a is trvina tr. har all outsiders , .minimum of government, there from the Pacific Islands where military bases are located. The ban would even include the trust territories, which we don't actually own. This is the same tight military security that the Japanese used to maintain. Color perception is not con fined to the higher mammals, says the National Geographic Sociyet. Experiments have prov ed that even such reptiles as eiant tortoises can distinguish between shades of green and blue. Tin and rubber from Malaya have brought the British more U. S. dollars in the last few years than all of the United Kingdom's direct trade with America. Journal Want Ads Pay J. Howard Davis LAWYER Soennichsen Building Phone 264 Plattsmouth anpear to be possibilities for manipulating "paritv differen tials" for nolitical purposes. The Sanders nlan to no more the "great white hope" of American agriculture than is any other so far proposed. 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