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V.V.V.V.V.V.W.VV.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V EDITORIALS Furses ALENKOV'S SPEECH Premier Georgi M. Malenkov's recent speech to the Supreme Soviet was one of the new dictator's most significant utter ances to date. In that speech Malenkov devoted most of his time and effort to do mestic issues and not to the field of foreign policy. Although the Russian Premier uttered opinions which were at variance with UU. S. policy he, nevertheless, stated that the U. S. S. R. and the United States could live at peace in the world. Malenkov made the same statement in March, when he made his first speech to the Russian people. In devoting the greater portion of his speech to domestic issues, the economic condition in Russia, and the neglect of the living standard of the average peasant and worker in his country, Malenkov revealed his thoughts center on that theme more than on a theme of major aggression. Malenkov announced his intention to devote more of the Russian productive capacity to production of civilian goods, rather than to production of heavy capital Koods, which include heavy war weapons. Thus the Russian people are promised more automobiles, more refrigerators and more appliances, possibly at the expense of more tanks and other heavy war weapons. This note is especially interesting since it indicates that Malenkov does not foresee a major conflict between the U. S. S. R. and the United States in the near future. He knows well that the United States har bors no aggressive designs on Russia itself, and therefore, has the advantage of know ing whether or not there will be war be tween the two countries. It would ap pear from his speech that he does not ex pect war in the near future. GENERAL VAUGHAN'S TROUBLES It seems that there are some Senators wfoo are not inclined to vote to confirm President D wight D. Eisenhower's nomi nation of General Harry Vaughan for a permanent reserve commission as Major General. The Senate recently adjourned without confirming Vaughan and nine other retired reserve generals. Vaughan, who is now retired and drawing $744.71 monthly, was declared "permanently unfit for duty by reason of physical disability" by the Army in Janu ary. The ruling declared him forty per cent disabled and that the disability was incurred while he was entitled to receive basic pay. Thus Vaughan is already retired and drawing his pay. The only thing involved in the current dispute is whether the Sen ate will confirm him as a permanent re serve commissioned Major-General. The main thing involved, it seems, is the honor of having a permanent reserve commis sion as Major-General. We suspect General Vaughan will have to be content witlrhis present status, since he managed to antagonize some members of Congress in both parties during his long period of service as military aide to former President Harry Truman. If the Army Medical Board, declaring him unfit f or duty, made the correct appraisal, then it would actually make little difference whether the Senate confirmed Eisenhow er's nomination or not, since there would be little possibility that Vaughan would be recalled even if he were given a perma nent reserve commission as Major-General. Uf MORALE IN KOREA m Jm Now that a truce has been effected in Korea, Army authorities are concerned lest the morale of American troops sag because of a lack of constructive tasks. There, is a natural tendency among sol diers to lose interest in any war effort THOUGHT iTOR TODAY lie is bare of neicsi zho speaks ill of his mother. Irish Proverb The Plallsmoulh Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 1881 Published Semi-Weekly, Mondays and Thursdays, at 410 Main Street. Plattsmouth Cass County, Nebr. Three Times Winner Ak-Sar-Ben Plaques for "OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE" 1949 1951 1952 Presented Nebraska Press Association "GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD" N Second in 1951 First in 1952 (In Cities Over 2000 Population) RONALD R. FURSE Publisher HARRY J. CANE Editor FRANK H. SMITH News Reporter ALBERT E. BACK Advertising Mgr. SOPHIA M. WOLEVER Society Editoi iMtzocitmon M 14 Entered at the Post Office at Plattsmouth. Nebraska., as eecond class mail matter in accordance with the A.ct of Congress of March 3. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year In Cass and adjoining counties, $4.00 per year elsewhere. In advance, by mail outside the city of Platts mouth. By carrier in Plattsmouth. 20 cents for two weeks. OT Korea offers U. S. troops home is sure to increase among Americans there. One of the ways more fortunate Ameri cans, who have not been sent to Korea, can help out in this situation is to write fre quent letters to friends and relatives in Korea. The Army has found that letters from home are a reliable morale builder, and that there is no substitute for them. Thus military officials are urging wives, mothers, fathers and brothers and friends to intimates in Korea, rather than let up, now that a truce is in effect. Down 10 YEARS at Hutchison Blutf reunion Charles Youner bride's parents, crroom is the MMor.0 Kf A Ftesh Flashes - Alimony is like paying off the install ments on the automobile after the wreck. Collectors tell us there are several rare American stamps. But the rarest, we think, is the one letter writers say they are en closing for a reply. One thing we've learned the past couple of weeks we're getting back in the printing business and will stay there. A local young buck says he wants to marry a girl like the one that married grandpa. Of course, grandpa just got married yesterday. Some good ladies warm a bridge seat with the consistance of hens hatching eggs but the hen produces results. ic We never get too old to find some new way to be stupid. A pedestrian is a man whose son is home from college. , , . The best way to find a helping hand is at the end of your arm. Doctors can cut out most anything that is the matter with you except your darn foolishness. You have to cut that out yourself. nfror fhp nrt.iial fiVriintr pnrls and since relatively few attractions for J on leave, the desire to return to step up the letter-writing ) Memory Lane AGO Approximately 500 quail are to be released in Cass county through the Soil Conservation Service. A year ago :40U quail were liberated on 20 county farms . . . Pfc. and Mrs. Don Mrasek are the par ents of a son born A u crust 14 . . . 190 were Grove for the annual Rock Sunday . . . Cpl. William and Miss Jean Berridge of t - i . Dayton, Ohio, were married August 9 . . . Ray Story has purchased the residence property and acreage northwest of the Ma sonic Home from William Kriskey . . . Mr. and Mrs. Harold Austin are the parents of a son born August 12. ir YEARS AGO vAn alarm, which apparently was set off accidentally at Farmers State Bank, caused considerable excitement here about six o'clock this morning. A radio aerial on an adjacent building had fallen on the control box causing the alarm to go off . . . Selected to the other ladies all-star kitten ball team were Velma Wells, Rose Marie Burcham, Gertrude Mason, Isabelle Rain ey, Lucy Gaylord, Marie Gradoville, Helen Sedlak, Marjorie Lindeman, Amelia Kief, Rose Sedlak . . . Miss Dorothy Bell .and Chester D. Todd were married at Green wood on August 9 at the home of the Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bell. The son of A. L. Todd . . . Licrhts for Memorial Athletic Field have been as sured and will be erected for the remain der of the kittenball season. The Washington Merry -Go-Round ICopyright, 1952, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: GENERAL MOTORS UNSCATH ED BY DEFENSE CUTBACKS; FORD'AND STUDEBAKER DENIED FURTHER CHANCE TO BID ; CHAR LEY CLARK'S COURTING DAYS FACE DAY IN COURT. W A QUTMP-THM Tf ,r K ,v. stflnrf TWor wile' w.,, - --- former company, General Motors, seems to be the only outfit that hasn't been hit by the drastic cutback in defense spending. Aun 4.; v!.,,- fS?. Factories all oer the nation have felt the impact of Wilson s order last month to start demobilizing plants engaged in pro - ducing tanks and vehicles. But so far, his own company, General Motors, has es caped. t . .. Strategy, behind Wilson's order ' is : to reduce the iiumber of plants until only one is left making each item. This has the laud ahlo o-nnl of inrroflsinir pfficiencv and sav- .-.v,,. 4Vnn.rv. it? ; -liVonf nnnfravt to the previous policy of spreading produe- ,.tion so as to make it harder lor Russia to strike a crippling A-bomb blow. While the general policy of reducing AwaylFromJtH costs has merit, what really raised eyebrows in industrial i circles was the selection of j plants to be closed down. For example, three big auto companies Chrysler, Fori, and General Motors are producing the Patton M-43 tank. Follow ing Wilson's new policy, Ford was arbitrarily declared out of the running by direct order 01 . - . A 1 A. the Pentagon. Fm wont eVi Tnis means mat en be eiven a chance to bid for the right to continue producing. It will be left up to Chrysler and General Motors t o bid against each oth er, and the losing ' bidder will go out of production next March. Likewise, Studebaker was ruled out of the bidding over the 2.5-ton truck, and wras ordered to wind up its production by September. This will leave B. M.'s truck and coach division to bid against Reo Motors, Inc., for the truck contract. The Pentagon also ordered production stopped on the M-47 tank, which happens to be man ufactured by Chrysler and American Locomotive. General Motors was not affected. On the other hand, the pro duction of M-41 tanks will be continued full speed at G. Ms Cadillac plant in Cleveland. In addition, General Motors will take over the added production of antiaircraft guns, now man ufactured by American Car and Foundry. The excuse is mat many gun-carriage; and M-41 inart.s a rp interchangeable. -r-.-- , .IT T-45I- commander of the Detroit au tomotive center, insisted to this column that the army was not deliberately showing favoritism hedged, however, that the in- . , . a a r i a. structions came straignt irom the Pentagon as to" which com panies should be allowed to bid. I haven't received any or ders not proper and in the best interests of the government and the taxpayers," he hastened to add in defense of his boss, Sec retary Wilson, onetime, boss of General Motors. ' ' A high Pentagon source, who asked not to be identified, ex plained that Wilson wasn't try ing to enrich his former com pany so much as he was sincere ly convinced that General Mo tors could do everything better than anyone else. "Wilson really believed it when he said what was good for General Motors was good for the country," saictthis Pen tagonian. Note 1 When Charlie Wilson protested to senators last Jan uary that he did not want to sell his General Motors stock, he said he saw no conflict be tween the public interest and General Motors' interest. Notp 2 A rpnnrt. sunnressed by Sen. Lyndon Johnson's de fense investigating committee shows that General Motors made as much as 30 per cent profit on Sabre jets and was also far behind in production. This de lay was one reason for our one time failure to have enough jets in Korea. Franco's Lobbyist Charles Patrick Clark, the bumptious gentleman wrho draws $100,000 a year from Dictator i Franco and who has lobbied $187,500,000 out of congress for Franco, is having a hard time these days. It isn't Franco or congress that's causing him trouble. It's love letters. Charley wrote quite a few love letters back in 1934 and they're about to be produced in court. The only trouble is that Charley can't remember what he wrote 20 years ago. Since he can t remember, it would be an act of kindness to refresh his memory before he has to go on the witness stand, There was one letter he wrote n 1934 in which he told the lady he was about to marry that , hifather not hers was a l -iousy old man" and that his , brother Arthur was an "exact r.QunterDart." Then there was another letter written on March 24, 1934, which asked his fiancee the . question "Do you think I have an intelli gent profile? I mean, do you think I look like Warren Wil liams (the movie actor)?" Some of Charley's amorous Kt.atpmpnt.55 can't vcrv well b 'ISjZu pase But one curi0U.s .tendeney he" exhibits is to cheat on his age. Though he claims to be Service Calendar The service calendar is pub lished tvice each week in the Plattsmouth Journal in the in terest of the public. Monday Weekly job place ment by Nebraska State Employ ment Service, courthouse, third floor. Friday (weekly) Settlement of unemployment compensation claims by the Nebraska State Employment Service, courthouse third floor. Tuesday (weekly) Job placement by Nebraska State Employment Service, courthouse third floor, Saturday (2nd and 4th each month, mornings only) Motoi Vehicle license examination by State Safety Pattol. court house basement in his middle forties, his love letters show he's now pushing 53. The letters bobbed up, inci dentally, as the result of a mis take which the eminent lobby ist is charged with making in failing to support a divorced wife. After writing her these glamorous letters, he persuaded her to permit a divorce. And now, though he gets $100,000 a year from Franco, Mrs. Clark claims nonsupport. Washington Pipeline French counterfeiters, recent ly nabbed in Paris with $5,000, 000 in phony U. S. currency, were big-time operators. One of Eu rope's craftiest engravers work ed on the bogus plates and the gang used a large commercial printing press to roll out the "money" over the July 4th week end when the owner was away '. . . The wage-hour division of the department of labor is quiet ly ignoring dozens of violations. Many of the cases are ready for the courts, but someone is drag ging his feet. Capital Chaff Though details are highly se cret, fact is that U. S. stockpil ing of strategic materials has seriously bogged down. Only 7 per cent of the aluminum stock pile is now on hand. Storage of titanic and cobalt has been halted. Stockpile Boss Arthur Flemming privately blames Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, who constantly urged eutbacks in the program on the ground that private business needs the material today. Says a top Pentagon general "If we get into a war, and the stockpile isn't ready, we'll be in a hell of a fix. Talk about 'give-aways'! For every pound of stuff we divert from the stock pile we're giving away the na tion's' security." . . . The justice department is getting set to prosecute several companies that used fake feathers for the G. I.'s sleeping bags . . . Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, ex-economic adviser to President Truman, is still talking depression. ' Cass County's Greatest Newspaper The Plattsmouth Journal HOLY SMOKE ! THE BULL 15 CHASING . AW -,V , . sJ r tiffh Capital News LINCOLN As the tax prob lem quieted down for the time being, Statehouse attention this week turned to the question of whether the present one-house non-partisan. Legislature needs improving. " y A committee of nine men both republicans and democrats which has met several times in Lincoln, has announced it is sure the people of Nebraska want a change. After its latest meeting State Republican Chairman Dave Martin cf Kearney said that the committee had made its decision but wasn't ready to announce it vt. He said there were some ' legal technicalities to straighten j out and that the press and the ; public would just have to wait, i until the end of August. ! That didn't stop enterprising reporters who the next day call ed up members of the commit tee one by one and discussed the matter. No one would come right out and say what the de cision had been but enough hints were dropped to lead re porters to believe that the goal will be a return to the two-house partisan Legislature. Nebraska is the only state in the Union with a one-house non-partisan Legislature. It has had it onlv 16 vears. When a reporter asked one member of the committee, State Democratic Chairman William Meier of Minden, about specu lation that the committee plan ned to push a bicameral idea, he answered that such an as sumption is "pretty well justi fied." Sam Reynolds of Omaha said that the two-house system was good enough for the Founding Fathers and should be good enough for Nebraska. To argu- ments that it might be difficult to sell the bicameral to the vot ers (who must ultimately decide because the matter will take a constitutional amendment), Rey nolds replied, "I think it is the , committee's business to push j what it thinks is best for Ne braska and not just what it j thinks will be easiest to persuade people to vote for." j Another committee member, jHugh Riley of Fairbury, said that a private poll had showed !a surprising number of people iwant to- bring back the two- house system. Cost But a different kind of reac tion wasn't long in coming. Statisticians at the statehouse came up with the estimate that a bicameral would cost at least $400,000 a session. The 1953 session, longest in unicameral history, only cost $153,000. Here's howr they figured the bicameral cost. The final twd-house session in 1935 cost $202,000. The first one-house session in 1937 cost $103,000. That indicated that a bicam eral 90st about twice as much as a unicameral Legislature. The 1953 unicameral cost doubled would be $306,000. But actually the increase in the cost of living in recent years means that it would probably take a lot more than that. For instance salaries for leg islators were $800 apiece in 1935. They are now $1,744 apiece. Suppose there were a senate of 33 members and a house of representatives of 100 as it was in 1935. At $1,744 apiece, the salary figure aloiie would be almost $232,000. That's about $80,000 more than it cost to run the whole unicameral this year. Employees' salaries in the 1953 session totaled $59,494. Hugo Srb, clerk of the Legislature, es timates it would take at least twice as many employees for two houses because of all the extra clerks for committees and secre taries to handle legislators' cor respondence. That might mean $120,000 in employees' salaries. So even if incidental expenses stayed at around $44,000 and bill drafting costs at $10,855 and it is hard to see how they could it doesn't take much addition to see that $232,000, $120,000, $44, 000 and $10,855 will add up to around $405,000. And that is about 2xz times what it cost to ! ( HUSKY. JABBER?, MV f&A PADCATIT. I'VE TOLD VOU I ME MIGHT HAVE L I V" JUMP THE j&EjreSfu (j APOZEN T1ME5TO5W STEPPED IN A HOLE A "V FENCE !viV, AWAY FROM THAT BULL... ( AND ISkEM ) THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE FOUR Monday, Augnst 17, lfr3 INI1LEIG1AM Check correct word. -1 m 1. A morass is a (bog) (type of donkey), o t-j i hi ii at hlnrkl make nurnle. V 3. (Fishing) (mining) istAlasks chief industry. I A rrL. Co4 Linrr nf Ici-fle! WAS fSaUll (DaVldl. . me man.... v. 5. Joe Louis was boxing r " years. . fii. Amelia Earhart was - ; across the (Pacific) (Atlantic). . , 7. There are (7) (12) books in the Aeneid; j; !s. (SI Augustine, Ha.) (Bath, Va.) is thejjjest .V U. S. city. , ' 9. Man o' War died In 10. The first Christian M j . rviaov- vntir gneor ' rorintf Correct choice. A score of 0-20 Is xunefior: 60-100. verv suDerior. LTWnAoA Tnf U3Md3JS S run the Unicameral in its long est, costliest session this year. Taxes State officials on the. State Board of Equalization seemed increasingly confident that the statewide valuation changes they ordered will "stand up." A psychological help came when the Burlington and Union Pacific railroads withdrew their suits against the State Board. Attorneys for the railroads said that while they still thought railroad assessments are too high they believed the board had made a real effort and they didn't want to stand in its wey this year. Although Buffalo and Dawes Counties had asked re-hearings, the State Board was given an opinion by the attorney gener al's office that it is too late now. The only recourse is with the State Supreme Court. Buffalo County was one of six counties which appealed its assessment hikes by the board. But an unmistakable feeling of confident relaxation was seen on . the part of state officials with regard to the tax question. The fact that North Platte citi zens, apparently hit hard with a valuation raise, learned that their tax mill levy rate was dropping 30 mills was cheering news. To be able to pay $30 less taxes on each $1,000 worth of property was a fulfillment of predictions by state officials that equaliza tion would hurt most people less than was feared. $ : $ Slow-Down State highway officials ran into a buzz saw of opposition to re-location of US 30 at Kimball. State Engineer L. N. Ress said that the highway is being im proved all along so it can take greater volumes of high speed traffic. It wouldn't be good to take that kind of traffic through the middle of Kimball, as is now done. So a by-pass around the south end of the city is plan ned. But citizens vigorously object ed. At a hearing at Kimball Ress said he became convinced the department will just have to wait ' until the people of Kim ball realize that it really isn't in their best interests to have i the highway where it is now." t Ress said both he and the fed- I eral bureau of highways were willing to compromise to the ex tent of continuing to maintain the present highway as a city route in addition to building the by-pass highway. But since Kimball apparently f wrants no change for the pres- ent, the project will just be tem porarily shelved, Ress said. The Highway Department's atten tion will go some place else. But Ress expressed confidence that Kimball will "see the light" so that the project can ntill be launched sometime within the i next two years. fWotd. cnamp ior u; KJl - the first woman -to-fly (1948) (i!W j. 37 itvartyTwas Cot, r&ui) r vourself 10 Doints for each poor; 30-60, average; 70-80. . '! . , pIIJ oram or '161 6 U 'auiisnSnv Iff County Retail Business Shows June Increase Business in Nebraska flexed its muscles in June and showed a strong movement upward, ac cording to the August Issue of Business in Nebraska, a business survey bulletin prepared by the University of Nebraska's College of Business Administration. "For the first time in months every city reporting showed an increase in general business ov er a year ago," the bulletin said. "Our prosperity keeps rolling back on us like waves at the seashore." The optimistic report showed that every type of activity in creased in comparison with 1952, ranging from 4.2 per cent for retail sales to 12.4 per cent f or building activity. "In comparison with May of this year, gas usage was down seasonally and newspaper ad vertising was off a little, but here also the picture was one of good business," the bulletin pointed out. The retail sales, situation in June was called "particularly good, especially since it did not,? as oiien, aepena upon auionro bile sales to bring it up. Auto sales were up over 1952, but less than the general average. , Ev ery type of sales showed a rise except fuel and ice." Although Nebraska as a whole showed an increase in retail sales, a few cities Chadron, Omaha and Nebraska City ex perienced a slight decrease over June, 1952. Reporting more than a" 10 per cent increase were Scottsbluff, Beatrice and Lin coln. Cass county ranked among the top in counties showing retail gains during the period, the re port shows. The county was up 5.7 per cent over retail sales of June. 1952, and showed a 5.6 per cent increase over May, 1953. The county ranked sixth among the thirteen counties with increases over a year a?o, while it placed fifth among the same counties for increases over the previous month. SEA-DARTS - The Navy has revealed its XF2Y-1 Sea Dart, the world's first water-based fighter plane that floats and takes off on re tractable "hydroskces," is- iet propelled and is said to be able to attain supersonic speeds. Edwin T. McHugh ATTORNEY Office in Corn Growers State Bank Murdock Nebraska