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CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER VOLUME 72 . Fo) Plattsmouth Band members, about halfway to their goal of $2,000 for a spring trip to Enid, Oklahoma, for a midwestern band contest and clinic, are now gaining sup port of Plattsmouth civic groups. The band has surpassed the $1,000 mark in their fund raising campaign through a series of self-promoted pro grams that included sale of magazine subscriptions, pick ing corn, operating concessions and participating in'the King Korn Karnival membership campaign. . Meline Resigns; Teacher Vacancy Filled by Woman Mrs. Joyce Pennington Cav arozzi has been named to suc ceed Robert Meline as social studies and math teacher at the high school here. Mr. Meline resigned with the end of school last week. Mrs. Cavarozzi's appointment was approved by the board of education at a special meeting, when Meline's resignation was also accepted. Meline resigned for "health reasons" and is said to be leaving the teaching pro fession. Ke came here in Sep tember. An AB degree holder. Mrs. Cavarozzi moved to Plattsmouth In cf cnmivifif ti:V cn Hoi VmchonH was assigned to Of f utt Air Force j base north of here. She receiv- ed her degree from the Univer- sity of Ohio at Athens, where i she also graduated from high j sr.hnn . Shp will remain at least . until the end of the first semes ter and probably for the rest of the school year. Mrs. Cavarozzi is also expect ed to take over Mr. Meline's duties on the Platter staff, high school monthly publication. Jr785 Phones ; In Plattsmouth; Day Observed The nation's 50,000,000th tele phone was presented to Presi dent Dwight Eisenhower by rep resentaties of the U. S. tele phone industry at a ceremony held at the White House Wed nesday. . The telephone, black trimmed with gold, was installed at Mr. Eisenhower's desk. The dial is centered with the presidential seal and around its base are 48 gold stars. E. A. Ernst, manager of the Lincoln Telephone and Tele graph company here, says there are 1,785 telephones in Platts mouth. about the same as the national average. Ernst also ex plained that the company has 3,713 phones in the district which includes Murray, Weeping Wa tr Louisville. Nehawka. Elm- wnod and Murdock. The LT to T serves a total of 114,000 telephones in 22 coun ties in the state, which has 161 phone companies. Ernst said Merle H. Hale, vice president of the company, at tended the celebration at Wash ington Wednesday. Elmwood Man Beaten, Robbe George Wilson, 72, of Elmwood is in an Omaha hospital recov ering from injuries suffered late Saturday night at Omaha. Wilson was found bleeding fmm the mouth and nose and from a cut on his right eye by two men. He apparently naa been beaten and robbed. Miss ing were his billfold and $140. Wilson told Omaha police that he and Kenneth McBride, also of Elmwood, had been in a bar at Omaha. McBride left before the incident took place. Restitution was ordered by Judge Raymond J. Case in the civil action of Phil Haldiman against Wm. Baker. Baker was ordered to make restitution for back rental to the planum. K p-,.- vp C. u,.,. ,,,,, '2 539 IE Consolidated With SIXTEEN PAGES yis u AAiLQSflcnoiinis' Ald t0 tne Dana Was KicKea off Tuesday night when me Plattsmouth Lions Club, in co operation with the high school music department, voted to ask participating of practically every civic group to join in a ticket sales campaign for a mid winter musical program to be presented by the band. : Melvin McKenney, high school music director, tentative plans for a February program were prepared and put in motion by the Lions club. Dr. W. V. Ryan was named general chairman of the Lions Club committee to co ordinate sales of tickets through the band and other community service groups. The overall pro gram is designed to raise funds to assure the band of sufficient capital to make the trip. Although the tentative pro gram calls for the musical revue next Feruary. ticket sales will be launched almost immediately. Voicing the opinion that band members have shown their wholehearted interest in the trip by doing everything possible to PaY their own way, the Lions voted to provide necessary as- l'-c. In view of the early comple tion of the Lions Community Center and lack of auditorium facilities at the high school, Lions offered use of the new building for holding the musical programs. Tentative plans call for a series of programs by the hih school musicians. Dr. Pvan, assisted by standing Lions Club committees headed , bv Dr. L. A. ArnaftT and Roy Moore, nas already launcned a urogram to brinr all civic groups into the act. The groups will be asked to meet, during the next few days to outline a sales cam paign and to complete ticket sales as rapidly as nossible. A tentative goal of 1500 tickets is being considered. The band is scheduled to make the Oklahoma trip next May. The three-day band clinic. May 15-17, has been approved by the Plattsmouth board of education and has been given approval of band parents. Farmers Subscribe $600 for Rock Road Over $600 has been collected i rom farmers and land owners j ln the area SOUth and West Of Murray for rocking two miles of county road. The money has been turned over to First Dis trict Commissioner W. F. Nolte while other collections are be ing made in the area. The road to be rocked is south from Highway Number 1, west of Murray in the vicinity of the Chriswiser school. Voluntary subscription of road monies in the First District for the year has totaled over $2,200, Nolte said in reviewing four oth er projects which hae been rock ed and surfaced through farm er cooperation with the Com missioner. Clem Woster and Fred Lugsch were pheasant hunting Tuesday. Journal Want Ads Pay! Candy Sale, Council IFire Scheduled By Girl Groups One of the big events of local Blue Bird and Camp Fire Girls will take place between Novem ber 21 and December 12, when the girls will conduct their only annual sales project the' Can dy Sale. Proceeds of the sale are used for maintenance and improve ments at Camp Harriet Hard ing located near Louisville. The candy sale is the one source of revenue to repair and build cab ins, to rock roads and to buy needed equipment. A few years ago a large swimming pool was built with Candy Sale funds. This year the girls are selling a ten-ounce box of assorted chocolates known as the "Coun try Gentleman", and made by a famous Lincoln candy firm. Enthusiastic saleswomen, the girls hope to sell many boxes of the choice candy in Plattsmouth and surrounding area during the three-week sales period, accord ing to Mrs. Marcia Davis, mem ber of the Omaha Council. Locally the Blue , Bird and the Nehawka Enterprise PLATTSMOUTH, Registration for 50th Anniversary r;'f'V -A , if'tx - t Yr, Xs- - Phil Rihn, left, presides at the registration table during the Masonic Home's 50th anniver sary celebration while -Mrs. Reuben Johnson of Dunbar registers. Others awaiting their turn to Omaha Shrine Chanters on Program sWV " y I . t I I t iyi?i "-' t-k. 0. rfi'V him iimniu i'f 1 nUMQottvWQA . TWwwMWMMTWBwwMMiwwwwriiiwBwwnriiiiiwiiiiiiiinrwrBTTWMMiiiwii hiimiiiiiiiwii i ulTi iilfr A ---------fiHWlfr''i'-'-vl-'---'-v fc Raymond C. Cook, grand custodian of the grand lodge of Nebraska, and Wm. Evers, super intendent of the Masonic Home at Plattsmouth, mingle with the Omaha Shrine Chanters during Former Avoca Resident Dies AVOCA (Special) Mr. and Mrs. Louis Ruhge of Avoca have returned from Palisade, Nebr., where they attended funeral services for Vincent Smoots, for mer Avoca resident, who died of injuries received in a fire. Mr. Smoots suffered the burns when his trailer house was de stroyed by fire at Colorado Springs. He had thrown coal in I a stove and it exploded in his face. A friend, summoned help and was also seriously burned. FMinpral sprvicpo wprp Viplrl at. poiisoHp FHriav whpw hp fnr- merly lived and where his moth- Pr nnw rPsirtPS Mr Rmnnts wa weil known at Avoca where he spent his early life. He was the son of the late Wm. Smoots, Avoca carpenter. Youth Pleads Not Guilty To Leaving Accident Scene Marion Taylor, Jr., pleaded not guilty in county court Mon day to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident and was released after posting $25 ap pearance bond. Taylor was arraigned before -Tudge Raymond J. Case in coun ty court on a complaint and in formation filed by Raymond E. Jordan, which alleged that the defendant left the scene of an accident on November 12. - Camp Fire girl who sells the most candy will receive a prize of $5 toward a week at camp this coming summer. Each girl who sells 36 boxes will be entitled to an attractive gold charm bracelet and girls who sell 100 boxes will become members of the Centennial Club and will make a touil of Lincoln as guests of the candy firm. Also of interest to the Platts mouth groups is a Grand Coun cil Fire to be held at the high school gymnasium Friday eve ning. November 20. The Council Fire has been set. for 7:30 d. m. At the Council Fire,' Blue Birds will have a "Fly-Up" ceremony and Camp Fire Girls -will take rank and receive beads. New groups will be introduced. All parents, teachers and and friends of the girl units are invited to attend. Adults inter ested in becoming leaders are advised to contact Mrs. J. How ard Davis. AnrSftflCIDQJW- and Elmwood Leader-Echo CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA,' register are Reuben Johnson of Dunbar, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Olson of Gothenburg, and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Nardin, also of Gothenburg. Sev eral hundred registered for the observance. Journal Photo, i . - the Sunday afternoon celebration in observances of the Masonic Home's 50th year at Plattsmouth. The Chanters sa; ieveral -numbers during the -afternoon program commemorating the occasion. Journal Photo. v Band Nets $705 From Magazines Plattsmouth high school band members netted $705.64 as their share of magazine subscription sales here in a recent campaign. Total sales was an even $2000 by band members in which they shared from 30 to 50 percent on each sub scription. The money goes into a special fund for the band's trip to Enid, Okla homa for a 13-state band clinic next May. Prize Drawings Are Planned by Merchants Here "Shop in Plattsmouth and en joy individual service and top quality merchandise at fair prices," is the invitation of the retail committee of the Platts mouth Chamber of Commerce. And in appreciation of buying in Plattsmouth a number of merchants are having weekly merchandise prize drawings dur ing the holiday season. A prize registration program will begin the first open Wed nesday night, December 2, and drawings for prizes will be held in 'each participating store each Wednesday night starting De cember 9. The drawings will be at 7:30. Attractive merchandise awards will be displayed by participat ing merchants. To be eligible for awards, individuals must register each week in the store awarding prizes. It. will not be necessary to make -a purchase to be entitled to register. Win ners will not be required to be present at the drawings. Winners of each store drawing will be posted in their respective windows for the week. Winners will be- notified by mail or phone. Participating stores will be identified by a colorful candy cane and pine bough cardboard display card. Cards giving com plete details of the program will also be exhibited. Any place of business desiring to take part in the program is requested to contact John Schreiner or the Chamber of Commerce office. Attending the V.F.W. district convention here Sunday was Francis G. Booth, commander of Post 131 at Lincoln and a broth er of Mrs. John Hadraba of Plattsmouth. Mr. Booth is at tached to the Naval Air Base at Lincoln. Delivered Twice Weekly Cjj.owU if. q MONDAY, NOVEMBER M ..L.J. ... -7 J ... '"iWWM Fiimr Activity Reports Are Lions Club Features A film showing training exer cises at Camp Carson, Colo., in .'which Company H. 355th In fantry, Organized Reserve Corps at Plattsmouth participated, were viewed by members of the Plattsmouth Rotary Club Tues day evening. - The film was presented by Cecil M. Karr, program chair man, and commander of the Plattsmouth ORC unit. Guests of Mr. Karr were Dale Bowman and Edgar Kief, both members of the unit. Aside from the program, the Lions Club voted to conduct a musical program in cooperation with other, civic organizations and the Plattsmouth high school music department to raise funds to send the band to Oklahoma next May. The program, given the unan imous support of Lions, was out lined by President N. W. McKee, along with Band Director Mel vin McKenney, who explained the general features of the mid west band and music clinic. McKee named Dr. W. V. Ryan general chairman of the pro gram, and appointed committees headed by Dr. L. A. Amato and Roy Moore to outline the gen eral program. Lions also heard a brief re port of the recent Boy Scout fund drive from Joe York, chair man of the Lions drive. York expressed satisfaction with the work of Lions in covering their allotted areas. Club members were also re minded of progress on the Civic Center at 4th and Main. Presi dent McKee suggested that each Lions Club members make a tour of the building, to view the amount of progress made, and to visualize the completed proj ect. He predicted that the building: would be comnlefpd ! about the first of the year. George Schiffer Dies In California Mrs. Fred Spangler received a message early this week of the death of her brother-in-law, George Schiffer of Glendale, California, who passed away Saturday, November 15, 1953: Mrs. Spangler and son. Homer of Omaha, departed Tuesday night for Glendale where ser vices will be held on Friday. Albert Thiel of Murdock was here on business Thursday. - - " : JlODQJKrMIL to Msre Than 3000 Cass Don Born Named President of Korse Association Don Born has been elected president of the Cass County Horse Show Association. Born was elected Tuesday night at the group's regular meeting at the Plattsmouth Sale Barn. Born, manager of the horse show during the recent King Korn Karnival, will succeed Chet Wiles, president during the past year. Other officers elected by the Association were Thomas Gross hans, vice president; Mrs. Glen Terry berry, secretary; and Alice Jayne Grosshans, treasurer. Chet Wiles presided at the business meeting and extended his thanks to members for coop eration during the year. One of the group's big projects dur ing the year, in addition to the Korn Karnival Horse Show, was a Midwest Palomino Horse Show last spring, and construction of their own show ring. Members are advised that the group will not meet again until Jauary. A refreshment period was en- ! joyed. Rotary Club Leads Oienvood fn Attendance Plattsmouth Rotary members viewed additional -films of Ro tarian Ronald R.Furse's recent trip with the United States Navy in covering NATO exercises aboard the U. S. S. Bennington in the North Atlantic. A portion of the films were shown at the Rotary meeting a week ago. The second half of the film feature was part of the program of Clair E. Shellenbar ger. Aside from the films. Rotar ians also learned that they hold a slight attendance margin over Glenwood, la. The two clubs entered into a contest recently to see which could maintain the highest percentage of attend ance. At first report, Plattsmouth leads in the tabulation 91.46 per cent to 89.23 for Glenwood. Guests at the Tuesday noon session were Jerry Jager of Dav enport. Ia.. and N. F. Rea of Sumner, Washington. Marion Richey Dies in Texas Marion Richey, pioneer resi dent of Cass county, died last week at his home in Corpus Christi, Texas, friends here have learned. Mr. Richey, was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rich ey, former residents of Platts mouth and Louisville. Surviving are a son, Charles Richey, and a sister, Mrs. Gene Ebersole of Houston, Texas; and two aunts, Miss May Richey and Mrs. Fannie Dickson of Dallas, Texas. Subscribe to The Journal - os I . . -v. Window Unveiling Is Slated December 2nd Plans for a "Window Unveil ing Contest" for the holiday sea son were announced today by the retail committee of the On the idea that "attractive window displays for the Christ mas season will do much to draw people to Plattsmouth to shop," the committee has outlined a program to include practically every business in the commun ity. Each place of business, re gardless of type, located on Main street or a block each way off Main street is asked to co operate in1 the program, the committee said. The committee suggests that places of business without mer chandise suitable for display, that the owner of the business contact a church or organiza tion to put in a Christmas win dow scene. Churches desiring to put in window displays are also advised to contact merch ants and obtain permission for the displays. w,f f crTo, XX n,W"c 1 more windows on Monday. No Plattsmouth Chamber of Com- ,toKa. i,va fv.' County, Families FIVE CENTS PER COPY Santa Claus is coming to town. Not just once but on several occasions during the weeks before Christmas, ac cording to announcement today by Bruce Gold and Bill. Knorr, chairmen of the Chamber of Commerce's Santa Claus headquarters program. Santa will make his first appearance here on Wednes day night, December 2, according to the announcement. He has scheduled a two-hour visit in the city that night and has also announced a schedule for successive appear ances in Plattsmouth. A window unveiling program is scheduled for the same evening. That schedule lists Santa' m . . . I visits here on December 9 and .b Indies Kam Recorded Here Since Midnight Many Cass county farmers were learning all over again to day how to' drive on mud roads. It was their first opportunity to practice the art of mud driving in many months. The opportun ity followed an early morning rain here Thurs day that had left 1.25 inches of moisture at 8 a.m. Light mist like rain con tinued to fall throughout the morning howev er. RAIN First major rain since early last summer, it brought an end to a dry spell that spanned at least four months. A half-inch rain here in mid-October was the only other rain this fall of any con sequence. Prior to that the last rain had been on September, 24, when less than .10 inch was re corded. . , ., Mixed in between the rains was a three-inch" snowfall-two weeks aero. Reports from out in the coun ty indicate that even greater amounts may have fallen in cen tral and western portions of the county. Up to two inches were reported in some localities. Farmers in the city early Thursday reported that unim proved roads were hard to trav el. The rain, which started about midnight Wednesday ana continued uninterrupted for nearly 12 hours, all soaked well into the ground. Dirt roads were slick and muddy by early morning. Army Man Is Promoted While Serving In Germany Louie Allgayer, whose wife, Valerie Lee, lives in Nehawka, was recently promoted to cor poral while serving with the Seventh Army's 45th Anti-Air-craft Artillery battalion in Ger many. Units of the Seventh Army form a major part of the strong border of NATO defense forces stretching across western Eur ope. Corporal Allgayer. an assist ant director chief in Battery C of the 45th AAA, entered the Army in September, 1952, and arrived overseas last February. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Allgayer of Weeping Water, and is a 1951 graduate of Avoca high school. Bill Knorr is on the sick list and confined to his home at 402 Hillcrest. Participating merchants are requested to cover over one or dows covered until the night of unveiling on Wednesday, De cember "2 at 7 p.m. To accent the window dec orations, all street and business j ngnts-on wain street will minutes before unveiling. All the lights will be turned on at 7 p.m. to show the window dec orations. Stores will remain open until 9 p.m. that evening. The committee, headed by George Smith and John Soen nichsen, expresses the hope that Plattsmouth will have the best and most decorated windows ever viewed by the public here Along with the window un veiling. Wednesday, December 2 will also mark the first appear ance of Santa Claus in Platts mouth. The Plattsmouth high school band is also scheduled to perform during the evening ill PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY; Monday - Thursday NUMBER 102 16 from 7 to 9 p.m. and from De cember 17 through December 23 from 2 to 5 p.m. and from 7 to 9 p.m. Along with visits from Old Saint Nick comes a report of , community decorations for the holiday season. Howard Ru back, chairman of the decora tions committee, announces that in cooperation with the City Street Department and Consum er's Public Power District, the Chamber has prepared a sys tem of decorations to create the holiday spirit. The decoration program this year will consist of Lighted Christmas trees in front of each place of business from 3rd street to 6th street on Main, and north and south one block off Main r- - , ceiween eacn tree, six or eight colored lights, red, blue, green and yellow will add a touch to the holiday glamour. The Chamber recently purchas ed wire which will be suspended about ten feet above the walk along both sides of the streets designated for Christmas dec orations. Featured in the decoration program will be a 30-foot dec orated Christmas tree at the in tersection of 5th and Main. Through cooperation of the Ga-i Company and City Street De- gartment a, six inch pipe has een set in cement at the 5tix street intersection. The five foot hole will form the base for the huge tree, to be lighted and decorated by the Power com pany. - The decoration program is supported through contribu tions of member of the Cham ber of Commerce. Plans are to publish a list of contributors when the list is complete, Charles Dean, manager of the Chamber said. Miss Grace Allen, Former County Resident Dies Miss Grace Allen, native of Illinois and former resident of Wabash died at Lincoln on Sat urday, November 14, following an illness of several months. She was 85 years old. Born at Payne's Point, 111., the daughter of B. F. and Harriett Ely Allen on October 8, 18G8, Miss Allen came to Nebraska in a covered wagon with her par ents the following year. They settled near Wabash in central Cassxcounty where she attended the local school. She later grad uated from Fremont - Normal school and for several years taught school, later entering the ! business world as a secretary. At Lincoln, where she resided most of her life, she was inter-' ested in the City Mission and was an active member of the First Church of the Nazare, which she joined in 1914. Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Es ther Feather of Lincoln; a brother, Oscar H. Allen of Oma ha, and a number of nieces and nephews. . Funeral services were held at the Roper chapel at Lincoln and ural was at the family plot at Wabash on Monday. Turner Dooley Dies in Hospital Turner Dooley,' brother of en,ry Dooley of Plattsmouth, died in Coolege hospital in Pal mer, Nebraska on November 9. He was 83 years old. Born Pearly 84 years ago, he had been m ill health for some time. Surviving are four children. Lloyd of Omaha, Sadie Richard son of San Francisco, Calif. Mrs. Letha Denson of Grand Island, and Howard of Council Bluffs; a brother, Henry, of Platts mouth, -and many nieces and nephews. Preceding , him in death were fwjfe. who died in August, 1952, five brothers and one sis ter, a daughter, Viola and a son, Alfred. Journal Want Ads Pay!