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EDITORIALS Furses Fresh Flashes vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv A SWEET STORY " Sue White is a pretty girl from Big Springs, Texas. Her father is a cotton farmer in Big Springs. But things haven't gone so well for Mr. White this year. A drought hit the Texas cotton crop and the White's fortunes sagged accordingly. Sue quit college because of the poor .state of things around Big Springs, but she didn't stop raising top steers. She .took one she had bought for less than two hundred dollars to Chicago, for the stock show, the other day. Her beef steer did all right too, win ning first place over all the others en tered. That gave her the top steer in all North America, according to many esti mates, and also gave her $1,000 prize money. When they told her she had won first place, Sue broke down and cried like a pretty girl oughta' and the top stock show official, Jess Andrews tried to comfort her. Amid sobs, Sue said she might be able to go back to college now that she had won top prize in the stock show. And she was sure to get more money than that, out of the sale, and any other benefits which might result. So things are look ing up for Sue White, a gal who doesn't seem to know what the word defeat means. Our hat is off to her. It is great to see things like this happen in the USA, still the land of opportunity for all those who would persevere. If anybody could make a move that would insure peace for the world, all the people would be thankful. ic 1c tc CAVE YOUR LIFE CHRISTMAS One of the unbelievable tragedies of the Christmas season every year is the number of deaths which occur on the highways, as the result of preventable automobile accidents. Unfortunately these sudden deaths often snuff out the lives of loved ones just as they are com ing home to celebrate the annual Christ mas festivities. Statistics show that tne month of De cember is a grim one from the stand point of automobile accidents. Weather conditions are likely to be poor, and there is a maximum of darkness, in which au tomobile accidents are more likely. to occur than in daylight. Therefore, driv ing conditions are close to their worst in the month of the year when the major holiday season occurs. So me few accidents are "unavoidable and even if all drivers exercise maxi mum care and caution, some fatal ac cidents would occur on our highways. However, highway records haveproved that over ninety per cent of all accidents are preventable and need never occur. It i.s genuinely disturbing to realize that during the Christmas holidays this year Americans will be killed on the highways at the rate perhaps of a hundred a day and injured at a rate even far greater. Glancing over figures like these, one realizes why foreigners sometimes ex press amazement at the carnage on U. S. highways. Although the United States is, without a doubt, the world's most ad vanced nation, perhaps representing is a black mark against our present-day culture that we cannot reduce highway accident deaths to a lesser figure. We urge every reader and driv er to exercise care and good "judgment this holiday season and save his or her !jfe for many future Christmases. And, if that is not important enough, saving the lives of those you may injure or kill, through carelessness, should be a proper incentive. If all the after-dinner speeches were laid end-to-end, there would be miles and miles of just words. THOUGHT FOR TODAY Though the world contains many things which arc thoroughly bad, the worse thing in it is society. ' Schopenhauer Ticklers By Georgi Plattsmouth State Bank Vice-presidents were hustling all over the place Saturday trying to fix their front door that refused to stay closed. They should know by this time there's nothing like cold cash. . x The only reason the rich pay taxes is because we paupers can't. A reader wants to know if an editor is a fellow who puts thing in a newspa per. No, he's the fellow you contact when you try to keep something out. A local housewife has requested this. newspaper to publish recipes for Money! Saving Dishes." The only money saving dish we know is the kid's china piggy bank. A mouse just ran acros3 our office; floor before we could think of a suit-' able crack to jot down here, the mouse ' found one. , "j m Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, is disappointed in her new boy friend. She wanted to show him how she could whistle and after she nunkerpH through, and the result is the her lips nice darned if he didn't let her A" 1 1 b1 ! : li ! -; Entertain On Son's Birthday THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL rPAGE FOUR Monday, December 14, 1303 "sHe says his arm got so tired from ringing a bell aU pay ne nau x gei an assistant.. whistle. A local man says .-women are all alike, but they have different face so that men can tell them a part. Where these barber shop quartettes ' back to me of an Armistice day come from is a mvstprv. Wp HiHn't thinV I watched in Philadelphia in it possible to shut a barber up long enough to sing. , j for today inspiration the Amer- lean peupit; yaiiieu iui hucu they voted for his overwhelm ingly just a year ago. Wars are bred when wars are over people throw their hate in the air. . .: Memories come 1918. Whistles blew. Crowds cheered. Pretty girls kissed i soldiers. The war was over. : The millenium was here-. .... A ' few months later people settled down to enjoy the millenium, found it to be humdrum, unex citing. . no bands playing, taxes high, business oad, Europe trou blesome. ... To heck with Eu rope. Let's paddle our own ypipr Am 'canoe. Stay out of the League T tARi avjU i 0f Nations. Let those birds solve TTivpp flfririp.nt victims have filed their own problems. . . ... Then Down Memory Lone 10 damage action against Cass county for S-iSiSSfetSJ: $11,000. ... J. W. Taylor broke a leg.ar. when a cable snapped and flew back hit- Dangerous era Periods after ting him on the leg. . . . Twenty-six CWA wars are always difficult. That's projects in Cass countv are now trovid- when the seeds of future wars ing employment for 405 men with a week- SS,,? HiuS U3 ly payroll of $3,5ol.70. . . . Mrs. J. 11. Mc- p0iand on a September morn. Maken has been elected president of the They being five, sometimes ten Woman's Relief Corns. Other new of- years before, with discourage- firprs .rp Mrs T? a AWan viVp rrps- ment depression, dissension age, will help build people-to-people friendship, and with it will build peace. 2. A Virginia lady who prefers to remain anonymous has given me a check for $1,000 for Ko rean orphans provided a like amount is raised from other sources. This is for a country still in a shambles, still in the shadow of Communist gun, where thousands of pinch-faced children are starving and home less. You can help match the $1,0C0 by earmarking a contri bution to Care, New York, or sending it direct to me. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Mickel en tertained at Sunday, Nov. 15, dinner honoring their son Lloyd's birthday. The following were guests: Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hardnock. Mr. "and Mrs. Orval ! Garbling and daughter Gwen dolyn from Eimwooa, Mr. ana Mrs. Harold Nickel, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Johnson from Lincoln, Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Hardnock and son Jerry, and Miss Kathy Chel ewiski from Lincoln. Alvo Mrs. Augusta Bucknell and her brother George Frolich moved to Lincln last week to live with the former's daughter, Mrs. Grace Luick for the winter Mrs. Mabelle Elliott was a Tuesday night dinner guest of l.ij. and Mrs. Elmer Haa: Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Dinges drove to Syracuse to visit the latere father, Mr. Geo. Bray, who isn't very well. They, had supper with him. Mrs. Nyden and Mrs. Thomp son, sisters of Mrs. Stella Din ges, came down from Lincoln Thursday morning and had cof fee with Mrs. Dinges. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Yeager and Mrs. Edith Brawn were Sun day dinner guests of Mrs. Grace Linch. Other guests were Mrs. Augusta Bucknell and Geo. Fro lich. Miss Emma Jordan is ill with the flu, Alvo Pancake, Sausage Supper Enjoyed The W. S. C. S. and the young adults group of the M. E. church had a pancake and sausage sup per Wednesday night at the church basement. The proceeds was thirty dollars. Alvo Verse will apiwar in this space without charge. Name of writer must appear on copy submitted. Keep them short s;uce no permit lengthy poems. .............. .....rff- rr"Tyr Reading Club Meets Thursday Inside the Pentagon The National Security Coun cil has concluded flatly that the United States cannot afford to build the European army up to Eisenhower's goal of 50 divisions. Reason: The budget can support only the present 20 divisions. . . Ike has indicated . he will go along with the Security Council and modify his goal. . . . The air for was ordered to cut down on the reserve officers on active duty as an economy measure. But so many reservists got sore and quit that the air orce is now short-staffed and is trying to get 2,000 reserve officers back J Monday at a Lincoln hospital, The Woman's Reading club met at the home of Mrs. A. B. Stroemer Thursday, Nov. 19th, with Mrs. Clyde Johnson In charge of the program. She showed steroptican pictures that her son Gene Johnson had taken in Japan while on leave from his base in Korea. There were 18 members present and one guest, Mrs. Karl Rosenow. Mrs. Stoemer served delicious refreshments. Alvo Yeager Services Held Wednesday Funeral services for Mr. John Yeager who passed away last The defense department has decided, for - economy rea sons,' not to retool standby plants another example of how the defense department is sacrific ing security in the future to save They also be- a little money now. If -these into production in case of an emergency, an. tncy woma De able to produce would' be obso-: lete tanks and planes. . T"VQr hanrin n'Vioti ollioc ficrVyf ident; Mrs. C. C. Cotner, junior vice pres- amoag themselves, when Amer ident; Mrs. C. F. Glaze, chaplain; and ican idealism lapses into leth Mrs. L. B. Egenberger, secretary. . . . argy, when dollars are put ahead .TnmPQ Jpan fnrmprlv nf Plnttsmmith. 01 qecent diplomacy, wnen peo n ".r.'r.v":: vn. . ::: pie lose hope anu ivutn uaniei 01 umana, were mar- in whpn npnnlp wasn nr. nhnnv ried at Papillon. ... Ed Stradley has leaders who hold out new hope, been elected commander of the American Ivhen hate becomes more im Legion at Greenwood. Other officers are 5 George Trunkenbolz, vice commander ; when unscrupulous men trample Jess Dildine, post adjutant; Al Hanson, on less fortunate men in their finance officer; and P. L. Hall, sergeant mad grasp for power. Ike's chance What impressed me about Ike's speech, as I sat listing, was his hold move for leadership has been lagging. Oil leases have been made on about at arms. YEARS AGO f . . . This is a period when a na- 14,000 acres of Cass and Otoe county land. . . , Plattsmouth dropped an over- wnen it's extremely easy to move time game to College View 20-17. Cole backward. . . . Once a nation, a led Plattsmouth with fi noint. . . . Miss people or a president start Jean Adams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S81?6 IS? I ad Dic& werl KLinc0J? SHat; t t j ni .1 .i backward. The tides are too urdav where the boys attended Jesse L. Adams of Plattemouth was mar- strong. ... The rush of conflict- he football game and the ladies ried December 2 to Cpl. Bryce L. Tran- ing currents that. carry men and did Christmas shopping. ter of Kansas City. . . . Ernest E. Red- nations down are such that you Mrs. Berniece 'Lemming has ALTO MOTES Mrs. Mabelle Winn Phone 420 Mrs. Hazel Roelfsz, Mrs. Es ther Clark and sons Karl Lee dimr of Omaha and T,nnkA T?Mhh have to keep swimming every M;iia f ri4- il j minute just to ge ahead. . . . lller of Plattsmouth were married De- You have to work at peace, for cember 5. . . . Howard Wiles was elected instance, every minute, or you master of Plattsmouth Lodge No. 6, A. F. start drifting into war. A. M. Other officers are Warren Schar-' Tlr?';, SSrSniJ? fenberg, .senior warden: Edward Wehr-j rtTL&S bein, junior warden; L. N. Niel, secretary at the U. N., as he once did in .... Mrs. Howard Wiles has been elected Europe. He can't afford to sit wnrthv mnfrnn rvf TTnmo' rhnw i o behind the hedgerows at Caen. Order of Eastern Star. The Washington Merry -Go-Round The Plaiismoulh 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" Second in 1951 First in 1952 (In Cities Over 2000 Population) RONALD R. FURSE ; Publisher HARRY J. CANE Editor FRANK H. SMITH News Reporter SOPHIA M. WOLEVER Society Editoi ifkm. MZtOCIATIOn B o sum a & tswrt Entered at the Post Office at Plattsmouth, Nebraska., is second class mall matter in accordance with th A.ct of Congress of Mai :h 3. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year in Cass and adjoining counties. $4.00 per year elsewhere. In advance, by mail outside the citv of Platts mouth. By carrier in Plattsmouth. 20 cents or two weeks- He has to break through as he did with Patton and Bradley, at St. Lo and sweep on to bigger victories As long as he's pushing forward, the McCar thyites who yammer at his heels can only nip. They can't throw him. As lone: as he's oushins forward, there will be no divis ion in his own Republican army4 As long as he's moving forward the Democrats can't catch up. . . . But he has to keep pushing at the expense of golf, health, everything else Alternate is war For peace is more important than war. And lives have to be lost in peace too if necessary. . . . Ike's plan for atomic cooperation, if he push es it, can bring '50 years of peace. . . . The alternative within five years is war. A (Copyright, 1952, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: WORLD YEARNS FOR IDEALISTIIC LEADERSHIP SUCH AS IKE GAVE AT U. N.; SEEDS OF WAR ARE PLANTED WHEN LEADERS FAIL TO LEAD; ATOMIC-ENERY POOL COULD BRING 50 YEARS OF PEACE. - WASHINGTON & Random thoughts listening to Ike's atomic speech the other day I thoght of some of the other great gestures he has made to move the world forward. . . . And how badly the world needs those , gestures today. . . . There was his Guild Hall speech in Lon don, which lifted the British up toward new goals of Anglo-American friendship .... There was his speech before the newspaper editors last spring urging Russia to join with us in world peace. . . . There was his book-burning speech at Dartmouth, reaffirming the freedom of literature. . . . And his inspiring message to Chancellor Adenauer of Germany of fering food to the East German people. . .There was' also '"one brief speech, with the eovernment wherebv which I alone heard in Paris in which Ike an eleven-pound package of food outlined his private philosophy about God 'ney pe?: j ... 1 u , . pie almost anyplace m the world and man and religion. . . . There ve been for only $1. The food is-sur- somc others, some of them not so inspir- plus American farm produce ing, as the "If all Americans want is se- already stored overseas, and can curity they can go to prison" speech at VHSuSKl "rteST Sffi ualvcstoih . . . hut whenever Ike sets his sugar, canned milk, etc. Your mincF to it, the real Eisenhower shines name which goes in the pack- been ill the past week and un able to work at the telephone of fice. The Senior-Junior class play given at the gym Friday night had a good crowd considering the condition of the roads. The plav was good. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Yeager and Mrs. Edith Brawn were Sat urday night dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Bucknell at Elmwood. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Fairfield and son Ross were Sunday, Nov. 5th, dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Rueter. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hardnock, Mr. and Mrs. August Jonnson and Mrs. Grace Brunkow at tended the funeral of Mrs. Bes sie Conn at Greenwood last Monday afternoon. Mr., and Mrs. August Johnson visited the later's sister, Mrs. Paul Judkins and Mr. Judkins at Lincoln Sunday. Elmer Rueter and Mr. and Mrs. Waltsr Rueter and son Da vid are visitingHheir sisters and families in California. were held at Ropers Mortuary Wednesday. Rev. Johnson was in charge of the service. Burial in the Alvo cemetery. He leaves three brothers in New York City and one sister, Mrs. Edith Brawn at Alvo. Alvo Mrs. Art Skinner, Mrs. Orval Marcue and Mrs. Clyde Jipp were shopping in Lincoln Thurs day. ... Mr. and- Mrs. Wesley Cook and two daughters were Sunday din ner guests of Wesley's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cook at Weeping Water. - Mr. and,. Mrs. Albert Menke from Clatonico, parents of Mrs. John Weichel, were all day Sun day guests at the Weichel home. Mr. and Mrs. Max Town and Carol and Stephen from Omaha, were Saturday night guests of Mrs Towns' parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Stroemer. They re turned home Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Yeager left Monday morning for their KARR & SOCHOR Auditors & Accountants Audits Income Tax Service Bookkeeping: Systems Installed Ph. 6287 . Donat Building Defense Deer Hunters Returning to Washington from a two-day hunt in Michigan with Arthur Godfrey and other amateur sportsmen, Defense Sec retary Charles Wilson was asked at a press conference: "Who got the more deer, you or Godfrey?" "It was a draw," replied Wil son. "How many apiece." "None." - Christmas Care Shopping: If you're harassed over Christ mas shopping and want a way to shop for .someone else in a hurry, here are two suggest ions: r ' - 1. Care has worked out a plan RADIATOR REPAIRING ONE-DAY SERVICE Plattsmouth Motors Washington Ave. Ph. 28V For Holiday and Winter Expenses LOANS $25 to $500 or More No Payment Due Till 1954 AMERICAN LOAN PLAN J12 North 5th St. Phone 3213 (North of Cass Drug) Loans 3Iade Anywhere Write New Merchandise Sale December 17th Time - 7:30 p. m. AT Plattsmouth Sales Barn CONSISTING OF Electrical Appliances Hardware - Tools - Dinette Sets YOUNG and LACY, Auctioneers , IT'S BCX-ELDER BUC TIME IN NEBRASKA 4 It's box-elder bug time in Nebraska: They are crawling here and flying there, They love Nebraska's sunshine and air.. They are very friendly yet a little shy. Such oodles of them they make me sigh. It's box-elder bug time in Nebraska. It's box-elder bug time in Nebraska: They hang in clumps on the old porch rail, I find them oft in my water pail, Sometimes they light upon my hand, And other times in the frying pan. It's box-elder bug time in Nebraska. It's box elder bug time in Nebraska: A lot of things seem a pest to man, But Cod, He had another plan. And man would cease to fret and stew, If this plan of Cod he only knew. It's box-elder bug time in Nebraska. Leland Massie. Nov., '53. A. D. Murray, Nebraska. . " home in New York City after be in? called here by the death of Mr. Yeager's brother, John. ' Mr. Lloyd Bradley took them to Lin coln where they took a plane to New York City. Alvo Mrs. Mickel Is Card Club Hostess Mrs. Hazel Mickel entertained the Double Deck Pinochle club Wednesday afternoon with two tables of players. Four members were unable to be there on ac count of sickness and death. High score was won by Miss Martha Dettrmer, second high by Mrs. Vera Sutton, low by Mrs. Mabelle Elliott. Mrs. Mickel served a dainty lunch of sand wiches, apple pie, ice cream and coffee. The next party will, be the Christmas party and 12 o'clock luncheon with exchange of gifts with Mrs. Mabelle El liott and Mrs. Mattie Skinner in charge at the home of Mrs. Ma belle Elliott. Alvo Mr. and Mrs. Emil Reike were Sunday dinner erue.sts of Mr. and Mrs. Grover Hill, Elmwood. Mr. and Mrs. Art Skinner, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Jipp Ste hen and Jackie were Thanks giving dinner guests of Mr Orval Marcae ; and Gary. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Brunkow, of Murdock, spent Thanksgiving! with the. former's brother, Mr. Herman Brunkow and : Mrs. Brunkov:. Mr. and Mro. Sam Hardnock had as their Sundnv dinnei guests -Mr-and. Mrs. Ellis Mickel and Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Hard nock and Jerry. Miss De Vee Reber spent Fri day night in uncc:n wim her fritr.d Miss Jean Hatfield. Sewing Madeine (Co. Representative will be in PLATTSMOUTH every other day Repairs on all makes machines. 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