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EDITORIALS Furse's Fresh Flashes A N APPEAL TO PARENTS With junior or sissy just starting school this is the perfect time of the year to ap peal to all parents for restraint ancTgood judgment in dealing with school teachers and administrators. No aouDt junior and sissy will encounter some difficulties dur ing their new school year, if indeed they do not encounter them at the beginning of the current term. However the teachers and administra-. tors who are attempting to drill a bit of information into your sweet things' heads have troubles of their own and unless, there is an -obvious need for a protest, parents would do well to remain in the background and: see - at least, for a while, how things work out, before they ask for special treatment, special care or special attention for junior. It will also be well to ramember that the nation's schools must be based upon generally accepted average standards and that special operations cannot be under taken for you, or any small group, no mat ter how good the idea may be. It should also be remembered, by parents, that teir support of the. school, its teachers and administrators, is vitally important to the happiness and satisfaction of their chil dren. In a surprisingly large percentage of cases, where students fail to do satisfactory work, the reasons can be traced to parent al neglect, attitudes or incapacity. A help ing hand for junior, a consistant policy of aiding him and requiring him to do his lessons, will pay large dividends for him in future years, even though it requires some of your time today it is well worth the effort. rlGHT OVER BINGO " A major dispute recently arose in the city of New York because of a police de tective's efforts to enforce the law. This is an unusual twist, in modern days, since it is usually a failure to enforce the law which gets police officers in trouble In this ca e, however, it was the other way around, and a police detective, with a fine record and some thirty years of ex perience, was recently demoted for his ef forts to enforce a New York law against bingo games. The police detective stopped bingo games in churches of several denom inations and got the pledges from other groups, where games had already begun, not to hold them again. Because the New York Police Com missioner had officially winked at bingo parties in the past and because that was a generally known policy of many of the higher-ups in the Police Department, the police detective was considered to be out of line, from above. He was ordered de moted and this caused a furor among his supporters and those who believe in en forcing the law against bingo. The police detective resigned rather than face demotion withouc protesting, and the issue became a political one quickly. Democrats in New York are said to be ready to make bingo one of their campaign points, whereas some Republi cans are ready to take such a position. The question of legalized bingo thus becomes a hot political issue in New York election, as it has in elections in other towns in former years. We have nothing much to say on the question of legalized bingo, although it is obviously a form of gambling. However, when there is a law on the books, we believe it should be en forced, and the way to get around a bad law is to repeal it and get it off the books, rather than have laws on the books which police departments enforce at their dis cretion. Benefit bingo games have been a big Better Luck This Time Read where' a professor ntates that in come taxes are communistic. That's one of the many reasons why we would never go for Communism. A local doctor told a man here two years ago. to avoid moisture to cure his rheumatism. 'Nov that he's cured, he asked the doc here the other day if it would be alright for him to take a bath now. it it it A Plattsmouth housewife says it isn't the telephone or doorbell that gives her trouble, it's the ri;g around Junior's neck, wrists and the bathtub. A true music' lover is the le-ilow who hears a woman singing in the bathtub and puts his ear to the key hole. ' 7C See where they have introduced a new grain that tastes like barley and looks like oats. Sounds to us like just one more thing for the farmer to raise too much of. Tr it A housewife up our way wants our street name changed to "Skid Row." She thinks it will help in getting her name off about three or four hundred mailing lists. ir ir k If women ever do get equal rights, it will be- quite a come-down for some of ! them. . A fc The grandmother wTho used to step out fit-as-a-fiddle, now has a granddaughter who comes home tight-as-a-drum. issue in Nebraska for the past three or four years, as well as door prizes and raf fles. There is little doubt that one of these campaign years, this issue will outweigh all others in a Nebraska political campaign. Dovn Memory Lane r YEARS AGO v Among the "Old Timers" who reg istered at the reunion and homecoming during King Korn Kai nival were E. Lind say, Dick Bond, Mrs. Lula Wolfe, Mrs. A. O. Pearsley, Mrs. Etta Moore, Mrs. Mira E. McDonald, Mrs. J D. Cross', Mrs. Jennie Frans, Mrs. D. Rav Frans, Olga Martin McFarland, W. D. Miller, Clyde M. Drew, A. R. Stander, A. D. Eigenbrodt, May Richey, Mrs. Fannie Richey Dickson, Mrs. A. D. Eiegenbrodt, Levi Rakes, A. E. Todd. A. L. Todd, Mrs. A. J. Augustine, Myron R. Wheeler, Mrs. Agnes Chapman, Mrs. Joe Tishue, Mrs. Effie Morrow Banning. Frank H. Johnson, C. F. Ladd, Charles E. Ellington, and Celiccia White Hiatt. ..." - -. " ?3 Jl hjgp& YEARS AGO in 1 w The Blue Devils were host to Weep ing Water at the first home football game. On the starting lineup were Eaton, Schlis ke, Conis, Krejci, Woods, Sack Cole Wol ever, Tritsch, Gradoville and Beverage . . . Earning First Class in Boy Scout troop 366 were Jim Doody John Johnson and Jim Alkire in troop 367 they were Bob Gaines, Dangard Reichstaclf, Bill Baumgart and Bob Cappell. The Washington Merry -Go -Round ever the vast oil reserves of Alaska to private exploitation, despite the objection of naval officers' and career men in his own Interior Department. This may be the biggest bo nanza the oil industy has been handed for some time, and it may also be a hot political po tato once the Democrats get wind of it. So iar it's been kept reasonably hush-hush. Saltonstall Warns The question is so dynamite laden that Senator Saltonstall cf Massachusetts, Republican, has written a confidential let ter to President Eisenhower warning him noi to let himself get involved in another teapot deme scandal. The Interior Department has carefully cleaned its files of any critical correspondence, and the Saltonstall letter has been re moved. However, this column is able to reveal that Saltonstall's lette"'-, dated March 4, 1954, warned Eisenhower that the great scandal cf the Harding administration resulted from exactly the same giveaway that Secretary McKay contemplates in Alaska. "I suggest,'' wrote Saltonstall, who is chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, "that you lay the matter of the disposition' of Naval Petroleum Reserve No.. 4 before the Nation al Security Council for a deter mination respecting the essen tiality of this property 'to the national security " spent about $50,000,000 prospect- mg for oil and gas m this gen eral area, and has located the Umiat Field, partly in Navy territory, partly outside; also the Gubik Gas Field, which ex tends considerably outside Na vy territory. What Secretary McKay wants to do, together with former Secretary of the Navy Robert Anderson now Undersecretary of Defense - is open both fields to private development. This would give private oil companies the benefit of $50,000,000 worth of government geophysical re search. All they would have to do is go down to room 2643 of the Interior Department where r the charts are kept and take a iook at tnem. In other words, the oil com panies can perform oil explora tion work mar the Arctic Cir cle without even getting their feet cold and merely for the ex pense of carfare to the- Interior Department. And when they get the oil. they pay the government ; only 12l2 percent royalty, where ! 4-Via Mow o-ofc RQ nprppnt. rr,v- alty from Standard Oil of Cali fornia, now leasir.T the Elk Hills Reserve. Mearrwiiile, it looks as if Sec retary McKay would hold up any disposal cf the Navy's first Alas kan reserve, called NPR 4. until Congress acts, but may dispose of the 25,(fa0,000-acre reserve, called PLO 82, most any time. The latter area looks as if it had mere oil than the first. THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE TWO Section B Thursday, September 30, 1954 By Stanley James; Journal Washington Reporter u tunstaiFs letter caused hes itation in the Intei-ior Depart ment, and it now looks certain that Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4 would not be released to private exploitation without an OK from Congress. However, Secretary McKay .has another Aliskan oil area of 25,000,000 acres set aside for the. govern ment under Public Land Order No. 82 which he also wants to turn over to private oil companies. An order to this effect has ac- j tually been drafted and is now t under hush-hush consideration j Let's Be Realistic Legislative SIDELIGHTS . . by BERNIE CAMP Information Director Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation in the Interior Department. Hardin? Scandal To get the full picture, ifs necessary to go back to the days of the Teapot Dome Scandal in the Harding 1 administration when Edward Doheny brought a Dr. Clyde Mitchell, University of Nebraska, is credited with telling the state CIO congress recently that there is no agricul tural surplus in the human sense, only in the economic sense. He then "attacked flex- little black bag containing $100,- j iLe priCe supports as a -program uuu to Aiaeri r an, men oecre- to limit production at a tirre tary of the Interior, and got in wnen expansion is needed. Dr. return the Navy's most valuable J Mitchell is an advocate of high, oil reserve. . , 4, j rigid price supports as espoused After this scandal broke, the hv tb(1 National Farmers Union government in 1923 took over ) H manv rouDS with ieft of Inrlrfin ril a 23,000,000 acres of, Alaskan oil lands for the Navy, now known as NFt 4 or Navy Petroleum Reserve No. 4. Then in 1944, during the war, the government set aside an additional 25,000,- center philosophy. The U of N economist is cor rect .in saying there is no agri cultural surplus in the human sense; that tne surplus is eco- 000 acres of Alaskan oil' land nomic. Unfortunately, the real istic world is guioeo oy political and economic forces, despite the misguided efforts of the social planners to substitute theoreti- under Public, Land Order 82. Meanwhile, the Navy has LAW and ORDER by Sheriff Tom Solomon THOUGH! FOR TODAY . hair perhaps dkiriiw the false and true.' Kdwanl Fitzgerald The Plafismoufh Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN mi tIillcl Si-mi Weekly. Mondays and Thursdays, at 410 Main Street, Plat tsmout h. C"as CouiUy, Ncbr. Three Times Winner Ak-Sar-Ben Plaques for "OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE" 1949 1951 1952 "Honorable Mention" 1953 Presented Nebraska Press Association ' GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD" First in 1952 Second in 1951 and 1953 (In (ities Over ZM'h.h) Puliation) RONALD R. FURSE Editor and Publisher DICK HOWE ; . .News Editor VERN WATERMAN Advertising SOPHIA M. WOLEVER Society Editor vacw imcjuu. w.m Entered at Uie Post Of lire at PluttMiwmth, Nebraska as second class mail matter in accordance with the Act of Congress uf March o. INTO. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: S3.50 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. . (Copyright, 1954, By The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS : McNARY DAM DEDICATION WOULD WOR RY LATE CONSERVATION-CONSCIOUS SENATOR; McKAY HELL BENT ON GIVEAWAYS ; ALASKAN OIL-RESERVE TAKES ON SHADES OF TEAPOT DOME. Washington Charley McNary, in whose name a great dam was dedicated last week would have been uneasy in his grave if her heard tVe dedication speech of the President of The United States. In fact, he might be uneasy on several counts these days. McNary, who was a great senator from Oregon, a great Republican, and a great friend of mine, was the author of the McNary-IIaugen Bill, the first start to ward setting up economic guarantees for farmers. He was also a great conservation ist, a great protector of the national for ests, and a great advocate of public power. He helped to pioneer Bonneville Dam when -others scoffed that this "socialistic boondoggle" would never pay off, and it was because he stood for these things that the Republican party picked him in 1940 to run for Vice-President of the Lhiited States. So Charley McNary may have been a little restless when President Eisenhower stood on the Dam named for him and ex pressed his opposition to the McNary Dams of the future. Generous Doug McKay That Oregonian is amiable, likeable Doug McKay, the auto dealer from Port land, who as Secretary of the Interior has just given up a slice of the beautiful Rogue River National Forest and has appointed a commission to study what national parks should be turned over to private enter prise. Behind the latter move is plan to turn 50,000 acres of the Olympic Na tional Park over to lumbermen. Perhaps even more important. Secre tary McKav is now maneuvering to turn . WTe received a lettpr from a resident of Murray who asked us to discuss the operations of the scales located north of Platts mouth in Cass County. So, in this column we will attempt to pass on to you what we know of their operations. The scales are operated direct ly under the Department of Roads and Irrigations. Operating the scales are four state em ployed men, who reside in Plattsmouth. The scales are in operation 96 hours a week and the hours of opening are rotated so as truckers will not be aware when the scales are closed or opened. Trucks are allowed to carry a pay load as authorized by the ?ize of plates purchased, plus a 20 percent tolerance not to ex ceed 1,000 lbs. A single axle may carry 18,000 lbs. and a tandum 32,000 lbs., plus a 5 percent tol erance. When an owner or oper ator are found in violation, they normally are summoned into court and before being allowed to move their vehicle they must first comply with the law which they, violated. Such as, shifting their load, purchasing addition al plates, purchasing proper plates, or removing excess weight. If a tractor is found illegal for the type of trailer it is pulling then the operator, in order to move the trailer, must either make his tractor legal or hire a legal tractor to pull the loaded trailer to its destination. Buses likewise must stop at the scales for weight check. In some cases the bus company, aware that their incoming buses are overloaded, will dispatch empty buses south to take off sufficient passengers to make the bus legal before it reaches the scales. Such is also true of overloaded truckers who receive via the grape vine that the scales are open, will pull over to the side of the road and park until word is received of the scales closing. Officers aware of such tactics may take such bus or truck to tne scales for weight check no matter where they are found "39-723.03. Commercial moto'r vehicles; overloading; powers cf police officer. Any of ficer, having reason to believe that the weight of a vehicle and load is unlawful, is authorized to require the driver to stop and submit to a weighing of the same " When a truck or bus operator or owner is found in violation he is issued a summons And if such violation occurs during the Courts business hours then he is immediately taken before Ht for disposition. If such violation occurs during the hours when the court is not in session then the violator is given a ticket and turned over to the sheriff. The onender either must remain in jail until the court convenes: post an appearance bond; or sign a plea of guilty waiver and. pay the amount assessed. Under no condition is a check accepted in payment .of fine money or bond, for the simple reason that if an out stater stops payment on the check there is apparent ly no way in returning him to our custody. County and State officers are not responsible for parishable items which may spoil due to the fact the truck is stopped and detained for a violation. Also we are not responsible to care for items removed from an over loaded truck. The scales north of Platts mouth have been in operation approximately 18 months, during which period approximately $2,500 a month has ijeen paid into court or an approximate to tal of $45,000 from the scales. This money remains in Cass County and is distributed pmong all the school districts. All trucks and buses must stop at the scales whether they are loaded or empty while the scales are open. "39-723.09. COMMER CIAL MOTOR VEHICLES: RE FUSAL TO STOP FOR WEIGH ING: PENALTY. Any driver of a vehicle who refuses to stop and submit the vehicle and load to weighing, or who refuses, when directed, by an officer up on a weighing of the vehicle to stop the vehicle and otherwise comply with the provisions of section 39-723.08 shall" be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, up on conviction thereof, be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail for not more than sixty days, or both such a fine and imprison ment." In regard to any unusual no ise a truck might make we quote you, "39-777.- MUFFLER: RE QUIREMENT: CUT-OUT PRO HIBITED: LOAD, SPILLING PROHIBITED, (a) No person shall drive a motor vehicle on a highway unless such motor ve hicle is equipped with a muffler in good working order and in constant operation to prevent excessive or unusual noise and annoying smoke. b It shall be unlawful to use a 'muffler cut out' on any motor vehicle upon a highw'ay. (c) No vehicle shall be driven or moved on any high way, unless such vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to pre vent its contents from drooping, sifting, leaking or otherwise es caping therefrom. Sheriff Tom Solomon, Cass County, Nebraska cal hokus-pokus Dr. Mitchell is correct when he says American surplases would scon disappear if they were dis tributed to the hungry millions of the world. Tnat is the crux of the problem distribution. He and his associates might spend their time well in seeking the solution to the basic problem, faulty distribution, rather than urging rigid price supports which only intensify the immediate problem. The answer to economic sur pluses lies not in passing laws to support prices at such levels as to encourage surpluses, but in finding ways and means of dis tributing the surpluses where they are needed. Obviously, un til such a method is found, it is not wise to continue piling up commodities. If. Dr. Mitchell has an eco nomic solution for problems per taining to agricultural commod ity distribution, he should come forward with it now. Such a solution cannot be a sociologi cal give-away or other fantastic operations, but must be prac tical. It must be one which per mits the risers of American sur pluses to retain their dignity as men and women. The legislation which provides for exchange of American sur plus commodities for the cur rency of the buyer nation sug gests at least one road to a solu tion of the problem of getting distribution. This law, sponsored by Nebraska Congressman Rob ert Harrison of Norfolk, needs to be supplemented with other measures such as removal of tar iff barriers and ' trade restric tions. This is a program favored by the American Farm Bureau. Until Dr. Mitchell has con structive and practical answers he should be hesitant about of fering criticisms which bec-'c.i and confuse the basic problem. It perhaps would help those who are sincerely interested in the problem if he addressed himself td the tasks and duties of the classroom, thus sparing the in stitution of which he is a staff member the embarrassment which must accompany his par ticipation in partisan and high ly controversial issues. If he must participate in controversial issues, his participation should be objective and strictly analytical. WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 The latest reports received in.' Wash-' mgton from U. S. oniciais m Moscow confirm earlier suspi cians that the new group ruling Soviet Russia is scoring succes ses at home and that the regime is in less danger of internal re volution than was the Stalin re- ; gime. . This surprising appraisal has been coming into Wishington by cable and is now confirmed by veteran journalists just back from Moscow. The general con clusion to be faced by State De partment leaders is that Rus sia is following a more intelli gent course today thaa she did several years ago. Moreover, most U. S. officers in Russia are now convinced that George M. Malenkov is only one of several high Red leaders running the Kremlin show. In other words, the initial impres sion that Malenkov would be an other one-man dictator on the Stalin type is now dis pelled. U. S. operatives also report that the change in Russian tac tics which they say is not fully recognized and realized in Washington is having a major effect in sofe western European I countries. The Russians, it is re ported, appear to be following a policy which will keep them out of a major war in the near fu ture. While this is good news in it self, the fact that the new Rus sian ruling group is strengthen ing its position and improving the lot of the average Russian, may be a serious matter as the years pass. Malenkov, V. M. Mol otov, Nikita Khrushchev, and L. M. Kaganovich seem to be the Big Four at the moment in the Kremlin. The U. S. intelligence conclu sion is that the Russians have the same goal as they did under Joseph Stalin, but that they will pursue a less dangerous policy and hope for successes in inter nal and political fields more than in the military field. If the latest appraisal is a cor rect one, the United States de cision to reduce its military J forces may be in the best inter ests of the nation ana tne woria, if strength is not cut severely. At least the dicision seems to be based at least partially on the intelligence reports which have been reaching from Mos cow. The United States policy of reapprcehement with Germany is intended, among other things, toi unseat Premier Mendes France in Paris who has wrecked EDC and who still re fuses to consent to the rearm ing as a sovereign power of West Germany. The U. S. policy is one which might ultimately stir up much fear in France that the country is becoming isolated with Ger many replacing her as the ma jor bastion of defense against Russian aggresion from the East. If this fear grows 'to any extent, Mendes.- France's posi tion would be imperiled. Some U. S. observers cannot help but wonder if Mendes France did not at least strongly hint to the Communists at Ge neva that he would do what he . could do to wreck EDC if the , Reds gave him a truce m Indo china. His behavior since the Geneva Conference leaves much to be desired from the U. S. standpoint, and is the cause of considerable speculation. The U. S. policy of dealing with West Germany will becoms more apparent as the weeks pass and, in the meantime, Paris will be given a polite cold shoulder. A sample of this treatment was obvious when Secretary of State Dulles recently visited Bonn and London and left Paris off his schedule. He said he was too busy to see the French Premier and Paris officials felt insult ed. They are in for more of the same. Adlai Stevenson still hits harder than any other Demo cratic candidate. In his latest speeches he has hurt the GOP with his constant jibes at GOP disunity. Stevenson has manged to convince a lot of people that the Republican party is too di vided to achieve any co-ordinated legislative program. His approach is an ironical one, for the Democrats were victims of the same indictment, quite often when they were in power. The conservative wing of the narty which battles for its lfie against the liberal wing at every convention was an nually blamed for failures, of Democratic administratioiu to pass civil rights bills. Now the "outs" are the old "ins." The shoe is on the other foot and the "outs" are kicking hard with it with some effect. Give Livestock Plenty Water You can make livestock take on more water, your cheapest feed, by inviting them to a clean, cool, convenient drink. An all-weather waterer, pop ular in Missouri, usually is filled from a pond, but it will work wherever water flows by gravity. It can be adapted to a well, spring, or drainage tile. Designed by Missouri agricul tural engineers, it is an earthen insulated concrete tank with c device that lets water circulate continuously in cold weather. One installation has not had a trace of ice at 5 degrees below zero. Incoming water is controlled by a float set level with the top of an outlet pipe at the drinking end of the tank. An inch below the top of the outlet is a 38 inch trickle hole, which is plug ged until, the first hard freeze. When the hole is open, water trickles down the pipe and out a drain, away from the tank. The float opens the intake valve so that warmer water from the pond bubbles into the tank. A continuous - trickle all wmter lowers the level of a 4-acre pond one foot if no rain falls. Water from, a pond should be filtered, according to Missouri engineers. They suggest a filter made from a steel drum filled with 'z to 3.4-inch gravel into which an upright one-inch pipe is inserted. The pipe should be capped and have at least 16' quarter-inch holes along its sides. The intake pipe to the water er lies below the frost line, and a shutoff valve is installed at the pond. In prolonged sub zero weather, it may be neces sary to drain the line and tank. To prevent damage from freez ing, the inside walls of the tank are sloped, and the exposed end faced with cinder block or insulation. WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE mm HORIZONTAL 1 Depicted rodent of South America 6 It sits in cf its burrow like a prairie dog 31 Expunger 13 Offer 3 Rodent 4 Pronoun 5 Withered 6 Pedal extremities 7 Symbol for radon 8 Harem room 9 Pen point 1 0 Malayan pewter coin Here's the Answer iT4"43 ' w q u 1 vi 1 j 1 rvi u 3 1 1 34 Burmese wood 12 Knock sprite 13 Golf ripvir 23 Speaker 24 Spanish city 25 Strikes 41 Narrow fillet 42 Calf's bleat 43 Serial insect uoji device 27Numberni urVv G. i. Benefitr. 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