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I? 1TSM0UTH' NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL uti blx Thursday, December 30, 1954 It Happened in 1954 ( Continued From Page 1) - - State Bank of Murdoch was evident and crops were hurting robbed of over $1,000 at 1:30 p. lhe board of commission m. Feb. 8 . . . B. H. o Fitina n-oe ers also approved a sum of $4.- nrun in f oH 1 j.- tuc exeeuiive board of the Arbor Lodge, Dis trict, Boy Scouts of America . . . Cass County basketball tourna ment opened at Murdoek gym nasium . . . Quarry worker Allen Paul Melson pleaded guilty of robbing the Murdock bank and his arrest by Cass County Sher iff Tom Solomon . . . Plattsmouth board of education adopted a salary schedule for teachers ; . . CaSS COUntv honrd nf rnmmic- sioners adopted a set schedule for salaries of all countv offic ials . . . Highest award in Scout ing was bestowed on Stuart Niel sen in a Plattsmouth ceremony ... A fifth voting precinct got the okay of the city council . . . March A school for county assessors was held in Plattsmouth on re vised Individual personal prop rety assessment . . . Eight Kor ean war veterans were initiated into the Plattsmouth American Legion Post . . . Mrs. Eldon Men denhall was elected chairman of the County 4-H ... 75 Lions Club members from the eastern Nebraska district, attended a meeting in Plattsmouth . . . HJnky-Dinky announced a new super market for Plattsmouth . . . The county commissioners bought a pre-tax receipt writing machine . . . Plattsmouth started its 100th year as a city . . . $4,356 was netted in the March of Dimes drive . . . six rural and one village school were reorganized into one by voters in an election at Elmwood . . . Marvin Emonds and Janet Cook of Nehawka were named boy and giil staters . . . A week control measure, spray ' J ino t no rnodeio r. n4s.n4-n i I county commissioners . . a t. ! Tidd. veteran attorney, died Murdock retired $3,500 in water bonds . . . Raymond Bourne was elected Eagle president . . . April Leo Meisinger defeated Clem Woster for Plattsmouth mayor as George Conis unseated James P. Begley on the school board ... 23 Cass countians were rated superior in music contests at Peru State Teachers . . . Jim Jacques and Byron Finnefrock received trophies from the Chamber of .Commerce as out standing athletes . . . Art Mc Lean was elected VFW comman der . . . Three minors were booked for drinking beer . . . Three new grade schools and a high school addition were dedi cated . . . The Southsiders swept to victory in the Clean Up cam paign . . . Three persons received VFW community service awards . . . Edward H. Wehrbein of Plattsmouth was elected grand standard bearer at the 82nd an nual conclave of the Grand Commandery, Knights Templar of Nebraska at North Platte .. . . Mayor Leo Meisinger locked horns with the city council over appointments . . Plattsmouth took third in the Ak-Sar-Ben track meet .... May Nehawka ' copped the Cass County track crown . . . Merle Stewart, Plattsmouth high ath letic director resigned ... body of a 51-year-old Sarpy County man was found in about two feet of water south of Platts mouth on the Platte river . . . Plattsmouth took second in the district track meet . . . Platts mouth band members boarded train for Enid, Okla., where they were rated superior to attend a music festival . . . Plattsmouth schools accepted a grand piano, a gift of the Rotary Club . . . 70 Plattsmouth seniors were graduated ... an explosion damaged the foundation of Steve Davis house on Whitman avenue, injuring two workmen . . . the city council debated us ing ready-mix concrete for pav ing . . . and decided to . . . James Zoz was appointed to West Point . . . Mike Typer dis connected with the Plattsmouth Chamber of Commerce . . . June A rural southeast high school was proposed for Cass County . . . Jerry Pucelik graduated cum laude at Creighton . . . insur ance set school values at a mil lion dollars in Plattsmouth . . . Ray Story was named district governor of the Lions ... 14 were graduated from Elmwood high school . . . $24,142 paving con tract was let . . . Charles Allen named manager of the Platts mouth Chamber of Commerce ... a two-way radio was approved for the city police car . . . VFW add their backing to Civil Defense . . . Newt Sul livan was revealed as the Cham ber of Commerce "Mystery Fa ther" . . . T. H. "Bert" Pollock, 86, was slated for his first air plane ride . . . Louise Tozek, 12-year-old Omaha girl became Cass County's first drowning victim . . . July Lois Jean Smith noted her 11th birthday from an isolation ward for polio ... neighbors were at work helping hard luck neighbors with harvest In the South Ashland area . . . Cass County was named defendant in suits for $9,429 for personal in jury and damage resulting from two washoute on the county road between Louisville and Greenwood . . . little rain was 000 for the Cass County fair and asked for an additional .24 mill levy for operating the county for the coming year ... as sessed valuations in the county were announced up about $1, 700,000, mostly on motor vehic les .. . Plattsmouth city valu ations climbed $400,000 and a 22 mill levy was set . . . all was heat wave outside as the sun bore down and the rain stayed away . . . and the city council's j ti-monthly arguments continued Grant Neitzel of Murdock was tossed 95 feet in a traffic collision into a cornfield but es caped serious injury . . . Cass county got $57,000 for roads and bridges from the gas tax . . . Plattsmouth school budget was increased by $25,000 . . . Herb Baumgart was selected to head the Plattsmouth Legion. August Soennichsens reopened, after remodeling, marking 66th year . . . a doubling of the Allied Chemical plant was announced . . . Grosshans, Olson and Sharp were the ton Remiblican vntp j getters in the county primary eiecnon . . . Tom Solomon was the heavy Democratic favorite . . . driving rain and mud ham pered rescue operations at the scene of a fatal accident when Mrs. Elizabeth Royal was killed in a traffic collision . . . Cass County Fair Boosters hit the road . . . H. G. Frey. 57 years a Burlington agent, retired . . . Nancy Land was elected Cass County Fair . . . quick action averted a possible train wreck when law enforcement officers put their radio net to work to notlfy the Missouri Pacific train September The Plattsmouth city council tried to figure out where to cut the budget after the county clerk informed them that the city's assessed valuation had been cut $700,000, making about $5,000 less revenue . . . this caused the council to ask fnr or mills, the maximum, while the same cut in valuation forced Elmwood, Louisville and Nehaw ka to ask almost as much . . . Lincoln Telephone and Tele graph observed its 50th year with an open house ... a peti tion with 168 signatures asking for a grand jury, which an ac companying letter asked for an investigation of city government (presumably , in Plattsmouth) but signers later removed sig natures until no jury was called . . . Marilynn Joanne Stoehr was crowned queen and T. H. "Bert" Pollock was crowned King of the King Korn Karnival . . : the Blue Devils took a football win over Ashland after dropping their opener to Beatrice . . . Murdock schools refuted tax breakdown by the Nebraska Cit izens Council ... October Plattsmouth High School band under the direction of Melvin McKenney won the Ak-Sar-Ben class B competition at Omaha, the third time a McKenney band had won the award in his three years at Plattsmouth . . . also won top honors at Enid, Okla., Tri-States Band festival . . . work on Soennichsen's su per market expansion got under way . . . Roman Hruska and Carl T. Curtis, both candidates for the U. S. Senate but for dif ferent seats, spoke at Weeping Water . . . Ernie Schultz started Z-. fund drive with $100 in an effort to raise money to provide surgery for Willie Simons, blinded here three years ago in an accident ... November Allied Chemical supervisory personnel ran Hhe plant when 280 production and maintenance workers went on strike . . . Rich ard E. Beverage, son of Mr. and Mrs. R; E. Beverage of Platts mouth, was awarded a Union Carbide scholarship for 1954-55 at Colgate University . . . Re publicans took most county of fices in the general election Marion L. Tucker, Nehawka, county treasurer since October, 1953, resigned and Miss Alice Jayne Grosshans, newly elected county treasurer, was named by the board of commissioners to take over until her term started . . . Sam Am resigned as Platts mouth city councilman and planned to move out of town . . . Mert Jochimsen was named as city councilman to replace him . . . workers returned to Allied Chemical plant . . . Cass County Sheriff Tom Solomon was cited for law enforcement by a crime insurance company, the first Nebraska sheriff to be so hon ored . . . The Plattsmouth Jour nal was named as a top news paper and given an AAA rating . . . First Charge System was in stalled in Plattsmouth . . . December Charles Allen was re-hired as Plattsmouth Chamber of Com merce manager . . . Soennich sen's opened a new grocery sec tion . . . First Christian Church changed hands . . . Ken Dunlap resigned as police chief and Paul Fauquet was named city attor ney . . . Art Johanns, veteran Plattsmouth barber, died in a traffic crash and the Bill Noble family was wiped out in a plane crash near Grand Island. . rsnn fnr tnc, r-'oc-e Ox-,,,.,.,, x. . 4' . St. f 4 9 44 x?x ' 4 " .X s o P "X. XX iJx 9, t x? x X NX x. K 9, -xx as- jr"" . -jr x;'.v- iriiTi' if- inrrr HiiiiiBit ?n:ir -Ar 'rats, 4f "XAV. X xx.xxx.xxXs,, v xxyx x. xxxx-y 'xx-i? ,x ;y4?4- x.WX., W Nx--X 4P ,x ,x f 5xx4VXx XX x t xXxXXxXXXxXX Livestock Steady At Omaha Market Livestock trade held generally steady at Ornaha Monday with better steers to 25 cents, higher, cows strong to 50 cents higher, fat lambs about 50 cents higher, hogs were off 25 to 50 cents. Among recent sales from Cass county shippers were Davis & Rice, 16 hogs, wt. 268, $17.25; William T. Zoz, 18 steers, wt. 1,114, $29; Charles Hammons, 17 hogs wt. 266, $17. Real Estate Transfers T. A. Engles & Florence to James Brennan and Lucille WD 922-54 Pt. L. 90 & 91 SEV4 SWU 18-12-14 $6500.00. L. J. Eiserman & Irene to Gerald H. and Alice Sharpnack WD 12-8-28 Oakmont $1.00. Edna R. Edwards & R. H. Lee to Gustave E. Neumeister and Anna WD 12-7-54 L. 9 B. 13 Nehawka $1250.00. , Cass County's Greatest Newspaper The Plattsmouth Journal If : J I 1 1 11 1 1 Hi Milium n I, I, , 5. .4.4'"99-' ,X r rrr - - i Thi 1 11 r' ""Tlit 4 I x. 44WS444jASAAAaitZ. , 4x -linillWI Ml, M -T-x 9s xx X xxx. v iSBxx? ilxii&KKK xx, X ' V t 4 f 7 1. 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Copies of these rules ; and regulations are available bv f writing the Department of ; roads and Irrigation, Mainten 1 i LH ' 'JO 4 9- Sa, 4x.4 tfl rl AMi 4 U !L 4 a v. ' , v 4 x" A 1 bl xfOT ;-)xF?i? fc is -'!?: F1Y TS I S' $ f4 V xA- JXx xxxgyxxxx., . .. XXXx. , X x.x-.xxX.,".x?x.,xxxxxxx' x .f .xxxx.-xxxXx.x xi. X X i xx. illiiiiil xg& X-SxOll xJlx& o ffe xs " s"fx' V' x : I "ftt'l f'frx'fWfr'IIH-ltrfT'IrittWMiMWIIMIMMMyxT t-ifij xf S'i.' Rf-xxv. J X X , , RxVx lix ,- -f0x x?xx -xtf-x-xxf 5-x- xtyX-x xxxxxj, I Xx x:-)- xxxx -f X-f gXxXX Fi ' 1Y.Tf," X" " XXXJ X. X W X XX X . 4i T x SrxxX.-xXJ.xx f "xxxxxx, xxVxf-" ance Engineer, Room No. 1216, State House, Lincoln, Nebraska, or any of the Department's eight Division Engineer's offic es. Crop Improvement Annual Meet Set For Kearney LINCOLN Plans are being completed for the annual meet ing of the Nebraska Crop Im provement Association to be held at Kearney Jan. 31 and Feb. 1. Acording to C. H. Porter, se cretary - manger of the asso ciation, the program will be one of much interest to seed grow ingers and others interested in seed production, processing and distribution. Many of the plant breeders located at the College of Agrl culture are planning to attend the annual meeting and partici pate in the -discussion. One of the more interesting discussions will center around adapted sor- i i-xx "xxil xx. xXyi'xx"'"ii, " J4 ' XxXV-x 4 i xxtxyxxx. 4 i'F 'x&. .nt F7. W.-JW." r -x XxxFx -xxx. x y x 7&s y ghum varieties, improved me thods of production, adoption of certification standards for hy brid sorbhum production, the use of hand selected seed for seed increase, and germination standards for certified seed. Porter points out that ar rangements are being made for demonstration fields to be set upin legume seed production areas of Nebraska in 1955. These fields will demonstrate the val ue of spraying to control harm ful insects, the value of pollin ating insects, irrigation for al falfa seed production, and the possibilities of defoliating and harvesting direct. Guest speakers for the meet ing include Dr. Louis Wise, di rector of the Regional Seed Re search Laboratory at Mississip pi State College, and Lane Wil son, executive secretary of the Southern Seedmen's Associa- tion, Shreveprqt, La Dale Luther, Buffalo county agricultural extension agent, is chairman of the local commit tee for the meeting to be held ni the Fort Kearney Hotel. '. x. -XO ,xx xf f X x x,, A ' x-x V xx x, 9S. X; x. a y 9a ,xxX- x , xi 4 x x?' i i 4 Xx? SW x- J, 4 x xx-x-.-x x.xxyxJxbxWWWI Sagxxxt'x, r.jujymii 1 ,sms ' A note from M. F. Sudduth on South First St., enclosing an in teresting article telling of a pio neer trip taken in 1873 from In diana to Wichita, Kansas. The article contained excerpts from a letter written by an R. J. Mead fcund among the belongings of a deceased relative. Although Mead was net a scholarly man, his letter contained much in au thentic information and histori cal value. ' He told of a triiin trip by his wife and children. Of boarding the train at Mitchell, Ind., at noon and arriving in Kansas City about 11 a. m. the next day. He then "took the Atkison, Tam pek and Santifee R. R. for Wish ita which place we reached at midnight." Then a two-day, 40 mile wagon trip to the ranch through snow and. cold staying cvernight at "what is called dog creek ranch. A ranch is a place where teemsters and trad ers has to stop overnight, they have good stables for the horses and a house with a stove in it for them to cook on and furnish hay for the teames all for 25 cts and the men sleeps in the hayloft."' Speaking of prices he stated the two nights in the Wichita hotel cost him $2. "Agricultural inplements is as her.p as they are in Indiana. Vru can buy a good wagon for $65 and the best wagon that is made for $75 with brake and soring seat all com plete,. Walking cultivators $22. plows from $11 to $20 and I got a set of stone chiny plates for 65 cts., teacups 65 cts. the bst. One gal. coffee pot 5c cts. 4 lbs. coffee for $1. 2!i lbs. suar 25 cts., 4 bars soap 25 cts. Hogs is worth $3 per hundred lbs. wt." Best paragraph of all, to us, stated, "John Wiley and Chess is as fat as hogs and will stay here. They are in a big way now. John Wiles mare is sick. Has been bad off but is getting better. Thier house is about 16x20 feet and John Flotts and us all fills it pretty near full. We make a bed clear across one end and all pile in together, 13 in all and when one turns over the rest has to turn. Lizzie was pret ty near wore out yesterday but is all right today." That bank robbery at Fremont Monday reminded Henry Schneider to tell us about the big job pulled here a number of years ago. Henry said the Fre mont job would be quite a dis appointment to him as it lacked the artillery and fire works dis played after the three bandits were attacked while in the proc ess of cleaning out tellers cages. -K Henry said the three desper adoes had things pretty much their own way until the late Jar vis Lancaster plugged one with a six-shooter thrQugh the door of the bank. Then the excitement started. Shots rang out all over the place with bank employees taking for cover. In all, some 20 shots were fired. The bank president and one customer squeezed into a spot under a desk that wouldn't accommodate one in a normal attempt. - Pistol slugs were splattering from one end of the bank to the other. One robber took a pot shot at Carl as he hightailed it out the rear entrance. Miracu lously he missed, much to Dad's relief, but Henry's eyes lighted up like incandescent bulbs and his breath came a little faster just telling us about it. In fact, he nearly lost his "uppers" de scribing the melodrama. - Nothing beats a little adver tising. It didn't take long for us to learn the name cf the young fellow finding the purse belonging to Mrs. Jack Burton of la Platte, following our story in Monday's Journal. The story coming to light reveals two boys were involved. Junior Smalley and Eldon Kammerer, picking up the - purse on Washington Avenue. They returned it to Mrs. Burton and were well re warded despite their protests. Smalley is the son of O. F. Pmallev ?nd a Grandson of Mrs. Rose Retlesdorf. Eldon is the .son of Mr. and Mrs. Orval R. Kammerer. Reporters on The Journal are happy when they can write about good deeds of cur citizens, both old and young. So often loss of money and per sonal items are reported to this office with never a trace that it is a personal delight to rec ognize and commend these young men here for their hon esty. This is the last copv of The Journal you'll receive this year. Please drive carefully over New Years we don't went to lose any subscribers. RRF. EAST-WFST TRADE The Eisenhower Cabinet is planning an earlv meet in" at the reouest of high Administra tion officials, to study anew the problem of East-West European trade, he Eisenhower Adminis tration is increasingly worried about the volume of machine tools, electric nower eouipment and other capital "oods wb'ch are moving from Western Eu rope to the Soviet Union and wants to develop plans to curb such sales.