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1 C30 p CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER c rtD PUBLISHED Monday - Thursday SEMI - WEEKLY Consolidated With the Nehawka Enterprise and Elmwood Leader-Echo Delivered Twice Weekly to More Than 3000 Cass County Families VOLUME 74 SIXTEEN PACES PLATTSMOUTH, CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1955 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NUMBER 13 S)ord! Jooqds K-P'JMua it f30 .n iloix Ngtnit r O era mew y Cass county commissioners Tuesday continued their fight in defense of the county's portion of the gas ta: which is being- withheld by the state treasurer, paid some ounty bills, and prepared to meet again today (Thursday) for the swearing in ceremony of county officials. The swearing in will include all elected county offi cials except County Commissioner William Nolte who is serving a 4-year term and was not up for election last fall. New 0fiCiais at the court- i . . . i Meismger Kites Wednesday at Chape! Here Services for Harry A. Mei singer, 71, who died Sunday in St. Catherine hospital it Omaha after three months illness, were held at the Sattler Funeral chapel in Plattsmouth Wednes day. Rev. G. E. Seybolcl offici ated. Bearers were Howard Meising cr, Tom Meisinger, Floyd Thie roff, Richard Thieroff, Boyd Group, and Lyle Gottsch. Music was by Mrs. F. Nolte. Burial was in Oak Hill ceme tery. Mr. Meisinger was born on March 6, 1883, at Cedar Creek, Nebr., the son of Louis Wallinger ard G. P. Meisinger. He was married at Plattsmouth on Dec. 22, 1909, to Harriet BLotzer who survives him. The Meisingers lived on a farm near Cedar Creek until they moved to Plattsmouth 13 years ago. Besides his widow, Mr. Mei singer is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Mayme Meisinger and Mrs. Gertrude Pullis, both of Omaha, and one brother, Irven Meisinger of Louisville, Nebr. He was pre ceded in death by his parents and one sister, Mrs. Ida Thieroff. He was a member of the "St. Paul's Reformed and Evangelical church. Oelkers Rites Held At North Branch Church Dec. 27 AVOCA (Special) Funeral services for Mrs. Anna E. Oelkers were held at the North Branch Church Dec. 27 with Rev. F. Fracker officiating. She died Dec. 23 at Otoe. Mrs. Oelkers was born Jan. 12, 18S6, in Hanover, Germany, the daughter of Albert and Gesche Ropers and came with her par ents to America. On June 4, 1887 she was married at North Branch church to Henry Oel kers. Mr. Oelkers passed away July 20, 1927. To this union eight children were born. Three sons, Louis, Henry, Avoca; John, Otoe: Mrs. Lena Kamman, Avo ca: Miss Tina- and Miss Anna Oelkers, Avoca. Two children, Marie and Albert preceded her in death. One brother, Albert Roper; 3 grandchildren' She lived near the church where she was married until moving to Otoe. Pallbearers were Loren Rop ers, Willard Ropers, Harold Oel kers, Beorge Oelkers, Orlin Gil bert, Emory Paap. Burial was at North Branch church. Arrangements were in charge of Tonsing & Son, Syra cuse. Rotary Covers West In 30 Minutes Rctary Club members took a whirlwind trip through U. S. National Parks, Canada and the Pacific Coast in a matter of only 30 minutes Tuesday, as program chairman C. E. Shellenberger presented the group with a col lection of vacation pictures he had accumulated during the past four or five years. Taken in color, the pictures gave members a camera-eye view "of historical sights in Yellow stone and Glacier National Parks, the Grand Canyon and other scenic joints over the western part of the country. The candid shots were exceedingly colorful and pointed the way to many a Rotarian's vacation spot in 1955. Supt. Tom Friest introduced Junior Rotarians for the month of January. Roger Snodgrass is representing the Junior class, while Roger Hild is attending as a member of the Senior group. THE WEATHER Compiled for the Journal at the Masonic Home Weather Station. Plattsmouth, Nebraska. Jan. 3-5. High Low Prec Monday . . . .' 52 30 Tuesday 36 23 T Wednesday ...44- ;24 Forecast: Today partly cloudy, continued cold tonight, increas ing cloudiness, low 28. A house, to be sworn in today, are Charles Land who succeeds W. J. B. McDonald as county clerk; Alice Jayne Grosshans, who succeeds herself after being on appointment as county treasur er since last fall when Marion Tucker resigned; and Miss Clara Olson who succeeds E. C. Giles as county assessor. Other officials who will suc ceed themselves are Herman Bornemeier of Elmwood and Ray Norris of Weeping Water on the board of commissioners; Tom Solomon, sheriff; Glenn Johnson, county surveyor; Mrs. Lucille Horn Gaines, register of deeds; Richard Peck, county attorney; C. E. Ledgway, clerk of the district court; and L. A. Behrends, County School Super intendent. Tuesday the county commis sioners were busy examining and approving bonds for var ious officials, including them selves (cost $15) which ranged upward to $2662.42 for the county treasurer. The commissioners also . join ed over 60 other Nebraska counties of small size in hiring an attorney, through the State County Attorney's Association, to defend their rights in the gas tax squabble which has stopped the flow of money to counties for the use in surfac ing various roads for the past four months. The state treasurer, Frank B. Heintze, halted the millions of dollars in gas tax which was regularly distributed to counties when Lancaster and Douglas counties filed, suit in- district court on" grounds that the state treasurer was using the wrong census report on which to base the apportionment. Cass county commissioners agreed Tuesday not to commit themselves for the resurfacing of more roads until the gas money flows again. The comrai ssioners thought Tuesday that their portion of the license plates fees now coming in may amount to about $30,000 by March 1 and that should take care of present com mitments along with bor rowing a small amount of money. Cut they agreed to spend no more until the gas tax question is settled. The three commissioners, who attended the state meeting of the County Officials Associa tion in Omaha last week, said that body had passed a resolu tion to take steps, to defend their rights in the gas tax prob lem. The resolution Tuesday to join in hiring a firm of Lincoln attorneys to help protect their tax rights, was apparently an outgrowth of that resolution. - John Lee of Dwight, Kansas, is improved. His daughter, Mrs. Edward Howard will return home today (Thursday) from Junc tion City, Kansas, vvhere Mr. Lee is hospitalized. is ire What Paul Baburek likes about being a steeplejack is that when work goes up over 50 feet high the competition thins out and the pay goes up. So said this member of the Baburek Bros. Machine works of Plattsmouth when discussing what is probably Plattsmouth's newest business. Baburek's will add the stee plejack enterprise as one of several which are headquarter ed and operated at the com pany at 318 First Avenue. Paul and John Baburek re cently bought the equipment, existing contracts, and territory of the Pyle Bros. Iron Preserv ing company which has been operating in the Nebraska, Cal ifornia, Iowa, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma and New Mexico area since 1890, and are preparing to kick off for the season's work about April 1. Baburek's are a many sided enterprise and this will ba but one more. The company makei the E-Z Splitter saw, used bj slaughterhouses to split beef carcasses (in 1 minute for a 750 pound beef); the E-Z Lift, which solved the problem of un loading and moving such wheel-less pieces a corn pick ers by implement dealers; the Garnsey tire break (for use in removing large tractor tires) ; and the ' 2M - 2ME Transport another farm implement mover. These are their own manufac tured items to which will soon pera IS co is C of C Dinner Tonight Turns To Light Side Plattsmouth Chamber of Commerce's new departure in in annual banquets will get un derway at 7 p.m. tonight (Thursday) at the Lions Ciub Duilding. And you will be entertained if you go, for the Chamber members will lay aside all busi ness for the evening to enjoy themselves with, 1. Food, 2. Professional entertainers, 3. Amateur entertainers. Davis and Rees, making their first appearance in this terri tory, a professional team of comedienes and musicians, will headline the show which follows a 7 o'clock dinner. The banquet is open, not only to Chamber members and their wives, but to the general public. And Chamber President Ed Ernst has announced that if anyone wants to see and hear the entertainment but doesn't want to eat at the banquet, ad mission may be gained for this purpose for $1 following ' the dinner, which should be about 8 p.m. Only real item of business, which shouldn't interfere, will be secret balloting on new di rectors for the chamber. Master of ceremonies for the evening will be Yalt Smith of Plattsmouth . 4 Only the capacity of 250 for the facilities is being sold for the banquet tonight; License Tag Sale Steady Except Mail Buying a license plate by mail is a little confusing, it seems, though instructions have been floating arOund for a long time. At the treasurer's window at the Cass county courthouse, plates were going at a pace of about 200" per day this wees, about the same as last year, but the mail situation remains fouled up. J ,For instance, County Treasur er Alice Jayne Grosshans has letters paying the motor ve hicle tax and nothing else no request for license. How can it be wrong to pay the motor vehicle tax even though not licensing the ma chine? That's easy. Motor ve hicle taxes are now paid in ad vance so that only if the vehicle is being registered and licensed should the tax be paid. Other wise, the machine should go on the personal property sheet as an unlicensed vehicle this spring. So don't mail in the auto tax unless you are going to license and drive the vehicle. And another thing. Some tax payers have ripped apart the copies of the tax statement sent them and sent back only part of the copies. All copies must be sent back. One more thing. License tags buyers-by-mail are leaving out the ner ossary 25 cents postage to get the plates back to them. Put in 25 cents. In other words, this is what should be mailed, to the county treasurer's office to get tags by mail: 1. ALL copies of the tax statement. 2. The vehicle reg istration and the fee ($6 for cars under 3,000 pounds; $8 for ve hicles over 3,000 pounds). 3. Twenty-five cents postage. Journal Want Ads Pay- be added an "offal cooker" to be used in cooking down slaugh-j terhouse wastes until usable for feeding. Another job is the manufacture of steel cable reels for the Radio Corporation of America. " "To tell you all the things we make on contract basis," said Paul." would take me all after noon." For instance, if you have an idea or an invention, Baburek's can probably make it for you, as they have for many people. Take the simple, triangular piece of wire which was the idea of an Omaha janitor. It solved the problem of cleaning those wide brooms janitors use to sweep the floors. The idea was brought to Baburek's and now a janitor can buy one. Previous methods have mostly proven unsatisfactory. But with the many contract items made by the machine shop, the steeplejack business has brought the most enthusi asm from Paul who worked for the Pvle company in 1947. Both the Pyle brothers who owned the company then died and one of the widows ran the business until last year. She sold it to Baburek's on Dec. 27, 1954. "I'm no stranger to the business," says Paul who has been a welder since he was graduated from high school. "Of 'course you can't get a job k's Goes T Air I 4 J- - 1 -? ' Little Tonda Joyce Lutes, born at 7 a. m., Jan. 1, 1955, shown here with her mother, Mrs. Homer Lutes of Plattsmouth, so far is the First Baby of 1955 born in Cass county. Entries are still being received at the Journal office with many prizes from Plattsmouth merchants going to the winner. Deadline for entries is Jan. 15. Included with the entry must be all the data about the baby's hour of birth and a birth registration, document. Winner must be a resident of Cass County. Divorce Rate Up But It's Costing Cass county moved upward in the department "I can't stand to look at you anymore," during 1954. ? Twenty - seven divorces were granted in the -county during 19anr-ccordihg"Co "a " report by C. E. Ledgway, clerk of the district court. This was four more than were granted during the previous year when 23 bonds of matrimony were legally severed. But it was costing some body, i . Child support and alimony . paid through the clerk of the district clerk's office in 1954 amounted to $21,306. Tax Returns Help Here January 10-11 Internal Revenue agents will be at the Cass county court house in Plattsmouth on Jan. 10 and 11 and will return on March 10 and 11 to help taxpay ers with their income tax re turns. Individuals who derive at least two-thirds of their gross in come from farming should file a return on or before January 31 or -file a declaration of esti mated tax by January 15 which will extend the filing of their in come tax return to not later than April 15. Income tax returns generally must be filed by April 15 this year, a month later than last year. :- working in high places unless you already have experience and how could you get ex perience unless you work up there? When they asked me whether I had ever worked high before, I told them I had. The 50 - foot mark was the worst, after that it wasn't bad." Paul, who will make contacts for jobs and inspections, will keep two of the crew which work ed for the Pyle company, both Omaha men, and add local ones. The company will range through the old Pyle territory, repaint ing and repairing; water tanks, stand pipes, bridges or any thing else which is up in the air. He mifht take on a TV trans mitter tower or two though these are by far the highest structure the crew will probably ever tackle, some 200 feet. , 'Two of the present crew men have painted TV towers," says Paul. It was a rough job with the tower swaying up to six feet in the wind. It might be enough to upset a paint bucket except that most high painting is now done by pressure gun.., ;;. 'I've never heard of any workers 'freezing' high-up," Paul said, "though some of the workmen say that superinten dents inspecting jobs have been jt.-i . iv-oaunuiQ on page ) , VJT ii x.-; - - 4 v . V V William Rose Rites Held; Cass Pioneer : .AVOCA ' (Specir.1) ; William A. -Rose,. 91, a lifelong resident of Cass" county passed away on the way to the hospital follow ing a heart attack Dec. 24. He had been making his home at the , Ebeler Nursing Home, Elm wood. , William Rose was' born June 2, 1863, son of William and Kersten Rose in the Avoca pre cinct and passed away Dec. 24, 1954. He spent nearly c.ll his life, in Cass County except, a few years in Colorado. He attended business school at Lincoln and made his home on a farm east of Avoca. He was a charter member of the Avoca Congrega tional church. He lived on his farm east of Avoca until 2 years until his health wasn't so good. On Sept. 21, 1902, he married Nina Greson at Plattsmouth, Nebr. To this union 4 daugh ters and one son were born. One daughter, Ruth . Anguland, pre ceded him in death. Surviving are Mrs. Zelda Rich mond, Wellington, Colo., Violet Morten, Los Angeles, Calif.; Pauline McKinley, Los Angeles, Calif.; Bennett, Atlantic, Iowa; one sister, Mrs. Anna Norris; 13 grandchildren; 1 great grand child. m Funeral services were held Wednesday, Dec. 28 in the Hob son chapel, Weeping Water, Rev. Fred Gardner officiating. Music was by Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Carsten, accompanied by Mrs. Henry Smith. "The Old Rugged Crocs," "What a Friend We Have in Jesus." Pallbearers were Louis Ruhge, Elmer Hallstrom, Fred Mar quardt, James Elliott, Louis All gayer, Gordon Heneger. Burial was at St. John's cem etery, Nehawka. Hobson of Weeping Water were in charge of arrangements. 40 Ministers Due Here Tuesday For Conference About 40 ministers of the Methodist church Omaha dis trict will convene in Platts mouth on next Tuesday, Jan. 11, for a conference on youth work. Rev.A. Kiel, pastor of the Plattsmouth church, said. The subject of the confer ence will be youth work, the present program receiving the emphasis of the church. - Mrs. Mae Sigler, Nebraska Conference youth director, will be present for the meeting which opens at 10 a.m. Tuesday and closes at 4 pjn. that day. T. I. Friest, superintendent of Plattsmouth schools, has been invited to address the confer ence on what the church can do for youth. Noon luncheon will be served by the Naomi Circle. The conference was called of all ministers of the Omaha dis trict by the district superinten dent to study and work out plans to build youth work In the district: . fc "Ti i Softs r Jootkuksi Russians Go Back! No Travel in Cass Are you Russian, Red style? If so, there's bad news for you in Cass county. The State Department Monday put 10 Nebraska counties off limits to Rus sians and Cass county was one of them. Russian citizens may not travel in any of 895 counties in 39 states designated by the government according to the order. Proximity to Offut field when the Strategic Air Command is stationed is the reason. Counties named in Ne braska are Cass, Douglas, Gage, Johnson, Lancaster, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee, Richardson and Sarpy. Two of the counties have large air bases. The Offut Air Force Base is in Sarpy county just south of Omaha and Lincoln Air Force Base is in Lancaster county. However, Russian citizens may travel in both Omaha and Lincoln despite, the fact that both counties are off limits to them. Rev. Meyer Gets Call from South LOUISVILLE Just a month after declining a call to become pastor of a congregation at Hoff man, Illinois, the pastor of Im- manuel Lutheran at Louisville, Rev. Meyer, has received a call to serve in a different field. The call comes to him from the Florida-Georgia District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. Rev. Meyer stated that the duties of this call were to be missicnary-at-large, where the district officials assign the place to work because there is no con gregation to do the calling. This call requests the pastor to serve in Rome Georgia, a city of 45,000 and to establish a congregation there. At present about 30 people have been attending services held there by visiting pastors. The call will be presented to the voters next Sunday. Rev. Meyer indicated, however, that a final dcislon will probably not be reached by that time. St. Paul Lutheran in Weeping Water will discuss the call Friday eve ning at their meeting. School Board Accepts Books From VFW Post Plattsmouth's school board spent one of its shortest evenings Monday at a regular meeting. With little business on the agenda, the board accepted the resignation . of a teacher, paid the bills and looked at two his tory books presented to them by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Accepted was the resignation of Mrs. Charles Allen, high school English teacher. Art McLean, commander of the Plattsmouth VFW post, and Lloyd Fitch, past commander, chaplain and community service officer, presented to the board with copies of a picture history of World War II, one dealing with the war in Europe and the second with the war in the Pa cific. These will be added to the school library. The board passed a resolution in appreciation of the gift. J. S. Kearrss Dies In Omaha Hospital Joseph S. Kearns, who was born south of Plattsmouth but who had been a resident of Omaha for 40 years died at an Omaha hospital on Jan. 1, 1955, it has been learned here. . He was born in Cass county on Oct. 16, 1872, the son of Jonathan and Mary Kearns and ' was married to Emma Miller, Dec. 7, 1899. She survives him. He was employed by the Bur lington railroad. Besides his widow, he is sur vived by a nephew, Herbert Saxton, Oklahoma City, Okla.; neices, Mrs. Dora Green of Cal ifornia; Mrs. Doll Collins of Texas; Mrs. Margaret McPher son and Mrs. Eileen Adams, oth of Lincoln; Mrs. Mary Rogers and Ernest Kearns of Washington and a large num ber of grand neices and neph ews. He was a brother - m - law of Mrs; Ralph Doud. The Plattsmouth Journal will again award a plaque to a Cass county farmer for outstanding work in watershed control work in conjunction with the Cass-Weping Water Creek Watersheds Association. , At a meeting last night (Wednesday) at Weeping Water, the Watersheds association set the time for their banquet and the conferring of honors. : ' The annual banquefe will be held Night Keeper Hunt Goes on; Culprit Hurt Cass county and Plattsmouth city law enforcement officers continued their search today for a window peeper who visit ed the Valley View addition of Plattsmouth "at about 11:3Q Monday night. The peeper was observed by Howard Speigler, 1608 Valley View, looking into an adjoining home, according to the report. Speigler slipped out and caught hold of the person. The peeper reached into his pocket and came out with a solid ob ject and struck Speigler over the head three times and kicked him twice Speigler continued to struggle and finally wrestled the unknown man to the ground. Spiegler said that after he had bumped the peeper's head against a cement block about 10 times, he became motionless so Speigler went to his home for a flashlight and a gun. On his return, the peeper was gone. Speigler said he struck the per son in the mouth with his fist during the fracas. Officers are now searching for. a man about 22 years of age, 5 - feet - 6, 125 , pounds, bare headed,- wearing .a short leath er jacket with possible niouth and head injuries. Citizens are urged by law enforcement offi cials to report any information which would be helpful in the case. Officials said that a peeper who was seen earlier that same evening in the Oakmont area was apparently not the same one who tangled with Spiegler District 70 Case Postponed A Week District Judge John M. Dierks, continued the School District No. 70 case, Stander vs Clyde Smith et al, to next Wednesday after hearing a little of the case yesterday. Opening state ments were given in the case and one witness partly heard before the continuance was giv en because of the illness of one of the attorneys, according to the Judge's record. Judge Dierks also granted a divorce on Tuesday when he entered, a decree for the plain tiff, Jill Poole, divorcing her from Donald James Pool and giving her custody of a minor child and child support. Local Home Sold By The Sandins Steve Davis, local rsaltor, has announced the completion of sale of the James Sandin home at 808 South Ninth street in Plattsmouth to Mr. and Mrs. Orville F. Martin. The Sandins have moved to Lincoln and the Martins, will take immediate possession of the new home. Court House County court: Richard Krohls, Wichita, Kans., $11 and $4 costs, speed ing. . ) Andrew F. Garber, Sabetha, Kans., $100 and $4 costs, over weight on axle. James R. Ciernia, Long Beach, Calif., $11 and $4 costs, speed ing. Arliss G. Mann, Council Eluffs, la., $16 and $4 costs, speeding. Lewis D. Morris, Quantico, Va., $16 and $4 costs, speeding. John Nicolette, Ottumwa, la., $10 and $4 costs, speeding. Richard G. , Dulac, Marine Corns Base, Camp Pendleton, Calif., $15 and $4 costs, speed ing. S, W. Fleck, Minneapolis, Minn,. $10 and $4 costs, speed ing. Johnny R. Peterson, Council Bluffs, la., $11 and $5. costs, speeding. John H. Gutgsell, Lincoln, $10 and $4 costs. Iral B. Payne, Onawa, la., $50 and $4 costs, .over gross weight. William A. ' Smith company, Hastings $67 -and $4 costs, over weight on capacity plates. Co" (LDP at the Weeping Water audnitor- iam at 6:30 cm. on Jan. 27. ac cording to Paul E. Fauquet of Plattsmouth, secretary oi tne group, who attended last night's meeting. Headlining the program at that event will.be Radio Station KFAB's farm director Bill Mc Donald as the speaker. The 1955 award will go to a f aimer with an outstanding re cord in watershed conservation and will be chosen by a secret committeeof the association. , Selection will be on the basis of an outstanding job in water shed conservation in the area. Certificates will be awarded to members of the winning wa tershed group by the Platts mouth Journal, besides the plaque for the outstanding in dividual. Tickets to the banquet may be bought, and membership dues in the association may be paid, to members of the board of directors. Members of the board of di rectors are Hugo Meisinger, and Paul Fauquet, of Plattsmouth; Clarence Engelkemier of Mur ray; Forest Engelkemier of Louisville; Fred Baker of Union; Arthur Wolph and Will Ost, of Nehawka; Joe Bender and Lloyd Ranney of Weeping Wa ter; Leroy Cook, Elmwood; Wil liam Blum and Herman Schweppe of Murdock; Robert Maack of South Bend; ATVin Reuter of Murdock and Lyl Choate of Nehawka. . Steffens Rites Held Dec. 3! At Nehawka NEHAWKA (Special) Fun eral services for Dietrich Stef fens, .82, were held at the Ne hawka Methodist church here Dec. 31. Rev. Fred Gardner of ficiated. Burial was in the Mtl Pleasant cemetery at Nehawka. Mr. Steffens died at St. Mary's hospital in Nebraska City fol lowing a stroke on Dec. 29. Bearers were Edward Knabe, Harry Knabe, Charles Adams, Marion Hoback, George Shel don, and Frank Lemon. Mr Steffens was born at Beppen, Germany, on Feb. 14, 1872 and was married to Mar earetha Teuben at New York City in 1903. She preceded him in death at Nehawka on April 7, 1948. After their marriage, the Steffens established their home at Avoca and lived there six years, then moved to Nehawka where they conducted a general merchandise store. Alter Mr. Steffens retired, he continued to live in Nehawke. He is survived by one brother, Chris Steffens of Lorton and manv neices and nephews. Hobson of Weeping watr was in charge of the services; Mrs. Ernest Kropp was in charge of the flowers and Mrs. G. W. Welk the music. Out of town persons attend ing the services were Kenneth Anderson, Mt. Ranier, Md.; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Horstman, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Horstman, of Talmage, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Weber of Cook, Mr. and Mrs. John Steffens, Lincoln; Mrs. P. C. Cunningham, Omaha; Mr. and Mrs. , Henry Steffens, Mr. and Mrs. Mike Yost and chil dren, Nebraska City; and Carl Ashton, Lorton. No Injury Found In Truck Mishap No injuries were reported in a one - car motor vehicle acci dent at 1 cm. Monday south of Plattsmouth. Cass County Sheriff Tom Sol omon said a pickup truck oper ated by R. T. Cuthrell was going south near the electrical sub station on Hlshway 34 - 73 - 75 when one wheel went off on the sbo'er and hit a chug hole sending the truck off the right hand side where it reared up on its nose and fell back into nor mal position.' Though the truck was heavily damaged, Solomon said, Cuthrell, who was alone at the time, was not injured. Harry Kruger of Plattsmouth underwent an operation at St. JoseDh's hospital in Omaha Wednesday. He is reported set ting along pretty well.