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v M t 5t id s is J St c n :c i lv St 13 IS IS al 1C so at T 1 le l- o ty iy in le is, i- n re al re ry in e us "inr ies st of :n. .It: is of ut rk sal ill "p x- Ic :;e, as to he s-n, Ak-Sar-Ben Loop Tournament Opens Here January 19 Plat.tsmouth high school is preparing to host the eight schools of the Ak-Sar-Ben bas ketball conference at the new high school court on January 19, 20, and 21. Four games will get the tour ney underway on Wednesday, Jan. 19 when play opens at 2:15 p. m. and the last game of the evening starts action to com plete the first round at 6:45 p. m. Omaha Westside will meet Ashland in the opener at 2:15 p. m. Jan. 19 to be followed by Wahoo against Ralston at 4 p. m. and Valley against Blair at 6:45 p. m. Bellevue and Platts mouth will meet in the night cap of the first round in a game opening at 8:30 p. m. Wednes day. Semi-finals come at 6:30 and 8:15 p. m. Thursday, Jan. 20, with the finals Friday at 6:30 and 8:15 p. m. Officials for the tournament will be Buford Grosscup, Bill Jennings and Cliff Squires all of Lincoln. Basketball Scores Crete 47, Fairbury 45. Louisville 51, Ashland 49. Palmyra 76, Alvo 28. Plattsmouth 32, Pawnee City 29. Hebron 52, Fairbury 29. Blair 73, Schuyler 49. General Electric plans to build its 11th factory in the South. RADIATOR REPAIRING ONE-DAY SERVICE Plattsmouth Motors Washington Ave. Ph. 287 Report of Condition of AMERICAN EXCHANGE BANK OF ELMWOOD, CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA Charter No. 145 at the close of business on December 31, 1954. ASSETS Cash, balances with other banks, including reserve balances, and cash items in process of collection. .$ 153,880.79 United States Government obligations, direct and guar anteed 319,037.38 Obligations of States and political subdivisions 10,299.74 Loans and discounts (including $86.45 overdrafts) ... 639,942.82 Bank premises owned $480.00 480.00 TOTAL ASSETS $1,123,640.73 LIABILITIES Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships, and cor porations $ 770,739.77 Time deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corpor ations 138,338.75 Deposits of United States Government (including pos tal savings) 16,396.81 Deposits of States and political subdivisions 91,117.73 Other deposits (certified and officers' checks, etc.) . . 573.11 TOTAL DEPOSITS $1,017,166.17 TOTAL LIABILITIES $1,017,166.17 CAPITAL ACCOUNTS Capital .' $ 37,500.00 Surplus 48,000.00 Undivided profits 6,974.56 Reserves (and retirement account for preferred capi tal) 14,000.00 TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS 106,474.56 TOTAL LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL ACCOUNTS $1,123,640.73 This bank's capital consists of: Common stock with total par value of ..$37,500.00 MEMORANDA Assets pledged or assigned to secure liabilities and for other purposes (including notes and bills redis counted and securities sold with agreement to repurchase) $ 145,000.00 I, Guy L. Clements, President, of the above named bank, do hereby certify that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. GUY L. CLEMENTS President Correct Attest GUY L. CLEMENTS, SANFORD L. CLEMENTS, DWIGHT L. CLEMENTS, Directors No. 2722 Jan. 10, 1955 WE'LL PROCESSING OF ALL KINDS FOR LOCKERS OR HOME FREEZERS Lockers $8.00 per year if rented during the month of Jan. WHOLESALE PRICES ON BEEF, QUARTER OR SIDE We slaughter our own beef. All meats inspected. Try our home raised, corn-fed beef. Taste the difference. 1 J In en son 437 Main Elmwood Stops Avoca 63 to 40 In Friday Game Elmwood threw off an Avoca first quarter advantage Friday night at Elmwood and came back to stop the visitors 63 to 40. Elmwood reserves ran over the Avoca reserves 30 to 14. Elmwood also won the volley ball game, 30 to 11, after lead ing 19-6 at the half. In the A team basketball game, Avoca started strong and held a 13-12 advantage at the end of the first period only to lose it by halftime to Elmwood 28 to 24. The home team picked up speed in the third quarter with 20 points to Avoca's six and rolled in front 48 to 30 never to be headed again. Dale Godbey led Elmwood scorers with 19 joints. Dick Nielsen led Avoca with 14. Elmwood ft f pts. 2 2 6 0 12 7 1 19 3 5 5 0 0 2 4 2 10 1 3 5 0 1 4 2 0 10 19 15 63 ft f pts. 4 5 6 2 14 4 0 6 2 5 14 0 3 6 0 14 14 15 40 Dale Lannin 2 Dale Kunz 1 Dave Godbey 6 Dick Thomas 1 Bob Rueter 1 Ronnie Abrams ..3 Jerry Backemeyer 2 Bob Hall ...2 Royal Halvorsen . .4 Totals 22 Capt. Avoca fg Stan Emshof f 1 Gaylord Bose 1 Darrell Johnson . . 1 Dick Nielsen 6 Bob Noerlinger ..3 Harold Ehmke ....2 Totals ...14 KILL FOR Corner Bar Holds First' Among Keglers Corner Bar held on to first place in the kegler standings last week and upward movement among other teams was confined to the middle brackets. Stander moved from fourth to second with a 3-game series win over Ofe's; Eagles gained part of a 4-way tie for ninth with a 2 and 1 win over Bryant; Corner Bar held to their lead with a 2-of-3 win over USAR; Firestone won 2-of-3 over Timm's Bar to hold to third; Welcome Inn moved up for part of the ninth 4-way tied with a 2-of-3 win over Ernies; and Mf ers merely held on with a 3- straight win over Myers in 14th position. High' single game scoring: Stander, J. Horn 172; Ofe's, P. Weyer 174; Bryant, A. Fairfield 185; Eagles, R. Abel 171; USAR, J. Bradley 165; Corner Bar, J. Kruntorad 181; Timm's, C. Hula 178; Firestone, E. Meisinger 176; Welcome Inn, R. Stoll 158; Ern ie's,' O. Roos 162r VFW, C. Sell 166;- Myers, F. Clifford 156; Feldhousen, M. Bintner 168; Storz, Titus 126; Stites, D. Hild 167; Paint Store, G. Bannick 152. The standings: W L Corner Bar 22 12 Stander ...19 11 Firestone 18 v 12 VFW .17 13 Feldhousen 17 13 Timm's 16 14 Bryant 16 14 Ofe's 15 15 Paint Store 14 16 Eagles 14 16 Welcome Inn 14 16 Stites 14 16 USAR 13 17 Myers 13 17 Ernie's 10 20 Storz" 7 23 Palmyra Stomps Alvo 76 to 28 Palmyra slaughtered the Alvo high -.school basketball team Tuesday night when they ran up a 76 to 28 score on them in a one-sided game. Palmyra had three men over 12 points in the first post-holiday game at the Alve court. Hallowell had 13, Rhoten 16, and Powers 17. Neben led Alvo with 11. Two Motor Vehicle Accidents Reported An intersection collision which one car was slightly damaged was investigated by Plattsmouth Police Chief Lawrence Chappell Friday. Chappell said cars driven by Howard Dobbs, 57; of 523 South Ninth street, Plattsmouth, and Virginia L. Spangler, 26, of Mur ray, collided at the intersection of North Fifth street and Ave nue A Friday at 10:45 a. m. The Spangler car was turning south on Fifth street and the Dobbs vehicle was backing from the curb when the two collided. Damage to the Spangler ma chine was placed at $58. None was reported to the Dobbs ve hicle. Also reported, but with the investigation incomplete, was a collision between cars driven by Fred Lugsch of Plattsmouth and Kenneth Lee Turner of Glen wood, la. The two machines collided on south Fifth street. Turner's wife, who was a pas senger, was slightly injured, Chanpell said, but 'no estimate of the damage had been made as yet. , A recent White House execu tive order will make it easier for foreign concerns to compete for the business of the Federal Gov ernment. vHili,IM..iiiHi;l!,iHiiil,Ui!liiiaHi,i Edwin T. McHugh ATTORNEY Office in Corn Growers Statp Rank B Murdock Nebraska 1 YOU ! ma r ket Dial 4158 Plattsmouth's Blue Devils-- jump back into Twin Rivers Conference play Tuesday night when they meet 'a strong Beat rice high school ' basketball team here. A reserve game opens at 6:30 p.m. The Devils evened off their record at 2 wins and 2 losses Friday night when they shaded non-conference Pawnee City 32 to 29 after a narrow squeak. The Beatrcie team, bolstered by 8 lettermen, was edged by what is probably the strongest team in the Twin Rivers loop Friday night when they lost by 12 points to Falls City. Coach Darrell Genzlinger's Beatrice crew is loaded with experience led by 2 lettermen Larry Baker, 6 , - 0, and Ken Lemml, 6-1. Rich Oltman leads in height at 6-feet-3. Both the Devils and Pawnes turned in slow and butterfing ered games Friday night as the Plattsmouth team continued on Quail Coveys Mix Naturally Says Writer by Wally Green Nebraska Game Commission LINCOLN If you should get down into the heart of Nebras ka's quail country, you can't talk to many hunters without run ning into the attitude that "hunting is good for the quail, it breaks up the coveys and pre vents inbreeding." Now, the Game Commission is glad to have hunters defend the place of hunting in the scheme of modern living. However, there is concern with this particular arguments First, there is no conclusive evidence that quail, or any species of wildlife, are hurt by inbreeding. As far as that goes inbreeding or breeding of blood relatives in even the first generation is ex tremely rare in observations of wildlife. . For inbreeding to take place in second, third and fourth gen erations, the quail would have to be literally kept in a- pen. Looking at the year around life pattern, not just at the fall and winter period when they are in coveys, will convince you that the natural mobility of the quail will keep the family group well mixed up. Starting: with a family group of a hen and her' ' chicks in the early summer, : -we find some mixing-. Or- phan young- are adopted in to the family group of other quail and it is common to see two and three age. groups, with the cock and hen quail. The cock quail takes over : part of a large brood and helps the hen raise the chicks. As the year progresses into the fall, we find another period of mixing, before the hunting season.' The fall shuffle, the most important and also the most noticeable, is one m which; an quail are dispersed and can i be found everywhere in small groups of two or three or often alone. Generally, this period does not last log. In Missouri, a nearby state noted for huge quail populations, quail are even found scattered through the residential districts of towns during this fall shuffle or mix up. Another important mixing pe riod is during the mating .sea son in the early spring. The males leave wintering concen trations and spread out to set up a "territory or small patch of land which they defend against all other males. This is a pat tern also found in pheasants and tends to distribute the birds out over large area, wherever nesting cover is found. The fe males are attracted to the wide spread cock areas by the whis tle of these territorial males. You can see that there are natural means of mixing- the birds. These natural ways are very efficient and mix or break up the family groups at least twice a year: once during the breeding season, the second time during the fall shuffle or mix up. When you are hunting and get up a covey for the first time, it often stays together until flush ed the second time. As you con tinue to work the same covey you will be flushing single birds as the covey breaks up. If you go back to this same general area, after the covey has had time to reorganize, you will get the birds up in a covey group again. How can we say that hunting will '"break up the cov eys and prevent inbreeding" when many experienced quail hunters have observed the re formation of a hunted covey many times every quail season. This points up a fallacy of all humans, that is, applying human experiences to wild animals. All pet owners use this method for describing the antics of their pets. The phrase, "Rover is a real ; smart dog, but his feelings ; are hurt easily," is a good j example of this fallacy in ; operation. j ! It might seem like making a I ; mountain out of a mole hill, but, j what human actually knows how i : a dog thinks or how little, for j that matter? Yet, in the defense i of all of us that use human ; terms to express animal action; ! it might be said, "How else are f 5 softs their cold streaked way with an 18 percent field hitting stint. The Platters were always ahead, however, until 2 minutes, 40 seconds were left in the game when Pawnee City tied the score 29 - 29. But Gene Dasher stood steady at the free throw line and popped in two to give the home team a lead, and Don Rhoades added the final free throw to make it 32 to 29. Plattsmouth had a 12 - 5 lead at the end of the first quarter and 18 to 12 at the half. Pawn es began to pick up in the third quarter and had narrowed the margin to 22 - 20 at the end of three quarters as the Devils continued to fumble away the ball and miss the bas ket. Stu Nielsen led Plattsmouth ', scoring with 9 points; Terry -Ernst had 8. Ross Gifford led Pawnee City with 17, with John Bennett hitting 9. League Bowling Meeting Is Set For Wednesday Anyone interested in league bowling has been invited to take part in a meeting of bowlers at the Plattsmouth library build ing on Wednesday, Jan. 12, op ening at 8 p. m. Purpose of the meeting will be to set up a Plattsmouth Bowl ing Association land to agree on rules and regulations for league bowling irv Plattsmouth. . . The new Bowlero alleys, in the old Legion building on Ave nue A, are progressing rapidly as carpenters had the alley floors laid and were ready to bring them to completicm. Vince Kelley of Omaha, well known bowling figure, will con duct the Wednesday night meet ing for league formation. Operators have not yet set a date for the- opening of the Bowlero alleys but will have an announcement soon. Waterfowl Counting Starts on Tuesday In Wintering Areas - LINCOLN Arrangements for Nebraska's participation in the annual continental mid January waterfowl census have been completed and will go into operation Tuesday, January 11. Concurrent counts wilk begin in all known wintering waterfowl areas all over the North: Ameri can continent. x The census, made in coopera tion with the Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of Interior is split into two phases in Nebraska. All Game. Commission conser vation officers will make a com plete survey of all species of wintering waterfowl in , their respective areas. They will not attempt to count the larger groups of birds in areas of huge concentration such as the Mis souri riveT and the larger re servoirs and lakes in the state. This phase, counting of the larger waterfowl consentra tions, will be carried out by ob servers in airplanes. Aerial counts are the only efficient and practical means of count ing the larger flocks of water fowl. Experiencsd observers can reach a high degree of accuracy in identifying and counting the various species from the air. - Depending on the weather, the count is usually completed in a two day period. The census results are used in the manage ment of waterfowl as an indica tion of the population left from the past hunting season. These birds are the all-important breeding population of next spring; the birds that will -pro duce the harvestable surplus mat JNteorasKa ana otner uen - tral Fly way hunters will be gun- ning for in the fall of 1955. Ramge Home Sold The home property of the late Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ramge at 920 Avenue E, Plattsmouth, was sold Saturday morning at auc tion for $5,585 it was reported. Rex Young was the auctioneer. BI-PARTISAN CONFERENCES President Eisenhower has Agreed to consult with Con gressional leaders. Democrats as well as Republicans, in advance of all major recommendations on defense and foreign policy. The arrangement however, does not bind the President or the leaders to "go along" where con sultations produce disagree ments in the incoming Democratic-controlled Eighty-Fourth Congress. we to express animal action without using our own reaction ; to a situation?" There isn't an ! answer to that question. i We aren't criticizing this hu- I man method of expression, but, ! only want to point out a pitfall j that our human reasoning can i j get us into. And, it seems the ! belief of quail inbreeding is a I pitfall in the thinking process j ! of many of us. The facts just I j don't agree with it. ! FURNACES Installed by Martinson Sheet Metal 139 So. 6lh Phone 7189 Earl I. Mead Is Consumers '55 President Earl I. Mead, Scottsbluff feed mill operator was elected pres ident of Consumers Public Pow er District for 1955 at a meet ing of the Board of Directors in Columbus, Friday, January 7. Other officers for the : year elected at the annual organiza tional meeting were: Mark T. Moore, Kearney, and' director from district No. 4, 1st vice-president; G. L. Cooper, Humboldt, director from district No. 6, 2nd vice-president, and Guy . Stin son, Norfolk, director from dis trict No. 2, secretary. C. C. Shel don, Columbus farm operator and director from district No. 3, was reappointed to a two-year term as treasurer. t Earl I. Mead Mr. Mead, as the 1955 presi dent, succeeds H.k G. Greena myre of Lincoln, who served as president for 1954. 1 The 1955 term as president constitutes th second time Mr. Mead has . served Consumers in that capacity, having previous ly been, elected to that office in 1949. Mr. Mead has been a meniber of the Consumers Board - of Di rectors since January 9,. 1947. He has established an outstanding record of attendance at board jneetings, flying his own plane to cover the considerable dis tance he has to travel. , . -In addition to his. regular, du ties as a diuector from his dis trict, Mr. Mead has served previ ously as vice-president in 1948, secretary in 1951 and '52, sec-end-vice president in 1953,- and vice-president again in 1954.' A highly successful business man, he has been active in com munity and state affairs . for many years, and has taken a deep interest and active part in formulating many of Consumers policies, and in the promotion of the extensive state-wide con struction program, power supply and other matters. His wide background of experience in the state's public power program have made him exceptionally well qualified to serve as presi dent. , ... v At the same " meeting, C. W. Prentice and F. M. Dischner, both of ! Columbus, were ' reap pointed to serve as assistant treasurer and assistant-secretary, respectively. The complete line-up of Con sumers directors include: Earl I. Mead, president, Scottsbluff mill operator, District No. .1; Mark T. Moore, Kearney, opera tor of an industrial electric shop, District No. 4; G. L. Coop er, Humboldt, mill operator, Dis trict No. 6; Guy Stinson, Nor folk, operator -of the Fair Store, District No. 2; C. C. Sheldon, Co lumbus, farm operator, District No. 3; R. A. Freeman, York, owner and operator York Foun dry and Engine Works, District No. 5, anw H. G. Greenamyre, Lincoln, attorney, District No. ; nrppmmvrp shpIh j Freeman were' recently re-elect- ed by their respective districts to serve new six-year terms on the Consumers board, beginning January 6. ' Subscribe to The Journal NOW! The purpose of this meeting is to form The Plattsmouth Bowling Association, elect officers and set up governing rules and regulations for League Bowling. Vince Kelley of Omaha will be present to conduct the meeting. I m v. j" I THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Monday, January 10, 1955 PAGE FIVE Johnson Appointed Operation Manager LINCOLN Dallas Johnson, operation manager of Nebraska Game Commission District Of fice II, Bassett, has been ap pointed superintendent of Pon ca State Park, according to a Game Commission spokesman. Johnson will take over the po sition vacated by the death of the late Paul Heil, who was as signed to the park the past ten years. Johnson, employed by the Commission for five years, was designated Operation Manager of District II last fall. He was formerly a maintenance crew foreman and Defore that he was caretaker at the Hayes Center Recration Grounds. There has been no replace ment named for the Operation Manager position at this time. Mastitis Loss In Money Great To Dairy Men Farm income of Nebraska could jump millions of dollars annually if the state's dairymen Would set up individual pro grams to control bovine mastitis by scientific methods. -Mastitis, the most prevalent disease of dairy cows, cost Ne braska dairymen an estimated $4,450,000 last year. This esti mate is based on national sta tistics, recently compiled by the U. S. Department of Agricul ture, on the widespread inci dence of mastitis. Dairy husbandry authorities say the present loss from the disease, wheih affects the udder of the cow-could be sharply re duced by tried and proven me thods. They add that mastitis is a very complex disease problem-which even under the best of working conditions is diffi cult to eliminate completely. The success of a mastitis pro gram, according to dairy hus bandry authorities, depends largely upon preventive mea sures including accurate diag nosis, adequate sanitary and management practices with close cooperation between the dairyman and his veterinarian. 1 Also important to a control pro gram is proper treatment of in fected cows with antibiotics us ed ,. singley or in combination. The latest of these medications is Targot, the first mastitis ointment combining four drugs. Because it has an oil base not soluble in milk, the product, de veloped by Lederle Laboratories Division, ; American Cyanamide Co., maintains contact with in fected tissue up to 72 hours. Mastitis is so common that control is economically import ant to the farmer owning one dairy cow or herd. Nationally, the loss from the disease is cal culated at $225,000,000 by the Asriculture Research Service, of the U.S. Department of Agri culture. ..yi tfi On the basis of various re ports and research by authori ties in the field the Agriculture Research Service concludes that approximately 30 per cent of all milking cows are affected by mastitis. Thirty per -cent is an! average since reports show that1 s TWICE-A-DAY SERVICE PLATTSMOUTH TRANSFER Direct interline connection for Lincoln, 1-day service Phone Plattsmouth 5255 - Omaha, Phone HA 6733 !l There will be an important meeting WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12 AT 8 P.M. At the Plattsmouth Library The Plattsmouth BO Will ; - Will Open Soon - some herds are as high as 60 per cent infected while in others inroads of the disease are neg ligible. ' By applying the national av erage of mastitis infection to the population of dairy cows in Nebraska 450,000) the annual loss in state farm income can be approximated. These figures are admittedly guesses, although the Agricul ture Research Service say .they are as accurate as possible. Be cause mastitis is so common and takes many different forms, the loss per cow can vary. Animal health scientists have been un able, despite many attempts through the years, to complete a detailed study , of loss. There are no standard methods of re porting mastitis losses on a na tional basis and information on the incidence of the disease was obtained through surveys made by individual experts on mastitis. The overall cost of mastitis is arived at from these loss fac tors: the direct reduction in tjnilk production, $175.5 million, 'and replacement costs of masti tic cows, and the value of cows that, die from the disease, $50 million. BOOSTS DAIRY PRODUCTS At a recent stag luncheon at the White House, to which of ficers of eight service clubs were invited, President Eisenhower gave consumption of dairy prod ucts an official boost. The menu included: Oyster soup (milk base); rockfish (baked in milk); scalloped potatoes (made with milk); Chinese cabbage (baked in milk) with butter sauce; tos sed salad with cheese dressing; apple pie with cheese (made from milk) and a large glass of milk. MAILING BAN The Federal Court of Appeals has ruled that the Postmaster General, while able to shut off the mails to magazines adjudged obscene, cannot impose a broad er embargo against the use of the mails that would prevent their publication. For the New Year O Pay off old bills have a fresh start! $20, $50 $100 to $500 or More! Fast - Quick,- Confidential Phone, Write or Come In AMERICAN LOAN PLAN 112 North 5th St. Th. 3213 T. E. FENffON, Mgr. GENERAL FREIGHT HOUSEHOLD GOODS To and from Omaha and Plattsmouth including Bellevue, Offutt Field and LaPIatte - , .. i tTi WW )