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I It' - - EDITOR I A L S Purse's Fresh 'flashes Eighty -fourth Congress will run 1956 a balanced budget, or j-HE EIGHTY-FOURTH CONGRESS The Eighty-Fourth Congress is now underway and every voter greets the Eighty-Fourth Congress in the nation's history with certain expectations of per haps with misgivings. There are several issues sure to come to the fore in the Eighty-Fourth Congress, and the relation-' ship between the Republican President and the Democratic-controlled legislative branch is sure to bring about interesting developments.'.' , . One of the things which we think cer tain to result. in the next two years the through one very nearly balanced. There has been much talk, some from official administration circles, that the budget cannot be balanced, even for fis cal 1956 the year beginning July 1st. However, we believe that the Administra tion will make a major effort to balance? the budget before the 1956 Presidential election. A major .possibility is legislative appro priations exceeding requests from the Ex ecutive branch in the defense field. We will go so far as to say that if the budget isn't balanced in the next two years, the Democratic Congress will be at least as much to blame as the White House. The conflict over balancing the budget wi-1 center around defense, where the Democrats are 'inclined to spend more "than some Administration officials, and on for eign aid in which field the Democrats traditionally are more liberal in appropri ating funds. The Democrats might also re store ninety per cent parity price support, and this might also increase Government expenses somewhat. On these issues, then, defense, foreign aid, farm and perhaps one or two others, the question of a balanced budget will turn. Much :ss been written on the nec essity for a balanced budget, and we will go into this problem in detail again here. However, suffice it to say that, by the end Df this year, the U. S. taxpayer will be shelling out approximately $7,000,000, 00Q in interest on the national debt alone each year. This is a staggering sum of money, which represents more than the entire budget in the 1930's. We will not say that the budget can be balanced in this session of Congress, but we will say that the budget should be balanced in the near future, and if the President can ac complish this feat by the 1956 "Presiden tial -election,, it will give him .atrcng campaign plank hi 1956. ; CELEBRATING HOLIDAY SEASON So much has been written on traffic accidents . that we hesitate to say any thing about the subject lest we sound trite and repetitious. However, it is worth calling the attention of the reader to the fact that the recent holiday season took a record toll of lives on U. S. highways. In other words, hundreds of Americans celebrated the recent holiday by killing themselves in head-on smashes on the highways, in running off the roads and crashing into obstructions, and in running over unsuspecting pedestrians. Others were involved in accidents which were traceable to intoxicating beverages, and still others were highway victims for various reasons. This occuurred only a few days after the Presidents national Highway Safety Day, when highway deaths were cut down, but not eliminated even for a day. Wo are now talking about highway deaths, and not injuries resulting from highway accidents. In the matter of deaths alone, more than five hundred Americans are erased from this earth every week in the United States. The rate during the holiday season was higher than that. THOUGH! FOR TODAY . livery man shall receive his oich reward, according to his own labor. . i Corinthians 3, 8 The PI ailsmoulh Journal Official County and City Paper ,, . ESTABLISHED IN 1$U Published Sfmi-Weekly, Mondays and Thursdays, at 410 Main Strcel, riaUsmouth, Cass County, 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 Cities Oyer 2,000 Population) RONALD R.,FURSE.; Editor and Publisher WM. L. MURDOCH: : :" ; .. .News Editor SOPHIA M. WOLEVER I ..... . .Society Editor VERN WATERMAN.' .Advertising uuou uac&ui ttvrxra Entered at . the Tost Office at Flattsmouth, Nebraska as second class mail matter in accordance with the Act of Congress of March 3, iS79. . : . SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year in Cass and adjoining counties, $4.00 per year elsewhere, in advance, by mail outside the city of Platts mouth. By carrier in Plattsmouth, 20 cents for two weeks. Except at bargain.sales oho: should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady. v , . A Plattsmouth housewifeJpestered with door-to-door salesmen, has placed this sign over her door: "We shoot every third salesman the second just left." This installment vacation trip plan will allow you -to spend three weeks in Cali fornia and 49 weeks in debt. A local kid says a cannibal is a guy who likes his fellowmen with gravy. Jr ic ' Those fellows who write movie scripts never run out of material until they get to the girl in the advertisements. We don't hate anyone, bur if we ever begin we already have the guy picked out. "tAt tAt iAt ' One thing we can be thankful for is that we don't, get as much government as we pay for. Best description we have for the "Dior Look" is that it resembles the appearance of the average man's pocket book. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little contour twister, has a controversial figure you can't tell how much of it comes from a store. x There is no one answer, although it is clear that the main answer is greater safety, and carefulness on the highways. But also needed is a new highway con struction program, something like that which is to be proposed by th. President. One of the crying needs today is for great ly expanded highway facilities, safer high ways, more overpasses, better marking and new safety enforcement regulations. No one improvement is the answer to the number of highway deaths now occurring on our highways. Down Memory Lane Long Vaiif for the Next Course ' .'1 c'.' aj- J.V-;". -riKi " ' 'i itA 'J&KSftiTO v fe$s?& WSS mm 0 0 IvITCHEN . nr YEARS AGO H. M. Lillio was installed as noble grand of the I. O. O. F. Lodge, No. 7, at Plattsmouth with C. S. Sutton vice grand; C. R. Olson, secretary; C. D. Palmer treas urer . .v . Farmer Co-operative creamery re-elected H. F. Nolting, Ed Spangler, and W. F. Nolte in a meeting at Mynard . . . Miss Marion Virginia Copenhaver ' was married to Glenn Earl McCord at.Harlin gen, Tex. . . . Nebraska City floored the Plattsmouth squad of Hula, Hendrix, Wal den, Cotner, Case, Forbes, Woster and Seitz 30 to 10 in basketball . . . Emil J. W eyrich was elected president of the Business Men's Ad Club in Plattsmouth. nf YEARS AGO ww W. P. Cook disposed of his barber shop in Alvo and was reported returning to Plattsmouth . ... only 12 couples were married by Cass County Judge Beeson in 1924 . . . The Coatman Hardware company was advising patrons to get their harness oiled and ready for spring '. . . George Conis and Miss Pinina Papanicolau were married ... . Henry Horn was elected pres- ident of the Farmers Mutual Insurance company of Cass county in a meeting of stockholders at the Taylor schoolhouse . . . Carl Albright of Nebraska City was found dead and badly burned a few miles. north of Plattsmouth with mystery, surrounding the incident . . . Joe Bridge was killed in an accident at Decatur, 111. . . . men's work shoes were going for $4.35 a pair. run-of-the-mine agent to the job of scrutinizing McCarthy's tax returns. McCarthy has had to pay extra taxes to the State of Wisconsin. The Senate in vestigating committee also iounct him using nicney received to fight communism to speculate on the soybean market. But Commissioner Andrews has tak en no public action. On top of this, here is the latest political, development in side the agency which is sup posed to collect taxes impar tially. Nation's No. 1 Heel When T. Coleman Andrews took over tax collecting, one of the hottest fraud cases he in herited involved a top Republi can leader in West Virginia, R. J. Funkhouser, manufacturer of O'Sullivan Heels, sometimes re ferred to as "America's No. 1 Heel." John Dunlap, career agent whom President Truman ap pointed Commissioner to clean uup internal revenue, not only was preparing . , a fraud case against Funkhouser but was checking transfers of funds to South America because of ru more Funkhouser planned 1 to leave the USA. i Today, however, the tax case against . O'Sullivan Heel Manu facturer' has been virtually nv.t f on the shelf.. The agent who was handling it was called off and promoted. While he ,was off the case. Commissioner' Andrews' office settled fraud cases against three of Funkhouser's top -executives implicated in making kickbacks to him. Meanwhile, another tax case The Washington Merry- Go -R bund (Copyright, 1954, By- The Bell Syndicate, Inc.l DREW PEARSON SAYS: ' POLITICS COMES BACK TO SCANDAL-PURGED INTERNAL REVEN UE BUREAU; COMMISSIONER AN DREWS' OFFICE SHUSHES CASE AGAINST REPUBLICAN LEADER, REOPENS CASE AGAINST DEMO CRATIC LEADER. Washington. Some interesting things are going on inside the Internal Revenue Bureau wThich may merit another Con gressional probe of how the nation's taxes are collected. " The closing days of the Truman administration-were highlighted by serious tax scandals first revealed in this column which, led -to the resignation of Commissioner-George Schoeneman and Counselor Charles Oliphant; plus the prosecution of an earlier commissioner and assistant Joe Nunan and Dan Bolich. These tax scandals supplied Republi can campaigners with some of their potent political ammunition, and it was presumed that when they took over internal revenue, it would be run with old Dutch Cleanser spotlessness. However, politics seems to have crept back into the. tax-collecting agency. This column has alfjady reported how Commissioner T. Coleman Andrews, after entertaining Senator McCarthy in his home in Richmond, Va., and introducing him to a local audience as one of "our greatest living Americans," assigned a against a neighboring political leader, E. Brooke Lee, previously settled, was reopened. Lee is one of the ; leading Democrats of Maryland. Funkhouser is one of the leading Republicans of West Virginia. In Lee's case, II. O. Bryant, review officer of the internal revenue criminal section, had previously ruled that no fraud was involved, and a civil ad justment was made. Lee had been charged with taking a capital-gains tax on the .sale of undeveloped real, estate instead of paying a straight income tax during the years .1947, '48 and '49. . Bryant ruled in ' 1952 that "there remained no question of fraud or concealed income," and the case was considered closed. Now it has been reopened, and the Justice Department is push ing for a criminal indictment. Padded Expenses In contrast, here are some of the facts in the case, of GOP Leader Funkhouser which has now been put on the shelf. Tax agents found that for 11 years Funkhouser required one of his executives. Henrv .Ten- nings, to pad his expense ac count $300 a month, and then pay that amount over to him. During this pericd, Funkhouser got $39 600 as a nice little secret windfall. . - In order to pay Funkhouser his kickback without running in the red himself, Jennings charg ed up fictitious mileage at seven cents a mile for trips he. had never taken. When internal revenue agents See By The Papers ... . By Bill Murdock iw,'VWtVVAViViV.V.VAV'iIvW At Humboldt, Mrs. Ward Mer- ntt completed 23 years of per fect attendance at Sunday school and church at the close of 1954. Her husband completed five years with perfect attend ance, says the Standard. Rev. Ward Merritt is the pas tor. Sf Lexington completed 32 blocks of paving in the city dur ing 1954 and paid for it, says the Dawson County Herald. By financing their own paving bonds the city saved thousands of dollars, saysthe newspaper. First baby bom in Saunders county died, says Wahoo News paper. He was a four pound, six ounce son of Mr.and Mrs. Daryl Hanson of Ashland, born Mon day, Jan. 3, but died after he ! was piacea in an incubator, be cause: of his smallness, and giv en oxygen. At Pawnee City, it was an nounced that Rev. B.F. Parnell pastor of the Pawnee City and Table Rock Christian Churches, will leave to assume the pastor ate of the Chrisitan church at Ashland, the Republican re ports. March of Dimes drive at Al bion picked up $220.75 from two basketball games put on by the junior, and senior Chambers of Commerce, the high school and alumni. . . the referee had his pants removed in one game. Also in Saunders county, the Newspaper attempted to quiet rumors that diptheria was pre valent in the area. County and city health physician, Dr. Ivan M. French, said there was noth ing to get excited about, that no cases had been reported in the county, but advised Schick tests to determine the level of community immunity. At York the state testing unit found 22 active TB cases in York county after a recent vis it. Forty - three percent of the eligible population (over 12 years) took the tests. And the York school board gave the go - ahead sign to a Kansas City, Kans. architect to draw up plans for school ex pansion and eyed the February bond election, says the Republi Elementary enrollment in! Ashland schools went up from! 50 m 1943 to about 370 by 1954 a graph in the Ashland Gazette showed ... also the farm home of Mr. and. Mrs. Chester Colbert, ,1M: miles west of Memphis burned all the top floor despite efforts of Ashland volunteer firemen . manning the rural truck : . . and 18 additional mer cury vapor lights were planned for downtown Ashland. roriy - one inches of rain fell at Wymore during .1954 reports the Arbor State. In 1953. they had only 25.96 inches. . . in that neck of the woods, was pointed out with a photo. if The P. M. Anderson company of Tecumseh was awarded the contract for the construction of a 4 - room grade school to serve the northwest section of Belle vue on an adiusted low bin of $108,307 . . . and Sarpy county commissioners are told that if Sarpy county doesn't "tend to their knitting on zoning, Oma ha or Douglas county will grab the eastern section of the coun ty" . . . the person wrho said it refused to be quot3d, said the Press .. . burglar broke into Ki ger's garage at Springfield and took 12 car batteries and a 32 - caliber automatic revolver . . . the new 4 - room grade school in Bellevue will be named for Ber tha Barber, currently teaching her 34th year in Bellevue. At Blair, Mrs. .'Harry Van Ness saw her son for the first time since ;920, "says the Pilot - Trib une. Floyd Haxton came home from San Francisco after re ceiving a telephone; call from his sister, Mrs. William Schultz of Blair, who looked him up in the San Francisco directory and took a chance phone call. Hax ton thought his mother was dead after a mail mixup and emit waiting many years ago. The irony. ... a transcontinen tal truckr driver, Haxton had passed through Blair many times without dreaming his mother lived there. She had lived in Sioux Falls, South Da kota. . . , , - The Papillion Times reports that-the city council there was asked by Trinity Lutheran church men's group hoW they felt about closing taverns until noon on Sundays . . . city dads decided to ask the tavern own ers how they felt . . . and Otto Peterson was bitten by a coyote he thought was dead ... he reached into a culvert for the animal after a shot was fired at it. . - began checking , Funkhouser's tax returns; they got statements from three of his executives re garding -secret payments to him. Two "had padded -their expenses in order to kick back. A third had been paying him in the guise of a fictitious loan. One of the three, Henry Jen nings, told Funkhouser that he had given the tax agents a statement and was promptly fired. Reached at his box factory near Charles Town, West Vir ginia, Jennings admitted pad ding his expense accounts for Funkhouser to the tune of $3u0 a month and sending him the money by personal check. He estimated the total amount he had paid Funkhouser to be around $35,000, though internal revenue figures it at $39,600. Jennings has now purchased a box factory from Hal Vosa, a Funkhouser functionary, for $68,000; also has a contract from Funkhouser to make boxes for him. As a result, he was loath to talk, said Funkhouser would retaliate by taking away his con tract. However, when confronted with the facts. Jenninsrs admit ted they were correct. Despite this, the tax case pre pared against Funkhouser under Commissioner John Dunlap, ca reer maru -has now been virtually put on the shelf by Commission er T. Coleman Andrews, politi cal appointee. Note The Justice Department is now . reported checking on very big Democraticc campaign contributor. E. Brooke Lee, , wnose tax case has been reopen ed, raised $15,000 for the Stev enson campaign and its deficit; also contributed heavily to the recent Curley Byrd campaign for governor. His great grand father, who built Blair House, occupied by Harry Truman as a temporary White House, operat ed Andrew Jackson's newspaper mouthpiece, The Washington Globe. The Lee-Blair families have been active in Democratic politics in Maryland ever since. New Lad yln Congress About a year ago Oregon's Independent-Democratic Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon confid ed to his friend, John McCor mack, now the majority leader of the House of Repsesentatives: "I'm from a normally Republi can state, but there's one Demo crat who can win cut there in the next election. "His name is ' Richard Neu berger. He's thinking about run ning for the Senate, and if he runs, he'll win, mark my words." Clairvoyant Morse, a former Republican, was only half right. Thanks, partly to his own cam paigning, not one, but two demo crats were elected from Oregon. The other, besides Senator Nep berger, is Edith Green, the first woman in history to be elected to congress from Oregon. In at least one resDect. Con- gresswoman Green came to Washington in pioneer style. She arrived several days before the family furniture. However, she quickly solved the problem by wrangling a cot for 12-year-old son Dick, plus a card table for eating purposes and two chairs from the porter in her apart ments house. "My apartment looked barer than Mother Hubbard's . cud board," says the Oregon Demo crat. Her husband, a Portland bus inessman, meantime, purchased a davenport from a D. C. furni ture store, which served as a bed for Mr. and Mrs. Green, plus an extra seat when the card table was backed up to it at mealtimes. ''You might say that we open ed our Congressional career with a card table, cot and davenport," says Mrs. Green, who is a fnrmpi- school teacher. "That, and a can opener." THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE TWO Section C Thursday, January 13, 1955 By Stanley James. Journal" Washington Reporter IS Pi! f . OI 0a NEBMSKA Y'l l h JAMES C OLSON, Strintd craia ElKTOBICAl SOCIITV Hayes County, in southwest Nebraska, wus once an impor tant part of the great buffalo rrnge, and as such it was a fav orite hunting ground for var ious tribes of Indians and was frequented by a number of no table frontier characters, such as Buffalo Bill and Dr. W. F. Carver. Hayes County was also the scene of one of most famous buffalo hunts ever to take in Nebraska, that of the Gratis- Duke Alexis in January, 1872. i ine urand DuKe, on a good -will trip to the United States, was invited west by General Philip Sheridan to enjoy the best in sport that America could provide. The party went , from Omaha to North Platte by spe cial train, then with an elabor ate retinue of carriages south to the hunting grounds. A spe cial camp known as Camp Alex is, was established as field headquarters for the party. The hunting was good, and the Grand Duke, according to press reports, was highly pleased with the entertainment. Camp Alexis is now a state recreation center. The earliest white people in the area ' were ranchers who ranged their cattle over what is now Hayes County in the mid dle seventies. In the late seventies- and early eighties home steaders began to come into the county. Hayes County has in its history a homesteader - cattle man war similar to - the kind which occurred in other western counties. There was a basic con flict between the homesteader who wanted to fence in small : WASHINGTON, ' Jan. 10 Business officials continue to brighten thsir forecasts for the year 1955, and there is generally an upsurge of optimism in" the business wrorld today, even sur passing that of November and December. The most accepted version of prospects is that they are good for a period lasting well into 1956. Although every earlier esti mate for 1955 cautioned the public that this year, or even a spectacular one forecasts cur rently being made agree that sales records should set an all time high and that profits also be at a high. Construction is expected, to continue at a fast clip while consumer buying expands. By raises coming lor the military services, for government civil service workers and for postal workers will all have an effect on buying power. In addition, labor is expected to win pay raises in a number of fields. With unemployment not ex-r pected to rise above 1954 levels, and with inventories in many fields lower than last year this time, the expectation is for a larger volume of manufacture' orders. So far this year this has been true in the automitive trade. This rosy business picture ' is one .reason the stock market has steadily advanced in recent months. The advance has con tinued until it surprised even seasoned experts. It 'has ad vanced until some stocks are costing quite a lot in proportion to the dividends they pay. Yet the market continues to rise. As long as business is good, and it will probably be good for couple of years or eighteen months, at least, these stocks may stay up at the high levels, but sooner or later some of them will probably settle down to more normal prices. If 'the readjustment comes tracts of land, and the cattle man who wanted the open range over which his herds could roam more or less at will. Hayes County was created by an act of legislature, February 19, 1877, Dut no organization was effected until the fall of 1884. One of the first acts of the new county government was to call a special election to choose of ficers and to decide whether or not to suspend the herd law. Most of the votes" cast., in; the county were in favor of sus pension. - The voters also were to de cide upon a location of the seat of government. Three places were on the ballot, Hayes Cen ter, Estelle, and LaForest. None received a majority, and anoth er election was called Hayes , Center won the prize In this 1 election and has retained it to this day. In terms of 'population, Hayes County is one of the smaller counties of the State. It has always been a stock raising and agricultural county and. has .no ! community of size. Lv.es Cen ter, the county seat, is a town of 361 people. The first census re turn for the county, that of 1880, showed a total of 119 persons living in the county. By 1890 the population had jumped to 3,953. This was the high-water mark of the county's population growth. Since then there has been a general decline. The population in 1950 was 2,404. suddenly, there could be a rapid level - off in market prices and much profit - making. In all the bright business forecasts, this one word of caution seems to be lacking. Just because busi ness appears headed for a good cycle that does not always mean it is the time to buy stocks. ; The present, a time when stocks have been rising for years, and wiien buying has forced some issues to surpris ing levels, could or could net be a good time to invest in stocks, despite the prospect of a very good business year and the im probability of any serious depression. The worst - kept, secret in Washintgon at about this time is usually some executive com mittee testimony, with Capitol Hill cranking up again. But the worst - kspt secret right now -is ths litti2 budget - balancing r'raia -.'" at ir. surging back and forth between several high American officials. Ths idea of at least one key man was to paint a black pic ture to the 84th Congress in the field of balanced budgets. Then, after the Democrats had raised a sizable crop of cane, the Ad ministration would up and pro duce a balanced budget. And the .year would be of course AD 1956 the year, by. chance, of, the presidential election. That would put the voters in the right frame of mind for voting the right way, according to this theory, which is getting a pretty good play in Washington circles at present. The only trouble with this plan is the mere existence of a Democratic Congress. The Dem ocrats might just spend enough money in the next two years to keep the budget unbal anced. Of course. President Ei senhower could use his veto, but on many bills ' he would think twice before sending them back, worse and he could also receive for he could get something credit for killing them if they did not return to the White House. While the French are mere eager than ever to arrange a Big Four meeting in Paris, the British and American govern ment have grown rather cool to the idea in the last six weeks. Premier Mendes - France would like to have the Big Four meeting in Paris in May. But Mr. Eisenhower has his doubts whether the French are really aN big fourth, and also whether they can deal realistically with the Reds. The British are like wise concerned about the possi bility that the French will favor a deal with Russia. The question is asked what the Allies have to gain from the Reds, now that West Germany is apparently headed for rearmament. 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