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D7TO4iS "''-.. klEED MORE EQUIPMENT If the fire that destroyed the Stander Implement Company building and con tents early Thursday morning demonstrat ed one thing, it was the tragic need for more equipment for Plattsmouth's Volun teer Fire Department. It is possible that the Joss in this fire could have been cut more - than half if ... ! Z ' There is not a more spirited or better trained group of fire fighters in the coun Z try than Plattsmouth's voluntee.r group as they have demonstrated in hundreds of in- stances in small fires that have been con fined to dwellings. But, extinguishing a ,rblaze in a building covering a larger area, ; Plattsmouth just does not have the neces l sary hose, nozzles, or other equipment necessary. -. v " If Thursday morning's fire had been in a building along Main street and had gotten the headway this one had before Z being detected, it would have been asad story this newspaper would have had to I tell in-act it might have also been a I victim. Plattsmouth's fire department des I parately needs another fire truck of four l Wheel drive, it needs hundreds of feet of new hose lines, and other equipment if the residents of this city can be assured of ; proper protection. This equipment' should be added at once and the membership ex Z panded to a minimum of 36 men. Until this is done the citizens of this Uptown. and its business men had better bo careful of matches. ir ir JUST ANOTHER COMMENT We have commented before on the lit tle sign in the center of the intersection at Fifth and Main asking motorists to stop for pedestrians. We suggest again that the rules be enforced or the sign be removed before somebody gets hurt. Only the other day a lady driver (Please, we're not picking on lady drivers) failed to stop for four persons crossing the street and even ran over the sign to add insult to injury. Actual count shows that less than three drivers out of 10 .stop for pedestrians at this crossing. It should be removed before some motorist damages his car seriously by run ning it down. ' G ROVER CLEVELAND The only President who was ever el ected, then defeated and then elected again was Grover Cleveland., Cleveland, a Democrat, was born in Caldwell, New Jer sey, on March 18, 1837. " ' ::; 's i In many ways Cleveland's administra tions were the most memorable of his era. In the first place, he was the first Demo cratic President elected after the Civil War. 'Secondly, there was great controver sy about his defeat in his second campaign, for reelection to another four year term. In the opinion of some historians, he was elected, although Benjamin Harrison was offically found to be the winner in that 1888 campaign. Four years later, in 1892, he again ran against Harrison and this time he was vic torious. Cleveland's administrations were the first for some time n whch any suc cess was realized by the Democrats in their effort to lower tariffs. As President, Cleve land was an effective leader, as he had been as Governor of the State of New York i and as mayor of Buffalo - where his city administration attracted national attention. Strangely enough, Cleveland left the office thinking he was the most unpopular man in the country. He had opposed the proposals of silver advocates, including William Jennings Bryan, and even in his own party there were many who held heat ed opinions about him. In time, however, his actiqns and phil- rHOUGHT FOR TODAY Sometimes a fool has talent, but . never judgment. ' La Rochefoucauld The Plaiismoufh Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IH UM Published Scml-Wsekly, Mondays and Thursdays, at 410 Main Street, PlaUsmouth, Caw County, Nebr. Three Times Winner Ak-Sar-Ben Plaques, for 'OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE" 1949 1951 1952 "Honorable Mention" 1953 Presented Nebraska1 Press Association "GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD" Firt In 1952 Second In 1951 and 1953 (In Gties Over 2,000 Population) RONALD R. FURSE. Editor and Publisher ' WM. L. MURDOCK News Editor SOPHIA M. WOLEVER. . . : .Society Editor VERN WATERMAN. .Advertising rw toms. H X-JU www . Mptjffi iasm grmt irem ' "'' ' ' ' " ' Entered at the Frst Office at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second class mail matter in accordance with the Act of CongTess of March 3, 1879. , - V " . .. 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. - v Purse s Down i Fresh Flashes We could never understand why girls with the least principle draw the most in terest. k ic "At A local high school boy who has been studying anatomy, says about the only thing he has learned about it is, that it looks better on girls. Another local kid tells us he must drop his present girl friend because it takes her too long to get ready for a date and the longer it takes her, the hungrier she gets. We can remember way back when you saw grapefruit rinds in a family's gar bage you knew they were one of the four hundred. We are at that stage in life when look ing back makes us sad and looking for ward makes us miserable. Trouble with our country right now is 'so many of our legislators who are trying to. run our ship of state have never been able to paddle their own canoe. Some of the hardest things in life are called "easy payments." ic That was quite a gal who appeared on a certain TV show Thursday" night. We don't know who made her dress, but the police should have. osophy became more and more respected and President William Howard Taft, a Re publican, said this about Cleveland in 1912: "... He was a great President, not because he was a great lawyer, not because he was a brilliant -orator, not because he was a statesman of profound learning, but because he was a patriot with the highest sense of public duty, because he was a statesman of clear perception, of utmost courage of his convictions, and of great plainness of speech, because he was a man of high character, a father and husband of the best type ..." The above paragraph should make good reading for some of those in our con gressional halls today. Memory Lane YEARS AGO J George Hall, of Plattsmouth. was working in Goodland, Kans., when his fourth dust storm hit there, he wrote home to his folks . . . George Swoboda, 16 years old at the time, broke his leg at his home northwest of Plattsmouth when a horse fell with him ... Dr. W. V. Ryan stopped Rob ert H. Bestor 21-16, 26-24, 16-21 and 21-19 to annex Plattsmouth Table Tennis Associ ation's 1935 championship. Dr. L. S. Puc elik defaulted to John Bissing in the semi fnal and Dr. Ryan moved through to win the tourney . . . Murray provided two coup les, Miss Neva Lancaster and Malvern Read, and Miss Dora Mathewson and Paul Richter, while Plattsmouth provided one couple, Blanch Paulson of Omaha and John Iverson, Sr. in "Marryin' Day" at Shenan doah, la., when 14 Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri couples were married at the Hen ry Field radio studio by James Pearson, former lieutenant governor of Nebraska and an ordained minister . . . Besides this City Judge C. L. Graves had a busy time in Plattsmouth when he joined together in wedlock Mrs. Edith Simpson and Earl Dixon, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Burrows of Manley; and an Omaha couple. 3f YEARS ACO w Fred Ahrens and brother, Enno, of near Nehawka, were in Plattsmouth mak ing arrangements for Fred to move to the Plattsmouth area . . . Graveling of the King of Trails highway, from the Otoe county line, southwest of Union to Plattsmouth was assured when a certified check for $4,250 was delivered to the Cass County board of commissioners . . . Miss Helene Perry, Mrs. Evelyn Robb were winners in the declama tory contest at Plattsmouth high school after which a boys' quartet composed of Clyde Graves, Edgar Westcott, James Jean and Frank Godwin rendered a number . . . The scientific 'game of horseshoes was be ing revived at Murdock with Frank Burke aspiring to the title, said the Journal cor respondent, as his shoes were sometimes close enough to the peg to count. The Washington Merry -Go -Round (Copyright, 1954, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) STATE DEPARTMENT FUNC TIONARY PURPOSELY LEAKED YALTA PAPERS; FULL TEXT EM " BARR ASSES CHURCHILL ; CHUR CHILL TOOK MUCH CREDIT THAT BELONGED TO EDEN. Washington r The full backstage story of how and why the State Depart ment slapped the grand old man of Eng land inthe face by publishing the Yalta conference papers can now be told. Friends of Churchill say it almost broke his heart. Ticklers Joe used to play the chimes before he hit The State Department, as not ed in this column on Sept. 25, 1954, has been working on the Yalta papers for some, time, thanks to a special $112,000 ap propriation passed at the behest of Republican leaders Knowland of California and Bridges of New Hampshire who wanted them made public before the November, election. When the documents were sent to London for Churchill's approval hcw3ver, Foreign Min ister Anthony Eden cabled John Foster Dulles shortly before the Bangkok conference that "on Mr. Churchill's suggestion" he was asking that the Yalta rec ords not be published. Then Eden added this post script: "I would like to confer with you personally on this when I see you, in Bangkok." At Bangkok, Eden explained that Churchill, now in the twi light of his 80 years, looked back at World War II as the crown ing achievement of his long and illustrious career. And the rec ords of Yalta, Eden explained, showed up some of Churchill's errors, also showed that Eden had' tried to rectify these er rors. Furthermore, the Yalta papers contradicted some of the historic decisions for which Churchill took credit in his memoirs. Why, therefore, break an old mart's heart, Eden told the sec retary of State. . ;. Dulles Agrees VV Dulles - agreed. He remarked to State Department colleague's later that Eden had been so co operative in risking his political neck by supporting the U.S.A. re Formosa that he couldn't de ny this favor. , . When Dulles returned to Washington he conveyed thjs general idea to Republican (.sen ators and, - though they still maintained the documents should be released, fchey prepar ed privately to accept the decis ion. , "., It was at tins point that Carl McCardle assistant secretary Of state for the press, and Dulle's personal public relations man, planted a copy of the Yalta documents , with the New York Times. The excuse now given in the State Department is that the . documents were bound to leak to right-wing senators, per haps to McCarthy. An hour after the New York Times plant became known, sen ators Bridges and Knowland lunched with Dulles, told him of the plant. He replied . that he was "aghast." Other State Department of ficials say, however, that he knew of McCardle's action and that McCardle never does any thing without the knowledge of the secretary of state. - At any rate, here is what the Yalta-' record did to the prime minister of England. Churchill Gets Slapped In his memoirs, Churchill claimed he had nothing to do with the concessions given Stal in to get Russia into the war against 'Japan. This, he said, was an American decision. The Yalta record shows, how ever, that it was Eden who vig orously opposed concessions to Russia. A summary of the British-American conference at Malta, just before the Yalta pafley, has this to say about Eden and Russion concessions: "In his (Eden's) view, if the Russians decided to enter the war against Japan they would take the decision because they considered it in their interests that the Japanese war should not be successfully finished by the U.S. and Great Britain alone. There was therefore no need for us to offer a high price for their participation, and if we were prepared to agree to their territorial demands in the Far East wre should see to it that we obtained a good return in re spect of the points on which we required concessions from them." Dismembering Germany ... On two other vitally important points, the British prime min ister is shown' up in a bad light: the dismemherment of Ger many and the organization of the United Nations. . In his memoirs, Churchill has always taken credit for killing the dismemberment cf Germany. i However, the Yalta, records show it was Anthony Eden.-What Ed en did wasto shunt the question of dismembering Germany toa council of foreign ministers' to be held after the Yalta confer ence, thereby giving time Tor tempers to cool. 4 fiy George in a symphony orchestra the road! Churchill also threw his weiglt in favor of the big powers and against the little nations in setting up the framework of the United Nations. Today, of course, the smaller nations have been the great bulwark of peace while the Russian veto has al most stymied the United Na tions. , And when it came to discus sing a UN trusteeship over the Japanese islands and other en emy territory, the Yalta papers show that the prime minister either didn't understand what was going on, or was to deaf to hear, or had taken too much of his favorite brandy. Page 729 of the Yalta papers shows how, when Ed Stettinius, then secretary of state, read his report on setting up trustesshipj for enemy territory, the confused Churchill almost blew his top. Here are the abbreviated notes on wliat happened: "I will not consent to a repres. of Brit. Em. going to any con ference where he will be placed in the dock and asked to defend ourselves. Never. Never. Never. "If you tell me we are not to go and be brought up before a yague tribunal and be told how to be good and proper I will not object. "Every , scrap of terr. over which Brit. Flag flies is im mune." Stettinius: "Only plan is to provide machinery for trustee ship if org. wants to set it up. we had in mind Jap. mandated islands to be taken from Jap. "We have nothing in mind in relation to Brit. Empire." Churchill: "We desire no ter ritory. . . "Say it will in no way affect integrity of Brit. Emp." Finally a formula that paci fied Churchill was agreed to in an intermission. Those are some of the slaps at America's best British friend that might just as well have been left unpublished during his lifetime. All it did was bring chortles of glee from the Com munist press. Commented the New Evening Post in Red China: "The disclosure is not good for Churchill or the British govern ment. The tune played between London and Washington is not so harmonious." iYYER BOX The Journal welcomes letterr from readers for this column c any subject. Your name must b signed to all articles Intended for publication, however, by reauest. It can be omitt?d from the letter appearing' in print. (Contents do not necessarily express the opin ion" of this nwsDaper. March 14, 1955 Mr. Ronald Furse Plattsmouth Journal Plattsmouth, Nebraska Dear Mr. Furse: I guess it's just human nature to take most of the good things in life for granted, including our hometown newspaaers. As a rule, it Is the newspaner which ties a community togeth er. And then, too. it provides a mighty important medium for information; a medium for which there is no substitute During the past year, you have once more made a valuable con tribution in the field of Child Welfare. You have been most generous in making srace in vour fine newspaper available to tell the folks in your community about the needs of Nebraska's homeless, neglected and abused children- and how those needs are bein? met by our Nebraska Children's Home Societv. We are happy to report that in addition to many special servic es, the Society was able to care for ,299 children last year; pro vide nparlv 57.000 day care and place 78 children of all ages in adoptive homes. . In behalf of these youngsters, our . heartfelt thanks for your fine help. , Sincerely, Nebraska Children's Home Society - Ran H all C. Biart. Executive Director. U. S. CORPORATIONS U. S. Corporations - in January raid out $721,000,000 in cash dividends, an increase of $32, 000,000 oyer the corresponding month of 1954, according to the ! Office of Business Economics of the Department of Commerce. , ; A Classified Ad in- The Journal ' costs as little as 35 cents DinKme Ton JFass (Editors note: This is on? of a series of articles on inc -mt tax which" is being brought to the readers of the Journal as a public service. The series will continue weekly through March il.) By Peter James Wikel Public Accountant Do ycu receive mr-als and iodsrrng from your employer? Und?r the new code chances aro good that they are income tax free to ycu, as the new code says: "There shall be excluded from grcss income of an employee the Iue of any meals or lodging furnished to him by his employ er for the convenience of the employer, but only if (1) in the case of meals, the meals are furnished on the business premises of the employer, or " (2) in the case of lodging, the employee is required to accept such lodging on the business premises of his employer as a condition of his employment. In determining whether meals or lodging are furnished for the convenience of the employer, the provisions of an employ- contract t3 or of a Slate In statute fixing terms of em- 5 ployment shall not be deter minative of whethsr the meals or lodging are intended as compensation." This seems to Wikel clearly indicate that if you receive meals on the business premises of your em ployer that they are not taxable income to you, regardless of any employment contract or Union agreement to the contrary. This also seems to clearly in dicate that the fair rental value of lodgings furnished to you are not taxable income to you, re gardless of any contract to the contrary, if you are required by your , employer to actually live at the site of your job. For in stance, an . apartment house manager's apartment, a chauf feur's or caretaker's cottage, etc., etc. The Social Security tax does . not follow this rule. You may well find that you are receiving, meals and lodging that are not income taxable to you, and that you are paying social security taxes of the fair mar ket value of such meals and lodgings.. It may be that you and your employer are going to have difficulty in keeping the reccrds straight on these. This applies only to meals and lodging furnished in kind. Any cash allowances will have to be included in income to the ex tent that they are taxable in come to you. The operation of this section may be illustrated by the fol lowing: A civil service employee of a State is employed at an in stitution and is required by his employer, for the convenience of the employer, to live and eat at the institution in order to be available for duty at any time. Under the ' applicable State Statute, his meals and lodging are regarded as a part of the employee's compensation. The employee wrould nevertheless be entitled to exclude the value of such meals and lodging from gross income. An employee of an institution, who is required to be cn duty from 8:00 a. m. until 4:00 p. m., I is given me cnoice oi residing at the institution free of charge, or of residing elsewhere and re ceiving an allowance of $30 per month in addition to his regular salary If he elects to reside at the institution the value to the employee of the lodging fur nished by the employer will be includible in gross income, be cause his residence at the insti tution is not necessary to the proper performance of his du ties, and therefore is not re quired as a condition of his em ployment. Last year Junior Red Cross members filled and shipped 368, 70C gift boxes as gestures of in ternational good will to children in 56 foreign countries. 1 jwtv. -23 CI ment nil -i WHEREAS: The Navy Mothers organization is active in pro- . moting welfare work for servicemen, in hospitals and throughout our, community, and WHEREAS: Unity of effort is required to successfully oper ate a program of this nature, THEREFORE, I, Leo R. Meisinger, Mayor of the City of Platts mouth, do hereby designate Saturday, March 26, 1955, as tag day. This the 21st day cf March, 1955. MAYOR LEO R. MEISINGER, City of Plattsmouth, Nebraska THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY fOUKMAI. PAGE FOUR Thursday, March 21, 1953 Metzger Says Paul Reveres led to Worn or Turnpike' William Mptzp-pr. St&t.P Rpna- tor frcm Cass and Sarpy coun ties this week warned that the Turnpike Authority, passed by the legislature, dees not fit Ne braska's idea of independence. Here's what he says: Fourteen years ago I repre sented my District in the Legis latur as a very young man. Four, n years later I returned to die: over that during the 1953 session, when I was not a mem ber, tlTt this body unknowingly adopted a law that upon close analyses does not fit the con cept ci Nebraska independence or its political philosophy. Nefcraskans have long been cautious in granting powers to any governmental Board, Bu reau, or Commission, that is up until the time that the Ne braska Turnpike Authority was created by the Legislature. Without rhyme or reason an extreme exception was made by the Legislature in granting anonymous authority to three men appointed, by the Governor without even the safeguard and precaution of requiring Senate confirmation of the appointees. Any layman would be startled and shocked to read the broad powers granted to this Authority. For instance this Authority has the power to condemn, the pow er of eminent domain, and the poweT to take any property nec essary or convenient for the pur pose of the Authority. Mrs. John Fischer Correspondent Mrs. Ed Neeman and infant daughter are home from the hospital. Mrs. Howard Root has been assisting her husband at the Eagle Lumber and Hardware office. ' Eagle Class Play Is Weil Attended The senior class play was well attended and each member of the cast deserves special men tion for their capable presenta tion. The cast: Sarah Mors, Myrna Luebke, Helen Wenzel, Marilyn Habel, Faye Erskine, Pat Donlan, Duane Ostrander, Richard Weyers, Keith Ayres, Charles Paswaters, and Lowell Umland. ' , Lagle Mr. and Mrs. Richard Carr had a niece and nephew of the latter, Jane Anne and Larry Meyer of Lincoln visit a couple days last week at their home. The D. F. Schwegman's had another telephone call Monday evening from their son, Merlin and family, this time also from California to inquire about her father who has been ill. They were very happy to hear frcm the family. - azle Cover Palmer 111 Mr. Grover Palmer was able to be at the barber shop the first part of the week, but on Tuesday evening suffered a heart attack and is now confine-' to liis bed again after havi:: a couple of weeks siege of tr,? flu and a lung infection. His cms, Charles and Raymond were at the former's home Tues day and Wednesday evening. Eagle Mrs. Tina Butts visited last week end at the home of her two sister-in-law's in Lincoln. Mr. and Mrs. Keith Trumble and daughter, Connie, and Mrs. Trumble's mother, Mrs. Briggs, visited in Malvern, Iowa, Sunday with relatives. The .7th and 8th boys played basketball at Weeping Water Wednesday evening and won a game over Greenwood. They RADIATOR REPAIRING ONE-DAY SERVICE Plattsmouth Motors Washington Ave. Ph. 287 roclamatton The Authority can condemn land and later sell it when it is no longer useful to the Author ity. It is exempt from paying any taxes. It has the power to contract to build gasoline sta tions, hotels, garages, stores and restaurants and according to the law, "the Authority shall fix the rates at which such services may be supplied to the traveling public in the public's interest and to attract traffic.'' This means price competition by a government agency with pri vately owned enterprises. Any citizen interested that is not in agreement with having an agency of government con ducting many types of businesses should immediately contact their attorney to have a more com plete explanation made of the Turnpike Authority. (Ch. 39, Art. 12, R. S. Supp., 1953). , We need not one Paul Revere, but many, to alert the public to this monstrosity. With the help of solemn Nebraska citizens, this newly created instrumentality of government must be destroy ed in this session of the Legis lature. Farmers would stand helpless while the Authority cut their farms in two, merchants would be. destroyed by government-financed business opera tions and the trade pattern of our communities and towns throughout the state would be seriously disrupted. - play the team Thursday evening. The grade tournament is beinp; held at Weeping Water this year. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schweg man visited her brother, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Leidig at Lincoln last Sunday. Mr. Leidig has bsen quite ill with arthritis for a long time and shows no improvement at this writing, we are sorry to report. Mrs. O. E. Underwood was hostess for the Eagle OES Ken sington at her home Wednesday afternoon. Mesdame's Nora Ket elhut and Lillie Vickers were the invited guests. Mrs. Billy Stillwell and children have packed their household goods and furniture and stored it at the home of Seeley Stillwell until living quarters are avail able in Greeley, Colorado, where Mr. Stillwell has accepted a po sition. Dickie Frohlich, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Frohlich under went a tonsilectomy last Friday. He remained home this , week from school. Glad to report he is recovering very satisfactorily. The Wm. Vogt family is mov ing from the farm south of Eag le. The Dean Denlson family will move there scon from the town property of Mrs. William Althouse, they now occupy. Mrs. Henry Fleishman under went an appendectomy and hasn't been able-io return home as soon as all had hoped. How ever she plans to leave the hos pital Fridly and will remain at her parent's home, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Winklers, in Eagle, a few days before going out to her country home southeast of Eagle. ' Mr. and Mrs. Harry Snokes moved their house to their farm ground 3V2 miles east of Eaele on "O" St. Thursday. The build ing was the schoolhouse in Dist. 101, near Elmwood, before it was remodeled and sold at auction sometime ago. JUVENILE DELINQUENTS The number of children going through juvenile courts grew from 300,000 in 1943 to 42?,000 in 1953, according to the report by the Juvenile Delinquency subcommittee of Congress. When You Think of Think of . X-RAY FITTING 3 I