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EDITORIALS .VA'A'AVAWMWJi .v.v.v.v.VAVwvar T-HE TORNADO SEASON " Once again we are approaching the tornado season. More than half the tor nadoes which occur all year occur in a short period of time betweon mid-March and June. . There has long been some- mystery concerning the origin of a tornado. Today, however, it is generally agreed that tor nadoes are. formed in several ways, usual ly when warm, moist air is py-passed, above, by cold air which cold air is us ually moving from west to east. The moist, warm air usually comes from the South, with a southerly wind pushing it. Torna does also result from long line? of thunder storms, called squall lines. There is no way known to man tp pre vent destruction if an ordinary house is caught in the path of a tornado. The tor nado's circular winds are much more dang erous than those of a hurricane. The only consolation is that a tornado usually strikes an "area only a few hundred yards wide. This year the U. S. Weather Bureau plans to set up a special research network to investigate tornadoes. This network will consist of ten instruments called vario-gra-phs. Variographs measure barometric pressure 'and these measurements may pro vide 'Valuable clue3 concerning the forma tion of ' tornadoes and rapid barometric cfianges which occur at this time. However, little is knowjh, about tornadoes, even yet, and we suggest that, tornado warnings be gvven complete respect by all citizens in tfrc next seventy-five days: x ir nROM COWBOYS TO SPACE CADETS? J The question of the Century is now looming up before us. Officials at the White Sands, New Mexico, research center tejl us that the nation's youngsters are pburing a steady stream of letters with trjeir ideas on air travel into the rocket re search center. 2 Some even believe the day of cow boys and Indians is going to give way to the day of space cadetsiand rocket travel. This would be a basic and fundamental change in our social structure and might haCVe far-reaching consequences: The exact scope of the changes which would come about if the nation's young sters turn to rockets, instead of cowboys, might involve serious questions. For in stance, would one give-his child a small space ship, rather than a Cowboy suit?; The small fry are already talking about travel- ing to Venus, Mars and the moon, jand titey. might use the toypacehips.to traVeLshSrt distances, such asx to the tiny moons which are reported to be about five hundred miles from the earth's surface. If such a day arrives, instead of calU ing Junior from the back yard; where he is playing cowboys and Indians, we would radio him in his small rockei, ship. on one of the earth's satellite moons. He might be a little late for supper, if he were that far away, for scientists estimate it would take a rocket ten or fifteen minutes to make the trip. But maybe supper wouldn't becold if he hurried. THE RIGHT SPIRIT In Hibbing, Minnesota, five new stained-glass windows were recently presented to the Lutheran Church. In itself, the ad dition of the stained-glass windows to the church was not major news. But behind the gift is a story that is heart-warming. These new windows were presented to. the Lutheran Church by Louis . Bachnik, a Roman Catholic. Bachnik had arranged for the purchase of the windows to honor I. R. Sher. Sher had been a beloved community leader, who had first raised the money to buy a stained-glass panel for the church. nionnm for today 'Xatnre will always maintain Jier rights, and prevail in the end over any abstract re soning whatsoever. David Hume The Plaiismouih Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IX 1SS1 Published Semi Weekly, Mondays and Thursdays, at 410 Main Street, Plattsmouth, Cass County, Kcbr. ' """ v,"'f' f "" Furses Fresh Flashes iV.V.V.V.VAW.V.WV.W.V.W.VJVA fr.v.v.v.vv.v..w.vwvv.vAv.v.vvv.VAV.v.v.v.vvv.v.vw The trouble with small talk is that it is handed out in such large quantities. If there had been drunken drivers in Biblical days, there would have been elev en Commandments instead of ten. ir ic it A vacation is about X 0-percent antici . pation and 90-percent looking for-a tour ist court. ' I' We don't believe it is any harder for a rich man to enter Heaven than it is for a poor man to stay on earth these days. . A college professor friend of ours tells us that students have changed very little in the past thirty years. That's prob ably why so many parents who have kids in college worry. k ic ir We would like to warn Plattsmouth husbands not to plant more garden this year than their wives can cultivate. it Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, says she's been taking hot baths recently trying to get her weight down. She calls it the "scorched girth" policy. , We never pick a quarrel with the wife. We leave it to- her-j she can pick much better ones. See What the Bunny Has for Dad! Recently, Sher died before being told that Bachnik was presenting the stained-glass windows to the church in his honor. The rest of the story is also interesting. Sher is a Jew. Thus, in the Hibbing Min nesota, Lutheran Church windows given by a Catholic honor a Jewish civic leader who first raised money to install a stained glass window in the Lutheran church. This is the right spirit, Down Memory Lane O A YEARS AGO J J. D. Marcell, who had been super-; intendent of schools at Union for 12 years, took a job as principal, at' Springerville, Ariz. ... Principal R. Foster Patterson of Plattsmouth t was named ' commencement speaker at eighth grade exercises for Otoe ycoimty ... Plattsmouth high School added baseball to their list of sports -for the first time fn several years . ... Miss Ruby Shel don and Elmer Gochenour of Plattsmouth were married at the courthouse by County Judge A. H. Duxbury Harold Kreck low was doing some interior decorating at the parish house of Father Harte at Man ley . . . Joseph W olpert was having a new house built on the farm northeast of Man ley which his father purchased in 1872. YEARS AGO 0J Men's suits with two pairs of pants were selling up to $35 each &t C. E. Wes cott's store in Plattsmouth . . . Plattsmouth Chief of Police Hinrichsen cranked up his faithful gas wagon and rushed north of the city where a "dead" man was reported stretched out along the road. Said man was sleeping peacefully, thawing out his win ter supply of cooties and was much put out to be disturbed . ... J. W. Poynter then studying at Peru Normal, was selected s Plattsmouth principal for the coming year . . . There was joy at the Edward Murray home at. Nehawka after the arrival of a very fine son . . . William Waldo sold the hotel in Nehawka to W. C. Hbdge . . . Fred Trilety was re-named master council of the Cass chapter, Order of Demolay. .- ' CM Washington Merry- Go - Round ! DREW PEARSON Three Times Winner Ak-Sar-Ben Plaques fo: "OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE" 1949 1951 1952 "Honorable Mention" 1953 -Presented Nebraska Press Association "GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD" Fir,t in 1952 Second in 1951 and 1953 (In Cities Over 2,000 Population) RONALD R. FURSE Editor and Publisher WM. L. MURDOCK News Editor SOPHIA. M. WOLEVER. .Society Editor VERN WATERMAN Advertising ttyyy LWTCiiAA V'Tt Entered at the Tost Office at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second class mail matter , in accordance with the Act of Congress of March 3, 1S79. ;. . '- - ' 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 (Copyright, 1954, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) BRITAIN SURGES AHEAD OF U.S.A. IN PEACEFUL) ATOMIC US ES; EX-GOP CHAIRMAN WES- . LEY ROBERTS NOW LOBBIES FOR WALL STREET: PENTAGON IN SISTED ON CENSORING YALTA PAPERS TO PROTECT U. S. MILI TARY. ; . Washington The British . have jumped so far ahead of us in the race to develop peacetime power from atomic en ergy that Eisenhower is appointing anoth er commission. While we have been concentrating on weapons, the British in 1957 will begin getting electricty from the world's first successful atomic power plant. Belatedly the Atomic Energy Commission has real ized this. So Eisenhower will name a Com mssion of businessmen and atomic scien tists to study what should be done about the peacetime use of atomic energy in the U.S.A. - : ; . . ' -Washington Pipeline Not once since congress convened have Speaker Sam Rayburn and, majority lead ers of the House been invited to the White House to confer. During the SOth congress in Truman's day when the Republicans had a majority, He invited GOP leaders to the White House, every Monday . v . Naval intelligence has positively confirmed that Russia now has an atomic submarine . . . .Mmmmm with the rest of Allied Germany. Truman claimed that at Pots dam Eisenhower, then in com mand of Allied Germany, failed to point out this danger. 3. Reference to a report that Averell Harriman, now governor of New York, then ambassador to Russia, had cleared the so called China "sell-out" with Gen. George Marshall and Adm. Ernest King. Why this was censored is hard to understand, since there are many other references in the Yalta papers that the U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff were agreeable to sacrificing China. Suspected motive in this case was political . in case Governor Harriman runs for President. Note State Department of ficials who worked on the docu ments protested these cuts by the Pentagon, were overruled by higher-ups. THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE TWO Section B Thursday, March 24, 1955 Ambassador Bohlen reports that ex-Premier Malenkov is being shoved further, and further into tne background by the new Rus sian regime. Malenkov Is report ed being watched day and night by secret police and is so wor ried that he is losing weight .,. . Prime Minister Churchill is get ting worried over the sweet talk now being exchanged: by, Mar shal Tito and the new Russian government. He has urged the British Foreign Office to beware of a Tito double-cross ... Secre tary Hobby, only lady member of the cabinet, has kept herself so aloof that Dr. Martha Eliot of the Children's Bureau hasn't been able to consult her boss for six months. Barefoot Boy of Wall Street Wesley Roberts, the Kansas boy whom Ike fired as chairman of the Republican national com mittee, has a new job this time on Wall Street: He'a the representative of Lehman Brothers for wining and dining members of state toll roads and thruway commissions in order to .get the big.New York banking firm in on some of the juicy; financing that goes with the thruways., 'Most people don't realize it, but a whole new; chapter in fi nancing has sprung up with the advent ot high-speed state thru ways. New; York state alone is ; floating nearly, one. billion's dol lars worth of thruway bonds, $900,000,000 to "be exact. , New Jersey.; is " floating : $600,000,000 ; Iillinois, Ohio Indian about $300, 000,000 each, together with vary ing 'amounts by Oklahoma, Kan sas, Kentucky and Maine. ' When you add "up these am ounts and deduct 2-y2 percent for financing, it comes to a lot of money, and the banking hous es are fighting for the business. The bonds are tax free, and since a lot of big. investors are look ing for places to put their mon ey without paying income taxes, the bonds jump above par im mediately after they're sold. This brings in further profit. So Wes Roberts, who was fired from the Republican national comrrfittee for lobbying with the Kansas legislature, has now jumped" to big-time lobbying. No longer is he merely interested in the sale of a Kansas hospital at Newton. He commutes from Wall street to Washington to In dianapolis to try to persuade his old Republican friends to let Lehman brothers manage their state highway financing. - - So far he hasn't got his old friends in Kansas to change fi nance managers, but he did per suade his GOP friends in Indi ana to reduce Smith Barney and Halsey Stuart from dominating the financing of Indiana thru ways and put Lehman brothers in the saddle instead. He also made a pass to re duce Halsey Stuart, and Glore Forgan, both big Chicago fin ance houses, in their . manage ment of the Illinois state thru way financing. But former Judge Evan Howell, head of, the Illin ois thruway commission, would n't budge. He wanted Illinois bankers to handle Illinois bonds. Note Chairmen of the Re publican national committee from Kansas seem to switch from the prairies to bi business. The last chairman from. Kansas, John Hamilton, ended up as at torney for Joe Pew of the Sun Oil company in Philadelphia. Yalta Censorship Here are three deletions from the Yalta papers which Ameri can officials made last year when the papers were under un hurried scrutiny; 1: A wisecrack by President Roosevelt that as a concession to Kimr Ibn Saud he might give him the 6,000,000 Jews in the United States. . This was omitted on the ad vice of Gem W. Bedell Smith, former Undersecretary of State. However, it was leaked by Re publicans; to-Newsweek Maga zine just before last" November's election in the hope of hurting Franklin Roosebelt, "Jr., in his race for ' Attorney General of New xorK against Congressman J ack Javits. Javits won. 2. An important reference to getting an American corridor to Berlin instead of leaving Ber lin isolated from the rest of Al lied Germany as it is today. It was failure to get such a cor ridor that caused the U.S.A. to stage its historic Berlin airlift. This reference took the form of a paper by a junior officer urging the United States to in sist on such a corridor. However, the Joint Chiefs of Staff at Yal ta ignored the junior officer's warning. : This omission was made from the Yalta Papers at the behest of the top Pentagon brass, who wanted the State Department, not the military, to bear, full re sponsibility for this Berlin blun der. Perhaps also they had in mind President Truman's speech in San Francisco . in October, 1952, pinning part of the blame on Eisenhower for not asking See By The Papers .... By Bill Murdock v One paper dug back 40 years in the files and came up with the story of a man who got mar ried at a courthouse but was so nervous he forgot to take off his hat or lay down his ciga,.- during the ceremony. Before a firing squad, you get a last smoke too. 5 Two men escaped from the in side of a 36-inch water main being laid near the north end of the Ashland National Guard camp to supply water to Lincoln when an earthen dam broke, says Wahoo Newspaper. Construction of Custer coun ty's first federal aid road will get under way sometime in April, says the Custer County Chief. Road is from Arnold to Dunning. v Ground . breaking services for the Zion Lutheran church at Pawnee City are set for Sunday, March 27, at 2:30 p. m., says the Republican. ; ' One hundred fifteen visitors "came to the Wirsell Witler farm near Humboldt, says the Stand ard, to admire ' the . quadruplet hereford .calves born there to a 12-year-old cow. Dana , College's , campus wras much upset one day last week, notes ; the Blair - Pilot-Tribune, a f t e r. .students (presumably) hand-pushed ,'' cars - from, their proper parking places cri the street and. Jined ; the sidewalk solid up to the front of ! the school i building, .boosting two cars "up thesteps to the front door. . Frontier county expected to step up a fund drive to bring television to southwest Nebraska, says the Curtis Enterprise. Ef forts are being made to raise '$200,000 to place a satellite TV transmitter at Hayes Center. Frontier county's share is $J.2, 600. Lexington's all-sports dinner is set. for . April 21 under the sponsorship of the Lexington Chamber of Commerce says the Dawson County Herald. Ashland's ground observer corps spotted 24 planes in a test held on Sunday between noon and 4 -p. m. . It was 'Old Safe Week" in Sarpy county after two looted and battered strong boxes were found in different parts of Sarpy county, says the Bellevue Press. Safe No. 1 was discovered on Saturday morning by an Omaha Boy Scout troop just east of the Burlington tracks on the old Camp , Gif ford property. Safe No. 2 was found by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Peters on land adjoining their . farm home five miles northwest of Papillion. Sheriff Arp returned nearly $600 in post age stamps, two bottles of pow dered narcotics, several hundred unused money orders and a $200 certificate of deposit to - the Crestwood drug store r in south Omaha of -South Omaha where the safe was stolen. ; The other safe came from a Fairfax, Mo., firm.- Seventy-five- dollars was missing but a set of records was in good shape in the safe. By Stanley James. Journal Washington Reporter it A ctiTvr.Tnw 'M'arrh 24 TTlUlliVI A w.i, ' " . ::::.:w-: Capitol News By Melvin Paul . -Statehouse Correspondent The Nebraska Press Association LINCOLN The Legislature Revenue Committee this week has three proposals for broad ening the tax base to worry about. It could send to the Legisla ture a sales tax Droposal, LB 400; an income tax'proposal, LB 510; or a combination of both, worked out by the introducers of LB 400 and 510. All three were given a public hearing which lasted almost four hours. Some interesting factors seem ed to be involved this time in what has been a perennial leg islative issue broadening the tax base. Nebraska is one of only four states which do not have a sales or income tax and its percentage of support from property taxes, 36 per cent, is the highest in the nation. Informed observers believe that a majority of the members on the Revenue Committee would favor a sales tax. But not all of these would go for an in come tax or a combination. On the other hand the bill with the best chances on the floor of the Legislature might be the combination sales-income tax measure. This is on grounds that it might pick up enough votes from those who don't want either tax alone. This may be, a debatable the sis. But it is believed to be the -thinking behind the action Sen. Dwight Burney of Hartington, introducer of LB 400, and Sen. L.Tom Adams of Lincoln, sponsor of LB 510 in pooling their mea sures. f 1 ; . There is no doubt but what such a measure t3 going' to have a. plenty tough time getting through the Legislature. That's i mainly because there is such a I Ulnnl. A. - a , , uiuca. ui iveiiaturs commuted against any proposals to broad en the tax base. Some of these are senators who don't want a sales tax un der any conditions. Senators who like labor unions call this "a tax on the poor man." Sena tors from Omaha and other bor der towns" fight it because they fear they will lose the trade that is now coming to them from oth states which have sales taxes. A lot of the opposition to the sales tax comes from s forces which are not so much afraid of it as they are fearful it will only "open the door" for an in come tax. The railroads and miany industries fear anything that would develop into a cor porate income tax. They figure it is safer to fight any measure to broaden the tax base. On the other hand every sign indicates that the 1955 Legislature more than any pre vious session has sentiment for passing new taxes of this type. The troubles with the property tax in the past two years may have had much to do with this. Any way you look at it, a sales tax is going to have a tough time squeaking through the Legisla ture. But you can't safely bet it won't. ; Tax Testimony The hearing on these mea sures was much like all the oth ers which have taken place ev ery session. Lined up on the side of the sales tax were the Nebraska Farm Bureau, which claims to represent 16,000 farm families; school groups, realtors groups, and the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce. Upposing the measures were the State Farmers Union, which says it represents 17.000 farm families; the State Federation of Labor, the CIO, the railroad brotherhoods, the Omaha 'i payers Association, and the Om aha Food Retailers. Sen. Burney declared, "The tax on property is admittedly becoming burdensome. It's no use to talk about cutting taxes. It can't be done when we have more children every year and therefore mye school costs. We muse face the issue, broaden the tax baseband get everybody to help." But Elton Berck of Lincoln, a state Farmers Union directory, said his organization doesn't be lieve in painless taxes. "We want taxation to be a burden. With easy taxes you do not question expenditures of government as you would if you experience a definite pinch at a specific time ol year," said Eerck, referring to the property tax. - .. Highway. Commission The State Advisory Highway Commission-had a , private ses sion in a Lincoln hotel with the Legislature Public Works Com mittee. - - - j It seemed the commission had (Continued on page 6) 1 Despite Democratic unairman Paul Butler's statement to the effect that President Eisenhower was beset with too many troubles to run for reelection in 1956, the general consensus of opinion here seems to be that Mr. Eisen hower will make the race. Reporters believe Mr.- - Eisen hower is more inclined: to run today than he has been at any other time since being elected in 1952. In the first place, the Presi dent has not been able to win his middle-of-the-road program in Congress, and he is not known for a tendency to quit a job be fore it is finished. In ths second place, Mr. Eisen hower knows that his party has no other leader who would be the favorite in the next election. If he thought in 1952 that it was time for a Republican Ad ministration, he must think to day that the country needs at least four more years of Republi can government, and he is prob ably the only man who would be an odds-on favorite to ac complish that goal. There is still another reason why Mr. Eisenhower will be slow to lay down the reins. He is the only Republican in high of fice who has had both high mil itary and semi-diplomatic train ing on the top levels and who could carry on the present for eign policy of this country with out a rocky changeover. If the President feels that the world is close to international strife he will be almost com pelled by a sense of duty to hold on. Even if conditions remain grave, he will feel strongly in clined to stay at the helm until the menace of Communism is lessened. Thus when Democratic Chair xnan Paul Butler intimated that, because of his wife's health, the President might step down, the suggestion angered sources in all walks of GOP life, up to and into the White House. The Presi dent wrill not step down from of fice on this excuse. And report ers in Washington are inclined to think he will not step down on any other excuse or pretext. President Eisenhower himself is said to have taken final re sponsibility for the U. S. course of action in case the Quemoy or Matsu Islands are attacked Hints by the Secretary of De fense and the Secretary of State add up to this. Neither wrould say, when explaining U. S. policies, whether the U. S. would defend these islands under cer tain conditions. Each said the President would make the final decision and let the subject go at that. Actually, if the islands are attacked, the question of defense might pre sent quite a problem. A quick Chinese Communist conquest might forestall U. S. aid, but if the battle is drawn out, and the Nationalists make an emo tional appeal for help, it might be difficult for this country's armed forces in the area not to intervene. Intervention would take the form of sea and air forces mostly air forces only. That intervention might be ordered as the attack begins. But many ob servers believe the President's inclination is to try to avoid in volvement in these islands, con sidering them highly vulnerable to Communist attack, while hop ing the possibility of U. S. in tervention.' wrill forestall a Chinese Communist assault. The President's entire foreign policy philosophy is one of pa tience and calm determination. While confident that our forces can win a major war, Mr. Eisen hower wants to do everything possible to keep the country out of another conflict, and he feels that there may be a possibility of avoiding a war with China for some time to come. . The President would probably be willing to give in to some of Red China's off-shore island demands, despite reports to the contrary, if the Communists would agree to a cease-fire in the Formosa area. But the Chief Executive is dead set on defend ing Formosa and the Pescadores Islands. If the Reds want a war, they can get into the first shoot ing stages of what will come very close to war, by attacking Formosa. Governor Kicks aster Sea Casnpaign Action Gov. Victor E. Anderson was the guest of honor at a kickoff luncheon in Omaha Tuesday which will set the machinery in motion for the opening of the 1955 Easter Seal campaign in Nebraska. The governor has accepted the invitation to serve as honorary state chairman of the drive, it was announced by Oscar D. Mar dis, state president of the Ne braska Society for Crippled Chil dren, the Easter Seal organiza tion. The luncheon was held in th3 state society's headquarters, 402 So. 17th St. Mr. Mardis said the Easter Seal Society is geared to launch the 1955 appeal with stronger organization and preparation than before as a result of long term planning since the last campaign. Thousands of Ncbras kans have been attending meet ings in the last month to make final plans for the appeal. Many counties are arranging special events to launch the drive which extend through Easter Sunday, April 10. Letters containing the Easter Seals will be mailed to residents cf-Nebraska. The letters contain return addressed envelopes in which donors may mail their contributions in behalf of crip pled children. The luncheon will be attended by Mayor John Rosenblatt, mem bers of the state executive com mittee, state board, volunteer heads of the society and prom inent guests. Eisenhower links belief in God to Americanism. :'.',vi't"W.: f' ' -: '..': I ... i v -VS i 4 WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE Pachyderm Here's the Answer HORIZONTAL 57 Invisible vapor sa reriume VERTICAL 1 Indonesians of 1 Depicted pachyderm, the ' elephant 8 It has cars 13 African bird 14 Shinto gateway 15 Upper limb of the body 16 Australian cattle dog 18Baranof mountain 19 Symbol for - omarium 26 arranged in threes 22 Senior (ab.) Z Symbol for selenium 24 Behold! 26 Soothsayer 28 Units of energy 31 Stuff 32 Type of fuel 33 Against 34 Robust 35 Has existed 36 Fruit drinks " 37 Ambary 38 Nova Scotia fab. 39 Symbol for niton 41 It is one of the - of animals 7 Written form cf Mister 49 Age 51 Diadem 52 Philippine peasant 53 Infantile parelysis 55 Habitual conduct Mindanao 2 Rail bird 3 Chemical suffix 4 Measure of area 5 Domesticated 6Froster . 7 Grain 8 Let it stand 9 Volume 10 Constellation 11 Covers 12 Prevaricator 17 Musical note 20 End 21 It also is known as an Indian 23 25 :ffiiNVHd31ffirg n).nivnMisl fb! i riTiTsi v Sitting Mountain nymphs 42 Small "particia 43 Oriental measure 26 Incrustation on 44 Pastime a sore 27 Sea eagle 29 High wind 30 Female saints (ab.) 39 Clusters of fiber knots 40 Horse's gait 45 Axes 46 Without (Ff. 47 Grape refuse 48 Flower 50 Malt drink 52 Number 54 Medical suffi 56 Compass point "tw Mr irH iiijil'fi I M