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EDITORIALS Furses Fresh Flashes Ticklers By George trn r ALES TAX IS JOKER The proposed Nebraska Sales Tax bill now before the legislature is about the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the citi zens of this state. In its present form, this bill is a rich man's bill and will increase the tax load of every working man in the State of Nebraska. According to provisions in the bill as submitted for debate, it provides that should a sales andor income tax be levied in Nebraska the state property tax would be eliminated. Therein lies the joker for which an unsuspecting people should be ware. A sales tax in Nebraska would take a minimum of $40 per year out of every working man's pay check, i. e. if he spent only 2000 on the necessities of life. If he spent $3J)00, the tax burden would be in creased to $60. But, and this is a big but, the state property tax is one of the smallest items on your present tax bill. In 1955 it is approximately .007 (seven mills). That means the taxpayer is paying only $7 on each $1000 in valuation 'into the state treasury. If your home or business property is valued for taxing purposes at $2000, you are paying the state only $14 per year un der present law. Pass the present income tax law, and your tax bill will be a mini mum of $40. Only persons to benefit from such legislation are those with heavy in vestments in real property. Seven dollars per thousand on a giant commercial build ing or manufacturing plant can add up to thousands of tax dollar savings all at the expense of the little home owner. Percentage points on paper look good when broken down into "per capita" fig ures however, we do not pay taxes on a per capita basis. Our advice to taxpayers in this area is to start howling loud and long and quick by telephone, telegram and by letter let Nebraska's Legislators know we'll have no truck with this kind of tax bill. What we want is tax relief not additional tax burdens for the little fellow. THE BUTLER TEMPEST The recent tempest touched off by Paul M. Butler, chairman of the Democratic Na tional Committee, is most interesting. But ler started the ruckus when he expressed the opinion that President Eisenhower would not run for another term in 1956. It is just possible that the Butler statement is good politics on the part of the Democratic National Committee chairman. In the first place, if Butler can convince some people that Eisenhower is not to be a candidate, he will stir up a lot of thinking about the Democratic candidate and will add importance to the prospect of being the Democratic candidate. Moreover, the impression that Mr. Eis enhower will not run will tend to make lesser Democratic officials and workers everywhere more enthusiastic, for it must be admitted that the prospect of Mr. Eisen - hower on the Republican ticket again is not a particularly welcomed one on the part of most Democrats. In our opinion, Mr. Eisenhower will be a candidate again in 1956, for two reasons primarily: First he has not been able to put over his program because of the divison in his own party and because of the strength of the Democratic opposition in Congress. The President is known to want to finish a job once he undertakes it. Secondly, the President feels that the world is in a tense international situation, and that he is qualified to supervise de fense and international policies. It is poss ible that his successor might not be so weil qualified and that serious results might f ol- low the inauguration of one not so well rHOUGHT FOR TODAY When ice arc too young our judgment is weak; when we arc too old, ditto. Blaise Pascal .The Plattsmoufh Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 18S1 Published Semi-Weekly, Mondays and Thursdays, at 410 Main Street, Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebr. Three Times Winner Ak-Sar-Ben Plaques for "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 2ES maLU' tiieaaa Entered at the Post Office at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second class mail matter in accordance with the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 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. Only time you need collateral when borrowing- money is when you're getting it from other than friends or relatives! A Plattsmouth man says one reason why he married a nag is because he's been playing the horses all his life. An irate reader just told us that we run the worst newspaper in the country. It makes us happy to know that we excel at something. A banquet is about the only kind of en tertainment that doesn't come to an end too soon. There seems to be plenty of money in the country. Trouble is, it isn't in the hands of people readv to spend it. Present day parkng meters make shop ping about as inconvenient as the old qays when you had to get out and tether the horse to a hitching rail. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little contour twister, says if she ever pins her faith on another man she's going to use safety pins. The man who pokes fun at a woman who tries to drive through a 12-foot garage door, usually sobers up when he tries to thread a needle. One nice thing about writing these par agraphs is that we never have to see the frowns or yawns. skilled in defense and foreign policy. But, whatever the merits of Mr. But ler's actual remark's they seem to us to be good Democratic politics, and we think that is what they are. ,v.sv.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.vv.v.v.v.v.v.v..vv.v.,.v.-.'. Down Memory Lane yr YEARS AGO V Plattsmouth high school baseball team lost a heartbreaker to Weeping Water 3 to 2 in a game featuring the pitch ing of Harley Streets who struck out 20 Weeping Water batsmen, allowed two hits. . .The village of Union was the scene of a small riot which started when a group of two river workers drew knives and play fully started to carve up a buddy. . .The Plattsmouth Chamber of Commerce was about to take up the subject of mail service which arose when the Missouri Pacific changed schedules. . .A man who armed his way through a crowd of 200 men at the Armour packing company plant at Omaha to rob a girl employe of 600, was captured at Manley. . .Carl D. Gantz, of Alvo, a member of the Federal Land Bank board, was making numerous trips to different conventions providing instructons on the organzation of other board members.".. Kenneth Hilt celebrated his seventh birth day. r YEARS AGO 0J Orlando Tefft of Avoca, one of the few remaining veterans of Nebraska ter ritorial days, was in Plattsmouth visiting old friends. . .Work of preparing for a new pavement at Weeping Water was going ahead rapidly. . .E. B. Chapman of Union was selected as chairman and H. F. Goos secretary as the Modern Woodmen of America held a county convention at Plattsmouth. . .Charles Godbey, C. F. Rose now, Joseph Percell1 and P. J. Linch were ready to stand for city election at Alvo as Mrs. C. D. Ganz, Mrs. L. Muir, Harry Ap pleman and L. D. Mullen made up the school board ticket. . . Plattsmouth Tennis Club got ready to go with a new board of directors. . . A. H. Duxbury, Harley Cecil, Robert M. Wallig, and R. J. Larson with R. H. Rebal, president. $4 HYNURSE I M 15 HAPPILY . . r u M t Washington Merry-Go -Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1955, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: U.S. WILL FIGHT ALONE IF SHE GOES TO WAR OVER QUEMOY AND MATSU: IKE BAWLED OUT HIS OLD FRIEND, ADMIRAL CARNEY; DULLES LEAKED YALTA SECRET TO N. Y. HERALD TRIBUNE 10 YEARS AGO. Washington Inside the White House Here is why the President is so skittish about getting embroiled over Quemoy and Matsu. He has received a polite notice from Japanese Premier Ichiro Hatoyama that Japan will not per mit us to use Japanese bases to fight Red China. Japan, said Hatoyama, could not survive if we attacked the Chinese main land from Japanese bases. . . .Also worry ng Ike is flat notification from Canada that she will not support us in war over Quemoy-Matsu. Not only that, but Canada will withdraw the Canadian battalion from Korea. If we go to war over the off shore islands. . . .Ike says he doesn't be lieve in going to war without allies. . . . The President gave Admral Carney the bawlng out of his life for holding that dinner with newsmen in which he set "! always start with this chart!" April 15 as the date for a Chinese attack. Eisenhower ana Carney are old friends, having served together in Paris at SHAPE. The Admiral- is mild mannered and unobtrusive, out IKE talked to him as he used to bawl out rookie trcops wn?n he was a drill Sergeant. . . .Tne President apparently didn"t know that it was Admiral Rad ford who puo the usually silent Carney up to having the press briefing session. Inside the Pentagon All bumper crops, giving both par ties a fair share no matter what the crop outcome. Such a method would replace the present system of charging a 6 per cent rental on the ap praised value of the school land lease. The increase in apprai sals and hence rent in recent years has been one of the big reasons the leaseholders have demanded relief. Don Kline of the Nebraska State Education Association said he though his group would ap prove of such a method, al though he could not commit himeii because the association hasn't specifically discussed the matter. Western Nebraska senators in the LegislaLurj have declined direct comment. But the picture ieems to be that they have de cided that the Legislature de finitely isn't going to go along . a i,B 26, a bill to sell the nool lands. And chances are thin that they'll do anything about three bills to change the appraisals. The public hearing on these bills LB 277,321, and 521 set for this week, was cancelled. It will be held later. There is some talk that LB 277 and 521 will be dropped and as GOP adviser to Acheson i fVH Z h T f Truman felt so strongly about ?'wouM cut te n, this that he had a statement ; "The share-cron nrW l is issued by the late Charlie Ross Jiwv HfJL L J1 ; f, !f in Key West denying that Dulles LnShms oufoTthl easehold would be permitted back. I e? effort leasenoid- Next day Dulles was appoint- i The big news may be that both ed anyway. The appointment sides can agree on it. made the Key West office of Technical Problems the President look absurd. . . . j Setting up a share-crop system Some people even thought Tru- , wont De done with a mere snaD - THE PLATTSMOUTH, NE3RASKA, SEMI WEEKLY JO'mal "AOE FOUR Monday, Apr1! 4, 195 man's staff had been drinking- . . . .Many years later Mr, Tru man told me that Secretary Acheson had called him person- is now quiet at the Pentagon. ! ally to urge that Dulles come If you ask a General what time back despite his attacks on Leh it is, he answers in a whisper. : man. Acheson felt it was import- ir you asK an Admiral it it s l am to tne tsiparusian ioreign : state Board of Educational raining outside, he sys: "It's i policy. So Truman reversed him- j Lands and Funds Under the off the record "... .Ike tied ; self. . . .As of today no high up ; constitution income from the their tongues in such tight knots ! Democrat has been taken into lands themselves cannot be used of the fingers. It probably would require hir ing a private land management firm since 1,630,000 acres are in volved. This would mean the Legislature would have to ap propriate more tax funds to the is too all-powerful under present law and that Nebraska shouldn't have a turnpike because it will divide farms and trade territo ries. Opponents of the measure, LB 271, and iriends of the turnpike idea contend a toll road across the country is inevitable and that Nebraska should work to gel it. New Welfare Program A favorable vote by the Pub ic Health Committee was given LB 103, which would establish a new type of welfare program in Nebraska. It would be assistance for the totally disabled. It is called the "fourth catego ry," because it would be in ad dition to the present programs of old age assistance, aid to the blind, and aid to dependent children. At least 40 states have adopt ed this program, which brings considerable federal aid with it. But senators anxious to hold down the budget winced at the i 3.2 million it would cost Nebras ka taxpayers. The necessity for such a pro The necessity for such a pro gram was pretty clearly demon strated. But senators were be coming resigned to a soaring budget close to the $220 million mark. In recent weeks the Leg islature passed two bills which tacked at least $21 million on the estima 196 budget. One was the sixth cent of gasoline tax ($18 million) and the other was renewing the half-miil tax levy for the State Teachers Retire ment Fund ($3 million). T 1 uieiry-jru-ivuunu Douglas Dillion called on Sec retary Dulles last week, told him he wants to resign as Amer- you can't get a "hello" out of : the State Department. tnem. . . .It was the President himself who ordered Secretary of Defense Wilson to stop all press conferences, speeches, views and comments on military policy. The President threw such a scare into Wilson that he not only cut the entire public in formation program, but abruptly canceled a background briefing for administration Another problem would be deciding how to share -crop grazing land. It's easy to divide up corn or wheat but cattle is ican ambassador to France by another matter June 1. Dilhon has never quite it probably would require es recovered from a back injury ; tablishing a per unit per acre he suffered in Paris. His sue ! basis of rent. In such formula cessor still looks like Clare j would have to be provisions for Boothe Luce, our glamorous i p.h a.r)P"Ps in rhp pat tip mark-At anH with Air Chief Gen. Nate Twin- ambassador to Italy. . . .Senators j for dry years when the grass is ing, and suspended a U. S. News and World Report interview with Gen. Curtis Le May. No more press conferences, eith are whispering about the hot short. DacKstage poker sessions car- Tax Reform ried on by the two most devoted The Legislature have the poser players senators wei- green lieht on general file (first ah -, ' ker of Idaho and Jenner of In- : miior riphatp tsf t to t r i4. quiet, at least on the Pentagon I ani- Oveta CuId Hobby, j the "keystone" bill in a tax re side of the Potomac. th?. Secretary of Health. Edu- ; form program in this session. caiiun ana weiinre, wants a : A.pssnrs ntiHpr nrPPnt law alv street Lean-Democratic RtpUD- ' Tho AHminiofrntinn Vioi? fi-nn-1 u -.11 n x . ' ' i-rvnt-ir.- v,t- " "".".."utn juu"u vimjuiu aiiuw tnem to use earning J" no. uuv s rr ndiii i3 r T,-i euro mnnov It he certainly plays both sides-'. will order government subsidized when it comes to tipping off 0v,ir,,r,cr pnmnani n o serving their seamen fa;.:y meals. the-newspapers. . . .When h planted a copy of the secret, supposedly suppressed Yalta Papers with the New York Times, the inside fact was that he evened up the score for a sensational Yalta tip he gave the rival New York Herald Tribune. . .The facts have re mained secret for 10 years, but can now be revealed. It was exactly 10 years to the very month that Dulles, then Capitol News capacity, desirability, location, reproductions cost, and compari son with other properties in de termining the value. Although the railroads and some large industries have been ! fighting this bill hard, on a de J cisive test vote attempt to kill ; the measure lost 6 to 30. This i smashing victory for the bill promised well for other mea sures attempting to "doctor" the By Melvin Paul Cln(,.l,,. . . . ,1 The NebraS sSaUon ! J"0 a 1 Ne- votes in the United Nations. The U. S. A. and every other country were to get one vote. . . This secret deal was agreed upon at braska. v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.vav.v.w.v.v i Debate on this important mea- T .TWPDI M Tt iisnsllv tntps snrp tnnk narts nf fnnr Hqvs Spn Lomuiuaat; wj x ieinuL.id,Lic i 5trife and controversy to make : Otto L,iebers of Lincoln, chair- fpariP1?i1 ' PPed off ; news. But this week in the Legis- ! man of the special committee Mrs. Ogden Reid, owner-pub- ! ature there were signs that one ' which wrote these tax reform l1 5rr, of the ?Le Tnbune' ' of the big stories of the session! bills after two years of study. nicii, xwsfcm wuuiu ue given uiree would be the settling of an an- i nad to answer ouestion after cient controversy. ' question on the measure. The indications were that the 1 "This bill will make legal what school land leaseholders and ed- - assessors have been doing illeg- lint.innnl nrcrnni''atinnq xrprf allv. TTnrlpr thp rsrpspnt. mnrU-.pt xaitct, xui.iuciiud.ii, as ii nuvv i cautiously approaching each value law it was just impossible develops over the protest of ; 0ther to find a way to heal the to get fair equalization," Sen Alger Hiss. It was one of the ; bitter breach between them. Liebers said, most Hush Hush secrets of that I Tjp to now the leaseholders ! So 53 counties have had scien conference - so secret tnat ; have insisted that either thejtific reappraisals in which "ba- Secretary Of State Ect StettiniUS i hnris shnnlH hp snlH nr srmp- ! .sir valnp" fnrrrmlns similar tn ! flatly, vigorously told the Herald j thing done about cutting the I LB 148 have been used. Liebers iiiuunt n ; wdsn t so .uuiies j, rent. School groups have been ; estimated the 80 per cent of the noweyer told Mrs. Reid s staff unsymapathetic toward any-1 property in the state has been to stick by tneir guns. . .She j thing that would decrease the I assessed this way alreadv. had Passed the Dulles tip on j revenues, which go to all the i Liebers said that while mar L f wfshinton Bureau j schools of the state. ; ket value sounds fine in theory t-? J,- , ite " Ancrews. But a new approach appears ' it falls down because of local in tI dPlnm?-tlc correspondent, to be in the wind and it may be flation, or the fact that some jonn Metcalle, now head of the ; one both sides can agree upon, property seldom or never is ivxcLuctiic, iccmie uuieau, quer- , This would be the share-cron bought and sold. LETTER BOX The Journal welcomes letier: from readers for this column o any subject. Your name must fc signed to all articles Intended for publication, however, by request, It can be omitted irom the iette appearing in print. (Contents do not necessarily express the opin ions of this newspaper. The Plattsmouth Journal, Plattsmouth, Nebraska Dear Mr. Furse: Due to your generous cooper ation and that of Mrs. Wolever The Journal contributed mightily to the success of the 50th reunion of the Class of 1904, Plattsmouth High School, last May. You may recall that I ex pressed to you, as I did to Pres ide nt A. W. Huebner of the School Board, and to Supt. T. I. Pi- the hope that our class ha initiated a new tradition for I -US to follow out in suc cei ling years that of permit ti: e alumni of 50 years ago to join each current class at gr. .avation. I am suggesting that The Journal take up this matter with tne senooi aumoriues at an early time. Many more ' mem bers of my class would have been with us on this happy oc casion if more time had been given to the idea. I was too far away to give it the necessary attention. I am further suggesting that The Journal take the initiative in the succeeding years to bring the old classes back to our Alma Mater for a day when they can again relive their happy days at Plattsmouth High School. Just one more means of drawing the Plattsmouth community togeth er. Thank you for giving this idea your careful consideration. Yours cordially, E. F. Tighe (Los Angeles. Calif.) ncome gsi mm Tax Fax (Editors note: This is one of a series of articles on income tax which is being brought to the readers of the Journal as a public service. The series will continue weekly through April A.) By Peter James Wikel Public Accountant Do you have to file a declara tion of estimated tax for 1955? You do if: (1) the gross income for the taxable year can reasonably be expected to consist of wages and of not more than $100 from sources other than such wages, and can reasonably be expected to exceed a) $5,000, in the case of a single individual other than a head of a household or a sur viving spouse or, in the case of a married individual not en titled to file a joint declaration with his spouse; (bi $10,000, in the case of a head of a household or a sur viving spouse; (c) $5,000, in the case of a married individual entitled to file a joint declaration with his spouse, and the aggregate gross income of such individual and his spouse for the taxable year can reasonably be exoected to exceed $10,000; or (2) the gross income can rea sonably be ex pected to in- VVikel elude more than $1000 from sources other than wages and carf reasonably be ex pected to exceed the sum of (a) the amount obtained by multiplying $600 by the number of exemptions to which he is entitled plus b $400. Suppose you are married and have one child for whom you can claim an exemption, then you would figure like so: 3 exemptions at $600 each $1,800 Specific exclusion 400 WOMEN WORKERS The number of women working outside the home has increased over the past few years until it now equals the peak set in World War II. The Labor Department estimates that about 20,000,000 women are in the U. S. labor force at this time. DISARAMENT $2,200 So you would be required to file a declaration if your income could be expected to exceed $2, 200 and would include over $100 from sources other than wages. The declaration may ba a ; joint one with your spouse or a : separate filing. Any tax paid on a separate declaration may i be used to pay the tax due on a j joint final return; likewise any tax paid on a joint declaration ; may be used to pay the tax due on separate final returns. Declarations of estimated tax j are made on form 1040OEK. ' These forms are available at your local office of the Director ; of Internal Revenue. Your estimate and one quar : ter of the tax is due on April I 15, 1955. Payments are due on i June 15th and September 15, 1955, and January 15, 1956. On j any one of these due dates you can file an amended estimate and change the amount of tax you are paying. Also, suppose that you are not required to file an estimate on April 15th. Sup pose also that later in 1955 you have sufficient income to be re quired to file an estimate. Then you file on one of the above dates and pay your tax in in stallments spread over the re maining due dates. ied Stettinius, plus other high- method of renting. Often used up State Department officials, got categoric denials. They went back to Dulles. He insisted the ! story was true. . . This was in March 1945. Prior to this. Dulles in private arrangements, it means that the renter give a set share of his production each year to the landlord and keeps the rest. Its advantage over a had been featured as Thomas fixed "rent is that it takes into E. Dewev"s Secretarv-of-State To-Be. if elected In keeping with bioartisian Foreign policy, I Dulles had been invited to sit j in on State Department confer- ; ences. So the New York Herald Trib ' une, accepting Dulles word, fin- j ally published the sensational ! story. . . The news rocked the nation. But Roosevelt himself confirmed that Russia would get a total of three votes in the United Nations. Inside the Senate when senators probe the Yalta Papers, they plan to ask Mr. Dulles why he leaked one Yalta secret to the New York Herald Tribune to embarrass the Democrats in 1945 and another Yalta secret to the New York Times to embar rass the Democrats in 1955. . . . Senators remember that John Foster had been a part of a Democratic State Department, either as consultant or full-time official for just about eight gears. When he ran for the Senate against Herbert Lehman in 1950, he almost lost his State Department post, was finally saved by Dean Acheson. . . Dur ing the Lehman-Dulles cam paign, some harsh words were spoken against the long-time governor of New York Dulles ! was both bitter and personal. Alter such a senatorial cam I paign, the winner usually "ob ! jects to any federal job given j his opponent. Accordingly, Tru ' man ruled Dulles could not go 1 back to the State Department I account both lean years and Turnpike Bill A bill to. abolish the State Turnpike Authority received a favorable vote from the Legis lature Public Works Committee J and was sent to the Legislature itselff for consideration. Proponents say the authority! RADIATOR REPAIRING ONE-DAY SERVICE Plattsmouth Motors Ph. 287 1M SCREY. MF.-j. TUJLtR. BUT MY D26 BIT HIM.' ,MM OH, MY "1 1 W PAv J 7 K M GRC'OUS.' ) i WHAT A 7) Kllll J n i HAPPENED? 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