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SOCIETY XXX dDOITW JJ'dDQilSWM CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED SEMI - WEEKLY Monday - Thursday it H Consolidated With the Nchawka Enterprise and Elmwood Leader-Echo Delivered Twice, Weekly to More Than 3000 Cass County Families VOLUME 74 SIXTEEN PACES PLATTSMOUTH, CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1955 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NUMBER 39 iyxalcs hXJT Scfrpoi My sic ore llnrrBiedl The mudc department of Plattsmouth high school has grown beyond the supervision of one person and the time would be here next fall when the number of children taking part in vocal and instrumental music would have to be reduced or another teacher supplied. : This was told the Plattsmouth The Winners r Brooks . school board 0 - Dunham school board 23 Are Entered Talent Contest Of Lions Here More than 23 entries have been announced for the Platts mouth Lions Club's talent con test which will be. held at the Community Building here Sat urday, starting at 7:30 p. m. Entries wrill vie in many dif ferent types of entertainment for a chance to go to the district contest at Oakland on May 10 where the winners will move on to the state contest at Grand Island on June 5 in exnense paid trips by the Lions Club. Two contestants judged the winners, one in a junior division and one in the senior division will make the trip to the district contest. Judges for Saturday night's contest here will be from out of town one from Bellevue, one from South Omaha and one from Millard. First and second in each division will receive trophies. Here's a partial list of contest ants for the Saturday night event. Senior Division Tap Danc ing; Jeanine Newton and Nancy Siemoniet. Sax Solo: Brenda Ofe, Linda Livington. PIANO SOLO: Linda Livingston. Piano Solo: Carol Davis, Margaret Eiting, Shirley Story. Vocal Solo: Shir ley Story, Mary Ann Ryan, Shar on Harboueh. Baton Twirling: Sharon Harbaugh. Junior Division Baton Twirling and Acrobatics: Char lene Lewis. Tap Dancing: Bud Lewis, Susan Solomon, Sandra Sue Abel, Kay Casey. Piano Solo: Sharon Dunlap.Byron Nelson, Keenan Eiting. Accordian Solo: Carolyn Vinduska. Accordian Trio: Carolyn Vinduska, Patty Toman and Sandra Toman. Abends Convention Dr. P. T. Heineman attended a 3-day session of Nebraska Den tal Association meeting at Lin coln last weekend. THE WEATHER Compiled for. the Plattsmouth Journal at the Masonic Home Weather Station, Plattsmouth. Nebraska. April 4-6, 1955. High Low Prec. Monday 70 40 Tuesday 70 33 Wednesday .... 58 38 Forecast: Generally fair, war mer today, high 55-65. board of education Monday night at a regular monthly meeting by Melvin McKenney, director of vocal and instrumen tal music at the school. McKenney said that the situ ation has reached the point where he does not have enough time to properly instruct stu dents as individuals and as groups in both vocal and instru mental since the number has grown to 19S instrumental stu dents plus all vocal in high school. Under the present setup, McKenney told the, school board, Plattsmouth high could have many bands but couldn't have a good one. Presently, the school has four bands. Instruction by McKen ney on band instruments be gins in the fifth grade. After a discussion, the board asked superintendent T. I. Friest to search for a teacher who could take some of the high school vocal work off McKen ney's hands plus teaching some other high school subjects. The board is also attempting to fill a vacancy left by the resignation of Miss Marian Ur bach, elementary music instruc tor. Miss Urbach has accepted a position to teach in the Beatrice school system. A concert involving the contestants who will be entries in the district music contest at Fremont will be given at the high school auditorium at 7:39 p. m., Tuesday night. Only entry excluded will be the high school band. All four of the high school's bands will give a concert of their own on April 19. -Tuesday night's concert, which will last about two hours, will in clude vocal and instru mental solos, music by small groups in both categories, and the mixed chorus. In other action the board: 1.' Decided to use busses to transport 110 contestants to the district music contest at Fre mont this spring. 2. Authorized McKenney to spend $225 for new tape record ers and record players. 3. Talked with Orville Nielsen of the Band Parents club about transpoiting students and agreed that it would be better to transport them by bus but left the question for further dis cussion. 4. Noted that tney wouia not object if the seniors made their "Sneak Day" a conducted tour bv the Burlington railroad to Chicago, the fare being $17.90 each including two meals d. Instructed Supt. Friest to have the football field plowed i and seeded as requested by ath letic coaches. i 6. Noted that the Salk inoccu j lations for polio may be coming for first and second graders with the vaccine free but with doc tor's expense to each student $1 per shot for three necessary ; shots. B ? Decided to pay the differ ! ence or $m. rz ior a suae ior cen tral school. The .school will fur nish the major part of the (Continued cn Page 3) rs.J.W. Crabill Taken To Hospital Mrs. J. W. Crabill was taken to Methodist hospital in Omaha Wednesday by Sattler ambulance for medical treatment and' ob servation. Mrs. Crabill has been in ill health for several months and has not responded to treat ment. It is hoped her stay in the hospital will greatly improve her condition. Seventy officers of Boys anc'-K Girls County have been reported to Chitrman Richard Peck of the Plattsmouth American Le gion. Thus five of 11 towns in the county, which are expected to ?end offic-deleeates. have re oorted on the students who will reorsent the schools in the April 13 event at the Cass county courthouse in Plattsmouth. Plattsmouth high school Tues day furnished a list following an election. Schools reporting to date are Greenwood, Alvo. Eagle, Avoca, Louisville and Plattsmouth. Mr. Peck todav released the program for the day April 13. Registration will take place cn the mam floor hallway of the courthouse beginning at 9 a. m. Stephen Davis Named to Head Rotary Club Stephen M. Davis- was elected as president of the Plattsmouth Rotary Club for the 1955-56 term at the Club's regular Tuesday meeting at Hotel Plattsmouth Coffee Shop. Mr. Davis, realtor and insurance executive here, is the son of S. S. Davis, a pas president of Rotary. Other officers narrrd were Clement T. Woster, vice-president; Dr. A. L. Amato, secre tary; John Schreiner, treasurer. Directors named included Fred I. Rea, Dr. P. T. Heineman, Dr. L. S. Pucelik and Wm. (Bill) Knorr. Junior Rotarians for the mcnth of April selected to rep resent the local public schools were in attendance for the first time. They were Marion Hild, senior class, and James Ulrich, junior. Thev were introduced by Supt. T. I. Friest. Geo Smith was program chair man for the day and presented a film on "Credit' ' through the courtesy of Dun and Bradstreet, nationally known compilers of credit . information throughout the world. The film dealt with the problem through first eff orts of tradesmen of the early days until the present, and re vealed many of the complicated systems necessary to furnish wholesalers with up-to-the-minute credit information. Red Cross Fund Drive Moving; Passes $500 Plattsmouth's Red Cross Fund drive was well past the $500 mark today and was pushing on, as clubs and organizations re ported back to drive chairman Walter Smith. Reported in this week was $123.40 to add tg the already accumulated total. Contributors reported this week: $20.00 Mr. and Mrs, Searl S. Davis. $5.00 Caldwell-Linder Funeral Home, Mr. & Mrs.'John Bercrman. Mr. Otto Keck. Mrs: A. Wetenkamp, Mrs. Mina Propst W. S. Hall. $2.00 Henry Starkjohn, Mrs. Paul D. Winborne, Fred Herbster, Mr. and Mrs. John Alwin, Mrs. Bill Knorr, Mrs. Don Hansen, Mr. & Mrs. J. J. Cloidt. Sr., Mr. and Mrs. H. E, White, Michael Hild. $1.50 Mrs. Katherine Kintz $1.25 Mrs. Morawetz. $1.00 Mrs. Joseoh Wiles, Mrs. H. Mitchell, W. E. Maston, Herman Maasen, J. W-. Stone, J. E. Lathan, Frank Clifford, Walt Sikora, Dee Nielsen, Mrs. Ken Schroder, Mrs. Erna Yenney, Mr. & Mrs. Glen McClure, Mr. & Mrs. Ed Egenberger, Mr. & Mrs. K. L. Dunlap, Mrs. J. L. Eppler, Mrs. Barbara Blank, Mrs. John Parkening, Mr. & Mrs. Frank Gunsclley, Verna Rhoden, Mrs. Merle Stewart, Mrs. M. H. Worthan, Mrs. Glen Vallery, Frank Svdlitz, Earl W. Hunter Mr. "id Mrs. Albert Funk, H. J. Men nger, Grace Perry, Julia Svobcda, Mary Holy, James Holy, Mrs. L. B. Swoboda, Mrs. Les Neil, Mrs. Wayne Gorton, Mrs. Earl Harris, Miss Laura Engelkemier, Mrs. D. M. Babbitt, Delmont Heedum, Charles Chris tenson, Irs. Mae Jones, Mrs. Elizabeth Engelkeimer, Raymond Hild, Mr. and Mrs. Garfield Dun ning, Mrs. Mabel Cummings, El mer Lohnes, Mr. and Mrs. Bob White, Mrs. LeRoy Wilson, Mrs. James Warga, Mrs. John Her fordt.Mrs. H. E. Davis, .Mrs. J. C. Willett, Mrs. R. H. Buchholtz. Under $1.00 Mrs. Wm. Steer, Mrs. R. W. Bernhardt, Henry Engelkemier, Helen Faith, Mrs. Nash, Rose Prohaska. Mr. Quin ette, Mrs. John Chudy, Antonia Pitz, Mrs. James F. McMillian. MOVED TO CLARKSON Mr. L. Hoschar has been re moved from the Hall rest home at Union to the Clarkson hos pital. He was taken by the Satt ler ambulance on Sunday. Subscribe to The Journal NOW! Following this, each student county officer will report to the office to which he has been elceted and .introduce himself to the county official with whom he will work, for the day. A general assembly will be held in the district courtroom at 9:30 a. m. with Chairman Richard Peck presiding. Regular county officers will explain their duties to the stu dents at this meeting with the oath of office administered to student officers by County Judge Raymond J. Case. A court trial demonstration will be given by attorneys Walt er H. Smith and Harold Lebens the Lions ciub COmmunity t Building for lunch to be served ; by the Plattsmouth American Voters Take 1, - 1 ' ' f I . r ' A I :; . i ' . W u j I 5 - " n Voters 47 and 48 choose their candidates at the courthouse polls. Voting lagged all through the day but hit an upswing dur ing the evening. Voters drifted in one at a time during the day. These two voters were comparatively a crowd for the precinct one, ward one, voting at about four o'clock. Other polls followed a similar pattern. A total of 625 voters cast ballots Tuesday for city councilmen and school board members. This was a higher vote than the slightly over 400 who voted in a similar election twTo years ago. Journal Photo. . Easter Bun ny to -,r A r r i ve. JMe're ; Saturday, Egg Hunt at Park The annual Easter Egg Hunt, : sponsored by the Plattsmouth Chamber of Commerce will be held this Saturday, April 9th. Mr. L. A. Caldw?ell, chairman of the promotion, announced today that the Easter Bunny and the little bunnies will arrive in downtown Plattsmouth at 1:30 p, m., Saturday. The Egg Hunt will be held at Garfield Park at 2.00 p. m., with Al Linder and the Plattsmouth Boy Scouts in charge. All young sters of the Plattsmouth area between the ages of 2 and 8 are invited to take part in the wild scramble for Easter eggs. The John Skelton Rites Set Here Tomorrow; Died in Lincoln Funeral services for John S. Skelton of LaPlatte, who died at Lincoln Tuesday, April 5, will be held at the Sattler Funeral home in Plattsmouth tomorrow, (Friday) April 8, at 2 p m. Rev. Keith Delap will officiate. Buri al will be in La Platte cemetery. He had been ill for seven years. Mr. Skelton was born on March 15, 1924, at Omaha, the son of Jeremiah and Alice Dav idson Skelton. He was not mar ried. He had lived in La Platte for a life time and was a member of the Presbyterian church there. Surviving are his father, Jer emiah; three sisters, Mrs. John Sander, San Pedro, Calif.; Mrs. Earl Fletcher, Chicago, 111.; Mrs. Charles Ducker of Fort Crook; two brothers, EJJis Skelton of La Platte and Jeremiah Skelton, Jr., of Kearney. Legion Auxiliary. Plattsmouth high school will furnish enter tainment following lunch The student officers will re port back to their respective off ices in the afternoon to study the work done there and assem ble in the district court room at 3:15 p. m. for reports by group representatives. The Boys and Girls County Government Participation Day is sponsored in Plattsmouth by the American Legion, the Lions Club and the Rotary Club. Officers ..reported -to the Le gion committee this week. Plattsmouth county com missioner, Bev. Harris; county clerk, Jeanine Newton; county assessor, Ed Ulrich; county at torney. Jim Ulrich; district court clerk, Bev Sprieck; county judge, Their Choice Mrrr if imwiuiLi r ' cmmmwmrf ' " children will be -divided into three groups, from 2-3,4-5, and 6-8. ' Plattsmouth merchants, par ticipating in the event, will have the names of the stores printed on some of the eggs. Each par ticipating merchant will have four eggs. The children finding these eggs will take them to the store whose name is on the egg and will be given a prize. Mrs. Zulema Dye is in charge of pre paring the eggs for the hunt. All youngsters," urban and rur al, are invited. Lutheran Service Set Good Friday First Lutheran Church, Wash ington and Avenue D, will -observe Holy Week by conducting a special Good Friday Service in which the Sacrament of the Holy Communion will be cele brated. The Good Friday service will begin at 7:30 p.m. Small Damage Found In Traffic Mishap Small damage to twro motor vehicles was reported by the Cass county sheriff's office to day following a collision on highway 34 between Plattsmouth and the river bridge. Walter C. Fowler of Glenwood. Ia., was driving on No. 34 toward the bridge when his machine collided with one going in the opposite direction driven by George E. Koppit, Red Oak, la. Fowler told Sheriff Solomon he was lighting a cigaret just before the collision. No injury was reported. Deanna Hutton: register of deeds. Butch Furse; county sheriff, Denny Hirz; county superintendent, Nancy Siemo neit; county surveyor, Dan Huebner; county treasurer, Rose Mary Nelson. Margaret Eiting was appointed to serve in the Welfare office. . Alvo Regiter of deeds, Mari lyn Sutton; sheriff, Eleanor Kellog; county judge, La Von Howe; county commissioner, Noble O. Fisher; surveyor, Arlan Neben; treasurer. Robert Gar cia; county clerk, George H. Hoss; superintendent, James Vincent; assessor, Norma Win get; county attorney, Ray Rose now; welfare director, Rita Her mance; district court clerk, John LI Garcia. Avoea County treasurer, eptLabDkooTis Yoke Tw Cidodso0 Seofts, DemrasiriG$ Oeft dd J. F. McMillian Funeral Rites Here Tomorrow Funeral services for James F. McMillian, father of Jim Mc Millian of Plattsmouth, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, April 8, at the Caldwell-Linder Funeral chapel in Plattsmouth. Burial will be at Forest Lawn cemetery, Omaha. Mr. McMillian died April 3 of a heart attack at Bell, Calif. Visiting hours at the funeral home will be in the afternoon and evening today (Thursday), 4 to 6 and 7 to 9 p.m. Rev. Erwin Kiel will conduct the services with the Veterans of Foreign Wars in charge at the grave. - Music will be by Mr. Ray mond Cook and Mrs. J. Howard Davis Bearers will be Al Huebner, Henry Nolting, Fred Rutherford, Walter Sikora, Ray Wiysel, and Joe York. Mr. McMillian was born on June 27, 1882, at Shreveport, La., and was married to Blanche Freads who preceded him in death at Omaha m March, 1920. He lived in Omaha for 30 years and then in Bell, Calif., for 18 years. He was a bank guard. A Spanish-American War vet eran, Mr. McMillian was a mem ber of the Methodist church. He is survived by two daugh ters, Marlene McMillian and Maxie McMillian of Omaha, and one son, James F. McMillian and two grandchildren, of Platts mcuth. Easter Breakfast By Lions Sunday An Easter breakfast will be served by the Plattsmouth Lions Club at the Community build ing Sunday morning to accomo date early morning worshipers. Serving will begin at 6 a. m. and end at 10:30 a.m. Commissioners Approve Bids Church Road Cass county's board of com missioners Tuesday approved low bids on the construction of 11 miles of road, Greenwood East, and passed a resolution to pay the county's part in a fed eral matching fund arrange ment for culvert, grading and bridge work to be done on the project. A combination of low bidders of 15 submitted for the approval of the commissioners, brought the total cost of the work to $71,561.79. The engineer's esti mate had been $64,000. The commissioners took up the matter of bids two weeks ago and approved the culvert and grading bids but then tabled their work for further investiga tions after finding they could not approve bridge bids immedi ately, since all were too high. After further investigation, and advice that the bids forthcom ing were likely the best they could get, the board took the matter up again on Tuesday and passed the resolution to approve what were determined to be the low bidders. , The bids approved: Allen R. Scott, grading itemst $12,816.74; U. H. Kaasmeyer and Sons, cul vert items, $12,456.95; Hollings worth Construction company, bridge items, $46,288.10. Robert Kirchoff; county clerk, Glen Murdock county commis sioner, Harold Ehmke; Jackie Moyer, district clerk; county at torney, Carlene Allgayer; sur veyor, Tom Fletcher; super intendent Clyde Fletcher; sheriff, Robert Noerrlinger; assessor, Aincel Shrader; regis ter of deeds, Mariann Lindhart; county judge, Luella Buchholz. Louisville Welfare director, Kathryn Nessen; assessor, Joe Sterling; commissioner, James Heard; county judge, Mary Jo Reichart; treasurer, Joel Heim; register of deeds, Norman Bak er; county clerk, Evelyn Love; sheriff Gary Welton; county at torney, Glenn Eager; superin tendent, Jackie McKinstry; sur veyor, Eugene Kobler; district clerk, Bill Workman. Two Republicans and one Democrat will move into Plattsmouth city council seats on May 1 following a slow and quiet election here Tuesday. Lyle Grove and Jim McMillian, both Republicans will fill vacancies being vacated by B; H. G. Eiting, Dem ocrat in the first ward, and Clark Finney, Democrat,' from the second ward. William G. Highfield, Democrat, will fill out the unexpired term of Sam Arn, who resigned, a position now held on appointment by Merlin Jochim sen Dean Dunham and Wiley G. Brooks won posts on the board of education. Grove and Robert T. Whelan The Winners - rTiVw ... . . Highfield . . . council McMilnan . . . council Missing Girl Was Not in Plattsmouth A 14-year-old girl, reported missing after a gathering of teen-agers in Plattsmouth late Saturday, is still missing. Sher iff Tom Solomon reported to day. But he also reported that investigation by Bellevue police has revealed that she was never in Plattsmouth. The missing report arose after the Bellvue police arrested a group of Bellevue boys for being drunk, who said they had been at a party in Plattsmouth. Solomon said the gathering began as a slumber party by a group of Plattsmouth girls but later 15 Bellevue boys brushed into the party. The group was later joined by four Plattsmouth youths. There was no adult sponsor, the sheriff said. Solomon said investigation re vealed that the Bellevue boys had .been drinking before thv came to Plattsmouth and brought beer with them. None of the Plattsmouth young people drank except one boy, he said. The Bellevue boys said they had found out about the slum ber party a week before it was to take place. Solomon said investigation is continuing. Miss Thelma Olson of Kan sas City Mo. was a weekend jjuest of relatives here Omv . . . oonnril ! '' - I.' 1 i VJ' " r " . J Li :;: .v,:'!;: ., , :v;v.v. v.- :- :.: : ;;;'-:-:v.-:v..::' . . X ran the closest race of any in the city election when Grove's 106 votes was only seven more than Whelan's 99 in the first ward race. McMillian defeated Frank Li bershal by 19 votes in the sec ond ward race for a two-year term. McMillian had 206, Liber shal 187. Highfield defeated Eugene Vroman for a 1-year term from the second ward by 75 votes 240 to 165. v In the race for board of edu cation seats, Dean Dunham scored highest of all when he collected 365 votes, leading Dr, Wiely Brooks by four votes. Dr. Brooks had 361. Being top vote getters, each will get a board of education seat. Two other candidates in the board of education race ran at , a slower pace as Albert Hansen had 290 votes and Margaret Weaver 100 fewer 100. Though the election appeared extremely slow, the vote was heavier than two years ago. This year's 625 votes in the election was greater than the 450 cast in 1953. The first ward councilma race was close in both precincts with Grove leading in both CO to 58 in the first precinct and 46 to 41 in the second precinct. In the second ward, McMillian ran ahead in all three precincts 91 to 93 in the first; 50 to 48 in the second; 65 to 46 in the thiid. For the 1-year term, Highfield' ran ahead in all three precincts. 119 to 73; 60 to 38; 61 to 54. It was a cool but' good day for the election which found the polls empty most of the day as voters drifted in in ones and twos with most of the votes cast after five o'clock in most pre cincts. Korn Karnival Colored Moyies To Be Shown Officers of Kass Kounty King Koin Karnival are making a last-ditch stand to secure a quorum for an annual meeting rf the organization for ne5tt Wednesday night, April 13, at 7:30 p. m., at the Hotel Platts mouth Coffee Shop. Orville Nielsen long time ac tive promoter of Karnival af fairs, will offer a showing of numerous colored movies of past shows that.should prove of great interest to Cass Countians who have participated in parades and other features of the annual event. Officers of the Karnival point out that the time is growin?; short for plans and action to be taken on the 1955 KarnivaL There are a number of changed that should be made and the committees need the help of every-one to line up events for this year's show to please the greatest number of citizens Kass Kounty King Korn Kar nival is one annual event occur ring in Plattsmouth that has given the city a tremendous amount of favorable publicity; has attracted thousands of peop le to the community and has been instrumental in cementing close relationships with residents of other communities over a wide area. Make plans now to attend this meeting next Wednesday night. It will take only a few minutes of your time and you will enjoy the showing of these color movies of previous Karni val parades and activities. Off icers of the Korn Klub stress the importance of your help in plan ning this year's show Mrs. Elmer Terry Services Saturday WEEPING WATER Funeral services for Mrs. Elmer. Terry of Weepinar Water will be held ft 2 o.m., Saturdav, April 9. at the Christian church in Weepin" Water. Rev John Albers will of ficiate. Mrs. Torrv died April 7 after a 'ong illness. She is survived by her hus band, Elmer Terry; two sons Gerald and James. Hobson Funeral hom wm k. 1 in charge of servicts.