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v.v.v.w.v.v. EDITORIALS Furses Fresh Flashes Vm -v.v.w.v.v.v.v.w.v.w.vWBS' yOU CAN HELP Every newspaper is faced with trying times on numerous occasions, but The Jour nal here of late seems to be served more than its just portion. What we are trying to get at is this : Newspapers, whether they be the smallest rural weekly, or giant dailies of metropoli tan areas, are not put together in a few minutes or a few hours. It takes planning on the part of editors, advertising men, and the front office personnel to collect news and copy, write it, and deliver it to compos ing rooms where Linotype operators, floor -rnen, sterotypers, makeupmen and press men must have time to set it into type, make up forms, get them on presses and meet a mailing deadline. All of these operations take a great deal of time. For the past several weeks there has been a breakdown in securing copy early enough and consequently read ers of The Journal do not know how close this newspaper has come to missing the mails on publication day. This is the one eraton that gives publishers ulcers, grey hair, nervous indigeston, heart palpit tations and a dispositon that doesn't pro mote the best maritial relationships around the home fires. It also creates an atmos phere in printer relationships that the av erage friendships are not based upon. Everyone has heard of newspaper "Deadlines" and the time has come when a little adjusting must take place in this newspaper office before everbody connect ed with it goes nuts. We therefore beg, so licit, request, ask, plead and demand that copy for publication in The Journal must reach the business office earlier. News copy of clubs, organzations, etc., must be in our hands within 24-hours following meeting to insure publication in the next issue. No copy two or more days old arriv ing at this office on publicaton day can be assurred of appearing in that day's Journ al. Only exceptions are deaths, accidents . and last minute announcements at the dis cretion of editors and reporters. Advertisers, too, are requested to ob serve deadlines. Copy must be in our hands at the time designated to insure publica tion. Late copy will be handled as time will permit, but will not qualify for space dis counts unless previous arrangements have been made with the business office. These rules, to some, may seem a hard boiled attitude on the part of this news paper, but we can asure you it isn't we would rather be accused of being hard boiled on this earth than be well-baked under the grassy slopes of the local ceme tery but it takes cooperation on the part of all and supreme effort on the part of every member of this newspaper staff to give Plattsmouth and Cass County the kind of newspaper it deserv es. We'll do our part and respectfully re quest that you do yours by submitting copy at the earliest possible time. APPY TAX TIME H The new tax forms, which many Am ericans have been struggling with in re cent days, are perhaps the best that could have been compiled in the short time al lowed for their preparation. In comment ing on them in this editorial, we will keep in mind the fact that Congress gave the Internal Revenue Bureau only a limited amount of time for its compilation. Nevertheless, it is a travesty on justice that millions of Americans who will not be able to obtan professional aid and who must fill out their own tax forms, have had to struggle desperately with these 1954 tax forms. Especially for elderly people, who must file returns on dividend income and other forms of income which are covered in special instructions, the forms are most THOUGHT FOR TODAY He that has more knowledge than judg ment is made for another man's use more than his own. William Penn The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 18S1 Published Semi-Weekly, Mondays and Thursdays, at 410 Main Streol. 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 We're not complaining so much abom our ulcers and colitis these days since read ing a doctor's opinion that only the most highly intelligent are afflicted. Some minds are like concrete all mix ed up and permanently set. The only thing wrong about the present younger generation is that we don't belong to it anymore. A local man says he's got some new puppies for sale from a pedigreed mother. The father is a leash-law violator. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, says it's easy for her to walk the straight and narrow because she's built that way. Weekly thought: We wonder why beans are the only vegetables people are always spilling? Don't be one of those husbands who complain about dinner. Why not take your wife to a restaurant where you both can complain. We're the kind of a husband that feels in his pockets every time we pass a mail box. Trouble is about the only thing you can borrow without references. confusng. Even if one reads the fourteen pages of instructions and millions of Americans will not do this the new forms can be most confusing. As a result, one must expect a conglo meration of approaches to the problem and the use of many home-made systems in filling in these- returns. For most Amer icans, the fact that they were given a thirty-day extension this year does not com pletely make up for the fact that they have had to wrestle with new tax forms which are needlessly confusing and which will, unfortunately, have to be changed again this vear, or next, adding to the confusion. Ticklers By George Down Memory Lane YEARS AGO J Miss Lucille Bedenderfcr of Platts mouth and Francis Nelson of Hastings, were married at noon in Hastings. . .Miss Lois Giles, president of the Plattsmouth high school senior class, appointed commit tees for spring senior activity. . .Two Platts mouth fighters fought to a draw but "Kid" Trively lost on points to Pat Casey in box ing at Camp Plattsmouth. . .Miss Madge Garnett and Miss Lois Bestor, both honor graduates at Plattsmouth high school, were to be honored at the University of Nebras ka honors convocation where they were students. . .An Easter dance featuring the music of "Glen's Rhythm Kings" was scheduled for April 22. . .Plattsmouth was made a port of entry for gasoline trucks and John J. Cloidt appointed official checker. . .Lena Basquette found no shrink ing violet in Edgar SeiJ z of Plattsmouth when kidding him when he was part of an audience at an Omaha theater. Seitz car ried her from the audience to the stage and was awarded a warm embrace. YEARS AGO w E. C. Harris, first ward; John L. Tidball, second ward; S. S. Chase, third ward; John E. Schutz. fourth ward, and James B. Higley, fifth ward were elected to the Plattsmouth city council, a Republi can sweep. . .Harvey Burke caused $40 damage to an electrolier when he rammed it with his auto in Plattsmouth. . .two well known young men from the BREX shops trailed a large catfish many miles in the vi cinity of the Platte and four-mile creek but caught only small ones. . .Hilt Martin was stranded on the front sidewalk at his Plattsmouth store when the door blevy shut and the spring lock snapped. . .the building owner finallv let him in. . . Mayo Visit Made Mrs. William KeteJhut left last Saturday for Mayo Bros with her grandson, Randy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Ketelhut of Lincoln, the 3-year old boy, hav ing undergone a major opera tion on his shoulder and arm a few months ago. He was ill with the flu for a couple of weeks recently and a lung infection re- ! suited, which has made it neces- j .ary to make the trio to the pro fessional surgeons. The commu-, nity are very much concerned about the little fellow and hoo-, ing the most possible miracle. ! might bring him back home with an encouraging report. Eagle Mr. and Mrs. Herman Folk en and son, LeRoy, went to the i southwestern part of Texas, to j visit the former's daughters, ; Betty and Berneda and the lat- 1 f sr'c familipc frr spupral rifivs ! THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE FOUR Monday, April il, 196 AVOCA Mrs. Henry Mascman Correspondent Mrs. L. C. Todd Phone 2441 .vw:-xvxwxvW On Saturday morning, April Mrs. Harold Dumke received 2nd at 11 a.m. the wedding cere word o the death of her cousin, j mony of Reba Jay of Peru Ne . Katie Mueller of North ( braska and Jay Gallatin of Lin -Prairie, Wisconsin. Mrs. Dumke c?hi ,Nebr was performed in nnri AnWct. sfnhimnn .Tr nian- ' Lincoln. Sybil Jay, daughter of ned to attend funeral services Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Einest Emshoff, Mr. and Mrs. John Emshoff, Mr. and Mrs. John Bernes, Mr. and Mrs Elvin Emshoff, Mr. and Mrs. William Luce, Mrs. Wilberi durine the two weeks vacations Ems'-ioff. Mrs. Sophia Emshoff of the former and their son. and Ronald Luce attended the Mrc ffem. fifpmorf w Kppn i wedding of William Emshoff, of Pourn -v r7 frr o fonr tnttalrc ! JT., tO MISS K. 3. Til 6 "I'm not pulling his tail. Mom. This maverick s doing all the pulling I'm just holding him! ' in the hospital where her son, Dr. Hubert Stewart, is m charge. She is slowly improving, suffer ing with an injured arithritic knee condition, and had under gone an eye surgery previously to the injury. Her many Eagle Webbe at Steinhardt Park Lodge Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hennings entertained at the Coffee Cup Cafe Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hallstrom, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Wessel, Mr. munism. Immediately after tak ing office, the new Prime Min ister showed his complete lack of confidence in the Dulles for eign policy by sending a cable to the British ambassador in Moscow asking th2 Kremlin's help in trying to prevent war in the Far East. Eden instructed the British Ambassador to call on Foreign Minister Mplotov and urge that Russia lay a restraining hand on the Red Chinese and keep them from precipitating war. Eden added that he was sure the Rus sians didn't want war. In turn he promised that he would use his intluence to calm Washington. On at least three occasions, Dulles and Eden have clashed on foreign policy. One was prior to the Geneva conference last year when Vice President Nixon talked about sending the U. S. Army into Indo-China, and when Admiral Raoford tried to persuade Crur chill to cooperate with us in sending airplane carriers to help the nation has been built. Today it not only handles cancer but is experimenting with heart and mental diseases, and has managed to keep alive for six years a child stricken with leukemia. Hitherto, luekemia, cancer of the blood, has been fatal. During his visit, Senator Mag nuson asked Dr. John Heller, head of the National Cancer In stitute, what progress they were making in discovering a cure for cancer. "We are closing in on it," was Heller's cautious reply. He went on to tell how 10,000 women in Memphis had been examined for Cancer and 695 cases dis covered, 20 per cent of whom were women under 19 years. "If we had enough money to make these examinations throughout the country," com mented Magnuson, "Think how many lives we could save! "As a matter of fact," contin ued Magnuson, "The cost of this entire health institute over the friends are wishins her a soeedv I and Mrs. Carl Zaizer, Mr. and recovery. Mrs. Eli Wilson, Mrs. Emma Ra- Camp Creek Club members ! walt. Mrs- Pauline Ludwig and will meet at Mrs Howard Root's 1 Faula. home on Friday, April 15th, in- I Lt. Ralph Emshoff is visiting stead of Thursday, due to the! his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John fact, the hostess will serve her Emshoff. other "OSC" club members on ! Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hermann Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Mey- j Syracuse, entertained at a birth ers is unable to be hostess for j dav dinner Sunday honoring her the Camp Creek club for this 'father, George Sudman. Also meeting and will exchange with ; present were Mrs. Henry Sud the former for the next meeting j man, Omaha, Mrs Ed Seimers in May. The latter's mother is i and sens cf Sidney. . - ... beleaguered DienBienphu. Dull- j years since we built it has been es uiuugm nau an agreement : less than one destrover - tf is slowly improving. W. S. C. S? Meets The Women's Society o f Christian Service met at the church basement Wednesday af ternoon. Following the business meeting, the election of officers was held with the re-election of officers for another year. Mes dames Laura Lanning and Nora Ketelhut were co-hosteses. How ever, on latter's absence sever al ladies assisted in the serving. Eagle Mrs. A. F. Schwenker enter tained at her home last Satur Harry Mead. Fremont, were overnight guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Carr. On Friday Mrs. Harry Gobelman, Union, visited with Mr. and Mrs Carr. Supper guests Thursday eve- ith Mrs. John Lingle, Sr., n: WO D Hai Mr N: Be here Mr Mrs. Jay was maid of honor and Bryan Gallatin, son of the groom, was best man. Mrs. Gal latin is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Faris of Union. She is a teacher in the Peru College Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Beck have moved to the Bertha Hath away farm Mrs. Hathaway and her mother, Mrs Lottie Pickens, have moved into the Willis house. Rev. and Mrs. Jerry Dunn at tended church services in "Back to the Bible" services at Lin coln, last Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Green and family of Scranton, Kars., and daughter, Dorothy, of Car bondale Kans., spent the week end at the Merle Ried home. Mr. and Mrs John McQuin and little son Johnny of Omaha, were in Union a short time la.st Monday afternoon calling on some of their relatives and friends. Mr. McQuin, a teacher in the Omaha schools, is en joying his Easter vacation. During the morning church services at the Methodist church last Sunday there was special music by the choir and a vocal solo by Carol Ann Pike entitled "The Palms." She was accom panied on th? organ by Mrs. Snodgrass and on the piano by Mrs. Ora Guerra. Thirteen mem bers were added to the church roll. By baptism there were Del- hfrt, I.inrisrv TVTrs Wmw PiV Irs. Louij Carsten, Mrs. , and son; Tommy, Carol Atteberv. U.I1U Jd,Il meuilieiiaei , KPtt.v TYlIP mrt Rli r mi Tumor , r v V J T A A. u . . 1 1 1 I I 1 1 A 1 A 1 1 1A1 111 1 By letter there were Ivan Bal four, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Green- wald, Mrs. Pean Everett, Mrs. Donal Meredith, and Fred Lind- sey and Mrs. Vcrl Ackley. y Harshman, Mrs. Minnie Ister, ird Henry, Omaha, visited aturday night. nd Mrs. Roy Ruhae sncnt Sunday in Kearney visiting his brother-in-law, Ellis Mercer. Mrs. Mercer and children have with Eden on a joint, get-tough policy, only to find Eden sup ported Neutralist Premier Neh ru instead. Other differences took place "It isn't a nappy thing to thing about," said the Senator from Washington, "But one out of every five people either have cancer or are going to get it. day evening, Mesdames Arth-; been visiting here and at Ne tir Adams, O. E. Underwood, H. ' braska City and accompanied D. Fischer and Orville Pitzerj the Ruhees. while the husbands attended Mrs. Henry Sudman Omaha lodge at Elmwood. j spent the weekend here. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. Lester King and of Elmwood called at the John i daughter moved to Weeping: RADIATOR REPAIRING ONE-DAY SERVICE Plattsmouth Motors Washington Ave. Ph. 287 at the Geneva conierem.e uhere ; Yet we seem to be afraid to ap- Fischer home last Wednesday : Water over the weekend Eden not Dulles, played the ma jor role in bringing about a com promise Indo-Chinese peace. Eden and Dulles also differed i regarding French cooperation in the European defense com I munitv. In the end Eden's views ! prevailed. It s more than likely, there propriate money to fight man's most dreaded disease. Note When Magnuson and Bone introduced the first Cancer bill in 1938, never before had the federal government appropriat ed money to aid human beings by medical research. Congress nad appropriated money to fight evening. Mrs. Lura Melvin who Mrs. Myron Shrorier. Lincoln had been visiting in Elmwood 1 has been a medical patient at accompanied them and was an j Bryan Memorial for several days evening- visitor returning to Lin- j following an attack of the flu. coin Thursday. Mrs. Caroline Marquardt came Mr. ond Mrs H. N. Phillips, j home from Utica where sh$ has granddaughter, Sharon Phillips, ; been near her brother Fred fore, that Prime Minister Eden i Bang's disease in cows and hoof will insist on dealing with Pres ident Eisenhower and let Mr. Dulles walk on the opposite side of the street. Presidential Pitchers Clark Griffith, grand old man of baseball, says that Harry Tru man is the best Presidential pitcher who's ever tossed out a ball at the opening of the sea son. Harry once hit an Umpire in the rear end as he stooped over to dust off home plate. . . . Most enthusiastic Presidential baseball fan was Teddy Roose velt, says Griffith. . . .The first President to toss out a ball was I William Howard Taft. . . .F. D. j R. tossed out more baseballs I than any other President, I though he was interrupted at ' times during the war. . . .Eisen hower got a slew of protests when he declined to throw out the ball at the opening of the season in '53. He had made a golf appointment in Augusta. Fortunately, bad weather post and -mouth disease in sheen. hogs and cattle, but not a cent to combat human diseases. EAGLE Mrs. John Fischer Correspondent was chosen for Girls' State and Mr. Arthur Nelson's grand daughter Joyce Miller, alternate, for Girls' State from the Junior class at Elmwood recently. Eagle Visits in Denver Mrs. LaVelle Swarts visited her parents in Denver ing left last Friday and return- 1 m J 1 1 A 1 1 r eu luesaay. wnne mere, sne vis ited former Eagle neighbors and friends, the Ivan Bassett family, who moved to Engle wood, Colo, from Eagle, last November. The Swarts report the Bassett family busy with lucra- ueccard who is some improved, following pneumonia. Colo., hav-li: Communist China need not give ud its claim to sovereignty over Formosa if it renounces force as an instrument of its for eign policy. Secretary Dulles !1K, Misses Freda and Caroline j tive positions and enjoying the Reitter were dinner guests, at weather, as well as good health, the John Weyers home last Sun- The Bassett's purchased a new day j ly built duplexes and which are Mr. and Mrs. Donald Wulf of all rented, at this time. We are Humboldt, visited last weekend, glad to hear about our former at the home of the former's par- inenas ana tnougn we miss: ents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wulf. i them, we are happy to hear they The Geo Wickline family who are doing fine and enjoying lived in the Stubbendeck proper- i their new home and good health. ty moved to Lincoln recently. Ease The American Legion Auxilia- Mr. and Mrs Dallas Fifer ofi rv members met. at. the Winn Lincoln visited with his mother. , putieu me gitinc xie was iuiany i nail last Monday evening with mis. Anna rner, last sunaay. (on deck for the opener. . . .No I Mesdames Maxine Beach and Mr. and Mrs. Chet Hieselman.1 ; recent candidate for President , Elsie Althouse serving on the re-; formerly of Eagle an now tele- , nas oeen elected wnose picture ; freshment committee. ! phone operator at Palmyra. The was not already in the amaz- i Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schweg- former was a blacksmith at ing photo gallery on Clark Grjf- man visited at the home of their 1 Eagle and Elmwood several years ! fith's walls. Griffith says he ! granddaughter, Mrs. Dale Oberle I then moved to southeast Nebr. , knew before the 1952 campaign , Mr. Oberle, Cindav last Tuesdav; Prior to moving to Palmyra. started that Eisenhower would ; in T.inmin Mrs. Nina Frohlich of Lincoln Mr. and Mrs. Keith Trumble was visiting in Eagle last Fri attended the Independent Groc-' day morning, ers Alliance Convention at Lin- i Mr. Rudolph Oberle was ill for coin, last Monday afternoon and I a couple of weeks with the flu evening. Mrs. Flossie Trumble i but is able to be about again, and son, Dayle and wife, attend-; we are glad to report. ed the convention on Tuesday afternoon and evening. The con- iHfHil!iHiIBi!!fll!!ilH!!Hiini!ll!l Edwin T. McHugh ATTORNEY Office in Corn Growers j State Bank Murdock Nebraska W Twice-a-Day Service Plattsmouth to Omaha Also Bcllevue Offutt Field and LaPlatte Plattsmouth Transfer Plattsmouth 5255 Omaha HA 6733 i " m be elected, because he had Ike's picture, but not Taft's who orig inally opposed Ike, nor Adlai Stevenson's. . . .Of the present potential candidates, Griffith has pictures of Vice President Nixon, Sens. Lyndon Johnson of Texas, Styles Bridges of New tlie Washington Merry-Go -Round By DREW PEARSON Hampshire, but not Knowland ; of California, Kefauver of Tenn essee, or Stevenson, First Cancer Battler It was exactly 17 years ago ; that a young Congressman from I Washington State introduced a vention sessions included busi ness meeting, lectures and ban quet on each evening. Eagle Pif-zer Baby born Mr. and Mrs. Orville Pitzer re- HjJIJ mam. miouunioaam 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. (Copyright, 1955, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.1 DREW PEARSON SAYS: DULL ES AND ANTHONY EDEN DON'T LOVE EACH OTHER AT ALL; CLARK GRIFFITH PAYS TRIBUTE TO HARRY TRUMAN AS A PITCH ER: SENATOR MAGNUSON'S BAT TLE AGAINST CANCER HAS MADE GREAT PROGRESS. Washington You can write it down as certain that American-Briii coopera tion on Foreign policy isn't going to get any big lift from the ascension of Sir Anthony Eden as Prime Minster unless Eden deals exclusvely with President Eisenhower. Inside fact is that Eden and John Fos ter Dulles just don't get along. Eden con siders Dulles a novice and a bumbler. Dul les, in turn has referred to Eden in private as an appeaser. Once, during the Indo China crisis, he felt that Eden was trying to win a Nobel peace prize for himself at the expense of a firm stand against Corn- bill in the House of Representa- j ceived the phone call from their ; tives providing for a National j son, Billy Saturday evening ; Cancer Research Center. At the j from Lincoln, that they were ': time he introduced it there were ! grandparents of a baby girl born howls of "Socialism" from many j on Saturday, April 2 at the Bry of his colleagues. ! an Memorial hospital in Lincoln. Nevertheless after a tough ' Mrs. Billy Pitzer is the former tight and with the help of Sen. Shirley Ostrander. Both of the The election was held at Eagle to elect the board of education and town board officers last Tuesday. Those serving on the election board were Mesdames Fred Wall Effie Richards and! August Schwegman as judges and Doris Schmidt and Luella Fischer as clerks. Homer Bone, also of Washing ton and now U. S. Court of Ap peals judge in San Francisco, the bill finally passed. Last week the young man who introduced the bill. Sen. Warren Magnuson. now senior Senator from Washington, went out to Bethesda, Md, to inspect the National Institutes of Health which his bill had helped to found in 1938. At that time. Con- j gress was so niggardly that no ! money was available for the land, but finally Mrs. Julia Wil : son, whose husband had died of ' cancer, donated a large amount of acreage and gradually the chief cancer research center of latter are Eagle classmates and graduates. KARR & SOCHOR Auditors & Accountants Audits Income Tax Service Bookkeeping Systems Installed Ph. 6287 Donat Building COINC PLACES Any way you look at it. It just doesn't pay to travel without a Personal Property Floater Policy. Insure thru this agency. Steve Davis Phone 6111 2nd Floor Bank Bidg. 5th & Main Plattsmouth Spring Costs Money Borrow the Cash You Need for Taxes, Clothes, Car, Farm Equipment. Insurance, Air Conditioner or Any Other Purpose! Quick Confidential Easy! 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