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07AIS HIST. SOCIETY XXI 1500 R ST. LINCOLN, KSEH. CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED SEMI - WEEKLY Monday - Thursday n LfU Consolidated With the Nehawka 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 14, 1955 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NUMBER 41 Boys and Girls Countians Swear in for Duty iPD5 C301 Shot Clark Pinsief "This will go down in history as the most childish council Plattsmouth ever had." Clark Finney, out-going councilman from the second ward made this statement at a regular meeting of the Plattsmouth council Monday night. .0ne of us says rm going to Eledge Service Set for Friday At Plattsmouth Funeral services for Minnie Melissa Eledge, who died at an Omaha hospital Monday, April 11, will be held at the Sattlr Funeral Home in Plattsmouth Friday, April 15, at 2 p. m. Rev. J. W. Taenzler of Omaha will officiate. Burial will be in Oak hill cemetery at Plattsmouth. Visiting hours will be 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 Thursday, April 14 at the Sattler Funeral Home. Mrs Eledge was born on Feb. 25, 1896 at Bethlehem, la., the daughter of Benjamon and Del ilah Harris Piatt. She was mar ried in March 1911, in Platts mouth to George Grover Eledge and lived in Plattsmouth after her marriage. She spent her girl hood days at Pacific Junction, la. She is survived by four daugh ters. They are Mrs. Edith Haley, Plattsmouth; Mrs. Mary Reuse, Plattsmouth; Mrs. Esther Peter son, Omaha; Mrs. LaVaunne Winters, Omaha. Three surviv ing sons are George, Leo and Walter Eledge all of Platts mouth. Twenty grandchildren survive. Her husband, one son, and two daughters preceded her in death. , Other relatives surviving are her step-father, George Green of Pacific Junction, la.; four sis ters, Mrs. Andy Peterson, Oma ha; Mrs. Lula Fie her, and Mrs. Mary Hunter, Pacific Junction; Mrs. Andy Duffy, Modesto, Calif. Two surviving brothers are Em mett Piatt, Gienwood, la.; Will iam, Green, of California. Schafer Angus Sweep Broken Bow Auction Otto Schafer and Son's Black Angus showing at Broken Bow Ano-iie cnlp list wpfk made a li vvlil,-Al iiC "a m tiucigcu neaf cfean-lweep of awds, fjfs. without being subject to missing only one out ot live places The Schafer herd walked off with Grand Champion Bull, Reserve Champion Cow, Best Pair of Bulls and was runner-up cn grand champion award in the female division. Three plaques following the judging Not only did they take most of the honors, but another was added when a Schafer bull brought top pricce in the ring, selling for $900.00. This was top money for 51 bulls sold at the "Heart of Nebraska Angus Sale," recognized as one of the largest in the midwest. Absentee Ballot Found in Canvass Of City Voting A committee of the Platts citv council found only one vote difference in the official and the unofficial returns in a canvass of the city and school vote Mon day night. And that one differ ence did not change the winning candidates. One absentee ballot was count ed in the regular canvass of votes making a total of 616 who voted in the election April 5. Lyle Grove is the new coun cilman from the first ward; Jim McMillian and William Hiehfield from the second ward: Wiley Brook and Dean Dunham are new board of education members as reflected in the or f ici&l vote Here's ' the offical tabulation by candidate: City council Grove 106; Whelan 99; McMil lian 206; Libershal 183; Vroman 165- Highfield 241; Dunham 366, Brooks 362; Hansen 290; and Weaver 190. Ernest M. Harold entered St. Joseph hospital in Omaha Sun day, and submitted to surgery Monday. He is reported as pro pressing nicely. THE WEATHER Compiled for the Plattsmouth Journal at the Masonic Home Weather Station, Plattsmouth. Nebraska. April 11-12-13, 1955. Hi-j-n Lo"T Prec Mondav 74 41 Tuesdav 66 Wednesday 62 4a Forecast: Warm today, tonight. Cool do this, now you try and stop me.' Then anotner one says x m going to do this and you try and stop me." Finney's explosion came late in the meeting after he had asked City Attorney Paul Fau quet for an explanation of why he was not present to prosecute the parking violation charge against Chief of Police Law rence Chappell which resulted in the charge being dismissed. Fauquet had answered that he felt that Attorney Francis Ca sey., who filed a citizen's com plaint against the chief, ought to try the case himself. "If I was wrong, I, am sorry," Fauquet told Finney and the council. Finney then broke into a mild roar. Casey charged that the chief of police had improperly parked his car near a service station operated by Mayor Leo Meising er. Casey did not appear at the hearing in city magistrate's court but sent a letter. City Mag istrate James H. Graves dismiss ed the case for want of prosecu tion. City Attorney Fauquet was in Lincoln attending a meeting that day. Councilman "Hob" Hirz and Mayor Meisinger then discussed rather warmly whether or not Mayor Meisinger has legal park ing places in front of his ser vice station but came to no clear cut conclusion. Finney's reference to a "child ish" council was based on a year long friction between council factions which has broken out time after time since last May when Mayor Meisinger took of fice. Recently, the council oper ated in comparative quiet. Three members of the present council will leave office after a regular meeting on April 25. These will be Finney, B. H. G. Siting and Merlin Jochimsen. Only holdover councilman will be Howard Hirz. The mayor has another year of his term to serve. Being on fairly good working terms otherwise Monday night the council: 1. Seemed agreed that the chief of police could use the red marked parking spot in front of the police station for his own r f 3 that the practice of the police of putting coins in meters when a police car is parked on them, need not be continued. 2. Allowed a curb cut to James Brenrian at 706 Lincoln avenue. 3 Appointed Henningsen, Dur ham and Richardson of Oma- itary Sewer District No. 11; passed resolutions of necessity; cost estimate approval, $2.65 per lineal foot; and set a hearing date for May 2. The new sewer will run from a half block north of Avenue E on Tenth street, four blocks on Tenth street to Avenue H. 4. Approved a licensing com mittee report for renewals of Class C liquor licenses to Elmer Wurtele and Albert Pelzer. 5. Discussed the dumping of trash within the city limits and remained determined to keep it under control 6. Authorized the Volunteer Fire Department members to buy supplemental license tags to identify their, cars from those of casual fire goers. 7. Canvassed the vote from the recent city election 8. Heard a commendation by A. E. Chovanec, a member of the audience on the cleaner ap pearance of the streets Mrs John Roundtree of New York City, N. Y. will arrive by plane Saturday for a visit with her mother Mrs. Henry Herold An experience which brought oTerBo over 100 Boys and Girls county officers from all over Cass coun ty, befell the high school stu dents in afternoon Wednesday. One of their number was put under arrest and tried before Cass County Judge Raymond J. parenuy tnought he had done rsp for usinf? eifts to further I notmng wrong, was about to en- Sfs elation Efforts - furtneri ter a plea of guilty before Judge his election enorts. . Case when Attorn Jim Begley A day which was, up to that j a friend of the fiy stepped point, not much more than a j f0rth and offered to be Hirz at sham battle with facts, seemed torney. Hirz accepted and after suddenly deadly serious and the j Begley and a parade of wit students left with a fuller mean-; nesses had shown that Hirz' ing of what the laws of the guilt was at least questionable, state mean. Judge Case let the prisoner go Cass County Sheriff Tom Sol- 1 with a warning about violating omon pui unaer arresx uenny Hirz, Plattsmouth high school student winner of the county uperintendent's post at the if! r l l i 'TX n : V t fv-l' l-l f - ;r . 4 I 1 v 1, - X ll - -iqil M IV Y -m K i mm x a Jlj i JV rrv , - -- --- , m Z -s..C-f , , ni Hirf fcil li , " " i.mnvMmi Cass County Judge Raymond J. Case administered the oath to student county officers from many high schools in Cass county Wednesday morning as the visitors at the courthouse took part in the annual county government participation day sponsored by the Plattsmouth Legion, the Lions Club, and the Rotary Club, Elected to various offices by their fellow students, the representa- Only 4Vi Days Left to File Property List Any property owner who has been putting off the task of list ing his personal assets with the Cass county assessor's office, has only four and one-half days after today to do so or face a 50 percent penalty. The time for making sched ules ends April 20, Miss Clara Olson, Cass county assessor, said today. Miss Olson said that most out county property owners have probably made their schedules since ten of 19 assistant asses sors have reported in after miss ing only a few each in their door-to-door canvass. Missing of a property owner by the travel ing assessors does not free the taxpayers from making his schedule, she said. He will be subject to the 50 percent penalty just the same. Miss Olson estimated that about 500 property owners in the Plattsmouth area still had to make out their schedules as of Thursday but thought that these could easily be taken care of by the office in the court house where the schedules are made. Only Plattsmouth did not have assessors calling door to- door. "I hope they don't all wait until the last day," she said, and predicted that these last four and a half days will be busy ones in her office. She said that this year it will take a pretty good excuse to get a personal property owner out of paying the penalty if he waits until tin time is up. Ross Service Set Louisville Church Friday at 2 p. m. LOUIovil.LE Funeral ser vices for Frank F. Ross, 73, a re sident of Louisville for about 50 years, will be held at 2 p.m. Fri day at the First Methodist church at Louisville. Mr. Ross died suddenly Tues day afternoon at his home in Louisville. He had been in poor health for several years but had been able to continue his work as a gravel tester for the state He died while resting at noon at home. Surviving are his son, Jack, of Louisville who was with him at his death; daughters, Mrs. Jean Hoover of Sac City, la., and Mrs. Isabelle Williams of Albany, Ga. Fusselman Funeral home is in charge of services here. Journal Want Ads Pay - a warrant is - sued by Cass County Attorney Kicnard Peck, charging that Hirz had given away chewing gum to students in his quest for votes. The Electrified Hirz, who ap i i . ... ! ine laws. in the morning-, attorneys Har old Lebens and Water Smith took the entire group of visiting Slow Cooking Gets Iowa Driver Ticket An overparking tag hung on an Iowa car parked in Platts mouth Tuesday, came back to Police Chief Lawrence Chappell with the usual 25 cents inside the envelope, but with witty lines too. Written on the outside of The envelope, which was drop ped in the traffic fine box provided by the police, was the following message: "It has been a pleasure to be in your city but your cooks are too slow " T. B. Association Annual Meeting Is, Set for Louisville The Cass County T. B. Associ ation will hold its annual meet ine and banquet on April 15 at the First Methodist Church of Louisville at 7 p.m. it has been announced. Mrs. La Rue Williams, county president, will be in charge. Business to be taken care of will include election of officers for the coming year and making tentative plans for a visit, in the near future, by the T.B. Mobile X-ray unit to this area. Highlight of the meeting will be the showing of the film, "A fair Chance." This is a dramat ic story produced to emphasize the usefulness of former tuber culosis patients in society. The cast o f ' Hollywood featured players is headed by Robert Os terlok, Gloria Winters and Bar bara Wooddell The dramatic story, direction, and photogra phy in this film helps make it an entertaining experience as well as an educational one. The public is invited to view this. Allied Will Get Citation in Bond Employee Sales United States Treasury partment has announced De that Nitrogen Division, Allied Chemi cal and Dye, Corp., plant near Plattsmouth, will be presented with a special citation on April 26 for outstanding effort in bond sales through the payroll savings plan. Allied Manager Riggs will re ceive the citation through Glen Cunningham, Nebraska Savings Bond Director at a special meet ing at 10:00 am. on the above date. The company at the present time has 65 percent participa tion in employee bond purchase. HQ CD j students through court preced- ures wih a trial demonstrations, using visiting students to set in various chairs. But the afternoon arrest and trial apparently was the one which brought court procedures into sharp focus for the stu dents. County officers went over their own jobs for the visiting students Wednesday morning, displaying top knowledge of their own jobs and relaying such information as that given by Ray Norris, chairman of the county board of commissioners who sur prised them with size of the board of commissioners' jot) supervision, construction and re pair of 653 bridges; 850 miles of mail route; grading over 100 miles of road (last year) and tives studied the office to which they were elected through an assembly and by actual work in them. A trial demonstration was given but a second one came as a surprise in the afternoon when a Plattsmouth student was put under arrest by the sheriff for attempting to persuade voters in his election by gifts of chewing gum. The judge let him off with a warning. Journal Photo: Redden Child Service Held; Death Sudden ! . UNION (Special) Funeral "services were held at the Porter Funeral Home at Nebraska City last Saturday afternoon for little Joyce Lorraine Redden. Rev. Ervin Kiel of Plattsmouth con ducted the service. Carol Ann Pike was soloist and sang "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" and "Safe in the Arms of Jesus." Phil Duffy was the accompanist. Burial was in Cowles Hill Ceme tery. Joyce Lorraine Redden was bom at St. Mary's hospital, Ne braska City, on March 27, 1950. he was the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs Kenneth Redden. f She passed away at Children's Memorial Hospital in Omaha at 10:15 o'clock Wednesday morn ing, April 6, 1&55 after an illness of less than one day. She was five years and 10 days old. ! She leaves her father and mother, Kenneth and Lorraine J Redden; a brother Kenneth Ed-i win, 3 years old, and a sister Gayle Ann, one year old. . Her mother was formerly Lor raine Balfour. In addition she leaves her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Clark Balfour of Union, and Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Redden of Murray; and numerous aunts, uncles, and cousins. Joyce became ill on Tuesday afternoon, April 5, at 5 o'clock and was taken immediately to the hospital. Everything possible was done to help her, but medi cal help was of no avail. Joyce was a lovable child and showed affection for everyone she knew. She always had a sunny smile and always kissed her grandparents "goodbye" when leaving for home. She was looking forward to Easter, at tending Sunday school and re gular school in the fall. She was layed to rest in the Cowles Hill cemetery just 2V2 miles from where her parents live and where many of her rel atives have been buried. Murray Property Sold to Loyds The completion of a sale of the Mr. and Mrs. Richard Tritsch residence at Murray to Mr. ana Mrs. Harley C. Loyd has been announced by Steve Davis, Plattsmouth realtor. The Tritsch's have moved to their farm home and the Loyds have taken possession. J. E. Meisinger returned Mon day to his home after being re leased from St. Catherine's hos pital. rocking many miles of .it. But that isn't all, he said, of the job which includes public welfare, board of equalization work; child welfare; setting the county bud get; setting officers salaries and supervising county build ings and facilities Students elected as county sheriff's also ran into an ex periencce, even unexpected by County Sheriff, Tom Solomon. Solomon turned over to them for questioning an inmate of the county jail who talked more freely than wras expected. Apparently touched by the youth surrounding him, a 57 year old transient picked up on a Plattsmouth street, set the temporary sheriff's straight on the matter of wasting a life. He was 57 years old, said the jtil Less in Workers Free Hand Of Driver Caught in Tire Accident Attendants worked frantical ly for several minutes to free a truck driver Thursday morning after he had got his hand caught by an inflating tire at Ed and Bud's service station at Platts mouth. Plattsmouth police said Ken Wurtele, a Nebraska City truck driver, reached through an out side dual wheel with an air hose and was inflating the inside tire when the snap ring flew off and pinned his hand to the outside dual. Unable to free him, sta tion attendants summoned Ken Weaver from the nearby imple ment shop who cut through the inside tire with an electric grinder to get' Wurtele loose. He was treated by a doctor in Plattsmouth then transported to an Omaha hospital. His hand ap peared badly crushed. Graves Rites Held April 5 at St. Joe Funeral services were held on Anril 5. at St. Joseph, Mo., for Mrs. Etta Price Graves, who died on April 1 at her home in San Jose, Calif. Mrs. Graves was the mother of James L. Graves of Platts miouth. m - - . . . . . -". Court House County court: Glenn D. Newton, Colorado Springs, Colo., $16 and $4 costs, speeding. James W. . Havlick, Elma, la., $11 and $4 costs, speeding. Wilford LeRoy Ashbaugh, Mad ison, Wis., $16 and $4 costs, speeding. Edgar A. Cannon, Sabetha, Kans., $11 and $4 costs, speed ing. John C. Russell, Omaha, $15 and $4 costs, speeding. Marriage license: Wayne Darell Roth, Dewsese, Neb., and Nita Rose Bartcher, Hastings. Marion Herman Wade, Weep ing Water, and Loretta Cecelia Shehan, of Manley. William Martin Hansen, Cur ryville, Mo., and Alice Lucille Thomas, Barada, Neb. Donal Dean Fulton, Sewel. Ia., and Darlene Isadore Plunkett. Nehawka. Married by Rev. Fred D. Gardner at First Methodist church in Weeping Water on April 7. W. J. Maskill, Overland Park, Kans., $16 and $4 costs, speed ing. inmate, and he had been a dope addict for 37 years. His life was wasted he said. He warned the youth about him to never touch any kind of dope. It was sobering lesson, and, Solomon said, sounded like a straighter story than the man had told regular' authorities. The Plattsmouth American Le gion, the Lions Club, the Legion Auxiliary, and the Plattsmouth Rotary Club sponsored the Corn husker Boys and Girls County program. The Legion Auxiliary fed 167 students, and county officers Wednesday at noon at the Lions Community Building. The Plattsmouth high school band and other students fur nished the Wednesday noon pro- iam for the visitors. Slhoirp Dm' Cymry Woots ew DmifoirinrDaiftoorii The vaccination of Cass county first and second graders against polio, under plans well made for several weeks by county authorities while the uncertainty of the Salk serum existed, became uncertain this week when the approval of the new vaccine was announced. The announcement that only . 1 two shots are needed rather than Mystery of Week; Junior Women Ask Who Got Cookies Somewhere in this man's town is a culprit who, for his own safety, had better remain annonymous no thing could protect this life should the identity become known. Junior Women Club mem bers arrived at the Lion's Club building Monday eve ning for their regular meeting to be . followed by tea and cookies. Two mem bers came well laden with home-made cookies, decor ated with all the artistry their dainty culinary hands could master. They were duly placed in the kitchen awaiting tea time. Comes serving time no cookies. Only a few crumbs remained where once re posed these delicacies, and "fire in the, eyes" replaced that sparkling love and af fection emiting from the orbs of these distressed damsels. Who got the cookies? No one knows, but it is learned a certain party took off hastely for the Yukon. Cass Red Cross Receives $837 FromOffuttAB OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE Offutt Air Force Base today dis tributed Red Cross fund collec tions totaling $5,981.11 to repre sentatives from Douglas, Sarpy and Cass counties. On hand to receive checks from Col. W. L. Gray, Offutt commander, for their respective county chapters were: Howard Drew fund campaign chairman, Douglas county; Judge Raymond Case, Cass, county fund chair man; and Mrs. Dorothy Buffing ton, county fund chairman from Sarpy county. The funds were divided among the three counties in proportion to the number of Offutt military and civilian personnel living in each county. Douglas and Sar py each received $2,571.88 or 42 percent of the total amount coll ected: Cass county got 16 per cent amounting to $837.35. This year's campaign at the local base netted about $800 more than was received last year and averaged slightly more than $1 per capita. Speaking for the three countv representatives, James Bell, Red Cross field director at Offutt, told Colonel Gray that the men and women of the base had once again proved themselves to be good neighbors. "I am extremely proud to be affiliated with a base made uo of so many jjood people. . .peonle who deem it both a responsibility and a privilege to answer the Red Cross call," he told the group. Also present at the ceremony' were Captain H. J. Dalton Jr., Red Cross fund-raising project officer, and 1st Lt. Herbert A. Babb, Red Cross fund custodian. Cass county Judge Raymond J. Case of Plattsmouth, Home Service Chairman, accepted the share for the Cass County Red cross chapter. Plattsmouth Pastor TV Program Sunday Rev George Smith, pastor of i the Plattsmouth Community Church, will conduct the devo tional service on television sta tion KMTV Sunday night. This brief service, sponsored by KM TV, goes on the air following the late show and the last minute news. Chamber Quarterly Meeting Is Tonight Quarterly meeting of the lattsmouth Chamber of Com merce has ben set for tonisht (Thursday) at the Plattsmouth Fire Hall, Charles Allen, maiia ger of the Chamber, announced today. A movie, "This Is Your Town," will be shown. Chamber members will also hear a quarterly renort. of ac tivities already held this year and discuss plans for future events. Subscribe to The Journal NOW! three raised the question of wneuier or not exira serum thus created would change plans and allow more grade school children to be vaccinated. The office of L A. Behrends secretary of the Cass county board of health in Plattsmouth, talked with the state health off ice at Lincoln Wednesday night but found that no change in plans have been made so far. Plattsmouth Superintendent of Schools T. I. Friest, who was about to announce vaccinations would be given Monday in Plattsmouth, withheld this until further information is available, and set Wednesday as a tenta tive date. According to reports, Lancast-. er and Douglas counties, where some children took part in. the tests of the vaccine, would re ceive the serum, first and prob ably would be under way with innoculations next week. Dr. Salk, who made the serum, recommended this week when the approval of the vaccine was announced, the delaying of the third shot of the series for seven months. This appeared to make vaccine available to more child ren at the present time. Mr. Friest said today that he had set the innoculations in Plattsmouth for Monday but with the new information it would probably be next Wednes day before shots could get under way for Plattsmouth and some surrounding rural grade school children who will ccme to Platts mouth. He said that if the vac cinations are extended to older grade school pupils, that would require extra work and would delay the program. The same would, of course, apply to other centers in the county where vaccinations will take place. Notifications have to be given and a request for vaccination presented by par ents. Superintendents of Cass coun ty schools are acting as com munity chairmen -for the vac cination program. Mr. Behrends' office said next action of the program in the county will depend on informa tion forthcoming from the state health authorities, but presently plans remain the same as plan ned earlier, with dates to be an nounced. Watershed Tour Is Set for April 28 A field trip for the examina tion of watershed practices now in being will be held by the Cass Weeping Water Creeds Water Sheds Association on Tuesday, April 28, it has been announced. The tour date previously was announced for earlier. The tour will start at Murray at 9 a. m., and last most of the day as interested persons ex amine what farmers are doim; to prevent the erosion of their land and to control water run off. Especially on the agenda i.; a visit to the Brownell Water shed project near Syracuse, one of a few pilot projects of the government in the nation. Travel will likely be by bus, Paul Fauquet of the association said and tickets will be sold in advance to faciliate the serving of dinner along the route. More detailed plans will be announced. McLean Re-Elected V.F.W. Commander In Post Meeting A. C. McLean was re-elected commander of the Lepert Wolever Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in a meeting held here Tuesday night. LeRoy Wilson was elected senior vice-commander; Carl Vest, junior ice-commander; Ed gar kief, quartermaster; Lloyd Fitch, chaplain; Albin Chovanec, judge advocate; and John Ah rens trustee. Appointed were Jack Rains, adjutant and Vern Vincent as guard, patriotic instructor and legislative officer; Dale Bowman, service officer, and Dwayne Ah rens, officer of the day. In other action, the VFW completed plans for the com mander's banquet and the in stallation of officers. Vern Vincent was appointed supervisor of the ground obser ver corps. LeRoy- Wilson, poppy chair man, announced that a poppy poster contest will be conducted in Cass county. V. J. Chovanec is attending a Brex school in Pittsburg, Penn.