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fi::::x:x:::::::::::v:: EDITORIALS Furses tv..x:xv"xw -.......,... '.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.-.v.v.vv.v.'.vv A NOTE ON FISHING Nqv that fishing weather is getting better and better, we will take this occa sion to point out to fishermen that they are now permitted by society to practice the sport without doing damage to their reputations. What brought this thought to mind was a recent statement from the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests. That statement recalled that, many years ago, fishing was thought to be strictly for the peasants. The statement sr.ys-that fishing once was frowned upon "by the upper crust and the so-called elite." In some countries, fishing was a mis demeanor and those who were caught fishing were put in the same classifica tion, as mischief-makers. The only re spectable fishing was done by small boys and I the re st of it was done by hoboes, village cut-ups and misfits. The uptown hy-brcd society gentleman did hot mingle with the sport at all, for he feared social ostracism from the cookie pushing strata of society. All of which goesl to prove that today's fishing and all its pleasures, which bring no reproof from society, are a sign of progress. fn fact, in today's fast pace of living, fishfng fulfills a role breaking the ten sion;; in everyday life which is vital to millions of Americans. And now that we havd fully justified that in our minds, we will end this rather quickly and head for the water. CONGRESSIONAL PAY RAISE IN EFFECT President Eisenhower's signing of the recently-passed bill to increase the pay of Congressmen and Senators by $7,500 makes U. S. lawmakers eligible for pen sions up to S16,875 a year. In addition, the pay raise gives Congressmen and Senators higher incomes than over forty of the Governors in the United States. . A recent survey showed that the sal aried of Governors, in the States ranged from $9,000 to $50,000, with the average being well below the now scale for Con gressmen and Senators, $22,500. Iiy raising their pay, the taise having takdn effect as of March 1st, Senators and," Congressmen automatically raised the level of their pensions. Very few Con gressmen and Senators will ever draw $1G,875 a year the pension maximum since to draw this amount they would have to serve thirty years under the new pay scale. Pension payments to Congressmen are figured on the average annual salary during the, member's time in office, and the limit is seventy-five per cent of 'full -pay. Under the old salaries, Congressmen; could only draw $11,250 in pensions. We believe in pensions for Congress men and we find no fault with the pen sion plan, although we do think the re cent Congressional pay raise was unwise in tjiat it boosted Congressional salaries by too large a margin. While Congress is now debating a five or six per cent increase for the armed services, members have on their conscience the fact that they have just .voted themselves a fifty percent pay increase. This also applies to the pay in crease being prepared for Civil Service workers and Post Of fee workers. The per centage of the C igressional pay increase is not in line. iQr r CANCER CRUSADE As our readers are aware, the 1955 Cancer Crusade for funds with which to fight this dread disease opened on April 1st. That cancer is one of the worst forms .of killers in man's fight against disease is a pretty generally accepted truth. Of THOUGH'! i?OR TODAY I'ro;ress needs the brakenian. but the brakenian should not spend all his time putting on the brakes. I'Tocrt Hubbard The PlaUsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN' 1SU Published Seini-Weekly, Mondays "and Thursdays, at 410 Main Street, PlaUsmouth. Cass County, Kebr. Three Times Winner Ak-Sar-Ben Plaques foi "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 WTM. L. MURDOCK News Editor SOPHIA M. WOLEVER Society Editor VERN WATERMAN Advertising - . . Entered at the Tost Office at PlaUsmouth, class mail matter in accordance with the Marcli 3, 1ST0. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: ?3.50 per year in Cass and ciujuiiiti coUiitico, v-t.CC per ycxi' elsewhere, in advance, by mail outside the city of Platts mouth. By carrier in PlaUsmouth, 20 cents .for two weeks. ::-: ....v.-.-.;. Down :0 YEARS A hail of ing a record on rlotrnvpd hv By Nebraska as second Act of Congress of RleW ; Merry- G 0 -m ' Fresh Flashes Advertising was invented for the im patient businessman who just can't wait for "Mrs. So-and-So" to tell her neighbors about the wonderful merchandise he has for sale. Man can sometimes get a pearl out of an oyster, but Flipper Fanny, our dainty little contour twister, says it takes a gal like herself to get a diamond out of an old crab. ' A local wife says she puts a grain of sugar into everything she tells her hus band and takes a grain of salt with every thing he says to her. . The way taxes are today, more and more couples are marrying for love. it ir -k Gardening is simply a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your rjack gets used to it. Not too long ago it was only a fool and his money that was soon parted. Now around April 15, it happens to every body. We hate to repeat gossip but we don e know what else to do with it. . A PlaUsmouth driver swears he didn't' hit that man at Fifth and Main the other day. Says he stopped to let him go across the street as the sign states and the guy fainted. all the major diseases, perhaps more Americans fear death from cancer than from any other. Recent figures of the American Can cer Society show that one in every four Americans will eventually develop can cer. Therefore, it is a terrifying disease in itself and terrifying in its rate of growth and spread in the United States. Recent progress, financed by individual contributions, in the fight against pneu monia, polio and other diseases, has been most promising. The fight against can cer, however, has not shown as much progress and, therefore, contributions are still badlv needed. Memory Lane AGO of emDtv glass bottles showered down on W. A. Wells of Roca, brother-in-law of Arnold Lillie of PlaUs mouth, when he parked his car near an apartment house in Lincoln. Bottle throw er was fined $10. . .Joe F. Knecht of South Bend bought an oil filling station at Weep ing Water. . .First to sixth graders of PlaUsmouth were to be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Sattler in an Easter egg hunt at their home. . .Ray Kriskey fel1 into the river and was on crutches after hurting his foot getting out. . .re-pavement of Sixth street was put on the "first need" list of projects by the county-wide com mittee meeting at Weeping Wrater to de cide what work could be provided for re lief projects. . .A poem in tribute of Miss Olive Jones, for nearly 50 years counsel lor of book lovers at the PlaUsmouth li brary, was published by the Journal. YEARS AGO 3U Alvo, besides electing Charles Godbey, and Joseph Parsell to the city council and Harry Appleman and L. 1). Muller to the board of education, also voted to play ball on Sunday. . .Officers the Pattsmouth. Golf club were expect- number of persons to play trip course. . .The hehawka mill was :t fire of undetermined origin though C. D. St. John, proprietor, figured the machinery he was running may have ignited the dust. . .The world may soon be wearing electroplated rain coats pre dicted The Journal, reporting a new chem ical discovery. . .William Baird of the Bur lington shops in PlaUsmouth, gave the Ad Club a nice talk on operations there. . . Cass county commissioners were on the verge of passing a resolution covering the securing of the King of Trails wagon and auto bridge on which the construction had just been started. The Sarpy county board had already passed a similar meas ure and if the Cass group did the same it would put the bridge under the opera tion of the state and two counties. . .The L. F. Langhorst Produce company of Elm wood established a branch in PlaUsmouth. . ASHINGT0N o-Round DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1955, by the Bell Syndicate", Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: PAN AMERICAN UNION CELEBRATES ITS 65TH BIRTHDAY WITH PEACE; SQUIRRELS NOW BOTHER GOP MORE THAN THEY BOTHER IKE'S PUTTING GREEN: HONOR SYSTEM ON LIQUOR TAXES DOESN'T WORiv Washington With some parts of the world looking pretty bleak and the U. S. A. ditting on the edge of possible war around Un ique V- V Jit' r. y.; ... wrr As-, -j V g . f-i ft Formosa,, there's one area close to home which the American people can feel happy about our good neighbors in the West ern Hemisphere. It was just 65 years ao that the first Pan American Confer ence formed the Pan American Union. Since then, it has worked quietly with little fanfare to build up a new cede of behavior among states. Every so often the Pan Amer ican Union gets into the head lines wheji some crisis takes place, such as the threat of war between Costa Rica and Nic aragua. But most of the time its work is an unspectacular but important labor in the vineyard of good neighborliness. Most people don't realize it but the Pan American Union is the oldest of all international organizations, and the only one that operates on a true Demo cratic basis. It survived where the League of Nations failed. It has no votes that count more than other votes. It has no veto, no permanent seats for powerful nations. It operates completely Democratic, basis and the vote of Haiti, which is 300 times smaller than the U. S. A., counts just as much as the vote of the U. S. A. So, while most of the world has seen increasing wars, the western hemisphere owes its de creasing wars to the patient good neighborliness of the Pan American Union. NUTS FOR NEUBERGEK Riding in a Capitol elevator the other day, two young men were - discussing Washington's favorite recent topic of conversation.- squirrels. Said one of them:' "You know, this squirrel thing has really caught on. It's done more harm to the Eisenhower Administration than anything else so far." "Wouldn't you like to come in and sample some of our nuts?" said a young lady who was in the elevator and could n't help overhearing the conver sation.. "People from all over Oregon have been sending Senator Neu berger nuts to help him feed the squirrels banished from the White House lawn," invited the young lady. "Come in and take a lock at them.'' By this time the voune man began to realize that he had said the wrong thing. Blushing, he identified himself as Art Bur gess, a member of the Repub lican policy committee staff. The young lady was Miss Helen Nickum. who works for Demo cratic Senator Neuberger of Oregon. EST 'I IT'- J ) At:--- 1 i 'iM-wt r- r'iin See By The Papers . . . . By Bill A series of remarkable coinci dences connected with the nom ination and election of candi dates for two positions on the Broken Bow school board result ed in a three-way tie finally was broken by the city council action, says the Custer County Chief. Tedd Huston, Mrs. Paul Brown and Frank Parrish each received 73 votes. Meeting to decide the issue, all three names were put into a hat, as provided by law, with the last candidate drawing his name out becoming the winner. Defying immediately incalcuable odds, says the Chief , Mrs. Brown and Huston each drew out his own name the first try, giving Parrish the office automatically. Parrish' wasn't at the drawing. Guilty, of the week's most questionable pun was the Brush, Colo., News-Tribune which ven tured, "Baseball will be at full pitch. . ." $ The First Trust company of Lincoln purchased $150,000 in revenue bonds from the City of Curtis for a low bid of 2.86 per cent. Money goes to finish the new engine to be installed in the light plant and for a plant addition, says the Enterprise. 3 $ To say that Otto Schaffer and Sons of Nehawka, exhibitors of -he Grand Champion buil. Schaffer Elieenniere 8th, which sold for $900 as top seller at the Heart of Nebraska Aberdeen An ?us association show and sale at Broken Bow, received a tro phy, was a mis-statement, says Vofume 4 FDR'S OLD SLOOP After I reported that Secretary of the Navy Thomas had turned down a gift of FDR's old sloop because it would cost too much to repair, I received a sugges tion from Joe De Silva, head of of the Retail Clerks Union of Los Angeles, that admirers of FDR might want to contribute to the repair of his sailing sloop on the 10th anniversary of his death. De Silva started the ball roll ing by sending his own check. The sloop is the one which Roosevelt used when he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy and before he became crippled with polio. His son, Congressman,- James Roosevelt, offer ed it to the Naval Academy at Annapolis as a gift, thinking the midshipmen might use it on Chesapeake Bay as part of their training and that it might have some sentimental value to the Navy which reached its greatest strength under his father. Secretary of the Navy Thom as, however, replied that it would ccst $600 to repair the sloop and the Eisenhower administration was trying to balance the budget. Commented Joe De Silva: "I see that my fellow Los Angeli can, doesn't want to spend a few dollars repairing Roosevelt's old sailing boat, though the Navy has plenty of dough to take Con gressmen on junkets and admir als on free airplane trips. "There was no man in the his tory of the United States who did more for the Navy than Franklin Roosevelt. He took it after Herbert Hoover had cut it to the bone and built it up to be the most powerful fighting force in the world. "Please accept my check as a small contribution toward help ing to repair this ship. And on the tenth anniversary of Roose velt's death, a hundred thousand people who loved him will prob ably want to send in a dollar to help the poverty-stricken Eis enhower administration honor a great man." NOTE Anyone wanting to act on Mr. De Silva 's suggestion can write Secretary of the Navy Charles Thomas, the Navy De partment, Washington D. C. LIQUOR TAXES LAX Tax Boss T. Coleman Andrews has been concentrating so hard on catching small tax violators that millions have slipped through his fingers from certain big corporations. For example, he has put the giant liquor in dustry on its own tax stamps. Result: A drop in tax collect ions; Also a sharp increase in the number cf tax stamps re- Murdock the Custer County Chief. Ac tually, the trophies had not ar rived to be presented when the time came. Voters at York again axed the $430,000 school expansion bond by voting against it 1470 to 1209 says the Republican. Diane Voss, 15, daughter of J Major and Mrs. K. W. Voss of Bellevue, left her home 10 a.m. Sunday morning for church and her parents did not see her again until the following Tuesday I says the Bellevue Press. Police i traced the girl's steps until 3:30 p. m. Sunday and lost the trail. Friends said she had mentioned going to Lincoln but her par ents could think of no connec tion she had there. After a full alert . over eastern Nebraska. Police Chief Ray Doty checked with Mr. and Mrs. Jay J. Hicks, i Citv Trailer Court. Omaha, with j whom the girl had been friends ! for more than a year. The girl was there after 3d hours of ab sence from her Bellevue home. Also at Bellevue, the Press re ported that the city council added three new patrolmen to the city police roles and gave P61ice Chief Ray Doty a vote of ; confidence. & At Broken Bow.a.TV antenna ; installer, scaled a 54-foot tower, j tied himself to the pole and j blasted off two tree limbs with j a ' shotgun when he couldn't I eliminate them any other way. ported lost or mutilated. It used to be that government gaugers supervised every stage of the distillery process and kept alcohol tax stamps under lock and key. The gaugers have now been pulled off the job, ex cept for occasional cross-checks. Coleman's idea was to cut down oii industry enforcement so mere tax agents could check on the small, individual taxpayers. Now that the distilleries are on the honor system, however, they have been reporting more than double the number of tax stamps missing and mutiliated. As a typical example, one Phila delphia rectifying plant lost or mutiliated 11,074 revenue stamps during the first three months cf 1954 before the voluntary system started. But after the plant was given authority to regulate its own taxes, it report ed 26,589 lost or mutilated stamps for the same three months of 1955 up to March 23 A week short of the full quarter. MODERN BOOTLEGGING The sudden rise in disappear ing tax stamps, of course, means the government is getting gyp ped out of millions in alcohol tax revenue. For the stamps don't disappear at all. The liquor in dustry is riddled with ex-bootleggers and hoodlums. In some cases, they paste the "LOST" stamps in their own product and peddle the extra bottles tax-free. Or else they bootleg the stamps to moon shiners who use them to pass off their home brew as govern ment regulated liquor. This not only cuts down Uncle Sam's take, but fools customers into buying dangerous, scmetimps lethal, moonshine whisky, think ing it is government-okayed. Capitol News By 31elvrn Paul Statehouse Correspondent The Nebraska Press Association " " -'..."......, LINCOLN The Nebraska Legislature came back from its Easter recess this week to start the last long lap toward final adjournment. Hopes were still high that this might come by Memorial Day. But the number of vital issues still remaining in the Legisla ture made it seem likely the Un icameral would be lucky to beat the 1953 adjournment date of June 13. Tht Legislature has taken care of two major items so far a new formula to redistribute the gasoline tax to the counties and re-enactment of the sixth cent of state gasoline tax. Both have been signed into law by Gov. Victor Anderson. , But a whole pile of work yet remains. Here are some of the items that could take lots of floor debate and- logjam proceedings: The sales ana income tax bill, LB 510. The school lands debate, up on which there are four bills in the Legislature. The proposed ton-mile tax on big trucks, LB 362. . The budget itself, which mav face a rough going over on the floor in contrast to recent ses sions where the Budget Commit tee's recommendations were al most 100 per cent accepted. The question of whether the power to relocate highways should be left with the state en gineer. Seven proposals to reform the state property tax administra tion laws, with only two past general file (first major floor debate). The 2 per cent severance tax proposal on oil and gas produc tion, with the revenue to go to , the schools. Tightening the school redis ricting laws. j There was one consolation in this. At this point in the 1953! session -some of the major is-! sues such as water diversion, the truck weight tolerance propo-1 sal, increasing motor vehicle li-j cense fees, and enactins a sixth' cent of state gasoline tax still hadn't been considered. Railroad Assessments The railroads found them selves again in the uncomfort able glare of publicity over the way they are assessed and taxed. This powerful lobby usually does its work behind the scenes and without fanfare. But the four "Young Turks," who a month . ago stirred up some questions aoout the way railroads are assessed have gone a step farther. They recommended a "first class overhauling" of the way railroads are assessed and taxed in Nebraska. The four Sens. Monroe Bixler of Harrison. Wil liam Metzger of Cedar ureek Joseph Martin of Grand Isia...; ! and Donald McGinley of Ogalla la did this in a letter to State t Tax Commissioner Fred Herring ton. The four senators, all mem bers of the Revenue Committes, revealed -that they had written to all the other states asking how they assessed and taxea railroads. They wrote Herring ten that a study of the materi al they had received from the 27 states which have answered so far convinced them that a' study should be made in Ne braska. One senator said that a peru sal of the material convinced him that the Nebraska method "is at least as haphazard as any." &sl'MZI ruling to Study ? Tax Commissioner Herring ton's initial comment was that he would be slad to look over the ' material gatnered by the young ; ssnators. ! "I'm inclined to think the as-; ssssment- of railroads is awfully i complicated and difficult. From even a quick look at this materi al, I can see that other states (Continued on Page 7 THE PLATT5MOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE TWO Section B . Thursday, April 14, 1955 By Stanley James, Journal Washington Reporter WASHINGTON Through out the last few hectic weeks, as debate over foreign policy in the Formosa Strait has raged, President Dwight D: Eisenhow er has firmly stood his ground on the decision not to reveal complete U. S. plans in the event of an attack on the Mat su or Quemoy Islands. It has taken starch to stand firm on this issue, for both Re publicans and Democrats have been assailing Ike's policy and in addition many of the coun try's most formidable allies. Moreover, some of the w?orld's powerful neutral nations have taken the flat positions that the United States is wrong in trying to deny the offshore is lands to the mainland Chinese government. At home criticism has increas ed. In addition to several Sen ators, who have joined the plea for a clarification of U. S. policy-some, demanding no fight over the islands, others demand ing that we do important officials, like Governor Harri man of New York, have spoken out against the Eisenhower pol icy. Mr. Eisenhower will have to bear the responsibility, almost alone, if this country becomes embroiled in a major clash with the Chinese Communists, be cause: 1. Many of his own party members have said he could avoid such a clash by saying flatly we would fight if the is lands, are invaded. 2. Many prominent Democrats and some Republicans have said bluntly we have no business getting in to "military operations over these offshore islands, which have traditionally belonged to the mainland Chinese government. On top of that, Mr. Eisenhower will bear the responsibility of getting into a clash without al lies if he allows U. S. military forces to intervene. Even Cana da has recently declared she could not participate in such an operation with the United States and has taken the position that the islands should go to the Chinese Communists. Because this responsibility weighs directly upon the shoul ders of Mr. . Eisenhower, the stakes are very high from a per sonal standpoint for the Chief Executive. Because of this, some Wash ington observers believe the President will do everything in his power to. keep the United States out of a major military involvement; since he wculd have to bear the responsibility of such a fight. On Capitol Hill the President is attacked and defended. Sena tors Wiley (R-Wis and George (D-Ga.) are major supporters. Senators Knowland (R-Wis.), McCarthy (R-Wis, Lehman (D NY), Morse (D-Ore.), Kefauver (D-Tenn) and others have lam basted the present foreign policy of the Administration as one which might lead to war. Such two-edged criticism has certainly put the President on the spot, and has probably in creased chances that this coun try will not fight over the off shore islands. . While two or three months ago many observers were sure Vice President Richard Nixon would be tossed to the wolves as a po litical liability in 1956 and not be President Eisenhower's run ning mate, things are changing a bit. In fact, there are those who now say Nixon is a certainty to be the Number two man on the G. O. P. ticket next year. Nothing is certain as of this date, ot WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE Famous Edifice HORIZONTAL 1,G Depicted famous cathedral 12 Performers 14 Beast 15 Shoshor.can Indian 16 Style of architecture 18 Health resort 13 101 (Roman) L " Obstructs 22i:.?sht (ab.) 23 Wicked 25 Winss 27 Vend 28 Marsh grass 29 Preposition 30 Split puis? ' 31 By way of 32 Hypothetical structural unit 33 Germinated ffrain- 31 Require.. 37 Century plant 38 Sea eagle ?D Chinese river 40 Physicians 6 Tellurium. (symbol) 47 Enervate 49 Musical movement " h0 Secreted 5! Enlist '' 5; Realm Shos . VERTICAL 1 Relishes 2 Lively i I oiio.yer. 4 Negative reply 5 Neat 6 Remunerate ' 7 Noun suffix of quality 8 Talm lily 9 Measure of type (pi.) 10 One of its chief architects was II Nominated 13 Dip 17 Direction (ab.) 20 Unfortunate 21 Pilchards 24 Philhppir.5 seaport 5 j w 1 1 h h r 1 " 1 j la Mu s CHB3BE GBC ii i .m. 0m, Bm it- iaFuitl! psr St 35 I mr I" r rrr lr ' " " ." 1 ' ' I ' I I I I I I I I. i I I "jii p r III! course, but it is true that Nixon's chances aren't as bad as they seemed a short while back. The United States has a big stake in the coming general elec tion in England. Most officials are, naturally, hoping for a Con servative victory because a Labor triumph might put an even greater strain on U. S.-U. K. re lations because of differences in Far East policies. There is some genuine concern in Washington over chances of a Labor victory. British Laborites and Right Wing members of the Republican party would certain ly be at each others' throats, could cause the most serious rift in relations with our number one ally since the end of World War II. And Churchill would not be in a position to iron out difficulties. Chances are about 60-40 in favor of the Conservatives at this time, however. Legislative SIDELIGHTS . . by BERNIE CAMP Information Director Nebraska F,arm Bureau Federation Ever stop to think about the ruestion of what is the basic In dustry of this modern United states. Dr. Earl L. Butz, assistant sec retary of agriculture of the U. S., says it's still agriculture. . This is the way he explains i it.- Many functions formerly done on the farm are now done in factories, giving employment to men and women in the city. In addition, specialized marketing agencies take care of the distri bution process in moving farm commodities from the farm to the city consumer. Men and wo men engaged in the city fac tories and the distributive pro cess all depend upon the farm and the farmer for their jobs. Farmers no longer raise their own power or grow their own fuel for that power; and that change opened up employment for thousands of city dwellers in tractor plants and refineries. Dr. Butz points out that al though there are 8.5 million people directly engaged in farm ing in the United States, there are ID million workers engaged two million workers are employ ticn of food and fibre. Another in the processing and distribu ed in the manufacture and sale of farm machinery and equip ment and the wide variety of supplies needed in the on-the-farm production These figures mean that about one-third of the total work force of the United States de pends on the farm, directly or indirectly, for the source of its prosperity. Dr. Butz should know what he is talking about. Prior to his ser vice as assistant secretary of ag riculture, he was professor of agricultural economics at Pur due University. He has a repu tation as one of the soundest thinkers among the rural econ omists of the nation. The foliage of trees has great capacity for-preventing the pas sage of solar heat to the ground, says the National Arborist Asso ciation. This keeps the air space near the ground more comforta ble in hot wtather. Here's the Answer no our? AT" UN O i n 26 Guide . 31 Brave 33 Crowds 35 Whole 36 Transferred 41 Shield bearing 42 Mountain passes 43 Thoron (symbol) 44 Poem 45 It is in 48 For 50 Belongs to him 52 Either 54 Parent IQi HHI IQI 3.tsiltelS5T j3 1 I I ' ; s IVIcJiSt ID!