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EDITORIALS Furses DOW OVER AERIAL NAVIGATION The Defense Department gives indi cations of compromising in a hot dispute, with civilian aviation over the merits of two different navigation systems. One sys tem is that known as the Coni and DME system. - The system which the militarv is back ing at this time is called TACAN. In brief, the Omni and DME system is the system which civilian pilots have used since World War II which has been gradually develop ed over the years and is reported to be ac curate within three degrees. Millions of dol lars have been spent in developing this system and it is in general use all over the country today. The military services have concluded that a new system, called TACAN, is ac curate to a degree of one per cent and, since the Navy requires such accuracy for its carriers, the military has been insisting that the present system now in use be abandoned by June 30 of this year. The Civil Aeronautics Administration has opposed abandonment of the present multi-million dollar system row in use, by June 30th of this year, and, under the prodding of the Aircraft Owners and Pi lots Association and other civilian flying groups, has proposed a compromise. Such a compromise had been proposed in 1954 but had been rejected. The compromise would provide that the present system not be junked until TACAN is proven to be as efficient as is contended and until it is ready for oper ation. It is estimated that the present sys tem has cost $117,000,000. Certainlv, there is no immediate nec-. essity to junk a $177,000,000 navigational system, even though the newly-proposed system will be superior. The present com promise plan is to allow the present sys tem to remain in operation at least until 1960, or possibly 1965. We hope such a compromise, or a similiar one, will be agreed upon by the Defense Department and the CAA. BENDER ON PRISONERSiN CHINA Senator George Bender, Republican from Ohio, recently shed some light on a subject we think worthy of comment Bender spoke out after the State Depart ment had informed Congress that its latest estimate reduced the number of Ameri cans thought to be held by the Chinese from 944 to 521. The State Department's analysis was given to a Senate Investigations sub-committee, when it was thinking of investigat ing the Administration's efforts to obtain the release of fifteen imprisoned Ameri can flyers in China. Senator John McClellan, Arkansas Democrat, who is chairman of the sub committee, said the State Department had informed the subcommittee that a large number of those who had been listed as probably held in China, are now presumed to be dead, and that the figures now ac cepted in the State Department is 121. As the subcommittee talked of investi gating the Administration's efforts to force the release of the Americans in China, much capital was made of this topic. Senator Bender spoke out in what we think is refreshing fashion. He said flatly that the Administration did not know for certain tfrat more than fifteen U. S. flyers and forty civilians were now held captive in Bed China. He conceded that a large number of others may be held, but he called such estimates "conjecture." He said it wras not proper to raise the hopes of families of missing Americans by listing a certain number as probably held captive when the TFnited States actually had no more information than it has on the subject. THOUGHT FOR TODAY freedom exists only where the people take care of the government. Wood row Wilson The Plafismouth Journal Official County end City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 18S1 Published Semi-Weekly, Mondays "and Thursdays, at 410 Main Street, Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebr. Three Times Winner Ak-Sar-Ben Plaques for "OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE" 1949 1951 1952 "Honorable Mention" 1953 Presented Nebraska Press Association "GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD" Fir,t in 1952 Second in 1951 and 1953 (In Cities Over 2,000 Population) RONALD R. FURSE Editor and Publisher WM. L. MURDOCK News Editor SOPHIA M. WOLEVER Society Editor VERN WATERMAN. , Advertising (f 3j tssssL srass ctfggssa Entered at the Tost Office at Pla'tsmouth, Nebraska as second class mail matter in accordance with the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year in Cass and adjoining counties, $4.00 per year elsewhere, in advance, by mail outside the city of Platts mouth. By carrier in Plattsmouth, 20 cent for two weeks. Fresh Flashes "Pro" means for and "Con" means against this must explain the difference between progress and Congress. it The best "go-getter" wa ever knew was the guy who ran out of gas two miles from a gas station. One good thing about being poor is that it is very unlikely that you will ever be kidnapped. We're just a little bit skeptical of the present actions of the Russian Bear we're afraid something new is bruin. The bureau of printing and engraving is the only federal agency we know that is making any money. -k Americans may be forgetting how to walk since the advent of the automobile, but they are sure learning how to jump. r Little pay check in a day You and I will go away To some gay and festive spot, I'll return, but you will not. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, has more curves than a ball pitcher, but few get to first base. In regards to the 481 military person nel still unaccounted for, Bender noted that they were simply military personnel unaccounted for, and might, or might not, be held in Red China. This, we think is a fair analysis. It is not an attempt to go easy on the Chinese Communists, but it is an attempt to get to the facts and not raise false hopes, or false emotions, with the American people. """ " Down Memory Lane YEARS ACO J Plattsmouth high school Gregg shorthand class members, Naomi Day, Virginia Trively, Carl Hula, John Fletch er Nottleman, and Ernest Seitz, received achievement certificates, an item which had never been equalled in the past. . . Mrs. William Baird was installed as pres ident of the Plattsmouth Woman's Club . . .N. L. Grubbs opened his blacksmith shop in Weeping Water after being forced from his site at Murray when the building was bought for a service station site. . . Eighth graders passing on into high school at the end of the school year at Murray were Miss Dolly McCulloch, Miss Mary Vest, Miss Ruby Warthen, Willard Allen, Roy Wilson, William Poynter, Theodore Baker and Donald Nelson. . .The baseball team of Elmwood had a team from Lin coln down and were giving them some in structions in the game. .New tenderfoot Scouts at Plattsmouth were Tom Solomon, Carter Minor, George Busch, Corbin Davis, Reno Edgerton and Junior Devoe. . .Miss Florence Shogren and Rev. C. Loyd Shu bert, pastor of the Murray Christian church, were married by Rev. J.lS. Reel pastor of the Pawnee City Christian church. i YEARS ACO 3vJ Rev. H. G. McCluskey, pastor of the First Presbyterian church in Platts mouth, delivered the baccalaureate ser mon to the. 1925 Plattsmouth class at his church. . .Plattsmouth Police Officer Clyde Jackson picked up a 14-year-old lad on the street who had been reported missing at Springfield and returned him. Platts mouth hammered 10 hits .off Carper and drove him from the Nehawka mound and went ahead to win a baseball game at Plattsmouth. Swanson was the winning pitcher. . .DeForest Philpot of Weeping Water won a $5 prize in a Chicago sweep stakes for the best ear of corn sent from Cass county. . .A caravan of gypsies de scended on Plattsmouth and hands were kept on pocketbooks as the yomen roamed the streets in colorful costumes on fortune telling missions. Washington Merry-Go -Round y DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1955, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: IDA HO SENATOR HAS INTERESTING RECORD FOR NEOPOTISM ; WELK ER PUTS BROTHER, NEPHEW, BROTHER-IN-LAW AND SISTER-IN-LAW ON PAYROLL; SENATOR MORSE BLASTS POLIO BUNGLING. Washington You have to hand it to roly-poly Herman Welker, the rootin'-toot-in' junior Senator from Idaho. When it comes to putting relatives and non-working friends on Uncle Sam's payroll, Her man has the top score among the nation's 96 senators. No other solon at the moment comes anywhere near him. In fact, the Republican Senator from Idaho has just devised a new system of putting friends and relatives through col lege. He gives them a job on his payroll, which is allotted him for the express pur pose of helping the people of Idaho in the Doing Fine, ii - jlt- Nation's Capital; instead of which they continue at the Un iversity of Idaho, blissfully us ing the taxpayers' money to de fray collegiate expenses. One of these lucky college students is William Cook, son of Welker's friend, George Cook of Boise, connected with a western airline. Young Cook went on Uncle Sam's payroll supposedly as Welker s assistant around November 1954 at a rate of $3,200 a year. But. though a Senator's office staff salaries arc to help him represent his constituents, Cook does nothing for the Senator or the constituents or anyone else except himself. Reached at the University of Idaho, Cook admitted he had been on Welker's payroll. "What do you do for Senator Welker?" he was asked. "I work on th. campus," was the lame reply "What's the nature of your work?" "I'm not at liberty to say." "Are you investigating the Unive -ity for Senator Welker? "I can't talk without first checking with the Senator," re plied the young man for under standable reasons. The second student getting a schooling, courtesy of unsus pecting taxpayers, is Welker's nephew, Craig Nelson. Reached by phone at the University of Idaho, Nelson was asked wheth er he had any rtatement he wanted to make about the na ture of his work for the Sena tor. "No," he replied, and hung up. Craig Nelson is the son of Welker's brother-in-law, Neal Nelson, who was pushed by Wel ker into the key job of regional director of the bureau of land management at Salt Lake City for the four western states. Welker put his brother-in-law into this well paying job through Secretary of The Interior Doug McKay, and in doing so ousted a career man, Byron Mock, sup posedly protected by civil ser vice. Here is the complete roll-call of Welker relatives and friends who, though on the public pay roll, are doing little or no work: Ted Welker, brother of the Senator, drove a gasoline truck until put on the government payroll for $5,200 in 1953. Ted Welker lives in Twin-Falls, but has recently been in the east visiting friends and relatives. William S. Campbell, former chairman of the Republican state committee of Idaho, has been drawing around $5,000 a year though still actively en gaged in the real estate business in Boise. He is reported getting off the payroll, however to make way for the ex-governor of Ida ho, C. A. Bottolfsen, Welker's new office manager in Wash ington. The above, together with the Senator's sister-in-law, Eloise Welker. who was on the payroll during the summer of 1954, plus nephew Craig Nelson, plus brother-in-law Neal Nelson, See By The Papers By Bill The Ord Quiz, while trying to prove that carp fish are good to eat, used the other hand to try getting the Ord Chamber of Commerce off a great big peg l&st week What did the C of C do? They promised kids in schools 1,000 silver dollars in a contest and came through with only about 460. Were those mammas mad!? Standing rickety-like in Blair was the house of Herman Lad wig and in the Blair hospital with 40 stitches was 23-year-old Max Larsen after a car he was driving sped down a Blair street rocking back and forth from the center of the road to the curb knocking down a school slow sign, crushing, two large bushes and sailing into the Ladwig house with a roar heard all about the neighborhood, then bouncing on and crushing the rear of the Ladwig car. Mr. and Mrs. Lad wig, in bed for the night, bolted upright at the crash, thinking of a bomb, but were unhurt. Lar Thank You plus student William Cook, make up the Senator's long and inter esting record of nepotism. Salk Vaccine It has now been over a month since Sen. Wayne Morse of Ore gon introduced, April 14, a bill for federal regulation of the Salk polio vaccine. So far no ac tion has been taken. And though the bill is before able Sen. Lister Hill of Alabama, chairman of the Senate education committee, he has not even held hearings. All of this was why Senator Morse delivered a blistering at tack on Salk vaccine bungling and dilly-dallying. "The federal government in spects meat," he said, - "more carefully than it has . inspected the polio vaccine offered by the drug companies. "The suggestion has been made that perhaps the federal government has been encroach ing on private enterprise," Morse continued. "What private enterprise? "The vaccine was developed from the dimes of the children of America. It was developed from the dimes which the boys and girls and the mothers and fathers of America put into the polio fund during the years. "That's why the people of the United States have a vested in terest in the Salk vaccine." Ex-Mayor O'Dwyer The Republicans are still trying to pin some kind of rap on Bill O'Dwyer, ex-Mayor of New York. Federal agents are carefully scrutinizing his finan cial operations and everything he does south of the border. Though O'Dwyer has been making money since he resigned as ambassador to Mexico, gov ernment agents so far can't find anything that hasn't been com pletely above-board. He has op ened an American-style gas station and restaurant on the busiest highway in Mexico. He is also starting a company to sell bottled natural gas; and he's associated with ex-president Miguel Aleman, in real es tate in Acapulco. Incidentally, O'Dwyer is still by all odds the most popular American in Mexico. Washington Pipeline The Hoover Commission after a lengthy investigation has found no spies or communists in the government's intelligence aeencies. A special task force j headed by Gen. Mark Clark has found the charges of a certain Wisconsin Senator to be entire ly false. . . .The Chinese Reds have presented such a potent anti-American propaganda play in India that after one perform ance angry natives, stoned Am ericans in the audience. . . .Adm. Felix Stump has promised Chi ang Kai-Shek to virtually doub le the number of American Navy and Air Force fighters stationed on Formosa. This adds up to the following: We mean business about defending Formosa but not Quemoy and Matsu. . . .Senator O'Mahoney of Wyoming, the noted trust buster, wants to investigate the way certain big companies are Murdock sen was in Omaha Veterans hos pital and charges filed are for drunken driving, says the Pilot Tribune. Rev. Keith Delap, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Platts mouth, assisted Guy B. Dozing, minister of the Cozad church, with wedding rites for his cousin, Miss Marilyn Ann Delap, and Lowell J. Rose in the First nhurr.h of Christ at Cozad April j 17, reports the Dawson County News. Housewives need no longer have their hands "Scored" by the harshness of detergents, re ports the Nemaha County Her ald. Three fishermen, Chas. Boellstorff, L. N. Hathaway and Al Jennings split up the cooking and dishwashing but on the last day the dishes got so sticky they had to be pried apart. Reason. The boys mistook corn meal for soap. sewing up American markets by controlling patents. Only Senator who opposed his probe was his own Democratic col league, Senator Ellender of Louisiana, who more and more seems to line up against small business U. S. 'diplomats have cabled an alarming report that Chancellor Julius Raab of Austria came back from Moscow impressed with the Russians and chilly toward the United States. Capitol News By Melvin Paul Statehouse Correspondent The Nebraska Press Association LINCOLN State government this week took a hand in the tangled affairs of Nebraska's power districts. Gov. Victor Anderson sched uled a conference with leaders of the various districts to at tempt to iron out controversies which have racked the power set up for many months. The Legislature, too, has under consideration a measure, LB 501, i which would enable a complete reorganization of the state pow- erer system. This has been de layed because some senators save been uneasy about giving too much freedom to the power ; districts until a complete plan is agreed upon. The real reason for so much speed at this time is that a com plete reorganization may be necessary if Nebraska is to get permission to construct a peace time atomic plant. In the light of this possiblity what was just a "family squabble" has taken on the dimensions of a contro versy so important that state government is taking an active role. The controversy broke into the open last year over the question of whether the Nebraska Public Power System or Consumers Public Power District should build a new steam plant to fur- I nish needed electric power. Tra j ditionally the right to generate power has been left with the "hydros" the Loup and the Platte Valley districts. But Consumers, the largest distributing district in the state, contended it had the best cred it rating and would save the cit izens of the state considerable money by getting a lower rate of interest on bonds. The matter wound up in a complex court suit in the Platte District Court at Columbus. This case simmered along un til this month some of the li tigants asked for a 90 day recess to see if things could be worked out. District Court Judge Emer son Kokjer refused on grounds, "Unless there is more agreement than there seems to be, it seems we would lose time rather than gain by recessing the trial." It was at this point that Gov. Anderson was asked to inter vene. He agreed and invited pre sidents of the public power .dis tricts' to a conference. Traditionally, the power dis tricts have kept strictly away from state government. There is no state agency that regulates them and that is the way they have wanted it. But the peacemaking efforts have bogged so deep and the stakes of settlement the ato mic plant for Nebraska so high that state government is being asked for a helping hand. This in itself is a significant event. Two major plans may be ad vanced. One would establish a state wide electricity agency. The other would "give" western Nebraska to the Platte Valley Public Power District as a dis tribution area. Recreation With many people having more and more leisure hours these days, the question of rec reation and providing outdoor facilities is becoming increasing ly important. This was in the background of a couple of ac tions taken by the Legislature. One was the passage of two bills spend $130,000 to renovate old Fort Robinson in northwestern Nebraska into a first class tour ist center. About $94,000 is to be used to fix up some old army houses in to tourist cabins. The other $36,000 will go for establishing a museum about the Indian Wars. In a nation which dotes on its cowboy and Indian heritage, it is estimated that hundreds of thousands of tourists could be drawn to visit the authentic re mains of the center of army ac tivity against the marauding Plains Indians of the period 1870 to 1890. The other action involved spending $16,000 to fixe up Cry stal Lake state recreation area south of Hastings. This is one of 53 state recreation areas which are supported by part of the in come from hunting and fishing licenses. State parks get support from tax funds. The recreation grounds don't and they have be come "step children" because there wasn't enough money to go around. Sen Kathleen Foote of Axtell argued that the recreation area should be fixed up. A housewife and mother, Mrs. Foote contend ed, "This is no time to de-emphasize recreation." Some senators wanted to sell the land to the city of Hastings. Others warned it might be a pre cedent for similar requests from citizens in the vicinity of other state recreation grounds. Severance Tax Another growing problem, the ever increasing costs of the schools, brought action from the Legislature in giving initial ap proval to a proposal to tax oil and gas production. The pro ceeds from this 2 per cent tax will go into the State Perman- THE PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE SIX Section C By Stanley James. Journal Washington Reporter WASHINGTON May 19, Ten years after the Nazis surrender ed at Rheims, West Germany be came a soverign nation again earlier this month. In the first flush of new freedom and sov ereignity, West Germans have showed little indication of any quick or radical action. Yet there is little doubt that the future action of this new sovereign nation may be the key to peace in western Europe. The general feeling among most Americans who have traveled in Germany in recent years, includ ing writers for this newspaper, is that the foremost wish among the great majority of fifty mil lion West Germans is for reuni fication. This desire is so strong that it could conceivably affect the ac tions of the new sovereign na tion in any field. The underlying danger to the western democ racies is that the desire" for re unification with East Germany will become so strong among West Germans that they will be willing to forego their obliga tions to the Paris Pact nations as far as the alliance against ag gression is concerned. At present, and as long as Chancellor Adenauer is alive, that danger seems to be only a theoretical one. But Adenauer is ent School Fund. The interest from this fund, now amounting to $14.6 million, is divided out each year to all the school dis tricts of the state. Senators from western Nebraska where most of the oil production is located pro tested this would only hamper an "infant industry" in Nebras ka. But a majority of the legis lators felt otherwise. NewAgencies The Legislature voted to. spend $480,000 to buy land and build a hospital in Omaha for a crippled children center. Once the build ing is completed it is to be leas ed out to various organizations and supposedly will not cost the state any more money. This will provide a first rate center for the treatment and rehabilitation of children suffering from var ious kinds of diseases. Also given a vote of approval was a bill to establish a wheat commission. This seven man commission's work will be sup ported by a quarter cent tax on each bushel of wheat raised in Nebraska. Nebraska wheat growers, con vinced that the state raises some of the finest wheat in the world, are dismayed that its caught in the same wheat market glut as poorer grades from elsewhere. They hope the commission can get the facts on this difficulty, and can engage in research to find more efficient production methods, broader markets, and new uses for the product, "liarrassing" Bills A resolution was introduced in the Legislature condeming the practice of having bills drawn up to "harrass' a particular in dustry or the general public. The resolution noted, "Bills have been prepared solely for the pur pose of harassing persons or in dustries with no thought of be ing introduced Preparation of bills for the purpose of harrass--ment is contrary to the public interest." Windstorm insurance rates are increased in New England. . WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE Leaping Amphibian HORIZONTAL 1,5 Depicted leaping amphibian 9 Rasp, 30 It jn moist wood and woodland pools 12 Greek god of 13 Born VERTICAL 1 Song bird 2 Hops' kiln 3 The ear (comb, form) 4 Low haunts 5 Hasten oft 6 "Smallest State" (ab.) 7 Above 8 Laughter (comb, form) 15 Enthusiastic ador 17 Rave 18 Pronoun 19 Wander 9 Cedes 11 Rescues 12 Get up 14 Exclamation of inquiry 16 Bird's home 20 Within ' 21 Electrical unit23 Grafted (her.) 22 Pace 2 Type of fuel 25 For fear that 25 Tardy 27 Domestic slave 28 Measure of I K area 20 Symbol for. tantalum 20 Hurl 33 Allowance for waste 35 Royal Italian family name - 36 Hawaiian bird 37 French island 38 Mohammedan priest 41 Part of a circle 4 4 Abound - 46 Openwork fabric 47 Portuguia India 48 Japanese outcasts 49 Strength 51 Murky 53 Peruse 54 Ornameatal . girdle"-"' X--X- 5L HH ri11 ' 1 "nnn S S5 5510 g41 42 4J pJT 45 W 11 M l 1 I H 1 I Thursday, May 19, l9oo an old man. Even among West Germans talk is increasing that the Chancellor is too old. Many Germans can never for get that President Hindenberg, at the time too old, finally ask ed Hitler to become Chancellor, though at an earlier age he would have been active enough to turn the tide against the Ba varian corporal. Hindenberg was then in , declining health; he died shortly afterward. When Adenauer is gone, will West Germany remain deter mined to stick to its alliance with the West in spite of the Communist bait of reunification in return for neutrality? That is a good question spotlighted by the Russian propaganda.cam paign concerning Austria. The Russians have moved quickly to give Austria independence in an effort to show Germans what might come their wc.y if neutrality is the official policy of a reunited Germany. It is tempting bait. Chancellor Adenauer has urg ed foreign ministers of several 1 western democracracies, includ ing Secretary of State Dulles, at Paris in recent days, to make reunification one of the major topics of any Big Four meeting. Adenauer wants the western j powers to insist that the pres ent alliances of West Germany be recognized by the Russians, prior to negotiations for reuni fication. This is a big order. Yet it would be highly desirable. If Ad enauer could win this point and the Russians gave in, then he would not be subject to the lat er temptations of West Germans to ditch the Paris Agreements and western alliance in favor of reunification. But his chances in this try, are probably slight for that very reason. President Eisenhower by sticking to his not completely clear stand on the Quemoy and Matsu islands, might be vindi cated if a meeting between the Chinese Reds and the United States is arranged and the For mosa crisis settled without war. The President might be vindi cated if that question is partly resolved in a-Big Four meeting, which, however, isn't probable. Nevertheless, the genuine con cern among many Americans, and many of our allies, has been lessened in recent days by in dications that the Chinese Com munists and the United States might meet and settle the, For mosa crisis without resorting to a test of arms. If that happens, Eisenhower's holding Qf the tongue might not be looked upon as critically as it was just a few weeks ago when many prominent Ameri cans were demanding a clari fication ofthe U. S. position on the offshore islands. In England recent polls have given the Conservatives a scare. The Labor Party is not as weak as was anticipated. The split which almost tore the party in to two wings was skillfully healed by Clement Attlee, and the wisdom of Attlee's manuever is becoming clearer every day. The latest tests indicate the general election scheduled for the 26th of this month will be a horse race ,and the Conser vatives are not sure-shot win ners by any means. Here's the Answer 26 God of love 41 Old 42 Universal , language 31 11 has a Wack on each side of its head 43 Taxis 32 Appears 44 Afternoon social events 45 Make an engraving 50 It goes ' a (music) 33 Labor 34 Native of A Rome 39 Genus ol maples 40 Simple 52 Musical note,. Jl2vi el Ha a a n! mil 90M Sli ooom isH I I I I I I