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.V. V.V .V. .V.V.. .... ,. ..-.. V. V.V.. V.V. V,,,V.WAW..W.,AW ' -v.v.v.v.v.vv.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v. .v..v. ... ..MvX,.IM"llMvXJ EDITORIALS Furse's Fresh Flashes J ESERVE PROGRAM DEAD? The President's reserve program, prepared so carefully over the winter by select men, appears to have run into a fa tal turn of events. At present it is shelved in the House because of an amend ment affecting the National Guard and a civil rights question involving assign ment by state guard units. We do not intend to elaborate here on the amendment, wheih was offered by, New York Representative Adam Powell," which resulted in the shelving of the bill. We do think that, regardless of the amend ment's wqrth, it was tacked on to the reserve program bill at an inappropriate time, and that it should not be allowed to wreck the reserve program. Congressman Powell wants the federal government to have the power to direct states on policies in the assignment phase of mobilization, for training. Many feel very strongly that the National Guard, older than the federal military services, and always a state responibility should not be put under Washington. This is a states' rights question. We agree that the National Guard long the prize of Washington planners should remain semi-independent, and a state function, except in time of emer gency. But whether right or wrong on this point, we feel that the death of the reserve program, brought on by this controversial issue, is a serious blow to the President's defense program. For one thing, Army cuts in strength were based on the existence of a new and enlarged reserve force. If the new reserve program is not to be adopted, and it ap pears sunk, then cuts in Army strength may have to be reevaluated. As a matter of permanent policy, the country needs a new reserve program. The present system, which does not make it certain that the country will have an ad equate ready reserve, is not sufficient in time of international tension such as today. This question should be decided on its own merits, and then the question of policies) in the National Guard decided on its merits. The latter question should not be allowed to wreck the country's new re serve program. x it it it AHEAD THREE-CAR FAMILY Lester L- Colbert, president of the Chrysler Corporation, recently told several thousand business men that, by 1975, a large proportion of the country's families will be three-car families. Colbert said tho one-car family would be in the minority by, that time. This statement parallels one made re cently by Henry Ford II, president of the Ford Motor Company, who said that he was also looking forward to the three-car family era in the future. It is true that in 1975, the population of the United States will probably be well over 200,000.000 and that automation may enable the automobile industry to re duce prices of cars while increasing wages at the same time. It is also true that the average American will be earning more and may be able to afford more than one, or even two, automobiles. However, we think one development will be necessary to make the three-car family a reality in the United States in the next twenty years. That wouM be the elim ination of the heavy and multiple taxes which are now levied on the total price of an automobile. It has been estimated that a man, paying-, 500 for an automobile, pays about $6 00 in hidden and direct taxes, and that the automobile he buys could be priced at less! than $2,000 if he were not required to pa so many different taxes when pur chasing a car. Taxes will perhaps never be eliminated, but the excise tax on new " THOUGHT FOR TODAY God has given yon one fdec, and yon make If another. Shakespeare, Hamlet iafismouih Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 1SS1 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) ihe P RONALD R. FURSE. . . . WM. L. MURDOCK. . . . SOPHIA M. WOLEVER. .Editor and Publisher News Editor Society Editor VERN WATERMAN Advertising Entered at the Post Office at Plattsmouth, 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, cents for two weeks. ' Most any job looks easy when someone else is doing it well. it We never lose faith in humanity we just think of all the people in the United States who have never played us a dirty trick. ic ic it Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, says she would never marry a man for his money until she had tried every other way to get it. '' - Asked a 95-year-old codger up the street what he thought about women run ning the country and he told us he had quit thinking about women nearly two years ago. it it it If you think bathing beaches are crowded, just take a look at some of the bathing suits. it ic it It's a good thing life expectancy is a lot longer than it used to be or a fellow never would get his taxes paid. tht it it No matter how low in value a dollar may eventually fall, it will never fall as low as some people will stoop to get it. it Then there were the good old days when nobody but baseball umpires called strikes. cars, which amounts to several hundred dollars for most buyers, is a costs which is not recovered when the car is traded in. If current taxes were not necessarily so high, low-priced automobiles in the United States would be selling for $1,300 and $1,400. This would make for larger exports and larger total sales. .v.v,,, Down Memory Lane f YEARS AGO J. R. Reeder, science teacher at Plattsmouth high for six years, was elect ed principal of the school to succeed R. Foster Patterson who joined the faculty of Tarkio College. . .A car belonging to Henry F. Nolting of Plattsmouth, was recovered at Council Bluffs, la., after it had been stolen. . .William A. Robertson of Platts mouth was advanced to senior warden of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Nebraska. . . Rev. Otto Engebretson, pastor of the Unit ed Brethren Church, delivered the Mem orial Day address at Weeping Water. . . Judges at the Plattsmouth flower show were Mrs. Arthur E- Rapp of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Miss Julia Svoboda of Plattsmouth. . .Miss Avis Burdick, daugh ter of Mr. and J. I. Burdick of Eagle, was married to Claire Helsdoerfer at the nurses' home of the Lincoln general hos pital. ic it ir Orj YEARS AGO Miss Viola Archer, daughter of Sam Archer of Plattsmouth, was placed in charge of the Atlas Redwood Truck and Lumber company at Omaha. . .F. W. Loomis of Plattsmouth who was a con tender against Billy Wolf of the F. J. Tay lor circus when it visited Plattsmouth, was set to wrestle him again at Creston, la., on July 4. . . James Doyle found his new Ford touring car stripped of battery and two tires when -he went to the Legion garage he had rented to take a spin in it. All the attractions of the McMahon carn ival playing at Louisville, except the ferris wheel, were blown down by the storm. . Eight men of an extra crew received light injuries when a handcar on which they were riding decided to leave the rails and spilled them into the right of way. . . Clarence Beal, clerk of the district court at Plattsmouth, who had been hospitaliz ed, was returned to the hospital for treat ment. . .A bridge across the Missouri river at Plattsmouth to replace ferry service, was proposed. . .The often discussed ques tion of a swimming pool for Plattsmouth came up again and the Ad club set out to investigate possibilities. it it riie Washing? Ticklers By George By DREW PEARSON mum (Copyright, 1955, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: CHIN ESE DEMAND END OF BLOCK ADE; RCA'S SARNOFF WAITS FOR CBS' PALEY; ADENAUER WANTS TO ATTEND BIG THREE FOREIGN MINISTER'S CONFERENCE. Washington Prime Minister Nehru of India has given the State Department some unwelcome news regarding the proposed cease-fire around Formosa. As a result of Kirshna Menon's many talks in Peiping, Nehru has told the State Department that Red China will insist on the end of the economic blockade of China as its price for a cease-fire. The blockade was imposed toward the beginning of the Korean war and has been maintained ever since. Though violated to some extent by western nations, neverthe less it has been effective enough to hamp er the entire economy. of China seriously, and Premier Chou En-Lai demands that it Don't you remember we left your beach ball at home?; be lifted. In fact, Nehru made it clear that this was one of the strong est conditions Chou had laid down in his secret talk with Krishna Menon. Chou bitterly denounced the western ban on strategic ship ments and said Red China would never agree to any truce unless the West formally pledg ed that every country would re sume its trade. Follow-Thc-Leader Howard Chernoff, radio-TV adviser to Senator Kileore of West Virginia was waiting to see Pat Weaver, president of the National Broadcasting Company whose New York office adjoins that of David Sarnoff, chairman of the Radio Corporation of America and top mogul for NBC. Sarnoff, who seemed to have less to do than Weaver, and perhaps more curiosity, called Chernoff in. . . "Why don't you get Senator Kilgore to have lunch with the radio-TV industry" he suggest ed. "Would you come?" inquired Chernoff. "That would depend on what Paley would do," replied the head of the giant radio corpor ation referring to William S. Paley, chairman of the Columbia Broadcasting System. "If Paley sent Stanton (President of CBS) -I'd send Weaver. If Paley came himself, I'd come too." SENATE SALLIES Illinois'Democratic Sen. PauP Douglas, riding backward on thei Senate trolley, remarked cheer-' fully to a tourist beside him:: "We're riding this thing Republican-wise. We're going forward, while looking back.". . . Jndi-; ana's pudgy Sen. Homer Cape hart, the juke-box king, was railing on the Senate floor against installment buying. His GQP colleague, Sen. "Wild Bill" Langer of North Dakota, jumped up to agree. "I think," suggested Langer, "We ought to start with the Capehart music boxes.". : . . Virginia's rosy-faced Sen. Willis Robertson, trying to explain a hopelessly complicated amend-' ment to the Senate finally blurted: 'Don t listen to the language of my amendment. Just listen to what I tell you it means.". . . .Colleagues are rib bing Sen. Strom Thurmond, South Carolina Dixiecrat, for taking up a full page of the congressional directory for his biography. Wisecracked Ken tucky's Sen. Alben Barkley: "We should re invoked cloture (the anti-filibuster rule)." Adenauer to New York Chancellor Adenauer of West Germany has demanded he be r included in the western Big Three foreign ministers confer ence being arranged for New York June 16. This is the meeting which is to fix the strategy the western heds of government will follow at the Big Four meeting with Soviet Premier Bulganin in July. And because the future of Germany will be the main problem, Adenauer will probably have his way and be invited to join the New York conference. However, it isn't likely Ade nauer will be invited to sit in "At the Summitt" later. Siamese Political Twins The Prime Minister of Thai land, young-looking veteran of far eastern political vicissitudes, made a great hit in the United States. Flying on a hectic sched ule around the, nation, he stop ped after a visit at Niagara Falls to dine with Gov. Averell Harriman in Albany. The plant trip was rough and the time short. But the Prime Minister and his entourage had changed clothes and were dress ed in dinner jackets when they i stepcea on tne plane to be erreeted by the Governor of New York. Later at a . dinner given in his honor, Prime Minister Luang Pibtrf Songgram said in quaint English: "I tried to prepare a speech, but we got in the airplane and we had much bumping. It was hard to prepare a speech be cause of the bumping. "We are known for years to the American people for twins. ; Whenever we ;get what you call Siamese - rwms we send them to the United States. You know us because of twins. "But now," continued the Prime Minister, "Thailand s and the United States have another tend. We have become such friends that we are almost like twins ourselves." Russian A.Encrgy Russian diplomats have con- t i fided they will startle the the world in a few months by disclosing just how much they know about the peacetime uses of Atomic Energy. Whether they can produce or not remains to be seen. But, without any fanfare, the Soviets have agreed to attend a big con ference iiL Geneva in August which will be devoted to Presi dent Eisenhower's atoms-for-peace plan. And in advance of this, the Soviets have pledged to make public more than 100 of their top-secret experiments in farm ing, medicine and industry. Security-Go-Round Hubert Humphrey, the pithy Senator from Minnesota, has some penetrating things to say about the topsy-turvy handling of security rules under Ike. State Department investigators, he says, deliver adverse security judgments 14.5 times more often than the Atomic Energy Com mission, though the AEC is con ceded to have one of the most effective security systems. . . . Stassen's Foreign Operations Administration, says Humphrey, has a third fewer employees than the U. S. Information Agency, yet Stassen fired 184 workers for security reasons in the same period that USIA fired only two. This proves that a man's chances of getting fired on the basis of a wild, unproved accusation depend more on the security officer where he works than on his actual loyalty, says Humphrey. . . .Humphrey's so lution? Setting up specific standards for judging security cases. Today's decisions depend on the fallible human judgment of each agency head. Under Truman, final decision went to the top loyalty board headed by a Republican, Ex-Sen. Hiram Bingham of Connecticut. CIGARETTE USE Cigarette smoking appears to have been discouraged to some extent by medical contentions that there is a relation between heavy smoking and cancer. In a report on the tobacco situa tion, the Agriculture Department saia cigarette consumption de clined about five per cent in 1954 and that the number of filter tip cigarettes smoked last year was about seven times as great as in 1952. CRIPPLE ATTACKED ROCHESTER, N. Y. Harold Breining, 46, is being held by police charged with striking a 54-year-old cripple over the head with a hammer, robbing him of $30 and then stealing his crutches to pawn them. The cripple, Hobert Dorsey, bleeding from head wounds, crawled two blocks to a restaurant for help and was taken to a hospital. HOLDS LINE TOO LONG POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. Mrs. Mary L. Kals, Dutchess county housewife, was recently convict ed of refusing to yield a party line so that a neighbor could re port a fire. She is subject to a fine of $500, a year in jail, or both. Capitol News By Melvin Paul Statehouse Correspondent The Nebraska Press Association LINCOLN The Legislature inched its way toward adjourn ment, bothered with ouagets, highway revenues, and mvesti gations to the last. This week it took up its record-breaking budget bill, al ready providing $219 million for state agencies to spend and threatening to go over the $220 million mark. This figure which inciuaes property tax funds,' cigaret, gasoline, and liquor tax revenues, tuition .at stat3 schools, and federal match ing funds is up $25 million from previous biennial budget. About $11 million more in property tax income will be re quired. The general fund levy probably, will have to be in creased a little more than a mill to take up the slack (that is, $1 more tax per $1,000 of assessed valuation) . Where does it go? Sen. Hal Bridenbaugh of Da kota City, chairman of the Budget Committee, explained to the Legislature that four major areas swallow up 86 per cent of the total budget. Thay are: Highways, $76,561,500; higher education (the University of Ne braska and the teachers train ing, colleges) $43,322,687; the public welfare (assistance) pro gram, $33,194,900; and state pe nal, mental, and educational in stitutions $32,703,015. Bridenbaugh placed the blame for ever higher budgets directly on the demands of the' people for more and better services. "Such factors as inflation and growth . in population alone would explain much of the up ward spiral of expenditures, but primarily they, have resulted from the demands of the people for more and better services," said Bridenbaugh. He added, "Without a reduc tion of services, a significant de crease in state expenditures will not be possible." - Ton-Mile Tax The Legislature, already weatherbeaten in battles over highways, took some more buf fets. By a slim 22 to 17 vote the senators revived the controver sial LB 362, which would place a ton-mile tax on the largest trucks. In another switch from previ ous action the Legislature adopt ed the shortened version of the state highway system submitted by the : State Advisory Highway Commission. This vote was H to 18. Still up in the air was the question of whether an increase in the license fees of trucks would stand up. The ton-mile tax affair devel oped into a royal battle between two of the biggest-lobbies in the state the railroads and the truckers. The railroads want to saddle the tax on the big trucks, their major competition, and have worked with various organ izations to get the tax passed. The truckers , through their Nebraska Motor Carriers Associ ation have bitterly resisted the effort and succeeded in getting the bill killed late in May. But Sen. John Adams, Sr., of Omaha. who had voted to kill the bill, asked for a reconsideration and got the 22 votes to breathe life into the measure again. Later when he was criticized for "jumping the fence," the Oma ha legislator delivered an oration praising the railroads and inci dentally stripping the last facade off the real backers of the meas ure. The bill was eventually ad vanced 21 to 13. The margin was so small that at week's end it seemed nip and tuck that the bill would survive all the way. There were good arguments on both sides. Those for the bill said the big trucks should pay more of the share of highway construction and maintenance. Those again it said the trucks already are paying their way and that passage of the bill would destroy reciprocity agrce- THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE FOJR . Monday, June 6, 19a5 Verse writer (pace poets Corner will appezr in this space without charge. Name of must appear on copy submitted. - Keep them short will not permit, lengthy poems ml : i LOVED ONES Pictures setting on my desk , - . Looks down upon me while I rest ; I say a prayer each night anew o For my Annie and Mother too Memories of a lovely past I'll cherish to the very last Now my heart is sad and blue It needs your love pure and true Each night I lay alone and cry My prayers to the Lord on high To keep your love and faith in me And right my wrong and set me free ;Then you come to me in my dreams And you're in my arms it seems Until I wake with a start And I know again we're far apart Then I start my day anew With a prayer for both of you Clyde David Sheard, Anamosia, la. ments with other states. They would start charging a ton-mile tax on Nebraska trucks going through their states, increasing the costs to Nebraska shippers. Spokesmen for the truckers warned that this would drive trucking firms out of Nebraska. Paul Halpine, executive secre tary for the Motpr Carriers, pre dicted it would cost Nebraska $1 million in taxes and license fees. - Iliffhway Map Just as touch-and-go and every bit as filled with bitter ness was the proposal for a shortened version of the high way system. The Highway Com mission had proposed lopping of f about 900 miles and adding 400 more for a net shortening of 500 miles. The Legislature first adopted this map, then an hour later junked it in favor of re taining the present system. Sev eral days later they reconsid ered and adopted the commis sion map again. This came over the . bitter protests of senators from districts losing the "reads. They contended there should have been public hearings to al low their people to state their cases. . . School Lands School land . .leaseholders groups, which had been skating on thin ice all session,' finally lost out as the legislature killed the last of a group of bills trying to change v the present system. Knocked out was LB 521, which had been killed in committee and then revived on the floor. This measure called for a 25 per cent cut in the rental of school lands, now leased at 6 per cent per year of the appraised value set by the State Board of Educa tional Lands and Funds. The bill also called for setting up a "pilot" system of unit valuation similar to share cropping. The feeling apparently was that it was too late in the session to try to work out anything so com plicated. Investigation Hearings got underway on a probe by a special Legislature investigation committee into 'al leged "improper practices" on the part of certain senators. The five man committee is headed by Sen. Robert Brower of Fuller ton. , The Legislature launched the investigation after sworn testi mony was offered in connection with introduction of a bill of tax coin vending machines. Sen. Sam Klaver of Omaha, has vig orously denied all statements mentioning him. However, the hearings opened with the bringing of witnesses from the Nebraska Mobilhomes Association, a group of trailer court owners. They, were ques tioned in connection with rais ing a $2,500 fund for fighting LB 8, a measure to regulate the trailer courts. This bill was favorably report ed to the floor of the Legisla ture on Feb. 9, by the Govern ment Committee of which Sen. Klaver is chairman. A week later Sen. Klaver spearheaded a successful effort in his own com mittee to have the bill killed. Klaver explained he had learned the bill would be injurious to servicemen from Offutt Air Base living in trailer courts near Omaha. Edwin T. McHugh ATTORNEY H Office in Corn Growers p Mate uann g H Murdock Nebraska e The total private and net pub lic debt in the United States at the close of 1954 was $606,000, 000,000, up 32 per cent over 1953. FUSSELMAN g FUNERAL HOME AMBULANCE MONUMENTS ; Louisville Phone 3981 J; :2 . i REAL ESTATE LOANS! 5 Percent Interest Charge Reduced for Each Monthly Payment Plattsmouth Loan & Building Ass'n. SLIP-UP! If someone is injured while on your premises, will you be financially able to pay? The answer is "Yes!", if you have Residence Liability Insur ance. Consult Steve Davis Phone 6111 2nd Floor Bank Bldg. 5th & Main Plattsmouth THERE'S A SAA5VM ) HEU. HWE J HE. YNTS TO SELL HMM. MANBE WITH MOSE ( UH..CAHYOU COME BACK. V ?T OUTSIDE TO SEE S TO COME Y0U SOME LABOR- MACHINERY I WOULDN'T J A LATTER? SA.Y IN 2 J YOU MB TujlES' BCVC LAEK! ) AV1N3 MAOUNER-Y.' , NE.&D ANY HKEO HELP.' j If ABOUT TWNTV Yr ' 7 --HV'I'M BUSY Al ""T , 1t sj, VCKOC I J& 4.