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rr5rsf tTT t!TCT rfiTn--r r, v . iiv j ,! u; to t- Dollar Days will open Friday for a two-day stand. The Friday-Saturday event in Plattsmouth will share special bargains by Plattsmouth merchants in an event sponsored by the retail committee of the Platts mouth Chamber of Commerce. The day will be marked by a parade of banners hung on the street, indicating that Plattsmouth is a place of bargains for two days. Most Plattsmouth merchants have displayed their bargain wares in advestisements in today's Journal. These same advertisements will be read today in eastern Iowa where the Journal went as a special delivery item. Dollar Days doesn't mean every merchant will offer a bargain at exactly a dollar since that amount will buy three or more items in some offerings made in Journal 'advertisements todav. You could buy a workshirt for $1 ; a pair of pillow cases; three pounds of bacon; six quarts of milk; three pairs of shorts; three yards of percale; a pair of sun glasses; and perhaps a hundred other items for the exact amount. But you could find many bargains at a lower price and great price slashes on large items. The Dollar Days beginning Friday will be the second such event staged this year by the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce. An earlier one was held in the spring. Also scheduled for later this year are two events. Back-to-school days will be held in August, spon sored by the Chamber of Commerce. Chamber members are also scheduled to take part in a Teachers Workshop, with conducted tours of busi ness places for teachers attending. B1fi)(Ul i CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER VOLUME 74 mm UDDO Streets, money and sweat were the main items at a regular meeting of the Plattsmouth city council Monday night. While councilmen tried to situate themselves in the best cross-breeze available at the council chambers and to think cool thoughts, they found a sewer had been fin ished, and pushed other projects into action. - - - Council action: I 1. The council approved a pre Escapcd Chicken Is Tracked Down A chicken which escaped the clutches of St. John's Altar Society was back in custody today. The Altar Society, dressing chickens Tuesday for the, lock er which are to be served lat er at the King Korn Karnival, j seached in the alley near St. John's Hall for a fryer which escaped from the fingers of Mrs. John Hobscheidt and escaped. Wednesday Elmer Brink of Bryant's Auto came up with the chicken, which he caught in the alley after a telephone appeal by the Society. 2 Avoca Delegates Leave for Europe AVOCA Two members of Jehovah's Witnesses from Avo ca are on their way to Europe as delegates to an international series of conventions sponsored by the group. They expected to sail today iThursday) from Quebec City, Canada. In Europe they will visit Lon don, Paris, Rome and Nurem berg, Germany, where assemblies will be held. Special travel arrangements have been made by the world headquarters staff of Jehovah's Witnesses for more than 4,500 persons from the United States and Canada. Many delegates will stay in the homes of Jehovah's Witnesses and their friends in the countries they visit as part of the program of Christian un ity being conducted by the group. Emshoff and Luce will be on one of the two ships chartered by Jehovah's Witnesses. It will dock at Southampton, England, July 23 where they will leave it until they board it at Gothen burg, Sweden. August 22. The two Nebraskans plan to do a little sightseeing in Switzer land, do some climbing in the Swiss Alps and spend a day or two in Rome. BB Cun Widdcrs Warned by Chief Boys running around Platts mouth streets with BB guns shooting at street lights, dogs, birds and other targets were warned today by Plattsmouth Police Chief John Hobscheidt, to stop the practice. Chief Hobscheidt said the sit uation has grown so serious that boys have begun shooting at each other. Although none has been reported injured this way yet, he said the chances are good that someone will soon if it isn't stopped. The chief put teeth in his warning by saying that BB guns will be taken away from offend ers and impounded for 30 days. HUTCHINSON'S MOVE TO PLATTSMOUTH Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Hutchinson have sold their home in Murray to Mr. and Mrs. Earl L. Ander son of Omaha and have moved to Valley View addition at Plattsmouth. They are con structing a home in a new ad dition to Plattsmouth to be known as Highland addition, near the present Hillcrest. THE WEATHER Compiled for the Plattsmouth Journal at the Masonic Home Weather Station, Plattsmouth. Nebraska. July 11, 12, 13, 1955. High Low Prec. Monday 96 70 Tuesday 94 75 Wednesday 94 62 Forecast: Today, Thursday thunder showers. HE Consolidated With SIXTEEN PACES onoon liminary plat and asked the city attorney to prepare an ordin ance to bring into the city parts of blocks in an area adjacent and north of the Hillcrest ad- ! dition. Presented by Engineer Robert Mann, the plat repre sented ground owned by D. M. and Frances Babbitt and John Cloidt. This would be known as Highland Addition to Platts- mouth. 2. Approved the final estimate of $3,958.80 on Sewer District No. 11 and accepted the engin eer's certificate on the finished work. ev'mz writh asphaltic oil from 3. Accepted petitions for cov Sixth avenue southward to Highways 7 3-7 5-3 4, Lincoln avenue, commonly known as shop avenue; on Hermia from Tenth Street to 13th street; 11th street from third to fourth avenue and 11 street, second to third avenue. This is a three year treatment. Estimated cost on Lincoln avenue, was placed at about $1,800. Petitions were given to the city attorney to check for percentage of proper ty owners signing and the vali dity of the signatures. 4. Decided to try to eliminate a water hole and mud trap at the intersection of Avenue B and Seventh street after engin eers reported the flooding could be lessened by filling a hole with asphalt and flattening a grade. Bids for the work will be sought. 5. Passed an ordinance vacat ing part of an alley near St. John's Church on request in or der that school construction can go forward. 6. Approved final passage of an ordinance creating Street Improvement District No. 14 which would pave Avenue G from 11th street to Webster avenue and 12th street from Avenue F to Avenue G. William F. Evers, was present and ob jected for the Nebraska Mason ic Home in the building part of the pavement in this fiscal year. The council considered his re quest but took no action since they were bound by law to create the district. 7. Heard a police judge's re port of 19 arrests for a total of $155 in fines and costs and a parking meter receipts report for two weeks of $431. 8. Gave H. C. Tiekotter per mission to cut into a sewer on South Ninth Street. 9. Approved an application by Emory Rozell for permission to haul trash and garbage in the city. 10 Approved a grant of $1,640 to the school district for two years summer music program. John Bogard Heads New Fire District LOUISVILLE John Bogard was elected president of the new Louisville Rural Fire Prevention District at an organizational meeting held here Friday night. The new district will cover about 50 sections of land in Cass county. Elected vice-president of the organization was George Vog ler. Jr. Herbert Stander was elected secretary-treasurer. Di- rectors elected are Earl Puis, J. R. Mayfield, and Eldon Ragoss. Officers and directors met Tuesday night to put the organ ization into operation. Elmwood Declares Against Hoppers ELMWOOD The tow-n here is going to have fewer grass hoppers, and, maybe, a new sewer. This was revealed when the village board voted to spray the town for grasshoppers- Also, the board set a meeting with the Hopkins Engineering Company to discuss the possi bility of building a sewer for the community. 1 Subscribe to The Journal Now ! Adtdiftioin) I Nod Eve FIDn the Nehawka Enterprise PLATTSMOUTH, Rotary Hears Progress of TB Campaign Rnt.nrv Plnh mpmhers heard ! a report of Nebraska's Tuber culosis campaign of the past few years from Paul Roeder, Field Representative of the Ne braska Tuberculosis Association at their regular meeting at Hotel Coffee Shop Tuesday noon. Speaking at the invitation of Dean Dunham, program chair man, Roeder told of the great progress the fight against TB through the sale of seals has made duriner the Dast few years. At one time, in the mid-twen- ties the "white nlaeue" was one of the State's greatest killers Today, through special druj;s and greater hospitalization fa cilities, plus the mobile X-ray units diagnosing TB before it gains headway, the disease has dropped to a very low percent age. A film, in color, shown Ro tarians, revealed methods of finding afflicted persons and efforts of cure by the medical profession. Through the sale of seals, funds have been avail able for great advances in the fight against the dreaded dis ease. Visitors included John Schu maker, Nebraska City; George Beard, Omaha; Marion Rice, Omaha; Chuck Durham, Oma ha. Clement Woster headed the meeting in the absence of Pre sident Steve Davis. Journal Stalk Grows Over 20 Inches in Week It was corn weather in Cass county last week. ' While farmers worked hard getting in a tremendous wheat crop, and fanned out into the oat fields later, they gave an ap proving glance towrard their main crop a hustling, bustling stand of corn. For last week was a real grow ing week. The Journal's much watched corn stalk proved it when it grew nearly three inches per day for seven days and reached 71 inches in height on Tuesday afternoon. The corn stalk was chosen to conduct a contest in which the entrant guessing nearest the height of the corn on Sept. 1 will get a free subscription to The Journal. The cornstalk was a mere runt when measured on the Fourth of July beside its height a week later. Measured on the Fouth, the stalk was 50 inches tall. A week later it was 71 inches tall a growth of 2OV2 inches in seven days. You can get into the contest. Merely fill out the entry blank elsewhere in The Journal show ing how tall you think the stalk will be on Sept. 1 and mail it to the Journal. Journal Want Ads Pay Riks If r-.vtd M V and Elmwood Leader-Echo CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA, Here's Way to Raise Roof IKy. I . Making. a tall one out of a the home of Paul Keil, 1217 Main ment house is almost made into was raised with a derrick timbers ij WW - , built under ths roof. Journal Photo. Plattsmouth Schools to Cost $226,500 During Coming Year Plattsmouth public schools- Ll"m term. This was according to an es- timate made by the board of ed- j ucauon in meir annual uuageu ' As outlined in the budget, ad ministration will cost an esti- text and supplies, $9,150; other' school services, $900; operation of plant, $22,800; maintenance, $15,500; fixed charges $7,375; capital outlay, $5,670; debt ser vice, $500. To pay this the board sees money coming from these sources: State apportionment, $16,000; vocational education, $2,500; fines, police, licences, $9,500; from the city for support of summer band program, $1,640; non-resident tuition, $40,860; U. S. Treasury, under Public Law 874, received for children of Air Force personnel, $16,000. Final item to raise the money will be $140,000 to come from taxes, an item $10,000 higher ' Cass County Red Cross ap peared to be weakest in its blood program according to reports presented at the 32nd annual meeting at Louisville Monday night. Cass county fell down on their quota bv 102 pints during the past year, with a auota of 300 pints and a collection of only 198. A visit of the bloodmobile to Elmwood brought 101 pints: a Weening Water visit 53, and a Plattsmouth visit. 45. Cass county used more blood during the year. 190 Dints. Five visits ar set this year. Members of the county Red Cross ?rouD heard several reports Monday nieht and a nanel dis cussion and ooen forum on horne service activity. Th campaign in 1955 brought in $4,750 to thp chanter and aft r disnrs'ne $7,011.32 in various activities, had n balance nn hand on Jnp 30, 1951. of $6,511.41. Following a dinner tit Ameri can Legion Hall in Louisville, served h"T the legion Auxiliary, the ARC members heard Joe Zasera. Jr.. president of the tiOuisvUle Lions Club welcome them to the city. Every town in the county was Delivered Twice Weekly to THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1955 small one were these workers at street, Plattsmouth. This base a full house now after the roof braced under and the house term and mostly ac- counted for by the salaries of three new teachers and auto matic raises to other teachers nn thp .?alarv srhpdnle A total of $199,475.19 was spent for schools in the 1954-55 which ended with a bank bal- anJ:e . f 3U' Including $5,412.92 in the bank last year at the end of June, $204,186.83 was received from various sources; $113,400 from taxes; $36,144 from tuition; $18,232 from Public Law 874; $16,905 from state apportion ment; $10,514 from fines and licenses; $1,500 from special ed ucation (an item not included this year); $1,892.99 from voca tional education and $184.85 from miscellaneous sources. The board spent $137,576.19 for salaries last term, compared to $154,705 scheduled for the com ing year. Journal Waat Ads Pay represented plus Vern Zimmer man, regional ARC administra tor for the eastern half of Ne braska and James Bell, field di rector for the ARC, from Of futt Air Force Base. S. L. Clements of Elmwood, county chairman, conducted the meeting. Two vocal solos were given by Opal Clements of Elm wood. The county chapter voted to send Junior Weichel of Alvo to aquatic instructor school at Lake Geneva, Wis. Mr. Weichel is a student at Peru and has served as instructor for the county Red Cross Swimming program at Plattsmouth, Louisville and South Bend. He has agreed to return as instructor in 1956. Others appearing on the pro gram Monday evening were Wal ter Smith, Plattsmouth, county ARC vice-chairman; Rev. Phil lips, pastor of the Free Method ist Church at Louisville; Mrs. Lottie Knecht, local chairman at South Bend; Mrs. C. O. Zaiser, Avoca, secretary of the county chapter; Elmer Hallstrom, treas urer, Avoca; Cass County Judge Raymond J. Case, home service chairman; Elmer Hennings, More Than 3000 Cass County Families 6) mra p o" 'Dead' One Lives To Be Fined $15, Along With Chum A dead woman was back to life today to squash wild rumors in Plattsmouth ranging from rape and child molestation to murder. She is Ef fie Maggard, 25, of Plattsmouth who was found by Plattsmouth police between 8:30 and 9 p.m. Wednesday near the intersection of Chicago and First avenues. Police Chief John Hobscheidt reported that patrolmen Wayne Schneider and Rolland Cooper, who found her, thought she ap peared to be dead or dying and called an ambulance, but when they tried to lift her, she came to life in an intoxicated condi tion. She told the officers that a man named Leon Mink knocked her down. Thursday morning both were arraigned in Cass county court after spending the night in the county jail and were fined. .EffieMaggard was fined $15 and $4 costs on a drunk charge and Mink was fined $10 for dis turbing the peace and $15 for being drunk and $4 costs. Both were placed in the county jail in lieu of fines. Cass County Sheriff Tom Sol omon said Mink is on parole to him from district court. This being a violation of his parole, he had a good chance of going back there. $18,000 in Damages Asked in Collision A damage suit for $18,076 has been filed in district court at Plattsmouth by John B. Mc Callan of Omaha against Ro bert Tinnean of Greenwood for claimed personal injuries re sulting from an automobile mis hap in Greenwood on June 17. In his petition, McCallan claims he was entering Green wood from the north on U. S. Highway 6 when a car driven by Tinnean came from a side street at a business intersection and was in collision with his ma chine. No Concert Friday No band concert wTill be given Friday night in Plattsmouth, Director Melvin McKenney has announced. The bi-weekly band concert was cancelled because the band will be in Bellevue for "Belle vue Days." Subscribe to The Journal Now! Avoca; Mrs. Darrell Branden berg, water safety chairman, Louisville; and Mrs. Emily Gon zales, Elmwood. Reports given at the meeting revealed that first aid training had been given in four classes with 45 persons enrolled and 40 persons receiving first aid cer tificates. Fred L. Campbell and Floyd T. Cody, Otoe county first aid instructors were authorized to teach in Cass county since they were working here with the Corps of Engineers. J. N. Jacobsen, first aid in structor authorized for the Nat ural Gas pipeline company, will conduct courses for employes of that company at Weeping Water beginning July 18. The water safety program pro duced 194 who entered the training and 83 wrho passed in the county. Greenwood made arrange ments to participate in the Li mona Beach swim program and $25 was allotted to them to help defray expenses. August 9-11 Cass county chapter wfil furnish swim instructor to 4-H Camp Harding. ITS ygj FIVE CENTS PER COPY on Wk v e mra e Bids on water system improvements for Plattsmouth went for $15,000 below engineer's estimates here Tuesday afternoon when 3 0 companies took part in the action. Estimated, to cost 8122,400, total bids to construct the improvements, which include new water mains and tower, new pumps, a new deep well and other items, came to S109.2G0.50. Though this was $15,000 less, Loose Dog Warning Given by Police Dog complaints are about to overrun the Plattsmouth po lice and the department has decided to do something: about it. Chief John Hobscheidt said today that any dog- running: loose in the city will be pick ed up and impounded by po lice, whether or not the dog: is licensed. The drive will last through September. He said dogs must be tied or kept en closed on the owner's proper ty. Union Soldier Army Stockade Escapee in Korea SOEUL, Korea "No M. P. will be able to take me," was what a soldier from Union, Neb., was quoted as saying before he and three other American sold iers cut their way through a wire fence and escaped from the Eight Army stockade this week. Nebraska member of the quar tet was Deleon R. Lee, 21, of Union who holds a dishonorable discharge and was serving a five-year term for grand lar ceny. The Army said they were prob ably armed and two were con sidered "extremely dangerous." Others in the group included Howrard Berkowitz, 19, Jackson Heights, N. Y., discharged for bad conduct and serving six months for sleeping on post; Willie W. Hitt, 19, Philadelphia, dishonorable discharge and serving five years for grand lar ceny; Wallace Rose, 25, Angel ton, Tex., serving 15" years for desertion. Lee and Rose were considered the dangerous pair. Sheriff's Office Grabs Wanted Man Cass county peace officers have picked up a Greenwood man on a warrant held in Grand Island. Cass County Sheriff Tom Sol omon said today that his office took into custody Ralph (R. E.) Witt at Greenwood Wednesday night on a charge of giving a no fund check in Grand Island. He is being held at Plattsmouth for Grand Island authorities. Solomon said Witt is also wanted by Green couny, Iowa, Sheriff Roy Morgan on similar charges. Jake Trirsch Is Slowly Recovering Jake Tritsch is very slowly recovering from an auto acci dent two weeks ago, Mrs- Oliver Meisinger, his daughter, report ed today. He is in a very weakened con dition arid is battling internal injuries. He has the continual aid of three special nurses. He is In Clarkson Hospital Room No. 414, Omaha. Mr. Tfitsch was injured when a car in which he was driving turned over , on the Louisville road, near Plattsmouth. He was alone in the car at the time. 4-H Club to Build Terraces Totaling 9,000 feet July 22 Tractor Savers 4-H Club achievement day 'will include 9.CO0 feet of terracing at the Ralph Wehrbein farm on the Louisville road. Activity will open at 8 ajn., Friday, Jully 22, when members of the 4-H club will turn the terraces with moldboard plows. PUBLISHED SEMI - WEEKLY Monday - Thursday NUMBER 67 on t it did not include one item, a steel pumphouse, on which no acceptable bids were placed Tuesday. The Plattsmouth water board may build this or work on a contract with one of the com panies. Items 1, 2, and 3 in the bid ding, an 18-foot well, 78 feet deep, a 400 gallon-per-minute pump and a steel pump house, estimated by engineers to cost a total of $10,000, was let to low bidder Layne-Western company at $5,826, not nicluding the pumphouse. Items 4 through 8, including pipe line, hydrants, labor and valves, estimated te cost $65,000, went to the low bidder, The An chor Construction company, at $56,800. t Item 9, a steel water storage reservoir estimated by engineers to cost $41,400, went to low bid d e r Pittsburgh-D e s Moines Steel company at $40,670. Item 10, a 700 gallon-per-minute horizontal centrifugal pump, estimated to cost $6,000 went to low- bidder, the Inter state Machinery and Supply, at $5,964.50. The water improvements will be paid for with revenue bonds which will raise the water bill of Plattsmouth patrons 30 cents per month. The improvements are expected to increase the pressure to normal during the heavy use months and to pro vide a margin in water supply the year around. Robert Cappell, supervisor of the Plattsmouth Board of Pub lic Works, said work would like ly not begin on the project un til around the first of August since time must be allowed for the signing of contracts and moving material to the scene. Warren Eltiste New Weeping Water Legion Post Head WEEPING WATER (Special) Warren K. Eltiste is the new commander of the Weeping Water American Legion Post No. 237. He was elected at a regular monthly meeting held by the post at the Herman Danklcff farm. An annual chicken sup per was part of the evening ac tivity. Also elected were Raymond Freeman, first vice-commander; Dan Livingston, second vice commander; Lloyd Sudduth, ad jutant; Claire Beach, finance officer; Joe John, service of ficer; Lynn Parson, sergeant-at-arms; L. N. Houseman, chap lain. Warren Eltiste and L. N. Houseman prepared the fried chicken for the dinner with help from Mrs. Dankleff for pastries and accessory foods. Robbery Linked To Local Woman SEWARD Federal Bureau of Investigation agents were ex pected to enter the search for a man and woman who beat and robbed a Utica man Saturday night. 3 Sheriff Ray Welch said a wo man, suspected of taking part in the robbery, mentioned to a Seward clerk about a week ago she planned to go to New Mex ico or California. The sheriff identified her as Sharon McVea formerly of Plattsmouth, Utica and Omaha. Clyde Parker, middle-aged Se ward resident, received a broken leg in a scuffle when a man and woman entered his house knocked him unconscious and escaped with $16,000 in bonds and $1,600 in cash. S House guests of Mr. and Mrs Lowell Hamblen are Mrs Aim Appleton, Minn. " ma