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THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE SIX . Thursday, July 28, 1955 The Cowboy: Irishman, Vaquero Virginian Has 400 Year History WASHINGTON He was born an Easterner, rode a Moor ish horse, took his ways from Mexico, and became a legend. Ills business title: American cowboy. Today, often enough, the cow boy is a college man. He in spects electric fences in a Piper Cub. His range reaches to the Florida 'Glades, ranches near Philadelphia, the prairies of Long Island. He's a capitalist. Whence came the first cow boy? From Ireland, from Spain, from backwoods Massachusetts, from tidewater Virginia, the Na tional Geographic Sr:iety .-ays. He rode a long trail to be come a hero of the Old West. Tory "Cow-boys' By Webster and other weighty dictionaries, a "cowboy" is (1 A boy who tends cows, (2) A Tory marauder and cattle raider north of New York City in the Revolutionary War, and 3 A mounted western cattle herder. Both word ana job are older than 1776 in this country, yet at the same time considerably younger. Red and black kine grazed on the Commons of Jamestown and in Puritan Mas sachusetts by 1635. About 1655 full 300 years ago cattle were driven east to Boston from the then far-west outpost of Snring field on the Connecticut River. Though English and Scots men used "cowherd" or "drov er," the word "cowboy" was known in the colonies by 1670. Irish i'ieldhands may have brought it, for the term occurs in Irish balladry of 1,000 years ago. Cattle were known in the New World 150 years before 1670. Small sharp-horned An dalusian cattle and fine-bred Barbary horses came to Mexico with Soanish conquistadors within 30 years after Columbus sighted iiispaniola. Coronado took cattle north of the Rio Grande in 1540. It was prophet ic, perhaps, that the first white man to cross Texas was Cabezza de Vaca whose name meant "Head of a Cow." Huge Spanish haciendas soread cattle slowly north on the grassy Mexican tablelands. Herds ran wild and multiplied. Half -wild vaqueros "cowboys"' rounded them up to burn or cut the hidalgo's brand on the ralves. - Spanish Vocabulary From these Mexican vaqueros, Scottish and English frontiers men drifting into what is now Texas learned their trade and forged a cattle kingdom. Their animals, their toote, even their New Drive In Opens at Platte River . ' " ... '''-''-'X$--&1$i?Z itT V''j words were Mexican: mustang, sombrero, poncho, corral, bron co, adobe, vigilante, vamoose, stampede. But no market existed for ! Texas cattle. All possible selling points were too far away. Herds grew larger still- Then came the California gold rush and the crossing of the continent. The railroads followed. At the Civil War's end the "Iron Trail" reached west into Kansas, and Texas .herds began moving north to meet it. Over the Red River, amid clouds of dust and the whoops of hard driving saddle-bred cowhands, longhorns streamed by the mil lions gaunt, bawling, wild-eyed beef on the hoof. They surged into Abilene, Ellsworth, Newton, Wichita, and Dodge City. Other herds moved on north, following the Long Trail to Wyoming's lush grass, Montana, and Alberta. They went west to New Mexico, Ari zona, and Nevada. They took a new Texas-style life with them. The cowboy rode into nation al hero-worship on the Chis holm Trail only 90 years ago. Yet he is four centuries old on this continent. His longhorn now is almost an extinct breed. White-faced He refords, glossy black Angus, Shorthorns tam er, meat - solid breeds have taken over the range. The cow boy is tamer too, and easier to fatten. . ' "4 -A. V- vl 'J "si a:J. :. - .it-. United States Preacher Roe Revealed Spit Ball Use to Make it Legal d LJ UJ lUjf JSsSfi mm is me mam uauuxiig ox a new uuve m Drive in, me caie is ueihg opciitLea Dy uva K.erns. eating place which opened Wednesday on the Service is to the car to a special patio overlook banks of the Platte river, at the river bridge ing the river, or at the counter. Journal Photo, north of Plattsmouth. Known as The Riverside Quick 'Belt Up1 Draws a Tangle Don't Go to Farm For Safety Haven CHICAGO Does crossing a city street leave you a nervous wreck? Do you long for the safe ty of farm life? Well, you had better think twice. For the 1955 edition of the ..ational Safety Council's statistical year book, "Accident Facts," shows, that agriculture ranks among the most danger ous of industries. Only high hazard occupations such as construction and min ing surpass the accidental death rate of farm workers. ELECTRIC BOOST In terms of power alone, the strength of a man in prime health is worth much less per day than the cost of a single cigarette, according to the Chamber fo Commerce of the United States. With electric power behind him, the Ameri can worker has multiplied his productivity many times. 5m s Playground For Canadians WASHINGTON Americans, accustomed to thinking of Can ada as a vacationists' paradise, 1 may be surprised to learn that Canadians think the same of our country only more so, says the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Figures show that. Canadians spent more money in this coun try last year ($311 million) than Americans spent in Canada ($284 million). Even more surprising Is the number of Canadian visits across the border. In 1953, the figure was 23,300,000 while the number of American visits to Canada that year was 28,025,000. Since the population of Canada isonly 15 million, it's clear that a good many Canadians are making several trips a year to this country. Also, the Chamber points out, when the difference in the pop ulations of the two countries is recalled, the proportion of. Canadians visiting the United States, as against U.S. visitors to Canada, becomes even more startling. The Chamber suggests that the apparent eagerness of Ca nadians to spend their money in this country might persuade us to be a bit more liberal in accepting Canadian currency especially since the Canadian dollar is worth more than ours. mum mm Cole's . . .costs less than wood N. 7312 $229 " Tom Kraeger hops off his tractor to try to connection with a terrace plowing exercise on t hp farm Thursdav. A practice rodeo was held unsnarl a belt in a tractor "belt up' test at tne TrnublP shooters tractor club to get ready 3len Kraeger farm. The belt became tangledas for the Cass County Fair competition. Journal Tom started to back for tightening. This was in Photo. The Cass County Fancy Feed ers met at the home of Larry and Lyle Engelkemeier on July 20. The meeting was called to or der by Vice President Bruce Jameson. - For our Jesson we discussed grooming and showing the calf in the ring. On August 21 we are going to have a tour starting at 1:30 p.m. at the home of Larry and Lyle Engelkemeier. A lunch was served by Mrs. Engelkemeier. Kenneth Choat, reporter. When Preacher Roe -disclosed in a national sports magazine recently that the outlawed spit ball was his "money pitch" dur ing his seven years with the Dodgers, the outcry was im mediate and prolonged. But Roe stood his ground, with head un bowed. And now, in an exclusive interview with. J. G. Spink, pub lisher of The Sporting News, he replies to his critics. Roe takes back nothing. "If I'm a sinner," he says, "some others are going to the bad place, too." His only purpose in reporting his use of the spit ball, he says, is that he wants to help bring it back to the game as a legal pitch. His only regret is that he may have put Pee Wee Reese or Billy Cox in a bad light. He was quoted in his spit ball article as saying that once in a while after the ball had been tossed around the infield, Reese or Cox rould come up to the mound, drop the ball easy into his glove, and says, "Give us a goo pitch now." "I must have told it wrong," he told Spink. "If Pee Wee, Cox or anyone else on the Dodgers ever helped me throw a spitter, I don't, know anything about it. I'm sorry if I told that part of the story a little wrong. It's the only thing I feel bad about." He doesn't feel bad about the rest of it. As he said to Spink in The Sporting News interview, "I told my story with just one point in mind to show that the spitball isn't dangerous pitch, and in the hope that maybe I could bring it back as a legal pitch. I'd just like to live long enough," he went on, "to see 'em put in one rule that would help' the pitcher. Everything in recent years has been done to help the hitter and handicap the pitcher. They've made the strike zone smaller. They let the hitter crouch, wear loose shirts and put stuff on his bat pine tar, rosin, everything under the sun. "They put the three-second stop rule on the pitcher, and made his keep both feet in con tact, with the rubber. The pitch er must deliver the ball within a given time, but the hitter can back out of the box all he wants. They've brought the fences in closer and made the ball livelier. In view of all these advantages to the hitter," Roe said, "I fig ure the pitcher is entitled to try to help himself." Roe told Spink that maybe he Clean out office $nd sfoehoom NOW! TitflEE No. 8712 c!oJ vUi $98.85 At these low prices you might as well do it today. Cole units have 50 more capacity than standard units. Built of heavy steel, yet costs less than wood. 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Mrs. William Winkler of Lin coln visited at the home of Mrs. Ida Thimgan on Thursday af ternoon. Mr. and Mrs. John Amgwert of Lincoln spent Friday visit ing relatives here. The Lions club met Thursday evening for their regular ses sion with 13 members and one visitor present. Herbert and Amanda Klemme arrived home on Friday from a 18-day trip to the West Coast. Mr. Dick Brummer, who un derwent surgery a week Satur day, was able to come home on Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Lodge Caygill of California, have been visit ing at the home of their daugh ter, Mrs. Vernon Schewe and family this past week. Mr. and Mrs. John Krueger went to Oakland over the week end to visit Mrs. Krueser's bro ther and wife. Mrs. Ed McCrory's father passed away Sunday at his home in Kansas. Funeral- ser vices will be Tuesday in Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schlueter, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Von Spreck leson and daughter, Mr. Von Spreckleson's mother and Miss Esther Luetchens left late Wednesday afternoon from Omaha for their eight weeks trip to Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Louie Wendt lost their car and garage by fire early Tuesday morning; the or igin of which is unknown. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rosenow will celebrate their 50th wed ding anniversary on Sunday, August 7, by having open house from 2 to 5 at the high school gymnasium. The R.N.A. Lodge met Wed nesday evening for their regular meeting with a good attend attendance in spite of the heat- Mr. and Mrs. Jess Stock and family left Monday morning for a trip to the Black Hills and other places of interest. Syracuse Puts Platters Out Of Tournament Plattsmouth's Junior League baseball, team bowed out of the district tournament at Louis ville Monday night when they lost to Syracuse by a score of 12 to 2. That ended the season for the Plattsmouth team. Syracuse took a 2-1 lead in the first inning and the Plat ters couldn't head them. They led 2-1 as they poled out 11 hits off the pitching of Denny Hirz. Plattsmouth touched Syra cuse's Paulson for five hits Kaffenberger hit a double; Hirz tripled and singled; Lewis and Long furnished a single each. Paulson hit a triple and a double off Plattsmouth pitching but the remainder of their hits were for one base. Score by innings: Plattsmouth . . . 100 100 0 2 Syracuse 220 330 2 12 schools, poor hoing and untrain ed social workers are factors the judge listed as contributing to the expected increase in child crime. CAR CRASHES PLANE SALT LAKE CITY, A new type collision was recently re ported to police. Steven Apoda ca, 37, told police, that he had taken a wrrong road and ended up on the ramp of the airport. While trying to turn his car around, he crashed into a navy torpedo-bomber tied down at the airport. Damages to the plane were estimated at $7,000. threw one or two spitters a game, and now some people are trying to make out that that was all he threw. "I had some oth er good pitches," he said. "If I threw a few spitters, I didn't hurt anybody physically, I didn't steal any money, I didn't break any moral law. I didn't sin against God. -"Opposing ball clubs," he went on, "will steal your signs urn. nobody thinks that's wrong. They call it smart baseball." Roe said that before he told his story about throwing the spitter, he asked the advice of many friends writers, players, businessmen and bankers. Only one man was against the revela tion, Pitcher Carl Erskine of the Dodgers. His only regret, as we said be fore, is that he may have given be impression that Pee Wee Rppsp knowinslv aided him. "But as to the rest of the story," he told Spink, "my conscience is clear. I don't think I did any thing wrong. My only purpose was to bring the spitball back to give the pitcher a break he needs." EITING TO DAVID CITY ROTARY CLUB MEETING Jerry Eiting, former, president of Plattsmouth Rotary Club, goes to David City today where he will give the address of wel come to that city's newly or ganized Rotary. Eiting was born and reared in David City and deems it somewhat of an hon or to be invited to his home town for a guest spot on their program. DoubU.4.95 or left Na larln djui61e. 8nap up in front. Adjust ble leg Btrp. Soft, flat groin pad. No iteel or leatiiiT bands. Unexcelled for comfort. A1m operation tupporU far men, women, hildren. Mail rdera five measure around lowest part of abUomes and (tat riant r Mt id ar daubla. SCHREINER DRUG THE REX ALL STORE 521 Main Dial 4114 BP AMERICAN BREEDERS SERVICE EVERY SIRE PROVEN Call 7171 Jim Graves, Plattsmouth, Nebr. &l mcgYGr JtomcBgr IF si IhsnrdLto A : . . . with a lower-than-ever price tag! Special sizes made to order. The Plattsmouth Journal 410 Main Street Plattsmouth, Nebr FARMS ABSORBED Thirty-seven percent of U.S. farm produce 85 percent of farm output; one farm in six more than 1 million farms have been absorbed by merger in the past decade, according to the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Premium Money Is Up at State Fair Premium money offered dur ing the 1955 Nebraska State Fair, September 3-9 will reach a record total of $66,662.00 ac cording to the Fair Board Sec retary Ed Schultz. The 1955 prize money offer ing represents an increase of approximately $1,230 00 over the previous record figure which was set by the 1953 exposition. "We have been steadily in creasing the amount of prem ium money offered ever since 1946," said Schultz- "This year's record total includes an in crease in cash awards in prac tically every department." '"The cash premiums offered in addition to the ribbons, tro phies, and merchandise awards that are made in the various classes," Schultz pointed out. 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