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IEBH. 'S7AT2 EIS7. SOCIETY .XXX 150$ H ST. CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER PLM1 PUBLISHED SEMI - WEEKLY Monday - Thursday Consolidated With the Nehawka Enterprise and Elmwood Leader-Echo Delivered Twice Weekly to More Than 3000 Cass County Families VOLUME 74 EICHTEEN PACES PLATTSMOUTH, CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11,1 955 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NUMBER 75 E Rfl(Q)QJHl Coyrocfli Ponders (Before .Sbhow Floes A rush or rain on the city hail roof Tuesday nignt at about 11 o'clock caused Plattsmouth city council to pull chins out of hands and quickly order the bills paid so they could dash home and enjoy a thunderstorm which brought 1.G0 inches to the city, the most in well over a month. The rain muddied up a number of Plattsmouth streets and solved part of a problem for the council per taining to the same roads. , Tne councii met on Tuesday 2 More Queen Entries Named For Karniva Two more King Korn Queen j candidates have been nominated, making the total 11 from amonc whom a queen for the September ! Karnival will be selected. Both 1 are sophomore students at the University of Nebraska. Miss Evelyn Henry, 19, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Henry of Plattsmouth, is spon sored by the First Lutheran aspnamc ou at low cost Dut ic Church Ladies' Guild. was one of them- Miss Patricia Brown, 18, 1 Petitions have been submitted duphter of Mr. and Mrs. Mar- : to the council by property own vin E. Brown of Plattsmouth, is ers sufficient to oil 18 blocks sponsored by Circle Three of the of dirt street within the city First Presbyterian Church. Plus the length of Lincoln Av- enue (Shop Avenue). t Miss Evelyn Henry j Miss Henry will be a sopho more student at the University of Nebraska this fall, attending on a Regents Scholarship. She is majoring in medical tech nique. She was graduated from Plattsmouth high school in 1954 where she was photography edi tor of the year book; page edi tor of The Platter; a member of the chorus for four years, Madri gal and triple trio; a member of FHA three years and district president one year. She was Girls State representative in 1953, a member of the National honor society, and had a role in the junior and senior class plays. Miss Brown will be a sopho more at the University, major ing in speech therapy. She was graduated from Plattsmouth g high school where she was a member of the National Honor Society; winner of the American Legion Oratorical award and took second in the district con test. She is a member of the First Presbyterian church and a choir member. Her sorority is Gamma Phi Beta and her college activities include that of a member of the Union Board and chairman of recreation for the coming year; a member of the all-University Fund board; a co ed counselor; the Builders; and is on The Nebraskan staff. Livingstons Hurt in Colorado Mishap Word was received this week of the serious injury to Dr. and Mrs. Robert Livingston of Glen wood Springs, Colo., when their car went over a cliff in the Colorado mountains. No particu lars have been received. Dr. Livingston is a son of the late Dr. T. P. Livingston of Plattsmouth and has practiced for a number of years at Glen wood Springs. KARL GROSSHANS HOME FROM HOSPITAL TODAY Karl Grosshans, who has been confined in an Omaha hospital for the past 42 ' days, returned to his home this Thursday aft ernoon. He has improved great ly during his confinement, but treatment and take life easy for some time. THE WEATHER Compiled for the Plattsmouth Journal at the Masonic Home Weather Station, Plattsmouth. Nebraska. August 8, 9, 10, 1955. Monday 88 47 Tuesday 84 60 1.60 Wednesday 85 56 Forecast: Today "Thursday" sunny warm, high near 83, to night, fair, cool low about 66. night m a postponed session after they failed to find enough councilmen present on Monday, the regular night. Checking in for duty Tuesday night were Mayor Leo Meisinger, Council men Bill Highfield, Jam. Mc William and Lyle Grove. Councilmen's chins were in their hands over asphaltic oil and its application to some Plattsmouth dirt streets before winter sets in. These have to be graded arid oeiore tney coma be graded, a rain had to fall. An one fell. That wasn't the only problem pertaining to what is called a new method . of applying Tuesday night the council passed lour ordinances creat j ing street improvement districts for nine blocks to go with, nine . blocks already approved outside I of Lincoln Avenue. i The problem is this: The l company which applies the oil 1 will not start the job if it takes less than a tank car of 6,500 gallons. This is more than that which it would take to do the 18 blocks for which oil could be ordered without advertising for bids since each project would cost less than $100. More prop erty owners may appear asking for the oil to make up the car but hey had not made proper requests yet. The Lincoln Avenue project will cost just over $1,000, there fore bids will be asked on that street, which will take longer and may put that project off until next spring, councilmen thought. A way to oil the other streets without reference to Lincoln Avenue, so that much would be done before winter, was what the council sought. Even Shop Avenue may be done before winter. Areas approved in ordinance as street improvement districts for oil Tuesday night were Avenue C- from 10th to 15th street; Eighth street from Av enue G extending two blocks north; Avenue G from 8th to 11th street; 9th street from Av enue F to Avenue C; Ninth street from Avenue F to Avenue G; Avenue G from 7th to 8th street. Actually intensifying the problem this week was a street j measuring project which found mnct of v,o ctr00tc orrmr most of the streets narrower than the 22 feet which had been figured bringing good news for property owners who would pay about 20 cents per square yard for the oil applied, but bad news for the council which had to find people want ing their streets oiled to make up a 6,500 gallon car of oil. Other things the council did: 1. Held a long discussion with Albert Young over his hard luck in building a half dozen houses on Holdrege Street where a sewer already installed could not be made to serve. The j council could not see a way to rerund tne money which had been paid by the property owner although Young was forced to run sewers to the houses the long way round to hook into the main . line. 2. Heard a letter from Wil liam Peterson, president of the ! Nebraska Masonic Home Asso ciation read which protected the two paving districts In the area near the Masonic Home. William F. Evers, superintend ent of the home, had protested earlier in person to the council about including the home in paving districts created there. The letter stated that the pave ment was unnecessary and pe titions did not comply with the Nebraska statutes, - the action being a violation of the Nebras ka and United States Consti tution, and the paving districts a Gerrymander. The letter was turned over to the city attorney for study. 3. Granted a request to Clark and O. M. Finney to make sew er excavatons on north Tenth street. 4. Heard a police judge report of 16 arrests resulting in fines and costs of $279 for two weeks. 5. Heard a parking meter re port of a yield of $478 In nickles and pennies for a two-week per iod. Mr. and Mrs. August Gake meier and family of Murdock, were Thursday - shoppers in PlatUmouth. Sure Way to Start a Mdrriage mii I. p lii- j ,J . m vt:l f.V:v-f2 V . " " ;AV.".- - 1 i in. -M" nri-tJ--5:-Tf- " himihi .(Mtw 1 ii r?nrriiii.1r.ia'w.- t-t- --l-tr-f- Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Sharpnack of Platts mouth were married at St. John's Church last Saturday and this is the way they got to the reception, the long way round through the Platts Tenth Polio Case Reported In Cass County Two new polio cases have been reported in Cass county bringing the reported cases to a total of 10 for the year, with one death from the disease. All the cases have been re ported for Louisville and Alvo. Reported as new cases of po lio was an adult in Alvo and a child in Louisville as noted by Clinton Belknap. East Nebraska representative of the National Foundation for Infantile Par alysis. The child Is two-year-old Kathy Ingram of Louisville, who entered Children's Hospital at Omaha on July 31. The adult is Mrs. Donald Rieekman, 34, of Alvo, who was hospitalized at Lincoln General hospital Monday, Aug. 4. Three other Alvo people have been reported with polio this year. First was Linda Sutton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs- La Verne Sutton, the first reported. She suffered little paralysis ac cording to last report. Mrs. Clyde Jipp and her son, Steven, 11, were hospitalized at Lincoln with the disease. Mrs. Jipp has now left the hospital and is at home, though her son remains - in the hospital. Mrs. Jipp's daughter Jacquelyn, 7, who had a Salk vaccine shot, had a light case of the disease but was not hospitalized. Death came in a Louisville polio case when Gilbert Luken, 41, died of the disease in July. Other Louisville polio victims have been listed earlier as Le Marr Kraft, 22; William Goebel. 20 and Mrs. Rowena Goebels. Neighbors Collide With Light Damage Two neighbors "met on a hill Sunday afternoon , south of Plattsmouth and their autos col lided. Cass county Deputy Sheriff Shrader Rhoden, who investi gated the accident, said a car driven by Velma Rae, Route 1, Plattsmouth, going south, and a pickup truck driven by Taylor Cuthreil, met and their ma chines collided. No injuries were reported. Damages was esti mated at over $100 to the Cuth reil machine and slightly less for the Rae vehicle. Doody Forced Down On Cross Country Flight to Lincoln Marine Pilot Jim Doody, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Doody of Plattsmouth was on a crou flight from El Toro, Calif., . air base to Lincoln Air Base in a F3D twin engine jet plane when it developed compass trouble his forced landing at Albuquer que, N. M., for repairs. He then returned to his base at El Toro, Calif. Battery Cable On Auto Burns A' fire call ' at noon today (Thursday) was at the home of Charles Koke, at Livingston and Second street. Firemen extinguished the battery cable on a car there. Damage to the cable was the onlv damage noted. The fire wagon had a little trouble finding the location of the call and have asked any one turning in a fire alarm to give the name of the person at whose place the fire Is reported- Good Deed Done; Neighbors Plow Neighbors did a good deed at the Roy Tschirren farm today. Friends with 25 tractors this morning (Thursday) gathered at the farm and quickly plowed 70 acres of land to be put in wheat this fall. Mr. Tschirren died unex pectedly at his home last week. Present for the event to day were Donald Born, Gene Nolting, Art Penke, Leonard Born, Elmer Stoehr, Sam Galloway, Bill Holmes, Max Vallery, George Stander, Ed- , gar Meisinger, Philip Kehne, Peter Holmes, W e 1 d o n Stoehr, Paul Stapleton, Ken neth Petereit, Carl Potschies, Earl Becker, Gerald Keil, Fred Wehrbein, Lyle Mei singer, Bill Starkjohn, Claude Mayabb, Victor Stoehr, Marvin Petereit, Sterling Ingwerson, Charles Grosshans, John Halmes, and George Kaffenberger. Kalasek Rites Are Saturday At St John's Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Saturday for Wes ley Joseph Kalasek, 68, who died in a Plattsmouth rest home Wednesday following an illness of three months. Rev. Raphael Chonta will conduct the rites at St. John's Church in Plattsmouth. Burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery. Plattsmouth American Legion post will conduct graveside ser vices. Rosary will be at 8 p.m, Fri day. Visiting hours at the Sattler Funeral Home will be Friday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Mr. Kalasek was born Oct. 3, 1886. at Plattsmouth. the son of Joseph and Josephine Svobo da Kalasek. He lived a lifetime in Plattsmouth and was not married. He formerly worked at the Plattsmouth cemetery. He was a veteran of World War I. Survivors include two sisters, Mrs. Joseph Sedlak, Platts mouth; and Mrs. Mary Wales of Omaha; four brothers Ju lius. Ed and Frank of Platts mouth and Anton of Milwaukee wis., along with, nieces and nephews. His parents, two sis ters and three brothers pre ceded him in death- Elmwood Woman Is Injured in Mishap ELMWOOD Mrs. Mary Ann Guildford, 22, of Elmwood, was hospitalized at Bryan Memorial hospital Friday night after a car in which she was riding was involved in a traffic collision. She suffered a head injury and knee and wrist lacerations. She was a passenger in a car driven by Mrs. Betty Patton, 37, of Elmwood, which collided with a car driven by Kathleen Chrastil, 29, Route 3, Lincoln. Both cars were east bound when the collision occurred on U. S. Highway 34, thres miles east of Veterans Hospital at Lincoln. A Classified Ad In The Journal costs as little as 35 cents mouth business district. . Horse and sled are the property of Cliff Shafer. Mrs. Sharpnack is the former Annette Troop Journal Photo by Butch Furse. f 125 Attend Farm Bureau Annual Picnic Over 125 members of Farm Bureau families in Cass County attended the annual picnic of the organization Sunday after noon at the Weeping Water City Park. The weatherman cooper ated to the fullest extent with a shower the night before, settl ing the dust and cooling the temperature. Food was in abundance. Every one had their fill of pop and ice cream as evidenced by. one small boy's remark thai he on" had seven bottles of, pop. A' short program was conduct ed by County President Paul Eveland of Elmwood. Prizes were awarded with the follow ing winners: Royal Smith, Plattsmouth; Leonard Klemme, Wabash; Mrs. J. F. Mills, Mur dock; and Mrs. Ralph Hild,, Plattsmouth. Richard F. Pratt, Elmwood. Legislative Chair man made a short talk urging all members to actively partici pate in the policy development program of the organization this fall. The rest of the afternoon was spent visiting in the shade and sightseeing at the new ferti lizer plant of Cass County Non Stock Coop Ass'n.. a Farm Bur eau affiliate. Bernard Johnson, manager of the Association, was unable to attend as he was home recovering from a re cent appendicitis operation. Deputy Takes Ditch In Parked Car Meet Two parked cars confronted Deputy Sheriff Shrader Rhoden about 7 p. m. Monday as the car he was driving came over a hill on a county road eight miles west of Plattsmouth. Since the ma chines were parked on each side of the road, and there was no room between, Rhoden took to the ditch in order to avoid a collision. Deputy Rhoden's machine hit the right rear fender of a ma chine being driven -by Jay Specht, 14, damaging that car an estimated $35 and causing dam age to the deputy's car of about $10. The other parked car, being driven by Robert Wagner, 18, was not damaged. t Plattsmouth 's Heavy Mortar Company is home from two weeks training at Fort Carson, Colo., full of praise for the per manent unit which stuffed them with know-how. Capt. Cecil Karr, commander of the reserve company here, said the training was the best the company has received in five years of going to camp. Members of the Plattsmouth group traveled by private car and made the trip without mis haD. That their training was the top job was expressed by other members of the company. Heavy Mortar Company mem bers were barracked together in Colorado's hot-by-day and cool-by-nights weather and were singled out from thousands of other trainees for special train ing on the 4.2 mortar. Lieut. Wohschlegel. com mandin officer of the Heavy Mortar company of the 61st ecelhiQiirafts Air t So Don Rev. Spatzek Is Installed As Pastor Here . Impressive rites marked the ordination and installation of the Rev. .Carlton C. Spatzek at the First Lutheran church in Plattsmouth Sunday in a spe cial service. Pastor Spatzek will serve his first church following ordina tion with the First Lutheran at Plattsmouth. Rev. Melvin W. Meyers of the Mount Olive Lutheran church at Omaha, interim pastor here conducted the installation and ordination ceremonies assisted by pastors of the Missouri Sy nod of the Lutheran church. The Rev. Elmer E. Mueller de livered the sermon. Rev. Spat zek gave the collect for peace. . Mrs. A. W. Huebner was or ganist. A brief reception was given for the new pastor and his wife following the ceremonies, by the Ladies Guild of the church. Rev. Spatzek succeeds the Rev. George Mundinger as pastor. Rev. Mundinger has assumed a charge in Brookfield, HI. He had served two parishes here, the First Lutheran of Plattsmouth and the Pilgrim Lutheran of Bellevue. Rev. Spatzek will serve the Plattsmouth church full time. Pastor Spatzek was born at Sheboygan, Wis., and is a veter an of the Navy Air corps. He received his ministeral training at Concordia Seminary at St. Louis where he attend until this spring. The Rev. and Mrs. Spatzek will make their home , at 322 North Seventh street, Plattsmouth. Queen Contest Set for Friday At Weeping Water WEFPING WATER (Special) Miss Weeoing Water contest, which will choose a representa tive to be entered in the Miss Cass County Contest durinsr the Cass County Free Fair, will be held at the Agricultural Audi torium here Friday evening, An?. 12. The citv contest' is sponsored bv the Weeping Water Junior Chamber of Commerce, headed bv committeemen Hod Meyers, Bill Peinsch and Don Rutlede. The Jaycees will supply the judges tomorrow night. Mr. Meyers will act as master of ceremonies at the- contest. A dsnce'will follow, with music bv Ross Nichols and his orches tra. Susan Ptone, last, year's Miss Weeping Wster. will reign at the contest until the new queen is chosen. Junior Women will dec orate. 2 More Foundation Awards Are Made Mrs. Kent Balfour of Nehawka and Mrs. Sophia Wolever of Plattsmouth were presented cer tificates of appreciation and a pin for five years of service with the National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis. Clinton Belknap of Lincoln, East Nebraska Representative, presented the awards. Journal Want Ads Pay Infantry Division. Lieut. Cas beer and Lieut. Wilke. took the Plattsmouth reserve unit under the company wing eager to train their civilian counterparts in the lore of the heavy mortar. It was an arrangment made before hand by Capt. Karr. Both officers of the perman ent company had just returned from special mortar training at Fort Benning, Ga. Also taking the Plattsmouth company over the training rou tine were two master sergeants, Douglas and Fort.iez. who had recently returned from the field in Korea. Courses include technical fire, fire control training, up-to-date methods with weapons and training with the fire direction center. . The Plattsmouth company went on the range for the first two days.' firing the M-l rifle, and began mortar training on F)yteirM(La'hi Mother! Baby may not need a new pair of shoes to day as badly as the one who is just starting to school. It is on this basis that Plattsmouth merchants will begin Friday displaying the clothes supplies which will be used by the school children on their treks to classes this year. Mayor Leo Meisinger has issued a proclamation des ignating next week as Back-to-School Week. Back-to-School Days, when a Nothing Fancy "The people of Plattsmouth are not the fancy type of people," said Elmer Gochenour, 12-year-old Journal carrier boy, "They're just plain and serious." The Boy Scout and band member was interviewed bv a Journal ML - l :WBWIHBM ' v"l 1.1 ( 4? v. t r reporter for a series of photos of Journal carrier boys. The seventh grader is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Gochenour and carries 78 Journals to Customers on South First street and the Wintersteen Hill area. He is a member of the school band and has a hobby of making model planes and miniature cars. Journal Photo. Melon Feast Will Climax Hereford Tour A watermelon feed will be waiting at the end of -a -long tour of the Southeast Nebraska Cattle Feeders Association Fri day at 4:30 p.m. Last stop on a tour, which opened at Chester today, will find cool melons waiting at the farm of Will and George Min ford at Murray. The tour will also stop at the farm of Clyde and George Alt- house near Eagle for a look at another Cass county herd. Richard D. Sack will also show his registered polled Here fords at the Minford farm. Mr. Sack recently started in the polled Hereford business after Army service. George Minford was discharg ed from the Navy in November and has purchased a number of registered heifers since his re turn home.' On display at the Minford farm, in addition to the bulls mentioned in the tour guide, will be Battle Intense 209, a for mer Foster Farms herd sire pur chased by Will A. Minford in June at the Foster Farms Dis persal sale at Rexford. Kan. W. W. Derrick will be in charge of the tour at the Minford farm which will start about 4:30 p.m. Friday. the third day, firing live am munition on Friday. They participated in the di vision parade on Saturday. The last week was made up of two days mortar training and various tactical problems. Then the company went on an overnight bivouac and pitch ed their tents, readied to work out a night problem. Then it rained. This tested whether or not they had pitch ed their tents correctly. Members of the companv ar rived back in Plattsmouth short Jv after midnight Sunday and Wednesday night, at a regular training night at their newly white painted and face-lifted armory, held a critique on , the training. One soldier was promoted while the company was at Fort Carson. He is Donald Born who was boosted from private first class to corporal, effective July 15. i v- I t, multitude of bargains on Platts mouth merchants shelves will be displayed, aimed at values for children who are starting to school in slightly over two weeks. School begins in Plattsmouth on Aug. 29 and in some rural schools too. Friday and Saturday will be the first two days of the promo- j tion sponsored by the retail di vision of the Plattsmouth Cham ber of Commerce. Most mer chants will carry the special val ues over to next week. Special lay-way plans are in effect in most stores Friday and Saturday to make the plan more nnnvaninnt in norpntc n n rl nt hpr W wv..V v l Tnrisvv's Journal has a large list oi aavenising directed w ward the Back-to-School Days program. First School Activity Set For Next Week A program for eighth grade graduates about to take the next giant step in their quest for an education, has been set at the Plattsmouth high school for Aug. 19. It put the first taste of school for the coming year only a week away. This will be "Freshman Day" which will produce games, a free picnic lunch, special music, a tour and a moving picture. Plattsmouth Superintendent of Schools T. I. Friest announced the event in letters sent to eighth grade graduates. Fresh man day is open to any new ninth grade student who would like to enroll in Plattsmouth high, school. Here's the program: 9 to 11 a.m. Registration. 11 a.m. to 12 noon Games for both boys and girls. 12 noon Picnic lunch in the school cafeteria with everything furnished. 1 to 2 p.m. Special music and tour. 2 p.m. Moving pictures. Rev. Iverson Will Serve Presbyterian Church Here Sunday The Rev. Paul Iverson of Kai ser, W. Va., will preach at the First Presbyterian Church Sun day, Aug. 14. Church services will be at 9 a.m. and, Sunday school at 10 a.m. s Rev. Iverson is a graduate of the Union Seminary in New York City. He spent some time as a missionary in Columbia, South America, and taught a number of years at the Dwlght E. Moody School in Northfleld, Mass. He is at present on the faculty of the Potomiac Uni versity at KKaiser, West Virgin ia. Mr. and Mrs. Iverson and i daughters are visiting their mothers. Mrs. Emily Iverson and Mrs. Addie Perry, and other rel atives and friends. Rev. and Mrs. Delap and chil dren are vacationing in Hast ings and Lexington. He is attending the Mid-west Presby terian Training school, which is being held in Hastings this year. 'The Country Girl' Coming To Cass One of the most important pictures of many years is com ing to town next Sun- Mon and Tues. at the Cass Theatre when Paramount's "The Coun try Girl"' begins its run. Starin" Bing Crosby, William" Holden and Grace Kelly.- this", highly recommended film is based on the great smash Broad tof a few seasons back. Seldom i in uie iusi,ury oi motion plc ! tures has a production such great advance notice? "The Country Girl" is beirS hailed as one of the finest films ever made. It was produced by William Perlberg and written and directed by George Seaton. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Anderson and Mrs. Abbie StandervStS