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EDITORIALS Furses rNTER THE HAY FEVER SEASON The experts tell us ragweed pollen begins to enter the atmosphere in August, and that in August and September of each year as much as a half a million pounds of it are released in the United States, pos sibly more. Since ragweed pollen is the main cause of hay fever in the United States, this means that millions of Americans will soon' begin to suffer their annual seige of hay fever. There are only three defenses. First, shots can be taken, which reduce the allergic reaction to ragweed pollen. Second, one can always leave the hay fever belt and go to areas where the pollen count is very low. A copy of a free pamphlet, "Hay Fever Holiday," may be obtained by writing the Abbott Laborator ies, -North Chicago, 111., in care of the Pollen Survey Committee, of the Ameri can Academy, Chairman Oren C. Durham. - This pamphlet shows the average pollen count found in some 600 cities of the United States and tells where one can go to get away from ragweed pollen. It also shows that generally speaking, the pollen is heasviest in the Mississippi Val ley and lightest in the Cascade Mountain regions in Oregon and Washington If you wish to escape the pollen and can't go to Oregon or Washington, you can find areas of low pollen count in some parts of California, in the Rocky Moun tains, or in Idaho, Utah and Nevada. In addition, you can find good condi tions in the Central Adirodacks, in the woods of Maine, in New Hampshire; Nor thern Minnesota and Northern Michigan, or in the extreme southern tip of Florida, where the sea breezes carry away the pollen. , There is a third remedy for some sufferers. That is air-filtering. By staying in buildings which are air-filtered, the al lergy can be controlled. However, this rules out all football games, outdoor sports such as hunting and greatly limits one's activities. The world is full of willing people some willing to work and some willing to let them do it. ABETTING ON TOP Steve Allen, currently a favorite of many night owl television fans, and an actor of some sorts as well as song-writer and radio performer, has some interest ing comments on the fellows who reach" the top. Mr. Allen as already reached the top,' and is therefore qualified to comment on -conditions he has encountered. at the , summit. - Speaking frankly, Allen says he has refused all advice to limit his activity to one field, because it is so much easier to achieve success in other fields once suc cess in one field has been achieved. " Allen is saying, in otrfer words, that success bekets success, and this is an old trujsm. It all adds up to the fact that crashing that first barrier, to national fame is the hardest one. and once that is done the competition is less and oppor tunities far greater. . We are reminded of the words of several famous financial tycoons, who claim that they had to make money so that they could get up into brackets where the competition was not so keen. The lesson to be learned is that once a person becomes successful, he or she can get by with a quality of performonce that a beginner, or an unknown could, not earn a living at. Those on top, in other words, have everything going, for them, while the little man at the bottom must pro duce or starve. THOUGHT FOR TODAY Judges are apt to be naive, simpJcmxndcd tneu. O. W. Holmes The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 1S81 Published Semi-Weekly, Mondays and Thursdays, at 410 Main Street, Plattsmouth, Cass County, N'ebr. Three Times Winner Ak-Sar-Ben Plaques for "OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE" 1949 1951 1952 "Honorable Mention" 1953 Presented Nebraska Press Association "GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD" First 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 MARGARET DINGMAN -Bookkeeper VERN WATERMAN Advertising PHONE 241 Entered at the Pot Office at Plattsmouth, class mail matter in accordance with the March S, 1S79. COlil 'sriM pw i'"lM""""', 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. . - V.VV.V.W?.V.V.V.V.V.VV.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.W 20 YEARS Guenther Nebraska as seconJ Act of Congress of . IU1 Fresh Flashes Farmers really should not worry about their problems it won't be long until all our farms are turned into park ing lots, anyway. One way to solve our peace prob lems would be to include a contingent cf congressmen in the next draft. Some people complain the newspaper isn't accurate enough. Wonder if) they overheard six eye-witnesses testify to the same automobile crash. It won't be long until our cute young things will be out of bathing suits and shorts into their sweaters. -Ar The man who wears a coat to church these days deserves a lot of credit. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, says from the wedding pre sents her girl friend got, it looks like they will have to live on a diet of pickles and butter. A book agent told a local father that he ought to buy his son an encyclopedia now that he's going back to school. The old man refused, says the kid can walk the same as he did. ic it ic To a lot of married couples the word "love" is nothing more than the 10th word in a telegram. ir ir ic """"'"-" -v Down Memory Lane AGO family reunion was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Sattler, Jr. Attending were Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wm. Guenther, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Guen ther, Mr. and Mrs. George Wallinger, and daughter Ila, Ashland; Mrs. J. J. Lohies, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton England, Murray; Gordon Wilcoxen, Mrs. Louisa Bauer, Mr. and Mrs. William Schmidtmann, Jr., and daughter, Janis; Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Beck er Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Louis Ward Egenberger, Mr. and Mrs. John Sattler, Jr . . . Oscar Melander, wTorking at a rock quarry south of Plattsmouth was seriously injured when peppered with rock pieces when a dynamite charge exploded pre maturely . . . James Frederick Begley of Plattsmouth, received a law degree at the University of Nebraska v . . Robert M. Walling enlivened the program at Platts- A 1 1 1 M t 1 "1 mouin itotary uiud meeting witn a grapmc story of flying from Omaha to Los Ange les . . . Mrs. Chester Wiles was hostess at her. home in Mynard for a shower honor ing Miss Riene de Les Dernier who had be come Mrs. Edward Britton of Omah a. it it it n f YEARS AGO Miss Mary Bornemeier and Ed Rosenow of Elmwood were married at the home of Mrs. Catherine Bornemeier, the bride's mother . . . Ray Larson of Platts mouth made it into quarter-finals of the State Tennis tournament held a Lincoln . . . Miss Myrtle Copenhaver of near Union was married to Ralph W. McNamee of Brush, Colo . . . Christine Soennichsen Coughlin wTas married to Frank Kirkpat rick at Los Angeles . . . H. B. Koop wras selected by stockholders of the Home State Bank at Louisville as cashier to succeed George H. Wood, who resign ed .. . Third annual Ford Day, "peculiar celebration of the autumn at Murdock" was set for Aug. 27-28 . . . Dr. Joseph Sti bal lit out for North Dakota and a two weeks vacation. Washington erry- Go -Round y DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1955, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: IKE IS DEADLY SERIOUS ABOUT BUILDING BRIDGE OF PEACE WITH RUSSIA; IKE ADVISERS WARN THAT SNARL OF RED ARMY LURKS BEHIND RUS SIAN SMILE; WINNING RUSSIAN PEOPLE COULD UNDERCUT THE RED ARMY. (Editor's note Drew Pearson's col umn today takes the form of a letter to his stepson, Tyler Abell, a private in the Army at Ft. Devens, Mass.) Washington, D. C. August 13, 1955. Dear Tyler, You have now been in Uncle Sam's Army for nine months, which under the normal gestation tables should have got you pretty well out from the embryo sol dier stage, and also has given the Penta gon time to catch up with the fact that you spent some 2C years under my roof and are pretty well identified with me. I hear from the Pentagon grapevine that they now plan to link up anything un favorable I say about the Army, with you. So congratulations on plugging away like a good soldier, and commiseration on being connected, through no fault of your own, with a newspaperman who has prob ably criticized the Army more than anyone else in Washington when they were wrong Ticklers 'Honey! I found a pair of pliers Would they and defended them with equal vigor when they were right. Of course, as the ex-veep, Alben Barkley points out in his famed story "What have you done for me lately," people forget the help and remember only the criticisms. I am glad therefore that you have not written me anything about the Army. And I am glad I have not mentioned to anyone at the Pentagon that you were in the Army. But I do intend to write some things about the Army, as I have in the past, and I can only hope that despite grapevine reports to the contrary, the brass hats will not be so small as to hold these things against you. As a matter of fact, I have been planning to write you fol lowing my return from Geneva about some conclusions I reach ed at Geneva regarding the peace of the world conclusions which affect the Army. To Build A Bridge I felt that Eisenhower did a fine job at Geneva, and for your sake and the sake of all who may have to fight another war. I hope this meeting may turn out to be a historic milestone for peace. But it goes without saying 1 that the more successful Ike was at Geneva, the more , it's likely to curtail the organization which made Ike what he is and which you're serving in today the Army. . . ' Already the military and this includes the Navy r are griping backstage about the danger of a phony peace at mosphere which will cut down congressional appropriations and put us in danger of be ing caught unprepared- They are quite sincere in this, and it's their duty to warn the Pre sident and Congress of this possibility. - But mankind can t long ex ist with two powerful, heavily armed countries making faces at each other: so to me the most important thing Eisenhow er said at Geneva was that we must build a bridge" between the United States and Russia. He kept coming back to this time and again in a way that convinced me he meant what he said. Then at the last minute he brought forward one of the ways to build that bridge lift ing the iron curtain and people-to-people friendship. Friendship Train To Russia I remember talking to Ike about this same idea at a lun cheon in New York a good many years ago. in 1948. I even sug gested a friendship train to Russia to show its people that we weren't the warmongering nation the Moscow radio and press said we were- Ike seemed skeptical then. But there's no question about the fact that he's completely sincere today. Furthermore, people - to people friendship is already working. The. exchange of farm experts between the United States and Russia wnicn is making a tremendous impres sion in Russia and is being played up in the Russian press, is the first step. I don't know whether you've seen it or not, but the Russian papers have even quoted American farmers now in Russia on the advant ages of the American farm system in other words, priv ate ownership rather than col lectlve farming. This would have been rank heresy a few months ago. You may recall that it was also rank heresy in Senator McCarthy s eyes when I pro posed some years ago that we offer to bring Russian students to the United States to let them get acquainted with our people and our democratic system The top men in your army were all for this and still are though of course some mem bers of the "preventive war school are not. I remember Gen eral Omar Bradley, then Chief of Staff, used to tell me when I talked to him about these things: "I could go fishing if that happened." Nuts to White House For he knew that a nation can't wage an aggressive war on us or on anyone else, if its people don't want -to fight; if its people feel friendly toward the people of other nations. If Eisenhower or any other Presi dent, for instance, should try to declare war on Canada or Mexico or England or . Cuba or any other, friendly nation By George ' ' ' " cAeo in the glove compartment help?" which of course they won' the American people would say "nuts" and tell the White House it was crazy. That same sentiment could prevail between the American and Russian people if we work at friendship hard enough. Once the Kremlin lets the iron curtain drop, we have a peace weapon in our hands more po tent than any hydrogen bomb Russia can build if we work at it. Most of us have forgotten that during the early days of World War II when Hitler in vaded Russia, 3,000,000 mem bers of the Red Army surrend ered to the Germans because they didn't relish war and had friendly sentiments toward the German people. That was the chief reason for the blitz ad vance of Hitler's troops. And it was only after the Nazis hang ed, kicked, starved and mal treated these prisoners that the will to fight on the Russian people stiffened enough to stop the Nazi tide. So that can be our greatest weapon people - to - people friendship; a lar more potent weapon' than an army. But the American people can t be lackadaisacal about it. They can't stop just with a few ex changes between Russian - - American farmers. They've got to stftge a full-tim, day-to,- day exchange of students. churchmen, businessmen, or chestras, ballets. If we don't work at it, then we'll have to keep on training armies that are much bigger than we need. and you and other boys will have to go on whitewashing little rocks around the drive ways of army camps trying to keep occupied while waiting for the thing armies are trained for destruction. But if it ever works, and I'm sure; it. can. the big land armies can become almost as out of date as the horse cavalry And man can use his money and his time on the health, education and the constructive pursuit of happiness. Please excuse this lecture. Love. From the Old Man. CHILD KILLED IN STORE DETROIT Officials are in vestigating the death of Sharon Kirn, 9, who was electrocuted when she opened a self-service freezer in a dairy store. Th child, called from play by her mother to run to the store, was wearing a wet bathing suit and this is though to have caused the electrical shock. FAST RETURN SANTA PAULA. Calif. Af ter selling his home and lot to the high school district here for $16,725, George Whitlock was the highest bidder at the auction for his house. His bid: $760. Although he knows he will have to pay for having the house moved, he will still have a pretty good profit on the deal. Subscribe to The Journal Now! r" pifS- Lflr Q i mcEyoug ics cftlffiffl7SWAT was it soot 1 hss sod a:e! fOsw-YvW 1 I tJoraM'-rr fr cal&c of I VU BSTTcRW WHAT "' rOJ3 PrET ; V OFZJ,KJ , ThV COT Tr4 6T2E5T.' BANANA 6Pi.IT 7? 44 : '!f.-VsJ CWLVVOU COg MORE WTW LOT Or CHSRS;. jf? ''f'f -jj S -7 i "r ww:?pe? CREAM. C? pD3. : Hr Capitol News Bj Melvin Paul Statehouse Correspondent The Nebraska Press Association LINCOLN The State Board of Control appeared this week to be in a self-reformation pro gram which could be of consid erable importance in state gov ernment. The Board has been the tar get of much criticism in recent months, culminating in an ef fort in the 1955 Legislature to place on the ballot a constitu tional amendment to abolish the Board system. That bill was killed by a bare 21 to 19 majori ty, showing a lot of senators weren't satisfied with the pres ent setup. The quenci ing of that bill has given tht Board at least another two years of respite and indications are growing that the present membership is sincerely interested in making some im provements that its critics have demanded. The reformation is taking place under a "new" member ship. The term of former Chair man William Diers of Gresham ended June 30 and Tom Dred la of Crete stepped into the top spot. Mrs. Catherine Martin of Kearney became vice chainnan. Added to the board to make the third member with Diers gone was William Hulsizer of Omaha. The Board is feeling its wTay and not making rash statements about its plans. But certain straws in the wind can already be seen. 1. The Board has hired Harold Peterson of Lincoln as an ad ministrative assistan. As a for mer superintendent of the Bea trice State Home ad. as a former employee in both the Board's of fice and the State. Penitentiary, Peterson has a working know ledge of the Board's complex activities from the ground up. Observers feel that if he is al lowed a free hand, he can save the Board a lot of bother with details. This is an important factor because critics have al leged that the Board has been so busy with details that it hasn't had time to really think out its policy. 2. The Board is going to con siderable lengths to improve its relations with the press. When Mrs. Mary Prince of Grand Is land was chairman before her resignation in 1953, information was given to, the newspapers so freely that her department heads often privately complain ed they learned of important decisions first by reading them in the press. Diers wrent to the opposite extreme, frankly tell ing reporters that he figured the less news stories about the Board, the better. In theory that wa3 fine except that it provided a field day for critics of the Board's policies. Newspaper re porters found it harder to learn something good about the Board than to garnor critical comment against it. 3. Some efinite changes in pro gram are in the wind. Chairman Drodla has promised that a per sonnel manager will be hired, in dicating some alterations in policy along that line. A chil dren's ward is to be added at the Lincoln State Hospital for the mentally ill. Some of the most important changes may come in the accounting and business fields as the Board tries to tighten up procedures to save money for the taxpayers. Teamwork The Board on Control is also giving signs of cracking own on some of its maverick superin tendents. Some of its best in stitutions heads, such as Dr. G. Lee Sandritter of the Hastings I Mental Hospital, have been out- spoken critics of Board policy Sandritter even made a speech to the Legislature on the sub ject. This may be the hardest part of the Board's program and its advisability will be the subject of debate. On the one hand will be the argument that an em ployee should not "sass" his boss. On the other hand will be the argument that the institu tion heads should be given free dom to do their job without hav ing detailed instructions from the Statehouse of Lincoln. Influences Informed sources say that THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE FOUR Monday, August 15, 1955 INTELHGIA Check the correct answer to each question: 1. The (U.S.) (Britain) hopes to launch the first man-made -earth-satellite. 2. The device may be launched by (1969) (1958). 3. Development program is expected to cost at least 10 (billion) (million) dollars. 4. The device presumably will be about the size of a (basketball) (blimp). 5. It may carry (instruments only) (instru ments and small animals). i 6. It will circle the earth at an altitude of (2000) (200) miles, approximately. 7. It will travel in its orbit at a speed of about (1800) (18,000) m.p.h. 8. It will circle the earth (indefinitely) (for a limited time). 9. (Atomic) (liquid fuel) rockets will lift it to its place in the upper atmosphere. 10. A person (will) (may) be able to see it with the naked eye. Count 10 for each correct choice. A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, average; 70-80, superior, and 90-100, very superior. Decoded Xch Ot I3nj pmbii -6 'omii pajtuin e aoj 8 "OOO'SI L 'O0Z-9 ruo siuauirajsuis 'nEqjaiisea f 'uonilW S '8S6I S S'A I much of the push for the "new look" has come from Gov. Victor Anderson and his administra tive assistant, A. C. Eichberg. Another important person in the changes being made is one gen erally overlooked by the general public, Board Member Mrs. Mar tin. Widely publicized at the time of her appointment as being the sister-in-law of then State Re publican Chairman Dave Martin, Mrs. Martin has worked long and hard to prove that she was not "just another political appoin tee." Overlooked in much of the hullabaloo at the time of the appointment was that Mrs. Mar tin had had years of experience as a businesswoman in banking, purchasing, and accounting fields in both private industry and governmental work. Dredla is a country lawyer with business experience and Hulsizer has just retired from a toD post with the Union Pacif ic Railroad. From these three may be expected a business ap proach to the complex problems of the Board. j Two years from now the 1957 Legislature will undoubtedly give its verict on whether this was the proper approach. Lease Cancellation The State Board of Education al Lands and Funds took the usual step of canceling a school land lease for alleged improper land conservation practices. Canceled was the lease on a section of land in the southeast corner of Pierce County leased by Adolph Polinske of Madison. The Board had ordered Polinske to quit grazing cattle on the land, which was badly blown, and to construct fences around the dunes. An investigation two months after the order showed that Polinske had taken his cattle off but hadn't built the fences. Polinske appeared at the for mal hearing on the question of lease cancellation and had no complete answers on why he hadn't taken action. The Board then canceled the lease, and or dered it set up for sale at public auction. The action was generally view ed as a wise one. If the state does not insist on good conser vation practices on its own land, how can it expect such practices on private land, it could be argued. Still facing the Board, however, is the question of weth er it should allow relief on rent als to those who spend their own money for inaugurating conser vation practices on their leases. The Board is making a study with the possibility it will make some proposals to the Legisla ture. Atomic Project The U. S. Atomic Energy Com 1 Intelligram mission notified Consumers Pub lic Power District it was not ac cepting its application to build a peacetime atomic energy plant in Nebraska. Later announce ments from the commission in dicated, however, that the door was not being finally closed. There appeared to be some tech nical details still unsolved, such as the question of how much money Consumers was willing to furnish. This left hanging fire a question of the greatest signif icance for Nebraska. Electric Talks Meanwhile Gov. Anderson ask ed the presidents of the various power districts to meet with him Aug. 25 to see if something couldn't be done about break ing the deadlock over who is to be allowed to build new power generating facilities. Consumers has been battling the so-called 'hydros," Loup River and Platte River Public Power Districts for the right to build. Meanwhile, the governor indicated, Nebras ka may be headed toward a ma jor power shortage. Social Security Office Planning A Booth at Fair Joseph S. Sewall, manager, District Office. Social Security Administration. Lincoln, today announced that his office would open a booth at the Cass Coun ty Fair at Weeping Water on August 23, 24, 25 and 26. A representative of his office will have literature available for distribution regarding agricul tural coverage under social se curity and related benefits. In dividuals will be able to discuss their individual problems and secure information regarding proposed regulations defining farm operators- Persons may secure social security account number applications and em whoployer's applications. All persons in the community who have questions concerning Old-Age and Survivors Insur ance are invited to visit the booth to secure information and discuss their problems. LUCKY MAN CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, N. J. Edward Bryk, 36. of Philadelphia, is considered by police to be the luckiest man alive. Bryk fell asleep at the wheel of his car and crashed in to a utility pole. The crash knocked down power lines car rying 22,000-volts. Bryk stepped from the car and either missed the lines or stepped on them at a time when power was off for a few seconds. He suffered only minor cuts.