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EDITORIALS Furse's Fresh Flashes THEATER PROPAGANDA Twenty-seven prominent figures in the entertainment field were recently call ed to appear before the House un-American Activities subcommittee. Although a great cry will go up that these people's freedom is being compromised, we wel come the new investigation. It has been obvious for some time that the New York stage, and that Holly wood to a lesser extent is shot through with a rotten sense of values, both political, moral and ethical. Since enter tainment figures have a hand in molding public opinion, this condition is quite ser ious. It is hard enough to take the immoral and illegal antics of the movie idols who wow the sapheads by the millions, But it is'even harder to take propaganda in the entertainment diet. Yet, in recent years, both the movies and the stage have be come vehicles for political and religious propaganda. We well remember the hearings held by the House un-American Activities com mittee a few years back, which resulted in the appearance of several notable stars before the committee. All of the stars felt outraged, but the American public found out . that some of them had Communist leanings. . They all have good excuses for these connections, and they all are good Ameri can, now, of course, but we are glad to see the light of fact thrown on Broadway theatrical characters and movie-stars, as well. R ir ir ir ED CROSS FLOOD RELIEF The local chanter of the Red Cross. through its local office- is appealing to area citizens to contribute toward the relief of .the many thousands of homeless refugees in the eastern states, homeless because of the destructiveness of recent floods which occurred in the area. There are at present some 260 disast er aid workers in the devastated areas, trained workers who are assisting local chapters of the Red Cross in the tremen dous job of rehabilitation now necessary. The estimated cost to the Red Cross of the current relief program is from eight to fifteen million dollars You might wonder why the Red Cross plans to spend this money on relief measures when the federal government is? already provid ing some hundred million dollars in grants and relief aid and providing for loans of many times that amount. . ? The answer is simple. The goverrt ment is providing this aid largely for pub lic property. Money spent to restore pub lic property does not help the individual family which lost its home and all in it, and the breadwinner in that home who has lost his job because his place of employ ment has also been washed away or de stroyed. Because many factories and business establishments were wrecked by the re cent floods, the crisis in many families in this area will be a prolonged oneVVithout work, and with financial obligations con tinuing, many men and women in these devasted areas are hard put to survive. That is why the Red Cross is moving into this area on such a large and such a humanitarian scale. The local chapter of the Red Cross wants these facts called to your attention. Understanding an emer gency situation, and realizing the tragedy present for so many fellow citizens, , local readers who are able will want to contrib ute something to the current Red Cross drive for emergency funds. Put your contribution in an envelope and mail it to The Red Cross, Plattsmouth, or give it to your local chairman. THOUGHT FOR TODAY 4 man is alzvays afraid of a zvonian zuho John Gay One of the boys down at the drug store says Flipper Fanny, our dainty Jit tle contour twister, has more curves than a good base ball pitcher. Yea, and you can't get to first base with her, either. A local dentist says the best collect or of old bills at his place is a new tooth ache. , it ir ir : A lot of politicians shake your hand before election and your confidence after. it ir ir Socrates was a Greek philosopher who went around giving people good ad vice they poisoned him. - To entertain some people all you have to do is listen. ir ir This would be a great old world if we let Opportunity do all the knocking. The trouble with telling a good story is that it reminds the other fellow of a dull one. it An attic is a place to keep the thing3 you don't want until you throw them away. if it it Down Memory Lane Jf YEARS AGO Miss Maxine Edwards and George H. Lushinsky, Jr., of Plattsmouth were married at the First Presbyterian church by Pastor H. G. McCluskey . . . W. R. Holly parked his car as usual for the night near his boarding house on North Seventh street and found the next morning it had been smashed by a hit-run driver . . . Miss Helen Berdner, daughter, of Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Berdner, and Dr. G. A. Schmidtmann, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Schidtmann of Plattsmouth were married at Pilger , , , Ruth Ferrie led the King Korn Karnival Queen voting with 339; Lois Troop was running second at the moment with 318 .. . A committee consisting of Ed Ernst, George Blessing, Frank Gustin and F. J. Fitch were appointed at a meeting of citi zens to find a way to improve the Elm wood water system . . . Plattsmouth City Clerk Albert Olson reported in' a council "meeting the city had a good month when $871.70 was collected ... Henry Maseman of the Avoca lumber yard hauled and stor , ed 50 tons of coal for use at the school that winter. , . . Of) YEARS AGO Ray Larson of Plattsmouth, defeat ed his brother. Ralph Larson of Louisville, 6-4, 7-5, 7-5, to win the county tennis championship .... Andy Moore lifted the little white ball from the cup as he de feated Jesse Warga in 37 holes to win the Plattsmouth city golf title . . . Miss Helen Wescott gave a shower at Plattsmouth for Miss Virginia Beeson and Miss Har riett Peacock, who were to be married soon . . . J. L. Wiles sold his coal business and elevator in Weeping Water to Swit zer Bros . . . Miss Marjorie Pickett and Charles F. Campbell were married at Plattsmouth . . . Rex Young of Platts mouth, officiated at' a sale of thorough breds in Chase county bringing a total sale of $13,000. tiie Washington ERRY-G0-Ei0UND y DREW PEARSON loves him too zvcll. The Plaflsmoufh Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 1S81 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" 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 :i4 PHONE 241 I Y occrvcm. Nil ' Wi MtEOLil EBI25i4i i 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. (Copyright, 1955, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) TOM McNAMARA SAYS: TEXAN GENTRY MOST MODEST HOUSE MEMBER; VIRGINIA'S BROYHILL BIGGEST ADVERTISER ; GAVIN 4 HUNTS SOUVENIRS WITH MINE DE TECTOR. (Editor's note While Drew Pear son is on a brief vacation his column is being- written by members of his staff.) Washington Despite tales of Texas braggadocio, the most modest man in Congress, judging by the brevity of his self-composed biography in the Congres sional directory, is Rep. Brady Gentry. He wrote simply: "Brady Gentry, Demo crat, Texas." biggest advertiser in the House, by the same standard, is Virginia's shrinking violet, Rep. Joel Broyhill, who wrote a whopping 57 lines about himself. However, Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, with -60 lines, is the champion chest-beater in both houses . . . Broyhill, incidentally, sponsored the first piece of music ever engrossed in a House bill, the official Francis Scott Key version of the Star-Spangled Banner. Four other lyrical versions, all differing slightly, have been written since Key composed the immortal lines on a British ship off Fort Mc Henry . . . Favorite hobby of Rep. Leon Gavin' of Pennsylvania is collecting civil War relics. He uses a mine detector to search for rifles and other buried relics on Virginia farms near the battlefields of Bull Run and Manassas. One item in his huge collection is a belt buckle pierced by a bullet that evidently killed the wear er w Expectant fathers who pace hospi tal corriders have a real buddy in Rep. Pete Rodino of New Jesrey. Rodmo receiv- "We agreed to split everything 50 - 50 ... . I'm just making sure I get MY half." ed a cablegram, "baby bom," from his folks while he was with the Army in Africa in 1942. He didn't learn until a month later that his first-born was a daughter, Margaret Ann . Sen. Irving Ives of New York doesn't rely on filling-station attendants to keep his tires properly inflated. The New Yorker carries a tire guage with him at all times, but he denies that the guage is equipped to measure "air pressure" . on the Senate floor . . Yachts on the "gold Coast" of Long Island, where Rep. Stuyvesant Wain wright II lives, are said to be so plentiful that they are nam ed "His" and "Her's." Wain wright doesn't own a yacht and had to charter one when he re cently took his wife and kids up the Atlantic coast for a visit with his colleague, Rep. Perkins Bass of New Hampshire. The bill for the six-day round trip came to $950. At this rate, Wainwright is figuring on build ing a yacht and going into the business himself if the voters re tire him from Congress. Band Leader Kearns Music may have charms to soothe a savage breast, but GOP Rep. Carroll Kearns of Pennsyl vania has learned that the con certo doesn't always help in the rough game of politics. The hefty Pennsylvanian is the most accomplished musician in Congress. A doctor of music, he can direct an orchestra as capably as the best leaders in the land. He has demonstrated this on numerous occasions; when ; he can get away from legislative chores, as guest con ductor of the Air Force orches tra in "Voice of America" con certs from Iceland, Denmark, Austria and France. The congressman - musician meantime has been doing a good job in Washington, lead ing the fight for public school construction and in other ways making himself useful to his constituency and the country. Kearns recently was surprised to learn, in view of his record, that three opponents had sud denly popped up in his district, contesting him for renomina tion in the Pennsylvania GOP primary. Their chief campaign issue against. Kearns is that he spends too much time on music and trying to establish a sym phony center in Washington. This may seem strange in a music-conscious state like Penn sylvania, famed for its Beth lehem Chorus, the University of Pennsylvania's school of mus ic, and Entrepreneur Fred Waring, President Eisenhower's bandmaster in the 1952 cam paign. However, Kearns has put his baton on the shelf, canceled all his "Voice of America" com mitments and is back home shaking hand's in post offices and barbershops. A politician with musical inclinations, he is assuring the voters that he has an "unfinished symphony" in Congress. Capital Cartwheel Many thanks to Sam Ketch man, athletic director of the Ferris Institute, Big Rapids, Mich,, for advising that we left out Rep. Gerald Ford, former football star at Michigan Uni versity, in a recent sports round up of Congress. "I played against Ford and know that he was good," says Ketchman . . . Steve Feeley, a Rochester, N. Y., Phil osopher who is also an authori ty on the U. S. Capitol, reports that a flaw in the famous painting of Pocohontas, hang ing in the Capitol since 1848, was first discovered this sum mer by an eight-year-old girl. She pointed out to a guide that an Indian in the picture had six toes . - In case you are plan ning to use somebody, Congress still hasn't established an offi cial measurement standard for the yard or the pound. George Washington had no luck on this in his first message to Congress and none of his successor has bothered much about it. Mailpouch reply to Roy Camp bell of Allentown, Pa.: Govern ment -Efficiency Expert Frank Petrie has written a, number of documents on efficiency prob lems. Write him, care of Civil Aeronautics Administration, Washington, D. c. . . . The hap piest, man in Congress when former Democratic Sen. Jim Mead decided to accept a post! representing New York State in I Washington, when his inh member of the Federal Trade Commission ends this month, was GOP Rep. John R. Pillion Mead, a strong vote-getter in New York, was thinking about ik TT?n trait SKA Fort Pierre. Following this, he went down the Missouri to es tablish Fort Randall across from the mouth of the Niobrara. Harney's conduct at Ash Hol low by any but the most primi tive standards was inexcusable. Nevertheless, his Sioux campaign of 1855 seemed to have the de sired affect: it brought peace to the trail. Harney's peace, however, was short lived. The Indians, though temporarily cowed, bitterly re sented the treatment accorded them and it soon became appar ent that peace won by the sword, would have to be preserved by the sword, and when, the de mands of the Civil War, drained most of the nation's military strength from the plains, the smoldering fires nf conflict burst once .again into flames, and when the Indians took the war path again, they felt that Har ney's conduct at Ash Hollow was high on the list of breaches of faith which justified their war like course. THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE FOUR Monday, September 12, 1955 jPoets L OTTL&X Vorco will nnpar in thi snace without charze. Name of writer must appear on copy submitted. Keep them short i tnai-o will net rrmit Ienethv Doems. h lAHSf C ULSOH, SprinttnJt fAffl BISTOKICAL COSIltY. A hundred years ago this Sep tember Garden County was the scene of one of the more contro versial conflicts between the Army and the Sioux the Battle of . Ash Hollow, or as it is some times called, the Battle of Blue Water. The battle occurred Septem ber 3, 1855, when General Wil liam S.' Harney, enroute from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Lara mie at the head of 1,200 men to impress the Indians with the power of the great white father in Washington, encountered - a band of Brule Sioux under Little Thunder encamped on Blue Wa ter Creek, opposite Ash Hollow. Harney's over-all mission was to eniorce oraer ana proviae ior Since the founding of Lincoln in 1867, and its designation as the state capital from the date it was founded, the history of the city and of Lancaster Coun ty have been so much a part of the history of the state that is virtually impossible to write the one without writing about the other. Because Lincoln was not established until 1867, we are apt to think that the history of Lancaster County begins at that time, too. Actually, Lan caster County is one of the state's older counties. Acting , Governor Thomas B. Cuming . proclaimed the boundaries of the county in the fall of 1854. a xi i z t i i ji ana ine legislature sniiiea tne boundaries the next year. Lancaster County had no resi dents at the time it was named, but there were rumors of great salt deposits in the area which stirred a speculative fever in the minds of many persons dwelling in the towns along the Missouri River, and throughout the territorial period, and for that matter well down into the period of statehood, companies were projected to exploit the salt deposits. Indeed, salt de posits constituted one of the important reasons why the state capitol was located in Lancast er County. Though all hopes for profit from developing a great salt industry faded away, salt was an important factor in the county's early history. - The first actual settlement in what was then Lancaster Coun ty was by Captain W. T. Dono- CROWING UP (Read at 15th Anniversary Tea of Union WSCS by Mrs. Carl Cross) I'm sure you all remember well, Or have at least heard some one tell. Of when the Ladies Aid and the Missionary Society To everyone's surprise were wed; How each one to another said: 'This marriage surely will not last. They've naught in common in their past." Then of the union of this pair Was born a daughter, wondrous fair; Now such a child deserves to be Christened extremely carefully. So after much discussion she Was named Woman's Society Of Christian Service. You can guess Her nickname was WSCS. WSCS, as you can see, Looks toward the future eagerly; Accepts the challenge, seeks to grow Nearer to Cod, His'will to know. So may the future bring success. And may the Father richly bless her, May she fill her days with good As she . grows into womanhood. JlOTlil tWotd. aORAM the security of travellers on the Overland Trail. Specifically, , van and hJs family in 1857 near muugn, iic aiiu iiitiiijf ui ne mourn or uak creek. Dur ing the next two years, settle ments were started on lower Salt Creek and on Camp Creek, both near Waverly and on Stev ens Creek in the eastern part of the county. In the summer of 1858, Captain Donovan and vir- tuaiy ail other settlers in men were out to avenge the massacre of Lt. John J. Grattan and his force of the summer be fore. When they came upon Little Thunder's band they thought they saw an opportuni ty for revenge. This band had nothing to do with the Grattan massacre but as was so often Lancaster County moved to the case, all Indians looked the same to Harney. Little Thunder's band was camped on the north side of the Platte River and within the area guaranteed the Sioux by the Treaty of Fort Laramie of 1851. Moreover, there is every evidence that Little Thunder was perfect ly willing to 'do anything re quired to keep the peace. Never theless, Harney deployed his cavalry for an attack, while he pretended to engage Little Thunder in a peace parley. The attack came as a complete surprise to the Brules. Their en tire camp was destroyed, 136 of their number were killed, and the remainder captured. Harney dragged his captives men, women and children to Fort Laramie in chains. He left them there and went on to Fort Pierre where on his own authority he assembled various bands of the Tetons and forced them to agree to a treaty re stating their willingness to per mit white travel along the Platte Valley Trail and agreeing to the establishment of a mili tary road from Fort Laramie to Stevens Creek to escane annov- ance from the Indians encamp ed in large numbers in the Salt Basin. It should be mentioned that in 1856, a number of pioneers had penetrated west as far as the banks of Salt Creek, but they had made no permanent settlement. John D. Frey settled at Olathe in 1856, and his set tlement is now within the boundaries of Lancaster County, but was not at the time he set tled. He wras actually in old Clay County. The first move toward actual county organization occurred in 1859 when a commission was appointed to locate the county seat. In 1864, the legislature abolished old Clay County and divided the territory between Gage and Lancaster counties. At the same time it located the county seat at the new village of Lancaster. The guiding light in the vil lage of Lancaster was Elder J. M. Young, a prominent Metho dist who hoped to build up a strong church-centered com munity in the Salt Basin. Though not all Elder Young's nopes ior .Lancaster were realiz ed it did rapidly develop into Check the correct word: 1 A sorcerer (is) (is not) the proper name for a male wifch. 2 -(Boston) (Buffalo) recently experienced a serious polio outbreak. 3 United States farm delegation (has) (has hot) completed its Russian tour. 4 Soviet farm delegation (has) (has not) wound up its tour of this country. 5 (Harold Talbott) (Donald Quarles) is Air . Force secretary. 6 Hellevi Rombin, "Miss Universe" is from (Jersey City, N.J.) (Sweden). 7 Department of Agriculture (does) (does not) expect 1955 to be a bumper-crop year. 8 A carrousel (is) (is not) another name for a merry-go-round. 9 Autumnal (solstice) (equinox) marks the first day of fall. 10 Christmas this year falls on (Sunday) (Tues- 'rJSZyn H f0r ea correc choice. A score of 0-20 is luTerW. averase; 7-80' superior, and 90-100, very Decoded Intelligram LETTER BOX rnmibaglnrtHlI Jim Fnlt.nn of Pennsvlvania is the leading collector of Greek art and sculpture in Congress, while Sen. Ed Martin, another Pennsylvanian is reputed to have the best private collection of Currier and Ives prints of our Presidents. and, of course, became the state capital. At that time, its name was changed to Lincoln and the second phase of the history of Lincoln and Lancaster County began. A Classified Ad in The Journal costs as little as 35 cents The Journal welcomes letxnn from readers for this column o any subject. Your name must b aig-ned to all articles intended tor publication, however, by request, it can be omitted from the letter appearine in print. (Contents do not necessarily express the opin ions of this newspaper.J Plattsmouth Journal Plattsmouth, Nebr. Gentlemen: Just returned to L. A. from Honolulu. I am sorry I will be unable to attend King Korn Karnival this year on account of business engagement. Also sorry I am unable to visit Gerald and Clyde Drew in Omaha. We were schoolmates (75) seventy five years ago at the First Ward school, the old brick building. With kind personal regards and long live the Plattsmouth Jour nal, I am ' Ed A. Murphy, Los Angeles, Calif. Realty Transfers City of Plattsmouth to Lowell S. Hamblen and Nellie WD 7-28-55 L. 10 and 11 B. 151 Thomp son's Add. Plattsmouth. $100.00 Christopher C. Murry and Pat ti to Wm. O. 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