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EDITORIALS AN ANSWER TO EVERY PROBLEM? "Highway Department plan call eventually building a Highway 73-75 by-pass wect around Plattsmouth." V onder how many of our readers here in" Plattsmouth read this paragraph in a story released by State Engineer Ress Monday. This only proves that what many residents have talked about the past years, is "going to come to pass. It is unfortunate that Plattsmouth is situated in such a way that this highway, fails to meet standard specifications. It is unfortunate that some people will like ly get hurt if the highway is moved and, in spite of all efforts, someday it will be. That date can be prolonged by a little planning and cooperation on the part of we local people. A move that should be made at once is an effort to eliminate some of the congestion on Sixth Street between First and A Avenues. Parking on this street should be made parallel on both sides. But, better, it should be eliminated from the east side of the street entirely. This would clear up one terrific bottleneck and help delay the date of final decision on relocation. In the next few weeks we will have more to say regarding the relocation of Highway 73-75 as they serve this city. it it A LOT OF CREDIT DUE Another King Korn Karnival has come and gone. A new. Queen and a new King have been crowned. The folks, including the kids, have had a lot of fun. Scenery has been torn down, planks, floats, cinder blocks, flags and a lot of weariness, for- gotten by most of us. '"- - However, there are a few people who haven't or won't forget it for a few weeks yet. Among them is Dale Bowman and his fellow workers who put on a great show for Plattsmouth this year. Dale devoted half, or more, of his time each day, a lot of his evenings and Sundays planning the 1955 event. Being a barber (who, gets paid only while working) the monetary loss alone is a little hard on the soup bone for the Bowman family. This newspaper thinks Plattsmouth had quite a show this year one of our best. And we like to see credit placed where credit is due. So, we would like to be one of the first to say, "Thanks, Dale Bowman and your crew for a job well done." ,' We know a lot of other home-town folks who feel the same way. - it "A" it AFETY FEATURES ON CARS r It is good to see that'automobile manu facturers (most of them at least) have at last begun to take safety seriously. Much , credit is due a national magazine for pounding hard on this theme, and claim ing that manufacturers were more inter ested in dollars than in lives (which was true.) The latest models some of the first 1956 models, that is reflect a trend to- ' ward safety which will, beyond a doubt, save many lives in the coming year. In the next few years these new safety features will undoubtedly save lives by the thous ands and injuries by the hundred thous and. , Some of the new safety features are: door locks that stay locked under the im pact of a crash. This will prevent passen gers, and the drivers, from being injured as a result of being thrown through an open door after the collision. Another commendable safety feature is the soft dashboard, which was intro duced by a few models in earlier years but which is widely accepted this year. Seat ' THOUGHT FOR TODAY Music is the only language in 'which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. John Erskine The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 1881 . . 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- U- -Advertising ' ' KM nwt 1 PHONE 7 Al Yv W AAoccrcm Sm I MttUt 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 'PIttsmoutli20 'tents' for two weeks. HKJCttil X39Q53i WW.V.VAW.V4V.V.V.V.W.VAV.V.V.V.VA'.V.V.VA Furse's Fresh Flashes Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, says Heaven protects the working' -girl. What we would like to know, though, who protects the fellow she is working? ' it it Kid in school here was asked by his teacher to spell Mississippi. After think ing awhile he asked if she meant' the battleship or the river? It takes hundreds of nuts to hold an automobile together, but it only takes one. of them to scatter it all over the highway. it 1r Fellow was charged in court here with beating his wife with an oak leaf. Trouble was he got the cak leaf out of the dining room table. it it How are you getting on with your New Year resolutions? it it it We know a Plattsmouth man that prizes the truth highly it's because he uses it so seldom. it it ir There are two ways to acquire old fur niture at a sale' or raise a large family." These installment travel plans are wonderful; They allow you to spend two weeks on vacation and three years in debt. belts will save as many lives as any other safety improvement and they are being offered Widely this year. - All in all, then, the 1956 cars are pro bably the safest offered the motoring pub lic in years. It is about time, as everyone now knows, for we Americans were killing each other and ourselves at the rate of about a hundred a day -believe it or not. ir it a Down Memory Lane J( YEARS AGO Miss Irene Sheehan of Manley and Jon Zoz were married at St. -Patrick's Cathoic church . . . Rev. V. C. Wright was assigned to the First Methodist church in Plattsmouth . . . J. H. Buck ;of. ;Murdock secured portions of Nash and Chrysler cars and was ready to make an automobile from them . . . Gleenwood, Iowa, stomped Plattsmouth 19-0 in a season 1 football opener. . . The Union Woman's Club held a meeting at the home of Mrs. R. E. Fost er .. . . The Cass county sheriff and mem bers of the -police departmentwere call ed to Wintersteen hill to settle ' a family argument . . Surviving children of Mr. and Mrs. John Wynn, Sr., held a reunion" in Plattsmouth. ' ' '' " r-' - . - OA YEARS AGO Herb Klauschie of Plattsmouth was trying out with the Omaha baseball team of the Western league . . . Mrs. Frank Go belman was hostess to a bridge party hon oring Miss Madeline Milheim of Fort Scott, Kan. . . .Mrs. R. H. Patton was elected president of the Columbian school P-T.A. in Plattsmouth, Mrs. E. L. Good ing, vice-president, arid Mrs. Harry Beal, secretary-treasurer Verner Lundberg of the Lundberg garage at Nehawka sold the latest model of the Universal automo bile to Fred Gwilliams- the genial and ef ficient drayman. . . Henry Ford predicted that for 100 years the United States would have prosperity, reported The Journal ed Washington iUlERRY- Go- Round y DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1955, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: TROUBLE MAY DEVELOP IN SIDE CABINET OVER IKE'S FRIENDLY POLICY TOWARD RUS SIA; IKE HAD LONG HISTORY OF MINOR AILMENTS; 3 POTENT AILMENTS; 3 POTENT CALIFOR NIANS PLAN TO BOX NIXON -FROM PRESIDENCY. ' Washington Here are some of the things likely to happen inside the cabinet while President Eisenhower is convalesc ing: 1. There are bound to be some import ant differences over Russia. Secretary Dulles has made sour faces privately over Ike's: attempt to get along with the Rus sians. Vice-President Nixon has sided with Dulles, and .even made a speech which knocked down some of the "summit" good will. Nixon made his political repudation as a Russian baiter and will continue that way inside the cabinet. But men close to Ike in the Whito House, such as Harold Stassen, Sherman Adams, and Nelson Rockefeller, who know 'how the President "f eels about the importance of peace, are certain to tangle with Dulles and Nixon. This may prove quite a battle. 2. There will be little change of tax cuts this jear. Secretary of the Treasury THumphreyy though anxious for 'tax ciits, is determined to balance the budget. His tl $?i '-v.. $ 'j Mf Xn 0y Jw J WiTiJm mi 1 1 word will be law. 3. More defense cuts. Again George Humphrey is likely to have his way about cutting the defense budget further. Despite the fact that Pentagon generals are up in arms' and Senate De mocrats threaten to vote the money anyway, the Treasury Secretary will probably win out in his demand for less spending. In general, there will not be. too much upheaval in the cabi' net or around the White House during Eisenhower's absence. He had been away more than any other recent President, and had used the general staff sys tem of delegating authority. He once told his Joint Chiefs of Staff that he did'nt want any problem brought to him until there wras a unanimous' opinion, and he has followed the same general system with other ag encies namely, letting them make the decisions. .This was. one reason why .he never really" understood Uhe implications of the Dixon-Yates deal. 1 Nix on Nixon Ordinarily, the man who would emerge as the heir apparent to Eisenhqwer during his weeks of convalescence would be the young vice-president scheduled to fill' his shoes in case of death. - ; But political , prognosticators" who have" already picked Jlixon' as the rRepublican nominee . for ,1956 forget, one thing.: ,Nixori: won't, be able to 'carry; his' own: state of Calif ornia. at the; GOP convention in Sah .. Francisco.. For the boy wonder Who shot to fame on the Issue of the pump-. kin papers and Communists-in-1 government made some power--lul . enemies during his quick climb to the top. Three of these happen to be the governor of his state, Good win Knight, who will control the California delegation in '56; -the Republican leader of the Senate, Bill Knowland, who will help him control it; and the Chief Justice of the United States, Earl Warren, who, while out of politics, has a way of making his views known back in his heme state. These three have no reason to love Nixon. Knowland and Warren in par ticular remember all too vividly how, during the Chicago con vention in 1952, Knowland was approached by Senator Taf t with the proposal that he be vice president on the Taf t ticket in return for switching California's huge bloc of delegates to Taft. Few young Senators have been taken up to a more tempting mountain. If he had accepted, he would be President of the United States today. For Taft would have been elected and Taft is now dead. But Knowland didn't accept. He stood fast behind his old friend, the Governor of Califor nia. Meanwhile, young Nixon, who had been vociferous in his public, avowals of loyalty to War ren, was busy behind the scenes trying to scuttle him. And on the belief that he could deliver the California delegation, Nixon eot the coveted No. 2 spot on the Eisenhower ticket. In the end, he didn't deliver. He couldn't. But he got the spot 7 See By The Papers .... By Bill Murdock fr.v.v.w.v.v.v.v.w.v.v.wX Ebenezer Bryce, who gave his name to Bryce Canyon National Park, looked down into the vast jumble of white and pink spires and pinnacles which make up the canyons, shifted his cud ahd said, "A mighty tough place to lose a cow." Leonard Hall of Possum Trot Farm told, this one In the Cooperative Consumer. September Headline : "Drouth Bent Bv Showers" in -the Fairbury Journal. 'Mrs. Fred Spech of Ashland, member of -the National Radio Fan club, was thrilled to hear the voice of Frankie Laine, rock and roll, TV singer, who called her on the telephone. .A letter to .the .editor writer in the Albion News wants to know who it was that imperson anyway, and is now Vice-President of the United States. But the other Californians whom he double-crossed will never forget or forgive. And Gov. Goodwin "Knight, himself a strong contender for the Pres idency, is in their camp today. : Ike's Metiical History " Maj. Gen. Howard Snyder has given ;Eisenhower a complete physical check twice a year and keeps a voluminous file of every medical ailment. This detailed case history was turned over to the heart specialists when they arrived in Denver. It showed the following ail ments during the past 10 or 12 years: 1 : Bursitis of the left shoulder, inflammation of the stomach lining. ; This doesn't include intestinal disorders, which have afflicted him half a dozen times since his election. He was also laid up for four days with -a severe flu attack in January, 1943, dur ing the North African campaign. During his younger days, he picked up malaria and dysentery in the Philippines. - He has also had his tonsils and appendix re moved. He is still troubled by a football injury to his left knee joint in 1912 and uses a special, five-pound weight to exercise the bad knee. He fits the weight over -the toe of his left shoe and ' swings his leg back and forth : f , ; u - Ike has always guarded his health zealously. -He is the only President who had a special doc tor attached to him even while in the Army. : He has repeatedly said it is part of the job to keep in good health. To 'ward off cclds' he takes pills made up from Dr. Snyder's own formula. Ike also watches his weight and automatically goes on a diet whenever the scales show over 178 pounds, He gave up smoking six years ago, because of high blood pressure. SOCIAL SECURITY The national security program has paid out $5,000,000,000 to 7, 000,00 men, women and children since its organization in the middle Thirties, according to a report by Commissioner Schott land of thQ Social Security Ad-, ministration's Department of Health, Education and Welfare. LABOR John L. Lewis, president of the unaffiliated United Mine Workers, has predicted that the proposed merger of the Ameri can Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organi zations would "part like the rope of sand it is," under the pressure of union rivalries. EDUCATION The Federal Office of Educa tion has estimated that 39,557, 000 students will be enrolled in the schools of the nation this fall. This figure, representing attendance in colleges as well i as in public and. private schools, i marks a 1,657,000-pupil increase in one year. Home loan banks are directed to tighten credit lid- ated Roy Acuff and Minnie Pearl at the Fair there. So would Tom Johnson Fair sec retary, who didn't pay the group and issued free tickets later. Should a deceased Burlington railroader, of say 15 years ago, have returned to visit Wymore last week, says the Wymore Arbor-State, he would have thought everybody was crazy. They had filled the railroad water tanks with corn as stor age bins, ' , Blair oil men held a luncheon at a cafe, there to discuss plans for "Oil Progress Week" said the Pilot-Tribune. Ruf us Olson sug gested a slogan "Let's Get Well Oiled - During . Oil P.r ogress Week We Mean your car." OUTDOOR HEBBfl by Wallace F. Green, Supervisor Nebraska Parks Commission With duck season starting next weekend, there will be many an argument in the duck blinds through-out the state. The main topic of controversy will be about the kind of duck taken, after the hunters decided who shot it. Of the many kinds of ducks hunted -in Nebraska; only a few are really . identified. Even the experienced duck hunter gets some that are a puzzle, to say the least. The drake mallard, with his green head, black and white body and purple and white marked wing is easy. Of course many novice hunters even con fuse him with the shoveller, so called because of its large bill. Hunters with a few years of duck hunting under their belts can usually identify most of the drake ducks that pass through Nebraska during the fall flights. But, when it comes to identify ing the hens, its a different story. Usually very drab in col oration, the hen ducks can be difficult to identify because .of their sameness in appearance. If you want to know how to identify ducks, and what hun ter doesn't, there are a couple of things you can do. You can refer to some of the popular publications available on ducks Generally these are fairly ac curate and can identify most of the ducks, particularly adult drakes. There will be ducks that you cannot identify from . illustra tions unless the publication is quiet technical. Probably the best method is to use a key. A key is a list of characteristics of the birds. As you read down the list, selecting the characteristics of the bird you have, the key will eliminate all choices except the choice identifying your duck. Of course, kpvs n , IpsiPri fn n.rt m keys are designed to be used on ducks already taken and would not be of much use on ducks fly ing or out on the water. One of the most important characteristic is the so-called speculum. This is a group of feathers on the trailing edge of the wing, located near the body on the top surface. In most ducks the speculum is the same for both drakes and hens. Each kind of duck has its own particularly colored specu-iL"" rnmm,,Z it,w, Turo iio- -To.. v,nWhere that Communism can lum. Mallards for instance have a purple irridenscence colored speculum" bordered front and back with white bars. If you would -like to have a mimeograph copy of a key to Nebraska ducks, send your re quest to the information Divi sion of the State Game Com mission, Statehouse, Lincoln, Nebraska. The key won't prevent those arguments but they may help you shorten the time they take. ".... Legislative SIDELIGHTS . . A Reply??? This column last week called the Nebraska Citizens Council's use of per capita figures to prove that property tax is low in Ne braska a "delusion." A Lincoln newspaper invited the executive secretary of the council to reply. In part he is quoted as saying, "The most ac curate way to measure taxes is as percentage of income; a per capita basis was used because the first figures are not yet available from the Bureau of Census." This reply is vulnerable be cause income figures are avail able. But why use income to compare property tax levies. While it is true that income is the best measure of ability to pay taxes, Nebraska's tax system takes no recognition of this fact in assessing property lor taxa tion. Taxes in this state are bas ed upon property ownership. The propertv tax must be paid regardless of whether or not the owner has income to pay it. The council representative is further quoted: "Agricultural land represents the highest pro portion of the total wealth of the state, so it is to be expected that farm income represents the greater percentage of taxes." Let's examine the fallacy of this conclusion. The biggest share of property taxes do come from orooerty. But it should not be blithely as sumed that farm ownership guarantees an income to pay the taxes on land. Farm property in Nebraska is from 60. to 65 per cent of the total valuation of the state tangible property list ings. This means that from 60 to 65 per cent of the revenue for the state general fund comes from farm property. On the oth- I er hand, farm income in Ne braska is $400 million in a good year. This is twenty per cent of the two billion dollars of income to Nebraskans from all sources. If farm income is used as a basis for justifying property taxes, as the'eouncil representa tive implies, farmers should be Daving only one-third as much taxes as they are paying. In a year of crop failures such as the present, the farmer share would be much less than 20 per cent of th1 net income. It appears that in attempting to "reply" by generalizations.1 the executive secretary of the council contributed nothing to! THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE TWO Section B . Thursday, September 29, 1955 k -5S&i3ig By Stanley James. Journal Washington Reporte WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 On October 27th, just about a month from now, the United States will again sit down, officially, with Russia, Britain and France, in Geneva. This is the meeting that is supposed to translate sweat words of recent months into concrete action. The growing conviction in the United States is, however, that all the sweet talk and tooth paste smiles do not add up to a solid chance that Germany can be unified in the near fu ture. This ideal is and was the keystone of U. S. hopes for Ger many, in the four-power talks. Russia has met with both West and East German govern ment leaders since the summer : meeting in Geneva and now has diplomatic relations with both And the USSR has made it clear that it expects things to con tinue that way for a long time to corns. Russia is obviously well aware that if all 68,000,000 Ger mans in both parts of Germany vote on reunification, not onlv would the country's division end but so would the Communist re- gice oi East Germany. (There are only 18,000,000 people in East ' Germany; 50,000,000 in West Germany) So the United States must look to the forthcoming Geneva meeting for other results. What can they be? They could center on a reduction of arms, or on trade questions, or on several other issues. But German uni fication is apparently a long way off. The official United States view, .in Washington, is that Russia is now embarking on a long-term economic struggle with the United States. The "i1""11", tIJT he theme voiced by Lenin, tnat uommunism will win out in an economic strusrele with capitalism, inevitably The Russia tact suits U. S. diplomats and the President. If it is in the economic field that the Reds wish to challenge the United States, then the United States should be well prepared and a healthy competitor. The U. S. economy is what has made this nation the strongest on match the strides having: been made and now being made in the freeenterprise system of the U. S. A. Moreover, the decision in the Kremlin to return to collective rule and to return to an eco nomic struggle, rather than a military one," is a direct result of the rearmament of the United States, and other anti-Communist nations. Ironically, u. S. re armament came about as a re sult of the Communist blunder and (and attack) in Korea. Former President (Dictator) J uan Peron struck out in Argen tine after a corny and faked resignation offer failed to bring the populace back into line with clarify Nebraska's tax problems so that property owners might understand "whereof he spoke." Nothing is more needed than a forthright presentation of facts about the Nebraska tax system, a presentation de void of generalization and am biguity. The Nebraska Citizens Coun cil could do Nebraska taxpayers a real service by telling the full and complete tax story. WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE National Flag HORIZONTAL VERTICAL 1 Depicted is the 1 Inferior national 2 Girl's name flag of 8 This country produces much 13 Raise 14 Weight measure 15 Salt 16 Japanese seaport 18 Cravat 3 Girdle 4 Average (ab.) 5 Teixple 6 German king 7 Close . 8 Number 9 Ruthenium (symbol)- 10 Preposition 11 Frozen 19 Rest pendent 20 More nafnftil 12 Sway 21 Tenth month " ?.ent ' (ab.) 25 country ; 22 Half an em produces 23 French article 24 Repose 27 State 29 Not (prefix) 30 Direction (ab.) 31 Lutecium (ab.) 1 32 Palm lily 1 33 Cook 35 Bang 38 Comparative suffix 39 Behold! 40 War god 42 Extra 1 47 Damage ' 48 Equipment 49 Secreter .50 Brazilian macaw 51 Palate part 53 Church bell 55 Dentures 56 The natives cl this country are chiefly the dictator's views. The ruse might have worked had it not been for the battle between Pe ron and the Roman Catholic Church. Peron wanted to make Argen tina a state in which religion was treated somewhat as it is in the United States as separ ate from the government, and where there is no official reli gion and therefore discrimina tions against others. The program naturally stirred the bitter resentment of religous leaders solidly entrenched with the Argentine people. And Per on found out that opposing a religion is often a tougher job than one anticipates. After the abortive revolution attempt of June 16th, Peron never quite re gained the control and confi dence he had before that time. Yet his resignation, even when it came, surprised 'many of his supporters. The government radio had reported loyal troops winning victories and tne major- ity of the amv seemed with the government. There is a hint that Peron and his primary sup porters lost their nerved, in the struggle, and realizing that the governmtnt would never again command the real support of the nation, bowed out the easy way. Key part of the President's message to Congress in January will be his recommendation on the farm situation. Alreday Re publican Congressmen are de manding that Mr. Eisenhower do something to make their election bid easier next year. The greatest pressure, naturally, comes from politicians in the agricultural areas. The President and his advis ors -have been studying this problem actively in recent weeks. And, despite the urgency of the situation, no unanimous agree ment had been reached as this was written. The best guess is that Mr. Ei senhower will offer some sort of production payment plan, or equivalent. Meanwhile, Demo crats in Congress will be - at tempting to restore the ninety per cent of parity support law, which was passed by the House this .year and needs only Sen ate, approval to go to the White House. "FREEDOM FIGHTERS' The Army has developed a spe cial corps of liberation fighters, to be known as "Freedom Fight ers," who, in wartime, would en gage in some of the toughest missions. The duty of these men would be to strike behind enemy lines. SOUND SLEEPER VANCOUVER, Canada. James T. Maltese, 23, fell asleep in his car which ran off the road, plunged down a 70-foot embankment and over a three foot wall. When found, he was still sound and asleep and un hurt. COLLECTS STAMPS 18 YEARS NORFOLK, Neb. For the last eighteen years, Marvin Jones has been collecting stamps At the last count, Jones had more than 50,000 stamps in his bound albums. Among them are 25 one-cent Benjamin Franklin stamps issued many decades ago. Here's the Answer s op 3 o n v J y n n a n MglZl 3 a J "Hf. lsl i "a Jj2 o. . 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