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t . i W s W - 1500 R ST. CASS COUNTY'S . GREATEST NEWSPAPER latjts motif PUBLISHED SEMI - WEEKLY Monday - Thursday. fir LIU Consolidated With the Nehawka Enterprise and Elmwood Leader-Echo Delivered Twice Weekly to More Than 3000 Cass County Families VOLUME 75 TWENTY PACES PLATTSMOUTH, CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1955 FIVE CENTS PER COPY NUMBER 7 yracilmein Church Choir Readies "The Messiah" turn 0 City i oca hr M w w u u an mm St Plattsmouth city council and law enforcement offi cers have done about as much as they can in preventing brawls around liquor-by-the-drink bars in Plattsmouth. This appeared to be an opinion jof most of Platts mouth's city councilmen after a discussion of the problem at a regular council meeting Monday night. Any further quieting of fights and scuffles in bars and cafe will be up to barmen and owners. The item was brought up on Basic Airman George E. Thiel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Thiel of Wa bash, is currently enrolled in basic military training at Park Air Force Base, California, serv ing with Flight 356, 3275th Squadron, 327th Basic Military Training Group, the Air Force has announced. Airman Thiel joined the Air Force on Oct. 7, 1955, and was sworn in at the Omaha recruiting station. He attended Murdock high school. Robert Vallery To Head Royal Arch Masons Robert Vallery was installed Monday night at Plattsmouth as high priest of Nebraska Chap ter No. 3, Royal Arch Masons. He succeeds Maynard Ramge who treated members to an oys ter supper, prepared by Lowell McQuinn. Following an instal lation of officers. Mr. Ramge also served as in stalling officer, assisted by W. Newton Sullivan, installing marshal, and jPhillip F. Rihn, installing chaplain. n Officer for next year: Robert Vallery, high priest; Delbert Todd, king; Clayton Rhylander, scribe; Clarence E. Ledgeway, treasurer; Emil J. Weyrich, sec retary; John L. Beckman, cap tain of the host; Benjamin F. Anderson, principal sojourner; Ray Story, Royal Arch captain; John Rishel, master of the third vail; LeRoy Moore, master of the second vail; Roy Sharp, master of the first vail; May nard Ramge, chaplain; Stuart Schlichtemeier, sentinel. $50,000 in Damage Asked Auto Death A suit for damages totaling $50,604.26 has been filed in dis trict court at Plattsmouth by Charlotte Stevens of Lincoln, special administrator and wid ow of Staff Sergeant Donald B. Stevens, who died following a traffic collision on U. S. High way 34 a year ago. Defendant named in the suit was the Kel ly Well company. According to the petition, Mr. Stevens was driving his car east on Highway 34 in Cass county last December when it was in collision with a truck owned by the Kelly Well company, driven by Gerald A. Gibbs, an employe. Sgt. Stevens is survived by his widow and a daughter. A Classified Ad in The Journal costs as little as 35 cents THE WEATHER Compiled for the Plattsmouth Journal at the Masonic Home Weather Station, Plattsmouth, Nebraska. Dec. 12, 13, 14. High Low Prec. Monday ...32 18 Tuesday 36 28 Wednesday 32 20 Forecast Thursday windy and cold high expected in teens. r it - - ! ' , " V i ' ' . i p.- & o sj rkeeps mention of the arrest of Everett D. McCollum of Thurman, Iowa, who was jailed by the county court for 15 days following a brawl at a Plattsmuth bar last week and who had participated in an earlier brawl here. Councilman William Highfield suggested that the penalty for rough stuff be raised higher by city ordinance. City Attorney A. E. Chavonec pointed out that would be beyond the limit of city jurisdiction and that anyway McCollum had been tried in county court where he could have sentenced to six months in, jail. It would be up to bartenders to keep such characters out of their bars and to call for help from police sooner. Mayor Leo Meisinger said fights cccur fre quently in Plattsmouth cafes and bars and the police are not called The council took no action which would change the polic ing of bars. In other action Monday, the council: (1) Passed a resolution plac ing one-way parking on north Eighth street, Washington ave nue to Avenue G, in response to a petition of residents; made one-way parking on the west side on north Eleventh street, Avenue D to E, and were pre pared to extend one-way park ing on that street to Avenue H at next meeting if no objections appear. Parking action was tak en ' because both-side parking makes the traffic lane too nar row on icy streets. Also passed was one-side parking on Sixth and Seventh streets, First to Fifth avenue. (2) Took -no action on a re ( Continued on Page Six) Fricke Building Sale Is Monday Sale of the Fricke building at the corner of Sixth and Main street in Plattsmouth, will be at the south door of the Cass county courthouse Monday, Dec. 19. The building, which until re cently hou;d Grove jewelry and the Plattsmouth police station, has two business fronts and two apartments. School Vacation Opens on Dec. 21 A 12-day vacation is sche duled for Plattsmouth schools. Christmas vacation will begin after classes on Dec. 21, at 3 p.m., and resume on Jan. 3, the school has announced. House '-TV 1 (U 1 OA Wtf 1 'r: ' 7 v VI V - 7f - k-"w i - i "I ' " - -J m J f - - : - " . . .. , . -V". "r .-, ' ?-5; 1 -sV ' " ' -7 J i : , k- I If you look at a house about 2 miles south of Murray on U. S. Highway 75 you would never believe it reached that stage of construction in less than a week. Shown here a short time after they began last Friday, are between 15 and 20 neighbors of Henry Hobscheidt, who erected the pre-fabricated house. It had the roof on and w 9'- -rti,"M " .3,. "J "; i In rehearsal for a presentation oi "The Messiah" at the First Presbyterian Wednesday at the church for the is the church choir under the direction of Mrs. Hugh Stander, Jr. It will be the first attempt in singing Handel's oratorio by all is thought. Front row of the choir here, from left, Margaret Knorr, Marilyn Stoehr, Lois Har der, Carol Burch, Beverly Sullivan and Flora- Auto Mishap Mangling Lecture Caution Note to Chest X-ray Unit Opened Stand Today Free chest x-rays began to day in Plattsmouth. The state transportable x-ray unit will make a., seven-day stand ,at Plattsmouth beginning today. It will be located at Cass County Motors. Anyone 12 years and above may take an x-ray free, it takes only a minute since no clothing must be removed. No appointment is needed. Just walk in Hours are 9 to 12 a.m. and 1 to 5 p.m. except Sunday. Next Wednesday the unit will be open all day and 7 to 9 p.m. to serve those who cannot be there - in the daytime. The traveling x-ray machine is sponsored in the county by the Cass County Tuberculosis Association. It is sponsored in Plattsmouth by the 40 and 8 club. Members of this club plus members of the Junior Women's Club, the " Kenosha extension club, Catholic Daughters, Amer ican Legion Auxiliary and the VFW Auxiliary, will act as hos tesses and registrars during the stay of the unit in Plattsmouth. Capt. and Mrs. John Keith and family have returned from a trip to Tulsa, Okla., where they visited Mrs. Keith's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. McCor mick. Rises From the church next general public local talent, it Young Drivers A lecture on the medical as pect of. traffic accidents by two Omaha physicians set Platts mouth teen-age drivers buzzing this week. - Dr. Moore and Dr. Marsh of Omaha, one an attendant at the scene of many motor vehicle accidents and the other an em-', ergenc:" ward physician, detail-: ed examples of bloody accident scenes with slides and com-: ment-at a-meeting of the Platj? mouth " Lions . Club .Tuesday" night. It was a stern traffic warn ing, so strong that one teen-age fainted. It was designed tovslow down and make thoughtful and careful some 80 teen-agers who attended. A total of 154 Lions, business men and youthful dri vers attended a dinner followed by the lecture. Cecil Karr, president of the Lions club, said Wednesday that he had heard younger drivers talking earnestly about the program later and said he hop ed it would bring results. How ever, there will be no way to measure the effect. Mr. Karr also said that the large number of youths were gathered through the co-operation of business men, not mem bers of the Lions Club, who add ed their ' efforts to the Lions sponsored program. Lions and other business men bought tic kets for high schoolers. Also making a short safety talk was Don Royce of the Ne braska Safety patrol. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wooster returned Friday evening from a short trip to Chicago. Ashes was well on its way to becoming a new dwelling for the Hobscheidts. The original house, owned by Chief of Police John Hobscheidt of Platts mouth, his home for many years, burned to the ground Nov. 12. It was insured. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hobscheidt have been living in a trailer at the site. Journal Photo. V. V :....: ? I belle Wehrbeiit. Others in the choir, some not shown here, ihclude Sandra Burch, Pat Winscot, Darlene Miller, Peggy Jacobs, Pat Brown, La Vonne Speck, Pat Mitchell, Wendel Friest, Mike Shellenbarger,'! John Jacobs,. Merlin Jacobs, George Jacobs Bill Howland, Ronald Schneider, Stuart Nielsen; Dick Glaze, Robert Tucker, Dean Dunham, Bill Knorr, Tom Dunham, Roger Wehr bein and Jim. Pence. Journal Photo. ri 1 Vy- -. 7, In the bass section of the chorus for "The Messiah" to be given next Wednesday at the First Presbyterian church, are Dick Glaze, left, and Roger Wehrbein, among others. Fire Burns Barn, Animals on Farm Robert Schneider A fire of unknown origin des troyed a barn on the farm of Robert Schneider, 10 miles west of Plattsmouth, about 5:30 a.m Tuesday. ' Twelve calves and one cow in the barn were destroyed when the fire gained such headway that they could not be removed About 10 tons of hay in the barn was also destroyed- The building was insured bu not the contents. Plattsmouth Volunteer Fire Department went to the site o the blaze but was unable to do anything because of the head way the fire had made. Subscribe to The Journal Now! The Plattsmouth high school chorus, plus smaller groups from the chorus, wilj give a Christmas choral concert of 24 numbers at the high school auditorium Dec. 20, beginning at 8 p. m., it has been announced by Miss Muriel Pickett, vocal music instructor. The public Is invited to this free musical program. The chorus will sing these numbers: Adeste Fideles, Gesu Bambino, soloist Beverly Harris; O Little Town of Bethlehem; Silent Night, Lullaby on Christ mas Eve, soloist, Minnie Etta Frazer; Cherubim Song, No. 7, girls triple trio; I Wonder as I Wander, Jon tririch, soloist. Madrigal numbers: Lo, How a Rose 'Er Blooming; Fum, Fum, Fum, What Child Is This?; It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, SeGnedtoDed Dee Ex-Plattsmouth Youth Admits Slaying Driver A former Plattsmouth youth,- James Thcmas LaRosee, 19, of Omaha, has confessed to the murder of Cab Driver Erick Wil- iam Burkwist for $17 and to setting a 100 thousand dollar blaze at an Omaha carpet fac tory. LaRosee will probaby face a charge of first degree murder, officer said. LaRosee told Omaha police he robbed the cab driver to pay his rent and set the fire for revenge after he was fired. He has not been connected to he slaying of an Omaha Uni versity co-ed last week. LaRosee lived in Plattsmouth and attended P 1 a t ts mouth schools. He has been described as polite and soft spoken around Plattsmouth but found many times in the wrong places a round school. He was born in the east and for a time used his mothers maiden name but had taken the name of his father, Sgt. Walter Conrad LaRosee who was stationed at Offutt Air Force Base for awhile. He got into trouble at Platts mouth and was sent to the State Industrial School for Boys at Kearney as an incorrigible where he stayed two years. He joined the Air Force and was AWOL from San Houston at San Antonio, Tex., after failing a medical course. Omaha police Tuesday brought LaRosee to Plattsmouth where he showed them where he had thrown a money changer in the Missouri river near the Plattsmouth bridge and buried a bill fold taken from the dead cab driver. He told police the killing was, an accident. Cass County Sheriff Tom So lomon said that once when La Rosee was being held in jail at Plattsmouth, LaRosee fed a ca nary to a dog to keep it quiet so he could attempt to escape. Carl Dalton Dies At Phoenix, Ariz. Carl Richard Dalton, 61, of Phoenix, Ariz., . died Tuesday, Dec. 13 at a hospital there after several months of illness. Mr. Dalton lived in Platts mouth for many years. Funeral services will be held at Phoenix, Friday. Survivors are his wife, Vivian, and three children, Annette of the home ; Warren of Lincoln and Nelia of Salt Lake City; his mother, Mrs. Emily Mains, of Omaha; two sisters, Ina Dal ton of Omaha and Grace Holmes of Glenwood, Iowa and one brother, Lester B. Dalton, of Plattsmouth. . Mr. and Mrs. Lester Dalton left Thursday morning for Phoenix to attend the funeral service. The Thrifty Stitchers 4-H club has been extended an invitation to appear on WOW-TV, Satur day, December 31 at 12:15 p.m. - The Christmas Song, Sleigh Ride. Boys Choir: CaTol of the Bells; It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas; Jingle Bells, Twas the Night Before Christmas. Girls Sexcet: Deck The Hall, Winter Wonderland, We Wish You a Merry Christmas; The Lord Bless You and Keep You. Committees in preparation of the concert: Publicity, Minnie Frazer, general chairman; pos ters, Lois Gapen, chairman, Dan Wehrbein,. Rose Mary Nelson, Janet Campbell, Mike Lewis, Mary Iveraon, Sharon Harbaugh and Karen Jacobs. Songs, Bev erly Harris, chairman; programs, Jim Ulrich, chairman, Roy Smith, Rae Mae Henry, Deanna Hutton, Carol Potschies, Cecelia Forbes, Linda Graves; decorat CDhiti Handel's oratorio, "The the First Presbyterian church in Plattsmouth by the church choir at 8 p.m., Dec. Mrs. Hugh Stander, Jr., it has This was said to be the has been attempted by all local singers in Plattsmouth. Postofficc Open Saturday Afternoon The United States Post office at Plattsmouth will remain open all day Satur day and the following Sat urday to take care of the Christmas mailing rush. Windows will be open in the afternoon on both Dec. 17 and Dec. 24 until 5 p.m. Or iginally windows close at 1 p.m. on Saturday. Packag es should be mailed as early as possible. Platter Kids On WOW-TV Show Saturday A group of Plattsmouth high school students will appear on a WOW-TV program, "Teens", from 11:30 a.m. to 12 noon Sat urday. The students will make up a group of ball room dancers, a girls sextet, girls quartet as well as present dancers on the show. Dan Huebner will represent the school newspaper; Denny Hirz will represent the basket ball team. ' ... .Nancy Seimoniet and Jeanine Newton will give a dance. Girls sextet to appear will be made up of Brenda Ofe, Carolyn Larson, Beverly Harris, Nancy Seimoniet, Minnietta Frazer and Deanna Hutton. Girls quartet, Sharon Har baugh, Beverly Harris, Carol Davis and Mary Ann Ryan, who will be a soloist. Dancing, pairs will be Dan Huebner and Janet Campbell; Ed Egenberger and Jo Ann Liv ingston; Denny Hirz and Bever ly Sprieck; Larry Long and Nancy Todd; Mike Lewis and Sharon Harbaugh; Roby Albee and Connie Land; Judi Meising er and Jerry Wurtele. Partners for the other girls will be from an Omaha high school. Graveside Service For J. B. Patterson Graveside rites for James B. Patterson, who died at Oak land, Calif., were at Platts motuh Wednesday. The ashes were sent back to be buried on his mother's grave. The Rev. Keith Delap officiat ed at the committal service at Oak Hill cemetery. Caldwell - L.inaer Funeral was in charge of arrangements. A son of James and Grace Patterson. He was born in Plattsmouth Jan. 3, 1897, and spent his early life here. He was a nephew of T. H. Pol lock and a cousin of Mrs. Alice Perry of Plattsmouth. A Classified Ad in The Journal costs as little as 35 cents ing, Brenda Ofe, chairman, Jane J Fauquet, Mary Ann Ryan, Shir ley Gerbeling, Sandra Young, Roger Wehrbein, Jim Morris and Dean Biles. Members of small groups: Madrigal Sopranos, Minnie Etta Frazer, Mary Ann Ryan, Donna Ernst, Nancy. Siemoneit, Beverly Har ris, Brenda Ofe; Altos, Deanna Hutton, Carolyne Larson, Rae Mae Henry, Nancy Painter, Carol Davis, Janice Wiles; Tenors, Jim Ulrich, Larry Cole, Jon Ul rich, Dean Biles, Lowell Rieke, Dan Wehrbein; Basses, Dan Huebner, Roger Wehrbein, Jim Grosshans, Alan Wiles, Bob Bev erage, Ron Nichols. Girls' Sextet First sopranos, Minnie Frazer, Nancy Siemoneit; second so- Messiah," will be given at 21, under the direction of been announced. first time "The Messiah," The, public is invited to attend the program. Personnel who will sing and recite "The Messiah": Mrs. Hugh L. Stander, Jr., di rector; Mrs. George Jacobs, or ganist; the Rev. Keith Delap, reader. Soloists: Lois Harder and Darlene Miller; sopranos; Pat Stander, alto; Wendel Friest, John Jacobs, tenors; Bill Knorr, bass. Choir Sopranos: Sandra Burch, Pat Winscot, Pat " Hull Lois Harder, Marilyn Stoehr, Darlene Miller, Peggy Jacobs, Pat Brown, Margaret Knorr, La Vonne Speck, Pat Mitchell. Alto: Jean Howland, Jean Hughes, Florabelle Wehrbein, Jean Tucker, Carol Burch, Linda Livingston, Karen acobs, Jean Weiss, Beverly Sullivan, Dar leen Jacobs. Tenors: Wendel Friest, Mike Shellenbarger, John Jacobs, Merlin Jacobs. Basses: George Jacobs, Bill Howland, Donald Schneider, Stuart Nielsen, Dick Glaze, Ro bert Tucker, Dean Dunham, Bill Knorr, Tom Dunham, Roger Wehrbein, Bob Beverage, Jim Pence. The Messiah: Overture, Or ganist; Recitative, "Comfort ye my people" (tenor): Chorus, "And the glory of the Lord"; Recitative, "Behold, a virgin shall conceive," Aria; " O Thou that tellest erood tidings to Zion." alto; Recitative, "For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth", (bass); Aria, "The people that walked in' darkness"; (bass); Recitative. "There were shep herds abiding in the field;" (so prano); Recitative. "And lo! the aneel of the Lord came upon them: "And the angel of the Lord"; (soprano); Recitative, "And suddenly there was with the ansel," (soprano); Chorus, "Glory to God." Recitative, ' "Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened," (alto) ; Aria, "He shall feed His flock like a' shepherd" (alto); Aria, "Come unto Him," (sopra no): Chorus Behold the Lamb of God".. Recitative. "Thy re buke hath broken "His heart," (tenor); Aria, "Behold, and see if there be any sorrow," (tenor) ; Recitative, "But thou didst not leave His soul in hell," (tenor); Aria. "I know that my Redeem er liveth". (soprano); Chorus, "Since bv Man came death," chorus, Hallelujah!" Extra Santa Claus Visit on Monday Santa Claus will make an ex tra visit to Pattsmouth next Monday evening. He will stop at. the Hinky-Dinky store from 6:30 ,to 8:30 p.m. Dec. 19. On this stop he. will park his reindeer at Hinky-Dinky. Mrs. Bill Baumfrart is assist ing at thp Chamber of Com merce office in the absence of Mrs. Gerald Ashbaugh, who Is vacationing in California. . pranos, Beverly Harris, Brenda Ofe; altos, Deanna Hutton, Car olyne Larson. Girls' quartet Mary Ann Ryan, Beverly Har ris, Carol Davis, Sharon Har baugh. Boys' .Choir Basses, Roger Wehrbein, Ron Nichols, Al Wiles; baritone, Jim Grosshans, Dan Huebner; ten ors, Jim Ulrich, Denny Meising er, Dean Biles, Larry Cole, Jon Ulrich, Bob Beverage. Giris Triple Trio First soprano, Mary Ann Ry an, Jane Fauquet; Donna Ernst; second soprano, Linda Living! ston, Carol Davis; altos, Nancy Painter, Janet Campbell, Rae Mae Henry. Another girl is to be named to sing second so- prano.