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AAV? . , JUZITJORLAls THE 1956 SEASONS It may be hard to believe, as Win ter tightens its grip, that the days are al ready getting longer, and the sun shines on the United States a little longer each day. This is because the Winter Solstice occurred in late December, 1955, when the sun entered Capricornus. Spring this year will come with the Vernal Equinox, on March 20th, at 10:21 a.m., when the sun enters Aries. It is hard to believe that Spring is only about two months away, but that is when Spring begins this year. The Summer Solstice occurs on June 21st, at 5:24 a.m., when the sun enters Cancer, and Summer will last until the Autumnal Equinox on September 22nd, at 8:36 p.m., when the sun enters Libra. Thereafter, Autumn will continue un til the Winter Solstice, which occurs on December 21st at four o'clock in the af ternoon, when the sun once again enters Capricornus. For those who watch morning and evening stars, Mercury is favorably situ ated to be seen as an evening star in Jan- T7" 1 ! 1 Ml 1 uary, as is vuiius, wnicn win oe an eve ning star longer than Mercucy, or until about June 22nd. Thereafter, Venus will be a morning star for the rest of the year. Morning stars to be seen now include Mars, which will be a morning star until September, when it will become an eve ning star for the rest of the year. Jupiter will be a morning star until February ,lGth, and Saturn will be a morning star until May 20th. From that date until November 27th, Saturn will be an eve ning star. it CONCRESS AND FARM RELIEF We hope that members of Congress, bcth Democrats and Republicans, will unite in writing a program providing farm relief as soon as possible. While we agree with President Eisen hower's contention that there should be no partisan politics involved in the crea tion of vital farm relief legislation, we al so believe that the Eisenhower Adminis tration could and should have acted soon er to avoid the present state of farm ad versity. Regardless of whether one agrees with this conclusion or not, it is now ob vious that they were not the solution to the farmer's problems. It is to his credit that he calls for drastic action, and we do not attribute his call only to the fact that this is an election year. We agree with many Democrats who say they have been calling for farm' re lief for several years. Despite all this, the fact is the farmer needs relief. The obligation of all American con gressmen, whether they be Republicans or Democrats, or whether they have been right or wrong about the farm problem in recent years, is to write legislation to better farm conditions. Such legislation should be passed by Congress by mid March, designed to take effect immedi ately. A number of good proposals hav-? been made and we hope both Democrats and Republicans will compromise enough of their indifferences to arrive at a bill which can, and will be, passed by Con gress and then signed by President Eisen hower. This obligation to the American peo ple for it is they who will be ultimately concerned with farm prosperity also is an obligation of all Americans. It should be put above any petty party advantages which might be gained out of the presenc regrettable situation. THOUGHT FOR TODAY Woman scans to differ from man in mental disposition, eJiiefly in her greater tenderness and less selfishness. Charles Darwin The Pialismoisfh Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 18S1 Tubliblic;! Semi-Weekly, Mondays and Thursdays, at 410 Main Street, Plattsmouth, Cass County, N.br. 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 2.0&0 Population) RONALD R. FURSE. Editor and Publisher WM. L. MURDOCK News Editor MARGARET DINGMAN Society Editor JANET PTAK Bookkeeper VERN WATERMAN Advertising Furses Fresh Flashes Fellow out in the cemetery the other day said he was looking for buried treas ure. It was probably his wife's first hus band. it it it It isn't hard for us to meet expenses we meet them at every turn. it it it A local bachelor says he will never marry he already has eaten meals in restaurants that advertise "home cook ing." it it it a tribe of Indians back to get some of their farm a lesson to Pockets Full of Dreams 11::? 1 U See where east are going land back. That ought to be 'em. it it it See where race horses never eat the day before their races. With us, we never eat the day after. it it k If you want to live to be 90, don't point at it with your speedometer. it it -k Remember? Alice in Wonderland went through a looking glass. If she had been like Flipper Fanny, our modern, dainty little contour twister, she would have gone through a windshield. it it it We doubt there is any life on the moon they've never asked Uncle Sam for a loan. it it it A lady was just in the office who pro nounced February just like the diction ary tells you to. Trtr 7?r....rn Down Memory Lane 2f YEARS AGO Carl J. Schneider, president of the Plattsmouth Chamber of Commerce, ap pointed his committees for the, year . . . A six-inch snow and a rising wind block ed highways around Plattsmouth ... A total of 166 marriage licenses were is sued in Cass county in 1925, down from 254 in 1924 7 . . A. H. Ward of Weeping Water sold his service station to I. C. Me Crorey . . . C. S. Wortman of South Bend announced as a candidate for district judge . . . Married were W. H. Leesley, Jr., and Miss Margaret Kelley of Green wood . .... Cass County Attorney W. G. Kieck asked the attorney general if it was all right to have officers stopping on U. S. Highway 75 and searched. It wasn't. it it it 3r YEARS AGO Los s was estimated at $1,000 when a carpenter shop owned by Herman Tie kotter in Plattsmouth caught fire . . . Miss Gerda Peterson was installed as noble .grand of Plattsmouth Rebekahs . . . Mrs. Guy Riser was elected chairman of the Mynard Red Cross chapter . . . T. H. Pol lock asked the district court in Lancaster county for an injunction to stop the state of Nebraska from buying the King of Trails bridge across the Platte river ... . V. T. Arn was elected consul of the Mod ern Woodmen at Plattsmouth . . . Sterling I Hatt was elected captain of the Platts mouth high school basketball team. it it SJTS. til II I I t r- II I : Washington iisw-tfo-ifoii y DREW PEAr&SSU mi millions, and backstage, the proposal has literally got ICA'3 experts boiling. Reason: It would tempt Ebasco to approve all sorts of aid projects des ir ed by the Korean government. For, the more projects approved,- the higher Ebasco's profits. "No Comment" ' Despite the violent criticism of ICA's experts, Hamilton has already okayed 'the 1 per cent commission demanded by Ebas co. The contract now needs only the approval of Hollister himself. The Korean government, however, is not sold on letting Ebasco handle the survey. Therefore ICA is sending four Ebasco representatives to Se oul to win over Syngman Rhee. Each will collect a $25-a-day expense account from ICA while trying to convince Rhee to accept Ebasco. .Though such contracts are usually awarded by ICA's of fice of contract relations, this pet project is being handled by Hamilton personally. Details are so secret that they have even been kept rom Hamil ton's boss, Dr. William F. Rus sell. When Hamilton's office, was queried regarding the propos ed contract, he refused to talk "Any information must come from the William J. Caldwell public reports," he said. Hamilton also refused to comment on whether the deal is designed to compensate the Dixon-Yates interests for . the money lost on the now famous Dixon-Yates contract. . . Caldwell, it turned out, had no information available, ex cept that -Ebasco was sending a "pilot team" to Korea to study the situation. Hamilton was then asked for a personal interview. No reply. Barren-Beaned Pearson Commerce officials were dis cussing a recent Merry-Go-Round story telling how Fred Lee, the able ex-Civil Aeronau tics Administrator, had been ousted by "barren-beaned" Sec retary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks and Len Hall, the "equally barren-beaned" chair man of the Republican Nation al Committee. "If Drew Pearson was hon est about it he would have re ported that Lee was as barren beaned as both Weeks and Hall, firm that fiasco, is PHONE fK 24 aJ 1cx,aoJ .Q -3 i3 zs&xx. caem bltese Entered at the Post Office at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second class mail matter in accordance with the Act of Congress of March 3, 1S79. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $4.00 per year in Cass and adjoining counties, $5.00 per year elsewhere, in advance, by mail outside the city of Platts mouth. By carrier in Plattsmouth, 25 cell's for two weeks. (Copyright, 1955, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: EBASCO WANGLES, JUICY FOREIGN-AID CONTRACT; PAY OFF FOR DIXON-YATES FLOP SUSPECTED ; PEARSON'S BALD PATE TAKES RIBBING. Yashington -'Ebasco, the engineered the Dixon-Yates about to harvest a juicy plum from the government's foreign-aid program. Some government officials regard it as an in- direct pay-off for failure to go through with Dixon-Yates. Wholly-owned subsidiary of the Elec tric Bond and Share Corporation that once owned Edgar Dixon's Middle South Utilities, Ebasco Services is also the en gineering firm that drafted the original Dixon-Yates proposal. Though the International Coopera tion Administration headed by John B. Hollister is doing its level best to main tain ironclad secrecy, I can reveal that his outfit plans to award Ebasco a foreign-aid contract so juicy that eight oth er companies wanted it. Despite this, Ebasco was selected without competitive bids, by Abbott K. Hamilton, director of ICA's industrial resources office and a former vice-president of Commercial Sol vents Corporation. ... The newly proposed contract calls for a massive review of Syngman Rhee's plans for the economic development of Korea. As part of the survey, Ebasco would re view foreign-aid projects requested by the Korean government, then would help Hollister and his ICA solicit bids and award the construction contracts. - The clincher is Ebasco's demand for a 1 per cent commission on all construc tion contracts awarded under the survey. Since the Korean aid program is ICA's biggest, the commissions might run into if not more so,"' grumbled one official. "What are you talking about?" chimed in another. "If Pearson really wanted to level with his readers he wouldn't be tossing barbs at others for being barren beaned. He's no advertisement for hair oil. Look at his picture in that column." Meat Trust It hasn't been advertised, but Wyoming's trust-busting Sen. Joe O'Mahoney L investigating charges that the big chain stores are gaining a strangle hold on the meat industry. It used to be that the five big packers dominated the stockyards and controlled meat prices. ' Finally, 50 years ago the Justice Department moved in with an anti - trust suit against Swift and Company. Congress also passed the Ken-drick-Kenyon bill in 1921, which broke up the packers' control over the meat industry. This law doesn't affect the chain stores, however, which are moving in where the pack ers are barred by law. O'Ma honey has learned that the big chain stores operate their own distributing plants, packing plants, feed lots and even their own cattle ranches. Safeway, for example, has at least 11 meat-distributing ware houses, 33 general warehouses, and 19 miscellaneous ware houses, according to O'Mahon ey's information. The Wyoming senator will air his findings before the Sen ate anti-monopoly subcommittee. Dots and Dashes Adlai Stevenson has dumped his political confidant of the past four years, the man he hand-picked to run the Demo cratic party in 1952 former Chairman Steve Mitchell . . . The headstrong Mitchell struck out on his own and announced his candidacy for Governor of Illinois. However, Stevenson has privately turned thumbs down on his former friend. Illinois Democratic regulars will back Herbert Paschen . . . New York's Gov. Averiil Harriman appealed to ex-President Truman to help revive the collapsing Harriman f or - President boom. Truman sent back polite word that he would rather not get mixed up in the pre-convention fight . . The Defense Department is go ing ahead with plans to sup ply the new West German ar my with atomic weapons. Sec retary of Defense Wilson would like to furnish the Germans and our other European allies with atomic missies if Con gress can be persuaded to re move the legal barriers. . BOY KILLED, BABY SAFE Shadown, Ark Although L. C. Coffee, 16, was killed when he was hit by a - truck, an, in fant he was carrying in his arms escaped without a scratch. The impact, however, jarred the baby from his arms. See By The Papers . ... By Bill Murdock Capitol News Bj Melvin Paul Statehouse Correspondent The Nebraska Press Association LINCOLN The demand for teachers in Nebraska will prob ably be just as strong this year as in 1955. That's the belief of the Ne braska State Education Associ ation. It said although college enrollment, is up, potential teachers will not be available for the 1956-57 school year. "And," said the association, "even with the amount qf school district reorganization accomplished in Nebraska, the number of teachers made avail able by the action will be con siderably less than the demand caused by the increased enroll ment of the larger towns of the state." The association said with teachers in short supply in Ne braska, competition from sur rounding states adds to the dif ficulty. Nebraska's average annual salary for classroom teachers is $3,123, far below the average for surrounding states. The association said a "more equitable method of financing the schools, and an increase of the wealth devoted to educa tion to at least 2.5 per cent probably would provide funds for a general up-grading of teachers' salaries throug h o u t the state." According to the State De partment of . Education, only 2.185 per cent of the present taxable wealth in Nebraska was devoted to education in 1954 55. That is the state-wide fig ure. The amount from district to district is sharply different. The present instability in the teaching profession, the associ ation said, probably costs the American people more than it would to provide adequate sal aries and good working condi tions for them. Burney to Run A veteran member of the leg islature and its present speak er, Sen. Dwight Burney, Har tington, will be in the race for lieutenant governor on the Re publican ticket. Burney picked up his filing papers last wreek at the Sec retary of State's office. The 64-year-old farmer and live stock raiser has, since the death last year of Lt. Gov. Charles J. Warner, performed functions of the office. In a statement to newsmen, Burney said: "I feel justified in' filing for the office, because of my experience. After six ses sions in the Legislature, I feel that I have a reasonable know ledge of state government. "Especially because of the last session, when I was speak er, I have had considerable ex perience presiding over the Legislature, which is the big gest job the lieutenant gover nor has." The first Republican to file for the office was Carl Swan son, Omaha, a former state treasurer. Lawyers To Ballot Members of the legal profes sion in Nebraska are going to ballot on whether they want to be included under provisions of the Social Security Act. Originally passed in 1935, the act was for industrial and com mercial workers with the pro fessions excluded. In 1950, the House of Dele gates of the American Bar Association went on record against legislation to include self-employed lawyers. In 1953 resolutions wrere introduced to overrule the previous action but no : final action was taken pending an opinion survey. The poll showed a substantial ma jority favored inclusions on a voluntary basis and a resolu tion was adopted so stating. School teachers of Nebraska recently voted overwhelmingly in favor of retirement under the social security system. THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE FOUR Section B Thursday, January 19, 1956 By Stanlej James. Journal Washington Reporter WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 President Eisenhower, now that he has resumed the duties of being President again, is be ing put under increasing pres sure to head his party's ticket again this year. While there has been a large number of influential Repub licans dedicated to another race by Eisenhower all along, individ uals in this group are now mak ing it clear to Ike that he is the party's only hope as far as giving the Republicans a favored chance to repeat their 1952 pre sidential victory. It is reported that many of these associates have registered with the President, and that he is coming around to their view point that a situation is develop ing where it would be his duty to run again. His close advisors who have a high stake in his decision, will seek to make sure it becomes a"case of duty. As was reported in this column last year, after' Ike's heart at tack, chances are better, than 50-50 that the President will run. The Republican Party has no other strong candidate. Every other G. O. P. contender would be the underdog against Adlai Stevenson. The next few weeks may test the President's physical condi tion to such an extent that he will know whether he can con tinue in office for another four years even giving up some of the load he carried the first three years he occupied the White House. That may be one reason the President decided to Eleven applications were on- file with the Sarpy county clerk for the job of district commis sioner vacated by First District commissioner H. F. Lindberg with a year to go, says the Pap illion Times. S: Webster County Sheriff George Stokes has-a puzzler to work. At the noon hour $80 was taken from the county judge's private box; $14 belonging to the county and a $100 check, says the Red Cloud Commercial Ad vertiser. : John Gebbie, Jr., opined in the Bellevue- Press that one reason the World-Herald might have cut short its writeup on Belle vue in its story on the twin counties may have been that some of the locals fear the Oma has city council might decide to annex the town unless its grows to 10.000 population soon. 6 Triplet calves were born in a field on the Robert Riddle farm The student body, seven pu pils, at Cold Point rural school near Steinauer each sent Presi dent Eisenhower a Christmas card and were thrilled when Ann C. Whitman, personal secretary to the President, wrote a letter to Teacher John E. Stettenbenz, with seasons greetings for the students, reports The Pawnee Republican. Lee Foster, at odds with the local law enforcing agencies, who clamped in jail at Ord, im pressed Editor Bill Lee of the Ord Quiz with his lucid speech when arraigned before the dis trict judge. He also impressed the judge and an Ord attorney, who said "That young man ex presses himself well." Thereup on said prisoner pulled out a diploma won while a prisoner in Georgia. It Jiad to happen sooner or later, savs the Albion News. The near Colon. A rarity, points out j seasons first robins were sight the Wahoo Newspaper. ed. Two were seen in yard, both shivering. a back Death Toll Down Nebraska safety officials have their fingers crossed for the 12 months of 1956. They hope for another re duction in traffic deaths. Col. C. J. Sanders, chief of the State Safety Patrol, said fatalities were down 3.6 per cent in Ne braska last year, compared with 1954. "This reduction, h o w e v e t small," he said, "means that Nebraska was one of the nine states that did not experience an increase in traffic deaths last year.'' Twenty-four counties went through 1955 without a fatali ty: Arthur, Banner, Blaine, Brown, Chase, Dakota, Fron tier, Garden, Gosper, Grant, Greeley, Hayes, Hooker, Keya Paha, Knox, Logan, Loup, Mc pherson, Pawnee, Thomas, Val ley, Webster, Wheeler and York. Counties reporting 10 or more deaths were Douglas, Lancas ter, Dodge, Buf f aio, Dixon, Daw son, Merrick and Saunders. Diers Files The former chairman of the Board of Control, which governs 17 state institutions, William Diers, has tossed his hat in the ring for the Legislature. ... , Diers, whose legal residence is" Gresham, filed in the 24th district, comprised of York and Seward counties. His brother, Sen. H. K. Diers, will not seek reelection. , Asked if he had any legisla tive reforms in mind for the Board, Diers said: "Not at this time." He said he has at the present time, "only one plank economy." 'Diers served four terms in the Legislature and had a rec ord eight years on the Board. School Land Cut A .mixup in rent on state owned school land in Keith and Lincoln counties should be cleared up in time for rent re ductions to take place on July 1. That's the hope of the State Board of Educational Lands and Funds which administers the land. Tom Coffey, Alma, board chairman, said a mixup dating back to 1953 before the pres ent board was created and be fore Robert Hiatt was secre tary, left rentals too high in the two- counties. . Recently the board cut the value in the two counties and 13 others. Now it appears Keith and Lincoln counties will get an even greater .reduction. Lower rent is expected to be come effective in other coun ties in the state by Jan. 1, 1957. return from Key West and get down to business, full time busi ness, earlier this month. Original plans were for the Chief Executive to rest in Flor ida or Gettysburg until about March. Now that the President is actually at the helm again, his decision on running or re tiring this year may be forth coming at any moment. The best guess is that it will be a mat ter of weeks or at most, one or two months before his answer is announced. There are still many who be lieve the President will not run. But Mr. Eisenhower has always been a man to heed the call of duty, and if he is convinced that he alone can win for the Repub licans, and that it is in the country's interest for the G. O. P. to stay in office, this will be a tremendous incentive for him to give it a try. The President's suggestion in his recent State of the Union speech that tax cuts are not now in order, at least until the budget is safely balanced, sur prised a lot of people who thought tax cuts for 1956 were already assured. The debate now in progress on Capitol Hill con cerns two issues. First, will Congress vote tax cuts regardless of the President's advice that the country balance its books before lowering levies? Second, does the President's recommend ation h urt his chances for relection this year, if he decides to be a chief can didate again? In answer to the first ques tion, there is still significant sentiment in Congress to lower taxes, even if only in the form of higher individual exemptions. But the President's view on the issue is highly influential, since he can always veto a bill not in line with his thinking. The best guess now is that tax cuts are less than a fifty-fifty possibility, mainly because of the President's veto power. Some scrt of tax reduction bill still has an excellent chance to emerge from one tor both houses. On the second question, whether Eisenhower hurt him self politically by not calling for reductions, the reaction is mix ed. However, a majority seems to think the President will not suf fer as a result. In spite of the fact that most voters desire tax relief, there seems to be a gen eral feeling that the President's suggested course of action is the wise, non-political approach to the problem. LEAVES $1,827,350 IN CASH Fresno, Calif. When Mrs. Cora Nidever, 85-year-old wid ow, died recently, she left an estate in excess of $2,000,000, including $1,827,350 in cash. Mrs- Nidever made an oil for tune on 80 acres of barren land she inherited from her moth er, Mrs. Hester Binkley, who had homesteaded it at the turn of the century. Oil was dis covered on the property in 1939. WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE Nocturnal Mamma! 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