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IIALF DAY SCHOOLS The National Education Association says that almost a million American youngsters are being forced to attend half-day school sessions because of a shortage of classrooms. The NEA estimated there are 31,238, 863 youths in U.S. public schools today, an increase of 1,272,811 over the last school year. The greatest shortage of fa cilities exists in the elementary schools in urban areas, the NEA says. In addition, a shortage of facilities in secondary schools is now in evidence in at least 44 of the states, according to a re cent NEA survey. x While there are some who claim that NEA figures are alarmist, and that the present rate of school construction is ac tually encouraging, the final determina tion of the question whether school facili ties are inadequate lies in the answer to the contention that hundreds of thousands of American boys and girls are attending half-day schools. ; Half-day schools are a poor invest ment in the future. They represent a waste of resources, human resources. They constitute a reflection on the community in which they are operated. Unless the NEA figures can be proven inaccurate, one must conclude there is an urgent need for school construction. . , We favor local school control and lo cal building programs. The responsibili ty of every American community is clear, to provide decent schools for the young sters of the community. If this is done, then the need for outside aid will, be elim inated. But NEA figures, and sentiment in this and other organizations, and in some areas of the country, is increasingly de voted to the proposition of federal aid for schools. President Eisenhower has pro posed that the federal government loan money to finance the construction of schools. If federal aid to education is voted, it will be as a result of inaction on the part of communities to provide adequate' schools. In many areas of the country, especially in some ' southern states, like South Carolina, tremendous school build ing programs are underway, and the need for federal aid has diminished in recent, years. it k ic yOUR HEART AND HEREDITY v Dr. Irvine Page, of Cleveland, Ofeio; believes that heredity plays amUjbrfble in the increasing number of 1 hbart ail ments being experienced'today. Dr. Page is an expert in his field, and his comments are significant. He is president of the American Heart Association. Dr. Page estimates that 1,200,000 Americans will succumb to heart diseases in 1960. If this is true, the death rate would represent a major rise over the present death rate, which is now about three-quarters of a million annually. . Page thinks men have lived in a high pressure atmosphere since the time of the Pyramids in Egypt, and he does not be lieve today's fast pace is entirely respon sible for increases in heart disease. Rath er, he believes the effects of man's fast pace of living has been cumulative and that it has been handed down from gen eration to generation, and that this ex plains the steady rise in heart disease. Page thinks that heredity is the answer to the question why heart disease affects so many more Caucasian Americans than it does Japanese, or Navajo Indians. Among other factors listed as having an influence on heart disease, Page be lieves that diet is a major factor and that it might be a good idea to cut down on THOUGHT FOR TODAY 77ff last thing tee need to be anxious about is property. It always has friends or the means of making them. J. R. Lowell The Plaiismouih Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 1SS1 Published Semi-Weekly, Mondays and Thursdays, at 410 Main Street, Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nsbr. 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 1S53 (In Cities over 2,000 Population) RONALD R. FURSE. Editor and Publisher WM. L. MURDOCK. . News Editor MARGARET DING MAN .Society Editor JANET PTAK '. . . Bookkeeper VERN WATERMAN Advertising PHONE 241 Entered at the Post Office at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as secor.J class mail matter in accordance with the Act of Congress o! March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $4.00 per year in Cass and adjoining counties, $5.00 per year elsewhere, in advance, by mail outside the city of Platt mouth. By carrier in Plattsmouth, 25 cec for two weeks. Furse's Down ty Fresh Flashes An Iowa farmer has perfected a wheat that looks like barley and tastes like oats. Sounds like just one more thirigfor the farmer to raise too much of. We're going to change our street address to "Skid Row." It ought to drop us off of about 1000 mailing lists, Pass the collection plate and you run a lot of people away from any meeting. In the newspaper business you don't get, ulcers from what you eat it's what's eating you. ' - " It always seems to take a pair of squeeky shoes the longest to get any where. ic ic k A scientist says radium continually gives off parts of itself, yet never gets any less. That's the stuff they ought to make money out of. it Many people never know where their next check is coming from. As for us, we never know when our last one is coming back. ic The trouble with this country is there are too many legal ways to steal. fats by at least thirty per cent. He also believes that proper exercise, before one is affected with a heart ailment, can help prevent future heart trouble. But, in the end, he comes back to his conclusion that people cannot get away from heredity as a cause of the' increasing frequency of heart disease. If Drv Page's diagnosis is correct, it may be that you can worry a little bit less about your pounding heart next time you are engaged in an exasperating, task, or in a strenous physical effort. Neverthe less, we suggest that one's fat intake be reduced and that proper exercise be made the order of the day if one is to have the maximum chance to live out his nor mal life span, without encountering a heart ailment. ic is ic Memory Lane Oy YEARS ACO It was 18 .below zero in eastern Nebraska . . . A feed grinder being oper ated by Ray 'Chriswisser - hiangled his right hand . . George R. Lushinsky, Jr., driving a bakery truck for a Lincoln firm, had lacerations when the truck overturn ed four miles east of Murray . . . When the smoke cleared away, crack bridge players Emil Rosenow and Elmer Schere had defeated experts James Hayes and Orley Clements at Elmwood ... Laverne Nickel was installed a noble grand of the Elmwood Odd Fellows lodge. ic ic ic r YEARS ACO Charles Atterberry, Union auto mechanic, purchased a garage there . . . Charles G. McCarthy purchased the Un ion Farmer elevator . . . Miss Lena Bauer of near Manley and William N. Freder ick of near Cedar Creek were married at the bride's home by the Rev. Theodore Hartman . . . Platte bridge at Louisville was to be made free on Jan. 30 . . . Joe Krejci of Plattsmouth was starting cen ter for the Peru State Teachers College basketball team . . . Missouri river boos ters C. C. Wescott, A. S. Ghrist, John Hatt and S. S. Chase failed to materialize at a mass meeting at Eagle after the car in which they were riding, owned by Mr. Ghrist, peacefully crossed the railroad tracks at Murray and gave up. The radi ator was frozen. ctfie Washington Merry- Go -Round 0- DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1955, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS,: IKE WROTE PERSONAL NOTE TO SECRETARY McKAY RE ROGUE RIVER "GIVEAWAY"; HE WANTED McKAY TO EXPEDITE NATIONAL FOREST SALE; NA TIONAL GAS LOBBY APPEARS TO BE INFLUENCING SOME SENA TORS. Washington Sen. Barr y Goldwater of Arizona took the floor of the Senate last week to rake me over the coals for revealing Secretary of the Interior Mc Kay's sale of part of the Rogue River Na tional Forest for only $5 an acre. Sena tor Goldwater didn't seem to want the facts about this amazing sale disclosed. He also began pulling backstage wires to block further funds for investigating Sec retary McKay's Interior Department. While some of the facts first appear ed in this column Sept. 29, 1954, I have now found that I omitted or rather fail ed to discover one interesting part of the story. I have always wondered why Secre tary McKay was in such a hurry to sell this valuable piece of douglas fir worth over $200,000 for only about $2,270, on the flimzy excuse that it was needed for" ;.(GREAT R.O '1X iim m I I gold mining. Other Secretaries of the Interior had refused to sell. The forest Service of Sec retary Benson also was oppos ed. Yet Doug McKay and his staff almost jumped through loops to slice up this beautiful piece of timberland. They seemed so anxious that his solicitor general, Clarence Davis, actually released his 17 page report releasing the tim berland one day after a new assay report had been made and without waiting for the as say report to reach Washing ton. Davis even telephoned Oregon to see what the assay report on the ore was going to be. He didn't wait for the re port to be' mailed in, he was so anxious to get rid of the timber-land which' other Sec retaries of the Interior had re fused to part with. McKay, though nicknamed "Generous Doug," is not usual ly quite that generous. In this case, however, he had an in teresting little note direct from the President. T - Buried in the Senate Interior Committee files is an interest ing letter, which was picked up when the Senate subpoenaed the records of Secretary McKay-? L ..noV t It's a letter from a friend,; of President Eisenhower address ed to him, , asking that ? the Al Serena section of the; Rogue River National Forest be re leased . to the McDonald fam ily. Across the letter in his own handwriting President E i s e n hower had scribbled "Dear Doug." Then followed a per sonal request from Ike to Doug to see what he could do about granting the Rogue River re quest. The Gas Lobby It's extremely difficult to track down just how a big lob by seeking to influence Con gress spends its money. How ever, here are a few clues as to how the natural gas lobby is spending its $1,500,000 kitty. About $100,000 was spent try ing to oppose and dissuade the National Institute of Municipal Law Officers, which is vigor ously battling the Fulbright Harris natural gas bill. The Independent Natural Gas Association has officially spent $45,000 to influence Congress, according . to its latest lobby ing report; also the General Gas Committee, $75,000; the Committee for Fipelines, $89, 000, and the American Petro leum Institute, $73,000. In addition, a large and un determined amount has been spent on stirring up artificial grass-roots sentiment. Most of the genuine grass-roots senti ment comes from housewives and is vigorously opposed to any change in the present gov eminent right to regulate gas prices. See By The Papers . ... By Bill Murdock A Butler county trapper, who speeds around his trap line set tings on a motorcycle, went fast enough to catch a fox. Richard Masek, who lives four miles north of David City, found a red : fox in one of his traps. Brother fox had an injured foot but is otherwise intact in a cage, says the David City Banner Press. The mystery of the fireballs near Ord, which startled pas sersby on the highway by seem ing to rise from one side of the read glowing and to go out after a short distance, was cleared up when Dale Philbrick, a World War II veteran reported to the Ord Quiz he is satisfied the mystery came when he fired off some old tracer ammunition in to the air. Five children were taken from their parents in South Omaha after a juvenile court hearing MANGES A!-1 . ajw, sju 1 I i i i ' ' mm I J But some artificial sentiment is being stirred up, and here is an illustration of how the lobby operates. Out in San Bernardino, Calif., a representative of Shell Oil approached Mrs. O. E. Smelser, a prominent civic leader, and explained that a committee was being formed in different com munities for civic work. These committees were to wage an educational campaign to in form the public against the reg ulation of natural gas. Mrs. Smelser is a lady who does not believe in setting up committees to increase the price of gas to her fellow house wives. She refused to cooper ate. Eut others have. ' Poll of Senators Meanwhile, the Houston Post, which minutely followed the Senate natural gas debate, has conducted a poll showing that quite a few senators usually turning up on the side of con sumers this time are "turning up with the gas lobby. 'The Houston Post lists Sen ator Cotton of New Hampshire, whose constituents have every thing to gain from cheap gas, as lining up for the bill; also Senators Butler of Maryland, Young of North Dakota, Payne of Maine, Johnston of South Carolina, Kuchel of California, Frear of Delaware, Hickenloop- er of Iowa, Mundt of South Da kota, and Stennis of Mississip pi. All these states are pre dominantly gas-consuming, not gas-producing. The Houston Post also listed Mansfield and Murray of Mon tana as leaning toward the na tural gas bill though not yet definitely decided, together with Bender of Ohio, Ervin of North Carolina, Mrs. Smith of Maine, Aiken and Flanders of Vermont and Watkins of Utah. These undecided Senators also repre sent states whose housewives are gas consumers. It's fairly easy to understand why some of these senators are lining up with the natural gas lobby. GOP Senator Butler of Mary land, for instance, represents a state through which more pipe lines pass per square mile than any other in the union. Its citi zens are almost wholly depen dent on natural gas, and such cities as Baltimore will. suffer if the bill passes and the price of gas is hiked. That was why Mayor D'Alesandro of Balti more came to Washington to testify vigorously against the bill. However, it happens that when Butler was up for elec tion he, received a $5,000 con tribution from Jack Porter, the big Houston gas-oil man who was Eisenhower's chief leader in Texas. Butler also received $10,000 from Mr. and Mrs. Clint Murchison. Murchison is one involving an 11-year-old of the family? who was found in a car with John Andrew Trapp, 21, of Omaha Trapp had an affair with a 15-year-old girl of the family and is awaiting trial in district court for assault on Ne braska Safety .Patrolman Stewart Halpin, who caught Trapp parked with the 11-year-old, reports the Belle vue Press. Radio entertainment is bet ter than ever, says Jack Lough in the Albion News. He turned on his radio and picked up an Omaha station on his way home in his car. Sumner residents scoured the roads and ditches last week but they . could not find Earl (Squint) McFarland, who left home on Monday and did not return, reports the Dawson County Herald. of the biggest oil-gas men In Texas. In view of these contributions, you can understand why But ler is listed as ready to vote with the gas lobby and against the consumers of Maryland. Furthermore, he comes up for election this year and will need more campaign funds. Tomorrow this column will diagnose how certain senators have been manipulated into voting against the interests of their own constituents. LETTI The Journal welcomes lettnri from readers for this column , o: any. subject. Your name must b signed to all articles intended for publication, however, by request. It can be omitted from the letter appearing: in print. (Contents do not nerensarily x'"s the opin ions of this newspaper.) Alvo, Nebr. Jan. 23, 1956 Plattsmouth Journal Plattsmouth, Nebr. Dear Mr. Editor: I'm writing to tell you a story which I think is very worthy of being published, especially after our penitentiary and reforma tory have been so much in the news; seldom do we read the good that is being done. As president of the Alvo Parent-Teachers Association, " I in vited the new Superintendent of the Men's reformatory, Robert Nickel, to be guest speaker at our Jan. 19 meeting. He spoke on the topics, "The Rehabilia tion of the inmates" and also "The operation of The Institu tion." He also brought with him a six piece western band com posed of inmates, which is un der the direction of Mr. Gunar Sorenson and assisted by Mr. Martin. They played several numbers. A special number was a duet played on one guitar which drew a very hearty ap plause from the 100 members in attendance. Another feat u r e was a number written by a member of the group and sung for the first time. The final number, which was very touch ing was a vocal solo, "It is no Secret what God Can Do." The applause was so great that they gave an encore. They do have another fourteen-piece dance orchaestra which I'm hoping to hear in the future. This band has only been playing together seven weeks and this ;was their first public appearance. Everyone hearing them were so overwhelmed with their fine accomplishments and their entertainment that we are looking forward to their re turn here at a later date. After the program the inmates were given a warm handshake by the members and extended good wishes for their future. A lunch of cookies and coffee was served. Those helping in the serving were Mrs, Talbert Ed wards, Mrs. Frank Ecker, Mrs. Maurice Snavely, Mrs. Clyde Jipp and Mrs. Laverne Sutton. Yours Truly, Verna Heier Pres. Alvo Pi T. A. IT of Madison County (6D) Madison County in the Elk hern Valley originally was a part of old Burt County, one of the first counties created in 1854. Later, part of it was in cluded in a short-lived county known by the name of Mc Neale and a part in what was then known as Loup County. In 1856, however, the Legisla ture established Madison Coun ty, so this year might be thought cf as the county's cen tennial year. Actual settlement, however, was delayed for another 10 years. The first settlers, a group of Germans from Wisconsin, came to the county in the sum mer of 1866. The year before a committee representing this group, primarily a church group, had come out to Nebraska to select a new location and had decided upon the junction of the Elkhorn and North Fork rivers. Out of this settlement, the city of Norfolk developed. Legend has it that the settlers had selected the name, "Nor folk," a contraction of "North Fork," but postal authorities thinking the word had been misspelled changed it to "Nor folk." The next year, 1867, a group who had originally been brief ly in the Norfolk area, but who had retreated to Columbus up on the arrival of the German colony, returned to start a set tlement on Union Creek, now called Madison. Also, that same year saw a settlement started on Battle Creek. Earlier, in 1859, the Battle Creek area had been the site cf the so-called "Pawnee War,' in which General John M. Thayer and the territorial mili tia subdued the Pawnees who had been molesting settlers in the Elkhorn Valley. It was THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE TWO Section B Thursday, January 26, 1956 By Stanley James. Journal Washington Reporter WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 Sec - retary of State John Foster Dul les has touched off, indirectly, the greatest foreign policy de bate -of this election year. By allowing a magazine writer to attribute to him a heretofore undisclosed policy, said to have been used on at least three oc casions while dealing with the Communists, Dulles has placed himself in the middle of a furor on Capitol Hill. Some solons were frankly sur prised at the assertions in the article. They had known noth ing of this so-called "brink-of-war" foreign policy the United States is supposed to have em ployed in Korea, in the Formosa crisis and in the Indochinese crisis. Some of the Senators and Congressmen who raised their eyebrows were in a position to know all that Congress had been told on these crises. Their com ment, was restrained, but they expressed surprise, on some oc casion, at the tone of the latest claims from Mr. Dulles. The Secretary implies in the new appraisal that this country made a thinly-veiled threat, passed on to Communist chan nels, to go into action with nu clear weapons if a settlement was not possible in Korea. The sama threat is reported to have been successfully employed in the other two crisis. The implication is clear;-it is wcHno. AitiXofiL fn,J ed the Communists to t terms, and won diplomatic victories for the United States. If the threat was used as the writer claims, hardly a war or even a battle for not a shot was fired. The first election was held in 1868 and a site near the present city of Norfolk was chosen as the county seat. That site, however, failed. to, -develop as Norfolk grew up a short dis tance away. The county pfficijJ ais moved . tne county seat c the new town of Norfolk, but the settlement that was to grow into Nebraska 10th largest city was not destined , to keep the seat of government. Sev eral spirited elections and a Su preme Court decision resulted in its transfer to Madison in 1875 and the town on Union Creek has retained the honor throughout the years. The county had a good deal of difficulty in railroad devel opment. The Burlington select ed about, 88,000 acres of land in the county in 1872. These "lieu lands" never produced a railroad. In the late seventies and early eighties, however, the county got three railroads, thus setting the stage for continu ing growth. . Madison County has always been one of the state's banner agricultural counties and, in addition, Norfolk has develop ed considerable industry. Madison County reached , its population peak in 1930, when it returned a total of 26,037. The population declined to 24, 269 in 1940 and increased slight ly to 24,338 in 1950. 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Democrats ara now complain ing that if the government is using the Big Stick policy in its relations with the Communists, the people should at least be given the facts, and acquainted with decisions which could im mediately and unexpectedly in volve them in an all-out war with Communism. Others say that our allies are not being consulted fully on this "brink-of-war" policy and that this oversight is causing much misunderstanding among our friends abroad. Others are say ing that the magazine article gives an inaccurate impression, which could well be true, since Secretary Dulles did not vouch for the accuracy of the entire article, when pressed on this point. The one siire result is that the "brink-of-war" policy is certain to be debated hotly between now and November. Some Democrats think Dulles went overboard and tripped himself up. Meanwhile, a number of Republicans hail the article as a - revelation of bold and successful foreign pol icy as employed by .President Ei senhower and Dulles to get us out of the Korean War and pre vent trouble in two other areas. There is no longer any doubt L"14". " , b-ouuB4w ,M1(,WHu.UHa. 1 7 Z ""'f " , TT ""V1" quieting. There are some who even think" Russia has pulled ahead of the U. S., which has been doing much research and plan ning, but delaying attempts to build the 5,000-mile rocket mis sile which will carry a hydrogen bomb until success is in view. , ti It is said the Reds already have a.l,500-rmile missile, They expect ' 'to : have; the 5,000-mile weapon within two years, ac cording to reports. The United States will not have such a weapon earlier, and may not have it then, unless progress comes fast. The emphasis now is on progress, fast progress. The weapon involved may hold the key to existence in a new war. The two most influential men in the Eisenhower Administra tion are said to be Sherman Adams and George Humphrey. Adams is the undisputed Chief of Staff for the President and actually ran the country when the President was completely incapacitated recently. Humphrey exerts-, an enor mous influence on domestic pol icies, the budget, and on other Cabinet officers and the Presi dent. It is said that both Hum phrey and Adams have no presi dential aspirations and there fore want Ike to run again, if he is physically able. If that is true, Ike may have a hard time saying no. Here's the Answer 34 It is popular 44 Encircled 45 Ogle 46 Gaelic 49 Sick in 36 Make certain 37 Severed 42 Augments' 51 Nipped 43 Naval Reserve 53 Eye (Scot.) 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