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i THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE SIX - Section C Thursday. February 16, 1956 Wtt& & Mrs. Lewis Baker Happy Housekeepers Happy Housekeepers 4-H Club met Saturday Feb. 11 at the home of their leader, Mrs. Lewis Baker. In forming the new club, we lost two members, Helen Mather and Cathy Callahan, and gained one, Judy Root, leaving six members. An election of officers was held with the following taking office: Jane Davis, president; Kay Clark, vice-oresident; Bon lta Noble, secretary and treas urer; Golda Wannemaker, News Reporter. Chairmen appointed were Geraldine Michelsen, year book with Maria Gardner and Judy Root assisting; Judy Root, health; recreational, Kay Clark; Music, Maria Gardner; citizen ship, Geraldine Michelsen. Ls3 Phone 182 Arc Your Present Payments Too High? Here's what we can do for you! We If you And pay can cut now eaci payments owe month to $50.00'$! 1.75 $5.03 $250.00 $34.00 SI 6.70 $500.00 $56.35 $31.83 $750.00 $72.15 $45.83 $940.00 $93.47 $56.30 CONFIDENTIAL! QUICK! EASY! You do not assign your wages Phone Write Or Come in Loans made in nearby towns AMERICAN LOAN PLAN Opposite Soennichsen's 530 Main St. Phone 3213 Mrs. Wilbur Clark will be as sistant leader this year. Pro ject will be "Let Cook". Next meeting will be on March 3 at Mrs. Baker's home. Golda Wannemaker, News Reporter. Weeping Water Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Baker and family and Mrs. Clarence King and family were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Baker. Later Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Baker and family went to Louisville where they visited Mr. and Mrs. Don Urwin. Weeping Water Garden Club The Weeping Water Garden Club met with Mrs. Edith Wil kinson Feb. 3. Eighteen mem bers were present. Mrs. B. A. Olive president, was in charge of the business meeting. Earl Cook, chairman of the program committee, gave his report and new programs for the year were distributed. Mrs. Wilkinson was in charge of the program entitled "Dried Winter Arrangements". She displayed six table arrangements. Mrs. J. M. Ranney gave a quiz. The March meeting will be with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Cook. Weeping Water Friday evening Mr. and Mrs. Ed Van Horn were host at a pinochle party. Present were Mr. and Mrs. Willis Lorensen and family, Mr. and Mrs. Wal ter Patton, Ruth Ann, and Mr. and Mrs. LynrrRothe and boys. Mrs. Lorensen won both travel ing prizes. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Schmidt and boys spent Sunday in Oma ha with Mr. and Mrs. George Thompson and family. Weeping Water Miller Daughter Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Miller, Jr., are the parents of a 7 pound 3 ounce baby, girl, Mar ilyn Ann born Feb. 3 at Syracuse Memorial hospital. ft J 1! stamp plan anywhere -A If !'' fi 2 mmm HSBf Premiums only? Not with these stamps! Pay bills or buy merchandise at any store that gives them. Filled books worth $2.50 in merchandise of your choice of $2.00 in L "" ' ' ' ' " " ir ' uri fi ii mi ii I m i i m t imim n mn mi m mn mi Grocery Dry Goods Ready-to-Wear Sr. Woman's Club Weeping Water Senior Wom an's club met with Mrs. G. E. Tefft and Miss Esther Tefft on Tuesday, Feb: 7. The secretary, Mrs. Henry Knaup, read the minutes of the last meeting. Seventeen mem bers and one visitor, Mrs. E.K. Bauman, were present. Mrs. E. J. Bender, president, gave a talk concerning the drive against certain comic books. Mrs. Lester Parson spoke on reviewing interest in the Amer ican Flag. Mrs. Ed Lorensen spoke on "Democracy Begins at Home." Mrs. Arnold Detmer, chair man of the executive committee, and. Mrs. George Domingo, chairman of the courtesy com mittee, each gave a report. Mrs. S. H. Harmon spoke on music for the State Woman's Club convention to be held at Omaha in April. The president, Mrs. E. J. Bender, named Mrs. H. C. El liott, Mrs. A. H. Jones, and Mrs. Frank Cook to the nom inating committee, for new of ficers. The group discussed pictures from the art contest be brought here to be shown. They also voted to give $5 toward sending a student to All-State Fine Arts this summer, and $1 to Penny Art Fund. They also decided to meet with the Cemetary Association about painting the cemetery fence. After the business meeting, Richard Elliott presented a pi ano solo; Miss Susan Wood a sax solo, accompanied by Mrs. S. H. Harmon. . Mrs. Tefft and Esther served refreshments. Mrs. H. C. Elliott poured. - Weeping Water Junior Women Junior Women's Club met Thursday -evening with Mrs. Lewis Baker. Mrs. Dick Bick ford was co-hostess. There were 16 members and 5 visitors pres ent. Visitors were Mrs. C. T. Wallick, Mrs. Jack Morgan, Mrs. H. A. Gibson, Mrs. Val Rapp and Mrs. Irene Wingate. Mrs. Don Rutledge presided over a business meeting. Mrs. Clarence King, acting-secretary in the absence of Mrs. Lloyd Sudduth, read the minutes and called the roll. Mrs. C. T. Wallick was voted into the club as a new member. ' Mrs. Don Rutledge, chairman of the March of Dimes in Weep ing Water, reported that $554.42 was taken in this year. The group will serve coffee and doughnuts at the Cornhusk er Caravan 4-H Show on Feb. 25. 1 The Junior Women's Club will also take charge of the Red Cross Bloodmobile on March 12 this year. Mrs. Clarence Schmadeke is chairman. A demonstration on make-up was given by Mrs. Val Rupp. The next meeting will be March 8 with Mrs. Susan King. Janis Amick will be co-hostess. Mrs. John Norris will give" a book review. Weeping Water Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Ed Van Horn and family and Mrs. Ed Freeman visited at the home of Mrs. Ben Thompson in Lincoln. Other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Howard Thompson and Tommy and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Thompson, Beverly Whitford and Robert Strause. Later the Van Horns visited with Mr. and Mrs. Dan Sudduth. Mr. and Mrs. Don Sudduth and boys of Oma ha. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Downs, Helen and Bobbie of Lincoln were also callers there. Mrs. Charles Seba and Erwin Rodenberg of Drummond, Olka. came Tuesday for the funeral of their brother-in-law, August Kleeme. They plan to stay here tor a visit with their sister, Mrs. Kleeme, and also a sister and brother-in-law Mr. and Mrs. William Knaup at Murdock and other relatives. You can be "MRS. Portsmouth in your local Tflrs. ymetica , - v Contest Enter your local con test ,T7prove your homemoking skills ond win prizes You aree!igib!e if yotTare mar ried and 21 years of age or overy Apply at your nearest GAS Company office or your GAS Appliance Store before February 25th. f 1 - 1 ml . M A UNIVERSITY of - Nebraska agricultural extension engi neer, 'E.'rA. Olson, explains some of the more important features of a building designed to dry and store either shelled or ear corn. The model's exteriormade of clear plastic, enables visitors to see the interior construction of the -building. This is one of the ex hibits at the 1956 Cornhusker Caravan. Temperatures Near Normal In Nebraska During January Postal Transport Clerk Exams Open Examinations are four Substi tute Postal Transportation Clerk positions which have a start ing pay rate of $1.92 per hour, and are open to persons who re side in Nebraska. There is no maximum age limit. There is no experience or ed ucational requirement; howev er, applicants must pass, a writ ten test and meet certain physi cal requirements. Closing date is April 18. Nec cessary application forms or in formation is available in any post office in Nebraska.- VVAW.VMVAVW.W.W.W.V.V.WMVAl' Legislative SIDELINES . Cereal by the Bushel . . . If you bought corn flakes by the bushel yes, the ordinary breakfast variety you eat with cream and sugar and maybe fruit you would be paying about $10 for them, based upon going prices at the market. Of course, you don't buy corn flakes by the bushel, but that is the way the farmer sells the corn from which they are made. The corn grower receives cur rently between $1.30 and $1.40 for his bushel. The difference of $8.60 be tween the price you would pay for a bushel of flakes and the price the farmer receives for his corn is taken up by various steps between the farm and the grocer's shelves. The $8 plus in cludes labor costs to transpor tation, processing and distri bution; tax costs;-to the com plete line of movement from the country elevator to the pack aged flakes at the corner mar ket; and, among other things, interest on the investment and dividends for the transporta tion, processing and distribu tion facilities. As a consumer obviously you like corn flakes or you wouldn't buy them. It is evident you are in no position to buy corn and convert it into flakes; so, the $8.60 per bushel between the cost to you for flakes and the price the producer receives for his corn is built-in service charges to you. When you're inclined to blame the farmer for food costs recall these facts. The farmer by rais ing the corn provides for. truck drivers, train crews, elevator op erators, milling and processing e m p 1 oyees, wholesalers em ployees, wholesaler employees, retail market employees, all the men and women who have jobs in the transporation, processing and distribution links between you and the farm. You, the consumer, are in a sense an employer. You ap proved corn flakes when they first appeared and you have in sisted on constant improvement in packaging and processing. Your demands created all these jobs. You have to pay for the service; of it has to come out of the farmer's end of the price. It has been: coming out of the farmer's end in. recent years as his share of the consumers dol lar on all food items has drop ped from an average of 49 cents in 1947-49 to 39 cents in 1956. , ' To put the case for the corn farmer another way: He could; donate his bushel of corn to you as a consumer and you would still pay about 20 cents a box ($8.60 a bushel) for your corn, flakes. normal January as far as tem perature was concerned, the United States Weather Bureau at Lincoln reported in a pre liminary climatic survey for the month. It was slightly colder than normal over east and slightly warmer than, normal over west portion of the state. For the state as a whole the average temperature was near normal. Highest, temperatures, rang ing from the middle to upper 50s at many northern and cen tral stations to 71 degrees at Benkelman, occurred on the 4th or 5th at most stations. The coldest days ranged from the 16th to the 19th. Lowest temper atures ranged from 2 degrees be low zero at Falls City, in the southeastern corner of the State to 21 degrees below at Broken Bow, in the central portion. Dry weather prevailed during the first two weeks; light to moderate snows were rather frequent thereafter. The total amount of precipitation was near normal for the State as a whole, but there was consider able local variation. There was much less than the normal amount of wind, and the snow drifted very little. Warm dry weather during the first two weeks of the month was , favorable for livestock. Cornstalk fields and the cured range were utilized, saving the short supply of stored feed. Heavier feeding was necessary during the latter part of the month, when the ground was covered by snow. The snow gave winter wheat good protection from the cold eather much more from the cold weather. Absence of strong winds made the cold weather much more endurable than it. would have een with the fresh, to strong winds which usutally accompany cold waves in this region. The snow packed into ice. over most of the city and town streets, but was gen erally whipped off the main highways by the normally fast traffic. As individual falls were only light to moderate, there was no great inconvenience. Al though the moisture will help condition the soil for spring planting greatly, more will be needed before the soil will be amply moist for best working. No damaging local stroms were reported. PILOT STRICKEN, DIES. Roanoke, Va. A few minutes after taking his plane off the ground at Roanoke, Lacy L. Sutton 36, a Norfolk, pilot of a Piecmont Airlines DC-3 from Norfolk to Cincinnati, complain ed of sharp pains in his chest and requested permission of the tower to return to the field. He landed his plane safely and was driven to a hospital, but dropped dead in the emergency ward of a ; heart attack. The plane car ried eight passengers and a crew of three. WRONG DATE. Brownsville, Tex. Two youths, charged with speeding, gave the following explanation to City Judge Emilio Crixell: The first one to show up at a certain girl's house would have DOLLAR DAY Special 12 Table Lamps Each Regular Values $4.95 ro $5.95 FARLEY FURNITURE We Give S & H Green Stamps 1 1 8 So. 6 Dial 260 Avoid "Mother Hubbard7 Bare Dress Cubbard LINCOLN Bemember the tale of "old Mother Hubbard who went to the cupboard to get her poor daughter a dress? When she got there." the story continues, "the cupboard was bare. And so was her daughter, I guess." To avoid such a situation in your family you may want to increase your 1956 clothing budg et over last year's, suggests Mrs. Clara N. Leopold, extension home management specialist at the University of Nebraska. Supplies of clothing will be ample and varied, but there is evidence of an upward swing in clothing prices ' for the months ahead. Increased prices of work clothing already are in effect. And one large mail order firm has just announced that its spring prices will be about two or three per cent higher than last year. Indications are that in wom en's apparel, only the low qual ity clothing will show any nota ble increase in price. Women's hosiery prices probably won't change, but you can expect to pay more for all kinds of cotton sox and anklets, gloves, hand bags and footwear. It's going to cost you more to clothe the youngest members of your family, Mrs. Leopold re ports. She says higher prices are expected in infants wear for two reasons increased pro duction costs, and the theory that price increases are readily passed on to the consumer in this segment of the apparel in dustry. This theory is based on the idea that grandma will pay any price for baby's needs. You may find some increases in girls' wear, particularly in cotton dresses and slips. But little, if any, change is expected in men's and boys' apparel. Of course, you can save some money by sewing at home, Mrs. Leopold reminds you. She says recent studies indicate that i homemaker with average sew ing skill can save from one to five dollars by making a house dress or street dress rather than buying.it. Savings are greater on higher priced garments. REPORT FORMULA OFFfRS DOSI-BY-DOSI REPHItVI FROM PAINS OF RHEUMATISM Curbs Pain Dos-by-Dote! Ufers Rejoic Supply Rushed Her) The discovery of the . .4 druer. Bali eylamide, which is reported safe to tuka without prescription yet has the power, to brine blessed respite from the minor; aches and pains of rheumatism and arth-: ritis. is seen as offering dose-by-doae relief to countless sufferers from these, dread conditions. To brine this r druK to all, it haa been formulated in' easy-to-take tablets, called VERT A SOL.' which act internally to curb the minor but none-the-less arthritic and rheuma tism distress in hands, arms, less and shoulders. While results from the use of VESTASOL are most impressive, it is not offered as a treatment? Claims for the present are limited to its power ton effectively provide temporary relief from minor aches and pains in cases of arth. ritis. rheumatism and sciatica. VERT A- SOL costs $3.00 but considering results, is not expensive and is sold, with a. money back guarantee by Schreiner Drug Store 521 Main St. Plattsmouth Mail Orders Filled toe A Year Sp at isles llllllP I Regular Nationally Advertised Price . . . $2.35 a Quart To Prove Liquid Tile Is the Finest While Enamel You Can Buy At Any Price! Eh OFFER EXPIRES IN ONE WEEK VALUABLE COUPON Thro eg h the m Trade of modern chem istry, Morris Paint is able to offer you Liquid Tile enamel. The most brilliant White Enamel made. Morris Liquid Til U ,on.ye!l,w!ng, tad., with g ' rjlSXj'.r'VZ M viiv vfuai i vi kivu i4 i ii i vi f iivvi NAME ESi Hi ease and dries to a porcelain hard finish. You have never seen an enamel as dazzling - white as Liquid Tile. Wash it hundreds of times. SS5 5& ADDRESS mi LIMIT: ONE WITH COUPON Sorry No Phone or Mail Orders On This Special Offer Whether you do it yourself or hire a painter, use Morris Points because 3 tney cost less end wear longer. IE ti PAY WE CIVE S & H GREEN STAMPS FOR EACH EMPTY MORRIS PAINT CAN ON THE PUR CHASE OF 1 GAL. OF ANY MOR RIS PAINT. Think of it. All this week Biles' Paint Store will offer you not dollar specials, but will give you $1.00 on each empty can of Morris paint, to be applied on the purchase of any gallon of Morris paint. YOUR PAINT HEADQUARTERS IN PLATTSMOUTH You will find we have a complete line of fresh top quality Morris paint. Come in today and see the preview colors for 1956. You will always find the folks at Biles friendly and courte ous and more than willing to help you with any of your paint or decorating problems. Remember! Whether you do it yourself or hire a paint contractor you will always have the best when it is Morris paint from Biles. YOUR AUTHORIZED MORRIS DEALER IN PLATTSMOUTH PHONE 3138 a date with ner. uney naa a date with the judge, instead. III X i i . - ii- ii - i--