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CASS County . i ii ii n ii mi 111 i ill i ' ii ill i mil., i i i " f "1 T iimiiiii i i mi mi i n'T- awwul iitnrifit it iii'itar.iii.iin'iiiiiiii- hi iwi hip n mill iim,mr i ,i f,i i a ijim,n. -mm .,nrf iit7-umn Wfoearffc re THE PLATTS MOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE SIX Monday, March 12, 1956 4, t-' 'II -3 This 'n That In Agriculture Clarence Schmadeke, County Agent Pearl Schultz,' Home Agent "Mr." Grasshopper Tops The insatiable grasshopper has eaten his way to undisputed first place on the 1956 list of the "10 worst insects" in Ne braska, a rating based on the economic damage caused last year and the potential damage to this year's crop. Last year, the grasshopper was tied for first place with the corn, earwarm and the corn rootworm. The grasshopper made his mark with University of Ne braska entomologists, compilers of the yearly ratings, by doing some $2,420,000 worth of damage to Nebraska Crops last year. However, Nebraskans saved an estimated $5,751,000 in crops by using adequate controls against the insect. Lloyd Andersen, assistant ex tension entomologist at the Col lege of Agriculture, said the grasshopper maintains its "En emy No. 1' label through the generosity of the farmers. He said controls are available, such as two ounces of aldrin or hep tachlor per acre, which are 95 per cent effective if applied in late. May or early June. The grasshopper was popular or unpopular, depending on how you consider him in Cass Coun ty in 1956 too, says County Agent Schmadeke. The second-ranking insect, the European corn borer, did more damage, estimated at $8,551,144 during the year, but is not po tentially as dangerous as the grasshopper, Mr. Andersen said, since the borer thrives on corn while the grasshopper damages many crops. Spring: Crops Eligible Before any crop varieties can CONOCO TANK WACON SERVICE Call PETERS Service Station MURDOCK Station 2831 Res. 2791 be certified by the Nebraska Crop Improvement Association, the grower must plant seed which is recommended by the Nebraska Agricultural Experi ment Station, C. R. Porter, secretary-manager of the Associa tion, explained today. Varieties of oats and barley eligible for certification in Ne braska include: Oats - Jackson, Andrew, Cherokee, Nemaha, Clintland, Mo. 0-205, Marion, Ajax, Overland and Brunker. Spring Barley - Otis, Custer, Velvon 11, Plains, Hilland, Spar tan, Trebi and Frontier. Growers can obtain applica tions for certification at County Extension Office in Weeping Wa ter. The applications are due in the state office May 20. A tag verifying the source of seed planted must accompany the ap plication.' Clarence Schmadeke County Extension Agent NEWS NOTES Dye Czechoslavakian Easter eggs the short cut method American style. Equipment needed-crepe paper (for color), vinegar and lemon juice, wax, stove, old cups or tins. Sounds like fun! Directions can be obtained at County Ex tension Office in Weeping Water. Pearl L. Schultz Home Extension Agent RIVER PROJECT The House voted by a large margin for the Upper Colorado River project, i to cost $756,000,- 000. It will irrigate 132,000 new acres of land, and supplement existing Water for almost twice as many more acres. Searl Davis Farms Have Most Terraces Eighty-nine Cass county farm ers have built over 1,371 miles of terraces to help control ero sion on their farms. This in cludes only land-owners who have over 10 miles of terraces on their farms. Owners with less than this amount have built about 3,000 additional, miles. Searl Davis of Plattsmouth owns several farms and is the leading terrace builder in the Cass soil conservation district. Sixty-two miles of terraces have been built on farms he owns in Cass county according to Earl Cook of the Soil Conservation Service. William Ost has 58 miles on his farms and Sterling Ingwer son is using over 41 miles on land he owns. ' Owners using over 20 miles of terraces are Henry Schneider, Otto Sprieck, William Brandt. Sr., Hugo Meisinger, Frank Stander, and Jacob Tritsch. Seventy-nine farmers have built from 10 to twenty miles to help control erosion on their farms. The value of terraces in a soil conservation program has been proven to these farmers and several hundred other smaller land-owners and operators. WEEPING WATER Cass County farmers are reminded that Commodity Credit Corpora tion loans on lP55-crop wheat will mature March 31. This means, says Ivan G. Alt house, chairman of the Cass County Agricultural , - Stabiliza tion and Conservation Commit tee, that farmers with wheat under price support are ap proaching the deadline for im to market their wheat the loan to market their wheat the laon must be paid off before the March 31 deadline. If they wish to use their available farm stor age now occupied by the 1955 wheat for the crop to be har vested this season, they may turn the wheat over to CCC in payment for the loan. In designated counties where off-farm storage to take care of CCC-owned wheat is limited, farmers also have the opportun ity of keeping their 1955 wheat on their farms under reseal loan and receiving the usual storage fee. Cass county is one of the counties where farmers have the opportunity to reaseal their 1955 wheat. Those who elect to re seal must notify their county Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation office on or before March 31. Wheat under loan and offered for reseal, as well as the bins where this wheat is stored, must meet the usual in spection before it will qualify for a reseal loan. Chairman Althouse passes on these reminders at this early date to give Cass, County wheat growers plenty of time to decide what they want to do and to make their plans accordingly. He also reminds farmers who need additional farm storage that there is still time to take care of that before the next crop is harvested. Plans for ac ceptable farm -storage struc tures are available at the County ASC office at Weeping Water and from the county extension -agent. AUTO-MAKERS' PROFITS The Ford Motor Company has reported that its net profits for 1955 totaled a record $437,000, 000. This compared with prof its of $1,189,000,000 reported by General Motors, and $100,063,--320 by Chrysler Corporation dur ing the same period. RADIATOR REPAIRING ONE-DAT SERVICE Plattsmouth Motors Washington Ave. Ph. 287 t r- I IN THE MARKET EACH WORKING DAY FOR YOUR HOGS AND CATTLE FREMONT NEBR. PHONE PARK 1-2300 Livestock Markets Broadcast Over KFGT (Dial 1340) 7:28 A.M. 8:00 A.M. 10:29 A.M. 12:27 Noon Producers of meat-type hogs owe it to themselves to obtain full market value for their good quality hogs through the advantages offered in the grade and yield method of marketing". For highest average prices, sell your hogs when they are ready. Even meat-type hogs can get too fat if held to heavy weights. Jack Mickey, Hormel hog buyer, will be in the Plattsmouth and Elmwood area each Monday and Wednesday. Call or write the Ilormel Co. at Fremont and Jack will come to your place and tell you about the Ilormel bid. 4s Special Loans To Farmers Are Available Ezra Taft Benson, Secretary of Agriculture, has authorized special farm operating loans for eligible farmers in Nebraska, W. O. Collett, State Director for the Farmers Home Administra tion, said. The action waj taken under Public Law 727, 83rd Congress, as amended. The law provides for making special loans for ag ricultural purposes where there is a need for agricultural credit that cannot be met for a tem porary period for commercial banks, cooperative lending agen cies, the Farmers Home Admin istration under its regular pro grams, or other types of emer gency loans. Applications for the loans can be made at the local offices of the Farmers Home Administra tion through June 30, 1956. The loan funds may be used A A .. 10 meei normal operating ex penses, but not for repayment of existing debts. The applicant must be primarily engaged in farming and have suitable ex penence ana reasonable pros pects for success in the jfarm ing operations he plans to carry on with the loan. The interest rate is 3 per cent Repayments are scheduled ac cording to the borrower's abil ity to repay. However, loans for crop production are usually scheduled for repayment when the income from the crops is normally received. The operat ing loans are secured by liens on crops and, when necessary, by lien on other property. No loan can exceed $15,000 and no loan can be made which would cause the total indebted ness of the borrower for this type of credit to exceed $20,000. Tne Nebraska City FHA office services Cass county. . 1 7 ?- J J Defense construction is term ed continuing task. Former Iowa Gov. Turner On Ag Assist CORNING, Iowa Former Iowa Governor Dan W. Turner of Corning flew to Washington Wednesday to meet with Presi dent Eisenhower or his chief as sistant, Sherman Adams, to dis cuss agricultural problems. The former governor is advis or to the National Farmers' Or ganization, which has signed more than 100,000 members since it was started last fall. Mr. Turner said he did not place too much value in meet ing with officials, who are known to be opposed to the principles for which the N.F.O. is contending, that is 100 per cent parity. He said he hopes he can tell national attention to the "des perate situation which exists in 15 middlewest states where thousands of farmers are being liquidated -and are being forced to- seek employment in the cit ies." N.F.O. President Oren Lee Staley, Rea, Missouri, and three members of the board of direc tors Wednesday appeared before the House Agriculture Com mittee. President Staley said this week the N.F.O. still is pushing for highest possible parity for all livestock and dairy products and for all phases of agriculture. Mr. Staley said that the Secre tary of Agriculture is not using all his powers to bring relief to the farmers' cost - price squeeze. Mr. Turner was accompanied to Washington by Mr. Cliff Houck of Carbon, Iowa, a mem ber of the original Adams coun ty N.F.O. board. Roger Hild, student at the University of Nebraska spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hild. The parents returned late Saturday from a trip to Calif. An inflatable plane by Good year takes to the air. II. inL isms Important events in the news include a postoffice device with a receptacle in which to insert a coin. You then receive your stamps and the machine says: ''Now buy some more and save a trip." And as you walk off, it calls: "Thank you, these stamps are sanitary." - A major shirt company is placing a new pair of men's shorts on the market. They have a red left leg, a green right leg and a white seat and are called "Port and Star-hoard." After outlining procedure tot getting on the show and telling him how much money he can win, she adds, "This is the chance of your lifetime and you won't have to carry newspapers any longer if you can win." We have a marked respect for Perry John's ability and a much deeper love for dear little 76-year-old ladies, but if she gets too deeply involved in this thing and loses us one of our best newspaper boys, wre'll insist that Mrs. Laird go on that program and win , us the 64 thousand bucks.) J. C. Streight, South Bend, brought in a most inteiesting copy of the old Plattsmouth Her ald dated April 12, 1883, found among his late mother's pos sessions. The newspaper, yel lowed with age, carries an ad vertisement of his grandfather, Jason Streight, who, at that time was in the "Fine and Heavy Harness" business be tween Fourth and Fifth on Main A lot of interesting names ap pear among the ads in the Her ald, names connected with the pioneer history of Plattsmouth, among them W. H. Baker, Jos eph Weckbach, M. B. Murphy, James Pettee, J. P. Young, S & C. Maver, in the Opera House, Lafe O'Neil, and others. A list of telephones and numbers was carried on page one totaling 48 phones in Plattsmouth. We no tice the Journal's number a t that early date was 31. The Her aid, under the editorship of Jeff L. Stone, was rooting hard for Vice-President Judge Edmunds as "our beau ideal for the next President." More than rumor points to the fact that some new businesses are to open in Plattsmouth this spring, among them a furni ture and appliance store, a de partment store, and another or two that are in the talking stage, all of which should add up to making Plattsmouth a better than e,ver place to do your shop- There is also a new toothpaste that comes in bourbon, Scotch and rye flavors. Over in Iowa there is an in surance company that will sell auto insurance only to teetotal ers, . . ,. We don't know why we men tion these things other than to points out that if you're caught in a pair of those shorts talking back to a stamp machine with alcoholic toothpaste on your I breath, you can't buy any of that Iowa company's auto in surance. Since it was reported in this newspaper sometime ago that Perry -John Dingman, one of our top - notch newspaper carrier boys, could recite the names, positions and batting averages of over 500 baseball players, he's become quite a celebrity. This story, picked up by news wire services, has brought Perry copies of the story and letters from many parts of the country. This last week he received a long letter from a little 76-year-old lady at Fairfield, Iowa, en closing a clipping taken from Capper's Weekly. Mrs. Geo. H. Laird, a complete stranger, wants Perry John to apply for a spot on the $64,000.00 Question. REAL ESTATE LOANS! 5 Percent Interest Charge Reduced for Each Monthly Payment Plattsmouth Loan & Building Ass'n. - t ' S KmrnM-'-nKmssi- s - ' 2 4. ' Mi .W.V-V '...'........y)h4.W .V.O C-v: This mother and father are being shown by a skilled physical therapist in an Easter Seal Center, how to carry out their son's treatment at home. Your Easter Seal dollars are an investment in the health, happiness and future independence of crippled children. ping. Too, the nome Dunamg program is perking up with a company here this past wee;c looking into the possibilities of constructing upwards of 100 new homes in a new addition to the city. It is surprising to us, some times, why it takes an outsider to discover and "cash in" on the potential of Plattsmouth, while so many of us with our feet already on the ground tend to overlook possibilities and un limited opportunities presented to us everyday. Maybe it is be cause some have no desire or pride in building a business that can stand as a monument to their ability and aggressiveness II M il v - . T f -11 lw" U perhaps wu"-nHth little hrmifrh this Old WOriu expended personal effort. The "coasting" may get a lit tle rough some of these day, more and more businesses for the opportunities pr see in this community .- -RRF KARR & SOCHOR Auditors & Accountants audits - Income Tax Service Bookkeeping Systems Installed am Donat Buildin? Produce More Healthier Plants SOW GENUINE PA1M SEE is ill is mi S You Can Save Up To 20 On Seeding Cost Per Acre When you bqy farm seeds, you are making the most important purchase you will make this year. Your farming profits depend upon crops .... and crops depend largely on seed. When you sow Gro -Coated Brand seed, you have gie.ter assurance o? b11" stands because the seed has been rr.ade disease-free. More of the seeds make strong, healthy plants. That's why it requires less Gro-Coated Brand seed per acre. Harvest Bigger Yields ... Get Better Quality SWATE 5) fo) M 1 " H cz 31 AUCY rn n n rpa ftv n x if HI ini 2ifSl At 2:00 P. M. At the farm located 3 V2 miles north and 2 miles west of Murdock or 9 miles west of Louisville on South Bend road. Legal Description: WVi of NWV4 of Section 28, Town ship 12 N, Range 10 E, Cass County, Nebraska. Improvements: House, barn, crib with machine shed. This is one of the better level farms in Cass county, and is located on gravel road. TERMS: 15 cash on day of sale, balance on confirmation and delivery of deed. Abstract will be furnished. Possession immedi ately, subject only to tenant's lease'to March 1, 1957. FOR INFORMATION CONTACT Begley & Peck Attorneys Plattsmouth, Nebr. or Dwight Clements Referee Elmwood, Nebr. m a. - - a . m m mm m m m m mw . m MB m. m. m m mm. - A M m. W A MM A m MM mW Pl "VVV WHEN IT CALLS FOR CLEANLINESS and yulv-K At HUN hnone 35 READY FOR SPRING It will soon be here . . . have ypur ward robe ready! Call us for complete cleaning service today and you'll be ready for spring. 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