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f - . x f - - r ; , ' i Sx Duplicates Go Out Window As Post Office Jet-Lines Work Plattsmouth Pcstmastpr T.c ne ieu win not bear the weight of six copies any longer. Archaic procedure for the postoffice, which once called for bids on ten cents worth of locally purchased supplies, each in sev eral copies, is gone. Statistical reports, each a handful of paper and days full of record keeping, are cut the window. Postmaster Neil's rpnnrt: arp now a wisp of paper. j Repair bills take but the blow of a rubber stamp and a sig nature and they will be paid. Postoffice operation question answers are but two days away, at Omaha, instead of three weeks away, at Washington, D. C. It put a grin on the face of the Plattsmouth postmas ter and better and lower cost mail service in Tlattsmouth mail boxes. The reason is the establish ment of a regional office at Wichita, Kan., and a reshuffle of authority throughout the sys tem. Let us say, for example, a bill is received at the postoffice for repair on a truck. Ascer taining that it is correct, Mr. Central . AIR COOLED .... Home Comfort! (parents other ARMSTRONG air conditioning models also available Complete comfort can now be .yours in every room of your home with Armstrong waterless centra air con ditioning. Easily added to any good warm-air heating system. Why not call us today for more information on- this hot weather neces sity for home comfort. FREE estimate. Neil will stamp it with his spe cial rubber stamp and send it to Wichita. Back will come the check to the repairman in quick time, compared to the paper heavy system which involved re quisitions, duplications, and cop ies, copies, copies. Mr. Neil has just returned from a meeting of the Postmas ters Association board of di rectors where the subject was taken apart. Frankly, the di- delighted with the new system, says Mr. Neil for it was partly their, idea and they pushed it. It will not reduce the staff at the Plattsmouth postoffice who working on reports, for only Mr. Neil had this job, but the new system will re lease four clerks for other jobs in the Omaha postoffice. Postmasters will now report to district managers in Omaha, Wichita and Oklahoma City with their problems, with the prob lem going to the regional office in Wichita, if not solved at the district. Payroll for the Plattsmouth postoffice, now kept and paid at the local postoffice, will soon be delegated to the regional of fice and paid to local post of fice workers from there. Only work involved at Plattsmouth will be the correcting of an IBM card to be sent back to the pay-. roll machine at Wichita. A total of 5,464,160 citizens in Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska, the three-state re gion, will receive mail more efficiently and at lower cost. 19,000 postal employes will be able to do their jobs more effectively. j 2,288 postmasters will be re i leased from the entanglements ! of red tape and delay resulting j from the previous awkward, cen j tral operation of the postal ex j tablishment, says the Postoffice I Department. ! The Nebraska - Kansas - Ok lahoma regional offiae is the last to be set up in the United States. All other states already are being served under the streamlined system. ... . .... o . ". . : - I - - - . "- , - .:. , . 4 ' ........ . -r- :' ' : : ' . - : "i i 4 ' - .- . - 4 -.. .., 1 ' : I U ' ,tjii mm . I,,, -1 . f , j i I i r ' f - f - s 1 j j..,.. 1 mill ' if 1 1 'n ' -i-tmi j-l , j I 1 if ' ' t f- . " 4 i j. State Apportionment Shows Slight Rise for Cass County State annnrtirmmp-nt. nf mnnov received from fines and li censes for Cass county in the school year 1955-55 was report ed to school districts this week by L. A. Behrends, Cass county superintendent of schools. Total money apportioned to Cass county was up S609.90 over last year, the report showed. School districts in the countv ka $2,061.38; Eagle $2,232.80: Murdock S2U99.D0 Received by ether districts: District Two S4S8.13; three $627. 98; five $593.02; six, $371.59; Seven $476.43; Eight $255.06; Nine S336.63; Ten $266.71; Elev en 359.94; Twelve S278.36; Thir- THE PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Thursday, March 22, 1956 Section C PAGE FIVE hundred Mrs. Charles Dahde of Plattsmouth won a prize in a national contest this spring but she still didn't have the prize she was shooting after. This electric stove was won with a, statement in the fifth category of a national contest, and delivered to her home last week by a Plattsmouth firm. Last year Mr. and Mrs. Bahde won a dishwasher, sold it and bought a clothes dryer. "We didn't need a dishwasher," she said. What they have been trying to win is a refrigerator. Journal Photo. lf Zf'g&jj TALKED TOO LOUDLY ; SANTA MONICA, Cal Hear ; ing . her neighbor shout, "The house is on fire!" Mrs. Ruby .iBurkholder hurriedly called the 1 f ire department. .. When the i trucks arrived and a captain pounded on the neighbor's door, the startled housewife explained that she was trying to get her husband out of bed and had fi nally yelled at him, "The house is on fire," unaware that she was being overheard. 51 ?, 5 Home Improvements ? We can handle the entire job . . . and r t arrange tor iow-cost j FHA . financing with up to 3 years to repay. Corne to just one place for friendly COMPLETE service. GARDNER PLUMBING Ct HEATING 333 Main Phone 7152 Plattsmouth TAX CHEAT TIPS The Internal Revenue Service paid out a total of $602,817 to 57o j individuals who tipped off the Government, about otner people's tax delinquencies. The informers were not identified nor was the amount collected as a result of their tips estimated. isms There are' many wonder ous things to see in Arizona. While a good share of your time .is taken up at press conventions in business meetings, you get a much closer look at many sights if you are in a company of newspapermen and women. Cities, villages, and even the tooled leather goods, originals by the country's smartest de signers who have their own stores here. The price tags in most instances compare favor ably with those at Tiffany's and Diors, but for husbands who can't stand the strain of shop ping wives, sorrows can be drowned in the famous Lulu Belle's or Pink Pony bars and restaurants (told of beautifully in last week's SE Post) at rea sonable prices. . will receive $11.65 per child in the apportionment. A total 0 f 4,590 children are involved. Each of the 66 districts in the county will receive $126.86 from the "one fourth" apportion ment. Total "one fourth" ap portionment to the county is $8,373. A total of $26,787.31 comes from the "three-fourths" appor- ' tionment, the report shows. A total of $26,703.20 came from fines and licenses and $15.06 was due to the -free high school tuition fund. Cass County School District No. 1, Plattsmouth, the county's largest school, got $17,502.54, or $597.32 more than last year. Union school district got $1,560.27; Avoca $954.23; Weep ing Water $3,799.07; Cedar Creek 1 $767.82;' Louisville $3,891. ol; Greenwood $1513.66; Mur ray $2,001.79; South Bend $581. 36; Elmwood $2,678.14; Manley $907.67; Alvo $1,397.12; Nehaw- $336.63; Ninety - one $383 .2o; eight $394.90; One Ninety - seven $313.33; Ninety- five $441.52. T teen $336.63; Twenty-one $2550. 06; Twenty-three $371.59; Twen ty-five $441.52; Twenty-six $406. 56; Twenty-seven $383.25; Twen-ty-eisht $499.73; Twenty - nine $196.79; Thirty $453.17; Thirty three $313.33; Thirty-four $429. 85; Thirty-five $278.37; Thirty- seven $266.71; Forty $343.29; Forty-one $464.82; Forty - two $324.98; Forty-five $406.56; Forty-seven $418.21; Forty - nine $266.71; Fifty $336.63; Fifty-five $266.71; Fifty-eight $255.06; Sixty-three $374.28; Sixty-four $290. 02; Seventy $394.90; Seventy -two $243.40; Seventy-eight $359. 94; Seventy-nine $593.02; Eighty $476.48; Eighty-cne $313.33; Eighty-two $301.67; Eighty - three $383.25: Eighty-six $441.52; Eighty-eight roc;i am tut 1 I iTi ggl c J EfCB g 0 -feBij if T' Sj-- -4 TOOTH PASTt J J( ' crnwnuv AOf 4 n jm mm b r .wiwni w j r f, "i vrosf fioorapasfe. j RADIATOR REPAIRING ONE-DAY SERVICE PEattsmoufh Motors Washington Ave, Ph. 287 vifh FLUORISmU WORLD'S HOST EFFECTIVE WEAPON AGAIKST DECAY! ECONOMY.. 69 LARGE 53c MEDIUM.... 31c GET YOUR FREE TUBEMIZER if 3 1 jESJSa3HSHSHSES2S5SHSHS5SlS2SE3ES2SJSSSHSHSHSiS2S2SH3HSiSHS2SS32i.' 5 10 STfilll up A trip we were fortunate enough to "break even" on was our journey to I'araaise run, state go all out in escorting vis iting reporters and newshens to j p. neJw hoSs track that is the most talked 01 pxaces. the last word luxuryf as ' I guests of the track manage One morning some 50 of us i ment. This lay-out is the highest were loaded on Airforce buses achievement in glitter, glamour, and driven some 10 miles east stainless steel, mauve carpeting, of Chandler from the San j and come-on to the gullible with Marcos Hotel to Williams Air j a weakness to watch the ponies. Force Base. Here we were j Complete with air landing strip, escorted by selected officers as 1 cocktail bars, restaurant, palms, Troubles? CALL BILL'S PEST and TERMITE CONTROL for Free Inspection 601 No. 9th DIAL 7142 guides and shown "the works from inside jet fighters, to ac tual demonstrations of pilot's ejection seats -used for. emer gency escapes from high and fast flying jet planes. We were fortunate also to wit ness graduation exercises for some 200 trainees who received their wings and bars of a 2nd Lieutenant at ceremonies held in the base theatre. It was in teresting to note that graduation here differs little from that at a state university there's the pomp of official color and ora tory for the edification of scores of intelligent appearing and handsome young men in uni form, the passing out of "diplo mas' from and lavishly appointed glare proof glass enclosed lounge, you can at least destroy your two buck tickets in luxury . - ' followed by greetings j family members, ana many a sweetheart awaiting a final trip down an aisle to the alter. A good close look at these young men leaves little doubt that the future of our country is in the best, of hands. : For a pleasant day a trip to Scottsdale, about 10 miles east ' of Phoenix, is one you shouldn't I miss. "The West's Most Western ! City" greets you on flats at the Slower end of Paradise vauey, surrounded by cacti, Palos Verdes trees, sand, and the shadow of Camel Back Moun tain. Building codes prevent Newspaper people were serv ed a repast of roast beef, plus trimmin's, presented with sev eral free duckets good for six bits each at bar or grill, shown the beautifully landscaped j grounds, given the saw-buck j tour of plant and its many ter- j races, and lulled into dreams j of easy riches at pari-mutual ; windows stretching both sides of underground ramps well able toj take most any size crowd to j the cleaners we escaped, for- j tunately, by picking three in a j row and wound up 23 cents to j the good, after deductions. Enough of that for the minute ! to talk about Spring. Many look ! for the first robbin, or blade of j green poking its nose through j turf we're different. Spring ! is surely hers, .Bert Pollock j dropped in Tuesday for a short j visit following his winter of hi- j bernation. Get out the garden! seeds, lawn chairs and shed! vour heavies it's a sure sign, j Campbell Soup Co., was in the 1 area recently arranging for test plots on Missouri bottom lands at Plattsmouth-for tomato plant ings this season. Nothing defi- erection of any but western style j nite couid be learned from exec utives here, other than 11 tnese tests proved out there was a good chance of locating a plant near this city. We're going to sneak down nights and squirt a little of Allied's fertilizer on 'em in hopes it might help a littler. buildings. Hitching posts, wood fronts and awnings prevail over the downtown district that in cludes some of the world's smartest shops offering hand 1, ' 1 ' ,.rf- 111 4- DUI NO. tn 'r.::"::!::::""""'"'"""""""'' ''-rz,,,,,,, . , ...-w-im , Jm, - "' ""''t.-i- n.i.Tg. -imi-l TS--witf-.TWW-3k i 1 -j? 1 I 4 The Cass County Noxious Weed District has purchased a portable seed cleaner. This cleaner will come to your farm to do your seed cleaning job. IT WILL CLEAN AND TREAT oats, wheat, bar Icy, milo and the small seeds such as clover and al falfa. For further information call or write our manager RALPH RANSFORD ; See where a 230-pound farmer I j in Tenn., was put in the work- I I house for a year for chaining 1 1 his wife to a bed post and beat- ing her. In pleading guilty, he j saiu ne ueu up ms wue iu .ccp I her from wandering around and getting snakebit. It's getting so women just don't appreciate the little things husbands do to protect them from everyday dangers of liv ; ing in this modern world. RRF 3 ' One Minute Sports Quiz 3' 1 TTT1 . AT 1 A x. vvuexi wits uit: xasi iixivx- i 1 3 ! EAGLE, NEBRASKA 1 X 1 ica's Cup yacht race run? 1 ! 2. How long has it been since j j a non-Russian held the world 1 chess title? ' j 5 3. What was last year's Davis j I i Cup score, between the U.S. and j I j Australia? - j I j 4. How many games did Whit- 1 j ! ey Ford win in the 1955 W7orld I Series? , - i 5. How old is Bob Feller? !The Answers: j 1. 1937. . ! 2. Twenty years. j 3. 5-0, Australia. 4. Two. ! 5. Thirty-seven. i A Classified Ad in The Journal costs as little as 35 cents itf COMIC RURAL DELIVERY Bv AL SMITH M- -U YOU TALK TOO MUCH ANWBODV CAM TELL VCU RE J.J A CRASKPOT THE MINUTE YOU OPEN YOUf? MOUTH KEEP YOUR MCUTH SHUT BUT- DUMBBELL f m HOW MUC?H rvKfci i Ht - 1 1 1 I APPLES ?PV I IJ. N y?, y :-L- Ti m imm tfUCH ARETHr k APPLES?' 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