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t,1t'.'A..'.'...,A.,, . I T COULD HAPPEN HERE Americans are a peculiar . bunch of human beings. , Let some poor family suffer a loss by death or disaster, or" a distant state fall victim to floods, tornadoes, or hurricanes, and nearly every man and woman . will rush -forth pronto to lend assistance and financial aid their troubles are our trou bles, and most of us can hardly get our hand in the purse fast enough to give and keep on giving. ... BUT, when things are calm and se rene, when the sun is shining and we see the world through rose-colored glasses, it's a difficult matter to convince a lot of Americans that disaster can strike right in their own front yard. What we are trying to get at is the present ignoring of our annual -Red Cross drive for funds. Newspapers, magazines, radio and every other form of communi cation has voiced the great need of this organization this year. Disasters, one af ter, another, in the east and west, have depleted Red Cross emergency funds to a dangerous level, and, yet, it will in all probability take a major calamity under some of our noses to .realize how great and worthy an organization Red Cross and its tireless workers really is. Surely, most of us have seen Red Cross at work. We've experienced its need and assistance in our own community, thankr fully not on as large a scale as in many parts of our country, but, nonetheless, do ing a job that needed to be done in an emergency. In war and peace, Red Cross workers are there first with the most with blood, with clothing, shelter, food and aid talk to folks who have been through the mill. Yet, Sanford Clements, of Elmwood, who last year generously consented to as sume responsibility for general chairman ship of Cass County, was in our office Monday .morning telling us of his diffi culty in getting volunteer workers to com plete a canvass of our area. Avoca, to our knowledge Is the only community that has completed its drive and reached its quota. This is a shameful record. Surely there are individuals and organizations in Platts mouth and other Cas3 County towns pub lic spirited enough to get these jobs done in a hurry. A few hours spearheading a r.oncerted drive among neighbors and Furse's Fresh Flashes Many persons who went from rags to riches during World War II have sudden ly realized they had a round trip, ticket. We can remember back when the government spent a million dollars they had-.something to show for it. Tr Paying bills promptly i? a wonderful habit we recommend it very highly to you. ' .' ' " .,; We men owe a debt of gratitude; to our wives. They know the worst about, us, yet refuse to believe it. The thing most women dread about their past is its length. - k Which reminds us that the best 10 years of a woman's life is between 35 and 36. The amount, of sleep required for the average person is just five minutes more. r ir Certainly, Plattsmouth's traffic laws give a pedestrian the right-of-way, but it doesn't provide for flowers. about some things. But those not so handy, like -this writer 'for instance, better look through the ' classified columns of this newspaper and grab the phone to call for professional help. More than likely they're at least insured. Down Memory lane Spring V Fevered -7 vv fe W7 20 YEARS AGO The paving program on South Sixth Street was nearing completion . - . Mildred Knoflicek received a superior rating for her violin solo at Tarkio, Mo., in a tri-state music contest. . . Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Graves returned home from a month's stay in Kansas City ... Those home from the University of Nebraska for Easter vacation included Anna McCarthy, Lois Bestor, John Becker, and Dorothy Farmer ... A formal opening of Mullen's Cash Market was planned . . . George Het rick reported Plattsmouth's Casco dairy products were in great demand through- friends would reach Cass County's quotas out the county and state . . . Plattsmouth There must be a. few persons willing to ) Masons gathered to pay tribute to grand r : -x: ' j! . ii. 2 mnator. William "Rnyntipv frirmpr . Plnt.tq- ftdtriiice tiuint; ume irom ineir evervaav -" - - . .... . - i n i i . routine to put this worthy cause over the top. , . Who knows? Disaster may be knock ing at our front door during this year of 1956 it could be most embarrassing seeking Red Cross aid. . . OOK OUT "UNHANDY MEN" L Just like about everything else in this analytical age, this "do-it-yourself" craze has come up with some statistics. An insurance company researcher follow ing a study has come up with the fol lowing: T About 600,000 persons are injured each year "doing it themselves." Sticking out like a sore thumb is carpentry with victims numbering 115,000. Next in num ber is 107,000 amateur painters who are victims of slips, strains and stresses. About 95,000 repairers of broken windows spell it pain instead of pane. Some 57,000 who venture roof ward to clean gutters and troughs learn that what goes up must come down, sometimes not too gently. Shifting storm windows and screens pro duce 47,000 casualties. Tree pruners, 32, 000 of them, regret it and luck runs out for 16,400 "do-it-yourselfers" erecting TV aerials and 11,000 chimney painters. " -Some 'men are just naturally handy THOUGHT FOR TODAY It lies in our poivcr to love or hate. For trill in us is over-ruled by fate. . Marlowe mouth resident; Arrangements were made hy Carl Schneider, Ralph Wehrbeih, and Wayne Bennet. Of YEARS AGO Plans were being drawn up to make the 'Plattsmouth Golf Club "one of the very, best in the state," reported club President John V. Hatt . . . Nadins, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Cloidt, received painful injuries when struck by a car... -Anton Bajeck was asked to play a xylo phone solo over radio station KMA, Shen andoah . . . A: surprise birthday party was given Miss Alice Lorenz by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Lorenz . . . American Legion commander Tom Walling report ed Plattsmouth Legionnaires attended an initiation and smoker at Bellevue . . . Mr. and Mrs. Monte Streight and son, Guy, departed for California to visit friends and relatives. ' ifce Washington 1 ERRY- OUMD ty DREW PEARSON The Plallsmoulh Journal - Official County and City Paper IZ ESTABLISHED JN 1S81 - Published Sejni-jyeekly, . MpraU's and Thursdays, at -410 Main Street" Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebr. Three Times Winner Ak-Sar-Ben Plaques for -"OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE" 1949 1951 1952 "Honorable Mention" 1953 T Presented Nebraska Press Association - "GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD" " First in 1952 Second in 1951 and 1953 (In Cities over 2,000 Population) RONALD R. FURSE.-...... .Editor and Publisher BILL BURTON . . , . . .News Editor MARGARET DINGMAN Society Editor JANET PTAK. ........... Bookkeeper VERN WATERMAN. Advertising vc PHONE tc 141 IV IAV Mocwm t w8!'fM IP" n'i Entered at the Post Office at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as seconil class mail matter in accordance with the Act ' of Congress ol 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 Platts mouth. By carrier in Plattsmouth, 25 cens lor two weeks. (Copyright, 1335, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: KEFAUVER IS QUERIED ON HIS VP RUNNING MATE ; EGYPT TROOP CONCENTRATION HAS ALL THE EARMARKS OF WAR; FDR'S OLD SAILING SLOOP GOES BEGGING. Washington This week in New Jer sey, the vice-presidential shoe, was on the other foot for Estes Kefauver. Hitherto he has been asked whether he would run for vice president. But at a press confer ence in Trenton, with Governor Meyner of New Jersey standing- somewhat em tjar rassed beside him, Kefauver was quizzed: "Will you take Governor Meyner: as your vice-presidential runningmate, Sen ator?" "He's a fine man," parried Kefauver, "and I certainly would take him. But we have a lot of . fine leaders, in the party, and I think the final choice should he left to the convention." . ; Just six months ago,'- mutual friends of Kefauver and Stevenson sounded Ad lai out as to whether he would take Ke fauver as his runningmate. Stevenson said that he would make no commitment, that there were many fine democrats who would make good vice presidents, that the matter- must be. left to the Chicago convention. . ..He added that if Kefauver ran against him in the primaries and made him go to the expense , and trouble of stumping the different states, then he wrould never take Kefauver for vice president. . - Near East War? Reason f or . Prime . Minister Eden's personal query to President Eisenhower wanting to know exactly how far the United States would go in blocking war in the Near East is the tremendous buildup of Egyptian-Arab forces along the Israeli border. - J Both U.S. and British, intel ligence . have warned their gov ernments that on the basis of this troop concentration, 'war is likely to explode almost any minute. "They even warned, some 60 days ago, that the war deadline was likely to be in April. ; Here are the details of the Egyptian-Arab buildup: - Egyptian armed forces1 began massing in January in the Si nai, south of Israeli's Negev border. By the end of March, nearly three divisions, fully equipped, were along the border. Stock-' piling of munitions started be fore this to make these divis ions independent of Egyptian bases in the Suez. " The armored units include Sherman Tanks, Russian Tanks, British Centurian Tanks and Russian artillery. Russian artillery has been in stalled along th-3 Gaza strip. -r-Egyptia and Saudi . Arabian fbr9es. ha.Ve now , been , almost completely " unified.. The new British : Jets, which Egypt -"sold' to Saudi Arabia will be flown by Egyptian pilots. A pincers ' movement from EevDt on one side and Saudi Arabia on the other would catch Israel in between. King Saud re cently stated that Saudi Arabia Syria and Egypt had worked out plans to rescue "Bleeding Palest tine." - ! The British have decided to use military force, under cer tain circumstances, in order to stabilize at least one area cf the near east Jordan and Iraq. But they have been unable to get any word from either Presi dent Eisenhower or Secretary Dulles as to what the United States will do.' Note Reason for the long session between Eisenhower and Dulles the., longest they have ever had together on the day Ike came back irom White Sul phur Springs was the near east crisis and British pleas for a policy. No -policy as .yet has been definitely adopted. FDR'S Sailing Sloop Today being the anniversary of Franklin : Roosevelt's death, it's interesting to note the at titude of current Washington of ficials regarding a prized me mento of the late president which was offered by his son, James, to the Navy for the mid shipmen at Annapolis namely, FDR's old sailing sloop. It was while sailing around Nova Scotia" as a boy that the late President developed his great love of ships. Later he became assistant secretary of the Navy and, as president, built the Navy up to its greatest strength in all lustory. , However, Secretary of the Navy Charles Thomas ruled that he didn't want FDR's sloop at the Naval Academy or anywhere else. The sloop was then offered to the Smithsonian Institution. A sign at the .entrance of the Smithsonian reads: "The histor ical collections of the Smithson ian illustrate the lives and times of American historical person ages and 'the material circum stances of the periods during which they lived." " However, the Smithsonian turned FDR's sloop down for reasons of space. . . Following this, I happened to be at the Smithsonian, actually not to check on its space, but because my grandsons wanted to see all its relics. Among the assortment of tro phies I noted : eight Eskimo Ka yaks, about the, same size as the Roosevelt sioop; fourteen dugout canoes; a lengthy model of the SS Mauretania, which is British; of the SS Statendam, which is Dutch; of the SS EM press of Russia, which is Cana dian 'VsV Capitol News Bj Melvln Paul : Slatehouse Correspondent The Nebraska Press Association ' LINCOLN Campaigning for Nebraska's .May 15 primary elec tion is underway. . There is more than usual in terest in politics this year, ob servers said, especially in the Legislature. The number of candidates who filed and who are set for campaigning is high. In the last presidential year, 1952, there were 465 filings of all kinds for the primary. This year's total is far past the 500 mark, a , record. .There is keen interest, too, in races for district judge, espe cially in Omaha, where there are 18 candidates for nine posi tions. Seven seek the 21st district state ' Legislature post held by Sen. Ernest Hubka of Beatrice, I who did not run again. In Lin- poms zutn district, mere are also seven candidates. Sen. Rob ert. Perry did not run again. ' In Omaha's 10th, represented by Sen. William Moulton, who is again a .candidate," there are seven opponents for Moulton. Six are trying for the eighth district . seat vacated by Sen. John Larkin of Omaha. In Om aha's ninth district, incumbent Karl Vogel of Omaha has four (Opponents. - Assured of election because of lack .of opposition are Sens. Ot to Kotouc of Humboldt, John Aufenkamp of Julian, Hal Brid- enbaugh of Dakota City, Arnold Ruhnke of Plymouth, . LeRoy Bahehsky of Palmer, Kathleen Foote of Axtell, William Mc henry of Nelson, Don Thomp son of McCook, Norman Otto of Kearney, Harry L. Pizer of North Platte, Donald McGinley of Ogallala, and A .A. Fenske of Sunol. : The ' Democrats, who had to fill vacancies on the ballot on the last day before the filing deadline, have their sights set on the second and third dis trict Congressional races. In the second district are Ma bel Gillespie of Omaha, ; Philip Allen of :. Omaha, J. Emmet Mc Ardle of Elkhorn, Clayton Shrout of. Omaha and Joseph V. Be- nesch of Omaha. On the Re publican side are Paul Kruger of Ft. Calhoun, Tom P. Epsen of Omaha, William Thomas of Omaha, Warren Swigart of Om aha and Glenn Cunningham of Omaha. Rep. Jackson Chase of Omaha, Republican, did not run for reelection. Rep. R. D. Harrison of Nor folk, incumbent Republican in the third district, has three op ponents on the GOP ticket Lester Anderson of Aurora, E. A. Carlson of Hordville, and Merle Haynes of South Sioux City. Democrats seeking the third district post are Jesse F. Tep ner of Creighton, Ernest Luther of Hooper and Lawrence Brock of Wakefield. Gdynia-American line, now. com munist. ' Note another space - consum ing exhibit in the Smithsonian was dedicated to Samuel Lang ley, its secretary between 1887 1906. The exhibit featured: Aca demic robe, . two hoods, two aca demic caps, two pictures cf Langley, four rumford medals, Juror's badge of the Paris ex hibition of 1900; medal of les exercises physiques et sports of Paris exposition of 1900; Jansen prize medal of French academy; Jansen medal of astronomical society cf France; comrnenora tive medal of Montispessulani University,- Italy; .commenora tive medal of Omaha Exposition of -4898; Henry Draper gold me- Road Group The Highway 92 Association is going to give the 1957 Legisla ture a request to add 56 miles of road to the state highway network. The group voted to hire a lob byist, to work on that request. The mileage would be from Ar thur, where the highway now ends, to Broadwater, where it would connect with Highway 26. Some observers said this migKt set a trend for the next session of the Legislature to cope with. Parking: Matter Action of interest to visitors to Nebraska's Capitol has been taken by a group of state em ployes. . The group incorporated a non stock association which will lease some lots, tear down two old houses on the property, mark off the property into "stalls," and rent them by the month. The property is near the Statehouse where parking space is at a premium. About 47 cars will be accomo dated. This should free some space for out-of-town visitors. Hospital Costs Up Nebraska hospital costs, like everything else, have gone up in recent years. But it probably costs less on the average to be hospitalized in Nebraska than most other states. In 1950, figures show, the av erage cost' per patient per day in Nebraska hospitals was $11.72. Last year the .amount was $17.20. 1 The national average was $22.50 last year. Only eight states have averages lower than in Nebraska. Generally, hospitals in Lin coln, Scottsbluff and Hastings, are in the same cost category, with Omaha the highest. But officials said bigger hospitals are faced with higher operating costs because they provide pa tients with more service and staff assistance. The Nebraska cost was com puted on the basis of figures from 123 of the state's hospitals. THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE TWO Section B - Thursday, April 12, 1956 By Stanley James, Journal Washington Reporter Hot Lunch Program There are about 54,000 Ne braska school children partici pating in the state's hot lunch program. The program is' oper ating in ?79 schools. Allen Elliott, supervisor of the hot lunch program in the ' state, said' 'last , year there were 343 participating schools ' Last year, he said, the schools spent :$2,595,646 for food for the lunch program. In addition the federal government donated $494,370 worth of food to the Nebraska schools. The schools charge on the av erage, about ,25 cents per meal. The federal government reim burses them on tne oasis 01 a nickel per meal. OUT of O dal; commemorative medal of But the payoff was a model the Louisiana Purchase Exposi- of the SS Pilsudski of the Polish ' tion of 1904. Morrill County, in the pan handle, is one of the state's new est, but recorded history in the area goes back well before the organization of Nebraska Ter ritory. The first white men of record to set foot in Morrill County were the fur traders under Rob ert Stuart, who in December, 1812 camped briefly between the j present towns of Bayard and Bridgeport on their way east from Astoria. At this camp-site ' they determined that they were ! along the Platte River and that; it would be necessary to winter on the North Platte before head ing downstream. Accordingly, they moved back up the river to a point near the present town of Torrington, Wyoming, coming downstream in the spring of 1813. In the 1820's fur trade cara vans, making their way to the Rocky Mountains pass ed .through the present Morrill County. The first white women in Mor rill County were Mrs. Marcus Whitman and Mrs. Henry Spaul ding, going to Oregon with their missionary husbands. The great migration of the 1840's and 1850's passed through Morrill County, and Chimney Rock, south of Bayard, was one of the noted landmarks along the trail. A detailed account of Chimney Rock on the: Oregon Trail by Merrill 'J Mattes was published in March 1953 issue of Nebraska History, the quarterly magazine of the State Historical Society.- The pony express passed through Morrill County, as did the first transcontinental tele graph. On February 5, 1865, the Mud Springs Telegraph Station in the county was attacked by Indians and in the battle which followed an estimated forty In dians and two soldiers were kill ed. In addition to the great east west road, an important north south road passed through Mor rill County. With the discovery of gold in the Black Hills in the 1870's heavy traffic develop- WARWTMHTnM The proach of the 1956 presidential election is being featured by ser ious ruptures in each party. Per haps the Democratic party's split is the more colorful. It con cerns segregation. But the v Republican Party is also torn asunder, on the farm question. There are members of the G.O.P., now serving in both the House and Senate, who fear that Republican confidence over victory could be sadly shattered if the 'Democrats heal their dif ferences. There may not be much chance of this, and yet it is cer tainly an enticing prospect for the Democrats. If they can heal their party wounds, and thereby gain a good chance to defeat President Eisenhower some thing once thought impossible- it. mav not be exDecting too much to expect a new patchin up of the party. The Republicans' trouble, m farm areas, is very real, con cress should have finished up- a farm Tenet Din, ana u snouia have been . signed into law in February, if the Administration was to provide farm relief in time. But the Administration was not ready to accept high parity price supports. "Now it may be too late to re lieve the farm situation, espe- ed on a trail north from Sidney. This trail crossed the 'North Platte near the present town of Bridgeport 'and one of the; 'im portant points on the trail was the Camp Clarke Bridge. The whole area has ' been immorta lized in fiction in Miss Morissa, the new novel rby Nebraska's well known author, Mari San doz. Within a few years, cattlemen began to come into the county and soon the area was almost completely taken over by the large ranch operators.. Home steaders began to arrive in the mid-eighties. They had a dif ficult time of it, trying to farm in the dry 'country of the Ne-. braska "panhandle and against the opposition of t.he powerful ranchers, but some of the har diest of them held on until the advent of irrigation. Morrill County was the scene of some of the state's early ir rigation activities. The initial irrigation work was conducted by small stock companies form ed by the' farmers themselves. The building of the Burlington through the county at the turn of the century and the Union Pacific a few years later fur ther improved conditions. -; . The Kinkaid act of 1904 stim ulated a rather considerable wave of settlement, and by 1907, citizens of . the- area then part of old Cheyenne County peti tioned for a separate county organization. The voters approv ed this arrangement in 1908 and in 1909 the - county was estab lished. The population in 1910 was 4,584. By 1920 it had jumped to 9,151 and by 1930 to 9,950. Since 1930, there has been a decline, and in 1950 the county returned a total of 8,263. cially in the Midwest. Estes Ke fauver's Minnesota primary vic tory seemed a sure sign of basic unrest in the farm areas of that state. Kefauver was for high parity supports. . A majority of Republicans still find comfort in their belief that the split in Democratic ranks is too deep to heal. They are sure the party will be split worse in November than it is in April. If they are right, Mr. Eisenhower has a strong factor going for him. Meanwhile the Democrats might be tossing away their one opportunity to defeat the Pres ident, by not unifying and play ing up the farm problem as the number one domestic issue, and seeking the support of rural citi zens in all parts cf the country, to put them back in office. There are Republicans who are saying that unless Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson re signs prior to the election he will cost Mr. Eisenhower hundreds of thousands of votes. If this is an accurate analysis, these lost votes could be decisive, since they might swing the electoral college vote of a number of states. The rumor keeps floating around Washington that Benson will step down, and there have been indications that the White House Palace Guard has by-passed the Secretary on agricultural matters on several occasions in recent weeks. On one occasion, feelers front the White House reached an im portant Democratic Representa tive steering the farm relief bill through its final conferee stages, and it was reported Benson was not in on the compromise pro posal suggested by the White House. To some observers that looked like the panic which has de scended on important G.O.P. fig ures on Capitol Hill had at last been -felt in the White : House, and that it was finally realized that Benson was too much of a political liability to be given con tinued unqualified support. The political situation at pres ent, then offers each party a chance to strengthen its chances. .The Democrats must heal the split and prevent an open rupture at their national convention in Chicago. Several major efforts in this direction are already underway. The Re publicans are tied to a heavy handicap if quick relief isn't pro vided the farmer. Both problems are serious. Perhaps the Repub licans' dilemma is less compli cated. Time will tell. THERE'S A DIFFERENCE WASHINGTON, D.C. When the Congressional Record stated the other day that Representa tive Yates (D., 111.) was not on hand for a vote, because he waa "homesick," the Congressman had the record changed imme diately. Yates said it shouli have read: "Home sick." In other words, he was ill at home a slifht difference from homesick. 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