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1. ' -r AAA It - . 1.. . .,fc . , - T fc . s - J - CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED SEMI - WEEKLY, Monday - Thursday Consolidated With the Nehcwka Enterprise and Elm wood Leader-Echo Read Twice Weekly fay More Then 3500 Cass County Families VOLUME 75 NUMBER 45 TEN PACES PLATTSMOUTH. CASS COUNTY. NEBRASKA, MONDAY. APRIL 30. 1955 TEN CENTS PER COPY - . .... . s iKltsb Ta . i r V; -I, a- ... . m'mm-vJ j -. !"-f ',"r'l,rr --UJ,-J ' " '...u.u - ' j5j i v- '- . Mr-. i j n . 9 ... ' - - -- 1 u..j Farmers Look Ahead After The Rainfall The - .3- i i - J t rtiHi rr irl i in ii - NEW PLATTE RIVER BRIDGE Construction is buzzing alon? on the new Platte River Bridge about five miles north of this city. The bridge's completion will be heartily welcomed bj the many residents of Cass County who work at Allied Chemi cal and Dye Corp.. or in Omaha and who hare to travel Raute 75 to and from their jobs. The present bridge does not offer a very smooth ride and is sometimes a traffic bottleneck. Present plans call for the old bridge to be renovated once the new bridge is completed and both will be used to speed the flow of traffic. Each bridge will allow only traffic in one direction. 5) r3 '3 Fl fl Concert Tonight Will End School's Annual Program Jack Liddick and Leon Mink Picked Up: Took Vehicle The end of the year's activi ' ties in the Plattsmouth High I School Instrumental Music De j partinent will be highlighted to ! night with the annual spring j band concert. ) This concert will include num i bers by the newly organized be- girmers band, the intemiediate ! band, the cadet band and the i senior band- band first on the stage. These students have been studying for approximately two months and are verv eager to make their first performance. Following the beginners band will be the intermediate band composed of students who have been playing at least a year and the cadet band, made up of members who are either recent The roncert is scheduled to t,m fi start at 7:30 with the beginners j who will be probable additions Dean of Cass Store Keepers Dies at Age 82 Frank H. Nichols. 82, of Louis ville, who had operated a store longer than -any other man in Cass County, -died in an Omaha hospital Sunday after an illness of two months. Mr. Nichols operated his fam ily store for - 6S years. H. M. lodged in Cass Co dav tentatively charges ter.state t ran pc rtat ic n stclen auto. Arrested late last nigh and Lecn Mink. 26. i Monr hrPPnwnnH Rers"?-!", tT! Trill T3rro. r'nemi P-( additions to the senior band orjj business here for 67 .years this coming October. '' I a Pair of Service bi Stations Looted ? j acK i They are accused of tak ing the automobile oi Ralph Timm and drivirg Into Iowa where they wrecked it when they failed to make a turn early yesterday morning. Sheriff Sole-men said today the GREENWOOD Two early Saturday morning burglaries cf I service stations near Greenwood are being investigated by the sheriff's office and a member cf the State Criminal Bureau. j ation. j The senior band will play the j selections played this spring at ! the district music contest at I Fremont. Included in the program will be: "Pacific Grandeur Over ture," "Bolero Non," "Summer Evening Serenade," "Cielito Lin do" and "Success March" by the Cadet Band infail which blessed the j farmlands in this area beginning this past Friday night came just ) 20 years to the day after another j fall which came to save crops,! help pasture lands and raise the J spirits of pessemistic farmers, j Although it is conceded much ! more rain is needed within the ! next month or six weeks to ' straighten out the present j drought problem the rainfall I which started this past .Friday; night and was added to by a j heavy shower Saturday after- ! noon brought a marked change to things. Farmers could be heard look ing optimistically again to the future in their discussions with other farmers. Merchants were confident it would stimulate business and even the urban home owner was thankful for the water on his lawn, flower and small vegetable gardens. This rainfall cf .54 inches in Plattsmouth will do much im mediately for the pasturelands, farmers said. However, many claim four or five inches is needed during May to reach th sub soil which has been depleted over the past three years. j It was back in 1S3S that 1.35 inches cf rainfall came to earth throughout Cass County to re-j lieve a dry situation which also had the farmers worried. According to the Plattsmouth Journal files of 1935 the farm ers "had been complaining of the dry condition of the top soil, but this (the rain) seems to have been, taken care of by the soak- Barber Shop Song Bird Becomes Jail Bird7 Sheriff Says A member of the nation ally known Barber Shop Quartet was an unwilling guest of Sheriff Tom Solo mon yesterday and h e didn't highlight his visit with any singing. Phillip Hansen of Denver, Colo., was arrested on an intoxication charge by State Trooper Idhe near Elm wood yesterday afternoon as he at tempted to "snooze" in the front seat of his car. He was charged with intoxication. The state trooper went looking for Hansen after several motorists complain ed of his erratic driving. The singer told the sher iff his famed quartet won national and international honors during the past two years. That story along with S50 bail money allowed the singer to leave the jail. His Cass County Court hearing is set for Thursday. The Plattsmouth docks along the Missouri River may soon be humming' with more activity than has been noted in many a year. Sturm Freight ways, a major transport firm, is pre? J ently negotiating- to take over the docks and make this city ! into a major barge hub. j Presently the dock com- mission composed of Clem j Woster, C. J. White and ! Chairman T. H. Pollock is negotiating wilh the trans j port firm. If negotiations are completed this city can expect to see much I freight go through the local Dr. Wesley C. Meierhenry, as-1 docks. The connections could be sociate professor of school ad- i made via railroad or truck, ministration and cf historv and I The use cf the local docks UN Professor Will Talk at Graduation ; the principles of education at the University of Nebraska, will i be the commencement speaker would enable shippers to escape ligher rate assessed at the Omaha docks. 1 t I 5- ft -i V V - . X -.- - -.- - - e City Council ! Lifts Ban on 1-Way Parking The Plattsmouth City Council took action to make parking eas- Dr. W. C. Meierhenry during graduation exercises - The present leasing firm m Omaha has a 30-year contract ' and some shippers Lave refrain ed from using its facilities. The Plattsmouth docks are believed adequate and tae Sturm firm appeared pleas . -4 ed at the price quoted for operating the docks, it was learned by the Plattsmouth Journal. Water in the Missouri is nc v ; controlled by man-made rock walls and other planned obstruc tions. In years long past, spring ' break ups and heavy rains hind ered barge operations and made water transportation quite 1m 1 practical. The Sturm first contacted tre Plattsmouth City Council, i h e council turned the matter over to the Cass County commissicn- Platts: IS. louth High School at Mar ers, who turn cassed it on to The " choice of the university t"-it "themselves in "the of-; Service Station and Standard Oil .,,0 f investigators parages located at the junction a a wc2-. IO. u.1.sa(j.iua, r qppt ard US 6 were iairrin the car was taken with-; b"eet ana Lb were fer.se. M e c cu: his pe Federal Bureau cf Investiga tion agents are expected in Plattsmouth today to question bo r.i - interstate transycrwa- a federal The Senior Band will perform Sheriff Tom Solomon said DX j storm King March,' "Paver Jor dan," "Egmont Overture" and "High School Cadets March." tin cf stoien car is The new hardtop Mercury j had less than 4.000 miles j registered on its speedo meter. Sheriff Solomon said Sheriff John Khoden of Glen wood told him the 53,600 car was a total loss. Tb Cass Countv Sheriff said About S150 in batteries, tires and other accessories were tak en from each station, Deputy Sheriff Shrader Rhoden said. The burglars gained entrance by forcing open new type "sere cut" windows. A light colored Nash automo bile pessibiiy bearing a '6 cr 8" county plate is belived in volved, the sheriff said today. f Top Value Store Open Top Value Enterpirses, Inc., opened a new redemption store Saturday at 220-2 W. Broadway, Council Bluffs. It win provide gift merchandise headquarters for savers of Top Value stamps, distributed locally by Kroger food stores and many other retail merchants. Mr. Nichols, known through out the county, is survived by: Two sons. Ross c'Lcuuvine -ring rain cf last night." and Robert of Scottshluft; two j daughters, Mrs. Hazel D o 1 a n and Mrs. Boline Lundtelgen both of Louisville. Four grandchild ren and .two great grandchild ren also survive. His wife pre ceded him in death. Funeral services will be Wedf nesday at 2 pjm. at the First Methodist Church, Louisrille, with Rev. IT. N. Blough officiat ing, Fusselman Funeral Home is in charge cf the body. Burial will be at Riverview Cemetery with I OOF No. 184 ia charge of graveside services. the men. in their s statements . ad-j mitted they took the keys from V Timm's pockets as he slept , irTliddick's bed in the Piatts-; mouth Hotel. The sheriff said $4 j in cash appears to have also ; been taken from Mr. Timm's: pockets. The pair said they had de ( Continued on Page 6 Vacation Can Be Enjoyed More if Everything Is Set Former City Woman To Retire After 44 Years of Teaching By Margaret Dingman Journal Woman's Editor Bye and Bye if and when you take that vacation to parts dis tant from Cass County be sure to have your milk and news paper deliveries suspended temporarily. A porch full of delivered com along will cut down your ex penses of the trip considerably. Travel comfortably. Assuming that your road trip is well chart ed before departure, be sure and have the map within easy reach of the co-pilot . It is fun and a challenge to yourself to try to make a certain number cf Soloist James Heard will sing "In the Sweet Bye and Bye" and, "Abide With Me", accom panied by Mrs. -Laura Gess or ganist. '' ' ' ' ' ' Pall bearers will be H. B. Troop, John Gauer, John Schlat ter, Ralph Brown, Richard Brown and La Rue Williams. Mr. Nichols lived in Louisville for 75 years operating the Nich ols Store that was established by his father in ' ISoo. He took over the business at the age cf 14 after his father's death. He has been semi-retired since 1943. The Nichols Store is still in cpe ration, known as the oldest Cass County business establish ment. Mr. Nichols was a musician and a great baseball fan. tViA TtrriTwsnT arn r?nirr!',TirrP'n quet last mgnt to insxau i , - ' , ,T. ; Z ... ' I InTl O 3 C HHOr ITH YA. I . T "3 TT7 1 t ' onicers ana present t n e i . , -- , i Hishfield onnosed it. s annual a wares. i VFW Offers Awards, Seats New Officers ' I Some 100 members and guests of Lepert-Wclever Post, Vete rans cf Foreign Wars, met at a ban new post Dr. O. D. Sandin, Atty. Wal ter Smith and Dale Bowman were named recipients of t h e VFW's highest awards t hose cf outstanding citizenship and community service. Dr. Sand in is a veterinarian, Atty. Smith is a Plattsmouth lawyer ' and head cf the city's Red Cross drive and Mr. Bow man is secretary of the Platts mouth Chamber of Commerce. A special citation was given VFW Auxiliary member Mrs. Margaret Fitch for her services during the four years in which she headed the VFW community service program. Plattsmouth High School stu dent Rosemary Nelson was awarded the VFW scholarship to any teaching college of her choice in the state. Her alter- ier for members cf the Christian j professor was announced today Science Church during the reg- by T. I. Friest. superintendent!' uiar meeting this past Monday. I cf Plattsmouth Schools. The council voted unanimously j Dr. Meierhenry- has been a ': to allow parking on both sides i member cf the university faculty ; cf South Sixth Street near the j since 1943. t ; church during worship hours, j Before coming to the univer No parking signs set up in the ; sity he was superintendent cf area will not be" in effect during! schools at Republican City and ; those hours, the council voted, j field representative for Midland ' Outgoing Mayer Leo Meising- j College, er's vote was needed to break! Dr. Meierhenry attended the; a tie in the question cf prohibit- Western Union College, LeMars, , ing parking cn the south side Iowa and received his bachelor's ; cf Avenue A between Fourth and ! degree from Midland College, ; Fifth Streets. - j Fremont, m 1935. He received Councilmen Robert WhelaniH3 paster's degree in 1941 and and James F. McMillian voted ! ixx xa. uu.a , jirom me university oi reoras-, ka. He is a. former chapter presi- j .uajui "s" u ;o educational fraternity. He 1 paSSeQ. I RrhnnTs fnr VphrusVn " In other council action, the in- j Dr. Meierhenry also directed coming mayor, Bruce Gold, j "Nebraska Program cf Educa named James F. McMil- Enrichment Through the lian president of the council. Mr. TJse cf Motion Pcitures," a four McMillian is one of the two,year experimental program m holdover members, the otherfthe use of motion pictures fi being Democrat William G. i Ts-n-prf ii mt hv th rTTPa the dock group. With the increase in river traffic its supporters have become more enthusiastic in their claims much can be saved in the shipment of freight by water. One bottleneck m the proposed freight operation could be th small Chicago. Burlington and Quiney Railroad underpass at the east end cf Main Street. The pass allows only cne way traffic and is but 11 feet high. Fourteen feet is the legal height. (Continued cn Page 6 Union Man Among Those Taking Part 1 rntico tn rirmrlg : miles Cer CaV. DU. UCU X ie lw ; that nobody is"home. Besides i upset jou if the quota ist n Mpaf Promotion th- mrfrs win blow awav and made. Perhaps you may over- 111 4TICUI 1 'UiiiUUUU i rn vcu- lawn and play! stay at a place of special inter- j A nationwide meat promotion f-c t?a!: AlotandT of Yorfe.lpr, the temner of vour neish- est so wnat, mat is wnat pieas-. program aimea- at increasmg -j w a native cf Plattsmouth. has de-1 vcr wrio has just cleared cided to retire after teaching 33rla77n Df debr. Highfield. Falter Dies At His Home !n Falls City A former Piaimcuth resident George Falter, passed away yes terday at his home in Falls City. Mr. Falter was the father cf the well-known magazine illus trator, John Falter, formerly cf Plattsmouth. who is now resid ing in New England. Mr. Falter was married in Corporation of New York with a ; Plattsmouth to Margaret Dovey ient. of a colorful bouquet (Continued on Page 6) flowers which were placed oni D the council table. They bore a card the Two marriase licenses were S issued at Cass County Court dur- and for a number of years oper ated a dry goods store here with He operated a clothing star; the time auon as to who the gang is. ; Sre- MOVE INTO NEW HOME Mr. and Mrs. James Pcilard have moved into their new home at 20225 4th Ave. South, Seattle S3, Washington. 22, and both cf Rolland F. Cooper, Karen Kalasek. 20, Plattsmouth. ; Gordon L. Paxtcn, 33, and Ir ! ma M. Miller, 20. both cf Coim cil Bluffs, Iowa. in Falls Ci:v until th : his death.. . ! He leaves two sisters, Mrs. ' Elizabeth Hiney c! Hooper, and Mrs. Emma Smith: a brother, j John; and children John and . Suzanne. j His death. preceded him n rn i i v mi O f w id Ml throughout vears m lura.. i- jiae arrangtmeu iu: ju Hr entire teaching career outside nets or house pets.) Perhaps they'd like a pillow. spans 44 years, bne ii tr.e uau.x-; xhere are ptt shops whicn wuij a blanket or a dniik cf tpr of the late Rev. W. H. Alex-; d them for a -nall daily from the thermos, which is pioneer Methodist. 3 - Mrs. Joe nnl she va ily living here for three or fou vears. wiles told the Joum-, gVood care enely recalls the fam- t u EQt tQ fee, and you can be sure they j must on a vacation his ! ure trips are for. eai consumption If children are traveling see j country may soon be under that they, too,' are comfortable. ! ay and among the men be- i iiie me cxive wm oe a resiueni I of TTrinrs water, . 'i, . xie is Aieivin toco, vice-presi- iavbe a piece" of candv mother! tXJ Ct C2? icked in her purse. And by!?1; Linstock Feeders Auscia- April 2t, 27, Thursday - - - Friday Saturday Sunday . . . - . WIIII'll Ttlt WCAiticr. j a. Ccmrjiled for tne larxiinouwi Joual at the Masonic Home Weather Station, Plattsmouth Nebraska. 23. y, iyoo Hirh Lnw Prec . ... 78 33 ... S2 55 64 33 34 ....40 32 Mostiv cloudy and . . . j v.; tti miH 403. lows in 30 s. Tuesday's high in Sun sats Monday at 7:20 ,r Sun rises Tuesday at 5:-i crowd your ; tuck i time too fully, especially if chil- s all means a wash cloth, wet. in j dren accompany you on the j a plastic bag comes in mighty I trin. Be sure and do take along ; handy. It can be rinsed cr child's favorite toy or book washed out at stopping places. or perhaps his favorite pillow so he will have scmetning with him from home. Do by all means take some thing along for mosquito bites, sunburn and poison ivy! Your you with druggsit can su such needs. If you are planning a trip of the camping type or part time camping is available to ycu. take along a good supply cf the staple foods. Appetites will be increased with more free time cn your hands. Toting non-perishable foods Try to make pop comfortable, too. After all he is the bread winner and has looked forward to this rest End time away Ircm his work. Besides, ycu want to have another - trip next year one you can think about all win ter. Above all enjoy yourselves. Having made your departure ar rangements with the paper boy, milkman, pest office and settled your pets, everything should be well at home. It is up to you to make the most of your trip. The students of St. John's Par- r ish School will have a bright new building in which to pursue their studies comes this fall. As they romp about during re cess periods the 114 students of the old brick schoolhouse can look to the northeast and there within a couple cf hundred feet they can see the new $110,(300 structure rapidly being finished. Ground for the school was broken this past summer by the Most Rev. Bishop Kucera. The new building will contain five classrooms as against the three the old school now offers. The old school also crams the students into classes which aver age 33 in number, considered an overload by modem educational standards. It is hoped the new school will . . , Ttf. overcome ir.Ts nrooiem. a a tion. Mr. Todd . was among Repre sentatives of 20 states who met in Des Moines, lewa and voted for the establishment -of-a na tional producers organization. The entire nine Trf Nebraska delegation which also included Ralph Raikes and G. E. McRey nolds, both of Ashland, voted un animously for the proposal. Only two -states cf 20 repre- seated voted against the prcpos-j slesi modern design ove Ak. ' i1 ccme many usz "at... 1 .... '4 I v f T. " - i r 1 a M t J J I LEAVES FOR CALIFORNIA Mrs. James Lipert and Mrs. Kenneth Jensen and daughter, Caroline and sen, Allen left for Calif. Thursday evening to aee their new grandchild. found in the old building too. Through its design the new structure takes advantage cf all natural lighting available. The cornerstone was laid at (Continued cn Page 6) f - ' V: f J - i i ....- t WILL SOON BE READY St. John's Parish School is being inspected by two' eighth graders who will be tn high school next year and unable to enjoy its advantages. However, Stanley Weber and Rosemary Bellinger look the building over with Rev. Raphael Chonta, assistant pastor, and Sister Janette. Journal Photo.