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1WV "" EDITORIALS ' " ('''''''' ' '''''''' A BOUT NEWSPAPER FILLERS Many times we are "kidded" about the little two and three line fillers we use at the bottom of columns occasionally to fill up what we newspaper men call a ."hole." We liked a story we found in one of our trade papers recently about these recently that went something like this, "Pencils are made six-sided rather than 1 A 1 11 - J J rouna so iney won t rou away. This fellow- wrote in and applied for a job writing these lines when he reached an age for semi-retirement. He felt he could meet the standard as indicated by the example we had placed in The Jour nal. His samples sent in went like this: , Most American newspapers are printed in English, as the majority of the citizens read and speak this language, or, Traffic lights are placed at most intersections for the purpose of preventing collisions and the red light means stop and the green light means go. From his efforts, we believe he's the man for the job. T 1 I 1 1 1 11V 1 1 vvnicn reminds us oi tne amy we nau in an issue or two ago of this newspaper when part of a court record headline got mixed with a social item making it appear our dear lady friends were in county court. If it's not too late, we would like to extend our apologies and assure their neighbors that these ladies are honest and law abiding citizens. The Journal has reached an all-time high in circulation coverage of Cass Coun ty. Monday distribution of The Journal was. just slightly under 36i00 copies. That is a 900 per cent increase in readers since this writer acquired ownership 10 years ago. It is more than double peak circula tion figures during its high point under previous ownerships. Still we've got some merchants who believe they can offer po tential Cass County customers a three tenths of a cent trade stamp or a thousand throw-away hand bills and take the place of Journal newspaper advertising that is .reaching more than 15,000 of their cus- LUiuexs eveij issue. xiiai, xaii i n uc i;i some instances, though, but it is becoming increasingly more difficult for this news paper to turn down out-of-town merchants clamboring for space in these columns at a rate considerably in excess of that charged on the local level. See what we mean about newspaper fillers? Just a few moments ago we had this whole column to fill, not an idea in mind other than what we are going to ' i i -rn j l wina up wren. ut as you go aiong we think about "Clean Ud Paint Up Fix -Up Week" starting here tomorrow. Cham ber of Commerce is offering prizes for best jobs done and city trucks will haul away your trash and rubbish free. You can read instructions on another page of today's paper. We hope Plattsmouth res idents will do even a better job in 1956 than the good work they have done in "previous vears. Still it doesn't rain and prospects for a good farm year in Cass County are in doubt. Farmers are worried and so are other residents of the county all of wThom are dependent on the production and price of livestock and grains. But even with to- 'states that last year Cass farmers market ed $4,128,900 in grain and $6,402,970 in livestock. A ten and one-half million dollar cash agricultural crop is no small potatoes any way you look at it. It may not make the wheels , of our local economy sing but at least it is enough to keep 'em humming a little. THOUGHT FOR TODAY . II pic much folly there is in human affairs! Persins The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 1881 Published Semi-Weekly, Mondavs 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 Presented Nebraska Press Association "GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD" First in 1952 Second in 1951 and 1S53 (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 PHONE 4-T I - 1ft . ... ,V.W.VJ Furse's Fresh Flashes Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, says . all she has' to worry about now is whether there is a 'man in her future. If there is, then her. worries will be whether there is any future in her man. - . 5 S it -it 'it Maybe the Mormons were right. Most men need two women, a secretary to put everything down and a wife to pick everything up. This time of year we learn that we owe most of our success to Uncle Sam. Considering what a lot of wives have to put up with, I can't understand why my wife gets so upset about me. k it What most of us want is what John D. Rockefeller has already got. A local widow tells us that rich wid owers ought to get married or be shot. Todays motor cars are supposed to be the last word in luxury and smoothness, but we still notice a lot of jerks in them. k There are seven, ways to be happy stay out of debt and you won't need the other six. Down Memory Lane XvX:: a : ikrv 'Higgins the. bank is very much interested in how you manage ail this on $32.50 a week' yr YEARS AGO High school coach Fred Rothert retired after 13 years as head of the ath letic department . . . John .Bajeck was showing improvement from an injury he received . . . A. Katheiser was - elected ! president of the Community Building Club . . . Charles, son of Mr. and Mrs. 'Wallace Warner, underwent an appen dectomy . . .. Mrs. J.' M. Roberts presented a music recital at her home. Participating ; were . pianists Billy . Knorr, Steven Davis, John Tiekotter, Corbin Davis and Cather ine Conis ... Francis Libershall and Aul ton Roland were initiated into the Ne braska University company of Pershing Rifles. ic it ir QA YEARS AGO 3U The plattsmouth High School Or chestra placed second in the state music contest at Lincoln. Catherine McCluskey received third prize for her flute solo . . . Clyde Ptak was showing improvement from an extended illness . . . A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. "Arthur Bruce . t: : Jack Hatt won the pole vault event at a four-state track meet held at Peru State Teachers College . . . Adolph and John Cechal returned here from Florida for a visit with their mother, Mrs. Frank Cechal. . . . A surprise party was given for Mrs. ' Laura Frankfather on the occasion of her eighty-eighth birthday ... Funeral serv . ices were held for John Henry Miller, long-time county resident. ASHINGT0M fy DREW PBAdQON (Copyright, 1355 by the BelL Syndicate, Inc.) 11 1 v- - l H I ISS3SL tSSSSISl ImZZmZmmi Entered at the Post Office at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second 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 cen4 for two weeks. DREW PEARSON SAYS: CONGRESSMAN AYRES HAD FRIEND WHO SUPPLIED HIM BABY BOOKLETS; THAT WAS HOW JOHN MARAGON, THE IN FLUENCE PEDDLER, WAS ABLE TO GET A NEW. JOB ; RUSSIA IS FAR AHEAD OF U.S.A. IN SUB MARINES. Washington Some people have lift ed their eyebrows over the fact that I re cently helped, get a job for John Maragon, - the Kansas City bootblack and influence peddler whom I earlier helped send to jail. They recall that it was partly over Maragon and his friend, Gen. Harry Vaughan, that President Truman called me some choice epithets; so-some readers wonder whether I've gone soft of late. It's true that Maragon's trip to Pots dam with the president, his demotion of Gen. Wm. L. Lee, his dabbling, in black market diamonds at Potsdam, his gifts of black-market perfume to various cabinet ladies were first exposed in. this column. He retaliated by calling me a liar,, and later was convicted of perjury. However, John Maragon was a little frog way over his head in a big pond. He was nowhere near as bad as some of the really big influence peddlers, , both then and now. And having served his. time, it seems to me he deserves -a break. The job he has as day laborer in the house folding room isn't going to hurt, the tax payers, and all reports are that he s more than earning his modest pay How to Get Free Literature -Some interesting things have been tak ing place in the house folding room where John Maragon, the ex-influence peddler, is now employed. They occurred belore he got his job, and involve, the -man he is supposed to have replaced Kalph fecaizo Actually Scalzo lost his job on Jan. 30, two months before Maragon was .iiired Nevertheless, GOP Congressman """William Ayres of Akron made headlines by charg ing that Scalzo was fired to make room for Maragon. Here are the interesting facts, however, as to why Scalzo was fired: The House folding room is a place where congressmen get speeches folded and mailed out to, voters free. They can also get booklets on baby care, and various government documents mailed to the home folks either at cost . or up to -a certain limit free. House Doorkeeper Luke Hicks has now obtaind sworn affida vits to the effect that extra -documents, beyond -the congress man's quota, wre delivered to the office of Congressman Ayres under the direction of Scalzo, the man Ayes didn't want fired. On several occasions," states an affidavit by Otis Small, a laborer in the folding room, "I was ordered by Ralph Scalzo to deliver . to Congressman Ayres 300 'How Our-Laws Are Made.' "The secretary- in ,the con gressman's office told-me to put them down by one of the desks in the office. There was no order taken by me and none signed by the secretary." . - - Another folding-room laborer; William H. Brooker, reports that last summer Scalzo told him to deliver about 100 copies of the $2 agriculture yearbooks to Ay res, plus about -40 or 50 maps, about 500 copies of "How . Our Laws Are Made," and three cases of a booklet on infant care. , Congressman Ayres was entit led , to 40 free; copies, Of "Hbw Our Laws Are -Made." I Beyond that he was supposed to pay; 15 cents each. A congressman;; is allowed 400 copies of the agri culture . yearbook .and 50 maps. The allotment for baby care booklets is much more gener-; r rr it. ous ouu per moiun. e This was the' reason Scalzo was fired. It was not to make room' for John -Maragon. ' Diplomatic Pouch . The U. S. has quietly banned the shipment of luxury cars to Indo-China. The reason: .Rich natives were driving around in big Cadillacs while the poor were still starving. This was so bad for the people's morale that American adviseis recommend ed : halting automobile . imports to Indochina, except strictly for relief and rehabilitation work; . . Dictator Franco of Spain has of fered his good offices to help the west settle its , troubles with the "Arab world. The offer was delivered ; personally to Presi dent Eisenhower by Spanish Foreign Minister Don Alberto Artajo, . who : pointed out that Spain has close ties with t h e Arab leaders, particularly since he granted independence to Spanish Morocco. . .The Navy has reliable intelligence that Russia now has the world's larg est underwater Navy over 400 submarines. Russia is also build ing new submarines at the rate of 85 a year. Yet the admirals are so busy feuding with the Air Force over air power that they have neglected our anti submarine defenses. . Sub chas ers and other anti-sub weapons are still far i down the Navy's priority list. , Morse No Trader Two stanch 'democratic liber als, Senators Morse and Murray, had a heated, dff-the-record row over the Downstream . Benefits Bill which benefits the private utilities. "There is nothing you could have , done , to ? undermine me more . than to vote out a bill that's No. 1 on - the list : of the private . utilities," ; Wayne : Morse bluntly- told his old friend, Jim Murray of Montana. "You ought to be the senator from. Montana and vote you convictions, not th3 convictions of other people." Senator Morse, who is fighting a tough re-election battle in Ore gon, had canceled an engage ment to introduce Senator Kef auver in Oregon, and rushed back to 'Washington when he heard thatvMurray had voted for the Downstream J Benefits Bill. Under .this bill, th& Federal Gov ernment, if locating a dam be low aprivatemtility dam would pay . the utility for . the cost: of storing up water "and steadying the flow of the stream above. Eagle Club Meets at the Schoo l house Additional Eagle News on Page 3, "Section B EAGLE (Special) The Com munity. Club .members met at the Eagle schoolhouse recently. The president, Superintendent Schmieding could not be present and Mrs. Howard Root conduct ed the business meeting. Mr. and -Mrs. George Althouse and Mr. arid Mrs. Ray Reynoldsen were hosts. The next meeting will be May 23rd. The board of education met at the schoolhouse Wednesday evening. .Two. vacancies, Home Economics and also" a vocation al agricultural instructor are to be elected. Mr. Utemark has ac cepted a position at West Point! - The hisses Faye and Lois Erskine were participants in the voice arid piano recital at Mrs. LeBar's home last Sunday aft ernoon; Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Er sklne Jr., also attended. . Superintendent and Mrs. Or ville Schmieding entertained with a dinner at their home last Sunday. All the parents, Mr. and Mrs. .Louis. Schmieding of Gresham and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Naber of York, Mrs. Schmied- ing's brother, Mr. and Mrs. Wil lard Hoeman and son of Waco. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert Schmied ing and family of Gresham and RevJ and Mrs.: Hackman. The guests attended the Emmanuel Lutheran worship services and the baptismal service for the infant daughter "Rebecca Sue" of Mr. and? Mrs. Schmieding. Sponsors for the babe were Mrs. Willard Hoeman and Wilbert Schmieding. District Rally Miss - Lois - Erskine, district president of the Methodist Youth Fellowship attended the District Rally at . Trinity Methodist church last Sunday evening. Her parents,' and Fay. attended the service at the church when Dr. Scholz, - superintendent of the Berlin District of Northeast Ger man Conference- of Methodist Church;'His work involves rela tionships with Methodists from both sides of the Iron Curtain in Berlin... He spoke English very well and will attend the Metho dist General Conference in Min The Dorcas Society of the Emmanuel Lutheran C h u r c h will not meet next Wednesday afternoon due to Rev. Hack man's out of town plans. The meeting will be postponed to the second Wednesday of the month. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Adams were in Elk Point, So. Dak. last Friday afternoon returning home Sunday evening. They visited their daughter and fam ily, the Mr. and Mrs. Jay Busk er, son and daughter atthat city. , The Trinity Lutheran Aid members will meet next Thurs day at Mrs. Carl Oberle's home. Mrs. Melvin Finke and son Marlin of Lincoln called at the home -of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Jacobmeier recent ly. Her son Marlin remained at the grandparent's home for the week. fHE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE FOUR Monday, April 30. 1956 Legion Poppy Day Help Those Who Are the Victims of Wars Mr. and Mrs.. Melvin Nieman, son and daughter of Syracuse, -visited at the home of Mrs. Nie man's . parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Vader Wednesday eve ning; Mrs. Nieman is the form er Clarice Vader, graduate of Eagle Schools. The Vader fam ily were dinner guests at the daughter's home at Syracuse on last Sunday. Mr.. .and Mrs. John Berry of Worster, Mass. visited Mrs. Berry's father,-Mr. John Ron hoode and her brother, Mr. and Mrs. John Ronhoode Jr. and family, and also other relatives for several days recently. Mrs. Berry . is the - former Carolyn Ronhoode, also a graduate of Eagle Schools. The junior-senior banquet was held at the "Lone-Oak" at Lincoln. Morse contends that federal 6amsites are the property of the United States anyway and that private utilities should not be compensated for the privilege of generating water power from federal streams. Though the bill has been gath ering dust in Senator Murray's interior committee for over a year, suddenly, while Morse was in Oregon and while O'Mahoney of Wyoming and Jackson of Washington - were also absent, Murray voted the bill out of his committee. All the republicans voted for it, plus Democrats Clinton Anderson of New Mexico and Murray. Richard Neuberger Morse's colleague from Oregon, was the only senator who oppos ed. . ' Later, Murray approached Morse with a long-rolling propo sition namely, to let the Down stream Benefits Bill get out of committee, and inv return, the Hells Canyon Bill, which is ex tremely, important to Morse, would: also be reported out of committee. Morse, however, said no. "Wayne Morse never trades his vote," he -sent word to Sen ator Murray. "Hells Canyon is important to me, " but not im portant enough to destroy my independence in the Senate." -. Note Senator O'Mahoney will now -move to ; reconsider the Downstream .Benefits Bill, which would bring it up for an other vote when Morse and other Democrats are present. County Court Fast Drivers Continue to Face Charges The number of speeding vio lation cases in Cass County Court continues to mount as 10 more were recorded during the past three days. They include: Lowell Eich of Geneva, $10 fine, $4 costs. -Hugh Bower, $10 fine, $4 costs. Glen D.' Rosenboom of Lyons, $15 fine, $4 costs. Richard Sommers .: of . Omaha, $15 fine, $4 costs. Sharon Dittoe of Beatrice, $10 fine, $4 costs. Keith F. Livers of Ashland, $15 T fine, $4 costs. George L. Sroka of Omaha, $15 fine, $4 costs. Walter Lemon of Omaha, $10 fine, $4 costs. Jack' R. Sprague of Lincoln, $10 fine, $4 costs. " Winford-Shaw of Omaha, for feit of $24 bond. : Other cases: Elson Wiles of Syracuse, over weight on capacity plates, $29 fine, $4 costs. Chester Mooney of Tecumseh, overload on axle, $50 fine, $4 costs. "When you put on a poppy on Poppy Day to honor the war dead, you will be helping child ren who are the innocent vic tims of war," said Mrs. Helen Woolcott, child welfare chair man of Hugh J. Kearns Unit of the Amrican Legion Auxiliary, as the Auxiliary prepared for the' annual observance of Poppy Day" here May 5. oppy Day contributions help finance the child welfare work which the Auxiliary is carrying out constantly for the benefit of needy children of vetrans, Mrs. Woolcott explained. Because cf vetrans' children needing help she expressed hope that Poppy Day contributions would be gen erous this year. "Since the Poppy Day pro gram is carried cut entirely by volunteer workers, all the mon ey contributd by the poppy wearers, above , what we pay disabledveteraru to make the little flowers, goes, to the Aux iliary's child welfare and rehab ilitation funds," Mrs. Woolcott continued. "Most of it stays right here in Plattsmouth and is expended to meet the needs of local veterans and their families. Poppy money is kept separate from other Auxiliary funds, its use restricted to work for dis abled veterans and children. Circus Headed for Plattsmouth: Will Play Here on May 27 Only The Second Largest Circus in the United States is scheduled for a one day only engagement at Plattsmouth Sales Barn grounds on Sunday, May 27th. Arthur W. "Art" Miller, gen eral representative for Al G. Kelley and Miller Brothers Cir cus, called at the Plattsmouth Journal office today to report he had completed the prelimi nary arrangements for the visit of this famous Wild Animal Show, which is making its 36th annual tour. The advertising cars, compris ing six motored units, with a crew of 28 advertising and pub licity men will arrive soon no torizing the coming event; by placing bright, colorful posters within the city and surrounding communities. This will mark the first ap pearance of a big circus here in New Car Owners List Will Be In Journal Beginning with this issue the Plattsmouth Journal the proud owners of new cars will be list ed periodically. ,They are: Ivar Bomberg, Plymouth, Bry ant's Garage. Mrs. Flora Phillips, Studebak er, Wiysel's Garage. Walter Gleason, Ford; Platts mouth Journal, .Ford, Platts mouth Motors. Last year 80,000 Americans died of cancer because proper treatment was begun too lato; A regular health examination is the best cancer insurance, says the American Cancer Society. 4-H Pig Club Is Formed in Mynard Area By Tom Gregg 4-II Reporter On April 23 Clarence Schmad eke met with a group of boys from the Mynard area and or ganized a 4-H Pig Club. The leader is Harold Gregg and the officers were elected as follows: . Leonard Hild, president; Den- nie Meismger, (Vice president Charles Stoehr, secretary and Tom Gregg, news reporter. The next meeting will be held at the . home of the president, Leonard Hild on May 14. six years and undoubtedly the very first one to bring such out standing and unuaual animals such as: giraffes, hippopotamus and rhinoceros. In addition a herd of 21 ele phants, besides more than 200 animals including: lions, tigers, pumas, and leopards, numerous species , of monkeys, apes, and baboons; black, grizzly, hima layan, and polar bears; hyenas, baby gorillas, kangaroos, man drills, gnu, emu, llamas, seals, sea-lions, wart hogs, India wa ter buffalo, zebu, bison persian white sacred deer, zebras, cam els, tapirs, dromedary; an avi ary of tropical birds, dens of tropical reptiles; also 127 head of horses, ponies, kylo, yak and donkeys. Al G. Kelly and Miller Bros, is now exceeded only in size by the famed Ringling . Bros, and Barnum and Bailey show. Defendant Is Freed In $75 Thousand Suit Over Fight in Avoca A district court jury deliber ated about one hour and a half to return a verdict in favor of the defendant in a damages suit Friday. The plaintiff, James Elliott of Avoca, was suing William Brandt, Jr., also of Avoca, for $75,000 for injuries he claimed to have received during a fight between the two in September, 1953. Elliott charged he had not provoked the fight and the in juries he received from it were painful and disabling. A Classified Aa in The Journal costs as little as 35 cents THE STORE1' in Cass County for Men and Boys JOHNSONIAN SHOES O SAMSONITE LUCCACE O ARROD SHIRTS WEMBLEY TIES O INTERWOVEN SOX O CHAMP Cr RESISTOL HATS O CURLEE SUITS j Mens lear LOUISVILLE DWELLING The Helen A. Cleghom dwel ling and contents will be sold at Public Auction on Saturday, May 12, 1956, at 2 P. M. DESCRIPTION: Lot 454, Village of Louisville, Nebraska TERMS: Cash on delivery of deed and abstract, with 15 payable on day of sale. The dwelling is well located, modern, in good condition and available for immediate possession on final settlement. The contents consist of usual household goods and personal property, including refrigerator, electric stove, etc. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION SEE OWNER Mrs. Mary Gardiner At the" Dwelling-in Louisville or J. Howard Davis Attorney Plattsmouth, Nebr. Rex Young Auctioneer Plattsmouth, Nebr.