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I I J WWVfVAVAVVAV.V.VAVVAVAVAVVVAVV.VVVV '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''WW '''''''''''''''''''' EDITORIALS Furses Fresh Flashes Wr ""'" '" "" """ "" A FARM PROBLEM SOLUTION The one sure-shot, equitable, support-price solution to the present plight of today's farmers has been largely over looked by Congress. It is the suggestion that Congress provide for 100 per cent price supports for Government which is helping many farmer, and lesser sup ports for larger and larger numbers of acres. In other words, for the small farmer who plants only five acres of a certain crop, he would receive one hundred per cent parity price support from the Gov ernment, if he followed the Government's acreage allotment program. On his next five acres taking five as an example he might receive ninety per cent parity price support, and so on. In this way, the, total planting of a certain crop would easily be controlled, since supports for the larger farmer would not 'make it profitable for him to over produce or for him to take advantage of the Agriculture Department's price sup port operations to the tune ol fifty or one hundred thousands dollars, as many big farmers have done in recent years. This program, however, would allow the little farmer to maintain himself, and his family, and stay in operation. Where as, the little farmer would not suffer the loss of his livelihood, the large farmer might have to diversify, or might even have to put a few hundred acres into the Soil Bank program. We have no objection to the Soil Bank program, but we think it should be coupled with a sliding scale of parity price sup ports, as outlined above. Only in this way can the small farmer be assured of equitable treatment, and of a livelihood, and certainly this is not too much for the small farmer the backbone of our rural communities to expect from his govern ment. tAt At ALBEN BARKLEY The death of Senator Alben Bark ley, former Vice President and, at the time of his death, Democratic Senator from Kentucky, is a distinct loss to the nation. - Barkley was a Democrat through and through. There is no doubt but that he raised the temperature of many a Repub lican in his time, but he did so in a way which was not as offensive as it was ef fective, and there is no denying the fact that he was one of the most popular sena tors, and Vice Presidents, in our country's recent history, among both Democrats afrd Republicans. -' 1 Anyone who read Barkley's memoirs, which appeared in a national magazine a yeSr or two ago, can recall many amusing incidents the former Veep related. His gift for story-telling and bringing out the ridiculous, or the ludicrous, in political horse-play, was outstanding. - Perhaps the bitterest blow Barkley. suf fered was that delivered in 1952, at the Democratic National Convention. When former President Harry Truman announc ed he was retiring, Barkley cast his eyes upon the Presidency, and in the end was given the brush-off by organized la bor, the leaders of which rated him too old. This blow, coming after Barkley had fought many of labor's battles in Congress, met the Veep when he began his whoop-it-up campaign in Chicago, marching down the streets of Chicago, and so on. The Vice President was deeply hurt and could THOUGHT FOR TODAY A tittle philosophy indincih man's mind to atheism; hut depth in philosophy bringeth man's minds about to religion. Bacon The Plaltsmoulh Journal : Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 1881 Published Semi-Weekly, Mondavi and Thursdays, at " i 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, ' Ak-Sar-Ben First Place Plaque for OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO AGRICULTURE, I ; , 1955 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 Woman's Editor JANET PTAK. Bookkeeper VERN WATERMAN Advertising PHONE ISSbSSSSL tSS3352H JSSSSiSEJ Entered at the Post Offite at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second class mail matter in accordance with the Act of Congress of 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 cen for two weeks. If a man takes off his hat in an ele vator, it means he has manners and hair. The difference between inlaws and outlaws is the inlaws promise to pay it back. A local family tells us they would be perfectly happy if they could get a cook to stay long enough to spoil the broth. ir it ir Our banker informs us a college edu cation sets a young man back about four years. We would like to include the "old man" in this picture, too. A railroad company release says every whistle of a locomotive means something. So does every honk of a horn, but you can't print it. Nature is grand until the weeds be gin to grow. If you listen carefully you can hear the lake region calling about this time of year. A local housewife-feeds every tramp who knocks at her door. She says its the only time around her house she sees a man eat his meal without finding fault with the food. (Ticklers By George 'Why can't you hunt rabbits instead of bears?" not understand why Labor's leaders turn ed thumbs-down on him. Had Barkley received the nomination, he probably would not have defeated President Eisenhower, although he wasj a very effective politician and no' one can say with certainty that this would have been the case. Barkley's death ends one of the out standing political careers in our country and removes one more of the New Deal champions, who were active in support of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Thirties. His loss is certain to handicap the Democratic Party in this election year and his death will be regretted by every fair-minded American, since it must be admitted that Senator Barkley was one of the most respected, honored and beloved leaders in Washington. Dovn Memory Lane Jf YEARS AGO Dr. G. H. Gilmore called a meet ing for the organization of a Cass County historical society . . . Miss Jean Hull and Elmer Phillips were married in Platts mouth . . . Miss Lillian Garrett was elect ed vice-president of the Nebraska State Art Association . . . Mrs. R. A. Bates de parted for a visit in Aurora and Joliet, 111. . . . Janet and Ruth Westover furnish ed entertainment at the Rotary Club meet ing ... A party was given for Marilyn Kieck on the occasion of her sixth birth day . . . Mrs. Ralph Wiles and Mrs. A. H. Duxbury attended a grand chapter of the Eastern Star meeting in Lincoln ... A miscellaneous shower was given for Miss Helen Koubek. iAr tAt tAt f YEARS AGO John C. Brittain returned from a trek in the woods with a half-pound truffle ... A new eight-room house with three lots was advertised for sale at $5, 000 .. . The Rt. Rev. Francis A. Beck mann, bishop of Lincoln, paid a pastoral visit to the St. John's and Holy Rosary Churches . . . The first game of the Sarpy Cass Baseball League was postponed be cause of heavy rainfalls . . . Plattsmouth jurors selected for the May term at dis trict court wTere C. L. Carlson, Matt Sul- ser, W. H. Rainey, T. E. Farmer, J. H. Cot- ner and M. B. Allen. WASHINGTO! ERRY-G0-i0U y DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1935, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: IKE'S JANUARY DINNER GOT $5,000 FROM H. B. KECK OF SU PERIOR OIL WHO ALSO OFFER ED $2,500 TO SENATOR CASE; SENATOR GEORGE DID NOT MAKE PUBLIC THE KECK CHECK TO IKTS DINNER; JOE MCCAR THY'S CAMPAIGN MANAGER PROFITED FROM CHEESE DEAL. Washington Now that the venerable and revered Senator George of Georgia has announced his intention to retire from the Senate and become Eisenhower's Am bassador to NATO, an important, hither to undisclosed incident involving Senator George and the White House can be re vealed. Senator George recently wound up the chairmanship of a special committee to investigate the $2,500 offered to Sen. Francis Case (R., S.D.) during the natural gas battle on behalf of Howard B. Keck of Superior Oil. During the investigation, the commit tee unearthed another check for twice that money from the same H. B. Keck, this one given to the Eisenhower dinner right in the middle of the Sen ate's gas debate. Unlike Senator Case, who returned the $2,500, the $5,000 from Keck was not returned by the Republican Na tional Committee nor by the White House. Considerable pressure was brought on Senator George's committee by the White House not to make this contribution public. Some committee mem bers felt that since the gift to Case came from exactly the same H. B. Keck and Superior Oil, , the larger gift to the Ei senhower dinner should be dis closed in order to indicate the general pattern of the Gas Lob by. - Why Ike Vetoed There was also some Senate resentment that President Ei senhower in his veto message should inpugn the morality of the Senate at the same time that his own money-raisers had received twice as much as Sen ator Case rejected, right in the middle of the gas debate. It was feared that the Sen ate Committee might make pub lic the Keck check that mater ially influenced the President's decision to veto the Gas Bill. ; In the end, however, Senators George did not make the $5,000 contribution to the Eisenhower dinner :public. He and the com mittee decided they should stick close to the question of the $2,500 offered by Keck to Senator Case and not go into the Keck gift to more important people. Keek's check for $5,000, dated Jan. 10, 1956, was on the City National Bank of Houston. It was check number 951 and was signed "H. B. Keck" from his office on the "7th Floor, Edison Building, Los Angeles, Calif." This address was printed on one end of the check. It will be interesting to see whether the new lobbying com mittee, headed by Senator Me Clellan of Arkansas, which is supposed to probe all phases of lobbying, will now make public the Keck check. Debt to Quaker Oats It looks as if the Ike Adminis tration had about paid up its debt to Quaker Oats. At any rate the debt should be paid up after this week. Quaker Oats executives were big campaign contributors to Eisenhower in 1952. Afterward, R. Douglas Stuart, chairman of Quaker Oats, was for a time U. S. Ambassador to Canada, while Don Lourie, president of Quaker Oats, served for a time as deputy under secretary of state. Milton Eisenhower, in turn, was a director of Quaker Oats. On top of this, Vice President Nixon last week paid off another campaign debt by presenting a medal for distinguished dog heroism to "Snooks," a seven-year-old mongrel picked as the dog hero of the year. The medal was called the "Ken-L-Ration Medal," and was of course, the public relations brainchild of the Quaker Oats Company. Ken-L-Ration is a Quaker Oats product. Campaign Funds Campaign contributions still carry weight in the backstage operations of the U. S. Govern ment, even though the furor over the proffered $2,500 to Senator Case has simmered down. Senator McClellan of Arkan sas didn't bother to dig into it, but North American Airlines not only retained Murray Chotiner, campaign manager and closest political adviser of Vice Presi dent Nixon, but also contributed to the GOP campaign. When Chotiner was before Mc Clellari's subcommittee, he got such kid-glove treatment that he was not asked a single .solitary question about the large cam paign funds he had raised; and when he said he had gone to the White House on two occa sions, no senator even took the trouble to ask him who were the clients on behalf of whom he wanted to exert a little White House influence. If the senators had taken off their kid gloves and dug into this case, however, they would have found that both Stanley Weiss, head of North American Airlines, and R. R. Hart contri buted to Republican National or State Committees. Campaign Managers Campaign managers also have a way of influencing what a senator does or says. Take the case of Joe McCar thy, one of the most vocal mem bers of the world's greatest de bating body. Joe is inclined to hold forth on all sorts of sub jects, and at one time started to declaim on the subject of the cheese scandal. Cheese comes from Wisconsin, and Joe has been urging not 90 per cent, but 100 per cent parity to help Wisconsin Dairy farm ers. It was only natural, there fore, for him to raise cain about the $2,000,000 windfall profit that the cheese processors made out of Ezra Benson at the ex pense of the farmer and the tax payer. Suddenly, however, Joe shut up. Absolutely nothing has been heard from him for months about the cheese scandal. This could be the reason why': McCarthy's campaign manag er for re-election in 1952 was Steve Miller, president of the Central Cheese Co., of Marshr field, Wis. That company received $24,885 from Secretary Benson on the cheese deal that McCarthy orig inally WAS, SO excited about. Mrs. McReynoIds Dies in Hospital At Omaha Saturday NEHAWKA (Special) Mrs. Alvin McReynoIds passed away Saturday in an Omaha hospital after an illness of three weeks. She was a resident of Ne hawka all her life and was born here October 7, 1883, the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs., Henry Behrns. She was married in 1916. Mrs. McReynoIds was confirm ed in the Lutheran Church. She is survived by her hus band, a brother, Joe, of Avoca and sister, Mrs. Minnie Neu meister, of Avoca. Funeral services will be 2 p. m. tomorrow at Nehawka Meth odist Church. The Rev. Fred Gardner will officiate. Burial will be at Mt. Pleas ant Cemetery, Nehawka. ' The family asks those who wish may contribute to the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery Association rather than give flowers. S t reet By Vern Waterman Hear Dem Bells? John Schreiner is finally cracking under the strain of the big Rexall One Cent Sale. The other evening Jimmy Frady was demonstrating the various alarms on some of the clocks of fered for sale by the drug store. He was letting the prospective customer, John Janacek, hear the alarm on a clock that must have been designed by Ed Ernst. It had a peculiar ringing sound, and John kept answering the telephone and couldn't figure out why there was no answer. :TI The Journal welcomes letturi from readers for this column o: any subject. Your name must b signed to all articles Intended for publication, however, by request. It can be omitted from the letter appearing- in print. (Contents do not necessarily express the opia lons of this newspaper.) Dear Editor: I write in regard to the item which Jerry Sharpnack wrote about the postal education per iod which I conducted at the local high school, and which item was given front page cov erage in the April 5, 1956 issue of the Journal. Recently, I sent one of the clip pings to the Chairman of the Educational Committee of the National Association of Postmas ters of the U. S. (N.A.P.U.S.). He was asking for items and ideas with clippings for his edu cational program. He in turn ad vised by mail that he had been very pleased wjth the program and the coverage of the item I sent and wrote about. Today I received a letter from the Editor of the N.A.PiU.S. Magazine, the "Gazette", saying he had receiv ed the clipping from Mr. Trev ithick, at Salt Lake City, Utah, and if I would sent the original photo used for the clipping, he would use them in some early issue of the "Gazette." As you know I have that original photo, as you were so kind as to send it to me upon my request. Then too, I wish to quote fur ther from the letter from Mr. Arthur V. Smith, the Editor: "Jerry Sharpnack did a fine job with the story. Often such artic les are too much involved with technical matter." I felt you would be happy to know of this "tour", so to speak, of your story. I am quite, happy to know it wasn't a vain, venture for me and that it was very successful from the Journal's standpoint. I wish to again thank4 all at the Journal for your efficient and courteous assistance in this ven ture. Very' sincerely yours, Verl Brunkow Acting Postmaster Murdock, Nebraska Grand Opening Fred Feldhousen, local phai macist, recently submitted to surgery at St. Catherine's Hos pital in Omaha. He is making very good progress and has now returned to his home. Many of his friends have been pinch hitting for him in the pre scription room. Numbered among them have been drug salesman and pharmacists, Ly ons and Thompson. New Rod Norm Ruback will soon be sporting a new Olds hardtop. He finally decided to pop and has a new one on order. He'd better not leave any shrimp in the trunk of this one. Proudly Shell Fly Installation has begun on the new flag pole for the post office. The other morning the footing was dug on the lawn. Three foot across and about eight deep. Much speculation was made by patrons of the postoffice as to the kind of project that was go ing on. Searl Davis walked up, took a look and decided they were digging a well. No More Matches Merle Long appears to have sewed up the lighter offered by Schreiners to the man on their team who throws the most strikes. He has connected with 141 to date and has a very com fortable lead on the runner up, Carl Chriswiser. There are only a few games to go and unless Carl can get a sharper focus on the pocket than Merle, the thin man, will be lighting his Old Golds with a new Zippo, tax free. Late Shoppers Note Beginning last week and con tinuing in the future, the retail stores in Plattsmouth are open until 9:00 p.m. on Fridays. This will mean you can buy anything from bathroom fixtures to a hair cut on a night other than Saturday. Pain is not an early symptom of cancer, which often strikes without warning. Doctors can detect early unsuspected cancers in the course of a regular health examination, the best cancer in surance, the American Cancer Society says. The Passing Scene The two characters who came out of the local tavern stopped on the sidewalk and rock ing back and forth took census of the evenings events. "How many did you drink?" asked one. "About 15 beers" his buddy replied. "Heck I spilled more than that" said the other man as he tottered on down. the street. BIRTHS - Son To Mr. and Mrs. Dale Reck ard of Nehawka, May 12 at St. Joseph Hospital in Omaha. The baby has been named Jeffrey Dale and weighed 8 lbs. 9 oz. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Reckard of Plattsmouth and Mrs. Hilda E. Vibber of Wray, Colo. RADIATOR REPAIRING ONE-DAY SERVICE PSatfsmouth Motors Washington Ave. Ph. 287 THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE. FOUR Monday, May 14, 1956 Nehawka News: Fred Lindsey Awarded 4-H Club Trip Given by Sheldon's Store By Mrs. F. O. Sand Tel. 2708 NEHAWKA (Special) Fred Lindsey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Lindsey of Union, re ceived the Sheldon Store award which was a trip to 4-H Club week. Carolyn Miller is the al ternate. The committee met recently with Mrs. F. O. Sand. They were Mrs. John Groesser, home agent, Harry Knabe, Mrs. Jack Lindsey and Mrs. Sand. Sheldon's store has given this trip for the past It years. It is sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Mar ion Tucker and Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Mitchell. Those who have won the trips include Eve lyn Margaret Wolph in 1946, and following that Robert Sand, Lela Edmonds, Shirley Bickett, Mar garet Ann Knabe, Harold Scharp, Robert Orridorff, Phyl lis Switzer, Gerald Switzer, Mar ilyn Whipple. To be elegible the boy or girl must be from the Nehawka com munity, or attends the Nehawka School or be a club member in the Nehawka vicinity. He must be an active member the year the award is given, must have completed a project the year previous to the award, must have earned certificates o f achievement for at least t wo years and in at least three proj ects. He must not have previ ously received a club week trip and he must hae exhibited at the county and state fair or Ak-Sar-Ben. The community is very grate ful to the Sheldon store for the interest in 4-H club work and the parents and children apprec iate this award. A Roundup of Nehawka News NEHAWKA (Special) Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Kime and Mar lin, Mr. and Mrs. George Shel don, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Mc ReynoIds and Mr. and Mrs. Har old Dodson and Judy attended the wedding Saturday of Miss Karen Kalasek and Rolland Cooper at the Methodist Church at Plattsmouth. Mr. and Mrs. Merle Meyer and family were guests at the wedding Saturday of Miss Paul ine Jensen and Mr. Dayle John son at the First Baptist Church in Lincoln. Jolene and Marlene Myer were flower girls. Sandra Stapert was 12 years old Saturday. She had six of her friends in for a party. The aft ernoon was spent playing games. Refreshments were serv ed. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin McRey noIds, Mr. and Mrs.. Gilbert Kime and Marlin were guests Sunday" afternoon of the John Behrns family of Lincoln. Mr. and Mrs. Merle Meyer and family were dinner guests Sunday of the James Savage family of Nebraska City. Swine Club Meets The Nehawka Swine club met recently with Charles and Rob ert Cook. There were 12 mem bers and six guests present. A new member is Sandra Stapert. The lessons studied were vita mins, cereal grains and pasture for swine. Mrs. Cook served refresh ments. The next meeting will be with Richard and Ronnie Dick man on May 29. Teddy Brannon is the news reporter. A dinner Sunday at the Ivan Hansen home observed the birth days of Mr. Hansen and his sis ter, Miss Frances Hansen. Guests were John Hansen and daughter, Frances, Mr. and Mrs. Don Hansen and Tommy of Plattsmouth; Mr. and Mrs. Allen Hansen and Donetta of Omaha. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Ross were evening callers. Thursday evening the Ivan Hansen family were guests of Miss Frances Hansen for her birthday. Flower Club News Home School and Community Beautification Week was observ ed April 30-May 4. A committee of the Nehawka Flower Club, Mrs. Elmer Stoll, Mrs. Guy Murdoch and Mrj. Floyd Joerger with the following FHA girls, Carolyn Miller, Mary Lou Coster, Mary Briley, Jane Dietl, Sharon Dodson, planted flowers in front of Dr. Ander sen's office, at the home eco nomics house and the library. The sophomore and freshmen girls raked the home economics lawn. The FHA girls will paint a barrel to be used as a disposal can, for their national project. Monday noon a picnic observ ed the May and summer birth days of the children in the pri mary room. They are Catherine Hansen, Jolene Meyer, Elaine Akins, Jeanette Jones, Burnice Garrett, Barbara Mayfield, Jul ia Mitchell, Cheryl Pollard, Neil Balfour, Lois Wessel. The moth ers prepared the picnic lunch. Miss Marilyn Meyer is the teacher. ' The WSCS served dinner to the faculty and senior class members at the church Wednes day evening. It is a part of their youth work. Ned Snyder wiil enter the state track meet in the high jump at Lincoln May 11 and 12. Baccalaureate service was Sunday evening at the auditorium. Class Night Set Class night will be observed by the seniors Wednesday eve ning at the auditorium. There will also be eighth grade grad uation the same evening. Rev. Raymond L. Alber of the Christian Church of Lincoln will be the speaker for the gradua tion exercises Thursday evening, May; 17. The school picnic is on Fri day noon at. the school. There will be games in the afternoon. Kay Ward is valedictorian and Larry Whittington, salutatorian of the senior class. 'CANDY' PILLS FATAL POTTSTOWN, Pa. Patricia Dudley, 4, thought the bottle of red pills given to her a week before by an 8-year-old aunt, were candy pills. She swallowed half of the contents of the bot tle and became violently ill. Taken to a hospital, she was treated and discharged. She be came ill again and returned to the hospital, where she died. The American Telephone and Telegraph Company has an nounced an expansion program that will cost mere than $2,000, 000,000 in 1956. Twice-a-Day Service Plattsmouth to Omaha Also Bellevue Offutt Field and La-Platte Plattsmouth Transfer Plattsmouth 5255 Omaha HA 6733 (Political Arlrertiiement) (Political Advertisement) For Honest, Efficient, Sincere Service as COUNTY COMMISSIONER From District 1 VOTE FOR ! ! on the Republican Ballot pMlltfi.MlMNdlllM ri k a h fc i A