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rATHER S DAY, 1956 Father's Day originated in various parts of the United States at various times, but it was probably the suggestion of Mrs. John Bruce Dodd, of Spokane, Washing ton, which is most generally accepted as the origin of Father's Day. Mrs. Dodd first thought of a special day to be set aside for honoring fathers in 1909, as a tribute to her own father, who had reared a family of children after the death of his wife. She made the proposal to the Minis terial Association in Spokane, and the association approved the proposal, after it was submitted to mambers, and the first celebration of the clay was held in Spo kane in 1910. Observance of the day did not spread rapidly over the country, and, in various sections of the nation, after 1910, the idea was thought to have been originated. It wasn't until 1934 that Fath er's Day became a nationally-observed day, on the third Sunday of June. The official flower for the day is the rose. A red rose is worn in honor of a living father and a white rose in honor of a deceased one. It is not necessary for children, and mother, to lavish expensive gifts on Fath er, on Father's Day. The spirit of the day is one of honoring the head of the house hold and the gifts which are hand-made, or which represent the labor or efforts of the giver, represent the true spirit of the Father's Day observance. rEATH AND NARCOTICS The Senate Judiciary Committee has unanimously approved a bill which pro vides for the death penalty in some cases for violating the narcotics laws. The bill, authored by Senator Price Daniel, Texas Democrat, provides for a possible death sentence for the third of fense in the smugglings of heroin, and al lows juries to recommend the death sen tence for the sale of heroin to youths uiw der eighteen years of age. In addition, the bill stiffens penalties for other violations, and sets the minimum penalty for dope sales to minors at ten years. The Daniel bill is long overdue. The American people are in favor of stiffer penalties for convicted dope peddlers, and especially those who sell dope to young sters, or who repeat their offenses. it ir nOREICN AID IS CUT The House Foreign Affairs Commit tee, in its final action on the foreign aid bill, slashed $1, 109,000, 000 from the Pres ident's requests. President Eisenhower had asked for approval of some $4,900,000, 000. He wanted three billion dollars for military aid to our allies and $1,900,000, 000 for foreign economic aid. The committee slashed over $100, 000,000 from the foreign economic aid program and a billion dollars from the military aid program. These cuts were approved by a one-sided 24-4 vote. The Administration is now attempting to line up Senate support to increase the amount of foreign aid voted. In many past years, the Senate has increased the amount and, in conference committee, the THOUGHT FOR TODAY ' " He that docs anything for the public is accotntcd to do it for nobody. Thomas Fuller Purses Fresh Flashes A Plattsmouth housewife says her hus band is getting completely out of hand her husband is calling her the same names she calls him. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, says some of these new bath ing suits may be a French creation, but there is a lot of American showing. Did you ever notice that a visiting relative never gets insulted until his stomach is full? . A local gal who flirts with her teach ers to get high marks, has a mother who winks at the milk man to get grade A. These new perfumes have a nice odor, but girls should remember that the smell of steak and potatoes has attracted a lot j of good men. We've noticed through the years that a love triangle usually turns out to be a wrecktangle. Live and learn a chafing dish is nothing but a hifalutin' word for a stuck up frying pan. One good way to forget all your trou bles is to wear tight shoes. No Imagination V v XTsft fflsNL cb ? 7 - ------ final figure would be a compromise be tween the higher Senate figure and the lower House figure. The Senate Foreign Relations commit tee, headed by Senator Walter George, is expected to give President Eisenhower a little more of what he wants than did the House committee. However, we believe the final figure for foreign aid should be cut by at least as much as the House For eign Affairs Committee's reduction. We hope that the Senate will go along with the House on this reduction this year. There are too many desirable pro grams and projects in this country, and too many people in need, for the United States to be sending almost five billion dollars abroad in an aid program which is, at best, of problematical benefit. Down Memory Lane The Plallsmoulh Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED. IN 1SS1 Published Semi-Weekly, Mondays and Thursdays, at 410 Main Street, Plattsmouth,, Cass County, Nebr. National Award Winner 79 56 AaitHaI Cdtiosuai Aiiodatia Ituutai Three Times Winner Ak-Sar-Ben Plaques for "OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE" 1949 1951 1952 'Honorable Mention" 1953 Ak-Sar-Ben First Place Plaque for OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO AGRICULTURE, 1955 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 VERN WATERMAN r Advertising JANET PTAK Bookkeeper H W PHONE 241 fiMrnyl baiichai. iditc IDITORIUASJOOAIBI 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. Entered at tlie Post Olfice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second class mail matter in accordance with the Act of Congress of March 3, 1S79. r YEARS AGO v Four horses owned by Vilas Shel don of Nehawka were electrocuted by lightning . . . John H. Becker accepted a position with an auditing firm in the East. . . . E. H. Wescott received an award for his service with boy scout groups . . . Nora Ellen Dreamer and Harry Leefer were married in Elmwood . . . Mrs. Rose Win tersteen Toll of Kansas City, Mo., one time Plattsmouth teacher, visited in Platts mouth with Miss Olive Gass . . . Miss Mar tha Gorder departed for Yellowstone Park where she planned to work for the sum mer . . . Alice M. Funke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Funke, was reappointed as deaconess of a Methodist Church in Baltimore. tt Q YEARS ACO OKJ Mary E. Alwin and Nelson Eaton were married in Omaha . . . Attending summer school at Peru College were Lou ise Rumrael, Mildred Fleming, Marie Hun ter, Gladvs Meisinger, Ruth Hogue and avoid excessive fatigue." Frances btewart ... I he Masonic ;uaie Quartet composed of Frank A. Cloidt, Raymond C. Cook, Harry G. McClusky and L. O. Minor sang several numbers at the AF & AM Lodge in Omaha. E. H. Wescott was accompanist ... A daugh ter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Don Seivers. . . . Alice Pollock took her niece, Eleanor Minor, to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., for treatment . . . Bandits at Falls City robbed 60 participants in a dice game of over $2,500 . . . Ernest Pollard, Jr., of Nehawka and Helen Stahl were married in Fremont. his own worry over it. He- is about the only man who has been frank. Here is the record of what Eisenhower has said, both in public and in private. 1. ' At a stage dinner in the winter of 1954 he told Chair man Len Hall, Attorney General jBrownell, and other close ad visers that the Republican par ty should not depend on one man, that they should start to build up men to take his place. And he named some who should be groomed. - Despite this, both Chairman Hall and Vice President Nixon left the dinner to make em phatic statements that Ike was sure to run. 2. In May, 1955,' Eisenhower told Sen. George Bender of Ohio that if he ran again he would be the only president to reach the age of 70 in the White House. And he spoke all too propetically about the erosion on the health of any president. To make sure his views were known publicly he asked Jim Hagerty to see to it that this view was expressed to the press. 3. In September, 1955, as Re publican state leaders gathered in Denver, their faces grew long as the president told them,, in brief, that they could not pin their future on one man, they must begin developing other candidates. This was just three weeks prior to Eisenhower's tragic heart attack. 4. When he came back from that heart attack, Eisenhower told newsmen at Key West, Fla., that it would be wrong for him to run again unless he had a good chance , of serving out a second term, because "it is a very critical thing to change governments in this country at a time when it's unexpected." 5. At his first White House press conference after the heart attack he warned: "It would be idle to pretend that my health can be wholly restored to the ex cellent state in which the doc tors believed it to be in Mid September ... My future life must be carefully regulated to That is the unequivocal rec-1 ord of Ike's apparently definite decision at that time not to run again. Politicians' Shrewd Strategy However, he reckoned without .the leaders of his party some of the shrewdest leaders the party has had in many years. Chairman Hall, the top mas termind, went to Gettysburg; came out to announce that he was confident Ike would run again. Senator Knbwland of California, who called on the president the same day, came out with just the opposite opinion. What Hall did at Gettysburg was to start a holding operation. He asked the president not to say "no," at least for the time being, on the ground that he needed to keep Congress guess ing for the sake of his legisla tive program. A lame-duck president, Hall argued, has no influence with congress. Ike bought Hall's holding-operation strategy. It was the smartest thing Hall has ever done. For the passage of time gave the leaders, the White House staff, everyone around the president time to pressure i him, to argue that he was the indispensable man. Simultane ously he got back his old confi dence. Ike Was Right The president, however, was right when he talked about the erosion on the health of any man who occupies the presi dency, as his latest illness now demonstrates. He was right also when he warned that "it is a very critical thing to change governments in this country at a time that is unexpected." The drop in the stock market, the meeting of Pan American presi dents left high and dry in Pan ama, the abortive visit of Chan cellor Adenauer, the problem of what to do about Premier Nehru all illustrate how the compli cated machinery of American government is upset when an American president is benched. So the big question is: Will Ike now follow his own advice?. Will he carry out , his own statement of J March j . 7, which read: "I have said, unless I felt ab solutely up to the performance of the duties of the president, the second that I didn't, I would no longer be there in the job, or I wouldn't be available in the job. "I am talking about my gen eral, let's say oragnic fitness for the job, as I see it, and that means carrying a burden of hard work right on through the year and through the months. "Now any time that I believe that has failed to the point of inability to perform the job properly, then that goes before the American people instantly." Washington Pipeline Gen. Lucius Clay, head of Con tinental Can, and one of Ike's closest friends, phoned the White House immediately after Ike was taken sick and suggested future GOP strategy. Ike's digestive dif ficulty, General Clay advised, had been considered by the president when he made up his mind to run again. Therefore, the operation won't change his mind ... Some White House friends were Frank in stating that all Ike needs to do is have his name on the ballot. Wheth er sick or well, he can win . . . The President, who knows his own mind and inclinations better than anyone else, was quoted by Merriman Smith of the United-Press last winter as remark ing to friends as he walked through the White House: "I had to say yes because they told me they didn't have time to build up another candidate." . . . The item was killed by Lyle Wil son", head of the Washington UP bureau, though Merriman, dean of White House correspondents, swore the statement was cor rect. Some weeks later after the "kill" had aroused considerable comment among editors, Hagerty arranged for the president to make a diplomatic explanation that if he had ever said this, he didn't really mean it . . . When the president was taken sick, he had a cabinet meeting sched uled for that morning. It was not canceled at first, but post poned to 2 p. m. No one at the White House at that time had any idea how sick he really was. THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE TWO Section C Thursday, June 14, 1956 Out Of Old Nebraska . . . Washington erry-Go -Round ly DREW PEARSON m (Copyright, 1355, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: REPUBLICAN PARTY QUICK LY DECIDED IKE MUST RUN WHETHER HE WANTS TO OR NOT; EISENHOWER WAS LONG LOATH TO RUN, AGAIN; CHAIR MAN HALL SHREWDLY MANEU VERED HIM INTO RUNNING. Washington After about 24 hours of ision from the Sioux, decided thaf hectic indecision immediately after Eisen-lthe effort was hopeless and in hower's illness, the Republican high com-!1863 tne colony broke up and mand has decided on a united and vigor Nance County The early history of Nance County is unusual because from 1857 until 1876 it was a Pawnee Indian reservation. The Pawnees accepted the area as a reserva tion in 1857 when they gave up all their remaining lands in Ne braska and retained it until 1876 when they exchanged it for lands in Oklahoma. Actually, the Paw nees did not arrived in Nance County until 1860, and most of them left in 1875. Prior to the designation of the area as an Indian reservation, a colony of Mormons from St.. Louis settled near the present town of Genoa. There were 100 families in the group, and in the spring of 1858, their first in the area, they put 1200 acres under cultivation. After extreme priva tion in the beginning, the colony was unusually prosperous un'Jl the Pawnees arrived in 1860. The Mormons tried to live in peace with the Pawnee's, but partly because of warlike incur j scattered. ed for the organization of the former Pawnee reserve into Nance County, naming it in hon or of Governor Albinus Nance. Fullerton, platted that same year on lands owned by Randall Fuller, one of the first purchas ers of reservation land, was des ignated the county seat and has remained so ever since. One of the venerable institu tions in Nance County was the Pawnee Indian school at Genoa. This school, organized in 1863, was finally opened in 1884 and continued to function until 1933 when it was abandoned. The school and adjacent farm, since that time, have been used as an overflow for state prisoners. ' The "History of Nebraska", published by A. T.i Andreas in 1882, has glowing words of praise for the possibilities of the new Nance County. Andreas wrote: "For richness of soil, the valley lands cannot be excelled. Where cultivated, they yield, the richest harvest, and. when left untouch ed, produce luxuriant growths of wild grass. Corn is the staple grain product, and it is largely cultivatted in connection with ,ua 1WCLUCU U11 tl "mieu-aim wbui- , - Istock raising, which is rapidly ous front that he can and must run again.1 Land sales did not begin until ihpnmin the chief OCCUDation Hardly was he out from under the 18 i3 Dl" a rather considerable anesthetic than the word was'passed down number of settlers began corn to the partv faithful. Unofficially there tog into the former reservation were serious misgivings, but officially this 18.76- The settlers seemed will was the partv line. The president himself ij?g. fake improvements on j.,,,,' , , , ... : their claims and ta4ce their didnt have a word to say about it, nor chances in good frontier fashion did his wife and son. that their work would be recog- The official line was adopted despite jnized and their claims confirm the fact that General Eisenhower himself jed. has been quite frank about his health and' In 1879 the legislature provid- becoming the chief occupation of the farmers." In 1830, the first census year after the county was opened for settlement, there was a popula tion of 1,212. By 1890 this had jumped to 5,773, and by 1900 to j 8,222. The peak of population was reached in 1910 when the county returned 8,926. Since then there has been a gradual decline and in 1950 the county's popula- Rcalty Transfers Henry O. Friesel & Mae to John L. Mead & Y Verne Mead 8-20-54, L. 1, 2, 3, B. 5 Riverside Add W. Water. $25.00. Earl Nichols to Robt. E. Nich ols & Betty Miller, 1-5-56, L. 6 WViNWtt 7-12-10. $1.00. Clarence H. Stohlman to Lau ra, Richard Meisinger, Lorena, 4-5-56 L. 695 Louis. $12000. Thomas S. Solomon, Sh., to Howrard J. Dunn, 5-5-49, L. 1 WSWSEA 2-12-9. $241.66. J. Howard Davis & Marcia to Theodore E. Ptak & Janet, 4-16-56, L. 4 B. 134'Platts. $1.00 Robt. C. Olney & Lillian J. to Mata Amick & Charles, 3-15-56, Und. V2 Int. L. 1 & 2 B. 105 W. Water $1700.00. Joseph E. Habel & Lela to Ray W. Hanson, 5-2-55, L. 709 Louis. $750.00. Philip R. Dwinell & Edith to Walter W. Larson, 4-27-56 Frc. Pt. WioNWU & SWVi 3-10-11. $1.00. George Mortensen & Chris tina Neesen to Geo. Mortensen & Christina, 5-3-56, L. 602 & SYz 603 Louis. $1.00. Emily Fricke etal to A. Wayne Propst & Mildred, 4-25-56 SV2 L. 11 & 12 B. 54 Platts. $1.00. D. Ray Frans & Margaret Ann to Jay H. Austin, 10-9-51, L. 12 B. 1 So. Union. $100.00. Jay H. Austin to Callie L. Stine, 5-5-56, L. 12 B. 1 So. Un ion. $125.00. Holy Rosary Church cf Platts. to Julia Svoboda, 5-5-56, L. 7, 8, 9 B. 19 Duke's Add Platts. $1.00. James F. McMillian & Dorothy to Delbert Albin & Lucy Ann, 4-30-56, L. 7, B. 42, Y & H Add Platts. & Pt. Street, $4500. Jacob L. Carnicle & Pearl to County of Cass, 5-8-56, L. 23 SWVi 13-12-10, $175.00. Soennichsen's, a Co-partnership to Herbert A. Freeburg & Elthea, 4-30-56, L. 2 & Eh L. 3, B. 34 Platts., $1.00. E. P. Snodgrass & Oval to Arnold French, 5-9-56, L. 1 & 2, B. 10, Y & H Add Platts, $2450.00. E. P. Snodgrass & Oval to Arnold French, 5-9-56, L. 4, B. 99, Platts., $1.00. James A. Surface & Sachiko to Nellie Hathaway, 3-23-56, L. 4, 5, 6, B. 2, Pannings Add Un ion, L. 36 SWUSEU 23-10-13, $1500.00. James A. Surface & Sachiko to Nellie Hathaway, 3-25-56, L. 4, 5, 6, N. 2 Bannings Add Un ion, $1500.00. Issac Errett Wiles & F. Irene to Richard. F. Fiala & Frances, 3-8-56, N2NE?i & L. 1 NEli NW4 30-12-12, $14000.00. President Sukarno of Indone sia criticized the military aid the United States gives Asian nations as making the recipient nations "more dependent on America." By Stanley James. Journal Washington Reporter WASHINGTON, June 14 The Republican Administr a t i o n ' s farm program is now getting underway. Secretary of Agricul ture Ezra Taf t Benson who is still around in spite 6f the storm which has raged around him for a year is supporting im mediate soil bank payments to farmers who wish to take land already planted out of cultiva tion. But Benson does not want to see the soil bank plan be swamped with claims and re sulting payments to farmers who have suffered as a result of droughts or floods. Yet he is willing for' farmers to take ad vantage of the program this year if they wish. The major defect in the $1, 200,000,000 soil bank program, as in the price support system, is that no provision for the small farmer's peculiar problems are made. In other words criticism which continues to be made by small farmers is not likely to be modified by the soil bank program. , The soil bank plan allows payments for cultivated land taken out of production. This is fine for the farmer planting 500 acres. He is perhaps work ing on a profit margin of $100 an acre, which will give him, for the year, $15,000 profit. The small farmer, planting five acres and working them himself, is counting on $400 profit an acre which gives him $2,000 to live on. He cannot afford to take an acre out of production and getf from the government a $90 soil bank pay ment in return. The big farm er can. He could take fifty acres out of production and col lect over $4,000 from the gov ernment for not growing crops thereon The same problem arises in the field of price supports. The small farmer needs ninety per cent price support, with his few acres. It would not hurt to give him that, were there a scale, which allowed ninety per cent supports for the first five acres, a little less for the next five or ten acres, etc. This would prevent the big farmer from dumping huge sur pluses on the government, after planting great acreages only on the assurance that the govern ment would have to support all this over-production at a high parity support figure. , Since the government has reduced its parity support, the problem is solved partially, but if every small farmer wrere allowed five or ten acres at the ninety per cent supports, it would insure prosperity for the smallest farm ers while still holding down production. The new farm program, how ever, contains neither the slid-' ing scale price support provision, nor a soil bank program which can be utilized by the small farmer. That is its major weak ness. Nevertheless, Benson has some money to pay out sand farmers who want to take advantage of the program can do so. With the latest report, that farm prices are going up, the Sec retary is hopefully looking to the later months of the year to bring about a greatly im proved situation on U.S. farms. The rumor and various re ports persist that Harry Tru man has definitely dumped Ad lai Stevenson and is now back ing Averell Harriman. There is evidence to back up this sus picion. Truman has never been a moderate. He began as a con servative, and ended up a lib eral, in the White House. The conservatives get under the former President's skin, mainly because they consider him an upstart, and judged him to be in over his head when he occupied the White House. This element, largely, supports Stev enson, because Stevenson can probably maintain party unity and is highly capable. The ex-President, however, might want action of a radical nature and Harriman is the man offering this and a split in the party such as Truman over came in 1948. TIEIEF REPEATS NEW YORK Two months ago, Kenneth Fagan, manager of a Woolworth store, was forced by a red-headed gunman to go back into the store after closing time and hand over $1, 400 from a safe. Several nights ago, the red-haired gunman re appeared just as Fagan was locking the store door, produced a gun and said, "Let's do the same thing." They did this time the bandit got $900. WANDERING PUP LAKEWOOD, Calif. On Jan uary l, 1954, Prince, pet collie dog owned by David Martinez, 8, vanished. On May 4, 1956, Prince limped home, walked in to the living room and took his favorite spot by the window. There he lay down, rolled over and went to sleep. A veteri narian, who examined the dog, said Prince appeared to have walked "hundreds of miles," but was in good condition otherwise. Walter P. Reuther, head of the United Automobile Workers re cently said the decline in farm income endangered the nation's economy. Gl HOME OWNERS BEWARE of STRANGERS who OFFER TO MAKE UP YOUR BACK PAYMENTS ....REPORT SUCH PROPOSALS TO YOUR LENDER OR TO YOUR NEAREST I VM UhHUfc i if te'p' FREEZE! 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