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Roy Smith, Helen Oehlerking Back From Minnesota Session Eunice Oehlerkine and T?nv Smith of Cass County were in Paynes ville, Minn., last week attending the Third General Con vention of Youth Fellowship, Christian Education and Evan gelism of the Evangelical Uni ted Brethern Church. This gathering meets only every four years and attracts Annual Red Cross Safety Swim Week Is Underway Today WEEPING WATER The an nual Red Cross Water Safety and Learn to Swim Week got underway today. Youngsters taking part will be where the classes are held. The school bus taking the children will be driven by Assistant School Superinteendent Art Thomsen, who donated his services. Announcement of the swim ming schedule was made by Red Cross chairman. Murray Briefs Mr. and Mrs. Olin Morris and family and Mr. and Mrs. James Comstock and family left last Saturday morning for Estes Park in Colorado for a short vacation. A family gathering was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry McCulloch last Sunday, honoring Mr. McCulloch's broth er and family, who were visit ing here for a few days. Mr. and Mrs Ed Smalley and family, Mrs. Clara Arnold and Mrs. Harry McCullock were visiting at the home of Mrs. Mary Eppings last Thursday. Mrs. Eppings intends to start back to work soon. IS YOUR WATCH TAKING' TIME U(AW7 OFF? Get your watch into action to do the job you expect of if 1 Bring it in and let our specialists look it over. Reliable service is our watchword. And for new'i beauty, restyle your watch with ajmart JLn1xuki watch mndtJ Grove Jewelry 505 Main Dial 228 more than 1,000 delegates from all parts of the world. Repre senatives are present from Ger many, Phiilippines and South America. Every day ; delegates spent hours of discussion on special ized interests' f" which will fur thur church ia'nd youth Fellow ship work. ' I Top notch speakers gave mes sages to inspire the delegates. The speakers included college presidents and missionaries. Films were shown on the churches colleges and missions. Conventions were held each afternoon, followed by a recre ational period. Miss Oehlerking received her trip as Y F president of the Nebraska Conference and Roy was elected to represent district two. Cass County Offers More To Heart Fund Special To The Journal Cass County contributed $1, 449 in Heart Fund monies and memorial gifts to fight heart disease during the financial year ending last month. This was announced today by Dr.. O. A. Kostal of Hastings, President, in a final report of the Nebraska Heart Associa tion's income for the 1955-56 fis cal year. He reported a total income of $168,700, including $160,437 from Heart Fund Drives last Febru ary in 370 Nebraska communi ties, $6,800 in memorial gifts throughout the year, $940 in membership dues and $521 in bank interest. This income is 42 percent greater than the preceding year. Heart Fund returns rose $46, 708 and memorials made in me mory of loved ones who died of heart disease increased $2,421. The total Heart Fund and me morial contributions from Cass County increased $705. Surrounding counties had in comes of: Otoe County, $1,712, and Sarpy, $1,954. Dr. Kostal said that because of the greatly expanded in come, the Nebraska Heart As sociation will be able to nearly double its Research Program. By Margaret Dingman Phone 241 3 d If He Could Talk . . . He'd Say "Take Me to Frank's" Frank's Photos Children's Portraits a Specialty Prompt Service 646 So. 6th h Phone 7187 Its a GOOD BUY PARTLY COMPLETED n ome 60x88 Ft. Corner Lot On Paving and Sewer pull mio 1 3 Down; Terms on Balance Or Cash Discount if You Do Own financing Bathroom Completed Kitchen in Process cf Completion THIS WEEK ONLY ' CAN BE SEEN BY APPOINTMENT CLOIDT Mrs. D. L. Ramel will leave Wednesday for Oakland, Calif., to visit at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Ruble. She will also spend some time with an other daughter at Bellflower, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Robinson. A trip to Dublin, Texas, is also planned by Mrs. Ramel, where she will visit her sister-in-law, Mrs. Grace Robason. ' "Chuck" Aitkenhead of Omaha spent a few days the past week at the L. A. Amato home visiting an aunt, Mrs. Amato and his grandmother, Mrs. George Aitkenhead. The Plattsmouth Journal car ried a news item on the so ciety page Thursday about Henry Sanders celebrating his 91st birthday at 663 West Sev enth, San Pedro, Calif., where he makes his home with his son, John. This was in error, Mr. Sanders makes his home with his daughter, Ann Sanders, at the above address. Roger Hild and fraternity brother, Roger Hubbard of Omaha and "Butch" Furse departed early Sunday morning for a weeks vaca tion in Colorado. Mr. and Mrs. LaVerne Lid dick and family left Saturday for a vacation in California. Charles Schwenneker spent from Tuesday to Saturday with his aunt, Mrs. Richard Banner and family at Fremont. Charles is a Plattsmouth Journal paper carrier. Mrs. Ivan Balfour of Union was a Plattsmouth visitor Fri day. Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Rhodes of Gardena, Calif., are visit ing Mr. and Mrs. Ed Donat and family. They were enroute from Washington, Kans., where they were called by the death of Mr. Rhodes' father. Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Mei singer spent the weekend in Ord, where they attended the wedding Saturday of their niece, Janice Melia and Fred Waskowiak of Loup City. Lillie Muenchau and Juliann Taylor have returned from an extensive trip to the Northwest ern States and Canada. The two ladies are employees of the Nebraska Masonic Home and re turned to Plattsmouth Saturday. Mrs. T. H. Luckey of West boro, Mass., was an overnight guest of her t granddaughter, Mrs. LeRoy Wilson, and family. The Wilson family had attended a reunion at the Auburn park returning Mrs. Luckey with them for a short visit. Mrs. Marie Richards re turned Sunday from a two weeks visit with her daugh ter and son-in-law, Sergeant and Mrs. Robert Aim at Biloxi, Miss. Aim is an in structor at Keisler Air Force Base. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Becker of Union have just returned from Chillicothe, 111., .where they have been visiting Mr; 'and Mrs. Glenn Hoback and family, the daughter and son-in-law. Bob Sedlak of Burbank, Calif., arrived today at the Omaha Airport and was met at the plane by his friend Denny Ptak. Bob will be a houseguest of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Sedlak. He will visit relatives here and in Omaha also his many friends. Mrs. Gerald Sharpnack re turned Sunday by train from Denver, Colo., where she was a guest of Miss Nancy Mrs. Lee Roy Gunnoe and daughters, Carol and Barbara departed for their home in Charleston, West Va., Sunday evening. They have spent two weeks at the home of Mrs. Gun noe's mother, Mrs. Ida Cadwell. While here they also spent some time with Mr. and Mrs. Don Warga, Mr. and Mrs. DeForrest Perry and Mr. and Mrs. Del bert Cadwell and sons of Bel le vue. Mrs. Gunnoe is the for mer Betty Cadwell. - . ' ' Rae Mae Henry returned by plane today from Penn slyvania where she has been visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Henry. She was met at the Omaha Air port by Katherine Ptak. Guests for a pot luck dinner Sunday at the John Rishel home were Mr. Rishel's sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Rix and daughter, Elizabeth of Sac City, Iowa; Mrs. Julia Rea zer; Mr. and Mrs. Miles Reazer and sons, Michael and Mark cf Council Bluffs, Iowa; Mrs. Alice Andrews and son, Gene; Mr. and Mrs. Kieth Stinger and James Rishel of Omaha. Floyd Fulton entered the Methodist Hospital in Omaha today where he underwent an appendect omy. His wife is confined to the same hospital having ! had surgery last week. "Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Furse returned home Saturday after spending some time at their lakeshore cabin in Henning, Minn. Plattsmouth visitors arriving Sunday are Mrs, Jeanette Mick elwait and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Mickelwait and family of Trini ty, Tex. They are house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Wiles and plan to visit other relatives and their friends while here. Mrs. Allen and Glen and Dick Stivers from Omaha, grandson of Mrs. Allen, visited in Platts mouth and all motored to the J. L. Stivers farm at Nemaha viewing the orchards and corn fields. They report very few apples. They spent the day with Mrs. Stivers, formerly Pearl Allen of Plattsmouth. Wicklers l By George imm .t i. .... J LI r I - - ' - ttnttfr - - -7 tfBfj no, Mom, he s no trouble at all! Right now we ra uiai iiiK &unie buiieu vuiiuwiiti uiiwii vhiiivi I i " p ,. 1 JJil.Iijui.i.ii :l j ' - ijl- I .it 1 1 nil 11 m Mr. and, Mrs Milton Muncie spent last .weekend in Kansas City, Mo., visiting Mr. Muncie's hrother, Warren. They also stopped at St. Joseph, Mo., where they visited Mr. Muncie's mother, Mrs. Carrie Muncie. Mrs. George Thun entered St. Catherine's Hospital in Omaha Sunday and underwent surgery today. She is in toom 347. Mrs. Minta Todd entered St. Catherine's Hospital in Omaha for observation. She is in room 1M. Presbyterian Youth Fellow ship entertained the Bellevue Presbyterian Youth Fellowship at a swimmiing and picnic party at Merritt's Beach Sunday evening. Approximately 45 attended. LeRoy Paben, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Paben, left for naval training at San Diego, Calif., Thursday evening. Mrs. Frank Cheval, Jr., sub mitted to an appendectomy Sun day morning. She is in the Methodist Hospital, Omaha, in room 407. Mr. and Mrs Ken Weaver and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hild at tended the midget auto races in Ralston Saturday evening. Mr. Sam Am and sons, Joel and Jerry are visiting Mrs, Arn's parents at Fayette, Mo. Mr. Am drove his family there returning to Plattsmouth Sunday. Mrs. Walter Rhoades has re turned to the University Hos pital in Omaha for treatment and observation. DeForest Philpot of Weeping Water was a Plattsmouth bus iness caller today. Lincoln Man Is Fined for 2 Violations A Lincoln man was in Cass County Court this week on two traffic violation counts. He is Clarence C. Mounce who pleaded guilty to charges of failure to stop at a stop sign and use of improper mufflers. He paid a fine of $10 for each charge and court costs of $4. Other cases in county court during the past three days: John Davis of Phoenix Ariz., over gross weight, $50 fine, $4 costs. Maurice A. Jaynes of Greeley, Colo., no trip permit, $10 fine, $4 costs Phillip W. Hill of Lincoln, speeding, $25 fine, $4 costs. George J. Van Moorleghem of Omaha, speeding, $10 fine, $4 costs. Richard C. Morris of Lincoln Air Force Base, speeding, $10 fine, $4 costs. William R. Hartman of Lin coln, speeding, $10 fine, $4 costs. Lois J. Karstens of Lincoln, speeding, $15 fine, $4 costs. Robert L. Wentworth cf Omaha, $10 fine, $4 costs. Calvin B. Hess of Lincoln, speeding, $10 fine, $4 costs. Kelley Bros, and Company of Nehawka, overweight on capa city plates, $10 fine, $4 costs. THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Monday, July 23, 1956 PAGE THREE Elmwood American Legion Post Wins Membership Prize ELMWOOD The Elmwood American Legion Post is the only one from Cass County listed by the Nebraska Department as having exceeded its member ship quota for 1956. This places the Elmwood post in a position to receive special recognition from the department. WED AFTER 50 YEARS COSTA MESA, Calif. Charles Bryant, 82, of Centralia, 111., learned that his boyhood sweet heart, now 80 had been widowed. So he drove here and continued the courtship. He and Mrs. Lou McDonald were recently married. Nehawka Briefs Ellis Lacy and daughter, Bon nie observed their birthdays Sunday with the following din ner guests, Mr. and Mrs. George McFadden, Mr. and Mrs. Ken neth Bauers and family, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Krecklow and Dianne, all of Lincoln. Miss Helen Madsen of Nebraska City was a dinner guest of the Lacys Friday evening.. Miss Madsen plans to attend summer school in Colorado. . Mr. and Mrs. Victor Plunkett, Sr., were dinner guests . Sunday of the Gene Hicks family. In the afternoon all went to Weep ing Water to visit the Enos Plunkett family. Class of 746 Has Reunion (Continued From Page 1) from another school, but would have been a member of the class had she remained here. Bob Gall, who received his diploma with the class after serving with the armed forces, also was present. Garfield Park is often the convening place for Plattsmouth High School alumni. Another group celebrating its reunion this summer was the class of 1936. Thirty-four former classmates attended the '36 get-together. Members of the class of 1946 unofficially decided before they left another 10 years would not go by before their next reunion. Good Will Club To " Have Picnic At Park The Good Will Club met at the home of Mrs. Francis Leiner Thursday. It was planned to have a pic nic July 23th at Steinhart Park in Nebraska City. The next meeting will be at the home of Mrs. Harley Mor ton,. August 16th. Election of officers will be held at that time. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Sweem from Chehalis, Wash., are visit ing Mr. and Mrs F. L. Sweem. CALENDAR Thursday, July 26 American Legion Auxiliary will meet Thursday, July 28 at 8 p. m. at the 40 and 8 Club room. Rae Mae Henry "Girl Stater" will give an account of her week at Girls' State. OBSERVE 70TII ANNIVERSARY WOODSTOCK, Ont. Mr. and Mrs. James M. Watson celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary on June 23rd. Mrs. Watson is 96 and her husband is 94. 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