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I EDITORIALS .; t?- - ,""""" " " ''''"' ' " kiOST AGREE WITH SWEET Mayor Gold's recent order to the,J police department to turn back unused, time on parking meters is bringing a great ' . deal of unfavorable publicity to the City of Plattsmouth. Neighboring towns and cities are quick to pounce on any action detrimental to the well-being of our mer chants and Plattsmouth as a shopping center, and this action has struck like a thunderbolt. J. Hyde Sweet, publisher and gifted pen artist of the Nebraska City News Press, is quick to catch any local action that will steer traffic south and away from Cass County's capital city. Here's what he had to say in Monday's edition: " 'There is no greater satisfac tion I said here recently, 'than park nig on what is left of the other fel low's nickeL' At Plattsmouth, as soon as a car leaves a parking spot and has a few minutes' reserve left on the meter scale, a policeman flips the handle and destroys the surplus. I ask vou, is that cricket?" Although Mayor Gold at Monday night's council meeting stated the action was taken only to check mechanical con dition of parking meters, nonetheless this action has got in its lick at creating ani mosity among businessmen, local residents and out-of-town shoppers alike. In fact," you can hear the screams from Des Moines to Denver. It was the understanding of this news-" paper when parking meters were installed a few years ago they were to be used for providing parking space on Main Street and eliminate the "all-day roosters," as many motorists were referred to. It was emphatically stated they were not in stalled as a revenue measure although in this day and age there are certainly plenty of places the money can be used. The purpose of the meters, in our es timation, was accomplished. No longer is it necessary for a visitor to Plattsmouth to park his car two to six blocks from Main Street to enter a local store. For a penny or nickle most times "he can park in front of the place he wishes. We have found a majority favor meters if they are properly supervised. Now is not the time to go overboard on meters. It's the little things that ir ritate the American public. We'll go along with Editor Sweet- it just ain't cricket to take these little pleasures out of life. r a, Whatever the reason for turmAgbuk parking meters, we believe the"pohce or der should be rescinded at once. it pi LOANS REPAID The Veterans Administration re cently reported that, as of April 25th, full payment had been made on 853,541 GI home loans. This represents about twenty per cent of the GI home loans made since the program began in 1944. We think this is an excellent record, and speaks well for the GI home loan pro gram. At the same time, the VA report ed that the percentage of repayment of GI farm and business loans is much high er, because most of these loans were made on shorter terms. More than half of these loans had THOUGHT FOR TODAY Conscience has no more to do with jal l all try tJian it has with politics. R. B. Sheridan The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 1881 - Published Semi-Weekly, Mondais "id Thursdays, at 410 Main Street, Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebr. National Award Winner 19 Rffe? 56 A youthful figure is something you get when you ask an older woman her 'age. it ic It J 1 ' ' A phsycologist is a fellow. whp0us2s ar $2 word to explain a failure, cusd by laziness. . ' . v: A good excuse has never got -.the job done for us, but it has saved our hkle, on numerous occasions. ; - ' ' An echo is the only thing that can cheat some people out rof the last word. A vacation is a succession of 2's. It consists of 2 weeks which are 2 short. Afterwards you are 2 tired 2 return 2 work and 2 tired not 2. Best thing you can do. for a sprained ankle is limp. - Doctors claim a man who will sing at the top of his voice for an hour a day will not be bothered with chest pains in his old age. In our neighborhood he prob ably wouldn't be bothered with old age; either. it Business ia ; what; if ' you don't have any, you go out of. : , been repaid as of April of this year,. ac cording to VA figures. Interesting is the figure released by the VA showing that 18,500 GI home loans were repaid in full during the month of April, of this yeaiv- During thesame month, aJbLQut'43,000 .new- GI home loans were made. ' - Considering "the fact that most of these GI home loans were for periods of twenty years, or,.jnore,f the fact that twenty per cent havebeen ipaid upt'only twelve years after having, been made speaks well for the program. As a service to its veter ans, this program seems to have justified itself, and extended opportunities to serv ice men who otherwise might not have been considered good home loan risks. 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 Managing Editor MARGARET DINGMAN Woman's Editor II. M. JOHNSON Advertising Manager JANET PTAK Bookkeeper DON WARGA Shop Foreman 1 UI10!iAl D!T321AL AS50OJISJI PHONE 241 In thYSpbtlighf V, 4 j x. -5 "....ViP.v.v.w.y.v. Down Memory Lane 20 YEARS AGO Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Ofe bought, a home at . Pershing Avenue and Holdrege Street . . . Frederick Fricke left for Yellowstone Park accompanied by his aunt and' uncle, '"Mr: :' and" 'Mrs. Edwin A. Fricke of Ashland . . . Max Bowman, South Sixth Street barber, received treat ment in ah Omaha hospital for a finger infection . . . Byron Halstead, Jr., and James Robertson were aboard a U. S. Naval ship which was sailing for Spain to help protect American citizens living there during the Spanish Civil War . . . Dr. A. S. Fritchen of Decorah, Iowa, was visiting here with Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Gobelman ... A carnival was headed for Plattsmouth, planning to set up its shows at the ball park ... Ed Stava began em ployment a$Ja relay telegraph operator for the Union Pacific in Green River, Wyo. 30 YEARNS A CO Mrs. Albert Clabaugh of St. Louis was here visiting with "her parents, Col companies. But there were sev eral roadblocks, as follows: Roadblock No. 1 The two companies which do most of their business with the automo bile companies, Bethlehem and National Steel, were the tough est negotiators. It looked as 'if they wanted a strike. This fits in with the word, passed down inside the industry, that Ernie Breech of Ford and Harlow Curtice of General Mo tors were not at all averse to a steel strike which . would give them an excuse for closing down, thus using up the huge car surplus on hand this year as a result of overselling last year. Roadblock No, 2 With. Fair less now on the sidelines, the steel moguls adopted the boul ware technique in their negoti ations. This technique, devel oped by Lem Boulware of Gen eral Electric, is a take-it-or-leave-it approach. Industry ap proaches the conference table and says: "This is it, boys. This is all you're going to get.. The-i longer you delay, the more you lose, because you won't get re troactivity." -i - n Genqrl Electric has been; able Jo get away with this because many of its workers are not Unionized. But Westinghouse used this approach and found itself with one of the longest and bitterest strikes in recent years. It still hasn't recovered. . The steel moguls tried the boulware technique in their re cent talks against the advice of U. S. Steel's John Stephens and ended with a strike. The Stephens-Fairless technique has been to work up gradually to terms which seem about rigtir for both sides. Roadblock No. 3 Wall Street bankers who' have a hand in guiding the steel industry want a five-year contract. They want this in order to figure their tax depreciation writeoffs in financ ing new plants for the 'steel in dustry. Negotiations were held in . New York, incidentally, to be Inside fact is that the steel executives have been much tougher . in their negotiations than appeared in the press. On the last night before negotia tions broke up in New York, in dustry leaders mst most of the night. Afterward they told news men the union was offered a 20 cent package with a three-year agreement. Actually no such of fer was ever made. The indus try stood pat on its five-year offer. Note During all this period, and . not until after the strike was called did the . Federal Mediation service make any overtures toward a settlement. Ike's Ex-Naval Aide . Probably there had been no man. closer to Eisenhower dur ing the years, outside of his brother, than Harry Butcher, Ike's Naval aide during the war. They got to know each other before the .war when Ike was Note The FCC hung a delib erate hooker onto its decision but in favor of a Democrat. It reserved the right to transfer Hartford's VHF. Channel 3 to Providence, R. I., where Senator Pastore, Democrat, has a part ner in the TV business. Paotore is a member of the Senate sub committee , which has been in vestigating the FCC. Washington Pipeline Southern" senators are talking privately about turning the tables on northerners and in vestigating discriminationa a gainst negroes in the north among other things, how police keep negroes off certain parts of Atlantic City, N. J., beaches. Senator Smathers of Florida will propose that the transpor tation tax on airline travel be used only for improving air safety. The tax, imposed during the war partly to discourage air travel, brings in over $100, 000,000 a year' Senator McCarthy's publishers, Devin Adair, will publish a , book in September by Secretary of Agri culture Benson, called "Far- mers In A Changing World." It's ghostwritten by Washington f HE PLATTSMOUTH; NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE i TWO v. Section B Thursday, July 26, 1956 By Stanley James. Journal Washington Reporter WASHINGTON, July 26 There is a good chance that President Eisenhower, now get ting ready for a surprisingly active presidential campaign, will astonish some of his own supporters with the strength he shows at the polls in November. Recent polls conducted by the leading pollsters show Presi dent Eisenhower ahead of the leading Democratic candidate by a wide margin, indicating he wrould now receive more than sixty per cent of the total vote! The leading Democratic can didate, 'Adlai Stevenson, would get under forty per cent of the total vote in an election today the polls say. Now, of course, public-relations expert Carlisle ! it is possible for Stevenson to Bargeron. . . . The Democrats are considering a proposal by the Harry E. Brager Fund Rais ing Syndicate to conduct a drive to collect funds. The Syndi cate claims it could raise $7, 000,000 about as much as the Republicans have on hand be fore the campaign starts. The Greatest Conservationist Rep. Clifford R. Hope, the Kansas Republican who is re tiring from Congress this year after a long and honorable ser vice, was toasted at a private luncheon the other day by four outdoorsmen who called him "one of the greatest conser vationists this country has ever seen." "We wouldn't do .this for any body who was staying in Con gress." Hope was. told at the luncheon by C. R. "Pink" Gut ermuth of the Wildlife Manage ment Institute. But since you're leaving we figure it's all right." Reason for the kudos was Hope's behind-the-scenes fight in 1953-54 against the Stockmen's win the election and receive less than half the popular vote. But it is improbable. last word. Labor, on the other hand, doesn't want a five-year contract. and MrsI. A. JJates-, v, A bridge party Jnea4r the bankers, who have the was heldrt thQhome: of Mrs. Fred Nolt ing. First prize was won by Miss Mary Tidball A"thunderbolt splintered-the flag pole jon the federal building . . . Thomas Noell of 'Weeping Water suffered injuries when his motorcycle hit a cow... John Blotzerv.reported lie was getting 40 bushels of wheat to the acre on his farm southwest of Plattsmouth . . . Modern methods of fruit canning were demon strated in the gas and electric company office . . . Sheriff E. E. Stewart was in vestigating reports of tire thefts in the Louisville area. stationed in Washington and Butcher was working with the i grazing Bill of former Congress- Columbia Broadcasting System Later, when Captain Butcher went abroad with General Eisen hower, their wives waited out the war in the same Wardman Park Hotel together. After the war, Butcher wrote - a, , bookJ "My Three Years With' Eisen- hower." Last week, however, Harry Butcher got the brushoff irom Ike's appointees on the Federal Communications-Commission in what looked like a political move. He had applied for a TV license in Hartford, Conn. Opposing -him was the Travel ers Insurance Co. Butcher has had vast TV-Radio experience, now operates station KEYT in Santa Barbara, Calif. Travelers 'operates a radio station in Hart ford; The applications were some what complicated, and the FCC could well have found for Butch er, or at least given a split decision. It did not. It was unan imous 6 to 0 against Ike's old friend and naval aide. The decision had all the ear marks of discrimination against a friend, on the ground that a decision for a friend might have boomeranged in an elect ion year. , Out Of Old asglSL Nebraska ... I riie Washington erry- Go- Sound DREW PEARSON Frequently at this time "of year, this column devotes itself to notes about the early his'i tory of the University of Ne braska, wheih since it opened its doors in 1871 has been major force in the state, as a whole, and has been a subject mer of 1872 and there is no .evidence that he found time to comment again on the Univer sity. Others did, however, and unfortunately for the institution in its early years, many were, hot so generous as the editor bf great interest to all thought! the BIie XaileLRe$?r.d' W-lh 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 cens for two weeks. Entered at the Post Office at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second lis.s mail matter in accordance with the Act of Congress o( MaicH 3, 1S79. (Copyright, 1335, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: STEEL NEGOTIATIONS SUFFER FROM ABSENCE OF-BEN FAIR LESS; AUTO INDUSTRY SUSPECT ED OF FAVORING STEEL STRIKE; IKE'S NAVAL AIDE GETS COLD SHOULDER ON TV APPLICATION. , Washington One .factor .handicap ping' tne steel-strike negotiations is the absence of Ben Fairless, kindly, power ful former head of the U.S. Steel Corpor '"'ation, who always dominated past wage talks. 'T Fairless, an orphan raised by an un cle who was a coal miner, was sympa thetic ta labor. And though he rose to become head of the world's greatest steel ..cojnjany, he was largely responsible for okaying healthy wage increases to steel workers: He and Dave McDonald, head of the United Steelworkers, were under standing friends. During the closing days of the steel negotiations "just before the strike was TVio oHitnr of (Vio TJIno VoIIqii called, L.b. bteel still seemed more sym-i Record became immprspd in ful Nebraskans. s I Illustrative of that interest is an editorial which appeared : in the1 Blue Valley. Record of Mill ford, July 4, 1872. The editor; wrote: 'The closing exercises of thti State University, on Wednesday1 the20th ult.,was well-attended by an appreciative and intell igent audience. The ' address of; Hon.;. J. M." Wool worth, o Omaha was a scholarly effort, clearly.; and ;:cbhisely setting, forth the duties of the state to furnish the highr education, v . "Chancellor Benton, in a few brief remarks," reviewed the work of the year and gave flat-i tering evidences of the success of the next. The University should be the pride of the State and the evidences of its present prosperous , condition should a waken furthur interest, that it' may soon take its position side-by-side with - the leading Uni versities of the older States. "We hope to speak at length of the University during the present vacation, as our space is too limited to kay all that we would desire at this time." ls understood by the faculty, mi : j. f 11. . t t . i t j. i . i n ii- a. . ana Dy ine iurn oi me century pathetic to the Union's position than other J politics during the election sum the result that the University in its beginning years suffered not only financial vicissitudes, but harassment from, various forces from across the state. . .A ' There were those who felt that the State was waiting its money in trying to establish and operate a university when iso few opportunities existed for secondary education. Others op posed the 'establishment of pro fessional schools and colleges as an unwarranted extension . of publicly supported education. Still others looked -with skept icism upon,the activities of the professors,-.' doubting, for ex ample, that the theoreticians at the Agricultural " College had much to offer to practical farm ers of the State. Various relig ious groups opposed the Univ sity as a "godless institution" and , indeed, the religious prob lem vexed the school for many years. '-. Through vicissitude and con troversy, however, the Univer sity of Nebraska continued to dey elope' both the teaching and research aspects" of its mission man Wesley A. Dewart ot Montana. D'Ewart is the same man who is now fighting for Senate confirmation as assist ant secretary of interior. Hope , opposed the D'Ewart "proposal quietly and effectively, i though at the time most people thought he was for it. Actually the original D'Ewart bill aroused so much opposition that it never got out of com mittee. This was because it would have conveyed perman ent grazing rights in the nation al forests to stockmen, rights which they could and have sold as property even though the land belonged to Uncle Sam. After the D'Ewart bill died, the administration continued to urge enactment of some such measure to benefit western cat tlemen. Finally Hope bowed to the Administration and agreed to reintroduce the D'Ewart pro posal under his own nama, even though he was opposed to it. But, though he introduced the bill, he kept it tightly corked up in the House Agriculture Committee of which he was then chairman. And he also quashed the companion Aiken Bill which was passed by , the Senate and referred to Hope's committee for house action.' Thus he kept faith with the principles of conservation which all his life he has followed. And during the closing hours of the 83rd Congress, when Sen. Clinton Anderson (D., N. M.,( made a last-ditch effort to pass the Aiken Bill by attaching it as a senate rider to the unre lated farm subsidy bill, Hope killed it once and for all. He even ignored personal letters from President Eisenhower. Note Besides Gutermuth, Charles H. Callison of the Nat ional Wildlife Federation and Michael Hudoba of Sports A- field Magazine joined in toasting Hope, the retiring congressman, as "one of the greatest conservationists." When the polls showed Gover nor Dewey ahead of Harry Tru man back in 1948, the margins were much closer. The polls turned out to have been wrong, but they had predicted no such margin for Dewey as present polls indicate for Mr. Eisen hower. This is sifnificant. The plain truth now emerging is that if the President and his party do not suffer some set back between now and Novem ber, they may enjoy a land slide victory. The Democrats might as well face these facts, now, although there may be little Democratic campaigners can do about them. Because there are more reg istered Democrats than Repub licans the President must count on support from many Demo crats to win a landslide victory. The polls, which are not neces sarily accurate, show that the President would now recive as high as thirty percent of the votes of Democrats selecting between Ike and a leading Democratic candidate! What the Democrats are up against is pretty obvious. They have no big issues that stir up people. The Republican Admin istration has produced peace jn Korea. True, the negotiations were begun by President Tru man, but nevertneiess tne fighting came to an end in Korea soon after the President took office. The Republican Administrat ion has brought prosperity to most people, though many far mers and little business men and some labor groups, in the automotive and textile fields, have not enjoyed prosperity. The Democrats are concen trating on defense and foreign policy and hope to get a solid labor vote. On defense they have a good issue, though it is hard for the nation to believe that President Eisenhower the for mer Supreme Commander in Europe in World War 11 is not following sound defense policies. Yet there are indications of weakness in defense planning and policy and Defense Secre tary Charles Wilson is a con troversial figure in the minds of many. In the end, however, probably not .a mass of voters will turn thumbs down on Ike because of these questions. i In the field of foreign policy, the Democrats believe our ef forts have been uncoordinated, and that the Republican Party itself is so split between iso lationism and internationalism that the President is not actual ly free to follow liberal foreign policies. There is sometnmg to the Democratic contention. Certain ly the Republican record in the field of foreign policy is woe fully weak. And we have com mitted some blunders in recent years. But the President has brought about peace, and this is an ac complished fact, while most of the issues the Democrats raise, in criticism of Republican Ad ministration foreign policy, con cern theory or less spectacular question. It is doubtful, then, if this issue alone can turn tho tide against Ike in any major way at the polls. In the labor field the Dem ocrats may have trouble hold ing their position. A movement strength among labor union members. And it must be re membered that Ike pulled a labor vote in 1953, despite de cisions of labor bosses to sup port Stevenson. In the South a new labor movement is underwaydesign ed to uphold the segregation customs in effect in these areas now under attack by the AFL CIO labor combine. And while this new labor movement might support the Democrats, it might also split organized labor. So the President's outlook is very good, as far as November is concerned. The Democrats must turn up something, change the trend or pull some rabbits out of the hat, if Ike doesn't come in far out front. CURIOSITY CATCHES THIEF TACOMA, Wash. A man. who had previously robbed a grocery store returned to the store and bought a package of cotighdrops just to see if the pro- tlprietor would, recognize him. He did and the man, George Emery Morisette, 42, was turned over to the police. A Classified Ad in The Journaj costs as little as 35 cents KOREA VETS HAVE UNTIL JANUARY 31,1965 to use THEIR Gl LOAN BENEFITS FOB. HOME, FARM, OR. BUSINESS PURPOSES --ENOUGH TIME TO MAKE SURE T.HEY ARE USING IT WISELY. 7 n f"-.-.. ,v,.-......,. W i fr full information contact your ti-ari( YLTLUANtt ADMINISTRATION olhc WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE Musical Instrument Here's the Answer In 1955, 10 per cent of the rodeos accounted for nearly 50 per cent of the money. 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