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KEEP. STATE HIST. SOCIETY XXX 1500 R ST. LI!!C0L!J, KE3R. PUBLISHED SEMI - WEEKLY Monday - Thursday MtiDQJ CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER Consolidated With the Nehawka Enterprise and Elm wood Leader-Eche Read Twice Weekly by More Than 3500 Cass County Families VOLUME 75 SIX PACES PLATTSMOUTH, CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6. 1956 TEN CENTS PER COPY NUMBER 74 1 rWWWW , , mj i. ,, ,, L MBTOiiiiiamil-vg ' WIIMIIJI ILII.HI .imWWIMIII JIIIIHHMIIII II I II LJ . I1MIUI1 1)1IU llll, I 111 HIIMIIUI I I WWWUM t ' . - - - - i V ' ' - : v-., , . orr. .--w;.! i1fTiiiiiniw.nl. &sj- t If .;'' t' --! . - - r- V ' -y -l A 3 . . . r , " r-- -,; .-vV,:;:. -jAJ . . . ?.. . - I , K.A1NKI) OUT: Kotarians, their, undampened, they moved into wives and families were forced 'the basement of the Methodist to cancel their outdoor picnic planned for Tuesday at Merritt Heach because of rain. ..Spirits Li Lj Plattsmouth residents seeking to have streets, alleys or drive ways paved by the oiling sys tem used hereabouts should make application immediately, Mayor Bruce E. Gold said today. Mayor Gold stressed the im i n n ti r n er a a y mem mow ley u American Housewives Usually Prove To Be An Ambitious Lot I5y Margaret Dingman Journal Womans Editor American wives certainly aren't a lazy lot! According to a recent survey made nearly 10.7 million of them or 27 per cent of all mar ried women in the country are actively engaged in the bus iness world. Since the majority of the working wives interviewed in dicated they have no house hold help, this means that they are actually holding down two jobs. Start your day right with a well balanced breakfast. It will be worth your time to arise earlier so you can eat a better breakfast. Those extra minutes will repay you in fighting off early morning fatigue. If you aren't accustomed to a good breakfast and find it hard to create an appetite early, try getting dressed for work first and then sitting down to the table. After a few attempts at this, one should be able to want something other than cof fee or juice. Ironing is one chore that work ing wives find hard to tackle and keep at until completed. It all seems so useless to stay at the ironing board so many hours when your mind is wandering to other tasks about the house still undone. The only way out of this is to hire it done or not dampen any more clothes than you can do in a two hour per iod. If you have a freezer, store your dampened clothes in it they will stay sweet and iron Pritchard's Nash Takes First Place In Auburn Trials AUBURN Ken Pritchard of Plattsmouth, driving a 1952 Nash, took top place in Class "C" drag strip time trials re cently. He gunned through the quar ter mile course in 22 seconds. Art Lambert of Plattsmouth competed in the Class "G" trials in his Ford Thunderbird. THE WEATHER Compiled for the Plattsmouth Journal at the Masonic Home Weather Station, Plattsmouth Nebraska. August 2, 3, 4. 5, 1956 High Low Pree Thursday 86 60 00 Friday 94 74 00 Saturday 95 74 00 Sunday 94 70 00 Forecast: Partly cloudy, highs in mid SO's; Low in 60's. Poss ible thunder showers tonight. Sun sets tonight at 7:36 p. m. Sun rises tomorrow at 5.24 a.m. Church and held the Rotary Ann "picnic" there. Sho-wn, left to right, are Mrs. L. A. A- For portance of property owners making immediate application to enable the work to be fig ured ahead and the oiling mix ture ordered. Cost for the- oiling of a street or alley is 15 cents a running easily. Simple to do tasks, can be as signed to your children. Such as silver polishing, sweeping and scooping sidewalks, hand dust ing and running the vacuum. Some children love to scour sinks, let them do the kitchen and bathroom sinks, a task that never seems orderly. By all means insist the young sters keep up their own rooms. Also make sure they know where the dirty clothes hamper is located and have them use it! You might try a game with them such as my mother used to do. Fix a jar with name label and for every good deed each child does place a dried bean in the jar. You will be surprised how much the children will try to get in your good graces, just to have the most beans! Spring and Fall house clean ing days are no simple matter for working mothers and wives. Jobs will have to be done dur ing extra hours at home or send out an SOS for some assist ance. If you are the talented type that can sew, you perhaps could balance your chores by doing home sewing for you and your family and hiring the ironing done or housecleaning chores done. If it is going to tax your salary too much you might as well stay home. From the above figures made in the recent survey, it would appear that the American work ing wives have ironed out their at-home-duties and seem satisfied to stay on the job. Careless Driving James E. Place pleaded guilty in Plattsmouth Police Court this past week to a charge of care less driving. The Lawrence, Kans., man was fined $25 and paid $4 costs. RACING IN AUBURN: Art Lam bert of ' Plattsmouth is driving the car to the right at the Au burn drag strip. Driving at the left is F. Emheser of Omaha IK ' mato, Sally Amato, Jeanine Newton, Mrs. Ed Ernst,. Terry Ernst, Mrs.. R. B.. Kelley, Ed Ernst and Mrs. J. Howard Davis. Staff Photo. foot(on each side of the pas- sageway). This actually makes the oiling cost 30 cents a foot, but due to few instances where one person owns both sides the charge is usually 15 cents. The projects must be paid for before work starts, the mayor said. Application contracts for paving can be obtained, he said, from the office of City Clerk Albert Olson. Two carloads of oil was re ceived by the city about two weeks ago for planned work, the mayor said, and that in cluded a couple thousand gal lons surplus for other projects. However, applications have continued to pour in and the present supply will not meet the incoming demand. Therefore more oil will be needed, Mayor Gold explained. If sufficient orders are received another car load will be pur chased and arrangements can be made to have the paving applied by the work crews con tracted for all the ashphalt road work here. The volume of work planned must also be known early so a schedule can be arranged to assure residents of service this season. Those who apply late may find their projects can't be taken care of this year, he said Under terms of the contracts signed by the city and the prop erty owners the city prepares the surfaces for oiling. The 15 cents cost includes grading and necessary sanding. Under the usual procedure it is recommended other appli cations oil be applied again in the ensuing two years. This will insure a more permanent type job, the mayor explained. He also took time to warn motorists about driving on the freshly surfaced roadways. Violators will be prosecuted in police court, he averred. Driving on the still wet sur faces can cause considerable damage to the roads, the mayor said, and can also harm the auromobiles which become coat ed underneath with sand and tar. VISITING HERE Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Mei singer of Denver, Colo., are visiting friends and relatives here and are on a business trip to Omaha. who won the trials with a time of 18.8 seconds for the quarter mile. Photo courtesy of Nema ha County Herald. WT Til -aIiMi 14 ntaLiiilMitTWr m't mhjiTiillii Cable Mixup Confuses The Meisingers Expectation hovered 'oev the Herman Meisinger household in Mynard during the moruth of July. The Meisinger family were awaiting the arrival of news from their daughter and son-in-law, Lieutenant and Mrs. Boyd Rouse, stationed in Ger many. The Meisingers were antici pating adding another twig to the Meisinger family tree.-a tree that is already well known to be one of the largest in this area.- The first cablegram came Monday-"Tvvin .Sons .are born". This was more than they had hoped for, as twins had not been in the offing. The Meisingers were still in the dark, there was no date of birth, weight or how the family was faring. Thursday at mid-night, an other cablegram arrived quote, "Both are Well. I am home from the hospital. Bonnie and Bradley Rouse." A phone call was made to Cozad at home of Mr. and. Mrs. Darcy Rouse, parents of the Lieutenant. Their cablegram also read "Twin Sons." Another cablegram sent to Florida, to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sampley, sister of Mrs. Rouse also read "twins." So the mid-night message had led the Meisingers to believe that all was not well in Ger many, thoughts ran through their minds that perhaps one of the babies did not survive. The hours of anxiety await ing more news was too much, so Mr. Meisinger called Albin Chovanec of local Red Cross Chapter, Friday noon to put a tracer on the calblegrams after an attempt of cablegram check by the Meisingers wasn't bring ing any results. Friday evening Lieutenant Rouse called Mynard direct from Germany after the Red Cross had relayed the mes sage. It was learned that the Mei singer addition was a single twig-Bradley Howard, weighing 7 pounds, 1 ounce, born July 29, and the mother and baby were doing fine and had been released from the hospital. They were unaware of the "Twin boys message." The root of the mix-up is not known, but the hours of an xiety added a few gray hairs, and sleepless nights to the new grandparents-their first grand child! One could almost say that it is harder becoming a grandparent than a parent. City Woman's Son-ln-Law Is Keeper Of Bees Omer D. Meeker of Santa Maria, Calif., son-in-law of Mrs. Herman Richter of Plattsmouth, is the object of a lengthy feat ure story printed in a recent issue of the Santa Maria Times Sunday section. The article includes several pictures of Mr. Meeker, who married the former Margaret Kichter in Plattsmouth. The story tells how Mr. Meek er decided to be a beekeeper after a swarm of wayward bees buzzed down into his backyard about three years ago. He got a bee box, the bees entered, but soon left. He then decided to study up on bees and keep the next swarm. Presently he keeps about 100 boxes of bees, but he said he isn't making money at it be cause he can't devote enough time to the "honey makers." Mr. Meeker's ; regular job is teacher of the eighth grade at Orcutt Elementary School. He also coaches the school basket ball team, drives a school bus and plays an electric guitar part time in a local band. Speaking of bees, Mr. Meeker said "if a fellow really wanted to go into bee-keeping full-time, he could really make out." Two Permits To Wed Issued In Cass Court The following marriage li censes were issued in Cass County Court during the past three days: George E. Smith, 60, of Omaha, and Mary M. Troop, 45, of Plattsmouth. Charles R. Philpot, 21, of Weeping Water, and Geraldine A. True, 20, of Cedar Creek. v- - 1 i - t I I if y S f I 7v"-W COTTON CROP: Possiblly the only cotton crop in the. state is thriving at the home of John Vallery this week. Mr. Vallery who raised cotton in his youth in Arkansas,, wrote, a friend there, this spring asking him to send him some of the seeds. He planted the crop in May and Cass County Fair Time Draws Near: Enthusiasm Is Increasing WEEPING WATER Prem ium lists for the 1956 Cass Coun ty Fair are being mailed this week, it was announced today by President Otto Schalter of C$ County Agricultural So ciety. The annual fair-a highlight of the area's activities-is sponsor ed by the society. Everyone is invited to join the association by sending one dol lar to the committee. The com mittee's goal is "Better Things Through Better Agriculture." Some 2,500 copies of the prem ium lists carrying advertise ments of most Cass County bus iness establishments and plan ned programs were printed by the Plattsmouth Journal The fair this year, according to the catalogs, will offer $2,800 in cash awards and champion ship trophies in 4-H and open class" competition. The fair opens Aug. 21 and American Legion Post Seats It's Officers At Outdoor Rites Orville Julian was installed, by Jim Begley as commander of Hugh Kearns Post, American Legion, at a picnic meeting Fri day at Taylor 'Cuthrell's, camp in Rock Bluff. The new commander was pre sented a hand made gavel de signed by Albert Olson. Outgo ing Commander Al Linder was given a past commander's pin. Some 60 members attended the installation. Judge Raymond J. Case, vet erans service officer, spoke on pension bills before Congress at adjournment. The flag pole committee announced the new Strike Up The Band Many Marching To Keep High School Band Busy As Plattsmouth High School Band members are beginning to return from summer vacations and camps the pace of musical activities has increased. Plans for the Ak-Sar-Ben con test are being prepared and a large number of public ap pearances are scheduled for the next two months. Tomorrow night the band will give its third concert of the season at Garfield Park. The concert will begin at 8 p. m. On August 13, the band will play at Falls City's 'Horseplay Days" and on the following day will journey to Sidney, Iowa, and appear at the rodeo there. The band will appear at the Cass County Fair on August 24 and at the Otoe County Fair on August 30. Labor Day will see the band at Iter : now it is blooming: healthily while other crops in his garden are wilted and seared from the dry weather. Mr. Vallery, who is 71, said he planted the row of cotton because he was curious to see if it would grow and be cause he wanted to show the people in this area what it looks like. runs through the 24 at Weeping Water. The general rules require all exhibitors to have their entries in within the hours of 1 and 5 p. m, of the 21st. Championship trophies cannot be won two years in success ion by the same exhibitor. Class entries in livestock must be made in writing by August 15. Aug. 21 is declared "Entry Day." The following day is "Cass County Day" and the 23rd is "Cass County 4-H Day." Fri day, the 24th which is the closing day, is "Veterans and Fellowship Day." Interest in the county fair is already mounting rapidly among members of the various exten sion and 4-H Clubs. Included in the fair book are the names of some 661 mem bers and associate members of the 4-H in the county. flag pole was erected at Platts mouth High School and the dedi cation will be held at a later date. Lloyd Fitch was installed as first vice commander and Ar thur Warga as second vice com mander. Appointed were: Donald J. Warga, adjutant- Arthur Warga, finance officer; R. T. Cuthrell, sergeant at arms; Eugene Krings, chaplain. E. O. Vroman, employment of ficer; Lloyd Behrens, child wel fare chairman; Lloyd Fitch, membership chairman; Tom (Continued on Page Five) Appearances the Nebraska State Fair in Lin coln. It will be in Syracuse Sept ember 13 for a marching band clinic and will, of course, ap pear during the King Korn Kar nival here. The band also will play for five local football games. The last major performance oi me marenmg band season will be the Ak-Sar-Ben March ing Band Contest September 27 in Omaha. The band has placed first there for six of the seven years they appeared. Tuesday's concert program: "The Footlighter," march; "Pacific Grandeur." overture; "Souvenier of Tschaikowldy;" "Progree," march; "Copa Co bana;" "Perpetual Motion"; "Deep River Rhapsody;" "Rock Around The Clock;" and "Hosts of Freedom," march. Former Louisville Law Man Fined $10 For Blaring Siren A young Louisville man learned the hard way-in court-Friday he should have removed his siren when he gave up police work. Herbert Peteriet pleaded guilty in Cass County Court to charges of illegally using the siren during a wedding party procession. Just the day before, his cousin, York radio station announcer Ervin Siemoneit, pleaded guilty to a similar charge. He also was fined $10. Sheriff Tom Solomon in formed the court Peteriet had been warned to remove the siren from his car, but failed to do so. City Reserve Unit Promotes Fifteen Within 8 Weeks The following members of the local 355th Infantry Regiment, USAR, were promoted to the listed ranks during the past eight months: Wynne Babbitt, M-Sgt.; Eu gene Klein of Union, SFC; Bernard Pierce, SFC; John Bergman, Sgt.; Raymond Sprieck of Murray, Sgt.; Ken neth Tschirren of Murray, Sgt.; Marvin Dooley, Cpl. And Donald Hutchinson, Cpl.; Elwood Johnson, Cpl.; Gerald Ashbaugh, Cpl.; Bill Booton, Cpl. Larry Stones, PFC. f Farmers Feed Store Plans An Open House Farmers Feed and Seed will hold open house Wednesday night starting at 8 p. m. to al low visitors to look over the new store. Ice cream will be served those who stop in. The new store is located two blocks west of Jay's Texaco Station on the Louisville Road It is tof cement block construct ion and measures 100 by 40 feet. Proprietor Raymond Sand said the store was located for six years at the site of the Phillips 66 Station now being built on Chicago Avenue. The store has three full and one part time employe. Wayne products are handled exclusive ly. Bicyclist, 52, Rides Through Cass County A 52-year-old bicyclist pas sed through this city Friday just a couple of days too late to have company on his planned jaunt to the West Coast. The unidentified man started out from New Jersey and is heading for California in a lies urely fashion. Had he been a couple of days ahead of time he would have met in this city the two New York girls who passed through Monday on their bikes. This man was taken to the sheriff's office for questioning after he was found to be car rying more than $500 in cash on his person. After he was cleared in a sheriff's check he was released. He declined to take the advice of Sheriff Tom Solomon that he purchase travellers checks or other types of certified bank slips rather than carry such a large amount of cash. He told officials he was just traveling about and wanted to see the country. Garage Is Opened WEEPING WATER Law rence and Ed Mogensen, Weep ing Water brothers, this week opened a garage in the building formerly occupied by Parr Young Implement Company. Lawrence was a mechanic for several yearrs with Parr Young and Ed worked as mechanic for Noble Motor Company. A Seek Cowboy Singer To Highlight Annual Cass County Holiday Rex Allen, the cowboy movie and singing star may be a feat ure attraction of this year's King Korn Karnival. Karnival Committee President William S. Wetenkamp suggest ed the possibility of signing Al len for the show during a Thurs day night meeting at the Cham ber of Commerce office. Committee members also heard suggestions for im proving and streamlining this year's show scheduled for September 20, 21, and 22. It was tentatively decided to carry out plans for the follow ing program: The coronation following the merchants parade would be Thursday night. The parade would be reviewed by the 1955 king and queen. The new royal ty would then be enthroned about 8:30 p. m. in a com paratively brief ceremony. ' A combined school, far mer's and children's parade is planned for Friday night preceding the football game between Plattsmouth and Beatrice High Schools. Friday afternoon would be children's fun day which pro bably would include a pie eat ing contest and a corn cob scramble. A baby contest is planned for Saturday afternoon with all Cass County children under three years old eligible. Saturday night would be a combined merchant's and organization parade. The theme for the entire Kar nival will be "Plattsmouth Melting Pot of the World." Since Plattsmouth now has many foreign born residents, it was hoped many would appear in the parades wearing tra ditional costumes of their native lands. During periods throughout the show would be amateur acts, a marching band con test, special acts and a street carnival with rides and concessions. Additional money for the Kar nival may be provided by a "slave auction." The Karnival Klub plans to put various merchants "on the block" who may be "bought" by other merchants. The "slaves" then will be obliged to work for one hour in the place of business of his "own er." AH proceeds would be turned over to the Karnival, according to Ernie Schultz, auction chairman. Committees appointed so far for. Korn Karnival activities in clude: Farmers parade, Kenneth Tschirren; corn show, Harry Nielson and Glen Wetenkamp; agricultural show, Don Hansen and Ross Thomason; program, Melvin McKenney, Dale Bow man, Ed Kohrell and Fred Feld housen; street carnival, Les Niel. Reserve Unit Will Train In Colorado Thirty-seven officers and men of the local 355th Infantry Regi ment, USAR, will leave next week for their annual summer training camp ar Fort Carson, Colo. This will be the fifth con secutive year the regiment has trained at Fort Carson. The pre vious year they were at Camp McCoy, Wis. The two week session will in clude training in small arms range firing, 4.2 mortar oper ation ad practical experience in working out tactical prob lems. The local unit Is part of the 89th Division which includes regiments from Nebraska, Colo rado and Kansas. The entire di vision will take part in the train ing and will combine efforts in planning tactical operations at the regimental level. Captain Cecil Karr, head of the local unit, said one of the main purposes of the program is to learn military techniques and procedures which cannot be fully taught at the armory here. The men will travel to Colo rado in cars. i