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ft EDITOR Show Respect For Missouri With two drownings recorded Sunday in the Missouri river and another near tragedy nar rowly averted during ths afternoon, should bring a message to these who spend liesure time boating and fishing along this treacherous stream. Use of this waterway for pleasure purposes is becoming more popular every year. Hundreds of people are becoming 'boat concious and en joy a sport that has no equal for recreation and an economical way to forget the worries and care of everyday hustle and bustle. We urge these people to use every safety measure suggested, and in many instances de manded by ths U. S. Coast Guard on inland waterways. No boat should leave shore without every pasenger equippsd with tested and ap proved life jackets. Motors and boats should be regularly inspected and approved. They should be classified and limited to passenger capacity. Above all,, men or women in charge of handling these craft should understand, know and use ths mechanics of boating. Even the most experienced run into trouble occasionally. The Missouri river can provide this area's finest recreation facilities in the years to come. It is a shame to create fear among our people due to carelessness and negligence on the part of a few. Bunk From The U. S. D. A. Out of Washington comes the statement that the United States Department of Agri culture is launching an emergency program designed to halt the disappearance of small family forms in the United States. In the last five years 750,000 forms of less than 250 acres have been abandoned. Take the Soil Bank program, for example. It is designed for the big farmer, who may be cultivating hundreds of acres. He can afford to accept $50 per acre to take perhaps 100 acres out of cultivation. For this, he gets $5,000 from the Government, and need not hire the labor and pay the cost of cultivating the land. On the other hand, the small farmer with only a dozen or more acres, for example, cannot afford to take any of his acres. He and his fam ily have probably been cultivating this land themselves, and if they have realized $200 profit per acre, that has given them a cash income of $2400 per year. They cannot afford to take even one acre out of production and accept the $50 for the $220 they have been making in the past. Farm income has steadily decreased for the last few years and, in the last month declined f another three per-cent. The Department of Agriculture, now under the direction of Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson critics of whom say that his big farm background prompts him to neglect the little farmer should have recommended a parity price support program with high sup ports for the first ten or fifteen acres, lower supports for the next twenty-five of fifty, and lowest supports for additional acres taken out of cultivation. This would have forced the big farmer, who was receiving ninety per cent parity supports from the Government in the form of huge checks, to cut down on his over-production and would have allowed the little farmer to remain profitable. Since there are many more small farmers than large farmers, this would have been in the THOUGHT FOR TODAY J'hilosophy goes no further than probabili ties, and in erery assertion keeps a doubt in reserve. j. A. Ymle Furses Fresh Flashes When we get an idea it's like sitting down on a tack we have to get up and do some thing about it. - ' One way to cut down on traffic conges tion let the highways be used only by cars that are paid for. Speaking of motor cars reminds us that driving is like baseball its the number of times you get home safely that counts. k Witl all the thought and work that went into the development of TV, we are shocked at how so little comes out of it. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little contour twister, says her dress is rayon, her coat is orlon, and her stockings are nylon nobody is going to pull the wool over her eyes. . When we Used to plant a vegetable garden we always saved one of the seed packets. It held about all the vegetables we raised. Money will go as far as it used to what about a dime that rolls under the bed? ir r The guys that cautioned Columbus that the world was flat may be right after all if the government keeps spending money at its pres ent rate. interest of the nation and would have stopped the drying up of small farms and would have maintained prosperity in rural areas in ' the country as the small farmer has often lost the little margin of extra money with which he has bought appliances, cars, and other goods in re cent years. ic ir 1c Awfully Close . V.1A WAVAV Down Memory Lane rr YEARS AGO AmJ Fifty golden wedding couples have re plied to invitation to be guests "here of the King Korn Karnival and take part in the platform program as well as being entertained at a din ner at the Methodist church Carolyn Kala sek " and Raymond Recek married at Holy Rosary church. The bride's sister Florence was bridesmaid and the brides brother Frank served as best man. Monsignor Adolph Mosler was the celebrant of the wedding ceremony. f YEARS AGO American Legion planning an indoor carnival to raise funds for the community build ing to be erected here. The Legion had paid $3,000 for site on Vine street near Sixth In the written spelling contests at the fair at Lin coln Miss Mildred Standley of Wabash was awarded third prize. Mis Donice Green of Elm wood was another contestant from Cass county A baseball tournament was proposed between Manley, Greenwood and Plattsmouth, double headers to be played in each town, the home team playing both opposing towns. r Washington erry-Go -Round ty DREW PEAROM Hi The Plallsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 1SS1 Fub'.Whcd Semi-Weekly, Mondays "id Thursdays, at 410 Main Street, Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebr. National Award Winner 19 R&j 56 I ' ' . "'' . 21 : ' '- Three Times Winner Ak-Sar-Ben Plaqties 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 MARGARET DINGMAN Woman's Editor H. M. JOHNSON Advertising Manager JANET PTAK Bookkeeper DON WARGA Shop Foreman CSlMS EDITORIAL PHONE 241 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 ccns for two weeks. Entered at the Tost Office t P'nttsmouth, Nebraska as second class mail matter in accordaw with the Act of Congress of MairW 3, 1879. (Copyright, 1335, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) (Editor's Note: Drew Pearson, with this col umn, continues his dispatches from the Near East. Others will follow.; DREW PEARSON SAYS: TRAGEDY OF JORDAN RIVER "TVA" CANAL IS THAT LEBANON, SYRIA, JOR DAN WON'T AGREE TO IT; ,AN AID TO BOTH ISRAELIS AND ARABS, LATTER WOULD RATHER HURT THAN HELP THEMSELVES. SYRIA, ISRAELI BORDER Two Syrian border guards silhouetted against the sky on the hill just beyond us. They looked down, across the ravine where the. Jordan River came tumbling down from Syria across Israel and on toward the Sea of Galilee. It had been tumbling down that ravine since David crossed it to escape the attack of his son Absalom, since Jacob's daughter looked for her brother Joseph when his brothers sold him into slavery in Egypt, and since John the Baptist immersed his converts in its restless waters. Oblivious apparently to the part it had played in history, the river Jordan paid no at tention to the two Syrian guards on the hill top, nor to our own group which listened to Dr. Paul Doron; Chief Irrigation Engineer for the Jordan Valley Project, tell of his plans to har nes the turbulent river below. That was why the two Syrian sentries were suspicious.. On previous occasions they have shot at Israel engineers as they pushed work on a half-mile connecting a 90-mile irrigation ditch with the Jordan. The sentries did not fire this time, how ever, craps because two jeeploads of Israel troops ,cre vith us; or perhaps because Israel has now stopped work on the connecting link of the Jordan Canal in deference to a request from the United Nations. Alongside us was. rust ing machinery mute testimony that work on this end of the canal had stopped. Israel's Pressure Cooker Work on the rest of the 90-mile stretch of canal and concrete pipe, however, has not stop ped. It extends down, all the way through Gal ilee, through Judea and the Sharon to the deserts of the Negev, over which I drove en route to the Dead Sea. There, water carried from the Syrian border in the north almost to the Egyptian bordsr in the south should make the desert bloom like a rose. The reason the rest of the Jordan river project is being pushed is because of the intense pressure on the Israeli Gov ernment to feed its present pop ulation and take in more to ful fill the centuries old dream of a National Jewish Home. "Israel is not a melting pot, it's a pressure cooker," explained Jacob Herzog, son of the Chief Rabbi of Israel. "We -have ab sorbed all the Jews of Iraq, 60,000 Jews from Yemen, 350,000 Jews from the Arab countries. We have 70 nationalities to ab sorb, and there are more to come. We have to support them and feed them if -we are to ful fill our pledge to mankind." To feed them requires crops; and crops require water; and water requires irrigation That is the reason for the two sus picious Syrian sentries who watched us iom across the Jor dan. ' .- ;-. Arab Hatred ' T .y The tragedy is that the so called TVA for the Jordan Val ley would benefit the Arab countries of Lebanon, Syria and Jordan just as much as it would benefit Israel. But, despite, the patient, painstaking diplomacy of Eric Johnston, the Arab countries have not agreed.. They have not agreed chiefly because they don't want to help Israel. They would rather hurt than help themselves, and there in lies the biggest roadblock in the path of peace for the Near East. Most people don't realize it but there are 180,000 Arabs liv ing in Israel. This is about the same proportion as the Negro population in the U. S. A. This does not include the Arab ref ugees who . live outside Israel, but the Arab, population which did not escape and . choose to tak a chanc on getting along with the Jews. One of the largest of these Arab settlements is in the an cient city of Acre, which the crusaders conquered in their long campaign to take Jerusa lem from the Moslems, but which Napoleon did not conquer in his quest, to turn the Mediterraen ean into a French lake. .The Kadi of Acre is Sheik Moussa Tabori, a tall, handsome Moslem, whom I interviewed in in his office next to the Mosque of Yassar Pasha. . '"I am intrusted , with presicH ing over the Moslem' courts?; the Kadi explained. "Since the Arab population has diffex'em marriage and divorce laws, the Israeli government has given us separate courts for these do mestic matters." "What are the relations be tween the Arabs and the Jews?" I asked.' "Excellent; we get along very well together," was the re ply. "We have complete free dom of worship and we also have Moslem schools. They are op erated by the Israeli Govern ment, of course, but in them, the children study Arabiac, He brew and English." Outside and across the court yard came the; chant of the Moslem Hodja calling the Arabs of Acre to the Mosque for prayer. A row of shoes outside the Mos que showed how many had' re sponded. Jewish Arab Partners Down at the waterfront I talked to Abdul Karim El Saadi, an Arab fisherman, and his partner, Shaul Krasriasky, a Jew. Together , they operate a fleet of small fishing boats of the Israeli-Lebanon coast. "Sixty per cent of our fisher men are Arabs, 40 per cent are Jews," explained Abdul. "Some of the Arabs escaped to -Lebanon during the war of 1948, but when they saw that Arabs were not mistreated here, they came back.". . : ' Abdul has two- wives, nine sons and two .daughter's, arid was interested in the fishing prowes of President Eisenhower, though he was envious of reports that the American President had truckloads of trout dumped into mountain streams just before he fished. Those are the amicable re lations between Jews and Arabs inside Israel. There are seven Arabs elected to the Israeli Par liament in Jerusalem, which1' is three times as many Jews,, as there are in the U. S. Senate. But most of the Arabs live out side Israeli, and it's the Arabs in neighboring Jordan. Lebanon and Syria, and above all Egypt who must be converted to living in peace wTith Israel. So far that is a long way from acomplishment; and that is the greatest problem of Israel. Capitol News Tradition Holds, Political Tern po Stepping U p I n Nebraska the fourth in the Second Dl. trict. At this writing, Robert EV. Spelts Jr., Grand Island, and R,. M. Van Steenberg, Mitchell, were battling for the chairman ship of the GOP State Central Committee. More detailed plans of the Re publicans awaited the out-come of - their post primary conven tion. Ton Mile Tax ; The question of the ton-mile tax grabbed some of the head lines in recent days. P. Emerson Graunke, Cumming County Assessor and president of the. Nebraska Association of County Assessors, said the thought that the tax might be passed is causing consternation among some county tax officials. He said the state will feel the impact if the law passes, especially in fees derived from truck registrations. The newly formed Nebraska Producers and Consumers Com mittee said it will wage an act ive campaign against the pro posed tax. " Meantime, proponents of the measure repeated that the bill is sound and is succeeding in a growing number of states in producing revenue for roads on a just and fair basis. Assistance Payments j.. A Mcook5 doctor filed a com plaint with the. State Board of Control, charging that assistance care is being., henied many elig ible applicant by the Red Wil low County? Assistance office. The doctCtf; J. H. Donaldson, Jr., sent a ! long letter to the board outlining generally, his complaints. Thomas Dredla, chairman of the state board, said he " felt there must be a misunderstand ing somewhere along the line. Mrs. Audra Cook, Red Willow County welfare director, said "No legally entitled person has been denied aid." State Fair The 1956 State Fair did not break any attendance- records, but is was successful: anyway, Fair Secretary Edwin. Schultz said. ' : 'I . Total gate for the 7-day event was estimated at 259,000 well below the 288,000 set at the 6 day event last year. This year was the first time the Fair ran a full seven days. And Schultz said it's possible it may be a full week long every year hereafter. Aerial Spraying- , Attorney General C. S. Beck's office 'ruled that the State Department-of Aeronautics may en ter an agreement with the Unil versity of Nebraska and may provide $11,000, for research funds in the aerial application of agricultural chemicals. Chancellor Clifford M. Har din "of the University of Nebras ka, asked for the opinion. The $11,000 will be used to provide salaries, travel and sub sistence, equipment, chemicals and other expenses incurred in the research. The departement will furnish the plane and will make avail able unused airstrips for the experiments. Soil Bank The $25 million allocated to Nebraska apparently will be enough totake care of all Ne braska farmers planning to put wheat iri' the soil bank. Robert, Zink of the State Agri cultural and Stabilization office said the; .money is enough for about 960,000 acres-which is 20 per cent of: the state's total al lotment of wheat acres: Employment A seasonal upswing increased job placement activity during August, the State Division of Employment Security said. The division placed 5,444 dur ing the month, about 1,000 more than during July. Compared with August, 1955, the picture was less favorable. Non-farm placements this Aug ust were 1,400 fewer than in August, 1955. THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE- TWO Section B Thursday, September 20, 1956 By Stanley James, Journal Washington Reporter By Melvin Paul Statehouse Correspondent The Nebraska Press Association LINCOLN Traditionally, the political tempo during an elec tion year picks up after the Labor Day holiday. Such apparently is the case in Nebraska again this year. The Stateemocratic Central Committee got things rolling by giving state Chairman Willard braska Volunteers for Stevenson Kef auver Committee. The for mer governor, Adam McMullen, Beatrice, bolted the Republicans because of their farm program. Mrs. Fred Barmore. Lexington, was named with "McMullen as co-chairman of the Nebraska Volunteers for Stevenson-Kefau-ver. -'- jc?, Ephraim Marks, past com mander of the Omaha Legion Townsendt of Lincoln full con- Post No. 1 charged that GoveV trol of party campaign funds j nor Anderson "has fiddled while disbursement The,n actioni came at a day long meeting in Lincoln during the farmers' crons and the peni tentiary burned.' He also took exception with the proposed gov which plans, were firmed up for I ernor's mansion which he term-J the coming election. State Party Treasurer Leo Beck, Sr., Lincoln, said the fi nancial condition of the party is good and Frank Reed, Lincoln, chairman of the party's advis ory committee, said the candid acy of Lawrence Brock of Wake field has been well received in the third district. , At Nebraska City, Democratic friends of gubernatorial can didate Frank Sorrell kicked in more than $2,000 to help his ' braska. I canpaign.. iV The? first week' will be spent l Meanwhile, a former GOP: . , n. A . A 4. ' governor and "a former Demo- in" tne Tnird D"tnet,-the-sec-i cratic, committee woman were ond in the Fourth District, the j named co-chairman of the Ne-1 third in the' First District, and ed "an architectural monstros ity. . .completely out of keep ing with Nebraska's magnifi cent capitol." The Republicans were busy too. State GOP Headquarters an nounced the itinerary for the Republican Caravan. Starting the week of October 8, the Cara van will visit scores of cities and towns in all parts of Ne- WASHINGTON, Sept. 20, The1 Democratic victory plan for 1956 is traditional strategy of 1948. Adlai Stevenson and aides are trying to win this year's election with three or four bloc or sec tional victories. They are as fol lows: First, the Democrats are coun ting on the South and its ap proximate 125 electoral votes. Second, they are trying to cap ture several large, key. states, such as New York, with its 47 electoral votes. Thirdly, the Democrats hope to pick off several key farm states in the Midwest, which would bring them an additional number of electoral votes. These, with whatever else the party can get, would add up to more than the 266 needed for election this November. This strategy is different from that used by the. Truman gener as staff in 1948. In that year the promise: with the South, in fact cbunted on blunt treatment cf the j South. tP win for the. Demo crats .votes ,in the key eastern and northern areas. . ; k Truman lost New York in spite of this, but carried enough northeern and eastern states to offset the loss of four southern stdtes. In that election the Tru man strategy jWorked. t Stevenson, however, in 1952 carried only eight southern and one I border state. He and his supporters think labor, most of whose leaders have now lined up behind the Dem6Grats nom inee, .added to ' the unrest . and dissatisfication-.of a certain num ber of voters - who always be come irked with ,the party in power, will help the Democrats in several - big, states. It is probably true that the Democrats are .stronger in the South this year but; whether: the hope for big state, victories . is justified is another question: And while there: is . some, unrest , in farm areas, the , hope; to -capture many electoral votes in the usually Republican Midwest is another, unknown...:-;. ; ,: 'Farm. ;, income. :;has steadily, but farmers in, the Mid west have recently seen hog prices move up. briskly and the Other meat prices are-also up. The next few months might tell the tale on Democratic hopes in the Midwest, . although . they do not seem destined for another shut-out loss this year. Standing squarely in the path of victory,: for the - Democrats, beyond a doubt .however, is the great popularity of President Eisenhower. Moreover, a check of history shows that most changes of history shows that an administration is. seldom turned out when general pros perity is the order of the day and when there is no war in progress. : So, in spite of Democratic vic tory .plans, and some enthusi asm, the Republicans are solid favorites in the coming election, probably enjoying , odds . right riow of abput 5 to 3 and; those are very heavy odds in presi dential 'election calculations. y.The British are quietely burn ing overjjt'he result, pf Colonel Nasser's.', seizure of the Suez GAS REFUNDS The Internal Revenue Service reports that only 400,000 of an estimated 3,000,000 eligible far mers have applied for refunds on taxes paid on gasoline used on farms during the first six months of 1956. The deadline for filing is September 30. Congress approved a bill last spring au thorizing refund of the vwo-cents a gallon Federal tax on farm gas and Diesel fuel. On July tl,; the Federal tax on gasoline ana uiesei iueis weni up irom 2 cents to 3 cents a gallon. Therefore, in the fiscal year end ing next June 30, farmers wiJl be able to claim- 3 cents a gal Jon for fuel used on farms and for farming purposes: GUN-PLAY FATAL POSTVILLE, Iowa Robert Haug, 13, of Minneapolis", who was spending the summer with his aunt and uncle, the Arthur Helgerson's was- wounded fatal ly while he and his cousin, David, were playing, with a rifle. Canal, and American partici pation in Western relations with Egypt. The Americans urged Britain to get out of the canal zone. The British finally did. Six weeks later, Egypt seized the canal. Secretary John Foster Dulles flew to London for con ferences, but kept saying that he did not believe in the use of force. Without this club to hold over Egypt's head, the e ventual use of force, there was no real pressure on Colonel Nas ser. Then, after the commission appointed by the London con ference broke off its talks with Egypt, Nasser having refused to internationalize the canal, Sec retary Dulles was reported to have said he had never ex pected Nasser to give in. Mean while, the State Department was still : opposing the use of force and hoping that furthur negotiations would straighten out the whole thing. The British, on the other hand, feel that no amount of negoti ations can bring them satis faction, since they will not be satisfied until and unless the canal is nationalized. And Col onel Nasser is sure to respect nothing but force in . tle pre sent situation. This the United States , is opposed -to. As a result; the British com plain, they are handicapped in their effort to recover what is, by international ; treaty, their rights in the canal zone. Without full;U. S. backing, the British and French are reduced to ne gotiations, and few believe that anyone will ever convince Nas ser, to. give up his opposition to internationalizing the canal by talking to him about it. Spotted Alfalfa Aphid The spotted alfalfa aphid has been found in all eastern Ne braska counties to the South Dakota state line in the past 3 ;weeks. No reporets have been received, however, of extensive damage: dropped L,;,Thej spotted alfalfa aphid is small; about l-16th mch in length pale yellow, and has 4 to 6 rows of dark spots on its back. It feeds first on the lower leaves of alfalfa plants and works up ward as the leaves turn yel low and fall. , .The aphid readily Junps off the plant when disturbed. It feeds by sucking juices from the leaves. This release is for information only, it is hoped that you won't be alarmed. It should not do serous damage any more this season. Swine Rooters Day September 21 Ag College, Lincoln The 21st Annual Swine Rooters Day .will be held .at the College of Agriculture Friday September 21. From 8:C0 to 10:00 tours will be conducted starting at the Meat Laboratory Building. From there the day's program;10:15 to 3:10 will be held in the- College Act ivities Building. Clarence Schmakeke County Agricultural Extension Agent WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE Crafty Creature Here's the Answer HORIZONTAL 1 Depicted animal, the red 4 It has cars 9 Since 12 Exist 13 At no time- VERTICAL - 1 Obese 2 Mineral rock 3 Eye affliction 4 Grafted (her.) 5 Bamboolike ' grass 6 English , version (ab.) 14 Unit of. weight 7 Surrender 15 Rounded 8 Allowance for 22 Antenna 17 Signify. waste 24 All 19 Was indebted 9 Makes amends 25 Itemize 20 Famous 10 Obtained 33 Keep English school 11 Individual 21 Lady 16 Pitcher 23 Require 18 Not any 26 Erect 21 Sleeping 27 Domestic slave visions ' M Tl niv XOJ f 033" 5p3l a o 3m o r"- dT 3pLtg fc 3 X j 3 A "3pNT" 3" J V 28 Symbol for erbium 29 Size of shot 30 Three-toed sloth 31 Medical suffix 32 Female horse . 35 Hindu garment 27 Winter vehicle 38 Brother of Cain (Bib.) 39 Pungent odor ; 42 Roman robe 44 Finishing tool i. 46 Rugged mountain crests 49 Blackbird of cuckoo family 0 Papal triple crown 52 Age 53 Writing tool ' 54 Pilfer 55 Morning moisture 41 Bravery 42 Ancient Irish capital 43 Verbal 34 Type of cheese 44 Knock 25 Sapient 45 Compass point 26 Diminished 47 Before 40 Fishermen's 48 Observed apparatus 51 An (Scot.) 1 li 15 H IS I 17 b I I? 10 ill 13 K 17 16 I , - J 1 1 ill' 1 . 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