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EDITORIALS The Military Dilemma The dilemma being faced in the Pentagon by Defense Department officials is clearly demonstrated by tha recent ac tion of Scretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson. Mr. Wilson finally had to step jnto the row between the Army and Air Force and settle the line of delineation of authority between the two services concerning- guided missies. To settle the argument, Wilson gave the Air Force control of all long-range -missiles, which include all those which -travel more than 200 miles. On the other hand, he gave the Army authority in the field of anti-aircraft missies, which con stitutes a compromise solution in this Ifield. Z The Army is still pushing for an Air -Force of its own, while the Navy is main taining its own air force, and the Navy is still maintaining an army of its own .a very good one, we might add and the ;Air Force is seeking to acquire a clear road -of authority in the field of strategic bomb ling and hydrogen bombs. Here the Navy is involved also. All of which leads us to the conclus ion that, eventually, the military services ;in this country will have to be welded into -a single service. There will be three branches , but the three services will be coordinated to a greater degree than is possible under the present system. Those 'who engineered the establishment of the Defense Department, only a few years ago, envisioned a Department which would -coordinate the operations and functions tot the three services. It has been almost impossible for the Defense Department "to weld the services together and the role of the Department has actually become I one of arbiter or umpire or judge, while "the three services continue to go their own way, fight among themselves about fields of authority, and duplicate themselves in many phases of defense work. ' Rockefeller Foundation Grants The Rockefeller Foundation re cently released a quarterly report on grants made to various colleges, professors and in behalf of education in the United States. The total amount of the third-quarter grants was $2,113,746- In commenting on these grants, we will state at the begin ning that we know of no family in the country which has used its money for better purposes in the charitable 'field than' the Rockefeller family. '-s X In looking over the list of grants for the third quarter of 1956, however, we see where Rockefeller money is going all over the world in behalf of education. It is going to South and Central America, Asia, and the Middle East, in various forms and shapes. Some of this money is going to Europe and some to " almost every corner of the world. We have no quarrel with the theory, although we think the Rockefeller Found ation could do a wonderful thing for the United States if it concentrated its aid in this country on the poorer colleges and universities, in an effort to bring them up to par. This does not necessarily hold true only with the Rockefeller Foundation, but with all philanthropic foundations of its nature, with considerable funds at their disposal. The Plaiismoufh Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 1881 Published Semi-Weekly, Mondays nd Thursdays, at 410 Main Street, Plattsmouth, Cass County, Neb'. V,VAV1V.WAV1V1VAV.V'AVAV.VAViVAViVAVAViVA Furse's Fresh Flashes ''''''''''",, " The average girl would be a sensation if she wore a dress to match the stockings they wear these days. iflr About all the average man wants from life is a little peach a&d quiet. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, might not make a good mother, but we'll -wager she would make a poor father. HC T- A gal who swears she has never been kissed has a right to swear. it k The future seems to get here a lot faster than it used to. One woman's hobby is often another woman's hubby. it Flattery is like perfume you're sup posed to smell it, not swallow.it. Alcohol puts the wreck in recreation. k it Down Memory Lone J( YEARS AGO v County commissioners at their ses sions last week passed on and approved 2,000 claims on the county. Election brought in 240 extra claims, 340 aid age assistant warrants were issued, thirty-five mother's pensions Royal Arch Masons held their election, naming Anderson, Lloyd, high priest; Robert Painter, king; Charles L. Carlson, scribe ; Frank A. Cloidt treasurer; William F. Evers, secretary Deputy Sheriff Cass Sylvester uncovered a cache of copper wire from 400 to 500 pounds of the wire being uncovered north of this city. Arrest of one of the residents of the camp north of this city followed the discovery of the wire children of the Jean school near this city presented a fine program consisting of the operetta, "Peter Rabbit", Mrs. Lucille Wiles, teacher directed the production. YEARS AGO ' Captain and Mrs. Geo. A. Fingar son, the latter formerly Miss Marie Don nelly of this city, have returned from a tour of duty in the Phillipine Islands, where Captain Fingarson was attached to American troops in Manila. Captain Fin garson is now assigned to the 17th infant ry at Ft. Crook. . . The passing of the fourth birthday was the occasion of a party honoring Master Joe Noble at the home of his grandnarents. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Noble on North Eleventh Street. . Mr. and Mrs. George Conis entertained few friends at a dinner party honoring the first birthday of their daughter, Catherine- . A fine birthday cake featured the event. Fatal Fallacies by Ted Key The Travelers Safety Service "Step sign ahead . . . Watch that car . . . Not so fast . . . Man crossing . . . Easy on . . ." Washington iilRRY-60-l0UND It DREW PEARSON Hatiohai Award Winner 19 56 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 1S53 (In Cities ever 2,000 Population) RONALD R. FURSE Editor and Publisher EARL S. DAPP . . .... .'."I '. .V. News Editor MARGARET DINGMAN. Woman's Editor H. M. JOHNSON Advertising Manager JANET PTAK Bookkeeper DON WARGA .................. -Shop Foreman PHONE 241 KOCCL WStll C55CISS 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,s for two weeks. " ' . - " ' '! Entered at the Post Office t plattsmouth, Nebraska as second class mail matter in accordant , with the Act of Congress o Match' 3. 1873..:, V .. :'. HVlJ .L:.l (Copyright, 1355, by the Bell Syndicate. Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: IKE PLANS HUGE SPENDING PRO GRAM FOR NEAR AND FAR EAST; HE WILL TRY TO PATCH UP RE LATIONS WITH OUR WESTERN ALLIES; DULLES WILL TAKE BACK SEAT RE FOREIGN AID. WASHINGTON: Vitally important plans for the Presidents coming "State of the Union" and inaugural addresses are now being formed in Augusta and Wash igton. They indicate a break with the past "particularly a break with the isolationist wing of the Republican party, as drastic, as anything that has happened in Eisen hower's four, years in office. The President plans a huge global program to recapture American prestige and power in the Near East, the Far East, and Europe. It will take the form of ai spending program more expansive than anything the Eisenhower administration has ever dreamed of, greater probably than the Marshall Plan under Truman. It will also include guarantees to Near Eastern States against attack. The plan is to fill in the economic vacuum in the Near East and Asia caused by the adjustments of outmoded colonial ism. This will mean a lot of money. It will be spent on irrigation and various im provements to raise the living standards of Asiatic-African peoples. . At the same time, the President plans to revive tarnished ties with our old allies, France and Britain. He plans to put this whole program under Governor Christian Herter of Massachusetts who is being brought into the State Department in Jan uary. John Foster Dulles will be given little or no chance to meddle with it. Memories of Globaloney To prepare the program, the President-has already brought General Bobby Cutler, former Secretary of the National Security Council, back from Boston to the White House. He had originally tried to draft his former Chief of Staff, General W. "Beetle" Smith, who served as head -of Central Intelligence and Undersecretary of State for Truman. Cutler is now hold ing meetings in the State Department, pre paring the big new foreign affairs offensive. Also helping is Vice-President Nixon. As a former isolation ist, his job is to win over the Isolationist wing of the Repub lican Party. White House advisers are not unaware of the fact that a huge spending program will be view ed as Henry Wallace "Globa loney." They recall the derisive speech of Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce in which she excoriated Roosevelt-Wallace-Truman for eign aid and coined the phrase "Globaroney." They aso recall derisive "milk for every hot tentot" criticism that was hurl- However,'; they believe' that the Democrats will have to go along with the president's spend ing program and that Nixon will be able to swing the right winger. Nixon himself has seen what is happening to the right wing Republicans, first with the graduil demise of Joe McCarthy second with the defeat of Sen ator Welker of Idaho. He has indicated to friends that he sees the handwriting on the wall. . Ike's Crucial Four Years What brought President Eis enhower around to his present thinking, according to his friends, are two things: 1. Dulles' illness, during which Ike, realized for the first time the badly deteriorated state of our foreign policy. 2. The last days of the cam paign, when the president listen ed to the speeches of Adlai Stevenson. The criticism got under his skin. He realizes, partly as a re sult of that criticism, partly as a result of two near escapes with death, that his place in history will be decided in the next four years and that he has a lot to do in those years. He got one of the worst shocks .of his term as president when Dulles became ill and for the frst time he took over the active administration of foreign policy. Not until then had he realized how many problems had been swept under the rug just to get them out of the way. He then began to realize that while we had undermined the British and French in the Near and Middle East, we had simul taneously failed to tio anything about filling the vacuum left by them as they were under mined. Thus the Russians had moved into the vacuum as the French and British moved out. The president, according to friends, also began to smart when newspapers which had steadfastly supported him in the past, such as the New York Times and New York Herald Tribune, began knocking him for deserting the French and British. By the time he got to Augusta, he began to realize that he had knocked the spots out of the two, nations he had long been closely identified with, the French and British, and found himself lined up with the Russians and their, stooge. Colonel Nasser. Ike's Agonizing: Areappraisal Accordingly, the president has been experiencing his own "ag onizing reappraisal." This reappraisal has not been without differences of opinion and further mistakes. During the days just prior to his Augusta trip, Eisenhower refused to see the British for eign minister, Selwyn Lloyd, and LETT! The Journal welcomes letters from readers for this column on. any subject Your name must be signed to all articles intended for publication, however, by re quest, it can hi omitted from the letter appearing in print. (Contents do not necessarily express the opinions of this newspaper.) V Editor Plattsmouth Journal The Public Library is deeply indebted to you for your gener osityin supplying us with the semi-wekly journal, two copies each edition, also for your co operation in giving the library the publicity you have during the past year, in bringing the library to the attention of the public has been a very material aid in our ever increasing cir culation. ' : I Your gift of the bound - vol umes of the journal will be of permanent value to pur patrons, thank you.. Sincerely, Verna Leonard Librarian NEBRASKA THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE FOUR . Monday, December, 10, 1S56 -...At. r. -'-VJ the Australian external minister, Richard ; Casey, both stanch friends of the United States. Simultaneously, he gave lunch eons for, or received the Prime Minister of Greece, the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, and the Prime Minister of Tunisia. Technical reason for snubbing the Foreign Ministers of such land and Australia was that they were "mere foreign minis ters. However, the White House also discouraged a visit with Prime Minister Eden, who want ed to stop en route from Jam aica. One conversation which had impact on the president was with Dougas Dillon, U. S. am bassador to France, who was so disturbed at worsening American-French friendship that he flew to Augusta. He feared the State Department would not transmit his cablegrams to Eis enhower warning that never in history had the French been so bitter against the United States for holding up 1 the sale of oil. This was a Dulles policy with which Eisenhower- had concurred. h IAHSS C tiLSOH, Suptrinkmdent STAT! BISTCBICAl fOSISVV Writing in the March issue of Nebraska History, the quarterly journal of the State Historical Society, Dr. Donald F. Danker, the Society's archivist, de scribed the , effort of the Ne braska Winter Quarters Com pany to develop the town of Florence, now a suburb of Omaha. One of the problems facing the promoters of Missouri River towns in Nebraska Territory was that of providing an ad equate means of crossing the "Big Muddy." The promoters of Florence solved that problem with the use of a Steam Ferry. An advertisement for the fer ry ran in each issue of the Council Bluffs (Iowa) Chron otype during the summer of 1856. Because it is interesting in itself, and because it is an idea of the nature of adver tisements a century ago, it is reproduced here. "The splendid new steam ferry boat, Nebraska. No. 2, is now running and ,will con tinue to run between Florence and the opposite shore, at all hours, from sun rise to sun set, until the close of navigation. "The Nebraska is a first rate boat, with powerful machinery, built expressly for ferrying on the - Missouri River, every thing about her is new and in excellent order.1 She will not carry twenty-five wagons and teams at a time, nor two hundred head of cattle, but can conveniently carry six wagons and teams at a trip, and cat tle and other stock in proportion. "The river at this point is only about seven hundred feet wide, with rock bottom and rock-bound shores on both sides, perfectly clear of all obstruction, and good permanent landings directly opposite each other, consequently, the boat makes her 'crossings in less than a minute, and is abundantly able to do all the ferrying that will be done at all points on the Missouri river above the mouth of the Platte, this season. "We do not. (like the Omaha Ferry i Company) call the at tention of the public to a time table. We have none, our Char ter, as we understand it obliges us to run at all times, from the rising to the setting of the sun, and we are perfectly willing and always ready to fulfill those obligations to the letter, if only a lone footman comes, we cross him without delay. "The road to the Ferry on the Iowa side is excellent, and from Florence to the Platte Valley, it is many miles nearer and much better than any other route. "The officers and crew are skillful, prudent and courteous, and will, at all times, be found ready and willing to do all in their power to accomodate and oblige the traveling community. With all of the above advan tages and the fact that our rates are twenty-five per cent less than those , of Omaha, to-wit: Wagon and span of horses or yoke of cattle, 75 cents; extra span of yoke 20 cents; carriage and span- of horses 60 cents; horse and buggy 40 cents; man and horse 20 cents; footman 5 cents; cattle, horses, and mules per head, 10 cents; and sheep and swine 3 cents per head, we confidently look' for a share cf the public patronage." Platte County (71) The origins of settlement in Platte County go back just one hundred years and Columbus is celebrating its centennial this year. -m WTFI TP WoOld! . IGMAM Check the correct word: ; 1 1 New president of NicaTaguT foIIowinff the i assassination of Anastasio Somoza is (Carlos K Armaz) (Luis Somoza). 2 The International Geophysical Year, begin i. ning July 1, 1957. extends to (August) f (December) 1938. i Russia has agreed to a five-point formula for a peace treaty with (Japan) (Iraq). 4 Most populated country in Central America is (Panama) (Guatemala). 5 Last ballplayer to lead both major leagues in batting, home runs and runs batted in was (Lou Gehrig) (Ted Williams). G The city of Jerusalem is (in Israel) (in Jordan) (split between two countries), 7 Halloween precedes (All Saints Day) (All Souls' Day). 8 Leading state in the production of sugar cane is (Louisiana) (Mississippi). 9 Jacob Javits and Robert Wagner are compet ing for a senatorial seat in (Massachusetts) (New York). 10 Recent visitor to the Black Sea area was (Harry Truman) (Marshal Tito). Count 10 for each correct choice. A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, average; 70-80, good; 90-100, excellent. '.3!jaCi.T Decoded Intelligram suiEiniAY S 'eieuiaieno f, 'UEdef g uaquiaoaa 6 'ezoaios I In the spring of 1858, the ad vane agents of the Columbus Town Company representing a group originally from Columbus, Ohio started out from Omaha to locate a townsite. They selected the strategic point where the Loup joins the Platte. On June 22, 1856, a person who signed himself "Observator" wrote in the Omaha Nebraskian: "I crossed Shell Creek and went to the Loup fork, but im agine my surprise when I found myself in Columbus not Colum bus, Ohio, but Columbus, Platte County ' Nebraska Trritory. Here I found the hearty yeoman ry working like Trojans during the siege. I learned that they were all Germans. . .They in quired of me if I wanted to stay overnight. . . and led me to a neat log house twenty by forty. There were .several other houses in the course of construction. I. admired ther energy and- in dustry and prophesied that Co lumbus would be in two years as large as Omaha now is." Though Observator's prophe ies were not completely ful filled Columbus soon developed into' one of Nebraska's signifi cant small cities and the county settled up rather quickly with as they used to say in the old publicity brochures, "a thrifty agricultural population." The county was created in 1855 before the advent of any significant settlement. Organi zation took place in the winter of 1857-53. Columbus has been the county seat since organi zation. The Union Pacific Railroad 1866. The arrival of the railroad was one of the great events in the history of the town and the county, and the county loca tion along the line of the first transcontinental railroad had much to do with its early settle ment and prosperity. Tn addition t.n hpinp1 associated with early development, Columbus is inti mately identified with the de velopment of hydro-electric pow er in Nebraska. The Loup River Public Power District with head quarters at Columbus was the first of thev Public Power Dis tricts organized under the en abling legislation of 1933. The Loup River project was started in October 1934 and by March 1937 th project started produc ing power. ; Platte County is particularly famous as the home of military heroes. Frank Luther North, the famed leaders of the Pawnee Scouts, lived in Columbus, and General Alfred Gruenther, until recently Commander of NATO was born at" Platte Center. In 1856 Platte County had -a population of 35. By 1860 there were 32 residents and by 180 1,899. The 70's and 80's were years of great growth and by 1890 the population of the coun ty was 15,437. The county con tinued to grow until 1930 when it returned a total of 21,181. Columbus has continued to grow until 1930 when it returned a total of 21,181. Columbus has continued to grow but the rural areas have declined somewhat that in 1950 the populaton was 19,910. - Cattle are not like billiard balls. . . . Jyou can't punch -the ones in the back and expect the ones in front to move, states Livestock Conservation, Inc. This treatment only causes cattle to become frightened an to crowd. . .and they will not injure themselves unless they are frightened, crowded or hur ried. At least two-thirds of cattle injuries come from crowd ing, bumping or rushing. For this reason, take it easy when handlnig cattle. railroad Subscribe to The Journal New! r . "M ADVANCE INFORMATION ON YOUR 19S7GI INSURANCE DIVIDEND. THAT WILL ONLY SLOW DOWN THE WHOLE OP ERATION. WAIT UNTIL YOU'VE RECEIVED YOUR. DIVIDEND AND THEN WRITE IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION Si For fait Information contact yonr nearest VETERANS ADMINISTRATION office V f DO66ONIT. JABBER. VJHEN I TELL VOU TO BRtNS THE COWS FRCM THE FIELD I DON'T MEAN FOR yOJ TO RIDE J, v.. ;l 1 - . 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