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JSfiixxxKxvw EDITORIALS V.mVAVAV.V.V1VAV4V.VAV.VAV.'AV1W bV-Vs!Xv.w.v.v. Another Year It is hard to believe as always but 1956 has run its course in what seems like only a few months. Now, 1957 crowds into the act. The year 1956 was one of general prosperity in the United States, of politics, and international crises,- It was a year in which the Amerieairpeople chose Presi dent Dwight D. Eisenhower to serve an other four -years, although they gave him a Democratic House and Senate in the was a year in which Egypt's Presi dent Nasser precipitated an international crisis by seizing the Suez Canal. England, France and Israel precipitated another when they invaded the canal zone with troops, although they had pulled out by the latter days of December. It was also a year in which the Rus sians savagely attacked the free people of Hungary, a move which aroused the wide spread sympathy of freedom -loving peoples everywhere. The United States stayed out of wTar, and prosperity for most Americans continued. It is true that many farmers, small business men and some workers, whose employers went out of business, did not enjoy the prosperity experienced by many. And 1957 may "well be the year in which the economy makes or breaks it self. A continued worsening of the situ ation for the group of -Americans, who are not now as prosperous as they have been, could mean a recession. A change for the better, which would provide them i-: their share of U. S. prosperity, could mean many more years of good times, Therefore, 1957 is a year of hope. It should be a year of prayer also in be half of peace. Since most of the economic forecasters and . .corporation, executives, predict that 1957 will be another good year, the prospect is that 1957 will prove to be another highly successful year for Americans. ' it Time To Check Policies The explosion that destroyed the Ord, Nebraska, high school building and sent board members scrambling to state and federal agencies for financial assistance (which they didn't get), should be a warn ing signal to other school boards to make a close inspection of present insurance policies. Ord school heads discovered to their dismay that insurance carried on their .school buildings did, not cover boiler ex plosions and now find themselves in a most difficult financial situation. Bonds total- " inor several hundred thousand Were - recently issued covering construction- of 'Z a new school building are outstanding. The damaged building is a near total loss 1" amounting to two to three hundred thou- sand. A rebuilding job here added to out standing bonded indebtedness can put the " district in dire straits. Our opinion is that every school building, or any public building for that matter, should be adequately covered with T insurance as any private individual covers - his own holdings. The insurance should " cover anticipated loss from any cause it is possible to buy insurance for. A stiff . premium each year is easier to meet than THOUGHT FOR TODAY The man who lacks patience also lacks philosophy. Sadi. The Plallsmoufh Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 1881 Published Semi-Weekly, Mondays nd Thursdays, at 410 Main Street, Plattsmouth, Cass County, Neb-. National Award Winner 19 56 laiUxU CJJvtial tfifoaiJo Atuutai Furse's Fresh Flashes Did you ever notice how quick your wife's voice changes when she stops scold ing long enough to answer the telephone? it it it Every time we see the sign "Ladies' Ready-to-Wear Clothes" we think it is about time. it ir Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, thinks she is losing her ap peal. She took a job in a local cafe dur ing the holidays and reports that men are beginning to count their change. it i? if A local new father says he always knows when it is time to get up because the baby is asleep. it it it If. a girl's kiss speaks volumes, you can be pretty sure it is not a first edition, i i i What this country needs is more whittlers and fewer chislers. it EJigJit after Christmas is the time grandparents, bushed after a day of mind ing noisy youngsters, feel that the Lord knew what he was ciping when He gave little children to young people. Three Times Winner Ak-Sar-Ben Plaques for "OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE" 1949 1951 1952 "Honorable Mention" 1953 Ak-Sar-Ben First Place Plaque for UTSTANDING SERVICE TO AGRICULTURE 1955 Presented Nebraska Press Association "GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD" First in 1952 Second in 1951 and 1S53 (In Cities over 2,000 Population) RONALD R. FURSE Editor and Publisher EARL S. DAPP News Editor MARGARET DINGMAN Woman's Editor H. M. JOHNSON Advertising Manager JANET PTAK. Bookkeeper DON WARGA Shop Foreman PHONE 241 ''LbwfThot--ScfiimbfecPEgg! -"-'-J. mmmm a stiffer loss in case of disaster. . We suggest that Cass County boards of education make an immediate exami nation of present insurance policies, bring them up-to-date in order to prevent a pos sible accidental financial disaster striking local school district taxpayers- it it it Down Memory Lane " Jf YEARS AGO Mr. and Mrs. Edward Mullen who have been visiting here, departed for Cali fornia, taking with them Mr- and Mrs. Lon Henry and children, who are to make their home in the Los Angeles area Mrs. Robert Sedlak entertained in honor of the 22nd birthday anniversary of Her hus band. Present were Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Wilson, son, Leroy and daughter, Mildred, Mr. and Mrs. Clelland Gansemer, daugh ters, Joan and Phyllis, of Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Sedlak and-son, Stuart, Mr. and Mrs. John Wondra, Mrs. George Trotter and daughter, Beverly of Fort Crook Ralph Bayly was taken to Oma ha for treatment. Tr 3S YEARS AGO 3v The Blue and White triumphed over Weeping Water in the first basket ball game of the season 49 to 8, George Perry scored 13 points and Ed Wescott 14, George Rebal 12, Gerald Smith,-Or A new monument company opened their bus iness here, with A. Blythe, H. Lemke and S. L. Parish forming the members of the firm Miss Elvera Born and Mr. Her man Hennings were married at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs- Henry Born, west of this city. The marriage lines were read by Rev. O. C. Wichmann, pastor of St. Paul's church of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Hennings left for a wedding trip and on their return will reside on the farm west of this city. it it it Merry-6o-Round- 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 cena for two weeks. Entered at the Post Office t Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second class mall matter in accordance with the Act of Congress o( Mit g. 1879. (Copyright, 1956, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS : DREW PEARSON SAYS: NEHRU WAS IMPRESSED WITH IKE'S GOALS FOR PEACE; EISEN HOWER DECIDED NEHRU IS NO ' MYSTIC; CHIANG KAI-SHEK COULD BE VICE PRESIDENT OF CHINA. Washington Details of the tre mendously important Eisenhower -Nehru conversations are now beginning to leak. State Department officials have been a bit worried over the possibility that con flicting versions of the talks will plague them in the future. For no third party was present, no stenographer took notes. The two men were alone for large parts of about 18 hours. However, the President called in a stenographer after the talks and dictated at length his recollection of the con ference. It can be stated from those who talked to both men that the following gen eral impressions were scored. 1. Nehru became convinced that Eisenhower was not merely a military man interested in polishing his medals. He found the President sincerely devoted to peace, a man not likely to be pushed by trigger-happy generals into atomic war. 2. Eisenhower in turn was impressed with Nehru's realism. Contrary to reports that Nehru was an impractical mystic, he found him a practical, realistic leader. Unlike many other foreign visitors, Nehru did not ask for American aid. The President gave him several opportunities. He knew India desperately needs funds for its new Five-Year Plan. But Nehru pre ferred to talk about what the United States and India can do to promote peace with Russia and Red China Vice President Chiang? There was no agreement about China. But Nehru revealed that Premier Chou En-Lai had informed him just before leav ing for Washington that Chiang Kai-Shek could be made vice president in the Red Chinese government if he would make peace with the Red regime. (Chiang was the first Chinese leader to warm up to Russia back in 1S25 and once used the famed Communist boradin to train ' Chiang's wampo cadets. So it's been inferred he could now switch back to his old friends.) Nehru said he was convinced Red China wanted to negotiate a firm peace that would enable all the Chinese to work together. Nehru also emphasized in elo quent language his conviction that the problem of China must be solved. The president was sympathe tic but made no commitments. He indicated that Chiang Kai- Shek would have to decide his own future. The position of the United States has been that China would have to liberate all American prisoners and give a pledge not to use force against Formosa. Eisenhower did not deviate from this position. In diplomatic language Eisen hower complained about . the grandstanding Indian diplomat Krishna Menon. Ike indicated that Menon seemed to be more a spokesman for Moscow at the United Nations than for India. Nehru did not reply directly. He did remark rather pointedly that part of the difficulty in Indian-American relations had been that spokesmen for each country failed to explain poli cies properly. Ike Would Ban H-Bomb One part of the conversation which especially pleased Nehru pertained to disarmament. Ei senhower promised that during his second term in the White House his greatest goal would be a disarmament agreement with Russia to end the terrible threat of atomic-hydrogen war fare. He gave the Indian prime minister a preview of the pro posals he planned to make to Premier Bulganin to ban guided missiles as well as atomic bombs. Nehru seemed greatly im pressed. He told Eisenhower that the new rulers of the Kremlin are deathly afraid of a new war and genuinely wrant disarmament. One point which Nehru em phasized was that the United States must not get discouraged in its negotiations with Russia. He kept coming back to this over and over again. Stalinism, he said, is now dead in the So viet Union. Each day that passes wTill make the new Krem lin leaders more reasonable be cause of the very important fact that the people of Russia are demanding a better life. Fruitful Talks In the opinion of this ob server, the Nehru-Eisenhower conversations of approximately 18 hours accomplished far more than the thirty-day tour of the U.S.A. on which Nehru was con ducted by ex-secretary of de fense Louey Johnson during the Truman administration. John son, who worked hard and sin cerely to sell Nehru on the U. S., did not realize that the Indian leader wasn't particularly in terested in meeting railroad ty coons and big business execu tives, or in seeing all the tall buildings and natural wonders of the United States. He was interested in getting to know the man at the helm of the United States. Eisenhower understood this. He also was shrewd enough to keep John-Foster Dulles and Vice President Nixon,: whom Nehru, does not like, out of the picture. Neither was present during the Gettysburg conver sations. Dulles Called on Neh ru after he first arrived and 1 Nehru returned the call just be fore he . left. Nixon gave a luncheon for Nehru, but at the luncheon Nehru hardly opened a stiffer gasoline and diesel fuel tax. The reason more money is needed, proponents say, is to maten incrcasea amounts a xeaorai lunas. Howtvcr, prob aoiy tne lurm, ir acting ana petroleum groups wul une up against tnis proposal usmg tne argument that no more iunds are required There has been increasing at tention devoted to tne matter oi irrigation, especially in view or two ury suiiiiuers m many areas of the state. senators prosjauiy will deive at ieiigcii into me matter oi re quirixig some type ci regulation on irrigation weiis prooab.y in the .iorm of a restriction on spacing of them. On -the school scene, will be the question of higher stand ards ior teachers and stronger redistricting laws. Battle lines have formed the matter oi re districting. This- opposition is directd against any moves to niae recutiictmg cuiiipiusory or to strengthen the state com mittee by giving it tne veto power over local plans. THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE FOUR Section B Thursday, December 27, 1S56 ' 1 1 By Stanley James. Journal Washington Reporter Capitol News By Melvin Paul n Statehouse Correspondent The Nebraska Press Association LINCOLN What kind of a legislative session will there be in 1957? Most observers say the session, which convenes at noon on New Year's Day, will be one of the most difficult on record. It will be faced with the demand lor more services and thus more money on one hand, and wheth er the people can stand the bill, on the other. Gov. Victor Anderson in recent weeks has set the keynote for the affair by using such phrases as a "hard tack" bud get and a "hold the line" ap proach to sending. The matter of new taxes will be foremost in thinking of the senators. Indications are that the perennial sales tax issue, and that of an income tax, will be taken up. Roads will occupy much time as will regulation of pump well irrigation and school matters. A legislative council commit- ! tee that studied Nebraska's tax problem for 18 months came up with a recommendation for legislation to "put teeth" into existing laws.. In other w7ords, laws to enforce statutes already on the books. The committee took no stand on the matter of a sales tax but this could prove to be one of the hottest issues in the 1957 session. The reason is some senators will be looking for new taxes on the theory that people want more . services, need them and want to pay the bill. New taxes would ease the burden on the property owner. On the other side of the fence will be' the senators who feel that the drought the past two years in the state means that there must be no increased state spending, and no new tax es. Road revenue measures will be dumped into the legislative hop per. They are expected mainly to evolve around higher license fees for trucks and cars and his mouth on anything impor tant. Dulles had once aroused In dian wrath with his statement championing Portugal's right to the Colony Goa, on the In dian coast, also by a statement appearing to side with Pakistan in the dispute with India over Kashmir. Nixon got in wrong with Neh ru when Nehru, accepting aid from Moscow for a steel mill remarked, "Of course there are no strings attached." Nixon promptly fired back: "Russia doesn't offer aid with a string, but with a rope." Is Ike A Neutralist? One factor which helped the Nehru-Eisenhower conversations was the statement the Presi dent made one day before his ileitis attack last June expres sing sympathy with the neutral ity of India and other Asian neutralists. His statement caused a furore in Pakistan, the Philippines, Germany, and other non-neutral nations which have signed definite pacts to fight alongside the United States. The Philippine government asked for a formal explanation and the German ambassador ex pressed the concern of his gov ernment. As a result, the State Depart ment . issued -: . a , "clarifying" statement the" next day, in ef fect correcting the President of the United States. However, as Eisenhower re marked publicly last June, the United States itself was once neutral. And in his talks with Nehru, he seemed to reflect a strong, personal sympathy with neutrality. Brock In 1953 A matter of top speculation for the 1953 political year will be where Lawrence Brock, un successiul Democratic candi date for Congress, throws his hat. . Brock decided not to contest the outcome of his nip-and-tuck but losing race with Rep. Robert Harrison of Norfolk, Re publican, in the third Congres sional district. One .thing for certain, Brock is the strong man as of now in getting ability for the Demo cratic party in Nebraska. There are growing indications Brock may be the party's candi date for governor. But Brock said he - has made no decisions on his political future. Party officials would like to land Brock, A Wakefield far mer in the senate, but pairing him against Sen. Roman Hruska in 1958 is not to their liking because of the widespread pop ularity and vote getting ability Hruska has. ; Instead, party officials have reckoned on possibly putting Brock up against Sen. Carl Curtis in 1960, but in the mean time see if Brock can't wTin the governor's chair. Gov. Victor Anderson, Repub lican incumbent, meanwhile has not thrown cold water on any talk that he would be in terested in seeking a third term. t Tuition Hikes The matter of tuition at the University of Nebraska is in the limelight again. A suggestion that the school look over its tuition rate came up recently at a budget hearing before Gov. Victor Anderson. Then, Dr. D. D. Welch, re tiring president of Hastings Col lege, said the University ought to meet its money problem partly by increasing tuition. He suggested a doubling of the fees. But, Dr. F. B. Decker, state comissioner of education, said Nebraskans should be careful not to price education at the University out of reach of av erage youngsters. A substantial hike, Decker said, wrould keep many young sters from going to college at all. Ag Rates The matter of putting agri cultural truck shipments under state regulation has been brought before the Nebraska Railway Commission. A petition was filed by the Independent Truckers Assoc iation of the Midwest, asking the commission to establish rates for hauling livestock and other agricultural products now exempt from rate regula tion. In the past, produce compan ies and other shippers have fought any efforts to bring ag ricultural shipments under com mission jurisdiction. Another part of the petition calls for a new, lowr .rate for goods hauled by truckers op erating over irregular routes. Larger truckers probably will oppose this since it would per mit irregular route operators to get some business from larger firms. The larger firms must operate on regular schedules over fixed routes. WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. There is growing concern in the business circles of the country, and among some members cf the. new Congress, over the tight money policies being followed so religiously in Washington. Tight money is and was a check on a threatened boom, but it did not check continuing wage increases and the price increases spiral. The result is actually, that the value of the dollar steadily decreases while the tight money policy of the government makes it harder and harder to borrow a dollar, buy a house or buy a car. When the first checks on easy money were announced in Wash ington, and credit made more expensive, that tended to check a situation which could have de veloped into a wildly inflation ary one. But now, after the check has definitely headed off a big boom, tighter and tighter money can cause serious com plications. Business must expand and improve its production meth ods to keep pace with ever increasing wage increases. The only way a producer can con tinue to grant wage increases and not run the price of his product up, each time, is to find newer 'and cheaper, or more automatic, ways to pro duce his product. Business expansion, at todays money prices, is to be slowed. Confidence in government bonds is now threatened. Wage-increase demands are to continue. Should business expansion be curtailed for long, with money I getting tighter and tighter, gen-j eral business and even employ ment could be affected. When this time comes, serious eco nomic difficulty might follow. There are few who deny that the check-inflation policy of the Administration was the. right one wThen first applied. But there are many especially a mong the Democratic majority of the new Congress who feel that tight money cannot con tinue to be tightened and that the last tightening, so to speak, might have been a mistake. Eventually, the issues of con tinuing price increases, partly caused by continuing wage in creases, must be faced. Either business increases production and improves production meth ods (expansion and moderniza tion) to enable it to pay high er wages and avoid continuous price increases or it pays the wage increase and ups the price of its product. This process has already reached the excessive stage, according to some econ omy experts. A battle will almost surely develop on this issue in the first session of the 85th Congress. the canal has been cut off foi some time (and Egypt is ob viously in no hurry to get the canal in operation again) and revenue from agricultural pro ducts has been down. In addi tion to all this, Egypt suffered a iirst-class defeat when she was attacked by Britain, France and Israel. She lost much military equip ment which will have to be replaced. The question is, then what is holding the economy of this small country up? Several Communists have helped. For one thing, Russia sent most of Egypt's arms to Nasser in re turn for Nasser's cotton-some now and much in the future. Nasser is mortgaged, so to speak, to the Russians. Also, Communist China has stepped in to aid Egypt, to an extent which is not positively known. At least one other Arab country has also come to Egypt's rescue, financially. But even these measurer may not be enough to keep Egypt solvent. If the country's economy ever collapses and inflation and a lack of confidence ' takes over, Nasser's head may go on the block. That is what many west erners are and have been hop ing, but surprisingly, Egypt's economy seems to remain standing on its own two feet. Butter-Fingered Burglar OMAHA, Neb. It must have been a butter-fingered burglar who recently broke into a pack ing company here. The burglar slashed his hands on broken glass; jimmied a door only to find it led to an outside loading dock; tried again and pried two padlocks free to tfind they guarded a cooler door; found a quarter of beef too heavy to carry and settled for a small piece of beef cut from a quarter, which was of the very poorest grade. Subscribe to The Journal Now! Conflicting and confusing re ports are streaming, out of Egypt concerning that country's economy these days. Western observers have been expecting a collapse in Egypt for weeks and months now but President Nasser apparently is managing to maintain stability so far. Yet Egypt's sterling funds are blocked in London, revenue from County Retail Sales Increase During October Encouraging signs have been spotted on the Nebraska busin ess front by the University of Nebraska's business bulletin, Business in Nebraska. The December issue said "The most encouraging thing is that all but three of the maj or cities and most of the coun ties showed an increase in Oct ober retail sales as compared with September." Cass County, although down 1.4 per cent from October 1955. was 0.6 better than September 1956. October sales were up 3.1 per cent for the state, compared with the preceding month, but still down 5.2 per cent over a year ago. North Platte, Alliance and Beatrice were the only three major cities' reporting better retail sales than a year ago. better business administration's business research department, the bulletin said that the city business indicators for October "may be evidence that the tide has turned." The indicators, unadjusted for seasonal or price changes, in clude bank debits, building ac tivity, retail sales, electricity and gas consumed, water pumped, postal receipts and newspaper advertising. The state as a whole was up 1.6 per cent over a year ago, with Broken Bow leading the way with a 7.1 per cent climb. A Classified Ad in The Journal costs as little as 35 cents WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE Stringed Instrument Here's the Answer HORIZONTAL 1 Depicted musical instrument 6 It has four 13 Mistake 4 Behold! 5 Nomad 6 Whirl 7 Woody plant 8 Flag-maker 9 Pronoun 10 Tidy 14 Food element 11 Biblical 15 Ship's record mountain 16 Sign of zodiac 12 Scoffs . . 18 Malt drink 17 Artificial 19 An language 20 Skeleton parts25 Notion 21 Golf term 26 Relate 22 Tellurium 27 Crippled (symbol) 28 Old 23 Area measure 33 It is also 24 Revise 27 Boys 29 Down 30 Silver (symbol) 31 Hebrew deity 32 Pronoun '33 Container 35 Rim 38 It is used orchestras 39 Egyptian sun god 40 Peculiar 42 Run away to marry 47 Roman bronze M 48 Falsehood 49 Pants 50 Rodent 51 Slanting type (pl.) 53 Get up 55 Portia's maid 56 Beneath .' 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