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V- v rj. V 1 e , w - -w ED IT O RIALS Furse's Prime Minister MacMillan The Right Honorable Harold Mac ' Millan should prove to be a true friend of the United States in his new role of Prime Minister iof Great Britian. MacMillam is a staunch British nationalise and a member of the Right Wing of the British Conser vative Party. MacMillan's task is a most difficult one in the months and years ahead if his - government lasts that long. If he can bring stability to the British economy and restore - the prestige Britian has lost abroad, he ' will have worked a minor miracle. Mr. MacMillan is sixty-two years old and gets the job as Prime Minister over the popular Majority Leader of the House of Commons, R. A. Butler. It was a bitter pill for Butler to swallow, something like the pill Lord Halifax had to swallow when Winston Churchill was named Prime Min ister in the dark days of 1940. However, Butler is only fifty-four and has plenty of , time to become Prime Minister at a later date, in a later government. I MacMillan stood by the former Prime Minister, Anthony Eden, in his trying days during the invasion of Egypt. Unlike But- ler, he supported the attack on Egypt from - first to last, and it is thought that because ; of this, he will be a unifying force in the Conservative Party. t It is particularly tragic that Eden re- signed after such typical Communist fraud - as a recent suggestion that Eden and w French Premiere Guy Mollet be tried as war criminals. His resignation will be in ,terpreted in Communist countries as lend- ing credence to these charges, and others painting the Western powers as aggres- - sive imperialist countries. However, MacMillan can do nothing 1 about the results and ,must make the best of the situation he faces. Mr. MacMillan immediately announced he would not call a general election, predicting that when there was one, the Conservaties would win. His first task is to restore the British econ omy and to see if he can get the canal re opened and British prestige abroad re stored. It is probably good that Mr. Mac Millan, the elder of the two candidates, gets his chance today. Perhaps, Mr. Butler will not do badly by allowing Mr. Mac Millan the questionable job of trying to straighten out the current mess in which the British Government finds itself en- meshed. Mr. Butler should have his chance at a later date. The Farm Problem The number one problem faced by the United States concerns the farms of this country. Although a recent report by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson is encouraging, the farm situation remains acute. Benson reports that farm income in 1956 was five per cent up over 1955 in come, and that exports wil set a record. Moreover, he admits the price squeeze is continuing and that production costs are going up but, if farm prices continue to go up this year, farmers will feel some relief. He believes we are headed toward a better era for the farmer. This is encouraging news, although we are not yet convinced. We hope that THOUGHT FOR TODAY """ Whoever would not die to preserve his honor zvould be infamous. Blaise Pasac.l The Plaiismoulh Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 1881 Published Semi-Weekly, Mondavi nd Thursdays, at 410 Main Street, Plattsmouth, Cass County, Neb-. National Award 19 Three Times Winner r-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 1953 (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 taomoOTeuisscgsn SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $4.00 per year in Cass and adjoining counties, $5.00 per year elsewhere, In advance, by mail outside the city of Platte mouth. By carrier In Plattsmouth, 25 cents for two weeks. Entered at the Post Office at PUttsmouth, Nebraska as second class mail matter in accordance with the Act ' of Congress oi MucV t. 1879 rect, but they ation the fact Winner 56 PHONE 241 Fresh Flashes Hard work may not kill people but, let us be honest, we . are getting- a little tired of it. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little con tour twister, says there are six ages in a woman's life: infant, girl, young woman, young woman, young woman and young woman. Heard one Plattsmouth resident re marking the reason snow hadn't been cleared on the street fronting his residence was because city employees were saving their strength for digging up the street next summer. And this friend of ours telling how for years she didn't know how her husband spent his evenings until one night she got home early and there he was. Plattsmouth's Pavement Plato came through with this observation: "Love may be blind, but the average mother-in-law is an eye-opener." k Sad but true hanging in the kitchen of one Plattsmouth home is the slogan: "The views of the husband of this house are not necessarily those of the manage ment." Benson's forecast proves accurate. The farmer has been suffering a price squeeze tor some five years and if he is! not bailed out, so to speak, then serious economic repercussions are sure to be felt in the United States. Those who argue that: the farmers' income and spending power comprise only a small percentage of the total U. S- economy, are theoretically cor do not take into consider- j that no one segment of the ; population can be starved economically for a period of five or six years, and many of them put out of business, without a snow-ball-effect developing. Part of the reason tor the drop in automobile sales in 1956, and the direct cause of farm machinery slump, is the price squeeze which has been experienced by the tarmer. If Mr. Benson's forecast is correct, and the farmer is to come out of his economic pit, then the nation may well move on toward reinvigorated prosperity. But seeing is believing, and we will have to see this before we will believe it. Down Memory Lane f YEARS AGO Movement to provide children of the city in need of shoes with good servic able shoes is finding a ready response from among the residents of the community to the appeal of the Community building club's activities. Thirty pairs of shoes were turned in, repaired and distributed through the schools to the children attend ing school. This was a Legion sponsored move and proved a great aid in the hard times of the thirties. The club was in oper ation until in the early forties. The coun ty old age assistance director, Paul Van dervoort, has paid out to the 349 old age assistance applicants, $5,500.52 for the month of December, while $634.37 was paid out to dependant children in the month of December. Miss Isabel O'Mal ley, granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Shea, was married at Molibe, 111., to Russell F. Denney of Moline, the bride was a graduate of the class of 1929 of the Plattsmouth high school. , Of YEARS AGO 3 V The office of Clerk of the District Court Golda Noble Beal was one of the busy places of the court house at the new year check of the records disclosed. There were 18 criminal cases filed and disposed of during the years, 19 damage suits, fore closures to the number of 15, while divorces numbered 13. At the court house E. P. Stewart retired from the office of Sheriff, Miss Mia U- Gering as trea surer and Mrs. Edna Shannon as register of deeds. Henry Lamphere has opened "Chick's Cafe" in the Woodman building at 6th and Pearl streets. Mr. and Mrs. John Hallstrom received the pleasant news that they were grandparents, a daughter having arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hallstrom at Avoca. Washington ilERRY-0-E!OUsMD fy DREW PBAXtSOt DREW PEARSON SAYS : IKE HOPES TO MAKE HISTORY AS MAN OF PEACE; HE FACES NEW TERM WITH BETTER UNDER STANDING OF POLITICS, CON GRESS, AND PRESS; HE HOPES TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF EISEN HOWER LUCK. Washington There are some changes in Dwight D. Eisenhower as he begins his second term as - President of the United States. He's learned a lot in four years. He's learned, among other things, not to be afraid of Congress. He's become a master Politician. He's no longer afraid of the press, can play a press conference with the skill that a musician fingers a keyboard. And he likes the job which at first he didn't like at all. Jficklers ;l ; mdi y "jK' b iff ' VI don't see why the boss got so sore when I accident? ally dropped that old rivet pail; after all,.weweatfT helm" ..si" Finally, he's determined to make a name for himself in his- tory as a man of peace. Also; he wants to develop new political leaders, rejuvenate the Republi can party. But in some other respects, Ike hasn't changed. Men don't change radically after they reach the age of 60, and the President is now 66. He hasn't lost the personal touch, despite the pressing bur den of the presidency. He likes people; likes to phone his friends direct without going through a secretary; likes to scribble long hand notes, still likes to be call ed Ike by his friends. He may interrupt the most important business session to do somehing personal; would much rather meet the champion truck-driver of the year than a group of con gressmen. Still Dislikes Decisions In other respects, also, the President hasn't changed. He still loses his temper quickly. He is still too trusting of friends and executives, still delegates too much to men around him without checking their oper ations. And he still likes decK sions made for him. : His instruction to the Joint Chiefs of staff at the Quantico Marine Corps Base in the sum mer of 1953 tha he wanted un animous recommendations from themstill stands- He does not want to have to decide between, the Army, Navy and Air Force. And when he, as commander-in-chief, has been called upon to make the decisions which a commander-in-chief must make as to whether the United States should intervene in Indochina and whether we should take a stand at Quemoy and Matsu, he has hesitated and delayed. The President has come a long way from that famous evening at the F Street Club when he shocked Republican intimates by saying that, in 'wartime, busi ness should be taxed proportion ate to the sacrifice of the boy who gives up his life. Today he feels completely at home with business advisers, who so criticized his views at the F Street Club. He feels much more comfortable with them than with labor advisers. No labor advisers are close to him today. Eisenhower Luck More than anything else dur ing these next four years, the president hopes he may bring about an era of peace. He is a ware that big things have been stirring behind the iron cur tain, and while he does not en tirely know how we can take ad vantage of this ferment, he does have a certain reliance on his ability to be on the job at the right time. The man on the street might call it Eisenhower luck. Histor ians might call it being a man of destiny. But just as Eisenhower was the right age when Pearl Harbor broke, just as the wea ther was right on the day of the Normandy invasion, and just as fate chose to let Stalin die while Ike was in the White House, so the President-feels that he may be the man who came along at the right time to bring peace to the world. Ike Shold Watch What the President needs to watch most during the next four years are certain backstage deals that could damage his place in history. To illustrate, his Attorney General is now dis cussing a deal to let Pan Ameri can Airways and the Grace Steamship Company out of ; an anti-trust suit regarding their joint airplane company, Pan agra. What makes this look bad is that Peter Grace, chairman of Grace Line, Inc., serves on one of i Ike's advisory committees for Latiri America; also hired one of Ike's White House aides, Charlie Willis, as his assistant. ; Recently Peter Grace has been talking to Attorney General Brownell, not about Latin Ameri ca, but about the anti-trust suit. He has served an ultimatum that Grace Line will not sell a single George ( OLD SKA h IAN IS C OLSON, SprinU4t ifAfl BUTOIICAl lOSUfV From time to time Mr. Ralph Emerson Woods sent a number of stories of different kinds deal ing with his remembrances about early Nebraska. Here are two of them concerning Pawnee Indians in the Platte Valley in Buffalo County'?- "Mrs. Nettie Bayley Walker, is authority for this story It seems the Indians had quite of ten passed the Bayley farm sit uated between Gibbon and Shel ton and Mrs. Walker's mother had taken pity on. the tribes peo ple that had become beggars, now that, their buffalo were gone and had been passing out quite a few hand outs, loaves of bread etc. The Indians probably pass ed the word along and they ap peared at the Bayley home al most daily. After a check up on the family larder which was dwindling, Mrs. Bayley conclud ed to discontinue her charity as share of its stock in Panagra. Only concession is to let the court appoint one out of Grace's four directors on Panagra. This concession had beer refused by the Civil Aeronautics Board as not acceptable. However, Peter Grace is a man high up in Republican Councils, and it looks as if he would get his way. At a special secret meeting between Brownell, his assisant, Victor Hanson, and James Durfee, new chairman of the CAB, Durfse retreated from the CAB's original position. The Justice Department is now ready to wash up the govern ment's suit if one director on Panagra is ... appointed by the court. This is a long way from the Justice Department's demand that the Grace Steamship Com pany sell its stock in the Pan agra Airline. ' A few years ago the American export lines was forced to sell its interest in American-overseas Airlines because it was a steam ship Company. . But things are different now. The antitrust law is no different. Congress has not changed it- But those who ad minister it have changed. These quiet backstage oper ations are among the important problems the President will have to watch to protect his place in history during the next four years. YESTERPAYIPiCKEP U? A HANDFUL OF mwmt UOW, PACKEP IX MADS HGDOPMIP WARP. 5 J - Eagle Family Visited By Illinois Kin Mrs. John Fischer Phone 7304 Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Ballance and daughter of Norfolk, 111., are visiting their daughter and sister, the Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Rodaway and family. Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Ballance are also visiting: in Eagle with. Mr. Bal lance's sisters, the visiting par ents, he havng been recently discharged from the Navy at Pensecola, Fla. The latter couple hope to locate in Nebraska. The polio clinic for administer ing shots is sponsored by the community club and will be held at Eagle schoolhouse, Tuesday, Jan. 22. 9 a. m. to 11 a. m. Children 40 cents, 20 years and up, $1.40. Next series of shots will be Feb. 19. Julie Henriksen, small daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Allan Hen ricksen of Lincoln, spent a few days at the home of her grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Henriksen last week. , Mrs. Eddie Francke, 76, pass ed away at the St. Elizabeth Hospital on Monday, after enter ing the hospital during the prev ious week. Her health has been failing for several years. Funeral services were held at Roper and Sons. Mortuary at Lincoln on Thursday1 afternoon at 1:30. ; Rev. Leland Lesher officiated with Albert Francke soloist and Maryalice Macy organist. Mrs. Francke 's survivors are her husband, Edward i William; daughters, Mrs. Marguerite Por ter of Valparaiso, Mrs. Marie Sheridan oi Long Beach, Calif., Mrs. tRuth Sutton -of-.McCook, and Mrs. 'Irene - Schnieder of Lincoln --; .. Three brothers, Henry Ketel hut and Otto Ketelhut of Walton, Mrs. Kate Oberle of 'Lincoln, and Mrs. Myrtle Ashlock of Wray, Colo., and eight grand children. 2 One daughter, Mrs. " Mabel far as Indians were concerned. One forenoon as she was hanging some clothing on a line, two large buck Indians appeared and asked for food. Pretending that she was deaf, she pointed at her ears and shook her head. The Indians left, and entering the house, Mrs. Bayley peeked through a window curtain. The two Indians were out by the gate, pointing at their ears, shaking their . heads . and then Almost doubling - up with 'laugh ing they were wise"! The other one is from the same area. "This one by the late Charles Fieldgrove of Shel ton At 18 years he was very large and strong. His father, Henry (Hank) Fieldgrove had grown a large number of water melons on some sod ground and they had hauled a great stack of them up by the windmill platform. A small group of Paw nee Indians (several families) were passing with horse and travois when they spied the mel ons of which they were especial ly fond and, so they all came into the yard and pointed at the melons and their mouths. Now Hank, who as I remember was about as large around as he was tall (probably got . that way by laughing so much) told the In dians and pointing: toCharles 'You rassel him get melon no throw no melon' Expecting a real tussle, Charles stripped to: the waist and in no time at all had thrown the first opponent over his shoulder. Five more fol lowed and then no,, takers. The Indians were crest fallen. How ever Fieldgrove was a kindheart ed man and gave the Indians all the melons they could carry away to their delight and grati tude." posrvou, PIC1CHP MY POT GOT AIL REAY TO A BLAST THAT STUPID PETEE RIGHT 1W THE UE.-" -v -TGHTpJ THE HSAP-r' THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE FOUR - - - Monday, . January 21, 1957 Km Check the correct word: 1 The U.S. refugee, relief program is slated for (expansion) (curtailment). 2 A disastrous brush fire swept a suburban residential area near (San Francisco) (Los Angeles) recently. 3 The Army has announced a sweeping reor ganization of its (combat) (service) divi sions, to take place in '57. 4 The President has named (Winthrop W. Aldrich) (John Hay Whitney) as U.S. am bassador to Great Britain. 5 A "mad bomber" has been operating for 15 years in (Chicago) (New York). 6 Highway death toll over the long Christmas weekend topped (500) (700). 7 It (was not) (was) the highest in history for the Yule season. 8 Our new ambassador to Italy will be (Clare Boothe Luce) (James D. Zellerbach). 9 Integration in (schools) (on buses) has been top news from the South recently. 10 A group of lions is correctly termed a (herd) (pride). . Count 10 for each correct choice. A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, average; 70-80, superior; 90-100, excellent. Decoded H-S awIHAV Bquioo Siekman and a grandson, Ray mond Siekman, preceded her in death. Pallbearers were Vern Hoff man, Dwight Earl, Sherman Henriksen, Merle Meyer, Mel vin Meyer and John Ronhoode. Burial at Eagle. The Methodist family night supper and fellowship hour, will be on Sunday evening, Feb. 3. A special entertainment from Lincoln is planned. Mrs. A. H. Siekman has been ill with the flu for several days. The Evening Eagles Extension Club members met at Mrs.Er nest Dietze's home on Tuesday evening, Jan. 16. Mesdames Howard Root and Keith Muenchau conducted the lesson on "Decorative Stitches". The names were drawn for sec ret sisters. The club members plan to as sist with the polio drive this month. Mrs. Doyle , Gump be came a new member of the club. The next meeting will be at Mrs.. Keith Trumble's home....- Relatives have heard from Mrs. Bertha Caddy, that she is home from the hospital after naving suiiered a stroke a few weeks ago at Indianapolis, Ind. She was at her daughters home. The latter and her daughter, Carole, had undergone surger ies However, all are at home, now and recovering satisfactor ily. Mr. Charles Bogenrief return ed home from the hospital hav ing undergone surgery on last Friday morning at Syracuse, and is recovering satisfactorily. Mr. and Mrs. Duane Novak and sons of near Crete, spent Thursday at home of Mrs. No vak's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rob ert Phillips. Mrs. Herbert Oberle attend ed and rejoined the "Country Kates" Extension Club at Mrs. Carl Lemke's home on Tues day afternoon. The O. E. S. Kensington met at the home of Mrs. O. E. Under wood, on Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. William Pruessing of Lin coln was the out-of-town visit or. She is a sister of the host ess. Mrs. O. E Underwood re ceived word from her sister, Mrs. Dorothy Reece Wickham of Long Beach, Calif., that she "asp what happened I I 7- v CjmAMS Intelligram g 'sopguv soi z uotsuEdx2i had arrived in Fort Wayne, Ind., via plane and her grand daughter, 4 years old had suc cumbed to a malignant illness after being hospitalized three weeks prior to surgery. The Indiana folks had visited the parents during the holidays and Pamela had taken ill en route home. Her 4th birthday was Jan. 1. She leaves besides her parents and grandparents, a brother, nearly 3 years old! Week Remains For Aliens To Report Address Robert C. Wilson, district di rector of the Immigration and Naturalization Service said to day aliens in Iowa and Nebras ka have only one more week in which to comply with the fed eral law requiring that aliens report their address to the .gov ernment during January of each year. The Immigration official urged all aliens who have not vet com plied to go as soon as possible to the nearest post office or immigration service office to file the report. , Parents or guardians must file the report for alien chil dren under 14 years of age, or custodial care. Wilson said the address report is required each year from all aliens except those in diplomatic status, foreign representatives assigned to the United Nations, and Mexican national contract laborers. He pointed out willful failure to comply carries penalties in cluding a fine and deportation. Suppose each adult and child in America contributed $5.91 to a special fund. The total, ac cording to the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture, would come to about 975 million dollars the amount it cost to run the farm support system in the year ended June 30th. The monev has been spent to assure what the gov ernment considers a fair price to farmers on crops and pro ducts in which surpluses have developed. BLASTED ME FiST