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f EDITORIALS Oil And Gas Increases There seems to be little justification for the recently announced general price rise, in all states east of the Mississippi, at least, of the price of gasoline, motor oil, kerosene and other petroleum products. The first major refinery to announce the increase blamed the increase on the hike in the price of crude oil, bought in Texas. The excuse for the increase here is that emergency fuel shipments to Europe have made the increases necessary. We have no doubt that emergency 'fuel ship ments to Europe have increased the de mand for oil, and have enabled the refin eries to increase their prices and get by with it, but we sincerely doubt if there is any shortage of oil in this country or if there is much reason for an increase across the board for gasoline, heating oil, kero-' sene or any other petroleum products. The bad part of the matter is that some states are increasing taxes on petro leum products this year and that will mean that motorists might be facing an increase of several cents per gallon of gasoline in many states, plus increased taxes in the way of licenses, registration fees, and so on. ' The general trend seems to be toward sticking the consumer for everything he can stand, and then some. It seems that big business is too seldom called upon to produce proof that excessive profits are not being sought. Keep Immigration Law A great hue and cry has gone up from various groups in this country designed to wreck the nation's immigration laws. We are one hundred per cent in favor of the immigration laws of this country and hope that Congress will not change them. Although some details may need to be ironed out, the basic intention of the immigration law is a good one. Its purpose is to admit immigrants of various nation alities to this country in numbers which are directly proportionate to the nation ality composition of our total population. In other words, we are attempting to maintain the same proportionate pop ulation by races and countries of origin, that we now have. Even so, the immigra tion law in recent years has permitted greater numbers of Latins 'and South Europeans to immigrate to this country than those from the Northern European countries. - This has been true because the na tions with higher standards of living, such as the Scandinavian countries, England and Germany, do not fill their quotas, while the poorer, overpopulated nations-? to the South annually fill their quotas;; &h4-4 would fill them many more times if they were permitted to do so. "' The chant from some groups now is to break down these origin-quotas and to allow more and more Latins and others to come into this country. We are solidly op posed to changing the immigration laws, realizing that the character and composi tion of our country is changing too rapidly already. We also point out the dangers which confront us when we attempt to assimilate too many aliens too rapidly. The subversive danger alone should induce patriotic citizens to go slow in opening our gates to a flood of undesirable immigrants. The population of the United States . THOUGHT FOR TODAY Knozs-'lcdgc is not knowledge until some or scorns, to do an ill action. Joseph Addison. The Piaiismouth Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 1881 Published Semi-Weekly, Mondays "nd Thursdays, at 410 Main Street, Plattsmouih, Cass County, Neb'. Purse's Fresh Flashes We always buy two-pants suits be cause "in my other pants" is a very useful alibi. ir The big guns aroqnd this town are generally those that have never been fired. , This is still the land of opportunity where a man can start out digging ditches and wind up behind a desk if he doesn't mind making the financial sacrifice. , , One nice thing about the old black smith is that when you brought him your horse to be shod, he didn't think of 40 other things that should be done. - By just looking at a girl, you can usually tell what kind of a past she is going to have. With all this flu going around, a man wakes up occasionaly feeling like he has been put together by a committee. When police asked for a description of a missing bookkeeper here recently, a business man told them he was about five feet 11 inches tall and $1500 short. Platonic love is like being invited down to the cellar for a bottle of ginger ale- . ' , ' ' , - is growing by a couple of million persons a year and the time is soon to arrive when this country will not have enough land, natural resources and other -advantages to maintain our own per capita standard of living. In addition we must always count on the emotional aspects of every crisis, such as that which occurred in Hungary, which gives cause to admit thousands of new immigrants under a special program. Many Americans look upon the title of "melting pot" as a complimentary title, but we would remind our readers that there are elements which do not melt in a pot- If we are to keep our country strong, safe and capable of leading the democratic forces in this world, we must always make certain that we are able to assimilate; and make good American- citizens out of the thousands of very fine immigrants we bring into our country each year. Got to Make More Room, bigger unless the counties andi cities step up the rate of match ing U. S. government money for their secondary highways. State Engineer L. N. Ress said he doubts the cities and counties will be able to take up much slack and under the present revenue structure, Ne braska can't meet the federal total. If the state does not match the money, Ress said it will go to other states. Down Memory Lane National Award Winner 19 jtfr 56 ALU CLito4U i1U9citi dmmt4l 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 over 2,000 Pc ..illation) f YEARS AGO Meeting of the city council was taken up with the topic of snow, Council man. Tippens reported on account of the f snow he Had to employ additional . men. He suggested the maintainer to .be used -to take the vsnowoff the center of the streets in the residential sections and pull ed to the center of the street- in the busi ness section. Councilman Bestor objected as the city had spent $800 in .moving show the past year, The flu germ-has hit the Boy Scouts of the city and Billy Rosen crans, Burton Rishel and James Sandin were reported on the sick list. Rev. Adolph Hosier entertained his church trustees at a turkey dinner at the rectory, with Vincent Pilney and John V. Svoboda as guests. Deputy Sheriff Cass Sylvester was at Omaha to attend the state sheriti s association meeting. OAYEARSACO Plattsmouth high school basketball team was victor over Beatrice, by a score of 37 to 26 in a game featured by close guarding on the part of both teams. George Perrv was hicrh point man lor the Flat ters with 15 points. Mrs- Leslie W. Niel was recovering from an operation for ap pendicitis at the Methodist hospital. The Farmers Elevator Co., of Cedar Creek held election of officers: J. G. Ttfeisinger, presi- dent; J. C. Meisinger, secretary; August iKeil, treasurer; Otto Pe tenet, John Halmes. directors. M embers of the Greenwood lodge of the I. O. O. F. sawed and delivered 22 loads of wood to the homes of the members of the Rebekahs in true fraternal spirit. n h mis ERRY-SO-Roira 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 mm' PHONE 241 esou cncsai issjccss SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $4.00 per year In Cass and adjoining counties, $5.00 per year elsewhere, In advance, by mail outside the city oflatts mouth. By carrier in Plattsmouth, 25 cens for two weeks. fostered at the Post Office at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second class mail matter La accordance with the Act of Congres of Maich 8. 1879. . DREW PEARSON SAYS r U. S. AMBASSADOR TO EGYPT GETS ROUGH CROSS-EXAMINATION FROM SENATORS; KING SAUD CRITICIZED FOR LACK OF FREEDOM AND SLAERY; SHEIK OF KUWAIT RUNS MODEL COUN TRY. Washi n gton S 1 a v ery in S a u d Arabia earner in for tough criticism from Sen. Wayne Morse (D., Ore.) during a closed -door session 'of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Ambassador Ray mond A. Hare, U. S. Envoy to Egypt, was on the witness stand, trying to defend U. S policy toward near east dictators. "Are these not totalitarian monarchies we are supporting in the near east?" Morse asked, referring chiefly to King Saud of Saudi Arabia. "No," replied the ambassador. "If they-are not totalitarian monarchies and if I got out in the street and criticized the government, what would happen; pursued Morse. "You'd get into trouble admitted the ambassador. "You mean I'd go to jail." The ambassador laughed, tacitly agreed. , "And if I were a Baptist Min ister and started to convert people in Saudi Arabia?" asked Morse.: "You'd be in trouble," admit ted the ambassador. "In other words there is no freedom of religion. Now suppose I was a pamphletter," continued the relentless senator from Ore gon, '"and tried to write what I wanted to write." "You'd be in trouble," admit ted Ambassador Hare, "In other words, there is no freedom of the press," concluded Morse- "In brief, there is not one single protection under what we call the: Bill of Rights." NO RUSSIAN THREAT "That's true," said the ambas- ador, "But it's changing." ".Even .the lowliest person can see the King." , "There, is nothing modern a- bout that," remonstrated Morse. In feudal days, even the lowli est serf could see his lord and master. "Now what effect are the Rus sians having in this area?" Morse changed his tack. Ambassador Hare reported hat the Russians were flooding he near ..east with literature, books,; arid propaganda, and were "selling", lots of arms. Sen. WUlfa'm Fulbright of Ar- Kansas. ; ,.. "Yes." - '-;' '. ' . "Don't you think wre had bet er sell them, too, rather than give them away?" Hare did not have a conclusive answer, ana senator Morse re turned to the cross-examination. 'You say the Russians are mak ing great neaaway," ne asKea- 'Do you see any impending threat on the part of Russia a- gainst the Arabian Countries?" There was a long pause. Final y Ambassador Hare replied: "That will depend on future developments." "I would like to have an an swer to that question," pursued Morse. "Do you see any impend ing threat on the part of Russia against the Arabian countries?" "No, not at the moment," re plied the ambassador, "But a lot of developments could come in the future." "Yes," said "Morse, "Suppose we pour manpower and arms in there. Wouldn't that create a situation much more conductive to war?" The ambassador hesitated. Bailing: Out Oil Companies "Do you have an idea of the value of the oil in the Arabian countries?" asked Morse. "No." "A rough idea?" "It's worth billions." "Now -why should American taxpayers be giving their dollars to the oil companies to help pro ect their investments?" The ambassador didn't have an answer. When Morse asked about slavery, however, the am bassador explained that slavery in Saudi Arabia was not as bad as it sounded. When a child was born to' '.a nobleman in Saudi Arabia, he said, a slave child was placed with him so they could grow up. together. "Mr. Hare," asked Morse, "is it not true that human beings are bought and sold in Saudi Arabia?" Ambassador Hare admitted that it was true. MODEL COUNTRY Right next door to Saudi Arabia is a strange contrast in what enlightened Arab leader ship can do to prevent disease, poverty, and communism. In the Skeikdom of Kuwait, a British protectorate, the Sheik gets about as much oil royalties as King Saud approximately $260, 000,000 annually. But instead of spending it largely on defense and on his royal household, Sheik Sir Abdullah Al Salim Al Subah has used his oil money so that every citizen benefits. Like King Saud, Sheik Ab dullah's power is absolute. He wears no jewels, makes a hobby of reading Arab poetry,- goes BEAVER HUSTLES The speaker of the Legisla ture, Sen. John Beaver, is a key man in the speed with which committees are handling bills introduced. Beaver constantly checks com mittee chairmen to prod those lagging into taking action on bills already aired at public hearings, or to get more set for hearing. Forty-nine measures, including those pertaining to the contro versial sales tax, were- on the hearing docket this week. Capitol Mews By Melvin Paul , . Statehouse Correspondent The Nebraska Press Association LINCOLN A. bill that will be of top interest to counties has been introduced in the Legisla ture. It would repeal the Schroeder Mail Route Act, under which counties get one cent of the tax on gasoline for graveling or - otherwise improving the routes used by mail carriers Although the bill, by Sen. Monroe Bixler of Harrison, would do away with the Schroed er Act, the counties would still get about the same 'revenue. But, they would no longer have to spend the Schroeder funds on mail routes only, turn in reports to . the state or worry how to go about improving the first and last mile of each mail route, Bixier said. - Under the Bixler bill, the coun ties . .. would get the Schroeder funds- without the earmarking provision and the money would go to the county general road fund. In v recent years, the mail route act has been a bone of contention. There have been re peated reports in the statehouse of counties not following the law. There have been other reports, too,: of rapid advancement by some counties in surfacing their mail routes. : Tied in with the Schroeder repeal is a one cent per gal lon ; hike in the state gasoline tax., Bixler has both proposals in.itjifi same bill and says he is going, to hold the measure back until he sees the outcome of other highway legislation pend ing in the Unicameral. The objective of all the high way bills is to channel more money to the State Highway de partment, so it can match in creased amounts of federal funds, primarily for the inter state highway. The problem of matching fed eral roads funds will be even BUDGET COMMITTEE mere s one report coming from every state agency that appears before the Legislature's budget committee to explain its request for funds for' 1957-59. The committee is about the "toughest" the state officials have encountered in recent ses sions. Boy, they gave me a bad time," said one official "and my budget is small." The head of the committee is Sen. Karl Vogel of Omaha, re tired president of an Omaha steel company. He is economy minded and is making the agen cies account for every penny of state funds requested. THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE TWO section B : Thursday, January 31, 1957 By Stanley James. Journal Washhurton Reporter HEALTH AIDE The work lad for the director of the State Health Department has increased by leaps and bounds. A lot of this is due to new federal programs causing added responsibility. As a result, the State Health Board put its stamp of approval on hiring State Athletic Commis sioner Charles Moon as admin istrative assistant to Dr. E. A. Rogers, State Health Director. Moon takes over his new duties Feb. 1. He will remain as ath letic commissioner also. A veteran of many years of state service, Moon has been connected with functions as Ath letic Commissioner since 1941. He has done much work for all gov6rnorsr beginning with the ate Dwight Griswold. fishing in the Persian Gulf with ordinary subjects, is widely in terested in western affairs, and cooperates carefully with the British under whose protection he operates. The British, unlike oil com panies in Saudi Arabia, have not hesitated to advise Sheik Ab dullah. As a result, 30 per cent of his royalties is held in reserve to support the country after oil gives out. The balance has been used for modern boulevards, parks, water-distillation plants, power stations, medical services, and schools. Children get free education in air-conditioned schools, as com pared with the children of Saudi Arabia wTho are over 90 per cent illiterate. Parents are paid $65 a year to send their children to school- Schools even have swim ming pools. Exery resident gets free medi cal service in modern, air-conditioned hospitals, including free eyeglasses and false teeth Slavery was wiped out some time ago. Note the Kuwait Oil Com pany, which owns the conces sion in Kuwait, is jointly owned by the , British Petroleum Co., 'and Gulf Oil, the latter in turn being owned by the Mellon Fam ily of Pittsburgh. MERRY-GO-ROUND If Sen. Allan Ellender of Louisiana goes on his annua jamboree against money spent on Senate Investigators, other Senators threaten to ask for an accounting of what Senators do with counterpart funds, and in particular, what one of Ellen der"s appointees on the appro priations committee did with her counterpart funds .... Dick Nixon is going out of "his way to try to win himself back into the good graces of his poten California Colleague, Sen. Bil Knowfend. It may be difficult WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 The latest examples by union offic ials by union officials in flout ing the authority of Congress show again that racketeering is well entrenched in some of the mainsprings of the huge labor movement. Labor bosses now adays often risk contempt of Congress convictions rather than answer congressional questions. A contempt conviction only calls for a $1,000 fine or maybe a year in jail (or both) and if a witness is really guilty of something, he naturally prefers to risk the relatively light pun ishment for contempt rather course he can be called back for questioning over and over, but times change and so do the politicians, and there is always hope that the inquiry will be dropped, or that the union will be "in" with the party in power. So the nation is being treated to a scene wherein union offi cials have no hesitation in chal lenging the elected lawmakers of the country, fighting them, condemning them and sowing discord and strife and genuine un-Americanism throughout the country. Too often labor officials and those who encourage this, get away with it. The politicians are afraid to buck the labor leaders, for fear they will lose the votes of union members back home, and too much racketeering goes on un checked. There is still no law requiring all unions to make periodic financial reports, avail able to all members, and to in sure regular election of officers. Congress should provide such safeguards for the benefit of union members. It would help rid unions of crooks, gangsters, and Communist-sympathizers. It would help in breaking up the tight control bosses build up and maintain in unions, control over elections, records, and finances. The recent exhibition by several witnesses representing the In ternational Brotherhood of Teamsters before the Senate mittee headed by Senator Mc- Clellan (D-Arl4.) did labor's cause no good in this respect. IIGHWAY COMMISSION Another try is going to be made in this session of the egislature to do away with the seven member advisory state highway commission. A similar move failed in 1955. The commission, which ad vises the State Highway Depart ment on road matters, was es- abhshed in 1953. Since then, it has primarily served as a hearing agency for groups wanting roads improved or put on the state system. The commission also has aid ed the department in blueprint ing the two-year highway im provement programs. Gov. Victor Anderson has said and has so far followed through that he will take the advice of - the commission on road matters. By law, he can veto the commission actions. Sens. George Syas of Omaha and David Tews of Norfolk in troduced the bill to abolish the commission. Syas said under the present set up "you can't pin point authority." Another measure to transfer the Board of Control from the Constitution to immediate juris diction of. the Legislature, also was introduced. rne measure, whose princi pal introducer is Sen. Donald McGinley of Ogallala, would not abolish the board. McGinley said it would make operation of the board more "flexible." Now, the board is a creature of the Constitution and operates only under authority granted in the document as supplemented by the Legislature. -That is strange-sounding talk from the Treasury Secretary. It is significant that the Cabinet officer felt so strongly on the subject he spoke out publicly on the controversial issue. When France backed Israel in the United Nation's vote to urge Israel to get her troops out of Egypt in five days, recently, suspicions were again raised that France and Israel co-sponsored the recent Israeli attack on Egypt. Only Israel and France voted against the U. N. resolution. The vote was 74-2. Even Britain voted with the Arab countries and the rest of the world on this ques tion. The French may have been voting against demanding a five day withdrawal of Israeli troops to fulfill previous pledges of sup port to Israel, prior to the Is raeli assault on Egypt. At least; that's the scuttlebutt around Washington. Washington bogged down in its own red tape with the huge federal road-building program has finally shed some of its, authority and. passed it on to the field offices, where it should '. be. Bureau of Public Roads dis-i trict offices can now take final action on the location of the highways, matters relating to location of primary and second ary systems, state-proposed pro--jects and other matters. If de centralization hadn't been order ed chances are too much Wash-, ington bureaucracy would have delayed the big road program constantly. Secretary of the Treasury George Humphry is reported not to be splitting with the Presi dent and the Administration on the budget issue. Although Hum phrey disagrees with some bud get requests, there are reports that the President agrees with his Treasury Secretary in many cases. Nevertheless, President Eisen hower submitted the Budget Bu reau's estimates for funds in fiscal 1958 knowing that many of them didn't meet Humphrey's own recommendations. Perhaps Congress will perform the sur gery Humphrey feels is needed. Next year, however, if the bud get is up apin, Humphrey may provoke a snowdown. He has, in effect, served notice that this is the last budget hike he will go along with, in peacetime. In fact he even made the surprising pre- aiction that a continuation of the budget spiral would bring on a major depression. Assessors Set List Of Basic Valuations The Nebraska County Assess or association at their meeting at Lincoln Friday, among other actions took up the matter of basic valuations for the use of assessors in their work as fol lows: . Corn,' 95 cents a bushel; .wheat $1.40; oats, 60 cents; sorghums $1.40 cwt; rye 70 cents; pop corn $1.80; alfalfa seed $11; soy beans $1.60. Butcher hogs $11 cwt; sows $10 cwt; purebred milk cows $140; grade milk cows $90; ewes and rams-$9; feeder lambs $12; sheep $12; chickens, ducks and geese $5 a dozen. Would Make State Park Of Sandpits Senator Tom Dooley, repre senting the Cass-Sarpy district in the unicameral, on Friday, introduces LB 300. that would make the Louisville sandpits a state park. These pits are one of the pop ular outing spots in this part of the state in the summer season, both as a swimming and fish ing spots for the residents of this section as well as Omaha and each year have thousands in attendance for the season. WEEKLYjCROSSWORDUZZLE t I.. 1 1 ' Country s Banner Here's the Answer HORIZONTAL, 3 Sheltered side 1 Depicted is the VerI active - flag of W (ab.) y ' 9 is one of 5 Gudrun's this country's " husband , products " S6 Combat , 13 Animal I between twe 7 14 Sea in Asia 7 Spoken, i 15 Mineral rock 8 Nevada cit& Hearings On Highway 50 Are Held At Lincoln Hearings were held this morn ing at the state capitol regard ing highway No. 50. Residents of the Manley community were heard asking that an outlet be provided to the highway. The length involved is about one mile. SOVIET TRADE Data on Soviet trade with the free world during 1956 appear to confirm, the picture of Soviet economic strain recently announ ced by the Soviet Communist party Central Committee. The Soviet Union is estimated to have brought about $155,000,000 more worth of goods from the free world than it will have sold it. In 1955, the Soviet Government sold the free world more than it bought. A Classified Ad in The Journal costs as little as 35 cents 16 Tilts v S 18 Finish , 19 Nickel t (symbol) 20 Cushions 22 Tellurium ' (symbol) 23 Always 4 25 Hebrew I measure 27 Withered 28 Trees v J 29 Part of ''be" 30 Transpose z J (ab.) 3 31 Chinese river 32 Symbol for ) . sodium , 33 Imitates 35 Hen products 38 Lateral part 39 Chair -4 1 40 Not (prefix) ! 41 Cuts 47 Concerning 48 Parent .50 Group of eight 51 Goddess of . infatuation " 52 English school 54 Repaired again 56 Places , . 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