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, ....... J . J I I' -T I I - "" " CASS COUNTVS GREATEST NEWSPAPER TME PlLATnrSIMKDMUTIHI JJflMUOWMJL Consolidated With the Nehawka Enterprise ond Elmwood Leader-Echo Reod Twice Weekly by More Than 3500 Cass County Families PUBlDUcr- ecciEir SEMI-VVE'KLY Monday-Thursday VOLUME 76 FOURTEEN PACES PLATTSMOUTH, CASS COUNTY. NEBRASKA. THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1957 TEN CENTS PER COPY NUMBER G9 INSPF.CTISC; a sprayer built by Plattsmouth High School vocational agriculture department is Henry Yinduska, who farms south and west of the city. Paul Smith, from a neighboring farm, is riding the tractor's bucket seat. The eady For Farmers' Use A snappy trailer - mounted sprayer, built in Plattsmouth High School vocational agricul ture shops with funds from a $100 Ak-Sar-Ben award to The Plattsmouth Journal, is now in service. It is for use bv all farmers residing in Cass County sim ply by calling Don Hansen, vocational agriculture in structor, at telephone 3984. While the sprayer is designed primarily for use on fruit trees, r t n I umanan ouys Drug Store In Louisville LOUISVILLE Negotiations for sale of the Louisville Phar macy were completed Friday and the new owner will take over active managemnt July 29. The drug store, which has been operated since January, 1934, by Joe Zastera, Sr., and Mrs. Jack Dve. has been sold to R. L. Whaley, Omaha. No sale price for the transaction was disclosed. Whaley has been working In Omaha since 1949 but prior to then spent 20 years in the drug business in Wahoo. In terminating more than 23 years of business in this village, both Zastera and Mrs. Dye ex pressed regret at the ending of pleasant relationships they en joyed while in business here. During his 23 years here Zas tera has been active in commun ity, school and veteran affairs. He served 12 years as a mem ber of the Louisville school board, president of chamber of commerce and two terms as commander of the American Legion. Sale of the Louisville store, however, does not pull Zastera and Mrs. Dye from the Cass County business picture. They will continue to operate the Cass Drug store in Plattsmouth. Mrs Dye has had active man agement of this store since No vember, 1946, and both she and Zastera now will spend full time in its management. Ex-Resident Urges A 1919 graduate of Platts mouth High School, now an ex ecutive with Radio CorDoration of America, urged high school students to "seriously" consid er the field of electronics as a career. He is Ralph Holmes who, though born in Murray, grew up in this city and then grad uated with a bachelor of science in electrical en gineering in 1923 from the University of Nebraska. Because of current shortages of able scientists in the elec tronics and related fields. Hol mes said youths tody. with an aptitude In this direction, should weigh all factors before tossing a career in electronics into the ashcan. The genial director of RCA's research contract division said - ''1 ..! Journal-Financed poultry houses, livestock and barns, it also has been used to spray crops. However, Hansen said due to design, unless used on fence rows it probably would not do a top job of crop spray ing. Since the sprayer was com pleted several weeks ago it has been making steady rounds of farms in the Plattsmouth vi cinity and Hansen said it is in constant demand. Construction was made Continued Hot Weather Predicted For County Area Whew! It's hot! And the weatherman today offered scant hope for relief as he predicted continued high temperatures for this section of Nebraska with no rain. Temperatures yesterday again zoomed into stratos phere readings with 107 de grees recorded at 2:45 p. m. Wednesday on the gauge at The Gas Co. Lowest reading for the 24 hour period ending at 8 a. m., today was 82 degrees re corded between 4 a. m. and 6 a. m. Mercury first reached the 100 mark at 9:45 a. m. Wed nesday and slowly edged its way upward to the 107 de gree reading at mid-afternoon. Nehawka Farm Wife Is Injured By Enraged Cow NEHAWKA (Special; A Ne hawka farm wife Friday nar rowly escaped serious injury or death when she was gored by a cow as she attempted to restrain a barking dog. But Mrs. Cecil Garrett, who also received bruises, credited the mutt with saving her from possible fatal injuries. After Mrs. Garrett was attack ed, the dog returned and attrac ted the enraged bovine's atten tion. Subscribe to The Journal Now! opportunities in electronics are "greater than ever," and will continue to be great expanding as population increases. Current trends toward indust rial automation must also be taken into consideration, he add ed, for automation is based on electronics. And for kids who have salary in mind, Holmes had this tip: salaries for elec tronics engineers are higher now than in almost any oth er field. What are some of the projects future electronics eneineers might face? Holmes envisions one of the biuecst of future projects as electronic business machines. Now these aren't the simple little adding machines or comp tometers featured in offices to I '4 sprayer was constructed with funds from a $100 Ak-Sar-Ben award to The Plattsmouth Journal for outstanding service to agriculture. The unit is for use by all farmers in (ass County. (Journal Photo). Sprayer possible through a $100 check the Journal received from Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben in 1955 for outstanding service to agriculture. Publisher Ronald Furse upon receipt of thf check turned it over to Hansen and the voag de partment for the sprayer. Members of the Plattsmouth Future Farmers of America chapter who are also eligible to use the unit, through Hansen, expressed appreciation to the Journal for the sprayer which has become a valuable asset of the program. The sprayer hooks to the pow er takeoff on tractors and is equipped with a 50-foot hose and hand gun. A 50-gallon drum holds plenty of spray and pres sure is adjustable. State, Federal Brass To See Disposal Site Representatives of federal and state health departments will join an engineer and city of ficials Monday, July 24, to look over a site it is hoped even tually will hold a sewage dis posal plant for Plattsmouth. Ticketed to look over a po tential location are Paul Bol ton, United States Public Health Service. T. A. Filipi, director, Nebraska Depart ment of Public Health, and P. R. Ombruni, engineer with Hennings. Durham and Richardson. In the meantime, engineer Douglas McKnight is moving a head with his survev for lateral sewer lines on the city's west side. When his project is com pleted Mr. Knight is 'expected to give an estimate for construc tion of laterals in that section Plattsmouth Mavor Bruce E. Gold Wednesday said he con tinues to receive telephone calls from interested west side resi dents, who explain while they haven't been contacted they want the mavor to know they definitely are desirous of obtain ing sanitary sewer lines in their (Continued on page 6) Youths To day. These are large scale bus iness machines such as one re cently installed by RCA in the Detroit Arsenal. This "little" hunk of of fice furniture covers 5,000 feet of floor space, has 50, 000 vacuum tubes and cost millions of dollars. But it is believed the machine will pay for itself within two to three years through savings it brings. What does it do? It would be a doggone sight easier to an swer what it doesn't do. It was installed to keen in ventory for the arsenal where literally millions of items ran ging from nuts and bolts to cars and trucks are stored. In the days of BM (before the machine) the arsenal's big prob lem was keeping track of items uiraty County Budget For 1957-58 Is Announced Cass County commissioners Monday announced a tentative budget for the 1957-58 fiscal year and said public hearing would be held at 10 a. rn. Wed nesday, July 31, to receive ob jections, suggestions or correc tions. Hearing will be held in com mission chambers in the , county courthouse. In presenting the tentative budget lor public scrutiny commissioners pared some tax levies and hiked others. But (in; oddity was reveal ed in the budget: the esti mated budget for current fis cal year operations is $52 lower than the budget in 1950-57. This year's budget totals $662, 428.08 as compared to $662, 480.86 the previous year. Breaking down county re quirements commissioners al lotted $199,000 to general fund; $70,291.03 to bridge fund; $225, 000 to road fund; $27,100 to coun ty relief; $1,850 to soldiers' and sailors' relief; $80,800 to mail routes; and $58,387.05 to federal matching funds. Proposed 1957-58 mill levies include 2.90 to general fund; .68 to bridge fund; .34 to county relief; .02 to soldiers' and sail ors' relief; 1.56 mills to road fund; and 1.00 to federal match ing funds. While com mis sionr ers pointed out the county cannot exceed maximum limits of the tentative bud get, they also said it is not required to spend entire a mounts shown if unneces sary. Complete breakdown of the county's budget will be found on another page of today's Jour nal. Journal Carrier Leaves Route After Five Years Of Duty Duane Haith, 14. son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Haith, has retired from his Plattsmouth Journal route after 5 1 i years of service. He began his career as carrier substituting for this brother, John, and faithful ly helped him for 2' j years. After this he took sole re sponsibility and since then has never missed paying his paper bill on time. Each paper trip, Monday and Thursday, Duane car ried an average of 70 to 85 papers. He made his last trip July 3, turning his route over to his youngest brother, Rich ard. Duane eraduated from St. John's Parochial School this year and will enter Platts mouth High School this com ing term. He is retiring be cause he wants to take an active part in sports, and having to practice after school hours, would make him too Iat"; in getting his papers to his customers. The Plattsmouth Journal staff is proud of this carrier and his record. Mrs. Howard Sehwenneker and children, Charles, Treva, Glen-j da and Ronda, departed by train Tuesday morning for Industry, j 11., where they will visit rela tives. I Consider in stock and particularly when to order. This big boy does it the easy way. It keeps a per fect inventory of all items carried and automatically decides when an item should be ordered. In cases of some articles it takes six weeks to get them in stock. With the machine, when any of these articles is drawn to a six week supply, it not only will indicate they need ordering but will produce a written order to that effect. RCA research eneineers spent five years developing this gi gantic "think tank," but, Hol mes sees it as only a beginning, for he thinks big business in general will soon swing to the j trend of giant computors to con trol inventories, policies, keep! itood PIcoin T! A T'Vyl' SPOTTING aircraft during an alert Sunday are A. C. McClean (left), and Phil Rihn. Plattsmouth was in a state of alert from 1 p. m. to 9 p. m. and the spotting station, located at the Missouri River bridge port of entry, was manned by members of the Vet erans of Foreign Wars and American Legion. The VFW, which has been sponsoring ground observer activities here, is seeking to enlist the aid of other organizations to this vital segment of civil defense. (Journal Photo). Murdock Sanitary MURDOCK A resolution of necessity calling for establish ment of a sanitary sewer dis trict and construction of sewer j sjstem and disposal pond has i been ordered by the Murdock Village Board. The resolution will be con sidered by the board at a meeting in Murdock city hall at 8 i. m. Aug. 2. At this time the board w ill hear objections to passage of the resolution and owners of property which might be come subject to assessment for the contemplated im provement may appear and make objections. Engineer's estimated cost of the project is $42,182 and in cludes a main sewer line, and outlet sewer with sewage dis posal pond and 12 lateral sew ers with the necessary accessor-, ies to make it an effective sys tem. The project will be financed j by issuance of sewer bonds by the Village of Murdock. Lateral sewers and main sewers are de clared to be loca improvements and shall be assessed against abutting property as provided by law. Special assessments shall, when collected, be set aside and will constitute a sinking fund for payment of interest and principal of bonds. The board also said there shall be levied annually upon all taxable property a tax which tog-ether with the sink ing fund, will be sufficient to meet interest and princi pal as they become due. Specifications call for the main sewer line to be an eight inch pipe with lateral lines of the six inch variety. An eight-inch out let sewer will be constructed from the intersection of the cen ter line of Second street and carry west approximately one quarter of mile to the disposal pond. Complete details of th. Electronics Career track of customers, fiirure bills and many other intricate activi ties associated with the business world. Other electronic equipment now in the planning and develop ment staees include a paging device which can be used to summon the bearer. No bigger than a cigarette package, this little gimmick can hold as many as one million numbers at its beck and call. P.ut for those who may be waiting for the price of col ored television sets to de cline Holmes offers little hope. He said demand may reduce prices some but sees no drastic slashes. The ex-Cass Countian went to work for RCA upon graduation from the unirersitv. After sev eral years in the radio receiver Seeks Sewers proposed sanitary sewer system Will be found in a legal notice carried else where in today's edition of The Plattsmouth Journal. Specifications for the project were drawn bv the engineering firm of Price, " Johnson and Erickson. Voters Defeat Plan To Join Two Districts A proposed merger of Alvo and Eimwood school districts Tuesday fell flat on its face when Alvo voters turned in a resound ing vote against the plan. A total of 138 Alvo district vot ers cast ballots with 114 turning thumbs down but 34 favoring the idea. Conversely, Elm-j wood voters reacted favorably ! to the project. There 137 vot ers backed such a merger while it found disfavor with an even 100. Less than one-half the elig ible voters in the two districts turned out to cast ballots. It earlier has been announced 803 persons could vote. With the merger cast, into limbo, Alvo now is faced with on of two alternatives: 1 se cure teachers for the high school or 2 hold a special election to reverse the district to class 1 i elementary only) and then pay the county free high school tui tion tax which would allow Alvo j students of high school level to attend a school of their choice. i County Superintendent of Schools L. A. Behrends said he has been told there arc an es timated 21 students to be en rolled in Alvo High School this fall. Elmwood had 59 students in high school during the 1956 57 year. Journal Want: Ads Pay division, in 19L'9 he started on television. He worked on sev eral committees as television be came national and had part, in setting the number of lines and standards adopted by the Fed eral Communication Commis sion. He also is a member of the technical advisory panel on elec tronics to the Defense Depart ment. Holmes currently is at the RCA David Sarnolf Re search Cent'T, Princeton, N. J., and lives with his wile in lhat city. He and Mrs. Holmes have spent the past week visiting his mother, Mrs. J. W. Holmes, at the C o r o n a d o Apartments, , Plattsmouth. A Classified Ad In The Journal costs as little as 35 cents ireoteeied Repeal Of Gas Tax Could Cut Project Cass County commissioners Wednesday unofficially took a dim view of circulation of a referendum petition to repeal a l-cent jras tax recently enacted by the state legis lature. Commissioners Herman T.ornomoier, William Nolle and Kay Norris said repeal of the new tax probably would curtail a K-yoar federal aid 'construction program for se condary roads in the county and expressed amazement, farmers orvaniatioiis could show "such inconsistency a Kainst programs devised mainlv for their (farmers) bene fit." I All three commissioners lash j ed out atiain.st repeal in slate-; mcnls made bcloiv convening ! in reeular session. In a joint statement, com niissionTs said removal ol the planned tax would take an estimated S.'! .'.0(1(1 annual ly from the county's secon dary road program. Such a financial blow, board an estimated S3'!, (100 annual ly from the county's secon dary road program. Such a financial blow, board members said, would result eith er in increased propiity tax levies to meet, demands of road construction or in at least par tial abandonment of a long range construction program. The county several weeks ago agreed to a United States Bu-i reau of Public Roads proposal! to add 40 miles of secondary' roads to the system. Construe-; tion costs over the period were j to have been met. bv funds de-1 rived from the new gas tax and federal matching aid. ! Using figures available in ; the countv clerk's office, commissioners estimated the countv would derive $!(,- 000 annually irom the new gas tax. This, e,oupled with matching money from the government, gives the $32, -000 figure. Counties will get 23 per cent of the tax. Commissioners had earmark ed new eas tax money exclu sively for use on his long-range project. All three admittedly were baf fled bv action of the Farmers Union and Farm Bureau in backinc a referendum petition. Bornemeier said Farmers Un ion at its Omaha conventier.. had rejected a resolution to a bandon the eas tax to the state. They pointed out the county's rural population stood to bene fit far more than city dwellers for new eas tax money if ever collected -will be used exclusiv ely on county secondary roads. THF. WT.ATHFR Compiled for the Plattsmouth Journal at the Masonic Home Weather Station. Plattsmouth. Nebraska. .iri.Y Date Monday . . Tuesday . . Wednesday Forecast: 15, Ifi, 17, 1957 High Low Pree. 95 73 .00 102 80 .00 . ... 100 74 .00 High expected 95- 100. Thunder showers tonight. Sun sets tonight at 7:54. Sun rises Fririav at 5:07. Ralph i ' ; - t T I v - . " ; : i t - . - ' ,s . ! " '..'. : ' .' i.- '.;.;","...;..": - . .'... .. i : I . V , ? . , : ' : $ , f - 1 f - : , - ; '. - r-t ! s I -. , i I ' ; . , !(! r . , - .... . . .i i .1 survey has indicated the tax ill cost each farmer $0 a year. Commissioners said they were at loss to explain why farmers should want to sup port a plan lo kick in the aslicau projects which would give them an accelerated toad construction program. In connection with the 10 year program. Bornemeier said he had been notified 11 miles had been added to the planned con struction urogram. He said state Highway department officials toitl him a six mile stretch north from Eagle to the Green wood road and five-mile portion from Elmwood west to connect with north-south state highway also will be given secondary road treatment. County Unit Of Red Cross May Be Lost The voke of holding together a Red Cross organization in Cass County has been put directly upon residents by officials of the countv chapter. The chapter's annual meeting is set for 8 p. m. Monday, July 22, in the Oma ha Public rw?r District auditorium. Weeping Water. And organization officers said unless there is evidence of good attendance there is no doubt there will be no further Cass County chapter of the American Red Cross. They stressed the many dif ficulties encountered bv the chapter due to resignation o; key personnel and failure io raise 1957 financial needs. Because of this, officials said it has been found necessary to curtail many Red Cross activi ties for 1950 and future activi ties are serious,) v in question. Among the many pro grams hanging in the bal ance are: blood program, first aid, home nursing, wa ter safely, home service, and disaster relief. While offic ials call these activities worthwhile . and advi.se maintaining them, they said tle-ir future is directly up to the people of Cass County. Letters have been sent to all Red Cross members advising of the annual meeting at which new officers will be selected. And authorities urge residents to make attendance at the meeting a personal matter and to brim; as many per.sons to the session as possible. Holmes ''"''"'" ' "i n in1ii.iri.i4,44, O l!li iiii Hi' iilHt.i