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EDITORIALS Furse's Fresh Flashes Ticklers' United Nations' Anniversary Tin I'n it td Natir ns recently observ ed its twelfth anniversary on June 26th Interestingly, there was no celebrating in New York, or in many of the civilized countries of the world. Despite the fact that the New York Times proclaims with est that the mir acle of the United Nations is that it has lived so Ioiik, and is still "so vigorous and so formidable," we believe this sentiment is a minority viewpoint, not shared by the majority of senators amid congressmen in Washington, or of newspaper editors in the United States. The United Nations is good at pass ing resolutions, and has achieved success in certain fields. However, as a world body to keep peace, which was the original pur pose in forming the United Nations, the U. N. is a flop. We do not make this statement simply because the United Nations was unable to do anything to help recently when Hun gary was brutally assaulted and conquered again, again by Russian troops. Nor do we make the statement because the United Nations let the United States do practically all the fighting in Korea. And, it must be admitted that the United Nations could not have stopped the recent war in Egypt had not the United States taken a strong hand opposing1 it and had not Russia threaten ed to send "volunteers" to fight the llritish and French. The police force such as it is which is controlled by the United Nations, is not much of a world police force. U. N. sol diers may walk up and down the demili tarized line between Egypt and Israel, but there is no real fear of the United Nations police force in the minds of the leaders of Communist countries (the agg ressor countries) today. Until such time as the United Nations has a genuine and effective police force, utilizing the latest instruments of war, it will remain funda mentally a debating society which is what it is today. Proposal On Civil Rights Senator Richard Russell has proposed that President Eisenhower's Civil Rights bill be voted on by the entire population in next year's Congressional elections. Russell says he believes if the people are made a ware of the bill's provisions, they will de feat it "overwhelmingly." Despite Russell's proposal, there is widespread opposition to it, including op position from the President and from Re publican Senate leaders. A number of Northern Democrats are also expected to oppose the plan. In commenting on the Russell pro posal, we should note that it is now clear that Southerners have their backs to the wall in the fight in the Senate. If those in favor of passing the Civil Rights bill are determined to last the Southerners out, they might well break the filibuster this year. In all the propaganda about the power of a filibuster, in blocking action in the Senate, it is often overlooked that the majority required to end debate is a very modest one. A two-thirds majority is not an unreasonable majority for shutting off debate. This is true now, and has been true for years, so talk that a filibuster is an effective block against any proposed leg islation is inaccurate and records show that sixty-four senators have cut off debate on issues when they were determined not to be thwarted in their purpose. The best chance Southerners have at The Plalismoulh Journal Official County and City Paper established in jssi Published Si-mi Weekly, Mondays and Thursdays, at 410 Main Street, I'laltsmmith, Cass County, Nelir. Entered at tlio I'osl Oltiee at l'laitsmuuth, Nebraska as second class mail matter in accordance with the Act of Congress of March S, jSTO. Contents of The Plattsmouth Journal are the sole property of this newspaper and use of, or reproduction, in whole or in part, is expressly forbidden to any person, persons, or publications other than legal newspapers (at defined by Nebraska statutes) without written consent of the publisher. Three Times Winner Ak-Sar-Ben Plaques for "OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE" 1949 1951 1952 "Honorable Mention" 1953 Ak-Sar-Ben First Place Plaque 1955 for OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO AGRICULTURE National Second Place Winner 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 ancf Publisher KARL S. DAPP News Editor MARGARET DINGMAN Woman's Editor H. M. JOHNSON Advertising Manager DON WARGA shop Foreman iv i 241 PHONE IU10IUU. UIIOEUI ISiOCLCM w t f K I I 1 v Don't worry too much about your ship coming in if it does it will be docked by the government. Nowadays, when people speak of the higher things in life, they may be refer ring to food. Watching TV the other night, it re minded us that what this country needs is a good five-second commercial. About the only thing you can count on these davs are vour fingers anil toes. A Cass County larmer says his boy wants to be a doctor and major in obstet rics. He doesn't approve, says about the time he gets it learned .somebody will come uj) with a cure for it. A local 42-year-old is starting piano lessons she says because her martini glass keeps falling off her violin. X There isn't much difference in the curiosity of people the vulgar stare and the refined peek through a crack. The average woman is one who thinks she is different from the average woman. the present session is in extending the ses sion so long that supporters of President Eisenhower's Civil Rights bill will become impatient, restless to return home, decide to wait until next year an election year for the showdown. And if they decide to do this, they will probably bring the matter up early in the season next year. However, the prospects for blocking the bill permanently are not too good and if Southerners in the Senate manage to do so, they will have achieved a major victory for the South. Down Memory Lane jr YEARS ACO Mrs. II. E. Norris, chairman of the Cass county ARC announced that the "Swim Week" program of the Red Cross would start on July 2.! at Merritt's Reach to run to July .'51. The same instructors as last year will be in attendance. Part of the program will be held at Stone Lake., Louisville, then at Lake Park, South Rend Earl Lamberson, USN., was at the base hospital in the Canal Zone where he was given an emergency appendectomy and hernia operation Seventy five men gath ered at the court house on Saturday even ing to discuss the grasshopper situation in this county, Jean Spangler, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce meeting was in charge I). D. Wainscott, county ag ricultural agent, state Cass county had put out more bait than any county m the state, he stated the hoppers are go ing from the grain fields to the corn Officers of the Rebekah lodge were in stalled by Mrs. Georgia Whitehad and the district deputy, Mrs. Clarence Busche of Louisville, as follows Mrs. Hilda Coffman, noble grand; .Mrs. ( athenne Hall, vice grand; Mrs. Mytle McEarland, treasurer, Miss Marie E. Kaufmann. secretary; Mrs. Alice Haffke, warden; Mrs. Mary Taylor, conductress; Miss Anna Heisel, chaplain; Mrs. Ema Olson, Mrs. Henrietta Ofe, sup porters to the noble grand; Mrs. Mary Mumm, support to vice grand, Mrs. Mary Kruger, support to vice grand; Miss Mild red Hall, musician; Miss Rertha Ellington, inside guard, Miss Fern Jahrig, outside guard Tom Troop of Nehawka was suf fering from an attack of appendicitis, it is hoped he can avoid an operation. nr YEARS ACO JV Miss Anna Micklewait, daughter of the first mayor of Plattsmouth, died at the Nebraska Masonic Home in this city where she had been employed from HUG to 1921. She had resided at the home of a cousin, Lee Sharp until the last illness. She was 57 years of age. JSurial service was by the Eastern Star Forest Shrader, son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Shrader was elected as superintendent of the schools at Stock ville, for the year 1927. He graduated from the local schools in 192.". He received his degree at Peru Mr. and Mrs. John Mc Lean departed for New York City on the first steps of a journey to their old home in England at Cateshead-on-Thyne Fred J. Warren departed for the west coast to locate at Oakland. He has been clerk at the Rurlington shop here Louie Lohnes was given a surprise at his home on west Pearl street (First Ave) on the occasion of his 21st birthdav. By George. OWE FOLKS CAhPT WIN S Vs.-) I M tf V IX -'.I" - . , ' Vf.K -r V . . , II !-- k-& ctfs V'- sV'J-' ' i : ' hi ' "This breakfast food is awfully old . . . Johnny Mize hasn t played with the Yankees for years. r s r ltie WASH1I Merry-Go -Round SUBSCRIPTION RATE: S4.00 per year in Cass and adjoining counties, $5.00 per year elsewhere, in advance, by mail outside the city of Platts nioulh. By earner in Plattsmouth, 25 cents lor two weeks. (Copyright, 1957. By The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: ASTUTE SOUTHERN LEADERS HAVE WON LARCiE PART OF CIVIL RIGHTS RATTLE ; LI HERA L DEMOCRATS UNHAPPY AT COP K N ( ) W L A N I ) 'S LEA I) E RSH 1 P ; SOUTHERNERS ARE D1TTEK AT NIXON. WASHINGTON. One of the most, skillful jobs of senate man euvering in years has been done by Sen, Dick Russell of Georgia and southern leaders in the civil rights debate. Even before this week's vote to take up the bill. They had come close to arrang ing private deals by which they should win about 90 per cent of their points. Southern leaders still have two opponents: Vice President Nixon on one side, and an embattled group of northern liberals led by Sen. Paul Douglas of Illinois on the other. Nixon, who sees the huge bloc of negro votes almost within republican grasp, is detemined that there be now throw-away on civil rights. As a result, he has aroused the undying enmity of southern senators. They say privatly that they can get along with Nixon's fellow Californian, Bill Knowland. Only last Jan uary Knowland voted with them on the ending of filibusters, and they expect him to compromise now. But Nixon is tougher. The bitterness against him is intense. Irony is that the liberal dem ocrats, including Douglas, Mc Namara of Michigan, Clark of Pennsylvania, Pastore of Rhode Island, Neuberger of Oregon, now find themselves led by a man they have always opposed, Senator Knowland. Or if he com promises, then they may have to go over to Nixon, a man they have opposed even more., For years they fought for civil rights when the going was really tough. Now they find the play taken away from them by GOP Johnnies-come-lately. Shrewd Southern Maneuvers Meanwhile, here are the shrewd moves made by southern leaders to strip the civil rights bill down to a skeleton even be fore the real debate got started. 1. Jury trail - Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas has a jury trial amendment just about tied up in blue ribbons. A good many republicans and several north ern democrats are secretly ready to wipe out trial-by-judge in case a judge's injunction is vio lated, and substitute trial-by-jury - in many cases trial-by-white-jury. 2. Other civil rights - this is section 3 of the bill which em braces all civil rights, not mere ly voting rights, and would in clude the enforcement of school desegregation. President Eisenhower and Georgia's Dick Russell have now cut a lot of support from this part of the bill. After Dick told the senate this would permit the federal government to force segregation on the south with bayonets, the President ann ounced that he didn't "partici pate in drawing up the exact language of the proposals" and that his only objective was "To prevent anybody illegally from interfering with any individual's right to vote." Eisenhower obviously wasn't familiar with his own power as President, nor hadn't read the civil rights bill which has been under consideration in congress for two years and under active debate for nine months. He did not know, among other things, that as president he has always the right to send troops into any part of the United States, and that in this half century other presidents have sent them into portions of the south. I Ike's confusion about the j "exact language'' of the bill has I bolstered Russell's charge that the bill is "an example of cun- ning draughtsmanship," and has j helped another proposed com- j promise. Many northern lead- j ers now agree that the bill j should not pass unless it makes 1 clear that military power will : not be used to enforce civil rights. , 3. Voting rights only - south ern leaders also want the lan- ! guage of the civil rights bill confined strictly and solely to the protection ol voting rights, and they have lined up enough i Capitol News By MLLYIN PAUL Statehouse Correspondent The Nebraska Press Association LINCOLN What may be the biggest road fight in Nebraska history is gathering steam rap idly. It appears this battle over an extra cent of state gasoline tax authorized by the Legislature will surpass the recent fight ov er a proposed ton-mile tax for trucks. And, left far in the dust also will be the intensity of a pre vious referendum in 1950 in which farm, petroleum and trucking groups knocked out a penny increase in the gasoline tax. This fight, however, has sever al different angles. Gov. Victor Anderson has gone on record strongly for the extra cent of gasoline tax most of which would go for matching federal funds for the Interstate Highway. backstage votes among republic cans so that this compromise may pass too. GOP Sen. Karl Mundt of South Dakota was picked by southern leaders to spearhead this compromise. All this happened before the civil rights bill itself came up for debate. Oregon's Sen. Wayne Morse is planning a bill to make the com missioner of internal revenue completely nonpolitical, serving a 15-year term. Morse says in ternal revenue has been in poli tics up to the armpits. He sus pects it has been threatening negro congresman Adam Clay ton Powell with tax prosecution to make him side against Hell's Canyon. (Powell's three secret aries have been either convicted or indicted on kickback charges.) Many members of the American Bar Association are skeptical a bout the tax deductions to be charged by their colleagues for expenses of their trip to London. By attending the London meet ing of the bar association, many members intend to charge off their transatlantic traveling ex penses as business expense. Then they can take a further vacation in Europe for almot nothing. Big question mark with some lawyers is how the treasury will rule on this later Attorney General Brownell has already gone to London it was just one year ago that Governor Knight of California was doing his best to block the nomination of Sen. Bill Knowland. Politics makes strange bedfellows. If you're sweating it out in the , heat of Washington, you may bo j jealous of the plight of 14 army 1 officers, 18 scientists, and their secretaries. They have gone to Damariscotta, Maine, for two months to study the effects of atomic war at the expense of the taxpayer. They are attend ing sessions at Lincoln Academy in Newcastle, Maine, on the cool Atlantic coast. The project is lasting from July 1 to August j 31, just in time to come back to, a cooler Washington Gen. j Tony McCauliffe, the heroic : officer who said "nuts!" to the i Germans at the Battle of the ' Bulge, surrendered to the army brass in testifying before con-; gre.ss the other day. He was supposed to testify strongly for an army airlift. But when his old comrade. Gen. Maxwell ; Taylor, testified against it, Tony, now retired, was a good soldier, stuck with the army brass j later McCauiffe wrote to Ralph Cox, small air-line executive who asked him to testify: "whil ; j I do not agree 'With the views; expressed by Gen. Taylor, I still consider it unwise and futile to ' attempt to contradict him on the basis of my knowledge. If he, in addition to Mr. Wilson and Ad miral Radford, concludes that' available airlift for the army! is sufficient, it seems hopeless to attempt a different note." i The governor has said If the petition drive announced by die farm groups blocks the seven cent per gallon tax from becom ing effective September 20, he may have to consider a special session of the Legislature. This, the governor indicated, would be to provide road revenue. Meanwhile, the Better Ne braska Association announced serious consideration was being given to another campaign to put the ton-mile tax for trucks up to voters again. And, also in the background loomed reports that a group may start still another petition drive to repeal the law that allows farmers to get a refund of the state tax on gasoline used for agricultural purposes. Undaunted, farm group offic ials including the Farm Bureau, Farmers Union and State Grange, filed notice with Sec retary of State Frank Marsh of the form of the petition to be circulated. It will take 28,397 legal signa tures to put the repeal question to the voters. If the groups get 56,794 signers, the law boosting the gasoline tax would not take effect as scheduled September 20. In the midst of the furor, State Engineer L. N. Ress announced he has stopped all planning on about $37.2 million worth of ex tra road building that would have been possible with the ex tra penny revenue. Of the $37.2 million total, $30 million would be construction on the Interstate Highway between Lincoln and Omaha and the re maining $7.2 million on regular roads. Ress said he can't undertake any long-range planning without knowing how much revenue he will get and when it will be available. The action of the state en gineer will slow and possibly stall action on the Interstate Highway between Omaha and Lincoln. Gov. Anderson, meanwhile, said: "I just don't believe the people of Nebraska want us not to go forward with the Interstate Highway." The governor said the four lane super route is essential to Nebraska's economy. "The highway," he said, "means more to Nebraska than any state I know of. Nebraska is a bridge state and people want to go through here if they can. Tourist travel, he said, means money in the pocket for Nebras kans since the average travel-: er spends $20-$25 per day. Robert Crosbv. of the Better Nebraska Association, said his group would actively fight the petition drive planned by the farm organizations. He said it has made no de cision on whether to join the re ported move to repeal the agri cultural refund law which gives farmers five cents refund on the six cent tax. Crosby said it is interesting to note that the amount of gasol ine taxes turned back to far mers in a year is some $3 mil lion the exact amount the ex tra penny of gasoline tax would produce in per year. Elton Berck, head of the Farm Council which is spearheading the gas tax repeal drive, si' id: "Our decision to proceed is bas ed upon our firm conviction that j this tax increase is one which j should not be imposed except by j the expressed will of the voters of this state." j Noticeablv missing from the I list of supporters announced by Berck was any representative of : the Nebraska Motor Carrier., As sociation. ! The association has in nastj years joined hands with farm j and petroleum groups in buck- ;ng higher road revenue. But ob- J servers said lae association must decide on whether to break the j alliance or join the :'ight. If the motor carriers join the 1 tattle, and the gasoline tax in ! crease is blocked, they run the risk of a special session and the possibility that senators may I enact a truck tax instead to sup I piy the road revenue. ! THE PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL I nt r I ww . TlllllJBnAV .llll.V IS 10',- PAGE FOUR By Stanlty Jtmc. Journal Washington Reporter WASHINGTON. July' 18Con tinuing purges and dismissals in Moscow threaten to break down the stability and authority ol the Communist government in Russia. Even though many are saying and writing that the la test dismissals, of Molotov, Ma lenkov and Kaganovich, streng then Krushchev, the net result is to weaken the Communist system. The Russian people were ac customed to accepting things as they were for a long time under Joseph Stalin. Stalin was in po wer from the twenties to the fifties and many younger Rus sians grew up under his regime and knew nothing else but dic tatorship. Now, however, in recent years they have seen Malenkov on top, only to be removed a year Rfler having apparently taken over. They have seen uena ai rested and publicly attacked. They have heard attacks on Sta lin himself. Now thev have seen Malenkov. brought back into po wer to some extent in the mean time, kicked out again with two ether top members of the party and the ruling clique. All these surprises and intri gues are certain to unsettle the docile, plodding Russian, who in evitably will wonder whose num ber is up next and what the game is. Even a people as 'eas ily managed as the Russians can get the idea that things are tur bulent and in a state of flex in Moscow. The United States, despite long coffee watches in the State De partment and much ponderous bloating about the words, isn't sure what is happening in Mos cow itself. First reports from the State Department warned that nothing much was changing. Yet things are definitely chan ging and the recent purges are all-important. The rise of Mar shall Zhuhov, the Defense Minis ter, Is one key to the solution. Whether Khurshchev is actually getting a tighter hold on Rus sia and becoming another Stalin is highly questionable. Whether he can get away with it is doubtful. The truth is that Russia, ground clown by ruthless terror in Stalin's day, is having a hard time releasing some of the op pressive police control while keeping the reaction in counds. Both the Russians and the citi zens of the stooge countries re resilens for more and better goods a higher standard of liv ing. There has recenlv been unres in Poland, Hungary and several other satellite countries. China is stirring, Khrushchev is going to have a hard time maintain ing the influence of Russia in these countries. The prospect is that the deterioration of Commu nism is just beginning. The major danger which might emerge from this .situation is one which would tempt Moscow to gamble on military ventures billion, as compared with $5.5 billion in 1956. This may mean little or no increase in the present state tax levy of $9.09 for each $1, 000 worth of property. Increases voted bv the Legis lature in state spending probably will he offset bv a cut in the state institutional building fund levy, with the end n'sult no hike; in the levy, informed sources; speculated. The state levy will be set in August. to restore Soviet prestige, influ ence and control over Commu nists everywhere. Chances hit that Khrushchev, ulganin ami Khukov (backing them up will hold on for a time in Moscow. Jt is probably better for the Uni ted States that thev are In lumvr rather than Molotov and Malen kov, etc. The fear amnnc Southern senators-in the present civil rights debate-is not that a bill will be passed guaranteeing every one's right to vote. Fow can op pose such a goal. But Hie fear is that Attorney General Browiicl, has wrtten a slick bill wlm-h would allow him (or a Presi dent) to use military force to run matters in the South to the liking of those in power. Southerners do not fear Mr. Eisenhower in the present con troversy They know the Presi dent is balanced enough not to rashly employ troops and that he realizes this will do more harm than good But they icir a leftwinger, like Brownell, who knows little about conditions in the South ( he came to Wash ington from New York) and Vice President Nixon Southerners sincerely believe the bill's most dishonest part is its name popularly called a right-to-vote bill Yet this ques tion only comes up in section four of the bill the bill havim; four sections! President Eisi n hower also has his doubts about the wisdom of parts of the bill It is probable that Southerners would agree to a pure right to vote bill, with jury trial safe guards written into it. And they do not accept the charge that all Southerners would be unfair jurors. Tomato ttlieht Many tomatoes are seriously damaged this year by blight (Septoria leaf spoti. The disease develops more rapidly during periods of wet weather with temperatures rang ing from 60 to 80 degrees. Dur ing hot, dry seasons the disease is of little importance. The disease occurs on plants of any age, but first spots ap pear after the plants have begun to set fruit. When the spots are numerous, the leaves die and drop from the plant. This exposes the fruit to sunscaH. Spraying the plants with a copper fungicide, Nabam, Zm eb, Ziram or Maneb will give adequate control if done before the disease is evident. 1v chemicals are sold under various trade names. It is advisable to start dust re spray applications when the to matoes begin blooming -icd make applications every 10 oi 14 days. During periods of w. t weather applications may m ! to Ve made more frequently. Di rections for use of the 'com pounds will be found on the con tainer labels. The disease lives from sea .:! to season on the old inft a 1 'I leaves that drop to the ground It also over winters on .severe! weeds. '57 WIIIOAT The Agriculture Departmei has predicted a wheat crop th year at 970.533.000 bushels, aho 26,674,000 bushels or about : per cent less than the 997. 2n7 000 bushels produced la.st ye . It i.s considerably below the ' year (1946-55), average of 1.131 000,000 bushels. POLITICS Gov. Victor Anderson has hint ed strongly he is going to toss his hat into the ring for a third term as chief executive on the Republican ticket. Shortly after the governor's statement that he 'probably" would run again a f loo i of fil ings began coming into the Sec retary of State's office but not for governor. Three persons al-v;.rty ar: seeking the state Measurer's post to L.e vacated by Ralph Hill. The treasurer can serve only two terms under the Con stitution To'itical observers said the governors statcmeiu iKobnby will forestall any ideas from oth er Repe.bli"ans whe had been thinking; ahout th- eovernor's chair. Taxes It appears more certain this week that Nebraskan , might pos sibly get ay witho'it a hike In the state i.iopcrty v levy this year. When all 93 enmities had re ported value of property in the counties, the total stood at $5.6 INTELEIGRA Check the correct word: 1 President Eisenhower's controversial budg-et projects a (surplus) ( deficit ) - 2 Israel (does) (does not) border on the Ked Sea. King- Faisal of Iraq is a (brother) (cousin) i of Kinjr Hussein of Jordan. 1 Japan (is) (is not) a member of the 16 1 nation U.N. command. fi Supreme Court justices (can) (cannot) be impeached by the House of Representatives. fi Joe loss is governor of (South Dakota) (Utah). 7 We is (Republican) (Democratic). 8 Ghana's membership in the I'.N. brings the number of members to (SO) (SI). 'J "The Grapes of Wrath" was written bv (John Dos Passos) (John Steinbeck). 10 George Washington (was) (was not) a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Count 10 for iuh eoireet choice. 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