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JEER. STAIE HIST. SOCIETY m 1500 R ST. CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER TTME IPUOTSMOlUTDll J)(D)(UKRIM UNCOLN. kebs. PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY Monday-Thursday Consolidated With the Nehawka Enterprise ond Elmwood Leader-Echo Read Twice Weekly by More Than 3500 Cass County Families VOLUME 76 SIX PACES PLATTSMOUTH, CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA. MONDAY. OCTOBER 21. 1957 TEN CENTS PER COPY NUMBER 96 LETTER BOX To the Letter Box: This is not a "crab" letter, but a friendly effort on my part as a band parent, to express not only my own views, but those of every band parent with whom I have conversed, concerning your paper's cover age of our Plattsmouth High School Band's activities. You perhaps aren't aware of the local interest shown our band, or of the fact that we Plattsmouth people consider ourselves a "Band Town". Becavise of the marvelous re cord of our group, Plattsmouth is a name of which to be proud, wherever we participate. Our band has built us a reputation not only for top performances, but for sportsmanship and good character, due to the excellent behavior of our band members, wherever we send them. Recently our band, under the very fine direction of Mr. Rich ard Kucera, won the top award of it's division at Ak-Sar-Ben. This was the result of weeks of hard work, hours of drilling, unusual cooperation and high ly capable Instruction. The spirit of enthusiasm and deter mination with which Mr. Ku cera instilled our young musi cians, was a joy to behold! They went out to win, and they did! It was the top award in this territory. When the good news came it was after ten O'clock at night and telephones were ringing, carrying the news until mid-night. The small article given us by your paper, minus any picture or headlines, was quite a blow, and most of us could hardly wait to see that issue! In a later paper, we observed a picture of our Director, Drum Major and our banner, but noted little en thusiasm in the few sentences beneath the picture. Please Mr. Editor, hew about some special coverage in your Journal for our champions and their director? Perhaps you don't realize that: Our band Is almost self sup ported through the Band Par ents Club, yet the glory does greatly reflect on our town and school. Our band has no "season" for working but works every month of the year, having had two weeks vacation in August. Our students are given pri vate lessons free of charge from our director, who has close to 200 pupils under his direction In the various grades. Band members are good stu dents, keeping their grades high and their work done well In advance of planned musical events. We are proud of our Winners, aren't you? Sincerely, Mrs. Grant Roberts 113 So. 9 St. Sunday School Convention Held at Alvo The 57th annual Cass County Sunday School Convention was held Oct. 15 in the Alvo Meth odist Church with a nice crowd attending. Officers for the year were Mrs. Emma Nutzman, Nehaw ka, president; George Stine, Union, vice-president; Mrs. Lynn Rothe, Weeping Water, secretary - treasurer; Mr. Ed ward Van Horn, Weeping Water, assistant secretary - treasurer. The theme of the convention was "Where there is no guid ance a people falls but in an ab undance of counselors, there is safety." Proverbs 11:14.. Taking part in the program were Mrs. Archie Miller, organ ist; Rev. Joe Barr, Murray United Presbyterian; Mrs. Edith Braun, Alvo Sunday school superintendent; Mrs. Dorothea Stahn, Lincoln, speaker, Carol Printz, soloist; Rev. Merrill Wil lis, Lincoln Grace Methodist, speaker. Also, Alvo school mixed chorus; Rev. Harold Sandall, Lincoln District superintendent; Mrs. Stahn, Rev. Dick Deems and Rev. Sandall, leaders of group discussions. Alvln Groesser installed the newly elected officers: presi dent Oeoorge Stine, vice presi dent Mrs. Lynn Rote; secretary treasurer Mrs. R. A. Noell and assistant secretary - treasurer Mrs. Raymond Lancaster. A Classified Ad In The Journal cost as little as 50 cents. Tree Bridge Use, Expenses A total of 355 cars a week are taking advantage of the co operative Chamber of Commerce "free bridge" each Saturday this year, according to a report by the Chamber's bridge com mittee made to the C of C re tall committee P'riday. This Is a gain over the past three years' weekly average of 104 cars a week. Previous fig ures were 251 in 1955 and 320 in 1956. But, the bridge committee re- All '57 Crop Corn May Be Supported LINCOLN Corn produced on farms that have not com piled with 1957 farm corn al lotments will be eligible for price support, states Wilfred Nelson, chairman of the Ne braska Agricultural Stablization and Conservation committee. The local price-support rate for non-compliance corn will be based on a national average of $1.10 per bushel. The national average price support for corn from farms which have produc ed corn within the farm allot ments had previously been an nounced at $1.36 a bushel. The law provides that if price support Is provided for non compliance corn in the commer cial corn area, the support avail able outside the commercial area is to be at 70 per cent of parity. Therefore, the price support rate for 1957-crop corn is non-commercial areas will average 70 per cent of parity. Nelson points out that all corn must meet the established grade, moisture, and conditions of storage to be eligible for price support. Commodity Credit Corporation loans and purchase agreements will be available to carry out the program. Corn may be stored on the farm in approved structures or In com mercial grain warehouses. Generally corn may be placed under price support from har vest time through May 31, 1958. Bloodmobile Here Thursday The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be in Plattsmouth Thurs day from 12 noon to 6 p. m. Headquarters will be the Pres byterian Church. Mrs. Bill Knorr, president of Junior Women's Club and sev eral other members of the club were to met with Mrs. Charles Attebery, Union, this afternoon to complete arrangements for the visit. There is an urgent need for volunteers as blood donors be cause the supply in the blood bank Is very low, bank officials say. Plattsmouth has "fallen down' on its contributions the last two visits of the Bloodmobile, offic ials say. Donors should contact Mrs. Bill Knorr, Mrs. Elsie Schultz or Mrs. Don Warga. 1 fc 7Jrr rt r.-K- . -7-. ti H hnjy J h v V- M' V-.V-4'-.' CENTRAL GRIDDERS Shown above is the Central 7th-8th grade eleven (actually 12 because two boys alternate at a tackle position). Left to right are: front Marvin Fisher, Char Increase ported, while the popularity oi the arrangement to interest Io wa shoppers to trade in Platts mouth is growing, so too ex pense connected with the ar rangement has grown. The alternative to seeking to get an increase in amounts of pledges of current co-operators is to interest some of the 25 firms not belonging in joining the program. The bridge committee says an increase per firm of $11.27 would be needed to meet the budget if no new members were added. Howard Ruback and Ernest Schultz are chairmen of the com mittee. Other members are Bill Knorr and Del Heerium. J. B. Meisinger Dies at Lincoln J. B. Meisinger, 87, resident of Plattsmouth for 35 years in the 1890 s and early this cen tury, died this noon at Bryan Memorial Hospital, Lincoln. Only immediate survivor is L. A. Meisinger, Plattsmouth, a brother. Funeral arrangements are pending. Injury Fund Totals $246.50 The Plattsmouth Fan Club's Injury Fund for high school ath letes totaled $246.50 today after contributions from two more sources. The Plattsmouth JayCees turn ed over entire profit from a donkey football game last week, $20, to the fund and Ray Lar son contributed $5. Central Gridders Play Home Debut Wednesday Night Central School's 7th-8th grade football team will display new uniforms when it makes its home debut and plays a return game here Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. against Glenwood's 7th 8th. Coach Stan Cole of the Cen tral team expects Glenwood to be much improved over the pre vious meeting when Central won, 31-0, at Glenwood. Glen wood recently defeated Red Oak. Cole has named this starting lineup for Wednesday night: ends Dennis Campbell, Roger Meyer; tackles Marvin Fisher, Bruce Bullock and Charles Wondra (the latter two alter nate); guards Wayne Molck, Dave Nettleman; center Roger Beverage; quarterback . Tom Russell;; halfbacks Bill Park, Jim Shipley, and fullback Al Konfrst. Other squad members are Danny Schultz, Jerry Vetter, Robert Eaton, Steve Black, Gary Brennan, Butch McGraw, Larry Campbell, Gary Peterson, Mike Russell, Tracy Plack, Jerry Brown and Roger Hutchinson. New equipment the boys will wear Wednesday night includes red and white jerseys and white i pants. - -''V X Christmas Seal Drive Is Pending In a few weeks the 50th An nual Christmas Seal Drive will begin, it has been announced by the Cass County Seal Chair man, Mrs. John E. Schutz, Plattsmouth. Letters will be in the mail by mid-November. The drive is being sponsored by the 8 & 40 Cass County Salon No. 441. 1957 County Officers are presi dent, Mrs. Duane Sack, Murray, first vice president, and publi city chairman, Mrs. Dean Dun ham, Plattsmouth; second vice president ,Mrs. Kenneth Roe ber, Murdock; treasurer, Dean Dunham. Plattsmouth; repre sentative director, Mrs. Eugene Roddy, Union; alternate rep resentative director, Mrs. Lester Donlan, Eagle, and Mrs. Schutz, seal chairman, Plattsmouth. How The Christmas Seal Began In 1907. a lew doctors in Wil mington, Del., ran out of money while trying to cure eight chari ty patients sick with TB. Emily Bissel, a cousin of one of the doctors, had read of Ein ar Holboell, a Danish postmast er who, three years earlier, had originated the idea of selling a Christmas stamo to help some sick children. If Denmark could open its heart to help, would not America, with its proved re cord of faith and generosity, help these eight patients? America could and did. In stead of the $300 she expect ed, Emily Bissell rawed $3, 000! And so it has gone ever since. From this small beginning in 1907 has emerged the organized fight against TB today, support ed by the millions of people who buy Christmas Seals bearing the emblem of the double-barred cross. Before her death in 1948, Em ily Bissell looked back upon her years of service in many fields and said this about the result of the Christmas Seal Crusade, "I see thousands who had no hope and who have it now." The tuberculosis story today is the story of great hope mingled with fear. Of great strides forward and of great obstacles still to be overcome. Boy Scout Fund Drive To Start The annual Boy Scout fund campaign will begin here Wed nesday, Chairman Carl Schnei der reminded today. Schneider and assistant chair man Ernest Elliott met twice with representatives of civic and service organizations cooperating and calls will be made begin ing Wednesday. Members of each cooperating organization will call on a few of their fellow townspeople. Schneider said he expects the campaig-n to be completed by Nov. 1. Thursday, Friday School Holidays Thursday and Friday will be public school holidays here this week. Those are the days of the Ne braska State Education Assn. convention in Omaha. les Wondra, Roger Beverage, Tom Russell; center Dave Nettleman, Bruce Bullock, Al Konfrst, Dennis Campbell; back Wayne Molck, Roger Meyer, Bill Trk and Jim Shipley. Commissioner Nolte Has Statement 4 ; A V I i 1K ! Yvrvf- r . . V . f ',','Yt CORONATION This was the scene Friday night at Plattsmouth High's gala Homecoming coronation ceremonies in the srhool gym. Shown at center are Queen Janet Campbell and King Fire Dept. Fund Drive $1,125 So Far Contributions to the Platts mouth Volunteer Fire Depart ment's annual fund drive have totted $1,125.75 to date, de partment treasurer John Svo boda said today. The first contribution was re ceived Oct. 7 and the drive will continue as long as persons in the fire protection area want to contribute. Anyone who did not receive a letter about the drive can contribute. Donations can be made to the department, in care of Svoboda at the Post Office or brought to him at the bank or to any de partment member. All funds collected, less a small amount for postage and printing expense, will be turn ed over to the city to help purchase a new fire truck. Last year $2,650 was collected for that purpose. Farmers Asked To Help with Acreage Survey Several thousand Nebraska farmers will be asked to help this month In the final surveys on acreage of farm crops in the state. A fall survey of crop acreage will be made during the last two weeks of October, A. V. Nord quist, State Agriculture Statis tician, announced today. The information which far mers provide in this survey on the number of acres of corn, wheat, oats, soybeans, and other crops will provide the basis for the final acreage figures used to determine production of crops in 1957. Later on, after harvest of corn and sorghums is complete, a survey will be made to get information on yields of late harvested crops. Rural mail carriers and their postmasters will cooperate in selecting farmers to receive the blank forms for the acreage survey. "We hope," Nordquist said, "that every farmer who receiv es a blank form asking questions about his crops this fall will take a few minutes to fill out the form accurately and put it in his mailbox. The more re ports we get, and the more care fully they are filled out, the more accurate we can male the Nebraska estimate of acreage and crop production. VFW To Present Gift at Dinner The VFW here will have its membership kickoff din ner and make a special gift to a fellow veteran tonight at its clubrooms. The post will present a hydraulic hoist to George Moore, Rock Bluff, World War II veteran paralysed by polio. The post also present ed the veteran a wheelchair. Subscribe to The Journal Now! 1 irJrwo-' 1 I - ? k'W Til f ' i Homecoming is Big Success H Homecoming, celebrated at Plaitsmouth High School was a big success Friday night. It was a beautiful nieht, stupendous victory at the football game and the auditorium was beauti fully decorated for the dance. The Pep Club had spent a busy week decorating the audi torium and arranging the setting for the crowning of the new king and queen. To background music of the Starlighters Orchestra, Sharon Farmers Union To Have Meeting The Cass County Farmers Union will have a county meet ing at the GAR Hall at Elm wood, Oct. 24 at 7:30 p.m. for the purpose of discussing insur ance which the State Union has to offer. Refreshments will be served by the Cass County Farmers Union. Halloween Party For Lions Tuesday Plattsmouth Lion? will enter tain their wives at a Halloween Party at their meeting Tuesday evening. The party will start at 7 p. m. and everyone will be in costume. Plans for the event are under the direction of Alva Linder and his committee. After the dinner, there will be games and dan cing. A Classified Ad in The Journal costs as little as 50 cents Nehawka Woman Tells about Germany Restitution Court NEHAWKA (Special) Wilda Mitchell arrived in Nehawka last week from Nuremburg, Germany, where she was af filiated with the supreme resti tution court. She is spending her vacation with her brother, Sheldon Mitchell and family and cousins, Mr. and Mrs Mar ion Tucker, all of Nehawka, and her sister, Mrs. Clark Kuppin ger and family of Prairie Vil lage, Kan. The supreme restitution court is an international court con sisting of two American judges, two German judges and the president of the court, who is from Denmark, a neutral coun try. The court was set up when Germany was given her sover eignty in 1955. Prior to this it was an American court. Miss Mitchell was assigned to this court from the American em bassy at Bonn, Germany, where she was stationed for two years. The purpose of t lie court is to settle claims of minority groups for property losses sus tained during Hitler's rule. There are three divisions of the court, American, British and French. Miss Mitchell man ics the office of the Ameri ' - Larry Cundall during the ceremony. At right is 1956 Queen Sharon Harbaugh Cundall, at left 1956 King Mike Lewis. The King and Queen were chosen by election of the student body. Harbaugh Cundall and Mike Lewis 1956 homecoming king and queen stepped down to Jan et Campbell and Larry Cundall, 1957 king and queen. Attendants were Maid of Hon or Kathy Johnson, Mary Sulli van, Nancy Lancaster, Sheila Marsh and Judi Lutz. They were escorted by Kenny Dasher, Lo ren Fleischman, Gary Horan, Bob Hutton and Bill Long. Shirley Gerbling was mistress of ceremonies. Many teachers, alumni and PHS students attended the af fair. Several were home from various colleges, renewing old acquaintances. Guests were served punch and cookies and enjoyed an efening of dancing and visiting. Retirement Board Rep At BREX A representative of the Rail road Retirement Board will be at the Burlington Refrigerator Express Co., here Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. She will answer questions in connection with retirement, wife's or husband's annuities, unemployment insurance and sickness benefits. 31, 22, 24 Here Plattsmouth had its first frost of the season Thursday night when the temperature dropped to 31 and then had a sharper frost Friday aaid Satur day when low readings were 22 and 24, respectively. Sunday night's low reading was 34. can court and her staff consists of 30 people. The office staff contacts the public and the sole duty of the judges is to decide the case. Most of the claims are by Jews. They are usually elderly people. $ndirect claims are made by descendants of those who owned property. These claims come from people all over the world. The supreme restitution court passes upon a very small per centage of the cases, since the majority are settled in the div ision of the German lower courts. Upon her return to the United States Miss Mitchell spent a week In consultation at Wash-' ington, D. C. ; Miss Mitchell reports a sur prising economical recovery of West Germany. Many people 1 now on full time employment are purchasing small cars, a luxury previous to World War II only the wealthy could afford. J During the last two years 1 Miss Mitchell visited England, France, Switzerland, Italy and; Austria. She will report at Nuremburg on Dec. 1 to continue with the ! supreme restitution court. j 'Road Under Question Is Vital One' Considerable comment has been made and much written about a bridge southwest of here, constructed this year on an unopened section line on direction of William Nolte, com missioner of District One in Cass County. A public hearing on opening of the section line as a county road has been set for the after noou of Nov. 20 in the Board of Commissioners1' chambers in the courthouse. The following is a statement by Nolte, give by him to the Journal in typewritten form: "Since some pertinent facts have been omitted in the now much-publicized bridge oontro- ' versy, I thought it only proper to submit to the taxpayers the following statement and facts for their consideration. "First, that this bridge is on a line which is the shortest and most direct route acrons the county, east to west. It connects highway No. 6 at Greenwood to U. S. 75 south of Plattsmouth. Large sums of taxpayers money, together with Federal Match ing Funds have been spent on the west one-half portion Of this road, including a number of very expensive bridges, while the east end of my district has gone unimproved and remained closed in areas. "The only part of thus most direct route that remains to be opened is 140 rods, which is located on a section and town ship line. This arsa contains the to-called controversial brid ge "In 194G, a large group of pro perty owners peti.itned Ihe County Board to open this mile of road. This was apparently approved by the board and the surveyor was directed to select the site of the bridge" and put In the construction stakes. "Then sand, gravel and steel was moved to tlie construction site where the bridge was to be built. The first step then, as now, was to build the bridge be fore opening and grading the balance of the unimproved area. "Before the job was started, heavy rains fell in the county and the bridge material was rushed to another district for use. This caused the suspension of this project until 1953 when again a request was mad-; to open this all-important service road. Consequently, only the west portion of this closed mile was opened at that time due to laer. of funds. "Again this summer, a re quest by landowners and users was made to open the balance of this mile. In call to this de mand I ordered removal pn eld bridge structure from an aban doned road and used it as the framework for this now contro versial bridge. "Only last year, a larger and much better bridge was sal vaged by us, but this bridge was hauled away and placed on a very little traveled road near South Bend. "Having lived in this com munity for the past 40 years, I feel I am well acquainted with the people and history pertain ing to this road and bridge and can vouch for the honesty and integrity, for the statement of facts, that can be secured from individuals who took part in those proceedings which petit ioned the commissioners in 1940 for opening of this closed mile. "When this matter first came to my attention I suggested that anyone who wished to make a complaint would be given a pub lic hearing before the board with the attendance of the county attorney. No such re quest was ever made until some (Continued on Page Three) THE WEATHER Compiled for the Plattsmouth Journal at the Masonic Home Weather Station, Plattsmouth, Nebraska. Oct. 17, 18, 19, 20, 1957 I)!te High Low Tree. Thursday 70 31 .00 Friday 68 22 .00 Saturday 08 24 .00 Sunday 67 34 .00 Forecast: High in lower 60s low in mid 40 s. Continued cloudy through tonight. Sun sets tonight at 5:35. Sun rises Tuesday at 6:44.