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CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED LOT QJTIH1 Monctay-Thursdny Consolidotcd With the Nchawka Enterprise ond Elmwood Leoder-Echo Read Twice Weekly by More Than 3500 Cass County Families VOLUME 76 SIX PACES PLATTSMOUTH, CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1957 TEN CENTS PER COPY NUMBER 100 rcr 'j .fipv.. r I Hnllillt, N..1I.IMS, l..r.u nmiwii mmi, ,;iui; irimi above arr the seven finalists in the costume zingrr, :!rd, mul itiflpiiitr n t (hn i'diii ni 11 11 it v 11:1 Thursday nii;ht at tbe Lions Budding. Lett to risht are: back Christine I'her; Eugene Mose- ley, 1st place winner; David Hale; liiiMiiiiiiiliiiiiimiiiiii L mrnmruv! v f s ? , : ! : BALLOON GAME TOPl'LAIl Most popular this and other game at the Halloween party was the dart and Shirley Fitch, balloon game. There were prizes for winners in Store Costume Contest Winners Winners in costume contests sponsored at two stores here Thursday night have been ann ounced. At Hinky Dinky girls, Linda Dillon, Sputnik, 1st; JoAnne Neal, 2nd; Kathlene Dillon, 3rd; boys Jackie Neal. Jxt; Steve Grosshans, 2nd, and Billy Ull man, 3rd. At Ruback's girls, Jackie Fo gelman, gypsy, 1st; Ann Free man, bum, 2nd; Robin Buchhol tz, teddy bear, 3rd, and Cheryl Wright, "Miss Halloween", 4th; boys, Joe Lockwood, Indian, 1st; Peter Rishel, bunny, 2nd; Billy Farrell, hobo, 3rd, and Gary Way, hobo. 4th. The two stores gave treats to all children visiting the stores and prizes to costume winners. Phone Prizes On Halloween Prizes in the Halloween Phonn Awards part of the VFW - Mod ern Woodmen party Thursday night were announced today, as follows: Linda Willett, camera; Patsy Versluis, doll; Billy Spradlin.J ball, Marcia Knutson, table ten-: nis: Denise Bentzinger, gun. Children who registered for the j community party at the Lions building- Thursday night had to j be home by 9 o'clock in order to be eligible for thr phone a-, ward's. If p. child called was not' at home, another was phoned ! THE WEATHER Compiled for thf Plattsmouth Journal at the Masonic Home Weather Station, Plattsmouth, j Nebraska. j Oct. 31. Nov. 1. 1. 3. D7 Pate High Low I'rrc. Thursday Jfriday sa'urday . Sunday Foi ecast ; low tori"ht .... fi5 ... 64 C.4 . . . 4.) Hh'.h in 33 4G 4'! 34 lower no .52 on 0", 40 s, udy Sun m l'H 30 s '" H rainv through tonieM. Sun sets tonight at 5:16. lisi-r Tuesday at 7 a.m. '.V ., 1 "i IIducpii 11:irtv .Nanette .nci- J Home Extension Has Meeting, Sets 1958 Goals The fall council meeting of Home Extension Clubs was held at the Weeping Water auditor ium on Oct. 28. Reports were given by delegates attending the State Council Meeting at Valen tine this fall. Those attending were Mrs. Willia Lorensen of Weeping Wa ter, Mrs. Clinton Wesllake of Elmwood, Mrs. Dennison Price of Murray and Mrs. Merle Ro gers of Union. County goals were again de cided for 1058. Thev are: to pay all dues and contribute to Pen nies for Friendship and Diabet ic Camp Fund; a president or a club representative to attend all council meetir.es: emphasize the need of keeping Nebraska beautiful and continue the pub licity of Home Extension work. All clubs are purchasing their own yearbooks. Mary Ruth Rapp, District Su pervisor from the College of Ag riculture, told of specialist sche duling demonstration leader meetings for 1958. Roups and Sandwiches will be given by t re Food Specialist Ethel Diedrieh sen on Jan. 14, 15, and 10; Fur niture Arrangement by Magda lene Pfister. Home Furr.rei ings Specialist, in mid March. Lady and the Law and Life In surance, by Clare Leopold. Home Management Specialist, in Sep tember and October. The installation service was given by Home .V'eiit. Groesser. New officers installed were Mrs. Arlie Ragoss of Louisville, Coun cil secretary: Mrs, Orris Lanmn of Fagl". Council treasurer: and Mrs. G R. Eveland of Elm wood, board member from Com missioner District III. Group chairman installed were Mrs. Sterling Ingwerson for Plattsmouth center; Mrs Harold Domingo. W"epiiH' Wa-t-r; M's. Clarence West lake Ear. If ar.d M'-s. Oso-r Dill, Soe th Lend. Thi se -pew officers re ceived . corsage of Oak eav-. and wheat, tied with a blue, rib bon to represent the strength, r. it urma cmvuia, n it .....i- Marcia Knutson. Contest judses 1 III i were A I I.indcr, I'aul Eauquet and J. Howard Davis. 'I he YEW and Auxiliary and Modem V.'oodmrn sponsored the party. t, ' 1 I r . . ; h ' I .v ; ' 4 ' ( , , ; . t il X I 1 1 J games. Attending the booth was Club Council loyalty and productivity of the rural homo. The retiring officers were Mrs. Ervin Albert of Louisville Council secretarv;Mrs. Kenneth Roeber of Murdock, treasurer, and Mrs. Herbert Oehlerking of Elmwood, board member from Commissioner District III. Retiring group chairmen were Mrs. Fred Campbell of Murray, Mrs. Richard Norm of Avoca, Mrs. I.aVell Swarts of Eagle, Mrs. Lloyd Scott of Greenwood and Mrs. Otto Rieckman of Mur dock. The retiring officers re ceived as a token of apprecia tion a potted bulb. School Buses To Be Inspected Nov. 13 Forenoon First Cass County school bus inspection of the 1057-58 school year will be held the forenoon only of Nov. 13 at the Fort George Station four miles south of Weeping Water, the State Dept. of Education announced today. All vehicles used to convey 5 or more children to and from school are required to pass the mechanical inspection conduct ed by the Highway Safety Pat rol. All phases of vehicle mechan ics will be inspected. Halloween Was Quiet in County Halloween activities in county were more quiet the this year than in previous years ac cording to the sheriff's office. Damage to personal property were reported in Union and Avo ca Rural mail carriers reported that approximately 12 mail bove.s had been knocked down during the night. Subscribe to The Journal Now I Plans for 'March' Fund Drive Told Plans for a $44.9 million Mar ch of Dimes drive next January were announced todav by Ethel Strahel, Elmwood, Cass County campaign director. The drive will primarily be to support a massive rehabilitation program for thousands of dis abled polio victims. Mrs. Stra bei said on her return from a meeting in Kansas City with top leach rs of the National Founda tion for Infantile Taralvsis. Mrs. Strabel said the 1058 March of Dimes would be con ducted chiefly for these thou sands of post-acute polio pat ients in the U. S. for whom "sur vival i.s not enough." She said dramatic new advan ces in the field of rehabilita tion make it possible for many persons whose horizons once .stretched no further than a wheel chair or an iron lung to return to useful daily living. Modern rehabilitation can be nefit one out of three of the 300,000 persons alive today who have had paralytic polio and are not already provided for, Mrs. Strabel said. "We cannot allow these handicapped people to be cast aside, to live out their lives in hopelessness. We must bring them back into the community and its life." In addition to the costly pa tient care program, the March of Dimes will seek continued support of its professional edu cation program which has given training of many varieties to more tlmn 6.000 doctors, nurses, therapists and other profession al workers. "Over the last 20 years so many leads into the unknown of science and disease have been uncovered that the National Foundation plans to expand its research effort and to enlarge studies in the virus field," the county chairman said. Emma Chriswisser Life Time Resident Of County Dies Mrs. Emma Chriswisser, 85, lifetime resident of Cass County, died Saturday afternoon at the Methodist hospital in Omaha. Death came after several years of failing health. She was taken to the hospital on Sat. morn ing and passed away there In the afternoon. She was born July 31, 1872 at Rock Bluffs to John and Caro line Campbell. On April 3, 1894 she was wed at Plattsmouth to Charles M. Chriswisser, member of one of the early day families of Cass County, who preceded her in death in 1932 at the fam ily home in Nehawka. Surviving are: son, Carl Chris wisser, Plattsmouth; daughter, Mrs. Clarence Hansen. Nehawka two brothers, John Campbell, Plattsmouth, Charles Campbell, Casper, Wyo.; one step-brother, Pete Campbell, Portland, Ore.; two grandchildren, one great grandson. Mr. and Mrs. Chriswisser were prominent residents of the Ne hawka community for their life time, spending the greater part of this life on the farm near that place, later in years in Ne hawka. Mrs. Chrisswisser was active in the work of the United Brethren church at Nehawka, also a long time member of the Royal Neighbors and the aid society of the church. Mrs. Chriswisser was a wonderful homemaker and found her greatest enjoyment in the care and devotion to her fam ily and to the grandchildren. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o' clock at the Clarence Hansen home in Nehawka. Rev. Ivan D. Kirkpatrick wil conduct the ser vices. Burial will be at the Mt. Plea- .sant cemetery at Nehawka with Gilbert Edmunds. Fred Hansen, Sheldon Mitchell, Glen Kut ledge, Elmer Stoll, Wildon Swit zer serving as casket bearers. Visiting hours will be held Monday afternoon and evening 4 to 6 and 7 to 9 at the chapel of the Caldwell -Llnder funeral home in this city. Caldwell-Linder funeral home in charge of arrangements. Traffic Violations Jessie M. Baier. 16, Weeping Water, was ordered committed to the County Jail Oct. 30, by Will iam D. Kahler, police judge of Louisville. Baier had been fined by the judge on traffic violations In the amount of $85.50. He or dered Baier to jail after failure to pay the fine. Coymi it's E f s .1" iWILO, MUX), MILO This was the scene in Nehawka Friday morning as grain sorghum was being piled on a street because the Farmers New Land Condemnation Action Filed Two new land condemnation proceedings were filed in the County Court last week by the State Highway Department. The actions cover land sought by the state for road improvements. . Named in the first action were: C. A. Ruse, Nettie Ruse, Nellie Spangler, Richard E. Spangler, Marjorie Ann Spang ler, A. B. Rogers, Irma Rogers, Laura Belle Barnes, B. L. Evans, Carl Ulrich, Reinhardt Gwahen, and the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. Date for the Court appointed appraisers to view the land and assess damages in Nov. 18, at 9. The second action filed by the Department of Roads and Irri gation was on land of the fol owing: Joseph Myron Wiles, Jennie L. Wiles, James Elbert Wiles, Ogla Opal Wiles, School District No. 3 of Plattsmouth Township, Carl J. Schneider. Kermit Schneider, and Leonard Peterson. Date for the appraisers to view this land is Nov. 20 at 9 a.m. 257 Absent From School Plattsmouth public schools to day counted 257 pupils and sev en teachers absent as the flu evidently returned to promin ence after having appeared to wane last week. Last week public school absen tees totaled 211 Tuesday, 191 Wednesday and 168 Thursday. St. John's Parochial School today reported attendance was back to normal. The school had more than 50 per cent absen telsm the week before last. Today's absentees were: Cen tral 93, Wintersteen 17, 1st Ward 18, Columbian 45, junior high 27 and high school 57. Of the seven teachers absent two were from the high school. President of Nitrogen Division Gets FFA Post I Hugo Riemer, New York City, president of the Nitrogen Divi son, Allied Chemical and Dye Corp., has been elected chair man of the sponsoring committee of the Future Farmers of Amer ica Foundation. His election took place at the annual convention of the FFA, held recently in Kansas City. Riemer, who will take office Jan. 1 for a one year term, will direct fund raising activities for the Foundation awards program. The new chairman has for a number of years been active in FFA work, including member ship on various award commi ttees. A Classified Ad In The Journal cost as little as SO cents. On r V (irain Co. elevator was filled to niilo is being dried as fast as the a - day drier can turn it out. 5 Mew M Of School Five new members and four incumbents were elected here Friday to the Cass County Com mittee for the Reorganization of I School Diitricts. i Newly elected are Newton Sul- Jivan, Plattsmouth; Harold Gregg, Plattsmouth, Otto K. Ehlers, Union, and Ernest Nor ris, Avoca, from Class 1 schools; and John Wolph, Avoca, from the Class 2 and 3 group. Incumbent members elected were Herbert L. Slander, Louis ville, Class 1; and Floyd Alt house, Eagle; Mrs. Isadore Tucker, Nehawka, and Alvin Oehlerking, Mrudock, Class 2 and 3. StaiuTer was elected for the first time, having served out an ! unexpired term by appointment. Althouse and Oehlerking will be serving their third terms, Mrs. Tucker her second. L. D. McKinney Dies at Home This Morning This morning at 2:35 L. D. Mc Kinney, long time resident of this city, was called to the last rest at the family home, fol lowing an illness of several months. He has been suffering from a severe heart condition. Leslie D. McKinney was born at Hamburg, la., January 22, 1879, son of Andrew and Mar garet Carl McKinney. He spent his youth in his na tive residence, coming here at the age of sixteen years in 1895, and has made his home here since that time. He was engaged with the Burlington in the shops here up until 1922. He has been retired from act ive life in the past few years due to failing health but was able to be up and around until the last few months. "Dutch", as he was familarly known to a host of friends, was a jovial disposition and made many friends in his years here, who will join with the family in the deep regret that the sorrow has brought to them. He was a member of the Christian church and also of the Woodmen of the World in this City. Mr. McKinney was the last of his immediate family, his last brother preceding him in death a few months ago. Mr. McKinney was married (Continued on Page Three) School Board, Commission Meet The Plattsmouth Board of Educatioon and the County Board of Commissioners have regular meetings scheduled this week. The School Board meets at 7:30 tonight, the commissioners bej;lnninu at. 9.30 am. Tuesday . j s mm DoncaffiZGi; Fhe Streets 4 4. capacity. Tin' ),(ll)0 - bushel emoers 2 roup The new committee will meet Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the of fice of the county superintend ent of schools to organize. Alt house i.s current chairman. ,. Election Friday was by mem bers of boards of education in the county and was held at the courthouse here. Only members of boards are eligible to vote. All were invited to the meeting. Forty five attended. The law requires that the committee be at least five elect ed members plus the county superintendent and there is a maximum of nine allowed. Before the election, it was de cided to have the maximum nine. Law also at least one non- ! board member on the committ ee but four such persons were named, Stander, Norris, Mrs. Tucker and Oehlerking. , Confirmation At St. John's Church Tuesday On Tuesday November 5th, at 7:30 p.m., the Sacrament of Con-! firmation will be administered! at St John the Baptist church,! by His Excellency the Most Rev. James V. Casey, JCD., bishop ! of Lincoln. j A class of about 100 persons is being prepared by Msgr. Jo-1 seph Przurlzik, Msgr. Joseph' Tupy. Father Victor Stachowiak! and the Ursuline Sisters of the! school staff. i The Most Revereneri Bishop will preach the confirmation sen mon at the beginning ot the ser vice. He will be attended bv the Rev. ElmeV MeFadden of Syra cuse and Rev. Clement Siwinski of Julian, as chaplain, Rt. Rev. Thomas Kealv, chancellor of the diocese will he master of cere monies. Assisting the Bishop will be Father Stachowiak and Fath er Joseph Herber, CPPS of Ne braska City. The sui'vice will end with sol emn Benediction of the Blessed I Sacrament at which Rt. Rev. I Joseph Tupy will be celebrant.' Father Charles Gergen of Paul i'r.d Father Juhn T.es Canee oil i Nebraska Citv. assisting as dea-1 con and sub deacon. Other priests atending the ser vice will be the Very Rev. Msgr Adam Szmyelt of Oseeo'a Rev. Father Stanley Pieezouk of Omaha. Rev. Robert Garvev or P.ellevuc. the Pev. R. S! Thie mann CPPS of Nebraska City Rev. James Ilennessev of M n ley, Rev. Peter Gadient of Pal myra. Rev. A. Schmitz. of Ne braska City. Preeeeding the service, the Rt Rev. Mgr. Joseph Przudzik. VF. will he host to the Bishon and assembeled priests, in the St. John's auditorium. The St John'.; Guild and St. John's al tar society, under the chairman ship of Mrs. Harry Bellinger and Mrs. Lester Gavlord will prepare and serve the dinner. iTown Board At Nehawka Gives Space NEHAWKA There's a feeling abroad about here new and through most of Cass County it's the feeling that comes with a plentiful harvest. But, there are some attendant problems, not the least of which i.s handling of the crop. Right now there's milo to he dried and here at least it is presenting somewhat of a problem. First, rains kept the farmers out of the ripened fields for a week or more. Then everyone began to combine at once and the trucks and wagons of milo began to roll Into Nehawka weekend of Oct. 20-27. Before long the 20.000-bushel Nehawka Farmers Grain Co, el evator was filled and the truck"! still came in. So, the company sought and received permission from the town Board to close off patt ol a paved street and use it for piling the grain sorghum. By Friday last week, several thousand bushels of the grain had been piled in the street. Edwin Stanley, Mium;1,"" of the elevator, said drying opera tions were proceding as fast as possible but the elevator contin ued to fall behind. The drying was begun Oct. 27 and had con tinued without a shut off mht through last week. The drier handles about 5.000 bushels a day. Most of the grain will he re turned to the farm to be sealed under government ;,'cc sappoit. Drying and return of milo to farmers i.s done on a weight, ba sis . No individual drying of specific loads i.s attempted. Stanley .said 4'J.i,00 Id DO. 000 bushels the elevator had dri ed from Sunday to Friday had been of uniform psrade. The drier is kept operating continually as the milo is kept circulating from 3,000 bushel bins to the drier. About the grain sorghum tem porarily stored outdoors, obser vers in Nehawka said there is little danger of damage from rain. The grain gets its moisture content on the stalk and once it's ripe it won't absorb any more. So, when it began to rain Fri day morning there was probably not as much excitement over it as it might seem there ought to be. How much milo did the eleva tor here expect to get for dry ing? Stanley shook his heail. "They've only begun to com bine,'' he said, a lit thi appre hensively. New Instrumental Music Classes Offered Here Instrumental music training i.s available for every boy or girl (5!h grade and above i in the Platt.smouth School instru mental music program this se mester. The child who learns to play an instrument learns discipline, I cooperation with others, and a ! new way to a fuller, richer life; j an instrument automatically .places a student in worthwhile ! school activites: it gives him something interesting. pleasur; able and worthwhile to rtn it! j liis leisure time, Band Director j Richard Kucera says. I A meeting of the parents and pupils interested will be held i in the high school auditorium on : Monday evening. Nov. 11, at 8 p.m. At this meeting the Instru mental music director will ex plain how the new classes will be organized and in what way each child may participate. All types of ii struments will be on display. Parents will have a chance to confer with (he director ment be; dent. neernirii; the in.stril suitcd to each slu- New Cartoon Feature To Start A new cartoon feature, en titled R-U-AWARE. is being sponsored by Biles Paint Store weekly in this newspaper. The feature will appear on the same pace as the comics in the Thurs day issue of the Journal only. I