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CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER lEE POLAT PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY Monday-Thursday Consolidated With the Nehawka Enterprise end Elmwood Leoder-Echo Read Twice Weekly by More Than 3500 Cass County Families VOLUME 76 FOURTEEN PACES PLATTSMOUTH, CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 7. 1957 TEN CENTS PER COPY NUMBER .101 Asian Flu Caused by 'A' Virus What Is this thing called flu, Asiatic? A man here said It's like be ing beaten with a club, all over. Another that it's the worst thing he'd had since he was In college, not saying how many years ago that was, but leaving no doubt that it was serious. At one house at least, they call it the idiotic flu. To some it seems to act Idi otically. It has sometimes hit one family member, skipped the others. This Is what the Public Health Committee of the Ne braska State Medical Assn. has to say about the disease, and the committee evidently knows what it was talking about because it forecast widespread Incidence of flu many weeks ago. Asian influenza is caused by an entirely new strain of Type A influenza virus. The people in this country have no specific immunity against it. Asian flu has caused wide spread epidemics in several for eign countries and localized out breaks in this country. Characteristics The disease is characterized by its abruptness, severity of flu symptoms, shortness of dur ation (3 to 5 days) and low mortality rate. Deaths that oc cur are usually in the extremes of age and those who are debil itated (enfeebled) and particu larly those who have pulmonary or cardiac diseases. The seriousness of an epidem ic in a community is expected to arise from the high attack rate (15 to 20 per cent) occur ring over a period of 3 to 4 weeks, which can seriously dis rupt normal community activi ties and overwhelm hospital and medical facilities unless proper steps are taken to minimize this situation. Vaccine Program A yaccine giving good pro tection against Asian influenza is being manufactured (and ad ministered). Its use is encour aged to prevent epidemic or minimize impact on a com munity. There is no government re striction or control on use of the vaccine but pharmaceutical houses have voluntarily agreed to an allocation plan so each state will receive a share based on population. Nebraska receives eight-tenths per cent of the total vaccine. Two precautions are to be ob served in use of vaccine. First, since it is an egg product, per sons sensitive to eggs, chickens, or chicken feathers, should un der no circumstances receive vaccine. Second, since it does cause undersirable reactions in young infants, it is recommend ed that it not be given to in fants under 3 months of age. Laboratory Studies The laboratory diagnosis of Asian influenza is important only for the purpose of estab lishing the presence of the dis ease in the community since the length of time required to com plete the laboratory tests is long er than the duration of illness in the individual. Treatment For treatment, consult your physician. Police Court Busy With Delinquent Parking Tickets City Municipal Court was a very busy place today at the midweek session, as it was "Judgement Day", for holders of delinquent parking tickets for the month of October. From the opening of the doors of the temple of Justice, to the close, Judge J. H. Graves was kept busy In assessing the penalties on the offenders. Otherwise the rest of the cases were traffic violations. Chester D. Bowman was tick eted by officer Jenkins with operating a car with excessive muffler noise. The case will be heard later. Vernon W. Guertin was tick eted by Officers Jenkins and Chappell with speeding. The case was set for hearing on Monday. Albert J. Tyson was ticketed by Officers Jenkins and Dunlap with failure to bring motor ve hicle to a complete stop. He was fined $1 and costs, or a total of $5. Mrs. Metta Ray is in the Clarkson Hospital, Omaha, room 733 with a fractured hip and will submit to surgery Friday morning. iT' 'f"J'" ""i-. ! I,. A. Meisinger of Plattsmouth raised the large turnips held by the boys shown with him, Larry, right, and Gary, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Taylor. The tnrnips were 18 inches in circumference and weighed 3 pounds each. Board OKs For Health The Plattsmouth Board of Ed ucation at its regular meeting Monday night set aside $150 for use in engaging a nurse to con duct an annual health exami nation in the schools. This plan to employ a regis tered nurse to conduct the ex amination was initiated by the PTA Council. The Council and Board are hoping a registered nurse can be engaged locally to conduct the program. In the past the teachers have done the health survey. The board's action had no di rect relation to the rather high incidence of flu among students and teachers recently. In other action, the Board re affirmed its stand on attendance in Plattsmouth schools by ele $1 Transaction For Dock Area The Board of County Commis sioners Tuesday passed a reso lution leasing the Plattsmouth Dock Area to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. It was a $1 transaction. Included in the agreement is right to use storage building on the property. The building was constructed during the WPA years and became property of the county. The Corps of Engineers uses the building for storage of dred ging and pile driving equipment and supplies. In the agreement, the engineers took responsibility for making temporary repairs to the building. The agreement an annual one, runs from Oct. 15 to June 30, 1958. Either party may terminate the agreement on notice. Nebraska Editor Tells Modern (Editor's note: This is the sec ond of two articles written for Nebraska Press Association member newspapers on Opera tion Strikeback Navy maneuvers in the North Atlantic. In this article the editor-publisher of the Cedar County News at Har tlngton, an eye-witness to the exercise, tells about the vast scope of the war games). By Fred R. Zimmer Fditor-Publi'sher Cedar County News Operation Strikeback, naval maneuvers conducted over the broad expanses of the North At lantic by six NATO nations, is over but for Nebraska news men it will always be a mem orable assignment. The Nebraskans, guests of the U.S Navy, were priviliged to witness and report the mock battles between ships, submar ines and planes as the "Blue" forces of NATO were opposed by the "Orange" subs, ships, and planes of the enemy. . Although ships were hit by torpedoes, planes downed and subs sunk ,the entire action was simulated. Evaluation of the ex ercises will be completed mon ths later whn the logs of all competing forces are studied with minute care In NATO head quarters in Norfolk, Va. There was no winner or loser in this mock naval battle and there will not be a victor announced after the studies are finished. As explained to newsmen by Admiral Jerauld Wright, Su preme Allid Coatmaidtr of At- UETI xam mentary-age pupils from out side the Plattsmouth District. These pupils, 11 of whom at tend from District Two south of the city, will have to pay the annual tuition as set by the board or attend in their own dis trict. The Board decided earlier and reaffirmed that decision. The board has set $180 annual tuition for grades one through eight and $90 annually for kin dergarten pupils who attend a half-day. These tuitions are set by the board. High school tuition, set by state law, is $412 a year and is covered by a county tax levy. Additional Counsel for Gass County The Cass County Board of Commissioners Tuesday at its regular meeting passed a reso lution appointing Walter H. Smith, Plattsmouth attorney of the firm Smith and Lebens, as "additional counsel for Cass County." Smith would represent the in terests of the county in such civ il cases as are encountered when the county attorney may be ab sent, sick, disabled or disquali fied from acting as county coun sel. State statute enables counties to employ such counsel but does not provide for salary. There fore, the additional counsel would bill the county separately for any case he handled in the absence of the attorney. James Begley is county attor ney. Subscribe to The Journal Now! about Operation Strikcback S. War G lantic naval forces in a briefing at Norfolk prior to the departure ! of the press plane for Scotland, the entire exercise was staged to improve the readiness of NA TO forces by working together to oppose a common enemy. Operation Strikeback included both offensive and defensive maneuvers. Carrierbased planes conducted bombing strikes at enemy positions in the United Kingdom and Norway. Combat troops were landed in Norway. While these offensive strikes were being carried out, the Blue forces were required to hunt and destroy Orange sub marines and to fend off at'n"ks by surface ships and aircraft seeking to destroy the cariicrs. The scope of the entire oper ation was impressive. More than 40.000 personnel, and about 150 ships and hundreds of planes of various types participated in the action. Ships were replenished at sea with munitions, fuel oil. aviation gas, food and other supplies. Tlie ships were deploy ed in many and various for mations which covered large areas of the North Atlantic. Strikeback forces at times ran ged over a 110-mile diameter while other offensive and defen sive missions. The speed and efficiency with which the NATO forces operated could be likened to a well-coached football team, with each team man earring out his assignment to perfection. In most instances the "plays" clicked and with an assist by tha wather, (deicri- Ruse Store Here Robbed Of $100 Tuesday morning between 9:30 and 10 o'clock the Ruse Appliance store at 6th and Main street, was visited by a duo of slick operators who successfully made away with $100 from the cash register. The unwelcome callers enter ed the store, tapped the regis ter and walked out untouched, although a number saw the two men leaving the store but were unaware that there had been a robbery. C. A. Ruse, owner of the store, Gene Hula and Bill Lockha.t were all in the place of busi ness at the time of the robbery, they were in the northeast part of the storeroom packing a tele vision set for delivery at the time. Hula and Lockhart loaded the set into a truck at the east side of the store, driving the truck around to the Sixth street side of the building. Ruse had gone to the basement a few mo ments and during this time the unwelcome visitors made their getaway. The two men were seen leav ing the store, but Forest Porter, an employe, as well as other passers-by at this busy corner, thought they were customers and little attention was paid to them. The men evidently cross ed 6th Street, entered a car and were on their way. The loss was discovered a round 10 o'clock when Ruse made a sale and went to the cash regster to make change, opening the cash register he was startled to find the regis ter emptied of paper money. Deputy Sheriff Wayne Schnei der was notified and visited the store. City police were called too, but the men had made their getaway with a good head start. A neighboring restaurant re ported two men about 25 or 30 years of age had breakfast around 9 o'clock, shortly befogs! the robbery. They were dressed in working or hunting clothes and little attention was paid them. Another unverified report was that two men were seen driving away in a two tone blue car shortly afterwards. A. J. Tool Dies At Murdock Home A. J. Tool, 88, retired mer chant of Murdock, died Wednes day at 11 a. m. at his home in that city. Mr. Tool has been an active figure in western Cass County during his lifetime. Funeral arrangements are pending but will be handled by the Marcy mortuary of Ashland. Jake Sailors of this city re turned home Tuesday from St. Mary's Hospital in Nebraska City where he has been under treatment for several days. He is feeling much improved. amies bed by veteran seafaring men as unusual for this time of the year north of the Arctic Circle), Orange subs were kept down (below the surface) and conse quently were unable to score too many direct hits on Blue ships. On most of the days the seas were calm and the skies bright giving planes an advantage in sub-hunting tactics. Had the weather been in reverse-rough seas-cloudy skies-the odds would have favored the killers from the deep. Four Nebraskans were as signed to the carrier USS Essex, which, with six destroyers, oper ated as a submarine hunter-killer group. Carring four types of planes and two types of helicop ters, the Essex formed a pro tective screen for the other ships. The 'copters hovered above the waves dipping their sonar apparatus into the sea to de tet subs below the surface. The planes, most two - motored trackers s2f's ranged far over the ocean to spot orange subs which might have surfaced for a look through their periscopes. By keeping the subs under the water their effectiveness and striking power was greatly re duced. The Essex carried 61 planes and helicopters which wer man ned by about 125 naval pilots. Groups of planes, usually In fi ves, were cleared off the flight decks at an average of about 20 seconds apart. After one plane was airborm, another started Attention, Sports! Here's a Problem (Kditor"s note: following is a paragraph reprinted from "Gluey Gleanings," a circular published by the Commercial Paste Co., Col umbus, Ohio. Unusual, the paragraph; in fact, quite unique. Head it. If you can not decide what's wrong with it after a while, see a small story in explanation elsewhere on this page). How quickly can you find out what's so unusual about this paragraph? It looks so ordinary that you would think that nothing was wrong with it at all and, in fact, nothing is. But it is un usual. Why? If you study it and think about it you may find out, but I am not going to assist you in any way. You must do it without coaching. No doubt, if you work at it for long, it will dawn on you. Who knows? Go to work and try your skill. Par is about half an hour. 204 Absent From Public Schools Today Plattsmouth public schools had 20 per cent fewer absen tees today than Monday as the effect of flu seemed to ease again. A total of 204 students were absent today, compared with 257 Monday. By schools, the absentees were: Columbian 31. 1st Ward 17, Wintersteen 17, Central 70, Junior High 24 and High School 45. Monday's figures were'; Co lumbian 45, 1st Ward 18, Winter steen 17, Central 93, Junior High 27 and High School 57. St. John's Parochial School today as on Monday-"reyoittd "near normal" attendance! with "very few absent." The school had nruch absenteeism two weeks ago. Mrs. Gust Jochim Dies This Morning Mrs. Gust Jochim 76, of Louis ville died this morning at the family home. She was the former Dora Vogler. She is survived by her hus band, Gust, Louisville; 3 daugh ters, Mrs. Leda Meisinger, Louis ville; Mrs. Louis Kupke, Mur dock and Mrs. Orville Ragoss, Lincoln. Funeral services will be Sun day at 2:30 p.m. at the Im manuel Lutheran Church at Louisville. Hobson Funeral Home of Weeping Water in charge. Subscribe to The Journal Now! Hlave Vast Scope its run down the flight deck. One timing by newsmen showed two planes airborne within 16 sec onds. Recoveries were not as rapid as takeoffs but genarally a group of five planes could be landed within a five-minute period. As the planes landed at speeds of about 70 knots per hour, arres ting gear on the flight deck brought them to a halt. As their wings were mechanically folded over their backs they taxied to storage spaces along deck where crewmen tied them down. Very seldom was it necessary for the flight officer to wave a plane off in landing because of its speed or angle of descent. Occasionally a tanker plane would take off the Essex to re fuel a plane, running low on gas, in midair. Generally these planes had sufficient fuel to re turn to the ship but the refuel ing was done as a safety factor in case of adverse developments. Replenishing operations were conducted with amazing speed. During a period to two hours and 32 minutes, the fuel ship, USS Nanthala, pumped 434,106 gallons of black oil. 66.000 gallon of aviation gas and 40,000 gal lons of jet fuel Into the Essex's storage tanks. Ten tons of am munition were transferred from the USS Shasta and back again in a practice exercise in one hour and five minutes. Ninety tons of food were taken aboard from the USS Hyades in one hour and twpntv-four minutes, and 10 tons of clothing and ships Dstrkt Another Condemnation Action Filed The Nebraska Department of Roads and Irrigation filed an other condemnation action in County Court Tuesday in Peek ing lands for roads. This is the third action filed here by the state during the past week. The department requested the court appoint three appraisers to ap praise the value of the land sought. Named as defendants in Tues days filling were: Ward Schade, Bula Schade, Tony R. Sudduth, LaVcrne Sudduth, John Zatopek Mary Zatopek, Wesley F. Grad oville, Linford Dasher, Dorothy Dasher, R. M. Walling, Doro thee Walling, Thomas Florian Kratochvil and Julia Kratochvil. The three appraisers appoin- j ted by the Court to view the i lands of the thirty-four interes ted property owners named in j the three seperate actions are Charles M. Read, William Jur - gensen and A. W. Propst. Scheduled for a trial in the District Court beginning Tues day is the case of the Depart ment of Roads and Irrigation vs Joan K. Solomon, et al. The first action brought in the case by the state was in October 1955, and was later dismissed by the state as the case went for trial in March of this year. The sec ond action was began by the state on June 18, 1957. Three Court appointed appraisers set the damages at $20,000. The De partment of Roads and Irrip;a- tion appiaieu Uie uppiiiAil findings to the District Comx and the defendants then cross appealed. The State will be represented by Harry Salter, assistant attor ney General and the defendants will be represented by Attor ney general and the defendants and Smith & Lebens Law firm of Plattsmouth. E-c-e-c-e! Went the Whistle at Dawn (Don't read the following paragraph before the story above headed "Attention, Sports!" if you're a sport). In the English language the "E" is used more often than any other letter. Have you observed that in newspapers, magazines and books you seldom find even a line that does not contain an "E"? Look at the paragraph in question again. stores were transferred from the USS Mercury in 42 minutes. More than 1,700 sorties were flown off the decks of the carri ers without incident before trag edy struck the fleet. Shortly before midnight September 25, ten pilots and crewmen were killed and four planes destroyed in two midair collisions. Two Skyrays (F4D jets) off the carrier USS Saratoga colli ded near that ship. Both plunged into the sea. Shortly afterwards two of five tracker planes from the Essex, called out to help m the search or the let pilots, collided near the scene of the first crash and all hands were lost. The trackers each carried crews of fourpilot, co-pilot and navigator, and two crew men. It was the first fatality suffered by the Essex in more than 16 months of operation. Strikeback operations were disrupted for many hours whil planes and destroyers searched for bodies and wreckage. Two bodies were recovered. Floating wreckage indicated violent colli sion in both cases. The Nebraska newsmen re turned home as members of the naval organization known as "Royal Order of the Blue Noses. This is a designation given by the Navy to all who have cross ed the Arctic Circle by shin. Each recebed a blue member ship card signed by Aurora Bor ealis, "Queen of the Frigid North', and the Neptunus Rex, 'Ruler of the Racing Main." r3 Lepert - Wolever Post No. 2543 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and its auxiliary here will be host to the District 6 VFW and its Auxiliary for an annual School of Instruction. The School of Instruction begins at 12:30 p.m. On hand from out - state to assist with the school will be Department Junior Vice Com Veterans Day Observance Set Here Plattsmouth schools will ob- serve Veterans Day Monday, Nov. 11, but because of the flu there won't be any general as semblies to mark the obser vance. ' Instead, students will observe' the day in individual classroom ', meetings after taps and retreat: are played by buglers in the ! halls of the several schools. I Also because of the flu. Edu-1 cation Week activities which ; are held each year at Armis tice (Veterans) Day have been postponed until after the Christ- : mas holidays, Supt. T. I. Friest ' said today. The decision to do this was ! made at a teachers meeting ; j Tuesday night. It was generally' j felt that it would be unwise to have unnecessary assemblies of i students because of high indi dence of flu. Observance of Veterans Day was noted Wednesday in the Plattsmouth Schools Teachers Bulletin which said: "The sig nificance of Veterans (Armis tice) Day is becoming more and more important, not only from the standpoint of preparedness against war but also to instill a movement of World Peace as well." 1 i Monday, taps ytil be sounded promptly at 11 a.m. aim teach ers and students will stand at attention in silent tribute to America's War dead. Retreat will be sounded at the end of the minute of silent tribute. Buglers will be: high school, Roger Beverage and Lonnie Walker; Central, Lois Living ston and Donald Yelick; St John's, Kenner Price; 1st Ward, Marilyn Hendricks; Columbian, Neil Cole and Linda Stander; Wintersteen, Shirley Gerbeling. Suggestions for classroom Vet erans Day Programs include re citing of the Pledge of Allegi ance, discussion of the Veter ans Day movement, and reading of the President's proclamation of Veterans Day. Blue Bird, Camp Fire Sale Begins The sale of Stover's Candies began today by the Blue Bird and Camp Fire Groups, under the direction Of Mrs. Robert Mann, candy sale chairman. The sale will continue through this month. Price per candy box is $1. From each sale, 5 cents remains in the individual salesman's group project; 34 cents is reali zed for Camp Harriet Harding at Louisville and one cent goes to the district office. The re mainder is for the candy pur chase. Camp Harriet Harding is maintained and used by the a bove groups as well as church and 4-H organizations. Runaway Car Creates Stir At Valley View Wednesday night at 10:15 a motor vehicle parked in the gar age at the Hubert D. Shellen berger home, 171G Hill St. in Valley View, started wandering and created as much excite ment as the "Kearney Space ship" fir Sputnik II. The vehicle rolled out onto the roadway onto Hill street and started traveling east down the hill toward Highway 75. It struck a mailbox near the foot of the hill that diverted it into the residence of Ralph Hild and family, 1507 Hill St. The Hild family was just pre paring to retire at 10:15 when the vehicle crashed into the side i uie nouse wun suen lorce that i the plastering in a number of I uir luunis was i ructpu ana uie luuiuuiiuii oi me residence was also cracked and damaged. CHIost T 'Sclh!' mander O. C. Adcock from Scottsbluff and Department Auxiliary President Lydiit Mit chell from Bridgeport. Dale Bowman, Plattsmouth, department senior vice com mander, will head the school and Immediately following Lloyd L. Fitch, Plattsmouth, District !C commander, will conduct the business meeting. The ladies Auxiliary will meet in the Eagles Hall with Margar et Fitch, president of the Dis trict 6 Auxiliary, conducting the meeting. The school is designed to ac quaint VFW and Auxiliary mem bers with ritual of their organ izatons, work of service of ficers, methods of initiating and furthering community projects and with the work of veterans organizations. Plattsmouth VFW Comman der E. E. Vroman and Auxiliary President Mrs. A. C. McLean have asked that all members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Auxiliary attend the meetings. Dinner will be served at 5:30 p.m. and a social hour will follow. John T. Becker Of This City Dies Tuesday Tuesday morning at 2:30 at St. Mary's Hospital at Nebraska City, John T. Becker, 67, of this c.ty, was Culled to the r lie had been in failing health for several years, suffering a stroke that caused death. John T. Becker was born February 19, 1890, on the fam ily farm near Union, son of Mr. and Mrs. Abraham L. Becker, early day residents of Liberty precinct. John spent his life time in Cass county, spending his younger years in the com munity where he was born. He farmed for many years in the Union community until moving to Plattsmouth in 1936. The family was one of the promin ent groups in the southern por tion of Cass county and active in the community life. Mr. Becker was married on October 25, 1922 at Omaha to Margie A. Fitch, who survives his passing. The deceased was a gentle man that had made many friends in his years of life who share with the family the sor row that his passing has oc casioned. Survivors are: wife. Margie Plattsmouth; mother, Mrs. Eva L. Becker, Union; three brothers, Henry H. Roy and Ray; two sisters, Miss Mary L. Becker, Mrs. Ethel Ehlers, all of Union. Funeral services were held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the chapel of the Caldwcll-Lin-der funeral home. Rev. J. W. Taenzler. pastor of the First Christian church, officiating Dale Wohlfarth of Murray was .soloist and Mrs. George Jacobs organist at the services. Interment was at the East Union cemetery, E. J. Doody, A. W. Huebner, Herman Meis inger, Elbert Snodgrass, Leslie Winters and Earl Wolfe served as casket bearers. Visiting hours were held Wed nesday afternoon and evening at the funeral chapel. The Caldwell-LInder funeral home was in charge of arrunge- ments. A Classified Ad in The Journal cost as little as 50 cents. THE Wr.ATIIKK CompHed for the Plattsmouth Journal at the Masonic Home Weather Station, Plattsmouth, Nebraska. Nov Date Mcnday . . Tuesday , Wednesday 4. 5. G, l!)57. HiRh Low Prrc. tr .00 .00 .3!) 35 . 45 34 .... 45 24 High today in Forecast : up aiul per 40 s. Continued cloudy rain tonight turning colder. sun lietc t.m ht t k at 5:12. Sun rises Friday at 04 a.m.