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XXX r.tu.v. oiAit uiii. u 1500 R ST. LINCOLN, KEB3. PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY Mondiy-Thursctay CASS COUNTY'S CREATEST NEWSPAPER WTO rD Consolidated With the Nehowka Enterprise and Elmwood Leader-Echo-Read Twice Weekly by More Than 3500 Cass County Families NUMBER 1 PLATTSMOUTH, CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 21, 1957 TEN CENTS PER COPY VOLUME 77 FOURTEEN PACES stloms Sti Mnn mmtfrl ffTAiw 1 I HI'" I J l , !..... I. H HI II I "H 1 ' Mil IHIIMI f 9 S ,;&.-V -! fiff Perad!;' Damage Appro isci N-kl . ., V.J. ; - . -a v. . -'.v'v i-j. . . . - USE CHRISTMAS SEALS One of the first to purchase a sheet of 1957 Christmas Seals in Cass County was Plattsmouth Police Officer Estil Jenkins. He's shown above with Mrs. John E. Schutz, Plattsmouth, Cass County Seal chair man. The photo was set up to remind county residents to use Seals and contribute to the State TB - Assn. In 50th Year The Nebraska Tuberculosis association this year is observ ing its 50th anniversary and is using this occasion to explain its program and the philosophy behind the Christmas Seal Sale to raise funds for combating tuberculosis. "The annual Christmas Beal Sale is the most extensive edu cational effort of tuberculosis associations throughout the co untry," reports Delmar Serafy executive secretary of the Ne braska Association. "Each year approximately 35 million American families rece ive through the mall their Chrst mas Seals and a letter report ing the local TB problem, what is being done about this problem and what needs to be done. "The Christmas Seal itself displayed on millions of letters and packages is constant re minder of the TB problem and (Continued on Page 4) Luke L Wiles, Mason Here, Dies Tuesday . . i i Luke L. Wiles, 83, lifelong res ident of Cass County, member of one of the pioneer families of western Nebraska, passed to the last reward, Tuesday, morning at 10 o'clock at the family home on South 10th street, following an illness that has covered the past two months. Luke L. Wiles was born on March 25, 1874 at the family home just west of Plattsmouth, son of Isaac and Nancy Eliza beth Wiles, pioneers of this state. The father was active in the early history of Nebraska, a member of the state legislature and one of the designers of the great seal of the state. Luke grew up on the farm here nnH followed the vocation of farming and stock raising prac tically all of his life, until the last few years when he retired. He was married June 15, 1904 to Mattie Spangler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Spangler, also pioneers of Cass county. Mrs. Wiles preceded the husband In death on January 29, 1957. Surviving his passing are: daughter, Mrs. Marguerite Will iams. Plattsmouth: son, Linville Wiles, Pueblo, Colo., one brother, I. R. L. Wiles, Manchester, Mo. The brother is the last member of the original family. It was as a member of the Masonic order that Mr. Wiles found his keenest interest and devotion, that had made him known over the state. He was able to give all lectures and de gree work in the York Rites bodies of Masonary. He became a member of of Plattsmouth Lodee No. 6, A F & AM on March 18. 1915. He served as worshipful master in 1924. Mr. Wiles was elected as a member of Nebraska Chapter No. 3 Royal Arch Masons, May Seal Sale and to illustrate the work that the Seal Sale does. Jenkins was once an active tuberculosis case, has for some time been an arrested case, thanks in great measure to the research and control methods provided by Seal Funds. Senator Laws To nion Corruption Sen. Carl Curtis (R-Neb) re commended seven legislative measures to deal with the kind of labor-management problems which have been turned up in this year's investigation of labor union racketeering when he addressed a group of about 100 persons here Tuesday night. The senator, a member of the 8-man McClellan investigating committee which exposed racka teering in the Teamsters and other unions, spoke to a joint ladies night meeting of the Plattsmouth Lions and Rotary Clubs at the Lions building. His recommendations: 1. An act to regulate and con control the tremendous sums of money contributed as union dues. 2. Laws that will give great- Prominent 2, 1915, serving as high priest in 1919. He was elected as a member of Mt. Zion commandery No. 5, Knights Templar, October 22, 1915 and was elected to serve as commander of the commandery in 1921. Mr. Wiles was affiliated with Adonirian council No 5 at Platts mouth in 1949 from Omaha coun cil No. 1. Mr. Wiles joined the Order of the Eastern Star. Home chapter No. 189, August 31, 1917 and ser ved as worthy patron in 1922, 1923 and in 1940. He also held a proficiency certificate for twenty-five yeacs, being able to give all lectures and degree work in the A F & A M and also in the Knights Templar. Luke L. Wiles was a credit to Masonary and he really lived it in its fullest. In his lifetime Mr. Wiles was a devout member of the First Presbyterian Church of this city. Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at the Cald-well-Linder chapel, with Rev. Delap, pastor of the first Pres byetrian Church officiating. Bill Knorr will be soloist and Mrs. George Jacobs organist. Interment will be at Oak Hill cemetery with John L. Beckman, Leonard A. Born. Leslie W. Niel. Robert M. Painter, Edward F. Wehrbeln and Howard E. Wiles, all past masters of Plattsmouth Lodge No. 6 A F & AM, serving as casket bearers. Plattsmouth lodge No 6 will have the eraveside services and will meet at 1 p.m. at the Ma sonic Hall before the services Visiting hours will be Thurs day afternoon and evening 4 to 6 and 7 to 9 at the chapel of the funeral home. Caldwell-Linder funeral home in charge of arrangements. Urges Combo er control oi union airairs xo uie union members themselves. 3. Laws to outlaw secondary boycotts. 4. Laws to make more effec tive the prohibition of union po litical activity. 5. Enforcement of anti-trust and anti-monopoly laws. 6. Responsibility for enforce ment of law and order in local governments when violence oc curs; but federal legislation 10 apply when hoodlums are trans ported across state lines to do violence and to apply when fed erally financed projects are in volved in disputes. 7. Making union membership voluntary and not compulsory and thereby regulating unions by laborers' refusal to belong to corrupted unions. Sen. Curtis said that a recent poll showed that 66 percent of union members of both political parties were opposed to politi cal activity by unions. He said that in respect to unions in pol itics America is 50 years behind the times: that corporations were restricted from contribu ting to political parties 50 years ago. He said unions and the funds they have in their control have become too big not to be regu lated. It is not wrong for unions to own property or to have adequate reserves in their pen sion and welfare funds, but it is wrong to allow union officials to manipulate those funds without regulation or accounting to the members from whose wages the funds were contributed, he said. (Continued on Page 4 District 2 To Get Another Srtowplow The Cass County Board of Commissioners Wednesday pars ed a motion authorizing pur chase of another snow plow for District 2 of which R. E. Norns is commissioner. The plow to be mounted r- a motor grader wi'l cost n! .'Hit $1,500 mounted. There will b j trade-in allowance of 372 on an old blade. The purchase money will come from the District 2 road fund. The motion of authorization passed 2-0 with William Nolte, District One, abstaining. THE WEATHER Compiled for the Plattsmouth Journal at the Masonic Home Weather Station, Plattsmouth, Nebraska. Nov. 18, 19, 20, 1957. Date lUeh Low Prec. Monday 33 22 .80 Tuesday 40 20 .00 Wednesday ... 38 23 .10 Forecast: Barometer was ris ing at noon. High near 40. Low tonight in upper 20's. Sun sets tonight at 5. Sun rises Friday at 7:20. iall Yields May Be Lower LINCOLN Nebraska's heavy blanket cf wet snow may give the 1953 wheat crop an added boost, but it may cut corn and .sorghum yields. The heavy snow will cause many cornstalks to break over and ears to drop reducing yields It will delay the already late corn harvest. Grain sorghum yields also may he reduced sharply due to lodg ing, states John furrer, inten sion agronomist at the Univer sity of Nebraska. When it is dry enough to har vest sorghums, it will be neeess ary to add combine attachments including special pick-up reeis and lifters to raise the sorghum plants up to the cutter bar . If the snow should slay on the ground for several weeks, this would further delay and com plicate harvest of these two im portant crops. City Parking Leniency John Hobscheidt, Chief of Po lice, announced today, citizens will be permitted to park their cars facing downhill in the res dential area during the winter months, whenever the streets are rnvpreri with snow or ice. regardless of which side of;he street they are located. This does not mean that park ing will be permitted on both sides of the street where one side parking rules are in effect. $25,000 Accident Suit Filed Here A suit for $25,000 in damages and injuries alleged suffered in an automobile accident here Aug. 5 has been filed in District Court. Delia M. Haith, 54, Platts mouth, seeks that amount from Leroy A. Walton, 19, et al. The suit says damages occur red in an accident involving cars driven bv the two principals at the intersection of Chicago Ave nue and 9th Street. Snowplow for Courthouse OK'd The Cass County Board of Commissioners Wednesday au thorized the custodian of the County Courthouse to purchase a power sidewalk snowplow for the court house. In the past including after Monday's six-inch snow side walks surrounding the county property here (about two blocks in all) have been scooped by hand. Monday five prisoners of a re cord eight in the county jail were pressed into service as snow shovelers. n.m i. Bii.mJJiaiiiiilpiipiiiUIflW llliillilll lu lpMMlPl-l! Ntfb.-- . MlAtuaaMMMf ..... v. f i . I,';- St'! , V ' - ' MBtTWiiiummiiiiTfi-r-'- - '-- ' ' ' """H"1'1 n'lT'in'ir ) "r- iiraim- TMK jriK'iH 1'1T( UTS ONE Raymond J. Case, judfie of ( ass County Court, center, last week pitched one, a penny that is, for the Columbian PTA. It was at the PTA's carnival at Taglrs Hall. Beside penny pitching, (here Heads FB Again 4-Day Weekend For School Kids Thanksgiving vacation for school children here will be gin with dismissal of classes next Wednesday and lust until the following Monday. So, they'll actually have two school days off, Nov. 28 and 29, and a four-day weekend. New Snow Plow Ready The city Street Dept. Tuesday completed installation, of a new ennm nlnw nn the front, end of cne of its trucks This plow will be able to move ster than the road grader which was the only piece of equipment previously available. The use of both the grader and the truck-mounted plow should more than double the city's ca nneitv to clear snow from the streets, and will permit work ing on streets which it was not possible to cover with just one machine. Petition Asks Rock for Road Thirteen signers of a petition have asked the Cass County Board of Commisioners to apply rock surface to three miles of road in the Unon - Nehawka area. Their petition, whose signers they said represented nine fam ine living along the three-mile stretch, said "We petition to have this road rocked. It is a mail route, school bus route and milk route, three miles of road extending from Highway 67 (the Dunbar road) west and one mile south of U. S. 34." The road is in Commission District 2, 4V2 miles west of Union and a mile west and mile south of Nehawka corner. No action was taken by the Commission on the petition Wednesday. It was received and placed on file. Plattsmouth Musicians Attend Clinic Seven students are represent ing the Plattsmouth High School Music Dept. at the Nebraska Music Educators Clinic in Lin coln this week. It began Wed nesday, continued today and Friday. The students who are partici pating in this year's State Clinic Chorus and Band are: Chorus Sheila Marsh, 1st alto Janet Campbell 2nd alto; Dan Wehrbein, 2nd bass; Bill Brink, 1st bass; Jim Morris, 2nd tenor, and Tom Dunham. 2nd bass. Band Larry Cole, trombone. -41 I qprri LINCOLN Charles Marshall, : Avoca. Tuesdav was reelected to another three-year term as j I president of the Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation at the annual i convention of the federation i S here. i i In addition to Marshall, Mrs. ; Dale Stubblefield, chairman of I the Farm Bureau women's state i committee, was re-elected a di-' ' i rector at large for three years ; ' I and Mrs. Herman Link of Ra- vanna was named to the womens ! state committee for the control i district. , j Other committee members c I lected were Mrs. Leslie Elrod, ; vice chairman, Kimball; Mrs. ! ; Don Morton, Beatrice, southeast! ! district. Mrs. Harold Stork, Ar-j lington, northeast district, and ! Mrs. Dale Erlewine, Grant, j western district. j Monday, speaking before the general session of the federa tion Marshall sounded a warn ing about government in its re lation to agriculture. Marshall said that a govern ment big enough to give every one everything he wants is "big enough to take everything every one has.' He charged farmers with the resDonsibilitv of making contri- i butions to solutions of agricul tural problems. If farmers don t contribute, he said, the decis ions will be made anyway ana by someone else. C h a 1 1 e n g es he mentioned facing farmers are inadequate consumption of commodities, high prices farmers must pay for goods, the need for more markets outside the U. S. and greater utilization of farm pro ducts by American industry. Marshall warned against con ceding the Russians mastery in many fields when actually they have evidently proved only mastery of one phase of science with their Sputnik. "A 'crash program' in agricul ture as in national defense with out careful consideration of al ternatives and consequences, could cost us our freedom." he said. He said he saw no need for stampeding into a program to emphasize sciences in the schools. Thanksgiving Union Church Service Here A Union interdenominational Thanksgiving service will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at First Christian Church here with the Rev. G. E. Seybold of Plattsmouth preaching. It is sponsored by the Platts mouth Ministerial Union. Betty Taenzler of Platts mouth. music teacher at Brock, will sing a solo, accompanied by organist Mrs. Carl Duncan. Twenty-five per cent of the offering will be retained for local expenses of the Minister ial Union. The remainder will be sent to Church World Servce for shipping of surplus ta needy countries. AT ; n 1)f, h tlr i were dart same"!, riiiR toss anil fish pond for prizes; a cake walk for homemade cakes and a snack bar. The carnival raised about $110. It was the PTA's major fund project of the year. The "croupier" at rifiht above It Bob Gall. aisi Commission Gives No Clue To Decision It Will Make The question of what is to become of Cass Counly's now-famous section line bridge is still unanswered today, despite a Board of Commissioners public hearing Wednesday at which many per sons thought the question would be settled. The hearing was to consider opening a mile of section line as road. This has been petitioned by 53 residents in the vicinity of the bridge in Commission District One about three miles south and two west of Plattsmouth. Their petition was submitted after construction of a bridge - - across 4-Mile Creek (built this Fire Fund Now Totals $1,883.25 The Plattsmouth Volunteer Fire Department's second ann ual fund drive rt-aehed $1,883.25 Wednesday, according to John Svoboda, the department trea surer. This was an increase of $417 since the department released its first list of contributors Nov. 11. The total listed then was $1,466.25. The drive continues and will last as long as persons in the fire protection area care to con tribute. The department has pledged all receipts from drive to help purchase a fire truck. Latest contributors are: S50 C. A. Ruse Motor the new Co.. Soennichsens. i $25 Cass Drug Store. : $20 Knorr 's 5 cents to $1. ! $15 Cecil M. Karr, Matida j Pein. $10 Bryant Motor Co. Elmer Wurtele, Cass Theatre, Albert Hansen. Plattsmouth Loan & Bldg, W. C. Soennichsen. $5 Glenn Allen, J. J. Smock, Harry Henton, Mrs. Ernest Yenney, Dr. W. V. Ryan, Roy W. Knorr, Zulemma Dye Jo seph Zastera, Homer Spangler, Agent, Dr L. A. Amato, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Rosencrans. $5 Arthur Sprieck, Joe G. Mc Maken, Robert E. Jacobs, Cap itol Liquor Co., Louis Swoboda, Nellie Shea, Fulton Harris Ralph Hiner, John Pschenica, Timothy Khoutek, Al Olson. $4 Hulda Weidman. $3 C. L. Knieke, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Barker, Leonard A. Born. Clara Olson, Clara Libcrshal, Harold E. Shafer. $2.50 Mrs. Harry Gamer, Jes sie Robertson. $2 Don and Vera Warga, Ralph Wiles, Del Heedum, Ells worth Taylor, Dick Marsh, Nel lie Spangler, Cass Sylvester, Blanche Price, E. A. Lorenz, D. Dunham. $2 Robert R. Cole, Elizabeth Hirz, Raymond Smock, Max Bowman, Mrs. L. G. Meisinger, James Holy Jr.. Alfred Molina ro. Earl Shanholtz, Tom Walling, Don Lorensen. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Hernrich. $1 Butch Burcham, S. Y. Smith, E. L. Krings, Mrs. F. H. Mumm, Ed Tritsch, Mr. and Mr. E. lies, John Kubicka, Mrs. John Beck. Streets Blocked Temporarily Here Elmer Gochenour. Street com missioner, announced today tnat 2nd Avenue between 12th and 15th Streets is impassable due to the new sewer installation. He said 4th Street between 1st Avenue and 2nd Avenue is also in bad shape. Both sections of street mentioned are being bar ricaded until the roads dry up sufficiently to permit grading. Early Deadlines Next Week The Journal will be prin ted Wednesday of ii"xt week for Thursday because oi the Thankssivintr holiday. Because of the two papers in three davs next week, ad vertisers are asked to meet the for follow inn copy deadlines: Monday's issii". " p.m. Iri day; for Wednesdays printing, 5 p.m. Monday. News sources are asked t. note the special arrange ments and meet the same deadlines. Classified advertising will be accepted until 3:30 a.m. Wednesday for thnt edition of the paper. Sext year on the unopened section line) had come up for discus- sion in the commission. Commissioners Herman Born emeier and R. E. Norris ques tioned construction of the b rid go (cost: $2254) built on order of the third commissioner, Willam Nolte, of District One. County Atty. James Begley was asked for an opinion. He gave two: the first that the bridge was unauthorized and should be removed: the second that if might stay if there were no objection to opening the road and the commission opened it and thereby ratified the con struction. That was the situation as the hearing began Wednesday at 2 p.m. There was no obiection filed in writing or heard from an au dience of eight men. However, two claims for damages from opening of the road, if it were opened, had been presented to . the Commission and altered the i situation substantially, j In the presence of the damage ; claims $549 from the Omaha ! Public Power Co.. and $200 from 1 Henry Vinduska Begley advis I ed the Commission, state law clearly sets out the course of action. The Commission was required to continue the hearing and the county clerk was instructed to appoint three impartial and dis interested citizens to appraise damages when might result from opening the road, the hear ing to be continued until the appraisers have reported. County Clerk Chas. Land Wed nesday appointed Herman Hen nings, Fred Rutherford and Harry Nielsen, all of Platts mouth, as appraisers. The appraisers are required to report, in 30 days but can re port sooner. Another requirement the coun ty attorney said, is that the per sons petitioning opening the road deposit a sum of money, about $100 to cover the cost of the appraisal. After the appraisal is reported the Commission then has three courses of action. Begley said. First, they can deny the pe tition to open the road and the petitioners would forfeit the sum of mony advanced. Second, they can move to open the road and assume for th'1 county the damage and apprai sal costs. And third, they can open the road and impose the condition that the petitioners be held re sponsible for the costs. Paul Fauquet. Plattsmouth n torney representing the peti tioners, asked whether the Coin mission could atve an indlcaon of how it stood on the road opening so that his clients might know how they stand. They had already deposited $15 for cost of publishing the hear ing notice. Commission Chariman Borne-meii'i- sad he would not, that it was something the Commiss ion had to "thrash out by sitt ine; down together " He also said. 'This is Norte's funeral. H"'s been nilyhty allu sive about this." He did not aninlifv those statements ; He asked the county attorney whether i' was within the iu:-is-diction of the Commission to call I i Continued on Page 4i Only ShPP'nS Days - Christmas