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state hist ijvo R ST -vwitTT XXX LrVC0L"' PUBLISHED Time Plattsmcdiutihi JJidhud&imil CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER SEMI-WEEKLY Monctay-Thursctay Consolidated With the Nchawka Enterprise ond Elm wood Leader-Echo Read Twice Weekly by More Than 3500 Cass County Families VOLUME 77 TWELVE PACES PLATTSMOUTH. GASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1957 TEN CENTS PER COPY NUMBER 3 Jaycees Seek Outstanding Young Farmer Who Is Cass County's out standing young farmer? That is the question raised by a new Junior Chamber of Commerce project now in the planning stage, according to Harold A. Smock, president of the local Jaycee group. The Jaycees are asking the public to immediately nominate any farmer aged 21 through 35 who is making outstanding pro gress in his agriculture career, is practicing soil and natural re source conservation and' who maintains a consistent contribu tory role in community improve ment and affairs. Anyone may make a nomina tion. Don Hansen has been nam ed as chairman of the Jaycee committee to organize the hunt to find and honor this area's ( most outstanding young farmer in the 21-35 age group. Nomination forms are avail able from Hansen or Smock. Nomination's should be in by Dec. 4. Purchase of the search for the Outstanding Young Farmer is to Increase public understanding of the farmer and his problems, and to create, through example, more youth interest in farming as a profitable and satisfying career. Announcement of the choice is expected before Jan. 1. Sewer Testing Is Delayed Testing of newly-completed sanitary sewers here has been delayed because of wather, Mayor Bruce Gold told the City Council Monday night, but flow test of the new sewer on Wash ington Avenue might be made by Wednesday (today), accord ing to James Markharri, sewer construction inspector. Sewers on Avenue C, where Roback Construction Co.. is at work, will be made block by block as work is completed, Gold said. Testing of the 2nd Avenue sew er was to have been done last week but wasn't because of the snow. The construction work plan, Gold said, is to continue west on Avenue C, construct the la teral from the Avenue C-13th intersection and then do the work at 15th and south. Street Commissioner Elmer Gochenour was instructed to keep the fire chief informed a bout work progress in order to provide up-to-the-minute route information in case of fire in neighborhoods where work is be ing done. Crossing Patrol For 6th and Main? Councilman George Kalasek Monday night asked the City Council about the possibility of providing police supervision at the 6th and Main Street pedes trian crossings during the rush hour at noon when children are going to and from school. He said he had seen a nar row escape at the intersection and felt some sort of patrol is heeded. It was suggested a school pa trol person might be used there. Mayor Bruce Gold today said he had consulted with the pol ice chief and schedules of pol ice work will not permit sta tioning a man at the crossing at all times The police do over sec that and other crossings as much as they are able. A. J. Ross, one of the well known residents of Nehawka. was in the city Monday to spend a few hours looking after some business at the court house. First Baptist, Union ..mum: , Lil DEPENDS '"Y"-niina w ....... . . ...vii. -v Church at Union Marks 70th Year iJNION First Baptis1 Church, Union, will celebrate the 70th anniversary of its org anization Friday, Saturday and Sunday with special services. Friday's service will feature an address bv Dr. Ernest Smith, pastor of First Baptist Church, Omaha, special music and a fellowship and refresh ment period. The church hist ory will also be read. The ser vice begins at 7:30 p. m. Saturday at 7:30, a Singspir ation will feature Young Peop le's Night. Sunday at the 11 a. m. serv ice, the Rev. Rollin Wildin, director of Christian Education in Nebraska, will speak. There will be special music and anoth er reading of the church hist ory. Sunday also, there will be a fellowship basket dinner at the hour of 12:45 and an evening servce at 7:30 at which spec ial music and dedication of the electric organ will be featured. Seventy years ago on Nov. 30, 1887, the First Baptist Church of Union was organized by W. G. Ball a Baptist minister of King City, Mo., with 11 mem bers at the home of Henry Moore, then living one mile east of Union. The names of those charter members were: Mr. and Mrs. Henry Moore, Mr. and Mrs. William Frans, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Frans, Mr. and Mrs. N. M. Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Frans and Thomas Baker. For a short time services were held at the Taylor School. Then, soon arrangements were made with Rev. Thomas Steven son, pastor of Weeping Water to preach for an indefinite time, holding services each Sunday afternoon in the business houses as they were being constructed during that spring and summer Union just coming into exist ance at that time. A Sunday School was organ ized at once with Thomas Ba ker as its first superintendent. There were times when the church had no pastor but the Sunday School has never failed to carry on in the 70 years. On Aug. 8, 1888, it was decided to build a church and a commit tee was appointed and the work was started at cure. A month later on Sept. 26 a council of delegates from the First Nebraska Association was called and after a careful and thorough examination as to soundness of doctrine and art icles of faith, the church was re cognized as an Independent Reg ular Baptist Church. Delegates were then appointed (Cont'nt'Pd on Pare Fivei 4 J.' ""1 1 70 Years Old Saturday ON YOUR POINT OF VIEW- Thanksgiving, n inspiration This year, Thanksgiving a national religious festival is 94 years old. It began in 1863 and credit for beginning the observance is usually given to Mrs. Sarah J. Hale; although thanksgiving really began i this country with a celebrating by the grate ful Pilgrims long before that. It has come to mean in the United States a time to give thanks for our blessings, for the harvest and the riches of America, for our health, our families and our happiness, and also to take stock of the year which has almost passed. An Old World custom which attached itself to Thanksgiving Day in some of our cities is the I parade of children through the streets, dressed in 'clothes of their elders and masks. And, in recent years, televis ion has brought this custom to the attention of most of the nation. Another custom which origin ated in Scotland required eld ers to lay in a stock of oranges, bananas and apples for child ren who might call at the door. No tricks, just treats. In history, many days of thanksgiving were celebrated annually over long periods of time. The victory of Constantine was celebrated in Constantin ople for many years on Sept. 24. In Alexandria, July 21 was ob served for years as a day of 1st By-Pass Condemnation Awards Returned The first appraisal returns on condemnation of property invol ved in the U. S. 75 by-pass of Plattsmouth have been made in County Court here. Awards by the appraisers were $43,367.70 to Stanley and Rosie Wolski for 10.67 acres of land and damage to buildings (including a house) and land; and $15,329.90 to Emll A. and Edythe Koukal for 25.77 acres of land and damage to buildings and land. Appraisers, appointed by County Court, were A. W. Prop st, Plattsmouth; Charles M. Read, Murray, and William Jor genson, Nehawka. The two properties are the first two south of the southren point of U. S. 75 construction work. BEG YOUR PARDON The Journal was in error in the article Monday statlna tint Mrs. Chester Wclshinte.r had suffered a broken nose in a fall. This should have stated that Mrs. Chester Minnear was the bxdy suffering the injury. Mrs. Minnear is now improving nice- 17; THE WEATHER Compiled for the Plattsmouth Journal at the Masonic Home Weather Station, Plattsmouth, Nebraska. Nov. 25, 26. 1937. Date High Low Prec. Monday 51 21 .00 Tuesday ... 55 23 .00 Forecast: High near 50. Cooler temperatures with no percipita tion forecast for the Holiday. Sun sets today at 4:57. Sun rises Thansgiving morning at 7:27. thanks for the cessation of earthquakes. In England, the victory of the Black Prince over the French in 1356 was celebrated for eight days and special thanksgiving services were held in St. Paul's Cathedral after the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. In addition, for 200 years England had a national thanks giving day in gratitude for the failure of the plot to blow Up the King and the House of Lords in 1605. Our Thanksgiving Day in the U. S. is relatively young but it has taken hold more firmly than any other thanksgiving day in any other country and has spread to other parts of the world It is one of our most-enjt-Ja.'l-holidays, a colorful observance and an inspiration. To many Americans, it signifies the coming end of the year, the completion of most of our har vesting, really a time for Thanks Giving. City Asks Board Works To Take The city administration has asked the Board of Public Works to take over jurisdiction over the city's sewer system in the near future. Mayor Bruce Gold attended a meeting of the board Tuesday and made the request. He asked the board to tell the administra tion what setup it would want in the way of personnel, equip ment etc., if it took over the sewer system. He also proposed that the board thereafter negotiate for a site for a sewage disposal plant, make plans ior it and place a bond proposal to finance a plant on the ballot next spring. A preliminary engineer's esti mate set the price of a plant for Plattsmouth at $217,263, exclus ive of the site. The Federal lue Mutton Four Plattsmouth High Blue Devil football players have been selected on the 1957 Ak-Sar-Ben Conference All-Star team an nounced today. They are: Bob Hutton, guard, 175 pounds, senior. John Konfrst, fullback, 160 pounds, junior. Larry Cundall, end, 170 pounds, senior. BO A L,JaszzL 1 1 JLtt J 1 l 1 1 1 L ,., .,,8 t J Jane Fauquet Wins 'Voice' Contest Here Jane Fauquet, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Fauquet, and a student at Plattsmouth High School, was chosen the winner of the local Voice of De mocracy contest Monday night at the school. Miss Fauquet, speaking on "What Democracy Means to Me" will now participate in the state Voice of Democracy con test sponsored by the State Jay cees, according to Richard J. Kucera, chairman of the local Voice of Democracy contest. Judges for the local contest were Walter H. Smith, Dale Bowman and County Judge Ray mond J. Case. A plaque, suitably engraved, will be presented to Miss Fau quet as local winner. Miss Patty Janda, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Janda of this city, returned Wednesday to Omaha to resume her studies at the St. Catherine's nurse school. She is a member of the senior class. of Public Sewer System' Government will participate in 30 per cent of the cost of plant construction, or about $65,000, leaving the city's financial re sponsibility at $152,000. Annual maintenance of the plant was estimated at $8,200. by the engineer. A federal law requires com munities to take steps to build disposal plants. A recent state law enabled municipalities to levy a tax to build up a reserve fund for building. Plattsmouth this year levied one mill which will bring in a bout $4,400, starting next month when taxes are paid. The Board of Public Works Tuesday took the mayor's pro posal under advisement and will take it up at this next meeting. Devil Gridders k-Sar-ESen John Konfrst Ken pounds Dasher, senior. halfback, The All-Star squad of 23 play ers was picked at a meeting of member schools' representa tives three weeks ago at Belle vue but not released until to day. Blair and Westside led In num ber of players honored with five each. Auburn, the conference champion, had four selections, scope Disiiirod: u Council Votes New Books Setup The City Council Monday night voted unanimously to employ a local accounting fim, Karr & Sochor, to help the city set up a new double entry bookkeeping system. Karr & Sochor would also do a general audit of the city's accounts for the fiscal year 56 57 at a cost of $400, according to the motion passed by the council Monday night. The motion was passed after the council had heard a report from its finance committee, L. W. Moore, hairman, and Lou Swoboda, recommending the move and employment of the accounting firm. In the report, the committee said "the cost of (the accoun ting firm's) service is to be bas ed on a rate of $4 an hour as agreed upon by Karr & Soch or." It said "After analyzing the audit report submitted (sever al weeks ago) by the firm and going over the report with the firm, we recommend the revis ion of our accounting system for the following reasons": 1. It would be possible to de termine the expenditure by kind for each fund from the records. (It was necessary for the aud iting firm to make an analysis on working papers to obtain this information for the detail ed audit). 2. It would be possible to de termine the source of revenue by source for each fund from the records. 3. It would help in analyzing the Cash in Bank account and in reconciling the bank account with the records. 4. An accumulative balance of each fund would be available each month from which to pre pare the statements. 5. The transfer of funds be tween funds could be more ac curately and easily accounted for. 6. It would help the setting up of the budget by having de tailed statement available to the Council made possible by such an accounting system. Royal Arch Masons Elect Officers For Ensuing Year 1958 Nebraska Chapter No. 3, Roy al Arch Masons, held their elec tion the past week of officers for the coming year of 1958. Clayton Rhylander was selec ted as high priest; John Beck man as king; Ray Storey, scribe, C. E. Ledgway, treasurer and E.J. Weyrich as secretary. Appointive officers will be an nounced by the new high priest and all officers installed in De cember. Journal Want Ads Pay All -Star r Larry Cundall Wahoo three, and Ralston and Bellevue one each. The other selections: Blair Roger Lipplncott, 165, junior; Kent Howard, 135, junior John Templeton, 205, senior; Lawrence Doleck. 160, senior, and Louie Jansen. 155. senior. Ralston Wendell Missner, 175 senior. Wahoo Stu Voulek, 210, sen ior, Bill Patton, 206, senior, and Coses 7. We believe the initial cost affected by such a change in our accounting system would Ix offset bv a' saving to the city in the time required to make subsequent audits. 8. We believe the recommen dations set forth in the audit report should be approved by the Council, particularly the re-j commendation that some type j of "work order" system be set up and that an inventory be taken of all capital assets own ed by the city and records be maintained showing addition and disposal of same. Councilman Criticizes Street Vork The City Council Monday nite heard a complaint from council man George Kalasek about the way the street department w is supervised and scheduled by Street Commissioner Elmer Gochenour. Kalasek said Gochonour gave preferential treatment in order and manner of handling oiling projects this fall and was lax in during the recent snowstorm. Mayor Bruce Gold defended Gochenour's work and said the street department had "done a good job this year." Kalasek and Councilman Will iam Highfield both criticized the department for not having a new plow mounted on a truck prior to the first snow. Gold said the city had trouble getting the manufacturer to assist with the mounting and finally the street department did it unaided. Kalasek asked at one point: "If he's not going to do what we tell him to do, what are we up here for?" Gold replied that while it pro bably would be within the juris diction of the council's streets and alleys committee (Highfield, Chairman, and Kalasek) to di rect street department work it is much better for the commis loner to do so. "He has the experience, knows what work has to be done first and what emergencies have to be met due to weather or sew er stoppages," the mayor said. Highfield said he didn't "see why the town had to be para lyzed" before snowplowing is started. Gochenour said he drove "ev ery hill in town" with a pickup truck, unweighted, at 9 o'clock the night of the storm and had no difficulty getting around. The grader was sent out to plow at about 10 o'clock that night, the mayor said. The now plow was mounted and tested last week. amei Squad Bob Ward, 190, senior. Westside Steve Dickinson. 165, senior; Brook Brewer, 165, junior; Chuck Noble, 180, sen ior; Oary Baughman, 185, sen ior; Roger Merten, 1G0, senior. Auburn - Jerry George, 160, senior; Jim O'Hara, 150, senior; Dick Tushla. 150, junior, and Gary Dalton, 150, junior. Bellevue Dave Havel, 135, junior. Ken Dasher 3' yrt Six youths charged with break- ing jail here Sunday and steal j ing a car were bound over to District Court Monday after ar raignment in Cass County Court. Two of them, represent.'d bv counsel, pleaded "not guilty.' They are Roberts Harris, 18, Pa cific Junction, la., represented by Walter II. Smith. Plattsmouth and William F. Brown, 17, Oma ha, represented by Henry Meis sner, Omaha. Glen F. Nickels, 17, Platts mouth; Robert Mulford, 18, O maha; Norman II. Hughson, 19, Plattsmouth. and Everett E. Halterman, 18, Plattsmouth, pleaded "guilty". They had no counsel. Each of the six vas charged separately with escape from cus tody and auto theft. County Judge Raymond J. Case set appearance bond for each at $2,000. The six were re-committed to County Jail for non-payment of the bond. . The next regular law term in District Court has not been set by Judge John M. Dierks but will probably be some time in Februay. It Is possible the judge might rule on some of the cases if the youths were to plead "guilty" when arraigned in District Court. Judge Dierks of Nebraska City is in Plattsmouth two Fridays n month. He will be here this Fri day and probably the youths will be arraigned then. The six youths were arrested and confined to city jail here Saturday night following an in cident near the Honeycomb, a recreation place for youth. They used parts of a bed they broke up to pry their way out of the jail proper and escaped from the jail building by a small window once used to lay in coal. They then took a 1958 Chev rolet from in front of a residence and drove to Omaha, Rising City and Shelby before being arrested for speeding near North Platte Sunday afternoon. They confessed their escape and were returned here Monday by Sheriff Tom Solomon. City Man's Car Stolen in Omaha All Mrs. Emil Schmidt want ed to do to celebrate her birth day Saturday was to attend a movie of her choice that night Mr. and Mrs. Schmidt motor ed to Omaha to celebrate the birthday and parked their car in a parking lot at 14th and Farnum at approximately 8:12. The car was discovered stoh-n from the lot at 8:28, and the Schmidts did not learn of the loss until their return to the parking area. Owner of the car is Frit Siemoneit, father of Mrs. Sch midt, The car has not been lo cated. It bears the license of 20-4443, is a 1957 Studebaker President, light brown and ivory. Tax On Amusement Machines To Be Cut The city occupational tax ou amusement machines will be re duced from $25 to $10 per ma chine a year, the City Council voted unanimously Monday. There had been discussion for several meetinps about that par ticular tax and Monday night Councilman L. W. Moore snld he thought the $25 tax excessive and moved the reduction. The motion carried unani mously. The city attorney will prepare n n amendment to th.' tax ordinance. He suggest"!) that the Council mieht want t.) review the entire ordinance. Councilmen ageed Unit 1he $lr tax wn s tno hiuh in a town the size of Plattsmouth. Moore said the comparable tax In Oma ha is $15. , wiinnaininniii i.i . nrnMM . i V Only x 11 j JlV V Shopping fipX Day 'hrlstmas I