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KEBR. STATE HIST. SOCIETY XXX 1500 R ST. LINCOLN, NEBR. i CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER 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 77 SIX PACES PLATTSMOUTH, CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA. MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1957 TEN CENTS PER COPY NUMBER 6 IP ';" c'.v t I O SPRIGHTLY SI'IKITKS Shown above are at 8 p.m. at the High School Auditorium. Their some of the cast of the Central School operetta, names are in the accompanying: story. "Where Was Santa," to be presented Thursday A . i 'Where Was Santa?' Central School grades one through six will present an oper etta,, "Where Was Santa?", Thursday at 8 p.m. at the High School Auditorium . The operetta stresses the Im portance of "Giving" at Christ mas time as well as "Receiv ing." Much "confusion" ensues before the truth in the plot Is finally brought out. Girls shown in the picture a bove are only part of many constumed members of the cast. Those shown are some of the Northern Light Sprites. Left to right in the photo are: Front Marilyn Buchholz, Cy nthia Begley, Donna Porter, Mary Jo Hirz, Jonon Bigger staff, Dianne Reimer; center Margaret Spradlin, Mary Lar sen, Candy Carper, Linda Kay Balllnger, Lanna Anderson, Lin da Herre, Peggy Liddick, Karen Porter. Back Claudia Marler, Kathy Lutes, Barbara Newsom, Ann ette Williams (Queen of North ern Lights), Santa Claus, Mar cia McQuin, Sandra Keith, Jackie Godbey, Susan Dunham. 107 Apply for Employment Here One hundred and seven per sons were listed as the avail able labor simply by the Ne braska State Employment Ser vice office here this week. There were 83 men and 24 women on the available lists, compared with 41 men and 24 women a month earlier, the of fice said. During the past months 11 jobs were filled, 20 persons were di rected to job opportunities and 151 visits were made to the of fice for employment consulta tion. In cooperation with Platts mouth High School, 27 students were given counseling Interviews as aids in making vocational choices. '57 Meadliners: Cow Vaccinates Doc; Canoe Rams By Paul Jones Director Public Information National Safety Council So 1957 was just another year? Try to tell that to Dr. Guy Jones. Or George Bates. Or. John Arends. Or. to Dogcatch- er Donald Balrd. For it was in 1957 that: Dr. Jones was vaccinated by a cow. ' Mr. Bates was clobbered on the highway by a flying canoe. Mr. Arends suffered severe injuries by becoming a father. And Dogcatcher Baird was bitten not by a dog but by a dog owner a mad one! Just another year Hah! And the oddities listed above were only a few of the weird and whacky happenings uncov ered by the National Safety Council in its annual roundup of freak accidents. The dizzy details: The Case of the Vaccinated Veterinarian occurred in Wad esboro, N. C, where Dr. Guy Jones cot a syringe full of vac m v. " v Y Mi I Several County Rural Schools Broken Into; Outhouses Tipped The Cass County Sheriff's of fice was busy today running down leads in an attempt to discover who did damage at ru ral schools In the county over the weekend. Outhouses were tipped over, at School Districts Nos. 6, 2 and 28. At District No. 41, a hammer head was thrown through a window and entrance was gain ed to the building by breaking off the lock of a door. Inside, the intruders ramsacked the school room, taking with them about 90 cents in change from Allied Board r Names K. H. Fisk At a recent meeting, the board of Directors of Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation elected Kerbv H. Fisk Chair man of the Board effective Jan. 1. Fisk, also chairman of the ex ecutive committee, will suc ceed Fred J. Emmerich. Em merich plans to retire as Chair man of the Board at the end of the current- year after 37 years of active service as an employee and officer of the company. He will continue to be closely associated with All ied as a director. Glen B. Miller, president and chief executive officer, announ ced the election by the Board, effective Dec. 1, of Carlton Bates and Harry S. Ferguson to the newlv created positions of executive vice presidents. Chester M. Brown was elected as a vice president of the com pany. Bates, now a vice president, was formerly president of the company's Solvay Process Di vision. Ferguson is presently a vice president and director of the company and is also a member of the executive board. Brown is now president of the company's General Chem ical Division. cine in his arm when a cow he was preparing to inoculate sud denly lunged against him. Mor al: never vaccinate a cow at lunge time! George Bates of Evanston. 111., is aware, of course, that in today's traffic a driver must be prepared for almost anything. Nevertheless, he was startled when a flying canoe zoomed down the highway straight at him, crashed through his wind shield and clobbered him good. It had been blown loose from the top of an approaching car by a high wind. John Arends of Olympia, WTash., can tell you what any man knows that becoming a father is no picnic. After an all night vigil at the hospital, Mr. Arends proudly rushed up to kiss his wife as she was wheel ed from the delivery room. At the whiff of the ether, he pas sed out cold, landed kerplunk on the concrete floor. Mother and child? Doing fine. Father? Two broken teeth and a bang-ed-up face! T""- IT A the teacher's desk. At School District No. 88, nine miles west of Plattsmouth on the Louisville road, the building was ransacked after entrance was gained through an unlocked rear window. Sheriff Tom Solomon said his office had several good leads to work on but he also urged any one knowing anything about who might have clone the dam age to report such information to his office. Such information will be kept in confidence, the sheriff said. 2 Breakins Investigated Two breakins which occurred in the early morning hours Saturday are being investigated by law enforcement officers. They were at Rock Creek Service Station at the Murray Corner and at Jay's Texaco Ser vice Station here. Sheriff Tom Solomon said it is believed the same bu.'glars entered both places. A chunk of cement taken from near the Rock Creek Station evidently was used to break out the door glass there and later to break the door glas at the station here, the sheriff said. Charles Green, operelor of the Rock Creek Station, said only a few candy bars and pos sibly a few packages of cigarets were missing. Jay Winters of the station here said all that was missing was his cash register contain ing about $29 in cash. It is believed Jay's Station was entered about 1 a.m. Satur day and the other station about 1:30. Plattsmouth officers said they checked the station about 1:30 and everything appeared to be in order. About 2 a.m. of ficer Estil Jenkins checked again and discovered the break in. And in East Los Angeles, Cal if., Dogcatcher Donald Baird was bitten good and hard by a lady who seemed upset because Baird was trying to imnound her pet. vlt's a dog's life," moa ned Baird. As a professional landscapes Harry Wescott, of Mt: Upton, N. Y., knows better, you bet, than to saw' off a limb on which he is sitting. But he did saw off one to which his safety rope was attached. Always some thing new to learn! In Morningside Heights, New York City, two workers on a new skyscraper fell into open elevator shaft 21 floors above the ground. Donald McKeon fell four floors, grabbed a cable and swung himself safely onto the 17th floor landing. William Ves sialidcs plunged 18 floors before he managed to seize a cable and ease himself onto a third-floor landing platform. Both men es caped with minor bruises. And in Lone Beach, Calif., movie actor Jeff Chandler un dtrstandably put no much fer Free Christmas Movies for Kids Hey,' Kids! A free Christmas movie show ing of cartoons has been sche duled for the Cass Theater Dec. 21 at 10 a.m. The all-cartoon program Is sponsored by the Plattsmouth Junior Chamber of Commerce, It's for all children as a Christ mas treat. No tickets are re quired. Kids only have to be present to be admitted. The showing is expected to last about V2 hours. It'll be a good chance for parents to park the kids while they do some shopping. Louisville Church Receives $2,000 Memorial Gift LOUISVILLE The Louisville Methodist Church has received a memorial gift of $2,000 from Mrs. Henry Gardiner of Cleve land, Ohio. This gift is in mem ory of her parents, Mr. and Mrs William A. Cleghorn, long time residents of the Louisville com munity. The gift is to help es tablish the Cleghorn Memorial Chapel in the proposed educa tional plant of the Church. Mrs. Gardiner will be known to the older members of the community. She was Mary, fos ter daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cleghorn, and came from New York to live with them when she was 12. Mr. and Mrs. Cleghorn were among the best-known of the early families, in this town, Mr. Cleghorn having been a business man here. Mrs. Cleg horn, as Helen Stander, was born on a farm just outside of town, later coming to town with her parents. She was ac tive in the church, the Sunday School and the Woman's organ izations. The committee on memorials which received the gift is made up of Mrs. David Webb, Mrs. Herbert Stander. Mrs. F. Yj Brunson, Mrs.' Anton Johnson, Donald Webster, pastor of the church . The First Quarterly Confer ence of the church elected the following building committee: Elmwood Pankonin, H. B. Koop, Herbert Stander, Graham Jones, Mrs. Hazel Hon, Mrs. P. L. Wright and Earl Stiffler. C. S. Hirsch, chairman of the Of ficial Board, and the pastor of the church will serve as ex-of-ficio members of the committee. Extension Office Closes at Noon On Saturday Until further notice the Cass County Extension office will close on Saturdays at 12 noon. This schedule will conform with hours keot by other county of fices at the Court Houes in Plattsmuth. Therefore, the new schedule for the Extension Office hours will be from 8 a.m. to 12 and from 1 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 8. a. m. to 12 noon on Saturday. Extension personnel hope this new schedule will not create in convenience and that satisfac tory service can be continued to all Extension Service cooper ators. Journal Want Ads Pay vor into a love scene with Kim Novak that he cracked one of her ribs. The John Bakers, of Bellflow er, Calif., didn't have to lift a hand to arrange for a rumpus with which to christen their fine rumpus room. A passing auto mobile obliged by going out of control and crashing Into the room for one of the darndest rumpuses you ever heard. Fifteen-year-old Susan Thom son, of Madison, Wis., didn't in vite her father to go along when she took the family car for an unauthorized spin which ended when she banged into a tree. He couldn't have gone any way. As governor of Wisconsin, he was busy at the moment at tending a highway safety con ference on teen-age driving. In San Diego, Calif., a car rolled out of a driveway, cross ed the street and crashed into the porch of a home. When po lice arrived thev found the driv er happily wagging his tail. His nams's Jack and his owner, Don Snyder, had forgotten to set the Spradlin Now Pest Control Assn. Director Bill Spradlin, 1957 president of the Nebraska Association of Pest and Termite Control Oper ators, became a director of the association at its annual meet ing Thursday-Saturday at the Castle Hotel, Omaha. Spradlin, operator of Bill's Pest and Termite Control here, presided at the 4th annual meet ing of the group. Elected were Jack Morris, president; J. E. Benland, Dod ge Cfty, Kan., vice-president, and RalDh Kephart, secretary trutisurer. Forty-five operators attended the meeting to hear a program of seasons on pest control meth ods presented by state and na tional pest control and health departnent persons, research ers of chemical supply compan ies and entomologists of the Un iversity of Nebraska. Bob Roselle, extension ento mologist of the university, talk ed on shade Tree Problems of Interest to Pest Control Opera tors. He said preventive spray ing in Nebraska for Dutch Elm Disease can be done any warm day from December to April. Care of trees to keep them healthy was stressed as a de fense against the disease. City Council Meets Tonight The City Council will meet to night at 7:30 p.m. in regular session at City Hall. Included on theagenda will be discussion of a larger door for the fire department garage, purchase of "rock dust" for installed and purchase of a streets in which sewer is being installed and purchase of a building for street department equipment storage. The latter is a measure urg ed by members of the council to provide a place to get the city's street department equip ment ut of the weather and a place where maintenance work can be done on it. Under consideration for pur chase is the Alamito Dairy plant. At present, the city Is renting storage space at the old canning factory at $30 a month. Egg Throwing At Cars Is Reported Several cases of egg thowers at automobiles over the city are reported by the police in the last few days, among the cars made targets was that of Chief John Hobscheidt. The target is costly at eggs selling at 43 cents a dozen. The offence carries a severe fine and punishment if detec ted the culprits may expect to have "the book" thrown at them. THE WEATHER Compiled for the Plattsmouth Journal at the Masonic Home Weather Station, Plattsmouth, Nebraska. Dec. 5, 6, 7, 8, 1957. Date High Low Prec. Thursday 57 29 .00 Friday 55 31 .00 Saturday 31 23 tr. Sunday 37 25 tr. Forecast: High near 50; low near 30 tonight. Cloudy tonight and cooler Tuesday. Sun sets tonight at 4:55. Sun rises Tuesday at 7:39 a.m. hand brake when he left the dog alone In the car. Jack had climb ed behind the wheel, put paw to gear shift, and let 'er roll. When 3-year-old George Wil klns' mother found him playing with matches in the Wilkins home in San Antonio. Tex., she picked him up to warm his seat. She didn't have to. It already was warm. Matches In George hip pocket had set his pants on fire. No matter how changeable your climate may be, chances are you never saw the mercury go down as fa-st as it did when Robert Sherfield swallowed a clinical thermometer in a hos pital at Bournemouth, England. Even In a cltv as big as Chi cago, a man and his wife will ocassionally run into each other on the street. But Dr. and Mrs. Alex Buchholz did it the hard way each driving a car. Dr. Buchholz, uninjured, insisted on taking the other driver to a hos pital for personalized treatment. In Plant City, Fla., Mrs. Lis zle B. Morgan took a direct i5)y iueaois ets 142 eoir Term City Cub Win At Plattsmouth Cub Scout Pack 399, sponsored by the VFWM won a blue ribbon Saturday night In the Scout Exposition at the Omaha Auditorium. Plattsmouth was well repre sented by Cubs, den mothers den fathers, den chiefs and friends during the exposition which drew crowds up to 20,000 per session. Cubs of Pack 399 participated In a live demonstration, "Mak ing of Xmas Cards," and were Doings In Police Court At Weekly Round Up Monday The weekend and Monday morning brought an influx of business to the court of police Magistrate James Howard Gra ves that kept the court busy in passing on the various persons charged as well as taking in the money. Henry J. Beckfelt and James A. Steel, both of Offutt Field, were before the court for hear ing this morning, both charged with Intoxication. Beckfelt was arrested by Officer Tesch and when arraigned made a plea of not guilty and was released on a bond of $25 to appear Decem ber 14th. Steel made plea of guilty and received a fine of $10 and costs, total $14. Robert K. Hughson was char ged with illegal possession of liguor by a minor and receiv ed a fine of $25 and costs. Char les Eugene Marchand was also arrested on the charge of poss ession of liquor by a minor re ceiving the $25 and costs or $29. Officers Tesch and Dunlap were arresting officers. Gerry Morris was ticketed by officers Tesch and Dunlap for operating a car with a noisy muffler and was given a fine of $5 and costs or a total of $9. Benjamin Neeley and Gerald W. Phillips Jr., of Omaha ap peared Saturday to answer to the charge of possession of al cholic liquor by a minor. Each received $25 and costs or total of $29. Wilda Mitchell To Return To Post In Cermany Miss Wilda Mitchell, engaged in services of the Unites States government, is returning to her post at Nuremburg, Germany, where she is a member of the staff at the U. S. Embassy at, the court of restitution. She has spent her leave of two months with Mr. and Mrs. Marion Tucker, Sheldon Mitch ell and family, and a sister, Mrs. Clark Kuppinger and fam ily at Kansas City. Marriage license was issued in Nebraska City Saturday to A. Eugene Applegate of that city and Miss Delores Annette Hammers of this city. route to reach the city auto mobile Licensing bureau for her driving test. She stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake and crashed into the building which houses the bureau. It was hard for 10-vear-old Marshall Frey to figure out just how he happened to ram hl-s bike into a parked car on a street in Miami Beach, Fla. "All I was doing," he told po lice, "was riding along reading my comic book." Police were horrified when they pulled Harold Donath from the wreckage of his overturned bakery truck in West Palm Beach, Fla. His face appeared to be a mass of blood. Closer inspection disclosed it was only cherry pie. A crummy trick. In Chicago, Mrs. George Rei thal solicitously entered the dar kened bedroom where her hus band lay recuperating from a badly sprained ankle, tripped over the crutch protruding from his bed, fell and broke her arm. One of Charles Combs' farm hands at Olnev, 111., knew a surefire way to get rid of these Scouts Omaha divided to participate in three sessions. The Pack's booth, decorated by parents of the boys and den mothers, featured a huge Xmas Card a purple backdrop with foil trim and inscribed "Holi day Greeting, Pack 399." As Cubs finished their Xmas cards, den mothers past ed them around the huge card for the judging. Den mothers Donna Russell and Hermina Kalasek were in charge for the Friday night session, Esther Riskel and Jane Finney Saturday afternoon and Mrs. Scott and Virginia Schalk Saturday night. Pack 399 also "made" the ex position, paper printed daily at the auditorium which said "Pack 399 is putting more paint on them rather than their hand craft." Lloyd Fitch, Cub from Den 8 also "made the news" when he answered correctly the question, "What does today commemo rate?" Lloyd Leland, participat ing in the quiz Saturday, was also on his toes when he ans wered "Pearl Harbor Day." Cubmaster Russell Schalk was present at the Saturday night session. Fred Ohlenhausen Dies At Hillcrest Fred Ohlenhausen, 76, resi dent of the Plattsmouth comm unity for the greater part of hlis lifetime, passed away Sun day at the Hlflcrest Nursing Home west of this city. He has been in failing health for the past three years. He was born July 12, 1881 at Schlerbach, Germany, son of Fred V. and Margaret Ohlen hausen, and as a child was brought to the United States by the parents who located in Cass county where the father and son were engaged in farming. Mr. Ohlenhausen was twice married, both wives preceded him in death many years ago. He was engaged in farming for many years until his failing health made necessary his re tirement. Survivors are nieces and nephews, Harry McCulloch, Murray: Fred McCulloch. Chi cago; Mrs: William F. Nolte, Plattsmouth; Mrs. Richard Goc enhour, Plattsmouth ; Mrs. Ed Vallery, Council Bluffs, William Evers, Plattsmouth. Funeral services will be Wed nesday at 2 p.m. at the chapel of the Caldwell-Linder funeral home. Rev. E. S. DeSpain of the First Methodist Church, con ducting the service. Music will be by Mrs. Hugh Stander Jr., soloist and Mrs. George Jacobs, organist. Burial will be at Oak Hill cemetery. Visiting hours will be Tues day afternoon and evening 4 to 6 and 7 to 9. Caldwell-Linder Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Motorist wasps in the barn. He would burn them out. It worked. The wasps went up in smoke. So did the barn, 5,000 bales of hay, 2,000 bushels of barley, a utili ty shed, a garage, three drums of gasoline, and 200 loads of manure. And that ain't hay! In Los Angeles, two safety award-winning taxi drivers George Madden with 15 years without an accident and Harry Hayman with eight-made out accident reports the same day. They had collided with each other. The perfect way to close this treatise, of course, would be to report that when the San Fran cisco earthquake of 19,57 jarred loose a National Safety Council award proudly hanging on the wall above Cartoonist Al Ver meer's drawing board in Cast ro Valley, the Bronze plaque bopped him on the head. But the capricious little sprites who arrange such things slipped up on tliis one. The darned thing missed AI by a full inch! So 1 957 was lust another year? Hah! itw jyo William F. Brown, 17, Omaha, changed his pleas of 'not guilty" to "guilty" on two counts of es cape from custody and auto mobile theft and was found guilty by Judge John M. Dieiks in District Court here Friday. I Judge Dierks sentenced the boy to "not less than one year j not, more than two years'' in i Men's Reformatory at Lincoln, j the .sentences to run "eoncur- rently and not consecutively." Costs of the action, $41.19, were also assessed to Brown. Sheriff Tom Solomon took Brown to the reformatory for committment Friday. Brown was one of six young men charged with breaking out of City Jail Nov. 24 and taking an automobile which they drove to Omaha and North Platte be fore being arrested for fast driv ing by a highway patrolman. They had been put in jail the night of Nov. 23 on a distrub ing the peace complaint. The others are in County Jail in lieu of bail bond awaiting trial on the ,';-arne two chargi Sarpy County Will Consider Cass County School Croup Plan The newly elected Sarpy Coun ty Committee for the reorgani zation of school districts is hold ing a meeting on Thursday, December 12 at 8 p.m. at the court house in Papillion. The committee will hold elec tion of officers and also will take up consideration of a lett er from L. A. Behrends of Cass County, who has suggested that the two counties should get to gether in planning future devel opments of area on either side of the Platte River. .Mr. Behrends in his letter tilttes that the Caoa County plan calls for an enlargement of the Plattsmouth area to include dis tricts two and three in Sarpy i county and an expansion of the Louisville district in the direc tion of districts 8, 9, and 17 in Sarpy county. It is stated that the state co mmittee for reorganization of school districts has approved the Cass County comprehen sive plan. County Court Stanislaus W. Freestone, Omaha, $54, overload on axle; Alfred C. Blankenship. Peru, $79, overload on axle; Leo H. Wilmolh, Omaha, $36, over weight on capacity plates; Ro bert W. Geiser. Tecumseh, $54, overload on axle; C. W. Gieser, Tecumseh, $14, over weight on capacity Plates. Luther Carl Fox. Platts mouth, $14 speeding; Robert Coster, Nehawka. $34.80. dis turbing the peace; Paul D. Klinke, Grand Forks, N. I). $20. speeding. Anne Bryant. Omaha, $21 speeding; Thomas E. White, MeComb, Miss., $54. overload on axle; Jason S. Boykin, Laur el. Miss., $104, overload on axle. Roger William Bacon, Glen wood, la.. $15, speeding; United A. G. Produce, Omaha, $23, overweight on capacity plates; overload on axle; O.rville D. Alberty, Shawnee, Kan., $54; over gross weight truck. PO To Be Open 2 Saturday P. M.s For convenience of patrons and to help meet the rush of Christmas mail, the Post Off ice here will be open all clay the next two Saturdays. Dec. 14 and 21, Postmaster Les Niel .said today. The Post Office usually clones at noon Saturdays. Regular dai ly hours Monday-Friday are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. VA 13 I V Shopping Ax '.Til Christmas I 1