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CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER VOLUME 77 Richard 'Young Of 1957' Winner Richard Tritsch Ls the Out standing Young Farmer of 1957, President Harold Smock of the Plattsmouth Junior Chamber of Commerce announced today. The presentation of a plaque honoring Tritsch's selection Is to be made at, a banquet tonight at 7 o'clock at the Lions Club. Also to be honored are Tritsch's wife, Donna, and his landlord and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Schneider. Also to be honored by the Jay cees, but his identity not to be revealed until tonight, is the young man chosen for the Dis tinguished Service Award for 1957. The committee in charge of making the Young Farmer se lection received seven nomlna- Sheila Marsh 'Homemaker Of Tomorrow7 Miss Sheila Kaye Marsh has been named the Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow in Plattsmouth it has been announ ced by the General Mills, Inc., of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Miss Marsh received the high est score in a written examin ation on homemaking knowledge and aptitudes by graduating at the high school. Mrs. Gibbs girls at the high school. MrsGib making instructor. Her examination paper now will be entered in competition with those of 289 other school candidates or the title of Ail American Homemaker of To morrow and will also be consid ered for the runnerup award in the state. For her achievement she will receive an award pin designed by Trlfarl of New York. Each State Homemaker of Te morrow will receive a $1,500 scholarship and an educational trip with her school advisor to Washington. D. c Colonial Wil liamsburg, Va., and New York City. A $500 scholarship will be awarded the second ranking girl In each state. The school of the state winner receives a set of the Encyclopaedia Britannlca. The national winner will be named April 17 at a banquet In the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. Miss Marsh, 17, is the daughter of Mr. and Ms. Joe Marsh, and is a senior. She has held offices of treasurer, secretary and vice president of her local FHA Chap Chapter; active in Pep Club, now serving as vice president and National Honor Society. She is a member of the girls quar tet and has been a member of the band four years. Miss Marsh, an honor roll student has also had 5 years 4-H work. She was crowned FFA Sweetheart for 1957-58. Essay Contest Sponsored by VFW Auxiliary Plattsmouth High School stu dants are eligible for the local division of the 23rd annual Na tional Essay Contest of Veter ans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary. They'll compete for $10 and $5 prizes on the local level with winners elieible for the state contest and the state winners being entered in the national contest with top prize of $1,000 and a gold medal. Locally, the VFW Auxiliary is sponsoring the contest. Mrs. Dick March is chairman of the essay committee. A list of rules will be posted on a bulletin board at the high school, Mrs. March said. Students in the 9th through 12th grades are eligible to write no more than 1,000 words on the subject, "America's Future Is Up to Youth." After Judging and awards on the local level, winners' essay will be entered in the state con test to compete for awards from the State Auxiliary and state medals presented through the national organization. Besides the $1,000 first prize, national prizes are $500 for 2nd. $250 for 3rd, $100 for 4th and 10 prizes of $10 and 10 of $5 each for honorable mention. Sec ond through 4th also get medals. Consolidated FOURTEEN PACES fnisch Farmer tkms and found it very hard to select the number one young iarmer. However, they found that Tri tsch has made an outstanding record. He farms 280 acres southwest of Plattsmouth and feeds about 150 head of cattle in partnership with his landlord. In close cooperation with his landlord, Tritsch has complete ly remodeled the farm home and all of the outbuildings. He built 2 miles of new, perma nent fence, built new lot fences, loading chute, squeeze chute and sorting pens. He re-roofed and resided a crib and barn. All the farm buildings have been re painted. He also designed and built a self feeding bunker type silo. Richard Tritsch Tritsch grows 100 acres of le gumes on the farm and has es tablished 17 acres of grassed waterways. He has built 11 mi les of terraces. He owns his own anhydrous ammonia appli cator and regularly fertilizes his crops. He is a farm bureau member and is County ASC precinct committeeman. He is a trustee in the Murray Presbyterian Church, member of the Platts mouth Masonic Lodge and is Charter Vice President of the Plattsmouth Junior Chamber of Commerce. He is also a veter an of World War II. The Plattsmouth Junior Cham ber of Commerce is proud of its selection for the Outstanding Young Farmer for 1957, a spo kesman said today. Leslie Niel, Plattsmouth Post master, attended a1 two day school for postmasters from a 4-state area Friday and Satur day at Wichita, Kan. J fXi j iL-rff . v i r .j .. k,. J , iimwk... x-. .jar m. ( I- s i 4 H 1 MEMORIES RENEWED Paul Jahriir, 809 N. 11th, and Mrs. Amy Perkins, Itrlsbane, Australia, look over an autograph bonk Jahrig signed when a vts;tor in her home as a serviceman duriirr World War II. Mrs. Perkins is visiting: Mr. and Mrs. .lahrig and his mother Mrs. Ernestine Jalirig hore. PLAITS I With the Nehawka Enterprise ond Elmwood Leader-Echo v . -m3S I - W i . NEW LANK OPEN The new west lane of U. S. 73-75 to Omaha was opened to traffic Jan. 20 from just south of the Platte River bridge, on Interest Shown In Cass School Reorganization Persons from 10 Cass County school districts met here with County Supt. L. A. Behrends last Friday to discuss possibi lities of drawing up petitions for reorganization. Many of those present eviden ced interest in the Murray school and or establishment of a new district in the Mynard area. District represented at the meeting were numbers: 2, Horn ing, 3, Mynard; 5, Rock Bluff: 6, Rock Creek; 7, Lewiston ; 25, 8-Mile Grove ;27. Cottonwood; 45. Little Brick; 55, Amick, and 56. Murray. If petitions were circulated and completed they would be presented to the secretary of the Cass County Committee for Re organization of School Dis tricts (Behrends) for the com mittee's consideration and re commendations. The commit tee in turn would forward them for consideration and recom mendations to the State Commit tee for Reorganization. Hearings would follow. 'Pipeline Agreement' By City, Railroad The City Council Monday pas sed a resolution authorizing Mayor Gold to sign a "pipeline agreement" between the city and the Missouri-Pacific Rail-; road covering the city's instal-! lation of sewer line beneath the ! railroad's right-of-way on Cem-! etery Road. ; The city pays a $10 fee for preparation and execution of the agreement and is respon sible for maintenance of the I line and for any damage resul ting from its installation or use. 1 j " ' ' i r ' ,i -'s 1 J 1 ?v i ;i PLATTSMOUTH, CASS COUNTY. NEBRASKA. It I i..jtfi4,j r Y'r irz life. A .', T ii. i,. Jii. Cass Sheriff Was On The Cass County Sheriff's of fice maintained around-the-clock patrol and coverage of the west part of the county from the mo ment the 10-murder Starkweath er case developed at Bennet Monday afternoon. Vacant farm homes were checked and other farm homes Aaberg Is CCA-FB Speaker Herman C. Aaberg, assistant director of the Commodity Div ision of the American Farm Bur eau Fedf ration, Chicago, will be the main speaker Feb. 4 at 8 p. m. at the Weeping Water Auditorium. The occasion will be a "Neigh bor Night" sponsored jointly by Cass County Farm Bureau and Cass County Non-Stock Assn. Purpose of the meeting is to welcome new members into the organization and acquaint them with the activities of the organ ization. By the same token, old members may become better in formed in regard to the organ ization. Aaberg was born near New man Grove, Neb., July 10, 1902, and graduated from Iowa State College in 1924. Before joining the AFBF Staff in 1G44, he sup ervised a dairv testing associat ion and served as county agri cultural agent in Winnebago County, Iowa. He served as assistant secret ary of agriculture in Iowa from 1933 to 1937 and as Iowa repre sentative of the Chicago Prod ucers Commission Assn. from 1938 to 1944. He was president of the Econ omics Club of Des Moines, chair man of the National Brucellosis Committee and is president of Livestock Conservation Inc. Aaberg operated farms in Tex as and owns a general livestock farm in Iowa which he operates with his tenant on a 50-50 live ( Continued on Page 7) Mrs. Amy Perkins, Brisbane, Australia Snow s Treat for Visitor The snow of a week ago was a particular delight to Mrs. Amy Perkins, visiting here with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jahrig and his mother, Mrs. Ernestine Jah rig. It was onlv the second time Mrs. Perkins. 60, of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, had seen snow. Tlie other time was here 8 years ago when she visited A merica the first time to call on former servicemen whose acquaintance she had made dur ing World War II. Queensland is Australia's "Florida." Mrs. Perkins says, so snow never falls there. Low temperature is in the 40's in winter. That would be next sum mer, (judged by the American .seasons), for it's late summer in Brisbane now. This time on her 10-month trip to 16 states to visit former ser vice friends and their families. Mrs. Perkins will get to see the seasons change, "something you hurdly notice in Australia." She'll be in Plattsmouth till Read Twice Weekly THURSDAY. jANUARY 30, 1958 f; Ki r' ' north to Omaha. The scene above looks north at the weighing station where single lane traf fic now ends for northbound travelers. atrol, Too visited to see that everything was all right. Service stations and businesses along the high ways were kept informed of the case and license numbers of cars Starkweather was driving. Wednesday afternoon Sheriff Tom Solomon of Cass County was a-sked to come inside the City Limits of Lincoln and check the College View area. While the suspect was still be lieved in Lincoln Wednesday afternoon Solomon was also as signed the Bennet rural roads. Many Cass County farmers kept their yard lights on all night and had their personal guns in handy reaching spots. Some farmers turned their farm lights on early in the afternoon and spent the nights eifher in towns or at friends' homes. The sheriff's office here was a popular place Monday, Tues day and Wednesday as many persons dropped in to follow the case through the office's short wave radio. QUICKIE The Monday meeting of the City Council set some sort of record for longevity, or lack of it, here in recent months at least. The regular meeting lasted only from 7:30 to 8:30. Often meetings, especially when public hearings are held on improvements, expenditures or assessment procedures, last several hours. THE WEATHER Compiled for the Plattsmouth Journal at the Masonic Home Weather Station, Plattsmouth, Nebraska. Jan. 27, 28, 29, 1958. Oate High Low Prec. Monday 32 26 .00 Tuesday 34 16 .00 Wednesday 39 16 .00 Forecast: Cloudiness to con tinue through tonight. Highs in upper 30's, lows tonight near 20. Sun sets tonight at 5:37. Sun rises Friday at 7:37 a.m. the end of January, then go on (o visit another of "her families" Like Jahrig, 42, the others she visits became her friends when she opened her home to them during the 1940's. Mrs. Perkins was then and is now an active participant In the Australia-America Assn., an organ ization dedicated to "foster and encourage better relations be tween the two countries." During the war, Brisbane and othei Australia residents made life away from home a lot more bearable for many service peo ple. GIs were guests in their homes, particularly at the week ends, for "tea." ("Tea" being 6 o'clock supper.) Jahrig, who works in the Shops here, spent a year in Aus tralia readying for 18 months and two campaigns In New Gui nea. He was in Co. L of the 12Gth Infantry, 32nd Division. What did he think of Austra lia? Well, he'd like to go back for a visit some dav, perhaps return one of Mrs. Perkins vis its. The peopU were wonder by More Than 3500 Cass Mew Melvin Todd today was named commissioner of Cass County District 2 to fill out the unex pired term of Ray Norris who resigned effective Feb. 1. The term runs through 1958. Todd was named by a special appointment board provided for 4 County Officers 'Will File'; 5 Others Are 'Undecided' Only five of 10 Cass County elective officers whose terms ex pire this year have said they will file for re-election this spring. None has said he would not. The others are "undecided" at this point. To date, no one has filed no mination papers with the Coun ty clerk. These were the replies when the Journal asked filing inten tions : County Commissioner Herman Bornemeier Undetided. County Commissioner from the 2nd District (term expires) Ray Norris resigned, effective Feb. 1. Register of Deeds Mrs. Lucil le Gaines Yes. Clerk of District Court C. E. Ledgway Yes. Sheriff Tom Solomon Yes. County Clerk Charles Land Undecided. Treasurer Mrs. Alice Jayne McShane Undecided. Club Here Hears about Dam Plans The first two of nine dams to be built in the Plattsmouth wa tershed flood control program are planned for construction next spring. Plattsmouth's Rotary Club Club heard about dam construc tion from the construction en gineer for this watershed's pro jects Tuesday noon at their regular meeting. Leland Jacksoa of the State Conservation Service, Syracuse, told the club that the dams will be designed for a life of 100 years. First dams to be built here are one in west Plattsmouth south of 1st Avenue and west of Maiden Lane and one on the Newton Sullivan farm southeast of the city. The dams have been design ed to reach their silt storage capacity in about 50 years. Be fore the federal government which pays the entire construc tion cost will approve construc tion of a dam, at least 75 per cent of soil conservation prac tices desig-ned to control sedi mentation (silting) of the drain age area have to be in effect. The community is responsible for a share of the project cost, encompassing acquisition of the dam and water storage sites and legal and extra engineering costs, if any. (Continued On Page 6) fully friendly, like Mrs. Perkins who helped out in a Red Cross canteen besides inviting service men into her home. A housewife, Mrs. Perkins is keenly interested in people and traveling. But traveling on bus es, thank you! "I'd be lost without buses," she says. She's making her en tire trip in the U.S. by bus and using 185 -inches of tickets by actual measurement. So far, she's been around Cal ifornia after her boat docked at San Fransisco and to Oregon She came directly here from Los Angeles. Her next stop is Arkansas. In one respect the current trip is a lot easier that the one eight years ago. Then, Mrs. Perkins worked in a cannery in Oregon to earn money for her travel expenses since rigid currency restrictions prohibited taking American dol lars out of Australia and she was only allowed to bring along 10 Australian pounds. This time, she could take nough money for her expenses. KEDR. STATE HIST. SOCIETY XXX 1500 It ST. LINCOLN, I.EB3. County Families TEN CENTS PER COPY Todd mmmossooinieir such a contingency by law. The board was composed of County Treasurer Mrs. Alice Jayne Mr Shane, County Attorney James Begley and County Clerk Charles Land. Todd farms near Union, is a prominent stock man and was Supt. of Schools L. A. Behrends Undecided. Assessor Clara Olson Yes. County Attorney James Beg ley Undecided. Surveyor William Coakley Undecided. Deadline for filing is April 3. The election is May. 13. United Church Women Plan 'Day of Prayer' The Plattsmouth Council of United Church Women met in the parlors of St. Paul's E & R Church Monday afternoon to plan for World Day of Prayer. Eight churches from Platts mouth, Murray and Mynard were represented. Mrs. R. W. Bernhardt, 2nd vice president of the Council is the director of World Day of Prayer which will be observed Feb. 21. Four services have been plan ned for Plattsmouth on that day and one service will be held in Murray. Chairmen of the vari ous services are: Adult afternoon, Mrs. Joe Sti- bai. Adult evening, Mrs. Lloyd Fitch. Children's, Mrs. Jack Brook houser. Youth, Mrs. Towner Livings ton and Larry ChrLstenson. Murray children's Will be or ganized under the direction of the Christian and Presbyterian churches of Murray. Every man, woman and child is invited to attend one of the services. Funds Transferred For Payment of New Fire Truck The city council Monday night passed a resolution trans ferring $6,211.98 from the city's parking meter fund to the fire equipment fund to help pay for the new fire truck. Plattsmouth's Volunteer Fire Dept. had turned over $4 900 re- ceipts from fund drives the past two years for the truck. Also being used is $5,657.76 which was in the fire equipment fund, raised by the mill levy for equipment the past two years. The parking meter' fund will be refunded from subsequent re cepits from the mill levy. Total cost of the 750-gallons-a minute pumper truck equip ped with aerial ladders is $16. 769.74. ere And what does Mrs. Perkins think of Americans? They're the friendliest, she says. She gets real enjoyment out of visiting in the U. S. "My family is really growing," she says. Australians lead simpler lives and have more leisure than Americans, Mrs. Perkins thinks. "We don't have all the great labor saving devices you do or do things on such a colossal scale." She'll return to her home in the spring of the year (after leaving the U. S. in the fall and Australians will be asking the same thing people in Cass Coun ty were wondering about last spring. Will there be enough moisture to break a year of bad drouth? Knowing the answer can bo "yes," people here would no doubt send they're best wishes i along . j Australians will likely hear about Plattsmouth from Mrs. Perkins, for the Australia-America Assn. features as speakers American visitors or rtinse late ly back from visits to America. PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY Monday-Thursday NUMBER 21 once chosen Korn Karnlval King. He is a member of a pio neer family in the county. The three county officials had considered a total of 7 persons for the post. These had been suggested by interested parties or themselves said they wnv in terested. fttelvin Todd Each person mentioned or applying was asked to submit a letter of application to the spec ial board so the members could be sure the one finally selected would be willing to serve when appointed. Tlio 7 were those who had submitted such letters. Norris announced his resigna tion at the last Commission meeting Jan. 21. He had served a total of 11 years on the board, two full terms and just over a year of his ti'iird term. The other commissioners are Herman Bornemeier, District b, chairman, and William Nolte, District 1, vice chairman. 'March on Polio7 Is Tonight The Mothers March on Polio will begin this evening (Thurs day, Jan. 30i instead of Jan. 29. Chairman of the "Lights On" campaign this year for Platts mouth is Mrs. Russell Schalk. Porchlights should be turned on at 7 p. m., and a mother in your neighborhood will come cal ling for your contribution to the March of Dimes. Mrs. Pearl Myers and Mrs. LeRoy Wilson are co-chairmen for the city of Plattsmouth. Put your light on tonight from 7 to 8 for the Mothers March on Polio. Your help is needed. The following ladies will act as captains for their areas. The list was compiled by chairman Mrs. Russell Schalk. Wintersteen Hill Mrs. Melvin Dittemore. Valley View Mrs. Leo Oster holm. Thayer Street -Mrs. Harvey Brums. Oakmont Drive Mrs. William Maston. Hillcrest Mrs. George Smith, and Mrs. Norma Schmidt. 1 High School Hill-Mrs. S. A. j Zwanzig. j Lincoln Avenue Mrs. Marie Richards. ! Hurst Trailer Court Mrs. j Robert Russell. I First Ward - Mrs. La Verne Liddick and Mrs. John RLshel. Park Avenue and Columbian School Mrs. Robert Gall. Talcott Addition Mrs. Charl es E .Ault. Others are Mrs. Albert Pil zer, Mrs. Glen Kaffenberger, Mrs. Warren Scott. Mrs. Wm. Mayle, Mrs. James MrMllllan, Mrs. Herb Baumgart, Mrs. Wal ter Bryant, Mrs. Clark Finney, Mrs. Donna Catron. Mrs. Earl Winscot, Mrs. C. Ahrens, Mrs, G. Bishop. Mrs. C. Painter Mrs. Irene Smith and Mrs. Mack Freeman. Also Mrs. William Woolcott, Mrs. Rose Day, Mrs. B. K. Rho den. Mrs. Lvle Ladd, Mrs. Bl anche Hlghficld, Mrs. Doran Bowman, Mrs. Paul Keil, Mrs. W. Ullmann, Mrs. Harry Bel linger, Mrs. Glenn Eaton, Mrs Elmer Haffke, Mrs. Donald Ska lak, Mrs. Clem Woster, Mrs. Er nest Harold, Mrs. Wayne Dash er and Mrs. Edwin Blckett William Becker of Lincoln was here for a short time Tuesday with relatives and friends and looklnc after business affairs. Bs . t i r 7 ' .? ?-. . if Akt - ' '!,i''';,.7i'P