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THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL I'AGt EIGHT Thursday, January 30, 1958 Ak-Sar-Ben Makes Reply to Sen. Carpenter on Operations By MI.I.VIN PA! L StaU-house Correspondent The Nebraska Tress Association LINCOLN Ak-Sar-Ben. Oma ha civic organization, told Sen. Terry Carpenter it has given $2 million to Nobraskans in bene vlolent activities since 193"). This money, Melvin Bcktns of Omaha, Ak-Sar-Iien president, said, would not otherwise have gone to county fairs, 4-H clubs, to scholarship recipients and "thousands of others who have benefited from this program." Carpenter asked the organi zation for details of its finan cial operations, charging the group should not be exempt from state nrooeriv taxes. But Bekins said Ak-Sar-Ben Is a non-profit organization, form ed on the same basis as fair associations and no official of the group gets any of the pro ceeds. Of the $2 million distributed, Bekins reported, $1 million went to county fairs. Primary source of revenue for the organization is an annual horse racing season, which brings in about $1.5 million to Ak-Sar-Ben. A spokesman said more than $1 million of this is paid out in purses and for maintaining the race track. Bekins said a 1936 attorney general's opinion stated Ak-Sar-Ben was entitled to tax exem tion just as much as the State Fair and various county fairs and that horse racing conduct ed under Constitutional and statutory, did not affect the ex emption. The Ak-Sar-Ben president challenged authority of the tax Investigating committee headed by Carpenter to examine fairs, expositions and similar non-profit organizations which have been held tax-exempt. However, Bekins said Ak-Sar-Ben would cooperate in furnish ing details of the group's activi ties. Bekins reported to the senator that Ak-Sar-Ben spent: $258,246 in 1957 for county fairs, scholarships, 4-H club Fu ture Farmers of America and other agricultural, educational, and charitable purposes, of which $128,740 went to county fairs. Funds for accoutring rescue squad units or similar emergen- Can You Qualify? A careful driver obeys all traffic signs... If you enn qualify as a State Farm "Caruful Driver" . . . you may be able to aavo money wi.n mate rarm auio insurance. Careful drivers lower insurance coats and t he saving are passed on to you. Find out if you can qualify as a State Farm "Careful Driver". II pays to know your Sf ATE FARM Afoot James McMillian 1104 3rd Av Dial 3928 Plattsmouth FRIDAY & I liNSUWta A 6 PACK OF POP FREE! (Your Choice of Varieties on Hand) WITH EACH CHANGE OF OIL and LUB JOB Offer Good Fri. & Sat. Only Jan. 31 & Feb. 1 FREE PICK UP & orrys Highway 73-75 North cy equipment in 28 Nebraska communities. Money in nine communities stricken by floods or tornadoes, including $2,000 to Carpenter's home city of Scottsbluff. "We believe." Bekins said, "that all fairs, like Ak-Sar-Ben. should use their grounds to a greater extent for the public good. We do not believe the gates should be locked upon this vast amount of public property all over the state during the re maining 250 or 360 days of the year (when fairs are not oper ating)." Carpenter lambasted Univer sity of Nebraska Chancellor Cli ford Hardin for permitting a statement he made praising Ak-Sar-Ben's scholarship program to be used in promotional advertising. But Hardin said he apprecia ted scholarships given to te Un iversity by the group. An Ak-Sar-Ben spokesman said advertisements criticized by' Carpenter had been planned early last year and had nothing to do with the senator's attack on the organization. Carpenter is slated to meet Ak-Sar-Ben officials in Omaha Feb. 1, to discuss the matter of tax exemption with them. Governor and Taxes Gov. Victor Anderson has made his first major statement on tax policies since taking of fice three years ago. It obviously was prompted by all the recent furor caused by the legislative committee head ed by Sen. Terry Carpenter of Scottsbluff. The governor said basically that Nebraska will never know if its present laws are good or bad until thev are properly en forced and this should be done at the local level. In all states, where tax pro blems have been similar to those in Nebraska, he added, and the state has assumed control of as sessment procedures, there has been "bitter resentment from taxpayers." "Nebraska has clung to the premise that local government is best, "Gov. Anderson said, "that government by neighbors is better and more beneficial than government by distant strangers." Any change in tax structure at the state level should first be approved by a vote of the people, the chief executive as serted. He said he is against state control of all assessment author ity and feels county assessors should "lead the way" to bring ing about proper enforcement and assessment at the local level. The governor said he feels this is a proper question: "If we can't or don't obtain results rom our present tax laws, what is to make us believe that we will pay any more attention to a new set of laws?" He said he feels putting new laws into effect under present conditions and under present philosophy would be an expen sive, complex and "almost fruitless course to follow." Road Union State Engineer L. N. Ress has declined to acknowledge de mands of a state maintenance employe union seeking wage hik es, grievance procedure and union recognition. The union represents some 600 of the maintenance workers for the state highway depart ment. Total workers range from 800 to 1,000. "The union is not going to rep resent the highway department in any way, shape or form," Ress said. "You're never satis fied. You're always coming in here asking for something." Ted Fontaine, spokesman for the union, said pay hikes were needed so employes could main tain a decent standard of living. The union seeks an across the board hike of 15 cents per hour SATURDAY DELIVERY SERVICE Texas Phone 7200 ft for hourly e' iloyes and $30 per month for those on monthly sal aries. Aeronautics commission M M. Meyers of Omaha has bern re-elected chairman of the State Aeronautics Commission. Other members are W. W. Cook of Beatrice. C. H. Flies bach of Scottsbluff. Jess Quinn of Gothenburg and Albon (cq) Hall Sr., of Alliance. Hall was aDOointed to replace B. M. Reeh of Blair who resigned. Coturnix Migrating Due South "Most of the band returns from Nebraska released coturnix quail indicate that the main mi gration is due south," said M. O. Steen, Nebraska Game Com mission director. 'The Gulf Coast area of Texas appears to be the preferred win tering area," he continued. "However, recent sightings of coturnix In Nebraska cover in dicate that the birds are test ing our winter weather." Steen said this corresponds with the behavior of the bird in its home range in Asia, where some coturnix winter as far north as Korea and Manchuria. Most of them, though, go south for the winter and return in the spring. The latest report to reach the Game Commission on wander ing coturnix came from Sammy Wilson of Itasca. Tex. Wilson shot a Nebraska-banded quail on January 11, about 50 miles south of Fort Worth. The bird had been released in Nance County on July 17. Wilson was puzzled as to what he had shot, judging by his let ter. He explained that his stran ge kill was "very similar in ap pearance to our bobwhite hen quail." Actually, the coturnix, sometimes called Japanese quail is somewhat smaller than a full grown bobwhite, and the head markings are quite different from the latter. More than 23,000 birds were released in Nebraska in 1957 as part of a great experiment in species transplantation in the Midwest. Director Steen said that a mi grating upland game bird is a new idea to most Nebraskans, but the traveling coturnix are like our ducks in this respect. He pointed out that in reality their migration should be a dis tinct asset, since they escape Nebraska blizzards and winter mortality in this way. Dairy Farmer Fared Better Than Others Dairy farmers continued to receive a larger percentage of the dollars consumers spent for their dairy products during 19 57 than was true for agricultu ral products as a whole. While the average farmers' share of the consumers's dol lar was only 40 per cent dur ing 1957 the dairy farmers re ceived 46 per cent, reports T. A. Evans. Extension dairy mar keting specialist at the Univer sity of Nebraska. Dairy farmers received 70 per cent of the average retail cost of butter while 41 per cent of the retail price of evapor ated milk was returned to the farmer. Between these two ex tremes were processed cheese with 46 per cent and fluid milk with 45 per cent. Although some persons at tach considerable importance to the percentage of te consumer's dollar which the farmer rec it is actually little indication of profit. For instance, even though a relativel gyhipeecrhgfnatoeev the retail cost of butter was re turned to the producer, produc tion of whole milk for bottling, which returns only 45 per cent, is usually found to be a much Evans points out. Many factors such as amount of processing necessary to pre pare for consumption, labor, transportation, perishability, en ter into the price which the con sumer pays for processed foods such as milk or butter. The producer is interested in receiv ing a sufficiently large share of the retail price to be able to produce at a profit. Have Ambulance Calls To Hospitals The Calwell-Linder ambulance was busy the first of the week in trips to the Omaha hos pitals. On Monday afternoon they brought Mrs. Clara Arnold from thp St. Catherine's hos pital to the home of her daugh ter, Mrs. Chas. Koke, Sr. She has been at the hospital for a few weeks. Monday night Mrs. George Born was taken to the St. Catherine's hospital for treat ment. Tuesday, Mrs. A. R. Case was taken to the St. Catherine's hos pital for observation and treatment. Landlocked Salmon for Nebraska Almost 200.000 Kokanee, or landlocked red salmon, eggs im ported from Colorado are now hatching at the Game Commis sion's Rock Creek hatchery in Dundy County, reports Glen R. Foster, fisheries chief. Most of the fry "hatched out" at Rock Creek will be stocked within the next few days in Og allala Lke, below the dam at McConaughy Reservoir. Some Kokanee will also be released in McConaugny proper, and a few will be kept at Rock Creek for observation. The Kokanee. a native of the Pacific Northwest, is famed for its eating qualities as well as its value as a game fish. Not a particularly large fish, it may on occasion attain a weight of five pounds. In Nebraska the critical fac tor in Kokanee stocking is tem perature. The salmon is most happy when water temperature is in the lower 60's. and the un per 70's are about the limit it can tolerate. This led to the principal stocking in Ogallala for this small lake is fed from the cold deDths of McConaughy, far from the surface water which in summer becomes quite warm. Ground seepage from McCon augny into Ogallala averages about 46 degrees in midsummer. Elmwood Woman, 79, Has Mumps ELMWOOD (Special) Jan uary, 1958, will be a memor able month for Mrs. Lulu Kunz, Elmwood. Mrs. Kunz, 79, had mumps after escaDing for 78 years. Al so afflicted was her daughter, Mrs. Vic Schomaker. Dale Miller. Harlon Kunz and Earl Miller were other Elmwood adults to suffer the "childhood" disease along with the children. LETTER BOX Editor, Journal Plattsmouth. Nebr. Dear Sir: Thank vou so much for putting us in the paper! However I would like to make a few additions and correct ions concerning the write up: We are a Camp Fire group, not Blue Birds. Our Indian name is O-Ki-Hi- which means Able to Accomplish. The total sales for the group was 258 boxes, almost eleven cases of candy. Perhaps not everyone is a-i ware of how this rinney is used. ! Fiv c uts o" :ieh box sold comes back to tV group. Th" j profit r.fter pi I other costs are paid, is ued for upkocn of Camp Harriet Hardin;; at Louisville.) A grand place for every young girl (and older ones too) to spend a few days, as any of my girls will tell you. The candy sale was held last November, we are a little late with our news, but it will be something to keep in mind for later this year. Please remember when the girls come calling again, the small cost of a box of candy is a wise investment in a wonder ful program for growing girls. The girls, my assistants, and myself, would like to say "Thank You" to everyone who bought camp Fire candy. It is a privi lege to be a part of such an organization. Yours truly, Idabell Meisincer Janet Leigh Asks For Iron Curtain Howard Hushes' "Jet Pilot" isn't just about supersonic speed at high altitudes. In one scene of this big Tech nicolor production coming Sun., Mon., and Tue.. and Wed., Feb. 2-3-4-5 to the Cass Theatre, Jan et Leigh, a Russian jet pilot lands illegally at an American air base in Alaska. John Wayne, the commanding officer, is sus picious of her explanation that she is seeking asylum to keep from being shot for disobeying orders in her own country. He asks her to emoty her pockets and then to strip out her cloth es, to make sure she isn't car rying concealed weapons and in the hope of finding some iden tifying data. Janet peeled off her flight boots, her insulated coveralls, a heavy flannel sweater and was down to a tight, white sweater which she started to lift over her head when she noticed that there were some 25 crew men watching the action. "Since I'm playing a Russian," she said to director Josef von Sternberg, "can't I do the rest of this scene behind the iron curtain?" Starred with John Wavne and Janet Leieh In "Jet Pilot" is the U. S. Air Force. Jules Furth man wrote and produced the bif RKO picture, Subscribe to The Journal Nowl Cotfagc Homcmakcrs Cxtcr Meets j The Cottage llomemakers Ex tension Club met with Mrs. Fritz Albers Jan. 21. Mrs. Herbert Oehlerking and Mrs. Mary Pedersen presented the topic on "Savory Soups." : They made chili and cheese soup. ! Next meeting will be Feb. 11 j with Mrs. Lloyd Vogt. The pro-j gram will be "Sandwiches." j ENPPD Has New Plan For Service Alvin A. McRevnolds, Nehaw ka, Cass County, member of the board of directors of Eastern Nebraska Public Power District has announced that the District soon will put in use a new plan of organization and operation to "improve service to its custom ers throughout its seven county area." The plan calls for decentrali zation of heavy service equip ment and trained crews and the establishment of four area ser vice headquarters at Humbolt, Teeumseh, Wahoo and Syracuse. Each headquarters will be in charge of a Chief Area Ser vicemtn. Under him will be an experienced crew of six to eight men who will be fully equipped to handle all construction, main tenance and operation within the area. Under the old plan it has been necessary to transport men and equipment from the Syracuse headquarters to handle any heavy type of emergency work that might occur anywhere in the seven county area. Under the new plan service facilities are to be expanded to enable necessary equipment and train ed workmen to be stationed at all of the District's four area service headquarter locations. This arrangement will enable necessary equipment and ser-! vicemen to be dispatched into! any area much quicker than was ! possible under the old plan. The District is exnanding its ! two-way radio facilities to en- able 24-hour contact between ! locations. ! The plan calls for a number of personnel transfers. Lavon Lang and Gayle Lorenson who have been area service foremen in the Otoe-Cass County area are being transfered to Humbolt. Jack Williams is to become ! chief area Serviceman for the Otoe Cass County area. Will-; iams is to be transferred to Sy-i racuse from Wahoo. t 2 Warm Season Grasses Evolved For Nebraska Two new varieties of warm season grasses have been deve loped from wild grasses native to Nebraska. The new varieties Butte and Trailway sideoats grama are being released by the Univer sity of Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station and the U. S. Denartment of Agriculture (USDA). Both Trailway and Butte are well adapted to upland plant ings for range and pasture pur poses. They will be used in mix tures with other recommended native prases. However, it will be several years before suffici ent seed is available for exten sive plantings. The new varieties were develo ped under the direction of Dr. L. C. Newell of the Crops Re search Division, Agricultural Re search Service, USDA, Station ed at the University and Dr. E. C. Conrad of the Department of Agronomy at the College of Ag riculture. The Soil Conservation Service of the USDA also par ticipated in development of the new varieties. Butte sideoats grama is a rel atively early maturing variety recommended for planting on upland soils with low fertility and in regions with short grow ing season. Its strong seedling vigor may help overcome diffi culties of obtaining grass stands in such areas. It is recommended for north ern and western districts of Ne braska, Dr. Newell points cut. Trailway grama is relatively later in maturing and is adapted to longer growing seasons and to fertile soils. I tis recommend ed for upland plantings in east-, ern and southern Nebraska. i Avoca High School Honor Roll Listed AVOCA The honor roll for the second nine-weeks period at Avoca High School includes: 9th grade Betty Rtubbendick. Ruth Buehholz. Marilyn Tritsch. 10th Linda Rohlfs, Alan Stub bendiek, Beverly Brirfchoff. Maurice Lange, Richard Huback. Paula Ludwig, Crystal Seegal, Wavne WohWs. 11th DarleT'e Ilunteman. Own Boclnn. T.ois Hose, K;m ' Kepler. Pat Tritsch. 12th Carroll C'arsten. Robert Marquardt, Betty Rietsch. 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