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1 W V IN i.'nr.. LIVCC! CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER m IPlatt PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY Monctay-Thursdny 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. FEBRUARY 17, 195S TEN CENTS PER COPY NUMBER 26 journal Lenten Church Services Start Lenten services will start in Plattsmouth and Cass County this week beginning with tradi tional Ash Wednesday services. The following Lenten service announcements have been take from notices sent to the Jounral: St. Luke's Kpi.scopal A.sh Wednesday services, 10 a. m. and 7:30 p. in. First Methodist-Ash Wednes day service, 7:30 p. m. Funeral Of Brodcr Peter Kctclscn Held Today This afternoon at 2 o'clock funeral services were held at the Sattler funeral home of Broder Peter Ketelsen, 79, a re sident of Piatt smouth for some thirty years, a veil known fi gure in the community life. Mr. Ketelsen died in an Oma ha hospital on Friday, February 14. He had been in failing heal th for some time. Surviving are two sons, Wil liam of Omaha and Henry of Chicago; three grandchildren; four greatgrandchildren. He was born in Germany November 15, 1868. son of Fred erick and Louisa Ketelsen. He came to the United States when a young man and lived for sometime in the east, later com ing to Nebraska to make his home. He was married to Miss Martha Fedderson. The family located in Nebraska making their home in Boone county for many years. Mr. Ketelsen was engaged in farming and also owned and operated a number of brick manufacturing plants until mov ing to Plattsmouth with his family in 1916. It was while the family were residents of this city that Mrs. Ketelsen passed away. Mr. Ketelsen in 1948 mov ed to Omaha where his son, Wil liam had located, and has since made his home in that city. Rev. G. E. Seybold, pastor of St. Paul's Evangelical and Re formed church, conducted the services. Mrs. Ferd Nolte was the organist for the scrvicee. The burial was at Oak Hill cemetery with Lyle Ladd, Char les Warga, James Wara, Ralph Doud, Ray Herring and Ray Bryant serving as casket bear ers. The Sattler funeral home was in charge of the funeral arrange ments. Louisville Caucus LOUISVILLE (Special) The village caucus will be held at the City Hall Feb. 25 at 7:30 p. m. for the purpose of nominating candidates for three members of the board of trustees for a term of two years and a cand idate for police judge for a term of two years. Names of these candidates will be on the ballot in the vil lage election April 1. I -:l- 1 1 ' '. V is ' EYE BANK KIT Major Rufus Livingston and Al Campbell, Bcllevue, co-chairmen of the Nebraska Eve Bank Assn. display an Eye Bank Kit such as will be used throughout Nebraska, to trans part donated ryes to the Eye Bank Center. It is planned that one of these kits will be located In Cass County, The kit was dis played at a regional Lions meeeting her last week. St Paul's Evangelical and Re formedAsh Wednesday service 7:38 p.m. First Lutheran Church Wed nesday, 7:30 p. in. first of mid week Lenten services. St. John's Catholic Ash Wed r.tsday, blessing and disposit ion of ashes before the 8 a. m. muss and at 7:30 p. m.; every Friday during Lent, Way of the Cross, sermon and benediction. 7:30 p. m. Iminanuel Lutheran. Louisville Ash Wednesday service, 7:30 p. m. St. Paul Lutheran. Weeping Water First Lenten service, Thursday, 7:30 p. m. Otto Schafer Files for Commissioner Otto Schafer, long time resi dent of Cass Count v, well known farmer and stock feeder. Friday made hi.s filing for the Democra tic nomination for county com missioner second district. Mr. Schafer came from his native Ohio when a youth and has assisted in making this county one of the best in the state. Encouraged by his spar tan mother who reared her fam ily in the vicinity of Nehawka, the members of the family have made a great success of life. Mr. Schafer has reared a fine family, two sons, James and Lyle now farming in the vicinity of the first settlement of the Schaf er family and several daught-ejs. Mr. Schafer is a man held in the highest esteem by all who have the pleasure of his ac quaintance. In 1954 Mr. Schafer became a candidate for the office of county commissioner in the sec ond district against Ray Norris Republican, and on the face of the returns, Norris received 708 and Schafer 705. Herbert Cotton Critically III At Hospital The many friends here of Herbert Cotton, will regret to learn that he is in critical con dition at the Clarkson hospital at Omaha where he has been a patient for the past two months. His wife, the former Gertrude Beeson of this city, is at his bedside every day. Their son, Allen is located In Ohio wThile another son, Owen, has just been sent to Brazil In charge of a large flouring mill. Their daughter, Laura, is a resident of Honolulu, Hawaii. While Mr. Cotton was a re sident of Plattsmouth he was engaged in the painting and paper hanging business for him self and also for the Burlington. Mr. Cotton carried on his trade in Omaha but has been retired for several years. r r M n -'V l&r ;WV ' t r '" r- :,v : ; J& 'A x rv.?.v. E -'!' ,YflV'fil'i-i,4i;iV-t, ijlr - "riirni, mi,- - ' 1 " n ,ii ! FIREMEN GET BOOST Louis Menges, left front, hands a check for $414 to Clem AVoster, president of the Plattsmouth Volunteer Fire men's Assn. The money was raised by the Eagles here through a Firemen's Benefit Dance. Men ges is entertainment chairman of the local Eag Feb. 28 Final Date for OK on Sorghum Loans Grain sorghum producers were reminded today that Feb. 28 is the ' final date for approval of either loans or purchase agree ments on 1957 grain sorghum. Ivan G. Althouse, chairman of the Cass County ASC Commit tee said farmers who were un able to harvest grain sorghum should take advantage of the purchase agreement on grain sorghum in the field. The service fee for purchase : agreement is one cent per hun dredweight and no obligation on the part of the farmer is in cured if he chooses not to de liver. Since the date for delivery is April 1, there is no great lapse i of time until the producer will receive the proceeds from a pur-1 chase agreement. Climax of Heart Fund Drive Sunday Many Heart Sunday volunt eers will visit Plattsmouth hom es from 2 to 4 p. m. Sunday climaxing local efforts to raise $1,200 for the Heart Fund, Mrs. Donald Warga, Heart Sunday chairman reported today. Each volunteer will call on 15 to 25 neighbors, she said. Householders will be given an individual Heart Sunday envel ope in which to enclose and seal a contribution. "Sorry-I-missed-you" envelop es will be left where no one is at home, the chairman sid. The volunteers will make no return calls. The Plattsmouth Heart Sun day campaign will be aided with the sponsorship of the local Am-1 -erican Legion Auxiliary and ; VFW Auxiliary. Mrs. Warga re-! "jf ported. j The two-hour appeal will mark the high-point of the month-long campaign to raise a state goal of $225,000 for the Nebraska Heart A.ssociatoin's research, ed ucation and community service programs and the national pro grams of the American Heart Assn. Last year. Heart Sunri.iy rai sed 60 per cent of all gifts to the Nebraska Heart Fur.il. Each volunteer worker v'' be identified bv Hart Sundv.- lap el tags and by the'Hart Sunday volunteer kit she will b? carry ing. "The cause our workers sun port is so important. Heart dis ease today afflicts one of every 16 Nebraskans and causes 54 per cent of the deaths in the state," the chairman said . She emphasized the effort io maintain privacy in the solicit ation. With an envelope given to each donor, no one will know the size of a gift unless a signed re ceipt is requested for income tax purposes she said. "If you are not at home Sun day afternoon, please b sure to mail your gift in the envelope left at your door." the chairman urged. Call Your News And Social IUms to 241 -T -.. x inn . in i. m ii in 1 the picture are, $47,760 in 1st County 'Free Hi Six Cass County districts with high schools ar.d one each in Saunders and Otoe counties re ceied a total of $47,760 in "free high .'chool tuition" for the first semester of 1957-58, the office of L. A. Behrencls, Ca.ss County superintendent of schools, re ports. The money was for attend ance of 234 .students in high schools in those districts from di tricts which don't have high schools. Payment was at the rate of $12 per week of attendance or fraction of a week's attend ance. This year's mill levy on as sessed valuation in all Clasa One districts (those without high schools) is 5.4 mills or $5.40 for each $1,000 of assessed valua tion. The $12 per week rate was set by the state legislature. This kind of tuition is paid from the I nmmt trmt in t h n f ronton i districts twice a year. Next pay ment will be in May, based on actual attendance of students in the current semester. The millage for the tuition is set by the Board of Cimmission ers and based on a year's esti mate prepared by the county superintendent of schools. His estimate is ba.-ed on application for attendance at high schools by students outside the district and his knowledge of advan cement of 8th graders to the high school level. Last year's millage was 7.0 mills. Application is made by July 1 j on behalf of the students j xnrougn meir nome cusirictj superintendents. The county superintendent makes his esti-i mate to the commission by July 15. Jan. 1 here was a balance of f turnup : lev . - ' t . ' J j rmii'n ni Tiiirn iri Ii rii .iitn nl ni' n ' - "' " v- - - --ifif tinmmi ((UNTY GETS NEW FLAG The mem orial flag Riven to the family of Paul Applegate, Plattsmouth, a World War I soldier, by the government was presented to the Cass County Board of Commissioners by Dale Bowman of the local VFW on behalf of the family and the VFW. The family had prnted the fla to the FW les. The firenven said top priority on their "want" list is a resuscitator for use in fire res cue work. It would tost Sf00 to $700. Others in left to right: M. XV. Barnard, Fables secretary'; Joe Kruntorad'. fire 'chief, and Louis Swoboda, fire department director. ae Kruntorad department Semester for School Tuition' $62,583 in the county treasury j continued to investigate, search for the "free tuition." inir in particular for leads to a Any balance at the end of a j "stranger" who purchased tools year would be carried over to in Plattsmouth. an item of the next year and be reflected in j which was found on the break a lower mill levy. Balances would I in scene. be slight, however, because the levy each year must be consis- tent with the estimated need. ! The following first semester student and tuition - paid fi gures were compiled by the co unty superintendent's office: Students Tuition Plattsmouth . . 121 $ 25.776 Murdock 3 ; 648 Avoca . 9 '1,944 Weeping Water 13 2.784 Louisville 33 6,732 Elmwood ( 3 648 Ashland . . 20 4,320 Nebraska City . 22 4.908 Total 234 $47,760 Ashland n m Saunders Co-1 u"t.V, Nebraska City m Otoe Co- unty. Mrs. Ursula Rounrrtree of Springfield, N. J., has arrived in the city and will accompany her mother Mrs. Henry Herold to California. They plan to be gone six weeks. THE WEATHER Compiled for the Plattsmouth Journal at the Masonic Home Weather Station, Plattsmouth, Nebraska. Feb. 13, 14, 15. 16. 1958 Date High Low Prec. Thursday 26 0 .00 1 Fridnv 27 16 .00 Saturday 24 -10 .00 gun(jay 21 -10 .00 Forecast: Highs in 20. Lows j-iT-i!rV-tf -rnv Tarn rlH cnon f. , ocoQ,. Sun sets tonitrht at 6. Sun Commissioners will meet Tues h,c tbcHcv at 7-ifi a m da' at lts chambers in the court- , ' r- n 1 J 'II lOUa. oucyses Feb. tore Byrqlarv vidently Solved A brenkin Store here at Soennichsen's early the morning of Feb. 9 was evidently solved ; today with the arrest of three ' men at Norfolk. Two of the men were arrested about. 1:45 a.m. in the act of breaking into a building and the other was arrested at a mo- ; tel about 15 minutes later. In the motel room, Norfolk police found articles bearing Soennichsen Store tags and which are assumed to be some ! of the loot of the breakin here. World Day of prayer sprvh.. Ca.ss County Sheriff Tom Sol- es will be observed the first Fri omon today planned to check j day in Lent. Feb. 21. homes of the three men in Oma-, This is the 72nd annual serv- !la ',r M ?nd ,hen col;!im,c on U,0,"lk to lwn he '.IT' liie iinee gave uiiuuia aim a place in Illinois as their ad- dresses. Solomon was notified of the arrests this noon. Tn the time since the breakin. he and Plattsmouth police had I Solomon said circulars were j sent to five surrounding states and throughout Nebraska giving parucuiari 01. me DieaMii known evidence j rusujit-iiau luuhh. ivus. jui h Many officers 'sent in photos ' Brookhouser. chairman, annoim . ... ,1, , .: ices that Mrs. McPeck. element- 01 persons who m uie orsLiip tion of the man who purchased the tools. The past weekend what look ed like the best lead to that point developed. Sunday, three known Omaha burglars were arrested for in vestigation in Liberty, Mo., and Sheriff Hay of Liberty after talk ing with Solomon by phone a grecd to forward certain items found on the burglars to Platts-i mouth for examination. ; Solomon said two of the Oma-j 4-H Public Speaking Contest Is Feb. 27 Cass 4-H club members were reminded todav that the annual county 4-H Public Speaking Contest will be the forenoon of Feb. 27 at the Agricultural Audi torium in Weeping Water. If you plan to enter, please send word to the Extension of fice by F(b. 25, giving the title of your talk. There will be two divisions, junior and senior div isions and separate contests for boys and girls in each division. Commission Meets Tuesday The Cass County Board of house. It's a regular session. which in turn gave it as part of its Americanism program to the county to replace the courthouse flag. Bowman presents the flag to Commission chairman Herman Bornemeier. Other commis- sioners shown ara William Nolte, left, and Mel- ! I 1 ha fugitives were sent up from I Cass County on a prior breakin and that items found in their possession are similiar to those sought by the sheriff's office in the case. World Day Of Prayer To Be 72nd , ?h. was b('RU" 188T? Presbytcnan women in the Unit- ; eu ouues aim laier came unuer j the sponsorship of the United j Church Women of the Nation- j al Council of Churches. It is now observed in 145 areas abroad and I in over 20.000 communities in the U. S. The following services have been planned by the Plattsmouth Council of United Church Wo men: Adults 2 p.m. ai the First Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Joe Stibal, chairman, reports that , ladies from eight local churches are participating in mis service. r V , ary music instructor, will assist with the music and the follow ing children will portray chil dren from other lands: Dixie O'Donnell, as Musu from Liber ia: Karen Wall, as Celso from Brazil: Dennis Bernhardt, as a bey from Asia; Spencer Davis, as Hans from Europe; and Joy Godbey. as a girl from Hawaii. Mrs. Robert Tritsch portrays a Navahu grandmother. This service is for all children 1 from kindergarten through 6th grade. Youth 4 p.m. at First Meth odist Church, is for all students from the 7th through the 12th grades. Mrs. Towner Livingston as 1 chairman reports several members of the UCYM will part icipate in the service. Charles Stoehr will be the narrator for the film strip that will be shown. Jim Morris will be the pianist. Adults 7 p.m. at First Pres byterian Church. Mrs. Lloyd Fitch, chairman, says Mrs. Low ell McQuin will narrate the film, "The Voice of Prayer Is Never Silent." Also participating in the service will be Mrs. Herman Meisinger, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tritsch, Mrs. Raymond Larson. Warren Lillie. Mrs. Raymond Lancaster, George Winscot, Ol in Morris and Mrs. Royal Smith. Also, a choir composed of mem bers from the local churches will sing. Murray children's service 3:15 p.m. at the Murray Sch ool. Mrs. Charles Spangler and Mrs. Sheldon Smith are co-chair-m en. The program each year comes from a different country and this year's program comes from Australia and is entitled The Bread of Life.' The purpose of the day is to unite all Christians in a bond of prayer and to make an offering for Chris'ian missions in the U. S. and abroad. The public is invited to attend the services. Plattsmouth Has 10 Below Saturday and Sunday Nites Plattsmouth was 23 degrees ; If you froze and wished you and not very far away from the 'were flying south on your way coldest temperature of the win- to Crete ion the Mediterannoan i ter in these parts Sunday ni'-.ht. . one Plattsmouth airman While Atlantic. Iowa, was ; was. you also had lots of corn having 33 below zero. Plat's-; uany. mouth was "enjoying" a relati-' velv warm 10 below as recorded, The Philosophical said "It's Sunday night at Schreiner Drug: better to have the cold now Store." ' ' tnan latPr w!lpn supposed Ten below was cold enough :t0 be miki " At that Jt does for almost everyone ("almost" ; take a Iot of Philosophy to re hecnii.se w.mpu-herp thprp inioh. , ncile yourscll to 10 below. ; bo someo.-.P wh0 Ls fcolLn en. There's relief in sight, though ough tf) tnink that thprp.s S01e , Ifll only get down to about zero good in cold weather) tonight. j If car didtVt start th, i Eaturdav night's low was 10 :minl, m nnrnfnr, .n.,, , " tL t,X. ' v-..iv, t jv w lfnn;i' Vl-llifc M.ncn't tl,. Av. juuio nci.Mj b wiiijf uijp. ot by a long shot. : COOOl Plattsmouth School District vo ters and citv Democratic and Republican voters will hold cau cuses Feb. 25. all three caucus es beginning at 7 p. m. j School District voters will cnu- ! cus in the library room of the ; high school to nominate four I candidates for the Board of Ed ucation for the regular term of three years. Two of these will : be elected to office in the April 1 general election. Other business as proposed I will also be dealt with. I The Democrats caucus in th? District Courtroom in the Coun ty Courthouse and the Republic ans in the auditorium of the Pub lic Library. Each party will name candid ates for mayor, members of the City Council from the 1st and ! 2nd Wards and police judge. j All four offices are two-year I terms. The parties each will name a committeeman and committee ' woman for each ward and con ! sider other business as propos ed. Gwen Scoles Files for Treasurer Saturday Gwen St.ites Scoles, one of the well-known employ es of the offi .:? of the county treasurer, made her official fil ing for the Republican nomin ation for the office of treasur er. Mrs. Scoles Is a native daugh ter of Cass County, born at Un ion where her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George E. Stites are among the be.t known n sidents of that community. The new candidate, following her high school work graduated from the VanSant Business Col lege at Omaha and has since spent her lifetime in clerical and auditing work. She has been an assistant to Mrs. Alice Jaync McShane. county treasurer, dur ing the past few years. Her service has been describ ed as of the highest type and speaks of her great ability in that line. Mrs. Rhoden Dies At Noon Today Mrs. Blanche Rhoden passed away at the Riverview Nursing Home shortly after the noon hour today. Mrs. Rhoden who suffered a stroke the past week was taken to the nursing home Friday. Caldwell-Linder Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Funeral Services Thursday 2 p.m. Cass 4-H Personnel At Poultry Conference Representing Nebraska at the Poultry Fact Finding Confer ence in Kansas City Feb. 13-16 were Mrs. Malcolm Pollard and Sharon Dodson of Nehawka. Mrs. Pollard was leader of the Nebraska 4-H poultry club in 1957, and was in charge of the Nebraska delegation which, in addition to Miss Dodson. includ- ' td another 4-H poultry club member from Perkins county. Miss Dodson earned her trip for her accomplishments in 4-H poultry club work and other 4 H club achievements A Classifj-1 Ad in he Journal costs as little as 50 cents IW. HIT UfcW iUI liie tl..- J . . , nvt- unb w u n roomy i; V Friday.