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SOCIETY XXX .ATTSIMIOIUTIHI JdDUTOM CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY Monday-Thursday Consolidated With the Nehawka Enterprise and Elmwood Leader-Echo Read Twice Weekly by More Than 3500 Cass County Families VOLUME 77 FOURTEEN PACES PLATTSMOUTH, CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 195S TEN CENTS PER COPY NUMBER 27 1 F ,1 4 fw re V KECR. STATE UIST. 1500 R ST. LINCOLN, NEBR. Tube Li L JwlIH) Admii$t Byrgicary . ' v "39!,-,.,. . Iu. ..... - - f r '. 1 . I'.VIDKNCi: A chisel protrudes from the corner of a door of a filing cabinet burglars forced open I'eb. 8 at Soennichsen's Store here. Darl B. Ashbaugh Funeral Service Held Here Today Darl' H. Ashbauuh, 51, well known and luuhly estcemt'cl res ident if the PiatlsnKiuth com munity, died Monday evening at the family home, 629 Oakmont Drive, following an Illness that had covered a period of ten months. Mr. AshhiuiKh was born De cember 31, 190G at Grant, la., .son of J. W. and Jennie Brid well Ashbauuh, spending his childhood in that community. He was married on October 18, 1930 at Rockport, Mo., to Miss Virginia Lorraine Johnson, who with two sons, Norman and Gerald, both of this city, sur vive the passing of the husband and father. Mr. A.shbaiifih was a veteran hi the service of the US engin eers, being engaged in service with them for a period of twenty years, having a large part in their Missouri river improve ment program and other pro jects during that time. In his engineering work he was a ; j great advocate of safety fir: among the workers and was publisher of "Safety Engineer ing Service," one of the best known works of its kind in re cent years. Mr. Ashbaugh came to Platts mouth In 1934 to make his home, but in his work with the en gineers has traveled over a great deal of the west. While a resident here, Mr. Ashbaugh was a member of the Plattsmouth fire department, serving as an ollicer and mem ber for a number of years. He was alsc a member oi the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Glenwood, la., lodge No. 54, AF & AM. Funeral services were held thl.i atternoon at 2 o'clock at the Sattler Funeral home. Rev. Keith Delap, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, conducting t'ae services. Bill Knorr served as "vocali-st for the service with Mrs. George Jacobs as the ac companist. Interment was at Oak Hill cemetery in this city with mem bers of the Plattsmouth fire de partment serving as casket bearers, A. W. Huebner, Joe Kruntorad, Clement Wester, William H. Schmidtman, Her bert Schuetz, and Howard Hirz. The Sattler Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. McLean Named To U. S. VFW CD Committee The Commander-in-chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Richard L. Roudebush. Indian apolis, has announced the ap pointment of Arthur C. McLean, Plattsmouth, as a member of the VFW National Civil Defense Committee. In miking the announc rment. Roudebush said: "As a veter ans organization. I think we have an obligation to alert the American people as to the ne cessity of an adequate national civil defense program. "We have a bio; .1b to do be cause Civil Defense has become something of a sten-child In oil" order of top priorities. I feel confident that Arthur McLean will donate much to our eon strucMve program and we will be able to rectify this situation." S. " i f 1 $ i ! - 4 C . ..... The chisel was the clerk identified the buyer. MM (J':r.:-S- A,' " ' m : . vi f j-; " . I I l- : . -: AD.AIITTEI) Bl' RG LARS Henry Sears, left, and Mike Simon admitted to Sheriff Tom Solomon breaking into Soennichsen's Store here. They have been charged with breaking and entering, the same charge they face at Norfolk. 4 FFA Members To Trade Visits Don Hansen, vocational agric ulture teacher in the Platts mouth High School, announced today that four FFA boys have been selected to participate in an exchange student program with the Arcadia. Fla., FFA chapter. The student exchange is being made as a part of the observ ance of National FFA Wer k Feb. 22-March 1. The local students will leave Plattsmouth Feb. 21 and return home March 2. The Arcadia members will vis it Plattsmouth the week of Ap ril 7. Some of the highlights of the Florida trip will be a trip thru the everglades, a trip through a phosphate mine, citrus groves and a fertilizer plant. Arcadia is located about 120 miles southeast of Tampa. Dur ing their visit, the Plattsmouth members will live on the farms of the Arcadia members. The lour bovi were selected by fellow members of the Agric ulture III class. Those selected are: Leonard Hild. son of Mr. and Mrs. John Hild. Hunter Ingwerson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Ingwerson. Dennis Todd, son of Mrs. Alb ert Todd. Robert Ehlers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Ehlers of Union. Ingwerson and Hild are jun Rock Bluffs Justices Life was different when Rock Bluffs was in flower. As viewed through the docket entries of three justices of the peace between 1874 and 1883 at Rock Bluffs, quite amazins val ues were in effect during the terms of office of J. H. Allison, Michael Archer and Jesse Hen dricks. "Labour" rates ranged from $20 a month to $1 a day. Room j rent was in the neighborhood of j $2 a month. Jurors received a bout $1 a case. Corn was shu"k- rd at the rate of 2V2 cents a bushel. A peek inside the paces of the docket, it is hoped will prove j interesting and perhaps amus- Was C 6 .. " V- .- ; purchased at a store here and from PHS at Arcadia, Fla. iors and Ehlers x.d Todd are seniors. Probably most outstanding, ac cording to Hansen, is the farm ing program of young Hild. He has for his third year farming program the following projects: 55 acres corn, 10 acres oats, 16 acres wheat, 5 arces milo, 10 beef cows, 2 beef fattening, 10 sows and litters and 15 breed ing ewes. Ingwerson has establi s he d himself as an up and coming breeder of purebred Landrace hogs. He now has 13 purebred sows to farrow this spring as well as 16 acres milo, 250 baby chicks and 10 head of fattening beef. Ehlers has as his project pro gram the following: 70 acres of corn, 10 acres sweet clever and one sow and litter. Todd has one purebied beef cow, 10 sows and litters and 2 fattening beef. II four boys have made out standing records and are worthy of the awards received, Hansen said. Last year, Roy Smith, Gary Rieke and Herbert Kraeger were exhanged with the Santa Paula, Calif., chapter. The local chanter pays $250 toward the railroad tickets which cost $33 apiece. Money for the trip was raised through the sale of calendar advertise ments. Were Kept Busv ompSicated in 1874, Too ing. (The Journal already re ported a brief glimpse at the docket and on further thumbing c iiitinues ) Feb. 18. 1874 J. T. Floyd. Da vid Floyd and John Floyd br ought suit in justice court "for labour don thrashing ?n August, 1872, ar.d August, 1873; one days hauling $2.50 amounting in all to $40.93 with a credit endorst of $33.62 leaving a balance of $7.31." The case was tried and the justice concurred with the plain tiffs. After two years they got their $7.31, or $2.43 apiece. Aug. 6, 1874-G. W. Rhoades brought suit against a man whose cattle "did damage to a Crop Drying Farm-Home Day Topic Crop drying and beauty in the home will be subjects presented at the annual Extension Farm and Home Day program. The date is Feb. 27 at the Ag ricultural Auditorium in Weep rs Water. The 1957 corn and milo crop was of bumper proportions.. But, there is a lot of stored grain c Inch may be in jeopardy when the spring warm weather arriv es, unless the moisture content cl the grain is reduced. The warm weather will cause hot spots to occur in damp grain. ThiK induces molds to develop and is also inducive to greater stored grain insect activity. Preceding the educational pro gram, Mrs. Everett Spangler, former Cass Countv resident, now living in Omaha, will show slides and tell of her trip to the Far East. A free lunch will be served by the Weeping Water Chamber of Commerce from 11 a. m. to 1 p. m. Specialists from the State Ex tension Service to present the demonstrations are Milo Mum gaard, Extension agricultural en gineer, and Magdalene Pfister in home :"urnishings. $52.50 Is Given in Suit Here Loyd Holman was voluntarily given $52.50 in a suit for dam ages against Herbert A. Sydik and the Capital Bridge Co. in District Court here Tuesday. Holman had asked $700 rent al ($100 a month for 7 months) on a tract of land on which he said the bridge company park ed equipment and had a building during construction of a bridge across the Platte River on U. S. 73-75; payment for 500 tons rip rap rock and payment for crushed rock hauled to the brid ge project. A jury found for the defend ants on the first two causes for action and the defendants volun tarily agreed to pay the $52.50 for crushed rock in the third cause for action. Sydik was named in the suit because he was foreman for the bridge company. On the jury were Willard Mc Shane, foreman, Mrs. Alma Ber ner, John W. Barkhurst, Ernest M. Janda, Mrs. Elmer Kepler, Donald Hollenbeck, LaVerne Meisinger, Mrs. Gerald Meising er, John A. Ruhge, Harry Rock enbach, Mrs. Ruth Luetchens and William Kraeger. Court will reconvene Wednes day when Fred B. Forbes vs. Albin J. Sydik, an automobile damage suit, is scheduled for trial. Death Of Clarence Ohm Of Elmwood Clarence Ohm. 72, one of the well known residents of the Elm wood community, died suddenly cn Tuesday. He was in the of fice of a physician where he was stricken and passed away in a few moments. He is survived by his wife, Lucy. Services were held today at the Hobson Funeral Home at Weeping Water. Interment was at the cemetery at Elmwood. growin crop of corn on the Weep ing Water bottom in Liberty precinct." Plaintiff sought $99 for tres pass and damage but failed to collect because the defendent asked and got a dismissal an the ground that "the summons was not served in accordance with ihe statute." Four months later, however, another party collected $6.55 for a similar complaint, "trespass by cattle, horse and hogs. He sought $40. Costs in that case were relatively high for those days, totaling $5.65. It should be noted that the In vlolablltv of the lunch hour was then not. yet established, as wit Farm Hiring Day Here Feb. 28 at Stander Implement The Plattsmouth Farm Hir ing Day of the Nebraska State Employment Service will be at 2 p. m. Friday, Feb. 28, at the Stander Implement Co., Clar ence Rankin, Farm Labor Inter viewer has announced. Hiring Days are occasions on which farmers seeking farm search of jobs have opportunit ies to meet and to discuss indiv idually job openings and qualif ications with a view to making mutually satisfactory hiring ar rangements. In past years, numerous farm jobs have been filled by this type of meeting, Rankin said. A good balance in the number of farmers and farm hands is de sired since the most successful Hiring Days in the past have been those where a goed repre sentation of both were present, he said. Begley Files For Cass Co. Attorney James Beaiey, Cass County attorney since July 1956, Tues day filed for that office in the May primary election on the Re publican ticket. He became the first to file for county attorney. Begley was appointed to fill out the unexpired term of Rich ard Peck when the latter was appointed deputy U. S. district attorney. Begley, 43, is a graduate of the University of Nebraska Law School. He practiced law a vear fin Lincoln before coming to Plattsmouth in 1941. He has prac ticed here since 1941 except for the time he spent in service, from 1942 until late in 1946. The county attorney is mar ried and has two children. He is the son of Judge James T. Begley, for 21 years judge of this district until his death in 1934. Nehawka Gets $5,436 in Tree Hi School Tuition' Nehawka School District re ceived $5,436 from the Cass Coun ty treasury for "free high school tuition" for the first semester of the current school year, County Supt. L. A. Behrends said today. Nehawka's tuition total and 26 students on free high school tuition were inadvertently omit ted from a list in a previous Journal news story. Actually, Nehawka was the first district to file its claim for the first semester tuition. Corrected totals for county tui tion the first hali of this school year are 250 students and $53, 196 paid. Other district figures are: Plattsmouth 121. $25,776; Ne braska City 22, $4,908; Avoca 9, $1,944; Murdock 3. $648; Ash land 20, $4,320; Elmwood 3, $648; Weeping Water 13. $2,784 and Louisville 33, $6,732. Tuition is paid at the rate of $12 per week of attendance and is for students from dis tricts which do not maintain hip.h schools. Funds are raised county-wide by a millage levy on the assessed valuation in districts without high schools of their own. ness a case which began in just ice of the peace court at 12 o' clock noon Feb. 26, 1875, (as scheduled). From the brevity of the docket entry, the case was speedily disposed of and siesta may have been observed after all. Jan. 29, 1877 G. W. Shrader brought suit for recovery of mon ey or hogs, having "bought 13 hogs and two dozen chicks for $100." He got the chicks on the down payment but It took court appearances for him to get his hogs and the defendent to get his $80. Court costs of $1.50 included t Continued on Page 8i hi 25 YEARS SERVICE Clyde H. Briltain, right, gas distri bution fitter for Central Elec tric & Gas Co., was presented a 25-year service emblem recent ly by District Manager W. T. Geason at a district safety meet ing at the company office here. Itrittain has been an outstand ingly counscientious and cour teous employe since becoming associated with the preceding utility company in 1932 and with the present company since 1941, Gleason said. Krittain's fellow employes and many friends congratulated him on his service record. Sunday Is the Day To Help Your Heart Sunday is the day you can per sonally help your Heart Fund help your heart. Heart Sunday headquarters is to be at Chriswiser's Studio at 421 Main St., Phone 226. Between 2 and 4 p. m., the Heart Sunday army, composed of 50 residents of Plattsmouth who have volunteered their serv ices will visit homes in every corner of the city to collect con tributions for the 1958 Heart Fund. Each volunteer will be i dentified by a circular lapel badge and will carry official pr inted envelopes in which contri butors may seal their checks, bills or coins. The amount of the contribution need not be reveal ed. Where the volunteer finds no one at home, he or she will leave a pre-addressed mail-in envel ope in which a contribution may be readily sent to Heart Fund headquarters during the next few days. "The volunteer army this year as in previous years is made up of men and women who have de termined that the battle against the heart diseases merits their fullest cooperation," Mrs. Don Warga announced. "In behalf of this dedicated army, I would like to make two simple requests of the residents of Plattsmouth." the chairman said. "First, please welcome your Heart Sunday volunteer. Secondly, please think of all the hearts you love, and give for each of them." Co-chairmen of the drive are the American Legion Auxiliary and VFW Auxiliary. Mrs. Wni. Maston and Arthur Warga will assist in totaling the contribut ions. Concert Program To Be Feb. 24 Plattsmouth High School A Band Concert "Music of the 50's" Is to be presented Monday, Feb. 24 at 8 p.m. under the direction of Richard Kueera. The band will offer the fol lowing numbers: "Keynoter March" by Erick son;" Ballet for Young Ameri cans" by Hermann, (teenage overture, day dreaming, first driving lesson, prom night and graduation march i with Larry Fitzgerald as narrator; "Spiri tual From Symphony No. 5'" by Gillis; "Holiday for Trom bones" by Rose. Featured as the fifth number is the high school dance band. The concert band will continue with "Night Song" by Basker ville; "Display Piece for Band" by Morrissey; "Study in Rhum ba" featuring the percussion sec tion of the band and written by Mucclgrosso; and the finale number, "Marching The Blues" by Bowles, this selection to fea ture the majorettes. Tickets for the concert are 75c for adults and 50c, children. Caucases Arc At 7, 7:30, 8 Caucuses to name candidates for this spring's school and mun icipal elections are at 7, 7:30 and 8 p.m., all on Feb. 25. (Times of meetings were in correctly listed in a previous news story, limes listed in leg al notices are correct). Caucuses Feb. 25 are: Plattsmouth School District, 8 p.m. in the high school library room . Democrats, 7 p. m. in the Dist rict Courtroom in the County Courthouse. Republicans, 7:30 p. m. in the auditorium of the Public Library. Melvin Todd Files for Commission Wednesday in the office of County Clerk Charles Land, Mel vin Todd, just recently appoint ed as countv commissioner in the 2nd District to succeed Ray Norris, resigned, filed as a can didate for that ofice on the Re publican ticket. Todd, while he has had but a short experience in the office, has shewn a great deal of in terest in the work. He is a life long resident of the district where his family were anions the earliest settlers in Liberty precinct. He is familiar with general conditions in the dis trict that comprises Liberty, Ne hawka, Avoca, Weeping Water, Center, Mt. Pleasant and Louis ville precincts including the city of Louisville. The Todd family from an ear ly day have been farmers and stock raisers and have a fine grasp of the county as a whole. He is familiar with the affairs of the county in recent years as a taxpayer and citizen. Commission Signs for Engineering The Cass County Commission Wednesday signed an agreement with Alter & Speece Engineers, Lincoln, for the survey and plans for a bridge 4 miles east of Weeping Water on a federal matching road project. The project is 4'2 miles of road improvement. The bridge w'll span a creek. Tuesday also, t;.e Commiss ion bought a building at Gieen wood for housing road equipment of Commission District 3 irom Stradley & Son for $1,000. The district has been renting the frame building for some time and would have had to continue renting some space if it had not bought the building. DeForest Philpot Dies at Home In Weeping Water DeForsest Philpot, 68, one of the prominent residents of Weeping Water, died at his home in that city early Wednes day morning. Mr. Philpot was a member of one of the pioneer families of that part of Cass county, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Philpot, early day residents. He had been a patient at the Clarkson hospital in Omaha and was returned to his home about three weeks ago. Surviving is the wife Edna and several brot hers. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2:30 at the Congre gational church at Weeping Water. Euclid lodge No. 97 A F & A M will hold graveeside services. Welding Class To Be Offered The adult class in welding is to be offered at the high school here beginning in abojit two weeks. Anyone intere.-.ted in taking this course should eon tact Don Hansen at the school or Dale Bowman at the Cham ber of Commerce giving name and phone number so they can be contacted when definite date ifl set. Face Charges Here and At Norfolk Two of three men arrested In Norfolk early Monday morning ! and who are charged with breaking and entering in Mad ; ison County have Implicated I themselves in the Soennlchsen j Store breakin here Feb. 8. j One of the men is in custody ; here and two of them have been charged here with breaking and i entering. 1 The men are Henry J. Sears, 28, Danville, Ind.; Albert Duke ! Simon, 26, and his uncle, Mike 1 Simon, 48, both of Omaha. I Sears and Albert Simon were J caught Inside the Jack & Jill I market just outside of the city limits of Norfolk by deputized city policemen from Norfolk. The two men in signed state ments implicated themselves in t.A'o other Norfolk breakins the same night. Checking out the motel rooms of the men in Norfolk the police found Mike Simon who had $500 In cash in his pocket which sup posedly came from one of the earlier breakins in Norfolk. In anothur motel room 34-year-old Monica Sears, wife of Henry Sears, was found with $5,000 BOM) SET Mike Simons was arraign ed in County Court here to day on charges of breaking and entering Soennichsen's Store Feb. 8. He pleaded "not guilty" and preliminary hearing was set for March 5. Judge Raymond J. Case set appearance bond at $5,000 one of the largest ever set here. Simon is being held in lieu of bond. over $1,000 in cash in her purse. Clothing found in her room bore the name of Soennichse Store. Norfolk took her in for questioning then released her. In checking out the clothing, the police observed that they were similiar to the items listed on a circular received from the Cass County Sheriff's office on the Soennlchsen breakin and called Sheriff Tom Solomon. Mike Simon refused to give any statement, oral or written, to the Norfolk police concerning his part if any in the three breakins. But late Monday after noon under questioning by Solo mon he did give and sign a two page confession admitting his part in the Soennlchsen store breakin. Sears gave Solomon an oral statement but before it could be put into writing Sears' lawyer intervened and broke oft the questioning, Solomon said. Albert Simon was apparently not involved in the Plattsmouth burglary. Both Sears and Mike Simon both have prison records. Simon served time both in Iowa and Nebraska. Attorneys representing the three men filed habeas corpus action Monday in Norfolk before any charges could be filed and demanded immediate hearing and release. The writ ordered the chief of police to deliver the men immediately to the County Court at Madison. At Madison, the defendants' attorneys asked dismissal of the action. The action wus dismis sed.. Wednesday, sheriff Solomon returned to Norfolk to take charge of Mike Simon after he had posted a $2,500 bond. Mrs. Sears who planned to ride to Omaha with the sheriff in order to make arrangements for her husband's bond was siezed by Norfolk police on a warrant charging her with taking part in the Norfolk breakins. In Plattsmouth late Wednes day, an additional 4-page state ment was taken from Mike Si mon by Solomon. In his state i Continued on Page 8 THE WEATHER Compiled lor the Plattsmouth Journal at the Masonic Home Weather Station, Plattsmouth, Nebraska. Feb. 17, 18, 19, 1958. Date High Monday 24 Tuesday 22 Wednesday . . .17 Low rrec. .00 .00 .00 11 0 10 Forecast: High near 30. Low 15-20. Po.s-ible snow flurries to night. Sun sets tonight at 6:04. Sun rises Friday at 7.11 a.m.