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"."TTT TT" ! T ! '. , . L L u B c, , t . , ,,-- -. 1 rL- THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKL JOURNAt PAGE SIX Thursday, June 5, 1958 ITEMS FROM UNION Mrs. L. C. Todd Phone 2441 Mrs. Ruth Mougpy Worrell of Columbus, Ohio, spent sever al days here visiting relatives last week. She was the Riiest of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Cross and Iva Mousey, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Mougey and Mr. and Mrs. George Stine and family. An Officer's Training meet ing was held at the Church last Thursday afternoon called by the new president of the WSCS, Mrs. Otto Ehlers. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Ehlers. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Schaefer and son Lowell and Miss Chinn, all of Meade, Colo., have been spending the past week in Union at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Rich. During that time they are trying to visit old friends and neighbors in Union and also a Brock, where the mother of Russell lives. She has been quite ill for some time, and provisions are being made for her care. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hen nlngs of Plattsmouth called on Mrs. L. O. Todd last Friday evening. They also had visited friends in Nehawka. The Union School Alumni Banquet was held at the Legion Hall last Saturday with 58 at tending. Mrs. Ollie Attebery was the speaker for the evening. The following program was presen ted: invocation, John McQuin of Omaha; Lowell Schaefer of Meade, Colo., placed a piano solo; Tom Wolf sang a solo, and was accompanied by his brother, Edward Wolfe; Leo Fitzpatrick of Weeping Water, was accom panied by Mrs. Ora Guerra and sang a solo; and Iola and Irene Plch played a piano duet. Four numbers from War Per iods were sung by, Virginia Grab ble of Omaha, Bonnie James of Bellevue, Barbara Lechner, Helen Wolfe, Helen Attebery and Carroll Attebery, Mrs. Ora Guer ra was their accompanist. The banquet was served by the lad ies of the American Legion Aux iliary. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Taylor of Long Beach, Calif., are spending some time in this community and are house guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Porter. Sunday din ner guests, honoring the Calif ornia guest, at the Porter home were Mr. and Mrs. Earl Keedy of Ashland, Nebr., and Mr. and Mrs. Garrett Taylor of Omaha. Afternoon callers were: Mrs. Mary Pell, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Murphy, Ley Pell, Mr. and Mrs. George Comer, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Peters arid daughter Car roll of Nebraska City and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Banning and son Lucian. The Baptist Vacation Church School opened June 2 with a f,ood attendance and will con tinue for two weeks. Teachers are Mrs. Louis Bur bee, Mrs. Don Wolfe, Mrs. Shau klln, Mrs. Liner and Carol Rae and Esther Crom as helpers. Mrs. Ora Guerra is In charge of the music. The second week of the Metho dist School has a fine attend ance with the following teach ers: Lynn Paasch, Mrs. Exline, Mrs. George Stine, Mrs. Todd, Mrs. Pike, Mrs. Robert Morton and Mrs. Rich. Helpers are Mrs. Martin Nelson and Mrs. Beverly Herman. Miss Lynn Paasch has charge of the music. A family dinner honoring Tom Wolfe, who is enjoying a few wi'eks leave fom service, was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Burbee at Silver City, Iowa. About twenty - five guests were present. Quite a number of children are at home, not able to attend vacation Bible School, on ac count of the measles. Joseph DeSpain, Lieutenant Commander in the Naval Re serve and teacher in East High, Wichita, Kans., accompanied his father, Rev. E. S. DeSpain, to Union last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Smith of Stratton, Colo., surprised Mrs. Carl Cross, mother of Mrs. Smith, by driving in from their home Saturday evening. They all went to St. Mary's Hos pital after church services where they spent the afternoon with Carl Cross who has been in the hospital for the past four months. Little Jack Fabian, of Louis ville attended Sunday School at the Methodist Church last Sunday. He was visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Erwin. Geraldine Clark, granddaugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Pat terson, of Concordia, Kans., is spending her vacation in Union and while here she is attending Vacation Church School. She has been doing this each sum mer for several years. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Rich entertained at their home with a large Memorial Family Dinner last Friday honoring Mr. and Mrs. Russell Schaefer and son Lowell of Meade, Colorado. Thirty guests were present to enjoy this get-together. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Becker and Mr. and Mrs. Art Smiley spent the weekend at Hot Springs, Ark. Attend Company Reunion Sunday Sunday was the annual re union of the 314 Ammunition Train of the 89th division of world war I, this year the re union being held at Wahoo. The train was composed largely of men from Cass and Saunders counties. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Baumgart of this city and Fred Terryberry of Louisville were representa tives of this county. Time has taken many of the members of the train and other have re moved from this part of the state. Enroute to Wahoo Mr. and Mrs. Baumgart stopped at Ash land where they were dinner puests of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Me'singer, the former a brother of Mrs. Baumgart. WHAT IS SLANDER? The immortal daughter of self love and idleness. Voltaire. HURRY ... Hurry ft A : on down fo the 8 Save 10 ...25... 40 and even 50 OFr on many items 0L Air Cooled Cushion Reg. 2.89 Spring wire with open-mesh fiber covering. Provides comfortable air-cooled ride. Five inches wider than ordi nary cushions Used Tires Yacht Chair 555 Reg. 6.95 Police Court Notes At Mid-Week Check The Thursday morning check at the police court today showed two cases heard by Judge James H. Graves, and one pending. Roy Groff, giving his residence as Shelbyville, 111., was charged with intoxication and sentenced by the court to ten days in jail. The sentence was suspended on condition that the defendant, a man along in years, would re move himself at once from the city. Larry D. Stones was charged with operating a car in a reck less manner. Hearing was set for Saturday, June 7. Steve Pschenica was charged with sounding the horn of his car in an unlawful manner. He was given a fine of $1 and costs or a total of $5. Out Of Old Nebraska . . . Lightweight aluminum frame with deluxe nylonite seat and back. Buy a pair! I Most popular ' PQ sizes' flSjli and llr"11!?? makes up UNDER 5th & Main 10 113 Wading Pools 444 Reg. 5.95 Nearly 5-ft. diameter, over l2 ft. deep. Durable heavy gauge vinylite construction. Firestone Phone S1H Jules Sandoz The return to Nebraska of Miss Mari Sandoz to speak to the Nebraska Writers Guild on May 3 called my attention to one of Nebraska's best known characters, "Old Jules" Sandoz. Like the Antonia Shimerda of of Bess Streeter Aldrich, he has earned a place in our nation's literary heritage, and is a name known to many persons who would be hard put to Identify any living Nebraskans. Jules Sandoz gained his great est measure of fame as the principal figure in his daughter's great biography, but he was a man of importance in the de velopment of Nebraska and his area and is well worth remem bering in his own right. His life was colorful, even spectacular, and the vivid des cription of the spectacular epi sodes in his biography make them overshadow the other parts of his life. The story of his tragic love, his struggle with the cattlemen, or his spectacular battle with injury and infection and his association with Dr. Wal ter Reed at the Fort Robinson hospital after his fall into the well are associated with him. These stories leave one with the feeling he is a story book char acter and obscure his real iden tity. Jules Sandoz' importance to Nebraska and its development lay in two general fields. One was his activity and success as a land agent, surveyor and pro motor. The settlement of the United States depended to a much larger degree than we oft en recognize on the activity of land promoters. Settlement was speeded up or' delayed in a lo cality by the effectiveness or the lack of action on the part of local promoters. The nature of the migration was also decided by them to a large degree. A claim locator and promoter made contacts with nationality groups, or with a special area in an older state or with a rail road colonization agent and so caused a German or a New York or some other kind of settlement to develop on the Nebraska frontier. The activity of Sandoz in encouraging settlers to come, his unflinching courage and sup port for the timid in the face of unfriendly cattlemen or sheep raisers or natural disasters was a potent force in the agricultur al development of northwestern Nebraska. While he was an effective col onizer, Sandoz' greatest import ance lay in his keen analysis of agricultural needs in his area and his support for and pro motion of agricultural practices th-u were successful, and that made his area much more agri culturally productive. The most spectacular of these activities and the one having the widest publicity was his experimenta tion in fruit growing, and the success that he had in this line. The effect of his tree raising experiments, along with his ad vocacy of the use of methods of cultivation designed to conserve the available moisture and the use of drouth resistant seed made him a major force in the development of Nebraska agriculture. Keeping in Touch Mr. and Mrs. Barney Eberth and family of Basehor, Kans., visited at the home of her sister, Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Wasson and son. Cynthia Sue, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Born, returned home Saturday from St. Catherine's' Hospital, after observation and treatment. Miss Shirley Hild is attend ing Midland College at Fremont, already beginning the summer course. Jim Mayabb, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Mayabb of Oma ha, is visiting this week with his grandpa, C. L. Mayabb. Old time friends will regret to learn that S. Krejcl, long time resident of this city, is still hospitalized at the St. Jos eph hospital In Omaha. He has been there for the past seven weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Baum gart, Sr., and children, Janet and Gene, were at Burr Sunday to visit Mr. and Mrs. Fred Baum gart. Mrs. Fred Baumgart has just returned home from the hospital and is getting along nicely. Miss Janet Campbell is vaca tioning this week at the home of her sister, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hebard at Topeka, Kans. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Williams and family and Ron Williams spent the Memorial weekend at Lake Ericson. Saturday they visited with friends at Burwell, returning to Grand Island in the late afternoon. At Grand Is land they were guests of Mrs. Williams mother, returning to Plattsmouth Sunday. Mrs. Nora Birdsley of Western Springs, 111., a suburb of Chic ago, has come to Plattsmouth to make her home with her bro ther, Fred Busch. Postmaster and Mrs. L. W. Niel departed the first of the week, for a motor trip to the southwest. They will visit their son, Leslie and family at Elroy, Arizona, where Leslie is teach ing in the high school. Mr. and Mrs. Vern Hendricks and daughter, Marilyn departed Sunday for a short vacation in the east and will enjoy a visit in Washington, D. C, to look over the many places of interest in the capitol city. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Meising er attended commencement ex ercises of Benson High School at Tech High School Auditorium in Omaha Wednesday evening their granddaughter Peggy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mer rill Meisinger, was among the graduates. Peggy will be em ployed at Western Electric. The piano students of Mrs. J. A. Capwell will present a recital this evening, June 5 at 7:15 p. m. at the Lion's Building. Pub lic is invited. Miss Hazel Gold is now loca ted at the Martha Washington 1802 SW 10th, Portland, Ore, and would like to hear from her Plattsmouth friends. She has ac cepted a position with the law firm Jacob, Jones and Brown, and is. secretary to Mr. Brown. Raymond Lanham and Merle Dasher were visitors over the weekend at Alexandria Minn., enjoying fishing at the lakes near this popular fishing resort. Donald Pittman, former resi dent of Plattsmouth, departed for the west Sunday, after a two weeks visit here with his moth er, Mrs. Anna R. Pittman and other relatives. Don is connected with the U. S. Weather Bureau as a weather forecaster in Cas per, Wyo. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Linder left Saturday for Annapolis, Mil, to attend the graduation ceremony at the U. S. Naval Academy Jun3 4. Rod Pejsar, brother of Mrs. Linder, is among the graduates. Miss Jeanine Newton and students will present a dance re cital "Moments To Remember" Tuesday, June 10 at 8 p.m. in the high school auditorium. 45 students will present tap, bal let, toe and modern jazz. The FHA girls held a picnic Tuesday evening at the home of Marge Groshans near Mynard. The Plattsmouth Chapter stages this annually. Weiners, marsh mallows and other picnic dishes were provided by juniors. After the picnic, horse back riding was enjoyed by some of the members. 'Rehabilitation' Is Word with New Meaning in United States A new six-syllable word has been added to the popular Amer lean vocabulary in the Tast few years "rehabilitation. " It's not a new word, but the recent events have given it new meaning in application. Because the National Founda tion of Infantile Paralysis is de voting its major patient-care effort and much of its re search and professional educa tion work to rehabilitation, sin ce polio incidence has declined with advent of the Salk vaccine. No small portion of polio -re habilitation efforts in Nebraska is concentrated at the Respira tory Center of Creighton Mem orial St. Joseph's Hospital in Omaha. The Center's program illustrates the new meaning giv. en rehabilitation of all disabil ities, not those derived from po lio alone. Creighton University's Medical School with Creighton Memorial St. Joseph's Hospital as its chief affiliate teaching hospital has received $386,807 in direct grant from the Polio Foundation since the Center was founded in 1953. It is the fourth largest of 16 such centers in the United States re ceiving Polio Foundation sup port. Partly because of this tie in, most of its patients to date have been polios. But Dr. Harold N. Neu. direc tor of the Center, notes that his founding concept was to estab lish rehabilitation of all disabil itiesas an integral and essen tial part of the total medical program in the Midwest. Principal means of affecting this concept is through training of medical students, Dr. Neu elaborates: "If the doctors of tomorrow are going to meet the challenge of chronic disability which we face in America, they must have training in the team concepttof rehabilitation) and special teachings that are needed to help a severely disabled Indiv idual help himself. A severely paralyzed patient who also has breathing paralysis represents a real challenge from which young doctors can learn much to help others with lesser disabil ities from many different causes." The Creighton Center devotes its major effort to the most se verely involved patients. Eighty- five per cent of the Center's 324 patients since 1953 were paraly zed in all extremities, 95 per cent were admitted between six months and 10 years after polio onset. Thus nearly all were in the post - acute - rehabilitative stage of treatment. And, Dr. Neu notes, less than 10 per cent were under 10 years of age reflecting the fact that the more severe cases of paraly tic polio frequently occur among persons in their most productive years. The majority, says Dr. Neu, have been breadwinners or housewives. Ninety per cent of the patients says Dr. Neu, have been dis charged to their homes "into satisfactory home care pro grams." This doesn't mean, of course, that all Center gradua tes returned to work in a normal environment. But many return ed to some type of work, in an environment adapted to their Individual needs. One of the key elements in the Center program, Dr. Neu explains, is to teach the patient how to adapt to their environ ment. The team approach is made, the director notes, with the to tal effort on the patient's life from every standpoint the key consideration. And every avenue of approach to be considered is represented by an expert. The experts include specialists In internal medicine, neurology, orthopedics, urology, otolaryngo logy (ears and throat), psy chiatry, medical social work, therepy, speech and hearing therapy, psychology, and voca tional counseling. The nurses, too, Dr. Neu noted, required special training in problems of rehabilitation. "Don't Go Near The Water" Top Hit In Nation Even before it was publised, William Brlnkley's novel, "Don't Go Near the Water," now made into a motion picture by M-G-M, gave signs of impending fame. The much publicized picture is coming to Cass Thfcater, Plattsmouth, June 8-10. Before it hit the market, the Book-of-the-Month Club acquir ed it as a selection. A Random House first printing of 50,000 copies was sold out immediately. Even before its publication date, a second printing was ordered. Two days after its first appear ance on the stands, a record was set for the number of copies sold within 24 hours. The hilarious story of a group of Navy Pubic Relations officers, who are armed only with type writers and vivid imaginations and who don't go near the water was also purchased for filming before the book was published. Later, when the studio had lined up a big cast, headed by Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Earl Hol liman, Anne Francis, Eva Gabor, Keenan Wynn, Fred Clark, Russ Tamblyn, Jeff Richards and Mickey Shaughnessy, author Brinkley was Invited to come out to Hollywood by Producer Lawrence Weingarden and Di rector Charles Walters. They wanted to find out j whether he had any criticisms i of the casting or of Dorothy J Kingley's screen play. He had none. "Hollywod did fine by i Brinkley," was his verdict. The autnor did not plan "Don't Go Near the Water" as the novel It became. Originally his Idea was that the book be a series of episodes. Adv. j SSI to Mrs. Leo Osterholm and child ren returned home Wednesday from Amana, la., where they visited her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Sweem, Jeffrey and Derek spent the holiday weekend with their grandparents; Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Sweem. Herbert Is program director for KVTV, Sioux City. Mrs. F. L. Sweem is still in bed, having had a stroke, but is slowly improving. Mrs. Mary Rea was at Hiawa tha, Kan., Wednesday to spend the day with her daughter, Sister Sheila, teaching there at the Catholic church summer school. Mrs. Electa Smith of the Ma sonic Home has just returned from a ten days vacation spent in Hastings, Franklin and in Grand Island with Mr. and Mrs. Hal Smith, son of Mrs. Smith. At Hastings, Mrs. Smith re ceived her 50 yea pin of the Order of Eastern Star, Hastings Acacia Chapter No. 39. Mrs. J. B. Cook returned her mother, Mrs. Marshall, to her home south of Plattsmouth, Memorial Day. Mrs. Marshall had been at Riverview Home. Memorial visitors at the Cook home were Rev. and Mrs. G. W. Marshall of Kearney, Hugh Mar shall and sons, Gary and fam ily and Glen of Phoenix, Ariz. Hugh Marshall and Rev. Mar shall are brothers of Mrs. Cook. Sunday afternoon visitors were Mr. and Mrs. Lee Marshall of Omaha, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Tift, Bellevue and Dr. and Mrs. P. D. Flemming, Beaver City. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Harms and i daughter, Sharon, spent Mem- orial weekend in Bertrand with ; relatives and friends. I Ccrald McClintock Suffers Severe Injuries In Wreck Gerald McClintock, former re sident here, now residing in Omaha, is In the Ringgold County hospital at Mt. Ayr, la., suffering from severe injuries sustained last Saturday night near Mt. Ayr. Gerald, in company with a friend from Omaha, was enroute to Missouri for a few days fish ing trip. The car driven by the friend was turned over on a curve on the highway. The injured men were taken on Into the hospital to be cared for. It was found that Gerald had sustained fracture of both legs and suffered a brain con cussion. His condition is report ed "good". The man driving the car is still in an uneonscious condition. It is hoped to have Mr. Mc Clintock transferred to the Vet erans hospital at Omaha. Changes Made In Status Of Schools In Nebraska The State Board of Education In Nebraska announced changes in the accreditation of schools over the state Tuesday and a mong those affected are several in Cass county. The school at Nehawka was among the nine promoted"' in standing by the. Mate board. It was raised from approved to minor accreditation, the lowest of the three ratings. Among- the schools reduced in accreditation to a "minor" rat ing were Elmwood and Murdock. The state aecredition commit tee has notified the Plattsmouth school will remain as a class "A" school. Lincoln schools and Hastings were raised to a AA rating to r:ink with Beatrice. Goring. Grand Island and Westslde com munity school. 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