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Consolidated With the Nehawka Enterprise and Elmwood Leader-Echo Read Twice Weekly by More Than 3500 Cass County Families
VOLUME 77
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PLATTSMOUTH, CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA.
THURSDAY JULY 10. 195S
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NUMBER 67
FLO
YM1E
This n That
In
Agriculture
I's harvest time and a good
wheat crop is going into storage.
Fred and Ralph WchrbeLn be
lieve in protecting their stored
grain. Wheat they put into their
new storage bins is being treat
ed with grain protectants as its
put into the bin.
The Alvin Grossers have found
a way to slow down traffic past
their farm home. They have
erected an attractive white board
fence in front of their farmstead.
Although the fence was not in
tended to regulate speeders by
ttieir place, I'm sure motorists
going by will be tempted to do
so to admire the fence and the
beauty it adds to their farm
home Northeast of Weeping Wa
ter. 4-11 camping season brings a
flood of mail to the County Ex
tension Office. Applications were
mailed to all 4-HeVs Monday
June 30. The first one returned
along with camp fee was from
Alice Lauritzen. It arrived at
the Extension office Wednesday
July 2nd. A fine representation
from Cass County is expected
to attend the District 4-H Camp
at Seward July 14-15-16.
After a couple years of Inac
tivity the Factoryville Home Ex
tension plans to reorganize for
19f9. The goup of homemakers
in the Nehawka-Unlon area have
missed the pleasant associations
with other Extension clubs,
therefore, their interest in reac
tivating. This Is a good time
for any new club to organize
as they can help select the de
monstrations that will be pro
vided for the 1959 program. Two
other groups of arm women
are also planning new clubs, one
at Murray and the other at Alvo.
Cass County Homemakers will
be happy to have the opportunity
of having a Home Agent on the
Extension Service staff again.
I'm sure Nancy will be happy
to make an earlv acquaintance
with all homemakers n the Co
unty and have an opporunity to
assist with any problems or pro
jects. False chinch bugs have been
found in Southeast Nebraska.
They resemble chinch bugs in
size and shape but are a brown
ish or greyish color and usually
are found around weeds. Occas
sional they are found around
corn and other grains. Control is
not necessary for false chinch
bugs. Clarence Schmadeke, Co
unty Agent. .
State Officials
Interested in
Hallam Plant
By MELVIN PAI L
Statehouse Correspondent
The Nebraska Press Association
LINCOLN Statehouse officials
have more than a casual inter
est in a new atomic power gen
erating plant near Hallam.
The State Resources Division
was active in getting the $75
million plant located in Nebras
ka, along with many other in
dividuals. And it is eyeing carefully a
prediction of a national legisla
tor in the atomic field, Rep. Chet
Halifield, California Democrat.
By the time the plant is com
pleted in 1962, Holifield predicts,
many new uses will have been
discovered for the radioactive
by product coining from the Hal
lam plant, to be built by Con
sumers Public Power District,
Columbus.
This could mean plenty to Ne
braska in the form of new in
dustry and thus new jobs and
more payroll money into trade
channels
Name of the new plant will
be Sheldon Station, in honor of
C. C. Sheldon, Columbus busin
essman and long-time power
leader.
Nebraska becomes a pioneer
in another field atomic energy.
At ground-breaking ceremonies
this fact was mentioned many
times and likened to the opening
up of the territory which pro
duced the State of Nebraska.
Althoueh the comnleted plant
will employ about 70 men only,
the industrial potential from the
byproducts could produce a hea
vy swing from Nebraska's basic
agricultural economy.
H. M. Johnson and son, Eddie,
have been vacationing this week
in Iowa.
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SCOUT CAMPERS Shown above is the Plattsmouth con
tingent which left Sunday for Camp Cedars near Fremont for a
week at the state Boy Scout encampment. The boys will swim,
bike, work at crafts and skills and seek rank advancement. From
left, are: front Tom Dittemore, Rirky Harbaugh, Butch McGraw,
Roger Heedum, Ken Rhylander, Mike Russell, Pat Russell, Billy
Spradlin, I.arry Brink, David I'her, John Chudy, Chuck MrCIana-
Louisville Girl
Wins U of N
Scholarship
Recipients of $4,000 in schol
arships and fellowships for the
coining schol year were announ
ced today by the University of
Nebraska's College of Business
Administration.
Receiving the $1,000 John E.
Miller Graduate fellowships in
business administration are John
W. Fristoe of Lincoln and Mo
hammed I Nadiri of Kabul, Af
ghanistan. The fellowships are
given annually to outstanding
seniors In business administra
tion who wish to do graduate
work In that field.
Scholarship winners include
Lincoln Association of Fire and
Casualty Agents, $250 Sally J.
Wiesneth of Louisville.
Rain 3.35 Inches
Below 1957 Pace
Rainfall here so far this year
Ls 3.35 inches less than the total
of a year ago at this time, ac
cording to figures compiled by
Schreiner Drug Store.
Receipts (of rainfall only)
so far in 1958 are 11.35 inches.
Last year by this time, Platts
mouth had received 14.70 inches
on the way to a year's total
of 30.68 inches.
Wednesday and Wednesday
night's rainfall was 2 inches ac
cording to Schreiner's.
Consumers measured 1.41
inches to midnight, .81 inch
since.
Women Drivers Good as Men,
Except for Parking Cars
Driver license tests analyzed
by a leading safety group show
as high as men except for one
difference. Women have a hard
er time parking their cars.
The conclusion is one of many
reached by experts at New York
University's Center for Safety
Education after going through
12,000 New York State road
test records.
The survey is part of a three
year research program of the
Center to find out what person
al traits lead drivers to have au
to accidents, to develop better
tests for driver licensing and to
investigate methods for rehabil
itation of chronic traffice acci
dent repeaters.
The traffic experts' analysis
Ray's Sales & Service
Here Has New Building
Ray Harold Saturday will held
his Grand Opening at his new
building here.
The firm already having opera
ted for more than two years in
Plattsmouth and community, is
Ray's Sales & Service.
His new building, on South
Third across from Stander Im
plement and south of Cloidt er
vice Station, has just been com
pleted and equipped with new
appliances for Ray's Grand Op
ening sale.
The move to the new location
just south and across the street
from the present Ray's Sales
location, is a milestone for th
ePlattsmouth native.
Ray has lived here all his life,
working as a. grocery clerk at
Soennichsen's seven years and
graduating from Plattsmouth
High School in 1943.
He served in the Navy three
years, 10 months and since his
discharge has worked with all
types of electrical appliances,
doing installation and repair.
Harold has also specialized in
radio and television repair . for
10 years and attended distribu-
C of C Semi-Annual
Meeting Tonight
The Plattsmouth Chamber of
Commerce will hold its semi
annual meeting at the Consum
ers Public Power Office at 8
o'clock tonight.
All members are urged to at
tend. of records showed that those
failing their road tests for the
first time did so because of poor
judgement in approaching inter
sections, poor steering control,
delayed braking and cutting of
corners. Those who passed their
tests on the first try also had
their faults failure to observe
or to signal in starting, exces
sive maneuvering in parking and
parking too far from the curb.
The safety experts expect to
further analyze the road test re
cords according to age, sex, ru
ral or urban development and
other factors. Eventually all of
the findings will be correlated
with any subsequent accident
records of the applicants.
han, Mike Murphy, Mike Liddlck
man Warren Rhylander, Scoutmaster Al Linder, Charles Mann,
Bill Farrell, Bob McClanahan, Wayne Williams, Richard Haith,
Tom Dillon, Tom Brink, Carl Schreiner, Explorer Dave Wilson,
Roger Lanum, Jack Siting and Mike Brink. The group is the larg
est ever to go to camp from Plattsmouth and one of the largest
ones at this week's session. (Journal Photo, prints available)
tors TV repair school. j
Ray's Sales & Service was be
gun April 1, 1956. 1
Harold is married to the for
mer Betty Kraeger, daughter' of
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kraeger. They
have two girls, Carla Rae and
DeAnn.
He is a member of St. Paul's
Church, American Legion, Vet
erans of Foreien Wars. AF &
FM Lodge and the Chamber of
Commerce.
A two page advertisement
announcing the Grand Opening
appears in this edition of tlv
Journal). 'YIELD' Sign
Means Let Other
Cor Pass First
State Engineer L. N. Ress this
week announced the Highway
Department'a intent in installing
"Yield Right of Way" signs at
intersections on the State high
way system. Ress said, "recent
accidents at some intersections
in the State have resulted from
vehicle operators misunderstan
ding the 'Yield' signs; it is now
apparent that w emust again ex
plain the meaning of this order."
were conceived a few years ago
for use at certain intersections
where STOP signs are not war
ranted because of low traffic
volums or the nature of the
some control is needed in as
signing the right-of-way. A dri
ver is-required to obey the or
der to prevent traffic accidents.
Encountering a STOP sign,
motorists are required by law
to stop., and yield the right-
of-way to vehicles approaching
the intersecting roadway. En
countering a YIELD RIGHT OF
WAY sign, motorists are re
quired to reduce speed and yield
the right-of-way to approaching
vehicles which are close enough
on intersecting roads to consti
tute immediate hazards.
Traffic Engineer Bob Meyer
explained further, "If a driver
is involved in a collision at an
intersection or interferes with
the movement of other vehicles,
after driving past a YIELD sign,
such collision or interference is
deemed prima facie evidence of
a driver's failure to yield the
right-of-way, and he is, there
fore, guilty of a violation."
The YIELD sign is not a man
datory order to stop. Drivers
are required only to reduce their
speed, rather than stop, unless
vehicles are aDproaching on the
intersecting highway, but the
same element of right-of-way as
signment is present in both the
YIELD and STOP signs.
"The YIELD sign is very dis
tinctive in aoDcarance," Ress
added. "It is triangular in shape
with the Doint of the triangle
at the bottom. This particular
sign will be used frequently
in various locations throughout
the State by the Highway De
partment where every vehicle
need not ston but some degre
of traffic control is ncessary.
The Nebraska Safety Patrol will
regard the violator of a YIELD
RIGHT OF WAY sign In the
same way as a violator of a
STOP sisw."
and Joe Rizzi; back Committee
School District
Changes in County
Are Petitioned
Petition, for Cass County
school district changes were ap
proved and procedure started
leading to public hearings when
two meetings were held at the
courthouse here Tuesday night.
A subcommittee of three each
from the Cass and Saunders
county Committees for Reorgan
ization of School Districts met to
consider petitions of Cass Coun
ty District 35 to join Saunders
County District 1 (Ashland).
The subcommittee approved
the petitions and sent them with
recommendations to the State
Reorganization Committee.
On the committee from Cass
County are Isadore Tucker, Ne
hawka ; Alvin Oehlerking, Mur-
dock, and John Wolph, Avoca.
The Cass County Reorganiz
ation Committee met to consid
er petitions from districts 105
and 103 in Cass County to trans
fer about 475 acres of land from
105 to 103.
The petitions were approved
and sent with recommendations
to the State Committee.
Procedure now in both instan
ces is for the State Committee
(which was scheduled to meet
today) to return the petitions
with recommendations to the
county committees and then for
public hearings to be held.
In the Cass-Saunders action,
a joint hearing would be held at
a site and date to be determined.
The Cass Committee set July
29 as a tentative date for hear
ing on the 105-103 action.
Murray Native's
Husband Takes
U Of N Position
Ed Kugler, husband of the for
mer Beverly Ann Brubacker of
Murray, has accepted a gradu
ate assistantship offered by the
faculty of Teachers College at
the University of Nebraska this
fall.
Kugler, journalism instructor
at Columbus High School the
past to years, was released from
his contract by the Columbus
board of education for the com
ing year to allow him to accept
the position.
At present, he is attending the
University of Nebraska and
working on his Master's degree.
Kugler, his wife and two sons
will move to Lincoln some time
in August.
Free High School
Tuition Payments
In County Listed
Free high school payments for
the second semester of the 1957
1958 school term from the coun
ty free high school fund are as
follows:
School Amount Pupils
Nehawka $4,992 28
Avoca 1.994 9
Ashland 4,656 21
Weeping Water 2.656 12
Nebraska City 4,392 21
Murdock 648 3
Elmwood 648 3
Louisville 6,456 31
Plattsmouth 25.992 123
Mrs. Doran Bowman entered
thu Lutheran Honpittl, Omaha,
today for treatment.
Centra! PSaygroiarad Area
To Be Headeed for Fall
The Plattsmouth Board ol B'd
ucation Monday night decided to
develop an area back of Central
Elementary School for use a.s
.playground space for both Cen
tral Elementary and Junior High
and to provide a football prac
tice field.
Winners in
Parade at
Avoca Listed
AVOCA (Special) Prize
winners in the July celebration
parade here were:
Beverly Rippe, 10, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Rip
pe, first, "Keep America Free."
Dwayne Kepler, 8, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Elmer Kepler, second,
"Freddie the Freeloader."
Ruth Ann Wessel. 10. "Play
Safe and Be Careful": Faye
Rippe, 8, Little Old Lady: Kevin
Case, Purple People Eater; Ev
elyn Heebner, 6, Liberty Bell.
Sharon Hansen, 7, the Sack
Look; Nancy Kepler, 11, sailor;
Fred Will, 9, and Stevan Wolph,
7, U. S. Army; Vicky Ahrens,
9, bathing beauty; Shirley Mey
er, 8, sack dress; Leah, 9, and
Pam, 6, Noerrlinger, boat and
fisherman.
Wayne Haveman, 2, clown
and wildcats; Shirley Haveman.
2, an Old Woman Who Lived in
a Shoe; Rita Wessel. 6, Miss
Safety First; Vicky Koester, 5,
tricycle; Gary Noerrlinger, 5,
clown on trike; Dennis Rippe,
4, Future American Fireman;
Mary Ann Zimmerer, 4, Miss
America of 1972.
Bctte Jean Hallstrom. 6, Miss
Pocahantas; Roger Bond, 6,
cowboy oh bike; Linda Bond, 4,
and Gail, 11 months, mother and
daughter; Suellen, 7, and John
ny, 3, Emshoff, Miss Liberace
of Avoca and assistant: Renee
and April Stueckrath, Miss New
comer; Patty Cloge, 6, doctor.
Lizabeth Wolph, 5, patriotic
music; Larry, 4, and Randy, 3,
Haveman, Daddy's Helpers;
Janis, 7, Ricky, 5, and Louann,
2, Bruns, horse and buggy 4th
of July splendor; Becky Ahrens,
5, trike; David Hansen, 4, Lone
Ranger.
Judges were Mrs. Alfred E
bert aad Mrs. Fritz Brockhof.
New England Scouts
Pay Visit To City
On Way Eastward
Wednesday a group of mem
bers of Troop 2, Old Colony
Council of the Boy Scouts, were
in the city for a short time, en
route home after an outing that
took them to the Pacific Coast.
The group was in charge of
Frank Pratt, Scoutmaster. The
troop is located at East Way
mouth, Mass., a short distnace
south of Boston. They visited at
Los Angeles and surroundings
as well as taking trips to San
Diego and the Mexican border.
Thomas Condon, one of the
group, said they had a great
time on their trip across the con
tinent from the Atlantic to the
Pacific.
Rotary Club Tours'
Rome and Athens
The Rotary Club Tuesday noon
took a personally guided tour
of Rome and Athens bv means
of a showing of color slides and
a tape recording.
Harry White of Plattsmouth
and his nephew, Rotarian Ralph
Wehrbein, showed the slides ta
ken by White's son Navy Lt.
Cmdr. Alan White and played
the tape recording made by
Cmdr. White to explain the sli
des. The Navy officer took the pic
tures while on shore leave. 11
is secretary to the vice admiral
of the Atlantic Fleet.
Tape recordings are a hobby
to the elder White.
THE WEATHER
Compiled for the Plattsmouth
Journal at the Masonic Home
Weather, Station, Plattsmouth,
Nebraska.
July 7, 8, 9, 1958
Date High Low Prer
Monday 70 60 .00
Tuesday 84 60 .00
Wednesday 83 66 .30
Rainfall measured .3 at 4 p.m.
Wednesday. 13 inches was re
gistered Wednesday night.
Forecast: Party cloudy to
night and thunder storms. High
near 80, low near 60. Sun sets
tonight at 7:59; rises Friday at
5 a.m.
The work is to he completed
by Aug. 15.
A practice field for football
has long been wanted here so
that the main athletic field could
be used for games only, and put
and kept in better condition.
Carl Monhead and Altschaffl
What Fish, Now,
Has Four Legs
And Pink Ears?
What fish has four legs, a tail
like a salamander and furry
pink ears?
That was a poignant ques
tio asked here this week until a
Journal carrier solved the my
stery in one Instant, despite the
scoffing of his elders.
Claud Mayabb had found
some critters in-his farm pond
62 miles northwest of here near
the Platte River when seining
for minnows.
He sought the advice of any
one he could find, then brought
a half-dozen of the bigger "fish"
to town. They were about five
to six inches long, including a
flat, toothless head, a smooth
'gator-shaped body and the wrig
gly tail. They were gray-green
arid mottled and altogether In
teresting. Out of the water Mayabb had
brought them in, they legged it
across the floor like real 'gators.
But, the short head wasn't like
a 'gator's.
However, immediately young
Billy Highfield said, as though
anyone, even a adult, ought to
know at least that much, "They'
re mud puppies, of course."
"Poo-hoo," said all the adults
within hearing.
A check of a natural history
book later disclosed a perfect
likeness of the critter, certain
ly a mud puppy.
The books says: The mud pup
py . . .belongs to the group of
newts and salamanders . . ,1s
an exception to the usual am
phibian plan of life. It never be
comes an air-breathing animal.
It lives under water all its life
and never loses its gills. They
make conspicuous red fringes
at its neck.
Mr. Mayabb's mud puppies
had the furred "ears" but they
hadn't yet reached the pink hue.
It's the first year he's ever found
anything like that in his pond,
he says. He'd planted bass and
bluegills but. no mud puppies,
or at least not intentionally.
One question remains: how
does a mud puppy sound when
he barks? The book doesn't say.
Memories Are Many
Rural Mail Carrier Rounds
Out 36 Years of Service
After 36 years of U. S. Postal
service, Glen O. Sawin retired
as of May 31, 1958. The last 10
of these years were spent as
Rural Letter carrier on Route,
2 here in Plattsmouth.
Sawin, a native Iowan, start
ed as a mail carrier after ser
vice in World War 1. He was a
musician and had the privilege
of being a member of the Bat
talion band led by John Phillip
Sousa. He was later in a 21
piece band aboard the U.S.S.
Harrisburg.
Sawin came here on a trans
fer from West Virginia where
he was a postal clerk in a first
class office in Logan. His ser
vice here was interrupted by
World War 11.
All-Star Game i
Re-set July 17 j
Heavy rain on July 3 washed !
out the Platte Valley League;
all-star game. i
The contest has been resched
tiled for Thursday night, July
17. at the Douglas County Fair
grounds at Waterloo. Game
time is 8:30 p.m. ;
Players from Papillion, Ral-1
ston, Millard, Gretna and
Plattsmouth will make up the;
South squad. Athletes from Tre
ynor, Kennard, Elkhorn, Arling-i
ton. Ashland and Yutan will be1
on the North unit. i
dame Rainwl Out
Wednesday night's scheduled
baseball game, Plattsmouth at
Louisville, was rained out for
the second time. No new date
has ben et.
of Plattsmouth were low anions
three bidders on the earth mo
ving and developing work. A
bout 22,000 cubic yards of earth
will be moved. The bid price of
$3,040 also includes removal and
re-installation of a fence and
removal of trees.
The area provided for the re
creational and football practice
will be about 360 feet by 160
feet.
In other business, the board
voted to treat the new auditor
ium building for termite con'
trol. ,The contract was let to
Bill's Pest and Termite Control.
I'lattunouth. The work to be
done immediatly.
The price is to be $2,967.
The board authorized pi ichasP
of a photostatic copying in ic nine
to reproduce documents, grade
sheets and for other use in school
administration.
Local Girl at
FHA Convention
KANSAS CITY Marjorlc
Grosshans, 16, daughter of Mr,
and Mrs. Tom Grosshans of
Plattsmouth, Neb., is among the
450 teenage delegates attending
the 1958 National Meet ing of the
Future Homemakers of America
in Kansas City, Missouri.
Marge is a Senior at Platts
mouth High School. She has
been a FHA member for three
years.
While at the meeting she
will be a voting delegate and
will also take part in a pageant
entitled "The Nation of Na
tions." The five-day meeting opened
here July 7. During this action
packed week the Future Home
makers of America will demon
strate their theme "Teens with
a Purpose" and through general
sessions and discussion groups
will stress the value of an edu
cation, career opportunities in
home economics, becoming bet
ter citizens, and Improving hu
man relations.
Wheat At Union
Reported At 48
Bushels An Acre
Reports on wheat In the Union
are where the harvest has been
on after several days layoff be
cause of rain, indicated by Geor
ge Stites, Union elevator man,
is from the Roy Becker farm,
east of Union. The yield was 48
bushels an acre of No. 1 with
moisture contents of about 12
per cent.
Journal Want Ads Pay
He reenlisted in the Navy and
served as a Navy mail clerk at
tached to the 47th Construction
Battalion in the S. W. Pacific
on the Russell Islands, New Geo
rgia, Guadalcanal and then to
New Hebredes. This last assign
ment was Navy Mail Clerk in
charge at Base Hospital 3.
He says the hardest thing he
ever had to do was to tell a
boy there was "no mail for him
today ! "
After his return to the states,
he was in charge of an eight
hour shift in the Fleet Post Of
fice in San Francisco, Calif.
This shift was made up of 65
men and 70 Waves. One of the
Waves requested that he give
the bride away at her wedding
held in the First Congregation
al Church in San Francisco.
Before being discharged, he
was transferred to V Mail in
Chicago, 111.
Sawin drove his last round on
Route 2 on Feb. 8, 1958. A mild
heart attack has since kept him
confined to his home.
In a recent statement he said:
"I miss the fellowship with the
boys in the office ami the daily
contacts with the good people on
Route No. 2 who have treated
me in such a fine, friendly man
ner. "I have deeply appreciated the
splendid cooperation.
"There are pleasant recollec
tions of the chldren who have
met for a visit at the mailbox.
"Leaving the route wns a hard
decision to make and I hav?
hopes of driving out once in
awhile just to keep In touch."
At present the route Is being
served by a temporary carrier,
Piank Bisrl.
