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Mrs. Willard Lcram inc 67-ltc CARD OF THANKS I wish to thank all those who were so kind to me and my familiy, who in many ways tried to lighten our load of sorrow. May God bless all of you. Mrs. Paul Long and Family. 67-ltc Help Wanted MAN WANTED For Rawleigh business in City of Platus inouth. No experience needed to start. Sales easy to make and profits good. Start im mediately. Write Rawleigh's Dept. NBG - 671 - 190, Free port, 111. 67-ltc-H HELP WANTED Woman for night waitress. Apply In per son. Kent's Cafe. 67-3tc Salesmen Wanted SALESMAN WANTED One of I the biggest feed companies in the business needs a .salesman at once. Top earnings. Farm background or acquaintance with farmers most helpful. Experience not necessary. We completely train you. Full time work. Repeat business. Home nights. Must have a car. Write Sales Manager, 701 South 42nd St., Omaha 6, Nebr. 67-2tc-T Wanted WANTED Babysitting and ironing done in my home. Ph. 7204. 65-3tc WANTED JUNK Iron and Junk Cars and light hauling. Phone 5961. 64-tfc Services Offered SERVICES OFFERED Jeep-A Trench and Backhoe Trench ing. Ralph Stubbendicfe, Avo ca, Nebr. Phone 819 40-tfc SERVICES OFFERED Hand Saws machine filed, $1.00. 906 Patterson, Phone 3276. 44-tfc GARDNER Plumbing Heating New Location Same 616 1st. Ave. Phone 7152 Air Conditioning Sheet Metal Work Armstrong Furnaces and Air Conditioners American Standard Plumbing Fixtures Hoffman Water Heaters Meyers Water Systems Easy Monthly Payments Free Estimates 73-t.fc CESSPOOLS and Septic tanks vacuum cleaned. Phone 6062. 73-tfc ABSTRACTS OF TITLE Fouchek and Garnett, Plattsmouth. 86-tfc WE CUT GLASS to any size. Picture framing. Plattsmouth Paint Store. 73-tfc AUTO LOANS Fast Service. Low Cost. For new and used. cars. See FLATTSMOUTII STATE BANK 97-tfc-T WANT AD HATES Want Ads are Cash other than to established accounts, Courtesy charges are made on telephone ads for a period of six days. No Want Ads will be accepted from users delinquent in their accounts. Pay ment is expected from customer upon their receipt of notification of total charges. EACH WORD, First Insertion e EACH WORD, Subsequent Insertions 3c (Minimum Charge for any Ad 50c) CLASSIFIED DISPLAY, per inch 75e KEYED or BLIND ADS, service charge 50e CARDS OF THANKS, IN MEMORIAM MESSAGES POETRY same as Want Ad Rates DEADLINE All Want Ads must be in this office by 9:30 A.M. Day of Publication, TELEPHONE 241 If an error is made in your ad, notify Tha Journal office Immedi e'y following publication. We cannot assume responsibility after tha first insertion. SERVICES OFFERED For combining, weed mowing ana bull dozer work, call 5103,1 Plattsmouth. 67-2tp PLANNING a new nome or re moderng? Phone 1011, Murray. Herb Campbell. 73-tfc For Sale SPECIAL! GET YOUR Free Watermelon With a $15 purchase Saturday, July 12. UNION FARM SUPPLY Union, Nebr. 67-ltf FOR SALE Men's Thurogood and Red Wing work .shoes in ail sizes and widths to fit your feet and pocketbook, loo. B & H Shoes. 67-ltc FOR SALE For All types of weed and grasshopper spray I and all kinds of agricultural chemicals see . . Ray's Sales J & Service. 61-8tc 1 FOR SALE MIMEOGRAPH INK and Stencils available. I Both Standard and Legal sizes I The Plattsmouth Journal. I 54-tfp FOR SALE Scratch Pads, var ious sizes, at The Journal Off ice. Ilandv for office and at home. 83-tfp FOR SALE CARBON PAPER. Best quality for all copy work. The Plattsmouth Journal. 54-tfp FOR SALE TYPEWRITER RIBBONS for all machines at the Plattsmouth Journal. 54-tfp SMITH - CORONA PORTABLE TYPEWRITERS Buy on Terms Typewriter Ribbons, Regular And Portable, All Makes. SCHREINER REXALL DRUG 15-tf-T-c Household Goods FOR SALE Chrome kitchenet te set and gas range. Call 9177. 67-tfc Stop in Today RCA T.V. & Radio Ear mi Wm. Schmidtmann l-tfc FOR SALE ASSUME PAY MENTS!!! SINGER Round bobbin console; bottonholer and other attachments. As sume the last 6 payments of $4.71. Credit Manager, 5615 So. 24 St.. Omaha. 67-ltc FOR SALE White enameled steel kitchen cabinet; 30 gal electric hot water heater. Ph. 9125. 67-ltc NORGE WASHER DRYER SALE Unbelievable value in complete home laundry equipment. Brand new Norge Auto matic Washers with match ing Norge Deluxe Dryers. $299.00 Savings of over $200.00 Norge the leader with America - most wanted fea tures. Stop in and inspect this outstanding value. Low overhead means low prices! Norge - Emerson - Zenith Sylvania Chas. Warga Electric 224 South 7th Phone :!24 67-ltc-H Real Estate for Rent FOR RENT Three room un furnished apartment. Adults. Coronado Apartment. Phone 3116. 64-tfc FOR RENT Large five room apartment. Phone 5256. 67-tfc FOR RENT Large three room and bath and large two room. Daytime phone 3276, evenings 3194. 63-tfc FOR RENT Rural home - not modern. Phone 6190 alter 6 p.m. 58-tfp FOR RENT Unfurnished a partment. Three rooms and bath, $52. Loris B. Long, Phone 5239 or 4250. 65-tfc FOR RENT Modern home. See me at 720 Avenue C on Sat urday, July 12, or write II. B. Hall, 6717 Fairfax, Lincoln 5, Neb. ' 6G-2tc FOR RENT Sleeping room for gentleman. 218 No. 3rd. Phone 5206. 66-2tc FOR RENT Apartments-no play yard, heat and water furnished. Two bedroom un furnished, $75; one bedroom, furnished $75. Phone 3111. 65-tfc FOR RENT Modern three room furnished apartment. One child but no pets. 2nd floor, Main Street. Phone 4175. 65-3tc FOR RENT Three room furn ished apartment. Private bath and entrance. Sohuldice a- partment. Phone 5147. 65-tfc FOR RENT Unfurnished four room apartment full bath. Call 249. 61-tfc FOR RENT Furnished or un furnished apartments for rent. Phone 7183 or 6124. 27-tfc Real Estate for Sale FOR SALE Good Building lots. Phone 7946. after 6 P. M. 67-3tp You Should P-uy That House Thrn "STEVE DAVIS" Steve Davis Agency 66-2tc FOR SALE Modern three bed room home with three lots in city limits. Phone 5938 after 6 p.m. 66-2tp FOR SALE 6 Rooms & Bath plus apartment in basement. Two story modern home with garage. Beautiful 2 bedroom home with attached garage and apartment in basement. Active income producing apartment home. Five rooms & bath $4,500. Choice building lots LORIS B. LONG, Realtor 126 N. 4th St. Ph. 5239 or 4250 59-tfc FOR SALE Modern dwelling 5 rooms and basement on large lot. Room for additional house. A good buy at $6,500.00. Also close in building lot reason able. Two bedroom dwelling in Murray. First Realty Comp any. 67-7tc FOR SALE New modern two and three bedroom homes. Phone 5194 evenings. 38-tfc Machinery STANDER TRACTORS 70 Dieael with power steering & new motor $3,000.00 1950 A with power- trol 1,250.00 IHC B & Cult, all new rubber 425.00 1948 WC AC with cult. & mower 495.00 1946 Ford just over hauled 390.00 COMBINES 12' No. 45 Demonstrator $4,350.00 1957 No. 45 10' 3,850.00 1954 Dearborn 6' 650.00 1952 12A 350.00 1952 AC 60 500.00 1950 AC 60 050.00 1949 AC 60 450.00 1949 Baldwin 6' with motor 450.00 12A PTO 400.00 12A with motor 350.00 MISC. 25' trailer house cpt. with TV & Air Conditioner $1,250.00 Hagic Hi Clearance Sorayer 750 00 1919 Jeep Pickup '375.00 1949 GMC truck with 4 compartment Gas tank and pump 450.00 1250 Chevrolet 1 ton panel 450.00 8-u.sed plows Stander Implement Co Plattsmouth 67-ltc-H lil I Tn..L PARTS FOR COMBINES Allis - Chalmers or Gleaner - Baldwin MOST COMPLETE STOCK In S. W. Iowa Save time - stop here first . . . GENUINE PARTS .ARE THE MOST REASONABLE. Save you time and MONEY A-C "60" or 66" Rubber ized Drapers Heavy - Duty Wide-slat, 4 Rivets, 54 stap les per slat, Uniform width and lenuth. DOUBLE Thich ness Edue Lock-stitched. Upper Draper $16.95 Lower Draper $41.95 (Rubberized drapers with vulcanized rubber bar slats same price Other parts at reasonable prices. It pavs to get all your narts here. We stock the 10 to 30 cent items as well which could keep you harvesting. ALL FOR QUICK SERVICE TO YOU . . . Your Allis-Chalmers Gleaner Dealer. HARPER IMPL. CO. Phone 838 or 839, Glenwood, la. 67-3tc CLOSE OUT SALE on the following New Items SPRAYERS Trailer-type 7-row Aluminum-Boom "66" Allis-Chalmers Combines '63' & "78" New Holland Balers "55" New Holland "Rollabar" Rakes "300" Parallel - Bar Rake "611" New Holland Chopper Allis-Chalmers Field Chopper Snowco Feed-o-matic and Miltimatic Feed Wagons . . (use to haul from Combines, as welli MANY OTHER ITEMS DRASTICALLY REDUCED. Your Dealer for Allis-Chalmers, Gleaner, Snowco. New Idea, New Holland', Kelly Ryan, Brillion, Noble, Krause and Many other Lines. HARPER IMPL. CO. Phone 838 or 839, Glenwood, la. 67-3tc USED MACHINERY BARGAINS Self Propelled and Pull tyDe Combines "76" and "77" New Hol land Balers Good Selection of Tract ors Field Choppers, J. D. and M-M. Mounted Sprayers $15 to $50. HARPER IMPL. CO. Phone S38 or 839, Glenwood, la. 67-3tc Livestock for Sale FOR SALE Young pure bred Angus Bull. Call evenings 5237. 66-2tc Opportunities UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITY Reliable person; male or female from this area to ser vice a route of coffee mac hines. Will take 7 hours a week of your spare time and can net as high as $275 mon thly. Right person, with our help, can build this to a full time business which could eventually net $20,000 an nually. No experience or selling necessary. Accounts are established for the oper ator. To qualify you must have $1,125 to $2,250 cash immediately available which is secured and a serviceable automobile. If sincerely in terested, write for personal interview giving phone num ber and brief outline or background to Dept. C. Box 5182, St. Paul, Minn. 67-2tc Legal Notices CLEMENTS & CLEMENTS, Attorneys LEGAL NOTICE IN THE DISTRICT COURT )F CASS COUNTY. NEBRASKA Henry A. Rockenbach, et al, Plaintiffs, vs The heirs, devisees, legatees, personal representa tives and all other persons in terested in the estate of Mildred Ketelhut. deceased, et al, De fendants: To the Defendants: The heirs, devisees, legatees, personal re presentatives and all other per sons interested in the estate of Mildred Ketelhut, deceased, real names unknown: and all per sons having or claiming any in terest in and to all of Lot 17 in the SW'i of the SE'2 of Sec. 20. Township 10 North. Ranee 9 East of the 6th P. M.. which is also described as that parcel of ground bounded as follows: Be ginning at the SW corner of such the SW'i of the SE'i of Sec. 21). SE'i thence 570.10 feet, thence East 924 feet to the West line of 6th Street in the Village of Eagle, thence South along the West line of 6th St. 570.10 feet to the South line of Section 20, thence west along such section line 924 feet to the Place of be ginning, real names unknown. You and eacli of you are here by notified that Henry A. Rock enbach and Emma M. Rocken bach, Plaintiffs, filed their Peti tion against you and each of you in the District Court of Cass County, Nebraska, on the 10th day of June, 1958, the object and prayer of which is to obtain a Decree of the Court quieting title in fee in the Plaintiffs in and to all of the real estate above specfically described, and for equitable relief. Yqu are further notified that unless you answer said Petitim on or before the 18th day of Au gust, 1958, the allegations of said Petition will be taken as true and a Decree against you according to the prayer of said Petition. Henry A. Rockenbach and Emma M. Rockenbach, Plaintiffs. No. 4070 - July 10, 17, 24, 31, 1958. CLEMENTS & CLEMENTS, Attonieys Elmwood. Nebraska NOTICE OF HEARING Estate of Nellie 1). Coon Deceased IN THE COUNTY COURT OF CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA The State of Nebraska: To all persons interested in said estate, creditors and heirs take notice, that Norman Clark has filed a petition alleging that Nellie D. Coon died intestate on or about 26th day of May, 1955 being a resident and Inhabitant of Elm wood, Cass County, Nebraska, and died seized of the follow ing described real estate, to-wit: Lots Six (6) and Seven (7) in Block Nineteen (19) n the Vill age of Elmwood, Cass County, Nebraska, leaving as her sole and only heirs at law the follow ing named persons, to-wit: Her husband, Lee Coon, sometimes known as Lee L. Coon. That no application for administration has been made, and the estate of said decedent has not- been administered, in the State of Ne braska. That the interest of the peti tioner in the above described real estate is executor of the estate of Lee Coon, and pray ing for a determination of the time of the death of said Nelle D. Coon. and of her heirs, the degree of kinship and the right of descent of the real property belonging to the said deceased, in the State of Nebraska. It is ordered that the same -ctand for hearing on the 29th day of July 1958 before the Co unty Court of Cass County in the Court House at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, at the hour of 10:00 o'clock A. M. Dated at Plattsmouth, Nebras ka, this 9th day of July A. D. 1958. (SEAL) Raymond J. Case ', County Judge No. 4073 July 10, 17, 24, 1958. PAUL E. FAUQUET, Attorney ' Plattsmouth, Nebraska NOTICE OF HEARING Estate of Kate Warden Deceased IN THE COUNTY COURT OF CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA The State of Nebraska: To all persons interested in said estate, creditors and heirs take notice that Hucrh E. Warden has filed his petition alleging that Kate Warden died intestate on or a bout November 28th, 1945 being a resident and inhabitant of Ne hawka, Cass County, Nebraska and died seized of the following described real 'estate, to-wit: An undivided one-third (13) in terest in Lots Seventeen (17), Eighteen (18), Nineteen (19), and Twenty (20), Block Four (4), Village of Nehawka, Cass County, Nebraska, leaving as her sole and only heirs at law the following named persons, to-wit: Nannie Warden, a sister; Hugh E. Warden, a Brother; Clarence R. Heebnr, a Nephew. That no application for administration has been made, and the estate of r.id decedent has not been administered, in the State of Nebraska. That the interest of the peti tioner in the above described real estate is an heir at law and praying fqr a determination of the time of the death of said Kate Warden and of her heirs, the degree of kinship and the right of descent of the real pro perty belonging to the said de ceased, in the State of Nebras ka. It is ordered that the same stand for hearing on the 28th day of July 1958 before the Co unty Court of Cas.s County in the Court House at Plattsmouth. Nebraska, at the hour of 10:00 o'clock A. M. Dated at Plattsmouth,- Ne braska, this 8th day of July A. D. 1958. (SEAL) Raymond J. Case Countv Jurlee No. 4074 July 10. 17. 24. 1958. PAUL J. GARKOTTO. Attorney 722-728 Kecline Bids. Omaha. Nebr. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE COUNTY COURT OF CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA ! To the creditors of the estate of Peter William Reilly decea.scd. No. 4303: Take notice that the I time limit for the filing and pro-1 sentation of claims against said estate is October 27th. 1958: that ; a hearing will be hud at the Co unty Court room in Plattsmouth on October 31st. 1958 at ten o'clock a.m. for the purpose of examining, hearing, allowing and adjusting all claims or ob jections dulv filed. Dated July 9th. 1958. (SEAL) Raymond J. Case County Judge No. 4075 July 10, 17, 24, 1958. ELMWOOD VILLAGE BOARD Elmwood, Nebr. July 7th. 1958 The Village of Elmwood Trus tee's met in regular srsion at the Fire House on July 7th at 8:00 o'clock. Those present being: Frank Turner, Omar Bornemeier, Ted Hall, Orval Gerbling and Robert Bornemeier. Minutes of the last regular meeting and the special meet ing of July 2nd were read and approved. The following bills were read and approved and ordered paid. District Dir Int. Re venue. Withholding tax $ 70.80 State Tax Com. social security 32.63 Salary Edw. Kratchvil. less W. II. & S. S. ... 218.97 Ed Kratichvil use of auto 5.00 Plattsmouth Jounral Ptg. Min and Budget 14.09 J. E. Slireve Agt. Ins. Prem. (Additional) 35.39 Peoples Natural Gas . . . 4.37 F. W. Robb 50.00 Eds Repair shop 13.80 Weeping Water trans fer 1.25 Omaha Public Power Dist. lights and power 169.20 Freds Service Station . 7.80 W. W. Nuernberger, Atty 94.31 C. R. Rueter sewer repair 58.00 Spaulding Service Sta. Oil & Gas 14.34 Dennis Service Sta. Oil & Gas 12.37 Robert Bornemeier mowing weeds and dragging 22.50 Kenneth West install meters, labor and supplies 119.14 There being no further busi ness the meetng adjourned. Orval Gerbling, Clerk Frank Turner, Chairman No. 4076 July 10, 1953. CITY OF PLATTSMOUTH Meeting of June 23, 1958 Council Chambers City Hall The City Council met in regu lar session at 8:00 o'clock P. M. with the following present: Ma yor Grant Roberts, Councilman George Kalasek, Wm, G. High field, Lous Swoboda and City Clerk Albert Olson. Absent: Councilman L. W. Moore. Minutes of the last meeting w-ere read and approved. Motion carried, permission granted to W. C. Soennichsen to cut curb at Parking Lot drive way and to O. W. Finney to ex cavate for sanitary sewer con nection to properties of Ray mond Ham and Holy Rosary Church, subject to requirements. Mayor Roberts stated arrange ments had been made for police calls to be handled through Sheriff's office between 6 P. M. and 2 A. M. Motion carried to install an overhead street light on Dykes St. near the Patton residence and one at the east end of Dykes St. Motion carried. St. Dept. with Lighting committee purchase materials and repair wiring in machine sheds. Douglas McKnight, Engineer, submitted Final Estimate of cost of construction of Sanitary Sew er District No. 14 On roll call, motion carried payment of $2, 137.77 be made. Motion carried, Police Judge reports for weeks of June 14 and June 21 be accepted and placed on filed. Motion carried, Parking Meter collections for weeks of June 16 and June 23 reported as $203.50 and $195.50 be accepted. Motion carried, following claims be allowed as audited by Finance Committee. General Fund: Plattsmouth State Bank Withholding tax for May $ 286.00 Lincoln Tel. & Tel Co. Phone serv 42.05 Travelers Tns. Co. Ins. Prem C5.61 Douglas McKnight Eng. fees 21.25 R. V. Bryant Mtr. Co. Rep. - Pol. Dept 77.54 Steve Davis Agency Off. Bond prem 5.00 Robert White Rent-Eldg 30.00 II. II. Pritchard Mowing weeds 10.00 Plattsmouth Journal Pub. lecals 39.11 Albert Olson Sun 9.79 Consumers Pub. Powvr Di t.. Lighting 351.39 V. R. Herring Rep. Traffic Lights . 55.69 Fred Vincent Extra Pol. duty 6.48 Elmr Gochcnour Mileage St. Dept. 47.15 Pal. i mon. E'.hner Goch?nonr 17." oo Fred Tcseh Jr 155.00 I awreice Chappell .... 136 03 Kenneth Dunlap 142.50 Kstil Jenkins 142.50 Ambrose Claus 142 50 F.rna M. Yeimey 75.00 St. Workers vi mon. fHC PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Thursday, July 10, 1958 Lester Taylor 166 60 Norman Kellison 156.80 Ray Harold 143.80 Martin Sheldon 151.90 Alfred Conn 155.00 Robert Aldrich 144.00 Gas Tax Fund: Rep. & Sup. St. Dept. Continental Oil Co. ... 24.30 Lyman - Richer Sand &i Gravel Corp 12.08 Schade Welding & Re pair 59.35 Ready Mixed Concrete Co 226.75 General Sewer Fund: Plattsmouth State Bank, Withholding tax for Mav 27.70 Bond fr Int . Fund: Chas. land Co. Clerk Reg. Intersection Bonds 72.00 Plattsmouth State Hank, Intersection Warrants & Int 99.130.53 Paving Dist. No. 100-115 Fund: Chas. Land, Co. Clerk Reg. Pav. Dist. Bonds 22.50 Plattsmouth State Bank, Warrants & Int 30,707.30 There being no further busi ness, meeting adjourned. Grant Roberts Mayor Attest: Albert Olson City Clerk No. 4072 July 10, 1958. THE DRIVER'S SEAT We congratulate Katharine El kus White, chairman of the New Jersey highway authority and the first woman in the nation to head a major road agency. And we look with favor upon the things she has done to the toll road she manages: free dia per service; small "change" rooms decorated with baby pic tures, toys and children's fur niture; brightly colored table mats in the restaurants cater ing to a child's taste; free lolli pops and balloons, outdoor din ing patios; picnic areas; and cafeteria style snack bars. But we regret she had to stop where she did. And we wonder if her fancy didn't carry her beyond these immediate achie vements. Did she toy with the idea of patterning the surface of the road? Imagine traveling a stretch of road in Royal Stew art plaid, followed by a score or so miles of cool, fragile blue, turning into a section of bright, airy yellow smattercd with fresh crisp green polka dots. We relish the thought of driv ing through New Jersey on Mrs. White's super-highway ac companied by music from gay garbed bandsmen decorating the sidelines and rendering our fav orite marches. Our hearts beat fast as we contemplate the possibility of Chanel No. 5 permeating the turnpike air from nozzles along the shoulders of the highway. We don't want to appear en vious of the diaper crowd but we'd like some attention in New Jersey super-highway restaur ants for adults. Doormen to park cars, perhaps. Massage rooms with willing and capable masseurs and masseuses. Cha ise lounges to stretch out on. And if they could spare the time, we'd like someone to change our kids' diapers. We get tired and cranky too, you know. What a delight might it be (so long as they are handing out lollipops to the young fry) to have our craving iVulates gratified with confections. We like carmel bon bons, if anyone's listening, but we would settle for a jaw breaker or two. And to take away with us, we'd like bouquets of flowers and baskets of truit. Nothing spruces up an interior like flow ers and fruits, we believe, wheth er it's the interior of a home or an automobile. And maybe a ukulele to keen the kids busy and happy during the trip. Our highway plans appeal to us, but they also worry us a little. The highway sounds so nice we're sure everyone will want to use it not to go any where but just to be on it. We don't like traffic jams. MAN FALLS, SAVES DOG Fresno, Calif. A laborer fell into an 13-foot dry well and found a dog missing for two weeks. Harold- Jones was plow ing an empty lot when he drop ped into the well. As he was climbing out, he heard harking. The dog was rescued, weak from hunger, but otherwise O. K. A Classified Ad in The JjuiT.al costs as little as 50 cents PAG 3 SEVEN -it MT Abandoned Railroad A distressing fact to many Nebraskans is the continuing tendency of railrouds to curtail their operations and to abandon lines. Until about the lime of World War 1 our ralhoau net work was expanding very rap idly, and it was not until about 1920 that a movement towards rail curtailment set in. Probably for half a dozen years before 1920 the factors making for the curtailment and later a bandonment of railroads were in the making, but it was not until after World War 1 that the rail roads felt the loss of business and pressure of competition that caused them to move first to cut service and eventually to abandon railroad lines in tha state. By 1922 the railroads were no ticing the increasing effect of motor vehicle transportation and commenting on this in reports. A Burlington report of 1923 said that automobiles had cut in to local passenger service, but this had been made up by in-crea-ed long distance traffic. By 1926 the same railroad report ed a drop in passenger traffic, blaming it on automobiles and the increase in hard surface roads. By the mid 1920s railroad com panies were asking for per mission to curtail service. This took the form of requests to close stations and also requests to drop trains. A fairly typical development in curtailment oc curred in northeastern Nebraska on the Wynot branch of the Chi cago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha, a subsidiary of the Chi cago Northwestern. The Wynot branch extended 45 miles from Coburn Junction on the Sioux City-Norfolk line to Wynot. In 1926 the railroad applied to change service which at that time consisted of two mixed trains each way each day, so that the trains could spend the night in Sioux City. After one rejection the request was ap proved in 1928, but complaints on the service caused the rail way commission to order the old service restored. In 1929 the railroad asked for permission to reduce service to one train a day. The state railway commission approved this, noting the con struction of a graveled road from Sioux City to Ponca and pointing out the effect of such improved roads on railroad traf fic. Further requests by the rail road to reduce the service first to every other day and then to three timees a week were re jected by the state railway com mission, but in 1933 the railroad took a request to abandon the line to the interstate commerce commission. The commission ap proved abandonment and it was carried out in 1933. While the railroad wanted to discontinue, the newspapers in Wynot and Ponca worked hard to keep it in operation. They ev en went so far as to demand that the people of their com munities patronize it. After the road was discontin ued these papers pointed out that it had been abandoned be cause it was not patronized and that the loss to the community would be small. Actually the loss was great. At Wynot within a few months two lunber yards had consoli dated into one, the grain ele vator had moved to Hartington, the Standard Oil Company sta tion and the parochial school had closed and the newspaper consolidated with the Harting ton paper. Partly this was the result of the depression of the 1930's, but the loss of the rail road caused a real and drastic readjustment in the communi ties affected. Kcnnard Hurler Leads Platte Valley Datters Pitcher Pat MaHette of Ken nard not only is doing a good job on the hill in the Platte Val ley League this season but also is t'.ie loop's leading hitter after eight games the half-way mark this summer. MaileMe has registered a .519 average wi:h 14 hits in 27 trips to the plate. Jerry Conners of Trevnor and Gary Reimers of Millard are next with .500 marks. 1 ,f