Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1958)
- t - ". V ViA USSR. STAT UIST-. n . CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY M o n da y-T h u r seta y Consolidated With the Nehawka Enterprise end Elmwood Leader-Echo -Read Twice Weekly by More Than 3500 Cass County Families volume 77 SIX PACES PLATTSMOUTH, CASS COUNTY. NEBRASKA. MONDAY. AUGUST 11, 1958 TEN CENTS PER COPY NUMBER 76 Plaits -.i.. T-ir". v.,,, fit ,1,11.1 iU wiii n'lMrtnii -m - r - ----,5 Merle Rainey, (second from left) of Platts niouth, with another electrical engineer, John O. Damon, and Korean electricians are shown at the switchyard of the Wangsim-ri substa tion near Seoul, where Rainey and Damon are Plattsmouth Man Is Helping Koreans Help Themselves SEOUL, Korea Merle Rain ey of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, el ectrical eneineer.has recently returned to the United States on home leave from Korea. He is In the power division of the Of fice of the Economic Coordin ator, United Nations Command, the economic and technical aid mission in Korea of the Inter national Cooperation Administra tion. The objectives of the Mutual Security Program in Korea are to strengthen the Korean Arm ed Forces and to enable the ROK Government to assume a greater share in its national de fence costs. The program seeks to Improve the capacity of Kor ea for economic self-support, to maintain the degree of eco nomic stability necessary for an effective defense effort and to increase domestic production & train administrative and tech nical personnel. Provision for adequate electric power Is an essential phase of the program to give Korea a sound economy. Most of the hydro-electric power sites were cut off from South Korea by the di vision of the peninsula and the war. The .distribution system was badly damaged by the con flict and the one remaining large-size hydro plant at Hwa chon had to be entirely rehab ilitated. In cooperation with the Korean Ministry of Commerce and Industry, OEC restored the Hwachon plant put large stand by thermal plant at Yongwol in co-idition for year-round ser vice, initiated rehabilitation of another old thermal plant near Seoul and built (three new ther mal plants with a total of 100, 000 KW capacity. Task orders were Issued to find a location for a fourth large thermal plant, this one to be of 30,000 KW capacity, and to select additional hydro sites. A program was initiated to restore and improve the transmision sys tem. Rainey, who joined ICA on Ju ly 15, 1956, supervises three con tinuing projects. The first is pro grammed for the partial recon ditioning of the Tangin-Ri power plant which includes the recondi tioning of a 10.000 KW Brown Boveri unit near Seoul and is nine-tenths completed. The second project calls for construction of a substation for the Hamback Coal fields, an Im portant fuel sou-ce recently tap nn Dip stuff nf International ped by a railroad; and the third project is for rehabilitation and construction of the overall trans mission. A receiving station at Hwachon, and four unit substa tions in the Hwachon area and another substation at Youg Do Island near Pusar, and trans mission line are among the im provements. Before joining OEC, Rainey was with the United Nations Ko rean Reconstruction Agency for three and one half years, part of this time he was assigned to the Korea Civil Assistance Com mand and to OEC, working in the general program for the re habilitation of the Korean power system. For 17 years he was with the National Utility Associ ation working on ratings, load Jochimsen Installed as New Legion Commander Thursday evening the member of Hugh J. Kearns post No. 56, department of Nebraska Ameri can Legion, held the annual in stallation of officers, the meet ing being held at the pleasant farm home of Taylor and Mar tha Cuthrell. For the past few years the summer meeting at the Cuthrell farm has been look ed to with the greatest of an ticipation and a royal good time. Arthur Warga. retiring com mander presided over the meet ing prior to the installation. The committee on co-operation with the Cass County His torical Societv on the propos al to allow the society to add a second storv to the building, made no formal reoort, but it is hoped to have the original plans of the building ready to submit at a future Leeion meeting. Members who attended the North Platte convention, E. O. Vroman, Kenneth Young, Dean L. Patton and Don Warga gave an interesting report of the meeting. There was some discussion of Veterans day at the state fair on Saturday, Aug. 30, a great many members and families planning on attending. Commander Warea presented Past Commander James F. Beg lpy as the installing officer, who very ably presented the new of ficers and inducted them in their stations as follows: Commander, Merlin J. Jochimsen; First Vice Commander Boyd I.inder; Sec (he Office nf the Economic Co ordinator I'nited Nations Command, the econo- ! mic and technical aid mission in Korea of the i Cooperation Administration. building, system analysis, rur al electrfication and power sta tistics and accounting. Rainev was to visit his fam ily in Plattsmouth, where a sis ter, Mrs. Earl Becker lives. Two other sisters are Mrs. Fred W. Tritsch, Omaha and Mrs. John Hatt of Seattle, Wash. A brother, Major Donald Rainey, is station ed at Ft. Riley, Kans. Reception Set For New Pastor A reception for Reverend and Mrs. A. L. Embree will be held Wednesday evening, August 13 from 7:30 to 9 p. m. at the Methodist Church Parlors. Plattsmouth members and friends are cordially invited. ond Vice Commander. Merle D. Meisinger; Post Adjutant, Don J. Warga; Finance Officer, Art J. Warga; Service Officer, T. I. Friest; Employment Officer, Loyd Behrends; Child Welfare Chairman, Alva Linder, John Cloidt, R. J. Case. R. Aim; Mem bership committee, Boyd Linder, Merle D. Meisinger, Arthur War ga, George Conis, Joe Zastera, R. T. Cuthrell, E. O. Vroman, Lloyd Fitch, Kenneth Young, J. j Milor, Fred Herbster, Marvin Welsh. Lowell Hopkins, William! Schmidtmann; Post Chaplain. Victor Schreiner: Disaster Re lief chairman, Thomas S Solo-: mon; Community Service Chair man, Lloyd Fitch: Americanism j chairman. James F. Begley: Pubi licity committee, Frank H. Smith ' and Howard Lindouist; Finance.; Cecil Karr, Art Warga. Albin E. Chovanec: Athletics, Russell j Nielsen. Jark O'Donnell: Mem orial Day. Cemetery and Graves, j Eugene Krings. J. Milor T. Oh noutka. Sick and VisiMng Com-! mittee, Art Warca, Robert As pedon Giles Bishop. Building Custodian, L. W. Kiel, Color Guard. Captain Cecil Karr and detail. The members of the group en joyed til o fine refreshments pro vided for the evening until the home going hour. H. L. S.iyrr of Papillion and James Lepert of Council Bluffs were present to meet with the commander. 103 Report To Give Blood Here Thursday afternoon St. John's School auditorium was a busy place, functioning as a Bloid Center. Much credit is clue the Doc tor's, nurses, nurse aides and helpers, typists, registrar, can teen workers, bovs and men un loading and loading the Blood mobile, who so generously gav of their time and talents. The callers who contacted donors and especially those who came to give blood. Also the churches for sharing the expense of canteen and St. John's for donating their build ing. ! 103 reported for donating bloofl a "id 75 pti were obtained. Some had to be rejected for var ious health reasons, but they are to be commended for their ef fort. Volunteer Donors Rev. Melvin Shafer, Kenneth Wright, Raymond Case, Jay Win ters, Leo Brink. Geo. Winscot, Mrs. Mildred Livingston, Mrs. Joyce Lockwood, Wayne Hend rix, Francis Olson, Frank Bi les, Mrs. Emma Cappell and Dr. Louis Amato. Also Mrs. Elsie Schutz, Mrs. Clara Ullman, Mrs. Dorothy Pil ney, William Gilmour, Mrs. Francis Janda, Roy Smith, Wal ter Gleason. Charles Painter, Mrs. Grace Perry, Kenneth Dun lap, Glen Diggs, Mrs. Sarah We iss, Miss Betty Taenzler, Mrs. Fern Topliff and George Smith. Also Mrs. Viola Marsh, Mrs. Alice Green. Mrs. Bonnie Youn ker, Mathew Sedlak, Howard Lindquist, Miss Karen Jacobs, Mrs. Louise Huebner, Mrs. Ruth Krings, Mrs. Joan Smith, Leo Hohman, D. Huebner, Mrs. Net tie Murara, Rollan Bucholz, Fred Tesch, Irvin Schroeder, Mrs. Dixie Bucholz, Carl Haith, New ton Sullivan, Perry Dingman and Mrs. Floy Arnold. Also R. W. Knorr, Jr., Rev. Jacob . Taenzler, Harold Will iams, Mrs. Jean Delap, Mrs. Ila Todd, Eugene Krings, Mrs. Agnes Ulik, Fred Ulik, Winford Dasher, Mrs. Ruth Willet and Miss Katherine Meisinger. Also John J. Bergman, Chas. Shera, Mrs. Mata Shafer, Frank Ashenbrener. Fred Neeley, Bur man Morris, Mrs. Florence Bas hus, Leonard Bashus, Mrs. Al ice Sharpnack, Mrs. Helen Smi th, Mrs. Mary Ayler and Mrs. Bob McClanahan. Also Mrs. Chas. Shera, Bob Walling, Mrs. Martha Williams, Mrs. Joe Dietl. Msgr. Joseph Przudzik, Mrs. Ralph Sullivan, Mrs. Clara Smith. Mrs. Thel ma Tritsch, Mrs. Grace Heigl, Mrs. Fred Beins, Fred Beins, Mrs. Louis Armentrout, Miss Donna Larson, Mrs. Evelyn Mor ris, Mrs. C. E. Morres, Mrs. Robert Rea, Mrs. Rob't Jacobs, Miss Charlotte Hagar, Mrs. Geo. Jacobs and Mrs. Jim Gochenour. Also Mrs. Zulema Dye, Mrs. Camille Swoboda. Mrs. Francis Olson, Linda Livingston, Jim Begley, Mrs. Ralph Gansemer, Mrs. Frances Toman, Miss Ann Demaree and Geo. Pohlmeir. The committee would like the names of the three persons who left without getting their name on the local list. Mrs. Phil Rihn and Mrs. John Bergmann were co-chairman at the Blood Center. Former Union Lady . Dies In Seattle, Washington Mrs. Donald La Violette, for mer Edith Foster of Union, died Thursday at Seattle, Wash., fol lowing a six months illness from cancer. She was born March 30. 1917 at Union, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ruben Foster. She was married in May 1942 at Omaha to Dr. Donald LaViolette. She was a graduate of the Union Hieh School and later of the St. Joseph School of Nursing in Omaha. Her married life has been spent in Seattle. Surviving: are her husband, two daughters, Carol, 10 and Mary 7; her father, Ruben Fos ter of Union, one brother, John of Union, two sisters, Mrs. Leon (Dorothy) Richards of Omaha and Mrs. Robert (Louise) Pate of Uypsilanti. Mich. Raymond J. Larson of this city is an uncle of the departed. The father and two sisters de parted Wednesday for Seattle to attend the funeral services and burial at Seattle. Mr. and Mrs. Larson also attended the funeral. She was Dreeeded in death by her mother and a brother, Arthur. Russian Farm Group Visits Here On Sunday Sunday Plattsmouth was pleas ed to have as euests for a short time, members of the eleven man Russian agricultural dele gation who are touring in the United States. The party stopped here on a swing through this section of the great farming regions of the west inspecting the methods of farming and crop handling. They I stopped here for lunch at the Hotel Coffee Shop before contin uing on through this section. The delegation included the vice minister of agriculture, the I chief of the GOSPLA auto, trac tor and agriculture machine building, several agronomists and agricultural engineers. They party visited the Unver sity of Nebraska today where they were welcomed by Dean W. V. Lambert. Tuesday morn ing the visitors will go to Beat rice where they will visit the assembling of seeding and cul tivating equipment and farm wa ter systems. Tuesdy afternoon the group goes to York to see an alfalfa dehydrating plant, a farm machine merchandising store. Wednesdy the Russian party goes to Ames, la., to visit Iowa State College and to Waterloo, la., to inspect the John Deere Tractor works. The group will leave Septem br 1st for their home. Contract Let For New Platte River Bridge The State Highway depart ment has announced the low bidders on a large number of public works projects involving highway work over the state, the largest single contract was that of the construction of the new traffic bridge over the Platte river, north of Platts mouth. The successful bid, for the bridge construction was $662, 025, by the Jensen Brothers, Jensen Construction Co. and United Contractors of Des Moines. The new bridge will carry one line of traffic on high way No. 73-75 between this city and Omaha. Other Cass county projects was guard rail at Louisville west and south. This was awarded to the Nichols Construction Co., of Geneva for $5,666. Mrs. Winkler Cets DRN Degree Mrs. Robert Winkler, the for mer Bobbie Sue Fitch of this city, now of Holdrege just re cently received the Degree of Doctors' Registered Nurse. Mrs! Winkler has been work ing as a Clinical Technician at the Holdrege Clinic the past few years. She . is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fitch. County Tuberculosis Committee Has Meet The executive group of the Cass County Tuberculosis Com mittee met, July 31, 1958 for a luncheon meeting at the Plattsmouth Hotel. The annual Seal Sale was dis cussed and plans and arrange ments were made for it. Mrs. Sophia Wolever was appointed Seal Sale Chairman for 1958-59. Tho:e present were: Mrs. La Vell Swarts, chairman, Eagle, Mrs. Harry Gobelman, vice chairman. Union, Mrs. Oliver Schiber, Plattsmouth, Mrs. Janet Dorway and Mrs. Donna Saw yer, field representatives, Oma ha, and Marie L. Schweppe, secretary, Murdock. Bill Knorr, treasurer, Plattsmouth was un able to attend. The annual District meeting of the Tuberculosis Association will be held September 23rd, at the Cornhusker Hotel in Lin coln, Nebraska. Bowlcro To Open Next Saturday The bowling season in Platts mouth will start Saturday, July 16th, according to Hob Hirz, manager of The Bowlero. The lanes have all been re finished by Brunswick-Balk-Cal-lander in readiness for the sea son's play. A general bowling meeting is to be held in the near future to which all bowlers are invited. Indications are, according to Mr. Hirz, that a number of addi tional teams will participate during the coming season. lueesi Coratest, Features Queen candidates from throu ghout Cass county will vie for the title of Cass County Fair Queen as a feature of the HK8 Fair, Tuesday through Friday at Weeping Water. The queen competition is a fea ture of Wednesday nig!rt and will follow the Grand Parade which will have floats and marching units from many comity towns. Judging of the queen contest ants will be by "three out of Pacific Junction Youth Drowns In Pond Friday An unguarded pond claimed the life of another vouth in the Plattsmouth area Friday. Jack Baker, 16, of Pacific Junction, Iowa was drowned in a pond two miles east of the Plattsmouth bridge at about 9:45 a. m. Fri day. Jack, the son of Mrs. Lois Ra ker of Pacific Junction, with 5 other young men, had been pulling weeds in the cornfield belonging to Dean Lincoln which is just south of the pond, ac cording to Mrs. John Jennings who lives nearby. On that hot morning the pond was extra inviting to the boys who had been sweltering in the heat of the cornfield. They evi dently decided to wade in and cool off. Jack, the only one of the group who could not swim, suddenly slipped into deep wa ter. His companions were unable to save him and ran to a neigh bor's home and nhoned the Glen wood, Iowa Fire Department. Within a short time, Mills Co unty Sheriff Rhoden, the Glen wood Fire Department and Cass County Sheriff Tom Solomon were on the scene. Divers were brought from Mer ritt Beach but the debris at the Lamascus Couple Receives Sad News Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Lamas cus received word early Sun day morning of an auto acci dent in Fargo, N. D., m which his brother's family was involv ed. Dr. Elvin Lamascus. his wife and daughter and a sister, brother-in-law and nephew of the doctor's wife were enroute to Canada for a vacation when the accident occurred. Dr. Lamascus is in critical condition. Other occupants of the .car are hospitalized at the Fargo hospital wit injuries. The injured are from Mar quette, Kansas. Completes Sale Of City Property Steve Davis, local realtor, an nounces complcton of sale of the Mr. and Mrs. Joy Haswell home at 1612 Valley street to Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Swabby. The Swab by's have moved into their new purchase. Davis also announced comple tion of sale of the Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose Moore home at 802 Ave. G to Mr. and Mrs. Merle D. Meisinger. The Meisingers will move into heir new home about Sept. 1st. The Moore? are planning to move to Belle vue. Auto Fatality At Alvo Corner On Highway 34 Hubert Lorenzen. 49. Rt. 7, Lincoln, was killed early Sat urday on highway No. 34, just west of the Alvo corner, when his car collided with one dri ven by Eldron Hansen, 21 of Elmwood. Mrs. Lorenzen. 41, who was riding with her husband, and Hansen were treated et Lincoln hospitals and released Saturriv Mr. Lorenzen was farming mar Walton and had lived all his life in Ncbrska. He was a veteran of world war 11. Car Hits Rut Badly Damaged Thursday evening Bill long and a few school friends were out enjoying a ride out in the vicinity of Cullom, when the car ran into a rut in the read that deflected the car so that it struck the end of a culvert. The car was quite badly damaged : and George Porter, one of the; party, had lacerations on the' head that required several stit-i chr.s. I of it county" persons. Appearance, . personality and a bioe.raphle.il sketch which each contestant will furnish will be considered I in the judging. The coronation will he Wed nesday at fl . ni. Louie Noble is in charge of the event. This is just one feature of the Fair which will have hun dreds of exhibits as its main attraction. Judging of -1 II and open livestock, poultry, pets. bottom of the pond made it impossible for them to safely conduct an underwater search. Volunteers brought boats to the ootid and dragging opera tions continued until about 5:30, p. m. when the body was lo cated and brought to the .sur face. As many as 8 boats were on the 2 acre ootid at one time during the searching operations, Iowa Highway Patrol officers also assisted in the rescue op erations. Introducing New Teachers The following are pari of a series of photos and brief (-ketches to acquaint Plattsmouth ! persons with additions to the j teaching- staff for the ensuing i year. Appointments were approved by the Board of Education re cently. Two new teachers have been assigned to the local schools. To teach Science and Mathe matics in our high school will be Theodore Witt of Winside. He is a graduate of thp Winside Sch ools and Wayne State Teachers College win re lie received his AB degree in 1949: and Colorado College of Education, an MA de gree in H)S1 at Greeley, Colo. V:,, 1 ' ' 4 " 'Ihooilore Witt He has had teaching experience in Pender, Seribncr and Laurel Nebra ka over a period of eight years. Also coming to Plattsmouth is Miss Madelyn Hilgenfeld. Daw son. She willl teach commercial and sponsor the girls' pep club. Miss Hilgenfeld is a graduate of the Humboldt Schools. VXC: Miss .lidelyn Ild-rntYhl Nebraska Wesleyan Unhersity . where .she ri ceived h.t r Ail IV- giee in 19..6. She has ha.l two yc ars tea. h ing expericr.ee at Lexington. Council Meets The (My Coimci! will me- t t,, night at V o'clock, in the Cnu'vii Chamber of rpv Hall I: !'! regular MTond-Mcnd.iy nn ( ;mg in Angu.. t. r wr i ; ' r; s . i t ' -) J I - " raoe u home economies, crops, liob'ov and vocation exhibits will be al most continuous. Premium checks and cham pionship trophies will In- award ed Friday atternooii and night. First entiles are due in from 1 to 5 u. in. Tuesday. The final scheduled event is free plat form entertainment at ii p. m. Friday. In between those times, tho sponsoring Cass County Agricul tural Society has promised "Cass County's Higgest and (J real est. Show". There will be some 35 classes of entries in which counlvam display the fruits of their labor; and hobbies. Superintendents of the main divisions are: Agriculture K.vliiliils, John Rieke. Poultry and Pets, Vincent. Hefi meier. Swine. Walter Patton. Sheep, Ily KireholT. Cattle. Arnold Deliner. Fancy Work. Mrs. Mary D. Merner. Domestic, Mrs. Ida Lotensen. Flowers, Mrs. George Kireh hoff. Art. Mrs. Edna Philpot. Grand Parade, H. A. Shiimak er, Weeping Water Chamber of Commerce. Bowman Honored by National VFW For His Services KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Special) Richard L. Roudebtish. Indian apolis, Ind., Commander-in-Chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, has announced the appointment of Dale M. Bowman, 1117 I t Avenue, Plattsmouth to serve n the V. F. W. National Commu te e on Americanism and Com munity Service during the or ganization's national convention to be held in New York Cilv, Aur;. 17-22. In making' his appointment, j the veterans lender said: "Dale j Bowman has long shown the qualities of leadership that we admire. It is important that we have men of his caliber serving during our notional convention beenu. e j is there that the re solutions to be followed during" the coming year will be unprov ed. "His long devotion to duty on all levels of the V. F. W.'wiM insure those members on a lo cal level who cannot attend the convention that their voice will be heard en the optional lev el." Roudehush concluded "Freshman Day" MonHav. August 13 At PHS Monday, August 1,1 has herg-i set as "freshman Day" at Platts mouth High School, it has been 1 announced bv Sinyrintendent T I. Friest. Eighth Ornde Graduates p.vrt extended an invitation to eoyo to the schools on his dav a'1 take part in nil of the aeti'.i- ' ties. The program is ns follows: Registration from !! to 11 a. m : Recreation period, 11 to 1 neon; picnic lunch in the ca1: -teri a i everything furnished1 a' noon; Special Music and Togr from 1 to 2 p. in and moving pictures at 2 p. m. "Freshman Dav" is open to new ninth grade students who would like to enroll in Pla!!-.-niouih High School. Cass County Boy U. S. Delegate Mr. ;vvl Mrs Geoi-e Boed"! -t have 1, ft Ave.ea :,p,.r vi-.itmg-his parents, Mr and Mrs CVor..,. I). Poedekcr of that place. Mr. ard Mrs. George Boedg ker flew to Geneva. Sw'tzelar.d. August ft h to aMeig) the Peace ful I'ses (if Atomic f'nergv com-mi'-sioo . Mr B-,tiekr r a teelmi,-;,! eeg-eiMagt f..r I yti.. Kn-eer t.-r ! his e, infer pee nir v f:Tifnr Aiisiivl 7. K. ', Id, l'l'.S "alf ilhti 1 nv Tfc. Thu-.-d.iy . , !ir, r.'i p,) Friday ;ia 7 . 00 Saturday . . !m) 0(1 no " "Pii.i.y S'i ('if! no Forcea.f r.Pllv cloudy to night High p. loiwr ijiv.s: 1 v.v ir vo ,i 70 s"" v' ' h'r.h'h! a 7 2:': 1 :.;es Toe - ,v at ."1 :::