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U U IIW W II I I ' ' mm ml if i FT i -i i r. - li::::-.::, CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER MdDUIM J(MpMEL TOflE. PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY Mondny-Thursctay Consolidated With the Nehawka Enterprise and Elmwood Leader-Echo Read Twice Weekly by More Than 3500 Cass County Families VOLUME 77 EIGHT PACES PLATTSMOUTH, CASS COUNTY. NEBRASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1958 TEN CENTS PER COPY NUMBER 9-1 Sm C ypportable All corn harvested In Cass County this fall will be eligible for price support provided it Ls of acceptable quality, Ivan O. Althou.se of the County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Com mittee announced today. For corn produced in compliance with the farm acreage allot ment, the support rate for farm-stored corn in the county will be FPC Hasn't Acted on Gas Rate Case j central ,iecuic arni wis com-, pany mis iiuoimeu u.e iviavoi and Citv Council by letter a bout the status of matters in connection with gas rates, as fol lows: The Federal Power Commis sion on June 25, 1958 deter mined our motion to dismiss Northern's Docket G-12153 (Rate Case No. 6) as premature. The Federal Power Commis sion has held no hearings and, as far as is known, taken no action on Northern's Docjcet G 12153 (Rate Case No. 6). The U. S. Supreme Court has rendered no decision or finding in connection with the Memphis Case. Your rates now in effect as a result of Northern's Docket G-12153 (Rate Case No. 6) are subject to refund pending final disposition of Northern's Rate Case No. 6 by the Federal Po wer Commission. As you know, Northern, on May 26, 1958, filed another ap plication (Rate Case No. 7. for an additonal Increase in the wholesale price of gas amount ing to $8,137,151 per year-$827,-! 895 of which applies to our com-! pany. The Federal Power Commis sion has effected the maximum five month suspension of North ern's May 26, 1958 application for rate increase, Docket G-15335 (Rate Case No. 7). Inasmuch as the Federal Po wer Commission Tia,s not been able to act on Docket G-15335 (Northern's Rate Case No. 7). the rate increase to Northern's utility customers proposed in Rate Case No. 7 will become effective under refunding bond on Nov. 27, 1958, the company said. "We propose to handle the in crease from Northern's Rate Case No. 7 in the same manner as was used in prior increases wherein your retail rates were increased just enough to cover our increased cost of gas with a refund agreement. In the past, we have made several refunds and ratp adjustments as a re sult of Northern obtaining less rates than were placed in effect under bond, "the company said The proposed gas rate ordin ance sent to the citv contains a schedule of increased rates. "Our position of steadfastly opposing Northern's rate cases is well known to you, and you may be certain that we will continue to act in the intcjitst by preserving the quality and economy of natural gas service, the company said. Fire Department Called Out By Burning Truck The fire department was cal led out Saturday afternoon by an alarm from the Wiysel gar age where a truck was reported on fire. The truck which was wrecked, was outside the building and the fire was occasioned by gas in the line catching fire. The truck was owned by Miller Kidder from Iowa. The loss is estimated at $15 by the fire department. A Classified Ad in The Journal post as little as 50 cents. THE W'HFR Oct. 9, 10, 11, 12, 1958 Pute Hieta Low Prr Thursday 76 56 .00 Friday 05 38 .00 Saturday 67 33 .00 Sunday 78 51 .00 Forecast: High near 80; low in upper 50's. Cloudy tonight. Sun sets tonight at 5:47; Sun rises Tuesday at 6:34 a.m. Corn yiraty a. rr corn noi prouureu in I compliance with allotments, the I rate for farm-stored corn will j be $1.02. ; The decision to offer supports on non-compliance corn as well as on corn produced within allotments was recently an nounced by the Department of Agriculture for the third suc- : cesslve year Tne Department ' called it an "unusual and emer j gency" program to "help stabi ! lize current feed gran and fu- ture livestock markets." ' The price-support program i for the 1958 corn crop will be l carried out as in the past I through Commodity Credit Cor ' poration Loans and Purchase i Agreements, Althouse said these will be available from harvest time through May 31, 1959 and will mature on July 31, 1959. To be eligible for price sup port, ear or shelled corn must grade No. 3 or better except that corn grading No. 4 because of test weight only will also be eligible. The corn must meet certain moisture requirements and must be in adequate storage, either on the farm or in a ware house or elevator. Soennichsen's Marks 70th Anniversary Three score years and 10 is the number at Soennichsen's who are celebrating the anniversary of the founding of the firm 70 years ago and today is noted as being the leading department store in Cass County. Starting last Friday and con tinuing through this week, the firm is offering special buys in all departments, H. M. Soennichsen, founder of the firm still takes an active in terest in its operation. Two of the second generation of Soennichsen's supervise the store now, Mrs. Matilda Pein and W. C. Soennichsen. The store is departmentalized under three heads, Chris Bulin, Don Lorensen and "Sam" Arn. Over the years this firm has been known for its community spirit, and progressive policies. No one firm has done more to further the growth of Platts mouth than has Soennichsen's. By many, it is felt that "What Brandies is to Omaha, Soennich sen's is to Plattsmouth." Service Stations Have Plan To Aid Rec Fund "We have 100 per cent co operation" was the way Al Hueb ner plans for the local pet roleum retailers group of which he is president. As a part of their Oil Progress Week promotion, all of the local service stations will give one cent per gallon toward the Playground fund on all gasoline sold on Saturday Oct. 18th. That means that if you fill up with gas on that day, you'll be helping the summer play ground fund at not one cent to you. Plans for this promotion have been under the direction of Mr. Huebner and Arthur Ofe. Stations co-operating are Hue bner's 66 Service, Ofe Oil Co., Jay's Texaco, Larry's .Texaco, Tom's Standard Service, Simp son Bros. Standard Service, Kent Oil Co., Cloidt Service, Wall's Conoco Service, Linder Oil Co., and C. E. Shellenbarger Sinclair. Asked for an estimate of what the day should net for the play ground fund, Mr. Huebner plac ed it at around $80.00 for the day. Mrs. Margo Sailors who under went surgery last week at Brown's Hospital, Nebra.-ka City, came home today, and is getting along fine. ,;,,. v " ,, Vw. ! ' j f x, V' ' . " : V i . X . ?s ; . , 7 w, ' I . . 0" wf .V" , - V. v: , !.-' iJ ; . v., . ' 1 4 si S;l . v i. i I- t .? - - ' J " t : i St Shown above are the first and present Masters of Plattsmouth Lodge No. 6, Masons. The photo of Kdmund A. Donelan, physician and druggist, was taken from a portrait in the local Lodge. He was 'Master from Feb. 20, 1858, to July 5, 1858. Mayor of Plattsmouth, he was also pre sident of the Nebraska Territorial Assembly. He served as Senior Grand Pursuivant of the State McLean Aide to U.S. VFWCmdr. KANSAS CITY, Mo A. C. Mc Lean, Plattsmouth, has been ap pointed National Aide-de-Camp to John W. Mahan. Helena, Mont. Commander-in-Chief of the Vet erans of Foreign Wars. The an nouncement was made at VFW National Headquarters. In making the announcement. Commander Mahan said "I deem it a great honor to have Mr. McLean serve on my per sonal staff. He has long been a tireless worker for the Vet erans of Foreign Wars and I am confident that he will carry out his assignment as National Aide-de-Camp with the same en thusiasm. Our organization is fortunate to have men of his caliber standing reacfy to serve," Mahan said. Senator Tom Dooley Dies of Heart Attack Senator Tom Dooley, 78, re presentative of Cass and Sarpy counties in the unicameral leg islature for four terms, 1943, 1945, 1953 and 1957 and three special sessions, died Sunday at Lincoln. Mr. Dooley entered the hospital recently for a check up. Senator Dooley was a candi date for re-election at the forth coming election. He was re-nominated at the primary election together with Harrison L. Gayer of Papillion, former Cass coun ty man. The third candidate at the primary was Edwin F. Mc Hugh of Murdock, who appar ently will replace Mr. Dooley on the ballot. Thomas Dooley was born at Salem, New York, October 11, 1880, son of Thomas Dooley and Ellen M. Whaley Dooley. He spent the greater part of his life in the west, being educated in the schools at Fremont high school and Fremont Normal. He was married on September 20, 1910 at Papillion to Gen va L. Critchfield, who with a son and daughter survive his passing. He came to Sarpy county on April 6. 1896, engaging in farm ing until 1904. He later was op erator of the Waterloo Cream ery at Papillion 1905-1906. Mr. Dooley was always an active figure in the life of Sarpy county, serving as deputy county clerk and later as county clerk and city clerk of Papillion. Mr. Dooley was an active fi gure in ciemocrtic party circles of Sarpy county during his re sidence there. He was a member of the Ro man Catholic church. Lyle Forrest and Dick Tincher accompanied two friends from Bellevue to Valentine for a long weekend of duck and goose hunting. . ' ' Oil Progress Week, This Week, Reminds of Advancements This is oil progress week . . . a week set aside by the nation's oil industry to call attention to the advances made by this fast growing industry over the years To emphasize the progress of oil and its effect upon the lives of each of us, the old farm boy, from the vantage point of over half a century, loked over his shoulder. If you're in the age group of the old farm boy you will re member with him the oil history of the early 1900s. If you are under 30, this will be your his tory assignment for today. The petroleum industry was in its infancy at the turn of the century. Oils, greases, kerosene, vaseline, and parafine were the major products, with kerosene, (Oil for lamps of China) the big seller. Gasoline was strictly a by product which had a limited market. There were only a few internal combustion engines and a small amount was used for cooking. It was generally old at hardware and grocery stores . . from a barrel. Axel grease and gear grease were in demand plus a very limited amount of lubri cating oil. With the coming of the auto liy Mary McCaig Linhardt Elmwood is centrally located in Stove Creek Percinct and is situated on the corners of four sections. The Northwest and Southeast corners of town were railroad land. The southwest corner was part of a school section and the Northeast corner was part of an eigthy-acre tract homestead by Jesse Thompson. The other eighty of this quar ter was homestead by Sam May. The unique name of Stove Creek came, as the story goes, from a stove being found in the creek. It was thought this stove was lost from the wagon of an early day emigrant while fording the stream. Even before the town w-as thought of. the first post office was in the log cabin home of the McCaigs, located one mile east and 2 1 2 miles north. David McCaig was the first postmaster, receiving this com mission signed by Alexander W. Randall on the 21st day of April, 1868. The post office was moved later a few miles south to the Walker store which was built in 1872 on Stove Creek near the ford x2 mile east of where Elm wood now stands. Since the Walker store was in the midst of an Elm grove, the CcCaig's suggested that the place be called Elmwood. of Nebraska Masons, June 2, 1858, to June 14, 1859. Raymond Lancaster, present vtorshipful master, prominent farmer of the Murray com munity, has been an active figure in Masonary for the past few years, serving in the various of fices until called to head the lodge. His family has been active in the Eastern Star and Jobs Daughters. mobile, the need for petroleum products became greater. Build ings that housed livery stables became combination livery stab les and garages and then gar ages. A hand operated gasoline' dispensing pump was set up just outside the door. Next came the "filling sta tion" a place to buy gasoline and were much In demand In early lubricants and a dispenser of free air and water, both of which auto days. There was also the bulk station which wholesaled the products to the retailers. This set the pattern for the modern "Service Station" with the distributor, serving not only the retailer but the farmer and householder in this area with gasoline, lubriancts and fuel of various types, both for heating and locomotion. Today's gasoline and fuels are vastly improved over the earlier products. Scientific advancements follow each other from year to year as the oil industry vies with itself to product a better product. Yes . . . this is Oil Progress Week. It is well that we pause, consider and pay tribute to the industry that makes life so much better, oil. Grove Named IE I m wood, History Soys Charles Walker a son-in-law of Sam May succeeded David McCaig as potmaster and he opened a store and post office on the May homestead. In 1872 we have the beginning of Elmwood on its present site. It consisted then of but one store. The post office was then moved to this store. Eli Lane was the first merchant in Elm wood and his store stood where the Elms cafe is now located. Before long Silas Greenslate became a partner of Mr. Lane and it became Lane and Green slate. Later C D. Clapp became a partner of Mr. Greenslate. In 1874 Elmwood was a grow ing village but it still had nei ther a Doctor or Blacksmith. Mr. Clapp heard of Mr. Wood ruff of Nebraska City so he in duced him to start a black smith shop here. Mr. Clapp also heard of Dr. Hobbs a young Doctor in Plattsmouth, he wrote to him and the young man rode out on horseback in 1875. Dr Hobbs built a home across the street south and a little east of the first store. Dr. Kenaston was the first Doctor in this lo cality but he never lived in town His home and office was 1 mile east, j mile south on the east side of the road. John Breedon was the first blacksmith in Elmwood. Jess Thompson continued his shop Moisoims Hiere Hove 11 A Amniversary All Who Share Corn Crop May Vote In Referendum Any resident of Cass County who produced corn in 1958 or was entitled to share in the 1958 corn crop will be eligible to vote in the Corn Referendum Nov. 25, Ivan G. Althouse of the County Agricultural Stabili zation and Conservation Office said today. An owner-operator, cash ten ant, standing rent or fixed-rent Visitors Day Set at Allied Nitrogen Division of Allied Chemical Corp. announced today that its Omaha plant, on U. S. 75 near LaPlatte, has design ated Friday of each week as Visitors Day. V. A. Peringer, plant mana ger, said tours of the plant will be available to the public at 1:30 on Fridays, starting Oct. 17. Each tour will be limited to about 15 persons. To aid in plan ning tours, reservations are ne cessary. Reservations may be made by calling or writing the plant's Industrial Relations Sec. tion. In explaining the expanded tour program, Peringer said that the move was in response to numerous requests from the public. He noted that only or ganized groups had toured the plant previously, and that the public's interest indicated an increased awareness of the im portant role of nitrogen products in agriculture. Memoriam Mass For Pius XII Here Tuesday On Tuesday, Oct. 14, at 6:30 p.m. at St. John's Church here, a solemn requiem high mass will be celebrated in memoriam for the late Pope Pius XII. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph Przudzik V. F. will be celebrant. Fr. Walter Banach will be dea con and Fr. Victor Stachowiak Will be subdeacon. The last absolution at the catafalque will be sung by Msgr. Przudzik. Music for the requiem will be provided by the St. John's choir under direction of Sr. Mary Lewis. The public is invited to take part in the solemn tribute to the late pontiff. Council Meeting The City Council will meet at 7:30 tonight at City Hall. It is the regular second - Monday meeting. Journal Want A-'.s Pay under the hill east of Willard Clappo house on the north side of the road east of the concrete bridge but in a short time the Thompson's left the hardships of pioneer days and returned to the old home in Ohio. He sold out his business to Wm. Shick. The first home built was be hind the telephone office. Richard Ray gave the first plot for the Elmwood Cemetery. Triplets born to Mr. and Mrs. Ray were the first to be buried there in 1869. A few years before her death, Mrs. A. W. Neihart (the former Clara Hallenbeck, daughter of pioneer settlers-i solicited money and had a nice marker put up at the previously unmarked grave of the babies. Buy now Elmwood was a booming village and in 1886 the Missouri Pacific Railroad came through Elmwood. It was through- the untiring efforts of Dr. N. R. Hobbs, C. D. Clapp, John Clements, Cyrus Alton, and John Hart that the railroad manage ment were induced to build their railroad through Elmwood in stead of north of town as it had been surveyed. On July 16, 1886 it was sur veyed by A. E. Sprague and the plot was filed for record. Among the men instrumental in this act were: C. D. Clapp, Cyrus Alton, Wm. Schick, N. R. Hobbs, J. H. Hart, Edgar Stopher, David tenant a share tenant or share cropper or the landlord of ?i share tenant will be eligible to vote. The landlord of a standing rent, cash rent, or fixed-rent tenant will not be eligible. In addition, Althouse said, there are three other groups of eligible voters: 1. Any operator or landlord of a farm for which a 1958 corn allotment was established even though corn was not planted: 2. Any person who planted corn in 1958 but did not harvest it; and 3. Anyone who placed corn allotment land in the Soil Bank in 1958. The purpose of the November Referendum will be to deter mine whether the present corn program should be changed for 1959 and later years to a new program in which there would be no acreage allotments on corn and price supports would be determined on a different basis. Central Cass Church Census Being Planned Five ministers frm central Cass County met in the Weeping Water Methodist Church Thurs day night, October 9, to make plans for a religious census of central Cass County. The ministers were Mr. J. E. Aeschbacher of the Avoca Con gregational Church, Mr. C. F. Weidemann of the Nehawka and Weeping Water Methodist Chur ches, Robert Rueter of the Louis ville Christian Church, Mr. Don Webster of the Louisville Metho dist Church, and Mr. Victor Sch warz of the Weeping Water Christian Church. Plans were made to assign areas to Nehawka, Avoca, Weep ing Water and Louisville. The Churches in eacli town are as suming the responsibility of making the canvas in their area. The purpose of the canvas is to secure information concern ing religious preference or mem bership of everyone in the area. Nov. 9 was set as the day for the canvas. In the afternoon of that day workers from the parti cipating Churches will knock at the door of every home in cen tral Cass County. The Churches of western Cass County are also making plans to canvas their area in a similar way, as are al o the Churches of eastern Cass County. Thus reli gious census is being sponsored by the Nebraska Council of Churches and the participating Churches of Cass County. McCaig, A. Sniff, A. S. May, G. W. Nylton, H. G. Beardsley C. L. Bailey and John Clements. The First National Bank of Elmwood was founded Nov. 16, 1886 by Edwin Jeary. The Amer ican Exchange Bank was organi zed on July 13, 1889. To date this bank is still doing active busi nes. The churches played a pro minent part in the growth of Elmwood for in 1874 the Metho dist church was organized in the Stove Creek school house onP mile east of Elmwood. In the early days the minister went from one settlement to to another on horseback hence! were called Circuit Riders". Rev. W K. Laufburron was ap- pointed to Stove Creek in 1879. There being no parsonage, C. D. Clapp donated a lot and helped build a home north of the G. G. Douglas home. Following came the Christian Church organized in 1874 by El der Cyrus Alton, the present church being built in 1885. The Lutheran church was built in 1891. (Has since been torn down 1 Altho they had held meetings prior to that in the G A. R. hall. The Catholic church mass was first held in this community by Rev. Emmanuel Hartig A. S. B. in th home of Mirliael McGuire. In 1886 the Rev. Romans A. i On Wednesday evening at fl:20 Plattsmouth Lodge No. (i. An cient Free and Accepted Masons, will observe at a centennial ban quet the 100th anniversary of the chartering of the lodge. Plattsmouth lodgi' has a long and brilliant record of service, not only to Masonary, hut as well to the state of Nebraska, for its part of helping to build the west, to bring to this area Christian teaching, education and the development of man kind in this great state. I:i the early settlement of the territory of Nebraska in the fif ties there came many members of t lie Masonic order from the ea t and south to make this home in this new territory. In the communities along the Missouri river, travel route to the west, settlers came to make their home, lodges of the order were established at Bellevue, later transferred to Omaha as Nebraska lodge No. 1, Western Star lodge No. 2 at Nebraska City and Capitol lodge No. 3 at Oma ha. These lodges were designated a .3 the first grand lodge of Ne braska. On June 2, 1858 this grand lodge chartered three ad ditional lodges, Nemaha lodge No. 4 at Brownvill,', Omada lod ge No. 5 at Dakota City and Plattsmouth lodge No. 6. From that time until the close of the civil war in 1805 there were no more lodges chartered. Plattsmouth lodge No. 0 selec ted as the first worshipful mas ter, Dr. Edmund A. Donelan, president of t he Nebraska terri tories legislative, and mayor of Plattsmouth. Its membership comprised many that later had a great part in the development and history of the state which was admitted to the union on March 1, 1867. Early day mem bers included Dr. Robert Ram sey Livingston, later colonel of the First Nebraska infantry in the civil war, discharged as Brig General as well as William D. McCord, leuUmant colonel of the regiment. Plattsmouth lodge also guv,; two grand masters to the order in Nebraska, Daniel H. Wheeler and William A. Robertson. Wil liam F. Evers, grand commander of the Knights templar in 1950 and James M. Robertson, of this city, while a member of lodge No. 19 of Lincoln, .spent a greater part of his life here, was a mem ber of Nebraska chapter No. 3 and Mt. Zion comniandery, No. 5, served as grand commander of the Knights Templar in 1925. Hon Francis E. White who served as secretary of the grand lodge of Nebraska for a period of twenty-live years was also an early day member of Platts mouth lodge. Among the ciist i n g u i s h e d guests expected here for the centennial banquet will be John H. Beaver, grand master of tin grand lodge, of Gering. Shaffel Vicar general of Omaha Diocese celebrated mass in the G. A. R. Hall. The Evangelical church was built in 1891. Was first known as the Evangelical Association. Now is known as Evangelical United Brethern. Tlie first school railed Stove Creek was built in 1871. one mile east of where Elmwood now stands. When the railroad went through and the town of Elm wood was established in 1886 a new district was established which was called No. 95 and it was comprised of part of Stove Creek district. t ine .Move (.reek- scnooi w.is : then moved two miles east. The I first srhool in Elmwood was n wooden building in the center I of town, later a two story build-, with two rooms upstairs and two ' below was built in 1889. j The first graduating class was 1 in 1894, There are two mom ! hers of thp original class still j living. Willard Clapp. and Mrs. Grace Plybon both of Elmwood. Since a great number of the early settlers were exservlre, having seen service in the Civil War it was only natural that they organize a military organ ization which was to be known as Kenesau Post No. 123 O A P.. Elmwood also had a fair, for four years from 1892-95 Elm- Continued on Page 7