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i- I.. CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER TlHI IE PLAITSi IMrMIL PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY Monday-Thursday Consolidated With the Nehawka Enterprise ond Elmwood Leoder-Echo Read Twice Weekly by More Than 3500 Cass County Families VOLUME 77 EICHT PACES PLATTSMOUTH, CASS COUNTY. NEBRASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 195S TEN CENTS PK COPY NUMBER 100 WIM County Champs One of the highlights of the Cass County 4-H Achievement meeting was the announcement of County 4-H winners for 1958. Eleven 4-H'ers and two adults were recognized. James Pollard of Spokane, Washington and Mrs. Elton New man of Salt Lake City, Utah were awarded the County 4-H Alumni Award. Both are former 4-H Club members In Cass Coun ty from the Nehawka commun ity. 4-H champions are: Twila Hicka for food reserva tion; she has completed 29 pro jects in 10 years of club work. Marilyn Pollard was declared winner in Achievement, Dairy, Girls Home Economics and Beat- Lieu of Taxes Payment of $2,190 Made to County Consumers Public Power Dist rict, through local manager, Er nest Elliott, today turned over to the Cass County treasurer a check for $2,190.75, the first half payment this year in lieu of real estate and personal taxes. It will be pro-rated to county school districts, villages and towns and Plattsmouth city. A constitutional amendment on continuation of such pay ments In lieu of taxes will ap pear on a special ballot in Tues day's election. The City Council here last week endorsed the proposed amendment. Extension Council Installs Cass County Home Extension Council members met Oct. 27 to elect and install new council of ficers for the coming year. Officers installed were: coun ty Chairman, Mrs. Clinton West lake of Elmwood; Vice charman, Mrs. Fred Wehrbeln of Platts mouth; and Board member, Mrs. Dennison Price of Murray. The retiring county chairman Mrs.' Willis Lorensen of Weep ing Water and retiring board member Mrs. Sterling Ingwerson of Plattsmouth were honored with gifts of tulip bulbs from the Council. Gifts of bulbs were also pre sented to the retiring group chairman: Mrs. Clarence West lake of Eagle; Mrs. Fritz Albers of Elmwood; Mrs. Fred Wehr beln of Plattsmouth; Mrs. Os car Dill of South Bend; Mrs. Sterling Ingwerson of Platts mouth; Mrs. John Klein of Union and Mrs. Harold Domingo of Weeping Water. Mary Ruth Rapp, District Su pervsor from the State Exten sion Service staff, discussed plans for the coming year with the Council. Training lessons will be given in the following order: January - First Aid; February Laundry Tricks and Gadgets; March Let's Eat Fruit; Sept ember Parents and Purse Strings; October Skillet Meals. A handcraft lesson on mosiac tile are will be offered to those interested during the month of January. The Council and new Exten sion Club officers will meet on November 10. At this time new group chairmen will be selected and club officers will receive training for their new positions. Mrs. Nancy Sutton, Home Ex tension Agent. Asphalting of '66" Underway LOUISVILLE (Special) The laying of the asphaltic material on Highway 66 was started 10 days ago at the Cedar Creek corner. One half of the bed was cov ered with a coating of one and one-half Inches of the material and that evening placing of the material had reached what is known as the Tom Tennant hill. Another coating of the same thickness was still to be put on, according to reports. If the weather stays nice, it was estimated that the first coat will be done from the Cedar Creek corner to town by the end of the week. A Classified Ad In The Journal cost as little as 50 cents. 4-H Crowned Uficatlon of Home Grounds; she has completed 47 projects in 9 years of 4-H. Sharon Dodson is the winner of Citizenship, Food Preparation, Frozen Foods, and Poultry con tests. She has completed 31 pro jects in 7 years. Twila, Marilyn and Sharon are all from the Nehawka com munity. John jonnson of Greenwood is Garden club champion hav ing completed 5 years of club work including 14 projects. Maribelle Elliott is winner of the Leadership Award. She also has completed 9 years of 4-H with 17 projects. Maribelle and Susan are from Weeping Water. Herbert Heil of Louisville is the Forestry project winner. He has completed 9 projects in 8 years of 4-H. Hunter Ingwerson is the champion Soil and Water Con servation, Meat Animal, &nd Boys Record contests. Hunter has completed 20 projects in 8 years. Herbert Kraeger Is the reci pient of the Members Service Award and is Market Beef champion. Herb completed 15 projects in 7 years. Leonard Hild was recognized for winning the Achievement, Swine and Tractor contests. He has had 7 years of 4-H complet ing 26 projects. Diana Wiles is the Home Im provement champion. She has completed 25 projects in 8 years. Diana, Hunter, Herb and Leon ard are all from the Platts mouth community. Congratulations are certainly in order to these and all other 4-H'ers who have completed another successful year of 4-H Club activities. The 1958 winners of a won derful trip to Chicago are Leon ard Hild, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Hild and Diana Wiles, dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Wiles. Both live in the Platts mouth community. The awards are all expense trips to Chicago and the Inter national Live Stock Exposition the later part of November as guests of the Murray State Bank at Murray. Chas Boedeker, president of the Bank, recently announced that their schedule to Chicago is pretty well all planned and will Include transportation to and from Chicago by airline. Looks as though we will have a couple of high-flying 4-H'ers in Cass County. In fact they both were up in the clouds in a hurry when after the moment of suspense they were announced as winner of this award for 1958. Clarence Schmadeke, County Agent. Winners of Ruback Prizes Winners of prizes for costumes at Ruback's Supermarket Thurs day night at the Halloween party were: Under 8 years of age 1st, Mark Lockwood; 2nd, Nancy Ann Nelson; 3rd, Kay Collins. Over 8 1st. Marilyn Vindus ka; 2nd, Mark Allison; 3rd, Billy Farrell. HALLOWEEN TREATS Children are shown jetting treats after the costume judging at Ruback's Supermarket. Norm Ruback does f ! J r i r--"i i j1.' a L rinr . r -J K , S 1 . r i r i r . . j f ----- LJf.:4-JULl 4 $ 1 r y ' -A (O i SecondL.-"Wakd H . ... Ja I m- ' tr.'tL lit II t ri irnr? f FRFCINCT LINES HERE precinct lines which apply for 52nd National Sale To Begin November 14 The 52nd National Christmas Seal Sale which starts Nov. 14 and continues through Decem ber is an American tradil ion symbolizing a gift to the Cass County Tuberculosis Associat ion for better health for the en tire community. Christmas Seals support the work of the tuberculosis assoc iations for prevention and con trol of TB. The annual Christ mas Seal Sale is the only fund raising campaign of the tuber culosis associations. 1958 County Officers are: County Chairman, Mrs. LaVell K. Swarts, Eagle; Vice chair man, Mrs. Harry Gobelman, Union; seal chairman, Mrs. So phia Wolever, Plattsmouth; sec rectary, Mrs. Marie Schweppe, Murdock and treasurer, Bill Knorr, Plattsmouth. Members of the Cass County Salon of the 8 & 40 will assist in the program of the Christ mas Seals, Mrs. Wolever said. WHAT CHRISTMAS SEALS BUY: Thev finance a year - round I program of public education for TB prevention. They finance a year - round courses in tuberculosis for phy sicians in places of leadership both in the field of public heal th and in tuberculosis hospitals. They assist in paying for tu berculin testing programs. They help provide TB spec ialists for lectures at medical meetings and for instructors in post - graduate conferences for physicians. They help sponsor conferences on tuberculosis for nurses. They provide materials for . .ywwiiiwiiMM'it- -win! iinniii-i wnMM I u mnuii. .,M..ifwwi'ip'nwiu u limiun u'.i.'y uw1-: znn tkr $mn n ! ! r n y. if -H Zuv Prcut. i Q "f -i I I .A) iii r hi... II J;LJ;. IjLO ; I ' ' :-J i 4 rl f H 11 i i ni:j.tTL j Liters Shown above are elections here. Polls will be open Tuesday from 8 a.m. for the general election. Christmas Seal schools, colleges, and libraries for the further education of peo ple against TB. They buy materials for the re habilitation of TB patients in the state hospitals of Nebraska. They pay a portion of the cost of county-wide X-ray survey sponsored by the State Depart ment of Health. They help pay for diagnostic chest X-rays. They help finance medical re search against TB. In Nebraska there were 218 now cases of TB reported in Ne- W"wfoy'S'-vfrre wfiu!ii mm I'm n. miuwimn ft ' -t . .. . . i - , h i '-. ll . 7 ": ! jMvohf j 1 v:r. ;-. &r :. : ' U(- GOOD TIME The question which preced ed this photo was "Who's having a good time?" The children were at the VFW Club for the an Jt A '. '. the honors at center as part of a crowd of sev eral hundred children claimed their bac of treats. ! ' I j 1 ? i WARD i :i tJ Lj 1 braska in 1957. A total of 1214 people are known to have active tuberculosis. In addition, there are an estimated 1200 unknown cases. Seventy-two Nebraskans died of tuberculosis last year. There were 303 patients served in the State Hospital at Kear ney in 1957. Halloween 'Normal' It was a normal Halloween night In the county according to the sheriff's office. Damage occurred at four ru ral schools during Thursday and Friday nights. Sheriff Tom Solomon patroled the west half of the county and Deputy Wayne Schneider took the east half. nual Halloween were in costume r ih V COSTUME CONTESTANTS up in two aislw at Hinky Dinky 1' J 0 - to 8 p.m. ""I TSCr'-V' 1 wr w-rMi -lr .'.iKyS. Mr. Derbv was found dad in 2 i! 0' - H I f-l -WjTT i"1' t1 a rock qu:lrry timekepper-s fJVSy t i I i f" ' IJm. "T . . TiT , W. closed room apparently furnish- tf 1 1 C 1 - ll Ji . -C 4 ed the carbon monoxide, tho '.V nP- V 'Ti4n ' ' -' t . THE WEATHER 150 Attend Halloween j Party Here The Veterans" of Foreign Wars Post 2543 and its Auxiliary along with the Modern Woodmen of America held their 1958 Hal loween Youth Community Party Friday evening at the VFW club room with 150 attending. A parade, down main street by the masqueraders, was a " spooky' sight to see. On re turning to the clubrooms, the costumes were judged by Clem Woster and Sophia Wolever. Prizes went to Ru sell Schalk, first; Alan Bernhardt, second; and Debra Kalasek, third; win- ning cash prizes awarded by the VFW. Orange ribbons of honorable mention were given to Mark Al- lison, Sherry Hafke, Lydia Geo- rge, Lloyd Fitch Jr. and Linda Ballinger. The masqueraders then en joyed a "Woody Woodpecker" and "Donald Duck" cartoons and received treats from the VFW and individual prizes from Wood men of America. Witch Wagon prizes were given after the party to those who were home to answer the phone. Prizes went to Lyle Musselman, Bobby Loffer, Karen Porter, Bet sy and Kate Waterman. Mail Improvement For Rural Patrons Under new regulations, effec tive Nov. 15, 1958, 14 families on Rural Mail Routes out of Platts mouth, will be able to receive their mail in front of their driveways, saving them travel ing a quarter to a half mile to their mail boxes. This is one of the efforts be ing made to give better Postal Service to patrons of the office, Postmaster Leslie Neil said. party Friday night. Most kids and all had a good time. "t , WWW! til) t fn CL. . Children lined Store here Thurs day night for no easy task "t4"f 1" S - ' 'TO3 A menii'ai reoori irom me '" i ? Tl'ltnAi '.v" ' i c University of Nebraska on blood --kr &'-&.YC rtX'Xi'' of Donald Derby indi- t AMI'S tP-t-i V J ' ' lr ' the apparent cause of death, ac- r' 'jfniA .' i'- 1 rrt Sk'''- Jt- - cording to Sheriff Tom Solomon. ILiliT;.' CVfti T'-. ood.ws found to be "sat- J . i i wy"-,, ? J '., i ' I uraiea wnn id per cent caroon -Jl i-1-JMWlUvV-:-y '..' 'k- : V monoxide, he said. X.- .5 (. torn Jaycees Offer I Rides to Polls The Plattsmouth Junior ! Chamber of Commerce has of i lend to supply transportation , to and from the polls in Platts mouth Tuesday for anyone want ing it. The number to phone is 7201. The service is offered from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., the polling period. No Registration Needed To Vote No pre-regi.itration Ls neces sary for voting in Cass County in Tuesday's general election. A prospective voter only has to meet the following residence re quirements: Residence of 6 months in the 1 state, 40 days in the county and 10 days in the precinct in which he now resides. Zffinri fnc v wl,,,y J,lti Tuesday Listed Voting site.5 for Tuesday's gen eral election here are: 1st Ward, 1st Precinct Co unty Courthouse. 1st Ward, 2nd Precinct Christian Church. 2nd Ward, 1st Precinct Cass County Motors. 2nd ' Ward, 2nd Seanlan's Store. 2nd Ward, 3rd Wiysel's Garage. Precinct Precinct Teen-Age Party Here Success Big Success! That's the way the Jaycees described the Halloween Howl they sponsored along with sev eral organizations Friday night at the high school gym. In fact, the Rock a Bops, 4 piece combo which played for dancing from 9:30 to 12:30, was so popular the Jaycees heard many requests to get the band back here for another dance soon if at all possible. There were prizes of records and record albums, too, for dance contest winners and the Jaycees provided 440 bottles of soft drinks as refreshments. (A photo taken by Jaycee Bob Faris at the dance will appear in Thursday's Journal). Prize Winners At Hinky Dinky Winners of prizes in the cos tume judging during Hinky Dinky Store's Halloween party Thursday night were: Boys 1st, Tim Dunlap; 2nd, Steven Rishel; 3rd, David Bur ton. Girls 1st, Lydia George; 2nd, Alice Hobbs; 3rd, Nannette Nel son. School Board Meets The Plattsmouth Board of Ed ucation will meet tonight at 7:30 p. m. at the high school. It's a regular first-Monday meet, ing. 1 4 r4 1 sj8J y 4 S JSuatai. . Ml costume judging. The judges had for there wre hundreds of entries. ection to Election polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday as Cass County elects 11 county officials votes on state and con gressional offices and deckles a special proposition. To be named are county clerk, sheriff, assessor, treasurer, sur veyor, attorney, register of deeds, clerk of District Court, commissioners and superinten dent of schools. Lively races are between Char lei Land, Republican incumbent, and W. J. B. McDonald, Demo crat, lor clerk. Tom Solomon, Democrat in cumbent, and Ray Becker, Re pnblican, for sheriff. Clara Olson, Republican in cumbent, and Gus Brubaeher, Democrat, for assessor. Mrs. Owen Scoles, Republican, and Mrs. Mabel Stohlmann, De mocrat, for treasurer. And Melvln Todd, Republican serving by appointment, and Otto Schafer, Democrat, for commissioner of District 2 Unopposed are: Carl Tiekotter, Republican, for surveyor. James Begley, Republican in cumbent, for attorney. Mrs. Lucille Gaines, Democrat incumbent, for register of deeds. C. E. Ledgway, Republican in cumbent, for clerk of District Court. Herman Bornemeier, Repub lican incumbent, for commis sioner of District 3. And Lloyd Behrends. non political incumbent, for super intendent of schools. The county proposition is for a one-tenth mill tax levy to es tablish and maintain a Cass County Historical Society. Two countyans are bidding for legislative posts. Francis Casey of Plattsmouth, Democrat, seeks the 2nd District Congressional seat held and sought by Glenn Cummingham, Omaha, Republican. Edwin McHugh of Murdock seeks a seat in the .state legis lature again t Cap Gayer of Pa pillion. Each is seeking election the first time. Besides the main ballot and the Historical Society question, on which the Journal has gone on record recommending a "FOR" vote, there will be two other ballots. One is seven pro posed amendments to the con stitution. The other Ls two con stitutional amendments placed on the ballot by initiative peti tion. Handshake Can Be Awakening One of the unusual attractions Halloween night here had a Yorkshire (or Hampshire) twist. A gentleman made the rounds shaking hands in a friendly way and for anyone who shook with out looking it was quite a shock. He was masked, wore a denim jacket and one hand dangled strangely. The "hand" turned tint to be a pigfoot, unpickled and stone cold. One young girl, handshaken and shaken with laughter said, 'That's the silliest thing I ever heard of!" It was. Monoxide Poisoning Oct. 30, Date Thursday Friday 31, Nov. 1 Hi . . G3 C4 1958 .ow Free. 27 .00 31 .00 31 .00 32 .00 ia: urday 63 68 I Forecnst: Hi gh near 70; low in : " upper 30 s. Continued fair. Sun sct tonight at 5:17; ri.-es Tuesday at 6.59 a.m. 0OiH,iIIiiiii-iii nt nuiii