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CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY Mondny-Thursday Consolidated With the Nehawka Enterprise end Elmwood Leader-Echo Read Twice Weekly by More Than 3500 Cass County Families VOLUME 78 FOURTEEN PACES PLATTSMOUTH. CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 20. 1958 TEN CENTS PER COPY NUMBER 1 TDflE PLATlSMdPlLITIHl JJflNUKIMIL Court Case Solution on Surveyor? A court case may have to de cide the status of Cass County's duly elected county surveyor, Republican Carl Tiekotter of Plattsmouth. Under a new state law. coun ty surveyors must be registered land surveyors. Tiekotter does not qualify as such at present al though he sought and won elect ion in perfectly legal manner. The attorney general's office last spring ruled that the coun ty clerk of Cass County should accept Tiekotter's filing for of fice even though he did not qualify at that time to serve under the new state law. He was nominated and elect ed without opposition. He was also issued a certifi cate of election Nov. 14 along with the other newly elected county officials. County Attorney James Beg ley had asked an attorney gen eral's opinion en the Issuance of the election certificate and the opinion was that one must be issued. The opinion also says the county attorney Is "duty bound to prosecute" the surveyor upon his "asumption of the office and duties of' surveyor" if he is "not a registered land surveyor." Any elector may bring an election contest. However, the opinion gives the county attorney an alterna tive, in that the right of the duly elected but uncertificated surveyor "be determined by a court of competent jurisdiction," probably District Court in a test case. Any of this will likely have to wait until after Jan. 8, the date on which newly elected county officers are to be sworn and as sume the duties of the 1959-62 term. Louis Henry Born Lifelong Resident Of County Dies Tuesday, Louis Henry Born, 81, lifelong resident of Cass county assed away at the Me thodist hospital in Omaha where he had been an overnight pat ient. Mr. Born has been in fail ing health for some time but was not taken to the hospital until Monday when his condit ion grew more serious. He was born November 6, 1877 at the farm home of his par ents, Leonard and Fredrlcka Nolting Born, near Plattsmouth. He was married on February 5, 1902 at Louisville to Elizabeth Catherine Meisinger, who pre ceded him in death February 4, 1950. Mr. Born was a very sucessful farmer in Cass county for the greater part of his life until he retired from the farm in 1928. Mr. and Mrs. Born residing in the home of North 10th street and where the wife passed away. The parents of Mr. Born were early day residents in this sec tion of Cass county and the children all followed the exam ple of their forebearers in the tilling of the soil. Mr. Born was a member of the First Presbyterian church for many years. He was a man highly respect ed by those who had the plea sure of his acquaintance, with his pleasant and friendly man ner will be greatly missed in the life of the community. Surviving are three daugh ters, Mrs. Fred Bartek and Mrs. Will Bartek, both of Omaha; Mrs. Arthur Sprieck, Platts mouth; one sister, Mrs. Eliza beth Stoehr, Plattsmouth; one brother, Philip Born, Platts mouth; eight grandchildren and twenty-two great grandchildren. Preceding him in death are the parents, one daughter, Mrs. Florene Schissl who passed away in 1952; two sisters and two brothers. Funeral services were held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the First Presbyterian church. Rev. Keith Delap, officiating. Burial was at the Oak Hill cem etery. Visiting hours were held at the Sattler funeral home on Wednesday afternoon and even ing for the many old friends. Sattler funeral home in charge of arrangements. Eagle Mail Route Extensions Made EAGLE (Seclal) The Eagle rural mail route has been ap proved for an extension of 7 miles, effective Nov. 15. This will enable more famil ies to receive their mall at their driveways. :r w. VISIT NEARLY OVER Jan de Zwart, left, spent a week. Jan brought the wooden shoes IF YE visitor from the Netherlands, talks with shown at bottom center to show. Farm workers Lin nea and Hunter Ingwerson about his itiner- still wear shoes like that in the Netherlands, ary in the Sterling Ingwerson home where he 4 . ' Rain Postpones Part of 2-Day Wenzel Farm Sale Monday's rain probably brou ght smiles to 99 per cent of Cass county's farmers but not to Clyde Wenzel of Eagle, whose two day Farm Sale was set to start that day. The steady downpour made it Impossible to have the sale of the farm machinery as schedul ed so a new date was set Dec. 1. All livestock was to be sold today (Thursday; as previously advertised. Clyde, the auctioneers and many folks who want a chance to buy the farm equipment of fered are hoping for dry wea ther on the new date. The list of items will be ad vertised in next week's Jour nals. Roads in County Being Mapped The Cass County Commis sioners are busy these days pre paring maps detailing the kind of surface (that is rock, dirt, paving etc.) on all county roads. Each commissioner will map his ,own district and County Surveyor Bill Coakley will con solidate the information onto a large map which is required an nually by the State Dept. of Roads. Bank Here Aids ' UN Building Fund The initial report from the Kellogg Center committee of the Nebraska Bankers Association shows that 61 outstate Nebras ka banks have contributed $30, 150 to the University of Nebras ka project. Otto Kotouc, Sr., of Humboldt, committe chairman, reported today. This brings the state-wide contribution for construction of a Center of Continuing Educa tion to $353,000. The first report of contribu tors from members of the Ne braska Bankers Association in cludes Plattsmouth State Bank. A Classified Ad in The Journal cost as little as 50 cents. 'IHSow LINCOLN The choice corn producers must make at the re ferendum Tuesday, Nov. 25, is difficult because neither the "new program" nor continua tion of the present program has a clear-cut advantage over the other. Neither program is a solution from the cash grain farmer's financial viewpoint nor a solu tion to such national farm pro blems as increasing feed produc tion, growing stocks of feed grains or ups-and-downs in live stock production. With such limited chances for success, whichever choice is approved probably will be in effect only a year or two before new legisla tion is enacted. Corn producers have two choices: 1. The so-called "new pro gram" having no acreage al lotments on corn, no designated commercial corn area, price sup Shouid 1 'l V i i w W V- ? ! Corn Impresses Here, but Popcorn Doesn t Jan de Zwart of the Nether lands is impressed with Nebras ka agriculture and people but is satisfied to do without such American delicacies as corn on the cob, popcorn, watermelon and chewing gum. The 22-year-old from Sloot dorp near Amsterdam is just completing a 6-month stay in this country, the last couple weeks in Cass County. Now at the Ralph Wehrbein farm home, he also spent a week at the Sterling Ingwerson farm. Tuesday noon, he was guest speaker at the Plattsmouth Ro tary Club meeting at the hotel. He showed color slides and talked about the Netherlands ; and about his view of America ; as an International Farm Youth Exchange, IFYE for short. Jan farms 80 acres with his father on land reclaimed by dam from the sea. They raise wheat, sugar beets, oats, potatoes, flax and barley and keep dairy cat tle and horses. That 80 acres is not a small farm, as farms in the Nether lands go. For instance, he says, 200 or 250 acres would be an un- usually large farm there where about 30 acres to the farm worker is average. The size of mid western farms and the preoccupation with rais ing corn impress Jan. Corn, he thinks, is fine as an animal feed but he just can't see any sense in eating it, the way Americans do, even if it is sweet. The same goes for popcorn, as far as Jan's concerned. His comment was, "We do not have it and we are not. sorry about it." When a Nederlander goes to a football match, instead of eat ing popcorn or candy floss for refreshment he has a bit of fish, "Pickled, you know," he, "very refreshing." So, the mayhem around the popcorn machines at the Nebraska-Missouri football game were a bit puzzling to the visi tor. Asked how he liked Nebraska, Jan replied with evident sincer ity, "Oh, very much!" Before coming to Nebraska, port at 9 per cent of the average price received by v farmers dur ing the three preceding years but not less than 65 per cent of parity and mandatory price supports on other grains; 2. The present program with a commercial corn area, acre age allotments, price support from 75 to 90 per cent of par ity available in the commercial area only to those who harvest not more than their corn al lotment; and feed grains and non-compliance corn supported at 0 to 90 per cent of parity. In deciding what choice to make, cash grain farmers should figure out expected returns under each of the programs Let's assume that a Nebraska farmer has 100 acres of crop land to plant to corn or grain sorghum. Under the proposed "new program" he would plant 100 acres of corn while under the present program his corn II' V if. Nederlander he was in Michigan, where as in Nebraska, his stays with farm families were arranged by the county agents. , Jan came to Nebraska in the heat of August and was a little overwhelmed by the weather. "Unbelievable"- is the way he described it. At that time he was seeing some corn irrigation in the David City area and he remarked he wasn't sure if the corn or he were getting the biggest drenching. Then, he didn't believe Ne braska could ever be cold but he's changed his mind the past few days. The Netherlands, Jan says, don't have the extremes of cli mate Nebraska has. Winters and summers are both mild. Moisture is a regular thing with about half the days in the year rainy, half dry. Agriculture is an intense thing in Holland, Jan says. Ne-; braska is six times larger than j the Netherlands but the Nether lands have about 11 million population. Unlike tne Nazis or the Rus- sians who tried to solve land problems by conquest of peoples, the Netherlands have worked at conquet of the sea. The area where the deZwarts farm was claimed from the North Sea about 30 years ago. No attempt is made to raise the level of the new lands. Se micircular dams keep the sea out and farming is done on the former sea floor after immense plows have turned up fertile soil from some eight feet down. Drainage systems of succes sively larger canals and pump ing stations (diesel and elect ric now in place of the still pic turesque windmills) keep the low lands liveable. Photo slides Jan showed and his comments told a good story of farming and life in his coun try. He ended by showing two slides containing the IFYE pledge which speaks of love of country and appreciation for the beauties and values in life in other countries. Jan was introduced by Ralph Wehrbein, Rotarian who was program chairman for the day. Vote on Corn' Referendum allotment would be 65 acres so. he would put the 35 diverted acres into grain sorghum. Using 1959 expected prices and yields of 50 bushels per acre for both crops, his gross income from the 100 acres would be: 1. New Program Corn, 5,000 bushels, (a $1.08 $5,400 2. Present Program Corn, 3.250 bushels, i $1.25 $4062.50 Grain sorghm, 1,750 bushels, ' $0.95 $1,662.50; Total $5,725. In this situation, the present program has a slight financial advantage, but this assumes a grain sorghum support price of about $1.70 cwt. which is not certain at this stage. If the pre sent program is favored, the corn farmer also could ignore his allotment, taking a chance on market price or support for non-compliance corn. Livestock producers who grow corn for feed will be concerned Decision on Road Vacating Is Postponed A decision on vacating or not vacating a section-line road a mile north and' a mile west of Elmwood was postponed Tues day by the Cass County Board of Commissioners until its next meeting Dec. 2. In the meanwhile, the whole board will view the road which is in Commission District 3. Vacating of the road, unused for 52 years, was recommended by the county surveyor. How ever, petitions signed by some 85 persons objected and asked the road be restored to driving condition. Some of the objectors appear ed at a commission meeting with an attorney to object. . The road is between sections 4 and 9 in Stove Creek Precinct. Services Held For Taylor Child, 4th Crash Fatality The fourth victim of the Mur ray corner highway tradegdy of Nov. 8 died Monday night at Children's hospital in Omaha, when Terry Taylor, 16-month-old daughter of Arthur Taylor of Murray, succumbed to the ef fects of her injuries. The child suffered burns and internal injury in the car-gas transport crash that took the lives of Mrs. Arthur Taylor, mother of Terry, Mrs. Lawren ce Smith, grandmother of the child and Ralph Gentry, driver of the transport. Terry and her sister, Sherry, were in the back of the car and received burns from the flames that enveloped the crash scene. Of the ill fated party, Sherry is now the only survivor. Priate funeral services for Terry were held Wednesday afternoon at the chapel of the Hobson Funeral Home In Weep ing Water, conducted by Rev. Victor Schwartz, pastor of Mur ray Christian Church. Burial was at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery north of Nehawka in the family burial plot. New Term Begins On Jan. 87 1958 County officers elected in the general election Nov. 4 will as sume office Jan. 8, instead of Jan 9. as previously reported. They assume duties of the 1959-62 term the first Thursday after the first Tuesday of the new year. Police Court Has Light Report The docket at Judge J. H. Graves this morning was very light with only two cases re ported, for the mid week. Earl Arnold, Jr., or Omaha was booked for intoxication and given a fine of $10 and costs or $14. Rolland L. Schroeder was booked for speeding on Chicago avenue and received a fine of $10 and costs. Iron Causes Fire Alarm This morning shortly after 10 o'clock the fire department was called to the L. R. Lower home, 918 First avenue. It was found that an electric iron had a short that caused the alarm. Call Your News And Social Items to 241 about the effect of these pro grams on feed prices. Here, too, there appears to be little dif ference although the "free" corn might be a little higher under the "new program" be cause all corn would be eligi ble. With average or better pro duction in 1959, the market price would fall below the loan rate at harvest time. Under the present program only about 12 per cent of the corn is produced "in compliance" so a market price of $1.00 a bushel or less could be expected depending upon the size of the 1959 crop. Unless corn production is sharply reduced by crop failure, so that the market price exceeds the loan rate, the "new program" would operate to reduce the support level to the 65 per cent of parity minimum. The USDA estimates that the 1959 level be based on the three-year average. In succeeding years, if the pro County Set for New Minister Installed at Weeping Water WEEPING WATER (Special) The Congregational Church i in Weeping Water was decorat-, ed Sunday for the installation; of the new minister, Rev. I. C. G. Campbell. i Beginning at four o'clock j Sunday afternoon the Congre-' gational Christian Churches of j the Lincoln Association met in j Ecclesiastical Council to exam ine the credentials of the Rev. Campbell preparatory to instal- ' lation as pastor of the First ; Congregational Church. At six o'clock a Fellowship supper was Rev. I. C. D. Campbell held in the church parlors. A large crowd attended the installation service. Susan Wood played an organ prelude and the invocation was given by Clarence Boesinger of Cortland. The Congregational Church Choir presented a special an them. Rev. W. Rundin of Wahoo read the scripture. Rev. Fred Register, superintendent of the Nebraska Congregational Christ ian Conference spoke on "Pur pose and Mission of the Church". The moderator was Mrs. Ira Thompson. The prayer of In stallation was given by Rev. Vern A. Spindell of the Vine Congregational Church. The Charge to the Pastor was given by Rev. Milton O. Laib, pastor of the Northeast Community Church in Lincoln and Rev. John I C. Pryor of Lincoln. Rev. Pryor served as pastor of the Weeping Water Congregational Church from 1943 until 1952 when he retired. Calvin Carsten, of Avoca, in behalf of the churches of the Association and the Congregat ional Church in Avoca gave the welcome to the new minister. Rev. Campbell gave the respon se. A gift of a pulpit robe was given to Rev. Campbell in me mory of Jerry Sherwood of Al bion. Journal Wednesday Of Next Week Next week, the Journal will be printed Monday and Wednes day instead of Monday and Thursday, because of Thanks giving. News sources and advertisers are 'asked to have their copy at the Journal by 4 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 25. The classified page closing will be Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. gram stays in effect, the sup port price would be reduced un til the legal floor is reached. The corn production experien ce of recent years shows clearly that farmers are willing to ig nore allotments and produce corn for $1.00 a bushel or less. The prospective support level for 1959 is more likely to stimul at production expansion than to discourage corn growing. Continuation of the present program is likewise self-defeating. The national corn allot ment has shrunk from 49.8 mil lion acres in 1955 to 38.8 million in 1958, and will go to about 33 million acres in 1959. There is no legal minimum corn allot ment like that for wheat; it can go on down as the supply goes up. This shrinking allotment has been spread over more commer cial corn counties, from 805 counties in 1955 to 932 counties ' " . I Sl I . : I.- I ... 1 ' n 1 i j t 1 Voting Sates Referendum Cass County corn farmers will go the polls Tuesday, Nov. 25, to help make the decision on what the corn program will be for j 1959 and later years. j The choice is between the present program of acreage allot ments and price supports on corn, and a new program in which there would be no acreage allotments and price supports would be determined on a different bllsis i A majority vote of the corn producers voting here and in 931 other commercial corn coun ties will decide the outcome of the referendum. Anyone who had an interest in the 1958 corn crop in the commercial area is eligible to vote. Voting hours in Cass County will be 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Voting locations are as follows: Precincts Polling Place 1. Center Mount Pleasant Weeping Water vote at Manloy School House o 2. East Rock Bluff West Rock Bluff Plattsmouth Eight Mile Grove vote at Murray Firehouse o 3. Elmwood Stove Creek vote at Wabash Garage o 4. South Bend Salt Creek Louisville vote at Lutheran Church (2 miles north of Murdock) o 5. Greenwood Tipton vote at Alvo Fire House o Nehawka Liberty Avoca vote at Nehawka Auditorium o The corn referendum is re quired under the Agricultural Act of 1958, passed by Congress late in the past session. The two programs to be voted on are de signated on the ballot as No. 1 and No. 2. The County ASC Of fice gives the following explana tion of the two programs: PROGRAM NO. 1 This is a new program. There would be no acreage allotments and no, de signation of a commercial corn area. Price support under the new program would be deter mined on the basis of 90 per cent of the average price farm ers got for corn in the last 3 years but not less than 65 percent of parity. It is now esti mated that the national support level for 1959 under this program would be about $1.12 to $1.15 per bushel. If the new program is ap proved, price supports, in proper balance with corn, would have to be olfered each year on the other teed grains (oats, rye, barley and grain sorghums i. Corn Compliance would be eliminated as a price support requirement. PROGRAM NO. 2 This Is essentially the same program which has been in effect in 1958 and earlier years. Corn acreage allotments would continue in ef fect lor farms in the commercial area. With record corn supplies, allotments would probably drop next year about 15 percent below j 1958 and price support would j probably average from $1.24 to i $1.27 a bushel at the bottom j in 1958. Without penalties for exceeding the allotment, 85-88 per cent of the corn produced in commercial areas is grown "out of compliance." Those who do comply plant the acres diverted from corn to grain sorghum or soybeans. The widespread use of yield - increas ing techniques and favorable weather have combined to push total feed supplies to an all time high this year of nearly 240 million tons compared with the 1952-56 average of 184 mil lion tons. Non-compliance corn and other feed grains have had price supports, too, so govern ment stocks of feed grains are growing rapidly. Neil her program provides any effective method of reducing or even controlling futher expan sion in feed production. Both are, therefore, foredoomed to failure. Supporting prices by (Continued on Pags 7) INlov. 25? i f the required 75 to 00 percent of parity range. Corn acreage allotment compliance would be required for price support and for soil bank eligibility. County ASC chairman Ivan O. Althou.se urges all eligible fann ers and landlords to vote In Tuesday referendum. "This is a great opportunity for corn farmers to help make an Important decision," Altliou.se said. "The Department of Agri culture and the Congress are en titled to a real turnout that will result in a representative ex pression of corn farmers' views." Any fanner who has any question about voting places, eligibility, or any other feature of the referendum should get in touch the ASC Office, Althouse said. Senator-Elect Pays Visit Here On Wednesday Senator-elect Edwin T. Mc Hugh, of Murdock, was in Platts mouth Wednesday afternoon to look after some business at the court house and calling on fri ends in the short time he was here. Senator McITugh is attorney and banker at Murdock, and is now busy arranging his plans for the forthcoming session of the unicameral which promises to be one of the most important of the last few years. Much pres sing legislation will be pending regarding the tix situation and road projects as well as the us ual affairs of the state. This will be Senator McHugh's inital experience in legislation and he is giving it a great deal of thought between now and UK- opening of the session. Royal Arch Masons To Honor Dclbcrt Todd, November 24 Nebraska Chapter No. 3, Royal Arch Masons of this city are to pay honor to Delbert Todd, past high priest of the chapter on Tuesday, November 24th at 0:30 at a banquet to be served at the dining room of the Masonic building. Members of the chap ter and their ladies are inviled. Clayton Rhylander will pre side as master of ceremonies and present the various num bers on ,the toast list. Rev. W. B. Samuelson is to be the speaker of the evening, a very fine address is anticipated. The banquet of the evening will be something to tempt the appetite of the companions of the order: Tomato juice, roast turkey with dressing, mashed potatoes, giblet gravey, candied, sweet potatoes, buttered rolls, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie with whipped cream, coffee. Lions - Rotary Joint Meeting The Rotary Club has accepted an invitation to have a joint ladies night meeting with the Lions Club Dec. 9 at the Lions clubrooms to hear the Univer sity of Nebraska Madrigal Slng- ers. For The Rotary Club, the meet ing will replace its ladies night meeting of Dec. 30. The club will not meet the last two Tues days in December. Alvo Mail Route Extensions Made ALVO i Special i - The office here has had seven extensions made to the route, accomodating eight ilies. Those having the mail de ed to their doors include C'opple. Clyde Johnson, Schuelke. Wayne Kinney. Gilniore and Glen Dimmiit ilies. post short, mail fam- liver , Lee Fred Or an fam- Tlir WKATII1R Nov. 17. 18. I't. 1058 Dae Hi. l ow Prer. Monday. 0!) 33 .50 Tuesday 44 27 .00 Wednesday . . . 59 31 .00 Forecast; High in upper 50's; low in 30 s. Clear to partly cloudy-Sun sets tonight at 5:01; rises Friday at 7:19 a.m.