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y y -J-1 ' "' ' , r i;. ctai- ';I3T- z r- - TDflE !P!LAISiy(UIIHl JdDOIKNAL CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY Monday-Thursday Consolidated With the Nthawka Enterprise and Elm wood Leader-Echo Read Twice Weekly by More Than 3500 Cass County Families VOLUME 78 18 PACES (3 SECTIONS) PLATTSMOUTH. CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1958 TEN CENTS PER COPY NUMBER 5 C3 mes? resigns As .School Supt T. I. Friest, fur the past 15 years and presently superinten dent of Fluttsmuuth public schools. Monday night submit ted his resignation effective on June 30 to the Board of Educa tion. The Board, sitting In ar session, accepted the nation. regul-resig- Phy Ed Teacher To Be Added Bonnie Rutz, Dawson, has been added to the faculty of the Plattsmouth High School as tea cher of gills physical education and science and will report for teaching after the holidays. The Board of Education ap proved her contract Monday night at its regular meeting. Miss Rutz attended Verdon and Dawson High Schools, grad uating in 1953. She received her teaching de gree from Peru State Teachers In 1957. Her contract is effective Jan. 19 Thus far Bill Hawkins, boys physical education teacher, has been doubling by overseeing the girls program. However, it is a requirement of the State Board of Educa tion that schools which offer a two-year phy ed program for girls provide a woman teacher. Monday night also, the Board of Education accepted resigna tions of Mrs. Rosalie Melxsell, 4th grade teacher at First Ward School, and Mrs. Mary Lou Welsh, 4th grade teacher at Col umbian School. Mrs. Meixsell's resignation is effective Dec. 19. Her husband is connected with Offutt Air Force Base and is being trans ferred out of the state. Mrs. Welsh's resignation is ef fective Jan. 16. She will devote full time to homemaking. Death Of Mrs. Arthur Bruce Monday, Dec. 1 Mrs. Arthur Bruce, resident of Plattsmouth since 1923, died Monday at St. Mary's hospital in Nebraska City. She had been ill 11 years, suffering from mul tiple sclerosis and most of the time under care at home or in hospitals. Amy Beatrice Jarvis was was born June 24. 1896, at Wel lington Shropshire, England, a daughter of George and Mary Briggs Jarvis. She was married June 16, 1921, to Arthur Bruce at Ardsley. Yorkshire, England. The family moved to the Un ited States shortly after mar riage, locating at Tekamah in 1921, moving to Platstmouth two years later where they lived since. Mrs. Bruce was a nurse by profession in the years before her illness and was active in the care of the sick in their homes. She was a member of the Ep iscopal church and active at St. Luke's when her health permit ted. Surviving are the husband of this city; two daughters, Mrs. Lyle Ladd, Mrs. Earl Owings, both of Plattsmouth: one son, Fred Bruce of Topeka, Kan.; four grandchildren, four sisters and three brothers in England. Funeral services were iield this afternoon at St. Luke's with Fr. Max Kors of St. Mark's church, Omaha, former St. Luke pastor, officiating. Mrs. Twyla Hodge had charge of the music. Burial was in Oak Hill Cem etery with Cliff Dasher, Tony LaHoda, Elmer Lohnes, William P. O'Donnell. Richard O'Don nell and Bob Tilson pallbearers. Visiting hours were Wednes day at the Caldwell-Linder fun eral home. Mrs. Ella D. Wilson Home Resident Dies Mrs. Ella D. Wilson. 85, wi dow of Emmanuel Wilson of Iincoln, died Tuesday at the Nebraska Masonic Home. She came to the Home in 1955 thru Lancaster Lodee No. 54 of Lin coln. Mrs. Wilson was a mem ber of Electa CnaDter No. 8 of the Eastern Star of Lincoln. She was born Feb. 5, 1873, at Oswego, N. Y. Funeral will be Saturday at T ncoln with the Rtver Funeral Home In charge. Burial will be at Eyuka Cemetery in Lincoln. A Classified Ad in The Journal cost as little as 50 cents. Friest will complete his 15th year as superintendent here in June. In his letter of resignation, the superintendent said he was making his decision known now so that the Board of Education would have plenty of time to select a successor. Friest also said in submitting his resignation that "it has been a privilege to work with the people of Plattsmouth in devel oping and maintaining a splen did school system." He predicted that "the school? will continue to keep pace with ever-changing educational needs In facilities and in teaching pro cedure and techniques." Before coming to Plattsmouth. Friest was superintendent at Wismer and Bloomfield. The superintendent gave no indication about" his plans for the future. The Board has had no chance yet to make an announcement about its search for a succes sor. Exhibit of Books Here Dec. 8-11 A collection of library books will be on exhibit in the Central School Auditorium each after noon from Monday through Thursday, Dec. 8 through 11, 1 1 10 4 p. m. This exhibit comes here from, and is sponsored by, Books on Exhibit, a national service op eration involving the country's leading publishers of children's books. Its purpose is through the or. ganized exhibit and complete covering catalogue to provide busy teachers and librarians an opportunity to see and examine the best of the new library books, with a minimum of time and effort, and thus make it pos sible for them to do an inform ed and intelligent job of book selection. , A feature of the exhibit is an annotated, graded, indexed cat alogue which lists by grade ev ery book In the collection, and which is available for free dis tribution to teachers, librarians and other school people. By numbering the books and the catalogue correspondingly, and providing complete subjeel and author indexes the exhibits it's 600 books are, in terms of any interest, made directly ac cessible. The 31 subjects involved in the collection range from Arts and Biography to Science and Relig ion; from Adventure to Picture Books and Social Studies. The fiction represented divid es into 15 sub-categories. Catalogues containing a list ing of these 600 books will also be available for easy selection by interested teachers and li brarians. This exhibit, likewise, will be of interest to PTA officers. Boy Scouts, Cub 'Scouts, Campfire Girls and other organizations. Help Fight TB I9S8 -If" Buy Christmas Seals If, i Cl'B SCOUT SWIMMERS Plattsmouth Cubs shown at the Jewish Community Center pool in Omaha, from left, are: Mike Gall, Jerry Am, Tim Kalasek, Joey Lockwood, Billy Bishop, Chuck Commission Votes against Vacating Rd. The Cass County Board of Commissioners Tuesday decid ed by a 2-0 vote with one mem ber not voting not to vacate a mile of section line road near Elmwood which has been at is sue for several weeks. Commissioner William Nolte of District One and Melvin Todd of District Two voted rot to va cate the road. Commission chair man Herman Bornemeier, Dis trict Three, abstained. He would have been last to vote. The road is in District Three. The Commission had had pe titions from residents in the ar ea of the road requesting that it not be vacated as recommen ded by the county surveyor; and that it be put in driving con dition. The road has been unused for more than 50 years. It is be tween sections 4 and 9 in Stove Creek Precinct. Petitions requesting opening of the road were signed by a bout 85 persons. Vic Schomaker appeared before the Board Tues day on behalf of opening the road. The Commissioners talked a bout the vacating proposition a bout three hours but there was little discussion afterward about putting the road in driving con dition. Estimates of the cost for open ing the mile of road range from $3,000 to $4,000 by one Commis sioner to upwards of $15,000 ,by another. Few Tickets for Appearance of Madrigal Singers Local Lions and their ladies j and Rotarians and their Rotary Anns will hold a joint meeting at the Lions Auditorium next Tuesday evening. v j Highlight of tl.c evt-niJig wili be entertainment by the Uni versity of Nebraska Madrigal Singers." Dr. Louis Amato, chairman of the evening's entertainment;, advised the Journal today that a limited number of tickets is to be made available to music lovers of the community who might not be members of either of the two civic, clubs. The Madrigal Group is com posed of 29 of the finest male and female voices in the Uni versity of Nebraska School of Music under the direction of Prof. John P. Moran, head of the department, according to Dr. W. V. Ryan, Lion who ar ranged for their appearance in Plattsmouth. Those wishing to attend should contact members of the Lions Club at once, according to Dr. Amato. Bingo Still Illegal Says Attorney General Attorney General C. S. Beck of Nebraska in response to in quiries has issued a statement regarding the status of bingo, popular corn game. While the people of Nebraska adopted by a vast majority, the constitutional amendment le galizing the playing of this game at the November election, It is still not legal in the eyes of the law. The legislature of the state has to pass a law covering the operation and conduct of games before it can become legal. attsmouth pens Cage Season Saturday m ' ?', . , . - . - V- . '-y. -v , v - "w-Sf m:-' !w':v,S ' ' V'V;'''"- i xi! n wKTN rlVt y ,v'i ' --,- -fJJ ) h 33 Jim i t? -v tjjr w t r ---- 7 v-vs - ..-...: .. , rv'. -i $" '' Vs- ' 1 - ' ;" -. iiifri'""' - ,i.-y.,,..M ., t mi ii fm TTii ' turn una! THE TEAM Basketball will be a big- thing in the lives of Plattsmouth High School players, coaches and fans the rest of the winter. The opener is here Saturday night against Glenwood, la. Members of the varsity squad shown above, from left, are: front ICC, Adm Four Plattsmouth boys face criminal charges following a series of larcenies and burglar ies in Cass County. One, 17, entered a plea of guil ty to 5 counts of burglary in County Court Tuesday and was bound over to District Court. I He is being held in County Jail in lieu of $1,000 bond. The other three youths, aged 14. 14 and 15 will face juvenile charges Friday. Their arrest came about af ter three of the youths, heading for Texas, were detained on the streets of Kansas City, Kan. Sheriff Tom Solomon learned of their detention and asked Kan sas officers to check the heels of the youths' shoes to see if one of ,them had an odd shaped heel. Solomon went to Kansas City and upon questioning the youths, obtained their admissions in a statement. The youths were then return ed to Plattsmouth by the sher iff. The fourth youth was pick ed up in Plattsmouth Tuesday and Admitted his part in the series of burglaries. The youths told the sheriff that on all the burglaries they committed they wore gloves but the evidence that tripped them up was an odd shaped heel print left in the snow outside a broken window at the C and M Garage in Murray Saturday night. The youths gained entrance to the business places by break ing out glass in wondows o doors and after posting lookouts! two or more of them would en- ter. The youths had in their pos session a key to one Plattsmouth ft 0 -'V- '- ' . ' "... -V , - "-( . . j -."".1 le Ault, riiillio Fischer. Dickie Spangler, Jimmy Ollis, Mike Bow man, Steve Baburek. Calvin McDaniels, Lyle and Galen Mussman, Brad Bourne and Waliy Armatrut. oys, Arrested in it Burglary Series business place which they had obtained and admitted entering the business place or several occasions at night and removing daa'h from the register. The last two trips into the place netted them $40 and $60. They used the $60 to purchase a car which they wrecked in Iowa. Other acts admitted by the boys: Nov. 26. They planned to bur glarize the Journal office but after breaking the rear door window they observed the pol ice car a block away and gave up that attempt to enter. Nov. 26. Broke into Ray's Sales and Service building but removed nothing after finding no cash in the register. Nov. 27. Broke into the Lin der Firestone Store and remov ed $30 to $40 from the register and rifle and shotgun shells. (They also said about three weeks ago they entered the Fire stone Store and hid in the base ment until the store was closed for the night, then removed cash from the register and some shells: two lookouts walked the streets nearby until after the youths came out through a side door). Nov. 27. Broke out the win dow at the rear of Larry's Tex aec Station but bars in front A the window prevented them from entering. Nov. 27. Broke into the Far mers Feed and Seed building and earned out the cash regis- ter and broke it open, removing $00 ii. cash and destroying some $600 in checks. Nov. 29. Broke into the Green Service Station at Je Murray Brian Nelson, Jim Shown, Paul Anderson, Tom Winseot, Al Dash er, Larry Marlcr; back coach John Adkins, Jim Stewart, Larry Christenson, J. C. Draper, Ken Pritchard, Roger Noell and Dave Albert. Corner and tooK candy, cigar rts and gum. Nov. 29. Broke into the C and M Garage in Murrr.y and to ik $12.50 in cash. Nov. 30. Broke into the Mer edith Grocery Store in Union and took some change, each a pair of blue jeans and 4 pairs of gloves, cigarets and pop. Then, three of the youths went ! Plattsmouth), Northern repre to Nebraska City, purchased ! sentatives and members of the cowboy hats and headed for Federal Power Commission. Texas Solomon said two of the boys have previous records of break ing and e.itcring In Plat'smouth. one naa been called in on a "joyriding" charge and the oth-: er youth had no previous record, . UGC. 0 IS UQtC For Benefit Ball Lots of neonlp here will he having a ball Dec. 6, better join 'em! That's Saturday night, the se cond annual Firemen's Benefit Ball sponsored by the Platts mouth Eagles at Eagles Hall. It's a chance to have a lot of fun, a good dance and help yoruself, for it's your own volun teer fire department which will benefit from proceeds of the dance. Tickets are being sold by Eag les, firemen, at the bank, Cass Drug, Marge and Elmer's and Corner Bar or can be purchased at the door Saturday night. Dclbert Todd Is Named Master By Lodge No. 6 Monday evening Plattsmouth Lodge No. 6 AF and FM held their annual election of officers, selecting Delbert Todd of Mur- ay as Worshipful Master for the ensuing year. Other officers named were: John Janacek. senior warden: William Howland. junior war den; Maynard Ramge. treasur er; Emil J. Weyrich, 'secretary Dean Morrison, senior deacon, and Ralph Younker, junior stew ard. Other appointive officers will be named later bv the new Mas ter and will be installed at the January meeting. New Rotarians Tell All Here Plattsmouth Rotarians heard short biographical talks from four new members Tuesday noon at the hotel. They are Dr. Rich ard Brendel. Rev. Arthur Em bree, Ray Harold and O. F. Mussman. J. Howard Davis, program chairman, introduced the men. Conference in Washington on Gas Rate Hike A "pre-trial conference" began in Washington, D. C, Wednesday on the matter of Northern Na tural Gas's two pending rate ap plications. Present were a technical com mittee of Northern's utility customers opposed to the rate increases, counsel for Central Electric and Gas Co. (the home office of the company serving Northern has asked another rate increase and the Power Commission is expected even tually to rule on it and on others ! uhirh are still nenriiner before it j C(,ntral Electric, meanwhile, asked and received from the y Counc11 1101,0 a ralse in rates to cover inoi uieni s in crease. The raise will be collect ed under bond and be refund able in credit to firm gas users 1 if the FPC denies the rate in- : crease to Northern. Northern is likewise collecting a higher rate under bond from the companies IT supplies. J. E. Adams, Former Resident Dies, While Hunting The manv friends of J. E. Ad ams, son of the late William T. and Ella Cole Adams, were shocked to learn of the death of "Jake" as he was better known in this community. Monday from I a heart attack while on a hunt : ing trip near his homo at Cody, i Wyo. I Mr. Adams had gone huntine. I and died in the mountains near I his car. j Jacob Elmer Adams was born on a farm south of this city July 31, lf'01. "Jake" grew u: j in this community, attending the I Horning and Plattsmouth sch j ools and was a man with a lar.'e ! circle ri friends here. . Oiavins her win n a you" miin. he was employed as a land ; scape pardoner wi'h the Mar shall Nui'serh's at Arlington. ; Si'0't.s',)'u:i i lid later Coc'y. i Ho was a member of the Mas , onic order a Arlington, i .'! ic mrvived b'v his 'wi'e Cr Cody; K.n-- Bill of Hnu--t ,:i p."d D.-.n i.f Jackson. M'ss : a . datr.li'or M Marilvn IVw!! i of 7y.t r. Vix.: three erawHu: 1 drcn: brother ATax. Dana. Towi . sixers Mrs Mab'e B'-mvn of nvd Mrs. Iillnn Nielsen Plattsmouth: five sien-ciuifep of Cody, ar'l an nun', Mrs. Ye it, a Goos of Piatt s mnuth Tjn ,Vis -V, -,, t;,,,i jr, cioa(i, in. hi.; parents, a sen Richard art! a sister H.trr'rti l':'tm:"i Fur err: was tdav at Cod ai.d burial vvs there. Call Your News And Social Items To 241 "Glenwood Is Opponent Here at 8 Plattsmouth High School opens Us l');)8-r9 basketball sea son here Saturday night, meet ing Glrnwood. Iowa, at 8 p.m. 'alter the reserve teams of the ' schools have met at 6:30. ! As the opener ncared, Platls l mouth Coach John Adkin.s was j "real pleased with our scoring" i but concerned about, .sonic "dc I fensive weaknesses." S Tuesday, the Blue Devils had a scrimmage here with Omaha ! South, rated one of the better I teams in the state. Adkin.s was I satisified with the result. S The first fives of the two schools worked about 30 rninu ' tes at one end of the court, tak ; ing turns on offense. The rest of the 12-nian varsities worked at the other end the same way. Then the squad:; played about 40 minutes the full length of the court. Adkin.s saw then what he had expected to Vee from the start of practice sessions good scoring and all around .speed but some defects in defense. The rest of the week was to find a lot of work on defense being done, Adkin.s said Wed nesday. Tuesday, Adkins worked a first five of Roger Noell, 6-1. aiv.l Al Dasher, 5-11, forwards; J. C. Draper, 6-4, center; and Jim Shown, 5-9, and Tom Wlnscot, 5-11, guards. He said that unit would start Saturday against Glenwood. Saturday, Plattsmouth will have a slight height advantage but will be meeting a team with three games under its belt. Draper will be the lalie.st fiv.it line player. Phil Hiley is Glen- wood's tallest at about 6-2. Dia per got, a good workout Tuesday playing opposite South's 6-8 cen ter. Hiley is the most potent Ram scorer, hitting 21 points Nov. 25 when Glenwood won its se- over Hamburg, Iowa, using its regulars little more than half the time. Glenwofnl opened with a 43-39 win over Faragut, Iowa. The Ranis play Shenandoah in their league opener Friday night before coining to Platts mouth. After Saturday, Plattsmouth plays Dec. 9 at Tecumseh, Dec. 12 here against Fairbury. Splash Program Teaches Local Boys To Swim A Cub Scout swimming pro gram for Plattsmouth youth is in progress, started six weeks ago by Cubs co-chairmen Bob Gall and Charles Ault. More than 40 bovs participate in the program every Sunday from 1:30 to 2:30 at the Jewish Community Center in Omaha. Six or seven fathers accom pany the boys and together with a nuard and supervisor fronf th,. ' Center teach the bovs to swim. The local Cub Pack has ask ed for the pool for three months but mav continue longer. Fred Fischer is Cubmaster. That the pro:' ram for Plaits mouth boys is valuable is ob vious. Only a handful of those in the program could swim be fore the start of their training in- Omaha. Trapping Cood Says Local Man "Trapper .Tim Holoubek Wed nesday has a fin? showing of fur animals that he, had trap ped along the creek-; and small streams in this area, with him in the business section of the city. He had with him some six teen muskrats and a beaver in the lot. "Trapper Jim" has round n ready market tor t in fur. that brill"; a good priee. He also states that the beaver i-; a very delicious treat when cocked and much soueht after. tut wi.vniFR Dec. 1, 2. 3. IMS P;'e Hi. Low Prer. Monday 40 23 .00 Tuesday 56 22 .00 Wednesday . . (V) 32 .0!) :;: .!) in 30's: low in 20's. Clou v. windy and colder snow to night. Sun .ets tonight at 4:53; rises Friday at 7:35 a.m. J K0,m i, ,ii.i Hi,. Oi A., n i' i i ,i,,i,t'i