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DIM JeWIML CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY Mondoy-Thursctay NUMBER19 Consolidated With the Nehawka Enterprise and Elmwood Leader-Echo Read Twice Weekly by More Than 3500 Cass County Families VOLUME 78 TWELVE PACES PLATTSMOUTH. CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA THURSDAY, JANUARY 22. 1959 TEN CENTS PER COPY "Game Subject A resident manager for the "game refuge" or "rifle range" area on the Missouri River bot tom here may be appointed in the next six months, a state game commission employe told Die Rotary Club here Tuesday. He said the official name the State Clame Commission will apply to the 1,300 acre area is "name management area." Harold K. Edwards, super visor in land management for the commission at Norfolk, said the area here may either be a Louisville Church Begins Drive for Building Funds The Louisville Methodist Church launched its educational building- fund drive this week. Rev. Harold M. Bryant, Con ference Director of Stewardship and Finance for the Nebraska Methodist Conference, came to Louisville last Friday to set up church and put campaign plans in action. Rev. Bryant was guest min ister Sunday morning at the church and in the afternoon met with the official board to out line his plan and help select the campaign leadership. When completed the campaign organ ization will be composed of more than 40 persons. The first congregational event in the program is an all family Fellowship and Loyalty Dinner at the church tonight, Jan. 22. This is to acquaint the member ship with the full plan of the building fund program. There was to e solicitation of funds at this fellowship meeting. General solicitation of t he membership will not be started until the last week in January. All campaign worker select ed by the committee up to the dinner meeting were to be pre sented Informally at that time. When the entire group of 40 are selected, they will be pre sented to the congregation next Sunday morning, Jan. 25, for formal consecration. The campaign will come to a close with a great Victory Wor ship Service Feb. 1, the min ister said. Insplritional speaker for the Fellowship and Loyalty dinner was to be Dr. Everett Jackman, District Superintendent of the Omaha District of the Method ist Church. Approves County School Petitions The State Committee for School District Reorganization announ ced in Lincoln Tuesday it has approved several petitions in cluding two involving Cass coun ty school districts. The latter are: for dissolution of District 86 and attaching the territory to District 32 (Louis ville); and for dissolution of Dis. trict 34, Cass County, and attach ing it to District One, Saunders County (Ashland). Deputy Sheriff Salary Up $25 The Cass County Board of Com missioners Tuesday passed a motion raising the salary of the deputy sheriff of the county $25 a month. The raise was from $300 to $325, effective Jan. 1, 1959. Tommy Walsh Honored by TV Program The CBS Television network show "The Millionaire" celebrat ed its fourth anniversary Jan. 14 over WOW-TV. Channel 6 in Omaha and a Plattsmouth baby got into the act. In honor of that occasion and to insure the time honored tradition that a baby "born with a silver sDoon in its mouth" will have a prosperous life "The Millionaire" presented a silver spoon to Thomas Allen Walsh, the first baby born in Omaha Jan. 14. Tommy's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Walsh, 914 Patter son Ave.. Plattsmouth. Young Walsh, shown in the ac. companying photo with his moth er and nurse, weighed in at 6 pounds, 9 ounces at 2:07 a. m. on the anniversary date at St. Joseph's Hospital. Refuge" of Talk waterfowl refuge only or a re fuge with the possibility of con trolled hunting later if more land can be obtained adjacent to the present area. The principal purpose of the area, he said, is to create more birds by providing more cover and food for them as they stop over on their flights south in the fall and north in the spring. He said the present practice of iarming the refuge land will be continued, both to provide food for waterfowl and to help support the area, since the Game Commission is not prin cipally tax-supported and is seeking to make its areas self suppontng. Edwards concurred with the opinion expressed by a Rotarian that the intention is to devote more of the crop to support of wildlife as need demands and perhaps to .leave fields unhar vested until alter waterfowl flight have passed. There is a possibility that wheat may be tried as "pasture" for waterfowl, he said. The concern of the Game Commission, Edwards said, is that flights of birds get as safe a passage as possible in order to increase their numbers and at the same time to increase hunt ing as recreation for the aver age hunter. If controlled hunting is estab lished sometime in the future it will be by free access, he said. "Such fishing as there is," he said will be permitted except during the waterfowl season and subject to regular laws. Asked about possibility of pro-, viding a "park" in connection with the refuge, Edwards said the question of obtaining some "bluff land" for such use has been discussed. The speaker was introduced by program chairman Fred Lugsch. last year president of the Platts mouth Wildlife and Recreation Association, and long interested In hunting, fishing and wildlife conservation. Dr. Knosp Heads County Heart Fund Dr. Glen Knosp of Elmwood was named today by Nebraska Heart Fund Chairman Stanley Huffman of Ewing to serve as the 1959 Cass County Heart Fund Chairman. The 1959 Heart Fund Drive, to be conducted next February, advances the activity of the Ne braska Heart Association in com. bating heart and blood vessel disease which last year caused 54 per cent of Nebraska's deaths. "Heart fund chairmanship car ries with it heavy responsibil ity," Huffman said. "I am sure however that every county will advance beyond the records set in 1958." He went on to urge all resi dents interested in working on the 1959 Heart Fund Drive to contact the county chairman. "At least three-fourths of all funds collected will remain in Nebraska," Huffman said, "with over half slated to again be allocated to research." Huffman said this year's drive should put total Nebraska 'con tributions over the one million mark in 1959. Legal Newspapers Are Designated The Plattsmouth Journal and Weeping Water Republican were designated as legal county news papers Tuesday by action of the Cass Countv Board of Commis sioners at their regular meeting. -." . -X H" - -'si I Silver Spoon Baby Hails from Plattsmouth ft fWt Mm nx a WB 'YOUNG FARMER Hilton Rogers, Jay cees' Young Fanner of the Year for 1958, minis ters to a newborn pig on his farm near Alvo. As Doralyn Steiner 4-H Award Winner Mrs. Edmund Steiner former ly "of Table Rock, now of Elm wood, was one of the 44 Neb raska bovs and girls who were named the recipients of one of Ak-Sar-Ben's outstanding a wards. Miss Steiner and the others were selected for the Ak-Sar-Ben Gold Medal awarded annual ly to the 4-H member choses by the county awards committee as having rendered the most outstanding service to the ad vancement of the 4-H program in his or her county the pasti year. Plattsmouth Men On High - Ranking UN Judging Team DENVER A University of Nebraska junior livestock judg ing team placed third in three divisions of the National Western ; Live Stock Show here the past weekend. The team ranked third in judg ing wool, fat cattle and quarter horses; 13th in carlot judging and 11th in livestock. Don Simonson, member of the team from Mullen, was third high individual in judging sheep; Maurice Bonne. David City, as fourth high man in wool judg ing and Ernest Thayer, Gree- It J , ocuuiiu ms11 iiiwn in juu&ii'b ; quarterhorses. Other members of the team were Roger Wehrbein and Thom as Kraeger of Plattsmouth, Ger ald Goold of Brule. Ted Klug of Valentine and George O'Neal of Bigelow, Mo. 7976 Picture Calls Memories Reading the Plattsmouth Jour nal, Monday's edition, brought back pleasant memories for Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Wiles of My nard. The picture and article about the classy cars in the Auto Par ade in. the 1916 Fall Festival looked familiar to the couple as they with their Model I Max well were second in the parade lineup. Mr. Wiles is standing by the car and the familv was seat ed ready for the ride. Mrs. Wiles told the Journal today, "I remember it very plain. "Ted" (her husband) had asked her for the American Flag to decorate the front of the family car." "We had Dlanned a trip to the mountains in this Maxwell, but I don't remember that we made the trip." - .- A V' -zAf Sgt. Reckard of Weeping Water Gets AF Honor WEEPING WATER (Special) A World War II B-17 gunner and flight engineer has been named as Instructor oL the Week, according to Technical Train ing Group officials. He is M-Sgt. Weaver L. Rec kard, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Reckard of Weeping Water, of the Department of Aircraft Accessory branch (jet engines). He went to Sheppard Air Force Base in March, 1958, from over seas and has been with the de partment since that time. While overseas, he served a three-year tour in Germany and England. In England, Sgt. Reckard work ed in the Inspector General's office and while in Germany, he was assigned to the technic al training: complex as an In-' structor supervisor to Air orce students During WW II, Sgt. Reckard was credited with shooting down a Messerschmidt 282 and a Focke Wulf 190 while serving as a B-17 gunner over Germany. A veteran of 12 years service, he wears the DFC, Air Medal with four clusters along with other medals and ribbons. Sgt. and Mrs. Reckard and their five daughters live at Shep nn i'H TTmisHno- Po of X7iViito Falls TeX Let THE JOURNAL Get You A Crovd for that Auction Remember Tuesday . . .the snow coming down and blowing too? It was the date of Roy Brid enstine's farm sale west of Un ion. Probably neither he, Mrs. Bridenstine or the auctioneers felt too happy about the weath er, but the time had come . . the crowd was there . .thanks to the advertising in THE JOUR. NAL. Rex Young, who with Ed Mor ris cried the sale, reported to the JOURNAL that the sale was a resounding success. The Brid enstines were happy, the buy ers are happy and the auction eers are haopy. During the coming weeks, there will be other auctions com ing up that are being advertis ed in the JOURNAL. Next Monday, Lawrence Sm ith will hold a closing out sale 6 miles northeast of Murdock. Then on Tuesday. Albert And erson will have his sale 5 miles east of Weeping Water. Jan. 29 is the date of the dou-! ble sale southwest of Murray. Edward F. Marler is holding a closing out sale starting at 10 a. in. and immediately following the same crowd goes across the read for the sale of the estate of Lester Dill. Friday of next week finds Chas. Tasler holding his sale Local Men at Presbyterian Meet Several Murray and Platts mouth men attended a Presby terian meeting at the First Pres byterian Church in Lincoln Mon. day and Tuesday. Thrv were Rev. Joe Barr of the Murray church and Rev. l."r,itt-, T1.., r.r T-t.l ,l I hi nil uriiiu ui uie niuisinouin cnurcn, as well as elders Ed ward Howard and James Corn stock of Murray and Edward Wehrbein of Plattsmouth. A Classified Ad in The Journal cost as little as 50 cents ! :S'l: ( ass County winner, he will match achievements against other chapter winners at Kearney Feb. 6 in the state Young Farmer contest. Joe Sikora Escapes Serious Injury In Car-Truck Crash Joe Sikora, 30, of this city, was slightly injured Monday night in a car-truck cash about a half mile east of the Havelock over pass on highway 6, in which John B. Scanlon, 24 of Lincoln, was killed. Mr. Sikora, driver of the truck stated to the officers investigat ing the accident, he saw the car pull into the lane of traffic a head of him and felt a "tremen dous crash." The truck cab was demoli-hed. Mr. Scanlon was killed in the crash and the car in which he was riding along was demonlish ed. The Lancaster county officials stated there would be no inquest or charges filed in the accident case. Wallace Warner is now at home following recent surgery. He is getting along fine, but re ports to the hospital periodical, ly for checkups. THE WEATHER Jan. 19, 20, 21, 1959 Date Hi, Low Free. Monday 57 13 .00 Tuesday 27 16 .00 Wednesday . . 16 .0 snow Forecast: Highs in upper teens; low near zero. Continued cold. Sun. sets tonight at 5:28; rises Friday at 7:44 a.m. 7 miles southwest of Platts mouth. Rex Young will cry all of these sales. It is also understood that Beh. mer Furniture will hold anoth er furniture auction on the night of Jan. 30. Behmer has used JOURNAL advertising for all his auctions and each one has been successful. The moral of this story is . . Advertise vour acution in THE JOURNAL if you want a suc cessful one. .ii!m nmm u un-iimiM m iiiiiiaiiiiiaui m . vr-rwrrmy.m i .nmwi miwiiuwwpwii.ip-iii in. .m m K ris vSSStxJJlf AwSST- titty ' - J1 i iMW ' ' r 1 : Mill It IJYV. VCi!vrM ix r.?'j 1 k it 1 Li 'HO HUM' This winning contests is old stuff now, Susan Marcella Beaman's expression seems to say. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. How ard Beaman, 519 No. 9th St., posed with her mother and brother Danny, 2, after being declar Hilton Rogers of Alvo 'Youna Farmer of 1958' Hilton R. Rogers, Alvo, was announced today as Cass Coun ty's Outstanding Young Farmer lor 1958. The Junior Chamber of Com merce committee in charge of the hunt for the outstanding rep resentative of agriculture in the county made their selection from a field of 32 nominees and found it a difficult task to pick the No. 1 young farmer. Rogers will be honored tonight at the annual Jaycee banquet along with winners of the 1958 Distinguished Service Award and Boss of the Year Award. The committee found Rogers Knights Templar Install Officers Monday Night Monday evening the annual sausage and pancake feed for the Sir nights of Mt. Zion Com manderv No. 5 was held at the dining room of the Masonic building as a prelude, to the ses sion of the Commandery and in stallation of officers for 1959. The traditional supper was prepared and served by R. A. Noell and Elmer Tritsch and their able staff of assistants. This was an event that is look ed forward to with much plea sure and this year was up to the high standard. Following the supper, the ses sion of the commandery was op ened for the installation. The in stalling officers were Edward Wehrbein as installing officer, William F. Evers. installing marshal, and Leonard Born, in stalling chaplain. Those installed were: Com mander, Maynard Ramge; Gen. eralissimo, Raymond Story; Cap tain General. Cecil Karr; Sen ior Warden, Clayton Rhylander: Junior Warden. John Rishel; Prelate, Jack Burch as proxy for Less Potts: treasurer, Les lie W. Niel; Recorder, Marion Reed; Standard Bearer, Leslie Hutchinson; Sword Bearer, Clem ent Woster: Warder, Houston Holschar, and Sentinel, Chester Lagerstrom. Distinguished guests were Ed ward Wehrbein, deputy grand commander of Nebraska; Per cy T. Brownell, past command er of Mt. Calvary Commandery No. 1; Lillard Jensen, past com mander of Mt. Jordan Command, ery No. 15; Arthur Anderson, Peter Berat, Commandery No. 1; William F. Evers, past grand commander of the grand com mandery of Nebraska. Elmer Elliott at St. Mary's Hospital Gravely III Elmer Elliott of this city is at St. Mary's hospital in Ne braska City very seriously ill. Mr. Elliott has been suffering from a heart ailment that has been made more critical by an attack of pneumonia. Mrs. Amv Elliott Behrens of Denver, a daughter, is here to be with the familv during the illness of her father. if jfVf " in Ifiin'r m- -' . ml Hilton Kocers had made a fine record for a young man who until 9 years ago had never worked or lived on a farm. Previous to 1949, he was a shop superintendent in a Texas farm equipment manu facturing plant. His wife's par ents were retiring to Alvo so he decided to try his hand at ag riculture. Rogers, 35, rents a 160-acre farm. In 1954, he decided to go into extensive hog production. Starting with 2 sows in 1950 averaging; 7 pigs per litter, his 1958 records show 94 sows av eraged 8.5 pigs raised per litter. He follows a multi-farrowing program 10 sows per month in a planned 3 breed rotation of Landrace. Hampshire and Yorkshire. He keeps production and feed conversion records. Rogers does nearly all the e- Baptist Mission Here Host To Association Meet The Plattsmouth Baptist Mis sion is the host for the Eastern Nebraska Association of Bap tist Churches Monday evening, Jan. 26. at 7:30 p. m. This is an association WMU and Brotherhood meeting. Lincoln, Omaha, Grand Island and Bellevue churches will be represented at the meeting. Pastor of the Plattsmouth Bap tist, Joe Hawn, has just moved to Plattsmouth at 1108 Avenue A. Elmer Couchenour Suffers Heart Attack Wednesday morning while El mer Gochenour. city street commissioner, was working with the street force, he suddenly suffered a slight heart attack while on the iob. He was taken home and is now reported as resting very well. He will on the advice of his physician remain at home the rest of the week. ed official winner of the annual baby derby here. Susan was born Jan. 2 at St. Joseph's Hospital, first reported birth to Cass County residents this year. She won merchandise prizes donated by 14 local firms sponsoring the contest. lectncai. carpentry ana steel work on this farm himself, using lots of used materials. Kince starting swine special ization, he has completed a far rowing house, a nurswry build ing, and in 1958 started a kirp.e finishing building with feed processing- room adjoining. This room will be Rogers's greatest labor saving step. This unit has a capacity of about 1,000 hogs per year. He follows a strict confinement program and keeps hogs on concrete un til market weight. His conservation program Is quite complete. Waterways are maintained and his rolling land is terraced. He uses lime and was one of the first in the coun ty to use anhydrous ammonia. He plants legumes and spreads a lot of manure. Rogers and his wife Donna are parents of two daughters. He is quite active in commun ity and agricultural affairs. He is the present county chair man of the Cass County Ex tension Board, a trustee of the Alvo Methodist Church, a Farm Bureau member, a past 4-H lead er and a member of the Alvo PTA. Congratulations to Hilton Ro gers, Young Farmer of 1958. (Photos of Rogers are by Bob Faris, Plattsmouth photograph er and a Jaycee). For Youngsters Saturday Is Bowling Time Time was when the younger set spent a lot of time at the movies. Some of the male mem bers hung around the pool haii. But . . .times change! Right now, the school crowd are bowl, ing fans. "Hob" Hirz. owner of the Bowlero has gone out of his way to cultivate the young crowd and it has really paid off. In fad, he has such a large number of school-age bowlers wanting to use the alleys on Saturday that he is opening; the place 2 hours earlier, at 10 a. m. for the con venience of this crowd. The three hours from then un til 1 p. m. will be given over hi the bowling activities of this school crowd, according to Mr. Hirz. Vern Fairchild Called to State High way Patrol Gov. Ralph Brooks Wednes day announced the appointment of 10 additional men to 1iie State Safety Patrol force as a step toward reducing the record of highway accidents. Vern Fairchild of this city, member of the Plattsmouth city police force, was among those selected by the governor. Mr. Fairchild has been on the list of eligible men in the state trained for patrol service and will now be called to active du ty. The governor also announc ed the calling of Robert Rhoades of Weeping Water to duty with the state patrol. Mr. Fairchild resigned from the police department Wednes day night, effective Jan. 25. Both of the local men are re porting to Grand Island where they will be assumed to active duty. Mr. Fairchild has been on the city police force since Aug. 13. Edith Hughes Aller Dies at San Gabriel Calif. Last Week Mrs. Edith Hughes Aller. a former resident of Plattsmouth. died at Ran Gabriel, Calif., last week at a rest home where she had been in poor health for som-. ime. Mrs. Alirr w:is wel'-tnown hern among the older residents nf the city as she was a frequent vis iter here with her sister, the late Mrs. H. G. Mi dusky Fo'. lowing the death of Mrs. Mc Cluskv she made her home in this citv for some three years as housekeeper for the late Pr. MeClusky. She was a member of Chapter F, PEO of this city and quite active in the chanter and also in the women's work of Die First Presbyterian Church. She serv ed as a missionary under tv. board of missions of the Pres byterian church. Her husband, the late Rev Aller served as ; minister for a great many rears. While here, she served as area secretary for the church.