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THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE FOUR Thursday, February 5, 1959 PS-IS Seeking Weekend Wins 1'lutt.smouth seeks a recovery from a six-game losing streak against Wahoo In the Ak-Sar-Ben basketball conference Fri day night. The Blue Devils also play Saturday at Nebraska City in the Twin Rivers Conference. Plattsmouth Coach John Ad kins said he is "cautiously op timistic" about his team's chances this weekend. The Devils scrimmaged Tues- NOTICE LEGIONNAIRES MEETING TONIGHT FEB. 5, 1959 40 Cr 8 CLUB 8 P.M. HEY KIDS! The Rock-A - Bops AT The Honeycomb FRIDAY NITE 9 P. M TO 12 MIDNICHT ADMISSION: $1.25 Per Couple "Sua 'nfriiYrifr nr ft iri i Reduced From TOP ONLY A Out They Co At CAR COATS SPORT JACKETS PARKAS tHoods BOYS1 PARKAS Lots cf cold weather ahead . . . Buy now at greatly re duced prices for now and next winter. P TTIuOl II 50lMAIN"PHONE5lia The Contents of The Plattsmouth Journal are the sole property of this newspaper and use of, or reproduction, in whole or in part, is expressly forbidden to any person, persons, or publications other than legal newspapers (as defined by Nebraska statutes) without written consent of the publisher. day at Omaha South and Wed nesday here against Louisville. Adklns feels his team's defen se has improved quite well al though the scoring against South particularly wasn't too good. Ball handling was also al right and the team did get good shots, he said. Plattsmouth is 4-6 for the sea son. Wahoo, hasn't impressed. Nebraska City is 4-6 for the sea son and 1-2 in the Twin Riers. Nebraska City beat Wahoo, 57-44, last week. The Devils approach the week end with the whole squad fit to play and working hard at try ing to get back onto the win side. 'D' Meet for Cass Countyans Feb. 23 Four Cass County schools are in the Class D basketball tour nament scheduled to begin at Walton Feb. 23. The pairings: Murctock vs. Bennet, Walton vs. Elmwood, Sprague-Martell vs. Nehawka and Eagle vs. Hickman. "-"'my IT WANT TO SAVE MONEY ON YOUR EASTER SUIT! Buy Now At SMITH'S Easter is early this year and your new suit from our line, bought now at BIG savings will mean more money for the rest of the family. SO ... if you are budget wise . . . Buy a suit NOW from Smith's. Prices $on5o COATS FEW LEFT $1199 l-t Uo - r $10"Up $799 ' Up $19" ,Z,Up $799 1 Up Plallsmouth Journal PHONE 241 HOWARD LINDQUIST . . EUGENE SCARLETT . . . MARGARET DINGMAN. H. M. JOHNSON DON WARGA Bun Calloway To Direct Class C Playoffs In March The NSAA has announced the dates for holding the lower class basketball playoffs which will be held on March 3-5. The 4-team Class C playoff will be held at Lincoln North east. Director of the tourna ment will be Bernard (Bun) Galloway, former Plattsmouth High School School and Peru State Basketball Star. Teams that comprise Class C are: Pawnee City (10-4); Chad ron Prep Ul-4; Louisville, (12 0i; Palmyra (8-2); Howells (10 D; Minature (7-3); Lawrence (10-0); Leigh (12-0); Hastings St. Ceclia (13-3); Arnold (12-1). 1 of 5 in State Is 'Sportsman7 Almost one out of every five residents of Nebraska fishes or hunts, or does both, according to the 1958 sales of permits, re ports M. O. Steen, Game Com mission director. Steen said a total of 258,815 resident permits fishing, hunting, combination fishing and hunting were sold last year. He said the number of sportsmen is even greater that one out of every five inasmuch as youngsters under 16, who are not required to buy permits to : fish or hunt, are not included in this breakdown. Following are the number of j permits sold: fishing, 111,023; hunting, 77,291; fishing and hunting, 70,501. In addition, 3,- ! 565 nonresident hunting per mits, 3,330 nonresident fishing permits, 5,595 10-day nonresi dent fishing permits, and 2,778 trapping permits were issued in 1958. Grand total of all permits , sold is 274,083. Number 1 county in number ' of permits sold was Douglas with 46,746. Lancaster County was second -with 23,821. Cass County had 3,824. Otoe, 3,219; : Sarpy, 2,636, and Saunders, 3,- 202. ; Meeting To Seek I Organization Of World War I Vets j A meeting will be held here ' Friday, February 6 at 8 p.m. for ; the purpose of organizing a bar- racks of World War I Veterans. ; The meeting will be at the 40 & 8 club rooms. John Ahrends, ' Sr., is local representative, i H. R. Koch, of Omaha state I commander and a number of the members for Omaha will be here ' to discuss the organization with anyone interested. All veterans of world war I are invited to at . tend. In The Service FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. Army Pvt. Albert C. Justice Jr., 22, whose wife, Catherine, lives at 3814 Washington, Kan sas City, Mo., completed the basic Army administration course Jan. 22 at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. Justice received training in typing, record keeping and cleri cal procedures. He entered the Army in Sept ember 1958 and received basic combat training at the fort. Justice is a 1954 graduate of East High School and was for merly employed by Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Company. His father lives at 1217 Avenue D, Plattsmouth, Nebr. Westside Rooters 4-H Jan. 27, the Westside Rooters met at the home of Theron Bor nemeier for their regular meet ing. Demonstrations were as fol lowing: "Safety with Electricity" and "Safety with Sows and Pigs," by Theron Bomemeier, "Proper Use of Heat Lamps," by Sarali Albers; "Comparison of corn and milo Feeds," by Fred ene Engelking; and "How Hogs Reached Nebraska", by Dale Engelking. There was picture judging on 11 classes of Durocs. Pamphlets on swine feeding were distributed. news re , porter, Gerald Fredenburg. Official County and City Paper LSTABUSHUl) I.N lSsl ?ut'.ihod Senn Work:;. MonJa s and Thursdays, at 410 Mam itroct. Plamn-.outh. t'as Gun I v. Nchr. Entered at the Pot Office at Fhtt:iouth, Nehraka as second class mad natter in accordance with lite Act of Congress of March 8, 1S79. . . Editor and Publisher Publisher Woman's Editor . Advertising Manager Snop Foreman SUBSCRIPTION RATE: S1:00 per year in Cass and adjoining counties. $5:00 per year elsewhere, in advance, by mail outside ot the city of Platts mouth. By carrier in piaun;uuth, 25 eeuts for two weeks. Louisville, 3rd in Class C, Defends Southeast 8 Title Louisville High, sporting a 12-0 record, has been ranked third best Class C basketball team in the state by the Omaha papers. Most of its wins have been impressive. A prized victory was over Syracuse, now rated 7th in Class B. Louisville next week will de fend its Southeast Eight Con ference Tournament champion ship when it is host to the 1959 meet. Syracuse and Papillion open the meet Wednesday at 2 p.m. Johnson and Peru Prep play at 3:30, Humboldt and Waverly at 7 and Louisville and Weeping Water at 8:15. Next Thursday's semifinals are at 7 and 8:15. The title game is Friday, Feb. 13, at 8:15 after the semifinals losers have met for third place at 7 p.m. Small Auto Accident Occurred Tuesday Tuesday morning a slight auto accident occurred on North 6th street when the sport coupe of Frederick C. Schmidt ran into a Chevy pickup of Tom Gross hans parked on the west side of 6th street. The accident was caused when the carburator on the Schmidt car became loose and caused the car to go out of control and swung across the street and strike the pickup. No one was injured and no damage to the vehicles was re ported by the police. Sarpy Highway 370 Still Under Much Dispute The residents of Sarpy county are still discussing the location of highway No. 370 running east and west through the cpunty. The state commission voted Monday at Lincoln 5 to 1 as favoring the south route for the highway. Comissioner Chris Metzger is reported in the Papillion Times as having pointed out that the Chandler road as serving a large amount of Papillion traffic. He added that Douglas and Sarpy counties have agreed to improve Harrison street, the county road line. Papillion booster state that the Chandler road is fine as far as it goes but stops at 36th street which is surfaced south to the present north route of 370. Harrison street, one mile north of Chandler, has been discus-ed for several years as a joint pro ject by the two counties but no firm agreement has been reach ed. 4-H Saddle Club County Agent Clarence Sch madeke helped organize a new 4-H Saddle Club at the home of Art Roelofsz Jan. 31. Pat Roelofsz is the leader and John Weichel, assistant leader. Officers elected were: pres ident, Kay Edwards; vice pres ident, Steve Edwards; secret ary, Judy Weichel; treasurer, Jan Weichel, and reporter, Nan cy Roelofsz. The club has invited anyone interested in joining to come to the next meeting Feb. 28 at the home of John Weichel at 2 p. m. Onion Items Mrs. L. C. Todd Phone 2441 The latest change in places of business took place Feb. 1. Howard Snodgrass has returned to Union and will be in his for mer place of business which has been occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Meredith. The Merediths have set up their "new store" in the building for merly occupied by Mr. Smiley. Mrs. Arnold Fahrlander en tered St. Mary's Hospital Jan. 25. A project that is being spon sored by the Community Club for the next two weeks is call ed 'Save the Children Federa tion Bundle Dav." This drive was set to begin Feb. 6 and con tinue for two weeks to Feb. 20. The Community is asked to donate children's outgrown cloth, ing and shoes to be used for "mountain people of the South." This clothing is distributed from a Federated Store or given to individuals as they need it. It is hooed that everyone will respond to this project. For more information, call Miss Fife at school or Mrs. Francis Lechner. The next Community Meeting will be Feb. 9. Pictures will be shown and an interesting meet ing is being planned. Mr. and Mrs. John Lovsky of Kansas City. Mo., were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Lech ner over last weekend. While here, they visited Mrs. Nellie Lovsky at Gninriview Home. Mrs. Kav Cross spent last weekend at Murray visiting friends. -Semifinals (Continued from Page 1) paced Avoca with 14 and 13. Avoca led 17-12 at the end of the first quarter and Murdock fought an uphill battle to win in closing minutes. It was 28-24 at halftime and 35-33 at the three-quarter point for Avoca. Weeping Water (88) fg ft pfpts Miller 3 2 1 8 Murphy 2 0 0 4 Stacey 13 4 1 34 Moore 2 4 1 8 Wiles 2 2 2 6 Voyles 2 2 0 6 Potts 4 1 1 9 J. Miller 2 3 2 7 Sevin 2 1 1 5 Thoren 0 1 1 1 Totals 32 24 10 28 o Nehawka (29) fgft pfpts Brannon 0 0 2 0 Briley 1 0 5 2 Balbore 0 0 2 0 Harshman 3 0 5 6 Dodson 2 0 2 4 Stanley 0 0 1 0 G. Jones 6 5 2 17 Johnson 0 0 0 0 Attebury 0 0 0 0 D. Jones 0 0 1 0 Totals 12 5 19 29 Weeping Water 17 28 20 2388 Nehawka 2 10 11 629 Elmwood (55) fg ft pf pts Drake 2 2 2 6 Swarts 0 0 0 0 Mendenhall 3 3 2 9 Fleischman 0 0 0 0 Vogt 1 1 3 3 Climents 1 0 3 2 Rueter 9 5 4 23 Hollenbeck 0 2 0 2 Sender 3 2 3 8 Green 1 0 1 2 Totals 20 15 18 55 o Eagie (47) fgft pfpts Stubbendick 6 3 4 15 Ronhovde 2 2 4 6 Embree 2 2 0 6 Mack 0 0 0 0 Johnson 4 3 4 11 Walker 1 1 3 3 Ostrander 1 4 5 6 Totals 16 15 20 47 Elmwood 9 20 6 2055 Eagle 6 10 13 1847 Murdock (57) fgft pf pts C. Rikli 7 0 2 14 Burrill 4 5 3 13 Wendt 1 0 0 2 Neben 6 2 2 14 Kunz 3 0 4 6 R. Rikli 0 0 0 0 Luetchens 3 2 2 8 Eikerman 0 0 1 0 Totals 24 9 13 57 o Avoca (41) fgft pfpts Bose 5 3 5 13 Ehlers 0 0 0 0 Stubbendick 0 0 2 0 Wohlers 3 2 3 8 Carsten 0 0 0 0 Boehm 2 2 4 6 Schutz 4 6 2 14 Totals 14 13 16 41 Murdock 12 12 9 1457 Avoca 17 11 7 641 Elmwood Pistons 4-II January 26, a new tractor club was organized. They met at the home of John Mendenhall. They called themselves the "Elmwood Pistons." Morris Mendenhall is leader and Percy Miller, assistant lea der. Officers were elected as fol lows: president, Bruce Vogt; , vice president, John Menden- j hall; secretary treasurer. Rex; Brown; reporter, Gerald Fred-' enburg. County Agent Clarence Sch-1 madeke explained projects and i ter, Gerald Fredenburg. le Items Mrs. John Fischer Phone 7304 School Notes High school honor roll: fresh menDennis Adkins: sophomor es Susan Umland. Jeanett? Walker; juniors Susanne Ob erle, Beverly Ronhovde. Glenda Wall is the winner of the 1959 Universitv of Nebraska Regents Scholarship. She is a mong 3.251 senioi's from 437 Ne braska schools who fok the test; 300 scholarship- arc cive:: each year, not more than one ;o a school. I wr ' T r A 7 - IS "V3k-u GUESS WHO The photo graph above was taken some 61 or C5 years ago in Des Moines, Iowa. The twin boys, in the ap propriate picture - posing garb of that day, are Arden Earl Redd of Plattsmouth and Orv.ille Pearl Redd of Junction City, Colo. They'll mark their 69th birth day March 8. -Klemme (Continued from Page 1) County Fair and Korn Karnl val. During the past four years the bank has sponsored a trip to Chicago for eight outstanding 4-H'ers during the International Livestock Exposition. The 4-H'ers receiving this award were Bill Jameson and Sharon Wall in 1955; Roger Wehrbein and Shirley Hild in 1956, Herb Kraeger and Marilyn Pollard in 1957 and Leonard Hild and Diana Wiles in 1958. Bill, Sharon, Roger and Herb are all enrolled in the College of Agriculture, University of Nebraska, Shirley is a student at Midland College and Marilyn and Leonard still are active 4-H'ers. Brief reports were given by Schmadeke, Home Extension agent, Mrs. Nancy Sutton and 4-H Council chairman Ralph Wehrbein. -Teacher (Continued from Page 1) SaMnger, Mrs. Kenneth Wright and Mrs. Paul Fauquet. Also modeling men's fashions were Jerry Haase, Donnie Pierce and Don Baker. Providing background music for the revue was Miss Jane Fauquet assisted by Susan Le bens. During the business meeting Mrs. Toothaker, project chair man, presented project plans and it was voted to have a talent show March 20. It was voted to do away with the attendance banner given for the room count, to be replac ed by a book donation. Mr. Bak er's room won the attendance award. Members adjourned to the cafeteria where a group of sec ond grade mothers served re freshments from a valentine de corated table. FED IP, SO QUITS Lexington, Ky. Roger Lang ford, Fayette county schoolbus driver, reached the end of his rope before he reached the end of his route recently. He said the noisy playfulness of his pas sengers got to be too much. He stopped his vehicle on the spot and resigned. "I was 0 upset I felt I should not go any further, so I iust stopped the bus," he said. A relief driver delivered the children to school. ass Theatre Plattsmouth, Nebr. Thur. Fri. Sat Feb. 5-6-7 Van Heflin, Tab Hunter and a big cast in "Gunman's Walk" Six-feet-two of Mad-Dog Kil ler! Will his own father cut him down! Raw, blistering Western drama! Also Magoo cartoon & comedy Mat. Sat. 2:30 Nites 7:00 & 9:00 Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Febr. 8-9-10-11 4 DESIRE wuVsW THE ELMS Fiery drama that shocked the world ! ! ! An amazingly frank motion picture! Also cartoon comedy & news M.tt. Sun. 2.30 Niie at ?:u0 iMiC iftftoi if m ifc lift . lN, Social Security Films Shown Here The Rotary Club Tuesday noon saw two films on Social Security survivors benefits and background of the SS program. Presenting the program was Tony Piccolo, Lincoln, field man for the SS area including Cass County. The advice of the films: check up on the status of your Social Security account and the bene fits you and your family may receive before the actual need for the benefits arises. Piccolo was Introduced by WE HAVE IT mi FroriSiBs Kraut, No. 2'2 Can ., Roberts Swanson's Coiiaae TV Dinne" m Chicken, Turkey, WlieCSe Beef or Haddock Carton 24c Each 69c Noodles and Chicken Rasidalis 16-oz. jar;;;........;;.. 39c Fig Bars wUPrCTHO 12-oz. Cello... ,.29c Macaroni Gocch's Besf Yi.7.B-g 25c Cat Food Fuss "n Boots 8-oz. Cans Detergent Oxydo! Large Pkg. ........... .7, 35c Pink Dreff Large Pkg..: 34C 2c Off Sale Ajax R.t c:;T:.clr.a.n::r...r.:. 2 f 29c Soap Powder Ve! 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