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XXX TME PUOTSMWTTIHI JflDDCSIMQ. Consolidated With the Nehawka Enterprise and Elmwood Leader-Echo Read Twice Weekly by More Than 3500 Cass County Families CASS COUNTY'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY Monday-Thursday PLATTSMOUTH. CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA MONDAY. MARCH 9, 1959 TEN CENTS PER COPY NUMBER 32 IME 78 SIX PACES ADS AID ARITHMETIC Pupils of the second grade class of Mrs. Lucille Rosencrans at Wintersteen School show how they're using Journal advertisements to help them learn arithmetic. The problem went something like this: if a grocery item in the ad Ricky Payton is pointing to at right costs 55 cents, how much more Bloodmobilc Will Be Here April 3 The Red Cross Bloodmobile will visit Plattsmouth April 3. Mrs. Herman Tlekotter, local chairman, will be contacting re sidents to work or be a blood donor. Please answer the call and become a part of this great service to humanity, she asks. The county blood quota la based on population and Is fin anced by contributions to the annual Red Cross Fund cam paign. Blood Is not given to the Red Cross, it is given to someone who is seriously ill or badly In jured, the chairman said. Blood transfusions are not only given in accidents or emer gencies, but many pints of blood is now used for treatment of chronic illnesses. The success of the program depends on donors; there will always be enough patients; don't wait to be asked, volunteer, the chairman said. First Aid Course To Be Given Here The Plattsmouth Jaycees an nounced today they are sponsor, lng a 10-hour standard training course in First Aid that will go Into full swing Thursday, March 12, at 8 p. m. Jaycee President Wayne Sch neider said that this could be an important course, useful in the home. It is urged that any one wanting to take the course be at the Blue Flame Room of the Gas Company at the above date and time. There will be a fee of 75 cents to cover cost of the First Aid book. Instructor for the course will be Mrs. Lucille Dyer of the Cass County Welfare Dept. JC Backs 'Spacer Safety Program In conjunction with the state wide safety program being pro. moted in Nebraska, the Nebras ka Junior Chamber of Com merce has adopted a safety spa cer program. This Is a blue and white lum inous strip that goes on the bumper of your car with three different bars that show the mot orist behind you how close he is following. The bars are set at 75, 150 and 300 feet. The Plattsmouth Junior Cham, ber of Commerce Is selling the spacers at 50 cents per strip and the profit is to be used in civic projects in Plattsmouth. Anyone wating one of the spa cers can contact any Platts mouth Jaycee. Council Tonight The City Council will have its regular session tonight at City Hall, beginning at 7:30 Journal School The children learn well from real-life situations is being de monstrated at Wintersteen School here, through use in classroom work of Journal gro cery advertisements. Mrs. Lucille Rosencrans has her second grade pupils bring their Journals to school. From them, they work out real-life arithmetic problems. So, It's not just "if A had 4 apples and B had 3 etc." the way it used to be. In Mrs. Rosencrans's class, the children feel the reality of the Joseph Hadraba, 84, Dies at Omaha Saturday Joseph Hadraba, 84, long time resident of Plattsmouth died Saturday morning March 7 at the St. Vincents Home for the Aged in Omaha, where he has been residing for the past six weeks. He was born Feb. 11, 1875, at Cleveland, Ohio, the son of James and Elizabeth Hadraba. "Joe" as he was known to his friends, resided In Plattsmouth except for the past seven years when he made his home with Miss Harriet L. Sitzman of Omaha. Mr. Hadraba was employed by the CB&Q Railroad in their local shops until 1920, as a coach painter. He was a char ter member of local Aerie F.O.E. No. 365, having served as Wor thy President in 1912, being the recipient of a 50 year member ship pin. Survivors are daughters, Mrs. Helen E. Heinrich and Mrs. Blanche Price of this city; a granddaughter Mrs. Helen Vir ginia Snell of Manila, the Phil ippines; a half brother and sis ter Anton Hason of Plattsmouth and Mrs. A. M. Peterson of Des Moines and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, and wife Edna C. who passed away in 1924. A brother Charles died Jan. 25, 1959. Funeral services will be from the Caldwell - Linder Funeral Home Wednesday morning March 11th at 9 o'clock to Holy Rosary church, with burial in Oak Hill cemetery. Rosary recitation Wednesday morning, at 8:30 Visiting hours Tuesday afternoon and evening from four to six and seven to nine o'clock. Elmwood Names Board Candidates ELMWOOD Nominated at the village caucus Tuesday for mem bers of the Village Board were Roy Jeffers, Kenneth West, Wal ly Laughlin and Harry Arnold. i would he spend than Sandra Hull who is pointing to another item costing 25 cents? Paul Felton at left works out the problem. Studying ads from their Journals and waiting a turn to work out a problem, from left, are Earl Johnson, Dean Cruber and Randy Dittemore. Ads Helping Pupils Learn problems they're given to work out. The teacher says it is help ing not only in arithmetic but in reading, social awareness and as a pratical reminder about health needs. Mrs. Rosencrans lists some of the values she feels are found in the ad study: 1. Grocery ads suitable be cause of large type for young eyes. 2. Grocery ads appeal to the sense of taste. 3. Ad study integrates 'reading. Children utilize skills in order to read pendently. 4. Ad study integrates with word inde- with health. Choice of foods. 5. Integrates with social stud ies, awareness of the newspaper is a common bond in the com munity. 6. Newspaper makes easily available supplementary mater ial 7. Fosters a spirt of helpful ness to mother when children read ads to mother while she is busy working. 8. Fosters a spirit of fair play, as competitive prices among stores cannot be suggested in class work. A Profile- Odd Fellows Lodge Here Dates Back to 1862 The Independent Order of Odd Fellows is a fraternal organi zation with a multimillion-dollar heart. It's good works en circle the globe, as does its mem bership. It has more than 1,345, 000 members in thousands of cities thruout the United Sta tes, Canada, Latin America and in eight countries abroad. It maintains 54 homes for the elderly and for orphan children homes valued at $22 million on which the IOOF spends $4l2 million a year for maintenance. The Odd Fellows are nonpol itical, nonsectarian. They 6 not ask a member's politics or his religion. More th-in that, they do not permit a discussion of those subjects m the lodges. But the very principles of the order call for the practice of religion. Odd Fellowship is "the teaching and application of friendship, love, and truth; of faith, hope and charity; of un iversal justice " Anyone who is even a remote relative of an Odd Fellow is el igible for aid from the order if he is in need. The organization moves Immediately whenever such a case is brought to its at tention. Headquarters of this order, with its worldwide family of lod ges is found in an old Baltimore mansion en West Chase Street. The Independent Order of Odr Fellows of Plattsmouth is locat Weeping Water VFW Auxiliary To Be Instituted The Weening Water Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary will be Instituted and the officers in stalled Sunday, March 15, at 2 p.m. at the Masonic Hall in Weeping Water. All VFW Auxiliary members of Post 2543 are urged to at tend and welcome another Cass County Auxiliary. Anyone wanting more infor mation or transportation may call 9240. Margaret Fitch, local Auxiliary president. Candidates Named For Louisville LOUISVILLE (Special) The candidates whose names will ap pear on the ballot for the village election April 7 are: The village caucus named Lloyd Hell, Joe Hon and Henry Davis for the positions to be va cated by LaRue Williams and Clarence Nessen whose terms expire. At the school caucus, the nam es of Harry Ahl, John Bogard and Dale Steinkamn were select ed for the positions now held by Harry Ahl and Graham Jon es. ed at Second and Main Street, known as Platte Lodge No. 7. It was instituted in 1862 at the present location, sharing Its qu arters with the present Mason ic Lodge located on 5th and Main. The Platte Lodge lists some of its continuous members as H. M. Soennichsen. 55 jears; William H. Ofe. 35; Harry Krue. ger, 30, and Fred Dawson, 35. There are several members with 20 years membership and over. In the past years the lodge be came very active with consid erable increase in membership. Present head as Noble Grand is Louis Armentraut and Vice Grand, Dr. A. E. Johnson. Platte Lodge No. 7 is affiliat ed with the Omaha District of eight other lodges. It maintains a home for aged at York and at present is hous ing 69 members and has a fund to build an annex for the hos pitalization of the infirm to a better advantage and without re strictions. The ladies auxiliary or the Rebekah Lodge, Bud of Promise No. 40, is very active and meets in the same building. They also have a Junior organization call ed the Theta Rbo Girls Club. Its members are from 12 to 18 years of age. Mrs. Wilma Rice is Noble Grand and Mrs. Ina Mae Sell, Vice Grand of the Rebekah Lodg here. Louisville in State Tourney Louisville High, the Class C basketball team the Omaha and Lincoln papers say is the best in that class in the state, is just where it ought to be, in the state tournament. Louisville will play its state meet opener Friday at 7 p.m. against an opponent yet to be named. That opponent will be the winner of the Plainview District playoff which was delayed be cause of the snowstorm. In the final tonight are Bancroft and Emerson. Bancroft was rated No. 5 in Class C in the Omaha papers' final listing. Emerson was not in the top 10. Louisville, the solid Cass Coun ty quint, earned its berth in the state tourney at the University of Nebraska Coliseum by win ning the district playoff at Lincoln Northeast. It downed Leigh, 7th-ranked in the state, and previously un defeated, 50-41, Saturday night in a fvial delayed from Thurs day night because of the storm. Before that, It had bowled over Palmyra 51-41 in the Northeast playoff and county ri val Weeping Water, 65-40, in the Elkhorn preliminary playoff final. Also in the Class C state fin als are Lodgepole and Hastings St. Cecilia which meet at 8:30 Friday. Lodgepole was unranked. St. Cecilia was rated 6th. Saturday night, Louisville trailed 8-10 at the quarter and 18-19 at the half. Louisville managed a 34-34 tie going into the 4th quarter after Leigh had led by five just be fore. Coach Ernie Lee's team took charge and won the 4th quarter decisively, 16-7, to regis ter their 23rd win in 24 games this season. Emmett Brown led Louisville with 14 and Orval Robbins scor ed 12. Janice Hennings Gets 'Superior' Dramatic Rating LOUISVILLE (Special) Louisville's superior rating in the Southeast Eight District Dramatic contest held March 2 at Weeping Water went to Jan ice Hennings for her humorous reading "Charles". Janice re peated her performance in the evening program. Excellent ratings were earned in the following categories: Seniors, Frank Puis with news commentary; Sylvia Saltmarsh, Nancy Gauer, Sharon Isaac, Emmett Brown ad Leonard Bent ley for their play cutting. Juniors: Excellent to Mary May field for poetry; and good to Janean Hubbell in reading of prose literater. Sophomore John Davis recei ved an excellent for his inter pretative address. The one-act play. "The Tryst Ing Place" with both Juniors and Sophomores in the cast, also received an excellent rating. The cast consisted of John Stohl mann, Herbert Heil, James Hen drix, Joe Citta, Mary Mayfield, Janice Hennings and Judy Heil. 3-School Circus Set Here Thursday Students of Columbian, First Ward and Wintersteen Schools will present a variety of enter tainment Thursday, March 12. A Tri-School Circus will be held at the High School Audit orium beginning at 7:30 o'clock. Miss Beverly George is director. Mrs. Irene Craig Found Dead At Murdock Home Mrs. Irene Craig, 62, well known . resident of Murdock, was found dead this morning at the family home. The body was found by her husband, Eddie Craig, prominent resident and barber at Murdock. She has been in ill health for several years and despondent for some time. Sheriff Solomon, as coron er visited Murdock called by members of the family. Frank Fencil, 74. of Green wood was found dead at his home this morning at 6 o'clock. The death was discovered by the wife. Death was caused bf a long illness from lung trouble, Sheriff Tom Solomon reports. $82,675 Is CPPD Budget For This Area Ernie Elliott, Plattsmouth Dis trict manager for Consumers Public Power District, today an nounced that CPPD will invest $82,675 in the Plattsmouth area in 1959. He said .me of the minor projects are underway. The Plattsmouth District, the smallest of CPPD's 11 statewide districts, sells power at the re tail level in Murray, Mynard. Nehawka. Union and Platts -mouth and sells some wholesale power to Nebraska City. Elliott said the Plattsmouth budget includes $45,200 for work on the distribution systems In the communities served at the retail level; $18,000 for improv ing power sub-stations; $11,000 to handle projects and equip -ment related to rural or farm customers; $5,600 for equipment to be used on transmission lin es and $2,875 for line and serv ice tools, mobile radio gear, of fice and storage equipment and miscellaneous items. He said the $82,675 Investment scheduled for the Plattsmouth District during 1959 was recent ly given approval after CPPD's board of directors OK'd a state wide construction and equip -ment budget of $14,676,545. The statewide fund for '59 in cludes $9,160,000 for the 100,000 kllowatt Sheldon Station steam power plant near Hallam. The steam plant is to be in opera tion in the Spring of 1961. A nuc lear power facility also is to be constructed at the Hallam site. It is scheduled to be tested in late 1961. Elliott revealed that work on local distribution work is sched uled for Union, Murray, Platts mouth and Nehawka. He said the projects include partial re builds of the distribution systems in Plattsmouth, Union and Mur ray to "beef up" the systems to meet Increased load condi tions to provide for additional power to new customers. The sub-station program in -eludes the planned installation of one 3-phase 3,000-KVA trans former at the Plattsmouth sub station to meet increased load demands in the Cass County community. Early Morning Fire On Sunday The Plattsmouth fire depart ment received a call at 5:30 Sunday morning to the resi dence of Naason Babbitt and family on Wintersteen hill. It was found during the even ing a fire had started from a cig arette dropping on the seat of a studio couch. The seat of the couch had been taken out and dosed with water and placed near the side of the house. The fire was discovered later by By ron Finnefrock and Dale Schi ber when returning home as the blaze in the couch had revived and was threatening the house. The blaze was finally extin guished at a damage estimated at $150. South Sarpy To Vote on $890,000 School Bonds Patrons of school district No 46 is Sarpy county or "South High School district" as it is better known, will have the op portunity of voting on a $890, 000 school bond issue on Tues day, March 31. The issue would finance ac quisition of a site and construct ion and equipment of a new junior and senior high school. It is thought the new struct ure will probably be located on the Bock farm near Richland. If the issue is approved the district hopes to move into the new building in the fall of 1900. Marion Reed of Fort Crook, chairman of the building com mittee, outlined plans at the school caucus. Bonds will mature in twenty years and the district officials anticipate that its entire levy will not exceed 22 mills. The to tal will include 6 mills for bond retirement. Senator McHugh to Address Sarpy County Teachers State Senator Edwin T. Mc Hugh of Murdock will speak at the Sarpy County Teacher's as sociation meeting on March 12 at Gretna it has been announc ed by Superintendent Olga An derson of Sarpy county. Election of officers will be held and discussion of a revised constitution. Storm Hit Hard In County, Too The storm that hit so hard in the midwest last week dumped some 8 to 12 inches of snow in these parts and tied up lots of traffic, although it wasn't as bad as it was farther east. The Louisville road (Highway 60) was closed until Friday morning by about a mile of drifts ranging up to six feet deep in a stretch about midway between Plattsmouth and Louis ville. Many east-west roads In Cass County were blocked as wind whipped the heavy snow. Most north-south roads were navig able, though some had only one way traffic. One-way was also the order on Highway 66 at spots as late as Saturday or Sunday. In Plattsmouth, the city street department had a real workout which lasted right through Sun day. It began with a 14-hour stint Wednesday night and Thursday to keep main thoroughfares open. Most residential streets were cleared by Friday and downtown cleanup operations were carried on through the weekend. The snow gave the Platts mouth basketball team a holi day in Lincoln. Having played in the district Class A meet at Wesleyan University, the team was unable to return to Platts mouth that night. Motoring Rough In Eagle Vicinity Too, Last Week EAGLE (Special) About midnight Wednesday the Eagle Fire Dept. was called out to the Carroll Ketelhut farm home, a mile south of the neighboring town of Walton. Despite the storm, they were on their way in a very few minutes followed by several cars. Mr. and Mrs. Auker, enroute home from Lincoln where both work, encountered a collision as a car slid into the ditch ahead of theirs and they were unable to stop. There were no injuries. Mrs. Franklin Furrer of near Walton was soloist guest at the Eagle Methodist WSCS meeting and enroute home her car skid ded Into a ditch about 3 miles west of Eagle as she was re turning home. She was assist ed by some Eagle women who came by on their way home from Lincoln. Mr. Furrer was called and his wife made the rest of the trip home by pick-up truck. She was not injured. Louisville High Has New Club In Dramatics LOUISVILLE (Special) A Louisville High school Dramatic Club was organized Tuesday with John Stohlmann as presi dent, Herbert Heil as vice-president, and Mary Mayfield as secretary. To be eligible for the club, the student must have taken part in dramatics beyond assist ing with the class play. Activities points may be earn ed toward graduation by partici pation In dramatics. The membership includes the following students: Frank Puis, Emmett Brown, Leonard Bent ley, Ray Albert, Sharon True, Mary Mayfield, Janice Hennings, Janean Hubbell, Herbert Heil, Joe Citta, John Stohlmann, Patsy Dobbs, ohn Davis, James Hendrix and Judy Heil. All have taken part in drama tics in Southeast eight competi tion or attended Fine Arts Fes tival in Lincoln. Man Held Here For 'Forgery' Donald Witte, 38, Nebraska City is being held in the Cass County Jail on a complaint charging forgery. Witte recently went on a check writing spree in Avoca, Weep ing Water and Union, according to Sheriff Tom Solomon and was taken into custory Friday. Saturday noon, Witte made a self inflected Injury to his head which requied nine stitches to close, then again Saturday night, another self inflected head in jury required an additional six stitches to close, the sher.ff said. Call Your News And Social Items To 241 Thursday wasn't much better as far as weather was concerned Travel was hazardous on High way 34 and Coach John Adklns thought it folly to take a chance on returning. So, tli? squad stay ed over until P'rlday. At least two emergencies were handled with dispatch in the midst of the storm. A race with the stork seemed imminent for a farm family near here so the father-to-be rallied relatives and friends and they beat a path to the main highway, shoveling and pushing, sometimes pulling with a truck and phoning neighbors ahead along the line of travel for road conditions. Finally, the party reached a main highway. There, the mother-to-be thou ght it probably was a false alarm. Father-to-be, though, was having no more of it. "To Omaha, now." he said, "I'm not going through this again." Another farm family had a similar experience, returned to the farm and then went to Omaha Saturday for the baby's arrival. Several motorists got stuck and had to abandon cars Wed nesday and Thursday in the county. A group of Plattsmouth men went out with a wrecker to get a Plattsmouth motorist out of the drifts on the Louis ville road. It was only a six-mile trip but it took more than three hours. The motorist went back to Louisville where he works. Bright sunshine most of Fri day, Saturday and Sunday did a lot to improve conditions and more of the same was scheduled today. Cass County Red Cross Appeal Made The 1959 "Kick-Off Meeting" for the Fund Drive of the Cass County Chapter of the American Red Cross was held at Avoca. Twenty-four members attend ed. Vern Starr, Chapter chair man, welcomed the guests and turned the meeting over to the 1959 Chapter Fund chairman, Ed McHugh of Murdock. McHugh announced this year's Cass County Chapter "quota" as $5,050 and urged the co-operation .of everyone in Cass County to aid in reaching the goal. It was pointed out than un less every town in the county will raise its quota the chapter might not be able to carry on with the all-important Blood Pro gram. Cass County's pro-rata "as sessment to the Nebraska-Iowa Blood Center is $1,145 for this year and must be paid by April 1, 1959. Of interest to all resi dents it was pointed out that 171 pints of blood were used by Cass Countians during the past year. If charged for this blood, it would have cost at least $4,275, "Surely everyone realizes that we cannot afford to lose our Blood Program," McHugh said. Another vital function of Red Cross is the Home Service Pro gram. Last year 257 cases in volving relief and family prob lems were handled bv the Home Service secretary. Cases consist ing of Army and Navy veterans and civilians were given assist ance totaling $619. Many children in Cass County look forward each year to the Red Cross Swim Week. Many lives are saved bv this worth while Instruction. McHugh said. Many attended Swim Week last year and a considerable number received swim certifi cates. If the county raises its quota it will be able to have two weeks of swimming instruction. Just $1 from each resident in Cass Countv to the 1959 Fund Drive will assure a two - wek instruction period McHugh said. If you are not contacted In the Fund Drive, you can mail your contribution to Mrs. Louis Zais er, Avoca, or Ed McHugh, Mur dock. THE WEATHER March 5, 6, 7, 8, 1959 n?e Hi. Low Prec. Thursday 32 24 .30 Friday 35 23 .00 Saturday .... 40 8 .00 Sunday 44 27 00 Forecast: High in upper 40's; lov,- in upper 20's. Chance of lig:v. rain or snow. Sun sets tonight at 6:24; rises Tuesday at 8:45 a.m.