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THE PLATT8M0UTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAOE TWO Monday. May 4, 1959 Omaha Girl Is Bride Of Richard Koterzina LOUISVI$LLE (Special) Miss Mary Alice Campbell of Omaha and Richard Paul Kot erzina of Louisville were mar ried Sunday at 2 p.m. In the Blessed Sacrament Church. The Rev. James J. Rief officiated. ' The bride Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Campbell of Omaha and the bridegroom the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Koterzina, Sr., of Louisville. Mrs. Jerry Wandell was mat ron, of honor. Bridesmaids were the Misses Janet Massara and Sharon Sokol. Frank Koterzina, Jr., of Lou isville was best man for his bro ther. Ushers were Jerry Wan dell, George Meisinger of Platts mouth, Carl and Glenn Schlie fcrt and Jack White all of Louis ville. A reception was held at the church hall. After a two-week trip to Cal ifornia, the couple will live In Louisville. Then there was the girl who i was so narrow-minded she on ly needed one earring. Observ er, Norfolk, Va. REPAIR i ... 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Williamson and Klmberly and Miss Katy Mor row of Kansas City and Mr. and Mrs. V. Sobatha and son Stan ley of Lincoln. Bridal Shower Honors Carol Davis Mrs. Harry White was hostess Saturday evening at her resi dence honoring Miss Carol Davis, bride-to-be. Miss Davis will be married June 2 to Richard Kuc era. Miss Davis was honored with a pantry shower. Mr. White, the grocery boy, wheeled her gifts In to her in a supermarket cart. She was assisted in the gift re ceiving by her mother, Mrs. J. Howard Davis. Guests played games and pri zes were awarded to Maxine Cloldt, Mrs. P. T. Heineman, Mrs. David Rutherford and Carol's grandmother, Mrs. Grace Park er. Other guests were Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Wm. Helnrlch, Mrs. Robert Humiston, Mrs. Carl Schneider, Mrs. Hallle Perry, Mrs. Howard Wiles, Mrs. Herman Hennings, Mrs. Frank Gunsolly, Mrs. L. A. Caldwell, Mrs. T. I. Friest, Mrs. William Schmidtmann and Mrs. Lillian Livingston. The White home was beauti fully appointed with spring time flowers. Miss Davis received many lov ely and useful gifts, afterwhich refreshments were served by Mrs. White. RABBI UNQUALIFIED Las Vegas, Net. Rabbi Max Nussbaum of Temple Is rael, Hollywood, cannot marry Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fis. cher in Nevada. He is Miss Taylor's selection, but three Las Vegas judges have informed her the rabbi isn't qualified to perform mar riages in this state because he doesn't have a congregation in Nevada. Shop City Students In U of N Spring Chorale LINCOLN Mary Ann Ryan and Larry Cole, University stu dents from Plattsmouth, will perform In the year's major mus ic event at the University of Ne braska - the annual Spring Cho ral Concert on Sunday, May 10, at 8 p.m. in the Coliseum. Featured will be three nation ally known concert and televi sion artiste Leon Lishrwr, as sociate professor of music at the University, who appears annual ly with the NBC-TV Opera Com pany: Miss Sarah Fleming of New York, who appears with the New York Opera Company, and John Alexander of New York, al so a soloist with the NBS-TV Opera Company and the New York Opera Company. They will perform with the 500-voice combined University Choral Union and the University Symphony Orchestra. Prof. Emanuel Wishnow will conduct. The three soloists will com bine with the University Choral Union and Orchestra to perform "The Seasons," by Haydn. The Orchestra and Choral Union also will present "Drum Taps," writ ten by Nebraska's Howard Han sen. The public Is invited to at tend, and there Is no admission charge. Nebraska Wesleyan Announces List Of Winner Of Honors Dean of the college Sam Dahl conducted the Nebraska Wes leyan University recognition ceremony Friday for students who attained exceptional schol astic achievement at the annual honors convocation. Elected to Kappa Delta Pi national professional education honorary fraternity, Janet Mad sen, Nehawka; Marilyn Menden hall, Weeping Water. Women's Wesleyan Education al Council Scholarship holders, Janet Madsen, Nehawka. Son Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Klein of Union are parents of a son born May 1 at St. Mary's Hos pital in Nebraska City. Daughter Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Marchand of this city are parents of a dau ghter born May 1 at St. Mary's Hospital in Nebraska. Mrs. Mar chand is the former Peggy Bald win. Daughter TSgt. and Mrs. Gordon Hyde are the parents of an 8 lbs. dau ghter born April 28 at Offutt Air Force Base Hospital. The couple has another child a son Billy. Daughter Mr. and Mrs. John Horn II are the parents of a daughter born May 1 at St. Joseph Hospital, Omaha. She weighed 5 lbs., 12 oz., and has been named Teresa Eileen. Mr. and Mrs. Horn have another daughter Madonna Lou ise. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. John Horn and Merton Jacobs of this city. CALENDAR Monday, May 4 Central PTA will meet at 8 p.m. in the school auditorium. Topic "Constructive Leisure Time" by Harold K. Edwards of the Nebraska Game Com. mission, telling points of inter est in Nebraska. Also installa tion of officers. Special invita tion to 7th & 8th grade parents and teachers. Monday, May 4 Plattsmouth Woman's Club an nual banquet at 6:30 p.m. at the Methodist Church. Monday, May 4 Rebekah Lodge, Bud of Pro mise will meet at 8 p.m. at the IOOF Hall. Tuesday, May 5 Camp Fire and Blue Bird Lead ers Association will meet at 2 p.m. at Consumers. Tuesday, May 5 OES Chapter 189 will meet at 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 6 Board of Directors of the Pub lic Library will meet at 10:30 a.m. at the library. Thursday, May 7 Eagles Auxiliary will meet at the Eagles Hall at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 7 Navy Mothers meeting post poned from May 1 to May 7 at 7:30 p.m. Consumers Rooms. Sunday, May 24 Bacculeurate Services in the high school auditorium at 8 p.m. Reverend A. L. Embree, speaker. Monday, May 25 Eighth grade promotion exer cises in the high school audi torium at 8 p.m. Reverend Keith Delap, speaker. Wednesday, May 27 Commencement Exercises at 8 p.m. in the high school audi torium. Speaker Neal S. Goman. BIRTHS 4 Shirley McCord, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry McCord, granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Baier of Avoca, was among those honored at the Honors Convocation at the Uni versity of Nebraska. Edwards Family To Texas Mrs. Herb Edwards and child ren of Council Bluffs, la., were taken to board a train in Oma ha Friday by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Beckman. The Beckman's daughter and family are to join Mr. Edwards at Shephard Air Force Base, Wichita Falls, Texas, where he is undergoing advanced IBM training. Mr. Edwards has been In Texas the past three weeks, and upon completion of his study the first of August, the family will return to their home in Council Bluffs. Marilyn Mendenhall In Cardinal Key LINCOLN, Neb. Twelve Ne. braska Wesleyan University coeds were tapped Into member ship In Cardinal Key Friday. They included Marilyn Menden hall of Elmwood. Tapping came as a highlight of annual May Fete activities on the campus. Each of the twelve new mem bers was sought out of the throng in Ira J. Taylor gym nasium and escorted to the plat form where they were welcomed by Mrs. Kathern Boden, Blue Key president. Cardinal Key is a national honorary society for junior and senior women, devoted to the Improvement and extension of activities on the campus. Members must show evidence of, scholastic ability, leadership potential and must be active in the extra curricular and the cur ricular program on the campus. Miss Mendenhall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Eldon Menden hall of Elmwood, is a member of Barbs, president of the Wesle yan chapter of Student Educa tion Association' of Nebraska, a member of Plainsman Players and YWCA, serves on the So cial Committee and is active in Woman's Athletic Association. D. Day and Widmark In 'Tunnel of Love" "The Tunnel of Love," the comedy about love in the suburbs sometimes described as a bed time story for grownups, has been made Into a motion pic. ture, following its long-run suc cess in New York and on the road and will play at the Cass Theatre thru Tuesday. Doris Day and Richard Widmark play the suburban couple whose deter mination to have an heir brings hilarious if almost catastrophic results. Launched in February, 1957, the play created laughter on Broadway for a year and a half and since then has continued as a touring success. Joseph Fields equaled with it the acclaim for such other Fields stage produc tions as "Wonderful Town," "Junior Miss, "My Sister Eileen" and "Gentlemen Prefer Blon des." He also produced the film, with Martin Melcher as co.pro duced, based on the play Fields and Peter De Vries wrote from the De Vries novel. MGM is re leasing the picture, filmed in Cinemascope. Playing co-starring roles with Miss Day and Widmark are Gig Young, a detouring husband; and Gia Scala, as the social worker who operates above and beyond the call of duty. Eliza beth Fraser and Elizabeth Wilson repeat their original stage roles. Gene Kelly displays the same zip In directing as he does in acting in this, the first picture he has directed in which he does not appear. Adv. Merry Missiles Merry Missiles 4-H Club met April 29 at the home of Mrs. Ralph Payton. We answered roll call by naming cooking uten sils. All were present. We will meet again next Wed nesday at Mrs. Payton's house. We will make cocoa and cinna mon toast. Joyce Welstead re porter. She was the kind of a girl you'd like to bring home to mo therif you could trust father. Borescope, Pocatello, Idaho. 300 Scouts at Austin Finlay Farm Outing LOUISVILLE (Special) About 300 Boy Scouts, Scoutmasters and some officials from the North Star District of Lincoln held a Camporee at "Folklure Picnic Grounds" at the Austin Finlay farm form Friday after noon through Sunday evening. Boy Scouts from Waverly, Green wood and Alvo also attended. On Sunday morning, Rev. Sandy of Greenwood conducted the morning service at 8:30 and the Catholic boys were taken to Manley for their services. Just before breaking camp Sunday afternoon, the Boy Scouts marched up to "Inspira tion Point" for their final ser vice, where the boys recieved awards for their merits. At the close of the meeting one of the officials called Howard Finlay up and conferred on him the honor of becoming an honorary Boy Scout of the North Star District and presented him with a neckerchief with the North Star emblems on it. They departed for their homes and will return for another Camporee in September. Drama Students From Louisville Attend Festival LOUISVILLE (Special) Six dramatic students accompanied Mrs. Ruth Leadabrand, their director to the Fine Arts Festi val in Lincoln, which is a state wide competition, Friday and Saturday. Mary Mayfield, who entered in poetry reading, was one of four Class G school entries to receive a superior rating. The Judge commended her natural and sincere manner. Individual numbers were also given by John Stohlmann, who substituted for Janice Hennings, in reading of prose literature and John Davis, who gave an interpretation of a speech. John Stohlmann was rated good and John Davis aver age. A play reading of "Arsenic and Old Lace" was given Sat urday morning by Herbert Heil, Mary Mayfield, John Stohl mann, Ruth Ann Sprieck, and Volene Albert. Ruth Ann and Volene substituted. A rating of good was given this number with the comment that the per formers had good emotion and projection. All are members of the Dra matic Club, which was started this year, and includes in its membership all those who take part in dramatics competition. Mrs. Clarence Stohlmann and Mrs. John Moren were drivers for the group. Elementary School Teachers Will Be Back at Louisville LOUISVILLE (Special) Supt. Jack Welch reports that all the grade school teachers in the Louisville school system plan to return to their places here for the next year. In the high school, Mr. Dierks, Coach Lee, Mrs. Leadabrand, and Mrs. Mulnix have made plans to return. Jack Gell will go to Minnesota and Richard Loseke, Larry Jambor, Miss Reb be and John Schaumburg do not plan to return. Robert Edson of Omaha has been contracted to take the place of Mr. Schaumburg as director of the music department but the other four places are yet to be filled. Busy Blue Birds The Busy Blue Birds met at the home of Roberta Aldrich March 11. After the business meeting the girls enjoyed a birthday party honoring Roberta. Mrs. Aldrich served cake and ice cream. The March 26 meeting was held at Linda Ashlock's home. After the business meeting we pasted pictures in our scrap books. Mrs. Ashlock served re freshments. April 9 we met at Linda Dash er's and went on a hike in the woods. We collected branches from thorn trees, and dried milk weed pods. After the hike Mrs. Dasher served refreshments. FEWER GERMANS JOBLESS Nuernberg, West Germany Unemployment in West Germa ny during March fell by 519,190 leaving only 587,898 out of work according to an announcement by the Federal Employment of fice In Nuernberg. SAVE $15.00 IN CASH REGISTER RECEIPTS AND RECEIVE 50c MERCHANDISE IN TRADE SCHREINER REXALL DRUG Plattsmouth Trenton High School Seniors stop in City Friday afternoon a bus load of members of the senior class of Trenton (Neb.) High School were in Plattsmouth for a short time while on their sneak day outing. The students had left Trenton Friday morning but were pursued by hard luck on the trip. In the vicinity of Lincoln, they had trouble with the motor of the bus that delayed them in reaching their destination, Om aha. They were here at 2 p.m. and stopped for lunch and re freshments. Elmwood Youth Heads 'Innocents' ELMWOOD David L. God bey of Elmwood Saturday be came president for 1959-60 of the Innocents Society, honorary for senior men at the University of Nebraska. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Godbey of Oakland, Iowa, formerly of Elmwood. David is a member of the Stu dent Council, Engineering Ex ecutive Board, American Insti tute of Architects and Builders and is vice president of Kosmet Klub. He is also house manager of Theta Xi Fraternity. Don Beins Home From Service Arriving at the airport in Omaha 6:30 Friday night was Donald Beins after receiving his discharge from the service at Fort Sheridan, 111. He was met at the airport by his wife, the former Benne Rae Speck. The meeting was a hap py reunion, as the service man has been away two years in Baumholder, Germany. He took his basic training at Fort Riley, Kans. While overseas he met service men Tim O'Connell and Lyle Hlld, both In Germany. Hild and O'Connell are also from Platts mouth. Beins visited in France and England. Mr. and Mrs. Beins will make their home at 1107 First Ave. GETS TUSKS RE-ALIGNED Washington Ashoka, 16-year old Indian bull elephant at the Washington Zoo, is getting his teeth straightened with a spec ial brace. He has had trouble with the alignment of his front teeth tusks, in the elephant world. They were interfering with his trunk. ........ The work was done with spec ial instruments a brace and bit. screwdriver and pliers. P.S. Ashoka didn't even squ irm as much as most human patients of his comparative age. Schreiner'i Special Formula , HAND CREAM JUST THINK 3-oz. Jar 50c 8-ozJar $1.00 16-oz.Jar $1.50 A Wonderful Quick Vanishing Fragrant Cream How Much Are You Paying for a 3-oz. Jar? Schreiner Drug Brides - to - be . . . . Let Us Help You in Selecting Your Wedding Invitations. Come in and see our samples of Wed ding Invitations, Napkins, Bridal books, Thank you notes, Bride's white Bibles, etc. k Large selection of type styles and paper fa Choice of plain printing or raised lettering The Plattsmouth James Morris in 'Crimson Masque' MONMOUTH, 111. James Morris, Monmouth College Fresh man, son of Mr. and Mrs. Olin E. Morris of Murray, Nebraska, is a new member of the Crimson Masque, student theatre group. New members were announced at the annual awards banquet held recently. Miss Agnes Moore head, renown Hollywood act ress, representing dramatic arts at Monmouth's Liberal Arts Fes tival attended the affair. Another season of theatre is in store for Monmouth College pat rons with the announcement by Parker Zellers, dramatic head, that "Three Men on a Horse", "Lost Horizons", and "Of Thee I Sing" have been selected to be staged next year. Local People Attend K of C Meet At Norfolk The 55th annual state conven tion of the Knights of Columbus opened their two day conven tion on Sunday at Norfolk. George H. Pohlmeier, grand knight of Msgr. M. A. Shine council of this city, with Mrs. Pohlmeier and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Whelan are In attend ance at the meeting, Mr. Whe lan being a past grand knight. Patrick J. Norton, master of the fourth degree of the Knights of Columbus addressed the meet ing on Sunday of the work of the degree In Nebraska. Mr. Norton Is associated with Boys Town where he has been for the past thirty-nine years. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, but much more decent. Worchester (Mass.) Telegram. PLATTSMOUTH Soft Water WASH 20c Out Vault Heats j Your CLOSET! FREE, Insured Storage WINTER CLOTHING! PAY ONLY FOR DRY CLEANINC, AND NOT UNTIL NEXT FALL! MOTHER LOVE London A sheep which kill ed a fox in defense of Its newly-born lamb is the prize of the flock of Somerset farmer, Donald Comer. He saw the fox creeping tow ard the lamb Just one hour old as it lay in a field. He was too far away to help. But the sheep had seen the fox too and charged. The fox was smashed Into an earth bank and fell dead. lllll In loving memory, a perfect tribute Through the years, a beautiful monument of marble or granite will symbolize your love. Let Vs Help You Make This Important Purchase R. C. BEHMER Behmer Furniture Representing Watertown Monument Works Phone 7963 Plattsmouth, Nebr. Open 24 Hours LAUNDROMAT DRY 10c OF PLATTSMOUTH CLEANERS jj 21 1 Chicago Ave. ' Phone 4193 Use Our Convenient Drive-In. Journal 'JB 123 . North 6th