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NEBU. ST A it. liI3X. SOCXLY UX 1353 H 3T. LINCOLN, NEEt. GREATEST CASS COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY Monday-Thursday Consolidated With the Nehawka Enterprise ond Elmwood Leader-Echo Read Twice Weekly by More Than 3500 Cass County Families VOLUME 79 TWELVE PACES PLATTSMOUTH. CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA THURSDAY. MARCH 3, 1960 TEN CENTS PER COPY NUMBER 31 ' i , . '' T' I L ,i7,t'.'j .lis. . . - M fQ J a Y3-:;'"'- -' TYPICAL 4-II FAMILY FROM ELMWOOD Governor Ralph G. Brooks proclaimed March 5-12 as National 4rII Club week in Nebraska. Witnessing: the ceremony in the Governor's of fice was a Cass county farm family. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Miller and their son, John, 11, and Nancy, 13, of Elmwood were chosen as a typical 4-II family in Nebraska, representing both the 6,300 leaders and 31,625 members in the state. Miller is a leader of the Stove Creek Rustlers beef club, while Mrs. Miller is an assistant lead er of the Double B girls club. Nancy Is groom Lions Club Talent Contest Is March 21 The Lions Club here today an nounced its annual Amateur Talent Contest will be held March 21 at the High School Auditorium. Lions urged youngsters with talent to enter in one of three age groups: Junior under 11 years of age. Intermediate 11 but under 16. Senior 16 and older. Entry blanks are available at the high school music room, Cass Drug or Feldhousen Drug. Entry forms must be complet ed and filed not later than the evening of March 14 at the music room or one of the two drug stores. Winners of the local contest will go at Lions Club expense to a district contest at Uehling and winners there will advance to a state contest to be held in con junction with the Lions State Convention at Sidney in May. In years past, the Plattsmouth Lions have been leaders among state Lions clubs in the amateur contest program. Several local contest winners have been dis trict winners, although none won the state contest. Council To Study Question Further The City Council decided Mon day night to further study a question about minors being al lowed in places where beer and liquor are sold. The Council discussed at leng th a question posed a few weeks ago by the Platsmouth Minister ial Association before moving to take time for further investi gation. One-Side Parking On 4th Street, Avenue A to B The City Council Monday night ordered a resolution drawn to i create one-side parking on 4th lopment, expansion of tourist Street from Avenue A to Avenue ' facilities in the state's parks, B, on recommendation of Police traffic safety program, interim Chief Fred Tesch. ! reports of governmental pro- Tesch recommended parking ; gress to all Nebraskans, a mini on the west, or downhill side. j mum wage law with equal pay Councilman Al Huebner first I for equal work, realistic ap suegested the measure to help ! proach to the problems of sen relieve a traffic "bottleneck" j ior citizens, survey of the needs and Tesch was asked to investl-, of youth, state labor relations gate. An exception to the parking regulation would be during fun erals when parking would be al lowed on both sides of the street. A Classified Ad In The Journal cost as little as 50 cents. y Family By Clarence Schmadeke County Extension Agent "4-H is a family affair" is the theme of National 4-H Club Conrad Files For Governor Nomination Robert Conrad, 37, Genoa at torney who is administrative as sistant to Gov. Ralph Brooks, Tuesday filed for Democratic nomination for governor. It was a long-anticipated move. His was the third Democratic filing for governor. Previously, Frank Morrison, a Lincoln at torney, and Tony Mangiamelli, Omaha contractor, had filed. Conrad outlined a "program for state government" which in cludes the following: 5 nlJfyJtyi&?Jl Robert Conrad Expanded agricultural re search, accelerated highway program correction of inequit ies in the assessment of live- stock, increased industrial deve- act, curtailment of state ex penditures, state constitutional convention, statewide referen dum on the tax question, active, closely coordinated work with the state legislature, soil and water conservation program expansion. J N Vi ing a shorthorn steer and has a sewing project, wh.'le John also has a shorthorn steer in club work. The two baby beef animals come from the Millers' purebred herd. The proclamation stated that the 4 -JI club program, since its beginning 46 years ago, "has contributed much to the health and welfare of the nation and has en couraged young people to choose careers which help improve family and community living." Ob servance of National 4-H Club Week will take many forms in Nebraska. (College of Agriculture Photo). Ds a Affair Week in Nebraska, March 5-12 Therefore, every week of the; year is 4-H week. j But in observance of one week, accent is put cn 4-H, so a re minder can be made to the pub lic, of the: aims, purposes and objectives-'of 4-H. The 4-H clubs organized in Cass County to date will observe the week in many ways. The 4-H Orioles club at Alvo will sponsor a community meet ing on feeding livestock. The Busy Homemakers club at Plattsmouth will have a Ban quet, honoring their parents. Other clubs will make window displays or hold club meetings at which time they will acknow ledge National 4-H week. Many of the 24 clubs of 1959, which have not organized for 1960 will do so during the early days in March. New clubs too will be organized. A boys 4-H club will be or ganized in Avoca on March 12. This brings up a point which town and city boys and girls should heed. 4-H offers many opportunities for them as well as for farm youngsters. Projects which are very adaptable- for city and town boys are Yard Beautification, Garden, Wood Working, Electri fication, Forestry. Automotive Care, Photography, Wild Life Conservation and many others. All the Home Economics 4-H projects are equally beneficial and practical for city girls as for farm girls. Sylvia Keil of Omaha was in Plattsmouth Wednesday on business. oord OCCs Rood (Plan, The Cass County Board of I Commissioners Tuesday unani mously approved the entire pro gram of road work for the next fiscal year as proposed and add ed three additional projects. It also unanimously approved purchase of two new auto pa trols (road graders), a new one half ton pickup truck and a used rock trailer. There'll be tradeins on t h e patrols and truck. The rock trailer is a "new" piece of equip ment with which the Commis sioners hope to save money in rocking county roads. Added to the overall work plan after a hearing on the pro gram Monday were the follow ing: Rocking of a mile of east-west I road a mile north of Murray be- Treatment Plant Bids March 28 Bids for construction of a sew age treatment plant and sanitary outlet sewer here will be open ed at the regular City Council meeting March 28. This date was set Monday night by the Council at a hearing on a resolution of necessity for construction of the plant and sewer. Besides passing that resolu tion, the Council passed a reso lution ordering the construction and instructing the city cleric to advertise for bids. Estimated construction cost ls $247,875. Mayor Grant Roberts, during the official hearing, called for any objection but none was heard. There was no written ob jection. Besides the Council and city officials, seven persons attended the meeting. Two of those were engineers of Henningsen, Dur ham and Richardson, Omaha, which engineered the treatment plant for the Board of Public ! Works. 11 Cases Scheduled For Trial Eleven cases are on the trial list for the March term of Dis trict Court here, beginning March 14. Included are a drunken driv ing case, two condemnation cases, a suit on a loan and seven damage cases. Jurors were drawn and have been notified. The trial list, drawn before Judge John M. Dierks last week: March 14-15 State vs. John E. Nelson, drunken driving. March 16-17 Dept. of Roads vs. Emil A. Koukal, et al, con demnation. March 21-22 Dept. of Roads vs. Faith Arnold Davis, et al, condemnation. "v "" - - j March 23-24 Jewel Whipple vs. Harding Cream Co., et al, damage. March 28-30 Edith' Wiebusch, administratrix, vs. Arthur E Hansen, et al, damage. April 4-5 James Ueding vs. Philip H. Vontz, suit on loan. April 6-7 Lowell S. Hamblen vs. Emil A. Koukal, damage. April 11-12 Lillian A. Bratten vs. Richard L. Hart, damage. April 13-14 Elaine Stanley vs Ralph V. Lane, damage. April 18-20 Will A. Minford vs. R. B. "Dick" Wilson Inc., et al, damage. April 21-22 Michelle Sutton, a minor, vs. Larry Stones, damage. Three River Projects to Cost $1,200,000 The Omaha Division district office of the Army Engineers Wednesday announced invita tion of bids on three river-control projects with a total cost of arond $1,200,000. The projects are at Gibson Lower Copeland Bends near Plattsmouth, Lower Copeland Lower Barney Bends near Ham burg, la. Elmwood Names 6 Candidates ELMWOOD Six candidates for Village Board were nominat ed Tuesday night at the Village of Elmwood voters caucus. They are Merlin L. Peterson, Kenneth C. West, DeLor Swarts, Ted Hall, Robert Bornemeier and Robert J. Clark. tween sections 11 and 14, Rocking of three-quarters mile of road in Greenwood Pre cinct between sections 30 and 31. And grading and rocking of one-naif mile of road between section 1 and 6 in Mt. Pleasant Precinct. The first two of the added projects were requested at the hearing, the first by Richard Sack, t h e other by Ivan Alt house (not Armstrong as incor rectly indicated by The Journal Monday) and others. In all, there are now 56 pro jects on the official 1960-61 road program. The program, to be supervised by Highway Supt. Fred Clark, must be adhered to. unless tin Board should movai Interesting' f&aces Set Here All Incumbents Again Accept Nomination interesting races ior munici-i Tne Republicans nominated pal and school district offices incumbent Roy Moore as candid al the April 5 election here were ate for City councilman from mapped Tuesday night at three the lst Ward and Roy sharp as caucuses 2nd Ward standard bearer. incumoenis in an positions up for election were nominated a- gain. The Democrats nominated Mayor Grant Roberts. He will be opposed by Bruce Gold, Re publican who will be seeking re turn to office. The two were op ponents in the last mayor vote here. Gold then as incumbent. PROPOSED POOL SITE The City Park of the area, roughly between the bandstand at Board proposes to build a swimming pool in left center and the small public buildings at Garfield Park and has received considerable right center. The grade stake in the foreground support already for such a move. The proposed was used by surveying engineers Friday when site is shown on the picture from front to back the picture was taken. There's Sufficient Time To Get Pool Bond Issue There appears to be enough time to ready a swimming pool bond issue proposal for City Council consideration in order to get it on the April 5 ballot if the Council approved. That was brought to light at the special City Council meeting Monday night. Harold Smock and Bob Aspe don of the City Park Board at tended the meeting to inform the Council of progress of a prelim inary survey being done on a proposal for a pool in Garfield Park. They said they hoped the arc hitectural engineering firm they'd employed to do the sur vey could finish this week. The Council seemed willing to have a special meeting to consider a proposal when a definite cost es timate is reached and a figure readied for the bond issue pro posal. , Should things progress as the Park Board hopes, Smock said, if the Council moves to place the bond issue proposal on the April 5 ballot it could do so. T' - . ui ; : e ; X vT a i T,l of the bond election are a legal requirement. The publications must be in successive weeks' is sues of the newspaper. The Park Board called a meet ing last Wednesday to savour public sentiment about a pool and placing a bond issue on the municipal ballot. About 50 persons at the meet ing were almost unanimous in their support of a pool in Gar field Park and of putting a bond issue before the public in April. unanimously to alter it because of an emergency in a given in stance. The Board agreed some time ago that all holdover 1959-60 fiscal year projects have to be completed before the new ones are undertaken. There are 23 projects still uncompleted for the current fiscal year which has until June 30 to run. Clark said several projects are graded and ready for rocking as soon as weather permits. Some I others will also be accomplished before the new fiscal year be gins. Statute required the Board to pass on the new program by March 1 (Tuesday). (A complete list of proposed projects appeared in The Jour nal Fb. 4). Moore will be opposed by Al bert (Red) Young who was ! named as candidate by the Democrats. The Democrats also nomin ated Bill Highfield for re-election as 2nd Ward Councilman. He'll oppose Sharp. Both parties nominated in on April Ballot Smock said Monday night that the engineers had spent parts of several days surveying in Gar field Park. Though much of the survey work is completed, it wasn't possible to hurry enough to get a proposal before the Council Monday night as some persons had hoped last Wednes day at the open meeting, he said. The engineers that night esti mated a 50x100 foot pool in Gar field Park might be built for about $65,000, but cautioned this was a quickly-done estimate. Fund Drive For Swim Pool Backing Starts Elmore "Toots" Brink, chair man of the Swimming Pool Committee for Advertising Funds, announced today that the committee had mailed out letters to 26 Plattsmouth organ- iyat.inns nskino- Riinnnrt. in ihci '& 1 r 1 drive for funds to promote the bid for a swimming pool here. He said at least $300 will be needed to properly publicize "the need for a swimming pool in Plattsmouth." Brink said that at present anyone who wants to contribute as an individual can do so by mailing the contribution to the committee in care of the Cham- ber of Commerce Office. He said checks should be made payable to the Swimming Pool' Publicity Fund. ' Adds 3 Ault, Nolte Seek Republican Nomination for Commissioner Two more filings for the post of Cass County Commissioner from District One were made Tuesday, bringing to four the total now seeking nomination ; for the post in the May 10 pri mary. Both new filings were by Re publicans, incumbent William : Nolte and Gerald (Jack) Ault. j He is a member of the Ne Ault, 48, is seeking nomina-! braska-Iowa Electrical Council, tion for political office for the local lodges and sportsmen's first time. He is a native of Cass clubs. County in the Cedar Creek com- j Mrs. Ault is the former Mild munity where he has farm in-1 (Continued on Page 6) cumbent James H. Graves for police magistrate. School District electors April 5 will vote to fill two full terms and a part term. Incumbents Maxine Cloidt and Albert Hansen were nominated for return to the School Bogrd lor three years. New candidates are Harold Lebens and Earl Carr. Clem Woster and Les Hutch inson are candidates for the va cancy, one-year term. . . 5 Services for World Day of Prayer Friday Five separate church services will be held here Friday to mark World Day of Prayer. Four services will be held dur ing the day and one in the eve ning. The general afternoon service for adults will be at 2 p.m. at St. Paul's Evangelical and Re formed. At 7:30 p.m. a service for those adults who could not attend in the afternoon will be held at Plattsmouth Community Church. The evening service will feature Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Schneider, returned mission aries to Alaska. Afternoon services for school youngsters will be as follows: For Central School and High School, 4 p.m. at First Metho dist. For Wintersteen and Colum bian Schools, 4 p.m. at First Presbyterian. For 1st Ward School, 4 p.m. at First Christian. Prayer Day Service For Murray Children MURRAY World Day of Prayer service will be held for Murray school children at the school Friday. Mrs. Harley Loyd and Mrs. Dennison Price are in charge. Mrs. Boyd Jorn returned home Saturday from St. Joseph Hos pital. She had pneumonia and a sinus infection, but is getting along fine now. Projects terests and is a merchant and Implement dealer. He has been in business there 30 years, is a second-generation member of the same business. Ault attended high school at Nehauka, Louisville and Platts mouth and also attended Park College near Kansas Citv, Mo. School District One of the largest turnouts of riuttsmuuth School District electors in recent years Tues day night nominated six persons for two full terms and a pari term on the Board of Education, at a non-political caucus In the library of the high school. About 75 persons by motion cast a unanimous ballot for the j following: For two three-year regular terms on the Board Maxine Cloidt, Albert Hansen, Harold Lebens and Earl Carr. For a one-year term Les Hutchinson and Clem Woster. Miss Cloidt and Hansen are incumbents o:i the Board, both completing first terms. Hansen presently is serving as secretary. Lebens and Carr are first-time nominees for the post. The one-year term is the last year of the term of Steve Davis who resigned last year after serving a year. Fred Herre serv ed the interim year by appoint ment. Herre was nominated to fill out the year term but declined. Mrs. Clem Woster was also nominated for that term but de clined. John Svoboda declined nom ination as a candidate for the regular term. School Board Chairman Ray mo .d Larson served as tempor ary chairman of the caucus and was then named chairman. Hansen was named .scmLtiy. Republican Republican candidates f o . municipal offices were named by unanimous voice votes Tues day night at the GOP caucus in the Public Library Auditorium. Twenty-five persons attended. Gold is a former mayor, hav ing served the term prior to the current term. Sharp as 2nd Ward Council candidate will be seeking muni cipal office for the first time. He previously was a candidate for county sheriff. Moore, the incumbent lst Ward Counoilman, is complet ing his second term. The Republicans, like the Democrats, nominated Judge James H. Graves for re-election as police magistrate. They named Clem Woster and Loris Long, committeeman and committeewoman from the 1st Ward, and Les Hutchinson and Mrs. Mollie Gobelman, commit teeman and committeewoman from the 2nd Ward. Chairman Carl Schneider was re-elected caucus chairman at the start of the caucus and Maxine Cloidt was named secre tary. Democrat The Democratic meeting at the District Court Room was quite larely attended from both the Northside and Southside Wards, 68 being registered as Chairman B.H.G. Eiting called the meeting to order. Mr. Eiting was selected as chairman of the meeting and Helen Eiting as secretary. Mayor Grant Roberts was nominated for re-election, 50 votes to 18 cast for Joe Kruntor ad. In the ward groups, the lst Ward selected as their candidate for council, Albert Young, local contractor, with William Sprad lin and Lucille Horn Gaines as members of the committee. The 2nd Ward named Council man William Highfield as their candidate for the office. He has served two and one-half terms since 1955 when he was named to fill the unexpired term of Sam Arn. City committee members selected were Francis M. Casey and Mrs. Helen Woolcott. Veteran jurist Judge J. H. Graves was named by the Demo cratic meeting and also by the Republican meeting for police magistrate. Mgyor Roberts spoke briefly expressing appreciation of sup port the convention, also for support given him in his service in office by the council and res idents of the city. THE WEATHER Compiled for the Plattsmoutt Journal at the Masonic Homt Weather Station, Plattsmouth, Nebraska. Feb. 29, March 1. 2, 1960 High Low Prer. Monday 18 o 00 Tuesday 21 11 .oo Wednesday .... 12 3 .00 Reading taken at 8 a.m. Forecast: High near 15; low tonight below zero. Windy and fair. Sun sets tonight at 6:17; rises Friday at 6:54 a.m.