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Tme (Pa. at (OUTM J dDIUIlS RIAL " k ... Consolidated With the Nehawka Enterprise and Elmwood Leader-Echo Read Twice Weekly by More Than 3500 Cass County Families VOLUME 79 TWELVE PACES PLATTSMOUTH. CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA THURSDAY. MARCH 17. 1960 TEN CENTS PER COPY NUMBER 3: PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY Monday-Thursday Alvo-Eagle Districts To Merge? Annexation of the Alvo school district to the Eagle district has been petitioned by 64.76 per cent of the legal voters of the Alvo district. The petition is In the hands of the county superintendent of schools here, presented to him as ex-officlo secretary of the Cass County Committee for Re organization of School districts. The nine-member Committee Is scheduled to meet here Friday afternoon! March 18, to review the petition and make recom mendations to the State Reor ganization Committee which meets March 31. A petition has not yet been re ceived from the Eagle district where it is believed the board will act on a proposal. Petitions for merger or an nexation may be initiated by either the voters ot the district or the biard of education. Fifty-five per cent of the legal voters are required to sign a petition. A board decision on the matter requires a simple major ity voie. Altar the State Committee has reviewed petitions and made recommendations to the County Committee, the latter calls a public hearing to give formal notice of the proposal. Then the petition is held for 10 days and filed with the superintendent of schools who also holds a public hearing. Should all this be accomplish ed, the districts would merge ef fective July 1, that date one of the conditions of the Alvo peti tion which 136 of the 210 legal voters of the district had signed. Another condition ot the Alvo petition is that the enlarged district assume the indebtedness ($10,000) of the Alvo district. The Eagle district has no in debtedness. ( i "s , The school board of ; the en larged district If merged would be the Eagle board. Alvo, county superintendent's records show, has enrollment of 58 elementary pupils and 21 in high school. Eagle has 131 ele mentary and 59 high school. Other comparisons: Valuations Alvo district, $1,128,489; Eagle, $2,392,857. Current tax levy, general Alvo, 32.9 mills; Eagle, 28.26. Current bond levy Alvo, 2.93 mills; Eagle, none. Operating expense of district. preceding year Alvo, $39,008. 81; Eagle, $70,527.92. Alvo was one of the states first consolidated school dis tricts, absorbing three other dis tricts In 1916. If the merger took place, the county's school districts would be cut from 46 to 45. Behrend's said the number of districts has been reduced from 86 to 46 in the time he's been in office, since 1944. These are points the County Committee Is to consider in re viewing the petition to annex: Will the proposal result in a better educational program for all pupils in the area? Will it form a part of the comprehensive plan formulated by the committee? Will it assist in bringing about desirable comprehensive reor ganization? Water Dept. Has Hands Full, Too Bob Cappell, manager of the Water Department, said they have been able to keep up with repairs on trouble calls this win ter in good shape, despite the abundance of snow and dis agreeable weather. Two weeks ago a few residents in Oakmont were discomforted for awhile until the source of a water leak was discovered after a l'i day search. A break on South 9th some weeks ago also caused the department to dig out and repair the trouble. But with most complaints the repairs have been made with little trouble. This week frozen pipes under pavement at 10th and First Avenue were thawed by use of electrical equipment. Repairs at 10th and First Ave nue and in Oakmont were both made during snowstorms. A lady on Main Street said she heard this was our last snow. "Yeah, replied her com panion, the last until the next one." mm- :.m' WW MitBt- READY FOR WATER The Army Corps of Engineers, in spite of snow and cold, went risht ahead with the work of controlling the channel of the Missouri River here. Above is a dike which A. W. Huebner Named Head Of Rotary A. W. Huebner is president elect ol the Plattsmouth Rotary Club for the year's term begin ning July 1. Election was held during the club's regular Tuesday meeting at the. Lions Community Build ing. Also elected were Robert Cap pell, vice president; Lyle Grove, secretary; John Schreiner, trea surer (re-elected); Wayne Rodehorst, sergeant at arms, and George Jaeger and C. E. Shellenbarger, members of the board of directors. Ejection was by motion call ing for a unanimous ballot. Huebner currently is vice president. Carl Schneider Is president. School Term To End Later For Some? The miserable weather and driving conditions this winter in Cass County may force exten sion of the school term for some districts. While some allowance is made for days lost due to inability of teacher and pupils to attend, there will be a fixed (and small) number of missed days allowed. Days beyond that will have to be made up, County Supt. L. A. Behrends said this week. He said he wasn't sure yet what the maximum of "allowed misses" will be. School law requires that a year's term be 180 days long, of which school shall be in session 175 days with teachers and pup ils present. Five days are allow ed for teachers to attend pro fessional conferences. By interpretation of the law by the State Dept. of Education, practice has been to allow dis tricts a few days when school could not be held without hav ing to make those days up. The law provdies that this can be done in presence of an epi demic. The interpretation has applied it to cover times when weather makes school impos sible. The number of days to be al lowed is at the discretion of county superintendents. If a district does not hold school 175 days the school district board may file an affidavit with the superintendent to the effect that school was not held certain days and list the reasons. Filing of the affidavit for schools which do not hold ses sions 175 days is necessary to qualify for state apportionment. Continuing the term beyond the regular closing date may be the only solution for some dis tricts. Murray School Caucus March 21 MURRAY (Special) The Murray School District caucus which was to have been March 15 at the school has been post poned to March 21. Candidates will be nominated for two seats on the Board of Education. of - i-mm 1 B " . At" it... . .A , " 'JV 3t . . . - , y Ijm - - - f -4.i 5 . .... -v. 1 1''" 1 . ' . , . , . :X ' ? H - v' -j ? , ' t"-t -,? '. j " ' - ' - j ."", QUARRYING "Rip-rap" is loaded with a power shovel which was keeping a half-dozen trucks driving hard to keep up. Rock is weighed on a portable scale near the quarrying site. This Style Show's April 7 prang Snow Snow Accident Near Union Corner A two-car accident occurred Wednesday about 10:15 a.m. a half-mile north of the Union corner of Highway 73-75. Francis Casey of Plattsmouth was driving north and had pick ed up truck driver whose truck had stalled when his car was struck in the rear. Driving the other car was Joe Karnes of Hartington. Casey had been to Union and saw the truck driver hiking back to his stalled vehicle after mak ing a phone call in Union. He picked him up and was slowing down to drop the man off by his truck when the accident occur red. Casey suffered a back injury and bruises from the jolt. The accident was investigated by Deputy Sheriff Joe Krunlor ad. No Case To Trial The snowstorm Tuesday and illness of a principal in a sched uled case combined to keep Dis trict Court out of session here. The case, Dept. of Roads vs. Flmil A TCmik.nl pt. rl rnnripm- nation,' scheduled Wednesday and today, was contnued be- cause of Koukal's illness. A case scheduled for Monday, Dept. of Rods vs. Fairth Arn old Davis, et al. condemnation, was continued because of wea ther. Next case, which would be the first to get to trial this term i which began March 14. is Jewel j Whipple vs. Harding Cream Co.,! et al, damage, set for March 23-1 24. I w V 'I 4 w 'a4 X 1 1 was uiiiler construction amid bad weather. Dikes arc made of "rip-rap," quarry-run roek, for this one liatilf;! about two miles from the Heebner quarry south of IMattsmoulh along the river. year, $1,200,000 up for contract here. Instead Spring Snow Although Plattsmouth mer- chants have their stores well stocked with the new spring things . . . there was nothing but snow and gloom up and down main street as they bowed to the might of "Ol' Man Winter" and called off the Style Show sched uled for tonight, (Thursday) at the High School auditorium. With somewhere around 24 or more inches of snow on the ground and more falling every hour no one had the courage to have their models display org andy dresses, short sleeve sport shirts, sun suits and hats made of posies. After all . . . the setting wasn't there . . . nor has there been any hint that spring awaits even though the almanac says the Vernal Equinox (spring) is due to arrive next Monday. So . . . the Spring finery will be kept in the background while the Plattsmouth merchants dis pense overshoes, snow shovels, top coats, mittens, insulated underwear and tire chains. New date for the Style Show according to Mrs. Harold Smock, chairman of the sponsor ; ing Women's Division of the j Chamber of Commerce, will be j April 7 . . . that is if "Old Man i Winter" isn't still taking bows and hoIciing the stage. Long about then . . . the mer chants will also have a spring opening ... in time for Easter . . . they hope. April 7 was the fir? date on which the high school auditor ium is available with a preced ing night for rehearsal. Merlin Jochimsen ana Don Williams are expected home this weekend from a vacation trip to Florida. Changes in City Ordinance Being Studied Further The City Council again Mon day night discussed changes in i an ordinance regulating en trance of minors into bars and taverns. No action was taken, although the license committee present ed a preliminary list of six reg ulations. This proposal will be presented again for considera tion at a later meeting after further study. It's Nice In California Tuesday evening Estil Jen kins, former Plattsmouth of ficer, now residing in Burbank, Calif., called friends here to an nounce that their son, Larry, was to undergo his physical ex amination for the armed ser vice. Estil also stated that he had been mowing the lawn, the temperature was 80 degrees. I The friends here turned away from the telephone to glance out ; of the window here another I "lioht" snnw nf thrpp nr fnni inches was falling. worth of this kind of dike work is along the river here and south of Spring Spring Snow Pre-Easter Services for Three Churches The Murdock Emmanual, Murdock Ebenezer and Elm wood St. Paul Evangelical Unit ed Brethren Churches are spon soring a week's special pre Easter services, March 27-April 3, with Dr. H. E. Hiller of Day ton, Ohio, as the guest minister, and the Rev. R. P. Boyer of Til den, Nebr., as song leader. All services will be held in the Murdock Ebenezer Evangelical United Brethren Church. Dr. H. E. Hiller is a native of Minnesota, where he has held important pastorates, and also served as Conference Director of Christian Education, and as Conference Director of Christian C o n f erence Superintendent. Since February 1959. he has been serving the general chur ch as treasurer of the Board of Pensions of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, and lives at Dayton. . Rev. R. P. Boyer is a pastor, presently serving the Tilden Ex angelical United Brethren Chur ch at Tilden. The services will begin at 7:30 each Sunday evening, and at 7:45 each week night. There will be no service on Saturday night. Special music is being planned for each service, and the public is Invited to attend. Rev. F. C. Ebinger of Elm wood and Rev. O. W. Matzke of Murdock are the cooperating pastors. Subscribe to Th Journal Nowl I County Running Out of Room To Pile Snow Zoning Commission Hearing On Zone Ordinance March 29 Plattsmouth Zoning Commis sion has scheduled a public hearing on a proposed zoning ordinance for the city, the hear ing to be held March 29 at 7:30 p.m. at City Hall. Commission Chairman Robert Way said the hearing is to hear all persons wanting "to submit any recommendations for changes in the proposed ordi nance." The Commission has asked that such recommenda tions also be submitted in writ ing to the office of City Clerk before the hearing date. A copy of the proposed ordi nance can be seen at the Clerk's office. Objection To Issuing Liquor License Heard An objection to issuance of a Class C liquor license to Keener Price for a place on Chicago Avenue was voiced before the City Council Monday night. Price has submitted an appli cation for such a license and the application was given to the license committee for investiga tion. Prior to consideration of is suance of a license, a legal notice of a hearing on the appli cation has to be published and an official hearing held. In this case, these things have not been done. The resident of the area for which the application was made said he "objected strongly" to granting a license there, both because of what he called a traffic problem in the area and because he didn't think a tavern should be located in the area. The resident asked if a peti tion were circulated among resi dents in the area in order to sample sentiment. Louisville Courier Sold to Couple From O'Neill LOUISVILLE (Special) - Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Huffman have announced the sale of the Louisville Courier, March first to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gra ham of O'Neill. Nebr., who will take possession March 21. Mr. Graham previously work ed on the Harlan County, Jour nal at Alma. He learned his trade on the O'Neill Frontier. He is married and has one child." They have taken resi dence at the Stohlmann Apart ments. Mrs. Graham will also be working at the. Louisville paper, she is experienced, was employed at the Alma paper. The new owner plans maintain ing the same staff and carrying on business as usual. The Louisville paper was started 77 years ago by E. O. Mayfield, and was published as the Observer. It had been own ed by only two families previous to Mr. Graham's purchase. Various members of the May field family owned and operated the paper for fifty some years. L. J. Mayfield was publisher for 45 years, and in 1936 the paper was sold to Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Huffman, who are now retiring and will continue to make their home in Louisville. Board Will Try Again Friday The Cass County Board of Commissioners today planned to meet Friday, providing the three members can get to Plattsmouth. They were to meet Tuesday, their regular date, but got snow ed in. The same condition was in effect Wednesday for two members of the board and to day one still was unable to get out in time for a meeting. They'll begin about mid-morning Friday, unless. Chairman Melvin Todd lives near Union, William Nolte near Plattsmouth and Herman Borne meier near Elmwood. Mrs. A. L. Becker will cele brate her 92nd birthday, Sunday the 20th. All her children are expecting to spend the day with her. The Zoning Commission was appointed "to recommend the original zoning districts and ap propriate regulations to be en forced therein," Way said. Prior to consideration of a finally proposed ordinance, the City Council would also hold a public hearing on the proposal. Records Show We've Had a Lot of Snow This area has had total pre cipitation of 13.14 inches in the last seven months, not tremen dously above the average for that period of time. But, it has been the manner it has come in the usually "dri er'' months of January, Feb ruary and March that has made life difficult this winter. Computing the "average" for the period from mid-August to mid-March from Weather Bu reau statistics supplied by ama teur climatologist P. J. Ding man, 15, Plattsmouth High School student, The Journal ar rived at a mean total precipita tion for the seven months of 11.81 inches. However, the mean (and many would agree that's plenty "mean" enough) for January, February and half of March is 2.28 inches; whereas, this area has had 4.82 inches to date since the first of the year. All this adds up to what you may have suspected from your aching back you've had to do a lot of scooping The averages say we should have had .73 inch of precipita tion in January, we got 1.57; .90 in Feburary, we got 1.59; and .65 so far in March, we've had 1.66. P. J.'s records show we've had at least a trace to nearly three- quarters of an inch on 12 days so far this month, some snow 18 days in February and 15 days in January. i Temperature extremes on his charts show 93 (remember?) August 21 and 28 as highs for the seven-months period and minus-16 (forget!) March 4 as the low.' Most precipitation in one day was .91 inch Sept. 18. Through the seven months, we-ve had roughly (enough) one day of moisture, one day of no moisture. Totals are 108 days with moisture in 103 without. It's time to quit. WW Church Labels AF Manual 'Unfair' WEEPING WATER (Special) At the close of morning wor ship on Sunday at the First Congregational Church of Weep ing Water a meeting of the fel lowship, actually the second, took place to consider action to be taken on the recent publica tion of an air force manual which "made the charges that our Protestant Churches have been infiltrated by communists and fellow-travellers." Similar charges were madej again at the National Council of j churches, partly by inuendo, be cause members of the governing body of this group had been re sponsible for the production of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible." "Rev. I. C. G. Campbell said. It is to be noted that the writer of this attack belongs to a group which dislikes the Revised ver sion of the Bible because of Its use of the translation 'young woman' instead of 'virgin' in Matthew 1:23. He also made use of materials published by fund amentalist groups in his attack on the National Council. "As a result of the meeting the following resolutions were adopt ed unanimously by the church and the Church Clerk was in structed to forward copies of them to the appropriate quar ters:" WHERAS, the Continental Air Command recently issued a training manual. NR 45-0050, (Continued On Page 2) Cass County got its worst , snow of the season Tuesday and Tuesday night worst because ' the 6 to 8 inches came on top of more than two feet and there : isn't much room left to put it. That was the problem through Tuesday night, Wednesday and today as shovelers scooped and city and county crews plowed. There is Increasing evidence that the cost of this winter's snows Is tremendous, not only in time and labor spent but in effect on streets and roads, wear and tear on maintenance equipment and wear and tear on cars, trucks and people. Here Tuesday night, distress calls and the "routine" of try ing to keep the main routes driveable made life hectic for street department crewmen and city officials. The police got a call Tuesday night that Mr. and Mrs. Joe Adams who live on Smith Aven ue in the extreme southeast part of town were ill, she with flu and he with a bone infec tion in a foot. Joe is 80, his wife 77. And, there was a report of a women nearlng childbirth liv ing in that area. So, the city set out to give hve people a way out. There were four and five foot drifts, too much snow for the ordinary plowing equipment to handle. The city went the first several blocks with a front-end loader and plow before calling in a bulldozer to take over. The dozer, owned by Carl Morehead, took over at 11 p.m. and worked right through until 9 a.m. to reach the Adams house, most distant of the two in distress. Snow was pushed up 8 and 10 feet high at the deepest drifted spots. (Continued On Page 2) Charles Manners, Spanish War Vet, Dies at VA Hospital Charles Martin Manners, 8G Spanish War veteran, died Tues day at Veterans Hospital at Omaha, following an illness of several months. He was born Sept. 17, 1873, in Harrison County, Missouri, son of John W. and Sarah E. Port orff Manners. He was married Aug. M, 1899, at Plattsmouth to Ora May Johnson, who preceded him in death July 29, 1955. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Frank Strough, Platts mouth; three grandchildren; nine great grandchildren; a sis ter, Mrs. Dorothy Palmerston, Langley, Wash.; four brothers, James, Longview. Wash.; Dan, North Platte; Fred, Lincoln, and Ira, Albuquerque, N. M. He was preceded in death by the wife, parents, sone, Harold, July 31, 1958, two infant child ren and seven brothers. Mr. Manners made his home in Plattsmouth for the past 60 years and was a man respected and honored by those who had the privilege of his acquaint ance. He was a retired veteran of the BREX railroad shops in this city. With the outbreak of the Spanish-American war in 1898, Mr. Manners with several brothers enlisted in Co. B, Third Nebr aska Infantry, commanded by Col. William Jennings Bryan, servng with that regiment through the war and also seein service in Cuba. He was dischar ged May 18, 1809. He was a member of the First Christian Church of this city. Fneral will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at Sattler Funeral Home, the Rev. J. W. Taenzler, officiat ing. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery with the VFW in charge of the graveside srvlce. Visiting hours will be at the Sattler funeral home Friday, 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. THE HFTT'FR Compiled for the Plattsmouth Journal at the Masonic Homr Weather Station, P'attsmouth Nebraska. March 14, 15, 16, 1960 High Low Prec. Monday 23 21 .50 Tuesday 28 22 .00 Wednesday 28 12 .00 Readings taken at 8 a.m. Forecast: Partly cloudy to clear; high in 30's. Sun sets tonight at 6:33, rise Friday at 6:31 a.m.