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rir PI ATTSMOUTH NTDRASK A, STMI-Wr TKLY JOURNAL PAGE SIX Section B Thursday, December 1, 19(i0 Duck Hunting Ends Saturday; Pheasant Search Improving LINCOLN The ending ol duck hunting Saturday leaves Mimethmg to be desired by wa terfowlers, but consoles, the Ne braska Oatne Commission, they can change to pheasant loads and go after ringnecks which are showing in greater numbers. Bluebird weather state-wide ushered out the last days of duck shooting but brought oat tewer pheasant hunters than last year at this time. TUngneeks are becoming more apparent as cover diminishes and the birds flock into winter groups. Hunting success is pick ing up, with a number of five bird limits coming out o the North Platte area, according to OuaMala. conservation unicer Kan rv.ini- The st,as0n pee.se continues mann. North Platte. until December 11 Northern- d for them. Hunting success and. hunting conditions were both "good" in Madison and Knox counties this week, reports Olficer Robert Downing, Norfolk. "All the hunters I contacted had at least one pheasant." I.ee Yeck and Boo Burch, hoth of Hastings, killed their three bird limits in the Clay Center Edgar area in lour hours, ac cording to Olficer Bruce Wiebe of Hastings. Goose hunting is still hold ing up at Lake McConaughy. "Over-ail, it's about normal, but no doubt the lair weather has gut the kill considerably,' reports Olficer Loron Bunney. "It's still the rule to work area paicnes 01 weens ana cover 01 Vnvember quail hunting closed ati 20. while southern- : a size in propoiuon to me suoarea shooting continues through; of your party," advises Olficer . Dece-iber 11. Pheasant hunting; Bill Ahem of North Loup, i r;ills until January 8. i checking hunters in the Valley,! Garfield, Loup, Blaine, and Custer area. "And move slow. There are the smart ones. The dumb ones were taken the first weekends. "' LINCOLN Campers in Ne- F'ence rows and weed patches! braska state parks were out the Camping on Rise In Nebraska are likely spots to fill, adds Of licer Lyman Wilkinson, Colum bus, reporting tor the Platte, Nance, and Colfax county area "Those hunters who get out and walk the fields are getting birds. As usual, the road hunt ters are complaining of lack of birds." Nearly the same report conies from northeastern Nebraska where Officer Dick Furley, Pon ca, found the 58 hunters he contacted last week were getting their birds if they work- Pheasant Rooster Is 'Bonus1 Item Lincoln "Every pheasant cock we take this fall is a bonus bird," stated Game Commission Director M. O. Steen in a call to arms issued to Nebraska hunters. "Every cock killed during the hunting season this year is sur plus to reproduction needs next spring," Steen continued. "There Is no more need to leave two-thirds of our pheasant roosters in the field each year than for the farmer to leave two-thirds of his male chickens In the barnyard, or two-thirds of his bull calves in his pastures." Pheasant fortunes may go up or they may go down In 1961. "No one yefcknows which way they will go. The only thing we are sure of is that the legal harvest of cock birds in 1960 will have nothing to do with either trend." Even with a 79-day season. Steen estimates that much of the pheasant crop will go un harvested. ' "Pheasants and pheasant hun ters are a remarkably self-adjusting, mechanism," Steen pointed out. As much as 65 per cent of the year's cock harvest in Nebras ka is taken the first 10 days of the open season, without regard to the length of the season. "After this 65 per cent is tak en," Steen said, "the remaining birds become more difficult to come by, and the hunting effort drops to nearly zero, even though the season Is barely be gunWe have already seen this happen this year." past season in bigger numbers than ever, reports a Nebraska Game Commission survey. "Over 18,500 perspns camped in our six state parks where registration is required," an nounced M. O. Steen, director. "This, however, Is only a small percentage of the total campers in Nebraska, for many of our unsupervised areas receive even heavier use." Last year some 15,500 persons camped in tents and trailers in the state parks. According to Jack Strain, parks division chiefs who com piled the figurse, Chadron State Park led in 1960, with 1,521 of the total camping units register ed. Fort Robinson had 745, Stolley 646, Ponca 414, Niobrara 301, and Victoria Springs 235. Sixty-five per cent of the campers were nonresidents. Stolley was their most-used stop over, with 95 per cent of its registration figures from this group. Niobrara Park led in the resident category, with 68 per cent of the registrations being Nebraskans. Of the nonresident campers, 76 per cent originated from points east of Nebraska. "This figure is particularly significant, for it points to great er use of our parks by Easter ners as the population expands," Steen commented. Campers came to Nebraska in 1960 from all states except Alas ka, Arkansas, and Louisiana. In addition, the United Kingdom was represented by 3 camp units from England and 62 from Cana da. Three groups were register ed from Mexico. In total nonresident registra tions, Illinois led with 375 camp units, followed by Iowa with 355. Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wis consin, California, Missouri, and Kansas were all represented by more than 100 units each. The exact correlation of camp ers and tourists in Nebraska is not known, Steen said. However, on a nationwide basis, it is con sidered that campers constitute only a minor segment of the tour ing public, even though camping has enjoyed booming popularity in the past decade. '""'"'M 1 ly Wn.MWF 5HM'",'W1 I"1. P Mini, i Wi 'W'miliWlWll"HirimijuMi . IWfr''' III..? W K ' ' iWHIW BUM WWHPII '! Wq ; .'. ; , "'- ' ' ' . !. . i ; i t, ' . '"-. !,: : . . . : v . ' . . '. A . ' 1 - v ' . -. - , ' . ',- J', " '' '.-..-!..:,.'.- ii..: ,-,s . ' " t i'V - r f' ' .- ;,' ; ' V , ' ' -l ' J f " . ; " ' - . , ,. ' '' ' " " " w. . --7-; . -,rj; - , tf- r iii-ff(n",ii-r) -finriV' rhhi-v 'it '"' i-i Ti-rr - f iV-ni-rirtt "f '4"rtnrr Mmiyntinfttm"" ""' iiiin i mi 1- t i rririk iff'f'il' hi in m Following Tips Will Help Christmas Mail To Arrive RACKET SQl'An The basketball team above is an innovation and provide the more rugged kind of opposition the team will face at riattsmotiOi llish this season. The members, all football play- when it begins its schedule. It's working out well, Akins said. From ers the past grid season, are what Coach John Adkins calls his left are Dave Wilson, John Carr, Ed Lancaster, Dave Waterman shock troops or racket squad. They scrimmage against the varsity and Lee Hackler. Blue Devil Cagers Still 'Have Long Way To Go' "We've come a long way, but we've got a long way to go." That was Coach John Adkins' assessment of his basketball squad's progress this week as work went ahead for the open er at Tecumseh Dec. 6, next Tuesday. Adkins was planning an intra squad game for Friday and hoped to get in a scrimmage with another school, too. The latter is difficult this year be cause the schools Plattsmouth used to scrimmage are either on the regular schedule or in the same tournament district this year. With a young squad, Adkins would like to get as much game like scrimmage in as possible before the season opens. Adkins and Gail Heffelfinger who assists have been working several combinations against the racket sauad in half-court scrimmage. They've been working with a varsity squad of five seniors, three juniors and four sopho mores. A Classified Ad In The Journal cost as little as 50 cents. They are: ' Seniors Jim Stewart, 6-1; Dave Albert, 5-11; Bill Senf, 6-3; John Ware, 6-0, and Duane Haith, 6-3. Juniors Denny Campbell, 5-7; Tom Smith, 5-5 and Fred Groce, 5-9. Sophomores Butch McGraw 5-2; Dave Nettleman, 5-10; Dan Schultz, 5-10, and Roger Bever age, 6-2. Stewart, Albert and Campbell lettered last year. After the opener at' Tecumseh, Plattsmouth plays its first home game Dec. 9 against Fairbury, then meets Glenwood here Dec. 13. OUTDOOR GUIDE fiEBRHsnn cum! commission SUNDAY ImONDAY TUESDAY IWEDNESDAYl THURSDAY I FRIDAY I SATURDAY 4$f 3Jr 3Jf Ajfr - Ji&r Af MJfc a -sk k -&& -it Distance Dialing for Many Dec. 4 Starting Dec. 4 at 1 a.m., telephones in over 5,000 cities in the United States and even some places in Canada will be at the dialing fingertips of tele phone users in Lincoln and 55 other exchanges in southeast Nebraska. This will be the re sult of the cutover to coast-to-coast direct distance dialing by The Lincoln Telephone & Tele graph Company. Preparations for this moderni zation program have been under way for months, with special equipment installed to handle the automatic long distance calling. This will be the first install tion of coast-to-coast direct dis tance dialing in Nebraska. Call's can be dialed to 39 states, the District of Columbia and Cana da, and other areas will be add ed as the direct distance dialing system grows. The central dial switching point for southeast Nebraska will be located in LT&T's gen eral office and equipment build ing at Lincoln. The $600,000 in stallation of direct distance dail ing equipment was started in October 1959 and is now com plete except for testing. Related equipment is also located at the other 55 exchanges with DDD service. Direct dialing from Platts mouth is scheduled for the fu ture. From Lincoln, 13 turns of the dial will be necessary to make a call to another state and 10 turns for Nebraska calls. From other points . 12 turns will be necessary for an out-of-state call and nine turns for Nebraska calls. The United States and Canada are divided into geographical areas, each being designated by a three-number calling code. To make a call from Lincoln to an other state, customers will first dial 112. This makes connection with the direct distance dialing equipment. Then the three-number area code is dialed to make connection with the distant city. Then the seven digit telephone number is dialed. Most dialable points in Ne braska require no area code. To reach these points it will be necessary to dial only 112 plus the telephone number. Only station-totation calls can be dialed. Other calls, such as person-to-person, collect calls, calls from coin telephones, etc., will continue to handed by oper ators. Calls will be timed and re corded automatically on a punched tape 1116 inch wide. This is run through a machine which makes punched cards. These are then run through ma chines which print itemized statements. The first installation of direct distance dialing in Nebraska was made by LT&T at Beatrice in 1957 when customers in that area could dial direct to about 250,000 telephones in 36 Nebras ka towns, after, the calling area was extended to 91 towns and direct distance dialing was in- BOWLING Women's League W L Corner Bar 24 6 State Farm 22 8 7-Up 22 8 Tims Bar 19 11 Lyman Richey 19 11 A & B Garage 16 14 Austin's 16 14 Ruse Motors 15 15 Hinky Dinky 15 15 Rays Lnquor 13 17 Ernies Bar 13 17 Schreiner's 12 18 Cass Bar 11 19 Ruback's 11 19 Ray & John's 7 23 B & H Shoes 5 25 Hi game,, B. Austin 193; hi series, B. Dietl 516; hi team game, Lyman-iRichey 751; hi team series, Corner Bar 2,037. Greenwood Mn. Frank Hurlbur Jerry Maddox Is All-Star Cridder Jerry Maddox, grandson of Mr. and Mrs. August Kopp of Plattsmouth, has been named an all-conference lineman by coaches of the Louplatte Foot ball Conference, according to the Grand Island Independent newspaper. Maddox is 5-11, weighs 185 and is a- senior at Central Catholic High. He is the twin son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Maddox. His other grandmother is Mrs. Edna Gil more Maddox of Lincoln, form erly of Weeping Water. Mrs. Minnie Parker Has 99th Birthday WEEPING WATER (Special) Mrs. Minnie. Parker celebrat ed her 99th birthday on Sunday in Weeping Water where she makes her home with Mrs. L. F. Ehlers. Mrs, Parker was 99 on Nov. 28. Relatives came for the hap py occassion. They were Mr. and Mrs. Har ry Gidley of Creston, Iowa, Mrs. Ida Cotnor of Plattsmouth, Mr. and Mrs. Roger Fisher and fam ily of Newton, Iowa, and Mr. and Mrs. James Benedict of Plattsmouth. Mrs. Harry Gidley baked and decorated a birthday cake in the shape of a Bible with the 23rd Psalm on it and the words, "Mother." The cake was deco rated with pink, white and pale green frosting and orange roses with lace surrounding the cake. Mrs. L. J. Lane and Mrs. Perry Rector called on Mrs. Minnie Parker Monday after noon for her birthday. And there was the fellow who bought a house trailer so he'd have a place to live while he was looking for a place to park. The Jax News, Jacksonville, Florida. stalled at Wahoo, David City, Auburn and Hebron. The Iin coln area will join the DDD sys tem with the December 4 cut over and the company plans to provide direct distance dialing for all of its 126 exchanges by 1965. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Boiler and Robert spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. Carl Schuelke of Fremont. Mrs. Lillie Johnson of Lincoln spent the day with her sister Mrs. Niles Coleman. Kay Stolp spent Thanksgiving weekend with her grandparents at Eagle Bend, Minn. Mrs. Dora Miller spent the weekend with her sister at Lake Geneva, Wis. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Schoeder Sr. joined a family dinner at the Harve Schroder Jr. home in Lincoln. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Welton joined a family dinner at the Huston Welton home in Lincoln. Mrs. Niel Anderson and Mrs. Mae Wilson of Lincoln and Mr..; and Mrs. Ralph Clymer were dinner guests of Mrs. Norma McNurlin. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Marlof, Glen Marolf and Mrs. Grace Walradt were dinner guests at the Walter Marolf home. Mr. and Mrs. Gary Knight and family of Calif, were guests of Mrs. Lytha Bauers. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kylers spent the day at the Wayne Kinney home. Mr. and Mrs. John Johnson, Arlene and Johnny were dinner guests at the Roland Cameron home in Lincoln. Mr. and Mjs. John Grady and ; Colleen, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hurlbut and Mr. and Mrs. Ern est Otto and sons were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Jardine of Grand Island. Mr .and Mrs. John Grady and Colleen remained over the week end for a longer visit. Mrs. Mabel Lambert and Wil lis, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Lam bert and sons, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Willis were guests of H. J. Willis and Gladys. Mrs. Carrie Dakl of Deponset, 111. was also a guest and H. J. Willis birthday was also honored. Mrs. Emma Appuhn was a guest at the Barton Cooper home at Milford. Other guests were Mrs. Cooper's mother Mrs. Blanch Hemingway of Neligh. Mr. and Mrs. Emery Carr of Clearwater, Mr. and Mrs. Hen ry Ross and Norman of Boulder, Colo., Don Ross of Lincoln, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Cooper of Atchin son, Kan., Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schulterbusch and Mrs. JoAnn Vest and Danny of Walton. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wall and family of Murdock spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. Tur- ley Wall. Holiday week guests of Walter Weideman was his sister Mrs. Veda Hall of Washington, D.C. They were Thanksgiving Day dinner guests at the Weber Mc Fadden home in Omaha. Dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Downing were Mr. and Mrs. A. Vahle, Mr. and Mrs. V. Witherby and family, Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Tudor and Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Smith all of Lin coln. Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ken Carpenter were Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Brakhage of Lincoln and Mr. and Mrs. Gus Brakhage. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Grady re ceived a Thanksgiving day greeting phone call from their son Vernon who Is In service and stationed at Jackson, Miss. Ten tips on good Christinas mailing practices were fiven to day by Postmaster General Ar thur E. Summerfield. The point ers are: 1. Mail Christmas cards and parcels tor distant states in ad vance of December 10, and for local delivery not later than December 16, and remember that the best time to avoid crowds in most post offices is before 10 a.m., or between 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. Also, use stamp vending machines if stamp windows are crowded. 2. Address mail correctly including full name and address, postal zone numbers and your return address; write or print, clearly. j 3. Although Christmas cards may be sent unsealed for a 3 cent rate, the 4-cent first class sealed rate is desirable because it automatically assures for warding if the addressee has moved and left a new address, or the card is returned if it is undeliverable (provided the sender has put a return address on it). 4. Don't mail money in Christmas gifts or parcels. Use postal money orders or checks. 5. When making a large mail ing of Christmas cards, separate them into local and "out-of-town" bundles, using adhesive bands which may be obtained from your local post office. 6. Pack and wrap securely. Cushioning should be placed on all sides of the Christmas gift, and the carton should be wrap ped in heavy paper and tied with strong twine. (Also, place a card with your own return ad dress as well as the destination address inside the parcel to aid in delivery if the outside wrap per should be lost). 7. Parcels containing delicate gilts must be marked "fragile," and foodstuffs should be mark ed "perishable" If they are sub ject to spoilage. 8. Insure parcels and regis ter letters of real value. Where only proof of delivery is desired for letters of no intrinsic value. Certified Mail is useful. 9. Use Combination Mail where a letter or message (oth er than a gilt tagi is to be en closed inside a Christmas pack age. 10. And, finally, if you don't know the answer to a mailing problem ask. Postal Em ployees are happy to help you by answering your questions cm mailing regulations. Christmas Programs Slated at Eagle EAGLE iSpecial) The Eugie Methodist Church School Christ mas program has been planned. The teachers and classes will practice each Sunday morning for the program to be held on Wednesday evening, Dec. 21, at the church. The Eagle Schools program, will be Thursday evening, Dec. 22.. Immanuel Lutheran's pro gram, will be held on Christmas eve. Trinity aid members and fam ilies Christmas supper will be at the country home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fleishman Dec. 8. Following the supper, an ex change of gifts will be held. LONG IIIKF. Miami, Fla. Two blind men have completed a hitch-hiking trip from Miami to Philadelphia accompanied by their guide dogs. Robert Lambert, 27, and Wil liam Schrimgeour, 50, both of Miami, said they ' encountered no difficulties during their five days on the road. Lambert said, he hopes to raise $2,000 so he can get a doctor's degree in mathematical logic. Schrim geour, a masseur made the trip to keep Lambert company and to look for work in the city. CHRSTMAS A Cood Assortment Of Sparkling Aluminum Tinsel Aluminum HALVORSON SPRUCE SPRAYED TREES IN WHITE - CREEN & CREEN JEWELL. IN STAND WITH PRESERVING LIQUID. HEAT PROOF! SMALLER SIZES OF LIVE PINE TREES WITHOUT DOC ODORS. 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