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VOLUME 80
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PLATTSMOUTH, CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1960
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Keep In
Touch
Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Kallna who
have been visiting here in east
ern Nebraska with relatives and
old friends, are returning to
their home at Binpen, Wash.
They have been making their
headquarters at the home of
' Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Swatek, the
latter a sister of Mrs. Kalina.
Charles W. Hula, retired Mis
souri Pacific Railroad employe,
departed Wednesday for Seda
lia, Mo., where he was employed
for a great many years In the
shops In that city. He will be
latest of his brother and wife,
Mr, and Mrs. Mike Hula and en
joy meeting many old friends In
the shop force.
Mrs. Clifford Cooper, Weep
ing Water, entered Immanuel
Hospital In Omaha Tuesday for
surgery Wednesday.
Laurence Eidenmiller, Weep
ing Water, had his leg set Mon
day at St. Mary's Hospital in
Nebraska City.
Mr.' and Mrs. Max Tunnell and
Mrs. Wayne Sealey of King City,
Mo. were here Tuesday to attend
the funeral of George Lushinsky.
They also visited with Mr. and
Mrs. Cliff Tunnell before return
ing home.
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Mumm of
Vernal, Utah, were here a few
days this week visiting with Mrs.
Mary Mumm, mother of Ira, as
well as with old school day
friends of Mr. Mumm.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Fulton
departed by train Saturday
night for Tombstone, Ariz.,
where they will visit with their
daughter and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Grassman and
Joyce . . -
Mrs. Elizabeth Solomon and
brother John David of Omaha
left by plane Tuesday night for
Wichita, Kans. They received
word of the death of George
David, a brother, of that city,
who died Tuesday morning. Fun
eral services were today.
Leonard Stoehr, well known
Duroc-Jersey swine breeder, has
just returned from Peoria, 111.,
where he was in attendance at
a meeting of the United Duroc
Swine Registration. There were
130 at the meeting and some
fifteen states represented.
Mrs. Fred Rea fell and broke
her hip Monday morning. She
was coming down a flight of
stairs about 6 a.m., and fell.
She is a patient at Community
Hospital in Falls City, where
she underwent surgery Tuesday
morning. She is in room 204.
Amos Doty of Omaha was
here Wednesday visiting old
friends. Mr. Doty and family
owned the Missouri river ferry
at this place, disposing of the
boat and equipment to John
Richardson who operated the
ferry until the building of the
traffic bridge over the river
in 1930.
Michael Bajeck, one of the
early day residents of the city,
was taken to Omaha Wednes
day where he entered the Meth
odist Hospital for observation
and check up. Mr. Bajeck who
is 91 years of age is in very
good health for his age. He has
been a resident at Hillcrest
Home west of this city.
THE WEATHER
Dec. 5, 6, 7, 1960
Date High Low Prec.
Monday 40 22 .00
Tuesday . . 32 19 .00
Wednesday 38 16 .00
Forecast: High near 40; low
mid 20's. Not quite so cold to
night, and partly cloudy.
Sun sets tonight at 4:59; rises
Friday at 7:34 a.m.
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PLATTSMOUTH SENATORS Among mem- Regina Nelson, Shirley Foster, Suzan Lebens,
bers of the Plattsmouth High Student Senate are Kenneth Price; second row Roger Hutchinson,
the students shown above. Others were busy with Sandra Spangler, Marilyn Morris, Joe Arn; back
athletics or other school activities and couldn't Tom Beckman, Charles Wondra, Steve Kern
be present for the picture. From left are: front and Jim Seay.
PHS Student Senate Helps
Requlate School Activities
The Student Senate at Platts
mouth High School is a group of
20 students who promote student
activities and act as the official
liason between the faculty and
the student body in policy mak
ing matters.
Two members are elected
from - each-class ach year-po
that the membership includes
two ninth graders, four tenth
graders, six 11th graders and
eight 12th graders.
The constitution of the organi
zation includes the following
responsibilities:
To regulate student conduct
in halls and on the school
grounds.
To provide for the safeguard
ing and proper use of school
lockers and keys there-to.
To provide for and regulate
inter-class contests and class ac
tivities to the extent that such
regulations does not conflict
with faculty regulation.
To provide for and supervise
school elections, including class
elections.
To provide for committees
empowered to present regular
entertainment and special edu
cational activities for the bene
fit of the school; but such ac
tivities shall not interrupt regu
lar school work more often than
once each week and must be
scheduled with the principal not
less than one week in advance.
To provide for school activities
of a patriotic nature.
To provide for the welfare of
Robert Beck, 3,
Of Kennard Dies
Funeral services were at Ken
nard. Wednesday for the three
year-old son of a former Louis
ville couple.
He was Robert Beck, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Beck who
lived at Louisville until about
two years ago when they moved
to Kennard.
The boy died early Monday
following an appendicitis opera
tion. Christmas Programs
Planned at Union
UNION (Special) Schools
and Churches are all busy pre
paring Christmas Programs to
be given within the next few
wee.'cs.
Union school will have a pro
gram at the school house Dec.
16.
Methodist Sunday School will
present a Pageant Dec. 22 at the
church at 8 p.m.
The Baptist Sunday School
Program will be held at the
Baptist Church Dec. 18.
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students in other fields not speci
fically provided for otherwise
here-in, if such is not specifical
ly prohibited here-with.
Current members of the Sen
ate are:
Kenneth Price, president, Su
zan Leben3,- vice ( president;
Shirley Foster, secretary; Re
gina Nelson, treasurer, and
Roger Hutchinson, Sandra
Spangler, Marilyn Morris, Joe
Arn, Tom Beckman, Charles
Wondra, Steve Kern, James
Seay, Betty Newsom, Barbara
Newsom, William McGraw, Jim
Stewart, Connie Pfeifer, Bill
Nettleman, Jim Webb and Den
nis Campbell.
Jr. Fairlandcrs
Set Xmas Party
SO. ASHLAND (Special)
The Junor Fairlanders Exten
sion Club will have their annual
Christmas dinner at the home of
Mrs. Leonard Roeber Dec. 13 at
12:30.
There will be an exchange of
gifts and the secret pals will be
revealed.
35 Jobs Filled
By SES Office
Plattsmouth and Cass County
action in the State Employment
Service Office embraced 36 jobs
filled of which 25 were on farms.
11 new nonagricultural job open-1
ings received, 19 persons direct-!
ed to nonfarm job opportunities,
23 new applications for work
and 107 visits to the office.
The labor supply was 54, 32
men and 22 women compared to
October with 25, 9 men and 16
women.
Trinity Lutheran
Choir in Concert
SO. ASHLAND (Special)
The choir of Trinty Lutheran
Church near Murdock will pre
sent their Christmas music con
cert at the church Dec. 18 at
7:30 p.m.
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Social Items to 2'i
Beginning Friday, Stores
To Be Open lightly Here
The Chamber of Commerce has announced these
retail store hours for Plattsmouth:
Beginning Friday, and all days except Sunday, stores
wi'.l be open each night until 9 p.m. through Dec. 23.
Dec. 24, Christmas Eve, stores will be open until
5 p.m.
Most merchants are reported planning to observe
these hours.
Grocery stores will close at 5:30 p.m. Christmas Eve
and at 6 p.m. New Year's Eve. All other stores will close
at 5 p.m. those two days.
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Mrs. Hermie (James)
Scdtak Dies at
Church Early Today
Mrs. Hermie M. Sedlak, 67,
lifelong resident of Plattsmouth,
died this morning at 6:30 while
attending the early mass at Holy
Rosary Church, she suffered a
sudden heart attack.
; She was born April 12, 1893,
'at Plattsmouth, daughter of Vac
lav and Mary Semrad 'Jfltneftv
She spent her lifetime in Platts
mouth. On June 16, 1913, she was mar
ried at the Holy Rosary Church
to James Sedlak. They have
made their home since marriage
in the residence on west First
avenue.
Surviving are the husband,
James of this city; five daugh
tres, Mrs. Eleanor Schomak,
Plattsmouth; Miss Lillian Sed
lak, Omaha; Mrs. Mary Ann
Hayes. Newark, Del.; Mrs. Ter
esa Hoist, Lakewood, Calif.;
Mrs. Josephine Keller, Lake
wood. Calif.; three sisters, Mrs.
Ann Zitka, Omaha; Mrs. Mary
Gruidcl, Omaha; Mrs. Lillian
Jaske, Los Angeles, Calif.; six
grandchildren.
Mrs. Seldak was a lady de
voted to her home, church and
family down through the years.
Th,ose who knew her will miss a
good friend. .
She was a member of Holy
Rosary Church and active in the
Altar Society of the church.
Funeral services will be Mon
day, Dec. 12, at 9 a.m. at Holy
Rosary, Father Walter Banach,
officiating.
Burial will be in Holy Sepul-
chre Cemetery.
Rosary will be Sunday evening
at 8 o'clock at the chapel of the
Caldwell-Linder funeral home.
Visiting hours Sunday are af
ternoon and evening 4 to 6 and
7 to 9 at the chapel.
Interstate Bridge
Opened to Traffic
SO. ASHLAND (Special)
The new overhead bridge over
the Interstate highway near the
Orie Sowards home has been
opened to the public.
This is much appreciated by
folks in this vicinity. It was
very rough driving over the new
road while it was being graded.
Plattsmouth for Best Buys
Fire Fund
Past $2,200
Page One Fire Fund 2-24. .
The. Plattsmouth Volunteer
Fire Department's volunteer
campaign for funds has passed
$2,200, by two cents, according
to latest figures released by de
partment secretary John Svobo
da. The fund is to be used to pur
chase additional firefighting and
lifesavlng equipment.
Since last report $77 was con
tributed by these donors:
$50
Lyman-Richey Sand & Gravel
Corp.
$5
Mr. and Mrs. Keener Price.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Halmes.
S3
Mr. and Mrs. James J. Holy.
L. B. Topliff.
S2
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Kalasek
Prank Schmid.
Ed. Kohrell.
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Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Adam.
Mr. and Mrs. John Kubicka.
Thomas Linhart.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bayly.
Miss Marie Prohaska.
Repair of Roof
Of Bell Tower
Arranged Here
Baburek Metal Conditioning
Co. of Plattsmouth has been
hired to repair the roof of the
bell tower of the County Court
house here.
That's the final step in repair
of the roof of the Courthouse.
Previously Tiekotter Building
Service of Plattsmouth had re
paired the rest of the roof.
The bell tower roof repair will
be largely a matter of sand
blasting and repairing the cop
per covering. The County Board
of Commissioners said there are
some .22 caliber bullet holes in
'he metal from too-enthusiastic
plg"edn snipers of years' gone by.
Vandalism Probed
At Union Depot
Special Agent R. C. Nicely of
the Missouri Pacific Railroad
was in Union Monday to investi
gate vandalism to the depot
which occurred Saturday even
ing. Vandals tore off the bulletin
board, broke a thermometer and
turned water on in the restroom,
flooding the depot.
Nicely turned the names of the
youths who committed the dam
age over to the sheriff's office.
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SANTA'S CANDID CAMERA Mmmmm! Santa and one of his
small constituents examine one of the candy canes Santa Rives as
mementos of youngsters' visits with him at the Chamber of Commerce-sponsored
Santaland in downtown Plattsmouth.
William Howland
Named Head of
Masonic Lodge
Monday evening Plattsmouth
Lodge No. 6 AF AM held elec
tion of officers for the ensuing
year at thefr lodge rooms in the
Masonic building.
William Howland, one of the
active young leaders in the order
was selected as worshipful mas
ter of the "lodge for the ensuing
year. Charles W. Armstrong,
named as senior warden and
Dean Morrison as junior warden.
Maynard Ramge was named as
treasurer and Emil J. Weyrich,
veteran secretary of the lodge
was re-elected to the post he
has so efficiently filled for the
past years.
Appointive officers will be an
nounced later by the newly elec
ted master and the installation
of the officers will be held on
Thursday, January 5th.
Sailors Who
Stole Gas at
Union Caught
Two AWOL Sailors from Great
Lakes Naval Training Station
were apprehended at Princeton,
Mo. Tuesday evening after at
tempting to pull a gas theft like
one they pulled at the Hilltbp
Service Station at Union about
9:30 a.m. Tuesday morning.
The men in a car which they
stole Sunday at Iowa City pulled
into the Union service station
and ordered the tank filled. Af
ter filling the tank and without
paying for the gas the youths
sped off.
The youths told officers they
had been in Omaha prior to
driving to Union Tuesday morn
ing. FBI agents said Federal
Dyer Act charges will be
brought against the sailors, ac
cording to Sheriff Tom Solomon.
Burglaries at
Eagle, Union
Two burglaries occurred in
Cass County either Monday
night or Tuesday morning.
The Underwood Service Sta
tion in Eagle was entered after
the front d,oor glass was broken
out. Pennies from the register
were taken and the outside soft
drink machine forced.
The Atteberry garage at Un
ion was likewise entered in the
same manner. Three new tires
were reported taken.
Similarity in forcing open of
soft drink machines at both bus
iness places lead Sheriff Tom
Solomon to believe the breakins
were committed by the same
person.
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chool Board
Picks Architect
The problem of securing addi
tional classrooms for the 1961
1962 school year here was dis
cussed Monday night at the
regular meeting of the Platts
mouth Board of Education.
The firm of Cecil A. Martin
and Associates, Omaha, was
Dear
Santa . .
Dear Santa Claus:
I would like a pair of sking
sticks lor my skies. I would like
to have 40 in. sking sticks and a
Indian scout rifle bandolier and
holster set and a writing disk.
Your friend, Paulie Stapleton Jr.
(Plattsmouth, Route 2). Thank
you fore everything.
Dear Santa:
I want a big doll, a diaper
bag for my doll, a pair of ice
skates, a mixer, a carriage and
a ring. From Brenda Cheryl
Engle.
Dear Santa:
I want a bride doll, a set of
dishes, cleaning set, a ring and
would you please bring my baby
sister a teddy bear. Thank You,
Santa. Yours truly, Diane Carol
Engle.
Dear Santa Claus:
I have written you a letter
but my mommy is writting this
one so you'll be sure to know
what I want.
My name is Ginger Ann Ston
er and I'm 3 years old. I've been
a good girl and would like for
you to bring me a baby doll
with a bed, dresser with a mir
ror, a high chair and a stroller
and little baby bottles that
break. I need some little dishes
to feed her out of and a-little
spoon.
My brother is going to leave
you milk and cookies so I'll have
our house nice and warm for
you. Merry Christmas, Santa.
Ginger Ann Stoner
Hurst Trailer Park Lot 42
Plattsmouth
Dear Santa Claus:
My mommy is writting this for
me. I'm only four years old but
can print my own name and I
drew an Indian Tent for you.
I have been a good boy most
of the time and hope you will
bring me some toys.
When I talked to you down
town there was a white truck
on the shelf behind you. I'd like
to have one of them, a rubber
jeep and 2 covered wagons, 1
plain wagon and horses.
Santa Claus you have a nice
Christmas and I'll leave a glass
of milk and cookies for you to
cat by my Christmas Tree.
Scotty Joe Stoner,
Hurst Trailer Park Lot 42
Plattsmouth
Top Salesman
Named In
Candy Sales
"Top seller" honors for the
recent Camp Fire Girls candy
sale are as follows:
1st Mary Kay Henningson,
62 boxes, Flying Blue Bird, Mrs.
Harold Bentzinger, leader; 2nd
Kiley Armstrong, 61 boxes,
Happiness Blue Bird, Mrs.
Claud Crace, leader and 3rd
Pamela Miller, 50 boxes, Smil
ing Blue Bird, Mrs. Bill Arm
strong, leader.
Girls selling 25 or more boxes
weie Susan Lutz, Jane Wards,
Susan Campbell, Connie Rich
ards, Karen Cobert, Connie Ad
kins, Carla Hobbs, Janet Gil
son, and Lorraine Beil.
Groups leading the sales
were:
1st Smiling Blue Bird, Mrs.
Francis Wards, candy chair
man; 2nd Ot-Yo-Kwa, Mrs.
Jack Brookhouser, guardian;
3id Happiness Blue Birds, Mrs.
Claud Crace, leader; 4th Fly
ing Blue Bird, Mrs. Harold
Bentzinger, leader.
"All groups made a remark
able showing this year, and
each girl is to be complimented
on her selling efforts" added
Mrs. Jack Brookhouser, chair
man of the organization.
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selected by the Board to serve
as architects for an anticipated
building program of the school
district.
Several meetings of the Board
have already been devoted to
consideration of the need f o r
classroom space.
This year classes are belnc
held at First Presbyterian
Church, St. raid's Evangelical
and Reformed Church and the
Public Library, in addition to
use of all regular school class
rooms. Monday night, the board also
adopted a resolution to become
a part of the School Board
Policies which establish pro
cedure for dealing with nun-diligent
pupils in high school.
Filling Stations
Entered, Vending
Machine Rifled
Two filling station breakins
and rifling of a soft drink mac
hine at a laundromat have been
reported by Plattsmouth police.
The station burglaries are
similar and also similar to two
reported by the sheriff to have
occurred at Eagle and Union.
The soft drink machine at
Econ-o-Wash was broken into
by someone who pried off the
door of the machine sometime
Wednesday. A report was turned
in by a customer who arrived to
use washing facilities in the
unattended building on South
Third Street.
Police said- the machine be
longs to an Omaha vending com
pany. The filling station breakins
occurred early Tuesday morn
ing. Kent Oil Co. on Washington
Avenue was entered shortly after
5:30 but thieves got only 30 pen
nies.
A cook at the cafe next door
told police he got to work about
5:30 a.m. About 10 minutes later
he noticed the lights of the sta
tion drive had baen turned on.
When a station attendant
didn't appear, he notified
police. Burglars had entered the
station by breaking the front
door glass and unlocking the
door.
They'd evidently gone to the
back room and turned on a
switch which they thought con
trolled the gasoline pumps. A
pump hose had been tampered
with, police said.
After investigating that break
in, Police Chief Fred Teseh and
patrolmen Went to the Texaco
Station farther north on Wash
ington Avenue but the burglars
had already been there and left.
They got in the same way but
this time had found a switch
which controls the pumps. They
had taken 16 gallons of gasoline,
two 8.00x14 whitewall tires and
two batteries.
They left the gasoline pump
running and the front door
standing open as they left.
Elmer Wetenkamp
Dies Mondav At
Las Vesfas. Nevada
Elmer Wetenkamp, 64. native
of Cass County, died Monday
at Las Vegas, Nevada, where
he has been making his home
for the past fifteen years. As
far as learned here he suffered
a stroke Saturday and passed
away Monday.
He was born at the farm
home of the parents. Mr. and
Mrs. A. A. Wetenkamp, near
Mynard and spent his early
years in that community. In
iater years he resided in Oma
ha until moving to thr west and
locating in the Nevadn citv.
Survivors are the wife of Laa
Vegas: one daughter, Mrs. Mary
Janny, Omaha; mother, Mrs. A.
A. Wetenkamp, Omaha: broth
ers, Glen and Arthur Weten
kamp of this city; and many
other relatives.
Funeral services are licin";
held today at Las Vegas.
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