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1 M TIME PlLATnrSIMdDIUTM JflMRrMQ. gg. miB HI3T. fioclm xn MAY 27 1961 PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY Monday-Thursday Consolidated With the Nehawka Enterprise and Elmwood Leader-Echo Read Twice Weekly by More Than 3500 Cass County Families VOLUME 80 TWENTY TWO PACES PLATTSMOUTH, CASS COUNTY. NEBRASKA THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1961 TEN CENTS PER COPY NUMBER 55 AWARD WINNERS Shown above are winners of special ath letic awards presented at the Chamber of Commerce's annual high school sports banquet Monday night at the Auditorium, from left: Jim Ingwerson, Duane Haith, Jim Seay, Bill Nettleman, John Carr, Elmwood High Graduates 10 ELMWOOD Elmwood High School graduated a class of 10 May 17. They are Rex Brown, Gary Clements, Bob Fleisch man, Gerald Fredenburg, Don Hollenbeck, Steve Jicka, Kathy Kirchhoff, Warren Phillips, Erich Sender and Keith Swarts. Don Hollenbeck was valedic torian and Gary Clements, sal utatorian. , Neal Gomon, Peru State Pres ident, was speaker. Lorensen Soennichsen's Manager Mrs. Matilda Pein, vice presi dent of Soennichsen's Inc., Tues day announced the appointment of Don Lorensen as general manager of the store. ; ,. The company, which Recently ,was formed into a corporation to facilitate business management,! Is Plattsmouth's oldest retail establishment. Mr. Lorensen has been with the store since 1950; first as ac countant and more recently as merchandising manager of the dry goods and ready to wear department, in addition to his accounting duties. Lorensen, 32, was born and raised in the Manley community. He was graduated from Louis ville High School in 1946 and In 1950 from Nebraska Wesleyan University at Lincoln. His wife is the former Phoebe Wipf of the Weeping Water community. She was graduated from Weeping Water High School in 1948. The Lorensens have three chil dren and own a home at 723 5th Ave. Mrs. Pein said there will be no change in the personnel of the store. Sam Arn will con tinue as manager of the grocery and meat departments and Chris Bulin will manage the men's wear and shoe departments as heretofore. Lorensen plans no change in store policy. He says he feels that "the policy of courteous and efficient service to the people of this community has been appreciated and will be continued." Plans are in the making, how ever, for expansion and some changes to improve the store. Don Lorensen, General Manager of Store Murdock School For $96,000 Bond Election MURDOCK Cass County School District 07 will vote June 20 on a proposed $96,000 bond is sue for school remodeling, repair and for an addition to the school. The special election was called by the district's Board of Educa tion. The ballot will read in part: "Shall School District No. C-7 of Cass County issue its negoti able bonds in the principal amount of $96,000 for the pur pose of remodeling and repairing the present school house, build ing an addition to the present school house and furnishing the necessary furniture and appar atus for the same "Shall the district cause to be levied annually a special levy of taxes by valuation on all the tax able property in said district sufficient ... to pay the interest Wfllie Given Date for Eye Repair Surgery Willie Simons was back In Plattsmouth Wednesday, but this time not disheartened after a trip to New York City. He left for New York last Sat urday, believing he would be ad mitted to a hospital for a cor neal transplant (on one of sev eral such trips). That didn't occur but Willie and his wife, Geraldine, who accompanied him came home haDpy. Willie's specialist who will do surgery to t r y to re store part of the sight he lost 10 years ago gave him a definite date for the surgery. It's to be June 6. Willie and his wife could have stayed over but they figured it would be too exDensive and too trying. Willie's doctor told him he is planning to give Willie a plastic corneal lens, a new development in eye renovation. Willie says it could restore sight partially in the eye least injured by a tear gas blast; and it would still leave a corneal transplant as another hope. Convalescence will be shorter with the new-type operation, three to seven days. He'll have to stay two to three weeks also for observation. ? F fil H i c Denny Campbell, Dave Wilson, Larry Toothaker and Jim Stewart. Bill Senf was also an award winner but is not shown. (For a list ing of awards and letterwinners, see sports page in Section B). Board Calls and principal of said bonds . . .?" The first publication of the legal Notice of Special Election appears in today's Journal. It is also scheduled to appear June 1 8 and 15. Lincoln Avenue Paving District Ordered 'A paving district for Lincoln Avenue from the end of the present paving south about sev en blocks was ordered created Mondnv night by the City Council. The Council instructed the Citv Attorney to prenare an or dinance creating the district. Appearing before fae Council to reauest creation: - '''the dis trict, were Ira ClinkVnbeard and Merlvn Jenkins. sDokemen for a delegation in favor of improv ing the street. Lincoln Avenue has long been a point of contention by resi dents, often has been in poor driving condition. The proposed district would extend from the intersection of Lincoln and 6th, south to a Doint opposite one of Clinken beard's properties. Under regulations for Class One cities under which Platts mouth is operating in regard to creation of improvement dis tricts, more than 50 per cent of objection by front footaee of resident owners of properties to be affected by the improvement would have to object in order to defeat the district. Awards Given At 8th Grade Promotion NEHAWKA A large crowd attended 8th grade promotion exercises here Wednesday night for 81 students of rural Cass County schools. Awards presented by County Supt. Neil Lancaster were: Honor Roll Dist. 13, Janet L. Nutter and Nellie A. Baier; Dist. 56, Norma J. Martin, Jeannine Maxwell, Janet Ann Gansemer, Carol Ann Faris and Carol Col lins; Dist. 81, Donna B. Meyers; Dist. 37, Sue Memsen and Ellen K. Rader. Also Dist. 82, Carol Ann Mill er; Dist. 91, Karen I. Engelke mier; Dist. 17, Alan E. Hartman and Eugene E. Lowther; Dist. 41, Larry R. Jones; Dist. 105, Ruth Elizabeth Brandt; Dist. 63, Shirley S. Albers and Rich ard L. Hunteman; Dist. 33, Michele R. Norris; Dist. 30. George A. Vondras; Dist. 3, Da vid J. Osthus and Dist. 88, Rog er L. Schneider. Perfect Attendance Awards were given to Dist. 3, Wayne Peterson; Dist. 9, Ricky Bond; Dist. 12, Gary Bond and Linda Bond; Dist. 17, Debera Lowther. Carolyn Stine and Cathy Stine: Di:t. 25, Mary Ann Lochman; Dist. 28, Carol Janet Holman and Patsy Tandy; Dist. 30, Paul Staple.ton; Dist. 31, Sheila Baker and William Edward Scott. Also Dist. 37, Jerry Buechler and Cathy Buechler; Dist. 41, Cheryl Haecke, Michael Haecke and Richard Haecke; Dist. 50, Randall Crownovtr; Dist. 56, (Continued on Page 8) " jfD J' TNew Football Coach, Players Get Acquainted Norris Hale, - new football coach at Plattsmouth High School who will take over this fall, was here Wednesday for a squad meeting with boys who will play football this fall. He had a turnout of 66 boys at the meeting arranged by the school. It was a get-acquainted ses sion principally, but when one of the boys asked about train ing rules, Hale gave his squad-to-be the word. Practice will begin Aug. 22, the first day permitted by Ne braska High School Athletic Association rules. Hale said there'd be a session in advance of that for physical examina tions and equipment issuing. He said he would be in Platts mouth before long, is casting a bout for summer employment, Funeral Friday For "Bud" Fulton - Funeral services will be Fri day at 2 p.m. at Sattler Funeral Home here for Clarence R. (Bud) Fulton, 45. Mr. Fulton was killed Tuesday in his apartment at 4422 Main Street when a gun he was clean ing discharged. His body was discovered by his wife, Lau Rene, when she re turned from work about 4:45 p.m. About an hour before the acci dent, Mr. Fulton had talked to Police Chief Fred Tesch and told him he planned to clean the gun. Sheriff Tom Solomon, acting as coroner, ruled the death acci dental. He said the gun had been taken apart with a shell in the chamber. Visiting hours at Sattler's will be from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. today. The Rev. J. W. Taenzler will officiate at the services. Burial will be in Pleasant Ridge Cem etery with graveside services conducted by the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. Mr. Fulton was born Aug. 7, 1915, at McPaul, Iowa, son of John Henry and Charlotte Ferrel Fulton. He was married to Lau Rene Appelgate July 2, 1955. She survives along with five children Jeralyn Kay, La Ree and Larry of LaGrande, Ore., and Gary and Teena of Ogden, Utah; two sisters, Mrs. Ham mond Sharp, Omaha, and Mrs. Louis Kief, Plattsmouth; six brothers Floyd, Charles and Walter, of Plattsmouth, Albert of Long Beach, Calif., and Ever ett and Glen of Boise, Idaho. He was preceded in death by his parents and two brothers. Besides living here, Mr. Ful tcn lived in Ogden, Utah and Louisville. He was a truck driv er. Memorial Services MURDOCK (Special) Me morial Services will be held at Callahan Cemetery May 28 at 3 p.m. THE WEATHER Mav 22, 23, 21, 1961. Hntp High Low Prec ... 60 58 .00 ....68 41 .00 ....73 60 .17 High near 80; low Monday . . Tuesday . . Wednesday Forecast: in mld-50's. Cloudy. Scattered showers likely. Sun sets tonight at 7:45; rises Friday at 4:57 a.m. Buddy Poppy Sale Here Is Saturday The VFW Buddy Poppy Sale will be conducted here Saturday with Robert Akins as chairman, according to Harold Dukes, com mander of the local VFW Post 2543. Mrs. Boyd Evans will serve as chairman for the Ladies Auxil iary and the Junior Auxiliary and Boy Scouts will assist with the sale. Headquarters will be the VFW Club. Dukes today asked those ap proached to buy Poppies to "give generously." It's the best way to personally show our grat itude for the sacrifices of the disabled veterans. "If you give 25 cents for a Buddy Poppy," he said, "most of your contribution stays right here in the community where the local post uses the money to help needy veterans and their fam ilies. "One and one-half cents goes to the State VFW welfare pro gram; one cent to the VFW Na tional rehabilitation service; one cent to the National Home for Widows and Orphaned Children, and the remainder to pay the cost of materials for the hospi talized veterans who fashion the Buddy Poppies." Dukes' pointed to the VFW Na tional Home as "an especially worthy project. At Eaton Rap ids, Mich., the VFW has set up a model child village. Children live in regular homes, ranging in age from Infants to high school, five to ten children being housed in a home supervised by a house mother. "Each child has regular house hold chores, attends church at his own choosing and leads as normal a life as is possible with out having parents of his own." Dukes urged: "Remember the men who can't forget, by buying and. wearing a Buddy Poppy Saturday." Baccalaureate Sunday at Auditorium The Baccalaureate service for Plattsmouth High School's gra duating class of 1961 will be held at 8 p.m. Sunday at the High School Auditorium. The Rev. Fr. Robert Hodgson, rector of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, will speak on the topic, "Today's Inherent Threat In sidious Indifference." Following is the order of ser vice: Processional, Coronation March, piano duet. Invocation by the Rev. Joseph Barr, United Presbyt erlan Church, Murray. Anthem, Be Thou Not Still, by the Concert Choir directed by Beverly George. Nancy Bulin is pianist. Fr. Hodgson's address. Anthem, You'll Never Walk Alone, by Concert Choir. Benediction by the Rev. Mel vin Shafer, Mynard EUB Church. Recessional, Priest's March. Ushers from the juoinr class will be Mike Brink, Harry Ro berts, Tom Smith, Bonnie Way, Pamela Fulton and Janet Pete reit. IMF ' iri W1 VJ PLANT IN OPI.RATION The name plaque shown above is on the outside wall of the con trol building at the new Municipal Sewage Treat Graduation Tonight at St. John's The annual graduation exer cises of St. John School will take place this evening in the St. John School Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. The graduates are Chris topher Chudy, Kathleen Dillon, William Farrell, David Kimble, Robert McClanahan, Kenneth Pohlmeier, Susan Shaffer and Mary Weber. David Kimble will deliver the welcome address and Kathleen Dillon will give a tribute of thanks from the graduating class. The main address will be given by practicing engineer, Leon Michal, K.S.G., State head for the Civil Defense, Radar De tection Division. Diplomas and awards will be presented to the students by Monsignor Joseph Przudzik, Pas tor of St. John's, and Father Walter Banach, Pastor of Holy Rosary Parish. The public is invited to attend. Ordinance Changes Liquor District The City Council Monday night passed an ordiance amending the city's liquor or dinance as it describes the dis trict in which licenses can be granted. The change is to include: ". . .all that property within 150 feet of the outer boundaries of Chicago Avenue lying north of Holdredge Street which is in cluded in the Local Business and Light Industry District. . .in the Zoning Ordinance." And ". . .all that property within 150 feet of the outer boundaries of Washington Ave nue lying southerly from Ave nue D which is included in the Local Business and Light In dustry District. . . . ." The ordinance is also amend ed to add an additional one half block south of the alley south of Main Street to the district downtown The ordinance is published as a letral notice in today's Journal. The enlarged district would thus include 316 Chicago Ave nue, a site, for which Keener I. Price is seeking a Class C liquor licence. A hearing before the State Liquor Control Commis sion in the State Capitol, Lin coln, is scheduled for June 2 on the application to which many residents of the immediate neighborhood object. Dennis Smith Has Bait House Sheriff Tom Solomon nounced this week that he an- had leased his bait house just south of the Platte River bridge to Dennis Smith of Plattsmouth. Smith will have a complete line of fishing tackle and bait and picnic supplies. His ad appears in section C of this issue of The Journal. Call Your News And Social Items to 2141 H II. l II , .111 I .. LW ' . - . t - i ...... k . i - t i oard, iscuss Representatives of the Platts mouth Board of Education vis ited in Lincoln Wednesday with Sen. Edwin McIIugh of Murdock about Plattsmouth's school situ ation. John Cloidt, Jr., vice-president of the Board, and Supt. O. F. Mussman attended a meeting Wednesday afternoon in the State Capitol with Sen. Edwin Dr. Vance D. Rogers Dr. Rogers of Wesleyan Speaker For Graduation Dr. Vance D. Rogers, president of Nebraska Wesleyan Univer sity in Lincoln will be speaker at Commencement at Platts mouth High School May 31. He'll speak on the topic "Spots on a White Paper." The Class of 1961 and its hon or graduates will be presented in the . exercises beginning at 8 p.m. Baccalaureate will be Sunday. Services-Set,.:. Memorial Day At Cemeteries Memorial Day services will be held Tuesday at Oak Hill Ceme tery with the Rev. Robert O. McLeod of First Presbyterian as speaker. There'll be an assembly and brief service at the GAR plot at 9:45 and the main service will begin at 10 a.m. at the Ameri can Legion plot. After the services there, a ceremony will be held at thP VFW plot and a detail will go to the Missouri River bridge to cast a wreath in memory nf Navy veterans. Joint services will follow at Horning Cemetery with the Rev. Fr. Robert Hodgson of St. Luke's Episcopal speaking. School Can Use Street St. John's School has been siven permission to use 5th Street from Avenue B to C for its "carnival" June 3 and 4. The City Council Monday n 1 g ht granted the request made by Eugene Fees for the Home School Association. a C mX Mr! 1 , i m I t a 'I litl J ment Plant here. The plant is in operation, can be inspected by the public. (For pictures and a story about a tour of the plant, see Section It). AAcEHlugfa Schools McIIugh to discuss tax problems of schools in the Omaha area. The meeting was called after the Papillion Schools asked for special state legislation to pro vide emergency funds for their schools for a two year period. "The local Board is not op posed to the state providing such funds since this would be a dem onstration of the State's respon sibility to public school educa tion in Nebraska. However, since the poople of Plattsmouth and other towns in Nebraska are equally hard pressed by the states inadequate system of school finances, it was the posi tion of the Plattsmouth School Board that any such aid should be spread to all such schools," Mussman said. There was some mention of the formation of a Metropolitan School District. Since this was a new approach no position was taken bv the Board until such time that more information could be obtained and studied. Gov. Morrison has set a meet ing for further discussion of the tax problems of schools In the Omaha area for next Wednesday afternoon. Representatives of the Plattsmouth City Schools have been asked, to attend. Interest in the Papillion School situation has prompted a comparison of the Plattsmouth situation to that of Papillion made by Supt. O. F. Mussman, as follows: There are a good many simi larities, the big difference bein? that the impact has hit Papillion within the past two years with the heaviest blow yet to strike in a year or two. Our growth has been steady so that the Impact has not been as drastic. The reported, percent, for the number of people earning a liv ing outside the Papillion School District was 85. According to last July Census reports the fol lowing is true for the Platts mouth Schools. There are 64 5 of the parents residing-within School District No. 1 Cass Coun ty who earn supDort for their familv outside of the district. Of the children in the District 17 years of age and under, 66.4 . have parents who have jobs out side the district. Papillion reports that enroll ments have increased from 336 in 1956-1957 to 955 punils today. Our growth again has been steady with an increase during the same period of 226 young sters. Another factor that must be considered in comnarins; the two schools is total enrollments and district valuations. Plattsmouth is educating 1,559 younesters on a district valuation of $5,134,451. The Patjillion schools are edu cating 955 younesters on a school district valuation of $6,191,519. The Papillion renort indicates that next year the school re quirements will force the mill levy above 50 mills. However, this year their mill levy totaled 39.80 and in the school year 59-60 was 40 mills. Previous to this their mill levy had been much lower. By comparison the Plattsmouth mill levy has grown steadily from the school year 58- 59 when it was 46.48 to 50.85 for the 59-60 school term and 58.62 for the present year. Next year our total mill levy for school purposes will bo above 60 mills. This does not reflect an ex travagance on the part of the city schools for it is possible to demonstrate that our per pupil costs are extremely low. There are a good many indications that the quality of our educational program is suffering as a result of the efforts to economize. This, then should be the point of chief concern. That further re strictions of budget items will result in sacrifice of the educa tional program offered by the City Schools. This, too, should bo the ap proach used bv Interested pa trons to besiege our representa tive in the state legislature, Edwin McHugh and the gover nor, for state aid. rUF ri.ATTSMOI'TH JOURNAL Official County and Cltv Paper Established Tn 1831 Published Semi-Weekly. Mon days and Thursdays, nt 410 Main Street. Plattsmouth. Cass Coun ty. Nobr Entered at the Post Office at "lnttstnouih. Nebraska as second elnss m.ilJ mnttcr In accordance with the Act of Congress of vlarch R. 1879 v I J