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NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 2 Lincoln, Nebraska PR mfttr. HIST COCI- PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY Monday-Thursday TT ILATTSIMldDUTIHl JJflMUDKNM JlTlCCLS. 13ffU Consolidated With the Nehawka Enterprise and Elmwood Lecder-Echo Read Twice Weekly by More Than 3500 Cass County families VOLUME 81 SIXTEEN PACES PLATTSMOUTH, CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1962 TEN CENTS PER COPY NUMUER -II ij s-au Board of Education Discusses Teacher Vacancies for '62-'63 The Board of Education mc Monday evening. Afler prelimi.i ary business the Board discussed teacher vacancies that exist in the .school .system. Two vacan cies exi.st in the elementary schools and eight in the Junior Senior High School. A key vacancy i.s that of High School Principal. This vacancy developed as a result of Wayne Rodehorst'.s resignation whi.'h the Board accepted Monday eve ning. Rodehorst has been accepted for a Kellogg Foundation Fel lowship at Michigan State U niversity. The Board also accepted the resit-nations of Mrs. Dorothy Rodehorst Resigns for Fellowship Wayne Rodehorst Wayne Rodehorst, principal of Flattsmouth High School, has been awarded a Kellogg Founda tion Fellowship for a year's study at Michigan State Univer sity at East Lansing. Rodehorst will spend the year at Michigan State completing requirements toward a doctoral degree in Community College Administration. Presently .serving his third year as PUS Principal, Rode horst silent eight years in the Wilcox, Neb., Community Schools, the last three as super intendent. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Nebraska State College at. Kearney in 1351 and a Master of Arts degree from that institution in 1958. He is currently enrolkd in the Grad uate college, University of Ne braska. His resignation has been sub mitted and will be effective at the end of the current school year. Mr. and Mrs. Rodehorst and their three sons plan to move to East Lansing in August. Alvo Election ALVO (Special) Bert Dens berger, 28 votes; Charles McKin ney, 30, and Clyde Jipp, 31, were named to two-year terms on the Town Board here Tuesday. Other vote totals: Ron Kinney, 26; Harold Vanehoef , 27, and Charles Ganz, 24. i THE RIVER DRIVE This l f 4 ' , , I " , 4.4, . . mad east to the Missouri River past East Main Street looked this week when flood waters left It was not recommended for motor ized sightseers. Tuesday the Cass County Board of Commissioners instructed County Highway Supt Fred Clark to inspect county roads and French who will teach in the O'nha school system next year, and Donald Hansen who will be a guidance director in the Bell evue Schools. An elementary vacancy was filled when the Board approved the contract of Patricia McArdle. Custodial supplies for the 62 63 .school year were discussed. The B.iard approved bids total ing $2.7014:) for the purchase of the supplies. The Board decided to post pone a decision concerning member-hip in the Nebraska Council for Education Television until it could be considered along with other items which will make up the instructional portion of the school budget for IJ102-1963. Supt. O. F. Mus.sman reported to the Board that the S.ate Fire Marshal's office had agreed to a step-by-step plan covering the next two or three years to bring the wiring in the old high school building to code standards. The .superintendent reported that the high -'chool program will be scheduled basically as , has been the past two years. Some adjustments will be neces sary to meet increased enroll ments, but the time pattern of the curre it year will be followed quite closely. The Board set April 17 as a date to meet with i itere.sted Board members of neighboring school districts to discuss educa tional problems facing our com munity. This meeting is planned as the first of a series of meet ings intended to provide an op portunity for the exchange of ideas between School District No. 1, and surrounding school districts. Net Another Month Colder than Normal! By P. J. Dimrman This month (still very young yet), so far has averaged 38.97 degrees; which is about 12.6 de grees below normal!). We've had every month this year below normal. The temperature range; Time Day P.M. Pres. Hi. Lo. Prec. Mon. . . 6:50 39 43 23 .00 Tues. .6:50 46 53 30 .03 Wed. .5:35 52 58 38 .00 A year ago U.S. high, 92 de grees at Laredo, Tex.; iow, 14 degrees at Salmon, Idaho; most precip., 1.87 inches at Brown ville, Tex. Two years ago U. S. high, 100 degrees at Yuma, Ariz.; low, 12 degrees at International Falls, Minn.; most precip., 1.36 inches at Boston. Elmwood Election ELMWOOD (Special) Her man Stubbendeck, 84 votes; Ray Hanson, 75, and Boyd Clements. 64, were named to the Village Beard for two-year terms Tues day. Other vote totals: Larry Lannin 58. Jerry Patton, 49, and Kenneth West, 15. Chester Bornemeier with 127 and Kenne'h West with 89 votes were elected to three-year terms on the Board of Education. Other vote totals: Eldon Mendenhall 86. and Harlan Kunz, 63. All members-elect of both I Boards are new to the offices. e . . . ' "ir-T i.s the way the j bridges for flood damage and prepare a cost Orville H. Todd, 59, of Murray Dies Wednesday Orville H. Todd. 59. prominent farmer near Murray, died at his home Wednesday evening of a heart attack while sitting in a chair. He was born March 12, 1903 at Murray, son of Harry O. and Alice Brown Todd. He was married to Margaret Spangler Feb. 27, 1925. His wife survives as well as a son, Richard Todd of Omaha; three grandchildren, five broth ers, E. Vance Todd, Vancouver, Wash., Dwyer B. Todd, Basse'.t, Nebr, Glen R. Todd and Lauren B. Todd, Murray and Delbert W. Todd of Union; three sisters, Mrs. Lyclia Croy, Pa.-.adena, Cal, Mrs. Helen Mackprang. Glen dale, Cal., and Mrs. Dorothy Schanot of Union. Mr. Todd lived in the Murray Community most of his life. He attended Murray United Presby sterian Church. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Murray United Pre.-.byierian Church with the Rev. Joe Barr officiat ing. Visiting hours are Friday aftemuon and evening 4 to 6 and 7 to 9 at Caldwell-Linder Chapel. Burial will be in Pleasant Ridge (Horning) Cemetery. Weeping Water Election WEEPING WATER (Special) The following were elected here Tuesday: Mayor Fred Cherry, incum bent, Business Temper ance Party, over Neil Munkres, Citizens Party, 97 votes to 96. Councilman, First Ward Clar ence Norris, incumbent, Busi ness, 72, over Richard Keckler. Citizens, 25. Councilman, Second Ward Harold Thorns, Business, 51 votes, over Ivan Rector, Citizens, 47. Gordon Heneger was- named Police Judge without opposition. Beard of Education , Wilson Bickford, 174 votes, and Mrs. Dagmar Lauritzen, 163, re elected. Other vote totals: Arn old Upton. 80, and Elmer Michel sen Jr., 39. Greenwood Election GREENWOOD (Special) In the election here Tuesday: Louis Wright was elected to the Vil lage Board for a one-year term, 49 votes to 30 for A. W. Velder; and Elmer Leadabrand, 41, and Roland Tinnean, 43, were named to two-year terms. Other two year term vote totals: Kenneth O'Rourke, 36, and Harold Wright, 30. Wayne Landon of Greenwood was elected to combined Board of Education of the Ashland Schools, receiving 409 votes, 84 of them in Greenwood. Also elected was Warren Robinson of Ashland with 385 votes as a write-in. Both members-elect are now on the board. Marvin Leaver of Ashland received 61 votes in Greenwood. WIUT'S COMING TO PLATTSMOUTH Friday, the 13th? (See Monday'' Journal) . e . -s III - w-"- trrr. i '-fix ".' .V.'y vn ' 1 --4 J 1 estimate for presentation to the Nebraska Dis aster Co-ordinator in Lincoln so that application can be made for Disaster Funds. Two years ago Cass County applied for relief and received (lat er i about $10,000. A S oy moore wins H arisen, Aspedon, Aylor, Brink, Fuller, McMillian, Morehead on Council Plattsmouth Municipal, School TOTAL VOTES CAST MAYOR YOUNG MOORE FISCHER ( I.ERK-TREASl RER YENNEY POLICE .MAGISTRATE GRAVES COl'Nt 1LMAN 2-Year Term 2-Year Term 1- Year Term 2- Year Term 1- Year Term 2- Year Term BRINK SPECK MOREHEAD GILES ASPEDON BILES SHEIL McMILLIAN FULLER ALM TIEKOTTER AYLOR SCHOOL BOARD 2 for 2Year Terms EDWARDS EVERS HANSEN HIRZ Funeral Services Held Here Today For Russell Arnold Russell Eugene Arnold, 44, died at St. Mary's Hospital in Nebras ka City April 2 following several days illness. He was born June 20, 1917 at Bible Grove, Mo., son of Virgil and Clara Lancaster Arnold. H was married Dec. 5, 1959 at Plattsmouth to Dorothy Weyer. The wife survives as well as the children, Corporal Frank Weyer, Fort Carson, Colo., Thomas D., David Lee and Nora Weyer and Alveretta Arnold, all of Plattsmouth; Terry and the former Peggy Arnold of Lincoln. Four sisters, Mrs. Betty Hath away, Denver, Colo., Mrs. Mabel Rouse, Mr.,. Freda Smalley and Mrs. Gladys Harris, all of Platts mouth, survive as well as a brother, Wallace Arnold of Plattsmouth. He was preceded in death by his parents, sister Grace and brother Earl. He lived most his lifetime in Plattsmouth, worked for Cape hart Construction Co., and was a member of the Teamster Union 1140. Funeral services were today (Thursday) at 2 p.m. at Sattler Funeral Home with burial in Oak Hill Cemetery, Plattsmouth. Mrs. Hitchcock of Masonic Home Dies at 85 Mrs. Winifred Hitchcock, 85, a resident of the Nebraska Ma sonic Home here for 16 years, died Tuesday morning. She had been ill one mon'h. She was born Feb. 9, 1877 at Hebron, Nebr, daughter of Alonzo and Margaret McKeever Stiles. She was married April, 1900, at Hebron to Fred G. Hitchcock,! who preceded her in death in j 1937 at Boise, Idaho. ! A son. John Hitchcock of East' S!. Louis, Mo , survives. The couple lived in Alliance and Hebron. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, and en tered the Masonic Home here through Alliance Lodge No. 183 AF&AM. Funeral services were Wed nesday morning at Caldwell Linder Chapel. Rev. Robert O. McLeod of the First Presbyter ian Church officiated. Music was by Mrs. Twyla Hodge. Interment was in Oak Hill Cemetery, Plattsmouth. Visitation hours were Tuesday af'renoon and evening at Caldwell-Linder Chapel. Mrs. Richard Quinette sub mitted to airgery Monday at St. Catherine's Hospital in Omaha, and is gettine alone fine. She Is I in room 318. lAir rllirz Elected to School Board TOTAL . . 1070 222 444 391 917 917 141 50 234 108 243 99 133 156 162 130 107 112 375 512 59C 554 Fred Draper Commander Of VFW Here Election of officers marked ti e meeting held at the VFW Club, by the Veterans vof For eign Wars. Harold Dukes com r( (Tider presided at the business siisssion,! to a very large group in attendance. Reports of committees were heard and plans for the com manders banquet were discuss ed. Rudy Stoll, membership chair man, urged all to send or leave their dues at the club or give them to a member. The mem bership campaign has been un derway for several months but due to the bad weather the committee has been prevented in reaching all, for the 100 per cent goal. Fred Draper was elected com mander for the ensuing year. Also named were John Ahrens, senior vice commander; Leonard Lutz, junior vice commander; MSgt. Le Roy Davidson, quart ermaster; Rudy Stoll, chaplain; Robert Bickle, 3-year trustee, and Lloyd Fitch, judge advocate. The new commander will be installed at the commander's banquet April 15 and will an nounce his appointive officers and committees. Dale Bowman, service officer, contributed a gift to the build ing fund. Meeting adjourned. Nchawka Election NEHAWKA (Special) Dr. R. R. Andersen, 61 votes, Ed Syn der, 54, and Junior Tanner, 46, were elected to the Town Board here Tuesday. Bob Murdock re ceived 18 votes. Terms are two years. Mrs. John Chandler, 76 votes. Elmer Fitch, 82, and Kent Bal four, 50, were named to the Board of Education. Mrs. R. R. Andersen withdrew her nomina tion. Terms are three years. Murray Election MURRAY (Special) olin Morris with 58 votes and George Minfcrd, 47, were elected here Tuesday to three-year terms on the Board of Education. 0.h2r vote totals, Dale Wohlfarth, 44, and Frank Fitzpatrick 20. Robert McKulsky and Harry Nickel', each with 46 votes, were elected to two-years terms on the Village Board. Other vote totals: Louis Sack, 17. Earl Lan caster, 28. Selective Service Office Hours New New office hours of the Se lective Service System, Cass County Local Board No. 13 in the Courthouse, are 10 a.m. to noon and 1 p m. to 5 p.m. The new hours went into effect Monday, April 2, according to Mrs. Elsie Schutz, clerk. i n uose rcace Tor mayor; Election Returns 2nd Ward 3rd Ward 4th Ward 1st 2nd 1st 1st 2nd 1st 2nd Ward Prec. Prec. Prec. Prec. Prec. Prec. 197 177 173 187 114 139 83 50 38 35 34 23 29 13 89 87 80 83 44 43 18 52 47 58 69 46 67 52 157 150 145 171 102 120 72 163 147 149 104 99 14 74 141 50 123 111 50 58 136 107 39 60 89 44 95 61 96 66 83 47 75 32 61 51 64 68 56 67 33 51 36 107 86 82 84 56 55 42 101 103 92 106 66 85 37 100 80 93 107 60 71 43 Ted Spangler, Louisville, Dies Ted Spangler of Louisville died early Wednesday morning at an Omaha hospital. Funeral services will be Friday afternoon at 2 at the Fusselman Funeral Home in Louisville. Visiting hours are at Fussel man's this afternoon and eve ning (Thursday). Union Election UNION (Special) Fred Clark with 53 votes and William Whip ple with 40 were elected to two year terms on the Village Board here Tuesday. Other vote totals: Henry Becker, 37, and Fred Stearn, 27. Elected to a one-year term on the Board was Donald Meredith, 40 votes, to 39 for Donald Bec ker. Mary Becker was elected clerk and Elsie Frans, treasurer, with out opposition. Eagle Election EAGLE (Special) Morris Muenchau, 151 votes, and Mrs. Ernest Leaver, 121, were elected to the Eagle-Alvo Board of Ed ucation Tuesday Other vote totals: John Wei chel 108, Wayne Weyers 102. Melvin Doran, 72, and Don Schmidt, 66, were named to the Village Board. Other vote totals: Eddie Weyers 61, Harvey Kropp 78. Carl Oberle was named Police Magistrate, unopposed, Eldee McKay having asked to have his name removed from nomina tion. Decision Pends on Fire Districts at Murray, Union Twenty-six residents of the Union and Murray areas Tues day attended hearings on pro posals to form Rural Fire Pro tection Districts for Murray and Union. Hearings were held before the Cass County Board of Commis s.ners on boundaries of he pro posed districts and the Board de cided to defer a decision for a week or two weeks. Louisville Election LOUISVILLE (Special) Elec tors here Tuesday named LaRue Williams, 117 votes; Earl Hurl but, 102, and Dick S'reeter, 89. to the Vi'lage Board. Streeter and Hurlbut are incumbents. Other vote totals: Lynn Whaley, 65; Frank Koterzina Sr., 63. William Kahler was elee'ed Police Magistrate without oppo sition. Orville Wil'is. 87, and John ! Bogard. 85. were named to the Board of Education. Other j totals: Ernest Gruber, 75, and John Jackman, 66. Terms on bo;h Boards are 1 three years. a ttulVJruL L. W. (Roy) Moore. Republi can, Tuesday was elected Mayor of Plattsmouth in a close race over Fred Fischer, candidate who was nominated by petition. The vo'e was 444 to 391. Albeit (Red I Young. Demo crat, was third with 222 votes Named to the City Council were Elmore (Toots) Brink, Lloyd Morehead, Bob Aspedon and Ray Fuller, Democrats, and Jim McMillian and Donald Aylor, Republicans. They will join incumbents Warren Rhylander, Republican, and A. W. Huebner, Democrat, on the Council when the new terms of office begin April 23 the second regular Council meeting of the month. Terms expiring are those of William Highfield, Democrat, and Roy Moore. Also to be sworn in at tht.t time will be Mrs. Erna Yenney, City Clerk-Treasurer, and Judge J. II. Graves, Police Magistrate, elected without opposition Tues day. Elected in the concurrent Board of Education election were Robert Hirz and Albert Hansen They'll join Harold Lebens, Max ine Cloidt, Leslie Hutchinson and Raymond Bourne on the Board. Terms expiring are those of Ray mond Larson and John J. Cloidt. The School Board race was close. Hansen, a former Board member, drew 590, to 554 for Hirz, 512 for Raymond Evers and 375 for Harold Edwards. New Board terms begin with the May meeting. Closest of the City Council races were in the 3rd and 4th Wards. McMillian, a former Council man, defeated Bill Shell, 156-133 for the 3rd Ward's two-year term. Fuller won over Robert Aim 162-130, for the one-year term from that Ward. Aylor's margin over Kenneth Incumbents Elected To Avoca Offices AVOCA (Special) William Dett mer, Roy Rughe, incumbents and Elmer Hennings were elec ted to the Town Board Tuesday. Voting results: Dettmer, 45; Ruhge 41; Hennings, 33; incum-j bent John Lingle, 27; Ernest! Habeman, 20; John Emshoff, 13. Incumbent Neil Johnson was elected to the School Board re ceiving 38 voles. Also elected was Elvin Emshoff with 41 votes. Others on the ballot were Norton Johnson, 32 votes and Helen Smith, 27. Total vo'es for the Town Board were 62 and for the school board, 70. Murdock Election MURDOCK (Special) Henry Klemme, incumbent, 104 votes, and Eldred Thimgan, 83, were elected to the Board of Educa tion Tuesday. Jess Stock, incum bent, received 79, Lorna Strov 44. Elected to the Town Board were Dale Hendrickson, 62; Laurence Smith. 17; Herman Wendt, 33. and Wm. Blum, 31. Tickets Available For Appearance of Gov. Morrison Ted Ohnoutka. president of the Plattsmouth Lions Club today! announced that tickets for non-! members wishing to attend the ! Lions meeting next Tuesday ( ni",ht to hear Governor Morrison j will be available at Cass Drug! ard Feldhousen Drug. j Those wishing to attend the dinner are asked to get their; tickets before next Monday noon. ! The dinner wall be at the Lions building at 6:45 p.m. Those wishing to hear the talk by the Governor but who do not . wish to attend the dinner are in-i vited to come at 7:45 Tuesday evening. Ohnoutka said. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Philpot en- ! tertained at Sunday dinner.! Guests were Beulah Joch.em and Bill B.utley of Omaha and Law-1 rence Stamp of Walnut. Ia. Mr. j Stamp wa., a member of a tour w ith the Philpots and showed j pictures he had taken in Haw-j aii. a Tiekotter for the 4th Ward's Council seat was 112-107. One Councilman each was elected from the 1st and 4lh Wards because Hurbner and Rhylander, the incumbents, are from those Wards, respectively. Moore, operator of nursing' homes here and a Councilman the past six years, will succeed Grant Roberts as Mayor. Hub erts i.s seeking nomination for the Cass-Sarpy County seat in the State Legislature in the May 15 primary election. Mrs. Yenney, employe in Ihe City Clerk's Oil ice several years, will succeed Albert Olson, longtime Clerk, who was no', a candidate for the Clerk-Treasurer Office. Plattsmouth's certification as a City of the First (.Mass necessi tated expansion from a tour-to an eight-man Council and elec tion of a Clerk and Treasurer or Clerk-Treasurer. Judge Graves i.s the incumbent magistrate. Both he and Mrs. Yenney were nominated by both parlies at the spring caucuses. Musical Treat Here Sunday By R. R. Furse Manager, Chamber i'f Commerce Plattsmouth citizens are in for one of the finest musical treats in years this Sunday when the United States Defense Command present their Choral Group at the High School Auditorium. Scheduled for 2 p.m., Sunday, April 8, the all-free program will include both vocal and in strumental .scores pleasing to every scale of society. There'll be humorous songs to smii-class-ical and many of your old fav orites presented in a profession al manner. Plattsmouth i.s most fortunate to be selected as one of only three cities in this area securing this program. Only through co operation c,t the Chamber of Commerce, The American Leg ion and efforts of Headquarters of the 6ih Missile Battalion, 43rd Artillery, was it possible to bring this national recognized group lo this community. ARADCOM's primary mission is to entertain personnel at far flung; Nike guided missile bases around the globe. Their great show has brought standing ova tions in many of their pr...,enta tions not oaly before military personnel but civiiia l audiences as well. This 35-member group are seasoned travelers having ap peared in three-fourths of the Slates and Canada. Their most recent national appearance was a month ago when they carried the last quarter of the Bell Tele phone Hour TV program on a national hookup. They have als i appeared on the Arthur Godfrey Shows. They have .nine, wi.h Pat Boone, The Lerno i K; ter.s. Red Foley, the Holiywoodetie.s, and ma ly others. Greatest part ot this one and on. -half hour show of soloists, q u a rt e 1 1 e s, combos, Cappela concerts, both classical and humorous, i.s that it is all free. There i.s absolutely no charge or any kind. N0 collections or lree will offerings are being made. It is brought to Plattsmouth for your enjoyment and en'.ertain--it at no charge of any kind. Seating, of course, must be on a first come, lirst seaied arraia ' merit. On another page of this issue of 'Idie Journal will be found a full-page a dvcrti se ment an-"""-"ins this great show, brought to you through the fol 1 owing I'iati.smouih bunness people: Western Power an 1 Ga, Co., Cons i misers Public Power Co.. Caldwell-Linder Funeral Home. Plattsmouth Slate Bank Cass Drug Store. I; u b a c k' s Super Market, Kent Oil Co & Cafe. Soennichsen's Inc.. Schrei "crs Rexall ()nig. and ihe Plait.-iiK.utli Journal. Ii's a niu -deal show you will enjoy to the fulled. Don't forge; the time and date. Sunday, Aprh 8 at 2:00 pm Come early for choice seats.