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NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETT LljKQln, Nebraska CTAIE HIST. SOCIETY IXX MAY i 1902 PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY Monday-Thursday IttflE (PLOT'S J) OIK WAD. Consolidated With the Nehawka Enterprise and Elmwood Leader-EchoRead Twice Weekly by More Than 3500 Cass County Families VOLUME 81 SIXTEEN PACES (SECTION A) PLATTSMOUTH, CASS COUNTY. NEBRASKA THURSDAY, MAY 3. 1962 TFN CENTS PER COPY NUMBFR 49 mm Calling All Kindergarteners! Kindergarten round-up will be held here at the four elementary school buildings May 9 to regist er children in the I'lattsmouth District eligible for kindergarten next fail. A child must reach 5 years of age on or before Oct. 15, l'JG2, to be eligible. Registration will be from 8:30 to 4:30, except for the noon hour beginning at 11:30. Ch.ild.'n whose last names begin with letters A-M will be registered in the morning, the rest In the afternoon at three of the schools. At Winlersteen. all children will be registered in the morning. Regular kindergarten clashes will not meet May ) but will re sume May 10. Poppy Poster Winners Named Mrs. Kenneth Du.nlap has an nounced the winners in the Am erican Legion Poppy Poster contest. They are: Cynthia Osterholm, first; Marlene Haith, second; Don Kohout, third and Kathleen Wenslen, honorable mention. The winning pa.sters are on display in the windows of The Gas Co. The others are on dis play in windows of the down town business houses. Judges in the contest were: Mrs. Sophia Wolever, Mrs. Ken neth Dunlap and Mrs. Glenn McClure. Fire District At Murray Elects The Murray Rural Fire Protec tion District had its organiza tional meet at the Courthouse Tuesday night with 36 electors of the district present. They elected these officers: R. A. Noell, president and director for a two-year term. Robert Rea, vice president and director for a one-year term.- Clarence Engelkemeier, secretary-treasurer for a two-year term. George Reike, director for a two-year term. Marion Wiles and Henry Hild, directors for one-year terms. The meeting was adjourned until May 11 when further busi ness will conducted. Juvenile Charged A thirteen-year-old Weeping Water youth faces Juvenile Court Friday afternoon. Sheriff Tom Solomon stated the youth admitted four sparate cash thefts in Weeping Water, the last one being from a home which netted him $21. Cass Countyan of the Week Philip Hennings Recalls Socials of the 'Good Old Days' By RUTH MILLER Nehawka Special Correspondent "The Good Ol' Days" how many times have you heard someone breathe those words with a sigh for times long gone? Let the vynics cry that those days were just a lot of drudgery; the memory of fine times, of happy times In the good old days linger on. Philip Hennings of Louisville says there is one part of those days he would like to go back to and that is the social life. In those days everybody in the neighborhood went to every party, from the littlest up. The babies would be taken into a room near where mother could keep half an eye on them between sets of a square dance. The older kids watch the ex citement as long as the Sand man would let them and then they would drop off to sleep in the nearest out of the way cor ner until the last note was drawn from the fiddle and the last tired feet shuffled through the dance and then they would bundle up and go home in the buggies through the clear, crisp starlit night. One of the chief social events of course was a wedding and oh! those German weddings! where there was enough food to feed hundreds, and often there were hundreds to feed. Mr. Hennings told about his sister Maggie's wedding when 300 people attended the open house and the Hennings never slacked their efforts to "feed them all." For days ahead of the wed ! i Kev. John I). Allen Fr. John Allen At St. Luke's Church Here The Rev. John D. Allen re cently accepted a call as rector of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Plattsmouth, and is now in re sidence here. Father Allen was born March 21, 1931, in Port Arthur, Tex. He attended North Texas State University and the University of Texas, his education being inter, rupted by three years spent in the Marine Corps. He has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas, where he graduated with high est honors and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. After working for the Tidewater Oil Company for a year as an oil scout, he en rolled in the Episcopal Theolog ical Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Tex., from which he was graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1960. Following his ordination to the priesthood, Father Allen served as P r 1 e s t-in-Charge of St. Christopher's Episcopal Church, Bandera, Tex., and then as cur ate at St. Paul's Memorial Church, San Antonio, Tex. until he came to Plattsmouth. Father Allen is married' to the former Joan Collins of Houston, Tex. They have four children, John Mark, 9; David Randal, 7; Meredith Ann, 2; and Stephen Paul, 8 months. Fire District at Union Organizes May 17 at 7:30 UNION A meet to "effect permanent organization of the Union Rural Fire Protection District will be held at 7:30 p.m. May 17 at the American Legion Hall in Union, County Clerk Chas. Land said today. A legal notice telling of the meeting and describing boundar ies of the district located ir Cass and Otoe Counties appears in this edition of The Journal. ding the sweet aroma of fine German cooking was wafted through the house Philip says that he baked 13 cakes himself, so there were at least that many! Those 300 guests con sumed 12 kegs of salt herring and a 75 lb. brick of fine cheese as well. Food was served in the base ment and then the guests would go upstairs where dancing was going on under the mistle-toe-decorated ceilings all day long. The hams served at the wed ding were far different then that one you picked up at the super market this morning, modern Mr. and Mrs. Hennings de scribed the way the family cured their hams: They were (Continued on P. 1, Sec . B) 1 THE PHILIP HENNINGS FAMILY is shown as it appeared 11! years ago Philip, Leroy, Marlynne, Mattie and Phyllis. Poppies to Bloom Here Saturday O r b it i n g over Plattsmouth Saturday, May 5, will be many American Legion Auxiliary and Junior Auxiliary volunteers with leads of little red crepe paper poppies. Thes'j poppies will be replicas of the famous blossoms which bloomed "between the crosses, row on row" that marked our heroes' graves in Flanders Fields. They are the official mem orial flower of the America Le gion and Auxiliary and are worn on Poppy Day each year as personal tribute to the nation's war dead. These poppies have been blooming in abundance during the winter and spring in Vet erans hospitals on beds and tables as they were made by dis abled veterans. Now they are ready to bloom on the lap-el of every citizen in Plattsmouth. A poppy over every remembering heart. Crippled hands have made poppies carefully and painstak ingly touch has guided the fing ers of other poppy makers. The stipend earned by the veterans making memorial pop pies Is often times the only earnings possible during long hospitalization. Wearing a poppy tells the world that we remember and are grateful to those who made it possible for us to live in an America where God is known and worshipped; where family life is sacred and where you and I can share the duties' and priv ileges of helping maintain the myriad of blessings we hold clear. April Typically Unpredictable BY P. J. DINGMAN April was as usual as a square wheel. We had .94 of an inch of precip. (2.60 is normal), 406 de gree days (412 is normal), an average high of 65.09 (61.7 is normal), an average low of 38.44 (41.5 is normal), go April was about .2 of a degree above nor mal. The 5 hottest days were 85.5 on the 21st, 84.7 on the 25th, 84.2 on the 26th, 83.0 on the 24th, and 78.0 on the 18th. The 5 "coldest" days were 22.7 on the 2nd, 24.0 on the 13th, 24.3 on the 15th, 26.8 on the 9th, and 27.0 on the 1st, 5th, and 7tli. So far this year we are about .05 of an inch below normal in precipitation, and 153 more de gree days than normal (4.1 above normal). We've had an average high of 43.59 (43.72 is normal), an average low of 22.13 (25.02 is normal), so we are about 1.58 degrees below normal in 1962. The chart: P.M. Day Reading Preis. Hi Lo Prec. Mon. . . 6:25 63 66 47 .07 Tues. . . 7:20 61 73 46 .00 Wed. . . 7:05 74 80 37 .00 A year ago U.S. high 96 at Roswell, N. Mex.; low 20 at Win nemucca, Nev.; most precip. .33 inch at Astoria, Ore. Two years ago U.S. high 89 at Fort Myers, Fla.; low 19 at In ternational Falls, Minn.; most precip. .90 inch at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich Charges Follow Squabble A neighborhood fracus in Eagle Wednesday evening ended up in County Court this morning with a charges of Assault being filed against Frank Pliler of Eagle. The incident was investigated by Deputies Shrader Rhoden and Joe Kruntorad, who after making their investigation, took Pliler into custody. Today, Pliler pleaded "guilty," was fined $100 and costs. saw? IK A y Wniiit .jfw. faft ) if ii Warn MRS. MARGARET HOWARD State President Alpha Delta Kappa State Convention Here Saturday Alpha Delta Kappa, interna tional Teachers Sorority, holds its state convention in Platts mouth May 5. Preparation has been made to accommodate 132 guests at this convention. Members of the Gamma Chap ter (Plattsmouth) will be hosts at the convention. Margaret Kroese is president of the local chapter. Members are Mrs. Irene Al bert, Louisville; Mrs. Mary Bev erage, Mrs. Margaret Fitch, Mrs. Blanche Gamer, Mrs. lone Gleason. Mrs. Marie Haith, Miss Kroese, Margaret Love, Mrs. Lucile McLean, Mrs. Mildred Newton, Rose Prohaska, Mrs. Katherine Sandin, Lucile Wiles, all of Plattsmouth; Betty Lam bert and Mrs. Dorothy Todd, Murray. Mrs. Sandin is also State Hist orian. The morning session will be at the Methodist Church with registration and coffee hour beginning at 8:30. Miss Kroese will give the welcome and greet ings will be by Mayor Roy Moore. During the business session committee reports will be heard Judge Directs Verdict Here Judge John M. Dierks Wed nesday directed a verdict in favor of the defendant in the case, Violet Crawford vs. Wald emar C. Soennichsen, et al, dam age, in District Court here. Mrs. Crawford sued for dam age from an alleged injury she said was caused by a fall on ice in the parking lot of Soennich sens Stores. Evidence was heard Monday Tuesday and part of Wednesday. Counsel were H. C. Rosenthal Schrempp and Lathrop, Omaha, for the plaintiff; Crawford, Gar vey, Comstock and Nye for the defendants. A case docketed for Wednes day and today, Dept. of Roads vs. Merrit Bros. Sand and Gravel, et al, condemnation ap peal, is held in abeyance pending notice from the Dept. of Roads. Next docketed case is Elmer A. Michelsen Sr. vs. Arnold Upton, et al, damage, set for May 7-9. Mrs. Jaycees Again Will Give $100 Scholarship The Mrs. Jaycees again this year will award a $100 scholar ship to a high school girl grad uate. "The intention of this scholar ship is to give financial assist ance to a girl with a qualifying scholastic record who intends to further her education at a Teachers College," a Mrs. Jay cees officer said. Eligible studen's want ing further information can con tact Jessie Whelan at the school. Valuations in Counties Discussed By Board Here The Cass County Board ol Commissioners Tuesday heard from county residents in regard to "the difference in valuations between Cass, Otoe, Lancaster and Saunders Coun'ies." Appearing were Walter Woit zel, Wayne Landon and Peter Hilt. Also present was a repre sentative of the State Tax Com missioner's Office. The Board discussed the mat ter at length but took no action. Journal Want Ads i-av i! .MARGARET KROESE i I'lattsmouth President as well as the president's reports and there will be election of of ficers. E. Cleo Wiley, president of North Central Region, will give the 11:30 address. The group will lunch at the Lion's Club where they will re main for the afternoon session. Mrs. Janice Wiles Freeburg, dance studio instructor, will pre sent a program. State Officers of the sorority are: Mrs. Margaret Howard, Omaha, pesident; Dorothy Traill, Grand Island, vice presi dent ; Mrs. Arietta A r on son, Omaha, secretary; Violet Doug las, Lincoln, treasurer; Mrs. Sandlin, historian; Mrs. Feme Naab, Wood River, c h a p 1 i a n, and Mrs. Mary Sloan, Lincoln, fergeant-at-arms. Keep In Touch ' E. O. Vroman entered Meth odist Hospital in Omaha Wed nesday where he will undergo surgery Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Estil Jenkins, former Plattsmouth residents, now of Burbank, Calif., are vis iting in Plattsmouth with friends and with relatives in this area. James Rishel has returned home from Phoenix, Ariz, where he lias been for the past five months. He also stopped in Long Beach, Calif, for a short time visiting friends. Loris B. Long, local realtor, announces completion of sale of the home owned by Mr. and Mrs. George Schottenhamel at 915 Patterson Avenue to Mrs Bruce Jacobs. Mrs. Jacobs will reside in her new home. Mr. and Mrs. Schottenhamel are resi dents of Peru where he is an in structor in the College. Mrs. Robert Wunderlich and Mrs. John Rountree represented the Women of St. Luke's Epis copal Church at the annual church council in Norfolk Tues day and Wednesday. Mrs. Nell Wehrbein is home now after spending a few days in Benning on visiting her son. Mr. and Mrs. Victor Wehrbein and grandson, Mr. and Mrs. "Buck" Wehrbein. Mrs. Wehr bein attended a Farm Bureau meeting and banquet at Elkhorn where her grandson was master of ceremonies. Mr. and Mrs. Wi'.don Switzer and son Gerald of Nehawka spent Wednesday evening with Mrs. Edith Thiele of Platts mouth. DRIVER INJURED David D. Uhler, driver and only occupant of a car, was thrown clear of the car as it left Highway 34, near its Junction with Highway 50 and rolled into a deep ditch. Uhler of Cheyenne, Wyo., told Sheriff Tom Solomon that he planned to go to work at the LAB and departed from Lincoln and became lost. Uhler, received a deep fore head laceration which extended from ear to ear. He was given first aid at the scene by Sheriff Solomon and was taken to Ne hawka where he was transferrer; to Lett Ambulance for a trip to a Nebraska City Hospital. The Sheriff said a charge of reckless driving Has been filed against Uhler. i i I Boy, 6, Hurt Running into Side of Car Randy Bracken. 6, son of Mr. and Mrs Clifford Bracken, Thayer Street, was injured but evidently not. seriously Wednes day when he ran into the side of a slow-moving car. The accident occurred on Chi cago Avenue at the intersection of Thayer Street. Driver of the car was Mrs. Marie Wiles of near Plattsmouth. Mrs. Wiles told Police that as she was driving south on Chi cago Avenue she saw sonic chil dren apparently waiting to cross the avenue. As she passed, the Bracken boy ran into the side of her car and fell to the pave ment. Mrs. Wiles stopped quickly. The boy suffered head and arm bruises and abrasions, Pol ice Chief Fred Tesch said. After treatment at a physician's of fice, the boy was taken home. The place where the children were crossing Chicago Avenue is not designated as a school crossing. They were reported on their way to Columbian School. Another Child Bitten by Dog Dog owners: keep your dogs tied up! That was the urgent admoni tion today of Police Fred Tesch after another incident of a child being bitten by a dog here. City ordinance prohibits owners from allowing dogs to run at large, regardless of whether the dogs are licensed. Violation can be a misdemea nor with a fine ranging to $100. Wednesday afternoon, Leslie Watson, 6, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alton Watson, 501 SO. 5th St., was bitten in the chest by a dog at Columbian School, Tesch said the dog was im pounded and is being observed for rabies symptoms. There have been several in stances of children bitten by dogs here in recent weeks. Co-op's Fund Drive Termed 'Big Success' A drive to raise funds to build a co-operative elevator in the Mynard area was a big success, Edwin Stanley, manager of the Farmers Grain Co. of Nehawka, said today. He said about 80 investors met here Tuesday night and more than $40,000 in investment money was raised the first day of the drive. He said the drive will continue with this committee appointed to work with directors of the Grain Co. to go ahead with plans to build: Lyle Sparks, Sterling Ingwerson, Bill Gilmour, Vernon Meisinger, Frank Bierl and Stanley Lepert. A Classified Ad in The Journal cost as little as 50 cents. V . - - -- ' mom, mmmmmm j ' T T V' , - ! Z-JUl: t - i , '-i ' i BIDDIES Jimmy Short, right, and Steve Haburck pose with a new pal, one for whose af fections they have not had to battle a great crowd of co-admirers. Jimmie gut a book from the Library which told about making snares to catch snakes. The boys learned . . 'J KNTCKLKRS Dennis Kalasek, left, defeated Sieve Itishel, right, in the finals of the first annual Cub Pack :i!l!) marbles tournament. The boys show how they knuckled down to business for the last head-to-head clash of the elimination. County Legion, Auxiliary Have Convention Here The County Convention of the American Legion and American Legion Auxiliary was held in Plattsmouth, Monday evening at the 40 & 8 Club. Members were present from Elmwood, Greenwood, Louis ville, Nehawka, Union, Weepin; Water and Plattsmouth. Roy Akens of Nehawka is County Commander and Mrs Ethel Strabel of Elmwood was County Chairman. A musical program from the local high school was presented by Miss Beverly George. A male quartet accompanied by Vicki Fitzpatrick presented two num bers, a girls Sextet accompanied by Lucky Myer concluded the musical program. The guests were welcomed by the local Unit President, Mrs. Donald Warga, the response was given by Mrs. Emma Nutzman of Nehawka. Reports were given by the Units of their years work. An invitation was extended from the Union Auxiliary for the fall meeting, the members ac cepted the invitation. Election of officers was held. Mrs. Mildred Comstock el Greenwood was elected Counly, President. Mrs. Ilattie Schliefert of Louisville was elected Vice 1 President. I Mrs. Comstock was elected; County President for the 1st; time 24 years ago at a meeting J in Plattsmouth to make Green wood 100 ''J in membership. Mrs. .. the lesson well, ' Short, without Comstock enrolled her ,r year old granrldaiigh'or now living in Germany to be a member of the Auxiliary. Mrs. Str;.brl thanked everyone for coining and all who had helped her with her years work as County Chairman. A memorial .service was pre sented by the Union members, deceased members were Platts mouth, Mrs. Cora Baumuart and Mrs. Mary Rebal, Louisville. Eva Blair. W. Water, Mrs. Clare Mead, takiiKr part were Mrs Violet Atteberv. Mrs. Gladys Weston, Mrs. Ruth Ruby, Mrs. Lola Murriock at the piano, the hymn was .sung by Judy Jones and Gloria Garrens. Refreshments were served by the local Post and Auxiliary Mrs. Ron Lenders was Kitchen Chairman, assisted by Mis. Rus sell Schalk and Mrs. Eugene Krings. 1st Call Issued For Legion Baseball Here Coach Norri.s Hale today is sued a first call for boys inter e.Mod in playing American Le gion Junior vnd Midget baseball this .summer. Any boy born since Sept. 1. 1943. is eligible to play on one of the two classifications of teams. The initial meeting will he Sunday at 3 p m. at the Ilich School dressing room. Hale said. . . . . caught the 4' -j -foot black snake along the river and have "tamed" it. The sn;ike wraps around Jimmy fondly every day when raw hamburger feeding time arrives at the Short home, 907 Avenue D. Said Jimmy's mother, Mrs. James envy, "To each his own taste."