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liESR. STAIE HIST. CCCISTY ZU i:ca it ST. ........ JUN 26 '1962 PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY Monday-Thursday Consolidated With th Nehawk Enterprise and Elmwood Leader-Echo Read Twice Weekly by More Than 3500 Cass County Families VOLUME 81 EIGHT PACES PLUS SUPPLEMENT PLATTSMOUTH. CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA MONDAY, JUNE 25. 1962 TEN CENTS PER COPY NUMBER G4 2 7-Ac ire City Park Site Being Considered Opti ion Taken 4 IV STICKY WORK Popsicle sticks were being; fashioned into purses when this picture was taken last week at the Camp Fire Girls Korn Karnival Meeting Thursday The King Korn Klub will meet Thursday at T:30 at the Blue Flame Room of the Gas Co. Wayne Scnneiaer, president ol the Klub, said the meeting will include a selection of a theme for the 1962 King Korn Karnival, approval of a budget and pro gram assignments. He urged anyone interested in the Karnival to attend. Red Cross Annual Meet June 30 at Weeping Water The Cass County Chapter ol the American Red Cross will hold its meeting June 3(k at Domingo's Inn in Weeping Water. The supper meal will be served at 6:30 at $1.25 per plate for adults and 90 cents for chil dren. The business meeting will begin Immediately following the meal. This is a "public meeting" open to all persons interested in keeping a Red Cross Chapter alive in Cass County, officers said today. Discussion of the various pro grams of the Red Cross will be held, which include: the blood program, first aid, home nurs ing, water safety and swimming courses, home service (aid tc armed forces, veterans, and de pendents), disaster relief and others. Election of officers for the coming year will also be held. Since those who are preparing the meal wish to know the anti cipated attendance, please make reservations for the supper meal with the Chapter Secretary, Jean Schneider, 1615 Valley St. Plattsmouth Phone 2348, by June 27. Local Women Assisting with Hospital Benefits Three Plattsmouth women Mrs. John Rountree, Mrs. M. B. Rubin and Mrs. A. B. Rogers are assisting in laying plans for a series of affairs to benefit the Childrens' Memorial Hospital In Omaha. They will assist in plans for the annual bazaar in Oc'ober Friends of the Childrens' Hospi tal will entertain husbands guests at an informal dance at Peony Park in Omaha, June 29. Tickets ($2.50 per couple) may be purchased from the above listed Plattsmouth three. They are also asking that women with handiwork or other contributions for the bazaar contact them. Tom Con is Admitted to Nebraska Bar Tom Conis was among the 72 Law graduates admitted to the during ceremon ies at the Statehouse in Lincoln Friday afternoon. Attending t h e ceremonies were Mrs. Tom Conis and chil dren, and his father, George Conis of this city. Call Your News And Social Items to 2141 wf4, JL. Children's Programs Are Coming Up A Thursday afternoon chil dren's program at the Public Library during July and August will begin July 5, Mrs. June Lang, librarian, reminded today. Stories will be read and chil dren's films will be shown. The first film is Puss in Boots. Other films are entitled Cuckoo Clock That Wouldn't Cuckoo Madeline, Apache Indian, Ad ventures of a Baby Fox, Boy ol India, Fluffy the Ostrich, Goldi locks and the Three Bears, Boy of a Frontier Fort, Make Way for Ducklings and Town Jusi cians. Steel Flooring For Bridge Is Co. Experiment Cass County will Install steel flooring on a bridge across Call ahan Creek in Commission Dist rict 3 as an experiment in bridge maintenance. A used State bridge will be Installed and steel, instead of wooden, flooring will be added. Commission Chairman Melvin Todd of Union said planking for bridges has long been a major item of maintenance expense. The Commissioners believe steel' flooring will be an eventual money-saver, although initial cost Is higher. Todd said, as an example, a county bridge this year had to be re-planked although it was done only a year ago. This' is extreme, he said, but usually five to seven years is as long as wooden flooring can be ex pected to last, while steel floor ing which can be covered with earth or asphalt, will last many times as long. Countywide Road Program Gets Citizen Support The Cass County Board ol Commissioners was much inter ested in an editorial recently in a Lincoln newspaper comment ing on "Where the Tax Dollars Go" in county government. A group of residents of Dawes County had formed a County Road Improvement Committee to scrutinize county road affairs. They published a booklet com menting on practices they "be lieve to be unsound economic ally and others which are not in compliance with provisions oi S. ate Laws." Among their conclusions were: it is inefficient to divide road maintenance work into dis tricts rather than doing it on a countywide basis; the bid sys tem is not used widely enough in buying equipment or some times not even as law requires; cash purchases would save money; a county highway su perintendent is necessary to di rect and co-ordinate the county wide program. Cass County has been in com pliance with the new law since it went into effect, having a coun tywide roads program, present ing an annual proposed program at public hearing and employing a highway superintendent to ad minister the program. The county uses the bid system for purchases as law requires. 11... ,Zl6m Day Camp at Garfield Park. The sticks, some stickum and a hinged lid made a clever handbag. Albert J. Godwin, 68, Dies; Rites Here Wednesday Albert Jacob Godwin, 68, resi dent of Plattsmouth all his life died Thursday afternoon at Vet erans Hospital, Tucson, Ariz, after an illness of three months. Mr. Godwin had entered the hospital at Tucson in April while he and Mrs. Godwin were there on a trip. Funeral services will be Wed nesday at 2 p.m. at Caldwell Funeral Home here. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. Visiting hours at Caldwell's are Tuesday from 4 to 6 and 7 to 9 p.m. Mr. Godwin was born May 30, 1894, here, son of E. M. and Sophia Wynn Godwin. He was married to Delia G. White Dec. 13, 1919, here. He farmed and worked at the Toll Bridge. He was a member of the Christian Church and was a veteran of World War One. Survivors are his wife; daugh ters Mrs. Buelah Schworm and Mrs. Mary Jane Ashlock, both of Plattsmouth; grandchildren, Billie and Linda Ashlock and George Schworm ; brother Ralph, Omaha; and sisters Mrs. Ruth Buffington and Mrs. Esther Lewis, both of Murray. Shirley Hild Attends Workshop Shirley Hild is one of three in structors from Nebraska pre sently in Iowa City participat ing in the fifth annual State University of Iowa two-week workshop, ending June 29. Forty-one instructors' from 19 states, in an area bordered by Washington, Arkansas, Ohio and Michigan, are learning ways the newspaper can be a valu able aid in the classroom of a free society and are becoming ac quainted with the production, role, and practices of the daily paper. The workshop is sponsored by the American Newspaper Pub lication Association, Social Science Council of the National Education Association, and the State University of Iowa College of Education and School of Jour nalism. Featured speakers for the ses sions include Richard C. Hotte let, CBS news analyst and com mentator; Kenneth S. MacDon ald, editor of the Des Moines Register and Tribune; Jack Wilson, member of Washington Bureau; , and Robert Carlsen, president of the National Coun cil for Teachers of English. Dir ecting the workshop is James E. Hayes, director of curriculum and research in Burlington, Iowa, public schools. The high school teachers are attending through sponsorship of their local daily papers. Miss Hild, an English and American history instructor in the Omaha Westside Community Schools, was selected by the Omaha World-Herald. Service Windows At PO To Close At Noon Saturdays Service windows at the Post Office will close at 12:00 Noon on Saturdays, effective June 30, Postmaster Vern Hendricks an nounced today. On Lapidus Property There is a good possibility the City may acquire a 27-acre park site a piece of property which has been coveted by many here for that purpose for several years. The site is a tract west of Hill crest and south of Rubin's Addi tion which is part of the Erna Lapidus Estate. It is bounded on the west by Maiden Lane and includes the entire area south as far as the eas -west line of the fence enclosing the Water Dept storage tank on Maiden Lane. Last week, a special commit tee named by the Chamber of Commerce's Executive Commit tee obtained an op ion through the Chamber on behalf of the City to purchase the land for $20,000 from the executive trus tee of the Lapidus Estate. Sa'urday, the committee ol James Begley, Clem Woster and Steve Davis, met with Mayoi Roy Moore and the City Park Board Lloyd Fitch Sr., Chas Warga and Glenn Pankonin) to discuss park possibilities. After viewing the site and pondering the matter, the Park Board said it considers the acre age "ideal" for a City Park and said the matter would be dis cussed further with the City Council at its regular meeting tonight at 8 at City Hall. A Park Board spokesman to day said in a statement: "The City Park Board met and viewed the proposed area. Th-ey feel there Is a great need for a park of this size in the City of Platts mouth, with the idea the present parks can be operated accord ing to schedule. "The Park Board will meet with the Council tonight to dis cuss the possibilities of a park of this size." T-Bone Club To Hear Talk on 'Farm Credit1 The Cass County T-Bone Club will meet Thursday at 7 p.m. at Marchio's Cafe in Omaha. Ever ett Spangler, former Cass Coun ty resident, will speak on farm credit. He is vice president ol the Intermediate Credit Bank of Omaha. Dean Nutzman Is T-Bone Club president; Edwin McHugh, sec retary. Runaway Truck Damages Buildings, Cars at Union A tractor-trailer broke loose from a parked position in Union Friday, headed downgrade and struck two cars and ther crashed into two businesses. Driver of the truck was Mar vin F. Lorenzen of Walton who was loading eggs onto the truck when it broke loose. Parked cars belonging to Ruth C. Everett and Will Platte, bo'h of Union, were struck by the trailer and "totally damaged." The trailer careened down the hill to hit store fron's of the Ed Morris Grocery and Wayne Sur face Restaurant, tearing down the fronts of the buildings and causing "heavy damage." Fortunately, no one was in the parked cars or the fronts of the damaged buildings. The driver told the Sheriff's Office he had the brakes set, the wheels blocked and the engine running to maintain brake pres sure when the trailer broke loose. Supervisors in Charge of Pool, Play at Garfield Janice Koslowski and Lau Rene Fulton have been em ployed by the City Park Board to supervise play at Garfield Park and use of the wading pool there, the Park Board has an nounced. Pool hours are 1 to 5 daily but could be extended if usage warrants, the Board said, and asked that a responsible adult accompany each child who pa tronizes the pool. Playground equipment and games, the la'ter to be checked out for use, are available at the park. SITE FOR PARK? This view taken from atop the City Water Dept. storage tank on Maiden Lane (after Leo Hohman of the Dept. carried the camera up the ladder of the 65-foot tank for a Journal photographer) shows the Lapidus proptery on which Corps of Engineers Gives Awards ' Five Plattsmouth men are among employes of he U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hon .;rd . recently with cetificates and pins for service, presented at Nebraska City by Ted Carl son, assistant area engineer. Awards were for 10 to 30 years of service with the Engineers. Recipients were: Herman L. Maasen, Plattsmouth, 30 years ; George Smith, Nebraska City, 30 years; Jack Chadwick, Nebras ka City, 20 years; Marvin And rews, Plattsmouth, 20 years; Everett Conyers, Plattsmouth, 20 years; Ralph Mather, Nebras ka City, 20 years; William Triggs, Plattsmouth, 10 years. The men also received letters of appreciation from Area En gineer Ralph Fitzhurgh, former Nebraska Citian. Local All-Staters Appear on TV Appearing on KOLN-TV Sun day night in a brass sextet at All-State in Lincoln were Roger Hutchinson and Linda Stander ol Plattsmouth. The group later played at the Pine Bowl in Pio neer Park, Lincoln. Also at All-State are Rogei Beverage and Linda Stander on band scholarships. Hutchinson Carol Smith and Lucky Meyer are attending under chorus scholarship from Plattsmouth High School. All-State is a three-weeks ses sion, now in the final week. Carol Smith is participaMng In piano, chorus and band; Lucky Meyer, band; Hutchinson. 2nd chair bass in 160-piece band, dance band and musical produc tions; Linda Stander, 5th chair first corne The All-State Band Concert is Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Stu dent Union, Union Ballroom; the Lerner & Lowe Production, o musical, will be Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the Student Union. The final orchestra, chorus and band concer's will be Satur day at 7:30 p.m. on the Colise um steps. All productions are open to the public. BIBLE SCHOOL PKOCKAM The EUB Church of Mynard sponsored a two-week session oi Bible School which ended Fri day, June 22. There were eleven teachers and fifty-eight pupils present. They presented their Bible School program Sunday morn ing durr.g the regular worship hour. A picnic in the church basement followed the program. A Classified Ad in The Journal cost as little as 50 cents. . ' v - -V - , 4 .'- Model Car Show Here June 29 The "Flintstones" Model Car Club will hold its second annual car show June 29 at the home of Mike Liddick 707 North 11th St. Entry fee will be 25 cents per car and there is no limit to the number of cars which can be entered per person. Fifteen awards will be presented to var ious class winners. The club requests that all en tries be ready for judging by 5 p.m., June 29. Anyone wishing to inquire further should call Reid Kirsch enman, phone 5254. The public is invited to attend. PO Accepting Applications for Sub-Clerk,-Carrier The Plattsmouth Post Office has announced that it is accept ing applications for the positions of Substitute Clerk and Substi tute Carrier. The position of Substitute Clerk is open to both men and women. The starting pay for these positions is $2.16 an hour, with automatic yearly raises ir. pay. The Post Office offers up tc 26 days vacation and 13 days a year sick leave, a retirement plan, group life insurance, com prehensive health insurance and other benefits. No experi ence is needed. Application forms can be ob tained at the Post Office. FIRSTEST The little bullhead didn't have much hope of being the "mostest" at the time this picture was taken during the Cub Scout and Dads Fishing Contest at a pond on r "v, - '.f '- f ...... J J w. "-v--!' 4. K 4 f ( t -p ' xh . i, rf m, an option was obtained on behalf of the City last week. The Park Board and City Council are expected to discuss possible purchase at tonight's Council meeting. Houses at top left of Photo are in Rubin's Addition. Still Sizzling! By P. J. DINGMAN During the last 11 days (each of them in the 80's or more), the average high temperature- has been 86.2 degrees (4.5 degrees above normal). Sunbathers gathered in large groups to "soak up" the sun. The chart: P.M. Day Time Pres. Hi Lo Prec. Thurs. . . 10:15 66 83 62 . T Fri 5:35 75 90 62 .01 Sat 6:25 85 88 62 .06 Sun 6:10 83 87 67 .00 Av 6:56 72 87 63 total .... .07 A year ago U.S. high, 120 at Needles, California; low, 42 at International Falls, Minn. ; most precip., 1.75 inches at Fort Worth, Tex. Two years ago U.S. high, 115 at Yuma, Ariz. ; low 42 at Omak, Wash.; most precip., 2.79 Inches at Shreveport, La. Free High School Tuiton Application Rural students who plan to attend High School next fall but have not sent application cards for Free High School Tuition to the County Superintendent of Schools are urged to do so at once. These application cards are due July 1 in order that the proper amount of money needed may be determined and the levy set to cover it. 7 i the Game Refuge here Saturday, "firstest" in the contest. Steven holds the C'i-inth catch of hiti ... '1 "tei ' Retarded Children's Summer Program Begins July 1 1 The Association of the School for Retarded Children at Ne braska City has completed plans for the Summer Program to start July 11 and to continue for six weeks. Eight children residing In Cass County are registered at the school. A Drive for Funds is set for Sept. 4-15 at Nebraska City; the house to house canvassing will be Sept. 11. The out-counties' solicitation will be Oct. 1-13. Mrs. Howard Miller, vice president of the association, pre sided at a recent meeting in the absence of Mrs. Joe Glover, president. Mrs. Glover is hos pitalized in Kansas following an accident. Committees were appointed tc proceed with the summer pro gram and drives. Mrs. Robert Morton of Union is chairman of the Institution; and is also on the board of direc tors of Education, as well as Mrs. Richard Mougey of Union. Mrs. Abe Exline, Union, and Mrs. Morton also serve on the Newsletter Committee. Mrs. Jack Vallery, Plat's mouth, is publicity and program chairman. hut it was the Whitehouse, 9, father, .Melvin. ill . ... J