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i H I ' JsJUS JJ i I I'll ra&r yj Pk ion t - - -J . , ! It .. . n,f V i mi.. mi CONTESTANTS Shown above are youngster from Cass County schools who participated in the Shcittcrcane Being Tamed by UN BY J. II. H RKfiR : fixtensinn Agronomist I'niversity of Nebraska The story on shattcrcane, wild; cane or black amber continues that shaUercanc had been eradl to unfold 8111 at the same time ; cited after the field was in al- more farmers have become I aware of Its presence. Reports and observation during-19G2 in-1 dtcate it Is more widely spread ; in east, central and southeast j Nebraska than originally estl- mated. I Surveys were made recently to obtain additional Information on the shaKercane problem. A majority of those coi.tacted felt they obtained infestations when black amber cane was planted for forage particularly in the 30's. Other me.-ns of Introduc tion included surghum seed. Ir rigation water, livestock, birds, and flood waters. After kifestations are present corn pickers and other machln-1 ery are considered the most likely means of further scatter ing. Livestock, birds, flood waters, irrigation, and cultiva tion are also important. Three to five years is the by L. A. Caldwtll Ideas him corns ffor-, many soureev For mo.f of us. though, they don't come from our eni me, or from tho!.e we diJile. And in such cae5, we might well be the lowers. Prejud ice cloet not j u t mean hold ing a fixed idea for or a g m i n s t ft i if something or someone, an idea based on emotion rather than reason. Prejudice can alvo mean being vo et against someone that we resist hii ideas, and dote our minds to them, We can argue in a friendly way with trvne we like or love, and sometimes we'll even listen to their arguments and reach agreement. At least we're will ing to give our fnends credit for having ideas that mifjht be worth while. But when was tho last time you had an argument with someone you didn't like? Were you ready to listen? Did you reiect his ideas because he voiced them? A wise man said, "An idea isn't responsible for who be lieves in it," We can often learn even from our enemies, CALDWELL FUNERAL HOME 702 Ave. B Plattsmouth Ph. 4111 Neif week Mr. CaldwaJI of the Cildwtll Funeral Horn will Comment on All Fool'i Day. I COMMENT mm U.S.D.A. GRADED BEEF SIDES LB. 47c FORES : . . LB. 39c HINDS LB. 57c Prices include Cutting, Wrapping and Sharp Freezing. LOCKERS FOR RENT Plattsmouth Lockers Phone 5110 J" 1 I"J""11 mC length of time most people thought the seed remained vi able ki the soil but some said 10 to 20 years. One report stated fulfa for fulfil for five years. Another stated that hand weeding ir three consecutive years eliml-ias nated approximately 90 per cent j of the sriiittercane. ! Estimates on acreages In-1 fested varies. In 1961 approxi-i mately 150,000 acres were cursed with the unwanted sor ghum. Infestations In corn were greatest followed by grain sor ghum, soybeans, and sugar beets. Red Willow, Furnas, II tr li.n, Franklin, Webster, Nuck olls, Johnson, and Hall counties each were rstlmat'-d to contain over 5.000 acres. Following close behind were H tchcock, Gosper,, Phelps. Kearney, Buffalo, Daw- Hamilton, Merrick, Thayer, j Fillmore, Saline, Jefferson, ! Gage, Pawnee, Richardson, Ne- acreages removed from produc maha, Otoe, and Cass counties, tion by government programs; Sponsor Sees Bv MF.I.VIN PAI L Statrhuuse Correspondent The Nebraska Presd Association LINCOLN The Legislature reventie committee has voted to if ml LB 612. proposing a stated income tax, to the floor of the Unicameral for full debate. The committee acted lmmedl-. ately after one of the longest and best attended public hear ings of the present .session. Sen. Kenneth L. Bowen of Red Cloud is chief sponsor of the measure which stemmed from the Interim Taxation S t u d y Committee recommendations Bowen said lie Is confident the proposal will pick up enough support for passage, but there are other lawmakers who disa gree. On one thing they do a gree. the vote on final approv al Is going to be close. The bill sugge.-its that the rate of the Income tax be et every year after a determina tion has been made of how : much money will be needed to meet the state's obligations for the year. I According to Dowen, If the i measure Is enacted into law It will help make every Nebraska taxpayer more conscious of the 'amount that he contributes to1 state and lical government aup I port. As the bill was prepared, the taxpayer would have to pay his state Income tax In one lump sum. Since the state tax bite on the individual Ls low in comparison with local govern mental and school district needs, payment of the income tax will I help point up to the Individual I how much his local govern i mental units are spending, Bow j en said. He added this might lead to residents requiring a closer accounting from local i government officials on how they are spending the tax mon ey allocated to them. Dove Kill For the first time In about 10 years, a bill to add the mourn ing dove to the list of game birds has been given approval by the Legislature' Agriculture Committee. As usual, the hearing on the proposal attracted a huge crowd Most of the witnesses were vet- 11 ''-'-W annual spelling contest here Saturday. Their names appear in the Page One story of the contest. Most other eastern and southern Nebraska counties report ed scattered Infestations of shat tercane. Reduction in crop yields isn't the only loss attributed to shut tercane, It creates harvesting problems, eliminates crops such soybeans from the rotation increases cos's of production, interferes with irrigation, and lowers the value of some crops by its presence in addition to belng a general nuis'.'.nce and in convenience. The mott successful control measures .trlftf Included: Hand cutting, chopping hoe- lng or grubbing; Inclusion of small grain In the rotation; Seeding to alfalfa or incl'jd ing alfalfa In the rotation: Chemical s, principal ly Eptam; Clean cultivation of ldr i land such as summer fallow and Support for Income Tax Bill erans and many of the argu ments presented had been heard before. Rome 30 states permit the shoeing of tlovv. Support for the bill came from representatives of the Nebraska Council of Sport.smen, the Ne braska Game Commission. Isaac Walton League, Goodyear Sportsmen Clubs, Falcon Gun Club of Lincoln and the Omaha Fish and Wildlife Association. Opponents Included the Ne braska Farm Bureau, National Farmers Oreaniza'.lon, and Fed- erated Garden Ciubi Veto I'pheld The Legislature was asked twice within two days to over ride Oovernor Morrison's veto of one of the so-called "states rights" resolution approved ear lier by the Unicameral. The resolution sought to peti tion Congress to call for t h e purpose of amending Article 5 of the US. Constitution. The aim of the resolution was to make it easier to nmend the federal document by, more di rect action. The day after Morrison vetoej the' proposal, a motion to over ride the veto lost whim it. re- i ceived 23 votes. It needed 2(3. I The next day another attempt jwas made and this time the ef fort fell Just one vote short. The governor has also vetoed ! a second "st-ites rights" resolu tion. Sen. Hal Bridenbaugh of Dakota City .said he will try to get that veto overridden. Centennial Plans The State Centennial Commis sion has unanimously approved a resolution called for appoint ment of a statewide cominlt.ee of county and state fair man agers to work In close coordina tion with the commission in de veloping a program. The resolution action came after Ed Schultz. secretary of the Nebraska Fair Board, urged a unified effort among the com mission and state and count v fairs In promoting the state's 100th anniversary in 1007. Schultz suggested the celebra tion revolve around the theme of Nebraska's pioneer days. He said the celebration "should call the attention of the 'people to what the early pioneers did for the state. They are the ones who started Nebraska on the road to success and shouldn't be forgotten." The commission received a variety of suggestions from 15 state senators on how the state migiit commemorate Its 100th birthday. Several lawmakers proposed erection of a new state office structure which would be known as The Nebraska Centennial ; Building. Some legislators have made It known, however, they are far from convinced that tlu would be an appropriate Scientists Careful cultivation. Bureau of Reclr.mution agron omists end county agents deter mined by yield checks in 10-30 and 1961 tint heavy infestations of shal.trrc.ann mny cause corn yield reductions of 60 to 70 bu.sh- els per acre. Meanwhile in 1962 research I was undertaken- on several as I pert.s of the shrittercane prob : lem. Basic studies have been ini ! tf'ited on the relationships be- tweei plant behavior and clt j mate, its life history, av.d seed i longevity In the soil. ! In the field during the past i year Eptam demonstrated its ; efleetivoness as a control for j shattercane. In nine trials in Adams, Clay, Franklin, Furnas, ; Kearney, and Webster counties, ; Ept nn treated plots averaged 29 bushels more per acre than the untreated plots. Jn sev n of the nine trials there were profitable Increases even though the chem ical cost was $10.50 per acre. manner of observing the anni versary. " '"t v '.State Engineer John Hossack said recfjuiy the entire 4U-mne segment of the Interstate from Grand Island to Kearney should be cample'ed by late summer. He said only .shoulder work remain on the stretch from Wood River to Grand Island v.ilh completion .slated early thl.s spring. Half of the paving is finished from Wood River to Slielton to Newark. Paving is .scheduled to bc;!;n early this spring from Newark to Kearney. Work will also beRin. Hossack said, this spring along the Kear ney to Elm Creek segment where the grading Is now two-thirds complete. Work has been con tracted for from Lexington to Elm Creek with construction be ginning thi.s month. Bids will be taken on the 14 C mile section from Lexington to Cozad on March 28. Meat Probe The subject of meat prices oc cupied a prominent place in the legislative chamber in recent days. It all becan when State Acri culture I). rector I'earle Finikin called the attention of the leg islators to the high retail eost of beef and pork, even though a sharp break lias been register ed In cattle and hog prices at tlie various livestock markets. The Unicameral's Agriculture Committee was given the tick of deciding whether to recom mend a legislative investigation of the problem. I Sen. Frank Nelson of O'Neill. ! chairman of the committee said I It was the unanimous conviction j of the group that neither the! Legislature nor the committee j could spare the four months needed for the probe. j The attorney general hart also advised that an Investigation j cannot be begun unless the study would result in .some type of proposed legislation. The committee agreed to ask Nebraska's congressional delega tion to consider what federal legislation might be necessary to regulate more closely Importa tion of meat products. A III, A ST AMI CANCKR Boston Japanese school chil dren who survived exposure to radiation from the 1945 Hiro shima and Nagasaki atomic blasts are developing thyroid etneer. Dr. Edward L. Socolow, now at the Massachusetts General Hospital has reported this study to the New Eingland Journal of Medicine. Studies will continue over the next ten to twenty yoars. Of the 3o5 patients found to have en larged thyroid glands only 70 un derwent surgical removal of tis sues to determine diagnosis re sulting in 21 'hyrold cancers, Sweet Clover Can I Save Man's Life LINCOLN Forty years of re ' search aimed at permitting farmers to use sweet clover without endangering the lives of i their cattle resulted in a sub ; stance which can save a man's life or kill a pest, i The research centers around coumarin In sweet clover, ac j cording to agricultural scientists ill. J. Gorz and F. A. Haskitis in i an article in the winter issue of i the Nebraska Experiment Sta j tion Quartet ly, published by the ! University of Ncbiaska College i of Agriculture. i Hif;h coumarin content in 1 spoiled sweet clover is respon- s ble for ".sweet clover bleeding 1 disease" in cattle, first noticed In North Dakota and Canada. Coumarin is the substance which gives new-mown sweet I el,,ver Its rhr rarieristic odor. Scientists Isolated in pure I form the anti-coagulant In cou i murin which was causing the ; bleeding disease. They call it di S cumarol. .Surgeons started to use dicu- marol to keep dangerous blood j clots from forming after an op I eratlon. Heart specialists picked I it up to helo patients In whom blood clots had caused coronary thrombosis. I . A derivative named Warfarin was found to control rats and mice by causing them to bleed to death Internally. Meanwhile, the search for a low-coumarin sweet clover ex tended over the years, hamp ered by both the poor quality of plants with a natural low cou marin content and the fact that these plants could not be crossed successfully with a high producing variety. The solution was to graft the weak seedlings of the crosses onto normal sweet clover plants. Resulting seeds were distrib uted around the world for breed ing low coumarin varieties adap ted to various areas. A low cou marin variety has been released In Wisconsin, Canada and Ger many. However, this ls a white flow ered variety, and Great Plains farmers prefer a variety with yellow flowers. For thi.s reason, University of Nebraska scientists hr.ve con centrated on developing a yel low flowered, low coumarin s'veet clover. They have an ad ditional problem In that the yel 1( w crosses produce no seed, 1 even when grauca orno a iiui I mal plant. For thi.s reason, they have de i veloped a method of growing i seedllcgs from embryos re j moved from the seed pods. Of i several hundred embryos, two plants grew to maturity In the first experiment, j Using the hybrid plants de- veloped by embryo culture, the i scientists are getting the yellow ! flowered, low coumarin vari ! eties by barkcrossing. Six back i cross generations have been completed and the most ad vanced lines arc being tested in the field. Smart Manager Irate Customer: "I think you had better call the manager. Perhaps he'll have a little more ser.se than you have!" Clerk: "Oh, yes, he has. He went out as soon as he saw you come In." Never Have "I wonder why there are so many more auto wrecks than railway accidents?" "That's easy. Did you ever hear of the fireman hugging the engineer?" They're Thankful "I wonder how Thanksgiving originated?" "It was probably Instituted by parents whose sons had sur vived the football season." A Classified Ad In The Journal cost as 1UU m 60 cents. You And The Law We like to think that the law provides a remedy for every wrong. In many cases this is true. If a vandal maliciously de stroys our property, we can sue and recover a judgment. That is, if we can discover the culprit and prove that he was the one who committed the deed. If an other driver runs a stop sign and smashes our new 1963 car, we can sue and recover a Judg ment. It is true that the law does offer a wide variety of remedies. Even though this is true, th.c are numerous cases where there is no adequate remedy. Recently a complaint was made that a magazine subscription had been paid through a sales man. The payments were made by check and the check cashed. The magazines were never re st ived. An investigation was i ri(E PLATTSIKOUTH. NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Monday, March 25, 1963 PAGE THREE made and it was learned that the salesman had been dis charged long before this sub scription had been purchased. By the time the complaint was made, the salesman was gone. True he had committed a crime for which he could be prosecut ed, but the subscriber has lit tle, if any, chance of getting his money back. So, too, with a car accident. We often read where the driver of a stolen automobile smashes i Into another car. If we have a i50 dollar deductible policy, our own insurance will pay for the bulk of the damage. We could sue the driver, but he probably! is judgment proof. That is, he doesn't have any money or pro-1 perty, so we are out the $50 at least. In such a case we are lucky to be out only th!s a mount. We may be able to recover a judgment which will e'e us no good. If the party whD ha? com mitted the tort is not respon sible financially, the injured PRESEASON ON GAS AIR-CONDITIONING YOUR BEST BUY BECAUSE IT'S SO ' COMFORTABLE M A ? S'H iv o - ' i $r . ' Comfort conies in degrees. And when summer comes, comfort goes . . . unless you have gas air conditioning. With gas air conditioning, you can keep every room in your house a balmy 72 de grees. And there's no humidity to wilt your dis position. So get set for a comfortable summer with Automatic, Economical. Dependable, Clean, Healthy. Modern Gas Air-Conditioning. m-SlASON DKIStON ASSURES PROMPT INSTALLATION. PAYMENTS WILL NOT BtOlN UNTIL SUM. NATIONAL GAS AIR CONDITIONING WEEK APRIL 1-7 ill VS ABOUT CAS AIR CONDITIONING T0DATI The Gas Company party will have lo' jay his own loss. This may be wrong, but there Is apparently no solution except to protect ourselves best we can. v This article Is prepared as a public service by the Nebraska State Bar Association, 2413 State House, Lincoln, Nebr. (This column Is written to in form and not to advise. Facts may change the application of the law In an Individual case.) Romantic Jumble "Slippery Ice, very thin; pretty girl tumbled in. Saw a boy upon the bank gave a shriek, and then she sank. Boy on bank heard her shout, jumped right In helped her out. Now he's hers very nice; but OUG I1UU IAS Kl VMi bin; tvv. Optimists Apparently a great many of our present-day juries are com posed of persons who can see no evil in anythir.g. Nashville Banner.