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NEBRASKA STATE HIT- '' ICAL SOCIETY Lincoln, Nebraska KES3. STAIS EISTBOCIEII LIKCOLS, IX W. PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY Monday-Thursday TME JflDlUCSrMIL JUN 2 1 1963 Cmlidated With th Nehowka Enterprise and Clmwood Leader-Echo Read Twice Weekly by More Than 3500 Cass County Families VOLUME 82 FOURTEEN PACES PLATTSMOUTH, CASS COUNTY, NEBRASKA THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1963 TEN CENTS PER COPY NUMBER 63 Cass Countyan of the 1st Home Agent Helped Extension Grow in County By Rl'TII MlIXF.il Special Correspondent A Falrview Women's Club member Mrs. Howard Capwell who was State Master Home maker In 1930 and is now a Lin coln neighbor of Mrs. Nelson Berger once wrote this poem which I think you'll agree aptly sums up the work done during Mrs. Bcrger's service as County Home Agent: This verse shows no particular skill nor is it grammatically cor rect, But record years of endeavor that we will not soon forget. In 1021 near Elmwood lived ladies who always were busy, They lived under pressure that rendered them dizzy. They organized a club It was project work they say, Served on many committees used the phone day after day- Made dress forms, then sewed with energy and zeal, Studied food and nutrition In manner genteel. They wrote clever essays with high sounding names, Approved convenient kitchens, were real regressive dames. Some finished furniture, hook ed rugs with much elation, Then painted Jars and vases a great conglomeration Next they studied draperies and floors of every hue Selected artistic wallpaper and painted wood work too. They re-arranged their par lors, studied color harmony And proper flower arrange ment then sung songs from memory. One day their husbands land scaped their yards with shrubs, Planned scientific gardens even hunted for the grubs! Dug pools and rockeries, built baths for friendless birds, Oivlng their home some beau tythought not only of their herds. To repay their faithful Help mates, these girls in duty bound Planned many social time to speed the year around. Then they'd hear the men singing in the field at break of day. "Oh, we feel that club work helps us, how It helps make farming pay. For we-ve had more joy and comfort, more beauty we sur mise Since the Falrview Woman's Club has been fully organized." Yes, the Women's Clubs began to organize and play an Import ant part In County Extension In 1921 when Ida Wllkens came to the county as first home agent, and as this poem indicates the years between 1921 and 1924, when Miss Wllkens left to be come Mrs. Berger, were not idle ones. Mrs. Berger was born at De Witt, Nebra-ska, Saline County. She graduated from De Witt High School. Reminiscing about DeWitt In her childhood she re calls that they drove past the Daniel Freeman homestead on the 16 mile trip to Beatrice where the family traded on special occasions. She recalls that even then It was termed "the old homestead" and people predicted It would some day be famous as such. Mrs. Berger saw that prediction come true a few years ago when the Free man Homestead became the National Monument. Mrs. Berger taught several rural schools, the De Witt Pub lic School, and In the Lincoln Bchools, riding horseback, walk ing, or driving a horse and buggy to reach her school. In 1918 Mrs. Berger gave a book review on Lew Wallace's Ben Hur and from this review grew an Interest that has form ed Into a favorite hobby. On large maps In the school where she was teaching she traced the boundaries of the Roman Empire where Messala, a gen tile, and Ben Hur, a Jew, had their conflict resulting In the MRS. BERGER IS SIIOWN with her flowers, with a field of corn Week famous chariot race. At the clo.se of the book review, her sister Dora played the "Ben Hur Chariot Race." That book review was given many times and was very popular not only with audi ences but with Mrs. Berger, so she reports she was very thrill ed to see the play a few years ago at Denver. Mrs. Berger's talent for word portrayal was well known and in demand In Cass County and she reviewed such books as Country Kitchen and the Bible and the Common Reader. After several years teaching, Mrs. Berger decided to return to school and in 1921 she grad uated from the University of Nebraska with a B S. degree In Home Economics. She came to Cass County that year and serv ed the next three with us. April 9, 1924 she left exten sion office to marry Nelson Ber ger and moved onto the farm at Nehawka, that has been in the family nearly 100 years and Is still owned by Mrs. Berger. Nelson's grandfather Nelson McReynolds, for whom he was named, came from Missouri on horseback during Civil War days and bought the land at Nehaw ka. There Is an old story In the family about thieves who knew he kept a large amount of cash about him, and followed him up from Missouri but were scared away by the sound of a gun being cocked. Nelson Berger was a progres sive farmer and raised several 100 bushel corn crops" He was a member of the Nebraska Crop Growers Association and of the State 100 Bushel Club. In 1926 he received the silver medal for county corn yield and In 1928 the state prize for second high est yield with 102 bushels. He was also a member of Odd Fel lows, Knights of Pythias, and Masons. Mrs. Berger recalls that one of "the star attractions on the Berger farm was the model poultry houo designed and built by Charles Bates of Nehawka. Mrs. Berger continued to be active In clubs and organizations after her marriage. She Ls a past state president of the Home Economics Department of Organized Agriculture, and past noble grand of the Nehawka Rebekah Lodge. She is a fifty year member of the Order of the Eastern Star at De Witt and ls still a member. She Is a past president of the American Le gion Auxiliary at Nehawka. She Joined the Triangle Extension Club and when It disbanded be came a member of Maple Orove club. Mrs. Berger was a charter member of the Nehawka Feder ated Woman's club which was organized In 1927. Mrs. Berger s activity In Ex tension did not cease either. She served as a project leader, group chairman and county chairman. She was a delegate to the State Home Demonstra-1 tlm noiincll meetings and at- tended national meetings at O maha and Lexington, Ky. In 1928 she attended the Farm, Women's Conference in Chicago I representing the rural women of Kansas and Nebraska. Six teen farm women attended from an parts of the U.S. and dis cussed "What Farm Women Want?" Always Interested In 4-H Clubs, she worked on commit tees concerned with awards, at tended many Achievement Day ) programs and was leader of a rope club for boys of Nehawka. . "In attending 4-H Achieve ment Days," she says, "I was always thrilled because these young people could furnish a program of music and enter tainment as well as give 4-H Demonstrations and exhibit ar ticles they had made. How I wished that I had had that ex perience when growing up." 8he has always enjoyed China painting and a wide variety of pretty pieces are on display In (Continued On Page 8) I i 3 v 7! ' v , nipi it , ; t ,-. ' ''"" ' :' . , - . .. , i; ; fc. m, .. .. ....- 3w e . ? WHETHER THIS CHARACTER was trying for rain, shade, a prize, or just frying for fun, it brought many laughs from the crowd anil the judges. "The Texas baby" was Mary Henningsen and Susan Smith, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Richard llenning sen and Mr. and Mrs. Donald Smith. They won first prize in the Fictional Character Classification in the Kiddies Parade Thursday. Floyd Eastridge Jr., 23, Louisville, Dies in Crash 'LOUISVILLE S-clul-Floyd Eastrlt ge Jr., 23, Louisville, was killed this morning on Inter state 80 In a head-on collision. 150 Attend , Bi-Club Rotary Meeting Here About 150 persons attended a ladles night meeting of the Plattsmouth and Nebraska City Rotary Clubs at Winterset Inn Tuesday night. The meeting was the ex change by the Plattsmouth club for a bi-club picnic last summer at Nebraska City. Buffet supper was served. Entertainment was dancing by the chorus-line unit of Platts mouth plrls taught by Mrs. Don ald Freeburg. ft L fn J fftJnc llllu,u V-Ullllli Dies at Utah MURRAY (Soecluli - John Collins Collins' father, Clifford of Ogden, Utah, died Tuesday. Funeral services will be Sat urday at 2 p.m. at Myers Fun eral Home In Council Bluffs. Iowa with burial In Hazel Dell Cemetery. Council Bluffs. Collins store in Murray will be closed all day Saturday. ii CrU.,f.T KInmPrT YU5. jCilUlZ MUITICU Nebraska Admiral Mrs. John (Elsie F.I Sehutz, Cass County Selective Service Clerk has been commissioned an Admiral In the Nebraska Navy by Governor Frank Morrison. The award was presented by Chief Kerrnit A. Robinson, the local Navy Recruiter in ap preciation of the cooperation C3,.V,,,tT V..ia !tr,n t Vt n Ml- k Kecrultlng Station. Journal Want ads Pav i ' ... - 9 mm aw ma Mot. mienwni IPfcHfc 1 . etw and at left on the porch of her 111 M,., , . ... tJ nM VZ7 L tween 2 30 and 3 a.m. A Lincoln rP-JSkZi 1,ussc',t!ers were also killed. Mr. Eastridge is employed at West Chemical Company in O nuiha, and was enrouto home when the accident happened. Surviving is his wife, the former Janelle Heard of Louis ville; their two children, Troy, 2, and Hobby. 1 ; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Eastridge Sr., Council Bluffs, Iowa; brother, Rodney Eastridge, Omaha; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Eastridge, Plattsmouth. Funeral services are pending at F'usselman Funeral H o m e, Louisville. July 31 Lean Deadline for '62 Crop Beans Growers in Cass County were reminded today that July 31 is the lean maturity d;ite for 12 crop soybeans. The maturity date re presents an extension of 2 mct.ths bevond the original takeover date. Ivan G. Aithou.se, chairman, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Commit tee, joints out 'hat producers who have outstanding farm-or-warehouse-storage lo;i'.:.s on 190J crop soybeans will have until the July 31 deadline in which to re deem their loans and market their crop In commercial chan nels. Those who have signed a pur chase agreemert option on 1!)62 crop soybeans will have the 3!) days nrior to Julv 31 In which to notify the County A5JC8 Office in cases where the producer in tends delivering the crop under terms of the agreement. As of Jan. 31, 1!jG3, approxi mately 28.598 bushels of soy beans of the 19G2 crop were cov ered by the price-support pro gram in Cuss County. v tt, Jwm Jf ?! .0 t home at Nehawka with her sister Allcgra Milkens, renter. Summer! By P. J. DINGMAN It looks as if we re in for it again. Summer is with us Friday (as if it already hasn't urrived), and with it comes the yearly summer suffering. The past 3 days have been seasonable and pleasant wilh the high being only 80.2 and the low 54.0. The chart: Time Day (P.M.) Pres. Hi I.o Prec Men. ..5:25 73 82 54 .00 Tues. .4:50 79 83 02 .00 Wed. 0:45 80 80 04 .17 More Girls Needed for Detasseling Corn More girls over a.'e 14 are needed for corn detasseling employ-lent from Pbttsmoulh and surrounding communities. Two crews of 40 girls each are need ed, according to Clarence Ran kin, Farm Labor Interviewer of the Nebraska Division of Em ployment. An insufficient number applied at the sign-up day last week and consequently another sign-up day a. which girl worker.) may apply will.be held in the first flaor corridor of the Court House in Plattsmouth at 2 p.m., Tues day June 25. The girls are paid an hourly waj.;e and are supervised by women forewomen. It is an op portunity for girls to earn money in mid-summer employ m e n t, Rankin said. Detasseling starts ab:ut July 10 and lasts two or three weeks. Transportation to the Iowa seed fields oi the Mis souri river bottom laid is fur nished. If sufficient girls from the Weeping Water and Louis ville communities apply it i.s planned to furnish transporta tion as far west as Louisville. Events Planned For Cub Scouts A Committee for the Cub Scout Pack 399 met this month : to plun summer activities. Laird '"1 I" the Cubmaster. ( Offutt Air Force Base where b d sponsors will go through a KC 135 and tour oilier areas of the base. On July 20 there will be a Cub Scout Fishing Contest at the Game Reserve here. On August 4 the Cub Scout A n n u a 1 Picnic is planned at Stelnhart Park at 4:30 which will include the Cubs' families. County Clerk's Office To Ready Budget Proposal County Clerk Chas. Land Tuesday was named by the County Board of Commissioners as the Budget Making Author ity, to prepare a budget propos al for the fiscal year from July 1 this year to June 30, 1903. Land said he will have a pre liminary budget proposal ready by July 15. An official public hearing on the 1903-84 budget proposal must be held by July 31 and the budget must be passed in the period between Aug. 1 and 10. John Dean Schreiner Is Now Practicing Pharmacist Here J.hn Dean Schreiner, regis tered pharmacist and s in of Mr. -uid Mrs. John Schreiner, has Joined his father and uncle, Vic Schreiner, at Schreiner RexaH Drug and Is now taking an ac tive part in the business. He i.s a 1954 graduate of Plattsmouth High and 1958 grad uate of the University of Ne braska School of Pharmacy. For two and one-half years, he served as pharmacist in the Nebraska City Rexall Drug Store. Call Your News And Social Items to 2141 ; .-ft,.- . fT K Funeral Today for Mrs. Lydia Midkiff, 32, of Union UNION Lydia Isabell Mid kiff, 82, lifelong resident of the Union and Avoca communities, died Monday at a Nebraska City hospital after a long illness. She had been critically ill for a month. Funeral was today at the Bap tist Church In Union with the Rev. Donald McQuinn officiat ing. Burial was in Avoca Ceme tery. Pallbearers were Roy Dye, Henry Pearsley, Guy Hughson, Amos Hughson, Loy Pell and Pearly Copier. Lett Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Midkiff was born Nov. 14. 1880 at Union, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pell. She was married Jan. 10, 1900, at Plattsmouth to Edward William Midkiff. He preceded her in death in 1946. Survivors are sons Oscar of Union and Matthew of Nehaw ka, daughter Mrs. Earl Freeman of Avcca, five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Three sisters and two brothers preced ed her in death. Mrs. Midkiff was a member of the United Brethren Church and the Royal Neighbors. Fred Feldhousen, Niagara Falls, N.Y., Receives Promotion Fred Feldhousen, a senior development engineer in the Technical Section, Dupont, was named senior supervisor In the Sodium Technical Group in April, it was announced by Technical Manager Joe Estcs. Fred Joiner the Technical Section In 1949 as an engineer and worked from 1951 to I960 as a technical investigator and research supervisor in the Re search Division. He returned to the Technical Section in Aug ust, 1960, as a senior develop ment engineer. Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, he is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Feldhousen, Plattsmouth. He received a BS Degree In Chem ical Engineering from the Uni versity of Nebraska. - He i.s married, has eight sons and one daughter and lives at 8813 Pear Avenue, Niagara Falls, N. Y. County To Hold Machinery Bid Letting July 8 Bids will be asked on furnish ing the County new equipment and bridge lumber and steel July 8, the County Commission ers decided Tuesday. Highway Supt. Fred Clark said bids will be asked on: A new track-type tractor. 2 new dump trucks. A new pull-type scraper. A year's supply of bridge lumber. A year's supply of steel bridge flooring. $89 Million By MELVIN PAI L Statehouse Correspondent The Nebraska Press Association LINCOLN The legislature's budget committee has given some indication of what it w:il recommend in the way of ap propriations for state govern mental agencies during the next two years. Sen. Richard Marvel, chair man of the committer, has sketched in a general way what the lawmakers can expect when the massive budget bill hits their desks. The summary given by Mar vel shows state agencies asked for $103,979,993 from th general fund. The committee sliced this to $89,065,732. For the biennlum ending June 30, a total of $81, 108.533 was appropriated. In addition to being $14,914, 261 below what the various de partments a.sked, the total ls al so $3,510,345 less than the gov ernor recommended. At the same time the total will be nearly $8 million more than the 1961-63 appropriations. The committee's special build ing fund l"vy will be for collec tion of nearly $12 million from this source, compared with some $7.5 million for the current biennlum. According to ths committee calculations, the state mill levy against property could remain fairly elosn to its present level. Helping to supnly more financ ing for the increased budget will be added revenue from higher horse racing, cigaret, liquor and insurance taxes. Approximately $10 million more ls expected to ZIP Code No. Here Is 63048 Plattsmouth's five-digit ZIP Code is 68048, Postmaster V. C. Hendricks announced today. "Everyone in Plattsmouth, will use this ZIP Code on all their correspondence to speed mail deliveries and reduce the chance of nils-sent mail," Postmaster Hendricks said. ZIP Code, the Post Office De partment's revoluntionary new system of Improved mail dis patch and delivery, goes into effect nationally July 1. Postmaster Hendricks stressed the importance of all citizens of Plattsmouth learning thi.s city's ZIP Code and using it in their return address on all correspon dence. In answering mail, he said, ZIP Codes taken from return addresses on incoming mail should be used. "The ZIP Code is literally the last word in mail addressing," Hendricks said. "It should fol low the city and state in ad dresses." He cited this example of the proper u.se of ZIP Code: Mr. Vern C. Hendricks, Postmaster, U. S. Post Office, Plattsmouth, Nebr. 68048 The new ZIP Code plan, Hend ricks said, for the first time will permit the Post Office De partment to short-cut repeated address reading. "The address on mail must of ten be read as many as eight or ten times by postal employees, to get it to the proper destina tion," Hendricks said. "Each handling slows the process of mail dispatch and adds to the opportuntity of human error. "With ZIP Code, a clerk needs only to glance at the code to know immediately to what na tional area, state and post of fice the letter Ls destined, and to speed It on its way, cutting up to 24 hours off the time be tween deposit and delivery." Hendricks said that when ZIP Code ls in full swing, the United States will have "the most mod ern system of mail distribution and delivery In existence." The Journal has been noti fied by Postmasters and Post mistresses in Cass County of the following ZIP Code numbers: GREENWOOD: 8366. ELMWOOD: 68349. CEDAR CREEK: C8016. ALVO: 68301. UNION: 68455. Cancer Fund Drive Solicitors Listed For Elmwood Area MURDOCK (Special) Am erican Cancer Society Fund Drive in Cass County is from now to July 1. Chairman for the Elmwood area is Mrs. Ken neth Roeber. Solicitors are Mrs. Glen Buck, Mrs. Jerry Smith, Mrs. Herb Bornemeier, Mrs. Ralph Cream er, Mrs. Wm. Von Spreckelsen, Mrs. Louis Wendt and Miss Min nie Klemme. Budget Proposal flow into the state treasury from these sources Some of the senators have anxiously awaited a report from Marvel's committee. There was some fear that bills enacted in to law calling for increased state spending might cause the state property levy to spiral. After Marvel s summary, a number of the lawmakers said they were pleased with the budget com mittee's work. There was still some .senti ment, however, for introduction of more revenue - producing measures. Late last week four bills were brought into the sen ate, which Sen. Jules Burbach said would bring the state $3 million a year. The bills called for a five per cent amusement tax, a $50 tax on each coin-operated cigaret vending machine, a three per cent tax on stamp sales by trading stamp compan ies, and a reduction in the a mount paid to tobacco whole salers for affixing stamps to cigaret packages. All were turn ed down except the last one. Burbach said lowering the fee to the wholesalers from five per cent to three and one-half per cent of the tax would save the state $140,000 annually. With the Increase Jn the tax from four to six cents a package, the wholesalers will still be getting na:d more than they were be fore the tax hike, Burbach said Sen. Terry Carpenter of Scottsbluff said he believes the budget bill debate can be wound up in two days. Power Committee The new public power review L. B. Todd's Bid Accepted For County Shed A bid of $4,316 by L. B. Todd of Murray Implement and Hardware Tuesday was accepted by the Cas County Board of Commissioners on a 40 by 48 foot building for a County shed at Murray. The building will replace one burned this spring. The new building will be of steel frame construction with all metal exterior. It replaces a structure that was 28 by 40. Other bidders were Borne meier Lumber Co., Elmwood; Fay Jose, Plattsmouth; Clar ence Norris, Weeping Water; Carl Tiekotter, Plattsmouth, and Rogers Brothers, Murray. The bid price was for the building erected. Mrs. Baburek Gets 'March' Service Citation The March of Dimes Certifi cate of Appreciation for "out standing Volunteer service "has been awarded to Mrs. Paul Baburek for "generous and meaningful support, enabling the national foundation to con tinue its efforts in extending a large measure of happiness and hope to Infants and children stricken with crippling diseases, and to move forward in a basic research program toward a goal of prevention and relief of hu man suffering. Mrs. Baburek has been chair man of the March of Dimes in Plattsmouth for several years. The campaign has been spon sored by the Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Rites Saturday at Weeping Water For Mrs. Reckard Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at United Missionary Church, Weeping Water, for Mrs. Amy Reckard, 88, of Weeping Water. She died Monday morning at Rest Haven. Rev. C. W. Severn and Rev, Joe S. K. Wipf will officiate. She was married Oct. 10, 1898 at Kearney to George Reckard, who preceded her in death March, 1963. She lived most of her lifetime in Weeping Water. She is survived by sons, How ard Reckard, Plattsmouth; Franklin, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Paul, San Francisco, Calif.; Leonard, Pasadena, Calif.; Rich ard, Lexington, Mass.; Glen, Sedalia, Mo., and Weaver of Langlcy Air Force Base, Va. Also a sister, Mrs. Nellie Hoss, Manila, Iowa; brother, Frank Young, Storm" Lake, Iowa; 15 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren. Hobson-Dorr Funeral Home of Weeping Water is in charge of services. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery. Indicated board faced with the chal lenge of setting the state's pub lic power problems has re ceived votes of confidence from the legislature and the industry. The legislature confirmed the appointment of five men to the board by Governor Morrison. Clair Callan of Odell was named chairman and W. H. Norton of Osceola was elected vice chair man. Sen. Don Thompson of Mc Cook told the group that a "great deal'' depends upon its decisions. He warned that the future of public power "has been placed In your hands." Thompson was chairman of the Interim committee which drafted LB 220, the bill creating the board. Gerald Gentleman, general manager of the Platte Valley Public Power and Irrigation Dis trict, told the board that the power agencies are "100 per cent behind you. You must go slowly and not try to gobble tio much at one tinr or more confuslin will result." Echoing this sentiment was R. L. Schacht. general manager of the Consumers Public P'jwer District. Frank Phelps, repre (Contlnued on Page 8) DIMS IN CALIFORNIA Mrs. Mildred O. Lloyd, 90, died today Isi San Francisco. She was formerly of Plattsmouth and the widow of the late Wil liam Alan Lloyd. ' Funerhr "Services here are pending at Sattler-Fusselman-Perry Funeral Home.