Holdrege Daily Citizen from Holdrege, Nebraska • 1

VWWeV 'wj Mt -'4 i Iff -rt r-JV Daily Except Sundays I i Holidays PHELPS COUNTY NEBRASKA MONDAY FEBRUARY 15 1954 NUMBER 143 rfit A if f- KHOL-TV See Chance Agreement May Be Heachedj on Far East Peace Parley i vi Look how! much a Dollars Will Do Double Duty Hereon Soviets Have 400 Bombers in Far North WASHINGTON 0JR) The magazine Aviation Week says more than 400 mammoth bomber of two new types are poised in northern Russia the polar ice cap from the North American continent 1 Recannaissance versions of the big planes! driven by turbine-oropeller engines have made Routine flights extreme altitude about the Alaskan and Canadian defense the magazine says 1 I The authoritative McGraw-Hill publication carries pictures and performance details of the Jwo "5 ance to the B36 superbotnb-er were turned over to Air Force intelligence officers Without disclosing the source of the pictures and performance qata Aviation Week identified the nlanes as the Ilyushin 38 andithe Tupolev 200 The TU200 resembling the B36 in size is powered by six en has swept-back wings can top speed of 465 miles an hour and can fly as high as 50000 (eet The IL38 a smaller four-engine ship was said to have a top speed of 480 mph and ceiling 50000 feet The perform sfnee data indicate the bombers would be extre: hard to intercept and attack With defense weapons The pictures showed radar installations on the undersides of the fuselages indicating high-glti-tude electronic bombing systems Aviation Week said its photo graphs and accompanying information the rapid build up of offensive air power with the Soviet Freight Train Plane Collide MATSUE Japan (UR) Japanese police were worried their 'superiors might think they had had one too many cus of sake when reported cargo plane collided with a freight tram-Sunday night The wheels hit the roof of the landed safely The train tinued on its way minus the ab roof locomotive but it tjien con- Solomon to Head Alliance Chamber ALLIANCE Neb (UR) Jerry Solomon 26 Culbertson Neb was appointed secretary-manager ie of the Alliance Chamber of Com merce Sunday President Milton Rubeck of the chamber said Solomon would Ire-place Carl Smiley who resigned last month because of poor health Solomon is expected to arrive here Feb 25 Dollars wjU magnify themselves dyrilng the city's big seni- annual sales eventj-DoubIej pollar Wednesday and Thursday Feb 17-18 1 1 In presenting Double Dollar Days Holdrege merchants are set for a crowd-drawing evejit after laying careful pian to bring outstanding values to shoppers Special buying in the merchandise marts ha brought greajter bargains than ever Featured in the! Doubly Dollar Days sale will be reductions on every conceivable item from' grease jo to socks from mattresses to shoes from slips to frozen peas mJ tires and so the list jgoes Nearly all downtown merchants ana those over the City are participating in pe big Malue event And traditional that Holdrege will be deluged with shoppers from pver a wide arei I Free Parking Ordered With special edition of: the Noldrege Daily Cil carrying advertisements of Merchants wh have bargains galore predictions were for the largest crowds of It will be' up to Mr and I Mrs Shoppi ments carefully Then they be to miss Wednesday and juirsday in! Hold I that 1 oppers in recent years to read the advertise -that they can't afford ige Parking meters in the downtowp area -will be hooded and it cost a singly penny tc do your she pping The hooding! pf 4T ffrl- 5 1 I- decreed Kizzieri meters was by Mayor Complete Funeral Arrangements for Family of! Four FREMONT Neb: (UR) Funeral arrangements were being made here today for a Nickerson Neb family of four killed Saturday in a truck-car smashup near here Dodge County authorities meanwhile were expected to decide whether an inguest will' be held i Victims of the crash were Richard Brand 45 his wife 39 and their daughters Karen 11 and Marie 5 Edward Waters 40 Nebraska City the truck driver was not hurt Authorities said investigation revealed that Waters was faced with a deadly dilemma as his a truck topped a hill and moved onto a level stretch of highway on six miles north of here Highway 77 Waters said the1 car ahead of him slowed down to ayoid striking a car parked along the edge of the road Thej driver of the parked car was changing a tire Johnson said Waters had a choice of hitting the car in front of him swerving and hitting the car on the shoulder of the road or pulling into the other traffic lane Waters chose the other lane and the headon crash between the 1 trqck and car followed Mr and Mrs Brand were killed instantly Marie was dead on arrival at a Fremont hospital and Karen died two hours later Landoffice Auto Plate Business Drivers in Holdrege crowded the first floor corridor of the courthouse Saturday morning in long lines waiting to get their license plates before the deadline 'at midnight Sunday night 1 There were 209 pairs' of plates issued in a three-hour stretch before the courthouse closed at noon Motorists the lines and one woman remarked stood so long i County Treasurer Vivian Hanson said this morning that about even with last year at the same License plates went on sale this year a day later than in 1953 Mrs Hanson said i The who formed the lines Saturday probably represented the greatest number of motorists at the courthouse since the plates went on Sale The more than 200 who obtained their tags in the three- hour period compared with the daily average of 40( Mrs Hanson said gone on record- for or against the plan But it argues that 92 million persons already have some degree of insurance against hospital bills 73 million against sjjrgical bills and 36 million agalfist other medical bills Edwin Faulkner presdient of the Woodmen Accident and Associated Companies of Lincoln Neb told that insurance companies can a satisfactory measure of protection to practically all of the American i But the Health! Information Foundation a non-profit nonpolitical research organization of New York told the committee that insurance pays only 15 per cent of the 10200000000 a-year bill incurred by for medical and hospital care Mora 'Shaft Incoms I The foundation said its research also shows that: 1 1 Seven per cent of American families some 3ft million have medical expenses ranging from 20 th 100 per cent or more of their yearly mcome ij 2 Fifteen per cent or 7 mil-(Continued on age Six) a real day to save miss 'Is the advice of Lowell Hainline chairman of the retail planning 1 nd promotion committee -of the Chamber of Commerce want prospective customers to kdow that the outstand- is that the values are greater than ever Hainline emphasized LocdlaBoy Scouts tate Capitol Two Holdrege i Boy Scouts Saturday morning participated in the Report to the ceremony staged at the state capital building in Lincoln by the three Scout councils in Nebraska Clarke Nelson and David Mc- Conahay both Eagle Scouts among1 the approximately 35 Scouts who joined in the ceremony in the senate chamber in which they made a report to Governor Robert BJ Crosby on the progress of membership and activities for the year The event as a fitting climax to an active Boy Scout Week The report showed that are 23476 Scouts and 8665 volunteer leaders: Successful camping programs last year provided experience for 1st yea 856 be oyj td the National-Jamboree in Santa -Ana last July Four Holdrege Scouts including Nelson McCon-ahay Jim Johnson and Boyce Leffler made the Jamboree trip Accompanying the Scouts to fs and 286 Scouts attend- Lincoln were Scoutmaster Myron Woythaler and Dr and (Mrs A McConahay Upsurge in Buying Predicted Experts Expect Jump in Sales During Spring WASHINGTON (UR) Admin istration experts jexpect sales to jump enough this -spring to pull the nation out Of the current economic dip informed sources haid today They believe the big boost will come from Easter shopping and an upsurge in the purchase of autos and home furnishings Increased farm and construction activity is expected to help In the opinion of these umists the climbing sales will be -Stofnpanied bjr declining inventories the backlog of goods in the hands of manufacturers wholesalers and retailers By mid-year they estimate that present inventories totaling $79-800000000 will fall off by two-billion dollars They are counting lg sail es to produce a chain reaction: More orders for goods a step up in production and more employment Sen John Kennedy (D-Mass) said in a television 'interview Sunday that if business does not improve by spring 1 have to take major There is for genuine concern at the slowdown of economic he said President Eisenhower and his economic advisers have tagged this pileup of stocks as the major cause of the economic dip And they have said the dip should disappear when inventories are reduced enough Smoker Cancer Depends on Time LONDON (UR) A British cancer scientist say statistics have shown that the risk of cancer increases with the nuijnber of cigar-ets and the length -of time a person smokes j' Dr Richard Doll a member of the statistical research unit of the Medical Research'- Council said this theory has been bolstered by experience among tar workers He said that the risk of working in this industry is greater for the young man than for the old because' the substance which causes skin cancer has a longer time to show itself in later life The same may be true of cigar-ets and cancer of the lung he said thousand cigarets at the age of 20 may mean more of a risk of lung cancer at the age of 60 than a thousand cigarets at the age of he said! BIBLE VERSH The wrath of man worketh not the righteousness 'of God St James 1:20 band manbera from 'Kearney Thousands More Unable to Get Look in Station The westward thrust of television in Nebraska Sunday was greeted by nearly 5000 persons who visited the fifth TV station KHOL-TV at its open house near AxteU Cars from all over the viewing area crowded the high-ways and thousands who came to inspect the studios were unable to get into the building Station officials estimated that another 5000 persons left after seeing the long lines of people awaiting their chance to get the first-hand story television People stood in lines four and six abreast stretching from the front entrance of the building to the highway Hundreds of cars lined Highway 44 from a point north of the station south more than two miles to Highway 6 "Beyond Expectations" For hours visitors from Omaha North Platte Ord Broken Bow and other Central Nebraska cities as well as those deep into Northern Kansas took inventory of the wonders of television-They saw the control room the Studio the departments which help bring television into their living rooms and met station personnel Manager Duane Watts said this morning went far bgyond all expectations and grateful to everyone In expressing their interest the visitors were also expressing their acceptance of television as an entertainment 4 Dn Wayne Brewster president of the company which oper- ates KHOL-TV commented was a grand reception from fine people It caused a great feeling of satisfaction to both officers and Betty Cox Stan A star ofdhe open house as well as the dedication ceremonies Saturday afternoon and the banquet Saturday evening which opened thd weeeknd celebration was a former Holdrege girl Betty Cox 'Featured on programs during the weekend Miss Cox was born Elizabeth Rossen and is now married to Major Edward Purdy vi the Air Force Born at Beaver City she attended both Holdrege and Kearney schools and began her radio career over Station KGFW in Kearney Currently singing on the to DuMont TV weekly show Betty lsu- brought -her voice and person ity back home She has been with Vaughn CBS radio show and was an Arthur Godfrey show winner in November 1951 Curtis Emcee Master of ceremonies at the dedication and banquet was Rep Carl Curtis congressman from first district A long list of dignitaries attended the dedication event The bearded delegation from Beloit Kan thumped the tub in (Continued on Page Six) Former Resident's Funerial Tuesday Funeral services will be held in Denver for -Nordstrom a former Coun ty resident who died Friday Mr Nordstrom died in a Den- ver convalescent home after an illness of two weeks He was 99 years old Born May 17 1953 in Sweden he came to the United States and lived on a farm north of Loomis in 1882 In 1916 he moved to Holdrege where he resided until moving to Denver in 1921 Survivors include a grand daughter Mrs James Murray of Holdrege Tractor Upsets Kills Farmer 65 PIERCE Neb UPJ John Vyhlidal 65-year-old farmer was killed Saturday when the tractor he drove overturned on a road near his home Pierce County Sheriff Elmer Kuhl said tractor was pulling another tractor When he attempted to turn his tractor around it upset and fell bn him in test was crushed a ditch TELEVISION'- GROWS TO' Hainline said Holdrege are fully aware that real values make future a proposition sd mark the days and be in Odds Democrats in '54 Elections Control Both House Senate Looks Probable LYLE WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON)!) The odds (tablished iTnpoJrtical experience strongly faVbrithn Democratic Party winnihgfbntrol of both Senate and Hinwgimcthix general Wecttolfe-nr The a verageyxnf year election losa of Senatesea the party power overythe oaat 40 years been between! five and six Iiji the House itasbeen 44 If the 1954 conformed to the averages1 of tngtnstc I the pow Congress would line up in 1955 about like i Senate: Democrats 54 Republicans 41 Independent 1 House: Democratic 259 Republicans 175 Independent 1 1 Evfnly Balanced Now iNo subh shift as that 'is likely hbwever The' present House and Senate are so evenly balanced that neither party is likely to add 44 House and five or six Senate seats this year Sin the present Congress Republicans are in control as much by cclurtesy as anything else They have only 47 Senate seats two shy of a bare majority The De'ino-i crats have 48 and there is one independent Sen Wayne Morse of Oregon fThe House now is' divided among 219 Republicans 215 Democrats and an independent A of 25 to 30 seats is the mfnimum with which a political pgrty can establish working control of the House Four or five seats is he minimum advantage nejeded to control in the Senate Political Tradition It is in the American political tradition that the party in power shall lose some House and Sen- ate seats! in an off year election when the presidency is not at stake It is likewise tradition that a party in power which loses control of Congress in an off vear shall lose the Whiti Ibuse two years later The Dqmocrats upset both tradi-tidns within the past 20 years an! era of tradition-busting which included also third and fourth term elections They actually gained nine House seats in 1934 two years after Mr first election to 'the presidency In 1946 the Republicans won Senate and the House That was two years after Mr election to a fourth term The RepublicanHouse gain was 55 seats The party seemed to be on! the comeback traiL But in the 1948 presidential election Harry Truman went whistle-stopping ih a give hell campaign which not only de 1 Gov Th feated Gov Thomas bid for the White House but restored Congress to Democratic control Scholarships for Teachers Could Lick Shortage LINCOLN (UR) There would be no brska if the state were as generous with teacher scholarships as it is with football scholarships according to Decker superintendent of public instruction Decker said a system furnishing scholarships for the training i of teachers lick the But he said a campaign to interest private organizations in supplying suqh scholarships has not met with success I Decker said he has nothing against football scholarships but the! fact remains there are many persons who would make good teabhers if they had the money: to get! a college education he said 10 1 shortage of teachers in Ne-sraska if the si apprkhen SIVE KITCHENER Ont (UR) William Ferguson viewed the future with apprehension today His first- child was a son Next she had twins Saturday she gave birth to triplets her climb to TV studio Saturday after the'! Holdrege Everyone will be looking for you BERLIN (UR) The Big Four foreign ministers met for two hours! in secret session today and informed sources said they made1 slight pro- toward agreement on a 'ar Eastern peace conference It was the fourth secret session of the Big Four They decided! to hold a fifth on Wednesday morning and Western sources said there were better chances" now that they! still may reach agreement The! American British and French delegates have i proposed holding a Korean peace conference in Geneva Switzerland' on April 15 with Communist China and other present Would Supercede Fanmunjom The Geneva conference would supersede the deadlocked preliminary Korean peace talks which broke down at Panmunjom in De cember If the Geneva conference on Korea succeeded' a second conference would be held on Indochina with Communist China and the three associated states of fVIet Nam Laos and Cambodia-represented Western sources repented that Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov had agreed in principle te) the Geneva conference but with the following conditions: Would Recognise Pelpinr 1 Communist China would join the Big Four in convning the conference instead of merely being invitedj to it This in effect would recognize the' Peiping government as one lof the five great powers 2 Red China would be given equal rightsjwlth the Big Four in all preparatory talks and arrangements for the Geneva conference 3 The agenda or program for Geneva would not be limited to Korea and later to Indochina Instead the door would be left open for extension of the conference to general Eastern' security issues I i- Colder but Little Moisture Forecast By UNITED PRESS Apparently the layer of clouds today held ns over Nebraska moisture for the state The weatherman- said would clear tonight and Tuesday al though! temperatures were to dip to the low 20s tonight The Tuesday outlook 'was for mostly sunny skies with high readings back up in the 50s The three-day forecast offered no change ini the weather pattern indicating skies would remain fair through Tuesday night and Wednesday with no mention ox ram or snow Anderson Files for Governor LINCOLN (UR) Victor Anderson filed for governor on the Republican ticket today and informed sources said some Republican Officials had the pressure in a move against Governor Crosby I The sources said that these officials do not want Crosby to run again because of his stand on taxation They said I that the stand is right but right Crosby defeated Anderson 114-139 to 86778 In the 1952 primary in 1952 WEATHER LOCAL FORECAST Tonight partly cloudy and cold-art low 20-25 Tuesday mostly sunny and warmer with high naar SO oast to 55 west TEMPERATURES 11 a m' temperature 41 High Saturday 67 Low Saturday 39 High Sunday 67 Low Sunday 40 1954 to date J23 1953 to-date u- -35 -I 1 1 Margery Osterbuhr Dean Carlson Sing Leads 'in 'The Roy its quality -merchandise 1 Lowland Sea A wia Peterson Bob Luke Ray Flbrom Rebecca Heddrich Claudette Moore Julie Hathaway Gari Hathaway and Virginia xFrye Thel operetta includes a chorus of 130 vipice Curtain time for the production is 8:15 li- glDEWALK SLANTS pl Therb are times when finally winning an -argument with a lowly calf much fun That was experience of Paul Garrison Saturday -morning when a calf broke loose from the sales pavilion in South! Holdrege and galloped merrily north on East avenue dodging I and darting his puh-suersj found roping difficultj too from a position astride the radiator of a car as the qalf pivoted ran like a rab bit and eluded the lariat Spec-jleamed that a calf can be tatorsj as elusive as a jungle beast Doc Bivens whqse ample size maxes a doorway look jtoo small! was bothered Saturday at the (TV dedication because he felt the photographers might not have a wide enough angle lease 1 plenty of reason these days for 'that ex- A 1 "contented a cow be stand-that high- they nd in priced ftieat? Congress Eyes Possible Health Insurance Plan The romantic leads in Lowland Holdrege High school musical drama to be presented Tuesday evening high school auditorium played by Margery Osterbuhr Dean Carlsom Miss Osterbuhr a junior will sing: the role of Dorie Davis and it will piark her appearance in a major -role soloist in a public performance She transferred from Wlcox High school where she was a member of the Glee Club Miss Osterbuhr has been inhe mixed chorus and is a member Bethel Lutheran "Church choir She belon Teens and A senior a Holdrege participating -In I football ball and track He has won three varsity letter awards in football and basketball and last fall gained recognition as an all-state center 6n the championship football team His xjole is that of thaniel Hazard He is a member of Thesp: Club Hi-Y Singing Sergeants mixed chorus student activities board and is president of the student counciL I Miss Osterbuhr is the daughter of Mr and Mrs George Osterbuhr and Mr: 'Carlson is the Son of Mr and Mrs Earl Carlspn toj the GAA uther League has been athletic stalwart basket- Members of the supporting cist indude Steve Schroeder Roger note: President Eisenhower has proposed limited federal support for private health insurance programs Congress has not yet acted on his proposal but a House com-ttee has held extensive hear- mit ings on health insurance Following is the first of three despatches by a United Press correspondent who covered the hearings By PAUL SOUTHWICK United Press Staff WASHINGTON is trying to mid out what the emment can and should do help Americans get Hie medii care they need at costs -they Can afford to pay Chairman Charles AWol-(R-NJ) of the House Comme: Committee and a number mittee witnesses say insurance programs doing the job- They think federal government should over President Eisenhower has posed a 25-million-dollar federal program to' help private insurance groups extend coverage and increase benefits I Assn gathered to help with sllR model Orient was brought here to help i- i Officers "of 5 Bi-States'j' Bivins and Hamid HamiltonJ In theiiext photoMi8a toe National Midwed Tour ef toe Horseless Carriage Club at Beloit May 21-23 In toe picture are Ralph Pahls Bill Considine iLew Md ta tte backboard FTank HollawaJxnd Thieraif Cfwptny are shown at dedication ceremony Saturday afternoon with Guest Star Betty Coxaad Rep CarlT Curtis Inthelf 1 1 ehowi singing at the dedication banquet at the Hold Dale with Mrs Donald Jones at theorgan Rehearsing with the daiwq band herself to viewers In the KHOL-TV area The "right shews men -with Manager Wsttsand with which die had her start in taken in the Secretary Cletus Nelson Board The old carriage picture at the left In the group are Freaa Jr: Alma Manager Duane Watts Miss Cox Dr Wayne Brewster Rep Curtis Dr 1 I i I -tvd- i' f-YSSfi A- i IstssuesssA i JIM.