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The Diary

Ten Years Ago--1958

The City Council voted, 5 to 2, to put the
Omaha Plan bond issues totaling $51,--
280,000 on the ballot. Voting now were Albert
Veys and James Dworak.

President Nasser of Egypt began an
13-day tour of the Soviet Union.

Twenty-five Years Ago--1943

Nels-Gustave Samuelson, 33, killed his
wife June 19, her friend, Miss Vivian
Reah, 18, and himself at the Sameulson
apartment, 104 South Twenty-fifth Street.

Lieut. Gen. Joseph Stilwell, in command
of the Allied retreat in Burma, was
home in Washington.

Fifty Years Ago--1918

The Omaha Woman's Club protested
a zone postage bill before Congress. The
club said it would raise the cost of magazines.

The World-Herald came out for the re-election
of James Dahlman, Mayor for
12 years.

Seventy-five Years Ago---1893

A World-Herald editorial said: "Before
the people begin to shiver about the
Navajo Indian outbreak, we want to caution
them to lay in a good supply of salt
to use on the stories that may be expected.

Elia W. Peattie wrote about the "mockery
of mourning dress" for the bereaved,
saying "it will disappear only when superstition
disappears."