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NEBRASKA NEWS
OF STATE AFFAIRS
By James R. Lowell
The fiftieth session and the last
two-house body of the Nebraska
legislature officially took the center
of the political stage New Year’s
day when Lieutenant Governor
Walt Jurgensen called the senate
to order at noon, while Secretary
of State Harry Swanson did the
same for the house, yielding the
gavel to a temporary speaker elect
ed soon thereafter.
After organization of the two
branches and swearing in of the
members collectively by the chief
justice of the supreme court, ad
journment was taken for the day.
Reconvening Wednesday, a joint
session was held to canvass the
general election vote and formally
declare the results as a required,
preliminary to the inauguration of
the new governor and other elected
officials which took place at a joint
session Thursday afternoon, Jan
uary .‘1. The retiring governor sub
mitted his provisional budget to the
joint session Wednesday, while
Thursday he and the new governor
delivered theircustomary messages.
Concurrent with all this prelim
inary procedure, the committee on
committees for both house and sen
ate was hard at work building up
the standing committee lists. The
legislature adjourned Thursday
afternoon until early next week
when the report of the committee
on committees will be presented
and probably accepted without
change, whereupon the Nebraska
law makers will be ready to roll
up their sleeves and get down to
real business.
Circulating among the legislators
to be found last week in hotel lob
bies and around the state house, the
Lowell Service reporter found a
concensus that relief, liquor control
and redistricting the state for the
one-house legislature are the big
three in the ranks of the problems
to be met.
The relief problem is this—the
FERA hns been putting up about
IK) per cent of the funds spent for
relief in the state, while the coun
ties have contributed the remaind
er and the state, as a governmental
organization, nothing. Federal Ad
ministrator Hopkins has informed
State Administrator Haynes that
the federal situation is such that
Nebraska must carry in the neigh
borhood of 40 ner cent of the load,
which would mean about $5,000,000.
With one out of every six or seven
Nebraskans on relief (due in part
to the drouth), this state cannot
get along without federal aid, ac
cording to government officials who
have studied the situation, so it is
a case of “must” for the luw mak
ers. Most other states have done
it, however, so Nebraska will be
merely following the accepted
course.
Governor Cochran’s liquor con
trol bill being drafted by Attorney
General Wright is said to provide
a plan for private sale, both by the
bottle and by the drink, under strict
state supervision. Absolute author
ity over the liquor industry would
be held by three state commission
ers; licenses would be limited to a
few in each locality and the state
board rather than local authorities
would grant them.
There are certain to be other
liquor control bills introduced in
cluding a state store plan similar to
the Iowa system. The chances are
that all bills dealing with the prob
lem will be considered and the best
features of each embodied in a re
written bill.
Early indications are that the
legislators will decide on 50 mem
bers for the one-house legislature,
meaning that the state will be di
vided into as many legislative dis
tricts in place of the existing set
' up. However, even if 50 members
are decided upon, there may be
fewer than 50 districts with the
number of law makers coming from
each being decided strictly on a
population basis.
Prospective grist l'or the legis
lative mill not already reported by
the Lowell Service includes the fol
lowing:
A chain store tax bill is being
sponsored by the Nebraska Feder
ation of Retailers. The proposed
measure would license every retail
store in the state, ranging from a
minimum fee of $2 for small single
stores to a maximum license of
$160 for every store in a chain of
more than 20 units.
Senator Callan of Odell plans to
introduce a bill which he says
would create an efficient state high
way system without aditional cost
to taxpayers. Funds would be de
rived thru collection of licenses and
fines for traffic violations. The bill
also looks to the co-ordination of
various existing state law enforce
ment facilities. Personnel would be
retained on merit.
Representative Cone of Valley
has in mind a bill canceling penal
ties and interest of delinquent taxes
to speed up their collection. He
also intends to ask a legislative in
vestigation of milk prices and milk
distribution, as “there are too many
city ordinances in regard to inspec
tions and licensing which interfere
with the farmer’s right to sell his
own products.”
The state insurance law covering
losses by hail is in line to get the
axe, as the farmers of the state
apparently do not want the insur
ance and have failed to use it. Last
season only 57 farmers took out
policies with the hail insurance
fund. Premiums amounted to only
$6,464 and total losses allowed
were $7,711.
New legislation, authorizing
counties to issue bridge bonds re
tireable from tolls will be sought
by Richardson county proponents
of a bridge across the Missouri
river at Rulo.
The legislature will decide wheth
er the Genoa Indian school prop
erty donated recently to the state
by the federal government will be
used as a home for epileptic pati
ents now housed in state hospitals,
as a home for aged persons, or as a
home for "border-line” children. |
Chairman Clara Clayton of the
bonrd of control says epileptic and
subnormal children must be cared
for now in the home for feeble
minded at Beatrice when they
should be by themselves.
Many legislators believe that Ne
braska’s old age pension law is
worse than no old age pension law
at all, and that it should be amend
ed so that sufficient revenue is
available to make it worth-while,
or repealed. The state should not
hold itself in a pretense of doing
something for the welfare of the
aged when in fact it has done noth
ing at all.
Nebraska’s tax bill in 1934 was
about a million dollars lower than
in 1933, as indicated by figures
from 81 of the 93 counties, while
strangely enough the gross fund
in the state treasury now is about
a million dollars higher than a year
ago.
The 1934 slash in taxes was made
in the face of greatly increased
relief demands, thanks to the
FERA and a scaling down of state
and school levies. The 81 coun
ties reported a total tax bill of $29,
307,779 for 1934 compared with
$30,038,694 for the same counties
in 1933. With estimated figures
for the other 12 counties, the tax
bill this year is expected to be near
$41,000,000, against $42,906,527 a
year ago. Only county, city and
village taxes are higher this year
than last. This is the fifth suc
cessive year that Nebraska has
trimmed down its tax bill.
Nebraska reached its tax peak in
1929 with a load of $59,442,398.
Next year the bill dropped a mil
lion dollars, two millions the next,
seven millions in 1932, nearly as
much in 1933, and now in 1934, an
other million is taken off.
Increased collections brought
about m large part by the pouring
of federal funds into the state arc
given credit for the fatter condi
tion of the state treasury this year
as compared with a year ago. The
bienniul report of the state treasur
er for the two years ended Juue 30,
1934, shows total disbursements of
$60,716,800 and a gross balance at
the end of the period of $6,100,150.
The large number of horses re
ported to the state veterinarian as
having died from effects of emerg
ency feeds pressed into service be
cause of the shortage brought on
the cornbelt by the drouth, has
created considerable comment
among university and other state
officials. Latest reports from the
university indicate that the emerg
ency feed is not the real trouble,
altho it may be contributory.
This equine malady referred to
variously as forage poisoning, corn
stalk disease and sleeping sickness,
is usually contracted from corn
forage, according to university an
imal husbandry experts. The prin
cipal cause of the disease is a bac
1
terial infection which is made worse
by the infected animals eating
wormy or drouth stricken corn.
An advisable precaution against
the malady is to keep the horses
out of the corn fields, as investiga
tion reveals that the majority of
the cases were found where the
animals had been used for husking
corn or had been allowed to run in
the stalk fields. The greatest num
ber of cases in Nebraska have been
reported from the north-central
section.
The sun is shining brightly
again for J. R. Farris, Bryan ap
pointee to the office of state pur
chasing agent, whose anxious mom
ents over re-appointment at the
hands of Governor Cochran are
over. He keeps the job which he
has held for six years—two under
Bryan in 1923-24 and four under
the same governor ini930-34. Far
ris is a Lincoln man and used to be
general superintendent of W. J.
Bryan’s famous “Commoner.”
Before stepping from the govern
or s seat which he has warmed for
six years, Charles W. Bryan took
time to assuage the fears of Platte
valley hay growers who in their
minds’ eye see all manner of we
evils running around in their alfal
fa fields as the result of the gov
eror’s having lifted an embargo
against Oregon and Idaho alfalfa
hay. Governor Bryan said that
there is no serious danger of in
festation of Nebraska fields, that i
certificates would be required of the
imported hay showing it to be free
of weevil, that the hay which had
been stacked and baled was not
likely to contain the pests even if
they had been present in the field,
and that the order lifting the em
bargo would expire May 1, leaving
the weevils only five months in
which to pack up their things and
hie themselves to the cornhusker
state.
The retiring attorney general,
Paul Good, outlined a four-point
plan for improving law enforce
ment in Nebraska in his biennial
report submitted to the retiring
governor, C. W. Bryan. Good pro
poses a larger and better trained
state sheriff’s force which would
supplement local officers but not
supplant them; a system of district
attorneys operating under the at
torney general; adoption by the
state of the model code of criminal
procedure proposed by the Americ
an law institute; and employment
by the board of pardons and paroles
of a competent psychiatrist and two
or more deputy parole officers to
work under the direction of the
chief probation officer.
Under the 19.33 salary reducing
act, state officers taking their posts
this month will receive the follow
ing salaries: Governor Cochran,
$0,000 instead of the $7,600 Bryan
received; supreme judges $6,200
instead of $7,500, except in the
case of the four holdover jurists,
Goss, Rose, Eberly and Paine, who
will continue at the high rate until
their terms expire two and four
years hence. Railway Commission
er Maupin gets $3,400 per annum
while his two holdover colleagues
get $5,000 a year each; Attorney
General Wright gets $4,000 or
$1,000 less than his predecessor;
the state tax commissioner takes a
similar cut, and other elective state
officers are reduced from $5,000 to
$3,400 each.
Board of control members here
after appointed are to draw only
$3,200 annually instead of the $4,
000 present members are getting
and will continue to receive during
the remainder of their respective
terms.
BRIEFLY STATED
Mr. and Mrs, Fred Degman, of
Buffalo Gap, S. D., arrived here
last week and visited at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. James Davidson.
Before her marriage Mrs. Degman
was Dorothy Davidson.
Warm weather here Tuesday and
Wednesday somewhat honeycombed
ice and skaters anxiously awaited
sub-zero weather to again tune up
the sheets of congealed water—es
pecially on Kersenbrock lake.
January 12 is the anniversary of
the great “School Children s’’ buz
zard which wiped out hundreds, if
not thousands of lives, and dwarfed
pens and tongues ever since in an
effort at describing the intensity
of it.
Hunters here are speculating on
where the crows are spending the
winter. Comparatively a small
number have been seen this season,
giving rise to the theory they
sensed a hard winter and moved
south.
Last Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Van Every and sons, Laverne and
Dean went to near Bartlett, Spald
ing and Burwell where highway
projects on whi-h Mr. Van Every
was foreman lu;t summer, were in
spected.
Goose lake, southern Holt county,
was reported by several ranchers
who1 live near it to have been bone
dry last summer. This lake nor
mally is up to 18 feet in depth.
At present it contains a small
amoun' of water.
Mr. and. Mf«. Enard Leach re
turned last Friday evening from
Forest City, Mo., where the couple
and children spent Christmas. Haz
ardous automobile traveling was
reported caused by icy paving over
most of the distance.
Mr. and Mrs. William Froelieh,
of Chicago, here for the Holidays
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. E.
Stout, plan to remain a few more
days before starting the journey to
their home. Their son, Billy, is
with the parents here.
Holt county is in the third dis
trict of the new farm census setup
with Mrs. S. Elizabeth Jenkinson,
of Monroe, named as supervisor.
Headquarters are at Columbus. The
number of persons likely to be em
ployed in Holt county is 20.
Lyle M. Durham, band instructor
at the public school here, spent
Christmas with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. E. W. Durham, of Elgin,
Nebraska. Mr. Durham’s brother,
Floy, of Sioux City, also was at
the parent home Christmas.
L. R. Harpstreith, of Lincoln,
and wife and three weeks old baby,
arrived here Thursday and have
rented the Max Golden resilience.
Mr. Harpstrieth has been assigned
here as engineer in charge of the
paving from the center of town
south on Fourth street to the
Northwestern tracks. The work is
to start Jan. 17.
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THE three securities of in
dividual liberty—a good In
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O’NEILL NATIONAL
BANK
Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits,
$125,000.00
This bank carries no indebted
ness of officers or stockholders.
Members of the Epworth League
of the Methodist church here held
a New Year’s Watch party at the
church with the following present:
Bernice Scofield, Rebecca Haskins,
Rose Robinson, of Page, Peggy
Camere, John Ghetty, Neva Lier
man, Violet Butterfield, Rev. May
and several others whose names
were not learned.
Jack rabbits are reported plenti
ful all over Holt county and hunt
ers would be out bagging them save
for a democratic market price star
ing them in the face. One man
figured that with the price of shot
gun shells on one side and the price
of rabbit skins on the other, he
would owe someone $1,000 for his
hunting labors by spring.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Harrington
entertained twenty couples at a 7
o’clock dinner at the Golden hotel
last Saturday. Card games were
played at the Harrington home fol
lowing the dinner. Mrs. Hugh J.
Birmingham won the woman’s high
score and Edward T. Campbell the
men’s high score prize. Mrs. H.
E. Coyne won the traveling prize.
New Ford Models Show'
Improvement In Bodies
Last Thursday Henry Ford show
ed to newspaper men, at Detroit,
the new Ford V-8 for 1935.
Most striking feature of the new
car is body lines which are distinc
tively modern and a definite de
parture from any previous Ford
design.
The new car also embodies a com
bination of major engineering de
velopments aimed at increased rid
ing comfort—which has been called
the “center-poise’* ride.
Numerous improvements in chas
sis design to provide increased ease
of control also are included.
Two important improvements
have been made in the Ford V-8
engine, of which more than 1,300,
000 are now on the road.
In addition Ford has developed a
new type of body—the touring se
dan, with unusually sleek lines and
embodying a fitted rear trunk com
partment integral with the body.
Safety glass is standard equip
ment not only in windshields, but
also in all doors and windows in all
body types.
The new car marks the present
culmination of developments begun
by Ford three years ago at the time
of the announcement of the V-8
engine. In the three years inter
venig, Ford has been engaged in
the development of a combination
of engineering improvements aimed
at providing a degree of riding
comfort and ease of control com
parable with the performance of
the engine itself. The new body
designs are a further evidence of
the progress of Ford engineering.
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The Circus
The most appreciated gift Santa
Claus presented was a large cake—
of icer-in drouth territory.
It’s so fuelish to spend all our
money for coal.
Cheer up, the sun is coming nprth
to melt Nebraska’s eyes. ((
South Dakota man claims his hat
lay against the side of a house four ^
days and nigpits during ta dust
storm. Sounds like a 10 gallon
affair.
The argument as to whether
there is or is not a Santa Claus is
like two men standing at the Cent
er of Main street in Long Pine
while arguing about whether it is
2 or 3 o’clock a. m.
The proposed postoffice building
means a lot to O’Neill and Holt
county, and two or three of them
to some land owner. ,
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