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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1935)
The Frontier D. H. CrortiH, Editor and Proprietor Entered at the Postofflce at O'Neill, Nebraska as Second Class Matter. _ADVERTISING RATES: Display advertising on pages 4, 6 and 8 are charged for on a basis of 25c an inch (one column wide) per week; on page 1 the charge is 40 cents an inch per week. Want ads, 10c per line, first insertion, subsequent insertions, 5c per line. One Year, in Nebraska $2.00 One Year, outside Nebraska $2.50 Every subscription is regarded ns an open account. The names ot subscribers will be instantly re moved from our mailing list at ex piration of time paid for, if pub lisher shall be notified; otherwise the subscription remains in force at the designated subscription price. Every subscriber must un derstand that these con ditions are made a part of the contract between pub lisher and subscriber. >JRA NEBRASKA NEWS OF STATE AFFAIRS By James R. Lowell Governor Cochran’s budget to the legislature last week calls for $33, 056,810, of which the legislature is asked to provide $11,616,064. In his provisional budget,Bryan asked for $11,628,085 from tax sources, but Cochran’s recommends $16,479 more in his total budget than Bry an did. Among the major items in the Governor’s budget are $3,584,600 for the state university, compared with a recent request for $4,164, 600. This about $230,000 more than the institution got last year. Board of control, $3,914,880, or $500,000 more than appropriated by the 1933 legislature; teachers’ college, $1,264,500, or $60,000 more than last biennium; supreme court, $204,500, or $10,000 decrease; dis trict courts, $555,500, or $3,000 in crease; deaf school, adult educa tion, normal training, etc., $222,000, or $6,000 more than 1933-35; im provement at state institutions, $320,900, or $140,000 decrease. The $33,056,810 total budget from all sources compares with $39,287,913 received in 1933-35. Two of the few remaining im portant appointive offices of the state government have been filled by Governor Cochran. C. W. Eu 'nank, 37, world war veteran, and district highway engineer at Lin coln for the state roads and irriga tion department, has been named as the new member of the board of control for the six year term begin ning July 1. He succeeds Mrs. Nellie Benson. Eubank is the youngest man ever named to the board of control since its creation in 1913. He formerly lived at North Platte. V. B. Kinney, editor of the Om aha labor publication, the “Union ist,” has been appointed Nebraska laborcommissioner succeeding Cecil E. Matthews, who held the post four years under Governor Bryan and has been holding over under Governor Cochran. This post pays $3,000 a year, while the board of control job carries a stipend of $4,200 per year. Public hearings will be held dur ing February at Lincoln, Columbus, North Platte and Hastings, to clear the deck for action under the pend ing $4 ,880,000,000 appropriation in congress which is to put 3,500,000 to work at gainful employment. Nebraska’s share is expected to be $35,000,000 in two years, providing the state meets FERA Director Hopkins’ request that $4,000,000 be raised for relief cooperation. The public hearings will be sponsored by Nebraska’s newly created state planning board, and worthwhile projects which could utilize federal works funds will be considered. The governor has appointed a 13 member commission to consider the proposed national parks area on the Oregon and Mormon trails, ex tending from Bridgeport to old Ft. Laramie in Wyoming. This section of the state already has a national monument in the form of the Scottsbluff project. FERA officials and the people of the Scottsbluff" area are now considering ways and means whereby Ellis Barman, youthful Lincoln sculptor, can be retained to prepare a huge Indian statue to be mounted on a promi tory on the national monument. Burman has completed one Indian Statue group and is preparing a 15-foot Indian statue which will be placed in a Lincoln park, all of this work being done as a FERA “white collar” work project. “The song is ended but the mel ody lingers on” where the state treasurer’s bond case is concerned. Hall’s $10,000 premium was satis factorily arranged for last week, allowing $1,528,240 in dammed up pay checks to pour forth into the hands of 2,000 state employes who had gone payless since early in January. A new suit thru which it is hoped to clarify the status of State Treasurer Hall has been filed in the supreme court. Meanwhile a proposal to prevent any repitition of the tangle, by having the state bond all public officials in Nebras ka, has been passed by the house and brought before the senate. Governor Cochran has put the weight of the administration be hind the drive for state bonding of public officials, and has also urged that steps be taken to reduce the cost of bonds required by contract ors on public works. In a special message to the house last week, the govern ir delivered a stinging re buke to bonding companies for their part in closing* the treasury for 24 days. BRIEFLY STATED Mrs. Frank Pribil, Sr., Mrs, Josephine Stewart, John Pribil and Fred Vitt, of O’Neill, and Casper Pribil, of Inman, were here Thurs day to attend Grandma Fiala’s funeral.—Spencer Advocate. Joe Boyle was in from the Boyle Ranch 12 miles southeast of Cham bers several days ago and he re ported his father, Patrick, Sr., ill several weeks, no better. It was planned to move the sick man to Page. Mrs. Homer Mullen entertained the Delta Deck Club Wednesday night with dinner at the Grand and later on cards at the home of her mother. Miss Inez O’Connell, Mrs. H. J. Hammond and Mrs. Ira Mots won the high score and prizes. Mrs. L. C. Chapman and Miss Ruth Simpson drove down to Om aha last Saturday visited relatives and looked after business matters, returning home Monday evening. While away Mrs. Chapman pur chased her stock of spring dresses for her style shop. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Carson moved, to this city last Friday from the eastern part of the state and will make this city their future home. Mr. Carson is district repair man ager for the Northwestern Bell Telephone company, with head quarters in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Conrad and children, of Long Pine, stopped in the city last Tuesday for a short visit at the home of Mr. Conrad’s brother, Rev. D. S. Conrad. Mr. Conrad and family were on their way home from a visit with rela tives in central Iowa. — Alex Searl, one of the pioneer lawyers of this section of the state and a resident of llolt county for over 50 years, died at his home in Atkinson on Wednesday of last week following an illness of several years. Mr. Searl was 90 years of age at the time of his death and had practiced law in Atkinson for 34 years. H#irry Jaeggers, formerly en gaged in the restaurant business in this city and who has been operat ing a cafe in Columbus for the past year, was in the city last Friday and Saturday visiting old friends. He recently sold his cafe at Co lumbus and is now looking for a suitable location to again enter business. A. T. Crumley, living northeast of this city, was in the city Wed . nesday and favored this office with : a pleasant call. Mr. Crumley says they got another large coyote last I Friday, that put up quite a fight jbefore it gave up the ghost. Mr. | Crumley is of the opinion that I coyotes they have been capturing this last fall and winter must have a good deal of wolf blood in them as he says they are more vicious in a fight than were the coyotes of a few years ago. Sheridan Simmons was over at Yankton, S. D., last Friday and talked to the people of Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota and Minneso ta over the radio. Sherd rendered a song and recitation and seemed to make a hit with the people around the station, judging from the ap plause that greeted him at the close of his broadcast. Sherd evidently likes to talk to a “mike” as he was back again on Tuesday afternoon for another broadcast, and, as be fore acquitted himself with eclat. Zeb Warner and. A1 Strube re turned Wednesday afternoon from California, where they had been en joying the sights and. scenery for the past two months’ California sunshine was too much for Zeb and he became ill, and is mighty glad to get back to good old Holt. He re mained at the home of his daught er at Chambers, where he will rest up for a few days after his journey. They made the trip back in three days and a half, which is : omc traveling for this season of the year. The Frontier’s special subscrip tion offer expired last Saturday and hundreds of our readers took ad vantage of our offer, which ran thru the month of January. Dur ing the month we added a great ninny new readers to our already large list. In fact we believe that we added more new subscribers during the month than all the pap ers in the county have added during the year. Many thanks dear read ers for your liberal response dur ing these times of economic dis tress. , Mr. and Mrs. Earl L. Young, of Omaha, arrived in the city last Sat urday evening for a short visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Cronin. They left Sunday evening for Creighton, where Mrs. Young has a lot of seed corn for sale, the property of the estate of her father. Mr. Young served about seven years as a deputy United States marshal under the writer and he is still holding the position, being the only one of the old force that is still on duty at the federal building in Omaha. The groundhog could see his shadow last Saturday and not half try. It was a lovely day as were Sunday and Monday, and many were of the opinion that the ground hog story was another mythical story of the olden days. But it turned a little colder Monday night and was quite cool Tuesday, and some of the doubters began to wonder jf, perhaps, after all, there might not be something to the story. Let us wait and see what the next six weeks brings in the way of weather. Floyd Crawford, who was a resi ent of the northeastern part of the county for several years, was be fore United States Commissioner I POVERTY is the oldest disease in the world. It can only he abolished by a hank account. * THE O’NEILL NATIONAL BANK Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits, * §125,000.00 This bank carries no indebted ness of officers or stockholders. Dishner last Friday charged with a violation of the internal revenue laws. He was arrested by treasury agents at Valentine, his present home and, brought here before the neatest U. S. Comissioner. His bond was fixed at $2,000 which was furnished Friday and he was per mitted to return home. His case will come up before the United States district court at Norfolk at the fall term. THE CORN BELT IS THREATENED The corn belt is threatened by foreign competition, warns the Omaha Daily Journal-Stockman. “Corn and corn products have j admittedly been vitally important ; in the making of modern America,” this Corn Belt publication contin ues. “This wonderful grain has not only contributed most liberally to the creation of our domestic wealth and progress but corn pro ducts have always constituted much of the foreign trade of the nation. Today, partly by reason of last year's severe drouth and partly, no doubt, because of the government’s crop reduction pro gram, our domestic and export business in corn and corn products has dwindled to pitiably small pro portions. “A story of our commercial statistics today would seem to show that, once the world’s great est exporter of grains, the United States within the last year has been converted into an importing nation, opening up a new market to foreign countries which formerly competed with us for world mar kets. Today the United States is buying corn and oats from Argen I tina, rye from Poland and Russia, I and even has brought in wheat from France, Argentina and Can ada. “Just during the last week Ar gentina shipped 1,831,000 bushels of corn and 462,000 bushels of oats to this country. Despite the 25 cents a bushel duty which is imposed it has been found profit able to buy Argentine corn for use in this country, which has long been the world’s dominant pro ducer. Present prospects indicate that the United States will pur chase considerably more corn be fore the next crop is harvested in this country. “Ordinarily the United States produces all of 60 per cent of the world’s corn and uses the greater part of it right here at home. This year, because of the smallest corn crop in forty years, prices have advanced to levels that make Argentine imports possible. That country is reported to have 391, 000,000 bushels available for ex port and our large cities on both coasts have been importing great quantities of this grain from South America. “All of which simply goes to show that not only is the suprem acy of the United States as the leading corn-producing nation threatened, but American agricul ture is menaced at a vital point. The American wheat grower has been almost put out of business by other wheat^production countries and the events of the past year demonstrate that the Corn Belt will soon feel the blighting in fluence of foreign competition. “The answer to this serious sit uation certainly cannot be found in a program of further crop re duction and price boosting. Only a greater use of this wonderful grain for domestic purposes and a broader market abroad for maize and its products can save the corn growers of America. Cotton has been dethroned, wheat has been dethroned, by world competition and unless the government acts wisely and -promptly corn will also lose its throne and its kingdom in the next few years.” District Court Filings E. H. Luikhart, receiver of the Citizens Bank of Stuart, has filed suit in the district court against Alberta Hoffman, et al., seeking to recover judgment on a note for $1,764 given to the bank on Jan uary 27, 1930. In their petition they allege that there have been ft U A m ^ ™ A * J ' Wb mm w ~ JH*v-. - ■ -’MT■ -— two payments made on the note, both in March, 1932, one for!$50.78 and the other $262.06. They allege that no other payments have been made and that there is now due thereon the sum of $2,261.94 and ^ they ask judgment for that amount and costs of suit. They shot a couple of Rhineland ers in the Sarr campaign every day, and yet they told us that Ken tucky was a rough place to hold an election. Most of the statesmen who ar<? demanding that Henry Fletcher resign, unlike the chairman, didn’t get on the firing line until the shooting from the enemy was over. Small Investment in NEW AUTO PARTS BE YOUR OWN BOSS and Earn Between $40 and $50 per Week P. O. Box 185 Kearney, Nebraska I ' - i • : . ' *» V- v THE SXOW MlVSTitl.S shovel here arc drawn from magnified photographs of real snow flakes. No two crystals are ever alike—each a masterpiece of delicate design. When you look out the window in the morning and the v. hole world >s white, you won’t have to “wonder if the old Iras is going to start.” A Sl'ICE STAEST! — you can count on it if you have a tank of Special Winter Blend Conoco Bronze Gasoline! IT*S ISICiia TEST! t his cold-weather hlend vaporizes at lowest temperatures. It gives you instant starting, smooth pick-up and the I power to plow right thru heavy snow. FILL 8 1* TODAY! Drive into your Conoco dealer's for a tankful. Then ... let it snow! CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY —- Ettabluhcd 1875 Sold By Arbuthnot is Keka Service Station Across the Street from the Public Library O’NEILL, NEBRASKA
