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Supervisors' Proceedings
(Continued from last week)
O’Neill, Nebraska,
Jan. 11, 1935, 1:00 p. m.
Holt County Board of Supervis
ors met as per adjournment. All
jmembers present. Meeting called
to order by Chairman.
The following Resolution was
presented and read at this meeting:
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, from accounts in
the daily papers it appears that the
care, support and maintenance of
at least a portion of the poor and
indigent, now cared for by the
Government, is to be returned to
the counties wherein such persons
reside, and
WHEREAS, such action if taken,
will place upon Holt county, a
burden heavier than it is able to
carry with present income, and in
support of that statement we call
attention to the following:
1. For the past four or five
years grasshoppers and drouth
have greatly reduced the crops pro
duced in Holt county and the in
come of its people, increased the
necessary expenditure for relief.
In 1934 no crop was raised De
pressed cattle and hog prices pre
vailing the past few years have in
creased suffering and the relief
load.
2. For the past four or five
years Holt county has annually ex
pendcd for relief for the poor be
tween fifteen nnd twenty-five thous
and dollars. That was considerable
in excess of available funds and as
a result county finances are greatly
demoralized. The general fund is
two years behind and about $50,
000.000 in judgments have been
entered against the county cover
ing claims for which there was no
money to pay.
3. There is now on file and not
yet passed upon, lawful, legal
claims against the general fpnd of
the county totaling the sum of
$16,755.84 which will have to be
paid.
4. There are now outstanding
and unpaid registered warrants on
the county general fund in the sum
of $63,428.34 all drawing six per
cent interest. These warrants are
being paid about two years after
registration.
5. There is now outstanding and
unpaid a balance of $22,000.01) in
judgments rendered against the
county. A portion of this draws
six per cent in a part seven per
cent interest.
6. The valuation of property in
Holt county for tax purposes has
been reduced in the past few years
from upwards of $32,000,000.00 to
about $17,000,000.00. Ily levying
the statutory limit it is now impos
sible to raise sufficient funds to
cover the ordinary normal expenses
of the county.
7. For the past two years Holt
county has levied the constitutional
limit of five mills on the dollar of
assessed valuation. One mill of
this was levied and applied upon
judgments. The balance did not
produce sufficient revenue to pay
ordinary operating expenses of the
county plus such relief as was then
being given. The judgments levy
did not pay the judgments and the
'anie levy this year will not pay
the remaining halunce.
8. On the average, for the past
few years, between fifty and sixty
per cent of the taxes levied have
been paid.
Now, Therefore, if the Govern
ment shall return to the County a
portion of the relief load they are
now carrying, then w’e, the County
Board of Supervisors of Holt
county urge our rperesentatives in
the Nebraska legislature to sup
f>ort and work for adequate legis
lation providing for state aid in
relief matters.
John Sullivan,
J. C. Stein,
John A. Carson,
John Steinhauser,
Louis W. Reimer,
Ed. J. Matousek,
Ezra W. Cooke.
Motion by Carson, seconded by
Stein that above resolution be ap
proved and that copy of this Reso
lution be forwarded to our State
Senator and Representative at Lin
coln, Nebraska.
Carried.
The following claims were aud
ited and approved and on motion
were allowed and warrants ordered
drawn on Road Fund in payment
of same:
Carl Kallhoff $ 9.90
Jack Ridgeway — 34.45
Herbert Spahn 9.90
Blaine Garwood 32.00
Leo Phelps 2.40
Robert Coleman 46.50
Lester Brown ..... 15.60
Garan Black -24.00
Alfons Batenhorst . .... . 6.00
Harlan Black .* 24.00
Jessie Bollen 3.6<)
Louis Funk . ..... ~ 9.90
Herman Schollmeyer 41.85
James Mlnarik 9.90
Oscar Rumsey 7.20
Ivan Cone 1-60
John Crawford 13.20
Bud Burley 24.00
C. A. Boies 4.00
D. E. Beck 34.40
Arbuthnot & Reka 40.73
Roman Chmiel 2.80
Lavern Stevens 18.75
Contois Bros. _ 20.00
Art C. Doolittle 12.00
Elden Carver 22.20
H. A. Dickau 34.40
Albert Carson 47.05
James Curran 28.00
Robert Batenhorst 6.00
Willie Farrand 41.85
Charlie Ernst 28.00
Fred Goebel 36.00
Bill Anderson 27.90
J. D. Adams Co. 650.00
Sam Kaup 58.40
Lawrence Pacha 38.40
Ronald Carson 18.00
Ronald Carson 41.85
Ralph Reece 20.00
John Anderson 41.85
John Nickel 3.60
O. O. Newman 40.40
Wni, Ohlend. 45.60
Lyman Park 3.60
Roy Plessel 16.80
Lawrence Murray 12.00
A. L. Mitchell 25.40
Ray ( earns 38 10
Gilbert Engler 30.40
Earl Dickau 38.40
A. Chenoweth 32.40
John Cleveland 20.10
Edward L. Carson 41.85
Joe Callaway 6.00
Seth Noble 3.99
Frank Eppenbaeh 9.05
Mat Ernst 24.00
Chas. Good 2.00
It. R. Grubb 20.10
Art Bessert 37.35
Louis Olberding 37.40
Lyle C. McKim 16.50
J. H. .McKim 40.95
Lyle C. McKim 27.90
Elmer Rumsey 20.40
Nels Coljack 25.20
Seth Noble 7.60
O. O. Newman 17.25
Ray Osborne 6.30
Lloyd Phelps 39.30
Claud Peterson 19.35
Velden Pinkerman 41.85
Porter’s Service Station 51.64
John R. Ruther 13.50
Clarence Whaley 2.10
John /.inky 12.00
Eugene Wedige 6.00
A. Wettlaufer 4.50
Walter Wiley 27.20
W. F. Wefso 18.00
B. W. Waldo 7.40
Leo Vanderbeek 11.70
Bud A. Staples 25.40
Rodney Tomlinson 41.85
Theo Thorson 16.80
Clarence J. Tasler 20.00
C. E. Tibbets 28.88
Texaco Service Station . 71.62
Forrest Slack 41.85
Joe Schollmeyer 41.85
Chas. Stark 2.50
Anthony Sobotka 4.00
Fred Tenborg 8.60
J. Steinhauser 24.00
James Sobotka 5.00
A1 Strube 4.00
Pat Regan 1.20
A1 Robertson 19,20
Russel Rosenian 15.6o
Herman Reimer . 4.00
Joe A. Ziska 26.40
Walter Woeppel 19.20
Andy Whetlaufer 6.45
Tom White 4.50
Carl Wulf 9.90
Morgan Wei ton 30.00
Harry B. Wilson 8.90
Verdigris Twp. 72.15
Frad Truax 40.05
Carl J Thiele '.'.‘.Hi
W. F. Tasler. 38.40
Bob Tams 10.20
(’. K Ttbbats 13.50
w . v. Taalt« 68.70
Howard Slack 3.00
Earl D. Stevens 36.00
Joe Strong 3.00
Bob Starr 9.28
Edgar Stauffer 20.00
Jake Sandow 24.00
Ed. C. Smith 4.48
W. H. Stein 11.55
F. J. Steinhauser 14.75
llallis Robinson 40.40
Roy Pinkerman . . 36.00
Howard Newton 14.40
Claud Pickering 41.85
Lloyd Baush 16 00
Geo Thomsen 12.50
Edward Carson ... 18.25
Norman Farrand 41.85
Continental Oil Co. 20.34 !
Ward Flannigan 36.00
Ed Fraidri 44.50
Guy Hull 41.85
Miller Hasselbach 1.76
Miller Hasselbach 5.83
Miller Hasselbach 2.96
Adolph Mlinar 38.40
Art Lee 23.40
George Kruse 41.85
Dwight Kenny 34.40
Harry Keeler 2.15
Henry Baush’ 88.0
Geo. W. Thomsen 3.00
El win Grutsch 32.00
Ed. Freidel , 38.40
W. J. Jones .. 38.40
Art Michaels 18.00
Miller Hasselbach 11.50
Miller Hasselbach 4.40
Clifford Anderson 27.00
Roy LeMunyan 28.40
Paul Krugman 36.00
Leo Kallhoff 9J0
Alfred Kazda 19.99
Elmer Killinger 4.40
Ben Kaup/Jr. 36.00
Joe Jurgenmeir 20.00
Francis Johnson _ 10.80
Charley Hull 27.80
H.d-ey Hull 4LBS
F. PL Huffman 36.un
Ford Garwood 20.00
Harry Hiscock 41.85
g. I). Murphy 6.60
Billie Murray 16.99
Lawrence Murray, Sr. 17.05
Henry Hull 35.55
Jack Hughs 41.85
Forrest E. Hardy 6.80
Floyd Hazen 6.90
Ferddnand Kaup 6.00
S. R. Killham 19.60
Francis Johnson 16.80
Harold Hull 41.85
Ignas Heumesser 24.10
Chas. Good 1.90
Roy Haynes 41.85
Watson McDonald 9.90
Lyle C. McKim 14.40
Florain Mlnarik 9.35
W. J. Jones 24.00
H. W. Hubbard 14.21
Frank Howard 11.55
Halsey Hull 16.65
5:00 P. M. On motion, Board
adjourned until January 12, 1935,
9:00 a. m.
John Sullivan, Chairman.
John C. Gallagher, Clerk.
O’Neill, Nebraska,
Jan. 12, 1935, 9:00 a. m.
Holt County oBard of Supervis
ors met as per adjournment. All
members present. Meeting called
to roder by Chairman. Minutes of
previous meeting were read, and on
motion were approved as read.
The following salary claims were
audited and approved and on mo
tion were allowed and warrants
ordered drawn on General fund in
payment of same:
Ezra W. Cooke $27.20
Ed J. Matousek 27.15
Louis W. Reimer 32.50
John Sullivan 36.00
John A. Carson 41.00
John Steinhauser 33.00
12:00 noon. On motion, Board
adjourned, until 1:00 p. m.
John Sullivan, Chairman.
John C. Gallagher, Clerk.
O’Neill, Nebraska,
Jan. 12, 1935, 1:00 p. m
Holt County Board of Supervis
ors met as per adjournment. All
members present. Meeting called
to order by Chairman. At this time,
Board began the Annual Audit of
County Offices and Board spent
afternoon in auditing and checking
County Superintendent’s office.
4:00 p. m. On motion, Board
adjourned until January 14 1935,
10.00 a. m.
John Sullivan, Chairman.
John C. Gallagher, Clerk.
O’Neill, Nebraska,
Jan. 14, 1935, 10:00 a. m.
Holt County Board of Supervis
ors met as per adjournment. All
members present except Cooke.
Meeting called to order by Chair
man. Minutes of previous meeting
were read and on motion were ap
proved as read.
Board continued checking county
officers.
12:00 noon. On motion, Board
adjourned until 1:00 p. m.
John Sullivan, Chairman.
John C. Gallagher, Clerk.
O’Neill, Nebraska,
Jan. 14, 1935, 1:00 p. m.
Holt County oBard of Supervis
ors met as per adjournment. All
members present. Meeting called
to order by Chairman.
Board continued checking County
Officers.
5:00 p. m. On motion, Board
adjourned until January 15, 1935,
9:00 a. m.
John Sullivan, Chairman.
John C. Gallagher, Clerk.
O’Neill, Nebraska,
Jan. 15, 1935, 9:00 a. m.
Holt County Board of Supervis
ors met as per adjournment. All
members present. Meeting called
to order by Chairman. Minutes of
previous meeting were read and on
motion were approved as read.
Board spent forenoon in check
ing County Officers.
John Sullivan, Chairman.
John C. Gullagher, Clerk.
O’Neill. Nebraska,
Jan. 15, 1935, 1:00 p. m.
Holt County Board of Supervis
ors met as per adjournment. All
members present. Meeting called
to order by Chairman. The fol
lowing Resolutions were presented
and read at this meeting:
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS: There has beer in
troduced in the Lesiglature, House
Roll No. 54 which bill adds the
road, northwest of Page in Holt
(Continued ort* page 5, column 4.)
UNCLE SAM—LANDLORD
Uncle Sam is assuming the roles
of home mortgage holders and land
lord on a truly gigantic scale. Thru
the housing division of the Public
Works Administration he plans to
provide rental quarters for 38,125
families, these thru 49 federally
owned projects which will cost an
estimated $149,756,000, says Na
tion’s Business. Thirteen of these
—all large scale apartment pro
jects—are already under way or
getting under way in nine cities:
New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Cleve
land, Indianopolis, Cincinnati,
Louisville, Detroit and Montgom
ery, Ala. The 13 will house 18,705
families and cost $79,807,000.
Thru the Subsistence Homestead
Division of the Interior Depart
ment, he plans to build 6,612 houses
for families of $60 to $1,200 annual
income. These houses cost from
$2,000 to $4,000 and purchasers
pay them over a thirty-year period
with interest at three per cent.
Monthly payments for the average
$3,000 homestead thus run around
$12.65.
Thru the Rural Rehabilitation
Division of the Federal Emergency
Relief Administration, Uncle Sam
was building, or planning to build,
somewhat similar homesteads in 50
“rural industrial communities. ’ He
had completed one such community
at Woodlake, Tex. It cost between
$250,000 and $300,000 and 100 fam
ilies are housed there in homes
costing from $1,500 to $1,700. He
was building another in Mississippi
county, Arkansas, where 139 of an
ultimate 700 houses have been com
pleted and occupied. A third is at
Red House, W. Va., where 153
houses have been practically com
pleted.
Thru the Home Owners’ Loan
Corporation, Uncle Sam, on Dec.
27, held mortgages and liens on
721,962 additional homes, the loans
averaging $3,025 and totaling $2,
184,060,497.—Sioux City Livestock
Record.
UNCLE SAM—IN BUSINESS
There is no way to keep up with
it, but we know in a general way
that government is reaching out
farther and farther in the supervis
ion and control of business, says
the Chicago Drovers Journal. There
pulses from Washington, a com
ment from there says, a power that
touches business men, bankers,
farmers—just about every employ
er. Railroads long have felt this
power. Radio1 has been acquainted
with it since the infancy of that
industry. Bankers know of it, and
administration plans call for closer
acquaintance. The National Re
covery Act extended government
power to corners of trade and in
dustry not previously affected. Now
utility holding companies are
scheduled to feel the federal touch.
Trucking operators and shipping
operators and pipe-line operators
see it approaching for them. Avia
tion is in line for early attention.
Few are left out of plans shaping
in Washington to extend the sway
of government.
A point of special interest right
now is that unless the administra
tion plan for old age pensions and
unemployment insurance is amend
ed to eliminate him, the farmer,
employing one or more persons,
must contribute to the old age pen
sion fund and, if employing four
or more, must contribute to the un
employment insurance fund on the
same basis as an industrialist.
It will not be overlooked that
just about everything is under
going reform. Those in the saddle
might profit by paying some atten
tion to a rule laid down years ago
by one of the country’s leading ad
vocates of reform, the late Senator
LaFollette of Wisconsin:
“Tackle only one thing at a
time and do that thorly. l>o not
scatter your efforts.”
But he was a hopeless conserva
tive.—Sioux City Livestock Record.
Billions By The Clock
How many of the taxpayers of
the United States—and we all are
taxpayers either directly or in
directly—realize that in the 1936
fiscal year there will have to be
raised by taxation approximately
$2,390,000 each day in that year. Or
approximately $28 each time the
clock tick in that year, to pay in
terest on the national debt alone ?
This, we believe, is something to
which too little attention has been
paid. President Roosevelt's recent
budget message to congress estim
ated interest charges on the public
debt for the 1936 fiscal year at
$875,000,000—$125,000,000 less than
a billion, says the Chicago Journal
of Commerce. The rest of the com
putation is easy.
In these days we talk gibly of
billions—the President is asking
for authority to spend over four
biilions as he sees fit and in the
halls of congress and elsewhere, it
is billions for this and billions for
that. As a matter of fact, a bil
lion dollars is an almost incon
ceivably large sum.
Few of us realize or take into
consideration, we believe, that the
faster the national debt rises, the
more we must contribute thru the
tax route, each year to pay interest
charges on that debt. Debtors can
not borrow money without having
to pay interest charges, and the
federal government, or any other
government for that matter, is no
different from an individual or a
corporation in this respect.
Take out your watch some time
and watch sixty second go by. Then
figure that in those sixty seconds,
for the 1936 fiscal year, there will
have been piled up nearly $1,700,
which the federal government will
have to raise by taxation to pay
only the interest on what it owes.—
Sioux City Livestock Record.
NEBRASKA NEWS
OF STATE AFFAIRS
By James R. Lowell
Nebraska politicians apparently
have no fear of the “Ides of March”
and havechosenthis blustery month
as the time for a number of con
fabs at Lincoln, political rendez
vous of the Cornhusker state. They
range from a G. O. P. revival meet
ing at which strategies were plan
ned for the 1936 campaign to a
mutual-admiration dinner for dem
ocrats.
Assisting the proverbial lion to
usher in the month were an earth
quake and a gathering of more
than 800 republicans meeting at
Lincoln to lay plans for next year’s
political fracas. In conjunction
with the meeting, Sam McKelvie,
former governor and member of
the Hoover farm board, was elect
ed president of the Nebraska
Founders’ Day association, while
John Landis of Seward, was named
junior president. M. M. Maupin,
of Ogallala was elected secretary.
Despite the advice from numer
ous democrats and one republican
speaker that the salvation of the
G. 0. P. lies in embracing new
leaders and more liberal policies,
the republican assembly at Lincoln
decided to hew to the line and, fight
the Roosevelt administration at
every turn. Program speakers
gave vent to numerous expressions
as the following:
It its liberalism the American
people want they won’t find it in
the Roosevelt administration, for
there it may mean tyrannical soc
ialism, extravagant expenditure of
public money, or use of public
money to subsidize a political
machine, as in the case of the
FERA and PWA”—Harold McGug
in, former Kansas congressman.
The speakers including Mr. Mc
Kelvie, Former Congressman Rob
ert Simmons and Joseph Fennelly,
leader of the Kansas City youth
movement, attacked virtually all
the alphabetical orders and the tre
mendous debt that is being piled up
by the national administration.
A plea for liberalism, somewhat
out of accord with the general ten
or of the speeches, came from
George Olmstead, Des Moines, la.,
chairman of the young republican
division of the G. O. P. national
committee, who urged the repub
licans to “get their house in order”
and “return the party to liberal
leaders if the support of youth is
expected.’’
A telgram from Former Presi
dent Hoover stated that “the mid
west gave the republican party to
the nation with a great mission of
human liberty. The party has a
renewed mission of human liberty
today as high arid as vital as that
two generations ago. And it is a
mission which must preserve lib
erty from both economic opression
and. governmental regimentation...”
Points that the republicans decid
ed to use in the 1936 campaign
against the democrats are alleged
abrogation of the constitution by
the Roosevelt administration, great
public debt, waste and trend toward
socialism in distribution of wealth
thru taxation, and regimentation
of business and complete control
of the affairs of the individual by
the government. The republicans
will stand for “sound money.”
The Nebraska Founders’ Day as
sociation is being organzide as a
militant body to fight th battles of
republicanism, it was said. An ex
ecutive committee, composed of
four persons from each congres
sional district, will be named in
about two months.
An outhgrowth of the meeting
was the decision to form a young
G. 0. P. organization along lines
technically similar to the Nebraska
young democratic club which has
been in existence for several years.
Persons between 19 and 35 years of
age will be eligible for member
ship and May 2 at Hastings has
been set for the group’s first state
convention. Edwin F. Myers, Jr.,
of Broken Bow, was elected temp
orary president of the club.
Another gathering of political
aspect scheduled to take place at
Lincoln sometime this month, is a
reunion of surviving members of
the Nebraska constitutional con
vention of 1920. Arthur J. Weaver,
former governor, was president of
the convention. More than 20 of
the original members (100) of the
constitutional diet are deceased,
and this will be the first reunion.
An organization will be formed.
The William Jennings Bryan
club which was formed a year ago
under the active leadership of Har
old Porterfield, then secretary to
Governor C. W. Bryan, will hold
its second annual meeting in Lin
coln March 19. This is the an
niversary of the “Great Common
er’s” birthday, and the meeting will
be in the nature of a birthday din
ner with such speakers as R. L.
Metcalfe, former mayor of Omaha;
C. S. Wortman, Ashland attorney;
and H. H. Hanks, of Chicago, form
erly of Nebraska City and one time
ciose friend of the famous Nebras
kan, appearing on the program.
Incidentally, political prognost
ticators have it that Former Gov
ernor Bryan is going to run for
mayor of Lincoln in the spring
campaign.
An innovation in highway im
provement which generations to
come will be able to enjoy, is the
planting of trees and shrubs
along the roads under the federal
rule setting aside one per cent of
its highway allocation for beaut
ification purposes. Four such pro
jects totaling about $6,000 were
turned over to contractors last
week. William Youkin, formerly
supervising engineer of the capitol
building while it was under con
struction, has been placed in charge
of planning for these roadside land
scaping projects.
The state now has $80,000 from
last year’s federal grants to use
for beautification of highways. The
first projects to get underway will
be one between Blair and Herman,
a second between Scottsbluff and
Mitchell, one from Seward east on
the S. Y. A., and another extending
for four miles north of Bayard.
These will cost about $1,500 each.
As an example of what the road
side landscaping will be, the Blair
Herman project will use 93 Amer
ican elm trees, 56 red oaks, 577
mockorange, 474 Russian olive
trees and 279 lilac bushes. Other
varities to be used on the other
three projects include red cedar,
barberry, juniper, hackberry, dog
wood, Chinese elm and snowberry.
Another measure intended to
help beautify Nebraska highways f
is a bill in the legislature making
it an offense subject to a fine of
not more than $100 or imprison
ment in the county jail for 30 days,
to deposit cans or garbage along
any highway or right of way.
Eight *sand graveling projects
totaling about $16,000 have been
let by the state highway depart
ment. The biggest project is on
the highway between Whitney and
Chadron.
Franz C. Radke has been reap
pointed by the governor as chief
counsel for the state banking de
partment. His salary is the same
as under Governor Bryan, $3,500 a
year. L. B. Hokuf has been reap
pointed as state athletic director
(boxing commissioner). He gets
$200 a month which comes out of
fees collected by the bureau.
The report that two FERA work
ers narrowly escaped death in a
elaypit cave-in, brings to light the
fact that a few weeks previously
a FERA worker did lose his life in
just such an accident in the north
central part of the state. This
was the first FERA fatality since
termination of the CWA program
11 months ago.
Contagious and infectious dis
eases were more wide spread in
Nebraska last month than for a
number of years. The number of
smallpox, scarlet fever and measle
cases came near to setting an all
time record.
I
SALE!
We had a Good Sale Sat
urday, March 2nd. Help us
to have a better one Thurs
day, March 21st.
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JOHN L. QUIG, Manager j
JAMES MOORE, Auctioneer J
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