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VOL. LVI. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1936. No. 36
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^ FATHER LEAHY TO
BE ASSISTANT AT
AN OMAHA CHURCH
Kev. P. F. Burke, Chaplain At The
Good Shepherd Home, Omaha,
Will Be Assistant Here.
Last Thursday, Rev. B. J. Leahy,
assistant at St. Patrick’s church in
this city for the past seven and
a half years, received notice of his
appointment as assistant pastor of
Holy Angels church in Omaha, and
expects to leave for his new pas
torate about Tuesday of next week.
Father Leahy has made hundreds
of friends in this city and vicinity
during his stay here and these
friends are not all members of his
congregation. His friends, while
regretting to see him leave O’Neill,
are rejoicing in the fact that the
transfer is a well merited promo
tion for him. No matter where he
may be stationed in the future he
will have the best wishes of
O’Neill citizens generally for his
future welfare and happiness.
Father Leahy will be succeeded
here by Rev. P. F. Burke, who for
several months has been chaplain
at the Good Shepherds home at
Omaha. He is expected to arrive
about the middle of next week.
Holt’s 4-H Clubs Place
High In Completion of
Year’s Poultry Work
Holt county was one of the two
highest counties in the state in the
number of completions in 4-H
Poultry Club work. Seventy-two
members out of 117 who started
last spring completed their pro
jects. These members are receiv
ing their certificates of achieve
ment at the present time.
Mrs. Edgar Stauffer, of Page,
was awarded the Burlington lead
ership trip to club week next
spring. This award is given to the
outstanding club leader in each
^ county thru which the Burlington
passes.
Miss Margery Rees, O’Neill, was
awarded the outstanding poultry
Tlub member premium in the form
of a trip to club week in Lincoln,
donated by the Crete MillB, of
Crete, Nebr. These mills are also
awarding 100 pounds of feed to
each of three club members who
ranked high in their individual
clubs. The awards will be made
as soon as records can be checked.
Former President Gets
A Great Ovation On His
Address At Capitol City
Ex-President Hoover addressed
an enormous crowd at Lincoln last
Thursday night, it being one of a
series of speeches that he has been
delivering in different parts of the
United States during the past few
months. According to press re
ports he was tendered an ovation
by the immense crowd which must
have warmed his heart after the
tremendous slaughter he received
at the polls in November, 1932.
His discussion of the affairs of
the country and the enormous debt
that is being piled on posterity by
the New Deal and its proponents
brought tumultous applause from
his vast audience, and his analysis
of affairs of state demonstrated
that he is a close student of Am
erican affairs with the faculty of
imparting his knowledge to others
in a way that they, too, could und
erstand. When Mr. Hoover left
Lincoln he must have been impres
sed with the fact that Nebraska
is a long ways from being the
“enemy’s country” as it was in the
fall of 1932.
Grattan Township
Re-elects Officers
The electors of Grattan township
held their annual meeting in the
Public Library in this city last
Tuesday afternoon and it was the
largest attended of any meeting
held for several years. Reports of
the variuos officers were received,
including a report from the library
board. The financial condition of
the township is in good shape, with
a balance of $2,000 in the genera]
fund and no levy was made this
year for that fund. The levy for
the library fund was raised $200,
being increased from $1,000 to $1,
200. There was no levy made for
the bridge fund and a levy suffi
^,r5nt to raise $1,000 was made for
~ tne road fund.
In the election of road overseers
for the township Ed Matthews and
Janies Carney, incumbents, were
re-elected as overseers for the two
districts north of the city and Bert
Shoemaker and Clayton Messner,
also incumbents, were re-elected
as road overseers for the two dis
tricts in the southern part of the
township.
The Weather
High Low Mois.
Jan. 17_ 9 5 .36
Jan. 18. 6 —12
Jan. 19_ 2 —10
Jan. 20_ 15 —14
Jan. 21_33 1
Jan. 22_33 —18 .06
Jan. 23_ —17
INSTITUTE REPORT
SHOWS DROUTH IS
HOG PRICE RAISER
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AAA Attempted To Make Payment
As Large As Possible For
Contracted Reduction.
By James R. Lowell
For the benelt of this newspaper,
a study of the AAA program has
been secured from the Brookings
Institute of Washington, D. S., on
a non-partisan basis. This study
credits the 1934 corn-hog reduction
and other emergency activities of
the farm administration with boost
ing the nation’s corn-hog produc
ers $170,000,000.
D. A. Fitzgerald, agricultural
economist who made the study, said
the “economic status of livestock
producers improved greatly be
tween 1932 and 1936” but that how
much of this was due to the AAA
and how much to the drouth and
other factors was less certain.
He said the drouth was a major
factor and the AAA a minor fac
tor in the hiking of livestock prices,
but concluded hog producers’ in
comes were 7 per cent larger than
they would have been without the
AAA and that the program was
responsible for corn producers get
ting $64,000,000 extra income.
“The $170,000,000 increase in in
come obtained by corn-hogproduc
ers as a group, as a result of the
emergency hog marketing cam
paign, relief purchases of hogs, and
the 1934 corn-hog reduction pro
gram was not uniformly distribut
ed among individual producers,”
Fitzgerald reports.
While farmers have benefited,
the taxpayers will foot the bill, he
said.
“A casual inspection may lead to
the conclusion that some gains ac
crued to farmers as a result of the
AAA corn-hog program, and that
neither distributors nor consumers
were adversely affected—that the
income of one group gained and
that no other group lost. This is
not entirely correct. The income of
farmers was increased, tho not
greatly.
“A small part of the increase
was diverted from the distributing
industry; the remainder has been
paid largely from the processing
taxes or from general taxes.”
Fitzgerald says that during the
first three years the AAA was in
effect, consumers were not greatly
affected by its livestock program
He says this was solely because the
major change in hog supplies was
due to the 1934 drouth and not to
the AAA. He concludes also that
the processing tax did not cause
consumers to pay more for th<
pork supply that was available.
In crediting the AAA with being
responsible for an increase in corn
hog income, Fitzgerald noted that
the "AAA took the precaution to
make the contract financially at
tractive, and indeed attempted to
make the payments large enough
to guarrantee the signer a larger
income than the non-signer.”
He concludes that market prices
for hogs were somewhat higher in
1933-34—perhaps 50 cents—and
somewhat lower in 1934-35—per
haps $1.25—than they would have
been in the absence of the agricul
tural adjustmentprogram. Chang?
in market prices, he said, however,
are not necessarily an indication of
change in the economic status of
hog producers. Costs and AAA
benefit payments, as well as vol
ume of sales are mentioned as oth
er factors.
Just what the adverse derision
of the U. S. supreme court on the
AAA means to business in Nebras
ka may best be judged by the views
of members of an industry whi'-h
depends largely upon agriculture
and which experienced an outcani
ing increase in volume of sales last
year. Four leading automobile
CREIGHTON ALUMNI
GATHERING IS HELD
AT HOTEL TUESDAY
North Central Nebraska Cregihton :
Club Organized. J. I*. Marron,
of O’Neill Is President.
About fifty alumni of Creighton
university met at a banquet at the
Golden Hotel last Tuesday evening,
which was called for the purpose of
organizing a Noi'th Central Ne
braska Creighton Club. The fifty'
alumni present represented the
counties of Holt, Boyd and Ante
lope, and the promoters of the
meeting are convinced that many
more would have been present had
it not been for the inclement
weather.
After the banquet talks were de
livered by Father Quinn, of Omaha,
chairman of the Athletic Board of
Creighton university; Marchie
Schwartz, athletic director and
former Notre Dame football star;
F. E. Pellegrin, alumni secretary |
and publicity director, and Rev. B.
J. Leahy, of this city. Mr. Pelle
grin displayed pictures of football
games that had been participated
in by Creighton teams. During
the exhibition of the pictures the
alumni entertained the boys of the
O’Neill High school and St. Mary’s
academy. During the display and
afterward Marchie Schwartz made
a special talk to the boys on
athletics.
Part of the entertainment put on
by the alumni of this city for their
visitors was a solo dance by Miss
Marian Jeannette Kubitschek, ac
companied on the piano by her
mother, and two solo selections by
Fiank A. Meyer, accompanied by
Mrs. Herman Nelson.
At the conclusion of the picture
display the alumni organized the
North Central Nebraska Creighton
Club and elected the following of
ficers for the ensuing year: Presid
ent, J. P. Marron, O’Neill; Vice
President, Dr. F. J. Kubitschek,
O’Neill; Secretary, Alvin A. But
terfield, Neligh; Treasurer, J. Earl
Harper, Spencer.
Treasurer’s Office
Kept Very Busy
Treasurer Winchell and his office
force have been going in high since
the first of the year, in fact since
December 1, 1935. Practically
every day there are long lines of
taxpayers waiting at the office to
secure their automobile license for
the year 1936 and pay the tax on
their car, which must be paid be
fore the license is issued. Up to
and including January 22 the office
had issued 1,000 automobile and
truck licenses this year.
dealers of Lincoln have been inter
viewed for the benefit of readers
of this paper:
F. A. Roehl—“Demise of the
AAA is nothing to get excited over.
Car sales for the next 30 to 60
days probably will be curtailed.
After that sales will be better than
ever and before the year is out we
will be glad the AAA was killed.
A farm program Will be devised on
a more solid basis. I have handled
the Nash line since 1918 and am
more optimistic now than any year
before.
Ed O’Shea: “The AAA death
caused a considerable let-down in
car sales, setting such sales back
at least three months in Nebraska.
The state’s only industry is agri
culture and we must have some
program similar to AAA if retail
business is to continue good. Pro
spects will brighten considerably if
farmers are convinced they will
get the additional payments con
tracted for and congress works out
a feasible farm legislative pro
gram.”
A1 DuTeau: “Reaction to the
supreme court decision has made
a marked difference in volume of
sales. Farmers depended on the
$12,000,000 yet unpaid under AAA
contracts. Doing away with the
triple A is certain to reduce car
sales temporarily, but I am certain
Washington will do something and
a permanent farm program will be
set up. The business outlook for
the year is hopeful.”
Fred S. Sidles: “I don’t believe
knocking out the AAA will affect
our sales appreciably. I am con
fident the farm situation will be
adjusted satisfactorily in the near
future. The AAA was all right as
an emergency measure but was not
conducive to best business as a
permanent feature.”
Hospital Notes
Max Wolf was operated on for
chronic appendicitis Saturday. He
is convalescing nicely.
Madedyn Hynef of St. Mary’s
academy was brought in Monday
morning with an attack of pneu
monia. She is improved very much
at the present writing,
A. D. Brown, of Atkinson, met
with an auto accident on highway
No. 20 near here Monday and was
brought to the hospital for first aid
treatment. He went home on the
west bound train that evening.
Readers Showing Ready
Response To $1 A Year
Offer On Subscriptions
A large number of our readers
have called during the past three
weeks and renewed their subscrip
tion for the coming year. Remem
ber, the offer of The Frontier for
$1.00 per year expires on Feb. 8,
1936, and in order to take advant
age of this offer you should get
your money into the office before
that date.
During the past three weeks we
have added a large number of new
readers and the number is increas
ing every day. If you want the
leading paper in the county you
can get it for $1.00 per year, if
you get in your subscription be
fore the closing date. Now is the
time to square up your subscription.
Harry Scott Files For
Railway Commissioner
Harry W. Scott, former Tax
Commissioner of Nebraska, has
filed for the Republican nomina
tion for Railway Commissioner.
Mr. Scott was County Clerk of
Pawnee county two terms, begin
ning in 1917. He also served as
Assistant State Tax Commissioner
for six years prior to the time he
was appointed Tax Commissioner
by Governor Weaver.
During the year926 and 1927
he served as secretary of the Re
publican State Central committee.
During the time that Mr. Scott
was connected with the State Tax
Department he had on opportunity
to become familiar with valuations
of railroad companies, telephone
companies and other properties
whose rates are regulated by the
state railway commission.
The experience he has had in
public affairs and his wide acquaint
ance over the State of Nebraska
should make him a very valuable
man in the position he seeks.
“I expect to make' a campaign
for this office on the record, which
I have already established in other
public offices which I have filled,”
said Mr. Scott. “I have always
felt that the success of a public of
ficer depends upon his ability to
get along with people and accord
everybody fair treatment. This I
have always been able to do.”
DAKOTA’S BIRTH TO BE
OBSERVED IN YANKTON
Yankton, S. D.—Celebration of
the seventy-first anniversary of the
creation of Dakota Territory by
proclamation of President Abraham
Lincoln in April, 1861, is planned
by the city of Yankton, first cap
itol of the Territory, with a page
ant and homecoming program dur
ing the week of June 7, this year.
Dakota Territory as originally
created comprised the present
states of South Dakota, North Da
kota, Montana and Wyoming, and
portions of Idaho and Nebraska.
Yankton, located on >the Missouri
river, was a natural gateway into
the territory.
Pioneers of Dakota of 60 years
or more ago, wherever now reside
ing, are to be special guests of the
city at this celebration.
In conjunction with the celebra
tion commemorating the creation
of the Territory the Yankton Press
and Dakotan, first surviving news
paper to be published in the Ter
ritory, will on June 6, 1936, ob
serve its seventy-fifth anniversary
by publishing a historical Diamond
Jubilee Edition.
Pioneers of Dakota of 60 years
or more ago, wherever they may
now be residing, are being urged
to send to the Yankton Press and
Dakotan as early as possible their
names, present place of residence,
and date of arrival in Dakota, or
of birth if they were Dakota-born,
in order that special invitations
may be sent to them to attend the
celebration.
HOLT COUNTY ANI)
MIDWEST SHIVER IN
SEVERE COLD WAVE
A Low of 18 Below Zero Recorded
In O’Neill Wednesday At 10
O’clock In The Morning.
Nebraska, as well as practically
every northern state in the union,
has encountered the coldest weath
er of the season during the past
week and in some of the states the
thermometer dropped lower than
it has for several years. Starting
in on Wednesday night of last week
it dropped to 7 below; Friday
morning it was 6 above; Saturday
morning 12 below zero; Sunday, 10
below and it clung to zero nearly
all day; Monday morning 14 below
zero; Tuesday morning, 1 above;
then on Wednesday morning it
dropped to 8 below at 6 o’clock,
13 below at 8 o’clock and 18 below
at 10 o’clock. It moderated a little
during the afternoon rising three
degrees but it clung to 16 below
zero all day, the coldest day in
this city for a long time. This
morning it was 17 below zero and
was around zero at noon today.
We have had flurries of snow
during the week and the ground i?
now covered with six or eight
inches of snow, which pleases the
farmers as they say it gives evid
ence of lots of moisture for next
season.
Severe cold has gripped the en
tire middle west and cold records
of several years standing have fal
len. The following account is from
the Nebraska State Journal, of
Lincoln;
“Eastern Nebraska Wednesday
night faced the possiblity of ex
periencing the lowest temperature
in seventeen years as “the rawest
cold wave since the turn of the
century” held this section locked in
its grip.
“Thruout the middlewest the
temperature plummeted to record
low readings as the year's worst
cold wave struck. Many deaths
were reported as, in some places,
the lowest temperatures in weather
buerau records were attained..
“Strangely, as the mercury hit
unusual lows in the eastern por
tions of the state, temperatures
rose in the western sections. The
temperature range at 6 p. m. Wed
nesday was 62 degrees from Oma
ha to Sidney. At Lincoln at 6 p. m.
it was 11 below and the prediction
for late Wednesday night and
early Thursday morning was for
even colder weather.
“The Lincoln weather bureau
predicted a temperature of 20 be
low for Thursday morning, which
would be the coldest since Jan. 11,
1918, when the thermometer drop
ped to 23 below. The lowest temp
erature ever recorded in the capitol
city was 29 below in January of
1892.
“Snow falls reported were: Ash
land and Plattsmouth, 3 inches;
Valparaiso, 2; David City, 3; Ne
braska City, 3; Auburn, Gresham
and Stromsbcrg, one-half. Light
snows fell at Seward, York, Mil
ford, Weeping Water, Syracuse,
Humbolt, Lincoln, Wymore, Tecum
seh, Table Rock and Wilber.
“So swiftly did the cold strike
Nebraska that weather bureaus
were forced to hastily revise their
forecasts for Wednesday night and
Thursday. Early Wednesday morn
ing the Lincoln bureau predicted
rising temperatures and snow in
Lincoln Thursday, with Wednes
day night’s “lowest temperature
about zero.’ Less than twelve hours
later, it was warning Lincoln resid
ents to prepare for ‘20 below.'
“Representative temperatures at
6 p. m. Wednesday were: Omaha
—14, Lincoln —12, Grand Island
—12, Cozad 8 above, North Platte
16 above, Big Springs 45 above,
Sidney 46 above, and Cheyenne,
Wyo., 43 above. Randolph had a
temperature reading of 19 below
zero early Wednesday morning,
while the mercury dropped stead
ily at Norfolk all day, reaching 19
below zero at 6 p. m.
“United Air Lines observers said
eastern Nebraska was just on the
edge of the rawest cold wa*'e since
the turn of the century.
“A twelve mile an hour ,wind
fr« m the north was reported by
the airlines station at Lincoln
Wednesday night. A shifting to
the cast would bring about a halt
to the falling temperatures and
perhaps a rise. East winds were
reported at Cozad and North
Platte. At Big Springs, Sidney,
and Cheyenne, winds were re
ported from the west.
“Bus line reported no difficulty
from blocked roads on their routes
Wednesday evening, tho pavements
were said to be slick in places,
mostly in towns.
“Railroads reported their trains
running on schedule from the west
and south.”
ARTICHOKE WILL BE
INTRODUCED HERE
AS A DROUTH CROP
Hastings Company Will Furnish
Seed And Contract To Buy
Crop From Grower.
Former Congressman Fred G.
Johnson, president of the United
Artichoke company, of Hastings,
accompanied by K. D. Wray and
M. L. Hall, field men for the com
pany, were in the city last Tues
day and Mr. Johnson addressed a
meeting of the Tigers Club on the
possibility of growing Jerusalem
artichokes in this section of the
state.
Mr. Johnson has been in the
artichoke business for several
years and says that as an indus
trial crop it cannot be excelled as
it is a sure yield in dry years when
other crops fail. The tubers are
planted like potatoes and has no
natural enemies. It is claimed that
it is unexcelled as food for cattle,
sheep and hops, and Mr. Johnson
says he is firmly convinced that
this plant will be grown in various
parts of the country for the pro
duction of power alcohol and sugar
in which it is rich in content.
The company, of which Mr. John
son is president, is making con
tracts with farmers who dpsire to
raise the plant, and will furnish
them the seed and contract with
the grower to take the crop at, I
think he said, $14.50 per ton. As
it has been known to produce five
to eight tons per acre tlm would
prove very profitable to the grower.
Unlike sugar beets, artichokes
are cultivated like potatoes and
can be taken care of with ordinary
corn plows, and does not require
the hand weeding that is necessary
for the successful growth of sugar
beets. Several local farmers have
been thinking about trying the
plant out and we may know more
about it in another year.
Mayor Floods Skate Pond
Last Sunday, with the mercury
hanging around zero all day, Mayor
Kersenbrock thought it would be a
good time to help the kids out by
flooding the ice rink at the corner
of Seventh and Douglas streets,
and he proceeded to do so. He wa,
alone in the undertaking and he
had a tussle with the large hose
with the result that he got a good
soaking. To cap the climax when
he attempted to pick up the hose,
after it had run about fifteen or
twenty minutes, he slipped, falling
into the water and the portions of
his anatomy that did not get wet
in direct contact with the hose
was saturated when he fell into
the water. In a short time he was
a modern snowman, with his
clothes frozen solid. John got a
severe cold out of the undertaking,
but he was undaunted and had the
job completed Wednesday morning
so the boys will now have a good
place to skate.
Frank Nelson was in from the
Meek country Wednesday. Frank
says that altho it was 19 below
zero when he left home it was a
nice day and a reminder of the
days of long ago, when 30 and. 40
below were rather common in this
section. He is also very optimistic
about the coming year as he re
members that in the old days when
we had a good cold winter and lots
of snow that we had lots of mois
ture during the summer months
and were blessed with bountiful
crops. This is one time that we
want history to repeat.
Judge R. R. Dickson, Peter Tod
son, L. G. Gillespie, C. W. Porter,
Archie Bowen, R. M. Sauers, H. L.
Lindberg and F. M. Reece drove
over to Butte last Monday evening
and attended a meeting of the
Masonic lodge of that city, which
was attended by William C. Ram
sey, of Omaha, Grand Master of
the Masonic order in • the state.
The boys say they had a nice time
and that the highway was in good
condition.
COUNTY EXPENSE
ESTIMATE IS DOWN
OVER 13 THOUSAND
Cat of Twelve Tousand In Poor
And Blind Fund A Large
Reduction Item.
The members of the Holt County
Board of Supervisors, at their
meeting last Friday, adopted an
estimate of expenses for the county
for the year 1936 and fixed the
figure at $115,230 as compared to
$128,350 for the year 1935, or $13,
120 less than last year’s estimate.
The greatest reduction in the
1936 estimate is in the county poor
and blind fund, which was reduced
from $30,000 in 1935 to $18,000 for
the year 1936, or a reduction of
$12,000; county judgment fund was
reduced $8,000 from $23,000 to
$15,000; mothers’ pensions reduced
$2,000 from $3,500 to $1,500. The
other reductions made were in the
following: Printing and supplies,
$500; courts and juries, $1,000;
building and repairs, $1,000; justice
and misdcameanor, $50; insane,
$250; board of health, $200; sold
iers’ relief, $200.
Increases in the estimate for
1936 over that of 1935 is elections,
$7,000, there being no estimate for
elections last year; interest on
court house bonds, $1,830.
According to the semi-annual re
port of the county treasurer, pub
lished in The Frontier last week,
the following registered warrants
are unpaid: County general fund,
$56,913.89; county road fund, $13,
050.07.
In addition to the above the fol
lowing claims were on file in the
office of the county clerk on Dec.
15, 1936, which had not been al
lowed: County general fund, $16,
793.96; county bridge fund, $12,
356.86; countyroad fund, $8,819.50;
county road relief fund, $1,430 60;
county road dragging fund, $166.30,
or a total of $39,558.22.
Assets Of Defunct
Banks Are Sold
E. H. Luikart, of Lincoln, re
ceiver of the Citizens State bank
of Stuart, and the Page State bank,
was in the city Thursday morning
and had a sale of the assets of
these banks at the court house.
The assets of the Citizens State
bank sold to Charles Peterson, of
southwest Holt county, for $4,300.
This includes all the property of
the bank that had not been dis
posed of except that now involved
in litigation.
The assets of the Page State
bank sold for $1,200 to Mr. Sullivan,
of Kansas.
Fifty New Cars Since
The First of the Year
That the sale of ■automobiles has
been very good in this county since
January 1, 193fl, is evidenced by
the fact that fifty new cars have
been registered in the office of the
county treasurer since the first of
the year, up to and including Jan
uary 22. From this it would seem
that automobile dealers are in for
the best year they have had in
many years.
GrisweH Again In
Gubernatorial Race
Dwight Griswold, of Gordon, haa
again filed for the republican
nomination for governor. Dwight
was the nominee in the elections of
1932 and 1934 but went down to
defeat in both elections, although
he greatly reduced the democratic
majorities in both campaigns. He
beMeves this is going to be a re
prbMean year and he would like to
! again head the state ticket.
A press release Wednesday said
the national agricultural depart
| ment predicted that grasshoppers
are to do most damage next sum
mer in south central Montana,
eas ern Nebraska and the lower
peninsula of Michigan. It is cer
tain there are less eggs in the
ground than one year ago. In 1935,
the report said in on’y a few spots
were eggs mce numerous than
th°y were in 1934 and this was
true of eastern Nebraska and
Kansas. western Iowa, southern
Wisconsin and a small part of
Michigan.
Gen Lydon plans to leave here
Monday on business in several
j'owrs. perhans in several states,
for the O’Nei'l Photo company.