The Frontier
D.H. Cronin, Editor and Proprietor
Entered at the Postoffice at O’Neill,
Nebraska as Second Class Matter.
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Standard Oil Promotes
Great Road Test
Thousands of motorists will be
enlisted by Standard Oil company
this summer in the “world's great
est road test” to determine what
mileage the average car will ob
tain under average conditions.
Believing motorists have been
.subjected to conflicting und extrav- j
kgant claims about gasoline, the
campaign will urge motorists to ]
“Learn the Truth About Gasoline
mileage” for themselves. It is
estimated that thousands of Ne
braska and other midwest motor
ists will join in the road test and
make their cars research test
cars. Standard Oil Stations and
Dealers will furnish to all inter
ested a handy booklet for keeping
a record of their gasoline purch
ases and mileage. With it will go
a colorful emblem to mark the
automobile as a “research test
car."
After driving 500 miles or more
in the 65-day period, the motorist
may write into the book a 75-word
summary of his experiences, send
it to the judges and become a pos
sible winner of one of the seven
hundred cash and merchandise
prizes to be awarded. Judges are
to be a group of disinterested ex
perts from the automotive field.
It is expected that much valuable
information will be obtained from
the motorists, through the road
tests.
To publicize the road test and to
CONGRESS—AS SEEN
BY A NEBRASKAN
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force, it is figured that it has saved
h market for the American pro
oucer of fats and oils, to the tune
of over two hundred million dol
lars. It also resulted in less of the
rocoanut oil coming to this country
from the island possession.
The cocoanut oil kings have gone
into the state courts and in some
cases have won their case against
the excise tax- on the ground of
unconstitutionality. Now it is
planned to get an amendment into
ihe tax bill to make the excise tax
a revenue measure to be paid di*
rectly into the treasury of the
United States, thus avoiding any
question of the violation of the
Constitution. The farm gtoup
feels that the American producer
would gladly trade seventeen mil
lion dollars for over two hundred
million dollars.
IDEAL TONIC FOR TIRED
CIILDREN AND ADULTS
Builds Rich, Red Blood,
Stimulates Appetite and
Improves Digestion
If your children are skinny
•nd underweight, fretful and
yrhiny, it may be because their
blood lacks sufficient iron. The
growing years use up terrific
•energy and weaken resistance.
Pursang not only relieves thia
condition by correcting iron
deficiencies and restoring the
balance between white and red
blood corpuscles. It also helps
to arouse appetite and improve
digestion.
Check up on your family’s
health. If your children are run
down, or you yourself are be
low par. why not try the Pur
sang treatment for a while?
Pursang every day before or
after meals.
BECKMAN’S DRUG
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA
attract drivers to take part, the
Standard Oil company has con
tracted for a large amount of ad
vertising space in many news
papers, The Frontier being promi
nent among those chosen for this
purpose. Later ads in the series
are promised to be among the most
entertaining the Company has ever
published.
A STRIKE!
You'll get lots of them when you
buy your tackle at Gamble Stores.
Casting reel, 59c—South Bend
Reel, $1.96—Rod, 98c—18-lb. Test
Line, 50 yds. -19c—A complete line
of Tackle.
BRIEFLY STATED
Myrl Burge, Magel Harbottle
and Floyd Burge spent the week
end in Omaha.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Morton and
son, Jerry, of Bassett, were shopp
ing in ojr city Saturday.
Orville Harrison, one of the
pioneer residents of the Agee
neighborhood, is said to be serious
ly ill.
John A. Robertson was on our
streets Saturday the first time for
several weeks. He has been laid
up with broken, ribs and a collar
bone.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Weidman
and daughter, Jean, of Plainview,
spent Sunday at the home of Mrs.
Weidman’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
John A. Robertson of Joy.
Mrs. John Kersenbrock and son,
Duke, accompanied C. E. Lundgren
to Hastings Tuesday where they
secured a new Chevrolet sport
sedan, that the Mayor had traded
for the day before with the local
Chevrolet dealers.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Lundgren
and Mrs. C. E. Angster drove to
Omaha last Friday where Mr.
Lundgren attended a meeting of
the Chevrolet dealers of the state,
which was held in that city that
day. They returned home the
same evening.
Mrs. Larry Snell returned from
Lincoln last Monday night where
she spent a week with her husband,
who has been in the Veteran’s hos
pital there for the past three
months. Shortly after reaching
Lincoln Mr. Snell developed heart
trouble and his condition is said
to be very critical.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Sunday School 10:00, C. E. Yant
zi, Superintendent.
Morning worship 11:00; Moth-j
ers Day service.
Evening service 8:00. Young
People's Choir. ‘‘Finding the
Way." Y ou are invited to these
services.
H. D. Johnson, Pastor.
| METHODIST CHIRCH NOTES
A. J. May, Pastor.
Sunday School 10 A. M. "Come
to Church and Stay for Church
Day." ' .
Special morning service at 11 A,
M. "Family Day"; “Mother's
Day." Special music by the Choir.
Sermon subject, “Home Religion."
Come and bring the whole family
and if convenient sit together.
Evening: 7 P. M. Epworth
League; 8 P. M. evening service
and sermon; sermon subject, “Our
Problems.” Young People's Choir.
THE NEBRASKA
SCENE
by James R. Lowell
Nebraska's port of entry law ob
served its first birthday May 1,
finishing the 12 months’ period
with a minimum of criticism, at
least where Nebraskans are con
cerned. Nevertheless there is a
growing antagonism for the entry
port idea among truckers the
country over.
This state is fringed with a
scries of entry ports checkine on
traffic coming in from each of the
six states bordering on Nebraska.
The total number of ports in 35,
and 18 are situated along the
Kansas “frontier” where Ihe bulk
of the trucked-in gasoline enters
the state.
The spirit of retaliation largely
motivated Nebraska’s law. Ad
joining states with the exception
of Iowa were levying license and
other fees on some or all classes
of truck transportation from other
commonwealths. Kansas and Colo
rado had mileage taxes. The Ne
braska legislature in 1933 passed
a truck and bus reciprocity law,
and the port of entry law of 1935
vintage was intended to check up
on trucks from other states which
taxed Nebraska trucks, as well as
to check all gasoline transports
entering this state and see that
the gas tax was paid.
A 50-cent inspection fee for gas
oline carriers is charged, and dur
ing the first year of operation the
Nebraska ports collected$25,677.50
for such inspection. Excess gas
tax collections, concerning vehicles
with fuel tank capacity exceeding
20 gallons, were $5,142.88, and oil
inspections netted $54.50. making
a total of $30,874.88 actually re
ceived by the department of agri
culture and inspection.
So far, not so good, as the cost
of operating the ports was $45.
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ON Mother's Day nothing can make
Mother happier than to have you re
member to call her—to hear your words of love
and appreciation for all she has done for you.
If you can’t be with Mother in person you still
can enjoy the priceless pleasure of a reunion
with her—just call her by
LONG DISTANCE
MOTHER’S DAY
SUNDAY, MAY IO ^2^
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Special long distance rates are in effect all day
every Sunday and each night from 7 p. m. to
4:30 a. m. on calls of about 50 miles or more.
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472.20. However, Dir* tor Eanrir.gr
of the department points out that
$79,655.80 was collected by the
counties in which the ports are lo
cated on license feer and charges
on tow-car caravans.
Moreover, within the past year
gas tax collections have increased
in the neighborhood of $1,000,000
not counting proceeds from the
1-cent levy for social security fin
ancing. The port of enry system
can be credited with a large por
tion of this increase.
In addition, the ports serve as
stations whereby diseased livestock
and impure products are prohib
ited from entering the state. Port
of entry inspectors also have the
power of rieputy sheriffs arid help
enfroce road and highway laws.
Seventy-five persons ate afforded
employment by the ports.
From a practical standpoint it
appears the system has been a dis
tinct asset to the state.
On the negative side the argu
ment is largely abstract and ap
plies more especially to port of
entry systems in states such as
Kansas where mileage tax is im«
posed on trucks than to Nebraska.
E. H. Markham, director of the
American Petroleum Industries
Committee, informs the Lowell
Service that port of entry laws
have proved disappointing both
'from an inspection and a taxation
| standpoint. He warns that a gen
' era! adoption of such systems
would definitely restrict the free
flow of interstate commerce under
which the country has prospered
and would tend to make the na
tion’s transportation system a
series of independent state units
rather than a nationwide one.
“Altho superficial thought might
indicate that it is reasonable to
tax out-of-state trucks because
they contribute nothing to the
state, the practical working of
free transportation offsets this,”
(Continued on page 5, column 5.)
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double quick, while others stay put.
That’s the sort of difference your hilliest hot-weather drive will
show you in Germ Processed, the alloyed oil. Patented.
It not only stays up around “Full,” but stays right up in every
working surface of your engine. Yes, the pistons, cylinders,
valve gear, and any types of bearings ever used, can really take tn
this alloyed oil. You might say they become lastingly, smoothly
“oil-glazed.” (1
And you can see that this added sleek oil-surfacing, together
with the high-durability Germ Processed oil-film, easily doubles
your guard against summer grief. Now when you Want to go
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