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ies caring for dependent children.
Deliquent and handicapped cases
in child welfare will be allotted i
$34,493.
Medicai care for crippled child
ren will be distributed to the ex
tent of $59,549.
A dependent child is described
by law as "under the age of 15
who has been deprived of parental
support or care by reason of death,
continued absence from the home,
or physical or mental disability of
a parent, and who is living with a
relative.” A child in an institution
cannot be eligible, because it is
the belief of the bureau that a
child is better off in a home than
in an institution.
The aid to dependent children
idea is actually an extension of the
mothers’ pension plan now in effect
in Nebraska counties. Payments
are limited to $18 a month for the
first child and $12 for each addit
ional child.
Already on file are reports of
1,979 crippled children for whom
assistance is sought, and conser
vative estimates put the figure be
tween 6,500 and 7,000 children in
need of surgical or medical treat
ment.
It is hoped to make available the
services of a state psychiartric
consultant who would make mental
and physical examinations in cases
where it is needed.
After more than four months in
perfecting the child welfare organ
ization, Mrs. Nuquist hopes the
program will result in “a finer
population for Nebraska, correct
ing the defects in the child when
he is so young that he will become
a productive citizen rather than a
social misfit.”
At the present time 739 children
in 35 counties are receiving $7,518
monthly of state-federal aid, ac
cording to Mrs. Nuquist. The re
cipients represent 889 families,
with an average grant of $26 per
family.
An additional $100,000 annual
allotment to Nebraska for aid to
dependent children, representing
partial matching by the govern
ment of county mothers pensions,
may be made by the federal secur
ity board. Nebraska counties paid
mothers’ pensions totaling about
$2,121,000 in 1934, latest figures
available indicate.
The last legislature appropri
ated a half-million dollars for aid
to dependent children from state
social security funds, the govern
ment matching on the basis of $1
for $2 paid by state or county.
While poltical candidates, gen
erally are enjoying a breathing
spell in preparation for the gener
al election campaign, the chosen
few have not been entirely idle.
For example, Richard O. John
Conoco Chemist Wins Renown
For Oil Researches
ONE of the most far reaching of
recent scientific discoveries—
the '‘alloying” of oil to extend the
life of automobile engines — is
credited in large part by engineers
to L L Davis, unassuming young
chemist in the laboratories of the
Continental Oil Company at Ponca
City. Oklahoma..
With Bert H. Lincoln, the com
pany's chief chemist. Davis pa
tiently tested a thousand obscure
chemical compounds to find one
that, mixed with oif at the refinery,
would establish an independent and
permanent protective film on motor
metal and thus permit the oil to do
Its work satisfactorily, even under
the higher stress of modern lubri
cating conditions.
no such chemical substance ex
isted. 80 Lincoln and Davis synthe
sized a quasi magnetic chlorinated
ester which they called methyldl
chlorostearate X-ray diffraction
tests conducted by Professor O. L.
Clark of the University of Illinois
showed Its behavior
. 'Lincoln and Daviqfput together
this compound with a bow to Sir
William Bragg, an English physi
cist who ten years earlier, while
blowing soap bubbles, made obser
vations indicating that the presence
of an ester might bring about a
desirable regimentation of oil par
ticles.
First revealed to the scientific
world at the last meeting of the
American Petroleum Institute, the
Davls-Lincoln process was a tea
L. L. Davis, Continental Oil Com
pany chemist, whose recent discov
eries in the field of friction and
lubrication have attracted nation
wide attention.
lured topic of discussion before tho
American Chemical Society mem
bership in its annual meeting at
Kansas City last week.
son, Lincoln attorney, nominee for
attorney general on the republican
ticket, is making an intensive 3tudy
of the unicameral legislature which
will go into effect next year. Mr.
Johnson, a former legislator and
former Lincoln law official, expects
to be elected and wants to he pre
pared for the next legislative ses
sion which will require an unpre
cedented amount of advice from
the attorney general.
Incidently, the political prognos
ticators say that if the democrat
is majority indicated in the pri
mary prevails next fall, only three
republicans are reasonably sure of
election. These include Johnson
Johnson for attorney general, Bass
for state treasurer, who runs
against a democrat by the name of
Jensen whom the democrats are
generally ignoring as a candidate;
and George Marsh who ha3 as op
ponent a youthful democrat by the
name of William Price who admit
tedly got in as a fluke, running on
the reputation of the dead William
Price’s name.
The least understood of the pres
ent candidates is “Terrible Terry”
Carpenter of Scottsbluffs, demo
cratic nominee for U. S. senate.
Terry went to congress in 1933
with the Roosevelt landslide.
He takes politics almost as light
ly as the average voter does, and,
declares that “it is good business
for me to fight even if I lose in
politics. It still help3 me in busi
ness,” he says. Briefly, Carpenter
j is the “Zioncheck" of Nebraska
politics.
STATE HOUSE SHORTS:
There are 212 teachers in the state
normal schools, averaging $159.81
per month on a 12 month basis. . .
Students number 4,590, The aver
age cost of educating students per
year is $263.92.
A state-wide organization of
“observers" is being formed by the
state game, forestation and parks
commission, as a means of exposing
violators of game and fish laws.
The observers will receive no re
numeration for their trouble, and
instead of identifying violators
they will merely inform the state
officers as to the localities where
violations are prevalent.
Instead of a sale of assets of Ne
braska’s failed banks to the RFC
as had been intended by Governor
Cochran and state banking offi’ialr.,
the Reconstruction Finance cor.
poration ha3 agreed to loan money
to the state for the immediate
liquidation of the state’s approx
imately 120 remaining bank re
ceiverships. It appears the RFC
is strictly a lending agency and is
not allowed to make an outright
purchase.
TIKE PRICES REDUCED!
Again Gambles reduce Tire
Prices, when others are raising.
May Sale Prices—30x3, $1.19—
4.40-21, $4.69-4.75-19, $5.69 for
Tire and Tube—Starts Fri.—Adv.
Safety Demands Careful Driving
and a Properly Conditioned Car
By J. C. HARMON N
"IT’S OLD—but the wit who origi
* nated the Joke about the most
dangerous part of a car being the
"nut" on the steering wheel, was
not far wrong. The modern car is
«o built that it is not daugerous un
less it is in daugoroua hands. To
stretch the point & bit farther. It is
not likely to be inefficient unless
placed in inefficient hands. The
good car is usually the car that la
well cared for, according to a sate
dliving bulletin issued today.
i'ovr drivers are physically in
capable of driving properly. Safe
driving is largely a matter of put
ting into the Job at hand all the
care and attention of which the
driver is capable, in a sense, the
same principle holds for the opera
tion of the car Itself, Iho bulletin
points out.
Proper Care Important
“Whether or not you will got sat
isfactory and efficient results in the
operation of your car is apt to de
pend in no small part on what you
put into it’,” the bulletin says. “And
by that is meant good fuel, good
lubricants, enough air in the tires,
the solution in the batteries and the !
water or anti-freeie in the radiator.
Modern cars are built to operate
efficiently. The rest Is up to the
owner of the car.”
So much has been done la recent
years oy the manufacturers of
standard brands of gasolines to im
prove their products that today the
car owner experiences little difficul
ty in getting a good grade of fuel
for his car, the bulletin declares.
High standards have been estab
lished and are being maintained.
The car owner is not apt to be care
less about buying fas, because ex
perience has taught Mat that his car
just won’t run without it. Going to
the service station after gas is part
<of his regular driving: routine.
Unfortunately, this is not always
the case as far as oil is concerned.
Ail too often car owners neglect to
change toon enough to a cold
weather lubricant when whiter sets
In, or they do not change oil regu
larly enough. The result is hard
Just as the care you put Into your driving determines how safe a driver
you are, so does the care you put into servicing your car determine how
efficiently it will operate.
starting, unsatisfactory lubrication
of moving parts aud excessive wear.
That is what is meant by saying
that it is what you put into your car
that counts.
Check Tire Pressures
The proper amount of air in the
tires is essential to sate driving at
all times, but particularly so in the
winter when roads are slippery, the
bulletin points out. Ttre pressures
should be checked regularly. And
winter always brings the problem
of protecting against freeze-ups.
What goes into the radiator Is im
portant Proper precautions against
freese-ups must be taken by using
an antl-freese solution of sufficient
strength to provide protection un
der the minimum temperature con
ditions which the car will encoun
ter. The battery, too, deserves spe
cial attention in winter because of
the possibility of starting difficul
ties. The battery should contain a
sufficient charge to insure easy
starting and to protect against
freezing, and the battery solution
should be regularly replenished.
“Safe driving and efficient opera
tion depend upon the amount ot
care and attention which the motor
ist gives to his duty of operating
and maintaining the car. The re
| suits he gets from his car will be an
! accurate measurement of what he
I has put Into it."
PRESBYTERIAN SERVICES
Sunday School 10:00—Mr. C. E.
Yantzi, Superintendent.
Morning Worship 11:00—“What
Wilt Thou Have Me to Do.”
Evening Service at 8:00—The
young people will be back in the
choir again.
We shall have a “Back to the
Church” movement when each one
atends. Our services are planned
to help.
H. D, Johnson, Pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH NOTES
Rev. A. J. May, Pastor
Sunday School at 10 a. m.—Rev,
D. S. Conrad, Superintendent.
11 a. m. “Roll Call Day.” Every
member should be present. Speci
al music by the choir.
7 p. m. Epworth League—Ger
aldine Yarnell, Leader.
8 p. m. Evening Service. Sub
ject, “What is a Church?”
May 31 Dr. W. A. Albright, the
District Superintendent, will be
with us for the evening service and
preach. Quarterly conference after
the service.
BRIEFLY STATED
The Altar Society of St. Pat
rick’s church will hold an ice cream,
cake and coffee 3ale at St. Mary’s
Academy on Friday, May 22, be
ginning at 2 p. m. Your patronage
is solicited.
' i ii — ■' i
John Bruce, of Omaha, was in
the city this morning on a tour of
inspection of the various PWA pro
jects in this section of the state.
Mr. Bruce is a civil engineer and
at the present time is assistant to
the chief engineer of the various
PWA projects in the state. He will
be remembered here by the old
timers as the engineer who had
charge of the installation of thq
sewer system in this city something
like a quarter of a century ago.
WILLOWDALE POULTRY CLUB
The young people of this com
munity organized a Poultry Club
this spring and elected the follow
ing officers: Leader, Mrs. Guy
Young; Assistant, Mrs. John Cleve
land; President, Ella Eisert; vice
president, Duane Benson; Secre
tary and treasurer, Olive Soren
son. Meetings will be held once a
month at the homes of the various
members.
THREAD AND THIMBLE CLUB
The people of the Opportunity
community have organized a Girls
4-H Sewing Club and elected the
following officers: Leader, Mrs.
M. 0. Benson; Assistant Leader,
Mrs. Walter Young; President,
Miss Helen Cleveland; Vice presi
dent, Miss Evelyn Van Every; Sec
retary, Max Benson; Yell and Song
Leader, Fern Sorenson; News Re
porter, Frances Cleveland.
The Thread and Thimble Club
will hold their meetings at the
homes of the members. The next
meeting will be held at the home
of Mrs. Milo Benson on May 28,
1936, at 2:30 p. m.
YOUTH POINTS A WAY
Pointing out that drivers from
18 to 24 years are involved in more
than one-fifth of all motor vehicle
accidents and more than one quar
ter of all fatal accidents, the Nat
ional Student Federation of Ameri
ca has called upon the college
youth of America to accept its
share of the responsibility for the
traffic accident situation.
“This problem needs to be tack
led. by youth,” says a Federation
bulletin going to 1,700 presidents
of student councils and editors of
student newspapers. “So long as
the evil which annually takes 36,
000 lives continues uncontrolled,
invalids "Perk up” with
PURSANG
It is temarkable how much better
Pursang makes invalids feel. And not
only invalids but those who always feel
“half sick” because illness, overwork,
wrong food or lack of exercise have
reduced the iron content of their blood.
Physicians and hospitals now often
prescribe Pursang 33 an aid to con*
valesccncc. It is a scientifically devel
oped hematinic, containing copper and
iron compounds which help to correct
iron deficiency in the blood. Pursang
aids in building red blood corpuscles,
so necessary to all-around physical
well being.
If you are tired, run down and nerv
ous. can't sleep or eat well, or find it
hard to recover from simple illnesses,
try Pursang. See how much better yon
feel after two or three days. In a week
or more you'll hsrtHr recognise yone
self for the same person!
BECKMAN S DRUG
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA
youth is faced with a menace to
its security and welfare and an
affront to its intelligence.”
The Federation presents in its
bulletin a series of suggestions for
a campus traffic control program.
Warning against the futility of an
abortive, short-sighted campaign,
the Federation emphasizes that a
spring program ought to be under
taken with the expressed, purpose
of laying the ground work for a
long-term program next fall. The
proposals are aimed at two specific
phases of the problem a3 it es
pecially affects colleges. They
are, (1) influencing on and away
from the campus, (2) establishing
rules to govern undergraduate use
of the college and the community,
not only locally, but in the com
munity at large.
That youth should recognize and
act upon its responsibility in one
of the nation’s gravest social prob
lems, is itself a heartening indi
cation of a new thoughtful spirit.
There is extraordinary good sense
in the recognition that establish
ing traffic control i3 a long-term
proposition—an important fact
which older persons have some
times failed to grasp. The Feder
ation is to be commended, too, for
acknowledging that traffic safety
is not something they know all
about. They have secured the ad
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STALLION
will make the
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for a limited number
of mares.
On the old Hunter ranch, 8Y1
miles* north of O’Neill on
Highway 281.
Alfred T. Drayton
vice and cooperation of the Nation
al Bureau of Casualty and Surety
Underwriters, one of the outstand
ing national organizations working
for improved traffic control.
Youth can, and it is hoped that \
it will, do much to eradicate the /
evil which is “a menace to its
security and welfare and an affront
to its intelligence.”
The New Deal Oil Company
IS NOT IN JAIL!
There wa-» a complaint filed in County Court, charging that
on the 28th day of April, 1938. the New Deal Oil company at
O Neill, Holt county, Nebraska, did have in its possession with
intent to sell and did then and there offer and expose for sale,
gasoline which did not conform to the requirements of law .
We presume this was brought about by certain jealous com
petitors, who have accused us of watering kerosene and selling
kerosene for gas; that we have served sentences and have done
time at different places.
We were arrested on the complaint filed against us and
brought before County Court. There was no witness who testi
fied that we Had in our possession with intent to sell or that we
offered or exposed for sale gasoline which did not comply with
the law. We had about ten good, truthful citizens as witnesses,
who showed that the charge made in the complaint was false,
but to our surprise, with all this evidence on our part and the
state without evidence, we were convicted by the County Judge.
It looks to us as if this case was all spite work. We ap
pealed the case to the next term of district court. We invite the
public to attend. WTiat would gas and petroleum products prices
be in O’Neill today if our station was closed? Oil corporations
have had no excess profits in O’Neill since our station opened in
O’Neill. You, the buyers, have received this profit.
We thank our friends for the patronage they have given us
and we will try to continue selling petroleum products to you at
reasonable prices and let you be the judge of the quality. W'e
have had no complaint from any patron up to date.
THURSDAY, MAY 28, THERE WILL BE A NEW
GASOLINE PRICE IN O’NEILL!
THE NEW DEAL OIL COMPANY
TONY & CARL, Owners O’NEILL, NEBRASKA
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