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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 17, 1936)
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(Continued from page 1.) candidate, will lose out heavily be cause of his extreme dry views); Harry' R- Swanson for secretary of state by a large majority (oppon ent too young, too inexperienced and of wrong political faith); very close between Price (I)) and Marsh (R) for state auditor; Olson (D) for land commissioner; Bass (R) for treasurer (a number of demo crats are working for Bass because of his being much better qualified than his democratic opponent); Johnson for attorney general (also receiving considerable democratic support despite fact Omaha is his opponents home town); tossup be tween Good (D) and Duane Swan son (R) for railway commissioner. Latter has advantage of being an Omaha product. Political Highlights of the Week A number of polls taken at var ious points over the state including the state fair indicate that Landon will carry Nebraska, but individual reports reaching headquarters of tooth parties at Lincoln show that the Roosevelt sentiment is growing stronger, presumably because of prompt federal aid in providing drouth Aid. A poll taken in Dwight Gris wold’s home county shows a strong majority for Landon for president, Griswold for governor and Sim wons for senator. A pool from a town in the southwest part of the state gives the election to Landon by a small majority, Cochran for governor and Norris for senator. Norris and Carpenter split enough votes to place Simmons high up in second place. An interesting development of the campaign is the breaking down •f party lines in a number of im portant contests. The erstwhile democratic Omaha World-Herald is supporting Landon and Simmons on the republican side, and the democratic Mr. Cochran for gov ernor. Several county democratic organizations have indicated they will support the republican Mr. Bass for treasurer, and democratic leaders in a number of commun ities including Omaha and Lincoln are boosting Hick Johnson (K) for attorney general. Likewise, a ma jority of Omaha republicans ap parently favor Jurgensen (I)) for lieutenant governor. It is reported via the grapevine system that the reason for the de lay in filing the Norris petitions was a desire to get 50,000 signa tures. Norris boosters filed with 49,504 signers, despite the fact they had until Oct. 3 to get the petitions in. First of the petition candidates to get in the fracas following the Norris filing was Austin E. Jay of Cering who is running for con gress in the Fifth district. He is listed as a farmer. A general net reduction in Ne braska property taxes this year is indicated in a survey of the state, county, city and school taxes in 37 county seat cities. The first county (Garfield) to report to State Tax Commissioner Smih shows a reduc tion in total taxes levied in the county from $68,344 in 1935 to $*0 ,940 this year, the big cut com ing in school taxes which were re duced from $33,902 to $17,765. Twenty-five of the cities included in the recent survey will reduce levies. This was made possible mainly in all cases by reduced city levies, in 10 by lower school taxes and in four the lowered state tax was responsible. County levies al. tho generally downward were too small to be much of a determining factor. The lowest county levy for 193f reported so far is 2.24 mills in Cuming county, a reduction of .21 of a mill. The highest is Scotts bluff with 7.24, a reduction of .61 of a mill. The biggest boost wai from 2.23 to 3.50 in Fillmore. Out of 43 counties to report so far, IS reduced levies, 16 did not change and nine increased. School levies, usually the largest taxes in Nebraska communities, ap parently are going downward again this year du$ to drouth. Of 37 dis tricts reporting to date, 15 reduced taxes; 11 increased and 11 did not change. Relief problems, bond situations, municipal improvements and many other factors apparently are ac counting for some wide swings in individual levies. Among 41 county seats reporting, David City took the big jump, raising from 7.60 to 16.40 for an increase of 8.80 mills. Gering, long the county seat city with the highest total of all taxes in the state, took a big step toward relinquishing its title by carving 6.50 mills off its city levy giving it a 1036 city levy of 27.00 mills. Lowest city levy reported was 5.00 mills at Hayes Center, and highest was 34.44 at Fullerton. State House Shorts The validity of the 1935 legisla tive act enabling municipalities to vote bonds to pay property dam ages incidental to construction of viaducts has been sustained in dis trict court at Lincoln. . . . Steps are being taken toward an appeal to the state supreme court from a district court discision which held valid the 1935 state law giving the state a monopoly on the bond ing of public officials. . . . The con stitutionality of a state law passed in 1911, which provides that irriga tion districts cannot use more than three acre feet of water during the calendar year, is being chal lenged in a case filed in district court at Gering. The $2 head tax provided to raise funds for the old age assistance program apparently will bring in close to $600,000 a year instead of $500,000 as estimated by the legis lature. , During the last year the state treasury has received a total of $608,199 from the head tax source but nearly $50,000 of this came from the 1933 fifty cent tax which was repealed by the legisla ture last year. During recent months the $2 tax has been bring ing in an average of $60,000 a month. AROUND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA By Karl Stefan Center is proud of its new court house. Many visitors stop in this enterprising inland town these days to visit this fine building. In land towns on real highways are not inland towns any more. The truck and bus service is so good thnt inland towns in many cases seem more active than some of the towns on the railroads. Citizens in these towns are intensely inter ested in farm to market roacis and are competing successfully with their neighboring towns for the trade they are entitled to in their own trade territory. Road work is going on every where in the Third Congressional! District. The advantage of some of the farm to market roads is now being seen, and county commission ers and county supervisors are co operating in order to continue this particular work which will result in employment for rural commun j ities. - There are approximately three thousand individual cases which have been taken up with this office, and efforts are being made for the Congressman to meet the people who have taken up these cases with him in order that they can be discussed and facilitated. These cases are varied—soldiers’ compen sation cases, farm loans, imigra tion questions, delay in the arrival of corn-hog checks, and many oth er questions which constituents want to take up with their govern ment. Carroll, Nebr., featured a Golden Anniversary of the founding of that county with a large number of pioneers present. The store win dows of Carroll were well decorat ed with photographs taken forty and fifty years ago. Because of crop losses, many farmers are forced to ask leniency from the government in collection of feed and. seed loans. This office asked the Farm Credit Adminis tration if the government could provide some sort of labor thru which loans might be worked out. Governor Myers says there is no authority for such procedure, but assures that “field si^ervisors will be reasonable in their collection efforts.’’ Schools are opening all over the third district. The little school houses which have looked so lone some during the hot months are now alive with girls and boys. The American fla>j is being displayed and teachers are busy training the next generation of American men and women. Automobile drivers are again urged to drive carefully when passing the school houses. Children who play hard sometimes forget and play on the dangerous highways. River work in Niobrara is con tinuing in fine shape under the direction of army engineers, and with the cooperation of other gov ernmental agencies. A feature of the Cuming county fair was the annual meeting of the Historical society, where tribute was paid to Aunt Neligh, the moth er of West Point. The members of the societyare keeping alive stories of the Cuming county pioneers by assembling together some of the old, farm implements, old photo The following paragraphs are from the Htuston, (Texas) Post, of Sept. 11, 1936: The Rice Roof is nearing the end of what many consider the most successful season in its history, and among the A-l reasons for its success during the latter part of the season is a young lady now preparing to depart. She is Miss Donna Dae, and she is one of the most exhilarating stage effects of Frankie Masters and his band- Miss Dae is now 18 years old and her real name is Donna Rae Cooper. She was born in O’Neill, Nebr., later moved to Lincoln and then to Omaha. Now at the threshold of her pro fessional career, she was engaged by Masters when his band made a one-night stand in Omaha and he saw Miss Dae perform at the “60” club there. Miss Dae made her debute with Masters in New Or leans, and her reception there con vinced Masters his judgment of talent was still good. Working with a band in which each individual member is a fin ished stage entertainer, Miss Dae nevertheless has made her featured vocalizing and tap-dancing stand out. She is accompanied on tour by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ted Cooper. Miss Dae will leave the Roof Saturday night when Master and his band bow out after the record breaking engagement of the sea son. The roof season will be extended a week with the local Torres-Wat ers band. graphs, and many other pieces of personal possessions of our early Nebraska settlers. In Neligh park on the site of the original Neligh home, between the stumps of two giant trees, is a rock marker, hon oring the memory of the Neligh family, Columbus has completed its grand celebration of the eightieth anniversary of the birth of Colum bus. This celebration drew great crowds, and many prominent speak ers. The railroads participated in helping to make the celebration a success. The Columbus people brot out the full story of the life of Columbus thru pageants of how the city of Columbus was born. Rain and cooler weather is being welcomed over the district. Farm ers point with pride that the grass is not dead and is growing under the influence of the moisture. Most reference is made, however, to the dismay that rain did not come two months ago. However, the farmers seem thankful for the rain now, hoping for fall pastures for their livestock. Any questions regarding govern ment bureaus and departments, civil service, immigration, etc., which readers would like to have discussed, will be answered in this column, thru the generosity of the publisher of this newspaper. Nothwithstand the shortage of crops in our district the women folks have on display almost the usual amount of canned fruit, jel lies, preserves, meat, and so forth, which indicates that many farm homes are well stocked with food, as the result of work done by the women in the kitchens. More chickens have been raised in the third district this year than ever before. White leghorns, white rocks, and buff orpingtons can be seen in most of the farm yards and farmers say that grasshoppers have provided an unusual amount of feed for these chickens. In many instances, corn-hog checks have been held up on ac count of “set-offs” claimed by cer tain federal credit agencies. It is conceded that no particular quarrel can be raised with that practice in some cases, where the producer has been willfully careless or negligent, but there seems no justification for the practice in many cases where the producer has been placed in a completely helpless position by reason of the drouth, crop failure and absence of farm income. Pro ducers have counted on their corn hog payments to carry on their farming operations and it comes near to being a knock-out blow to suddenly and without warning re ceive information that these checks are now to be withheld from them. This office has protested against this practice to the administrator at Washington. The government has spent some thing like $3,800,000 in Box Butte county in the past three years to provide relief. There have never been more han 400 families on re lief and during the summers less than half that number. If that sum had been used exclusively for relief and the politics had been left out it would have given each family $4,000 a year, or $1,000 for 12 years.—It’s not the relief that busi ness is crabbing about—it’s the ter rible cost of distributing that relief Anti New Dealers, both republi cans and old time democrats, have been wearing the smile that won’t come off since they heard the re turns from the Maine election. Their smiles broadened yesterday when they read of the gigantic re publican vote polled in Michigan and Massachusetts Looks as if a Kansas cyclone was on its way to clean up on the New Dealers. New Dealers are of the opinion that the creation of ponds on every section will do away with drouths. Minnesota has a couple of thousand lakes, many of them miles long and wide but that state during the past year has been one of the dryest in the middle west. So it does not seem as if that was the answer. Landon and Knox will put the New Deal on the rocks; Relief Obligation Gov. Landon’s philosophy is that relief to the unemployed is not a privilege or a vested right, or chari ty. He told the Kansas legislature that it is a common obligation cre ated by the rapidity and complexity of economic growth. Foreign Pork Under orders from the Roosevelt administration American farmers killed their pigs and brood sows, and in 1935 foreign farmers shipped more than twelve and one-half mil lion pounds of pork into the Ameri can market. Sing New Deal Praises During 1935 the Roosevelt admin istration caused crop reductions of 31,837,000 acres. During the same year the importation of foodstuffs that previously had been grown in this country represented the pro duction from 33,463,336 acres. Farmers in foreign countries are loud in their praises of the Roose velt administration. 38 Per Cent to Bosses More than 38 per cent of the money expended by WPA haa gone for administration purposes, accord ing to Harry Hopkins, WPA direc tor. Of each $972 spent, only $600 went to the workers and $372 fox administration overhead. Heritage of Debts We must remember that ev ery time the government spends a dollar, that dollar will have to be paid by us or we must pass the debt on to be paid by oiy chil dren. No parents like to leave their children a heritage of debts and mortgages.-Alf M. Landon. THEY’RE COMING The World Series and Foot ball Games—Have your Ra dio in shape to take them all in. Radio Tubes now guar anteed 6 and 12 months. 01 A, 35c—No. 27, 45c. I. The following figures prove conclusively that we are still taking the American These figures were taken from Government records as shown in the farmer out of the foreign market and putting MONTHLY SUMMARY OF FOREIGN COMMERCE THE FOREIGN FARMER IN THE AMERICAN MARKET W 1936 EXPORTS AND IMPORTS OF MERCHANDISE, BY IMPORTANT Lr. s. DEPARTMENT^’ COMMERCE DANIEL CROPER, Secretary COMMODITIES They show a comparison in 6 months period (January 1 to July 1) for seven QUANTITIES* consecutive years and include 1936. What will become of the American farmec FOR SIX-MONTH PERIOD ENDING JUNE OF EACH YEAR if the present program continues? REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATIONDEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION COMMODITIES Unit 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 Cattle—We sold to foreign countries.No. 4,223 2,350 1,868 1,153 1,708 1,955 1,528 Cattle—We bought from foreign countries.No. 195,397 46,983 55,318 53,771 48,387 230,581 280,103 Hogs—We sold to foreign countries...No. 11,651 334 815 11,496 2,309 203 101 Hogs—We bought from foreign countries.Lbs. 12,447 52,146 12,472 4,814 266 47,000 6,536,000 Meat Products—We sold to foreign countries.Lbs. 220,473,000 133,830,000 96,039,000 100,427,000 121,955,000 87,269,000 63,580,000 Meat Products—We bought from foreign countries.Lbs. 68,996,000 20,249,000 21,714,000 27,074,000 26,175,000 58,006,000 80,229,000 Bacon, Hams and Shoulders—We sold to foreign countries.Lbs. 129,933,000 68,871,000 41,042,000 45,431,000 41,113,000 33,970,000 23,303,000 Canned Meats—We bought from foreign countries.Lbs. 41,137,000 8,762,000 10,033,000 17,773,000 15,725,000 38,602,000 50,517,000 Animal Oils and Fats (edible)—We sold to foreign countries.Lbs. 419,386,000 358,292,000 324,632,000 335,559,000 300,851,000 75,709,000 68,358,009 Animal Oils and Fats (edible)—Bought from foreign countries... Lbs. 122,000 1,285,000 89,000 56,000 35,000 6,954,000 10,159,000 Olco Oil—We sold to foreign countries...Lbs. 26,158,000 24,636,000 21,075,000 18,298,000 11,944,000 4,405,000 4,705,009 Lard—We sold to foreign countries.Lbs. 375,050,090 318,213,000 292,156,000 306,262,000 274,128,000 68,008,000 69,508,000 Butter—We sold to foreign countries.Lbs. 1,833,000 1,195,000 776,000 547,000 772,000 313,000 454,009* Butter—We bought from foreign countries.Lbs. 1,872,000 730,000 686,000 663,000 285,090 21,500,000 4,680,000 Animal Oils and Greases (inedible)—Sold to foreign countries.Lbs. 33,173,000 44,059,000 30,108,000 34,555,000 54,495,000 13,880,000 13,559,000: Tallow—We bought from foreign countries.Lbs. 483,090 271,000 372,000 148,000 - 147,325,000 31,130,000 Corn (grain)—We sold to foreign countries.Bu. 5,080,000 1,239,000 1,883,000 2,190,000 1,231,000 100,000 355,000 Corn (grain)—We bought from foreign countries.Bu. 261,000 451,000 218,000 69,000 152,000 17,620,000 5,662,009 Corn (meal and flour)—W’e sold to foreign countries.Bbl. 102,000 92,000 70,000 66,000 64,000 50,000 44,000) Corn (hominy and prepared)—We sold to foreign countries.Lbs. 6,163,000 6,390,000 6,017,000 6,495,000 5,452,000 5,312,000 4,953,009. Oats (grain)—We sold to foreign countries.Bu. 745,000 151,000 508,000 1,106,000 81,000 318,000 491,009 Oats (grain)—We bought from foreign countries.Bu. 109,000 565,000 54,000 10,000 21,000 10,055,000 46,000 Oats (meal, rolled, etc.)—We sold to foreign countries..Lbs. 18,709,000 19,789,000 10,446,000 9,249,000 7,468,000 6^271,000 6,008,000 Wheat (grain)—We sold to foreign countries.Bu. 32,394,000 20,896,000 37,192,000 3,202,000 14,017,000 68,000 146,000 Wheat (grain)—Wc bought from foreign countries.Bu. 8,800,000 7,885,000 5,080,000 4,433,000 5,605,000 12,179,000 19,806*000 Wheat (flour)—We sold to foreign countries.Bbl. 6,097,000 4,795,000 3,466,000 1,997,000 1,904,000 1,679,000 1,705,000' Barley—We sold to foreign countries.Bu. 4,016,000 4,532,000 1,6 <8,000 3,790,000 2,o82,000 1,186,000 3,564,0001 Barley Malt—We bought from foreign countries.Lbs.- 35,043,000 94,739,000 172,328,000 102,095,009 Rye—We sold to foreign countries.Bu. 166,000 78,000 809,000 / 24,000 6,000 144 4,000. Rye—We bought from foreign countries.Bu. -.- 7,551,000 154,000^ Cottonseed Oil Refined—We sold to foreign countries.Lbs. 4,433,000 9,431,000 5,970,000 5,822,000 4,356,000 2,006,000 1,521,009 Cottonseed Oil—We bought from foreign countries.Lbs.. -. -.- 104,197,000 83,419,009 Vegetable Oils and Fats (edible)—We sold to foreign countries.. Lbs. 12,134,000 17,352,000 10,893,000 9,750,000 >0.506,000 8,135,000 9,771,06$ Vegetable Oils & Fats (edible)—Bought from foreign countries .Lbs. 54,102,000 80,396,000 58,706,000 58,419,000 32,926,000 246,687,000^ 20^109,000} ^Source—Monthly Summary of Foreign Commerce of the United States for June, 1930; 1931; 1932; 1933; 1934; 1935; 1936, .
