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VOL. LVII O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1936. No. 22
Over 3,000 Families Could
Be Fed for One Year with
the Pay of 19 “Deserving”
The following article is from
The Wichita (Kans.) Independent
of Oct. 9, 1936.
Who gets all the money poured
into Kansas by the New Deal?
An indeterminate number of peo
ple, including thousands of those
on direct relief or employed on
WPA projects, would like to know
the answer to that question.
And this week no less a person
age than Alfred M. Landon, Repub
lican candidate for the presidency,
added his voice to the clamoring
question.
A week ago John G. Stutz de
manded to know what the big bugs
in the Democratic relief setup were
being paid. He was told in sub
stance to go soak his head. And
that, by the way, is the reply that
Governor Landon received.
The Independent has been asking
about the big salaries of the boon
dogglers for a long time. Many
and varied replies have been re
ceived. But those who really know
— the boondogglers themselves —
refuse to tell the taxpayers just
how tight a grip they have on the
United States treasury.
It is fair to assume, since the
boondogglers refuse the facts, that
their salaries must be out of all
proportion to the value of their
services. Otherwise they surely
would not be ashamed before those
who pay the bill.
While no one on the outside
knows exactly what is being paid
to the 168 major executives main
tained in Kansas by the New Deal,
it is common belief that most of
1 them are getting three to four
' times what they could earn in pri
vate business.
The Independent has one list of
19 Kansas New Dealer salaries to
taling $135,000—enough to supply
3.011 families for a year at the
WPA wages of $45 per month. An
other list is somewhat at variance
with the first but still exorbitantly
high in comparison with salaries
paid by the state to its servants.
You WPA workers who slave in
the ditches and half starve at $45
per, what do you think of such sal
aries as these which are reported
to be paid the boondogglers:
Frank Hodges, Mgr. RFC $ 10,000
Dudley Doolittle, Gen.
Agent, FCA _ 10,000
C. B. Merriam, Dir. RFC ... 10,000
Jonas Graber, HOLC _ 10,000
Cal Ward _... 10,000
Harrison Parkman, Pur.
Agent, U. S. Postoftke 7,500
Ivor McFarlane 7,500
Evan Griffith, State
Administrator, WPA 7,200
Ann Laughlin, State
Mgr Youth Movement 7,000
Carl Rice, A tty RFD 6,000
Homer Bastian FHA 6,000
James Strong 6,000
Mrs. Harrison Parkman,
Asst. Mgr. Youth M. 6,000
R. II. McEween,
Crop Loans _ 5,000
Ralph Snyder- 5,000
Martin Miller, HOLC_ 5,000
Jasper Kincaid, Special
Investigator, RFC _ 5,000
George Penn, Asst. FHA 4,500
Lew Williams _ 4,500
F. M. Fisher, Asst.
Mgr. Crop Loans . 3,300
Total __$135,500
Now let’s see what the state of
Kansas pays its executives. Even
the highest state salary scarcely
tops the lowest paid to the New
Dealers.
And even Governor Landon gets
about what the New Dealers pay
their best stenographers. You know
the law fixes the governor’s pay at
$5,000 but our present chief execu
tive has never drawn more than
$3,750 per year.
And by the way, there’s an econ
omizer for you. When Alf Landon
says cutgovernment costs he starts
with himself—not with the lowly
man handling a shovel in a road
side ditch.
Here is a list of 19 state execu
tives—the highest paid we have.
Lay this list down beside that of
the boondogglers. Quite a compar
ison, isn't it?
Kansas Job Holders
Alf M. Landon, Governor $ 3,750
Frank Ryan, Sec. of State 3,000
George Robb, Auditor 3,000
J. J. Rhodes, State Treas. 3,600
C. V. Beck, Atty Gen. 4,000
W. C. Austin, State Printer 3,000
MT. R. McLean, Adjt. Gen. 3,200
Roy Haines, Bank Com. 3,600
Dr. James M. Scott,
Board of Adm. __ 3,000
A. M. Logan, Dir.
Inspection and Regis. _ 3,000
’■ C. M. Voelker, Chief
* Enforcement Officer 2,500
Fred L. Hans, Game Ward.. 3,600
T. B. Armstrong,
Chief Grain Inspector_ 3,250
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Harry Darby
Highway, Dept. - 3,750
H. R. Goodyear,
Highway Dept. 3,078
Homer Hoch, State
Corporation Com. - 3,000
Carl Newcomer,
Vehicle Com. 2.400
Walter Pleasant, State
Tax Com. 3,200
D. A. N. Chase,
Budget Director 3,375
Total „.— —.- $61,303
Governor’s Statutory
Salary --|5,000
Voluntary
Reduction -.. 1,250
Hog Demand Is Active
While Prices Are lA>wer
Report of Atkinson Live
stock Market, Tues. Oct. 13.
Hogs: Receipts, 355 head. The
demand for all kinds and weights
of hogs was very active with pigs
generally 50 cents a hundred high
er. Most pigs weighing over 100
pounds sold at 7.00 to 8.50; light
weights at 5.50 to 6.50; sows at
8.25 to 9.00; stags at 7. 50 and 8.10;
top fat hogs at 9.40 and 9.50.
Cattle: Receipts, 750 head. Not
many real good cattle included in
the offering. What few good ones
were here looked fully steady, all
others 15 to 25 cents a hundred
lower. Best yearling steers at 5.50
and 5.65; good kinds at 5.00 to 5.25;
roans, reds and brockel faced year
lings at 4.25 to 4.75; best heifers
at 5.00 to 5.55; a few real fat ones
at 6.00. On the stocker order at
4.00 to 5.00; plain ones at 3.75 to
4.00; best steer calves quotable up
to 6.50; good kinds at 5.50 to 6.00;
heifer calves at 5.00 to 6.00; fat
cows at 4.75 to 5.75; good cows at
4.00 to 4.50; heavy cutters at 3.50
to 3.75; canners at 2.70 to 3.00;
bulls at 3.75 to 4.60.
O’Neill High Sets Back
Basset Grid Team 6-0
The O’Neill high school football
team and that representing the
Bassett high school met on the
local gridiron last Monday after
noon and the locals took the Bas
sett boys into camp for the first
time in five years with a score of
6 to 0. The game was one of the
best ever seen in this city and the
locals played star ball in order to
hold the boys from the west score
less. Everyone on the local team
were always on their toes and they
earned their victory.
Former Page Minister
Dies At Pac. Junction
Rev. M. E. Geidl, formerly of
Page, died at Pacific Junction, la.,
the forepart of the week. The
body will be shipped to this city,
arriving tonight and the funeral
will be held at Page at 2:30 to
morrow afternoon.
Rev. Geidl was stationed at Page
for six or seven years, being trans
ferred to Iowa only a few months
ago. He had many friends in the
eastern part of the county who
will regret to learn of his death.
He was about 55 years of age.
Can’t Beat Minnesota
The Nebraska Cornhuskers lost
a hard football game to Minnesota
last week-end with a score of 7 to
0, the lone touchdown being made
in the last minute and a half of
play. Altho defeated the Corn
huskers gained a lot of glory, as
Minnesota has one of the strong
est teams in the U. S. A. Mr. and
Mrs. E. M. Gallagher, of this city,
were spectators at the game and
Eddie says it was the hardest
game to lose that he had ever seen.
He is loud in his praise of the
members of the Nebraska team
and says they will “go places and
do things” this season. v
METHODIST CHURCH NOTES
A. J. May, Pastor
Sunday School at 10 a. m.
Morning Worship at 11 a. m.—
Special music by the choir. Ser
mon subject, “The Art of Seeing.”
Epworth League at 6:30—Elec
tion of officers.
Evening Service at 7:30—Junior
choir will assist in the chorus
singing. Sermon and discussion
subject, “Sin and the Plan of Sal
vation.
Dr. O. K. Tickler, for many years
a resident of this city, but now liv
ing in the southern part of the
state, was an O’Neill visitor last
Tuesday visiting his many old time
friends. Doc appears hale and
hearty and looks as if things were
prosperous with him.
POLITICAL? NO, CERTAINLY NOT
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Storz Opens Winter Beer
Season Shipping 30 Cars
A 30-car trainload of Winterbru
beer left the Storz Brewery this
week, marking the opening of the
winter beer season. The size of
this first shipment is an indication
of how the winter beer idea has
taken hold with the public. The
Storz Brewing Co. reports that
sales of Winterbru are already far
in advance of what they were for
a similar period last year.
The idea of a winter beer gained
impetus in this country last year
when the Storz Brewing Co. brot
out “Winterbru.” Winter beer has
been popular in Europe for the
past 75 years. Bock beer is the
traditional beer in the spring. For
summer a light, cooling beer is the
favorite, and in the fall and winter
a heavier beer with a decided
warming effect is in demand.
First School Dance Held
Monday at St. Mary’s
The first of the school dances
at St. Mary’s Academy was held
last Monday evening, commencing
at 8 p. m. The dance was given
by the seniors for the pupils of the
high school of the Academy, and
was largely attended. The gym
was decorated in red, white and
blue, and was in keeping with the
day—Columbus Day. Lunch was
served and the dancing ended at
about 10.30. The high school pu
pils wish to thank the Seniors and
members of the faculty for a very
entertaining evening.—M.
Johnson on Speaking Tour
Richard O. Johnson, of Lincoln,
republican candidate for attorney
general, is on a speaking tour of
the state and will be in O’Neill at
10 a. m. on Wednesday, Oct. 21.
Mr. Johnson has a loud speaker in
his car and will speak on the corn
er of Fourth and Douglas streets.
Mr. Johnson is a splendid orator
and he should be treated to a good
sized crowd in this city. He will
speak at Atkinson at 9 a. m. the
same morning.
Miss Inez O’Connell, efficient and
popular deputy clerk of the district
court, is taking a vacation this
week, with her folks at the old
home near Atkinson.
NEWS OF PEOPLE
YOU KNOW
Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Weekes, Mr.
and Mrs. L. C. Walling and Dr. and
Mrs. L. A. Burgess left last Sat
urday for Hyannis, Nebr., where
they spent Sunday as guests of Mr.
and Mrs. R. F. Griffin, formerly of
this city, and the men folks enjoy
ed some fishing in the lakes near
that city. They say they had a
nice time, altho the fishing was not
as good as anticipated. They re
turned home Monday afternoon.
Dan Farrell, Jr., who is the
engineering inspector of the new
court house building here, and has
been since the building was started,
has also had charge of the con
struction of the new $55,000 school
building at Creighton. Last Sat
urday he was over to Creighton
and turned over the job there to H.
D. Kendrick who had recently been
an inspector on the Columbus pow
er project.
Mrs. Florence II. Jensen, Omaha,
central regional director and state
manager of the Woodmen Circle
was elected president of the Ne
braska State Fraternal Congress in
Lincoln this week. She succeeds
Dr. V. V. Smrha of Milligan. The
Fraternal Congress is composed of
representatives of about 85 fratern
al life insurance associations. Mrs.
Jensen is a former Chambers girl.
Mrs. Mary A. Kelly returned last
Monday night from Illinois, where
she had been the past two years
looking after her real estate inter
ests in that section. On the way
to O’Neill Mrs. Kelly visited rela
tives in various cities and took
three weeks in reaching O’Neill
from her Illinois home. Mrs.
Kelly says that it feels mighty
good to get back home again.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Richter,
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Wetlauffer
and Mrs. Lawrence Murray left
Monday for Slayton, Minn., where
they will visit Mr. and Mrs. David
Yantzi and family. Mrs. Yantzi
is a sister of Mr. Wetlauffer and
Mrs. Murray. They expect to be
gone about ten days and will en
joy the fishing in that section be
fore their return.
Roy Brost, who was the brick
foreman and assistant general sup
erintendent on the new court house,
left last week for Denver, Colo.,
where he is assistant general sup
erintendent on a million dollar con
tract in that city secured by Peter
Kiewits Sons, of Omaha, the con
tractors erecting the new court
house.
Mr. and Mrs. Barney Myers, of
Dallas, S. D., were visiting here
from Saturday until Monday with
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Mills, and also
with Mrs. Millie. Mrs. Millie is a
niece of Mrs. Myers. Mr. Myers
is quite a prosperous farmer of
Gregory county, but got very little
crop this season due to the drouth.
Supervisors Reimers, Matousek,
Carson, Sullivan and Walters drove
to Norfolk Wednesday morning
where they attended a meeting of
the Northeast Nebraska Associ
ation of County Commissioners,
Supervisors and County Clerks
held in that city yesterday.
Ralph Prill, of Page, one of the
stalwart Republicans of Antelope
precinct, was a pleasant caller at
this office Tuesday and ordered The
Frontier sent to his address, so that
he could keep posted on the hap
penings of the county and this
vicinity.
Henry Dick, of Henderson, Nebr.,
a former resident of this county,
living two miles north of O’Neill,
was in town the first of the week
with a truck load of Scottsbluff
potatoes, which he sold here. He
lelurned home Tuesday.
Arthur F. Melcher, of Atkinson,
and Miss Bernice Trese, of Orch
ard, were granted a marriage lic
ense in county court last Monday
and later were united in marriage
by Rev. H. D. Johnson at the Pres
byterian manse.
Dr. W. J. Douglas, of Atkinson,
was in the city last Monday look
ing after business matters and
visiting his many friends in this
city.
J. D. Cornin was attending to
legal business in Omaha and Lin
coln the latter part of last week,
returning home Sunday.
The Weather
High Low
Oct. 9 . 79 42
Oct. 10 66 35
Oct. 11 71 41
Oct. 12 72 44
Oct. 18 69 31
Oct. 14 78 30
Oct. 15 69 46
AROUND NORTHEAST
NERRASKA
With Your Congressman
Driving over northeast Nebraska
these beautiful, sunny fall days is
a great privilege. There may be
frost on the pumpkins but there
are very few shocks of corn stalks.
Most of these are cut up for en
silage and are in the silos. The
country is full of chickens. Many
are found dead on the roads, killed
by passing motorists. The pheas
ants seem plentiful and are coming
closer to the farm yard to feed.
The feed situation is still very ser
ious. The farmer is not well off
generally speaking.
Wednesdays and Saturdays bring
the largest crowds to the various
towns of the district. Most of the
towns are Saturday night towns.
Store clothes are not so frequently
seen among the groups of farmers.
One crowd of nearly two hundred
farmers at Randolph showed that
store clothes are expensive and
most of these two hundred farmers
wore their old time uniforms—the
heavy overall.
Delayed corn-hog checks are
slowly coming in as a result of co
operation between the farm agents
and the congressional office. Much
of this delay is in the Washington
office and we are hurrying the de
livery of these checks by calling to
the attention of the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration the
great need of the farmer for cash
at this particular time.
The Genoa Indian School, which
was abandoned by the federal gov
ernment and given to the state of
Nebraska, is vacant. State work
ers are cleaning up the grounds
now. Genoa people are anxious
that this valuable property be used
to some real advantage by the
state. There are many mental
cases in this district which need
human attention. Many of there
unfortunate people are kept m
temporary places waiting for space
in the regular state institutions.
Officials of these institutions *ay
the hospitals are so crowded that
they have waiting lists of several
score of unfortunate people who
need attention now. The Genoa in
stitution is an ideal place for such
an overflow of human beings who
need the mercy of more fortunate
people today.
Catfish must be plentiful in the
Missouri river. Fisherman Crain,
who lives west of Ponca, brought
into Laurel one of the finest catches
of channel cat ever seen in Ne
braska. Crain says he uses a cer
tain kind of cheese as bait for these
fish.
Extension of rural mail routes
is being requested in various places
and many of these cases are being
taken up with the Postmaster Gen
eral in Washington. The most re
cent change is rural route No. 4
out of the West Point office, result
ing in improved service for a num
ber of patrons. Notice has also
been received that effective Nov. 1,
1936, there will be an extension of
rural route No. 3 from Humphrey,
responsive to petitions of a num
ber of patrons directly affected.
The farmer who has a few head
of hogs, and. about eight milk cows
—silage in the silo—other rough
ness to go with it—who has a
cream check every week—has his
beef and hogs to butcher—who has
some chickens and eggs, can get
along all right—BUT, this same
farmer owes money on his farm—
he can’t pay the principal nor the
high rate of interest, is against the
threat of having his farm sold for
taxes or foreclosure on the indebt
edness. This farmer should be giv
en help to carry him over—but,
this farmer can’t get help.
Many farmers are worried over
their last year’s feed and seed
loans. They are being asked to
pay them now. They can’t because
they didn’t raise a crop. These
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SEVEN INJURED IN
SMASH UP OF THREE
AUTOS AND A TRUCK
Car Wrecked When It Hits Track
And Two More Cars Pile Up
On Wreck of First One.
During the past week Sheriff
Duffy has been busy investigating
a series of automobile accidents
near Stuart last Saturday night, in
which seven people were injured,
but none seriously. About 11 p. m.
Fritz Lasmett was driving a car
owned by Dugan & Woodcock of
Newport, and was coming east on
No. 20. In the car besides the
owners and the driver were Walter
Dcbolt, Ruth Gill, Ermil Lash
mitt and Lou Wewek. About three
miles this side of Stuart they
crashed into a truck, which was go
ing east. The truck was owned by
R. E. Lucas, of Page, and driven
by Vernon Nixon, of Clearwater.
Another car coming from the
east driven by Jim Schienost, of
O’Neill, and occupied by Miss Cath
erine Vinzens, of Atkinson, crash
ed into the wrecked automobile.
The truck drove on shortly after
this and another car driven by J.
Wefso, of Stuart, and altho the
other parties tried to stop him, he
crashed into the back of the Wood
cock car. Wefso was accompanied
by Ray Wedege and wife, Evelyn,
and Floyd Conn.
In the mix-up of the three cars
and the truck, Emil Lashmitt re
ceived a broken leg and cuts on the
knee and ankle; Ruth Gill was
scratched on the face but was not
seriously injured; YY’alter Debolt
secured a cut forehead and suffered
considerably from loss of blood; J.
Wefso was badly injured, suffer
ing a cracked chest and had sever
al ribs torn loose, and he suffered
intense pain; Evelyn Wedege had
her knee cap broken and suffered
bodily injuries; Catherine Vinzens
had her face cut in several places,
but was not seriously injured.
After the accident the injured
were taken to the Stuart hospital
for medical treatment and three of
them were still in the hospital yes
terday afternoon.
Sheriff Duffy is making a thoro
investigation of the accident, tak
ing statements from the persons
who were in the accident, in an at
tempt to discover who was to blame
for the wrecks.
Lyman Will Broadcast
His “Column of the Air” .
Hay “Link” Lyman, line coach
and assistant to Dana X. Bible at
the University of Nebraska, will
again broadcast his popular “Foot
ball Column of the Air” radio pro
gram.
Coach Lyman is rated as one of
the most entertaining sports com
mentators in the country and
speaks from first hand experience.
He holds the world's record in num
ber of games played, having par
ticipated in 302 while a star at the
University of Nebraska and later
with the Chicago Bears. Many
coaches and players in the National
Football League call “Link” the
greatest tackle the game has ever
produced.
Coach Lyman was born, reared
and educated in Nebraska, graduat
ing from the University in 1922.
He is what might be called “a right
good sized lad,” standing 6 feet
2 inches high and weighing 260
pounds.
“Links” Football Column of the
Air will again be sponsored by the
Standard Oil company of Nebras
ka. The programs will be broad
east every Wednesday, Friday and
Saturday night during the football
season. They can be heard over
WOW, Omaha, and KFOP., Lincoln.
Hospital Notes
Miss Joyce Outhouse, of Inman,
submitted to an operation for acute
appendicitis Friday night, the 9th.
She is convalescing very nicely at
the present writing.
Miss Bernice Scofield had her
tonsils removed Monday morning.
She went home Tuesday morning.
Miss Clare Shoemaker was con
fined to her room a few days this
week fighting a cold and sore
throat.
Clinton E. Cronin came up from
Grand Island last Saturday and
spent Sunday with relatives and
friends here, leaving Monday morn
ing for Burwell, where he had some
legal business to look after.