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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1937)
The Frontier D. H. Cronin, Editor and Proprietor Entered at the Postoffice at O’Neill, Nebraska, aa Second Class Matter. One Year, in Nebraska $2.00 One Year, outside Nebraska 2.25 Every subscription is regarded as I as open account. The names of subscribers will be instantly re moved from our mailing list ut ex piration of time paid for, if pub lisher shall be notified; otherwise Ac subscription remains in force at the designated subscription price. Every subscriber must understand that these conditions are made a part of the contract between pub lisher and subscriber. ADVERTISING RATES Display advertising is charged for on a basis of 26c an inch (one column wide) per week. Want ads 10c per line, first insertion, sub sequent insertions, 5c per line. OHIO RIVER VALLEY FLOOD MAKES MANY PEOPLE HOMELESS (Continued from page 1.) Mississippi channel three million <-abic feet of water per second against levees capable of handling only 2,400,000 cubic feet. Some officials maintained the levees could hold such onslaught. “Frantic workers sought to build higher the 60-foot sea wall at Cario, confluence of the Ohio and the Mississippi, where fil feet was predicted Thursday or later when the vast Bird’s Point spillway in Missouri, blasted for protective in undation, is filled. The Ohio stood at 58.1 feet at Cario Wednesday. “Crucial test of the massive Mis sissippi flood protection system— built after the devastating over flows of 1927—was yet to come. For hundreds of miles up and down this channel thousands of men in relays worked the levee line. In the New Orleans-Vicksburg, Miss., area officials expected facilities would handle the water. Army generals were ordered to be prepared to act by 6 p. m. Fri day. Below Cario, residents of TiptonviIle,Tenn., and New Madrid, Mo., were begged to get out before it was too late. “United States engineers advised all men to leave their fights upon tributary streams and concentrate to save main dikes from Illinois to the gulf. “Rain or snow was predicted in the next 36 hours over parts of the flooded Ohio and Mississippi val leys, but there was not expected a ‘flood prducing precipitation.’ “Thirty of Louisville’s 40 square miles were under water, with 230 thousand homeless. Water covered a fifth of Cincinnati. Paducah, Ky., was one immense lake. “Army engineers predicted the Ohio river would creBt at 62-foot stage at Curio six days hence, then flow down the Mississippi to reach .r>5 feet at Memphis four days later, and touch 66 feet at Helena, Ark., two days after the Memphis crest.” Fritz Kruger, lormerly of Fre mont, No Tasks, and n graduate of Midland College, rfecently appeared in a concert here as a member of the Philadelphia Symphony Com pany. Fritz won a schoarship and studied abroad for a year, return ing to the United States recently, and is now making personal ap pearances in many of the larger cities. He has an exceptionally fine baritone voice. Plans are under way to introduce ia the House a bill to have the gov ernment give strict inspection of canned dog food. It is stated here that about 30% of this canned dog food is bought for human consump tion. Much of it is said to contain cheap meats from Argentine and a lot of it is horse meat. But one great objection is the charge that much of it contains rats, mice and other inedible and questionable ma terial. Congressman William Lemkewho was the union party candidate for president tells his friends he was not disappointed that he was not elected President of the United States. He says he ran because of “principle.” Announcement that Sunday mail service is to be resumed on the Oakdale-Scribner branch was good news to this office. We were glad to contact the Washington author ities regarding this matter and we hope that the new service will prove satisfactory. We know that it will till a real need. Believe it or not the "time” elem ent is an important thing in this town of disappointments and sor row. There are many members on various committees who openly state that some day they will be come chairmen of these committees fvecause the “ranking member is old and may soon pass on.” Disregard of human kindness is noticed in some of this talk. Members who have the title of “honorable” fre quently explain why they are re maining on some committees be cause “so and so is chairman or ranking member and may not live very long.” The same references are being made to members of the j Supreme Court whose death be caused of advanced age would give an opportunity to the appointment of somebody who may interpret parts of the Constitution to fit what his bosses believe is the new and proper thing. The meals in the House restaur ant have gone up 25'/^. In fact because “good times are back again” everything sems to have gone up in price in Washington. The House restaurant has been made sound proof. Schools for the pages, who work under patronage, get around $3.00 a day and range in age from thir teen to twenty-five years of age, have opened in the capitol. These pages pay around $15.00 a month for their education. The school room is in the lower part in the center of the capitol building. Complaints have been filed against some of the guides who take strangers around the capitol buildings. Especially are these complaints directed to some of the women guides. People who come to Washington for the first time, feel it is a sacred place, where at one time lay the body of the un known soldier and the bodies of some presidents. People from home cannot become accustomed to some of these women guides ap proaching them with cigarettes be tween their lips. The price of guide service is around 2ft cents per person and a little less when a large gToup is being taken through. One plan is under way to get a uni form system for guide service through the capitol, and give the visitors free guide service. Those who are sponsoring this movement feel the public is entitled to that much courtesy when they come to the nation’s capitol. Beer with a real kick in it is sold in the Capitol restaurant. Ale and regular beers for 20 cents a bottle. The best soup in the country is said to be made by the chef in the House restaurant. Columns of copy have appeared in newspapers about this famous bean soup and new members who usually inquire, “What's Rood to eat?” AUK REC COMMENDED BEAN SOUP IN THE HOUSE CAFE. It cost 15 cents a bowl. One bowl contains a liberal portion. The inauguration ceremonies cost about $100,000 and much of the money was subscribed by local business houses. It was worth millions to them despite the rain. Marjorie Jones, formerly with the telephone company at Norfolk, Nebraska, was a caller at the con gressional office. Miss Jones is the daughter of a former Chief of Police at Norfolk. She has been living in Omaha for several years and is now one of the telephone operators here in Washington and in the Securities und Exchange Commission. She drove here from Omaha. Newspapers print stories of a senator who was a senator for only a few' days and all he got out of his short job was a free hair cut. There may be free haircuts, free fizz water, etc., on the Senate side but so far as a close investigation shows there is nothing free on the House side. The meals, hair cuts, baths, shines and all other things call for the regular fees charged by private industry. That, notwith standing the fact that barbers and shiners and bathers draw a separ ate regular pay from the taxpayers whether Congress is in session or not. An attempt to stop this rac ket on the part of some members brought them only grief and disap proval by some members on both sides of the aisle. THE NEBRASKA SCENE by James R. Lowell Lincoln, Neb.—Chairman Norton of the rules committee of the leg islature, who had apparently lost out when the group led by Speak er Warner succeeding in saving the committee of the whole from the legislative junk pile, gave a series of demonstrations during the last week and these workouts have placed leadership in the one house Lody in doubt. Norton surprised his colleagues by a sudden motion to go into the committee of the whole on a bill which everyone favored. He insisted on the complete routine prescribed by the rules. The bill was sent to the waiting file under the Warner ‘‘double check” plan. Next Norton moved suspension of the rules and sent some bills straight along the legislative chan nel without committee of the whole action. These measures sup erseded the bill that was loafing on the special file. Then the new members gained the imp-ession that the “double check” might be a device to delay some bill which the peopie favored and demanded and that the opposing interests would thereby have a double crack at killing the bill. A bill bordering on the fair trade angle is being drawn by senator Brandt. The bill concerns filling stations and demands that an eight inch sign, black letters on a white background, bearing the price the dealers have set on the gasoline. Mr. Brandt stated that some dealers make special prices to truckers for quantity and do not post their prices making it an in centive for some truckers that are bargain hunting to drive in and dicker. He also said that this meas ure would not completely stop these practices, but would help to make more uniform the price for gaso line in a community. The secretary of state’s office announced thut the committee on legislative administration has de cided not to print the roster that has been made up and sent out through the secretary of state’s office in the previous years. How ever the committee will print a roster of its own. The eradication of bindweed (creeping jenny) is at pi'esent a vital issue to the committee on agriculture. This legislative com mittee had a meeting with fifteen legislators present and confering with Professor F. D. Keim of the University of Nebraska Agricul tural college. At the termination of the meet ing a telegram was sent to Gov ernor Cochran in Washington. The telegram stated: It is unanimous in our opinion that federal cooperation is needed to cope with the bindweed pro blem in Nebraska. We respectfully urge that you use your good offices and influence to have the acres laid out by Nebraska farmers for bind weed eradication included in the Federal soil conservation program for the benefit of payments there on, the same as grasses and le gumes.” E. M. Neubauer, chairman of the committee, predicted that besides the bindweed issue the state may have legislation on soil conserva tion if the federal government de cides to alter the present set up and put it in the hands of the state government. Senator Norton also of the com mittee said that in spite of the probabilities of a change in the present soil conservation set-up he looked for Congress to continue this program for another two years making it last till 1940. An intensive drive against un licensed real estate dealers is be ing waged by the secretary of state’s office. On January 26, a case is being tried in Omaha. This unlicensed dealer is being charged with hold ing the funds of his client. It is thought that this case will be the keystone to a series of prosecutions of these people that are illegally dealing in real estate. A bill intended to unify municipal and other state subdivisional bond issues and to provide payment as the bonds fall due without the ne cessity of registering them with either the city or the county treas uries has been introduced before the legislature by Senator L. C. Neurnberger of Wakefield. It agrees in the main with the recommenda tions made by Governor Cochran in his recent address to the Nebraska League of Municipalities Its im portant provisions are as follows: Bonds must be serial and optional at the end of five years. No bonds shall be amortized for more than twenty-five years. The payment of bonds shall be accomplished through a sinking fund which will provide for the payment of bonds when due. Governing bodies must levy taxes each year in an amount which will provide for the payments with interest through the sinking fund as the payments come due. Local governing bodies are person ally liable for failing to budget and levy sufficient taxes to cover the pnyments. Bonds shall be sold with out premium, and in issues of more than $10,000, are to be sold at pub lic sale, rather than placed on the market. In accordance with the law and former custom, Lieutenant Gov ernor Jurgensen may not vote on the final passage of bills, even in case of a tie, according to an opin ion given out by the office of the attorney general. The opinion points out that a majority vote of all members elected, or 22 votes, is required by the constitution, to pass a law. In case of a tie, the vote of the lieutenant governor would not make a majority of the members of the unicameral, in any case. Attorney General Hunter has named William Deakins of North Platte as an assistant in the Ne braska - Wyoming irrigation suit. He will be paid at the rate of $5 per o’ay when working on his job of occasional investigator. A resolution urging Congress to pass the universal service act, known as the Sheppard-Hill bill, has Leen offered to the unicameral legislature with the endorsement of the following seven senators. Earl W. Carpenter of Guide Rock, Ro bert Armstrong of Auburn, Frank Brady of Atkinson, W. F. Haycock -----....- ■ , —.— . of Callaway, CaTl Peterson of Nor folk, Amos Thomas of Omaha, and A. W. Miller of Kimball. The bill which its endorsers claim is de signed to take the profit out of war, provides for the drafting of capital, industry, man power and all resources of the nation. When the judiciary committee of the legislature looked over a bill introduced by Senator Earl W. Carpenter of Guide Rock, they in formed the senator that a replica of this bill was already included in the Nebraska statutes. Senator Carpen ter admitted this, but declared that the law on the books, which was written in 1906, would have to beT repealed and re-enacted, and that was the purpose of his bill. It will give county courts concurrent jur isdiction with district courts in im posing sentences for contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and will fix the penalty at a maximum fine of $500 and a county jail sen (Continued on page 8, column 2.) > The advertised bargains ' ' '• ! 1 \A . ' in this one issue will ’ • •' ' - < save you the cost of one ■■ * . ■ -i.- i., i... year’s subscription to • _ > ■ i The Frontier at * ’ ‘ ' A . ^ ’ ^ q- ' ■ .' • ! 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