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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 4, 1937)
T e Frontier D. H. Cronin, Editor and Proprietoi Entered at the Postoffice at O’Neill Nebraska, as Second Class Matter One Year, in Nebraska--$2.(8 One Year, outside Nebraska 2.21 Every subscription is regarded a< an open account. The names o: subscribers will be instantly re moved from our mailing list at ex juration of time paid for, if pub limber shall be notified; otherwise the subscription remains in forc< at the designated subscription price Every subscriber must understanc 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 25c an inch (one column wide) per week. Want ads 19c per line, first insertion, sub sequent insertions, 5c per line. DELINQUENT TAX THEORY BLASTED BY RECORDS AUDIT (Continued from page I.) Collection*: Prom gasoline tax $29,478.69 Prom motor license fees 13,941.44 Prom general tax levies 10,751-34 Prom sale materials and services . 2,298.57 Total _ 56,470.04 Expenditures: Totai expenditure $61,096.23 Unpaid claims on road and bridge funds, September 28, 1936, $19, 234.19. (This amount is included in amount $51,417.71, paragraph two, under heading general com ments.) It is reasonable to suggest that in the future, the gasoline tax and motor license fees should bear the burden of road and bridge con struction and maintenance. We have been unable to find that in the construction of bridges in Holt county, they have been numb ered and that a careful account has has been kept of the original cost and upkeep of each individual bridge This most certainly should I be done. We are unable to find in Holt i-minty that a careful daily account hi made of all gasoline and oil, a here and by whom used, which most certainly should be done and charged against each construction ^project and each road maintained. in 1935 there were paid to the Supervisor* of Holt county $4,736. 25 for the supervision of road and bridge work all of which is in ad dition to the sum of $4,198.05 paid from the general fund, or a total of $8,934-no as compensation for ser vices and mileage of these super visors for the administration of the county's affairs. This is exces sive, in fact extremely so, as com pared with many other counties in the state. Transfer of Funds While the transferring of county fanda has not been practiced in Holt county to the extent that we havd found in some other Nebraska counties, we are calling this prac tice to your attention as the jugg ling of these fund4„,Jias ban the effect in a great many instances of practically annulling the tax limi tations as provided by statutes. Many experts on county affair scompare this “transferring of funds’* with the crnstina! practice of “kiting checks’* in private busi ness. THE NEBRASKA SCENE By the Lowell Service A petition has been received by State Engineer A. C. Tilley from Phil A. Tomek of David City, re questing the establishment of the Butler County Public Power dis trict for rural electrification. A decision has been handed down by the Nebraska supreme court ruling that the state board of agri culture, which operates the state fair is a private corporation and can be sued. The judgment of a Lancaster county district court is affirmed, granting the Crete Mills $720 for grain, feed, and mill pro ducts purchased by the board. The beard had claimed to be an instru mentality of the state and incap able of being sued without the consent of the legislature, and that this had not been given. R. O. Canaday and P. E. Bos laugh of Hastings, attorneys for the Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation district, (Tri-county) have filed a brief in the Supreme Court asking that the objectors’ motion to extend the time to file briefs in an action to set aside Platte river water grants allowed by the state engineer be dismissed. The claim is made that the delay is very prejudicial to the Tri-county as the cost of materials is going up daily, and contracts must be let for the construction of the Keystone reservoir; also that the congress ional appropriation will lapse on July 1, and that this money is es sential for the accomplishment of the project. On March 1, Paul Chaney, who ' has been assistant attorney gen ! eral for the last four years, having , been appointed by former Attorney ; General Paul F. Good, and request ed to remain temporarily by At torney General Richard C. Hunter, will resign and resume his private law practice at Falls City. Judge Shepherd of the district court has entered an order allow ing a $12,000 fee to Attorney Bern ard S. Gradwohl for trying the recent suit against the Cosmopoli tan Old Line Life Insurance com pany, a reduction of $3,000 from the amount asked. Another order was entered allowing $3,500 to Martin and Cole, accountants for their services on behalf of the plaintiffs and intervenors. Debt Increasing Rapidly The big appropriation bills are beginning to come into the House and in answer to many questions as to how much money will be spent; this year it can be stated that ac-1 cording to the budget, which was sent to the House, the esimated expenditures for this fiscal year are $8,480,000,000. Since that time we have had a deficiency appropri ation bill involving $1,000,000,000 and another one is in the offiing. Without taking anything else into consideration the present situation calls for estimated apppropriations of $9,480,000,000, leaving a deficit! for this current year of approxim ately $5,000,000,000 on the basis of expenditures. The national debt is; $.14,500,000,000 and government guaranties of $5,000,000,000 and i probably a little more will make the debt about $40,000,000,000. This j gives some idea as to the speed with j which we are running behind. As near as any of the experts can figure it here our deficit on the} basis of expenditures is approx imately $40,000,000 greater than a year ago. s Print More Revenue Stamps How fast will our tax revenues be raised? That is a question that j also comes up frequently. As in-j dicative of the way in which they have been raised attention is called fao the estimates in the present Treasury Department Bill, which is now being debated in the House and which calls for the printing of 138,061,159 sheets of postage stamps and also for 142,004,047 sheets of internal revenue stamps, and for the first time in the history of the United States the number of revenue stamps estimated to be re quired for the operations of the government exceeds the number of postage stamps, that will give you some idea of the way we are pro gressing in increasing the tax bur dens of the people and which is one way the indebtedness must be paid and one way the expense of the government must be taken care of. Armament Kace Increases Debts Uncle Sam is not the only heavy spender. Most of the other countries are spending a lot of money. Our original foreign loans were around $10,145,000,000. We have had payments of principal amounting to $757,000,000. Great Britain and France are heavily in debted to us. However these coun tries are staging great armament building programs. Great Brit ains program calls for $7,000,000, 000 and are now asking us for aloan of $2,000,000,000. Other countries arc also in a great race to build armaments. Uncle Sam’s present expenditures in this coun try are running at the rate of about $1,000,000,000 annually for military expenditures. Our naval expendi tures have increased to the point where today the budget calls for approximately $600,000,000, that is an increase from $297,000,000 in 1935 to $570,000,000 in 1937. The Army will ask for about as much as the Navy. Many of those who are anxious for more economy be lieve that we should have national defense, but they are asking the membership of the House not to appropriate money for anything that is not necessary for national defense and that is not effective. Thirty-four Millions for Franking A lot of questions are coming in about the great franking privilege which members of Congress have. The amount of money spent by the government to take care of con gressional franking runs around $750,000 a year according to the most accurate figures this office can secure, but that amount is a drop in the bucket compared with the expenditures of government de partments using the franking priv ilege. These departments using the franking privilege are expand ing so fast that space in this town cannot be found for them. WPA is said to have about 5,500 people working on publicity, and every department of the government has paid publicity agents who are cov ered up some way or other. It is stated that expenditures for gov ernmental departments using the frank have increased from an av erage of about nine million dollars over a period of four or five years ending with the fiscal year 1932; nine million dollars to fourteen million dollars in 1933; to twenty three million dollars in 1934; to thirty-one million dollars in 1935; to thirty-two million dollars in 1936 and if the department spends at the same rate for the rest of this fiscal year up to the first of January there will be spent an average of thirtysfour million dol lars a year for franking privileges. Every organization of the govern ment is sending out all sorts of pamphlets, pictures and history of operation of the various depart ments, under the franking privilege which costs the taxpayers millions and millions of dollars. They fig ure if one department has the right to use the franking privilege, other departments have, and they are using it in great style. Gets By on Name and Card The desperate methods being used here to get into the so-called “social swim" in Washington are amazing. Some of the people even change their names in order to make them sound imprehsive so they can get in the "social swim.’ ! One newspaper man tells as of a lady who has been here for several years who says her names is “Mari tah Martinay.” He says this lady comes from his home town in a western state and her real name is “Mary Martin,” but “Maritah .Mar tinay” on a highly embossed card and handed to a uniformed butler looks much better. He says she is “getting by.” but when she meets him she blushes, because he u*ed to go to school with her. Minutes of Meetings of the County Board O’Neill, Nebraska. January 28, 1937, 9:00 A. M. Holt County Board of Supervis ors met as per adjournment. All members present. Meeting called to order by Chairman. Minutes of previous meeting were read and on motion were approved as read. Board spent forenoon in auditing and approving bridge claims. 12:00 noon. On motion. Board adjourned until 1:00 P. M. J. C. STEIN, Chairman. John C. Gallagher, Clerk. O’Neill, Nebraska, January 28, 1937, 1:00 P. M. Holt County Board of Supervis ors met as per adjournment. All members present. Meeting called to order by Chairman. Motion by Matousek and second ed by Sullivan that Holt county purchase for its use at the price and upon the terms agreed upon in contract, one Balderson wide guage snow plow at a price of $725.00. Carried. Motion by Gibson, seconded by Carson that Holt county purchase for its use at the price and upon the terms as agreed upon in the contract one RD6 Caterpiller Trac tor and snow plow at a price of $4,330.00 and one used 30 Cater piller in addition to contract price. The following ailems were aud ited and approved and on motion were allowed and warrants ordered drawn on the General fund in pay- j ment of same: t Dr. W. G. Fletcher $ 25.00 Interstate Power Co. 25.45 Interstate Power Co. 18.12 Interstate Power Co. 17.54 Otto Claussen 43.35 Charles L. Beebe 3.75 Dr. W. E. Ash 240.00 TiUie Wernke 3.00 ; Remington Rand nlc. 9.00 Remington Rand Inc. 32.44 Arbuthnot & Reka 15.70 Robert Richardson 40.00 Mi*s Mary Clemens R N 25.72 Interstate Power Co. 21.86 Interstate Power Co. 19.75 Interstate Power Co. 15.11 J. H. Gibson 29.40 John Steinhauser 10.50 Oscar Peterson 20.00 Remington Rand Inc. 108.00 Remington Rand Inc. 21.00 Remington Rand Inc. 55.50 Arbuthnot & eRka 21.38 Green Mask Laboratories 21.55 O’Neill National Bank 375.00 Golden Rule Store 13.99 Lavinia A. Sawyer 6.00 SEVEN 41. William Gatz 20.50 James Davidson 30.19 O’Neill Public Library 33.16 Fred Ruhrode 20.00 Holt County Agri. Ass’n. 287.50 Mrs. F. H. Griffith ... 5.00 Singer Sewing Machine Co. .65 John Davidson _ 15.00 Galena Lumber Co. 422.14 Frank Valla 1.25 John Sullivan .. ... 30.00 N. W. Bell Telephone Co. 117.24 N. W. Bell Telephone Co. 115.20 N. W. Bell Telephone Co. 99.45 F. M. Reece 8.60 Ed H. Hagensick 4.63 J. I. Cork .. 30.00 Lutheran G. S. Home 8.65 John Davidson_ 15.00 Wm. Krotter Co. . 8.53 Mrs. Kate Marsh 3.00 Campbell Lumber Co. 26.00 Leo Tom jack 20.00 Chambers Sun 3.12 Uhl Transfer 7.50 Mary Jane Flannigan 1.50 Mrs. Mabel McKenna 17.80 N. W. Bell Telephone Co. 113.22 [ N. W. Bell Telephone Co. 114.80 i N\ W. Bell Telephone Co. 112.92 5:00 P. M. On motion. Board adjourned until January 29, 1937. 9:00 A. M. J. C. STEIN. Chairman. John C. Gallagher, Clerk. O’Neill, Nebraska, January 29. 1937, 9:00 A. M. Holt County Board of Supervis ors met as per adjournment. All members present. Meeting celled to order by Chairman. Minutes ot previous meeting were read and on motion were approved as read. The following 1 cairns were aud ited and approved and on motion were allowed and warrants ordered drawn on Genera! fund in payment of same: Ed J. Matousek $ 34.30 Louis W. Rein:i r _ 31.00 Walter K. Srait: , 28.00 John A. Carson 31.00 John A. Sullfva: 31.00 The following claims were aud ited and approved and on motion were allowed and warrants ordered drawn on Road fund in payment of same: Louis W. Reimer $ 15.00 Walter K. Smith 39.00 Ed J. Matousek _ 15.00 12:00 noon. Or motion. Board adjourned until 1:00 P. M. J. C. STEIN, Chairman. John C. Gallagher, Clerk. O'Neill, Nebraska. Januarv 29, 1937, 1:00 P. M. Holt County Board of Supervis ors met as per adjournment. AH members present Meeting called, to order b Chairman. Mr. Ra Kelly reperesenting the Holt County Publishers Assoc-j iation met with the Board relative j to the renewal of the Agreement with the County for furnishing! printing and supplies for year 1937. RESOLUTION WHEREAS, the newspapers and printers of Holt county, organized as the Holt County Publishers Association, furnish ed to the satisfaction of county officers and this board, the county printing and supplies purchased during the period April 1, 1936 to January 1, 1937, and made a considerable saving to the couaty without sacrifice of quality, and WHEREAS, the Holt County Publishers Asaciation is unan imous in its retpmst to this board for a continuation of the business in 1937, THEREFORE BE IT RESOL VED, that the Holt County Board of Supervisors in regular session this 29th day of January, 1937, hereby award the county supply business to the news papers of Holt county for the year 1937, and that all printing, supplies, jiubliications, and all such other supplies and office equipment purchased by the county shall be ordered through the supply committee of the Holt County Publishers Association; it being understood that the as sociation guarantees to furnish high quality products suitable to the various county officers, at prices in line with those that ! have proved a substantial saving over those paid previous to the Association’s handling of the business. It is further under stood that the association will give ample notice of relinquish ment to the board of Supervis ors in case it finds itself unable to finance the business on the basis of warrants being issued at such time as possible for the county to do so. Ed J. Matousek, L. W. Reimer. Motion by Matousek, seconded by Reimer that the above resolu tion be adopted. Carried. Motion by Reimer, seconded by Sullivan that Holt county purchase one new Royal 14-inch typewriter at a price of $108.00. Carried. Board also spent some time in 1 discussing the W. P. A. Bridge ! projects within the county. 5:00 P. M. On motion. Board •adjourned until February 1, 1937, i 10:00 A. M. J. C. STEIN, Chairman. John C. Gallagher, Clerk. O'Neill, Nebraska. February 1, 1937, 10:00 A. M. Holt County Board of Supervis ors met as per adjournment. All members present. Meeting called to order by Chairman. Minutes of previous meeting were read and on motion were approved as read. Motion by Reimer, seconded by Matousek that Frank G. Schmidt be appointed as a member of the Soldiers Relief Commission for a term of three years. Carried. Board spent some time in dis cussing the sale of some property owned by the county. 12:00 noon. On motion, Board adjourned until 1:00 P. M. J. C. STEIN, Chairman. John C. Gallagher, Clerk. O’Neill, Nebraska, February 1, 1937, 1:00 P. M. Holt County Board of Supervis ors met as per adjournment. All members present. Meeting called to order by Chairman. The following claims were aud ited and approved and on motion were allowed and warrants ordered drawn on Bridge fund in payment of same: Lloyd Phelps $ 7.15 Island Supply Co. 200.00 Insland Supply Co. ’ 53.26 Island Supply Co. 36.25 Island Supply Co. 25.62 Island Supply Co. 28.90 Island Supply Co. 32.50 S. W. Hytrek ..... 23.07 Atkinson Lumber Co. 12.00 John Steinhauser 7.50 L. H. Steinhauser 3.60 C. E. Tibbetts 7.92 S. W. Hytrek 16.36 Pete Peterson 25.00 Atkinson Lumber Co. _ 3.76 Wilbur Shoal 1.75 Bernard J. Kaup _ 10.00 Thos Slattery _ 26.39 Motion by Matousek, seconded by Sullivan that the following claims be allowed in the amounts as stated: Mellor Motor Co., Road, $37.01; Bridge, $7.19. Mellor Motor Co., Road, $6.25; Bridge, $36.50. Seth Noble, General, $191.89; Bridge, $87.94; Road, $61.16. James Davidson, Road, $25.45; Bridge, $8.10. Board spent some time in work ing out appropriations for Road and Road Dragging purposes for year 1937. 5:00 P. M. On motion, Board adjourned until February 2, 1937, 9:00 A. M. J. C. STEIN, Chairman. John C. Gallagher, Clerk. O’Neill, Nebraska, February 2, 1937, 9:00 A. M. Holt County Board of Supervis ors met as per adjournment. All members present. Meeting called to order by Chairman. Minutes of previous meeting were read and on motion were approved as read. Board took up matter of desig nating county depositories for county deposits also approving bonds and securities pledged to secure same and naming deposi tories for the securities held in escrow. RESOLUTION WHEREAS, the First Nation al Bank, O’Neill, First National _— Bank, Atkinson, First National Bank, Stuart. O’Neil] National Bank, O’Neill, have all made ap plication for the privilege of be ing designated as county deposi tories of the monies of this . county, and WHEREAS, all of said Banks j have deposited certain securities, of the character and form as by law required, for the safety of any and all public monies de posited in said banks by said county or its duly elected and acting County Treasurer, and W’HEREAS, said securities have been deposited in escrow in the manner and form as procided by law, and WHEREAS, all of said Banks have agreed to abide by all of the provisions of the law with respect to the deposit of public monies. NOW, THEREFORE, I move that the following banks, all in Holt county, be designated, se lected and named as depositories of the public monies, to-wit: First National Bank, O'Neill First National Bank, Atkinson First National Bank, Stuart O’Neill National Bank, O’Neill, And that the Treasurer of Holt county, Nebraska be, and he hereby is, authorized and em powered to deposit the public monies now in his hands or here inafter to come into his hands as such treasurer in the above named banks in the manner and within the limits provided and prescribed by law. It is further moved that a copy of this resolution be delivered to the County Clerk and the Treas urer of the County. I Louis W. Reimer, Ed J, Matousek. The above resolution, on being put to a vote was declared carried. RESOLUTION Mr. Chairman: I move you that the bonds and securities, pledged for the secur- - ity of public monies, by the fol lowing banks, to-wit: First National Bank, O’Neill First National Bank, Atkinson First National Bank, Stuart O'Neill National Bank, O’Neill, be approved. John Sullivan, Louis W. Reimer. The above Resolution, on being put to a vote by the Chairman was declared carried. RESOLUTION WHEREAS, the banks of Holt county, who have made applies-' tion for and who have been des ignated as depositories of the public monies, desire to secure such monies by pledging bond and securities in the manner apd form and of the character pro vided by law, and WHEREAS, Holt county does not have vaults sufficientsjy strong within which to keep or house such a large amount of NOW THEREFORE, I move you in accord with Section 5, Chapter 34 of the Session Law. of Nebraska for 1927, that the following named banks be ap proved as depositories for sugli bonds and securities, to-wit: Federal Reserve Bank, Kansas City, Missouri, Federal Reserve Bank, Omaha Branch, Omaha, Nebraska. Louis W. Reimer. Ed J. Matousek. The above resolution, on b^lny put to a vote by the Chairman wa declared carried. 12:00 noon. On motion. Board adjourned until 1:00 P. M. J. C. STEIN, Chairman. John C. Gallagher, Clerk. 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