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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1937)
The Frontier ^^—^^—^m^mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm w^mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm^mmmmtrnmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm—■^w^rnmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm , ,. ■» VOL. LVII O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1987. ' No. 45 PARTY GROUPS ARE ^ HOSTILE TO SINGLE LEGISLATIVE BODY | Truckers And Railway Commission Come To An Agreement On Regulation Measure. By the Lowell Service Lincoln, Nebr. —- Bicameralites, eager to restore the old regime in legislation in the state, are quietly organizing for a major drive against the unicameral. The lobby, never more puissant than this year, is solidly against the new sys tem. An effort will be made to get as many groups as possible to con demn the new system. Both the major political parties are hostile. The summary execu tion of the bi-partisan primary amendment bill aroused the anger of both the republican and the democratic organizations. Follow ing this action came a favorable opinion for the election of county officials on a nonpartisan ballot. Next was the legislative approval of the short ballot. The unicameral has proved a menace to party organization. Take the county officials out of the pic ture, and remove the railway com mission from the partisan ballot, and the inroads into political pres tige will be terrible indeed. When the suggestion comes that the state offices be reduced to Governor, Lieutenant governor, and comptrol ler, the chronic party worker shrieks with pain. Efforts will be made to secure resolutions of disapproval of the unicameral within the next few weeks. Overtures are now being made to farmers and laboring men. Without any clash of cymbals, the proponents of better local gov ernment are making headway in the legislature. County government in Douglas and Lancaster will be chastised, and legislation reducing and curbing local expenditures will be passed in some form. Herqjo * fore such legislation has been op posed by the party machine. “We hope the legislature will not overlook the additional needs of the state agricultural college aris ing from increased enrollment, nor the necessity of maintaining per sonnel on salaries that will induce them to remain at Nebraska. The help of this department has been beneficial and has aided the growth of this cooperative group-process ing, one of the most successful products of the farm.” This is a part of the resolutions adopted by the Nebraska Co-operative cream eries at their convention last week. \ A resolution to the 1939 legislature. % Expenses are provided by a $15,000 appropriation. “Something must be done to sim plify government and reduce its cost,” insisted Amos Thomas of Omaha, and as a result of his earn est insistence, LB524 has been ap proved by the legislative appropria tions committee. The bill provides ^ for a commission composed of five public-spirited, unsalaried persons selected by the legislature to in vestigate state and county depart ments and to report its findings to the legislature. Expenses are pro vided by a $15,000 appropriation. LB50 which provides for the regulation and licensing of itiner i ant peddlers, has been advanced to select file in the legislature. Pro vision is made for an annual license fee of $25, an annual occupation tax of $10, and a surety bond of $250 to guard customers against fraud. Itinerent peddlers of trade marked products are exempted. The measure was advanced by a vote of 27 to 6. Its supporters claim that the bill is intended for the protection of small-town mer chants against so-called unfair competition. The seven toll bridges along the Missouri river are to remain toll bridges, it seems, since the defeat in the legislature of the free bridges resolution introduced by Robert Armstrong of Auburn and others. Opponents of the measure claimed that if the state purchased the bridges, as proposed, money would have to come out of the gasoline tax fund, and that that was needed for interior roads. After long discussion, Nebraska truckers and the state railway com mission have ironed out their dif ferences, and a bill has been placed on the legislative general file plac ing power to regulate trucking within Nebraska in the hands of ) the state railway commission. Among the exemptions to regula tion under this measure come buses which are operated in connection with street railway systems, motor carriers hired to transport school children, those operating wholly within a municipality, taxicabs, and all farm vehicles used in the trans portation of the farmers’ own com modities. Permits are to be issued to truckers operating before April 1, 1936. The original permit will cost $10, and there will be a re newal fee of $5 annually for each truck operated. Cattle Show Upward Trend In Sale Held Tuesday At Atkinson Atkinson, Nebr., March 23—Al tho it was raining and travel slowed by slippery roads, one of the largest crowds of the season attended the local auction sale here last Tues day. Over 800 cattle, 275 hogs and 55 head of horses made up the days offeroing^ and altho bidding was very spirited and selling moved along at a rapid rate the sale was not concluded until 9 p. m. The market generally was a big 25 cents higher and closed very strong. Choice steer calves from Valen tine sold at 8.55; another load from Bassett at 8.50; best yearling and two year old steers at 7.00 to 8.35; even reds and roans selling at 5.50 to 6.75; choice fat cows at 7.00 to 7.50; good butcher kinds at 5.00 to 6.50; fleshy heifers at 6.00 to 7.50; stock heifers at 5.50 to 6.50; can ners and cutters at 3.25 to 4.50; bulls at 5.25 to 5.65. The hogs sold about steady at last week’s sharp advance. Best fats at 9.75 to 9.95; sows at 9.00 to 9.45; feeder pigs all weights at 8.00 to 9.65. Altho prices were no higher, a little more interest was shown in horses with only four no sales be ing called out of the 55 head of fered. Next auction Tuesday, ; March 30 at 12:30 p. m. Soil Conservation Meetings Started Meetings are being held in the various precincts this week for the purpose of obtaining “Statements of Intentions” from producers for their 1937 farming operations, especially those who will be inter ested in the 1937 agricultural con servation program. Producers should note carefully if their bases are satisfactory and if not contact their community committe or county committee at one of these meetings. Holt county producers should especially note that they are auto matically considered in the Dryland area unless by May 1 they make specific request to be considered a general Cornbelt farm, on which they will comply by getting a stand. Ranchers interested in the range program should sign up at the meeting in their precinct. Meetings will continue next week in the var ious communities as follows: March 27: Iowa-Antelope, Al len School Dist. 128; Atkinson, at Memorial Hall. March 29: Sheridan, Memorial Hall; Saratoga-Coleman, Phoenix Store. March 30: Grattan, ">ld Court Room; Scott, Town Hall. March 31: Chambers-Shamrock, Town Hall; Rock Falls, Vequist School. April 1: Willowdale, District 96; Swan-Josie, Swan Lake Store. April 2: Conley, District 120; Shields, Town Hall; Sand Creek, Celia School. April 3: Steel Creek, District 4; Inman, Finkbine Bros, hardware. School Board Petitions Are Being Circulated Petitions were in circulation the first of the week placing in nom ination for members of the school board at the coming election, Dr. H. L. Bennett and Miss Anna O’Donnell. They are at the present time members of the board and their time expires this spring. I John Davis, who has been an em ployee of the O’Neill Hatchery the past three years, resigned his posi tion the latter part of the week and has started to work for the Miller Bros. Chevrolet company as a sales man. John is a hustling young man, lots of pep and energy, and will make good in any line of work. Holt County Wool Growers Organized Wool growers of Holt county met j in the court room at O’Neill Satur-1 day, March 20, and decided to or-! ganize a county association. There will be no membership fee in the organization and its express pur pose will be to sponsor 4-H sheep clubs, hold ram shows and ex changes, assist wool growers in marketing their wool, discuss prob lems of sheep feeders and assist in the distribution of bags and twine. Offiicers elected were: Henry Ve quist, O'Neill, president; James Curran, O’Neill, vice president; F. M. Reece, secretary, who with J. I. Blair of Ewing, and Walter Sire of Inman, will constitute the Board of Directors. THE NEBRASKA SCENE By the Lowell Service While the supreme court reform row is occupying the center of the stage at Washington the politically wise boys are pulling strings in Nebraska. It seems that the idea of appointing assistants to federal judges other than the supreme jus tices is meeting with favor in many parts of the country. If there should be an appointment in the South Platte territory, the politi cians do not mean to be caught napping. The names of Legislator Charles Dafoe, Ralph O. Canaday, Paul F. Good and C. J. Campbell are most frequently mentioned. J. C. Byrnes still holds the place of United States Marshal by reason of a bench apointment made by Judge Donohoe. Just what will happen to Mr. Byrnes, the Wash ington political dopesters decline to state. A three-fold program for state government during the next two years was advocated by Governor R. L. Cochran at a public affairs luncheon held last week at the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce. He urged a continuance of the five cent gasoline tax for social security and the federal - state highway building program; the shifting of responsibility for the care of the poor from the state back to local and private agencies; and a ten year state building program for the University of Nebraska and other state institutions. “A sound, grad ual, and intelligent program,” com ments J. E. Lawrence, editor of the Lincoln Daily Star. At an international symposium on early man recently held in Philadelphia as a part of the 125th anniversary celebration of the Philadelphia academy of natural sciences, a paper by Dr. A. L. Lugn, geologist of the University of Ne braska, and member of the Nebras ka geological survey, was present ed, calling attention to the import ance of Nebraska as a field for anthropoligical research. Dr. Lugn said in part: “Western Nebraska, as an erea, has yielded the richest results to date, and will in all prob ability continue to reveal the most convincing evidence of the antiqu ity of man in this country. And just as significant, the deeply eroded canyons of the high plains area, of western Nebraska offer the world the greatest opportunity for dating these discovered evidences of human habitation. The import ance of this area is due to the loess deposits (dust from ancient dust storms) which connect the glacial formations in eastern Nebraska with the elevated terraces in the high plains to the west. No other state offers such an easily disting uishable multiplicity of soil forma tions.” W. B. Banning, director of the state department of agriculture, attended two meetings of the Ne braska Potato Grower’s association last week, one at Scottsblulf, and one at Alliance. At Alliance, dry farming of the potato was mainly discussed, while at Scottsbluff, ir rigated methods were considered. State Engineer A. C. Tilley and Governor R. L. Cochran attended a hearing at McCook last Tuesday on the plans made for Republican river flood control by army engin eers. The plans provide for a series of dam3 along tributary streams, and are much like those made by the Nebraska planning board. (Continued on page 4, column 4.) t Will Close Stores For Three Hours On Good Friday Following a custom estab lished here n good many years ago, the business places of the city will close Friday noon and remak* closed until 3 o’clock, hi observance of Good Friday. * r Half A Billion for Dog Food There are a lot of dogs in Wash ington that have better care than children. There is a parade around tdwn nearly every evening with people leading dogs on the leash, as they are not allowed to run loose in this town. The latest figure mem bers have is that $547,000,000 is spent for dog food every year in the United States. Chief Justice Smiles on Lemke Congressman I/enike recently ap peared before the Supreme Court where he argued in favor of his farm moratorium bill. He spoke for thirty-five minutes and was not questioned by the justices. It was noticed that Chief Justice Hughes smiled kindly to this man. Con gressman Lemke was there to show his bill is constitutional. Fear Relief A Permanent Problem The general impression gained by members of Congress from dis cussion with department chiefs is that the relief question will con tinue to be the big question in con gress for years to come. Conver sations with these chiefs indicate that they feel that the relief pro gram will be made permanent in our future government set-up. They feel that we will continue to have around six and a half million relief units on our list and that perman ent relief wovks'programs will be the order of the day for our future. Some indications are that annual appropriations of over two billion dollars for relief can be expected. - Washington Sees Millions in Cherry Blossoms For a month now, the commerci al club and other business organ izations have been carrying on a big publicity campaign about the Japansese cherry blossoms here. They will bloom in the springtime and remain in blossom about two weeks. From now on folks at home will be reading in the newspapers and magazines the stories of these blossoms. They will be hearing about them over the radio and they will be seeing pictures of them in the rotogravure sections. The rail roads and steamship lines, airplane companies, bus lines, hotels and others are now in the heat of the campaign to bring people here to see the blossoms. They estimate they can attract 500,000 people to look at the blooms. The flowers will be pretty but the real idea is to bring people here. It will make millions for the Washington mer chants. Court Proposal Compromise Is Rumored The supreme court fight con tinues to overshadow everything in Washington, Crowds of women and men jam into the supreme court building to get a glimpse at the nine justices. Crowds jam into the senate committee room to lis ten to the hearings on the Presi dent’s supreme court bill. The same bill is in the hands of the House committee but it is merely being held there because the House committee is waiting to see what happens on the senate side. There are all kinds of rumors and reports flying around the congress about what will happen in this court fight. One report which is prevalent today is that the whole matter will result in a compromise and that this compromise may make its appearance around next August. If this compromise goes thru it would result in giving the Presi dent power to add only two more new justices to the court. This addition would not be flex I ible and the number would remain at eleven justices instead of nine and the President’s demand for “prompters” or “assistants” to the justices would not be carried out. In any event, the matter is one which is mere speculation, but the fight is one which every member of congress is watching with minute attention. _ Diplomats Crowd Washington Conspicious is the word for the number of foreign diplomats and foreign business men in Washing ton today. Old time members say there are as many of these foreign ers in the nation's cupitol today as there were during the war. Many of the central and South American countries have delegations number ing twenty to fifty here today. Many Canadians and European and Oriental business men and diplo mats are here. These do not take into account the usual number of diplomats at regular embassies. Most noticed are the Central and South American people. One whole floor in a big hotel here is taken up by delegations from one central American market. Some are here regarding tariffs. Some are here to discuss boundary lines but there are some who agree that there is something bigger in the wind. With the countries of the world, includ ing America, appropriating great sums of money for arms and am munition it is frequently said that a great world conference is in the making and that perhaps the seat of that conference may be the United States. Believe Fet'd and Seed Aid Assured As a result of considerable work in the third congressional office, the feed and seed loan situation for Nebraska drouth counties will prob ably be relieved with the culmina tion of the campaign to sensitize the “powers that be’’ in Washing ton to the fact that the suffering in the third district in Nebraska, as a resul of the crop failure, is as bad or worse than the suffering caused by the recent floods in the Ohio Mississippi valley. Delegations from Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, Kansas and Missouri were here for several days work ing out the details for more leni ency and more money for feed and seed loans in the drouth counties. The third congressional office made it possible to call meetings of the Prairie States group, where a sub-committee was selected to see the Secretary of Agriculture and also the President himself to whom arguments for the needy farmers in drouth counties were presented. The President, who has gone to Warm Springs, Ga., left the matter in the hands of the Secretary of Agriculture and it can be said that as the result of this work some relief will be given to our district from which hundreds of complaints have been received. The President in the near future will send to the “hill’ a request for more emerg ency relief funds to be given to the WPA which has spent a lot of money, which was hoped to be spent in the drouth districts and the Ohio-Mississippi flood area. This will indicate that more WPA money will be available in the near future. The agriculture office will probably work out details to give relief for feed and seed. Believing that this situation has now been solved, several members of congress are working on farm legislation and giving their atten tion to backing a bill to provide funds for the eradication of nox ious weeds, especially bindweed, which is and has been doing so much damage to Nebraska farm land. C. Y. Thompson, president of the Nebraska Farm Bureau of West Point, is taking a leading part in informing the farmers in Ne braska about what is being done and what can be done to eradicate bindweed. This is a question on which the Prairie States group has been working for two years. Nebraskans Present Need for Aid Among the Nebraska delegation here on the feed and seed question were Everett Winter, state secre tary of the Nebraska Farm Bureau; W. II. Brokaw of the Nebraska Agricultural college; E. W. Ros siter of Hartington, and Professor Gramlich, also of the Nebraska Col lege of Agriculture. These men re port that hundreds of farmers are quitting the farm business in Ne braska. Members have hundreds of telegrams, letters, and many resolutions indicating' deplorable conditions on farms in the state. NEW BOOKS AT LIBRARY Birds of America by Persason; Etiquette by Eichler; The Outline I of History by Wells; How to Write Letters by Crowther; Practical Everyday Chemistry by Bennett; The Care and Handling of Dogs by Leonard; Selected Prose and Poetry of Kipling; The Complete Works of 0. Henry; British Agents by Lock hart; Prison Days and Nights by Nelson; Test Pilot by Collins; The Travels of Marco Polo by Komroflf; The Heart of A Dog by Terhune; Count Lunckner the Sea Devil by Thomas; Treasure Island by Stev enson; Practical Amateur Photo graphy by Davis; Animals of Am erica by Anthony. Holt County 4-H Club Members Invited To Aberdeen Angus Show Monday, April 5, the State Aber deen-Angus Breeders association is holding their annual show and sale. They are also sponsoring a Junior Judging contest to which all 4-H club members of Holt county are invited. This annual event is to be at Columbus, Nebr. There are six Sheep clubs and one Feeder Calf club already or ganized and one or more members from each club will be taken to the contest by Agricultural Agent F. M. Reece. Livestock clubs already organized will be led this year by O. R.Yarges, Stuart; Lloyd Thomp son, Atkinson; John Tipton, Atkin ■fton; Henry Vequist, O’Neill; Mrs. W. J. Fronek, O’Neill; Luke Ra kow, Page, and Irwin LaRue of Ewing. BRIEFLY STATED F. J. Biglin drove to Norfolk this morning after Mrs. Biglin and son, Joseph, who were returning home from Omaha. On account of the storm the train was held over at Norfolk and Mr. Biglin went to Norfolk after them. Mrs. F. J. Biglin and son, Joseph, returned to day from Omaha where they had been the past three weeks while Joe was receiving medical traeatment for his eye. The eye has been responding to treatment but he is expected to return to Omaha next week for another term of treatments for three weeks or more. John Medairy, of Omaha, an aud itor for the state PWA arrived in the city last Sunday night to com plete the final audit for the govern ment on the court house. Monday evening he was called out of the city to work on another project, but expects to return at the end of the week and complete the Ilolt county project. U. S. Civil Service commission has announced an examination for Automotive Mechanic, Soil Con servation Service at $1,680 per annum. For information in regard to the requirements and the char acter of the examination, and for application blanks, apply to Secre tary, Board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners, postoffice, at O’Neill, Nebraska. Mrs. J. F. O’Donnell went to Omaha last Friday and James went down Sunday to be with their daughter, Mrs. Z. W. Credle, who was operated on in a hospital there Monday for an attack of append icitis. The operation was success ful and Mr. O'Donnell left Omaha for home last night, but the North western passenger was annulled at Norfolk, so he will be back some time today. Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Donohoe re turned Sunday afternoon from David City, where they had been attending the funeral of Mrs. Don ohoe’s brother, Daniel Holland, which was held Saturday morning. Mr. Donohoe said they had a lot of snow south of us last week and that it was piled up in drifts along the highway in the vicinity of Al bion and that the roads were not in very good condition in that vicinity. " C. B. Yarnall went to Holdrege last Sunday to attend the funeral ' of E. E. Brown, president of the Brown-McDonald Company, owners of the chain of Golden Rule stores thruout this and adjoining states. The funeral was held Monday and Mr. Yarnall returned ronie Tues day night. Mr. Brown had been in the general mercantile business in Holdrege for many years and was one of the most prominent mer chants in the state. O’CONNELL DRAWS A THREE TO FIVE YEAR SENTENCE Ainsworth Trio Sentenced to One Year In the* Reformatory For Tool and Parts Theft. The trial of the case of the State of Nebraska vs. Frank Sesler of Emmet, on trial at the time of go ing to press last week was con cluded Thursday afternoon and the jury brought in a verdict of guilty, Friday morning. Sesler was tried for having accepted liquor knowing it to have been stolen and the com plaint fixed the value of the liquor at $76. In returning their verdict of guilty the jury fixed the value of the liquor at $34 Judge Dickson sentenced Sesler to serve thirty days in the Holt county jail and pay the costs of the prosecution, amounting to about $126. He is now serving his sentence in the county jail. Last Saturday morning Dale Herring, Everett Ensley and Ernest Cornish, all of Ainsworth, who were arrested the forepart of March for having stolen some tools and equipment from the parked car of J. R. Jarvis in Atkinson, and who were arrested and brought to this city on March 3, and plead guilty to the offense against them before Judge Dickson in district court March 4, were sentenced last Saturday by Judge Dickson to one year in the state reformatory. George O’Connell of Emmet, who was convicted by a jury in district court last week of having assisted in the stealing of a quantity of liquor from the Weber liquor store at Atkinson last November was sentenced to the state reformatory to an indeterminate term of from three to five years. Mrs. Mary Bausch, who was ar rested last August charged with attempting to perform a criminal operation upon a young Holtcounty woman and who entered a plea of guilty to the charges preferred on Sept 12 last, was before the court for sentence. She was sentenced to thirty days in jail and fined $500. Mrs. Bausch started serving her Nov. 12 last, was before the court sentenced Monday. Mrs. Bausch claims to be 76 years of age. Trains And Busses Delayed By Snow Weather in this vicinity has been quite cool the past week. It start ed to rain Monday and continued intermittingly until Wednesday, shortly before noon, when it turned to snow and continued roost of the afternoon and into the night. The snow fall here was very light, how ever, but in parts of the state it was very heavy, reaching a depth of one foot at Chadron, and to a depth of several inches in the east ern part of the state. Wednesday night the west bound. Northwestern passenger train was stopped at Norfolk and no mail reached this city Wednesday night or this morning by either bus or train. According to Weather Observer Bowen the precipitation here was .58 of an inch, the heaviest rainfall in this section in several months. A great deal of rye was Sowr. in this county last fall and much of it never came up, on account of the dryness of the soil. Farmers be lieve that this rain will give the rye crop a chance and many are looking for a good rye crop this season. High Low Mois. March 18 _ <51 36 March 19 _ 58 24 March 20_ 49 20 March 21 45 31 March 22 _ 39 23 March 23 44 26 .26 March 24 _ 40 27 .32 March 25__ 8 Small Boy Scalded By Boiling Coffee Little Bobby Johnson, the 2-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Johnson met with a painful acci dent last Monday morning about 8 a. m. Bobby had just arisen and his mother called to him to come to breakfast. While she went after his highchair Bobby approached the stove, reached up and got hold of the coffee pot pulling it down on him. He was severely burned on the right side and foot from the boiling coffee. He was given med ical attention at once and is getting along nicely, and it is belived that no permanent injury will result
