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The Frontier « ^XV O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1945 NO. 46 25,000 Bu. Hoi! Co. Corn “Sealed” SEALED COUX Dotted around somewhere on the grass grown prairie of Holt county is said to be 2 5.000 bush-1 els of corn in which I’ncle Sam ■ has $23,750 invested. As we are not strictly in the “corn country” it is interesting to learn that some of our hustling clod hoppers had ' produced the collateral whereby! they could hijack Santa Claus out of 95 cents a bushel loan. The corn is “sealed.” Maybe some day sold for a dollar, a dol lar and a quarter, maybe 50 cents. If sold for less than the loan the government—which is the people, the taxpayers—takes the loss. If more than the loan Uncle Sam takes what he has invested, party of the second part takes the profit. And if the corn spoils the dear people, of which the U. S. treas ury is the symbol, again take it in the neck. There are something like a half dozen lending agencies in the county that are financed directly or indirectly by what are known as federal funds. By answering a few questions and signing your name you can get in debt up to your neck. And if you have ever been there and got out maybe you are not keen about trying it again. Holt County Boy Shot Down Jap Zero Mrs. Julius Eppenbach of Meek, In the city Monday, informed The Frontier that they have a letter from their som-lPfc. Ernest Eppen bach, maning an Anti-aircraft gun on the island of Luzon in which he tells of having shot down a Japanese Zero that had flown in from somewhere to pay the cus tomary respect of war to Ernest and his outfit but was knocked from the sky when he got within range of the deadly aim of a Holt county sharp shooter. Mrs. Ep penbach says another son, Pfc. Vern Eppenbach, is in the Eu ropen maelstrom across the Rhine. SMALL DOSES PAST AND PRESENT By Romain* Sauadara SMALL DOSES A Florida man had it pretty bad. He advertised: "Will ex change residential lot, good sec tion, for 15 cartons of cigarets.” He got the 15 cartons and a cafe owner’s daughter got the lot. What will a fellow not do to get _ his Lady Nicotine. \ - Square up with the tax collec tors, toss in your Red Cross bit and get ready for t\ie seventli war loan. A continual round of pleas ure. A Fairbury mill is going to pro duce a half-million pounds of flour for the government transport abroad. All sections of Nebraska have something the armed forces need. W’hile we don't have wheat enough up here to make a pancake we furnish them-the butter and beef steak to go with it. A gent down in North Carolina says he has 50 reasons to show that Anglo-Saxons are the Lost Israelites. "This being so, a union of U. S. and Britain must come to pass.’’ By Israelites he probably means Hebrews. And as Hebrews are known as Jews he has us all hooked up with Father Abraham, grand old patriarch at that. But as there are no "Lost Israelites" I lost interest before starting to trace the pedigree back to the dim dawn of history. Yalta, Mexico City, San Fran cisco. Where next to set the world in order? According to the findings of a senate special committee there is y no labor shortage. The shortage is in the quantities of products turned ouut, not in numbers of employes on the payroll. Mrs. W. T. Evans, who was laid to rest in Prospect Hill Cemetery last month, was an arresting ex ample of regal bearing and wom anly charm. She stood apart in the crowd, but was one of it. Judge Kinkaid was another symbol of kingly carriage. Erect and stately the rough and unpolished ele ments of frontier life, which was his environment, lent luster to his Virginian polish. Kate Mann moved among us as a queen and had the business sense of a Hettie Green. John Mahrer and Montana Jack Sullivan stood out as cul tured gentlemen against a back ground of pioneer roughnecks. The Lynch Journal publishes the service announcements of twelve separate church groups. Respecting the most primitate, the most fundamental experience of mankind, there are many diver gent views, some on solid and sincere convictions, too many functioning as a racket that gives the promoters an easy living. Only in Yankeeland can the “wheat and tares” flourish side by sde. Herr Hitler is one of history’s most remarkable figures. If his talent for tenacity of purpose had been directed in right channels he might have been the world's greatest benefactor instead of the world’s worst scourge. And is there not some way to rid the the world of this scourge? Do not the Allied leaders know of his hideout? Is it not possible to land enough troops and equipment at that hideout to get him—“dead or alive.” The nervous tension touched off by the disrupted normal living, the staples pulled from the fences of moral restraint, the imposing of other restrictions and the gen eral social atmosphere of the times no doubt has given some youngsters the hunch to “cut loose”. The rauckrakers’ stories might lead to the conclusion that there is not a virgin left in the country over 12 years of age. I like to think better of young THE Robins have returned. They mate early, plan the nesting places, the home activities. There is much of human interest and human profit in the ordered habits of birds, the freedom of the open sky, the pleasure of life poured forth in song, the industry, the watch ful care over their “families.” The birds of the air have nests, said the great Master of Men. Family, home—an herit age from Eden. In that home are to cluster life’s sacred memories. il BRIEFLY STATED Mrs. R. H. Shriner departed Wednesday on a business trip to Sioux City and Ute Iowa. — Percy Grass, a former citiizen Iowa precinct but now of Ewring, was in O'Neill Tuesday. (5ne Monday, one Tuesday stowed away by Day Patrolman Peterson for inebriated mutter ings and molesting citizens on the streets. Attorney Thomas F. Nolan, on a professional visit to Rock county, says the water holes ; every where are floating mobs of wild ducks. St. Mary’s Alumnae is spon I sering a tea in honor of Lt. Made. ! line Ullom at St. Mary’s Gym on April 8, from 3 to 5. Alumnae and friends are cordially invited. Mrs. L. G. Gillespie, Mrs. Har rison Bridge and Mrs Bennett Gillespie accompanied by Bob Eby of Page were in Norfolk last Friday. Mr. Eby has since been called (for induction at the Great Lakes Training base. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Claussen, Dr. L. A. and Mrs Burgess and Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Walling ush ered in the fishing season Tues day, driving out to the old Peter Greeley lake, where they main, tain something of a summer camp and returned to town in the even ing with an envyable catch. At a meeting of the Board of Education Monday Supt. R. C. Andersen of the public schools announced the termination of his services here, effective August 1, having accepted a similar position at Madison, Nebr. Prof. Ira George of the music department, was tendered the superintend, ency, which he informed the board he would accept. He will continue also as head of the music department. The present (force of teachers was reelected at a five per cent increase in salar ies. Contracts of the teaching force will not be entered into before may 1, when some changes may develop. L. M. Reese of Ainsworth, district supervisor of the State Highway Department, met with the county board in O’Neill Wed. nesday to ascertain what plans might be developed looking to highway construction “aifter the war.” A part of federal funds is provided for this purpose, the fly in the ointment being the county has to match dollar for dollar whatever the U. S. treasury sup plies. In other words, if Holt county has a dollar for highways Uncle Sam lays down a dollar to match it. And it takes a lot of dollars to build highways. Mem bers of the board feel they can. not impose an extra burden on the taxpayers in this respect and funds at present are not available. America. The German wolf-packs of the seas have not all been hunted down. A statement is out that Nazi subs sank 550,000 tons of Allied shipping during January and February. He slouched at an angle of 30 degrees against the door posts of an open door, a bit of smoke from a half-burned and blackened ci garet curling out from an un shaven and unwashed face, a fig ure of a man clothed, but you would hardly say dressed. Ap parently life had brought no in spiration to him, no gleam of dis tant star had opened the springs of imagination, no bright dreams that caught the flash of seraph wings. In this the thing the Lord God had made, exclaimed Will Markham when he looked upon the brute figure known as the Man with the Hoe. The gent lean ing against the doorpost—is he a delightful figure who has discov ered the philosophy of taking life without exertion? To heck with mental culture and highbrow va porings. “Ignorance is bliss; ’tis folly to be wise.’’ Potatoes are up—up on boxes too high for a dog to shoot at. Official Assesor Schedules • The following schedule of prices on live stock and grains for assessment purposes has been formulated at the state house and sent to the local assessors to be followed by them in making this year s assessments. Coming from the state house it bears the' offi cial authority: Cattle—Calves up to 6 months, $15; 6 to 18 months, $45; 18 to 30 months, $65; milch cows, $85; stock cattle, $70; bulls, $100. The foregoing applies to purebreds and the following llgures to grades: Calves up to 6 months, $10; 6 to 18 months, $35; 18 to 30 months, $45; milch cows, $75; stock cattle, $60; cattle on feed, 25% less than net market price; bulls, $90. Horses—Yearlings, $10; 2-yr. olds, $20; 3-yr.-olds and over, $35; ponies and plugs, $15; stal lions, $100. Mules — Yearlings, $20; 2-yr. olds, $35; 3-yr.-olds and over, $50; plugs, $20; jacks, $100. Hogs and poultry — 25% less market price. Grains the same. This information ,1s published for the benefit of farmers and ranchmen that they may be in formed for the local assessors. The precinct assessors met with the countyl assessor at the assembly room in the court house Thursday to get their supplies. Up until noon all but three of the thirty-seven of the precinct as_ sessors had come in. Some of the responsibility is taken from their shoulders this year since the state tax commissioner’s organ ization has maiia a revised schedule c< values and they feel they can direct live stock men to | register any “kicks” they may; have at the state house. ___ Sgt. Hicks in Many Com bat Missions • 15th A. A. F. In Italy—Staff Sgt. Merrill C. Hicks, 22 year old B-17 ball turrett gunn ;r , of O’Neill, Nebraska, has success, fully flown 35 combat missions on an AAF Flying Fortress of the 15th Air Force. Sgt. Hicks joined the AAF on May 20, 1943, and was awarded his gunners’ wings at Laredo, Texas on January 3, 1944. He left for overseas duty in May, 1944, and flew his first combat mission on June 22, 1944, to Parma, Italy. His 35th mission was to Sopron, Hungary, on March 4, 1945. He has been awarded the Air Medal with three bronze Oak Leaf Clusters. He was graduated from O’Neill High school in 1941, and was em ployed as an aircraft worker in Omaha, Nebr., prior to joining the AAF. ELECTION AIX BIT FORGOTTEN The date for filing as candi- j dates for members of the city council and board of education expired Monday, with this show-) ing furnished by City Clerk Ben1 Grady: John Melvin, Councilman 1st Ward. M. J. Wallace, Councilman 2nd Ward. Frank Clements, Councilman, 3rd Ward. H. J. Birmingham and Ira H. Moss as Members of Board of j Education of School District of City of O’Neill. The election comes on next Tuesday, April 3. , 1 ■ Working For Victory Club The Working for Victory Club met at the Inman Schol house on March 28, 1915. The meeting was called to order by the president.. Roll was called and all members were present. Minuutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. We got our books today and filled out our records. Our next meeting will be held at the school house or\ April 4, 1945. BRIEFLY STATED Fred Teseh and Eli Hershiser, of Norfolk, spent a few days in O'Neill the past week. Mrs. McMillan of the popular M. & M. Is back from a few weeks spent down In Florida. Mrs. Jack Wldman and son Clyde of Amelia were in the city Monday. Ray Armstrong, Burlington sec tion foreman, has purchased the Parker residence occupied by the Lyndle Stout family. What's $800 to Chambers peo ple? That was their Red Cross quota and along they come with double that amount. Only a few national figures ever got an equal smearing, but Her bert Hoover still makes the front page. Where are the others? Mrs. Fred Boettchers was in from southwest Holt county and handed Chairman Shriner of the Red Cross an eighty-nine-dollar contribution from Holt Creek. The fellow who drops a red ration token in the church col lection plate has not only a dis torted idea of the passport to glory but the purpose for which tokens are issued. Norris George, Holt county man, is featured in a story ap pearing In the April issue of Cap per’s Farmer entitled “Tractor Winch.’’ This winch, says the story, will move a bigger load than two tractors at the drawbar. It is operated by a power take off. To keep it from dragging the tractor backward when George pulls a five-ton stack of hay on an underslung, he drops down a brace made from an old tube with belled end that digs into the ground. Automobile wheels, tires, brok en concrete, mud — jeopardizing your safety if you head toward the railroads on lower Fourth street. And maybe some cheerful guy sweating over a car tire will look up at you from the sidewalk in front of a dingy building with an expression of amazement that you have the nerve to suspect that it might be a public walk. It would be expecting too much from a woman to get up town from a night train, maybe with children, the condition that sec tion of the street is in. AAA News Notes Dairy feed subsidy payment for the months of January, February and March will begin on April 2. The periodi for filing payment ap plications will in all cases be 2 calander months following the close of the quarterly production period. However, we suggest you do not delay sending in your stubs and applications. Prompt action receives prompt payment. 1945 AAA Farm Program Sign up: There is a finel date set-up for signing under the 1945 AAA Farm program. If you have not signed your statement of inten tions, you may do so by calling at the County Office. Harry E. Ressel, Chairman, Holt Co. AAA Committee. Marriage Licenses C. G. Graham, over 65, and Ida M. Ward, 55, both of Atkin son. Verne Eugene Frost, 23, and Evelyn Bernice West, 22, both of Atkinson. Peter More, over 50, Redbird, and Mrs. Freda JJergland, 51, j both of Redbird. Earl Schindler, 21, and Bernice Mary Tagel, 21, both of Ewing. March E Warner, 42, Atkinson, and Ruby E. Alexander, 28, Col umbus. 4-H FAMILY FUN FEED Some 225 4-H club members, parents and friends reported a very enjoyable time at the an nual 4-H Family Fun Feed held at the O'Neill high school audi torium last Wednesday evening. The 4-H Family Fun Feed was held for the purpose of honoring the work done by Holt County 4-H clubs in 1944. (Continued from page four) j Seen Alon^ Streets and Alleys Young America—three score strong—girls and boys with the magnificiant energy of youth, swept all beffore them on a rush down Fourth street to the Park, bats, balls and other pharaphern alia incident to a mid-week game carried along. A tractor, an underslung, two or three men to engineer the loading of a $200 brooder house at a local lumber yard and within an hour it was at its destination down about Inman. All of which invoked the observation by Joe Mann that it would have taken Hank McEvony the rest of the week to have done the job. Maybe these heavy loads have a lot to do with the crumbled con_ dition of our oiled highways. The pale moon hung poised above the earth’s distant western rim, a bud of light had opened in the east. Streets were empty of human activity except for a sailor boy and two gents inspired by firewater who pulled and strug. gled with him. Cajoling, threat ening, urging, forcing to no avail. That boy in uniform had been 'wlhere men meet and vanquish the mortal foe. Here was anoth er foe luring to a rendezvous. The sailor won. The two (friends beat a hilarious retreat to the nearest wet spot. A blue roan in harness put on an exhibition of plain and fancy kicking as the team turned into an alley on Fourth street. Re senting a touch on the heels or other provocation the beautiful animal cut loose with good hind legs and whaled the thin air but thought better of it as the sooth ing influence of the driver gained the ascendency. On Second street just south of Everett is a row of cottonwoods, the trunks of which are at least four feet in diameter. In the dim past of O’Neill’s history John Gibbons put a few “cuttings” in the virgin soil along which later became a street. If dry weather could have destroyed them there was no place in Nebraska scorch ed browner than O’Neill in 1894. Two ancient trees stand on the street just south oif The Frontier and have the protecting graces, “Woodmen, spare that tree,” of the deed of conveyance of the property to the present onwer. The city, however, has the au_ thority to remove them under condemnation proceedings. The march of time wipes off an other landmark of the town, or was It the palnter’B brush. After sixty years above the gateway tb« weather-worn sign Galena Lum ber Co., has joined In memory the relics of the past and a sign writer from Oakdale put up them in black and white and red the name of the present owners, Ray Spelts. Railroad locomotives are not amendable to the legal code re lating to disturbing the peace. Probably some citizens residing near the right-of-way would like to get the engineer by the throat when he roars through at an early hour with the whistle of his iron horse wide open. HENRY KACZOR Funeral services were conduct, ed Saturday afternoon for Henry Kaczor at the Pleasant Valley church near Midway. The services were in charge of Rev. F. J. Schank of the Spencer Methodist church. Music during the services was furnished by Mrs. Grace Borg, Mrs. Laural Karel, Sam Robert son and Ralph Ernst. Interment was made in the Pleasant Valley cemetery with Frank Nelson, Charles Fox, Will Devall, John Karel, Roy Karr and Joe Stein acting as pall bearers. Henry Kaczor was born at Phillipsburg, Ontario, Canada, April 6, 1878. He came from Canada to the United States with his parents on September 19, 1884. The family settled at O’Neill, Nebr., where he remain ed the greater part of his life. For the last ten months, Mr. Kac zor lived with his brother, John, near Spencer where his death occurred on Thursday evening, March 22. 1945, at the age of 66 years, 11 onths and 15 days. For nearly a year prior to his death Mr. Kaczor wps ah invalid and about six months ago he lost his eyesight. Mr. Kaczor was a farmer for many years and during his later life he worked at the carpenter trade. Surviving him are five brothers, Charles, Will and Albert, all liv_ ing at O’Neill, Nebr.; Fred, of Richey, Mont.; John, of Spencer; two sisters, MisS Tina Kaczor and Mrs. Minnie Bay, both of O’Neill. We join with his old neighbors and friends in expressing sym pathy to the survivors in the loss df their brother. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank all our friends for their kindness to us in our time of sorrow, for their assistance, sympathy and for beautiful flowers. The Kaczor Families. Dr. Fisher, Dentist. 43-tf Col. James Moore, who has be come the owner of the old Com mercial hotel, where John O’Neill and Roscoe Conklin bedded and fed the mobs of “newcomers” In the homestead days, Is making some repairs and expects to make his home within its historic walls. Recent Real Estate Transfers Emma B. Baum to Henry Baum —WV2SW Va seVisw^ 30.31-15, $1200. Thomas J.Welch and wife to Mrs. Johanna Ashe—neVi 21-29 31; $5,390. Henry J. McCarthy to Vernon W Harding—seVi neVi e%se\4 35-32.11; $2,500. R. E. Osborn and wife to Claude D. and Fern E. Hicks— Lots 11 and 12, block 43 Riggs’ Addition, O’Neill; $2,500. Agnes A. Couts to Anna W. McCartney—Lots 10, 11, 12, Block H, McCaJTerty’s Second add. to O’Neill; $1,800. Owen R. Meredith and wife to Myrtle and Howard M. Perkins— Lots 9 and 10, Block 43, Riggs’ add., O’Neill; $1,200. Homer E. Asher and wife to Francis and Ruby G. Bazelman— Lots 19 and 20, Block F, Fahy’s park add., O’Neill; $125. Vina Munson and husband to Verne C. Armstrong—7 lots in Stuart, $2,000. Jessie E. Trumble and wife to [ Ernest and Ewald Spahn—80 acres in section 20 and 160 in 21-25-9; $1,650. Fred D. Smith and wife to Hilbert and Mary A. Hoge—sw*4 3.25-12; $9,500. Homestead Bond and Safe De posit Co., to Fred and Alvina Tesch—nVfe 21-31-15; $4,600. Travelers Insurance Co., to Luke C. Rakow—nV2 32.29-9; $7,750. Janet E. Ayerig and husband to Fred G. and Inez B. Brede. hoeft—neV4 12-29-12; $4,000. John J. Harley Jr. and wife to Fred R. and Ella E. Mack—3 lots in Atkinson; $2,200. NOTICE The annual meeting of the stockholders of the O’Neill Coun. try Club will be held on Monday evening, April 2, 1945, at 8:00 p. m., in the office of the Clerk of the District Court at the Court House in O’Neill, Nebr. The purpose o(f the meeting is for the election of a Board of Directors for the coming year and the transaction of such other bus iness as may properly come be fore the meeting. L. A. BURGESS, President.