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LXY O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1945 • mn NO. 47
Mr. Ressel Writes of
“Sealed Corn”
In extenuation of the “sealed
corn” program and to give the of
ficial figures Harry E. Rassel of
the local AAA committee sends
in the following.
“Holt county has 31,008 bush
els of corn under seal to date from
the 1944 crop. The maximum
loan rate for the county is .88c j
per bushel providing stored in
cribs meeting CCC qualifications j
and must contain not more than
20.5% moisture content to April,
1st and not over 17-5% after
April 1st. This proves that CCC
is only making loans on good
quality corn and not on corn of
poor quality, as some are led to
believe.
“To those who do not know,
these loans are all made through
local lending agencies, which in
most cases your and my local,
bank at 3% interest rate.
“To those who think the stor
age of grain in years of plenty
is something ne\£, turn and read
Genesis 41.33-39 and Genesis 42
1 to 21.
“If this storage was a good
thing in Joseph’s time why do
some people choose to condemn
it now?
“We believe it is a wonderful
program and are hoping we can
seal much more grain. Who
knows whether we will raise a
crop in 1945?
“Respectliully submitted,
“HARRY E. RESSEL,
“Chairman Holt County AAA
Committee.”
Mr. Ressel’s reference to the Bible story of
storing grain in Egypt is interesting though not a
parallel to the AAA program. Prime Minister
Joseph made no loans; he reached into Phar
aoh’s treasure chest for funds and bought up
"all the corn." Later he sold it back to the
swarthy husbandmen of the Nile at a profit. A
typical Jewish transaction.
SMALL DOSES
PAST AND PRESENT
By Romain* Saunders
The passing of “Holy Week"
too often is followed by unholy
conduct.
A Kansas editor tell it: Allow
me to present my husband to you.
No, thanks. I have one of my
own.
Grand Island, like the youth too
smart for his pants, is too big for
j its size. There is neither hotel
' accommodation, place to park a
car, table at a cafe or chance in
a store for the accumulated mobs
grown out of “war industries.”
And now it is learned that a
secret pact was entered into by
representatives of the three pow
ers at Yalta. Wonder if it was
what an O’Neill citizen has dis
closed. According to this usually
reliable citizen Stalin and Church
ill each asked for a slice of Ger
many. Mr. Roosevelt is reported
to have said that he had just got
Montgomery Ward’s and that
would satisfy him.
The prairie land was exchang
ing the brown of nature's lifeless
season for the green of new life,
buds opened to the sunlight, mea
dowlarks warbled as they sat on
fence posts, cattle went hunting
for the fresh green sprouts, left
over hay stacks stood like grey
ghosts in ragged outline, field and
meadow invited to the open. And
then the first April shower came
in the form of a heavy blanket of
wet snow. So the prairie land on
April 3 lies again in endless miles
of white purity.
There is little or no interest in
the history of the orderly develop
ment of a community but a story
wof the spectacular, the venture
"sume heroics, of a character with
a touch of that intangible some
thing which puts a mark of dis
tinction on a gent, gets a hearing.
Just when the stories of Doc Mid
dleton will become stale is not
predictable. I am indebted to
James Nightingale of Atkinson for
some early north Nebraska his
tory. Probably no one from the
Yellow Banks to the Black Hills
was feared more than Middleton.
He was a combination of open
handed generosity, sympathy for
those on whom the hand of mis
fortune fell, criminal craftiness
and a trigger finger that shot, to
kill. He came from Texas as a
night herder into Nebraska and
stayed. His real name was Riley,
not Middleton, and the title Doc
was acquired by his ability to fix
up a wounded or injured pard, as
stranger and friend alike were
considered. From the time he shot
a soldier who had insulted and
then assaulted him to the end of
his spectacular career in the up
per Elkhorn valley Middleton was
a fugitive. From time to time I
may write a paragraph about this
somewhat remarkable scalawag.
The chaplain of the peniten
tiary at Lincoln has mailed me
a little printed message entitled
Wit’s End Corner. It pulsates
with the heart throbs, the mental
strain, the hope and faith of a
condemned prisoner, Joseph T.
MacAvoy, who two weeks ago
squared accounts with society
with his life in the electric chair.
It is to be hoped the faith he ex
pressed in the dark hour of doom
was born out of a vital experi
ence. His message is remarkable
for what he did express. If it
were possible out in the dim un
known for a 16-year-old girl of
Sutton, Neb., who struggled, pled
and gave her life in defense of
virtue and honor to point a finger
at a rapist, a murderer and say,
“Why didn't you mention what
you did to me in that last message
of yours; and are you to go
through the pearly gates and I to
be left out?"—Then what. The
one condemned to execution for
crime draws much sympathy from
the sob sister brigade. The laws
of Nebraska and the divine decree
are still in force, “At the hand
HOLT County arose to the occasion again.
Asked to contribute a loaf and the whole
baking is brought in. Doubling the quoto, the
following was contributed to the Red Cross by
the towns and territory adjacent to them:
O'Neill . $4416.00
Atkinson . 2704.35
Stuart . 1716.21
Chambers . 1691.35
Ewing . . 1356.71
Page . . 1076.63
Inman . . 583.35
Emmet . . 477.50
Total .... $14,042.16
Eour hundred dollars more is needed to make
an even dollar for every man, woman and
child in the county’ Wno has it?
of every man’s brother will I re-'
quire the life of man. Whoso
sheddeth man’s blood by man
shall his blood be shed.’’
Miss Marjorie Dickson returned
to Lincoln Tuesday. She came to
the city to attend the funeral of
P. J. Blglin.
Word was received iTr the city
Tuesday that the life of Dob Mrit ,
tel was dispaired of as he lay ill,
in a hospital in Portland, Ore., I
where the family had moved from
O’Neill.
The two O’Neill banks have
something over three million dol
lars in deposits. Just how much
of this sum will the passbook
holders have listed on the as
sessor's schedules.
Pvt. Wm. Biglin
Killed In Action
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Biglin re
ceived a telegram Monday that
their son, Pvt. William Biglin,
had been killed in action in Ger
many. another in our midst added
to a million desolated American
' homes.
Pvt. William Biglin was born
in O’Neill and was about 22 years
c|f age.He was a graduate of the
O’Neill schools and was attending
Creighton University at the time
of his entrance into the army,
about two years ago. He had been
overseas for about six months
and was on the drive into Ger
many. He was a splendid young
man in the bloom of young man
hood, with life before him when
the avaricious jaws of the war
lords clasped him. What a pity
that the choicest manhood of our
country is being sacrificed be
cause of the ambitions o(f a bunch
of German war lords. Let us hope
it ends and soon with a glorious
victory, so that some of America’s
young manhood oan be saved.
The many Holt county friends
o)f the family, and they are legion,
extend the sorrowing relatives
their sincere sympathy in their
hour of sorrow.
Some Poultry
Business
A meeting has been scheduled
for all persons operating motor
trucks used in the transportation
of poultry and poultry products
from producing areas in Boyd,
Holt, and Wheeler counties, to be
held at 7:30 p. m., Wednesday,
April 18, in the basement annex
courthouse, O'Neill, Neb., at
which time an Area and County
Poultry and Poultry Products In
j dustry Transportation Advisory
j Committee will be elected, ODT
! District Manager Frank Wampler
announced today.
This Committee, when approv
ed by the Office of Defense Trans
portation, will advise and assist
the ODT in directing the move
ment of motor trucks used in the
transportation of poultry and
poultry products between produc
ing areas in the counties listed.
All persons (contract carriers,
private operators, cooperative and
independent, etc.) who operate
motor trucks used to transport
poultry and poultry products be
tween producing areas in the Dis
trict and destination points are
entitled to elect their representa
tive on the Committee.
ODT said that for the purpose
of this program "destination
point’’ means a farm, processing
or packing plant, dehydrating,
freezing or storage point, ware
house, rail or water head, whole
sale or retail market place and
includes such transportation be
tween producing areas and any of
the named destination points ex
cept from a wholesale or retail
market place which distributes
such products in what is common
ly known as wholesale or retail
distribution.
There have been wiped from
the mortgage records of the
county the past week seven real
estate mortgages, the largest
$1800. There were the same num
ber filed, one for $8,000.
P. J. Bijjiin Laid
to Rest
Patrick J. Biglin passed away
at his home in the northern part
d|f the city last Friday afternoon
at 4:50, after an illness of about
six months at the age of 82 years,
two months and twenty-four
days. Funeral services were
held from St. Patrick’s church
last. Monday morning at 10
o’clock, and was very largely at
tended and interment in Calvary
cemetery.
On June 27, 1895, Patrick J
Biglin was united in marriage
to Miss Catherne M. Dailey, the
ceremony being performed in St.
Patrick’s church in this city, the
late Mons. M. F. Cassidy officiat
ing. Mrs. Biglin is the daughter
of another pioneer family, who
came to O’Neill from Pennsyl
vania. Two children were born
to this union. Miss Marie Biglin,
ojf Salt Lake City, Utah, who ar
rived here last Thursday evening,
being called on account of the
serious illness of her father, and
Miss Helen Biglin of this city,
who with their mother are left to
mourn the passing of a kind and
affectionate husband and father.
He is also survived by three sis
ters, Mrs. Margaret Stanton, Mrs.
Elizabeth Howard, and Mrs.
Mary E. Quinn, all of Scranton,
Pa.
Patrick J. Biglin was born at
Dunmore, Pa., on January 13,
1863. He was a resident of his
native city and state until 1881
when he came with his father,
Timothy Biglin to O’Neill. His
(father homesteaded {aboiy five
miles southwest of O’Neill and he
assisted his father in farming and
cattle raising for tl'Ie'w years. His
father homesteaded about five
| September 1387 and then Patrick
came to town and for a time
worked in the grocery store of
Mann & Hecker, and then in
partnership with a brother
in-law, William Cook he opened
a grocery store on lower Fourth
street, which they operated for
a few years and afterward was
bulk agent here for the Standard
Oil company and drove one of
the first gasoline trucks in the
county. He later served as an
inspector for the pure food de
partmtnt of the state agricultural
department r*or several years.
Following this he operated a coal
yard in this city for several years
uryil failing health compelled
him to retire from active business.
Pat Biglin was among the best
known of the pioneers living in
this city and vicinity and he had
a host of friends in the city and
county. With an agreeable and
pleasing personality he loved to
visit and discuss with friends the
early days of the city af which
he had been a resident ifor sixty
four years. Despite his advanced
years he had a very retentative
memory and knew the history
of the city and county as well as
any one here.
The Frontier joins the many
friends of the family in extending
sympathey to the bereaved rela
tives and friends in their hour
of sorrow.
COMMERCIAL CLUB
MEETING
The regular meeting of the
O’Neill Commercial Club will be
held in the dining room of the
Golden Hotel at 7 p. m., Tues
day evening, April 10. Officers
and directors for the year will
be elected at this meeting and
the treasurer will make his an- j
nual report. All members are
urged to attend.
ELECTION RETURNS
John Melvin, Councilman First
Ward 22 votes.
M. J. Wallace,Councilman Sec
ond Ward, 13 votes.
Frank Clements, Councilman
Third Ward, 25 votes.
For Members Board o(f Edu
cation:
H. J. Birmingham, 1st 21; Sec
ond, 13, Third, 22— Total 56.
Ira H. Moss, 1st 19, Second 13,
Third, 21—Total 53.
For a town of 3,000 that looks
like a mighty poor showing at
Tuesday’s election.
BRIEFLY STATED
Frank Nelson, of the Meek
neighborhood, favored us with a
friendly visit the past week.
Miss Rosemary Biglin, of Oma
ha, spent the week with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Big
lin.
Bob Tomlinson arrived home
Wednesday from Omaha, where
he had been tfor medical treat
ment.
Mrs. Earl Wrede, of Branson,
Mo., arrived in the city Sunday
for a visit with relatives and
'.friends.
■.
Judge Mounts and Reporter
McElhaney were over at ltutte
Monday, disposing of u term of
district court in a few hours.
Mr. and Mrs. Eby of Page spent
Easter in the city, the guests of
their daughter and husband, Mr.
and Mrs. Rennet Gillespie.
Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Baker, of
the Short Horn Ranch just west
off Amelia, was in the city a day
last week and favored The Fron
tier with a call.
Andrew Morton arrived home
Sunday from Hastings, where he
had been the past two months in
charge of one of the bulldtngB of
the war work program near that
city.
The following patient, recently
returned from active overseas
duty in the Pacific theater, is re
cuperating from battle wounds
Temple, Texas, S. Sgt. Frank J.
Dietsch, Infantry, son of Joseph
H. Dietsch, O’Neill, Nebr.
The home of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Martin was the scene of a
family gathering Easter Sunday,
when twenty-three guests sat
down to dinner, the occasion be
ing in honor of a nephew
of Mr. and Mrs. Martin,
T. 5. Donald Martin, here on a
six week’s leave after three years
in military service abroad. He
expects to return to Italy late in
April.
Glenn Saunders of East Green
wich, R. I., sends The Frontier
word of Sgt. G. H. Wade, an
O’Neill citizen who entered army
service from here in December,
1942. He is with the 37th divi
sion and was in the campaign
from Lingayen Gulf to Manila,
received wounds in his hands but
apparently continues in the serv
ice units. During his residence
here of eight year. Mr. Wade rep
resented a Sioux City fruit and
vegetable concern. Sgt. Wade re
cently received a belated and
ruined Christmas package.
Governor Dwight Griswold has
proclaimed the month of April.
1945, as “GET READY MONTH”
for the Seventh War Loan Drive
rally to be conducted during May
and June. The Governor urges
each citizen of this state to take
account of his financial ability to
support the war effort by invest
ing his money in War Bonds to
speed the victory and insure the
restoration of normal peacetime
living. He particularly urges
employers and employees to fully
cooperate with the plans for
launching this "get ready” period
with a special drive for “extra”
payroll deduction starting on
Monday, April 2. . Also urges
various service and luncheon
clubs of the state and the school
principals, teachers and pupils to
lend every possible assistance in
carrying out their assigned task
in this important program to as
sure its success.
Employment Service Schedule
The Norfolk Office of the Man
power Commission U. S. Employ
ment service has arranged the
following schedule for Holt coun
ty for the next three months:
Atkinson—Monthly on Tuesday
1 to 2 o’clock April 17; May 15;
June 12. At the postoffice.
Ewing—Monthly on Tuesday
2:30 to 3 o’clock April 5; May 1,
29; June 26 At the postoffice.
O’Neill—Weekly on Monday 2
to 4 o’clock April 2, 9, 16, 23, 30;
May 7, 14, 21; June 4, 11, 18, 25.
At the courthouse.
Boys Plead Guilty
Then Try to Escape
It was not technically a jail break. The two kids sentenced,
to the state industrial school felt the lure of open spaces and
made a break for freedom w'hen their cage was opened Wed- /
nesdav at the court house by the jailer. Boyle made a run for
the open. County Treasurer Ed Hancock caught on to the
attempt to escape and gave chace 1
while the sheriff corraled young
t'.reen. Boyle's energy faded out by
the time he reached the vicinity of
the Methodist church, when Ed
made a melodrumic capture.
Sheriff Hubbard and Patrolman
Peterson started for Kearney Thurs
day morning with the boys wearing
the manacles,
Two 16-year-old lads were sen
tenced Tuesday In district court
for commitment to the state in
dustrial school at Kearney until
they are 21, unless sooner dis
charged. Vldel Sherman Green
and William Boyle got into the
law's swift embrace through the
act of driving off an automobile
not their own. The car belonged
to John Conard of Emmet and
was stolen from the streets of
O’Neill six weeks ago.
The boys were arrested by
F. B. I agents In North Dakota,
taken to Omaha and then brought
to O’Netll, where the crime was
committed. Holt county had
turned the Job over to the F. B. I.,
which in turn handed It back to
us, sending the boys here in cus
tody of Deputy United States
Marshall Frank Golden and Grant
Yates, both of Omaha. County
Attorney J. D. Cronin filed an in
formation against the boys in dis
trict court. Court convened short
ly before noon Tuesday, the boys
were brought in by Sheriff Hub
bard and Mr. Cronin read llie
charge. Judge Mounts questioned
them at some length and ex
plained their rights to trial by
jury and legal counsel. They
wanted neither and both entered
pleas of guilty.
Illy clad, In need of hair cuts
they stood before the court pitiful
figures of neglected youth. The
Green boy’s home was In Atkin
son, the other in Wheeler county
south of Ewing when they started
an experiment. When they took
the car young Green said they
headed for Canada to Join the
navy. Within five miles of the
Canada line the law caught up
with them. They wanted to get
into the Allied fighting forces they
said and were under age for the
U. S. navy. The boyB talked freely
to the sheriff and The Frontier
representative of their exploit,
saying they have had enough of
unlawful pursuits.
Maybe a handshake as an on
looker bid them goodbye flashed
a momentary ray of hope into two
drab and cheap young lives.
CHAMBERS NEWS
Phyllis Carpenter, Reporter
Clair Grimes was on the sick
; list Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Spath,of
Page, spent the weeek-end at the
Charles and Frank Spath homes.
Mrs.Willard Tompson and
Gladys Tompson had dental work
done in O’Neill Thursday of last
week.
Pfc. Frank Spath and sister,
Mrs. Geo. Fullerton went to
Plainview Sunday to visit rela
tives.
Mrs. C. M. Eason left Wednes
day to report at Camp Carson,
Colorado Springs,, Col., as Nurses’
Aid in the Veteran’s Hospital at
that place.
Miss Fay Finch came up from
Lincoln Sunday to visit at the
Pichler home. She will visit her
parents at Middlebranch before
returning to her work in Lincoln.
Rev. Lawrence Dale left Mon
day {for Detroit, Mich., where he
is to be married on Saturday of
this week. He and his bride will
'come back to Chambers after a
two weeks honeymoon.
Sgt. Willard Tompson arrived
Friday from Camp Livingston,
La., for a short furlough with his
wife and children and parents,
Mr. and Mrs. George Tompson.
He will return to Camp Livings
ton Wednesday of next week.
Mrs. Lela Grubb and Ray had
as guests for dinner Easter Sun
day the following, Mr. and Mrs.
Gauis Wintermote and Carolyn,
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Baker, Mr.
and Mrs. Stanley Elkins and
family and Mr. and Mrs. Bayne
Grubb and daughter.
Company Sunday at the L. O.
Lenz home were: Rev. Lawrence
Dale, Mrs. E. M. Brooks and
Mrs. Vernon Harley and children.
H. A. 2-c Jack Catron has been
transferred from the Great Lakes
Naval Training station to a corp
man’s school at San Diego, Cal.
Mrs. Donald Alderson and
daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Law
rence Barnett and daughters
drove up from Hastings Thursday
of last week. Mrs. Alderson vis
ited at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Ned Alderson. Her son, Donald,
Jr., is staying there going to
school. Mr. and Mrs. Barnett
and children visited at the Aider
son home and also at the S. B.
Barnett and Glen White homes
at Amelia. They returned to
Hastings Monday.
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Assessors hit the trails again
Monday. The only nhange in the
schedule of valuations (for this
county made at the state house
was to add a dime to wheat, of
which there is little or none.
Some holders of school land
leases in the county feel they have
been hit hard as in some instances
valuations have been doubled by
decree from the state house.
The recent erratic flareup of
the weather is said to have wiped
out Nebraska’s prospects for a
fruit crop, which is never murh.
anyway.
A personal letter from up Col
umbia river way expressed dis
appointment with what the
writer has seen of the “great
northwest.”
Real Estate Transfers
John V. Sullivan to Dominick
L. Bohn—Lots 17, and 18, block
43, Riggs’ Addition to O’Neill,
$500.
American United Life Ins. Co.,
to Leo Burival—seVi 23-30-112,
I $3,200.
James Bartos to Harold A. and
Erna E. Melcher—swVi sw*4 6,
nwV4 nwV4 7-29-9, s1^ seV4 1-27
10, $5,200.
Clement F. Theobald and wife
to Guy Beckwith—SV2 10, 29-10,
$1750.
Wilson Smith and wife to Fred
D. Smith—neV4 5-25-12, $4,300.
; Joel L. Parker to Ray and Clara
L. Arms'rong—N 85 ft. lots 10, 11
and 12, Block K, Fahy’s Park add.
O’Neill, $3,000.
Lloyd Lemmerman and wife to
Ed L. Asher—All of nwV4 13-23
10 lying north of R. R. right of
way, $1.00 quit claim.
Goldie Stauffer et al to Ed L.
and Henrietta Asher—All of
nwV4 13-28-10 Ivine north of R. R.
right of way, $3,500.
Thomas J. Brennan and wife to
Mildred G. Binkerd—Part of lots
7 and 8 block 17, O’Neill, $2,000.
Bernard Boneberger and wife
to Nick Bonenberger—EVz 33-29
14, seVi ney4 and sey4 4-28-14,
$14,000.
Marriage Licenses
Ernest G. Wedige, 32, Stuart,'
and Miss Muriel Margaret Mur
phy, 30, O’Neill.
Earl Schindler, 21, Ewing, and
Miss Bernice Mary Tagel, 21,
Bliss postoffice.
Dr. Fisher, Dentist. 43-tf