The Frontier
LXVI O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 6,1946 . nOT&
SMALL DOSES
PAST AND PRESENT
By Romaine Saunders
Rt. 5, Atkinson
It was in a big store in a
strange city. The price tag on a
simple liti le rag dog caught my
eye but not my Two Dollars. It
gave the hunch to stay home for
Christmas spending.
The gents with schemes for
despoiling the Missouri river say
the “pressure groups’’ hav(e so
far defeated them. That makes
two pressure groups, one for, one
ferninst.
Catalougue of the Animal Para
sites of the World, a large gov
ernment publication lists 100,000
bugs that are said to infest live
stock. I don’t believe they count
ed all the flies and mosquitoes
down in Swan on a summer day.
He was just a little fellow,
needed a hair cut or maybe just
combed. A new suit would have
been an improvement. But he
had manly home or school train
in and said Thank you with the
grace of a little gentleman for a
small favor.
When the back-to-the-farm trek
gets fully under way it will mean
the heavy tread of 5,000,000 dis
illii4sioned Americans who left
the security of the land for the
bauble of filthy lucre, high rents
and rationed grub around those
“defense” camps.
Have you an iron bed? It’s out
of date. The first bed of iron
was made in 1500 B. C., 7 feet
wide, 14 feet in length and was
the nightly lodging of one of
those big guys who hung around
the upper reaches of the Red
sea. His name was Og, big man,
little name. Sioux Indians would
probably called him Hits the Sky.
Big stores in big and small
cities are packed with merchan
dise from basement to roof—
mountains of toys, but no overalls
for the flustrated chap whose com
fort in life depends on the roomy
blue beauties with ample pockets
for his collection of string, nails,
bolts, staples and the indispen
sible knife. Maybe we have come
to the end of the overall area
and are expected to go out to join
the white collar brigade.
“Threatens the foundations of
democracy,” shouts the political
demagogue;“Threatens the found
ations of democracy,” echoets the
UAW demagogues. There is no
threat to the foundations of de
mocracy only that which comes
from the demagogues who rant
and rave for selfish ends. Right
now is the crying need of what
a compatriot has put into a few
words. . . . “let us as free men of
a free government dedicated to
individual freedom, keep our
heads.”
To put this “old codger” in his
place, we have it from an es
teemed lady that the bobby sox
formation has nothing to do with
the attitude of mature and grace
ful dames as to bare legs from
shoetop upwards. Merchants are
responsible as ambassadors pleni
potentiary of the knitting mills
for not having hoisery. Merchants
tell me they have the hoisedy,
but not the faint breath of a leg
covering the fair and forty de
mand. So Bobby Sox wins.
One of the briefest programs
for the construction of the “new
world’’ comes from an unknown
patriot who thinks fewer archi
tects are needed and more brick
layers. . . It is saidthat in another
month they will be out of bread
and the "a’’ will have to be drop
ped out of Hungary.. . The Colonel
who piloted that B-29 Super Fort
ress 8,198 miles from Guam to
Washington without a stop be
longs to our not too close neigh
bor on the south, Clarence S. Ir
vinet, down at St. Paul in Howard
county. . . . Nebraska got a mild
week-end soaking, when thunder
showers struck the eastern Platte
valley, rain and snow in the west
and north, dropping .80 moisture
at O’Neill and making a snow
•overed skating rink out of the
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pavements, temperature at about
8 above Monday morning.
Smear, Sme. r. Thus comes
shouts from those in Washington
who are suspected of desiring to
lay a blanket over a chapter of
the Pearl ILrbor story. No one
wants to smear the late president, •
Heaven help us if that is the pur
pose. Americans want, are en
titled to, the truth. If the truth
should c. st a shadow over our
late execueive's official act we are
sorry, sorry that our nation
should have to record such a
thing. And we can only trust that
it will not be necessary. A per
son is not being investigated, its
an official, the very top one in all
our government organization.
Let the truth be known, to be
applauded or make us ashamed.
Another leaf torn from the Cal
i nder. November failed to de
liver the poet’s meloncholy days.
North Nebrraska has basked in
the slanting sun’s rays by day and
slumbered under the star dotted
blue at night. December brings
the glad Yuletide season, the drab
of dead landscape enlivened with
shimmering white sifted out of
floating clouds and the nude bush
I and tree sprinkled with shining
jewels when hoar frost dq^eends
on silent footfall. Christmas fes
tivities with lights and colors
and a little of the warm glow of
human fellowship. There may
be storms, wild winds sucking at
doors and windows, the glow of
firelight and warmpth within.
And all of this makes December,
the year’s end.
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BRIEFLY STATED
W. J. Froelich arrived home
Wednesday to spend the week-end
with his family.
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Mrs. Tom Semlock, of Norfolk,
was in the city last week to visit
her father, Tom Enright, and to
attend the funeral of Margaret
, Gibbons.
Prof. Ira George went to Bart-;
lett last Friday to supervise the
music for a High School play and
program.
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Clyde Kellar has bought the
cafe on lower Fourth street and
will continue feeding that section
of the city.
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If the snakes lolling on high-!
ways as an emblem of an open
winter did not take to their lairs
snow and ice had them travel
blocked as bleak December flag
ged in.
Mrs. Frank Froelich was called
to Audubon, Iowa, Monday after- j
noon by the series illness of her1
mother, who had the misfortune!
of breaking her hip some time
ago.
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Henry Schollmeyer and daugh
ter, Lyla May, came down from
Sheriday, Wyo., Friday for a visit
with the home folks out by
Dorsey.
Robert Bowen, son of Mr. and
; Mrs. A. E. Bowen has received
his promotion to Yoeman in the
' navy and has been transferred
. to the Great Lakes Naval Training
Station from San Diego, Cal.
There are at present 274 of the
aged of the county receiving
benefit checks, the checks aver
aging $29.80 each person. Seven
citizens have been dropped from
the list recently by reason of
death.
The Soil Conservation office
reports the addition of a few more
Holt county farmers to the con
servation program, making Ihirty
four to date who are involved
with a large number more who
may be included by spring.
The Rev. Mullis family enjoy
ed a visit last week from Mr.
Mullis’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Les
lie Mullis, and a nephew, Joe |
Carlson, who came up from Lin
coln early in the week and re
mainel several days.
Fred Zink, who resigned as
county clerk for the benefit of
his health, is in Sundance, Wyo.,
and much improved he has written
a friend in O’Neill. Mr. Zink
ha|s a son living in Suundance
running a merchantile business
and he is busying himself in his
son’s store.
Miss M. Gibbons
Is Laid to Rest
There stands over on Second
street a row of rugged, aged and
grand specimens of the trees of
our fathers planted as cottowood
cuttings by the hand of a pioneer.
One by one the family of that
pioneer has responded to the
musteroll of enternity. There
wap buried in O’Neill last Friday
another member of this family.
When the last one has passed
from the scenes of earth may we
hope the old cottonwoods will be
left as a moumment and wave
their velvet plumes in the summer
breeze.
Margaret Gibbons wafe laid to
rast in Calvery cemetery here
last Friday, borne there by six
of the few remaining to remember
the family as pioneers of this
community. Performing the sol
umn fuunction of pallbearers were
H. E. Coyne, M. H. Horiskey, J.
B. Ryan, John Sullivan, D. F.
Murphy, H. J. Birmingham. The
rites of burial were administered
by Mlsgr. McNamara at St. Pat
rick’s church.
Margaret died at her home in
Butte, Mont., November 25, age
70 years. She is survived by
three sisters, Mrs. John V. Mur
phy of Portland, Oregon; jyand
Della a|nd Deborah Gibbons of
Butte, Mont. Therq are also three
nephews, Dr. Miltop Murphy,
Raymond and Edward Murphy,
all of Portland. Raymond with
the two sifeters from Butte ac
companied the remains to O’Neill,
where they reposed at Biglin
Bros, chapel for old friends here
to look upon the peaceful dead,
extend their sympathy and renew
friendships of long ago with the
two sisters who held vigil
throughout the day previous to
burial.
CARD OF THANKS
We desire to express our sncere
and heartfelt thanks to the many
old friends and neighbors who
were so kind to us during our
recent visit, attending the burial
of our beloved sister and aunt,
Maggie Gibbons.—Delia and De
borah Gibbons, Butte, Mont.; Mrs.
John V. Murphy, Dr. J. Milton
Murphy, Raymond J. Murphy and
Edward R. Murphy, Portland,
Oregon.
Hungerford Promoted
Manila.—Daniel T. Hungerford,
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Hunger
ford, now residing at O’Neill,
Nebraska, was recently promot
ed from Sergeant to Staff Ser
geant. His wife, Ann and son,
Donald, reside at her parents
home in Salix, Iowa.
Sgt. Huungerford is a member
of Co. "A” 742 Military Police
Battalion, Manila.
He was inducted in May, 1942,
and was assigned overseas in
May, 1944.
Besides his duties as Military
Policeman, Sgt Hungerford dis
tinguished himself as an efficient
athletic organizer for his com
pany, in which respect he deserves
praise for keeping the men of
his unit physically fit and ment
ally alert despite the dreariness
of the New Guinea jungle, where
they were assigned before being
sent to Manila.
When Sgt. Hungerford is re
lieved of his army duties, he plans
to go back to the Stuart High
School, Stuart, Nebr., where he
taught before the war. He also
plans to take up his pre-war job 1
as coach in football, basketball j
and baseball, in the same school.
First Presbyterian Church
Kenneth J. Scott, Pastor
Announcements for week of
December 9th to 16th
Sujnday, December 9, Bible
Sunday.
10 a. m., Suunday School, John
Harbottle, Supt.
11 a. m., Morning worship.
Sermon, “Is it Really Your Own?'1
5:30 p. m., Junior Christian
Endeavor. Leader, Danny Rus
temeyer.
7:00 p. m., Senior Westminister
Fellowship. Leader, Shirley
Schaffer.
Tuesday, December 11, mid
week Devotional Service. Topic:
The Doctrine of Man.
Wheezing, sneezing, sniffles—
not quite unanimous. There is
a lot of it hitting youngs.ers ]
adults and grand dads alike.1
About twenty a*e absent from
public school with flu, colds, grip
or whatever the M. D.’s have
classified the present affliction.
Pupils at St. Mary's are in a
similar plight. It is not so se
vere in most cases as to put the
victim in bed but maybe that
would be the alvisable thing to
do. Snow and colder weather
cither brought it on or is sup
posed to be a cure, take your
choice.
Allen Connell braved the slushy
roads to Boyd county Tuesday,
that being a portion of his terri
tory comprehendel in the employ
ment area. Just now the pack
ers in Omaha are calling for 1000
men and a representative was in
O’Neill during the week in the
interest of making up this force
of workers.
Ted Sirek arrived in O’Neill
last Saturday to spend a week in
his old home town. Ted was a
Flight Officer in the Air Corps,
where he pilt in about three years
and received his discharge from
the service at Scott Field, 111., on
November 15. After the first of the
year he expects to enter North
western University in Chicago.
Mrs. H. J. Birmingham was
hostess to the Martez Club Tues
day evening at a seven o’clock
dinner at the M and M. Follow
ing dinner cards were played at
the C. E. Stout home. High
scores went to Mrs. Ed Campbell,
Mrs. C. E. Stout and Mrs. F. J.
Dishner.
D. A. McCarthy, one of the
pioneers of the Dry Creek sec
tion and an extensive cattle raiser,
was in the city Monday, made this
office a pleasant call and ad
vanced his subscription to Jan
uary 1, 1947. We hope that sev
eral hundred other readers will
emulate Dan’s exabple.
METHODIST CHURCH. O'NEILL
Lloyd W. Mullis, Minister
Sunday School 10 o’clock. Lor
enz Bredemeier, superintendent.
Morning Worship 11 o’clock
Methodist Youth Fellowship
7:30 p. m.
Choir Practice, Tuesday 7:30
p. m.
Women’s Society of Christian
I Service Annual Bazaar will be
! held Saturday, December 8, in
the Methodist Tea Room. The
Bazaar will start at 4 o’clock and
the Chicken Noodle silpper will
be served for 60 cents, beginning
at 5:30.
A most friendly spirit was
noted during the Religious Cen
sus last Suunday. The members
from the churches plan to com
plete the survey the afternoon of
December 9.
RUMOR BRANDED FALSE
A statement by V. M. Johnson,
General Manager of Consumers
Public Power District, appearing
on another page of this paper,
should definitely and permanent
ly quiet a rumor which has been
circulating around O’Neill re
cently.
Mr. Johnson, in a signed state
ment, says that Consumers does
not and never has contemplated
moving either its local office or
district ofTice headquarters out of
O’Neill.
We do not know where such
rumors have their origination but
it is gratifying to be assured that
an industry of such value to a
community as Consumers Public
Power District plans to keep its
headquarters in our city.
NOTICE
The City Council of O’Neill,
Nebraska, will hold a special
meeting on Monday, December
10th, 7:30 p. m., at the Council
Chambers, at which time they
will receive bids on the following
described real estate: “East 140
feet Of Lots 2 and 3, in Block 16,
Original Town of O’Neill, Ne
braska.”
Bids will also be received on
the old John McNichols house,
located at the City Airport.
J. B. GRADY,
30-1 City Clerk.
Bazaar & Supper
O’Neill Methodist Church
Saturday, Dec. 8
Bazaar opens at 4 o’clock
Supper served from 5:30 p. m.
to 7:15 p. m.
Price 60 cents'
RE 4 Prospects
lor Holt County
The annual F.rm Bureau
meeting for the county was held
at the Public School auditoriijn
in O'Neill Wednesday, merged
into a picture show when adjourn
ment was taken to the music
room and then given over to the:
Rui\.l Electrification representa
tive, Earl J. Smith of St. Louis.
The business of the Farm Bu
reau was completed when Clar-!
ence Ernst in District 3, Grattan 1
township, and Glenn White in
District 5 were elected to the
governing board. The moving
pictures flashed across the screen I
and played upon the emotions of!
the large group assembled. It sat'
the audience down on a South
Pacific island in an inferno of
smoke and crash and roar of Alli
ed battle ship, bombs pouring
from airplanes, rubble and wreck,
sweating soldiers and racing
Marines, death and ruin among
the clouds, in the sea, on shore.
And the final monster of the air
that dropped the death blow on
Japan, that mysterious thing of
atoms.
Widespread interest in rural
electrification was manifest by
the men and women who were
able to get in from the outlying
districts. The condition of
travel prevented as full a rep
resentation from over the county
as otherwise would have been ex
pected. Mr. Smith, field repre
sentative for applications and
loans of the REA setup author
ized by act of Congress in 1938,
explained the program in some
detail. A committee functioning
as a bank loans government funds
at 2% for 35 years to put up the
electric lines in counties where
sufficient signers are secured to
establish the project, which is
under the control of a board of
directors of local citizens. In this
county the estimated cost to each
farm or ranch using the current
is $10 per month with scarcely
any limit to the amount of elect
ricity used. Mr. Smith feels there
should be a call made for a county
wide meeting to get a full repre
sentation of our citizens anl de
termine on definite action. There
are now 32 Nebraska counties
signed for electric service.
ST. MARY'S LOSES TO
SPALDING HIGH 29-34
St. Mary's played their first
game of the season Monday night
loosing to Spalding High with a
score of 29-34.
At the close of the first quarter
the score was tied 10-10. At the
half St. Mary’s led Spalling by a
three point margin, having a
score of 18-15.
At the third quarter the Cardin
als were still in the load by a
score of two points, 25-23.
At the beginning of the last
quarter Spalding took the lead
but thee Cardinals put forth a
splendid effoit but could not re
gain the loss.
Bill Froelich w s high point
m: n for St. Mary's having a score
of 12 points. Pettijohn was high
point man for Spalling with 15
points.
St. Mary’s Reserves lost to
O’Neill High Reserves with a
score of 12-17.
The town needs a lemonade
stand and a bujs terminal with
NO-PARKING zones. Careful,
you ;.re jeopardizing life and limb
leaving or going to a bus up on
the corner. Four bus lines oper
ate irn and out morning, noon,
afternoon and night. If a spot,
is found to unload and reload j
where a motorist h;.s not nosed
in it is just a chance bit of luck. I
Maybe it will take an accident, a
calamity, a broken leg or two to
put O’Neill on a level with other
towns where are flashed NO
PARKING signs where busses
stop.
Northwestern Credits Large
Sum on Holt County Quoto
Holt County will be credited
with $25,000 in Victory bonds by
the Chicago and Northwestern j
Railway Company as the result
of its purchase of $28,000,000 in
Victory loan bonds.
This was announced Friday by
R L. Williams, president of the |
railway company who said that,
as in previous war bond purchas
es by the comp ny, credit will be
allocated to more than 200 coun
ties in eight of the states in which
the railway operates.
Marriage Licenses
Valor P. White, DujT, Nebr.,
Miss Roslyn Nachtman, Bassett,
Nebraska.
Leland O. Johnson, Orchard,
Miss Joyce Pauline Fuller, Neligh.
Skrdla Brothers, Stuart Ranchers, fly to P, F. L. meeting
in Omaha. Story appeared in previous issue of this paper
A Large Poultry
Output in Nov.
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Eighty-five busy men and
women were employed dur
ing November at the Tri State to
get ready for Thanksgiving tables
626,500 pounds of prime turkey
meat and 201,000 pounds of less
glamours chickens, though to
many first choice of fatted fowl.
Mr. Willson, manager at the Tri
State, reports that amount of
poultry dressed during the month
of November.
Some 18,000 head of the tur
keys dressed were of the flock
at the Tri State farm a few miles
southwest of town where there
are still some 6,000 that will be
marketed after processing this
month. A large number of tur
keys have been bought from pro
ducers over the county at an aver
age of 31 cents per pound.
The large number of birds,
chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks,
that are run through the dressing f
plant mean a lot of feathers.
These are placed in bags and j
stored in the company warehouse
and shipment made twice a year
in car lots.
November was a month of the
largest output so far of dressed
poultry. The outlook for another
year in poultry production in this
territory is at present encour g
ing though it depends on deveh
opments as we move into 1946.
The labor situation is better and j
the plant now has ample help, at!
the present time having fifty-five
workers in the plant. Many
chickens are sent to the Sioux
City plant to be dressed for mar
ket. The hatcheries will not be
put into operation until after the j
New Year.
South Omaha swells a prideful
chest over their beef, mutton and
pork packing industries. O’Neill,
as well as a big sweep of country,
takes pride in a poultry dressing;
plant that outclasses them all.
CAVANAUGH-PERRY
A very pretty wedding took
place at the St. Anthony church
; t Oakland, Cal., by Rev. Father
Lacey in a double ring ceremony
when Miss Mildred Cavanaugh,
of San Barnardino, Cal., was given
in marriage by Alfred Boies,
cousin of the bride, to Radar A. R.
T. 1-c Richard A. Perry Novem
ber 20th at 6:00 p. m. The at
tendants were Mrs. Earline Boies,
coypin of the bride, and Arthur
Bisenthoe, a close friend of the
groom.
The bride wore a navy blue suit
with blue and white accessories;
her corsage was talisman roses.
The bridesmaid wore a teal blue
suit with black accessories; her
corsage was also talisman roses.
The groom wore his regular uni
form and Mr. Bisenthoe wore a
navy blue suit.
The brile is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Cavanaugh
of O’Neill, Nebr., and is a gradu
ate of St. Mary’s with the class
of ’41.
Richard A. Perry is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Perry, of
Oakland, Cal., and has been in
the U. S. Navy the past three
years.
Those attending the wedding
were: Mr. anl Mrs. Lester Perry,
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hatton, Mr.
: nd Mrs. M. L. Moody, of Pish
astin, Wash., Vaden Stamp,
O'Neill, Nebr.; Mr and Mrs. B.
H. Woodman and family, Chico,
Cal., and a number of friends.
After the ceremony a reception
was held at the home of the
grooms parents for friends and
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relatives. The table was centered
with a three tier wedding cake,
decorated with a minature bride
and sailor.
After the reception the young
couple left for Richardson Springs .
for a short honeymoon. After
December 1 they will be at their
apartment in San Barnardino,
Cal., where the gr^om is station
ed.
O’Neill friends of Miss Cavan
augh tender best wishes to her
and her husband.
List of registrants discharged
since Lst report of November
20th:
Thomas P. Coleman, Ewing
Wilfred M. Martfeld, O’Neill
William L. Miller, Ewing
Ardell V. Curran, O’Neill
Luther E Schulz, O’Neill
Weslyn R. Larson, Ewing
James Albert Diehl, Atkinson
John W Howard, Page
Clinton V. Petersen, O’Neill
Ronald A. Grass, Page
Raymond J. Grof, Atkinson
Alvin J. Magers, O’Neill
Charles A. Boies, Jr., Ewing
Paul R. Kubitschek, O’Neill
Delmar E. Price, O’Neill
Marvin W. Young, Inman
DOavid E. Newton, Emmet
Gerald M. Cl ssen, O’Neill
Harold E. Berglund, Opportun
ity
Lloyd E. Johnson, Emmet
Marion R Tracy, Atkinson
Elvin O. Alton, Atkinson
Ernest A. Kloppenborg, Emmet
William J. McNally, O’Neill
Ephriam Van Dover, O’Neill
Donald L. Keyes, Inman
Richard M. Porter, Chambers
Frank F. Weichman, Stuart
Robert E. Gettert, Atkinson
Irvin D. Nightengale, Dorsey
Walter M. Roberts, Atkinson
Stanley J. Lambert, Ewing
Herbert H. Kirschmer, Page
Howard M. Jeffrey, O'Neill
John A. Fox, O’Neill
James M. Holscl w, O’Neill.
Jacob F. Pribil, O’Neill
Wallace J. O’Connell, Atkinson
Gary Hoffman, O’Ne.ll
Gerald J. Lawyer, O’Neill
Andrew W. Sch ch , O’Neill
Robert L. Vance, Ewing
Glenn R. Carlisle, Stuart
Ray D. Spencer, Dorsey
Otto P. Steinbach, Stuart
Dale E. Stauffer Page
Herbert L. Bai r, Atkinson
Eugene M. Waters, O’Neill
Glenn Taylor, Chambers
Raymond L. Lansberry, Red
bird
Mar. in L. Siemsen, Atkinson
Theodore G. Sirek, O’Neill
Theodore H. Braun, Atkinson
Max R. Jeffers, O’Neill
Morrell J. Stuart, Page
Charles W. Strong, Atkinson
Dale E. Asher, Page
Wesley C. Taylor, O'Neill
Louis J. B rtos, Page
Dale Arthur Waring, Middle
branch
Llnyd Earl Cork. Page
George H. Hodgson, Stuart
Austin H. Hynes, O’Neill
Gerald D Hansen, O’Neill
Robert D. Ot , O'Neill
Frank C. Trowbridge, Cham
aers.
Registrants to be inducted into
the armed forces during the
month of December:
Leon Pochop, Ewing; Virgil I*
Pinkerman, Dorsey; Floyd H.
Post, Di^stin; Lronatd J. Ruzieka,
Dorsey; Lester E. Boshart, O’Neill
Donald J. Vandersnick, Ewingr
Ralph R. Revell, Star; Frederick
J. Friedel, Stuart; Clarence C.
Juracek, Star; Merle M. Farrier,
Chambers; Leo J. Schneider,
O'Neill.
Registrants taking pieinduet
ion examinations during Deer
Robert D. Cole, Emmet; Don
ald J. Burival, O’Neill; Elvon L.
Hamilton, Atkinson; Dean L. De
Long, O’Neill; Thomas E. Otto,
Stuart; Gerard Richard Spittler,
Inman; Bernard J. Sterns,
O’Neill; Jack N. Sesler, Atkinson;
Leslie J. Gartner, Stuart; Johnnie
B. Kramer, Stuart"; Duane G.
Summers, Page.