* LXVI O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1946 NO. 36 SMALL DOSES PAST AND PRESENT By Romaine Saunders The ’88 blizzard stories have gone through a 58- year enlarge ment process. »_ You might share your pound of butter with those dry bread eaters in California. We can t ship them a house but a package of butter goes by express. With soldiers, strikers, groups from many sides bringing press ure to bear in a dizzy whirl the poor congressman is getting about as severe a dose of post war head ache as the next one. So far neither bus, truck, elect ric, telephone or other strike has disturbed the prairieland. Bus and truck drivers, telephone girls and table waiters are happily functioning throughout the com munity. Just how much of the blaring and braying over the alleged plunder of the assistance funds is because of an honest interest in the welfore of the beneficiaries f the funds r how much of it is pure political claptrap? s* Irrigation enthusiasts are toy * turn it all over to the partners of Uncle Sam in the revamping of Europe and Asia. My own view is that the scientists who produc ed the inflamable atom should have the control of their dis covery. Boys with the city dailies come before daylight. Then you have the daily grist of strikes, acci dents, crime and the headache in Washington. But for the news of pleasant things, the activities of a happy people, you wait for— these little weekly papers. Irrigation entmisiosts are toy-1 ing with the idea of violtaing the Niobrara to irrigate 300,000 acres. The volume of water might dam ^ v pen a hundreth part of such a tract, spoil the catfishing, rob the ■galley and the gulches of its natural heritage and compensate with a few loads of melons. The stone wall thait the army of strikers seem to have encount ered does not lend encotvroge ment to workers in the few re maining unaffected industries to join the walk-out procession. Maybe some of those big indus tries around Detroit are row de- j termined to move to more con- ] genial localities or stay closed inlefinitely. The Jandary evening sky is aflame with color. Sunset in the prairie is a picture of alluring charm; the pink, the gold, the lazure blend to intrigue the eye, | to hold us at eventide in a bit of transcending lovliness. A touch of gaiety that fades into night's shadows and blooms again into! celestial dots of light dusted across the far expanse of eternity. | The prairie lies in somber winter j .Globes and traffic moves freely over dun-gray roads, cattle feed in the open spaces with no snow to hinder—and withal we are having a pretty fine winter in this grassland of Nebraska. Accidents, more or less serious, are not confined to the highways of earth or air. They have be- j come rather alarming out where it has hitherto been regarded as the field of peaceful and happy persuits. Machines have taken over the land, the plow, the reaper and other emblems of agriculture. Machines are also taking a toll j of human hands, of crushed limbs,1 of broken bodies. How much of this is the result of carlesness, or at least a lock of caution, is not for one sitting in comparative safety at a desk to say. Tractors and corn pickers are responsible for: most of the reports of a hand taken off. This seems quite avoidable. It is always a risk, a potential tragedy, to reach into any part of a moving machine. The railroad warning, Stop, Look, Listen, has filled a mission. May be the farm worker can borrow ^ the one word. Stop. Turn off the ' power and when wheels no longer ' revolve reach to remedy the difficulty. They’re after you again. This time its your very duds having Cleaned the pocki tbook. So shed them and fork over. From one of those “Area" directors lown at Omaha comes the mandate to ; O’Neill citizens to gather up clothing for the needy overseas. ; And nobody ever new this com munity failing to respond, gen erously and gladly, to a call for i help. We are fed like gormands, clother and housed beyond real needs and there is not a lean and hungry Cassius among us. There will be recepticles about town where clothing may be left as well as women’s organizations taking clothing to make any needed repairs. Anything that can be worn, furnish covering to bare feet and naked bodies is now greatly needed in distant lands ravished and denuded, starved and diseased by the rav ages of war. And maybe gener ous souls will feel like tossing in a new sutit or lress to gladden some hapless ragamuffin. Judge Reimer is taking on active inter est in the work here. Mrs. P. B. Harty was hostess to the Martez club Tuesday evening at a 7:00 o’clock dinner at the M and M. Twelve guests were pres ent and later in the evening cards were played at the Harty home. High scores were made by Mrs. Ed Campbell, Mrs. F. Cronin and Mlrs. Ed M. Gallagher. Pvt. John Etherton is spending a furlough with relatives in the city before returning to Camp Roberts, California. First Presbyterian Church Kenneth J Scott Pastor Sunday, January 20, 1946 10 a. m., Sunday School, John Harbottle, Stipt. 11 a. m., Morning Worship. Sermon: “Spiritual Surgery.” 5:30 p. m., Junior Christian Endeavor. 7 p. m., Westminister Fellow ship. Leader, Dick Remy. Tuesday, January 22, Mid-week Devotional Service at 8 p. m. Thursday, January 24. Our third monthly “Christian Neigh bors Social.” This social begins at 8 p m. Circle No. 2 has charge of it. Let us come and enter into this fellowship with our whole heart. ST. MARY'S WINS OVER BUTTE HIGH SCHOOL 39-23 Thursday, January 10, several of St. Mary’s Cardinals went to Butte where they played a wond erful game against the Wildcats. The first quarter was the most successful for the Cardinals, making 14 points to the Wildcats six. After a short rest the Cardinals come out on the floor alrud with their luck holding up they shot every way there is to make a point. In this quarter the S. M. A. Cardinals made an adlitional 12 points, with Willson as high point man. The score at the half was 26-12. In the third quarter the Card inals met with a little more com petition. It seemed that the Wildcas were a different team after the half, but they were still unable to make any points dur ing this quarter, whereas the Cardinals made 4. The score at the end of the third quarter was 30 to 12. The final quarter was one of much excitement, although the score was a little one-sided from the beginning. After about two minutes of playing the Wildcats began shooting long shots and making many of them. Hansen was fouled out of the game. The score ended 39-23 in favor of St. Mary’s. Willson was high point man for the Cardinals with 13 and Koehler for Butte with 10. , The St. Marys Reserves also announce their victory over the Butte Reserves with a score of 38 to 8. Tom Harty was high point man for the St. Marys Reserves with 13 points. Having a wonderful display of teamwork from the team, Joe Biglin, the reserve team coach, was proud of them and so were we all. Congratulations, team. Organize to Get Hospital Started Last Monday evening a number of prominent leaders and business men of O'Neill mot in the library at St. Mlary’s Acalemy for the purpose or discussing plans for a community hospital. The meet ing was an animated one in which each person present ex pressed his opinion freely. All present were in favor of the pro ject, and pledged their individ ual and united support. William J. Froelich was unanimously selected as chairman of a per manent general committee. As plans stand every man who was present will seive as chairman or member of a specializel com mittee. Contacts will be made in a wide arfei. According to present plans the hospital will be located on the lots west of the academy, set back so that the park will form its front lawn and contain a driveway. The size of the building will depend almost entirely upon the designations am requirements of the doctors of the area to be served. BRIEFLY STATED Miss Genevieve Biglin returned to Sioux City Tuesday after a visit with the home folks. M. Sgt Cletus Sullivan, who re turned from overseas last week, will arrive home Friday. Mrs. Joe Shipman arrivel Sat urday from Randolph to visit her sister-in-law, Mrs. Clara Miles. Ed O’Donnell of Denver, came up from Omaha Tuesday evening for a short visit with the home folks. Romaine Saunders made a bus iness trip to Lincoln Monday afternoon, returning Wednesday evening. Mr and Mrs. Ben Harty left for Sioux City last Sunday, where Ben entered St Vincent’s hospital for treatment. Robert Gallagher came up front Omaha Tuesday evening and is a guest at the home of his mother, Mrs. Bea Gallagher. Mrs. John Frenking came up from Omaha Tuesday evening for a visit with her sisrters, Mrs. Marne Melvin and Mrs. Bea Gallagher Mr. and Mrs. Clyde McKenzie returned home last Friday, after spending a couple of weeks visit ing relatives and friends in the eastern part of the state. Mrs. C. E. Stout, Mrs. Edwarl M. Gallagher, Mrs. Ed Campbell. Mrs. H. J. Birmingham and Mrs. W. J. Froelich drove to Norfolk Monday evening to see St. Mary’s play Sacred Heart. Mr and Mrs. Ed Campbell drove to Grand Island Sunday where they met their son, Seaman 2-c Eddie Campbell, who came in that evening from San Diego, California. He will return to San Diego Saturday. Richard Cronin came u,p from Norfolk Wednesday evening to spend the balance of. the week at home. The first semester is over and the second starts next Monday morning, so the students are having a few days of rest after their examinations. William Wells one of the pioneer residents of the Redbird section of the county, was transacting buiness in this city Monday and made this office a pleasant call, extending hid subscription to The Frontier, which he has read for nearly a half century, to 1947. W. A. Summers was up from Wheeler county Monday and found time while in the city to visit the printers. Serving for! many years on the county board and ther official jobs in Wheeler makes him one of the well in formed men especially on tax affairs, which at present is and absorbing matter to the fellows who have to “dig up.” Holt county has been exceed ingly well favored with mild weather, open winter. The counties south of Hdt have had much snow which remains in drifts on down to the valley of the Platte and east through the “corn belt." And mountains of corn are cribbed in farm-yards, with an outfit -now and then along the way still in the fields gather- j ing the crop. Few if any cattle are seen in feed lots and the | corn for the most part remains j untouched in heaps. At Lincoln you need fur coats and sheep lined boots to keep out the cold. Judge Meyers down from Alli ance thought he would become1 frost-bitten before he could get out of Lincoln and back to Ne braska's better climate region. Roads in Holt county could hard ly be better and no snow banks adorn the landscape. List or registrants discharged since last reprt: Fred Colfack, Jr., Ewing Omer G. Gibson, Ewing Donall L. Pollack, Ewing Duane L. Domina, Atkinson Robert W. Allendorger, O’Neill Earl R. Hunt, ONeill Maurice C Hupp, Ewing Carl C. Spangler, Clearwater John H. Gallagher, O’Neill John Bilstein, Amelia Edward D. Ethert>\ O’Neill Leo B. Valla, ONeill Henry F. Kruger, Stuart Raymond A. Mi 'nson, O’Neill Edward R. Jordan, Page Charles E. Russell, Page Ernest W. Larson, Spencer Louis D. Walters, Chambers Maurice E. Tomjack, Ewing James P. Higgins, O’Neill William L. Lofquist, Ewing Paul J. Deermer, Atkinson Leo S. King, Stuart Owen M. Hiatt, O’Neill Donald L. Carroll, Atkinson Clyde McKendie, Dorsey Ralph Colfack, Ewing Harold E. Cnnors, O’Neill Alvin Kloppenborg, Emmet Robert F. Gaskill, O’Neill Arthur W. Kopp, Stuart Arthur H. Leach, O’Neill Leonard) J. Shone Stuart Donald L. McPherran, Atkinson Emrick E. Rocke, Atkinson John D. Alder, Opportunity Clarence M. Hammill, Atkinson Benelict B. Turek, Amelia George E. Green, Atkinson. Edward W. Gamel, Page Byron Grenier, Opportunity Ivan A. Pollock, Atkinson William J. White, Dorsey Victor A. Kaup, Stuart Richard G. Smith. Chambers Bennie G. Braun, Atkinson Herman H. Kramer, Stuart Ward J. Flannigan, Stuart Leslie C. Perry, Inman Harry D. Matseh.uilla't, Page Frank R. Belmer, Jr., Ewing Harold J. Donohoe, O’Neill Lyle M. Green, O’Neill J. I. Smith, AJtkinson Robert C. Sniler, Ewing Merwin W. Arter, Atkinson Joseph C. Witherwax, Spencer Louis R. Brown, Atkinson Clarence L. Nelson, O’Neill Lawrence W. Rudolf, Stuart Aelred J. Sanders, Ewing Bernard Dale Marr, Atkinson Charles E. Fridley, Ewing Gordon G. Barta, Redbird Ernest H. Eppenbach, O’Neill Ross O Barnhardt. Ewing Vernon L. Smith, Chambers. Donald Wolfe departed Mon day for Glenwood Springs, Col., with the view of locating in that section. Mbs. Wolfe will re main with her mother at Inman for the present. APPRECIATION I wish to thank the kind friends and neighbors that sent me cards and letters while 1 was in the hospital. Also thanks to the ladies who called and assisted me in my home. Mrs. DALE POTTS. Local Livestock Market Unsettled A special meeting of the O'Neill Commercial Club was held last Friday evening. E. C. Weller, who recently purchased the j O’Neill Sale Yard, was present and explained in detail his plan, of operation for the balance of, the year. Mr. Weller explained that the1 rates fo the selling of cattle and : hogs at the O’Neill yards have been lowrer than those charged by him at Atkinson, and in his opinion he could not operate the 9’Neill yards at a profit to him self unless he could obtain higher rates. He further explained that1 he is endeavoring to have the rates | at the O’Neill barn to conform with those charged at the Atkin son yarl. He went on to explain that he could not profitably op erate the yards on a full time basis of a sale every week. He stated that he expected to open the yards as soon as he could get