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LXV O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7. 1976 NO 39
SMALL DOSES
PAST AND PRESENT
By Romaine Saunders
Inflation—what a lot of official
alibis it can produce.
Women are said to be consum
ing 65% of the country’s cigaret
output. The ladies never did do
things by halves.
Arctomy Monax, otherwise
knowtn as ground-hog, has been
given a scientific name commen
surate with his importance as a
weather forecaster.
A recent issue of a publication
sent out by the secretary of agri
culture tells the story as some
thing new under the sun of hold
down sand with straw and hay.
If the writer had just heard of
such practice he is fifty years be-,
hind the procession. We have
been doing that out this way tor
half a century.
If the factory owners, plant
proprietors, business heads are
reaping excessive profits why not
split the overdose with labor in
a little more pay and the buyer
in lower prices for the products
he must buy. Give ‘the tax col
lectors the rest and let the poor
chaps get a slice of bread the best
way they can.
A Nebraska OPA board has
concluded to resign in a body on
the alleged ground that their
superiors are catching minnows
and letting the big fish slip the
net. That branch of bureaucratic
government are graceously tak
ing the thrusts of the critics and
continue serenly to function, per
haps feeling that the carping
critics may well bear the present
curtailments rather than to fly
to others of which they know not.
Early February. Little heaps
of snow pushed to the curb along
the streets, its white pureity
turne^d to dull gray and dark
water oozing over the pavement.
For a moment threatened with
gathering clouds and the dread of
crushing cold dispelled by a burst
of sunshine. Brief winter days
are lengthening. The span of
weary weeks of potential storm
and biting cold day by day be
come less and the fragrance of
apple blossom atnd budding rose
will come again.
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Just what are the functions
of the setup known as the Ne
braska Reclamation association?
What is there to be reclaimed? i
The sod house might be reintro
duced to relieve the housing
shortage and the motto of otr
fathers, “root hog or die,” is
recommended to those who favor
leaning on the assistance program.
Integrity, when a man’s word
was as good as a surety bond
and he would walk ten miles
tather than fail his word, while
not an entirely lost virtue, is get
tingting scarce.
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Any measure introdufced in
congress designed to curb violent
aind arrogant cio strikers would
be “vicious” in the biased esti
mation of Mr. Murray. Out
where men are free to worship
and work, play or pray, in the'
great open spaces of America,
there is definite conviction that
some groups of organized labor
have forfeited the respect of the
country and it is time for con
gress to act, time for our senators
and congressmen to take up the
“white man’s burdens” as opposed
to pressure groups.
The lives of four young Albion
people, none over 17, were sacri
ficed on the altar of the modern
speed craze. Youth on the thresh
old of life’s uncertain pathway
crushed in a violent death and
four homes in a typical Nebraska
community clouded in dark trage
dy. A number of young couples,
little more than children, crowd
ed into an automobile and turned
loose on the open highway is a
potential call for the undertaker.
Sorrow’s sad refrain of the fam
ilies affected, words of sympathy,
and the rush goes on until the
next victims roll into the ditch.
Probably whatever slant a pub
lie official took toward the treat
ment of the conquered Germans
would meet wi h disfavor in cer
tain quarters. Hence the critics
of the two Nebraska senato: s
because they favor feeding and
clothing hungry and ragged child
i-en, other helpless vie ims of a
vicious circle in which Germans
as well as others were caught.
The American pretense at least
has been 'to show the Germans
and other Axis peoples the better!
way of life. Can this be done,
through the avenus of starvation
and suffering?
Frank Nelson returned Mon
day from a trip to Omaha and
Lincoln, having attended the
Poled Short Horn sale at the state
fair grounds, where he bought a
herd bull, a/n aristocrat from an
Ohio cattle pen. The sale was
well attended and the offerings
went to buyers from twelve states,
one to Canada. Top price paid
for one animal was $2,500. Mr.
Nelson’s roan animal arrived
Monday by Norhwestern freight.
O’Neill friends have been noti
fied that M!r. and Mrs. George
Marshall, of Lincoln, are the par
ents of a baby daughter, bom
Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall
were former residents of this city,
moving to Lincoln in the fall of
1944.
Col. James Moore returned
Friday from a trip to California
and is catching up on installments
of good Nebraska butter and-.
University for Sailors
Pearl Harbor, T. H.—William
N. Wilson, boatswain’s mate,
second class, USNR, Redbird.
Nebraska, is a student at the Navy
Pacific University here during
off-duty hours.
NavPacU, which opened Jan
uary 3, has a curriculum of more
than 100 high school, college and
techinal courses and a service en
rollment of more than 3,000. The
faculty is composed of Navy and
Marine personnel and civilians.
Classes meet for two hours a
day, five days a week. Courses
are completed in four weeks, then
examinations are administered by
the U. S. Aimed Forces Institute.
List of Boys Inducted
Registrants to take preinducticn
in February:
Richartl F. Clark, Emmet
Heinrich Frahm, Amelia
Franklin R. Grubb, Chambers
Lester Strong, O'Neill
Charles R. Johnson, O’Neill
Robert E. Johnson, Spencer
Harold R. Krugman, O’Neill.
Registrants to be inducted in
February:
Joseph A. Gokie, O’Neill
Robert A. Slaymaker, Stuart
Thomas E. Otto, Stuart
Bernard J. Sterns, O’Neill
Jack N. Sesler, Atkinson
Lester J. Gartner, Stuart.
DR. FRENCH IN JAPAN
With the Sixth Army in Japan.
—Captailn Ivan French, sin of
—Captain Ivan French, son of
O’Neill, Nebr., has arrived in
Japan and has been assigned to
duty as medical officer of the
126th Field Artillery Battalion of
the 32d (Red Arrow) Infantry
Division.
“Whatever westernisms the
Japanese display are purely super
ficial,” declared Dr. French.
“Down deep, they’re still stoic,
incomprehensible orientals.”
Trying to draw parallels be
tween Japanese and American
melical practilces was very diffi
cult, according to the Captain.
“Sulfathiagole is their latest sulfa
drug,” he says, “and they have
no penicillin at all. Their medi
cal practice is much more social
ized and institionalized than
ours.”
“Our hospitals are far better
than theirs,” he continued, “and
their antiseptics isn’t up to ours.
They have more diseases to con
tend with than we do and their
disease rate is much higher.”
Captain French received his
M. D. at the University of Ne
braska in 1943. He en'ered the
army in October of 1944 and em
barked for overseas duty with
the 315lh General Hospital last
April. He was assigned to his
present post, with the 32d in the
early part of December.
February B!iz
zard Soon Past
Introduced by a shower of rain
Monday night, at early dawn
Tuesday a February blizzard had
developed and continued with in
creasing force throughout the day |
until evening. Travel was made
difficult by drifting snow in the
O’Neill territory and outgoing
bus service was thrown off sched
ule, some not entering or leaving
until Wednesday afternoon, ac-;
cording to information imparted
to us from the local terminal.
Highways were rendered haz
ardous by the Monday night rain
that turned to ice. A truck load-1
ed with 122 South Dakota hogs
failed to negotiate an ice-coated
hill in the Page neighborhood
while on the trail to Sioux City,
slid back down the hill after the
ascent had just about been won
and was saved from rolling into
a deep ditch by the concrete cul
vert guard. Drivers of the truck,
who said their home was at
Stuart, spent the day from early
morning getting released from
their predicament and the hogs to
shelter, getting into O’Neill
around 5 in the evening, when
they combined breakfast, dinner
and supper in one large meal at
a busy restaurant.
During the night cars from far
and wide wheezed into town and
Wednesday morning found rows
of snow and ice coated automo
biles lined along the curbs of the
business streets. A clear sky
Wednesday but a steady gale that
prevnted effectual clearing of
some of the roads.
The public school was dismissed
at noon Tuesday for the afte:
noon because of the storm.
By Wednesday afternoon water
was dripping from roofs, school
boys—and girls—were throwing
snowballs and the town was
crowded as usual with cars from
the country.
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BRIEFLY STATED
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L. G. Gillespie went out on
the Northwestern last night en
route to Omaha to attend the
state meeting of county assessors.
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Mts. Bennet Gillespie and son,
Gerry, departed Surday via Grand
Island for a three-week’s visit r.t
Pamona, California. Bonnet
took them to Grand Island.
Mr. and Mrs. Levi Clemens of
Amelia were in the city Monday
on their way back to their ranch
after a visit with relatives in An
telope and Mladison counties.
Miss Brennan of the city lib
rary spent several days last week
in Lincoln visiting the libraries
and was a guest at the home of
her brother, Thomas.
Mr. and Mrs. George Curtis ar
rived in the city Friday from
northern California anl are guests
at the home of Mrs. Curtis’ par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Bigliln.
Roy Hartford arrived home
Sunday afternoon from California
to visit for ten days at the home
of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Hartford. Roy has just been
discharged from the U. S. army
in which he served five years,
about two of which we:e s^eat
in the Southern Pacific.
Paul Shanner arrived in the
ciity Saturday from Boonville,
Ark., looking after business in
teress in the county. He and his
mother moved from the Page
neighborhood to Arkansas a few
years ago where he and his
broher, Luther, maintain a large
dairy herd. They retain their
interests near Page.
Mrs. John Melvin has an in
teresting document, the patent is
sued to her father, the late John
J. McCafferty, flor eighty acres of
land within the corporate limits
of O’Neill. The patent was issued
on October 6, 1881, signed by
Chester A. Arthur president of
the United States. Wm. H. Cook,
seretary and S. W. Ceark, recorder
of the general land office. It was
filed for record June 14, 1882,
with Sanford Parker, county
i clerk, M. D. Long deputy.
The Denohce hoy involved in
athreatened ho'dep of the New
man, filling Eta ion near Stuart
last week was committed to the
Kearney Industrial School by
Judge Mounts Tuesday. Two
other O'Neill boys, Lester and
Eugene Strong, were with Dono
hoe at the time, Eugene and not
Lester,'as erroneously stated last
week, being n w on parole frpm
the Kearney institution. Lester
is now among the boys listed for
army induction, according to the
list furnished us for publication,
and we are glad to place him
there after removing any stigma
that may have attached to a
wrong report.
BRIEFLY STATED
Mr. and Mrs. Norris Murray of
Battl Creek spent Sunday with
relatives here.
Miss Constance Biglin returned
to her duties as a nurse in St.
Elizabeth hospital at Lincoln
Tuesday, after a few days visit
here at the home of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Biglin.
Mrs. Harry Clausen took over
last week the beauty and ladies’
hair dreshing shop she originally
started when the profession was
in its infancy a few years back.
After retirement Mrs. CKiusen
resumes operation with renewed
vigor and her old interest in a
fascinating profession.
Andy Clark has filed for the
republican primary for supervisor
representing the Third District.
He now fills the office by appoint
ment. William W. Griffin, repub
licart, has ntered his filing for
county attorney. To date, no
democrat has appeared on the po
litical scene seeking nomination
at the June primaries.
The force at the postoffice do
not have a( monopoly on that
word “Excm’e-'t” written across
their “examination paper.” State
Aulitor Johnson, in the city early
in the week, left the flattering
word at the court house that the
recent checking up of Holt county
offices by the accountants from
the auditor's office was the best
ever to come from the county.
Miss Grace Joyce came in Tues
day from Omaha accompanied by
her sister, Anna. Their brother,
Tom, has been here for several
days and they plan to remain in
ONeill for a short time at least.
Miss Joyce has been in the con
gested Los Angeles area for a
number of years and finds a
wholesome freedom out here in
the open spaces.
O’Neill relatives have received
announcements of the mar. iage of
Robert Gordon Dwyer, of Butte,
Mont., to Miss Elizabeth Rose
Clancy of Portland, Oregon, on
January 26, 1946, in St. Lawrence
Church at Portland, O egon.
Mr. Dwyer is a son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. V. Dwyer of Butte, Mont.,
both former residents of his city.
The groom is an attorney and is
practicing his profession in Butte,
where the newly weds will make
their future home.
Eighteen “little outfits" stretch
ed over Nebraska from North
Platte to Omaha contributed
chicken feed to the total sum of
$885 to the vigilant, though not
“lean and hungry’’ OPAR last
week. Fines for soaring above
their ceiling. Forty-six grocery
concerns were “enjoined" incident
to those pretty little sugar stamps.
Three Nebraska lumber dealers
added the sizeable sum of i 5,423.05
to the OPA’s gleanings. About
every industry but printers and
bootblacks have been adjudged
guilty of an offence against OPA
The elo'hes collection drive in
the city last week resulted in
stacks of boxes of wearing appar
el and bedding now tempo: aiily
stored in the assembly room at the
court hiuse annex. During the
next week the collections will be
sorted and packed for shipment
to Kansas City, where the United
States treasury department, super
vising the nation-wide drive, has
provided warehouse room for the
gatherings in the west. Mr.
Shriner, chairman of the local
committee, says there will doubt
less be two tons of clothing and
bedding sent out from O'Neill.
Mr. Harty Laid
to Rest Tuesday
Funeral services for Wil
liam H. Harty, who passed away,
in a Sioux City hospital iast F*i-,
day morning, was held from St. ]
Patrick’s church in this city last
Tuesday morning, Mnsgr. J. G.
McNamara officiating and burial
in Calvary cemetery.
Mr. Harty’s health began to j
fail several months ago and last j
May he disposed of his dry clean
ing plant here and believed a good
rest woull bring bagk his old
time health. He spent several
weeks visiting relatives in Chi
cago and at his old home in Wis
consin. After his return home
he went to Rochester, Minn., for
a check up and while there sub
mitted to a major operation. He
was there for several weeks, then
came home and he lookd fine
and was feeling eceptionally good
and it was the hope or relatives
and friends that he was on the
way to complete recovery. He
was feeling good until about the
first of the year and shortly there
after he went to Sioux City for a
check HP and was in a hospital
there when he passed away.
William Henry Harty was born
at Shullsburg, Wisconson, on Jan
uary 2, 1883, and was 63 years and
one month old at the time of his
ms deatn.
He came to O’Neill in 1909, com
ing here rom his native city and
ing here from his native city and
for the past thirty-six years
O'Neill had been his home.,
On May 20 1913, he was united
in marriage to Mary Genevieve
Mullen. Five children were born
of this union, five of whom, two
sons and two daughters, are left
with their mother to mourn the
passing of a kind anl affectionate I
husband anl father. One son, Lt.
Michael Harty, gave his life for
his country while fighting on
Saipan. The surviving children
are James and Jaok, both in the
U. S. Army and both in Korea;
Mary, of Chicago, and Helen at
home. He is also survived by
six brothrs and three sisters, be
sides a host of other relatives and
friends. P. B. Harty of this city
is a brother of W. H.
Mr. Harty enggaed in the tailor
ing business when he first came
to O’Neill and spent his lifetime
in that business here. He was
one of our most successful busi
ness men, and had the confidence,
respect and esteem of all the busi
ness men of the city as well as
the inhabitants of this section of
the county and his passing, while
in the prime of life, is a severe
blow to his family and relatives
but also to his legion of friends
in his home town.
Visits Oil Fields
Ed Casey, district sales repre
resentative of the Continental
Oil company, returned Monday
from a ten day trip to his com
panies general offices and main
refine y at Ponca City, Oklahoma,
after attending the postwar Fal s
Orientation meeting thure, and re
i ports a very interesting and in
structive trip.
Ed heard prepared lectures by
leading technologists, geologists
and geophysists, and attended nine
trip through the various depar
ments engaged in the manufact
ure and processing of Conoco’s
producs. He also visited the Ed
mund, West Edmund and Oklo
home City fields where he saw
the different types of drilling and
pumping operations in progress,
using the latest equipment which
affirds a better finished product
to the ultimate consumer,
j One of the highlilghts o the 1r p
; was a detailed trip through Con
oco’s Toluene plant which was
constructed at a cost of 17 mil
lion dollars in 1942, and which
was the first plant in Oklahoma
to turn out finished 100 octane
gasoline for use by our Army
and Navy Air Corps. This pjnnt
has been converted over and is
now in full operation manufactur
ing Conoco N-tane gasoline.
Ed also reports that the Conoco
i Tavel Bureau has been restaffed
and that they are now in position
to provide free of charge a better
Touraide for anyone contemplat
ing a vacation or bi^siness trip.
List of registrants discharged
since last report:
Lyle W. Luber, O'Neill
Millard W. Ellenwood, Atkinson
Dennis P. Rotherham, Ewing.
Lyle L. Henifin, Atkinson
Jay C. Butler, Ewing
Chester E. Jungbluth, Chambers
Richarl L. Asher, Page
Elias W. Timmerman, O'Neill
Howard A. McWilliams, Stuart
George W. Oetter, Ewing
Melvin B. Kohlschmidt, Stuart
Clyde W. Doolittle. Amelia
Robert E. Chaney, Stuart
Laverne A. Morrow, O’Neill
Joseph F. Burda, Atkinson
Delbert R. Nissen, Chambers
James R. Finley, Orchaid.
Elmr V. Loefflcr, O’Neill
James E. Foreman, Emmet
Francis B. Luben, Emmet
Charles H. Kubart, Atkinson
George F. Brainard, O'Neill
Harold P. Savidge, Ewing
Dean V. Stevens, Atkinson
Douglas I. Ratliff, Atkinson
Raymond F. Kalvelage, Stuart
Arthur E. Dailey, Emmet
Leonard D. Lines, Inman
Donald W. Asher, O’Neill
Floyd K. Raymer, Akinson
Clifford W. Sawyer, Inman
Duward A. Loughrey, Ewing
Clifford Hood, O’Neill
Gardner W. Gill, Stuart.
Gordon Av Smith, Atkinson
Edward E. Hanley, O’Neill.
Mr. and Mrs. Waldrop, of Kear
ney, were in the city Saturday
and Sunday, guests at the home
of Mrs. Waldrop’s mother, Mrs.
Lawrence Murray. Mr. Waldrop
is chief of police of the city of
Kearney.
Sheriff and Mrs. Otto Kime of
Valentine, snowbound in O’Neill
Tuesday night, were overnight
guests of Sheriff and Mrs. A. B.
Howard.
AAA News Notes
All those who have Signed their
statement of intentnions prior to
June 1, 1945, and have not. made
their final report shoujd remem
ber that February 15, is the clos
ing date on reports.
Anyone who har not mailed
their October, November and De
cember cream stubs to the County
AAA office must do so in Febru
ary if they want the subsidy, as
we are authorized to pay on such
only until March 1, 1946.
Under the new set up regarding
retail cream sales, it is necessary
that a sample test be made by'
your dealer every two weeks and
the certifications are to be pre
sented with your milk and cream
statements when your evidence is
presented for payment. This ap
plies only to cream sales.
Harry E. Ressel, Chairman,
A. A. A. Committee.
TREES FOR SHELTERBELTS ;
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Holt county ranks among the
highest in the state for “the num
ber of trees planted each year.
County Agent Dawes leports that
again this year the Clark-Mc
Nary seedlings are available
through the Extension office.
Any farmer or rancher wanting
these trees should order now be
fo e the supply is gone. The price
is $1.25 per hundred trees and the
application for them may be ob
tained at the office of the county
agent or through the AAA and
SCS offices, all of which are lo
cated in O’Neill.
Mr. Ressell, chairman of the
AAA, states that payment for
tree planting is again available
in 1946 at the rate of $2.90 per
hundred trees planted for wind
break and $1.00 per hundred for
trees planted for gully control.
However, there will be no main
tenance payment in 1946.
Persons interested in cooprating
with the Holt County Soil Con
servation District and who wants
trees for shelterbelt and wind
breaks purposes may obtain
trees throught that office. A
tree-planting machine will be
available when large plantings
are to be made. The district su
pervisor will furnish the planter,
tractor, the trees and deliver them
along with the planting crew.
The property owner is to furnish
one man. A schedule for prices
for the trees arid the use of the
equipment has been worked out.
Prizes at Pa^e
Ag. Road Show
Tcesday, February 12, is the
day of the big Ag. Road Show.
Dave Bowen Chairman of the.
planning committee in the Page
Community Club, reports plans
for the day are now complete
with lots of en.ertainment for
everybody. The Community Club
will, in addition to the state ex
hibits,sponsor the following con
tests with prizes awarded by the
business houses:
Tractor driven in greatest dis
tance $10.00.
Best home made tractor cah
$5.00.
Best piece of reconverted ma
chinery or their original mechani
cal idea, first prize, 100 lb. gun
grease; second prize 25 lb. gun
grease.
Best ten ears of yellow corn,
$3.00 in trade.
Best ten ears white corn, $2.00
in trade.
Best entiy of threshed oats,
$5.00 in trade.
Best entry of wheat, $1.00 in
trade.
Best entry of rye (threshed)
Fifty pound sack Bon Ton flour.
2Vi gallons Karo syrup, 2 pack
ages marshmallows.
Heaviest dozen of .hen eggs,
first prize 100 lb. sack chick
starter; second prize, $1.00 in
trade.
Best five potatoes, one fan belt
for car.
Best five turnips, five gallons
of gas.
Best five onions, 75c in trade.
Best five carrots, two steak din
ners.
Heaviest chicken, 100 lb. Nor
co chix starter.
Best useful article made in
home or manuel training shop:
(18 years and under). Gil ls, sham
poo and finger wave, first prize;
$1.00 cash second prize.
Boys, first prize, $2.00; second
prize, $1.00.
All entries are to be made by
Town Hall on Wednesday, Feb
ruary 12. Exhibits will be dis
played down town.
Farm families are urged o take
pa;t in this farm day and any
one wishing to enter exhibits or
contests, contact A. G. Braddock
or Dave Bowen.
The Agricultural Road Show
will be held in Atkinson on Mon
day, February 11, at Page on
Tuesday, February 12, and in the
HTown ha lion Wednesday, Feb
Scottville Community at the
rua y 13.
WORTH-WETZLER
Miss Ina Mae Worth, daugh er
of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence E.
Worth of O'Neill, was mited in
marriage to Adolph Wetzler, son
of Mrs. Mary Wortzler of O’Neill,
on Monday, Jam ary 28, 1946, at
2.30 p. m., at the home of the
b ide’s parents.
Rev. Elmer R. Swick, pastor of
the Assembly of God chu ch of
Walthih, Nebr., performed the
single ring ceremony before an
improvised alter decorated with
six tapers
Prayer was offered by Rev.
Melvin G osenbach, pastor of he
Holiness church, followed by a
vocal duet by 'the Rev. and Mrs.
James Cummings, pas ors of the
Assembly of God.
The bride wore a street length
dress of black fus^hia wi h mat fl
ing flowers in her hair.
Miss Blanche Worth, sister of
the bride, was bridesmaid. She
wore a grey pin-stripe street
length dress. Pfc. Ray A. Wert l,
brother of the bride, servel as
best man.
At the reception fo lowing the
ceremony refreshments we e
served to a host of relitves and
friends. Mrs. Daniel Page, sister
of the bride, had charge of the
brides book.
Mr. Wetzler was recently dis
charged from the U. S. Air Co ps,
where he held the rank of Ser
geant. H spent 28 mon hs over
seas in the Pacific theater, being
stationed in India and Burma.
Mr. anl Mrs. Wetzler will make
their home in O’Neill.
Friends of the young couple
extend sincere congratulations and
best wishes for a long, happy and
prosperous married life.