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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 7, 1946)
LXV O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1946 NO. 43. SMALL DOSES PAST AND PRESENT By Romaine Saunders Some of the bare legs need a shave. Congressmen are being impor tuned to pass the Townsend cash allotment bill. Between th-t and a billion to Russia let’s have the allotment It seems to be about the surest way to guarantee everybojdy a full purse. Mir. Truman’s selection for un der secretary of the navy de clares his intentions to stay in the game to “vindicate his char acter.” To nv.ny citizens nobil ity of character would shine in heoric luster if the gentleman would graciously withdraw his name and bring lan end to a dis graceful situation in whioh two grown men rather act the baby because they want their way. If the General Motors automo-1 bile workers accept the eighteen and one-half cents per hour raise, the "final offer” of the company, it will take each individual work er two years to regain the sum of money lost while out on strike, up to the end of last week. The, strikers have not been without' emoluments from some source, however, during the months on strike, but these have not been earned, a situation that is becom ing all too prevalent in America. i A depraved brute was convict-: ed in a Colorado court of sending ai bullet into a vital spot of his young wife and as she lay gasping her uast in his pres- i ence he raped a young woman with them in the c.r. j And the Amazing thing is that so revolting a crime should draw from the court a sentence' of one to eight years imprison ment. In the frontier days mob justice would have found spon taneous expression at the end of fifteen feet of rope, the prisoner belore the court maybe not the only one to feel its final verdict. A flight to Mars or Venus is quite possible with a rocket powered ship which operates mo t efficiently in very rarified atmos phere at very high gas spouting velocities, according to a Nebras ka University gentleman’s offer ing in the proceedings of the Ne braska/ Academy of Sciences. Twenty-five thousand miles an hour is the speed limit outside the earth’s pulling power. “Laryi ing on Mrirs,” he says, “is accom plished through a series of ellip tic orbits of decreasing major axes, the perachelion of the ellip ses being at an altitu|de of about twenty miles.” About as enlight ening to the average earth dwe ler j as an OPA defination of ultimate consumer. Lqave it to a Yankee to try it. Everybody talks about the weather. It has been something to talk about. Shirt sleeves in February and March have been known before in this our latitude but more frequently Eskimo furs are the need. Ants and bugs and birds stept out when the temper ature rose to 70 and stiffened in their tracks a few hours later when a gale from off the Bad Lands lowered that little dark line in the glass tube 50 degrees. And the(n the sun’s warm face smiles upon the fair land again. Nature has given of her best the, long winter through. No Holt county dweller need have sought far lands to bask in b.lmy breeze or strut on shndy beaches. A day or two of chill to quicken lagging steps anti weeks of fair and golden days. Wh3|t does the individual get out of life who through the weeks, months, years goes each morning to the daily round of business, industry, profession and home again when the curfew has tolled the knell of another departed day? That depends. Are they days of deadening drugery or in spiration from high achievement? Of inward glow through the con scious presence of a guiding hand greater than their own, of the thrill of being one of the living stream of throbbing humanity olglow with the ideals of the com munity? The y;.«ars roll on a ,d one day they take their first trip »/way to the city hospit 1. The undertaker is calkd and another citizen has answered to that in exorable decree, “It is appointed a life been empty, fruitless, no into man once to die.” H s such visits to far places, circumscribed by the boundaries of a town, a precinct, a county? Rather are not such the salt of the earth, keep alive the schools, the churches, pay the taxes, sustain the community life, end commun ities sustain staite and nation. BRIEFLY STATED Neil Dawes attended an in structors’ meeting of county agents at Bassett Tuesday. Arbuthnot Oil Company Ser vice Station has reopen id and will appreciate a shade of your business. Mlark E. Cramer and Carl Schwartz, newspaper men of Rockwell City, Iowa paid us a fraternal visit Friday morning, having spent the night in O’Neill. From here they drove to Valen tine. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Karnes of Plainview are taking rooms over the Harnish store Mi's. Karnes who at presdrrt is under the phy sician’s care in the O’Neill hos pital, is a daughter of Mrs. J. C. Harnish. The jury has been called for Mondty March 11, when the trial of the Hynes case, continued from last month will be heard in dis trict court. Judge Mounts and Reporter McElhaney have held court in the other counties of the district the past week. Traveling orchestras are num erous, no less than half a dozen in town the past wdek, one from Minnesota, another from North Dakota, others from lsewherc?. Maybj the citizens Seek to calm war nerves through the medium of twanging orchesra instrument The clothing drive netted 2640 pounds in O’Neill, shipment h v ing recently been mape to the U. S. treasury department. Mr. Shriner, in charge fothe shipment reports'that it was a collection of good, servicable cothing that O’Neill people donated. Miss McCullough has found time during a busy year in the county superintendent's office to visit all but five of the rural schools of the county since schools opened in September. Open ro ds this winter made travel possible to all sections cf the county. Mrs. Roy Wells c me from Grand Island to spend the week end with her husband. They were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Clausen Mr. Wells is ;n accountant of the state au diting department with headquar ters here. They will make their home in O’Neill at an early daite. Robert Schulz went to Grand Island Sunday, remaining the night there and boarding theChad lenger Monday for Portland, Oregon, for a visit at the home of his son an|d wife. Mr. Schulz expects to be away three weeks and will make some stops down the coast, starting home from San Diego. James Golden, Seaman 1-c is spending a 10 day leave with the homo folks here from his station tit San Francisco. Mr. and Mrs. Golden are also enjoying a visit with their daughter. Miss Coney who arrived from Oceanside, Cal., having received her discharge from the ladies’ branch of Uncle Sam’s navy. , Mrs. W. H. Harty has sold her laundry equipment to Wdliam Warenburg of MjarysvilLe, Kan sas, the last of the machines be ing loaded onto a railroad car Hvpsday. This leaves O’Neill with no prospects of a home laundry, but brought an unex pected opportunity to Mrs. H.rty For a profitable sale. Governor Visits O'Neill Friends Its a far cry from the days i when democr. tic notables like William Jennings Bryan came to O’Neill to hatch political plots and today when it is the republi can notables who visit our city. The political drift has undergone a change. Holt county from be ing the stronghold of the Jack sonians has experienced an over turning in sentiment and today O’Neill stands out as one of the polestars of hope for republic ns of prominence. We were visited last Saturday by Val Peterson of Elgin, who was here in the in trest of his candidacy for the republican nomination for gover nor. That evening Governor Dwight Griswold drove in, spent the night and Sunday here, spending the time with prominent republicans to ascer tain the sentiment in this com munity relative to the contest be tween he and Senator Hugh But ler. Mr. Griswold went to Ord from here Monday. Republi cans, once in the background Out this way, are now sought o^t. Many Fatal Accidents February was another disast rous month for Nebraska with 15 people kilted in traffic accidents. This was six more persons than met death in traffic during the salme month in 1945. The Februaries brought traffic fatalities for 1946 to 40, a 73% increase over the 23 for the first two months of 1945- This year’s i total of 40 is the highest for the l first two month period in the his i tory of Nebraska’s traffic records. A large percentage o these ac cidents Were du» to carlesness and inattention. Captain C. J. Sanders, Nebraska S.tfety Patrol, urges motorists to use greater care this year than ever before as this year may set aln til time high in traffic accidents. The car to watch, he said, is the one behind the one in front of you. Nebraska Safety Patrol. FORMER HOLT COUNTY COUPLE CELEBRATES | Old time Holt county friends of Jim ar.d Anna Harding will b? interested in hearing that Ji.n anfi Anna recently clebrated | their 57th wedding anniverary. They have resided since 1929 in | Whiting, Iowa. Following is a news item from the Whiting, Iowa paper. “Wednesday, March 6, marked ’the 57th wedding anniversary for Mr. and Mis. James E. Hard ing of Whiting. “Miss Anna Wagner and James E. Harding were married in Union County, Territory of South Dakota in 1889. Their first mar ried life was spsnt on farms near Moville, Iowa, whret they remain ed for 13 years, Until 1902, when they moved to the vicinity of O’Neill, Nebrnsk i. After 19 years in Holt county, they moved back to Moville in 1921. In 1929 they again chose Whiting a9 their home ar^d have resided here since. “Mr. and Mrs. Harding are 78 and 74 respectively. “Their anniversary was cele brated quietly in their home, due to th health of Mrs. Harding, who has been ill for the past five weeks. “They are the parents of four living children, Mrs. Raymond Johnson and Lloyd of Hornick, and Lester and Bert of Whiting. There are 19 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren ” You have heard of the deadly DDT—deadly to injects. If you want to know what it is, what it1 will do, how to handle it you will have three opportunities next week, one in O’Neill Mon day at 1:30 p. m. at the music room of the high school, one at Atkinson high school on Tuesday, at 1:30 p. m., ;tnd one at Cham-1 bers the 15th in the basement of the Methodist church. These meetings take the place of the annjulal Achievement day pro gram and will be the last meet ings for the Project Clubs. DISTRICT COURT FILINGS James Corkk has begun an action in district coiyrt asking to have a parcel ol groind on the east side of the city detached from the corporate limits of O'Neill Three divorce actions, alleging in tach case dc option, are entered on the docket. Frances A. Wha ley vs. Clarence D. Whaley. Mar ried in Chambers in 1918. Four children, one of which is a minor. Merle M. Baker vs. Doris J. Baker. Married in Burke, S. D., in 1936. Two children. Vernon Gordon vs. Claraidell Gordon. Married at Blair in 1938 and have one child custody of which plaintiff asks. BRIEFLY STATED Arbuthnot Oil Company Ser vice Station has reopened and will appreciate a share of your business. The Commercial Club officials look for a full atendance at the next meeting Tuesday evening, March 12. Committees are to be selected at that time. I - Mrs. A. E. Dawes departed Thursday for her home near Osceola, Nebr., after a month’s visit at the home of her son, Neil Dawes, in this city. The local OPA office reports everybody in Holt county “in the clear” with respect to the gov ernment Price Administration Thfe ceiling* are still in force, howlever. A. H. Mafquardt of Ewing has entered his filing p* th-' county clerk s office to have his name placed on the republican ballot for state delegate, voted on at the primarjMr) June. Miss Hoffman attended a meet ing of county clerk's from six counties at Neligh Tuesday, whin instruction was given by Floyd Boihlman from the state hoiee relative to the duties of county clerks. Dr. Frank Galagher departed Tuesday for La Crosse, Wis., wh fre he resumes his medilcal practice aftt r a long service in the army. He had spent a week at the home of his mother h re, Mrs. J. P. Gallagher, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Spendlove arrived in the city e. rly in the week from Hurricane, Utah, and will make their home here when they oan find a place to sail home. Mr. Spei^dlove served as a first lieutenant in the field artillery, has recently been discharged and has taken up wqrk at the local soil conservation office. A city official informs The Frontier that the statement quot ed last issue that the city has a the balance being $77,000. It has th balance being $77,000. lie h s not been our purpose to misin form the public and no doubt was not the purpose of the official whom we quoted, and the correct ion is made lest a “congressional boody with getting away with investigation" world accuse somc $23,000 of city funds. O’Neill jtwoke Wedneslay morning to a picture for a gifted Whittier to pen an ode to the last snow fall. Six inches of wet snow lay across the land, wr-ppcd the nude tre <s in white blankets, covered roofs aq(d made sh (eted ghosts of automobiles parked along the streets. It w.s the answer from the. skies to the wish of prairie dwellers for a little moisture on the grass roots. Preceded by a light rain fall Tues day afternoon the moisture is doing much good to the land. READY FOR RED CROSS Red Cross Committtees for O’Neill have been selected and are as follows: L C. Willing Mrs. E. M. Gallagher George Calkins Mrs. Lila Hull Albert Kaczor Lee Brady Arthur O’Neill George Syfie William Grutsch James Early Charles Cole Move <o Get 2 More City Wells At a meeting of the city council lust night a contract was exe cuted with the Hennigsen Engi neering Company of Omaha for plans for two wells south of the river and th/e pipe line conveying the water to the city. An adequate city water supply is now the most pressing prob lem, officials say. Or maybe abundant witter supply is th»e way to express it. In the event of a serious outbreak of fire the present water supply is not suffi cient as there is barely enough to take aare of daily household needs. Among plains now considered is a $45,000 investment in wells, piping and other equipment, the wells eo be located south of the Elkhorn on the former airport grounds. The matter has been discussed at city council meetings, Dr. Condra of Lincoln being con sidered as available to give the city the benefit of his knowledge and experience in locating un derground water flow in various parts of Nebraska, he being con nected with the state agricultural 'college. There is interest also on the table lands out north in irri gation wells and if Dr. Condra visits here in that connection his help will be enlisted to locate 'city wells. Jack Harty is spending a fe*v days in Chicago on a vsiit to his sister, Miss Mary. Discharged Registrants discharged since February 27, 1946: Joseph Cahoy, ONeill. Wayne M. Goranson, Ewing. Ellsworth W. Slovens, Page. Neil F. Harshfield. Atki son. Gerald L. Leach, O’Neill. William H. Newton, Emmet. Arthur C. Walter, Chambers. Howard B. Graves, O'Neill. Harold E. W ildo, Ame La,. Marvin A. Yarges, Stuart William L. Galligan, Atkinson. Robert L. Groeger, Atkins n. Preinduction Registrants going for preinduct ion examination in March: Dewey WeWayne Brittell, Chambers. Marvin E. Holsclaw, O'Ne'll. Kenneth L. Berglund, Redbird. Alvin R» Voroe, O'N ill. D ile V Mlinar, Atkinson. D. M. Stuart, Page Robert H. Scott, Chambers. Franklin D. Schuitz, Atkinson. Donald J. Ottele, Stuart. Mlerwyn P. Deterrruan, Atkin son. Donald F. Persons, O'Neill. Robert D. Martens, Atkinson Edward P. Timmerman, Stuart. Robert E. McNiehols, O’Neill. William L. Dexter, Amelia. Genje D. Terrill, Page. Induction Registrants to be inducted dur ing March: Louis L. Thiele, Clearwater. Roy M. Anderson, Atkinson. Heinrich Frahm, Amelia Fraklin R. Grubb, Chambers. Charles R. Johnson, O’Neill. Joseph W. Kubik, O’Neill. Joe McNiehols William Hanley Mrs. John Shoemaker Joe Jareske Other localities of the county will be i charge of the following: J. W. Walter, Chambrs Dr. W. J. Douglas, Atkinson Don Krotter, Stuart Mrs. Bessie Spittler, Ewing Mrs. P. J. McGinnis, Emmet Mrs Lela Snell, Page Earl Watson, Inman. The quota for Holt county is $4,000 to be raised during March. CLETUS SULLIVAN BACK AT CONSUMERS Cletus V. Sullivan, after three years in the armed forres, has resnmtjd his old position as Chief Clerk of Consumers O’Neill dis trict office. Sullivan has been employed in the accounting de partment of the Interst -te Power Co. and the Consumers Pufclic Power District here since Decem ber, 1926. He left to enter the armed service, July 11, 1942, and i served with the 71st Division in France, Germany and Austria, participating in the Central | Euorope and Rihineland cam paigns. He received his honor able discharge January 14, 1946, and returned to work with Con ; sumers on February 5., 1946. Dr. Fisher, Dentist. 24tf C. E. FRANCE TO SUPERIOR C. E. France, who replaced Sullivan during his service in the armed forces, has accepted a transfer with Consumers Public Power District to Superior. He left O'Neill February 18 to take ! over his new position as Utility Accountant in the Superior Dis trict. France wa|s located at O’Neill with Consumers Public Power District since March 10, 1942, having come here from Seward where he held been em ployed by Consumers and the Iowa-Nebraska Light and Power Company since 1930. Mr. France moved his family to Superior February 26. Friends of Mr. Sullivan are happy to welcome him b^ck to his old job and all wish Mr. and Mrs. France the very best in their | new location. ■ — 1 « Page Wins Tournament P ge defeated Inman Friday night 24 to 21 to win the Class D Championship in the Neligh Tournament while Sacred Heart of Norfolk won from Clearwater 27 to 14 for third place honors. Page opened the tournament Wednesday night with a 61 to 32 romp over Long Pine Toe high light of the tournament was Page's 2 to 26 victory over high ly favored Sacred Heart. Paced by Darrell Heiss with 12 points and Terry Taylor’s magnificent floor work the Page boys pulled out in front in the last few sec onds i tnd stalled the rest of the game. The load changed hands four times and the score was ied six. C-lmey wias the standout for Sacred Heart. I The final game was a ding-dong battle all the way with Inm n out in front most of game. Taylor hit a field goal the last second to give Page a 3 point lead. Hayrns led Page with 16 points. Heiss and Taylor were picked on the all tourney team. Want a Job Over There? The United States Army Signal Corps are seeking workers in a number of profssionml and skill ed technical jobs in Jap n, Korea, and the Philippines. The follow ing occnipaticns are open: Cryptographic Technician. Radio Oper itor, High Speed, Automatic, CTF-4. Installer Repairman, Telephone and Telegraph. Central Office Technician Repeaterman, Telephone. Teletype Mechanic, Radio. Radio Repairman (VF). Radio Repairman (FHF). Radio Repairman, Fixed Sta tion (FS,SSB). Enginemen, Operating. Any person intere ted in apply ing for any of these positions should contact Allen B. Connell, Manager of the U S. Employ ment Office, in ONeill, Nebr. NOTICE OF CITY ELECTION City election will be held on Tuesday, April 2, to fill the fol lowing offices: Mayor. Orve councilman from each Ward. City Clerk. City Treasurer. Police Judge, Two members Board of Edu cation. J. B. GRADY, City Clfcrk. MARRIAGES Lyle H. Davis and Miss Elainei Summers, both of Page, were? married Monday ; t the* Methodist church in O’Neill, Rev. Lloyd Mullis performing the marriage rites. Lici ses have been obtained by James Conway and Frances D. Burrival both of O’Neill; William Nichol ^ Wilson an|d Elnora M. Hoffman, both of Lynch. Arbufhnot Oil Company Ser vice Station has reopened and will appreciate a share of your business. JOHN EBBEIN CANDEE *Born January 8, 1872, at La Sc lie, Loselle iounty, Illinois, son of George Harvey Candee and Sar.ih Almor Candee, passed away at Hardin, Mont., February 27, 1946, at 8:40 p. m., at the age of 74 ye xs, 1 month anjd 19 days. He came to Holt county with his parents from Papillion, Nebr., in the early eighties. His fcf.h r homesteaded north of the Ray mond Heiss farm. His mother passed on in 1883 wh .n Ebb was eleven years old. The family con sisted of a brother, Russj two sis ters, Mrs. Jenni j Lord and Mrs. Jessie Jekum Butler, all preced ing him i death. Jie was unitgi in marriage to Elizabeth Malone, March 27, 1892, at Middlebranch, Nebr., by Rev. B rtley Blain. To this union were born five children, Roy passing on in infancy. His wife also was placed to rest in the Page cemetery in September, 1938. i In early life he was a conve.t to the Christian faith, through , services of Evangelist Barr and he and his wife became members of the Page Methcclist church in the year 1900, He l.aves to mourn, his sons, Ray Ernest, of Portland, Oregon; Elmo, of Cam -, Wash.,; daugh ters. Mrs. Louis W;nn. Burbank, Cal.; Mrs. Fein Sawicki, Colo rado Springs, Col.; a niece, Mrs. 'Beijlih ink, Ewing, Niebr.; ten granJchildren, seven great granl children and many friends. Those in attenlance were all' of the living children togethr with Mr. Sawicki, Mr. Winn and two grandchildren. We desire to express our sin cere and heartfelt thanks to the many old time friends and neigh bors for their many acts of kind ness extended during our recent sorrowing visit, the burial of our beloved father and grandfather. —The Candee Children and fam ilies.