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LXV
Historical
The Frontier
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O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APIRL 4, 1946
NO. 47
SMALL DOSES
PAST AND PRESENT
By Romaine Saunders
Whatever may be said of the
OPA, their “Press Releases" are
typed on both sides of the paper.
It has remained for the demo
crats to hamstring both the party
and democratic processes in gov
ernment. ^
One or more marriage licenses
about every day the past winter,
but I havent head of a baby being
born in town.
What agriculture needs, what
industry needs, what the return
ed veteran needs—what we all
need most is to be lot alone.
Hanging in the shade on a west
wall the glass tube recorded 86
degrees above Sunday aifternoon,
if not an all |time record for
March 31 nobody knows the
difference.
A gent writing in an Omaha
paper says girls down there are
“greenly. stuck up, egotistical.”
He signs himself “Bachelor.” If
he hangs around Omaha he will
doubtless have to remain a bach
elor.
The mush and milk and hot
corn bread season is about over.
The order from Washingtin to cut
the grinding of cornmeal 15 per
cent comes at a time when it
matters little. Our able Secre
tary of Ag. should be informed of
the piles if com on the ground
in Nebraska’s corn belt and some
in the fields yet.
O’Neill citizens are putting
their premises in order as an in
viting background for the fresh
growth and bloom of spring and
express the hope that the Super- [
visors will authorize a transfor- j
mation in the county’s storage ■
yard that hcs become something
of a jufik pile in the midst of an
otherwise orderly and well kept
section of the city.
_
Man and horse were killed by j
lightning in Boone county a day
last week. The “rumble and
grumble and roar” of distant
thunder was nature’s drum beats
accompanying rain fall up this
way at the same time. Fabled
March weather laid no violent
hand on the prairieland but
natives have feared all along to
do any boasting.
“A hundred dogs bayed deep
and strong clattered a hundred
stoeds along,” wrote Walter Scott.
Not nuite that many of the non
d. script canine denizens of the
town race the automobiles up and
down Fourth street and beco.ne
a nuisance with their yipping and
barking. Tramp dogs are no
bodys dogs and nobody moves to
eliminate the daily newsance.
The withholding tax take’
from the pay of nil that have
the ambi. ion and ability to work
and then sent back is ju t a bit of
New Deal financial philo ophy.
Out of every hundred do'lars
earned $18 is taken and all or
part refunded some time the
future. It piles up book keeping
and accounting not only at the
revenue centers but for every |
business concern that employs
help as well as in the county and
state offices.
They say isolotion isis passed
out when that first atomic bomb
blew the divinity out of his high- \
•ness at Tokyo. It is a simple (
matter to prove the latter but
nobody has made a count of the
citizens who still regard George
Washington’s warning concerning
"foreign entanglements” some
thing more than an historical ges
ture. If we are ever to escape
from thei “foreign entanglements”
woven as a mesh the past decade
the courttry will have (to call
bigger men to the helm.
The boxelder trees set out a
generatinon ago by O’Neill citi
zens are falling victims to the
march of time. Dead or alive they
are hewn down and the stumps
removed. Perhaps the useful
ness of the box elder as a shade
tree, for ornament or as wind
breaks has passed out with the
gen., ration that planted them.
One objection is the box*-. Idea
bug, so called. They are about'
the best tree in sthis section for
fuel but not mmy gents around
town could or would swing an ax
to reduce a tree to firewood.
The charming E!e:jnor, fresh
the hypnotic shades of the United
Nations council board, gave an
Omaha audience a distilled dose
of New Deal philosophy. Accord
ing to the former first lady it is
not important theft England repay
the proposed three billion loan
if they buy American goods with
the money. A simple method of
financial juggling, but Nebrras
kans don't do bi^siness that way.
—
A gentleman heading a New
York corporation says Nebraska
has 22,000,000 acres involved in
the “soil conservation” program.
“This growing emphasis,” he
says, “on care of the soil prom
isee to keep in full service the j
acreage which contributed so
much to the war effort and also !
to produce foods that will up
grade the American diet.” Ne
braska’s grass lands do more to
“up-grade” the (tabla supply of
Yankeeland’s mighty eaters even
than her mellow richness down
in the “corn country” where most
of these twenty-two million acres
spread their rich black loam.
BRIEFLY STATED
!
Frank Nelson returned Monday
from a visit at the home of his
brother near Omaha.
Bob Eby came out from the
Great Lake naval base Saturday
for a brief visit with relatives in
O’Neill.
—
Mr and Mrs. Reie Shaw came
down from Bassett last Thursday,
Mr. Shaw remaining here for
medical treatment and Mrs. Shaw
returning to Bassett that evening.
Arthur Graves, son of Mrs. W.
B. Graves was in the city Tues
day visiting friends in his old
home town. Art had just been
discharged from the armed forces
where he had served nearly three
yars.
Seaman 1-c William J. Grady
came home last Friday on a few
days leave to spend them at the
home of his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Grady. Bill has been
in the navy for nearly a year and
ah af and came home from Phil
adelphia, where he has to report
back on April 10.
An auomobile belonging to
Ross Ridgeway caught fire as it
was parked on Fourth street
Monday morning. Citizens gath
ered at the scene in the usual
numbers when tre fire alorm
blared out and looked on while
Joe Mlartin and a few firemen
subdued the fire. The car moved
away on its own power.
Going to Chambers last week
'for a funeral F J. Biglin was un
able to proceed with the hearse
when he struck a soft spot that
caused the front wheels to buckle
r nd carry the hearse into the
ditch. He flagged a passing car
and was taken to Chambers, call
ing a hearse from Atkinson and
garage men at O’Neill to bring
the Biglin hearse in. Slight dam
age was done.
Romaine Saunders, having ter
minated his services at The Fron
tier office on account of
failing eyesight, left Monday af
ternoon for Lincoln, where he will
visit his daughter and family and
attend a meeting of the State
Library Board, of which he is a
member, Tuesday. He then
plans on interviewing eye special
ists regarding his eyes and may
probably go to Colorado for a
few weeks, after which he will be
back on his ranch in southwest
ern Holt. Romaine was a long
time employee of Tre Frontier
and a personal friend of the
elitor for over fifty years and
we sincerely hope that he will
find some specialist that will as
sist him in regaining his lost
vision.
Reports are that a warm mu
nicipal election was held in At
Atkinson. Dr. Douglas, present
mayor, was opposed by F. J.
Brady, who they claim won by 1.
Congressman Miller’s
Weekly Letter
Several matters of a highly
controversial nature are under
consideration of the Congress at
the present time. In most cases
tile controversy is net of a parti
san nature an,d the proponents
and opponents are not divided on
party lines. In fact the majority
party is now in an intense strug
gle to recruit enough support to
pass legislation recommended by
the President. Strange to say
his must laws are not being given
much consideration by the Con
gress. I have some definite opin
ions on many of the issues which
I do not hesitate to express. I
hope they refledt the feelings of
the people of thq Fourth Nebras
ka District but realize that their
feelings will not be unanimous.
I will appreciate an expression
from anyone in the District on
these matters regardless of
whether or not they are in ag
reement with my views.
Renewal of the Price Stabli
zation Law) is o burning question.
Most people agrefe that prices
should not be permitted to sky
rocket but Ithere is a growing
conviction that the way the Office
of Price Administration has ad
ministered the law has seriously 1
hindered 'the production and thus
added to the threat of inflation.
It is a fundamental fact that man
ufacturers will not make goods
unless they can have a reasonable
profit. The stubborn way in
which Chester Bowles and his
clic have persisted in following
their theories and refused to take
a realistic view of conditions has
disguskd many former friends of
price control. When they want
an extension of their powers
they make all kinds of promises
to be good but after they get it
they return to all their crack
down tactics. To cure this I
have advocated placing price con
trol over foods under the Depart
ment of Agriculture rents under
Federal Housing and other neces
sary controls under other approp
riate agencies.
Control of Atomic Energy.
Sroll it be under a Civilian Board
or under military? Few people
realize the far reaching possibil
ities of atomic energy. Most of
us are more impressed by its mil
itary aspect. Whether for good
or evil the problem is with us
and we must find the right sol
ution. It is a subject for prayer
ful consideration.
Draft Extension and Compul
sory Military Training. Premier
Sitalin’s statement supporting
world peace has taken the wind
out of the sails of the propoganda
c mpaign engineered by the pro
ponents of draft extension and
compulsory military training.
There is reason (to b lieve that
much of the war scare recently
whipped up had this in view. A
powerful army, navy and air force
with up to the minute equip-1
mcnt recruited on a voluntary'
basis would seem to be the prop
er military establishment for
a Republic. If our military lead
ers would end their fight over j
which arm of the service should!
have prefemrenee and get busy on
our problem of defense we could
recruit such an establishme: it.
Loans to Foreign Countries.
The proposed British loon cannot
be considered except in relation
of the demands for loans from
France, Russia and several lesser
nations. The question is just
how long we can continue to
wtEte our resources and mort
gage our future without promise
'of a fair return. Our national
debt is now larger than the com
bined debt of the rest of the
world
Reorganization of Congress.
Congressional machinery is old
creaky. It must be streamlined
if Congress is to retain its his
torical functions principal among
is to check the expeannsion of
administrative power. Here is a
subject for careful study by civic
organiations.
Mr and Mrs. Neil Brennan, of
Rapid City, S. D., came down last
Monday morning to attend the
funeral of Mrs. P. C. Donohoe and
visit relativas for a few days.
W. A. Stefan of Norfolk, dis
trict supervisor of the F. E. S-,1
was in tre city Tuesday. 1
O’Neill Native
Passes Away
Mrs. Margaret Donohoe, be
loved wife of Patrick C. Donohoe,
and a native of this county, pass
ed away at her homa in this city
last Saturday afternoon, about
6:00 o’clock, after an illness of
a little over a week, although she
had not been in good health for
the past couple of years, at the
age of 63 years, 5 months and 26
days.
Funeral services were held last
Tuesday morning from the Cath
olic church at 10:00 o’clock, Rev.
Monsignor McNamara officiating
and burial in Calvary cemetary.
The funeral was a large one,
friends coming from far and near
to pay their last tribute to this
estimable and beloved woman.
Margaret Holland was born in
O’Neill on October 4, 1882, and
had been a resident of this city
and county all her life. She was
the daughter of one of the pion
eer families of the county, her
father coming to O'Neill from the
copper mines of northern Michi
gan in April, 1877. Margaret
grew to womanrood in this vicin
ity and on November 11, 1913,
she was united in marriage to
Patrick C. Donohoe, a son of an
other pioneer family living north
of this city. She is survived by
her husband, two sisters and one
brother all of whom were here
for the funeral services. They
are: Mrs. George M. Mullen,
Omaha; M!rs. Arthur D. Duffy,
Petersburg and Charles T. Hol
land, Chicago.
Mrs. Donohoe was a charming
woman, pleasing, friendly and
affable and had a host of friends
in this city and community who
were sortdy gri ved when they
learned tirlier passing, and join
'The Frontier in tendering conso
’lation to the bereaved ones in
their hour of sorrow.
Relatives from out of the city,
’who were here attending the
funeral, were: Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Holland, Chicago, 111.;
Mrs. George Mullen. Judge J. A.
Donohoe, Mrs. Elizabeth Grady,
Omaha, Nebr., Marie Duffy, St.
Louis, Mo.; Mr. and Mrs. A. D.
Duffy, Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Duffy,
Petersburg, Nebr.; Margaret and
Lorraine Agn-.s, Norfolk, Nebr.;
Mrs. P. J. Donohoe and daugh
ters, Mrs. Robert Devoy and Mary
Ann of Bones teal, S. D.
Harry Thompson, Norflk, Nebr.,
and H. I. Bishop, Kearney, Nebr.,
personal friends of Mr. and Mrs.
Donohoe, were als here for the
funeral.
Registrants discharged since
March 27, 1946:
William E . Alder, Dorsey
Dean W. Butler, Ewing
Glen D. Hiscocks, Dorsey
Frank Kohle, Stuart.
Claire M. Eason, Chambers
Byron D. PeteTson, Atkinson
John E. Nabor, Atkinson
Tom A. Boucher, Atkinson
Darold A. Slaymaker, Atkinson
Pat E. Gamel, Page
Harold D. St^haaf, Atkinson
James H. Banks, O’Neill.
EDUCATIONAL NOTES
Eighth Grade Eraminations will
be conducted at 16 centers on Fri
day. April 12 and Friday, May 3.
The first examination will begiven
at 9 o’clock a. m. Teachers have
been notified as to the places and
schedules.
The next regular teachers ex
aminotion will be held in O’Neill
on Saturday, April 1, beginning
at 8 o’clock a. m. The schedule
will be the same as the one pre
viously used, arithmetic being the
first subject given. No other
Teachers Examination are to be
given until July 6.
elja McCullough,
County Superintendent.
Married At Inman
Inman, Nebr.—Special to The
News: Miss Marguerite Jean
Clark, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
E. E. Clark of Inman, and Roy E.
Tjessem, son of Mr. and Mrs. S.
Tjessen of Maywood, 111., were
married at 5 o’clock Tuesday af
ternoon at the Clark home. The
Rev. E. B. Maxcy performed the
single ring ceremony.
The bride, given in marriajge
by her father, was gowned in
blue taffeta, with which she wore
a gold sweetheart locket and
notching bracelet, the gift of
the bridegroom. Her corsage
was of pink rosebuds ond sweet
peas.
Miss Emma Stevens was brides
maid and also wore a blue gown.
She had a corsage of gardenias
and red carnations. Both the
bride and bridesmaid wore Dutch
;hats of matching blue.
The bride’s mother wore a
green dress and the bridegroom’s
mother a dress of navy blue.
Each had a corsoge of red car
nations and gardenias.
Following the ceremony a
buffet supper was served to the
thirty guests, with a wedding
[cake baked by the bride’s mother
serving as a centerpiere.
The couple kflt on ai short wed
ding trip and for heir going away
costume the bride wore a green
suit.
Mrs. Tjessem is a graduate of
Inman High School in 1942 and
attended college at Sioux City.
The bridegroom was recently dis
charged after serving three years
in the army, including eighteen
months in Hawaii.
The couple will live at May
wood, Illinois.
Out-of-town guests included
the bridegrooms parents and Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Clark and Wila
of Burwell.—Norfolk Daily News.
S .il Conservation
District To Elect
Two District
The te rms of two of the Super
visors of the Holt Soil Conserva
tion District expire according to
announcement from the State
’Soil Conservation Committee.
Nominations are now being made.
Potitions are being circulated for
Louis Bernholtz, Page, Jim Allyn,
S:uart, Carl Lambert, Ewing, and
L. B. Price, O’Neill.
Anyone who wishes,may nom
inate someone else by securing
the signatures of 25 land owners
on a nominating petition. Pe
tition blanlcs may bo secured at
the District office in the baseme nt
of the Courthouse Annex. They
must be completed and turned in
at the district office by April 8,
1946. It is suggested that you
make your nomination immedi
ately.
Major J. i). Grady
Out Of Fh ‘ Army
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Grady have
received word that their son, Maj.
J. F. Grady, was discharged fro.n
ihe armed forces in Washington,
D. C., on March 26. Mr and Mrs.
Grady had made their home in
Washington since last fall and
they were all packed and ready
to come back to Gold’s country, at
least for a visit, but when the
Major received his discharge he
was informed that he was to re
port to the Department of Labor
ait once. Ho went there and
was informed that he had been
appointed to an important po
sition in that department and
they wanted him to accept. As
the salary offered was not to be
sneezed at he accepted and he
and Mrs. Grady will remain in
Washington for at least three
monts, while he is taking prelim
inary training in his new line of
work, when he expects to be
transferred to the west, possibly
,Chicago.
Jack is onq of the few men in
•the army who entered as a private
land was a major at discharge
three years after—unless they
were pilots—so he must have
something on the ball. Congratu
lations, Jack.
F. J. Dishner
Elected Mayor
Following is a list of ONeill
officials for the next year, start
ing May 1st:
Mayor—F. J. Dishner
City Cerk— B. J. Grady
City Treasurer—E. F. Quinn.
Councilman:
*First Ward—James Corkle.
Second Ward—Merle MHickey.
Third Ward—James W. Rooney,
new.
For members of the Board of
Education, the present members,
Miss Anna O’Donnell and Dr. H.
L Bennett, were elected without
opposition. Their vote was as
follows: O’Donnell 291; Bennett
329.
Election day was very quiet
in this city and a light vote was
cast, there being but 378 votes
cast for mayor, oult of a pos
sible 1500 voters in the city. As
there was but one ticket in the
field citizens were not anxious to
put in (the time to go to thepolls,
although to maintain good citien
ship all electtors should vote at
allelection for which (they are
qualified.
Frank Dishner, after consider
able persuasion, agreed to make
the race. Petitions were circu
lated and his was the only name
on the ballot for mayor, but
some of the boys got busy and
111 of them wrote in the name of
Paul Beha and 53 wrote in the
name of Moyor Kersenbrock. The
veto on mayor in the city was
as follows. First Ward—Dish
ner 68; Second Ward 73 and Third
Ward 73, total 214.
Paul Beha, written in: First
Ward, 24, Second Ward 26, Third
Ward 61, total 111.
John Kersenbrock, written in:
First Warl, 21, Second Ward 9,
Third Ward 23, total, 53.
There was no candidate on the
balot for the office of Police
Judge. Petitions hiad been cir
culated to place the name of M.
H. Horriskey on the ballot for the
place, but he said he would not
serve if elected, so his name was
left off tho, ballot. But the boys
wrote in Mike’s name, that is 27
of them did in the First, 19, in the
Second and 19 in the Third, for
a total of 65. The friends of Chias.
Switzer, present Police Judge,
also exercised their pencils and
15 of them wrote in his name in
the First Ward, 13 in the Second
Ward and 13 in the Third Ward,
fora total of 41.
HONOR SELECTIVE
SERVICE PERSONNEL
The members of Selective Ser
vice Draft Eoards and Govern
ment Appeal Ag i ts from nine
counties in North Cen ral Nebras
ka will be guests of the O’Neill
Commercial Club at their regu
lar meeting on Tuesday, April 9,
at 6:45 n m. These men, who
have served two years or more
will be awarded the Selective
Service M dal an award author
ized by Congress.
A series of meetings are being
held througrout tho s ate to honor
the Selective Service Board mem
bers and Appeal Agents who
,have performed a “thankless”
task in a very crediable manner.
Brig. Gen. Guy N. Henninger,
State Director of Selective Ser
vice, will be in charge of the
program. He will introduce Gov.
emor Griswold, who will present
a medal to a local member, as a
representative of {the entire
group. M-dais will be pre ented
at this meeting to all Selective
Service Board members and Ap
peal Agents who are presint.
A committee consisting of R. E.
Armbruster, Herb Peteison, John
Havelka, Fred Rlstow and C. E.
Jones will sell tickets for the oc
casion. Tickets may be secured
at the Secretary’s ogice. All
business and professional men of
the city are urged to attend and
honor O’Neill's guests. Please
purchase your tickets befor Mon
day in odrer the seating arrange
ments may be made. Offcers for
the Club for 1946 will be elected
at this meeting.
Those eligible to receive the
medal and award are:
Boyd County—Crist Anderson,
(Continued on Page Eight.)
Assessors Meet
for Annual Job
The meeting of the local as
sessors of Holt county met at the
court house last Friday, March
29. with Coi<nty Assessor Gilles
pie.
Upon motion R. J. Rhode was
elected chairman arid P. W. Kil
murry was elected secretary.
Roll call and absentees noted.
Minutes of the last meeting read
and approved.
The following committees were
appointed: Livestock, Withers,
Shaw, Cl'aussen, Winkler and
Schmiser. Stock of goods: Rich
ards, Porter, Anson, Lockman,
Cronk, Tomlinson and Coventry.
Hay, Grain and Seeds: John
Schmidt. Colburn, Lieb, Rouse.
Farm Machinery: Rickard, Her
shiser, Welton, Cameron and
Troshynski. Real Estate: Le
Muynan, Hanley, Frank Schmidt,
McClurg, Rhode. Tractors Hay
Bailers, etc. Lemmer, McDonald,
Serck, Bonenberger, Bly.
After some discussion meeting
adjourned until 1 p. m.
Committees reporter as follows:
We, your committee on tract
ors, hay bailers, refrigerators, etc.,
resolvad to adopt the prices set
by the State and on machinery
to use own judgment, which
motion was adopted.
We, your; committee on real es
tate, find that the valuations of
the land of Holt county should
be left as it is except some land
that is out of proportion with ad
joining land; that the total valu
ation should be left the same, and
no additions or reductions in im
provements be made unless it
amounts to more that $100.00,
which motion was adopted.
Wo, your committee on farm
machinery, suggest that the val
ues in the supplement should be
followed and for other machinery
we use our own judgment as to
value, which motion was adopted.
We, the committee on livestock
recommend, that items 1. 2, 3, 4,
5. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16,
17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 27, 28, 29,
30, 31, and 33 be valued as stated
by the State Tax Commissioner
(these items are found on the in
dividual schedule) and are as
follows: Purebred cattle up to 6
months old $15.00; 6 to 18 months
$45.00; 18 to 30 months $55.00;
milk cows $85.00; (Stock cattle
$70.00; bulls $100.00; Grade cat
tle up to 6 months old $10.00; 6
to 18 months old $35.00; 18 to 30
months old $45.00; milk cows
$75.00; stock cows $60.00; cattle
on feed 9.00 per hundred; bulls
$100.00. Horses, yearlings $10.00;
2-year olds $15.00; 3-year old t-nd
lover $25.00; poines $25.00; stal
lions $75.00;; mules, yearlings
$15.00;2-year olds $30.00; 3-year
olds and over $45.00. Jacks
$75.00. Hogs $9.00 per hundred.
Sherp and goats $5 00 per head;
sheep on feed $9.00 per hundred.
Turkeys $1500 per dozen; turkey
po i'ts $5.00 per dozen; chickens
$5.00 per dozen. Dogs $10 00
fur beoring animals $10.00 per
he.d; bees $5.00 per stand, which
motion was adopted.
We, your committee on stocks
of goods and fixtures recommend
that we use thf' inventory as of
January 1, 101", as a basis to
which shall be added goods
bought at wholes.de up to April
1, 1946, from which tottal .the
sales c>t retail price less the profit
be deducted and the balance shall
be the assessed value of the stock
'of goods as of April 1, 1946, and
that the fixtures be valu.d by
the local assessor in such an
amount that he considers fair
and equitable.
We, the committee on hay and
seeds recomm: nd the following
assessed valuation for grain, hay
and seeds: com .75c; wheat $1.00;
oats 45c; barley 75c; rye $1.25;
sorgum 50c; pop corn $1.00; grass
seed $12.50; soy beans .75c; pota
toes $1.00; hybrid com $5.00 per
bushed; hay in stack, 1 year or
less $1.00 per ton; silage and fod
der $1.50; baled alfalfa $8.00;
baled prairie hay $4.00; broom
corn $1.00 per bushel, which
motion w>as adoptel.
On motion the meeting adjourn
ed.
1 Dr. Fisher, Dentist.
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