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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 31, 1947)
.r PRAIRIELAND ...TALK ROMAINE SAUNDERS LINCOLN—The state board of equalization and Tax Com " missioner Armstrong had an opportunity last week to hear straight-from-the-shoul d e r what some leading representatives of Nebraska’s greatest industry thinks of them. Ranchers from the 30 counties affected converged on the state house, met with the board, whose only mouthpiece the day I was there was Mr. Armstrong. They protested the hiking of cattle valuations 25 percent applicable to the 1947 tax rolls. Holt county ranchmen and county officials were repre sented in the large group that filled the governor’s consult THE FRONTIER O'Neill. Nebraska CARROLL W. STEWART Editor and Publisher Entered the Postoffice at O’Neili, Holt County, Nebraska, as sec ond-class mail matter under the Act of March 3. 1879. ing room. County Assessor Gillespie and County Attorney Griffin each addressed the board and were followed by Messrs. Putnam, Peterson and Shafer, each of whom are ranch operators on large scales and each protesting any ad vance in the cattle valuations. They pointed out that the val uations were made in good faith by their assessors after the schedules of valuations were approved by the tax commissioner’s office. Mr. Gillespie raised the question of the legality of the proposed increase on the grounds that the board was assuming to act as an assessing commission for which there is no legal au thority, in place of its legal and proper function as an equalizing body. Mr. Gilles pie and others also took issue with Mr. Armstrong on his theory of equalizing cattle val ues with other property and maintained that a cow cannot be classed with a piano or a calf with a wheelbarrow. Mr. Armstrong on behalf of the board went into detail as to the why of the proposed tut:::::::::::::::::: t raise and said it was the in tention to be fair with the tax payers but felt that cattle val uaions were out of line with other property. Gov. Peterson, being absent from the city, was not in on the hearing. * • * The mayor of cultured Bos ton is said to be drawing the salary of 20 thousand dollars a year while confined in prison and has his job back upon the expiration of his prison term. A Nebraska gent doing a stretch in the prison comes at the parole board at a new an gle. His wife bought a farm after his conviction and con finement behind prison walls. The farm has grown up to weeds and he advanced as a reason to be set at liberty his desire to pull the weeds. Sure, wonder why he did not think of that contingency arising be fore venturing out where the police closed in on him. Or maybe the court in passing sentence should have consid ered the possibility of weeds to pull and made provision in the decree of commitment that the prisoner be released from custody as soon as the weed pulling was demanded down on the farm. * • * It is not the fish the boys are after up north. I learn that down there in the Amelia community you can go out on the meadows and scoop up the fish by the tub full. Lakes have overflowed and the fish taken to the tall grass. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: According to the semiannu al statements of state, county and city treasurers there are millions in the public funds. While it is gratifying to be fi nancially stable the average citizen cannot see the need of piling up large cash balances drawn out of the pockets of taxpayers. And if you never tried it, you might find you would have to scratch some thing beside your head if you had to put up a thousand or 12 hundred dollars for a rent ed place and three or four hundred dollars personal tax. taking the risk of being ru ined by bad weather, • * • A former sergeant-at-arms in congress was convicted on a charge of getting away with a little under 84 thousand dollars of government funds and drew a prison term of from one to three years. A lot of folks would be happy to spend a year or two in pris on retirement for half that amount of money. The judi cial suggestion covertly involv ed implies not to steal a loaf if hungry but make a big haul. * * • A 16-year-old moral monster has been taken into custody and upon his own confession is convicted of a crime that has jarred the sensibilities of the capital city as nothing else has within our memory. With shocking indifference he sat before a group of officers and a reporter and told the sordid 19, Please! 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The news sto ries said the little boy’s fath er was in jail for drunkenness when his son fell into the foul grasp of his violator and slay er. What can be the back ground of a 16-year-old that makes of him a human fiend? This youth came in from an other state. He has been set afloat from a home somewhere and swirled about with the driftwood of human depravity on the murky sea of the social canker. What will be done with him is for a jury to say. With such a start in his early youth what can be done with him? It is not for the sob sisters nor the hysterical rab ble rousers to say, but for the considerate judgment of a sen sable jury, • • * If you had been born in the year 1844 do you think you would have survived the wreck of time until 1947? A giant of a Negro whom they call Nimrod and who has been in service of one of the swank homes on Sheridan boulevard for a long term is said to be 103 and from his husky ap lg HOLD KEY POSITIONS Winnie Walling (left) and Palmer Skulborstad hold key posts in Gambles new store here, heading the credit and outside building material de partments, respectively. * pearance will at least get a good start on the 200th year. He has been retired by his for mer employer with an assured income of $50 each month. Attends Church Meet — Mrs. Carrie Borg attended the American Sunday School Union program and basket dinner, Sun day at the Ralph L. Ernst place. To Be Announced Soon• Grand Opening! O’Neill’s Newest Fashion Center , (WATCH FOR OPENING DATE) • WE ARE AT PRESENT REMODELING The Apparel Shop to bring to O’Neill one of the most up-to-date and fin est ready-to-wear shops in Nebraska . . . one that we are proud of and one you are entitled to have in O’Neill . . . fashions that are identified with a name brand . . . the.finest to be had re- « gardless. • We wish to announce at this time some of the outstanding nationally-advertised lines with which you are well-ac quainted. These will be ours EXCLUSIVELY in O’Neill: ) Suits & Coats Dresses * ROTHMOOR * SWANSDOWN * JAUNTY JUNIOR • PRINTZESS • HARRIS MOOR • BETTY ROSE * PAUL SACHS * ANNIE LAURIE * KLAFTER & SOBEL * LEVINE * BROCK ORIGINALS * NELLY DON * CAROLE KING * GEORGIANA Hosiery... Lingerie... Accessories SEAMPRUFE — JOAN KENLEY — HELEN HARPER BELLE SHAMEER — DEXDALE — TOWNWEAR FORMFIT — KIMBALL — CELEBRITIE — RAMBLER LIFE — GAGE — VAN ROALTE — LADY DUFF LADY LOVE From Time to Time ... we will announce other additional lines as they become available. In the meantime, watch for the opening date. The Apparel Shop O’NEILL —