PAGE 2—Jan. 29, 1948.
THE FRONTIER
O'Neill, Nebraska
CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
Entered the postoffice at O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska,
as second-class mail matter under the Act of Congress of March
3, 1879. This newspaper is a member of the Nebraska Press
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San Antonio to Inman
in 24 Hours—Thanks
Air Transportation
INMAN — Pvt. Howard
Clark, who has been station
ed at the Lackland army air
base at San Antonio, Tex.,
for the past two months, ar
rived Saturday for a 10-days’
leave with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. E. E. Clark and
Tom.
Howard came by army
plane as far as Omaha and
it was less than 24 hours
from the time he left the
air base until he arrived
home. Howard says he ‘‘likes
flying very much.”
Upon his return about Feb
ruary 1 he will be stationed
at Oklahoma City, Okla.
Herold Home Scene
of Family Gathering —
Mr. and Mrs. Roy DeLong
and Mr. and Mrs. Earl DeLong
and family were guests in In
man January 18 at a family
gathering at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. George Herold. Oth
er guests included: Mrs. Wil- i
liam Kohlschmidt and daugh
ter, Sharon, of Richfield, Wash,
and Mr. and Mrs. Georee But
terfield and family, of Venus.
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CHAMBERS NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Miller, of
Inman, visited last Thursday
in the F. S. Brittell home.
Mrs. Cecil Thornton returned
Friday from Sedalia, Mo.,
where she had been visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Melvin Pax
ton. Mrs. Paxton accompanied
her for a visit here. Her hus
band expects to arrive in two
weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Merle Sparks
and family, of Inman, visited
Sunday in the F. S. Brittell i
home. Mrs. Sparks is a sister
of Mr. Brittell.
Mr. and Mrs Clyde Burge
and family and Mrs. Baker, of
Hot Springs, S. D., were Sun
day dinner guests of the Glen
White family. Mrs. Baker is
a teacher from the Brainard
Indian School at Hot Springs.
Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Jorgen
sen took their daughters, Car
olyn and Dorothy, to Wayne
Monday to enroll in the Wayne
State Teachers’ college for the
second semester. The girls at
tended Chambers high school
the first semester and received
sufficient credits to graduate.
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Walter
and Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Wal
ter drove to Atkinson last
Thursday to attend a purebred
cattle sale. Mrs. James Kirk
land returned with them and
spent Friday with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Walter.
Gannons Surprised on
Wedding Anniversary —
INMAN — The Anniversary
club on January 21 surprised
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Gannon at
their country home north of
town in honor of their wedding
anniversary.
Cards furnished the evening’s
entertainment, and Mr. and
Mrs. Gannon were presented a
gift by the club.
Refreshments were served by
the self-invited guests at a late
hour.
Return to Omaha —
Mr. and Mrs. William Bow
ker and daughter, Beth, return
ed Sunday to their home in
Omaha after a visit in the H. J.
Hammond home here.
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O’NEILL
NEBRASKA
READY FOR TURKISH NAVY
This is the USb Brill, one
of four submarines which the
United States will supply to
Turkey. This ship and an
other one are undergoing re
pairs at the San Francisco,
Calif., naval ship yard and
being readied for their jour
ney into the Mediterranean.
U. S. Navy has announced
that the vessel will be fully
loaded and fully armed, as
on a wartime patrol, when
they leave for Turkey.
pRAIRIELAND
... TALK
By
ROMAINE
SAUNDERS
LINCOLN—A call is made
in The Frontier for a meet
ing of the O’Neill Gun Club.
I do not know what this club
has adopted for a weapon
but suspect it is the shot
gun for use in drawing bead
on clay pigeons.
A gun club is not a new
thing for the community,
though its personnel has
undergone changes. A few
are left in and around the
new O'Neill whose memo
ries stretch across the years
and will recall such sturdy
daredevils as Ed Hershiser,
Gus Hanlon, George Mer
ret, A. H. Blinco and Walt
Rathborn, who probably
never perfected a formal
organisation but held oc
casional "shoots" with Win
chesters that threw a .45
slug at a bobbing turkey
head 40 rods distant.
There were no buildings
along the street where the
Legion hall now stands and
the open prairie was the
shooting grounds. Winchest
ers, with a six at the hip,
were the favorite of that pe
riod when there was deer
and antelope hunting under
no official restrictions.
And the recoil of those
large calibre guns would just
about knock you over I
In one way, Harold Stassen
and Henry Wallace are alike.
Both are too anxious to adorn
the top of the 1948 ballot with
their name. I preserved a
letter Mr. Stassen mailed me
from San Francisco, Calif.,
which impressed me that the
gentleman is not the calibre
for the harsh business of
heading up the nation. He
has come to Nebraska and
laid upon an Hastings gentle
man the mantle of state
manager of his campaign.
Republicans then have the
insurance that there will be
a Stassen for president or
ganization in Nebraska. May
be I was a bit unfair to ask
Mr. Stassen some things to
which he replied with one
of those diplomatic beauties
that say nothing.
* • •
A former FBI agent re
commends dealing kindly
with gents who are under
criminal suspicion, rather
than the hard boiled meth
ods of the police. Police
deal with a class of citizens
that do not inspire the gen
tle touch.
He is fat, good natured, in
| curably lazy, 'but endowed
with a bit of the dramatics.
“This thing has got to stop,”
he protested as he saw the
Mrs. coming up the base
ment steps with a heavy
scuttle of coal. “I have watch
ed you carrying that b i g
heavy hod of coal up these
steps day after day and it
ain't gonna happen no more.
Get yourself a little pail and
make two trips.”
* * *
The cost of assessing the
county in 1904 was some
thing over $1,200 in ex
cess of the previous year,
and was made an issue in
the ceaseless dogfight be
tween political factions.
Bill Cooper, a populist, was
the county’s first assessor
and functioned that year,
appointing the precinct as
sessors. Twelve hundred
dollars is less than chick
en feed today, but it had
a bearing on the political
turn of things at one time
in the county. Through
manipulations at the state
house it looks like there
will be a merry time {Jet
ting in the assessment this
year.
* * *
A St. Edward' matron has
shown the male clod hoppers
how to grow corn and, inci
dentally, demonstrated that
the ladies achieve in other
lines beside mixing biscuit
and concocting salads. Mrs.
Choat’s 10-acre field of corn
yielded 128 bushels per acre.
I talked to a young farmer
last evening who had just
finished husking. He said
his crop yielded 15 bushels
per acre.
* * *
Grover Cleveland admitted
to a paternal charge and
shocked Washington society
by conveying his dinner to
his mouth with a knife and
pou. ing his tea into the sau
ser. Harding bore the stigma
of Teapot Dome and Hoover
the depression. Now comes a
GI with the charge that FDR
was the worst of all the pres
idents. The White House job
is not all glory be.
* * •
It is said to have occurred
at Pocatella, Ida. A lady cal
led her neighbor by telephone
to inform her that her dog
was at the home of the lady
calling. From the other end
of the line came the request
to put the receiver to the
dog’s ear. “Ted, you come
right home,” was the order
from the dog’s mistress and
Ted scampered home.
I don’t know what a state
reclamation commission has
to do other than get togeth
er in an annual gathering,
have a banquet feed, listen
to spellbinders and elect of
ficers. My acquaintenct with
the state of more than 60
years has disclosed nothing
to reclaim unless it is to al
low about half of the culti
vated fields to revert to the
original fer tile grazing
grounds.
* * * ,
At the side of the entrance
to the gray structure where
Adolph Hitler made his last
stand is a depression in the
bare earth where lie the re
mains of the man or demon
who set Europe on fire. By
that sunken grave a few dead
weeds that bore no floral
bloom stand symbols of the
folly of one remarkable char
acter.
* * *
Gov. Dewey has anno- n
c;d he will accept the Re
publican nomination for
president if the convention
so elects. Dewey happens
to be my personal choice
because of his demonstra
ted ability and courage of
his own convictions.
* * *
Toads are said to be the
only creatures that can not be
inoculated with cancer. But
there is no escape being
crushed flat under automibile
wheels when sunning them
selves in the road.
• * *
The leadership of the great
CIO automobile workmen’s
union throw out the warning
of a demand for 30-cents an
hour increase in pay in the
event of any raise in living
costs.
O'NEILL AUTO
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of Bus Depot
SPECIALIZING IN
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it Repairing
it Repainting
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WRIST FRACTURED
FOR AGED WOMAN
Mrs. Anna M. Clark, 70,
Injured in Household
Accident
INMAN — M?rs. Anna M.
Clark, 70, suffered a fractured
right wrist in an accidental
fall at her farm home, south
west of Inman, on January 21.
She was taken to the O'
Neill hospital where X-ray
photographs were taken and
the fracture was reduced.
Hospital attendants said that
the fracture was "very pain
ful" for Mrs. Clark.
Despite her advanced age,
Mrs. Clark has-been very ac
tive and spends considerable
time in doing fancy needle
wo k.
Mrs. James Ferris, another
Inman resident, was also hurt
in a fall last week. She crack
ed a bone is her right wrist in
a fall on icy steps.
McIntosh's Entertain —
Guests of Mr, and Mrs. Wil
liam McIntosh on Sunday were
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon McIntosh
and daughter, of Meadow
Grove, and Mr. and Mrs. Le
Roy McIntosh and daughter, of
Tilden.
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2 Unions Block Labor Peace—Refuse Wage Boost
Already Accepted by 19 Other Railroad Unions!
Ihe Brotherhood ot locomotive Engi
neers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men and Enginemen and the Switchmen’s
Union of North America, representing
125.000 railroad employes, have refused
to accept the offer <?f the Railroads of a
wage increase of 15# cents an hour.
Tliis is the same increase awarded
1,000,000 non-operating employes by an
arbitration board in September, 1947.
This is the same increase accepted by
175.000 conductors, trainmen and switch
men by agreement on November 14,1947.
Agreements have been made with
1.175.000 employes, represented by nine
teen unions. But these three unions, rep
resenting only 125,000 men, are trying to
get more. They are demanding also many
new working rules not embraced in the
settlement with the conductors and train
men.
Incidentally, the Switchmen’s Union of
North America represents only about 7%
of all railroad switchmen, the other 93%
being represented by the Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen and covered by the
settlement with that union.
Strike Threat
The leaders of these three unions spread a
strike ballot while negotiations were still
in progress. This is not a secret vote but is
taken by union leaders and votes are
signed by the employes in the presence
of union representatives.
When direct negotiations failed, the
leaders of these three unions refused to
join the railroads in asking the National
Mediation Board to attempt to settle the
dispute, but the Board took jurisdiction
at the request of the carriers and has been
earnestly attempting since November 24,
1947, to bring about a settlement. The
Board on January 15, 1948, announced
its inability to reach a mediation settle
ment. The leaders of the unions rejected
the request of the Mediation Board to
arbitrate. The railroads accepted.
What Now?
The Unions having refused to arbitrate,
the Railway Labor Act provides for the
appointment of a fact-finding board by
the President.
The railroads feel it is due shippers,
passengers, employes, stockholders, and
the general public to know that through
out these negotiations and in mediation,
they have not only exerted every effort to
reach a fair and reasonable settlement,
but they have also met every requirement
of the Railway Labor Act respecting the
negotiation, mediation, and arbitration of
labor disputes.
It seems unthinkable that these three unions,
representing less than 10 per cent of railroad
employes, and those among the highest paid,
can successfully maintain the threat of a par*
alyzing strike against the interest of the en*
tire country—and against 90 per cent of their
fellow employes.
The threat of a strike cannot justify grant*
ing more favorable conditions to 125,000 cm*
ployes than have already been put in effect
for 1.175,000, nor will it alter the opposition
of the railroads to unwarranted wage in
creases or to changes in working rules which
are not justified.
A glance at the box shows what employes
represented by the Engineers and Firemen
make. They are among the highest paid in
the ranks of labor in the United States, if not
the highest.
Compare these wages with what gou make!
Hero is a comparison of
average annual earn
ings of engineers and
firemen for 1939 (pre
war) and 1947. Also
shown is what 1947
earnings would have
been if the 16K cents
per hour increase, of
fered by the railroads
and rejected by the
union leaders, had been
in effect throughout the
entire year 1947.
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ENGINEERS
Road Freight.$3,966 $6,126 $6,767
(Local and Way)
Road Passenger. 3,632 6,399 6,025
Road Freight (Through). 3,147 4,684 6,169
Yard...77T.... 2,749 4,081 4,639
FIREMEN f
Road Freight. 2,738 4,683 6,268
(Local and Way)
Road Passenger. 2,732 4,644 6,165
Road Freight (Through). 2,069 3,460 3,891
Yard_“. 1,962 3,136 3,663
Railroad wages computed from Interstate Commerce Commission Statement M-300.
Full year 1947 estimated on basis of actual figures for first eight months.
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