PAGE 2—April 14, 1949
THE FRONTIER_O’Neill, Nebr.
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
S, 1879. This newspaper is a member of the Nebraska Press
Association. National Editorial Association and the Audit Bureau
of Circulations.
Established in 1880—Published Each Thursday
Terms of Subscription: In Nebraska, $2.50 per year; else
where in the United States, $3 per year; abroad, rates provided
do request. All subscriptions are strictly paid-in-advance.
Our Special Editions
One of the notable achievements of modern journalism is the
occasional publication of special editions.
There was a time in the history of newspapers when there was
no such thing as a special edition. The hard-working publishers
and printers of that era thought they were doing very well to turn
out the regular editions from day-to-day and they certainly were.
Publishing and printing a newspaper of any kind was a big
job in the early days.
We happened to see a reprint of a daily newspaper published
in Chicago in the year 1861 the other day. It was reproduced in
the Chicago Daily Tribune, one of the great metropolitan dailies
of the country. It was a most interesting historical relic and il
lustrated the progress which has been made in the newspaper pub
lishing business in that length of time.
Only the front page of that ancient paper was reproduced, but
it contained about everything. There were important news
stories, society items, classified advertising, professional cards and
a lot of other promiscuous reading matter. One of the most cur
ious things about the page was that it was set in type so small as
to be almost invisible to the naked eye. It was smaller than the
type used today to print want ads and legal notices. All the dis
play heads were set in small type and every column was solid
wtih so little spacing that it was scarcely readable.
Those were the days of hand set type before the linotype
came into general use and it is almost unbelievable that even
the fastest compositors could turn out an edition every day with
such primitive methods. However, they did it and did it well,
but it is obvious that the production of special editions under
those circumstances would be a very difficult, if not an impos
sible, undertaking.
Wonderful progress has been made in the newspaper field in
recent years and today the metropolitan newspapers publish and
print millions of copies of huge editions day after day while they
also issue special editions whenever some sensational news event
warrants it. To the making of newspapers, there is no end.
In the weekly newspaper field, the situation is considerably
different.
The average country newspaper publisher considers himself
fortunate if he is able to turn out a creditable sheet once a week
and does not attempt a special edition very often. There are sev
ral reasons for that. In the first place, the weekly publisher is
handicapped by a lack of paper. As a matter of fact, there is
plenty of paper—tons of it are wasted in the cities every day, but
the weekly publisher doesn’t have plenty of “flat newsprint" by
any means. Ever since the last war, there has been a scarcity of
newsprint and some weekly newspapers have actually had to sus
pend publication on that account and there is*"also a shortage of
materials and competent help in the weekly field.
For those and other reasons, the publishers of weekly papers
do not attempt special editions very often; but, occasionally, they
do when the occasion seems to warrant it.
The Frontier is a weekly newspaper, published in a progres
aive and prosperous community, and its constant aim is to publish
a once a week edition which will interest its readers and be a
credit to the town and state. That it consistently tries hard to
do and, once in a while, it also undertakes to publish some kind of
a special edition.
In that ambition, as already stated, it is handicapped, as all
other weekly publications are, by a lack of material, time and
skilled labor. However, it is encouraged in these occasional at
tempts by the loyalty of its staff, who work long and hard at the
undertaking, and by the fine cooperation of the business people of
O’Neill.
\ Special newspaper editions may be timely at various times
during the year. Some publishers issue them at holiday time,
some at county and stale fair time, and some at various other
seasons of the year. They are also occasionally published to
commemorate some outstanding event like an anniversary, etc.,
but it seems to The Frontier that there is no event in the history
of a community when a special edition is more timely than the
arrival of Spring.
Spring is one event which everybody looks forward to eager
ly every year and it is particularly welcome at the end of a long,
hard Winter such as has been experienced in Nebraska and the
Midwest the past few months.
Spring is always accompanied by various special activities,
particularly in a farming country, and the change of weather
creates a new volume of business along mercantile lines. The up
todate merchant packs his Winter goods in mothballs and dis
plays merchandise which is suitable for the new season, including
wearing apparel of all kinds, agricultural implements, household
furnishings and many other lines.
Last year, The Frontier commenced publication of an annual
Spring edition and it was so successful that it decided to continue
it.
An annual Spring edition, containing many extra pages, is a
valuable souvenir. It not only has great value for the shopper,
but it features in stories and pictures the progress of the commun
ity and The Frontier is gratified bv the favorable reception given
these special efforts bv its readers. It also appreciates the loyal
cooperation of O’Neill merchants and its own staff in making such
editions possible.
O’Neill has received a good deal of rather unfavorable nation
wide publicity on account of its recent record-breaking Winter;
The Frontier’s Spring edition recently accompanied by the song
of birds, told a more cheerful story.
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A look ahead at this season suggests great things for this
community during the coming months.
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If a man voted for Truman and doesn’t like his policies, he
has nobody to blame but himself.
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Order your Diamond Jubilee Edition now and be sure of get
ting a copy.
BELVILLE DRAGUNE COMPANY
DIGS — Basements — Ditches — Cess
pools
BUILDS — Dams —Fish Ponds
DRIVES — Wood or Steel Piling
PULLS Trees and HAULS Dirt
EQUIPPED WITH CRANE — for heavy
lifting of small buildings — steel set
ting, etc.
CUFF & LOWELL BELVILLE
Valentine, Neb. Phone 379-W
46-40C
Happy Homecoming
Prairieland Talk —
Why Pay a Football Coach $10,000 for
a Few Weeks of Tutoring on the Gridiron?
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN—The day of thy
American family on the small
farm is apparently past. Farm
ing has become big business.
Twenty-five thousand dollars
invested in land for grain
farming involves another 25
thousand or more in machin
ery which is operated by gas
oline propelled power.
The Clydesdale and Bel
gian draft horses are out of
the picture and with them
has gone the picturesque one
man farm, the farm wom
an and their family of boys
and girls, who operated in
rural contentment 40, 80 or
160 acres of land were be
holding to nobody.
Wnur famine
are being
thought of in
terms of so
many s e c
tions, and
maybe the
farmer hav
ing his home
in town.
What is true
of the grain
farmer is
true of the
Phi tin rnnr»Vi_
Romaine er to a large
Saunders extent. Graz
ing 1 a n d a
and hay meadows are being
added to ranch holdings and
| the small rancher with one or
! two hundred head of s t o c k
will find himself more and
more crowded out. Whether or
not the towns and cities will
be able to take up the slack
from country living remain*
to be seen.
• • •
The telephone rang in tht
home of a Pacific coast city
A woman put the receiver tt
her ear and heard a cry oJ
horror from her daughter in i
distant eastern city. It was i
cry of dispair, a plea for life
And the woman that heart
was paralyzed with fear. Why'
Her son-in-law had been be
trayed by his beautiful younj
wife whose amours she hat
poured freely to another thar
her lawful mate who had step
ped in and broken a home.
The husband put a finish to it
with two bullets, a murder and
a suicide, they say, and when
the officers arrived there lay
the young man and his wife
dead. Beside the body of the
one sat the man upon whose
lecherous soul rests the guilt
not only of a broken home but
of two lives. It is to be regret
ed that such as he can’t be
sent to the electric chair.
• • •
Why pay a university foot
ball coach $10,000 a year and
the' superintendent of all the
schools of the state and the
custodians of all state money
each half that sum? Is football
of more consequence than the
education of childhood and
youth of the state or of more
; importance than the state trea
surer’s job. Professional foot
! ball comes on a few weeks
: once a year, the state super
intendent, the treasurer and
other elected state officers
function the year 'round.
• ’ • •
Holt is one of 81 counties in
the state that stands to loose
the office of clerk of the dis
trict court if a measure pro
posed in the legislature be
comes a law. Under its provis
ions the work of the clerk of
| the district court will be taken
j over by the county clerk in
jail counties with less than 20,
000 population. Objection could
be raised that it is not neces
sarily the number of people in
a county that determines the
volume of litigation and hence
the need of a court clerk.
• • •
A former dean of the college
of agriculture is under ap
pointment from Washington to
invade Guatemala on a not too
1 weU defined agriculture mis
| sion. It’s a nice junket for a
Nebraskan at public expense
i anti probably doesn’t amount to
I two hoops other than to have
an interesting time at the ex
pence of taxpayers. What has
; the Hoover report to say of
I public junketing.
i « • •
A white cloud floats away
WHAT IS THE SAFEST
Fuel?
Insurance Companies and Fire Under
writers Laboratories Say That Gas
Is By Far the Safest!
SAFETY ...
Mrs. America wants safety for herself
and her family. She knows that in 1947
electric services and appliances caused
67.300 fires; lamps, lanterns and oil
stoves 24,900 fires; hot ashes and coals
6,400 fires; gas and appliances only
4.300 fires. She wants a range approv
ed by the American Gas Association
Testing Laboratories. The National
Bureau of Standards, U. S. Bureau of
Mines, U. S. Public Health Service,
American Institute of Architects, Am
erican Home Economics Association
and others help set up specifications
for approval.
Ralph N. Leidy
Phone 410 .. . O’Neill
into nothing. Out of the blue
firmament glows warm sun
shine. Streets so lately under
snow and ice and slush now
stretch out gray and dry to
the limits of the vision. Grass
covers with velvet green the
dooryards and the buds of new
life touch again lordly cotton
woods. The Arctic circle is in
retreat.
• • •
Members of the state legisla
ture have rightly assumed that
there are not enough subjects
in Nebraska to work upon to
warrant setting up a state
committee to deal with un
American activites. While Neb
raska patriots continue consist
ently to keep the state repubj
lican foreign isms will not take
root amoung us.
• It
From the showing made at
the municipal elections over
the state no proposition involv
ing more taxes can be put over
on Nebraska patriots—if it gets
on the election ballots.
• • •
Volunteers in the army have
been so numerous that the sel
ective draft is taking in no re
cruits.
* * *
Another Mrs. goes to Reno
for a six-weeks’ sojourn to dis
card the name ^ Roosevelt.
Mr. Truman’s election prom
ises appear to be turning int0
gold brick.
(Continued on page 4)
Banquet Next Wednesday —
EWING — The annual ban
quet sponsored by the Pe|) club
for the members of the athletic
teams will be held here on Wed
nesday, April 20. The dinner
will be served by the WSCS or
ganization.
An oyster can produce 114,.
000,000 ' eggs during its life
time.
A
a tisket-a tasket
b come and fill your
Easter Basket!
Here they are! All the fine-tasting Spring.
) Ume foods that make Easter Season meals
* each a pleasure to plan . . . and eat!
Yea'll delight In the variety, the quality, and the
good values we offer you.
OCEAN SPRAY JELLIED
Cranberry Sauc* O M*
So *oo.l with rhlrken, Hut. V Tla* V IV
®U8II( SPICED
CRABAPPLES «1*
i«r _A | £
SUPERB
FRUIT COCKTAIL «.
Eoory. No. 8A* ran VVV
MORNING LIGHT PITTED
RED CHERRIES ar.
M-M-'T. cherry Pie, No. t raa 4vt
SUPER II •ARISTOCRAT"
PEACHES on.
Halves or «llred, No. tA4 raa _ OvV
TEENIK WEENIE
ALASKA PEAS 4,.,44.
Panry am dr £ c.R, OvV
super it i u r
GREEK BEAKS 41.
Tender, Strlnirle**, No. 8 eaa_£ lv
SALAD BOWL
SALAD DRESSIHG AQ.
Quart Jor . 7VV
8NO-WHITE
MARSHMALLOWS 4C.
Fro*h, Pluffy, i-ifc. eello ba| _.4WV
KOBH-RoSs
GELATIN DESSERT C*
7 DetlelOn* Flavor*, pk(. _____ VV
SUPER I' PL ACED M A N7,ANII.UA
STUFFED OLIVES 44,
No. 6 Jar VVv
GKDN KY’S
PANTRY PICKLES «E*
Pint Jar £vV
FRENCH STYLE
SUPERB MUSTARD Q.
In St nker Jar—4-oa. VV
FOR I HE KIDDIES 8
CRACKER JACK 4 A. ■
With prise .. £ pkir*. V|J *
POPULAR kr 1
CANDY BARS on. I
Bos of 84 Bar* OvV 4
CRYSTAL GEM |
SUGAR COOKIES 47. 1
Full l-lli. fellfl hair . _ tm I y
ROII U- ROSS
PURE HONEY QQ.
Bis k-lh. lar VVV '
11 «ppr m m
— (SUNelL QAK—
■ VEGETABLES* fRDITS
No. 1 U. S. Pascal
CELERY.19c
New Crop. Crisp and Green
CABBAGE.2 lbs. 13c
ORANGES.5 lbs. 45C
Full Line of...
Lettuce, Radishes, Carrots,
Apples, Grapefruit and
Bananas
Get Your ...
SEED POTATOES
Now . . . We still have plenty of
- Select and Certified Seed.
BIRDSEYE FOODS •
All varieties of Fresh Frozen
Fruits and Vegetables for Easter
Ambrose
Pure Preserves 1-lb. jar 17 C
I’ |>£|{ ||
•VAPORATED MILK 4 M 4
or creamy rlehooM . If Com VVV
I'SIHBON MB AT BV I'lKMB
ARMOUR’S TREET A4*
quirk cosy meol. K n. roo oVV /
FAXTEX HBATT C
TAXED PAPER 4 ,*.* A4*
a tearing edge container mm RoHs * W
ARMOUR STAR CUDAHY PURITAN
WHOLE or HALF HAMS .... lb. 57c
BACON ENDS VS 19c I
BACON SQUARES 2Sc |
■ RING BOLOGNA OQa WHITING FISH IQa I
I oarnr 4; round. Pound - Vw|F rranfc Frosrn. rmd . I*V
1 SKINLESS WIENERS 4Qa ROSEFISH FILLETS 47a 1
H Plump and Trndrr. Poand VVV Krroh P roar a. Paaad _VI V H
1 TASTYLOAF CHEESE FOOD CQa LOHGHORN CHEESE 47a 1
gf * Pound l oaf VvV Rlrh and Mellow. Poind . VI w &H
| PRICES FOR APRIL 15th & 16th