THE FRONTIER_O’Neill, Nebr.
CARROLL W. STEWART. Editor and Publisher
Entered the postoffiee 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
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where in the United States, $3 per year; abroad, rates provided
on request. All subscriptions are strictly paid-in-advance.
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Every progressive community like O’Neill is always at work
on various projects. Such communities have various "irons in
the fire," as the saying goes. They are continually reaching out
and branching out. No matter how much they have accomplish
ed in the line of municipal endeavor in the past, they are not sa
tisfied. Their eyes are upon higher goals.
A nationwide survey, we believe, would prove that statement
to be true. Trawl up and down the country, visit cities and towns
in all parts of the United States, explore every nook-and-corner
of every section of it and that fact would be obvious. You may
pass through some communities year-after-year and observe little
or no change—they appear to be at a standstill—and you may pass
through others and find them constantly changing and improv
ing.
Projects spell progress. When you find a city or town which
is doing things. you find a city or town which is on the march. It
is not satisfied with its past achievements, but is ambitious to
achieve more and greater things. It has its eyes on a certain goal
and it is striving mightily to reach that goal.
Of court*, that doesn't mean that every ambitious com
munity will be abl* to attain all its objectives—to realise all its
visions. Some of its goals may be impracticable and some may
be unattainable, but that is beside the point. The idea is that
every progressive community has these dreams, visions and am
bitions and its progress is commensurate with its efforts to make
them come true.
The Frontier believes this to be true of O’Neill. O’Neill is a
progressive city, an up-and-coming city. It "Fias dreams, visions,
goals and objectives and that fact is the reason for its quite re
markable growth, expansion and development in the past. It has
made remarkable progress, especially in recent months and years,
and this progress is noted even by casual visitors.
One of the most important projects in which the people of O’
Neill are actively interested at the present time is the proposed
300 thousand dollar St. Anthony’s hospital. This great undertak
ing has been under consideration for some time and has slowly
but surely been assuming concrete form. The idea has passed out of
the stage of discussion into the stage of reality.
St. Anthony’s hospital is :ntended to be an institution trans
cending in purpose all community bounds. It is intended to serve
the Sand Hills area. But, because O’Neill will be the site of this
magnificent new hospital, O’Neillites are obligated to bear the
brunt of the load and to show the way.
The idea of a new, modern, adequate hospital for this city is
definitely in accord with the trend of the times. There never was
a time when hospitalization was such a vital issue in the United
States as it is today. Following World War II, with its terrible
toll of wounded, maimed and crippled and as the result of the ever
increasing number of automobile and other serious accidents, the
need of greater facilities along this line has become imperative.
New hospitals are being built everywhere, old hospitals are
being enlarged and hospital facilities are being improved. O’Neill
is keeping in step with the trend of the times and it is gratifying to
know that this great project is gathering momentum and prelimin
ary technicalities are being ironed out. The new hospital will
be in charge of the Sisters of St. Francis, who have donated the
land and have agreed to assume any reasonable indebtedness.
The strategic importance of this community as the site of a
large, up-to-date hospital is emphasized by the fact that there are
no comparable facilities closer than Sioux City, Norfolk and
Grand Island. In Norfolk, anyway, hospital facilities are acutely
inadequate as proved by expansion plans in progress there.
Sioux City, Norfolk and Grand Island are a considerable
distance away and the desirability of a local institution is ob
vious. Apart from compassionate and humanitarian reasons, it
would be a big asset to O'Neill, would bring more business to
town, and add to its prestige.
Speaking of the trend of the times toward more and better
hospital facilities, it is interesting to observe how this demand is
asserting itself in cities and towns all over the country. This is
particularly true of the big cities. In cities like Chicago and New
York, new hospitals are constantly being built and old ones en
larged and improved.
Ambitious hospital projects are underway at Neligh, Tilden,
Norfolk, West Point and Oakland—to mention only a few neigh
boring towns.
Plans for St. Anthony’s hospital are modest in comparison to
some of these. West Point, for example, is building a million dol
lar institution. St. Anthony’s, however, is intended to serve the
great Sand Hills area and a minimum of 30 thousand people liv
ing within a radius of O’Neill. St. Anthony's hospital, as
plans now stand, will be adequate, and will serve an immediate
need.
The Frontier sincerely believes that when the hospital is
completed and put in operation, all of us will legitimately ask
ourselves: "How did we manage to get along without it?"
The answer, of course, is simple: "We didn't".
Events have been developing swiftly in recent weeks as the
hospital move has been revived for the third and final time. James
M. Corkle, a highly successful businessman in O’Neill during his
10 years here, has been made chairman of the building committee.
He was given a rousing vote of confidence in a public meeting.
The Sisters of St. Francis from their national headquarters have
officially designated the hospital St. Anthony’s—named for their
patron saint. A building fund headquarters has been erected on
O’Neill’s main intersection—Fourth and Douglas streets—and Mrs.
Glen Tomlinson has been engaged to staff the headquarters full
time and to coordinate affairs with the corqmittee headed by
Corkle.
O’Neill marches on and top priority is St. Anthony’s hospital.
All possibility of failure long since has been dismissed and stricken
from the record.
St. Anthony’s hospital will be a reality.
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O’Neill merchants are always on the job, equipped and ready
to serve their customers.
Success Makes Him Ambitious
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FRENCH
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CHINA
Prairieland Talk —
About Jimmy Boyle: ‘When One So Young
Meets Tragic Death... Blow Overwhelming’
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
The hazards of the highways
have brought desolation to an
other home in the community.
Romaine
Saunders
Jimmy Boyle,
like the rose
bud crushed
to earth nev
er to open in
full bloom
and f r a g
rance, was
cut down on
the threshold
of youth, at
that period of
life when the
pink dawn of
each new day
brings fresh
adventure and
youthful
dreams come in vivid, alluring
pictures—that time in the devel
j opment of boyhood when step
by step the unknown is explor
ed.
Death cuts deep wounds in
the human emotions and in
vades every home. When one
so young meets a tragic end
the blow is overwhelming to
father and mother and the
others.
Time pours its healing oil on
sorrow-laden souls but memory
cherishes the loved and lost.
• • •
Farm organizations have ex
pressed in resolutions disapprov
al of the Washington plans and
specifications for agriculture.
Mr. Truman is quoted as saying
of the program of the secretary
of agriculture that it “is a part
of our efforts to get the national
income so distributed that every
segment of the population can
have its fair share of that in
come.” Now, won’t that be
sweet? Messrs. Truman and
Brannan are going to manage
things in true socialistic style so
that the "segments of the popu
lation” that produces the “na
tional income” is going to have
to whack up with the segment
of loafers that produce nothing.
* m m
The boys and girls of Nebras
ka desiring to pursue studiet
and obtain liberal arts degrees
may do so now in either of the
state’s four normal colleges. This
may draw some on the enroll
ment at the state university but
is a distinct advantage in mak
ing such courses of study avail
able other than at a centralized
point. The governor had con
siderable editorial advice from
a quarter interested in retaining
to the state university this edu
cational function as respects the
state’s cultural institutions. Per
haps the urge to sign the bill au
thorizing the change was fun
damental to Mr. Petersen’s re
sponsibility as governor of Ne
braska as a whole rather than
the considerating of the inter
ests of the capitol city.
• • •
A gent is held in limbo over
in London who is wanted here
to answer to yncle Sam on some
matters pertaining to the sneak
ing work said to be going on by
and between nations. Just what’s
the matter with the human an
imal that some carry on in an
atmosphere of secrecy, oiled
door hinges and plugged key
holes? St. Paul advised, “Let
brotherly love continue.” In
stead of brotherly love there is
hatred, suspicion, envy, jocky
ing for advantage, evil designs.
Maybe '“brotherly love” is only
for the brethren. But that which
is good for the brethren might
help as between nations if tried
out.
• • •
To the Elgin Review a poem
plucked from the stars by in- j
spired fingers which thrills the
lovely maiden or brings healing
to the wounded soul is just so
much want ad stuff, run at regu
lar rates.
Such indifference to the
rhythmic beauty of the offer
ings of the poets, placing them
on a purely commercial basis,
must be attributed to the one
male member of the Review's
editorial staff.
It is inconceivable that the j
two ladies at the desk could be
so proasic as to repulse the verse
of a native coming to them flav
ored with the fragrance of the
prairie rose, and to lower the
high reaches of song to the level
of dimes is unthinkable.
* * *
The yellow bloom of the de
spised dandelion has disappear
ed, the fluffy balls of down gone
with the wind, only the long
stems from which children make
curls stand definitely as if to i
challenge lawn workers to do
their worst. The fragrant bloom
on lilac bush drops its petaline
load and full botanic resources
revert to nourishment of stock
and stem. The gorgeous tulips,
the gay iris, the spiraea bushes
dusted with white bloom, the
red rose and the apple blossoms
distilling fragrance among May
sunbeams, the varieties of na
ture’s floral tribute all combine
to spangle with bright colors
the green and gray of earth.
• * *
Chicago and St. Louis papers j
tell the stories of newspaper J
men holding jobs in Illinois and j
New York that put them on the
state payrolls in these two
states while also employed in
newspaper work. I wonder what j
is wrong about that. Probably I
Because these newspaper guys !
were better qualified than most j
men to deliver their salaries'
worth to the state explains their :
being on the pay rolls.
• • *
A part of the O’Neill street j
scene today are the gents from
out across prairieland wearing :
the riding boots, tight-fitting
pants and curled-brim hat, but
there is lacking the spurs jing
gling at theifr heels, the leather
chaps and .44 sagging at the hip
of the picturesque punchers of
another generation, which daily !
enlivened the street scene.
• • •
Connecticut’s Democratic Gov
ernor Chester Bowles engineer
ed a neat political move when he j
took Republican Senator Ray
mond Baldwin out of the United
States senate to put him on Con
necticut’s supreme court bench
j A Democrat will take Baldwin’s
j place in the senate, strengthen- j
ing the party’s power there by i
one vote.
* • •
The seat of the able Sol Bloom
in congress will be taken over
bv a Roosevelt as the result of
the election in the New York
congressional district, for many
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Mr. Bloom. Maybe another FDR
is on the way to official ascend
ency.
• • •
Pioneers experienced some
hard times. They swam against
life’s current and did not call for
help. .
O’Neill Locals
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Stewart
formely of Page, have moved
their trailer to O’Neill.
Rev. and Mrs. Clyde Cress
and son, Donald, were Sunday
evening guests at the Rev
Theodore Stolp home in Plain- j
view,
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Dexter and
Ben Turek, of Amelia and Mrs
Lawrence Rothchild, of Atkin
son, were guests last Thursday
at the home of Mr. and Mrs
Arthur Dexter.
Dr. and Mrs. L. A. Burgess
expect to drive to Sioux City
to meet their daughter, Miss
Joanne who will arrive by pl
ane Sdnday from Arizona. Miss
Burgess is a student at Arizona
State college at Tempe, Ariz.
Sunday dinner guests at Mrs.
Carrie Borg’s home were Har
ry Page, Miss Carrol Page,
David Page and Melvin Lamb
Mr. and Mrs. John Under
wood entertained Mr. and Mrs
Henry Van Ert and daughter,
Miss Marie, of Clearwater, Fri
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