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
8, 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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The Graduates of 1 949
All hail to the graduates of 1949!
All hail and three lusty and rousing cheers!
Here they come and there they go—many thousands strong.
It is an impressive and inspiring sight, both a joyful and sol
emn occasion.
Men and women and boys and girls from the colleges and uni
versities, academies and high schools all over the land.
They have been attending school a long time, have studied
hard, have spent countless hours in the lecture hall and classroom
and are now receiving their well-earned reward in the form of a
diploma. ‘
Clad in becoming caps and gowns, they assemble in
churches and auditoriums, listen to sermons, addresses and music
and, then, disperse to assume their duties as citizens of the world
in which they live.
And what a world that is!
One is impressed with the thought that never in the his
tory of the human race has there been such a world, beckoning
to the graduate, as the world of today.
The world which faces the graduating classes of 1949 is en
tirely different from that of any previous age. New conditions,
new problems, new opportunities.
A new world and a new challenge to the eager, enthusiastic
graduates of the countless educational institutions scattered all
over the country. There has never been anything like it before,
there may never be anything like it again.
The international scene has changed almost completely even
since commencement of a year ago. Problems of which a former
generation never even dreamed have emerged to perplex us and
new crises have arisen on the horizon.
Will there be another war? We hope and pray not, but we
must be prepared.
Will Communism continue its stealthy and ruthless march
toward world conquest? It must be stopped, but it will require
constant vigilance and agressive action.
Will there be another depression? There is no actual reason
to believe so for the resources of our own country are unlimited,
but we must be cautious. There may be a limit even to our re
sources and Uncle Sam cannot continue to play the role of Santa
Claus indefinitely.
And, then, in addition to all these tremendous national and in
ternational problems, there is a lot of state and local issues con
fronting the graduate as he or she emerges from the halls of learn
ing.
Yes, it is a vast, difficult, challenging world which faces the
men and women and boys and girls who wear the caps and gowns
in 1949 and they will have need of great courage and determina
tion in the future.
There has never been anything like it before; there may nev
er be anything like it again.
But that is the world of today and the world of today is
theirs. *
Tha beautiful month of June it notable especially for two
things_its brides and its qraduates But. at the moment, our
ayes are focused on the graduates as they look toward the fu
ture with hope and ambition.
They are living in the world of today and they are destined to
play a vital and important role in the world of tomorrow.
People of the older generation are impressed with the changes
which have been made in recent years in commencement pro
grams. especially at high school graduations. It used to be cus
tomary for the high school graduates to deliver orations or read
essays, but now there is a speaker brought in to make an address.
This may be an improvement over the old custom; but, whether
it is or not, the significance of the occasion remains the same.
It is commencement day and thousands of enthusiastic gradu
ates of all ages are standing on the threshold of life, facing the
opportunities, the responsibilities and the problems of a challeng
ing age.
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All the latent poetical instinct of an individual is awakened by
the marvelous beauties of a June morning in Nebraska.
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The Frontier staff has been working literally day and night
lately on its big fortheoming Diamond Jubilee Edition.
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In respect to weather, this part of the country has been seen
at its worst and at its best during the past few months.
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Even yet, you can feel an occasional breath from that obstin
ate fellow, Old Man Winter.
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The season is late, but plenty of moisture and hot sunshine
will produce a crop.
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Congratulations to the high school and college graduates of
1949.
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Suicide is the coward’s way out of difficulty.
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‘But the Growling Lingers On”
Prairieland Talk
Senator Nelson Says Demand for Road Work
Accounts for Most of Budget Increase
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
Reports from the “alfalfa
belt” up North are to the ef
fect that the crop is unusually
Romaine
Saunders
n e a v y t,c
Early say
the growth
in his field.,
is about the
limit of tht
capacity o 1
hi9 mowers,
Sen. Frank
Nelson d i d
the stacking
on t w c
stacks a day
last week
and in town
the other
day his arms
hung limp
from the ex
crcise of pushing heavy aiiaiia
around with a fork on top of
the stack. Sitting since Janua
ry in committees of the uni
cameral, the senator discovers
he is going to have to toughen
up for the Summer’s work on
the ranch.
• • *
The legislature adjourned
two weeks ago after voting a
double-barreled budget to take
care of state needs for the en
suing two years. There was an
effort put forth by five members
of the legislature to trim the
budget bv 10 per cent all a
long the line. Sen. Frank Nel
son. of this district being one
of the five. The tide was a
gainst any reduction and the
1949 legislature will bear the
denouncing and have the ap
proval of various elements for
what has been done.
Doubling the budget is
frightening at first glance. But
in this period of upheaval a
bout everything is doubled,
trebled or 10 times its normal
status. Counties, as well as the
state, have had to increase
their budgets. As for individu
als. who hasn’t? A thousand
dollar house has become a five
thousand dollar property and
10 dollars a month rent boost
ed to 50. Fifteen-cents-a-dozen
j bananas are now 90 cents a
i dozen — take them or leave
them.
Senator Nelson informs
the writer that the demand
for stale road work accounts
for the budget increase.
Mr. Nelson returned to O’
Neill not badly worn down
from his legislative experience.
Mrs. Nelson arrived on the
1 morning train Friday from
Omaha and they repaired to
the sanctuary of their home
North of O’Neill.
• • •
O’Neill has graciously bow
ed to Stuart and stepped aside
for that community to have
the Fourth of July. O’Neill haci
made plans for the Diamond
Jubilee celebration on Inde
pendence day but these plans
had not developed to the point
that postponement could not
be made. The committee is go
ing ahead with plans and the
exercises, program and events
in memory of pioneer life will
be sometime in August, the
month in which, in fact, O’
Neill history began. The com
mittee will doubtless welcome
any suggestions or help to thi.i
end, especially the old things
.from pioneer homestead and
ranch life.
• • *
Before final adjournment the j
i legislature relented. As the
bill was originally drawn and j
reported out by the committee
it was going to tighten up on
the old age assistance by re
quiring affidavits from the j
children of parents seeking as
sistance, this being mandatory
on the county officers. As a
mended and adopted it is no%.
discretionary with the countv i
officers charged with the re
sponsibility of administering
assistant funds, and thus frees |
the old age assistance rollc
from the suspicion that lurked
in the original bill.
* * *
Does anybody know wha*
the Pick-Sloan plans contem
plate other than the absorbing
of a fund of six billion dollars?
The wise ones talk a lot about
conservation, whatever is
meant by that. Conservation of
public money is not in the
plans from the free and easy
way the millions roll out of
the federal treasury. The gov
ernment proposal to limit crop
production on the one hand
and the efforts to increase pro
duction through “conservation
and development” by irriga
tion on the other hand just
does not make sense.
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Beside his picture appear
ing twice in the May issue
of the National Publisher, a
column story was devoted to
Nebraska's governor. The
governor was one of the
speakers at the National Ed
itorial associlion Spring
meeting and took occasion
to say that the program of
the Secretary of Agriculture
to subsidize the farms was
"idiotic." This business of
subsidizing looks screwy to
me. Eguality before the law
has been the American way.
Subsidizing one industry to
the exclusion of others con
travenes that doctrine.
• • *
Burlington railroad officials
are asking the railway commis
sion for an order permitting
them to discontinue passengei
and mail train service from
Lincoln to the Northeast cor
ner of the state. The railroad
sets forth the claim that the
train service is maintained at
a loss of nearly $34,000 annual
ly. It is the old story of th i
towns along the route wanting
to retain a train service that
they are not willing to sup
port.
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Hands smeared with
grease, sweat mingling with
the grime on his face after a
half day poking round with
screw driver and wrenches at
the vitals of the roadster he
straightened up to survey
his handiwork. "Get er fix
e d ?" inquired a friend.
"Guess so, but the d
thing nickels and dimes us
to death."
• • •
The inexorable grip of the
law holds four wayward ones
down in Custer county. A gent
31 vears of age has been b'ain*
ing'three kids from 16 to 20
one of them a girl, in the ways
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Ralph N. Leidy... O’Neill
of wickedness. While that eld>
er one should be stowed away
where he will have to behave
maybe the court can do some
thing to direct the feet of the
youngsters in the paths of rec
titude.
• • •
An unarmed gent abducted
two young fellows and their
car out at North Platte, went
joy riding and pulled in at a
ranch house, took a gun away
from the ranchman and drove
away with the car, while the
three victims tumbled to the
fact that they had been easy
victims. What has become of
the old-time Western Nebras
kan that would have knocked
the block of that gent?
• • •
Many Nebraska towns are
promoting campaigns to raise
money with which to build
hospitals. As it is, smaller com
munities are dependent on ci
ties at a distance for hospital
care of the sick and afflicted.
Inasmuch as it is the fashion
for the M. D.’s to send us to
these institutions to die, why
not have it so we c.an pass out
near home?
• • •
Fourteen million civilians on |
the federal payroll. Soldiers
and sailors of all wars as yet
not counted on the pension
rolls if the measure passed by
the house of representatives
receives the approval of the
senate and executive. The ris
ing generation are on the way
to inherit a sizeable tax bill.
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The way things look, there
should be a clean sweep in
that AEC and start over with
whole new setup.
• * •
Another apostle of scarcity
sits in as secretary of agricul
ture.
They always
have QUALITY
at low prices.
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LETTUCE
2 ^.23c
SWEET CORN
6 for 29c
TOMATOES
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CABBAGE
Pound.5 C
APPLES
2 Pounds.35 c
BING CHERRIES
16-lb. lug.4.98
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2 Pounds.29c
WHITE LOAF FLOUR
50-lb. bag.3.29
Woodbury Soap 4 Ba„ 31c
Tropical
Salad Dressing Quarl 39c
CAMPBELL’S
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COUNTRY OENTLEMVN
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GOLDEN CORN 9 no. . 33«
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DILL PICKLES 25c
DICED BEETS 9c
boss GELATIN 4««19c
CHOCOLATE
CHIPS
2 4-01.
Pigs.
ONE
WHOLE 3-LB.
CHICKEN
Ready to serve.
Grand for picnics,
fishing trips or
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c $1.79
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STANDING RIB ROASTS, LB_59c
SIRLOIN STEAKS, LB. ... 67c
BEEF BRAINS, LB.23c
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LONGHORN CHEESE, LB. 37c
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