THE FRONTIER_O’Neill, Nebr.
CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
Entered the postoffice at O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska,
m second-class mail matter under the Act of Congress of March
I, 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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A Parking Problem
The Chamber of Commerce in its most recent session decided
to do something about the downtown parking problem. A com
mittee was appointed to work with the city council and make
recommendations with a view to improving what is now a seri
ous situation.
In other years O’Neill may have had a parking problem of a
sort, but in the Summer of 1949 the matter requires immediate ac
tion. On Saturday evenings, particularly, the condition is acute,
dangerous and creates considerable inconvience to O’Neill visit
ors.
Recently published Letters to the Editor from agitated readers
have been well intended and. The Frontier believes, well found
ed.
One writer pointed out that on occasion he has been hem
med to the curb by the hour because of double parkers. An
other reader, a farm resident, wrote that when members of her
family reached O'Neill on Saturday nights they were tired,
worn out and usually were in no mood to park some distance
from their shopping points and lug groceries and other supplies
back-and-forth to their car.
The Frontier offers these suggestions, none of them new or or- j
iginal, to help aleviate, temporarily, at least, the parking crisis:
1. Fresh marking of parking stalls on street and curb so |
motorists will have a clear-cut idea of how to park. This will
conserve space and possibly will accommodate 15 cars or more
on Douglas street alone.
2. Merchants, clerks and others who work in the downtown
section would do well to show courtesy to their rural friends by
leaving their automobiles at home on Saturday night or, if nec- j
essary to drive downtown, park the machine in the rear of their j
place of business. One store manager told The Frontier recently
it was the firm’s policy in their chain of stores that employee
automobiles were to be parked in the rear.
3. Well-meaning townspeople who occupy choice parking
locations and watch the passersby by the hour should confine ;
their amusement of this sort to nights other than Saturday out of
consideration to our country friends.
4. Some action should be taken toward lighting and improv
ing alleys where shoppers can park with convenience and safe
ty.
5. A study should be made on the parking requirements for
the future and arrangements made for a municipal parking lot.
Most cities and town realize the necessity too late and pay a prem
ium for such a location. Already a lot of this type can be justi
fied, and if O’Neill continues to grow, and if automobiles continue
to be manufactured, we’re running-headlong into a need for a well
lighted, convenient, policed parking lot.
As a matter of public safety the practice of double-parking
should be eliminated once-and-for-all. It is not only a hazardous
practice but it is unfair to the motorist who is imprisoned at the
curb.
Eventually, perhaps, diagonal parking will give way to par
allel parking to conform to highway standards. When this time
comes (as it already has in many cities), the parking problem will
become a major crisis in O’Neill.
Thus, the city council is being confronted with still another
in a series of problems that accompany the growing pains of our
city. O’Neill is fortunate in having a council composed of rep
resentative citizens who, The Frontier believes, ar» -.aking things
in stride and getting things done.
With the appointment of a special Chamber of Commertfe
committee to work with the council, The Frontier is confident
there will emerge a workable plan to immediately improve park
ing in the downtown area as well as anticipate and meet the
parking problem of the future.
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Timid Youth
(Guest Editorial from Omaha Journal-Stockman)
What in the world are we Americans doing to our children?
That question arises automatically when you read that in a
recent survey made by a national magazine among this year’s
college graduates, only two percent of them had a thought of ev
er going into business for themselves. On the contrary, what the
great majority of the men getting their degrees in 1949 want is
the "security” of a position (and not necessarily a high- paying po
sition, either) with some sound corporation. Shades of the pion
eers who built this country! And small wonder that socialism,
communism, fascism and every other ism offering a chimerical
“security” to its followers is gaining ground.
True, these wily salesmen of new political sects say noth
ing about the freedom of thought, action and opportunity which
their followers must barter in exchange for doubtful remedies
for the world's ills.
But apparently that is not a big item with the majority of
young people today, to judge from the results of the survey.
What a pity!
And what a sad future for America it bodes unless it should
turn out that the youngsters were just kidding the poll-takers, and
that the spirit of our founding fathers isn’t as dead as the gloomy
results of this survey would make it seem.
* * *
It’s definite now—the publication date for The Frontier’s
big Diamond Jubilee Edition. The date is next week—Thursday,
June 30. There will be pages and pages of pictures and stories
concerning people and happenings in the early days in O’Neill
and Holt county. The historical sections will be a part of the regu
lar edition. If you re not already a regular reader, better sub
scribe now and get the big Jubilee edition at no extra cost.
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Have you given to St. Anthony’s hospital? What finer invest
ment in the future could there be for you and your children?
There’s Only Room for One Flag
Prairieland Talk —
Half-Hour with Venerable Sam Barnard |
Like Reading a Western Thriller
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
Sam Barnard, father of Mrs. •
C. E. Yantzi, of West Everett
street, lacks only five years of
being one of O’Neill’s Diamond
Jubilee group.
He was in O’Neill 70 years
ago and now
at 90 years of
age recalls
serving as a
juror in Coun-j
ty Judge Ma
loy’s court
when a horse
thief was on
trial The
jury found
the prisoner
guilty. At the
conclusion of
trial the gent
Romaine made threats
Saunders of what he
would do to
judge and jurors when
released from jail. Whereupon a
strapping juror arose, addressed
the court and invited Judge Ma
loy to lock him in a room with
the convicted man, after which
there would be no need of pas
sing sentence on the horse thief.
Mr. Barnard may be the old
est native Nebraskan now in
the state. He was born in the
vicinity of Grand Island in
1859 and his life has been
spent for the most part in
frontier communities.
He is active, interested in ev
erything but automobiles and
would rather trust himself on a
burro than in a car. He is a
prospector by instinct and has
claims in Wyoming hills. He has
a hunch there is oil in the terri
tory where the land slides oc
curred a month ago up along
the Niobrara.
It is like reading a Western
thriller to spend A half-hour
with the venerable Sam.
m m *
The Nebraska delegation to
the Des Moines, la., gathering of
administration Democrats and
some with diverse views flaunt
ed a banner before filing into
seats of a seven-coach special
train which bore these starling
words: “Brannan or Bust.”
While none of them in the pic
ture at the railroad station re
sembled real dirt farmers from
that slogan it may be under
stood the Nebraskans were
tor the subsidizihg of the farms.
And this, the banner proclaims,
must be or the nation’s agricul
ture is ruined. How did agricul
ture survive for 250 years and
grow great before price supports
were thought of? There are two
newspapers published in O’Neill.
These go to readers one year
for $2,50 paid by each subscrib
er. Would it be unreasonable to
suggest that the publishers be
guaranteed the $2.50 by the gov
ernment?
• * •
Mr. Truman’s pre-election
promises seem to be regarded as
a joke by the Democratic con
trolled congress, or maybe as
one gent puts it, a politician
promises anything for a vote.
But the president has more than
three years to make a comeback
on his word to American voters.
However, he lacks the glamour
and hypnotic snap of a finger of
his predecessor. Americans like
to think well of their chief ex
ecutive and although there has
been some pretty shabby state
ments emitted from White House
conferences, maybe the president
will yet get his feet planted on
the earth.
• * *
One of the ablest citizens to
come forward to denounce the
Truman program of socialized
medicine and schools and
farms is Gen. Dwight D. Eis
enhower. The general is pret
ty popular himself and prob
ably could have been in the
White House if he had spoken
the word. But in view of the
kicks and cuffs that go with
public office he doubtless did
not care to jump from the fry
ing pan of a great war into
the domestic fire.
• * *
The tall grass fringing each
side of the walk has been spar- j
ed the ceaseless slashing of the
lawn mower. There in a se- j
eluded nook bloom the pink
prairie roses and by their side
the pale stems of native plant
life adorned by blue beauties in
full Summer dress—a bit of na
tural charm only a step from
the puritanical stiffness of pre
cise front yards. Nature has
little chance to spread the green
and floral bloom where the
machines of men ravish the land.
Trimming and pruning, plant
ing and plucking up, the out
doors becomes more and more
artificial. Pause for a moment
among the lofty berch and hem
locks to listen to the roar of
rushing water down a mountain
canyon, see the dark outline of
timber-covered slopes with
bare rocks reaching on up into
the region of perpetual snow;
go to the top of a sandhill to
look out across vast prairieland
and thank God some of His
handiwork is unspoiled.
• • •
If toddlers of today are the
warriors of tomorrow they are
getting an early start in the
use of guns. A little child
barely able to walk went down
the street one hand in the hand
of his mother, the other grip
ping a double-barreled toy gun.
It was only a toy but from play
with toys young America takes
to reality. Children are given
toy pistols. This is the beginning
of the cultivation of a desire
for deadly weapons. Next they
want the thing that shoots to
kill. A toy gun in the hands
of a child gives his young mind
the wrong picture of life.
• * •
The O'Neill territory has
been visited by frequent rains
but so far has been spared a
beating by tornado or other
destructive storm. A few com
munities have suffered the
loss of life and property
through the work of raging
elements. The past several
months man has been made
aware of the mighty forces
at the command of nature s
sovereign.
• • *
Astronomers of Palomar and
Mt Wilson observatories have
undertaken the task of produc
ing an atlas of the sky which is
to reach out into unexplored
space to a distance of 300 mil
lion light years and the work
when finished will be available
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Ralph N. Leidy... O’Neill
to universities at $2,000 a copy.
And so while floating out upon
the untraversed depths of eter
nity they are going to keep their
feet on earth to be within reach
of the cash register.
• • •
The nation’s imposing capitol
building has been receiving a
fresh spread of paint about ev
ery four years and is ready for
treatment again. Washington
painters are said to draw $18.40
a day for sloshing around with
a paint brush and the present
estimate for doing the capitol
building is slightly less than
$53,000. Not so much as New
Deal spending goes.
Salary considerations have
brought about the resignation
of two state officials—the head
of the health department and
the executive secretary of the
library commission. Perhaps
their personal interests are such
as to require that they retire
from public service, and one can
not go on forever sacrificing for
an indifferent public.
• • •
Play ball! The great American
sport is on. The professional
stem winders facing the huskies
with the bat will have the
pleasure at the close of the sea
son of counting up and thrilling
over the crisp crinkle of more U.
S. treasury notes than many of
us make in 10 years.
• • •
A young woman felt an urge
to kill. She pressed the trigger
that did the job. One of those
gents called a phychiatricist says
the young woman “is either
schizophrenic or deep in the in
fluence of a major hysteria.” The
electric chair can cure both that
and the urge.
• • •
Bugs are taking the growing
grain. Send a delegation to
Washington.
Need printing done? Prompt
deliveries . . . The Frontier, aclv
* I'm on my way to COUNCIL OAK
Like scores of other thrifty folk «
Who know that there’s the place to bay,
The prices low—the values high I
We’re eatin’ better every day ,
And savin’ money’s just like play.
For Council Oak I’m sure a rooter—
gThat’s where Fm hustlin’ on my scooter!
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ROYAL ANNE CHERRIES 47.
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WELCH'S GRAPE JUICE Ad.
Pore Fall Strength. Qnart Bottle . *l"w^
PORK AND BEANS 4 „„, AQ.
VAN CAMP'S, A Quirk Meal V Can* Bfv|p
EARLY JUNE PEAS O . 00*
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SUPERB TUNA FISH Ai«
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SANDWICH SPREAD OJU
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RED DOT F0YATO CHIPS 00*
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CRYSTAL GEM COOKIES 47.
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MY-T-FINE PUDDINGS C Ofi*
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CANNING
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APPLES
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ORANGES
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TOMATOES
2 Pounds.29c
LETTUCE
2 Heads.25 C
CELERY
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SUPERB EVAPORATED MILK 3 31c
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■ LOIN END CUTS. lb...
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BEEF SHORT RIBS, lb...
SIRLOIN STEAKS, lb..69c GROUND BEEF, lb..
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SLICED BACON
SKINLESS FRANKS, lb.
SOUSE LUNCH MEAT, lb.
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