Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Straube,
of Broken Bow, were week
end guests at the home of
Mrs. Emma Lawrence. Mrs.
Straube is remaining for a few
dajs. Mr Straube intends to
come back for his wife about
Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Virgil L.
Laursen and family attended
a birthday anniversary dinner
Sunday at the Arden Laursen
home at Venus. Little Jean
ine Laursen was three-years
old. Other guests were: Mr.
and Mrs. William Derickson
and family, Mr. and Mrs. Al
bert Derickson and family,
Mrs. Merle Spangler and fam
ily and the Misses Mildred
and Mabel Derickson, all of
Star,
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lanman
visited Saturday in Atkinson
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
George Mellor.
0 Clyde Keller, of Norfolk,
was a guest Wednesday, Aug
ust 10, at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Kirkpatrick and
family.
Don Lanman spent the'
weekend with Ivan MeCalla
han, North of O’Neill.
Miss Margaret Jean Doyv- j
ney, accompanied by her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Downey, and family, of Wis- j
ner, arrived Sunday at the j
home of Mr. and Mrs. George J
Klein and family. Mr. and Mrs. \
Joseph Trecker, and family, I
of Broken Bow, were also j
guests over the weekend. They
all attended a picnic. Mar
garet Jean is remaining at the
Klein home for a week. Her
parents returned home.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Keller,
of Beemer, are spending a
week visiting his mother, Mrs.
Mae Keller and his sister, Mrs.
Edward Kirkpatrick, Mr. Kirk
patrick and family. They ar
rived Sunday.
Weekend guests at the home
f of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wil
son were: Mr. and Mis. J. P.
Daughton and Mr. and Mrs.
F. M. Daughton and three
children, of Creston, la.
Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Krat- j
ochvil, of Osmond, visited
their daughter and her hus
band, Mr. and Mrs. Willard
Naprstek and family Monday.
Friday guests at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Howard D. |
Manson were; Mrs. Henry Ly
dick and daughters, of Mound- :
sville, W. Va., and Mrs. Ivan
Briggs, of Bartlett.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lorenz I
were guests Sunday at the
Glenn Lorenz home in Cham- j
bers. In the evening they vis- ;
ited William Ernst.
Dr. and Mrs. George R. Cook
entertained Mr. and Mrs. Rob
ert Hasterd, of Omaha from
Friday until Sunday.
Weekend guests at the Noel
E. Long home were his moth
er, Mrs. Ernest Long, and his
sister and her husband, Mr.
and Mrs. Paul McDonald and
son, Larry, all of Blair. Sun
day they entertained Junior
Long and Miss Betty Henning
sen, also of Blair.
Mrs. Julia McColm and the
Misses Wilma and Wanda Mc
Colm, of McCune, Kans., and
Ticklers
“He doesn’t seem to be up to scratch today.”
Mrs. Wibur Riggs and son,
Billy, of Gerald, Kans., left
Wednesday after being guests
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Wilbur Peters for five days.
Mrs. McColm is the mother of
Mrs. Riggs and Mrs. Peters.
Monday and Tuesday Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph H. Walker en
tertained Mr. and Mrs. L. T.
Gay and son, Gordon, of Ec
cles, W. Va. They were on
their way to Sturgis.
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Krause
and daughter Nancy, attend
ed the wedding of Miss An
netta Auserod, of Bartlett,
Saturday at the Methodist
church.
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Lorenz
and sons Bernard and Gor
don, left Wednesday, August
10, for a week’s vacation vis
iting in Denver, Colo., Alh- J
ance and Hastings. Mr. and
Mrs. Ivan Cone are operating
their farm while they are a- ]
way.
Mr. and Mrs. Palmer C. |
Skulborstad and sons returned
Sunday from a two-weeks’ va- j
cation visiting relatives. They j
also spent some time at Big
Pine Lake, Minn.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nicho
las and daughter attended the
rodeo in Burwell.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Miller
and Harold and Vera, were
callers at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Ivan Cone Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Beha
and daughters returned Fri
day from a month’s vacation •
in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Mr. and Mrs. John G. Stuif
bergen and daughter attended
the Burwell rodeo last Thurs- |
day.
State Capitol News
LINCOLN — Nebraska’s high
way department spent $6,615,286
to build and maintain roads and
bridges during the first six
months of this year, State En
gineer F. H. Klietseh reported
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recently.
Highway maintenance — in
cluding $1,063,845 for snow re
moval during Operation Snow
bound — accounted for nearly
half the total expenditure.
The breakdown:
Highway maintenance, $3,
I 206,858.
New construction, $2,769,911.
State aid bridge maintenance,
$5,285.
Equipment and stores, $382,
968.
Administration and overhead,
$238,910.
Claims. $11,351.
Klietsch said his department
had a revenue during the first
half of the year of $7,513,180,
which included nearly $300,000
on hand January 1.
Handpicked members of the
committee which drafted a 20
year improvement program for
the state’s highways, met in Lin
I coin recently to map its
part in the fight against the
Farm Bureau-Farmers Union- :
State Grange efforts to defeat
the increased gasoline and regis
tration levies.
George Holmes, Lincoln
banker who heads the jov
ernor's Highway Advisory
Committee, invited only a few
of the members "with genu
ine interest in the highway
situation."
The committee disbanded last
December after making its rec
ommendations to the governor. ;
Some of these recommendations
formed the basis for the program
sponsored by the governor in the
last legislature.
* * ♦
Meanwhile, talk of a broken
front in the powerful farm oi
ganiar.tion coalition broke into
the opei) as the Keith county
farm bureau voted to remain
neutral in the referendum scrap.
There was general speculation
other local groups may take sim
i ilar action.
But F. B. President Charles
Marshall, of Elmwood, contin
ued to press the fight.
He told the Sarpy county farm
bureau at Papillion:
“The added gas tax is an ex
orbitant tax on a necessity. A
bout 39 H percent of the cost of
gasoline in my community goes
for taxes."
• • •
The board of control kicked
off a minor squabble recently
with the announcement it had
hired a displaced person. Dr. E.
R. Neumann-Grigg, as a staff
member at the Kearney hospital
for the tuberculosous.
Almost immediately the Ne
braska Medical association pro
tested.
State law requires that physi
cians practicing in state institu
tions be U. S. citizens and grad
uates of accredited medical col
leges, a NMA spokesman here
said. DP’s don't usually meet
these requirements.
But Control Board Chair
man Forrest Johnson coun
tered that the law wasn't vio
lated, since the DP's have the
status of internes and arc not
responsible for patients.
The medical association
grudgingly conceded that was
legal but meanwhile was “in
vestigating the situation and
preparing a report."
• • •
Tougher penitentiary prison
ers and a tougher parole board
have cut down the number of
paroles in Nebraska, State Pa
role Officer Richard Meissner
reported.
THE FRONTIER, ONeill. N«
But so far, the parolees have
turned out to be pretty good
risks, Meissner said. For the
past(several years 13 or 14
percent of those freed have
been returned to institutions.
Some states have had averag
es of 50 percent, he said.
Pardon board members are
Gov. Val Peterson, Secretary of
State Frank Marsh and Attorney
General James Anderson, a for
mer Scottsbluff county attorney,
who sent several of the inmates
to the pen in the first place.
• • •
These were other state house
developments:
Deputy State Auditor Elgie
Bute said a large majority of
Nebraska counties will levy up
to the constitutional limit of five
mills this year.
• • •
Former Lt.-Gov. Robert Cros
by, who now heads the Nebras
ka Committee to implement the
Hoover committee recommenda
tions, blasted the house armed
services committee for ns fail
ure to act on the Tydings bill.
• • •
Dr. W. S. Petty, who has ten
dered his resignation as state
health director, offered' to stay
on as head of the local health
services and assistant director of
the department. As director he
gets $5,500 a year, whereas the
local services position would pay
more because it draws upon fed- :
oral funds.
The board of educational (
lands and funds said the state f
will sell oil and gas leases on
18,000 acres of state school
br.. August 18. 1949—PAGE 13
lands. Biggest acreage was 7,~
760 acres in Keith county.
• • •
Gov. Val Peterson observed
his 46th birthday recently witk
the comment that “Life begins
at 46.” He left a couple of days
later to attend the Missouri Ba
sin Inter - Agency committee
meeting in Helena, Mont. At
torney General James Anderson
and Statute Revisor Walter
James accpmpanied him on the
junket.
• • •
Lincoln firemen flocked to the
$10,000,000 capitol the other
night during a driving rain
were dispatched to investigate
when a Lincoln resident reporteo
smoke com ng from t.ie tower
«n assistant chief and an engine
Enroute the assistant chief saw
what appeared to be smoke and
radioed in a full-scale alarm
Five companies answered the
call in the downpour. They dis
covered the “smoke” was fine
rain spotlighted by the brilLiom
floodlights which illuminate the
400-foot tower.
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