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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 3, 1949)
Editorial & Business Offices: 10 South Fourth Street O'NEILL. NEBR. CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher_ Entered the postoffice at O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska, aa 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 Terms of Subscription: In Nebraska,”$2.50 per year; else where in the United States, $3 per year; abroad, rates provided on request. All subscriptions are strictly paid-in-advance. Youthful Offenders and the Law Two O’Neill youths, ages 17 and 18, are serving a sentence of 20 days in jail on charges of "willful and reckless driving to which in court they admitted their guilt. , It is a serious proposition when any person has to be taken into custody, given a trial and sentenced to jail—whatsoever the charge. It is infinitely more serious when these proceedings have to be taken against juveniles. Sometimes adults are caused to wonder if youths themselves appreciate the seriousness. A jail record is bad and the two boys concerned will frequently be reminded of the incident when, in the normal course of life, they are obliged to fill-out various questionnaires and applications. Most of these invariably as . • Have you ever been in jail? The youthful mind works to a certain extent by compart sons. It compares the 20-day sentences for these two boys in question with the unmolested. Scot-free antics of others. Why should these two be jailed when so-and-so gels by with this and that. etc., etc? The Frontier has overheard a teen-age street discussion of this, pointing out that not so long ago a group of youths took a vehicle—possibly even misappropriated a vehicle—and in the course of an evening one of the party was killed! No one went to jail for that! they say. Meanwhile, the accident rate continues to mount, more and more lives become endangered on the oity streets and highways and finally the officials, newspapers and ordinary citizens have become alarmed over the situation. When the two lads were towed into jail last week the state highway patrolman who made the arrests, the county attorney who prosecuted, the judge who passed sentence, and The Fron tier, which headlined the incident, established a precedent in this community. They also placed themselves in a position in which from now on out they must be consistent. The Frontier is a respecter of constituted authority, but here we wish to point out that morally the law enforcement officers, the prosecutor, the court and the newspaper cannot wink at other offenders now that precedent has been set and a hard example has been made. The Frontier witnesses flagrant traffic violations every day. Not all of them involve automobiles. Tractors have come into the picture and not long ago one of our staffers saw a tractor take a turn at a dangerous angle. Not all of the violations involve youths. The point is that two youths are rounding out their 20-days’ sentence. They’re doing their school work while behind bars. They are being used as an example against “willful and reckless . drying." Their latest game of “tag” with speeding automobiles pr<Wed costly and they won’t be playing "tag” again because their drivers’ licenses have been suspended. But the object lesson doesn't end when they are released and they rejoin their schoolmates. The burden of consistency rests squarely upon the peace of ficers, upon the prosecutors, and upon the courts. The burden also rests upon The Frontier and other newspapers who “played up” , last week’s incident to serve as a deterrent to other youthful and adult vehicle operators who, while at the wheel, have been flirting with danger to themselves and to others. USE OUR M r D A p Across CHRISTMAS 1H t V II rt IV I J From LAY-AWAY \ye Give S & H Council Oak PLAN Green Stamps O'Neill SjTAR ATTRACTIONS IN ONE LL J The Harry Evans Show Company, consisting of 12 tal ented stage and radio stars, made their first appearance at the Legion auditorium Friday, September 30. and was en thusiastically received by the capacity crowd that attended. The evening performance featured a three-act stage play titled “All The Comforts of Home," proceeded by an eight •ct vaudeville presentation and followed by a real western barn dance. The Rhythm Wranglers, an eight-piece dance band, furnished the music for the dance and justly deserve the enviable reputation of versatility by playing any and all types of dance music requested, both modern and old time music. This organisation is making weekly appearances at the Legion auditorium every Sunday night with a complete change of program, for an indefinite time, and if the audience re sponse to their premiere performance is any criterion they will be with us for "quite a spell." Outstanding in the vaudeville presentation was the un precedented dexterity of Joe Stanley on his accordian and Freddie Stone and his violin. Other vaudeville features in cluded the Nelson Sister, tap dancers; Bob Aga, guitarist and cowboy singer; "Slim" Kaas. creek fiddler; The Sagebrush Trio; Bonnie Lee, song stylist; Eddie Jessen and his saxo phone and those veterans of stage and radio, Claudia and Harry Evans. Remember New Date: Every Sun. Night I Prairieland Talk — Some Foolish Things Are Being Handed Out On Scientific Silver-Tinted Platter By ROMAINE SAUNDERS LINCOLN—Science has lift ed the curtain and revealed to the gaze of man some fasc inating wonders. Some foolish I things are handed out on the scientific silver - tinted plat Romaine Saunders ter. Inven tion has done wonders t o trans form the opera tions of the human hand. I n vention has also mul tiplied com plexities without ad ding to the general wel fare. Science asks Who are you? I told a man once when I considered it im pertinent that it was none of his business. Another scientist pronounces with solemn fin- ( ality that to be "lucky in love is a myth." Another has gone into the subject of the one- j arm drivers and says he is un- \ steay. Another tells the moth ers that bottle fed babies are facing a future with “faulty sex relations to life.” And, an other has the hardihood to try to make us think he can see back a stretch of three billion years into the past. Still an other has the cause of war summed up in the "narrow ways of human behavior de velopment in childhood.” ASM Gambling has fallen upon evil days. Outlawed in Ne braska, now it is announced that a setup known as Gamblers Anonymous has been formed in a West coast city to out law what these gents call a racket in California. ‘“I don’t mind telling the world,” says the spokesman for this organ ization, “that I dropped a for tune on horses and most of the others are in the same boat.” These gents say they are the same as Alcoholic An onymous only the race track has been their downfall. • • • A sign in a food store window reads: "Beef liver 59c lb." A Hereford aristo crat heading a herd sold at a ranch sale the other day in Chenry county for $6,650. A slice of his liver would come high. Who wants to eat liver—dhe sewer system that keeps the animal flush ed? • • • After a bus trip through 28 states this is the estimate of an English girl of us: “The warmth and kindness of Am ericans have nothing to do with dollars and cents. It springs from the heart.” At one point in her travels she asked the way to the bus of a couple who said hop in and we’ll take you there. Why, she asked of the man whose face was tanned to leather by the blazing prairieland sun, are you driving so far out of your way to take me there. He an swered, “It’s nice to be nice to people—that’s why.” Beginning November 14 a week will be devoted to agri cultural extension service at the ag college. I do not know what is comprehended in this thing they call “extension” or how many of the old boys out on the land will shed their overalls for a week and tog up in their best to come to this gathering, but there seems to be a sizable group of the white collar fraternity, the sal aried farmers, scheduled to ex pound the latest in scientific clodhopping. ♦ * * Uucle Sam is said to be $1,800,000,000 short in his accounts. He is about the only guy who can continue to do business at the old stand under such conditions. • • • If the UN outlaws the bomb what will they do with the outlaws? O’NEILL TRANSFER ★ Please route your freight O’Neill Transfer An O’Neill firm. Daily Trips O’NEILL—Phone 241J OMAHA—Phone JAS727 ★ Your Patronage Appreciated JOHN TURNER, Prop. October drew to a CL0SI with 35 group gatherings sched uled for the week with breakfast, luncheon or dinner at one of the swank hotels of the city being the chief at traction. The dinner table is a great social inspiration. • • • A group of men convicted of plotting the overthrow of constitutional government were sentenced to serve five years each in prison. A poor cuss who stole about the value of a package of crackers is up for 50 years in a Southern prison. If criminally inclined, do it on a grand scale. • • * Your face gives you away. The surging mobs of humani- j ty moving in the ebb and flow tide rave one question ■ mark stamped upon the fea- . tures: What’s going to happen next? • * • . Everybody approves' a wor thy charitable undertaking, yes it’s a fine thing and should have support. But to reach in to the pocket and do some thing to that end—ah, there’s the rub! * * * The evolutionist’s ancesters may have hung from their tails, That’s alright if some of them didn’t hang by their necks. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS WD-Susie E Clark to Melvin Held 10-26-49 $10,500 - SVt 24 28-10. WD-Bertha I Wegner et al to John J Juracek & wf 10-27-49 $8,400 - Part Lot 5 - Outlot B - Part NWV<SE^ 3-*26-9. Mr. and Mrs. John McCar thy and family, of Scottsbluff, left Sunday after spending several days visiting relatives and friends. MISCELLANY Returning from David City ! in the wee hours on the morn ing of October 15, Rev. C. J. Werner and a band of St. Mary's academy footballers stopped to aid a, stranded mo torist. He was having trouble with his auto’s electrical system, had no lights. Father Werner, youthful assistant at St. Pat rick’s Catholic church here, loaned the man a flashlight. Last week’s mail brought the flashlight back to O’Neill with a note of thanks from a Roy Lovell, Norfolk ... Joe McCar i ville, jr., likes organ music. In to his new home recently went a foot - powered relic. A vis itor recently at the McCarville home reports: “Joe asked if I’d like to hear some music. I said ‘yes’—preferably a little Chopin or Rachmaninoff. Joe came up with Prelude in C Sharp Minor. .. .The Dominick (“Dom") McDermott have a tra- ! dition in their childrens’ Christ ian names. The names follow a' pattern of rhyme. Mr. and Mrs. McDermott told The Frontier1 that the names came spontane ously without thinking of the precedent that was being set. i With the arrival of Baby Boy McDermott on Wednesday, Oc tober 19, the family has been trying to find a name that will fit the other eight childrens’ names. So far they haven’t chris tened the latest addition. The names of the children listed chronologically are: Kathleen, Eugene, Madeline, Marleen, Na dine, Loreen, Dean and Sharleen. Eugene married the former Thelma Underwood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Underwood.1 Madeline is now Mrs. Leland' Lieb . . Ed (“Mopes”) Hagensick, only charter member of the j O’Neill volunteer fire depart ment still on the job, was on hand—as usual—when the de partment was summoned at 2:45 a.m. October 26. The de partment made a run to the Calvert residence. Mrs. Mike Mullen and son, James, of Emmet, were Mon day evening guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Mullen. DWIGHT L HUBBY BURIAL AT BUTTE Widow, Son, Daughter Among Survivors; Born in Holt BUTTE — Burial services were held Thursday, October 27, at the cemetery here for Dwight E. Hubby, 33, a form er resident of O’Neill. The services were conduct ed by Rev- L. M. Hovda fol lowing the rites at the Com munity church here. Pallbearers were: Richard Bowden, of Burbank, Calif., LaVere Weesner, of North Platte; Dale Smalley, of Butte; Richard Johnson, and Robert Dickey, both of Spencer. Out-of-town relatives, who came for the services, wer£: Mr. and Mrs. Steve Hicks, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hicks, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Osborne, Mrs. Nettie Clevish, Mr. and Mrs. William Hubby, Mr. and Mrs Virgil Hubby, Mrs. Carrie Borg and Marvel, Mrs. Addie Rouse, all of O’Neill; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bowden, of Bur bank, Calif.; Mr. and Mrs. Dude Hoyer, of Seattle, Wash. Friends from O’Neill attend ing the rites were: Mr. and Mrs. Orville McKim and Mr. 4 and Mrs. Harold Williamson Dwight Edward Hubby, son of Edward and Julia Hubby, was bom March 22, 1916, on the family farm near the Blackbird community. In 1928 he moved with the family to Spearfish, S. D. He moved from Spearfish to Butte in 1934. On August 28, 1943 he mar ried Marie Faatz, of Butte, and to them three children were born. The Hubby's came to O' Neill about three years be fore moving to Hastings. The late Mr. Hubby was em ployed as a transport driver for Elmer Hewitt, of Wisner, until ill health forced his retirement in August. 1948. Survivors include: widow; a son—Larry Dean; a daughter . —LaVonne Marie; parents _ Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hubby, of Hastings; brother — Wood row, of Hastings; sisters—Mrs. fc LaVere (Mary) Weesner, of North Platte, and Mrs. Rich ard (Dorothy) Luth, of Butte; grandparents—Mr. and Mrs. S E. Hicks, of O’Neill. A daughter, Mary Ann, died in infancy. DRINK. * BLATZ * COUNTRY CLUB * HAMM’S BEER DISTRIBUTED BY O’Neill Beverage Company John Stuifbergen, Prop. Phone 422 When you talk fbou MLVE-lMMD you’re talking about The Power that made Biiick Famou IF you want to know what’s “the newest thing” in automobile engines, look at the Buick engine pictured here, and you’ll see the words “valve-in-head.” But if happens that this isn’t new with Buick. As a matter of fact, the valve-in-head engine was in vented back in 1902—IJ. S. Patent No. 771095 —and immediately, Buick adopted the principle, which became the first in a long string of “Buick firsts.” Not everyone went for the idea then. In spite of the fact that this engine “breathes” more freely — gets fuel in and exhaust gases out more easily — others hung onto their pet ideas. Then came the airplane, with its need for maximum power from every drop of fuel—and every maker of internal combustion air plane engines adopted the valve in-head principle. And more recently-with the hope that higher-octane fuels will be come available —a lot of automo tive engine designers are taking a new look at the valve-in-head idea. But just for the record, we’d like to point out that Buick got there first. And ever since, Buick has gone steadily ahead, building up a name as “valve-in-headquarters.” Buick engineers reshaped pistons to put Fireball wallop in these engines. They stepped up compression • ratios as fast as better fuels came along. So perhaps you’ll want to re member, when you hear the term “valve-in-head,” that this is the type of power that made Buick famous. If others want to climb on the bandwagon, we say “more power to them”—and no pun is intended. But Buick has been doing more with valve-in-head right from the start. And —we might add —it stands to reason that Buick is not through making this type of engine better and better. i » Your Key to Greater value \6A/j When heller automobile* are built HI'lf'H u-lll build them // fur* in HENRY 1 TAYLOR, ABC Nnlwork. «v«ry Monday •»nin0._-------** A. MARCELLUS PHONE 370 O’NEILL ■K /